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And is Read by Every Membwof Bftoh Funny.

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And a nose that begun Bfefetapatthorootaof htohafc JoBy and fat Was the troUosome brat, "AndtStdeato1 mme As hfc father used to. St (Jhtnahud, tar, faraway. Onoe o'er a laws That All Bid played upon

. "MnHcan bnttlrfj-r Said ne, with winking eye, Tae catch and pull ott mm wing." Than with his sap He struck ltarap IMi Innocent bumble-bee And pot Its remains In the seat ol his Jeans, Tors pocket there had the Chinee. Down on the grass Sat the little sardine. In a sty e Uimt w strmnjrely demure. And raid with rtia That was brimful of sin. Ha mash urn buttlefly, sure." Little Ah Ski Was only a kid. Nor could you aipeot hira to guessWhat kind of abas He was holding so snnc In the folds o his knee-fitting dree. Kirs! Ki-rip-yer Ah Std cried, as he Boss hurriedly up from that spot. "Kl-yal Yok-a-kant Daa nn Melfcan man TJm burUeny beU- much hotr SaFrmct3co Waip.

k Rogue's Reward. BT XXOnUBOB. "A strange motto for family, is it not?" he asks, holding up the heavy seal ring he had drawn from his finger. "What is it? Translate you know I cant read Latin," says my lady, looking up from the depths of those soft, easy cushions, against the dark velvet of which her neck and lace and arms shono like pufc Carrara. I leans still closer and drops his woiue, as if the words held for him some strange for boding. " le who forgets shall be in tarn forgotten. " "Yes, it js a queer one," says my lady, meditatively, gazing intently on the handsome, youthful faeo beside her. "Qneer, too, that you should read it to me now under such circumstances, yon know. If it were different " she pauses and sitings her shoulders and wares her hand impatiently, then sighs and turns her face to the wall The ring

taut to the Boor, aad Julian ire re catches her hand as it rests flutteringly npon her breast!

' My darling," he cries, forgetful of

tii'- very words that gave rise to her

emotion, only answer me as I wish as J must be answered, and we shall be bar1: .y oh, so happy, if yon wilL j I j' lady slowly tarns her face back agsia, and her eyes are dark with passion, yet with a half contempt for his rouaaliness in their dreary depths which he has never seen before. "i.H yon think, Julian, that there are day dreams from which we most awaken, love scenes over which the curiam will fall surely when the little comedy has been played, and even the actors thoDi selves are yawning?" 2dy lady smiles, and looks away, far out over the waters of the Mediterranean, and the expression of coolness and contempt deepens in her eyes. But Julian only sees a beautiful woman who d.y by day and week by week has lured him on to love and worship her. He stretches oat his arms to clasp her in them, but she makes no response as she has always done before. "it has been no comedy on my part," he muttered, fiercely. "Yon have no right to say it has been on yours." Ah, my frtand, did I say that? I . only meant well, you will force me to use such plain words. That motto brought to mind the peculiar circumstances which surround us both. Here am I" she suddenly stops, then goes rapidly on "here von are, I mean, engaged to a young lady, not beautiful, you say, but talented, trustful, and simple, one who would make you happy oh, ftv happier than I could or would. For I am terribly selfish, Julian" he laaghs gayly as if in denial of the erwts charge she so lightly brought agjonst herself "and I would not make yon good wife. I am too fond of ' throwing away nape at dear Mr. Blanc's little green table. I like the society of your sex too well to put up long with the with the oh, the fact is that a husband, you know, is just like your cook; you get used to his style, and feed of it, and naturally want a change. So with me exactly, dear Julian. We hare enjoyed ourselves together for a time. Shall we not part as friends, dear friends, if you choose, but but nothing more, you know?" He takes her hands and kisses them passionately. "I care for no one else and can think of no one else now. Heavens forgive me, but I cannot!" he murmurs. "For a moment she says nothing, but rests in his arms, peaceful, content. If no remorseful picture disturbs his blia:fol feeling, shall she allow the shadow of a woman whom she has never met to come between them then? To be sure, she is married she has never told Julian that but Lord Carlio is away off in Algiers, where the war ia, and perhaps is dead, or nearly so, for the Africans are terrible fighters, they say. Bo she gives herself up to his caresses, and for an hour an instant only H seems to him he is haprrv in the silence which

falls soothingly upon them, as the twilight steals over the quiet wares and changes all the brightness without to shadows which creep, ereep slowly into the rooms and leave dim forms and shapes in every corner. Many other days had been passed in like manner, and Julian Frere had been content to let them go in sweet forgetfulness of time, of place, of eternity itself content to sit at Isabel Carlio's feet, enslaved enamored, if you like, but trapped of his own free will. How long the time was since he had left bis own home in England, he neither knew nor cared. How long since he left a sweet face so dear to him once he cared not and would not even remember. Yet, gentle letters came very often, breathing love and truthfulness, but never a word of reproach at the cold answers which his unwillling fingers penned. He had once imagined that he loved this English girl, with her tender manners and soft-brown, trustful eyes. But, oh, JHo mio, he bad not then seen tender eyes flash with a passion whose fierceness enhances their brillianiv, nor lips more than half willing for fre inent meetings with his own.

r gratia English gnrt should nave

name it was promised, and he was i

fetter btmiid to that Bat thai dark,

i os saw ovow, wisu nor foveaadEariaian graces,

whioh charmod and lulled his senses

into dreamland--never could he wring

his heart from her keeping, and what

will be will be. He went out from his room that even

ing, and left the ring with the Btrange

motto engraved on it lying on the floor. The next dav he called at the Villa

f oar, I Carlio. but my lady was out.

The day after, at his accustomed

hour, he went again.

My lady was still out, the footman said.

"But had she left no word no mes

sage?" asked Julian.

"Oh, surely. If the signer came

there was a little note." J ulian's hand trembled ss he received

a small, crumpled note, which the foot

man carelessly drew from jus poonet Beneath the huire Dorch of the Par

thenon, where the moonlight streams down in a broad flood and merges step by step info the farther shadows, Julian read the letter: "Caro mio," it began ah, the soft Italian phrase, which seemed doubly sweet and tender from her lips or pen

I have been thinking deeply these last two days, and have come to a sensible resolution. If my Lady Eva could have shown half the sense of which 1 shall presently make au exhibition much trouble might have been averted.

