Bloomington Progress, Volume 19, Number 36, Bloomington, Monroe County, 4 November 1885 — Page 1
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EASTERN
Mr. Johnson, who accompanied John McCullough, the actor, from the Bloomingdttle Asylum to Philadelphia, expresses the opinion that the actor will get better. At Springfield. Mass., . William Woodslde lowered the world's bicycle records for six to ten miles, inclusive, covering the ten miles in :Bl-5. Rowe lowered the thrce-qnarter mile record to 1:53 1-5. Lieut John M. Cunningham, brother-in-law of Gan. John A. Logan, was married at Jonkers. Sew York, to Miss Helen Baton t. A horrible story of fire and loss of life comes rrora Hobart, Delaware County, New York, which is best told in the words of Martha jubeck, a 12-yoar-old girl who gave the following details to the Coroner's Jury: The day before the fire my mother and the baby ana myself were up on the hill. Mother laid babv on the ground and piled a lot of dry brash toce her. tahe took soni matches oat of her pocket, and said she intended to bnrn hereelf and baby en the brush pile, and that if I wanted to so with tbein to heaven she would put on more brush, and I conld lie down and burn. too. I snatched the matches out of mother's bands and too the baby op in my arms, and would not let mother have him, and I coaxed her to go home with me On the morning of the fire I woke up, hearing baby cry. The house was ail smcy. I jumpe-'i out of bed and called for mother. She did ro: answer me I ran to her door and It was locked. 1 could bear her sootMm; baby and crying. I ran back to my r om and w.-.ked my 11 tie brothers, and dressed myself ouickly. I then went to get them out of the house, as I knew it must be on are. When 1 got them to the treat door I found that a barrel of Hour had been placed against it. so (hat it could not be opened. 1 heard tire crackling, and was almost choked with Mnoie. I do not know how 1 ever moved the heavy barrel of Sour, but I sot it away enough to open the door so we could get oat When I got my brothers out of the door I ran to a window in my mother s room and looked in. I conld hear the baby screamin;. The room was black with smoke, and mother was lying on the door. She bad firewood piled up around her like a bird's nest. It was blazing nigh It was so awful that I think I must hare gone crazy, for I do not remember anything more. When Mr. Hantord asked me where mother lad habv were, and 1 told him thev hail cone to the
bill, I think the scene with mother and the
brnsn pile, and what she said there, must nave been on my mind. We ail lived happily together alwaye.
WESXEBH.
Jacob Kauffman, a well-ljnown mu
sician, committed suicide at Denver, Co'.o.,
by divestimj himself of his clothing and crawling several times back aad forward
through a barbed-wire fence. When discov
ered the body was snocKiagiy laceratea, ne wires being covered with btood and shreds of
skin and flesh.
While B. J. Shay, a prominent real-
estate dealer of San Francisco,.waa at dinner
in tke Nevada restaurant with Mrs. James C.
Brown, of . Healdsburg, Cat, the husband of the latter walked in, drew a revolver, and fired two bullets into him. Shay's wounds are believed to be fatal. Jealousy caused
the trouble.
Near Platte Lake, Mich., two hunt
ers mistook a woman who was picking cranberries for a bear, and shot her in the neck, iniiictiDg a mortal wound.
August Bienlow, who was arrested
in Cleveland for passing counterfeit money, hanged himself in the cell.
The city of Evansville has failed to pay the interest coupons on S3, 00 J, 000 of water bonds. The holder of the security is an Eastern life insurance company, which is
privileged to take possession of the waterworks at its pleasure.
An interview lasting an hour was
held in St. Louis, between Samuel N. Brooks, of Hyde, En-land, and his son, Hugh M. Brooks, who & charged with the murder of C Arthur Preller. Only a deputy sheriff witnessed the scene. The elder 11 rooks ex
presses his belief that the trial wlti result
in an aoqultaL
The order of the Chief of Poliee of
Cleveland, Ohio, closing all saloons on Sunday, was generally observed.
The rear ear of a Wabash passenger
train left the track near Laporte, Ind.,
tumbling over several times and rolling in
to the ditch. Thirteen persona were seriously injured. C. J. Hayes and 8. O. Prescott, ot
Chicago, have commenced suit against the
eity of Waterloo, Iowa, for $50,090 damages.
In 1681 they were arrested aad imprisoned for seven days for peddling goods without a license. The point made is that the' ordi
nance under which they were prosecuted in
fringes upon civil rights. The ordinance in question is based upon Iowa statutes, but
the latter does not provide for punishment
in case of refusal to pay license.
Without cause, J. C. Henning shot
and killed his mistress, Mrs. Lottie Votner,
at Kockville, Ind: The murderer, who is a
peculiar character, and by some considered
insane, attempted to conceal himself, but after a diligent search by citizens he was
captured and placed in the Jail. The mob -surrounded the structure, determined upon
a lynching, but wiser counsels prevailed,
though for hours the greatest excitement
was exhibited. The husband of the victim
was shot and killed two years ago by Chario t
Kuueage in a quarrel relating to JH-s.VoIner, whom her husband considered to be unduly intimate with Rutledge. Eighty lodges, representing several States, tolebra ed at Cleveland, Ohio, the seventeenth anniversary of the organization of the A. O. C. W. Chicago elevators contain 12,958,663 bushels of wheat, t,0j 1,456 bushels of corn. 218,413 bushels or oats, 339,428 bushels of rye, and 120,6(3 busheU of barley; total, 14,527,606 bushels of all kinds of grain, against 9,777,033 bushels a year ago.
SOUTHER!!".
E. M. Cot, a prominent lawyer of Petersburg, Va., whose health bad become greatly Impaired, killed himself with a revolver. He left a large family, and carried Bfe insurance o the amount of $15,000. A Fort Worth, Texas, official says a contract has been made with an English syndicate for the delivery on the wharf at Galveston, fortnightly for the next five years, of 3,000 frozen carcasses of beef cattle. The price stipulated is six cents per pound for the beef, aad nine cents for no bides. The delivery, it is reported, will begin at once. Prairie fires are raging in Texas, and bare so far burned over SO ,000 acres. J. C McFerran, a noted horsebreeder of Kentucky, died on his farm near Louisville, aged 73 years. He leaves an immense fortune. The Catholics of Richmond have taken steps to inform the Spanish Govern jnent in regard to the utterances of Ber. Dr. Curry, recently appointed Minister to Madrid. John Thompson, a murderer, wag taken from jail at Kingston, U'enu., and banged by a root). Tat Gowuot of Arkansas has grown
weary of having prisoners cremated by mobs
in Pike County, and has offered reward. for the capture of the persons who havo twice burned the wooden Jail.
