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RUSSIA AND INDIA.

Comprehensive Account of the Russian Advance in Central Asia, by Eugene Schuyler.

Sagta! Uaferthe Boeeaslty T ing Vftm. a Ite&eeatie f tee

A Hap Slowing the Seat of the Threat' eaed War and the Gontiguioiia Country.

lfr. Eugene Sohnyler, late United States Minister to Turkey than whom no man in , probably, is better posted in European politics contributes to the Chicago Time- a valuable and interesting paper upon the Anglo-Russian dispute, the main portion of which wo reproduce below. It will well repay pei usal: At a moment when peace and war seem trembliitg in the balance It is natural to inquire

Into the causes and reasons that have brought about the crisis. What is Russia's object in gradually but surely sporoaouln India? What does she desire there or elsewhere? Why Is

England so alarmed at every step, ana apparently fearful of the result? But to understand the course of events and to answer intellhribly to ourselve questions like these we must serarate the general causes of difficulty from the present dispute over the line of a frontier. ....... , ., The advance of Russia in Asiahis been marked by many phases: First, the conquest of Siberia by the Cossacks in the sixteenth century and the gradual extension of Russian colonization to the coast of the Paelffe. whole Asiatic tribes being made nominally Russian subjects without any particular intention on their part of fulfilling duties, but simply foi the purpose of receiving the presents customary on such occasions. This continued through the whole of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Then, beginning about thirty year ago, a continued pushing forward of the Russian outposts, on the southern frontier of Siberia into the steppes, the subjugation, whether nominal or real, of varions tribes of Kirghiz and Kalmucks, until tlujse cnlmhutedin the conquest of Toorkiatan and Tashkent by den. Tohernayeif, speedily followed by the occupation of Samarcand. After this Bokhara was made a close ally; Khiva was subdued in 1873; Khokand was annexed short y afterward; and Knldja has a'ready been occupied in consequence of tho Mussulmans' movement against the Chinese. All this was done without much system and without orders from the Gov.Mmt at PpWm!uiw Tt. was never nossi-

bte to draw back the boundaries, bntevery fresh.

dispute with the natives led to an aermisitlon of territory and influence. Tho last phase was reached' only after, and indeed in consequence of, the treaty of Berlin. At a time when war with England seemed imminent the Russians resolved to advance In a dif-

'.ren- direction Between ne uiimu and " the Bca ot Aral southward, where steps had already boon taken to subjugate tho wild Turcoman tribes, partly with the intention, now for the first time avowed or existing, of pushinp as near India as possible. Up to that time, although a plan for flic conquest of India had been presented to the Kmporor Panl at the beginnins of the centnry, and there hid been at intervals much wild talk among officers of the army of the possibility of snoh a move, it had never been seriously considered; but it was then felt that it was necessary to be in a position not only to annoy England In case of war, which then seemoil so possible, but ultimately, whenever it became ne-sary to make another movement on Constantinople or to open the Bosphorus to tho free passage of Russian vessels, so to threaten India and divort tho attention of England that it would not be again possible for her to ruin the Russian plans. The belief in the possibility of interfering with English rule in Imlla had grown greatly in ten years, owing in lari:e measure to the action of the English themselves. Every Russian movement had boen so eloselv scrutnlzcrt in England, so many Hucstious had been pntto the Russian Government as to their Intentions, whether present or future, that the evident alarm manifested by tho British Government increases the belief in their weak bold on India. The British Embassy at St. Petersburg gave

much time to tho study of Asiatic affairs, and frequently succeeuecHu obtaining, by favor or by bribes, from subordinate officials' reports, maps and plans of tho movements of troops on thofrontier. As wns natnral.thosr froiuentqnentlonj and protests naturally annoyed the Russian Government, although it was ovident at the time that England was m no condition to oppose the Rnsslan advance in any other way. it wa impossible nndor the cfc-cumslances for Russia to consent to drawing an imaginary line through the steppes lieyond which it would not pass so long as no English troops could advance, either to oppose them or to keop in order the wild tribes on tno other side. Matters, however, reaohed such a point in lHa, that the Russians, for the sake of ix-ace, aure.'d to consider Afghanistan as beyond the sphere of their influence. Two qm-sttons, howv;r. immediately arose: First, as to whether the Kualishcouldcontrol the Afghans smlielently to be rcsponsll le for anv attacks they might make uimn RussHu proteges, and, secondly, what wore the boundaries of Afghanistan. It was agreed, in the main, that all places should be considered as belonging to Afghanistan ivlilch had beeniu the act ual possession of either Dost Mohammed or Shore Ali. For the sake of convenience, however, the Russians consented to recognize as Afghan certain provincss which had not been in the effective posses n of those two sovere'gns, in rder that the . .idary Un-3 might be drawn hd the river Oxus or Amoo-l'arya. This lino terminated on the river at a 1 lace called Hoiija Salab, amfwas to go from there westward to the Persian frontier, the exact line not being specified. Matters remained for nearly ten years in that

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cmditlorj. The Enelish protested, it is true, against the subiusation t.i Khivi, idthougfa I.ussiar troops cenftced th mseUes to Me right l aukot the Oxns in the!t permanent occopatou. loey protested, against the occupation of Merv m 188L Some even went so far as to advise sending money and ammunition to the Turcomans in order to enable them to oppose the Russians. The oceuparJoo of Merv and the neighboring provinces brought the - (ortne not time close to the Afghan frontier and to Herat, always considered the key to India. The English had at last given up their lean that Russia might ad-

mrottga jiasagar or ub ihmhw 8 of the Himalayae, and owing to -heir own ta mil hui rvtii had heeome eonvineed

that it would be diSnlt for the Russians o attack IndU by the way of Cabal; bat Harat once ocor pied, the road would be easier, all successful mvasions of India having come from the Afghan frontier. Thetussiana, in reply to England'a qoeMtions, had already proposed a commission lor the purpose of settling the boundaries of Afghanistan, which the English had refused, fearing lest by a.-epthlg this they wonhi impliedly agree to Rnsslan ocenpattm up to the very hue. After Mery was taken theSusstans reiiev-ed theirpropositlon. and 'Aia time It was accepted. The English, however, proposed that the boondsrTcommtasionshooldconSfaK Ot tWC VmwttaUm-wn aha ltn.4ltll- Slid 008

tan. TttiSKBasiaoojeeieutoonui-Kruuou .according to then- own arrangeuent with iad. awl snMian.v bv th treacv made be

tween the Ameer ot Afghanistan and England rtr th 1iJ war. thft Afarhans were not under