"Dear Julian, you will stamp and

curse and swear when x tell you. well, so be it. I shall not be there to hear.

but what I say is this that we must

part. "For your little English girl will begin to be impatient at your absence, and I well, I must tell you my husband is coming home from the war in Ahrien. for I am married. Whv not

tell yon before? It matters nothing now. If you will be angry, console yourself with one thought that I love

you for yourself, and so send you

rrom me. "If I loved you for myself, I would

not be such a model of domestic virtue as you will sow picture me, but would keep you near me whether Milord Carlio comes or not, or would fly with you

to the earth's end before my arms shoul d

ever loose their hold upon your neck. "But I have a memory of a young heart broken for sake of him who went away and sever saw again the olives and the vine-leaves which grew in the valley of my country home. She is waiting for you, Julian, in her own land, and I well, I am waiting for Milord Carlio, as a good wife should."

I ihe letter closed abruptly. Julian leaned up against one of the marble

piuars, ana ponaerea aeepiy every word. "Loved him for himself, and so sent him from her " his egotism would not allow him to believe in her unselfishness. "Tired of me, more likely," he muttered angrilyand so, womanlike, shifts the blame from her own shoulders when weary of old game, and longing for new." Helingedfor three weeks in Borne, in the hope of some chance meeting with her, but the meeting never occurred. Then he sailed for home, with a manliness of which my lady scarcely deemed him capable; he resolved to take the advice she had given in the letter, and go back to England to his betrothed. It was not until he was well on his way that he began to think of the terrible length of his sojourn in Kome some seven months he was reluctant ta acknowledge it, yet he had scattered

bon-bons with my lady in the gay ear-

nival season, and it was past October i now. On the pier at Dover his eldest

brother met him.

"Why! where are you bound for?" asked Julian, in surpise. An expression of sorrow came over

the other's features.

"I was going in search of you," he said hurredly. "for I I don't think the

home coming will be pleasant for you now."

"Why not?" said Julian, a vague feel

ing of relief creepinir unconscious v

upon hbn.

Well, you see over two months ago

it happened John Moorly, you remember him he and Marian oh, I cant tell it the girl was such a traitor, but she's gone with him, left home, broke faith with you, everything, to

marry a sub in a marching regiment."

sucn a wave of happiness swept over Julian's face.

"George, dear fellow!" he cried.

seizing his brother's hand eagerly, "I I don't care my heart's not broken. She never really liked me. I am glad hell be happy in her own way at last. But I cant stay here to see it it would drive me wild," he added with untruthfulness.

So George turned toward London.

while Julian took the next steamer for

Calais. How the journey passed, the days the hours, he knew not He could only think of their reunion in that lovnlv

Italian land. Would she be glad to see him, and would he be as hapov as ha

imagined he would be to sit at her feet

and dream of eastles that would never

be peopled, but with fancies and of

hopes which could never be realized owing to the unfortunate existence of

Milord Carlio. Yes, he would be happy Bupremelv

so only to sit in the same sunshine that

east its brilliant beams on her, only to wait like her pet dog, Barco, on every caprice of a whimsical mistress.

Hour by hour he left the cities and villages of France behind him, and came at last to the Eternal Citv. He

had not the courage to go at once to the Villa Carlio and proclaim his freedom a vague idea that she would

laugh as well as welcome held him back.

Yet she knew of his arrival Some lines in the Italian journals spoke of that. One day while he was coming out of Spitbover's, where he had been to get some of Anderson's photographs, the

weu-Known brougham ol iiady (Jarlio, with ha liveries of crimson and silver, drew up. Its handsome mistress alighted. She started with evident surprise as her eye fell on Julian. Then she came nearer and gave him her hand. For a moment neither spoke. "I I had your letter, and obeyed," said Julian softly. "Then why why are you back again ?" asked my lady, with a little quiver in her voice. He looked meaningly around him. "Such a crowd so many here," he said, and shrugged his shoulders. "Ah, I understand. There is some explanation. Come to me at 5 o'clock. " She bowed and passed on, leaving Julian standing irresolute on the pavement. It was 2 o'clock then. Up and down the Piazza di Spagna he paced, unmindful of the sun which, notwithstanding the freshness of a Roman winter, beat down in a fierce, blinding glare of ligh. -

He so -longed to go, and now that he was bidden, he scarcely dared to obey her command or his own ardent inclinations. But toward tho hour appointed he turned ont into the Via Babnino. the street leading directly to my lady's villa She was alone in the very room in which thefr last interview had been held. She came forward to receive him with a slight timidity and diffidence which well became her, rare though these moods were. 8he only said: "I am terribly glad to see you, J ulian, rhings are so dull." But her eyes gave forth a welcome which he had not dreamed she would offer. "What is the matter why arc you here so soon?" she questioned, and breathlessly and somewhat hesitatingly he answered her. When he had finished, she glanced up with a look of almost eager longing into his face. "Julian," she said, in a low tone, "we have met with misfortune. I, too, have lost. Poor Carlio never came back from the war in Algiers." "Yes, we are unfortunate," he answered, with some embarrassment. "The old motto is on my ring you spoke of it that day, you recollect. Well, the cursed saying proved true in my case. I was base enough to forget, and so I am forgotten. Are you glad or sorry?" He did not look at her for her answer. He only leaned his head against the low marble mantel, and Ms thoughts seemed to wander far away. Gently she clasped her hands around his arm. "Dear Julian," she said, faintlv. "von are not forgotten. Will

you not believe that one will always remember?"

His head was turned away, but be pressed her hands tightly with both his own. "Caro caro, must I beg of you? Why will you not forgive me for sending you away?" Still he was silent "There is nothing now to reproach me. There will be nothing to reproach

you, Julian caro mio. Why arc you cold to me now?"