WASHINGTON. Judge Maynaril, Second Compti oiler of the Treasury, says that the Indian service IS in a very bad condition, and that it is his Intention to reform It. For this purpose he has ordered suits to be brought against the bondsmon of a dozen or more Ind an agents. The Hydrographie Office has issued a new map of the Arctic region, whlca embodies the results of tbo latest explorations. The arrangement is such that the names and relative position of all places around the polar basin can be seen without turning the map around, as Is usually necessary , and the eye is not bewildered by a multltudo of meridian linos concentrating at the polo. A
very simple method of determining the lati
tude and longitude of any point li..
by two lines intersecting at right angles at
the pole, along which the degrees are marked. The Naval Board appointed to examine the unflnlsbe.1 cruisers, the construction of which was begun by John Roach, report that the fair market value ot the Chicago is 8725, !4 8; amount necessary to complete the vessel, $39S,01J. The, value ot the Atlanta Is fixed at 3630.387; amount necessary to complete the vessel, $41,591. The Boston Is worth $610,023; amount necessary to complete the vessel, $50,1 "5. " The Commissioner of Internal Revenue appointed Godfrey Jaeger, of Elmore, Ohio, to be an Internal Revenue Agent, vice John W. Phelps, resigned. The Secretary of the Interior has made the following appointments of Special Examiners in the Pension Office undc r the
elvll-scrvice rules: Eben E. Clark, of Mary
land; Travis F. Hensley, of Missouri; Thos. A. Stocklager, of Kansas; John H.Anthony, of Illinois; George P. Smith, of Kansas; K. D. Gallion, of Virginia; F. W. Edwaids, ot Illinois; Jacob F. Klugb, of Pennsylvania; Arch McGinn's, ot Indiana; Q. E. Browning, of Illinois, and Howard S. McCandllss, of Virginia. It has been ordered that the postal cards bearing a special delivery stamp shall be delivered the same as letters with the extra stamp.
POUTICAL.
Senator Sherman, on being serenaded in Washington, made a speech, in which he proposed a reduction of thirty-eight Representatives in Congress and the Electoral College because of the disfranchisement of negroes. In regard to the relations between President Johnson and General Grant, it is believed by General Sherman that the controversy would have been settled by the appointment of General J. D. Cox as Secretary ot War. Vice President Hendricks suggests that President Jomsoo believed in restoring and not in reconstructing the States. Gen. S.cklcs states that Grant said enough to him to reveal his alarm for the safety ot the Government during the reconstruction period. Senator Arketl, of New York, reports Grant as saying that he bad personally been the means jot pre venting a second oivll war of a menacing character. President Cleveland announced to a gentleman whom he called into consultation that he was determined to adhere to his civil-service policy, whatever might happen In or out of his party, and was satisfiod the country would approve of his course. In speaking of the Chic igo Appraisership, for which there ae thlrrty-flve candidate, he said be had laid the matter over iu the hops that time would assist him in solving the question. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Coon has sent his resignation to tho President, and Mr. You mans, Aating Chief 'Clerk, will probably be his successor. . The following was promulgated by the President on the 27th ult. for the inf or mation of the public : For nearly eight months a large share' of the time ot the President has been devoted to the hearing of applications tor office and the determination ot appointments. Much ot the time thus spent has undoubtedly subserved ths public good; some of it has boon sacrificed to the indulgence ot people in their insistence upon useless interviews, and some of it has been unjustifiably wasted. Th( public welfare aad a due regard for the claims of those whose interests in the Government are entirely disconnected with office-holding. Imperatively demand that in the future the time of the President should be differently occupied; and he confidently expects that all gool citixeas will acquiesce in the propriety and reasonableness-of the following plan adopted to that end: After Nov. 1 the President will decline to irrant interviews of those seeking public positions or their advocates, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, during that month, from W to U o'clock la the morning, he will receive stub other persons as call on strictly public bnsiness, and on the same days, at 1 30 in the afternoon, he will meet those who merely desire to pay their respects. On all other days and times during that month he will receive only Cabinet officers and heads ot departments.
jaSCEUUKNEOT'S. Ex-Gov. Paige, f Vermont, died at Rutland, and Miss Ettio Vilas, sister oi Post master General Vilas, at Madison, Wis. The funeral of Henry W. Shaw (Josh Billings) took place at Lanesborongli, Mass. Work has been suspended on the Pao.flc end'of the Panama canal, but one half of the excavation has been made for a stretch of three miles on the Atlantic side. Mexico continues to wrestle with the tariff question, and a commlttooou revision has been appointed, which Is expected to work a reduction of duties. A plan for taxing rural property and forcing colonisation is also being discussed. Am expert appointed by the Canadian Government to Investigate reports or hog cholera round au infected herd near a watering-tank on the Southern Railway, where stock from the Western Slates has been regularly fed and watered. Some lumber operators in Maine will not receive men Into their carat s who have not been vaccinated Quarantine has been established at Oswego by Fodetal officials. The Montreal Board of Hoalih has decided that sailors arriving la port shall not be allowed ashore without a ccrtltlo it of vaccination. The deaths iu that city within five days numbered 1,370. During a storm on the Ladrador coast, which raged from the lltb to tl.e 15tb of October, twenty vessels were wrockod and 100 lives lost. Nearly 2,000 shipwrecked persons are on the shore In a destitute condition. FOREIGN. Prince Bonaparte has issued a manifesto urging bis friends to uphold tb : republic of France, as tho monarchists are at present too weak to secure tho goverr. ment, and should not precipitate a revolution. All the European powers havo accepted the Porte's Invitation to attend a conference at Constantlnop e upon tbo annexation of Rouraetia by Bulgaria. A bo.ly ot Servian troops have crossed tbo Bulgarian frontier, and an opposing loroo bae b.ett sent out to meet them. Mr. Bleazby, an extensive land-ownoi-m the county of cork, Ireland, jowM the
Parnollitos, and abated hU rent 15 por cent UNWEiITTEM HISTORYi in addition to tho reduction of 80 nor cent. ;l
mado by thp courts. The Patriotic Union of Dublin has Issued a manifosto denouncing tho Irish National League, and appealing to tl,e people to maintain the integrity of tho empire. The ship-building trade on the Clyde Is greatly depressed, over seventy per cent, of tho workmon belns out of employment. The Pope recently sent a letter of thanks to the Mikado of Japan for protecting missionaries. In reply it was announced that a Japanese embassy will soon be dispatched to th Vatican. " At Perigneux, France, the Chanceiado quarries suddenly fell in, destroying a village situated on the ground a jove the stone-pits and killing many people. A naval officer who was sent from Washington to visit tho prinofpal s .atlous ot Europe reports that tho stronger powers have eaoh one huudred or more torpedo-
s, and their coasts are divided Into dis
tance has twenty-four dry-docks,
completely equipped, where convict labor is largely employed. Russia ranks third among the naval powers, with 370 vessels, and Germany has within twenty years risen to the fourth place.