BngHsnprotee km: thai while the English Commissioner xmkl ask the Afghans for advice and counsel, jest as the Russians could tie Turcomans, their subjects, the boundary, must be drawn by the two nation-' alone After some dlsuusahm this was greed to. Sir Peter Lumsden, an EngBsk offioer well known in India, was appointed the , Rnsslan Commiat loner. assisted by Mr. Condie Stephen, a young dipiomatist who had won his apars, first by acquiring thoroughly the Kngllsh language, then by Ms smceasfui management of the Consulate at nnUppopoUs, and, ftnally, by his leadership of several anrveying and eMoring parties on the PeraLtn troaler. They were acojmpanied by a large staff iad an escort. The Rnsstans appointe l as their Ccmmissioner Oen Zelevoi; but before the time appointed for tho meeting the Russian Commissioner was taken ill at Ttffla. It was necesnary, the Russians thought, fcr some agreement to be come to as to the region through which the boundary tile should be drawn, and as to the ptindpies which should govern the delineation. This it was better to arrange at home, and for that panose Cant. Tjesaar, a French engineer officer in the Russian service, who had explored the whole iregton up to the very gates ot Herat, and hl recently been attached as dipiomatio agent to the Governor General commanding the transeaspian region, was sent to Ixjndon for the purpose of hsatenteg a decision by the En-wan Government. There were varions delavs, caused more by the Engnsh tt an by the ' Buselaaa,and, meanwhile, before the arrival of Iiesssrat London, or even the departure of fOr Peter Lumsdcn for the frontier, tht Afghans, incited by the EgUsh In India, had advanced and taken the smrJl town ot Penjdeh, over which they had had no actual rule for very many years, and which, therefore, dil not fall within the coodltlcna of the arrangement of ion. As a protest against this, the Russians advanced their outposts far beyond where the English thought the frontier line should bo drawn Such was. in brief, the state of affairs when the present controversy became still more embittered by the advance of Geo. Xcmaroff. That Russia should wish India for its own sake ema too absurd to be worth ixmsidemtlon.whenwe remember that the size of India is equal to three-qoarteTB of that of Russia in Bnrooe. that its DOoolatkm amounts to 333.C00.-

00. tat its debt, which would have to be asv sumcd by Russia to ease of annexation, is over tgas,ioa,'XK, about one-third of that of Russia ttseiu Althongh its commerce amounts to a

larvi sum f itw.oou ,oo of imports, 1417,000,000 of exports yet as most of this is witti England it wld probably contlnae in the ei me route; it could not at once be changed and go into the bands of Russia by the annihilation of British power in India, nor. Indeed, could Russian factories supply the need of the Indian market. It is not the possession of India which the Russians desire, nor do they wish to make any actual attack upon English rule is India. Thsy do wish, however, to be in a position to threaten India, whether by force of nna or by Intrigues, in case England i "toossj Mate object ta. mrr-im otvwsioan policy In the wast. One of those aims must certainly be considered the aliening of free communuation from tie Black Boa to the Mediterranean. In this stage of civilization the world at huge eoald irympethize with the free development of any nation so long an It interferes with the rights of no other state.

rather than with the policy of restriction. The opening of the Bosphoros and the IardaneUes should be merely a question between Russia and Turkey, In which fore'gn power sho tiid hare no actual interest exespt to desire the freedom ef

the seas and of the straits.

But whether or not the Bussians desire the w conqnest of India, or stmt lv fo gain a position from which to annoy the English, it is the obvi1 onsdntv of the British (iovernmeul to decide ' upon s frontier which the Russians .An not be

flowed to overstep. Vn -h as tliev mlscht nro-

taatandqnestion, it is obviously impossible for the English to insist upon a frontier line drawn through the steppe, whieb they haw no possibility ot defending, and it Is for their in'erest, as they wish no rarther barren poessions. to restrict themselves to whit they -eaily hold and to draw the frontier as near Indi as Is safe, by which they can be nearer their own base of operations and the Russians as far is possible from theirs. It would sees: that the Engllrh made a mistake tn W m insisting ea the Oxua ss 'he boundary between At ehanistan and the Russian protected o - tributary states. The tribes and patty conatiles on the left bank of the Oxue. ilthoues St v ,a times tbey had teen sublet; to Atshanistai . tuv I frequent y been entirely independent, and -re

aa in-, sassr smv nue trfni9 JJV! u -v. the right Rank. It was therefore always ", be

far Hossia, m the event e war, when

ail things are .Howable, to carry on intrigues with sach people. After n.y return from Central Asia I had the honor ewetnl times of being i asked mv ooinion on this subject by leading statesmen, and alwaya held that the mountain barriers, where there were passes easily defensible, were far better for English purposes than the river. I remember particularly insisting on this in several conversations with the Prince of Wales, whom I found particularly well informed on the whole subject. RUSSIA MM CENTBAX ASIA. Her Advance Across the Desert and Over the Oasis of Voxkutan. A little east of the narrow tract now in dispute between Bussia and Afghanistan is that extensive protuberance called by the natives The Pamir, or The Boot of the World. This wonderful plateau, furrowed by deep valleys, through which flow the head streams of gnat rivers, is the loftiest in the world, and stretches away for some hundreds of miles from 10,000 to 15.000 feet above the sea. It is an elevatod isthmus connecting those almost impassable mountain systems of Asia, the Thian Shan and Altai "on the north, with the Hindoo Koosh and Himalayas on the sonth. Here history uiaces the cradle of the European races.