He had gone there half resolved to

pay her in part for the anguish she had made him suffer when she wrote those

cruel lines which banished him, but he

could not withstand her pleading tones. He caught her light form in his arms, and almost crushed her in his strong embrace.

Oh. my darling, I shall never be

cast off now. Of what matter if all the world forgets, so that you alone will remember!"

He kissed her passionately and

pressed her closer to his breast My lady looked up with an arch smile into his earnest eyes.

'Julian, caro, 1 am thinking, we were

once so wrong in loving, and now we

are so happy. Why is it that the

wicked ones have paradise and the good ones are often beggars at the

fite? If you had been too true to the nglish girl to have looked at me or ever kissed me, and I too good a wife to take such kisses, why, she might have stayed to make your life unhappy, and Milord Carlio would have come home from Algiers as sure as daylight But you were different, you see, and other things were different also."

So it shall always be. There are

other men like Julian, and there is a Lady Carlio for every one.

Apostrophe to Ye Crags and Peaks. William Tell ran a hay ranch near

Bergelen about five hundred and eighty years ago. Tell had lived in the mountains all his life, and shot deer

and chipmunks with cross-gun until

he was a bad man to stir up. At that time Switzerland was run principally by a lot of carpet-baggers from Austria, and Tell got down on them about the year 1307. It seems that Tell wanted

the Government contract to furnish hay

at $40 a ton for the year 1306, and

uessier, who was controlling the patronage of Switzerland, let the contract to an Austrian who had a lot of con

demned hay further up the gulch. One

day (iessler put his plug hat on a telegraph pole and issued order 236. regular

series, to the effect that every anoozer passing down the toll road should bow to it Gessler happened to be in be

hind the brush when JbHl said : "Shoot

the hat!" and didn't salute it; so he told his men to gather Mr. Tell in and put him in the refrigerator. Gessler

toid mm that it he would shoot a crabapple from the head of his only son at

200 yards, with a cross-gun, he would give him his liberty. Tell consented, and knocked the apple higher than

uuderoy's kite, old Gessler. however.

noticed another arrow sticking in William's girdle, and asked him what kind of a flowery break that was. Tell told

mm that if he had killed the lad instead of bursting the apple, he intended to drill a bole through the stomach of Mr. Gessler, This made Gessler mad again, and he took Tell on a picnic up the river in irons. Tell jumped off when he got a good chance and cut across a bend in the river, and when the picnic party came down he shot Gessler deader than a mackerel. This opened the ball for freedom and weakened the Austrian Government so much that in the following November they elected Tell to fill the long term, and a half-breed for the short term. After that, Tell was recognized by the ruling power, and he could get most any contract that he wanted to. He got the service on the stago line up into the Alps increased to a daily, and had the contracts in the name of his son Alfcsrt The appropriation was increased $160,000 a year, and he had a good thing. Tell lived many years after this, and was loved by the Swiss people because ho had freed their land. Whenever he felt lonesome he would take his cross-gun and go out and kill a tyrant on toast almost every day till Switzerland was free, and the peasants blessed him as their deliverer. When Tell got to be an old man he would go out into the mountains and apostrophize them in these memorable words: "Yo orags and peaks, I'm with you once again. I hold to you tho hands I held on previous occasions, to show you they are free. The tryant's crust is busted, so to speak. His race hath run, and he himself hath scooted up the flume. Sic semper McGinnis, terra firms nux vomica Schweitzer kase, Timbuotoo erysipelas, epluribus unum, sciatica, multum in parvo, vox populi, snockmeonthegob." Bill Nye, in Sunday Mail

They Bo Sot Speak. "Oh, I don't let the grass grow under my feet," said the young lady. "I wish you did," replied her escort, in a dreamy manner, "because, you know, you could raise such a deuce of a erp." They never apeak now as they pass

by onf the sidewalk of the city at the head i of the lakes. Boston Tran-acrlmL

IBTOS STOltY OF THE MULLIGAN

LETTERS.

Washington Oor. Cincinnati Enquirer.

The nomination of James G. Blaine as the Eepublioon candidate for President of the United States recalls the famous and exciting scenes of June, 1876 over eight years ago. Blaine was thou a candidate for the Presidential nomination. He was a

member of the Honse of Representatives.

He was acknowledged to be far in the lead

in the Presidential race, and but for tho ex

posure of what are known to history as the Mulligan letters he would probably have

been nominated. TBS! BEGINNING OF THE K0OT. Some time an April or early in May preceding the June in which the Bepubhcan convention met at Cincinnati, Mr. J. D. Harrison, of Indiana, an implacable enemy then as now to Blaine, caused to be printed in the Cincinnati Commercial a charge which veiy soriounly affected Mr. Blaiue Integrity. Hurrison was a director, representing the United States, of tho Union Paoifio Boilrood. The burden of the charge briefly stated was that the Union Paoifio Railroad had charged to some one 64,000 of the bonds of the Fort Smith and Little Book Railroad of Arkansas, and that the real beneficiary was James G. Blaine. A quadrilateral of newspapers, which are now, strange to say, zealously supporting Blaine because they believe that his innocence has been fully established, rung the ohanges on the charge until publio opinion forced Blaine to ask for a committee of investigation. The investigation was ordered by the Judiciary Committee, of which the Hon. 1. Proctor Knott, of Kentucky, was Chairman. As the investigation proceeded a sub-committee took more active charge of it, of which the Hon. Eppa Hon ton, of Virginia, was Chairman. Nothing of any special importance developed until one Warren Fyshor, of Bostont and the now famous Mr. Mulligan were summoned. Fisher had in his day been auite a prominent speculator in railroad

securities. Iii the Little Bock and Fort

Smith Railroad transaction ho acted as the confidential agent of Josiah Caldwell, who, it was charged, was the man that gave Blaine the $61,000 of stock. Caldwell was at the time in Europe, and it had been impossible to secure a service npon him. Mulligan, of whom more hereafter, had been bookkeeper for Fisher. Up to tho time of the arrival of Fisher and Mulligan, Blaine had met every accusation against him, and the bent of the investigation committee was to make a report of exoneration. Fisher was first placed on the witness-stand.