'Gen. W. T. Shfiinnn Intern iewed Regard to the ('raul-Johiison ! Controversy.
In
j Views of Gon. Butler, (by. Hendricks,
and Other Geut'euiou of Prominence.
Tho
LATER NEWS ITEMS,
Sherman Micils l ight, I8t Louis special. (.V..) i - , ,., ml tliii- niornlna contains
the following iirtrview with t eiieral' Mierman
on the i ending ceniroversy as to in- rHat ons of (.iviii ral i .rant with IT si lei.t Johusou: ; ' bat wji . your understandim.' of iT-sident i Johnson's iutcntion in wmdinir General tiiant to .Mexico:" Orant was bring fiokon of fur the l'reslI deucy, and It was supposed ttat t.ie iutenth n I was to get him out ol the way. I do .not think, j however, that ,!ohnsu tea red ny I olitical foe, ! It wag thought that Seward laost dreaded the I power ot (Haiit and was most anxious to get I riu ot hira " i ' How was it you were sent to Mexico instead I of Giant.-" ' Bftore repHlna to this question, Gcn-ral i She man rose and retired to a loom in ti.e rear i of tho library, mlo which ho had iiit ushered ! the rep iter. When he returned lie hold in l,U hand (-onio proot-sieuts ot his iorthcoiu.ng ! book, "After t.ie War" 'I lino aUtiiedocu ', moms here," he reuarked. 'and tiiuy will lie published in time " Rcurriug to the proofsheets, he routuiued : "In the year Im.c 1 bus summoned 'rom New i Mexico 10 Wai-liin-jton. When 1 arrived at Washington 1 called upon Gcin.-ral Grant at his i house in I street, ami asked him the rcaaon I ot ruv betas ordered to WasMnpton. He cj plained that l'rcsidiut Joiins n wanted to seo j mo, but that he did l ot know t:ie why or where
fore, tio snpi o.-ec., now- ver, mui n nau some
eceivea to
Febd Wabd, the old partner of General Grant, has been f onnd guilty, by a jury in New York, of larceny in tho first degree,
fixing the penalty at ten years, witLin the connection with au orrt.-r he h- d
discretion of trie court. Robeut J. Cook, Treasure of the Philadelphia Press Company, wot. attacked by Stephen Mackkerson, the eolcred janitor of the building, and struck on the head with a hatchet, having his skull s'ractured. The injured man, who it is thougl twill die, was removed lo the hospital and bis assailant captured. Mackkerson hod leen censured by Mr. Cook for allowing gas to escape. Lewis Babtlett, of Indiana, second Deputy Commissioner of pensionn, has resigned on account of ill health, resulting from old wounds. At Louisville, United States 'osfal Inspector Haynard, arrested Edward E. Cooper, a postal clerk on the JenVrsonville, Madison, and Indianapolis -Railroad, charged with lobbing the mails. Cooper is an intelligent young mulatto, and was but recently appointed to his position. Eighteen stolen letters were :.'ound in his valise, among them were four addressed to banks and loteries. The wholesale grocery and jobbing trade of Chicago, through the Chicago Freight Bureau, has addressed a long petition to the managers of western railroads, asking for an arbitration of enr'oad rates over their several roads. The petition complaims that Chicago honsen are unjustly discriminated against in favor of nterior points, to the injury of the trade of the city of Chicago. The ' railw iy managers will meet to consider the subject November 5. A CONSTAKTINOPLE cablegram says: The War office presents a scene of unusual activity, clearly indicating that the Porte is determined on adopting effective measures, in the event of the cotfercuee of the powers failing to agree on a plan for the settlement of the Houmelion question. An official report shows that 180,fHH) Turkish troops are now mustered at available points on tlie frontier for active service in the Balkan Peninsula and rcini'orcenients
are continually arriving. The niustahfizor j londstrntn and the Bashi-Bazauks have! been summoned for military duty. Thej
levy of the londstnim is only resorted to as a war measure and will add over 120,000 men to tho service. Circassia has tendered over 25,0110 caalry and Albania has promised to assist ti e Porte.
An intimate friend of the President, i who has talked with him on the subject,' say he is experiencing much difficulty iu his !
efforts to reorganize the civil senice com
mission. He is aiming to secure for that' service, three men who are well known to the country, and whose names would be! received s an earnest of his purpose to: give such character to the commission as to j
give conndencc to tho fnends of the move- j ment. He regards this refoim in the civil j service as one of the most important features of his administration. ! The Great Eastern, the largest steam- i ship in the world, was sold at public auction, in London, for 26,000. Grand masses are being off ned everyday to intercede with the Almighty to pre-; serve Montreal from the small po:i epidemic. ! A St. Johnh, (N. special says: Thej hurricane that raged on the Labrador coast; was unprecedented even in that: inclement: region. Over seventy vessels and 4hree! hundred lives were loRt, Partic ilars so far' are meager, there lieing no telejp-aph com-j mnnicatinn. Tho bark Nellie has just or-' rived with 2GI) shipwrecked men, women,: and children rescued from the disaster. Several women died from exosure. and many others were drowned. Over 2,000 persons are destitute audstrandodon coast.1 Five steamers have been dispatc aed to their) aid. The worst is not known. The Secretary of tho Treasury has ap-j pointed Bobert S. Mayfteld, of Indiana, to be Chi-f of Division in tho orBoe of the' Comptroller of the Currency.