Here lived our Aryan forefathers, who, leaving the Pamir slopes, follow wl great rivers

westward, ana nnauy pasturea cneir neras in Europe. Hither ate returning now their descendants, the Slavs and Anglo-Saxons, sooner or later to contend for the suprem

acy of Asia upon the historic ground from

which their progenitors are peuevea to nave

migrated. The Pamir sent its waters west to fertil

ize the Toorkisran Desert, govt the nations a txtisagewav throneh mountain barriers

along its streams that poured eastward into tna Tarim and southward into the Ganges

and the Indus, nurtured the civilization

that Genghis Khan and Tamerlane founded iw rPnA4aii .nA madft nosflihle the ad

vance of Bnssia into Central Asia. Thomrh Peter the Great dreamed of ex

tending Bnasia's power far beyond the

Caspian, it was not the greed of conquest or commerce, bat the need of defending

herself a&ainst barbarous neighbors across

the 'Ural that first "tamed Bnssia toward

Central Asia. Ivan III. put an end to the

terrible Tartar invasions that for centuries wasted half of Bnssia and laid its chief cities in ashes. But his successors did

not free Bnssm from the pest of pillaging

Kirghiz and Turcoman tnoes nntu tnev es

tablished tho Muscovite power in the large

territory between the Ural itiver and the

Aral Sea. They sank wells in the TJst tlrt

plateau to facilitate the operations or tueir

army, marched against the turoment luruhiz. and after several hard tiampaigns they

snbdtted these two million nomads, who for

over twenty Tears have paid their conquer

ors without a murmur jbeir innual tax of 3

rabies a tent.

Beyond the Kirghiz Bteppjs that bordered Bnssia stretched tar eastward across the desert two belts of verdure through which flow two greet rivers, the a ieient Oxos and

the Jaxartes, now known ai tne Amn-uana

and the Syr-Dana. The one rising on the

southern and tne otner oa tne northern

ahnies of the Pamir, had for ages distribut

ed over their banks alluvium borne

moid odes from 'heir headwaters,

creating long nod continuous oases in the midst of the most desolate desert of the

world. Here were rich lauds and populous

and half-civilized nations, were were the routes to inner Asia, caravan roads that led to China, the highways over which great

camel -trains from jboaaara naa xor many

years borne to Orenburg and Astrakhan their loads of cotton, silk, skins, and

shagreen leather to exchange for Russian hardware, chintz, and guns. Here was a chance for vast expansion of Muscovite power and commerce. Russia's motive was no lower self -protection, bnt the subjugation of the khanates of Toorkistau and the extension of trade. Her expedition against Khiva in 1839 as disastrous. The bitter cold of the Pst Crt plateau ruined Perowski's army. Bussia, repnlsed in her attempt to acquire the Oxua, tnrneil to the Syr-Daria. After she planted hsr foot upon that river her forward march was slow, Bteady, and persistent. Her lino of forts along the left bank of the river lengthened year by year. She made the river her ally in her warfare upon the khanates. Twelve years after the first Russian gun was leveled at the waifs of the first town in Khokand this rich khanate, ioclading its metropolis, Tashkent!, became the Bnesian province of T"iruani. fr-en Bokhart; after a bitffr -figfeK Irtst its i4aipnl-riv Tvn of the tLr - hha-i-Vs f.f lorKislati vr r-'.w Knitted, the Syr-Jbulft from its month fc- its sources wns a .Russian stream, and the

Muscovite arras were ono? more turned toward the Oxus. Gen. Kaufmann's attack upon Khiva twas crowned with success.

the khanate was added to the l iissinn conquests in Toorkistitn, and the (. mis passed

into Bussin's control.

The khanate of Kholantl has been so

completely absorbed by the Kiusiau military government that its nam has disap

peared from recent maps. liuKoata ana Khiva are still nominillv ruled bv their old

sovereigns, bnt they are merely dependen- - f i i . ,11

cies oi ltussio, ana pny ueavv inuuw iui the privilege of retaining a semblance of autonomy. The Khan of Khiva is not permitted to have an army, and his subjects have been stripped of their weapons. He is so for a more completely subjected prince than the Ameer of Bokhara, who is

permitted to maintain an army oi zu,uuu men. which he has pledged himself to

place at the disposal of the Russian com

mander, ana wnicn, according to am. Boulger, will prove a serviceable auxiliary corps.

When Bussia had conquered the khan

ates there was still hard work for her armies

sooth of the Oxus. where large tnbes of

wild Turcomans constantly menaced her enterprises, and blocked the way to Herat Some years after Khiva fell, Skobeleff and

his Cossacks scattered the Teke-Turco.

mans, the greatest slave-hunters and most lawless nomads who roamed the desert of Kara Kum. Last year the lost stronghold of this tribe was occupied by Bnssian troops. It was the earth fort thoy were building in a bend of the Marghut Biver. at Merv, when. O'Donovan visited them four years ngoi Its ramparts, forty feet high and Bixty feet wide at the base, were speedily knocked to pieces, and Merv now forms part of the Bnssian transcaspian province. Years before. Sir Henry Bawlinson, the greatest authority on Central Asia, had told the British Government that "Herat is at the mercy of tho General who occupies Merv." "Bnt public opinion in England did not keep pace with tho march of events in Asia, and it was not till tie Russian forces had left the Merv oasis and received the submission of the Turcomans sonth of Sarakhs that Great Britain awoke to tne belief that the czar was threatening Herat and -menacing India. lArd Dulfferln. Lord Dufforin is now attracting so much attention by reason of his negotiotions on the part of England with the ruler of Afghanistan that a sketch of his life, together with a picture, will be interesting to our readers. The Earl of Dnfferiu is an Irishman, and a great-grandson of the accomplished Biohard Brinsley Sheridan. He is Frederick Temple Hamilton Blackwood, only son of the third Baron Uniterm, in the Irish peerage, and his mother (tho Dowager Countess Gifford by her second marriage) was a clever lady authoress, eldest daughter of Mr. Thomas 'Sheridan, and heiress to the wit, talent and genial temper of her family, which her son has inherited in his Inrn. Lord Dnfferin was bom at Florence hi 1820,

Bucoeeded to the peerage on Ins fathers death in 1841, wns educated at Christ Chnrch College, Oxford, bnt took no honors Oi

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster for four vears and then assumed direction of the Government of Canada, o post which he held until 1878. Ho was subsequently Am liassador at St. Petersburg from 1871? to 1881, and was appointed to . Constantinople in April, 1881. The following year he went on a special mission to Egypt, Sir 1'eter I.nuiiHlen. Sir Peter Lnmsden, whose biography is herewith presented, was born in 1829, and enteriiw? the Bengal army in 1849 he has continued since then to sec active service in

degree, leaving the university early; he entered publio life as a Lord-in-Woiting in Lord J. Russell's first administration. He was attached in 1855 to Lord J. Russell's mission to Vienna, and was sent by Lord Palmerston as British Commissioner to Syria in 1860. He was TTnder Secretary of Stat in'lyi from lW4t. IMA. mJ if. the .iltjci- iii "juwi'iv for a !' months ' pdi Mr r;iarlst..n s ar'iuinvfr.irKi".