It was evident at a glance, whatever might have been his capacity herefore, he was reduced through alcoholism to almost a wreck. His mind seemed to bo gone. His memory was impaired, and his testimony wholly unsatisfactory. MULLIGAN. Then came Mulligan. As his name indicates, he was a terrier, chuck fall of Celtic blood. Ho was a spore built man, with a malicious look in a blue eye well back in Mb head, a small red face more oval than angular, with an intensity of expression denoting hate and malice. At first his inclination was to be evasive. Then questions were put to him which gave evidence he had been well coached. He was itching to unload, but his cunning had planned so as to make it appear that secrets were being extorted rather than confessed. One day hi the courso ot his testimony he indicated he had some very interesting documentary testimony. Following this a day or two after Mi. Mulligan made his appearance before the committee in a state of great excitement He said that Mr. Blaine hod twice called upon him at the Biggs House; that at the first meeting Blaine, on his bended knees, had besought him to give him the letters he had in his possession. This was a correspondence betweon Blaine and Warren Fisher, which Mulligan, as Fisher's bookkeeper, had stolen out of tho hitter's safe. After soma hesitation, and upon the promise that Blaiao would return the letters, Mulligan gave them to him. Blaiuo kept them a few hours and returned them. Tho succeeding night Blaino again asked to see the letters to refresh his memory as to the contents of one of them. Mnlligau again gave them to him, when Blaine placed them in his pocket and refused to give them up. When Mulligan made this statement to the committee it created a sensation. Blaine did not deny that he had taken the letters, but he justified himself on the Wound that the letters, having been stolen by Mulligan, were not his property. They belonged either to himself or Fisher, and the latter declared that he was anxious that Blaino, and not Mulligan, should have them. THE IKVESTIGATICN. The committee, then, through Chairman Eppa Huntoti, demanded tho letters. Blaine first asked time for consideration. A day was given him. Tho demand was again repented, and Blaine plumply refused to give them up. Then it was that the quadrilateral of organs now supporting Blaine, which then wore hounding mm, adjudged him guilty because of his refusal to expose his correspondence. The committee, too, had a long executive session, and had agreed to report Blaine to the House as a recalcitrant witness. Thus matters stood until the 4th day of June, 1876, when Blaine made a dramatic scene in the House of Representatives, which suggested to Bob Ingersoll his term of the "Plumed Knight," afterward applied to him in his famous speech at Cincinnati. Blaine arose in his seat to a question of privilege. He was the very embodiment of rage and passion. His face was jle and bloodle.ss No ono who sat within his hearing could have failed to surmise that something was coming. Thereupon he reviewed successfully what he deemed his persecution at the hands of the Judiciary Committee, his refusal, under legal advice, to give up the Mulligan letteni, and said : "When the famous witness, Mulligan, oame here loaded with information in regard to the Fort Smith Road, the gentleman from Virginia drew out what he knew had no reference whatever to the question of investigation. He then and there insisted on all of my private memoranda being allowed to be exhibited by that man in reference to business that had no more connection, no more relation, no more to do with the investigation than with the North Fole. And the gentleman tried hU best also, though I believe that has been abandoned, to capture and use and control my private correspondence This man had selected out of correspondence running over a gronl many years' letters which he thought would be peculiarly damaging to me. Ho come here loaded with them. He came here for a sensation. Ho came here primed. He came here on that particular errand. I was advised of it, and I obtained these letters under circumstances which have been notoriously scattered throughout the United States, and are known to everybody. I claim I havo the entire right to those letters, not only by natural right, but upon all tho precedents and principles of law, as tho man who held those letters in possession held them wrongfully- Tho committee that attempted to hike those letters from that man to use against me proceeded wrongfully. They prooeedeiVin all boldness tea most defiant violation of tho ordinary private and personal rights which belong to every American citizen, and I was willing to stand and me et tho Jndiciary Committee on this floor. I wanted thorn to introduco it. I wanted tho gentleman from Kentucky and the gentlonu from Virginia to intro

duco tnat question upon this floor, but they did not do it. Mr. Knott (in his seat) I know you did. Mr. Blaine Very well. Mr. Knott I know you wanted to be made a martyr of, (Laughter. ) Mr. Blaine And you did not want to, and there is th difference. Laughter and applause. I go a littlo further; you did not dare to. "Now, Mr. Speaker," continued Mr. B, Wne, "I say that I have defied the power

of the House to compel me to produce those letters. I speak with all respect to

this House. I know its powers, and I trust I respect them. But I say this House has no more power to order what shall be done

or not done with my private correspond.

enee than it has with what I shall do in the

nurture and education of my children

not a particle. The right is as sacred . . it.. i : , ... n

in mu vnv case as w is m uie uwer. But, sir, having vindicated that right, Btanding by it ready to make any sac

rifice iu the defense, here and now, if

any gentleman wants to toko issue with me on behalf of this House, lam ready for any extremity of contest or conflict in behalf of so

sacred a right And while I am so I am not

airaia to snow the letters. Thank Uoa Almighty, I am not ashamed to show them. There they are (holding up a package ot letters). There is the very original package, and with some sense of humiliation, with a mortification that I do not pretend to

conceal, with a sense of outrage which I think any man in my position would feel, I invite the confidence of forty-four millions of my countrymen whilo I read those letters from this desk." Applause. Blaine then read the letters with dramatio

fire. BIiTJFFINO PROOTOB KNOTT. The soenes attending upon the reading, were those of the wildest excitement The