THE MARKETS. NEW YORK. in- C-75
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escort the uewlv ai pointed M nister, Hon. Lew
l amotion, or uiao, to uio court 01 Jiiiiroz. me President-elect of Mexico, wLich country was still iu 1 ossesi-ioii o. the Kmprror Maximilian, supported by a corps of French troops, commanded bv Marshal Rajaii e. Uen Grant denied the rijrht of the President to order him upon a diplomatic m;sion unattended by troors. Ho stated to me that he would disobey the order a id t ike the coiise ,uencos "I then cnt to 1 resident .lohnstn, who received nic with great cordiality, and said that he was very glad 1 had ( oinc. Ho i-tatvd that Gen. Grant was about to lcavi' for Mexico oa bu-inosof importance, and lliat ho wanted mo to remain in Washington and command tbo armv in Geo. Grant's a .sence. 1 thin informed the President tbat Gen. Grant would not bo. He sieuiod amazed bv that statement, and observed that it was generally understood that Gen. Grunt considered t he occui ation of Mexico by r rench troops and the establishment o ; an empire t here with an Ansir.an 1 riure at its head as hostile to republican America. The President added that the admiuistfit on h..d arranged with the French government fi r the withdrawal of Baraine's troops, which would leave the country freo for I rcsideut Juarez to occupy the c ity of Mexico, and the lac! that Mr. Campbell was a -conipanied by so distlnitriahed a sol :ier as Gen Grant would emphasize tho act of the Cnited States. 1 then leitcr. ted that Gen. Grant would not co, aud tbat he (1 resident Johnson) coul-t notaiiord to ;aarrel wi-h Gen. Grant at tbat time. I then suiicested that Gen. Hancock or Gon. Sherid n 0"Uld pcrf rm toe same o.lice, and that, if neither of them was ace.eiit.ible, I myself would go Tho 1'resident answered, 'If you will go, that will answer perfectly.' Accordingly the following order was issued: "Executive Mansion, AMirNOTOS, 1 rot. ; . isot'i. 1 "To tho Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War: "Sa. Gen. V. S. Grant havlngfcmid It inconvenient to assu-ne the duties speeilied in my letter to you of tin . to i ist., yu will )ileas relieve ii-m i.ikI assimi :h-111 in all u-sin-its to
I William T sh ilium. 1 i. eteuacs: ceneial of the
limns of the 1 tuled Slates, iiy the way ot directing Gen. Snerma-. in the portorma-ueo of his duties, you will lurnish him with a copy ot your sp c.al orders t i Gen. Grant, made iu compliance with my letter of ike 21 th inst., toget. cr with a copy of the instructions ot the 1-ecrotary of Mat? to Lewis I Campbell, Esq., therein mentii ned. The I ievitenaut General will proceed to the ex.cutlin of his duties without delay. Very respectfully yours, AVPUEW JcllNSOX." "In pursuance of that order, I went to Vera C'nu in the Cnited State si. ip Susquehanna We then cruised to Matamoras, where the Mlnist r was in eommuni'-ai ion wiih frieui s of Juarez, and from there I retumt-d to St I.ouis. At .ew Orhans, however, I leecivtd iho following dispatch from n detai l' Stanton: "Vasiiin-:thx, Dec 21, l-trfl. "Lieutenant General Sliermin, New Orleans: "Your telegram of yesterday has been submitted to tho 1 resident You u-o authorized to proceed 10 St Louis at yonr convenience. Your performance of the nieciat and delicate duties assigned to you is cordially a pi eohted by the President, ths Cabinet, and this lepar;ment. "L'nwls Si. SrANTOK. ' "Have you the Insi ructions to Grant of which you received a copv I"
"Yes, I have c .pics of them somewhere, but they are on fllo In ihe l-tat; Department at
wasuinraon. t. m time sumequent to my roturn 1 do not remember the date Mr. Stanton was suspended under the tenure of tho civlloihco bill, and General Grant was appointed by President Johnson to be -ecretary of War ad interim. He eternised the f unctions of that nflice until January M, t'tcs, whon, after some ) roceedings in the Senate, Mr. Manton was reinstated as Secretary of War. Thiscausfd trouble 1 otwoon Gen. Grant and the President, which was probably never healed. That quarrel was the bCBinnttir of the trouble which resulted in the impeachment of President Johnson, who was reuularlv tried l.v the Senate and acquitted Alter that Mr. Stauton resigned and Gen Soholield was ai ioi::ited i-ecietary of W. r, aud he remained in that omce 10 the end of the Johnson a-linluMratlou. "No, 1 never understood Gen. G rant to express any fear tbat Mr. Johnson contemplated any violence. Mr. Johnson tirinly believed that tho Constitution and laws th?n existing were all sufficient for the rcc nstruetlon of tho Southern Stats. Congress tbonght o herifc, and in the quarrel between Congress and the President, Grant wus in danger of being male tho scapeeoat." Gen. Sh rmanaga;n return0-! to the rear ot his library, and this time be emerged arrylng a large hie of Gen. Grant's letters. These letters irom Gen. Grant cover th- 1 erlod in question. They are all of a Ir endly and confidential ua'ure, but ther is nothlug .n them which cou d go to show that Grant ever apprehended any nat'onal dan -or. Whon Stanton was resiored to office. Johi son accused Grant of having surrenicrtd his office without sufficient resistance, 'lliat waa tho cause ol the quarrel. 1; was a light between the Pr trident and Congress, and Grant was not w limn that they should wage it over Ills shoulder. Stanton being hacked by Congress, Grant letired. Johnson was hestile to S. anion, and be did not want him in Ida cabinet. Giant icncluded that the best way out of the diiln ulty was to let the President, Congress, ana Stanton light it out among themselves. "1 think the papers are making too much of this control e:sy. It is amply an elf ort to rekindle the embers of a lire which has long since di d out I do not believe Mr. t hauncey Dopcw intended to do more than repeit from memory a statement made bv Gen. Grant at a it-nn r table. He is a Very honorable gentleman, but he. 110 doubt, thought theie was somethlua In tius matter. Dm there was nothing more iu Mr. Johnson's attitud- than the ordinary jioiitioul dirferenees which will exist between men of different parties. "1 repoat again, there an 110 violence intended. Everybody was si -k and tired of war. Nobody thought of righting, es.apt on 'er. A let-Stanton was removed, 1 wanted IYeldeut Johnson 1 1 nominate Gen. Jacob D. Cox as Secretary of War, and his eon hr mation l y the Senate would have settled the whole controversy. Mr. Reverdy Johnson coincided with in in this particular, but the President would tight it out in his own way. "As I havo air ady staled, Jlr. Johnson was impressed with tho belief that with the const! tuuon aud the la-s be c-euid K-,teesinllv reconstruct the South. Mr. Lincoln. I think, was or the s.tmo opinion. Congres-, how.-ver, wanted to provido f,he machinery and dictate the terms npou which tlie States that had seoedod should be received back into the Union." Uen. Selioflehi'M IEemhnWcouccs1 Chicago 8ecial J Maj. Gen. John JI. fschotleld, who sucec-ded Stanton as Secretary ot War under 1'resident Johnson, was in a position to know as much, perhaps, as anyone els.- eoncciuiiiu the unwritten history alluded to in Chuuncey Denew '- account of Iris Interview with it u. 1. taut like Gen Sherman, however, he dcclince to toil all that he know s. "It is true thai I was Intln.at fly assoutated with I resident Johnson, Gen Giaitt, and tho Cabinet Dilioi-is during a rortion of the ter.od you mention," he said gester.iay, when qti bttonod by a r.-porter lor the '' ,.es, ri -1 knew all that was going on. I may eav that there arc records lu esisio tee wli eh wotCd exj lain everything, but they are ot a confidential nature, aud emiiot be ma lu public For tho some reason I do uot f el at liberty to speak. It is an indt putablefa tthai that waaa