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India. He has served on the Northwestern frontier in numerous expeditions, on a political commission in Afghanistan, in Cental! Indian operations in 1858, and in all the army grades npwartl. Penjdeh an I its Surroundings. Petijdeh, where the first Busso-Afghan. battle was fought, is between sixty and seveu.y miles south of the old Russian, boundary, and about fifty miles north ol the line now claimed by the Bussiaus, but disputed by 111 Afghans and English. It is. in fact, very near tho boundary of the disputed territory, which extends from north to south about 110 miles, and from east to west abont 100 miles on its southern side, and 150 on its northern. It iB not a large area, but is well watered by tho Kiisih'ic and Murghab Rivers, which nuite a little north of Penjdeh, and by the Heri Rnd. which bounds the territory on its western side, defining tLe Persian frontier. The valleys of these livers are fruitful, but it is neither their agricultural wealth nor the mineral resources of the mountains that make the territory so dosirable. If the territory in dispnte is conceded to Russia, it brings her frontiers tvilhu a hundred miles of Herat, the acknowledged koy to Afghanistan and the pusses into India. While Penjdeh may not of itself be. as Lord Dnfferin soys, worth fighting about,

its puwsessiuu uy nussia wuiuu oe a suujeot of solicitude to England, who. considering the steady advance of Russia southward from Khiva, must necessari'y mistrartthe motive of this extension of the Russian frontior. There could be no especial objoct in acquiring Penjdeh and the tetritory above described, nidess tiiere existed the ulterior purpose of acquiring Herat, thus putting the Russians it a position fo influence the policy of the Aiueor, and ultimately absorb his entire douiuions. The more this question is examined as to its political bearings in Afghanis! m and Northern India, the more essential it appears for English supremacy and prestige in that quarter of the world to stop Russian aggression whore it is, and if possible force its relreat back to Khiva at least. Snakes in tho leiijd di Vnllxy. Remittent fever has of lute years played sad havoc among the Jamstiidis of Kushk. All the neighboring vol. eye, including Penjdeh, are infected, and are only inhabitable in spring and summer by the acclimatized. Another diawbnok to tlvs valley is th. number of makes which iifestit. In spring the country jutiBt swiiim with them; at present they ai.? to be found, when there is occasion to dig, some eighteen i ches or two feet be'ow the surface, hibernating in sleepy terror. I.,iHtlon Times. To BE tree from desire is money ; to be free from the rage of perpetually l i. . inrtlj i i- si ..-it: ij i-fvpiinp; If- '!' tt'tit ltli tf.t weyir.RKf M f'n M.ttn'p.-, the cratfit anff

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Several Buliiliugs Durst Into, (flames,

Followod .Later by Four Holler jixplosions. .. 1t, .- . (Brooklyn tN. '.i teleg:um J . ,' Shortly after SI o'clock tb's inoriiiiig"fre was a ciash at 55 Atlantic a venue, BrtfokTn, and people on looking up from "the ktreet

saw tb it. ti? loutjOt the building luuianiten in and tlsaf a'forlion of Iheiva h had falh n. They ron'd hear the scrooti s of people injured, and it-seemed bnt a moment when'avo ume of Biuoko, rolled an, showillg that th bttildiuit jHuMakcatfire. -xtniiilreda of; )eojlit iaenifomew 'and gTftsi-were at. work atji-Ato,; v vuriatts branihes pf busineas "csjfitei! ou'JW tjfejj Jnildtng; which covers cousidenible ground, having tinea wings, and which extends through from Atlantic avemio to State street. As so m as the crush was heard of the falling roof hnudreds of those employed in the t-uildmg tied or endeavored to maTte their way out by every avenue of escape which tiiey.-were familiar with) and some who were 'the last to reach the street appeared with begriinsl faces? and blood streaming from wounds they received 'from fa 1 n.i limbers. c-'n-"i";" '1 he excitement in the neighborhood becimo ery great, a:d in a short time the wives of the men who -were known to be working id the building and the parents of the girts who weie employed there .blocked tho .streets and wrong their hands aud wept. Three alr.rms of fire were pent out, and the services of a largo number of the police force bad to be allied into requisition to k'eep the crowd of people out of the jbj of danger, It -was reported at first tint about one hundred girls, who were employed in the Mi!o Ityu'es Button Works, which- was on the top floor where the rocf fell in, wore kilted; but there are other, leports that most of the girls "made their etc ipoby cl mbiug on the roofs. of the adjoining tenement hoaseii.1 ' The building was occupied, by twenty small manufacturers and there were about ,100 men and women employed therein. It was five stories bigl:,.aud erected jtwoutyseve'n ;reais ago. th.s woodwo:k being .like tinder.' When trio' tirenien arrived they found loony ol the- yonngi womefl at the window s, screaming wildly for help. Their relreat had 'been cut oft?and the iiremen quickly'ran up the ladder.; but tho girls were " hemmed in and some ilell

lack iuto the flames before help could reach them. s The inflammible cluiracter of the bnilding hindered the efforts

of the arem . n. It naa ascertained th it tno enginetir of the fait ory, Daniel J. Lowry,

irfts rtnii nr inn AioLirns. xre was Kiiieu uv

the falling of the west VH lue midille wing o:i Atlantic avenue.. The causa of

the lire was th; overturning of the boilers of a sojp factory on the second floor. The

west wall of the middjie wing on At antic avenne had settled; workmen were s.-re;;-ing it up with ja l:s; the middle jack hid been iicrewed un too Irian, and it was

lowered, wheu the whole weight of the wutt

came upon the two jacks, at the end aadleu

with a crash. In the different nianufacturiuS p'aces in

the buildings there were 700 people. Ia the New York Tin Company's employ ih-re

were thirty or forty girls, and wh.'lheraU

eSTtiued is a ouojtioii wiucn c.n not no

solved. Some of them were seen shriek- . .. .. .i! :J.. .. , ..ff

lug WUlty upon inu nun uro-t-acape uj. mo

fourth aoor, when.- Ih tin fasiory was to

catcd. The flames seemed to leap from

floor to floor and btiiidwg to handing .with

a releritv that bafflea de ctintiou.