Speaker was powerless to preserve order or to prevent Blaine's partisan friends from cheering to the echo. The sympathies of

the galleries, which were packed, were with Blaine, and these added to the tumult and disorder. The letters read and the excitement having subsided, Blaine walked over to tho Democratic side, and, standing directly in front of J. Proctor Knott, precipitated another sensation. This was really more startling than the first, because unexpected. Mr. Blaine sold: "There is one piece of testimony wanting. There is but one thing to olose the complete circle of evidence. There is but one witness whom I could not have, to whom the Judiciary Committee, taking into account the great and intimate connection he had with the transaction, was asked to send a cable dispatch, and I ask the gentleman from Kentuoky if that dispatch was sent to him?" Mr. Frye Who? Mr. Blaine To Josiah Caldwell. Mr. Knott I will reply to the gentleman that Judge Huuton and myself have both endeavored to get Mr. Caldwell's address, and havo not yet got it. Mr. Blaine Has tho gentleman from Kentucky received a dispatch from Caldwell? Mr. Knott I will explain that directly. Mr. Blaine I want a categorical answer. Mr. Knott I have received a diBpatch purporting to be from Mr. Caldwell. Mr. Blaine You did. Mr. Knott How did you know I got it? Mr. Blaine When did you get it? I want the gentlemen from Kentucky to answer when he got it Mr. Knott Answer my question first Mr. Blaine I nover heard it until yesterday. Mr. Knott How did you hear it? Mr. Blaino 1 heard you got a dispatch last Thursday morning at 8 o'clock from Josiah Caldwell completely and absolutely exonerating me from this charge, and you have suppressed it. Protracted applause upon the floor and in the galleries. I want the gentleman to answer. After a pause. Does the gentleman from Kentucky decline to answer? Mr. Knott I will answer that when I get ready. Go on with your speesfa. Mr. Blaine Tho gentleman from Kentucky, in responding, probably, I think, from what be said, intended to convey the idea that I had some illegitimate knowledge of how that dispatch was obtained. I have had no communication with Josiah Caldwell. I have had no means of knowing from the telegraph office whether the telegram was received. But I toll tho gentleman from Kentucky that murder will out. Mr. Glover That is true. Mr. Blaine And secrets will leak. And I tell the gentleman now, and I am prepared to state to this House, that at 6 o'clock last Thursday morning, or thereabouts, tho gontleman from Kentucky received and receipted for a message addressed to him from Josiah Caldwell, in London, entirely corroborating and substantiating the statements of Thomas A. Scott whieh he had just read in the Now York papers, and entirely exculpating mo from the charges which, I am bound to believo from the expression of that report, the gentleman is anxious to fasten on me. It was this scone which Bob Ingersoll had reference to when ho spoko of Blaine as the "Plumed Knight" hurling his lance full and fair in the face of his enemies.

A Greenback View of Cleveland, From the Centcrville (Iowa) Iowegicn.1 The following specific charges against Grover Cleveland ore made by the labor or

ganizations. When proven false our Dem

ocratic friends may then hope to win, and can truthfully say "our candidate's record is clear." 1. He vetoed the bill abolishing contract child labor in the charitable and reformatory institutions of the State. 2. He signed the bill reducing pilotage fees 20 per cent. a bill in the interest ot

foreign corporations.

3. He approved the law compelling wonting engineers to pay a tax of $2 a year for the enrichment of a pension fund of a liberally compensated body of publio servants. 4. Ho vetoed the five-cent fare bill a mfnfinM ratanlAtoi in enable workinf?-

lnon and their families to reach the suburbs away from tho tenement districts at all

hours 5. He signed the civil-service bill a measure calculated to encourage only collegeeducated citizens to reach the public service, thereby creating au aristocracy of office-holders. 6. He appointed a man to administer the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the State of New York who was an opponent of tho reforms which the labor interest (whose influence had created the bureau) had desired and formulated a man wholly unacquainted with its wants and indifferent to its wolfare; and, in this connection, we cite as a contrast the fact that President Arthur has selected a laboring man for the position of Chief of the National Labor Bureau, thus recognizing the interests which aro to be benefited, and to whoso efforts the creation of these bureaus is duo. 7. He vetoed tho meohanio's lien law, designed to give labor tho first lion on a building in courso of erection. 8. He voted tho bill limiting car drivers' hours of labor to twelve hours per day, thus confessing himself ignorant of tho grave national question underlying the national movement. 9. He failed to advocate, in his messago to the Legislature, prompt and practical legislation to meet the wish of the people expressed at the polls last election agaiust the system of contract labor, which was declared "shall go" by a vote of 139,000 majority, brought out by tho State Executive Committee of the labor organizations, and the success of which was largely contributed by tho members of this delegation. 10. His appointment of a majority of the members of tho railroad commission of New York wbo were hostile to the interest which created that board, thus defeating the objoot for which tho commission was established, and making it a tender to tho corporate monopolies of the State. Brains or Beef. So far as tho two most prominent candidates for the Presidency are concerned, the question is apparently ono of brains or beef. Senator Voorhees, of Indiana, reoeutly said, regarding Cleveland, that "it is rather providential ti ' ' ' have nominated a young, vigorous weighing 250 pounds, with a neek as big as my thigh and a head like a bull." Mr. Voorhees went on to explain this startling statement by saying: "In case he is eleot-

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ed he will be able to stand up against the horde of oftloo-aeekera and live. Tha pressure would have killed Hendricks or Thurman in ninety days; and, as for Tilden, he would have been snuffed out instantly." Mr. Voorhees says nothing about the mental qualifications of his candidate. Probably no special ones arc needed. The ability to stand the strain of distributing offices is all that is required. Statesmanship is superfluous; national polioy is nothing; all questions of principle are relegated to the background to consider plans for a rapid distribution of the spoils. Nothing could better show tha difference between the two parties. The Republicans have put in nomination one of the greatest statesmen that America has ever produced a "man of affairs," familiar with weighty matters of state, with questions of national polioy and international law; a man known and respected, not only in our own wide land, but in every foreign country with which wo have dealings; in short, the foremost statesman of his time. He is emphatically a "brainy" man. He is a gentleman of commanding presenoe and fine physique, but there ia nothing about him that suggests a horned quadruped. His neck and head do not recall those of a bull. Strength of intellect is stamped on every feature, bat there is nothing to suggest Taurus. Mr. Blaine is mental, not animal, in temperament and appearance. Ho will make his mark for brains, not beef, as President Toledo Blade.

THE NEW YORE FARMERS.