very critical period in the history ot lb" nation. Johnson was undeintoad to he a cat did&le tori an ther term, and nobody double I that the liepubli ans lutcndod 10 run rant lor the I'reslden.y. I lid. 1 ihe ojtist tulioii r,i1(. i resi'lent , was (0'!ima,-i.ler-i -chief o. the Army, wlitle Gram was the Genera in . mmaid. and there: wero fourteen States praeti-ally under military 1 rule Thefri nds of both thtse p.rtiei wero teriiblv in earnest, and at mi. h a time-o; shortly alter the close of tb. - r there waa : nothing absurd in the a r-reheiiMon that the contest might develop intc a colli- j (ton of arms I was awire that Gen. I Grant believed tiia I'r. sideiit Johnson's' plan of sending him In Mexico -,vaj. a rus- to get J iilm out o tlx "1'iitiv. but wh it ioundat ion ho ' h'J I lor such b. 1-ef 1 :io not know. My inli-a on to frame w.-i:. m 1 ,-hit 1 . the Mtxieau aiia'r. aud was in h r.nony w,th the v;cwsol tho Pitsi out. 'he cit-aiy oi st-.te. ce S'i-etarv of Wi r, mid ft-i) lira t 'fn pui pom' of my visit v... ... .vriMOiW the o'-'utet.- n ol Mex.cv by U)t I' reach. 1 wt In Kovomber, mi-, and is- j
turned li May. IHC'6, so that I arrived ta Wiwhlngtou while the imp -a- hmcnt trial was in prdferesa. In the following fall 1 was made Secretary of ar. Mv nos tion was tiult of a medi
ator; tliat Is, I was put r.t th bead of tho War Department t conolliate both parties bv divi sting the oil ec of a' y p onouncod political color. It was a tit iisure deem'-d necessaiy at that time to keep down, as much as possible, ' the bitter leelieg 011 both sides. ' "t'resid nt Johnson," continued Geucrfl! Selirt- 1 lield, "wa- tlie Urinest. most obsiinate mjtti in his a llinicnce to his political '.lews that 1 e.er knew, and of comae ho would have 0 rtied oils hi-vi wa li it ha I been infisib e. 1 have 1.0 reason to believe that lie was not conscientious . lu his views. I'l-rs nally 1 have never believed that he contemplated any tr aonable measure, 1 though, as 1 said before, I do not know on what , grounds Gcueral Grant based his opinion." j Col, Sum Small JDerend Johnson; i (Atlanta (On.) telicram. ! The Atlanta ' onstilHlion prints au article from Col. Sam W. Small on the le elati.-n's ot I the Dcpew letter. When President Johnson retired to his home In lir -enville. Tenn.. he set
about ar angina his papers 9.1 that bis biographer mignt have no tro .bio in dealing with the incidents of his life. About the events now under discussion ho was especially par- ! Ucular. lie railed Col. Small to his aid m that work, and thus the latter came in o tho most intimate relations with the ex-President, fitnoo . that time all o :' Mr. Johnson's faintly have died save JlrsPatterson, who was mistress of the white house. For the purpose of refreslrng : his memory (.ol. Small has visited Mra. Patterson, an 1 the present statements are the result: 1 iist, Andr-w Johnson, on leaching the pres:denoy, adept d thoioieyof Lincoln, as attested by Gen. Grant himself in evidence belore a Congressional committee is 1 I. U7, lull exiraots from which ate given. Second, at the time when He. ow alleges thit ex- ; Confederates were swarming around Washing- j ton. they could not have done so because their : rarolcs kept them at home. Third. Johnson
never favored martial trials for Confederate leaders. He secured the written opinions of Kvarts, Cit rles y'Couor, aud like men by which he was guided. 1-uurth, the naming of Gen. Grant to accompany Lewin D. Campbell was done at the written ropiest of Campbell, who thought Graut'a iu litary prestige would aid him. Fifth, the statement that Grant. In Johnson's presence in the cabinet, declined to go because it was a diplomatic mission, and the alleged scene which followed, was declared by Mr. Johnson to Mr. Small, in a c nversation before tho death ot the former, to be false in evei y particular. Grant did not go because be feared that General Hancook mi-jlit oe appointed Secretary of War In place of Mr B'anton Sixth, Mrs. Tatterson utterly denies all the alleged secret history concerning her tither which has been published. In this she is sustained by the widow and son of the lat Gideon Welles, who was Secretary of the Navy. Col Small produces abundant documentary evidence to sustain all bis statements. Gov. Uendricks Talks. ilnditnapolis dispatch.) The Indianapolis .Vcs contains an Interview with Vice ITfSidttit Hendricks about tho Btory put nto circulation bv Cbaunccy M. Depew 10 tho effect that President Andrew Johnson contemplated the establishment oi 11 congress compose 1 entirely of rebel sympathizers. "1 hat story won't do," said Mr. Hendricks, "and public opinion will uot sustain any such charges mad- twenty years after tho alleged events happened, and atter all the pirsons who were directly connected With them aro dead. Personally I know nothing of Mr. Johnson's opinions or intent ons further than the information tbat came to me in the position that 1 held 1 wasiu the Cnited states Senate, and J iiotn spoke an 1 vot-.d against tho Iiniieachment of Johnson. While I never had any oum creation with him on the subject referred to by De1 ew, I am sure that Johnson had no such intentions. He liellev.d in restoring, and not iu rcoonstiucti ig. States, and that the Federal Government bat no tight to change or sbn gate their constitutions. I think Mr Lincoln had this view also. 1 have no doubt Johnson wanted Mr Stanton removed, but it w:.s on pertona' grounds, for they were not Iriends. I cannot Iwjlieve he had any such punoso as that attribute.! to him, and 1 have ne-erhtardit charged before the last few da s. It is not lively that such au important political matter iiraMhave remained silent for twenty years. I have read the various statements about It iu Ihe papers, aud 1 am iticiined to give the greatest credence to th-itot Judge Goodin, of Greenfield, whose recollection al.out Buck matters is always accurate, and who was then In a position to know what President Johnson wanted to do." Words In Johnson's Behalf. (Washington telegram. The Washington Star prints interviews with W Warden, who was Assistant Private Secretary to Presi lent Johnson, an1 A. II. Evans, Wasnlngton correspondent of "lie Rnstnn 1'vsl during President Johnson's . (lministration. regarding the I'r -sident's policy during the reconstruction period. Mr. Warden savs that there was not the shadow of a reason for believing that President John-sou cvar had an Idea of an armed conflict arising Ir.-m his disagreement with Congress, and through bis intimate relations with the President hail satisfied himself that no extreme measures would I-e employed. Mr. l.v ans sv8 he enjoyed tho conhdenoc of President Johrson, w:o related to him in oetail the cansei leading up to the quarrel with Gen Grant. Presideut Johnson told Mr. I. vans that Sen, Grant bad caused tho suspension of Secretary Stauton by bis repeated c mplatnts agains that oil.c.al. Gen Grant agreed to assnine the oft ce 01 Secretary of War uutil it should please the PiesMeut to relieve him, and that agreement was made before the full Cab net When President Johnson was informed that Gen. Grant had abandoned the ottice to Mr Stanton and had returned to his head, mar lets he charged him with treachery at a Cabinet meeting.