The fire now mi idW extended to the

bnildiug that fronted ou State street, nud the buildings went to pieces like houies of cards. The crash of falling walls and floors, the vast clouds of smoke, dust, and steam, the spites of flame that shot from the crumbling ruins gave terror to the spectacle, and the general exc. lenient grew into a panie when it was repotted that sovaral eniploj.es had been burned and crushed to death in the ruins. . The walls fell rapidly, and two hours after tho lire had broken out nothing bur a few fiagments of wall indicated that a bnildkig had formerly stood .there. In places where these fmgm. nts bu'ged outward nod threatened to fall the firemen directed streams of water against them at short range,, and crambled them down brick by brick. By noon the fire on the State streets: do was extinguished, and several eugioes bad left, but steam and. sreoke still rolled in heavy volumes from the charred aud smoldering ruun. The excitement around th? scena of the connof.:mtion was intense, and the.-e were a hvuidrid unx.ous p oplo looking for missing relatives aud friends employed, iu the building. What human .life is lost wiU never be known uixtil the firemen have thoroughly searched the ni'ns, but there seems to be little doubt on all sides th.it; a considerable number have pjrisusd. Four dead aad charred bodies have been taken from the rains, A dozen or more persons were injured, some- of them very seriously, and about twenty-five are utilising. - Walter W, Marcus, a workman in one of the factories, who was standing .at the corner of Hicks street at the time of the oouflagration, efcited that he glance 1 at one of the upper windows and noticed a putt of smoke coming frnni it, and in It us than a minuti it seemed no if fire and suioke were leaping from every door and window. , "I was caught in that place last September, " said he, "when ptrt of tho building was burned. As I was sleepii g oa the third floor I was awakened ny shouts on the street, and got down stairs just in time to save a roastin". There was noth'ng in or about the place to check a fire; no hose or extinguisher or fire-escape." Lowrey, tho engineer of the building, who made perio lioal visits t the varions floors, was on the third floor at the time of the crash, and ran to the rof to see what was the matter. Tliat was the Inst seen irf him. Milo Iliue, who occupied the top floor for the manufacture of buttons, made this statement: "At 9 o'c'ock I was in my loom directing the work of my employes, of whom there were forty, mostly women. The first wa hoard of the iicc.Meut was when we heard a crash, and this was- followed by part ot' tho flooring giving wav. Iii one of the comers of my roi m there was a ladder leading to the roof, and all the employe made a rush for it There was a tamo among tho women for a timo, ami two nr three of them fainted, but the fo em in soon succe nled in reKtorinQ ord-'r, and then, in single file, the employes c imbed (ho ladder and gained Ihe roof. The girls inarched out in good ordir, gatn"d tho roof of the adjoining butldin-?, which -.vas not injured, and reached the street by descending the fireescapes." The insurance on the property destroyed is about $HMUHH, while tfee damage will aggregate at least $:l"0,00 i. Martial Law on the isthmus. IWitshioiflon telesrnm.1 'i he Secretary of the Navy has been informed the CoIoioUau Government has declined martial law on the Isthmus of Panama as the bet means of pi serving order. I .UnaiLin dispatch.1 II hits become known here that the jobber JPrceton, who burned Colon, hiving made his escape, hn?. since then seized three ste imers at Porto, nith the help of which i is feared he :aiay make trouble, unless tho I'nitcd States naval forces shall capture hiia and his tessels.

A1TOBSBT GeneBAIi . .1. .. 1 ! . b ...-! ..t I .e last v ; iH-aierl ir- - 'i , the list 'e

i reconanlion, in apuit for

MmL Jtugwniiiiw.

Ever? the mugwumps cannot swallow the

Fillsbury dose. The Boston Record says: "If Kbeu F. Tillsbui-y, just appointed Internal Revenue Collector fyr the Third District of Massachusetts, is not an 'offensive partisan,' -lie must hare experienced a remarkable conversion." The Springfield (Mass.) Republican says: "When the administration gets down to Pillsbnry of tMaine for Collector of Internal Revenue in the Third District of Massachusetts, the drop is heard all over New England. There will bo general imjntienoe at this wanton lowering of the standard hitherto maintained. And then there is Troup, of New Haven, also made a Col

lector of internal Revenue, who has no particular .political prinoiplea because he does not see. what use a politician can have for such baggage. These men are well

mated, and the gender oar wnicn tnis ad-lniuistttioa-displiiys l01.11 Butler's political orphans' ft something more than a crirue-"f or it is the silliest sort ot a political blunder. It would po'.very interesting to know what influences nave sufficed; to compos this bad break in Mr. Cleveland's record of appointments. Can it ho that the fine Roman hand of Secretary Manning was eulifited by Messrs. Pillsbury and Troup to 'strengthen the party,' thereby brilliantly exhibiting tho foolishness of professional politics?" The Uoston Advertiser, speaking of the appointments of Pillsbnry anavChase, says: "The appointments of Internal Revenue Collectors for Massachusetts and Maine made by the President, jsjertjay areas.bad as they could be, unless he had chosen men convicteti of crime. Pillsbury's record ot cousisten fcajiMfcmsmjtftJtiie Sports te sippress fhe rebellion, and the notorious participation of both in the scheme by which it was attempted ..to steal -an ;hle0t01), are not the whole of their 'disqualification for service under an administration which professes a motive of progress and reform. Neither of them, in his political career, has

been so much as named in connection with

any action which ookp4 to the. better and more honest methods In notifies. Theyare

devotees of the old spoilt system, and? are held in such disesteem that neither of them

in-the State where they are both"best known could command the f iu.1 veto of - his party for any office. They have been useful in such ways that it would be extremely unwise to expose either of them to the fierce light of a popnlar election. ' Their selection for honor by the Democratic administration is a blunder of large proportions, significant of an. essential weakness." The selection of Pillsbury, and Chase may be included also, was a direct defiance to the ordinary decency and self-respect of everv man in New Eneland. H Cleveland

had scoured the political slams he conld'l

not have found more offensive raprejenjatives than these upon whom' to Bestow offices of honor and trust. . ..And vet -we are compelled to usterf to the reiterated twaddle about this reform administration! It is time to stop it It is becoming nauseating. If Cleveland actually believes that these men whom he fys been appointing recently are not offensive partisans, bnt men of spotless virtue and official integrity, he isi not fit to bo President. If he does not believe it, then let his friends acknowledge that he is carrying out the doctrines of the spoils system and give, us a rest on this "reform" humbug. Chicago Tribune. - Whisky and Democracy. The vast majority of the consumers ot