Xhejr Will Not Support Cleveland Under

Any Circumstances. Tho following address recently issued by the New York State Farmers' Alliance speaks for itself: To the Farmers of the State of Now TTork: Two years aco Mr. Cleveland was chosen Governor by a majority ot 193,000 votes. A considerable part of this majority camo from the'support given him by largo numbers of farmers, who reed on his pledges of fidelity to the principles avowed in the Democratic platform of 1H82. For the first ttma since the days of Silas Wright the Democratic party In that year had a majority ot votes in the agricultural counties and towns of this State. Mr. Cleveland is now a candidate for the Presidency. It is therefore proper that his courso as Governor be reviewed in the light of facts, that the people may judge how far he has fulfilled his pledges and what is his fitness for the higher office to which he aspires. It becomes our painful duty to denounce Mr. Cleveland's candidacy as unworthy tho support of farmers and ot the great body ot independent voters who elected him two years ago. Uo has violated positive pledges of fidelity to tha people's interests. In selecting two ot the Bailroad Commissioners whose duties are to guard tho interests of the people he chose men Identified with railway corporations. He appointed a Commissioner of Public Works who is running the Erie Canal in the interest of the railroads, lotting it get so out of repair thai, if the present policy is continued it is only a question of time when the Erie Canal must be abandoned. So far as ho could by this appointment Gov. Oloveland has neutralized the popular will for making and keeping the Erie Canal as a free publio highway, which was shown at the oloction by a much larger majority for free canals than Gov. Cleveland himself received. This is a matter ta whioh the farmers of Western States are interested equally with the farmers of Mow York. In making a Board of State Assessors Gov. Cleveland left the great agricultural interests unrepresented, though this is a subject ot especial importance to farmers, who are obliged to bear sr. unequal proportion of the burdens of taxation. Gov. Cleveland did this in disregard of the request for the appointment of a farmer who, by thought and study on economic questions, was especially fitted for this position, and who was recommended by all the farmers' organizations in this State. Gov. Cleveland has identified himself and ms candidacy with the corporate monopolies. Itt his veto ot the five cent fare bill for the New York elevated railroads, in defiance of the decisions of our highest courts, he avowed the extraordinary doctrine that the Legislature in granting a franchise to railroad corporations-exhausts Its powers; that it relinquishes the sovereignty of the peoplo and makes a contract whioh no future Legislature can change. If Gov. Cleveland's veto of this bill Is sound law, the people of this State and of the United States have no rights which the corporations they hayo created are bound to respect This veto marks Mr. Cleveland as pre-eminently the candidate of the monopolists in this country. It is from railroad corporations, the Standard Oil Company, and other monopolies that the money is to come whioh is to conduct his canvass. It is important that the mass of citizens who intend to preserve their liberties use very honorable means to insure bis defeat This is not a party question, and we do not appeal as partisans for any candidate Two of the members of our committee are Democrats and none of them voted for Gov. Cleveland's leading opponent two years ago. Nope of them can or will vote for him as President, and in this we fairly represent the feelings of the great maturity of farmers of the different parts of this Stnte. It is certain that Mils opposition to Mr. Cleveland for President will extend to the farmers of other States when the facts ot his record are fairly presented. Tho nomination of Mr. Cleveland makes an issue which as a political question subordinates all others. It is, whether the sovereignty ot tho peoplo shall be ovorshadewed by the corporations which they oreate. It is impossible to doubt that the result of such on issue will bo his overwhelming defeat. If Gov. Cleveland took this position ignorantly, the fact will not and should not help his candidacy, Tho people of this oonntry do not want a man as Presidont who could even through ignorance make a mistake of this character. Bnt any ono who closely watched the Chicago convention could not fail to see in the combination of Standard Oil and other monopoly influence against such reputable Democrats a Judge Thnnnan the signs that the ruling forces in the convention worked with definite aim. J Thorman, Bayard, Butler, and other lifelong Democrats and representatives of popular rights were set aside to make way for this new man, of whom nothing was known outside of the State except that be carried New York with Republican help by nearly 200,000 majority, and ot whom in the State we knew nothing politically except that his coarse as Governor has falsified all the pledges by which his fictitious majority ot two years ago was secured. We have no recommendations to make with

regard to candidates other than that every honorable means be used to make Mr. Cleveland's

defeat certain ana overwhelming, 'i ms, we uo not doubt, will be done. This will be a result which will nave a moat wholesome offeot en the political future of our country. Hon. Heman Glass, President, Lyman F. Cbowell, Treasurer, William J. Fowlsb, Secretary, Javes G. Shepabd. William G. Watnb, Executive Committee.

BLAISE'S MARRIAGE. Statement of an Eye Witness. (Wchmond find.) special. Isaac R. Purnell, of this city, who wit

nessed the marriage of James G. Blaine, in the little town of Millersburg, the

county seat of Bourbon County, Kentucky, says if there was evor a breath of a rumor in anv wnv discreditable to Blaine or his

wife he would have certainly heard it in the

village gossip, mr. jrurneu wiu ou w years of age next November. He wag born and reared in Millersburg, and continued to 1 to there until ho came to this county niuo yours ago. Blaine, he said, In ught in a military school at Blue Lick Spring, not far distant from Millersburg, and tho President of that sohool was also the President of the female seminary in Millersburg, in whioh the Stanwood sisters were employed. One of tho girls married a merchant named William McKim, and the other married Blaine in the parlor of the seminary, which was on tho opposite side of the block in which his parents resided. Liko most of the other villagers, he was present to witness the corecouy and tho departure of the party in hacks for Paris or Cyuthiitna, where they took the cars for their wedding tour. There was nothing hasty or sub-rosa about the marriage, nor did he ever hear it oven intimated that thero was tho slightest indiscretion connected with the courtship. Hence ho has not tho slightest hesitancy in branding the charges of tho Indianapolis Sentinel as an utrooious slander. Isaac R. Purnoll's son says that his mother. Mrs. Purnell, remembers the marriage just as distinctly as his father does, and that Mr. Purnell is correct in every detail. A TIMELY DOCUMENT. The Stewardship of the Two Parties. Washington dispatch.) Secretary McPherson has securoda statement from the Secretary of the Treasury giving a recapitulation of the losses of tho Government in the collection and disbursement of the public moneys since the foundation of the Government, comparing those of the various administrations and under tho two parties. It shows that under Republican rule the per oent of loss has been less than at any other time, and that the

losses have been regularly diminishing with each succeeding administration until during the present they have been reduced to the minimum. The statement, together with tho letter transmitting it, will be printed by the oommitteo and put in circulation- Mr. MoPhersem says it is one of the most important campaign documents they have, as it answers most effectually the senseless cry of "turn the rascals out THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.