Ben Butler Interviewed. Boston special. 1 Gen. Butler said to- day that there were many reasons why the Grant-Johnsou matter was not brought intc the impeacluaeu. trial. Johnson was "not charged with the offense of which Grant mistrusted him. and the evid uce they could have produced wouid have been incompetent. There was no legal evidence by which it could have been proven. Gen. Grant could not have disclosed it There was another project of 1 r sident Johnson's, as to revolutionizing th; Government, which was not brought into the impeachment proceedings. "1 had some very s- roug moral evidence," said Gen. Butler, "which I did not care to make known in tho itnpeachimnt ptocecdines. The lacta. howevei. were not so conclusive that 1 deemed It proper to eh'bit au article ot inipeachment, founded on them, against the President 1 still retain some of the instrumonts oi evidence that strcn.ly tend to support my belief. The proposition of Mr. Johnson to control tho Government, differing from that ol Gen.Grant.it now seems to me, for the first t me. must have been made after Gen. Grant had refused to accede to it What was known to 1110 was not in shape to be brought before the publ.c." (Jen. Speed Won't Talk. Louisvlll. dispatch.) General James Speed, Attorney Gcueral under 1 h i udministra-.ions oi Presidents Lincoln aud Johnson, was approached in regard to the Graut-tolinson-Derlew matter, but declined to make any state tit-nt, saying tuat be had made it a rule through life never to interfere in any matter that had been made a question of v&--raoitv as to othe:s than bin. sell; and tbat he especially deel n-'d to violate that rule where the subject was the recollection ot a dinnertable conversation, when the dinner lasted four hours. General Opinion. INew York telegram. The H-rad of this city prints a long lnstallm -nt 01 Interviews with p.'rscus ou the Depew matter relative to I resident Johns -n. 1- tauk Thi inp-on, of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and Col. l ied draut reiterate their former statements. The latter said: "1 have heard rav father say again and again the same things fn very much the same bmguag . 1 have do umentary evidence iu my possc-sslou that would be iiillat.-ral proof of the tacts r -terred to in the conversation my father bad with Mr. Depew, and 1 in end to collate them and my recollections ufioii that subject" 1- rederiek W. Seward, secretary of Secretary Seward, said be ner heard anything of tho story in question, and, like Hugh Met'nlloch, t lie tory being uew to him, he doubted its correctness. Geu. Sickles reiterated his story, saving: "There Is no doubt of lien. Giant's tear of Johiisoti's loyalty to the Government Such ferns were known to the leading Generals enjoying tlell. Grant's eonlidcnce ill IsGV I w.U rciueutlier bow wonted he wa when he visited me at Charleston. He secn ed .0 havo ' cry litlio coiilideuco in Johnson's policy or intentions, tin several occasions Grant tallied over thesit-u-atlon at Washington with me until or 4 o'clock In the morning it is true Hint Grant did not teveul his worst suspicious, but be told no 1 ui'Ugh to show that he was alarmed for the saletv of the Government and the success of reconstruction." I- it;: John Porter confes-ed that such charges were made at the time, but he was iu Colorado, and his information was too fragmentary to lie Ol any value. Stale Senator Atkell said be was intimate wtih Grant at Mount Mo irogor. Once raiit satd to him: "1 haie be n called as commander of the army to ronoliide the snpp cssjon of one rebellion, and have b' en personally the itieaus of preventing a subsequent civil war, menacing and dangerous, yet of whioh little Is known." A veteran Wall street nnaneter sid: "I rememher the time well. A tumor sttuck the street that somo p utent 1U8 disturbance was brcwlngiu Washington, and Governmiri securities dragged t iribly Irom some unknown eau-o. The caue of the depression was found to have oilinat sl in Baltimore Subso inent.y. when the immeiPate trouble was over, it was ascertained to have been based 0:1 information procured by Hob Johnson, the f residents private secretary, who hud surreptitously copied and sol 1 portions of the dial tot an intended pro i.i mation iu which l'resi-1 nt.iolraw u l'topose I to declare t'ongr ss adjourned an I tfein nd a full repiesenvition Inuij tho seceded States as tho only tonslitutlonal body be w. uld r.-eogi l?o This ,-. woi orates Jlr. Dej '( v 's recent statement H shows ho i mm b larger than wo knew is thenel.i we owe the s.i nt hero who stood U'twoen tho v iid .ind intiiiiaie ambition ot a we but stqbr-vo BUn and a tPW national oftJamitr.