whisky in this country are Democrats. Out of every ten persons who die from whisky nine are Democrats. Republicans, as a rule, if they drink at all, drink wine and

beer, containing but little alcohol. It is the

40 uer cent, of alcohol.in whisky, added to

the poisons with which whisky is adulter- , I - 1 - IX .1 ll 2-.-

aieu, wmcu swpeps uu lire xwmuoroui xu such frightful numbers. Measuring the 7,000,000 voters in tho North by the figures

which the statisticians give us of the 1111111her of fleatbs from whiskv everv vear. it is

within bounds to say that three-fourths of 1 ner cent., or 57,000, perish annually, of

shorn 52.000 at least are Democrats, .leav.-

Wb a gross Domocratic detieit or party loss

of votes every year of 47,000; or at every

Presidential election a loss or ms.oou sent to their graves' by whisky. This of itself

will stunce in large part to explain fhe mys

tery why the Democrats, wno gam so targelv on the Renublicaus from European emir

crrants. still make no headway en them in

the aggregate results of the elections in the

worth, Ulttcago artftwi.

THE DOCTORS' BILL. Following is tho full text of what is known as the Shlvoly bill, regulating- the practice of medicine in tho State of Indiana: Sechoh I. That it shallba unlawful for.any pcrson to practice nio I ieine, surgery, or obstetrics in iti State, without Itrsfcobtalniriga liconfo go to do, as hereinafter provided. Sbo. 2. Any pcrtKWt desiring to practice medicine, su-gery, or. tetrics In this State shall procut'J from the Clerk of tho Circuit Court wheinln he or gi-ie may des'ro to pi ao lie, a lbonsc fo to do, wh c.i -liconsa shall be Issu d to suoli pdr oii only when liqor she shall l-avecomplledvrlth tho iollow ng condition?, tc-wit: Wh n such applicant shall nlo with t;ie t'lerk his or hor affidavit stating that sucli appl ant libs i-egularly Kt-aduated in somcieputablo m- ioal roUcge, aud ahallexhibl to such Oierkt.o diploma hold by such applicant; or when s oh applicant shall file with the Clerk hi) or her affidavit, with two witnesses, stating .that ho or she Ms ies:ded end practiced medicine; bu eery, and cbsttt its in this

'State ontlnuon'ly for ten years immediately

preceilinir the dato of the Inking ottoo". oi ibis ii! ; or, when such applicant shall file wlta' such (! erk bis or hr aflilavit, with two wimtus-f i, Kta log that ha or she has ro.-ided and pi-aaiifi mtliclno, surgery, and obstetrlos in this State, ci ntinu lusty, ier three years itomedl itoly preceding the date of tho takliifc' effect ot'HliIa act, and had pribr to said datj nttomled ono full course ot lectures in some reputable medical o.dleje. Such applicant, ahull nay to such Clerk, for such license, the sum of 91.5J, and such Q:erk shall record such I Icon sc. t getter with the name of the college in which soon applicant graduated, and the dt'.te of his or lior diploma, in a book to bo iopt for such purpose, and whioh fhall be a public record. SBC. 3. Any Clerk who shall issue a license to pifiotbe mt-ciclne, surgery, or obstetri.-s to any person who ha- not compiled with the requirements of sections of this act shall be deemed i?ullty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall b3 fined in any sum not los than S--0 nor more than 100, and such licenso, or due procured by any false affidavit, shall bo deemed and held to be void. Ssd 4 Any person who si all practice mrd.clni), surgery, or obstetrics in this State without first having prooured f.om tho Clerk of the Circuit Court of the county wherin be or she stia 1 nrhctice. u license. is provided in

this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be

fined In any sum not less than 511) nor more than 8210: Provided that this act shall not be deemed to prohibit women from practicing

obstetrics, and suoti mil wives are nereoy ex-

nresslv exempted from its provisions.

stjA. ik mo causa or action snaiKiie in ravpr

of anv nereon for services as a physician

surgeon, or obstetrician who had no;, prior

to the rendition of such tervlces, procured a

licet! so to practice, ss herein' provided for, and any 'person who shall pay any sumoi money or deliver uny property, for any services, to any person who is not so Uccn-ed,

may iccovcr :he lam' or the yatup thereof

in any court ot en mt e tontlurtaoictiou hbuu

i8ac.t6. The letlOT'lriininairbe the form oi

Itoenfiounder i htfl 'aot. The "Clerks Of Circuit

Court s Bhall appropriate y nn up pianaa ana

issue -.be same under Ihe seal of their respec

tive court', to-wd: ' ",'3tate op Indiana, Cousix, ss: I, ' , Ut k of the Circuit Court of Cottntj-, Infaid State, do hore-

icr

- has complii C! with

Democracy's Repudiation of the Bine, Vie have contended that the Democratic

administration is doing right by giving the

South the lion s snare of oihee and patron

age, inasmuch as that section was.the main factor in bringing Democratic victory. We say so still. But, -it is, after all, unfortunate for that party that in giving mt favors upon

that routing, loyal men who served to . tne TTninn nrrWv monst oivo iilii.e.e in ex rebels

who wore the gray, for tnis one thing will-

go very far toward again solidifying the North, against the South, and with a solid

North, a solid South is powerless. Call

this "waving the blood v shirt," "opening

old wounds" or "digging up dead and

buried issues, it you piease,lmt let the Uem. ooratle party favor the grity above the blue and it will feel the keen blade of retaliation

from the North at the very first opportunity

The heroes of the war should not be dis

graced for having done a uoble.duty iu aving the nation from destruction Ze Witt (oiruj Ottaercer, Where the Mugwump Doesn't Orow. Beyond New York is the West, and here in the West, where the eye can range over boundless prairies thick with thriving farms and dotted with great and growing cities, the blessed thought that in all the broatl expanse from the Allegheny Mountains to the Rockies there is not one single Mugwump, induces in ns such a spirit of profound gratitude that it s impossible for disaffection to exist witti It in tho heart of the Western Democrat. St. jLoma UepubUcan (Dem.). War on the Colored Men. The administration has bommenced its warfare on the colored men in the departments. Several messengers have recently been removed and ex-Confederate soldiers, not Southern colored Democrats, put in their places. Washington telegram.