Its Thirtieth Birthday Fittingly Celebrated by the Peoplo of Maine Mr. Blaine Makes a Speech. The thirtieth birthday of the Republican party was celebrated at Strong, Me., on (he 19th of August Five thousand people, says a dispatch from Strong, the largest crowd ever gathered in the county, were present The town was decorated with nags, streamers, and banners, on whioh were printed the original platform of the convention of 1855. An innovation upon the custom of the Grand Army of the Republic in not participating in political celebrations was made, six posts being represented in full regalia and the procession, followed by forty-seven of the 288 delegates present thirty years ago. Several largo banners were hung in conspicuous places hearing tho following: "We accept the issue forced upon us, " In the defense of freedom we will co-operate with all, of whatever name or party." The meeting was called to order by J. W. Porter. A list of officers, including Congressman Dingley as President, was read. Mr. Dingley took the chair and made

an address, reviewing the growth of the party. Mr. Blaine, accompanied by Hannibal

Hamlin and ex-Gov. Robie, arrived at 2 o'clock, and was received with enthusiastic cheers. Gov. Robie first addressed the meeting iu a brief speech. He caused considerable merriment by calling for all in favor of Blaine for President to raise their hands. The whole assembly apparently responded. "And now," continued the Governor, "all those in favor of any one else raise their hands." One man held up his hand amid roars of laughter, whereupon the Governor exclaimed: "May God have mercy on his soutv Blaine was loudly called for, and npon coming forward was received with wild applause. He said: FELLOW-OmzENs: The place and time where the Republican party was first organized will, I presume, remain like the birthplace of Homer, a subject of unending dispute. Seven cities claimed the latter and seven States may claim tho former. It could hardly be doubted that a great thenght common to the minds ot a million ot men could find expression at the same time and In places widely separated. But I think tt is historically true that the patriotic men who met in this town ot Strong in 1861 were the pioneers of the great movement whioh resulted in tho organization of the Republican party. Tho men of that day builded better than they knew, and initiated a movement whose grandeur and whose destiny could not then be measured. Great parties never come by a whereas and a rule. They grow. Parties cannot be improvised or extemporized. They come from an Instinct of the masses of tha people and are not the product of political labors. Thus it was with the Federal party, with theold Republican party, with the Democratic party, with the Whig party, and with that great party whose existence we celebrate to-day. I am here to exchange congratulations with old neighbors and old friends; congratulations on all that has been accomplished; congratulations on the spirit and couraae of the party to continue its great works in the future. Mr. Blaine's speech was frequently interrupted by applause, and he closed amid great enthusiasm. Good Blaine Witnesses. Touching the Mulligan letters, the late Judge Jere Black, a Democrat, but also a profound lawyer, who would be likely, if anybody, to detect guilt in them, said: "Mr. Blaine's letter proved that the Mulligan charge was not only untrue but impossible, and would continue so to prove until tho Gregorian calendar conld be turned around and October made to precede April in the stately procession of the year." And, by tho way, it is a enrioug fact that those who know Blaine best believe in him most Judge Hoar, of Massachusetts, said he believed in his honor and integrity because "he knew him." Such is also the uniform testimony of Blaine's different pastors, his neighbors, and his old associates, wherever found. It is not credible that he con be a corrupt bad man and none of these know it, before whom he goes in' and out daily. Here, for example, is a passage from tho address to Mr. Blaine, given at his recent reception by the best citizens of Portland, his old home: "Many of us have enjoyed the privilege of a personal acquaintance with yon, and although we have not all been able to auree with yon upon political questions, we havo all had confidence in your integrity as a man and your purity and ability as a statosman: and w are nnttwl in tho conviction that should the people

of tho United States ratify the choice of your

political associates, you will give tne country an administration unrivaled in its wise solicitude and practical measures for the promotion ot all our material interests, and for its patnsfaiiriniF for the tmrlSeation and nerfeationof

all departments of the public service."

This is not the stylo in which American

citizens address any man whom they have reason to believe is immoral in his private or corrupt in his publio life. Cincitunti

Uaiette. Blaine's Popularity in New York. It has turned out that there never has

been a Republican candidate for the Presi

dency who had, so long before the election, so near a certainty of carrying New York as Mr. Blaine has at this moment The Republicans of all the rural districts of the Empire State ore for him with unexampled unanimity and warmth, energy and confidence, the whole forming a magnifioent mass of enthusiasm. The Republican districts of New York have been for Blaine for President for ten years; and they are for him when at last he comes before the country fairly nominated for the great office, with a realizing sense that they are in the nniovment of a hich nrivileee. Mural Hal-

stead, in tke Cincinnati Commercial.

Campaign Notes. Twn Oxidant, the Israelite paper of Chi

cago, advocates the election of Blaine and Logan.

It would not be exactly true to say the Cleveland nomination fell flat. It fell cornerwise, and the sharp edges cut off a million and a half of votes from the Democratic party. The Socialists, who usually act with tho Democratic party in Presidential elections, will not stand Cleveland. They denounce him as a monopolist and say his nomination is another Democratic blunder. The Liberal Democrats are acting with the Republicans iu North Carolina, and there is good reason to believe that the Democratio majority of 6,300 can be overcome this fall and that the State

can be carried for Blaine and Logan.