INDIANA STATE NEWS. Speaking of the statuary that is to adorn the new State House the Indianapolis Journal says: On the west side of the portfolio, over the Washington street entrance, will be the Indian group. This consists of ah Indian Chief, squaw with pappoose astride he ithonlder, and an Indian boy, seemingly 15 or 1(3 years old. The models are in plaster, the Chief beiug five fet-t high, which, when cut in stone, w ill be doubly as largo, tho CJiief being .ten feet high and the other figures of ihe group proportionately large. Tho boy holds a bow and arrow itx his hand, the Chief a stone tomahawk, w hile the squaw, the lines of whose face show the patient drudge the female of the North American savage has always been, carries the sturdy pappoose. All are lookiug bdCk regretfully, tho thought m the picture being that they are pushed from their homes by advancing civilization. Continuing this idea, there is soon lo be placed on the east end of the portieo,with their faces turned westward.a pioneer group, the figures of which will be like in size to those of the Indian group. There are three figures in this group a keen-eyed, stalwart, boarded pioneer, with coon-skin cap, old-i'ashicn powder-horn, and in hunter's fringed jacket and breeches, with his ready rifle in hand; a youth with a woodman's ax, and th: mother, shading her eyes with her hands as she looks over the fair prospects in which they nre to cast their lots. The drapery in this group, as in ihe other, is admirably done. The figures ere tilted a little forward. This will avoid a serious fault shown in the statues on the Court House, which, by being perfectly upright, lose in perspective by being, seemingly, abruptly foreshortened from the waist upward. Between these two groups will be two single figures, each ten feet high, one representing a blacksmith, like he who stood "under Ihe spreading chestnut tree," with his hammer and anvil beside hiw. The model of this figure is now in cloy, nearly completed, and will, when finished, bo made into plaster paris for a working model. The other figure, not yet designed, will probably be a reaper with a sickle. High above this statuary will be a huge spread eagle, six feet high and more than ten feet between the wings. The report of the State House Commissioners for tho quarter ending with Septemtember has just been submitted to the Governor. In their statement of the present condition of the work the Commissioners say that "the massive walls of the dome have been built up to the top of the fortyfirst course, and are now on a level with the main roof. The copper roofs of the four pavilions are all finished, and all the roof of the main building is coveted with slate, excepting a small space immediately around the dome. The electric wires for lighting the building are being put in, about two-thirds of the work beiug now finished. The whole of the south half of the building is now ready for plastering, which will be commenced in a few days, and continue all winter. Many of the steam-heating pipes
are already in place, and the contractor promises that he will be ready to heat the building by November 15, which will enable the plasterers to continue the work through the winter. The gas and water pipes have also been put iu. Tlie expenditures during the last quarter weie: For work on the foundations, $569.03; cut stone, 18,582,79;
brick work, $28,649.69; iron work, $t7,156.88; copper, lead, slate, $15,708.34; car
penter work, $5,366.03; plumbing, 83,168.67; marble work, 81.841.49; carving, 898; glass, $2,901.80; tiling, 1,262.05; advertising, $17; architect, $2,027.53; Commisionerg, $1,4S7.25. The total expenditures for the quarter amounted to
$128,923.93, and Ihe total amount expended
since the work was b,gun, $1,381,274.99.
Tho regular mouthly crop report, just
issued from the Department of Agriculture!
contains the following relating to Indiana crops: "The oats crop is the largest ever
grown in the State. This is due to the in
creased acreage in the damaged wheat sec
tion. The quality will not be up to the
average. Tho excessively hot weather
caused light grains, and the heavy rains,
while in chock, caused much of it to be of
bad color. Barley ivill be up to former
vears au to condition and quality,
"The indications eje that the yield of
Irish potateos will be fully up to the aver
age, and the quality excellent. No report
of rot has been received. Tho condition of
tobacco is favorable. Sorghum is fully matured, and condition shows several points
above the average."
Loniii Street and wife, of Lidianapolis,
formerly Missionaries to Madagascar, have recently made a valuable donation to the
cabinet of Earlham College. In the col
leotion is an incomplete copy of tho first edition of the Malagassy Bible, published
in 1836. This edition was nearly all de
stroyed bv order of the Queen, and a few
copies only kept hidden during twenty-five
years of "persecution. Other articles of in
terest in the donation are specimens of silk
and linen cloth and ribbons of native man
ufacture, shells, ferns, bark of trees used for clothing, eating utensils, both of wood and horn, and some baskets and hate used
by the natives.
Tlie Chicago preacher who put $16,000 into the hands of Mr. Blanchard, late of
Terre Haute, for speculative purposes,
would have been safer to confine himself to
transactions in wheat or pork in his home market. Ihe amiable Chicago brokers
havo been known lo devour lambs, but tt
has remained for an Indioua financier to
gobble up the shopherd. ; Jndianapoh'a
Journal.
-The Superintendent of the New Albany public schools has issued an order to cou-
liscale all bean-shooleis wherever fonua.
--On Sunday afternoon James Hatcher uml his son Silas, who is but 17 years of
age, became involved in a quarrel at Bethlehem. The father attempted to chastise
Kilns, whereupon the dutiful son picked up a liulcliet and struck him a terrific blow upon the head, iuiliottug a severe scalp wound. Joseph, the small ion of Hecorder Charles Schwartzel, of New Albany, went to the glass works, and while playing about the works he fell into a cave under one of the furnaces, breakiug his right leg near (he ankle. - -The other evening David Strabler, of Claysburg, went home drunk, aud taking np a large butcher knife, placed It by his bedside, saying if his wife disturbed him he would cut her head off. Mrs. Strabler, to protect herself, placed a pitchfork on her side of the couch. Vincennes News: The remains of a brother of the distinguished humorist, Josh Bil lings, are buried in the city cemetery in this city. The grave is marked by a single Blcne. now almost covered by weeds. The work of the Lafayette Bugar refinery, located oght miles south of that city, wore struck by lightning recently, and burasd to the ground Jibb, 918,000,
THE LADIES.
Gossip and Gleanings About Matters Relating to the Fair Sex.
SONG OF SARAH JANE OF MAINE
flie Decline of Matrimony A Woman with oa Itching Presence of Mind, Etc.
Sarah, .fan. Far to thi north, where pises and snow-drifts be, There is a. realm ol rigor known as Maine. AU winter thero tho fierce winds whistle. And people shovel snow with toil and pain. And yet It has an interest for mo, lie:aU-3 it is tbo home of Sarah Jane,
A very charming girl Is Sarah Jane, But prouder, loftier, chillier, none can be. Whether li is because sho dwells in Maine, Where pLrla, 1 kn pines, grow strong and straight and free, I cannot any'; I only know, with pain. That though so charming, she is cold to me. And this, Idas ! is vary hard for mo, Because I am so fond of Sarah Jane. No ani or ould more truo and loyal be; Tbare beats not iu tho whole extant of Maine A heart frc m guile aud flekloness move tree, And her wkindness gives me keenest pain. But yet she scorns and ridicules my pain, And utterly conte mns my love and me. There seetis no softer side to Sarah Jane; Hor uati 70 lakes can uo more frosty bo When z-src slips from Greenland down to Maine, Binds every wave, and leaves no ripple free. Soon May will como and set the waters free, An I lift the winter's paralyzing pain ; But will tl:.e sunshino warm her heart to meT Wiil oven dog-daya melt my Sarah Janef If I could but believe that this might be, What rays ol hope would radiate from Maine I Hew with "he bluebird would I fly to Mains I With speed as tirglcss and with wing as free, Forgettim; all my former doubt and pain. If oaly t Uo at ast would turn to me, My radiate: and relenting Sarah Jane, Her heart's thawed side I But will it ever be? Wonld it orald be I Would I were now in Maine 1 How would my pain depart and leave me free I O Fate, give me to win my Sarah Janet Harper's Magazine.
Some Queer Girls.