bv certify that-

the Inn s of the State o Indiana relating to the practuc of medicine, surgery, and obslefr rlcs, and Is hereby authorized to practice med

ic e, i;urgery, and onstc'rics in saw uounty. "VPHness my bind and so-l of rail court, I sj this dy of , 18." Si;c. 1. Tols act shall take effect and be in force from and after the 1st day of September, 1885. " A Tfouiaw's Ways. There are nersons, generally ladies,

who have such a faculty for "getting alonif" with people of different intereat t han their own that they usually carry their point. A brilliant young society girl got mnrried into a Quaker family. It was an imposaibilty to give up her, crimps -on her pretty dresses; nho must win thera. over to accept her :tiabitj of life and to cause them to come to her standpoint at the .Tory beginning. The afternoon ol her arrival she ran out of her room to her sister-in-law with the request: "Cl, Mary could yon give me a match? My hair is all out of curl, and I want to'light the gna to heat a slate pencil." The family waited for the coming curlii with . n stern displeasure that melted -awar completely and forever

befo re the evening; waa over under the ! aispo tne of

charms of the young lady a aaaea prettinees and the brightness of her conversation. The husband hud warned her that

INDIANA STATE NEWS. The Elk! art Electric Light Company, of

IHkhart, has tieen incot poratad witfc; capital

itcck or 0,0-Wi. . ... William Rodebaugb, brakeman rs the Uiioairb & At'antfa, was run over at Huntington and instantly killed. ' " ! i. A. Maroiim, of New Albany, a braiiotmtn on th Alr-line. fell from loo-iop of a or at night nod strilu.lg upon' hiaanteb re-

ceived severe Internal injurief.

jumps ui. ana roans: . HOSre nave retlred from tho Seymour JHHy JhaMtoto em Igrato to California. The paper will I continued l y its founder, J. M. Bolaint"''" Jaeib Haflinr, cMfBrrwUh illlhjg o mm In Dubois co ornly, ettmontlis..aifoi: ay clubbing him to deata in a saloon, has been arrested in XbuUvllle, Ken.uoky; and taken to Reaper. . U' M:ss Julia McConmb, ot ChariePtown, ftatcB for publication that the horec-wbippti K she received from Mrs. Work was not much or a shower. Dr. Work, the frisky, husband, getting the bulk ot the shower. A tolegtam iwie'fved.at Woomlngtori announces that Prof. J. M. Coulter, toottd to tha Chair of Botany in the Indiana Chive- city, will not accept. An effort will now b m ide to secure Prof. Branard, the famoos eaetern geologist.. Charles B. Wool, who liveaiwo milee north of Bockviile, was the successful competitor in tho c xaminntioii for West Point, li'1d at Terro Haute. He Is a farmer's fo.i 11 yeacold. Out of thirteen contestants he stood thrhighest, his average being: ov ir te. The boiler in Samuel Bcauchamp'a sawmill, lhir;een mites north of Oakland City, Oibson Connty, exploded,' klHIrig -Bnelnecr John Cauthom. Jesse Wester had bh siuli crushed and leg broken, and is in a or ' condition, and Jep Collins had his tooth. . . and suffered other injuries. ' '

Miss Sarah F. Smiler, formerly a pre. -

in the Society of F. lends, nod now QUH

tlngutshed as a Bible-reader, has b-:en Uc by Bishop Knickerbocker to visit'alrlhe i rincipal Episcopal Churches in the Indiana Diocese, and has begun a series of Biblical 't xpo-altions-at St Paul's Church WBichmond. Owen W. Vonwinkle, a youcg men, luxed 18, a farm hand employed about tenmlUs south of Anderson, committed suicide byshooting himself. Disnppolntmenr, in a love affair led "him to -commit the act." The gH to whom he was paying bis addre39es refued his company to ohnrob,And this weighed upon

hia mind so heavily that be took his life. William Jerro d, of the New Albany n'.n&n works, remarked that he wan' going 0"t to have a good time, and was soon hi a state of beastly intoxication. Gutting In a wagon, io hone ran away and he was Cftroivn' out, his skull being etuthed, the result; belng.-alwost Instant death. He was the sole support c a widowed mother, an industrious riS, ma. addkjted to drink. , . . Will Chapline, formerly a resident ol Richmond, but latterly living at St. Joseph, Missouri, whera be is a railway clerk, returned to tho former place and abdusted his little boy from tho house of his wife's parents Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Qithens, of the Arlinyton Hotel. He is believed to bave taken the child fj Milwaukee, where tSiapline's mother lives, and the wife has started in pursuit, hoping to Bad the child there.

Joseph a. Ward is now confined to the Blackford Count Jar, awaiting trial fordef raudiog tho hoirt of hls brcrthor. OiiyatA . Wa d, ,c.;cased. Oliver wns a .beoiieki Jxd left his property to h's brothers and itstera nnd I heir children.' Ationt rho . time'- of death Si.OOO was uppropriatea iy, Jo8:ih8r ' and no account made of it to the other hebThey beran to clamor for their share taWW 1 money, and Joseph, beior unable to meol, i' their demands, left the county, but returning to look alter some bustnees, was placed utoaiw r orres'. He will be tried at the June tetat of . the Blackford Circuit Court. The terms of efflo? of the CemndraJoaeM' ''

i of the Supreme Court have expired, aA tho i

Commission has been fcrmalty abo Ished. ft . was created two years ago, each'Judge iJ'' Court being entitled ta appoint one Conujat-. slntini. nnd ft has neon of much aaStstattCeBI

In sptte of tbtslaet M

ever, the Court is yet nearly TOO eases behloV , wi h no earthly chauci of (A ching np. Th. litigaUoh of the State has . become, to great

that the Supreme court, as at pres.-ni cone

somo of the eldew of the church would i stituted, cannot dispose of it, anditfreqoencall to remonstrate with him ou having iy takes two or three yoarsEpr a.csejto, beej(f.. married among the "world's people." oWed after-it has bb jrppoalea. When one-afternoon three of then The Indiwasohooiexhib&atthe National ' appeared she swept into the parlor e ideational iusUttite, held at fVaajson, lsria-, , with her longest train and one or two oonsln, doubtless the greatest affair of the ? extra bangles, so raidant, so charming, und oyor known in she country, wss no dfllighted to see them, that they siiyoomphmentc-.i.aridthocxaminlrigoommlK Htayod an hour. " tee, In their published import, speaksottfasfoV. The only remonstrance the amused .lows: '"Riopartthat tho schoeltof Ir;diana husband received, as he followed then ! have taken in previous expositions aaabowB -: to the door, was the observation from J by the diphnnas won at Philadelphia laJfa, ,- one of them : and at Parte in 1878. The exhibit of tate

"Friend Charles, thou Hast married reports, and of various puMicatwns nearrag-

tssceedingly well."

upon the history and condition of edooat on

in the 8:ate, was very complete. ' the syste

matic manner In which the 8W lyW'W.