There is a general bolt against Cleveland among the workingmon of New Jersey manufacturing town. An independent paper published at Trenton says "the Democrats have lost their grip on the State." The Republicans are rapidly organizing. It is quite probable that the Greenback voto in Maine this year will be a very small quantity. Tho party was composed mostly of seceding Republicans, who are now returning to their old allegianoe, and who have a strong personal liking for Mr. Blaine. The disintegration ot the Greenback party will help the Republican Stain ticket in September. Gen. Logan, it is reported, has mapped out a plan of campaign which he will soon submit to Mr. Blaine. He advises that a vigorous campaign be made in Ohio, West Viginia, and Indiana on the tariff issue. CoL Snowden, of Pennsylvania, will speak in Brooklyn early in the oampaign, also in Ohio end West Virginia. Gen. Bingham and Wilson Morris, also of PennsjrfVa-

nia, will speak mostly iu Indiana and

Western wew $ok, ,

INDIANA STATE NEWS. Anna Mclntyre, a woman of bad repute, is in jail at Winchester for horse stealing. By the burning of a bedstead manufactory at Bloomington, $80,000 worth of prop-1 erty was destroyed. -Ward F. B. Yarnelle, a demented preacher, committed suicide at Bidgeville, by throwing himself in front of a paaaenger train. Randolph Heiser, who recently made, the remarkable run of 461 points in a balk- -line game of billiards at Long Branch, was once a resident of Kokomo. August Nelp, a local sport, engaged in a wrestling bout with a strangar on the fair grounds at Peru, and came out second best, and also with a broken leg. The window department of DePauw's glass works will resume in a few days. New furnaces have been built, and the facilities for making glass largely increased. Moses Fowler, of Lafayette, the largest farmer in Indiana, who owns nearly 30,000 acres under cultivation in Benton County, will have 400,009 bushels of corn this year and 5,000 tons of hay. Tramps chloroformed George W. Brockway, five miles northwest of Lafayette, and robbed him of over $200 in money and notes. Mrs. Brockway saw them, but was kept quiet by threats. At Valparaiso as a large stone was being raised to the third story of the new courthouse, it fell and struck Edward Howes, workman, and instantly killed him. Hewes was a resident ot Warsaw and unmarried. At Switz City, James Rankin was fatally wounded by his brother George, while being taught how to handle a self-cocking revolver. The latter, overwhelmed with grief at the accident, sent a ballet info bis own head. The receiver of J. G. 8. Harrison's bank at Indianapolis found only $118 in cash in the safe, but made the discovery that the defaulter bad $35,000 to his credit in New York from a speculation in Western Union stock.

Crawford County has a citizen :

John Brock, 92 year old, who claims to have fought under Gen. Jackson at the battle ot New Orleans. The other day he walked a mile and a half to witness the raising of a Democratic pole, and then walked back again. At Jeffersomille, Emma Slaughter, colored, shot Delia Pool, also colored, at a ball. The wound is in the shoulder, and not serious. Emma Slaughter is jeahsns of

separated, and who is paying attentions tliA Ptfinl vnmnn

A well-known, eccentric character at Richmond, named Dick Hudson, whose favorite resort was the river, where baha saved more drowning persons than a few, cither unconsciously or with suicidal intent walked into deep water, adjacent to the city, and was drowned.

At a ball at Milan a few nights' sinoe, t German couple from Pratteburg, Charles Sherman and Miss Statlander, wagered that they could waltz longer than the iiiMl-.rs could play. The contest lasted for at hour and twenty-eight minutes, when the giddy couple feU to the floor from exhaustion. The second trial of the East C'oimerfiville slaughter-house case, in whieh jurywas hung in effigy, has ended inn verdict against William Sturwolt, assessing his tine at $10. The costs aro heavy, about fifty witnesses being in attendance. Tht victo

rious party threaten a raid on all the akngh-ter-house in the vicinity. Henry Dieck, aged 12 years, went to the woods, west of Seymour, to gather elderberries. Some three hours later Dr. W. M. 6asiy was returning from a visit to

the country and fotjnd Dieck in a ditch along theOhio and Mississippi Bead, suffering from severe convulsions. The Tietxjr ;- procured help and removed him to a neigh- . bar's house near by. He is of the opinion that it is the result of eating poisonous ries. The boy's oonditiou ia eaanddet"'

critical. -

There is the prospect of a Hvely worst Hammond, over a right of way between the Michigan Central and Chicago and Alton Roads on one side and the Louisville, NewAlbany and Chicago on the other. Tho , latter road intends to cross the two foissei roads, and has its new track hid up to the) resisting roads on either side. The Michigan Central track is held down by two engines and the Chicago and Alton is loaded down with freight cars. All three roads have a force of men on hand and watch ia kept up night and day. On Monday night Philip P. Shetb, of this city, went out into his yaMandebanoatl to glance up at the sky. He was surprised, he says, to see the whole southern heavens .- filled with two armies, apparently engaged infighting. He could descry their banner, artillery, and horses, and note distinctly the forms of the men. Occasionally fee saw the flash of the big guns, and stood gazing, wondering, and appalled at tho spectacle. He says the armies were fighting and moving slowly northwards The legions had not the appearance of clouds. He is an educated man, and not given to -superstition. Richmond Palladium, Cant J. R. Clavtoa. Of ShelhvvilU

tells a remarkable story of a bible found

near Atlanta during the war. He says:

J WV IMWUiuaji nawow vast whv Hiatva AsYVOI, Atlanta, Ga., to Savannah, in passing across a field, ono of the horses, a few yards in front of me, struck an object which, on nearing, I saw was a book. Swinging down in my saddle I picked it up and fonnd it to be a well-worn and well-read family ImI.v On the fly-leaf was the following iusettjw tlon: 'Phila E. Whitehead; from lur mother; Bath, 1862.' I brought this BiWo bni , with me and at onee began to scinvh f.ir ibe owner by advertising and corresponding with Postmasters. A notice thr--..u the Louisville Courier-Journal brought a letter from a correspondent who provl to ! Mrs. Phila Edgeworth Nceley, v of Brooklyn, N. Y. Her maiden, name v.:i. Miss Phila E. Whitehead, and h-r home was Bath, Richmond County, Ga. Hr won Robert C. Neeley, writes: 'When iti I-v.i-eral troops advanced, passing right tlmmsh our place, we left for Southwest ti-o't.'i'i. and the Bible was lost in our fnj-ht.' 1 u Bible has been sent to her and will n doubt revive many memories of that bitter i-outttct. "

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