The Viper and the File.

A rapacious Viper, being sadly in ' H0ng M1 teachers institutes au" onduckd

need of sustenance, was wandering ' wm dearly shown. The exhibit of town and timlessly abont one oool April after-1 0ty schools wore well arranged, consist ng ot noon, seeking whatt ho might devomr, j manuscript showing tho coarte'e': of work when he met an inviting-looking File, from primary up to hikh-echool. "he cHi.s upon which, he resolvetl to feed. of LaPorto and tofayetto mado sptcial dlOo it, Vipe, eld man," said the plays or art and kindergarten work. The exFile; "you can have all the juice you ; hlbitot drawing and spedmens of work from can get out of me.-and welcome; hut 1 any pupils in each of the. grades from the warn you to desist, as I am almost as J first to the eighth year, made by tho ee oo's

mortalitacious as our cousin cholera ' 0f tatayetto, was hlgwy creonaDie. xnevi

A Mississippi patriot of the Southern stripe has made formal application to Cleveland for tho pardon of Jell' Davis, and in the course of his appeal says: "The Southern people trusted you, Mr, President, and their power was felt, and they will call you blessed if yon grant this petition." This is a neat way of reminding the President that he owes his present position to the exrebels and that they accordingly expect him to do their bidding. Why not? ' He lowered tho flags to half-mast in honor of Jacob

Thompson, and nan.od an unpardoned robe I i winter

m oue ui iur uiguesi. uiiu-es in nis gut, while his Attorney General virtually decided that the fourteenth amendment is null and void! It would bo only goiaga stop further to pardon Jeff Davis and gi ve a banquet in his honor at the White House. The Southerners naturally expect something of the kind, and the application for the pardon of Jeff Davis has no doubt been made in the belief that it will be granted. Mr. Cleveland, however, has doubtless heard something about tho effect of laying on the last straw, and may possibly refuse this last de-maud.

DriilNO the war, in reply to the remark of a Union paper that the name of Abraham Linco'n would shine iu tho eonntry'e history, a Democratic editor retorted: "Yes, it will shine nd stink and stink and shine like a rotten mackerel in the moonlight." That editor was Eben E. Pillsbury, whom President Cleveland has raised to the third office in his gift in Massachusetts. It takes am i: i with kv-eii "yeaijcht arid a brain of mu b wtu- to e and srr.tr.p the golden opp -rtniity before it turns the ner.

germ ; But the Viper, persisting in hia reekloss repast, swallowed the File - entire, and, having done ao, curled np his lege and died. And no wonder. He had eaten a File of the Congressional Record. Moral: - Even snakes cannot stand some things. Puck. A Flawer for Winter Bouquets. The Freezia Alba is a new flower from tho Gape of Good Hope that has been lately introduced into the Philadelphia market, and is likely to become popular. The blossom somewhat resembles a large jessamine, of a creamy white, with a delicate but very aweet perfume thai if quite dtinolj.fiiom that Si other towers. The, flower grows from m bulb, on a firm and slender stem, and .it will keep fresh in water for a week after buing out, the bulbs

gradually opening ana sending their pleasant odor. As a flower for winter bouquets the Freea'a has unusually attractive qualities.-- Philadelphia Times.

She Conld Decline, Brown I never see Miss Snooks now. I used to be sweet on her, but she was quite uneducated had not even learned the rudiments of grammar.

Smith Hadn't she though? she knew enough to decline though. Judge.

I hear an ass,

A Luxury. "Father, what is a luxury?" asked little Johnnie the other night as he wrapped himself round the parlor stove. "A Iny.rv Why, it's sometliing we don't "M i. ed. you know a thinsr

wo

in

H.cul

rep' od tho Iorj.a mosquito uei

il youth, must I e

hiblt of country schools was quite varied.

consisting cf manutcripts, map- rawing-, mechanioal drawings, and drawing of school, houses in one county (St. Joseph), Interesting collections of specimens of forest wood was shown. No such exhibits can adequate! represent the schools of a State, but from luoh exliiblts much may be teamed ot the cr ganiisHon and working of educational aystems: and from tho systematic arraegemfi.it and operation of the school system ot Ind'ana, as here thown, some o'der States might learn valuable reasons." Hon. Conrad Baker, Ex-Governor of the State un l a man who has held many distinguished political and professional positions, 4l6d at ids residence, in IndhuiapoUs, of paralysis of the pnoumo-gjstiio nerve after an Illness which has extended over four moat' n. Be was first taeu sick in Deoebor, and since then has bad tno rebipeta, and his disease became so complicated ttat his pbjHitians wt ro powerless to cheek it, -Jfr. Bal.t was one of Indiana's mostdl9Unguiehe4Hi. n, aud atone lime veiy prominent ht poiili.-s, although of late years he had devoted hM attention exclusively to ttie law. Be was born In Franklin county, Pennsylvania, JSebVaury 18, 1817. He graduated at Gettysburg. College, and studied law wi h the lata Bon. Thaddous Stevens, and was admitted to practice in 1889. Two yecrs later he removed to Evansvlllc, and romainod there unnl 188, tn 1815 he represented Vandorbuigh. CountA in the Legisla ure, and in 1851 he was tec cd Circuit Judge. In 1850, without his knowl. edge or consent, he was nominated tar l utenant Governor, with aP. Xerton at tin head of the ticket, ai d tfcey were defeated. In 1861 he was cmmlssioned Colonel ef tho First Cavalry, Twenty-eighth Kegiaaent Indiana Volunteers, and was in the active service over three years. In 1884 be was again on

the State Republican ticket with Mr. Mot ion and they were eI:tedjandJnjtfB7 he became riorernor, !" ' t-ati ' Wu . i"Cte4 h tho I'u' -! S:l1 euato. Inlet'.- l was ani-ci"':'-i o-.i n it'll tor fiov -uop by the lie.

i , "mm -'ia-.C"Ovcutton, and 'ra eleetoj, i l. i ',! Hou. Thorns A. Hn.'irltska, nho i then a now. was the most populut Dtmoceat I m the state, hv taajtrity of

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