"They do havo some queer girls down in Boston, that's a fact," observed a traveler from New England. "The
last time I was in Boston, at the house of a friend, I met a young lady there who struck me as a type of her kind. We were to have chicken for dinner, and my Mend's wife asked the young lady to step into the kitchen and see what a nice fat foul she had. Would you believe it? That Boston girl inquired: 'Is it dressed? and om being told that; it was not she modestly refuse to go into the kitchen. . That very night that girl, who is a medical student, went to the dissecting room and helped :in the work. These Boston girta break me all up." Exchange.
What Ailed Her.
"Tou itent for me, madanie?" "Yes, doctor." "In professional oapacity?" "Certainly." "But I frankly confess I am a little puzzled. Your tongue is clean, yonr pulse beats seventy-three times to a minute, and your complexion is fresh and blooming. Can you not assist me a little in the diagnosis? What are the leading symptoms in yonr ti 011 ble?" "An intense itching." "An itching?" "Yes, an itching to travel abroad for my heal th. You will confer a favor by locating my disease for the summer in Switzerland, with a running chance for a winter in Rome." Exchange.
She Obtained a Seat. A scene occurred on ono of the Mount Pleasant; horse cars which had a tinge of the ludicrous in it. The car waa not quite full, though nine or ten women were set.ted oa one side, and on the other side all the seats were occupied. Things were in this state when an elderly and rather stout woman entered the car. The nine or ten did not make the slightest accommodating movement, and after standing for some few minutes her patience became exhausted, and, turdingto the rear end of tlie cur, .she shouted at the top of hor voice: "Conductor, make these ladies move up. They are making spread agles of themselves I" There was at t-nce a movement along the whole line, and in a remarkably short time the woman waa comfortably seated, Providence Journal
I'resfHre of Mltid.
II boys require to be taught self-control, doubly so do girls. Having by nature treaker nerves, and a more vivid imagination, they shrink from pain, suffering, and danger in a fashion nnintelligi ble to their brothers. But the more natural this shrinking is, the more carefully should they be taught to govern it Girls should acquire at least tho rudiments of nnrsing, and learn the best and easiest attainable remedial for tho ordinary accidents of daily life, just as certainly and as a matter of course, as they are taught to sew and to read. Especially should quiet and coolness be impressed upon thein. Calmness is not insensibility, though many people con (onnd them, A girl in not hard-hearted and unfeeling because she can witness painful sights, i.nd if need be lend a steady, firm har.d io the doctor, or nurse. On the contrary, ahe has usually twenty times the sympathy and unselfish kindness of that delicate little damsel who has no command whatever over herself, ami nils the room with shrieks, winding up by running away the very moment an extra hand might be useful. It may seem harsh to say so, but those dainty bodies, who are so utterly useless ut any emergency, or, as their fiiends plead, "so highly endowed with sensibility" (those who are not their irinds make unpleasant reference to "folly" und "hysterics"?, are generally selllsh and self-absorbed to a degree utterly unintelligible to their more sober sinters, who are taught to forget seli; and control of both truod and. body
by their large-hearted sympathy with and comprehension of Buffering. Bat the sick-room is not the only plnee where presence of mind is required. Scarcely a day passes when we do 110 more or less require it Thank goodness, the notion that women should faint, or go into hysterica, for the smallest thing, is pretty well exploded; still, even yat, the opposite lesson might be more strongly inculcated. Exchange, Tht Xelie of Matrimony. The present extravant way of livingprobably ban much to do with the present falling off in the matrimonial field. Girls brought np to every luxury, men with no idea of honest work, but only of pampering their own luxurious tastes, are not the people to join hands for the tremendous responsibiiities of wedlock and the vicissitude of life. What in the name of ell that's reasonable could the modern dude do to support a family in comfortable drcnmstanceB, or more, to keep the wolf from the door ? But he has no thought of matrimony ; he puts all his small brain upon the fit of his clothes and insipidity of his drinks. He enjoys the society of ladies; oh, yes, he affects the girls very much, but into his small heart there never creeps more than a milk-warm liking for them. And the girls! Let them be ever so idly btonght np, let their minds be care fully weeded of till germs of common sense as they grow, yet there is an innate love of the noble in every girl's heart that would forever prevent her from falling in love with a dude; but if she did happen to, there is not one dude in a thousand would have the courage to find it nub And again, the higher education of women makes them more independent, more capable of choice. With it their happiness is more in their own hands, and thus it is found that most divoroes are among the closs of people who still hold to the custom of an idle life for women. In olden times, to marry was considered almost as sure a fate as to die. The farmer's rosy daughter spun the flax or patted the butter into shape with a
sweet smile playing about her pretty lips, for soon she knew she would in her own home pat her own butter and spin her own flax. In the city, the belle lounged through the day among flowers and perfumed notes from many adorers, unable to decide which should be her choice, yet positively certain of choosing one. But in "ye olden time it was considered a point of extreme honor to be true to ono's sweetheart. If one were false to eveiy one else, one must be true to one's lover. In these days honor is almost a lost art. To be able to deceive is considered an evidence of greatest excellence. To believe what one is told, to trust the honor of a given word, . is considered " as almost imbecile innocence and simplicity. To-day there is no consideration but advantage. Wi'litbe a step further on in a worldly way? is the question which presents itself. Sometimes the answer is positively in the negative, if I may be allowed the term, and very often it is doubtful. The love-after-marriage literature of the day is a fair sign of the times. To marry for advantage or convenience, and afterward to love "for love's sake only," is the most accepted plot of the more recent works. And this reacts upon society with a subtlety equal to that of the flower pollen which has been discovered by Dr. Mackenzie to be the cause of hay-fever. One cannot see its action, yet the result is there. The want of trust and sanctity in the marriige tie, the free opening to women of other interests and sources of happiness, and her increasing ability to stand alone, are some of the causes which ar firlling our land with single, but capable und useful women. Margaret Madden. HORSE-VISA LtiRS f .V PERSIA. One of the exports of Persia is horses. The Persian dealer travels over the country, naving agent in every large town. He buys for the India market. His destination, when ha has got together a likely lot of animals, is usually Bombay or Bangalore; a few dealers try Kurrachee. As a rule the Persian horse-dealer buys nothing under fourteen hands. The Persian horses exported to India are sold either as riding horses and chargers at an average minimum priee of 600 rupees, or as artillery hors a at a standard price of 400 rupees, while the animals that remain unbought for these purposes are eagerly snapped up as carriage horses. The Persian horse-dealer, even when most respectable, resorts to bishoping, which dictionaries define as "to uao arts to make old horses look like young ones," the arts used consisting in cutting the upper surface of the incisor teeth into a depression, and then with a chemical preparation blackening the oavity so as to imitate the "marks" of a young horse. The operation is always performed during the voyage to India from the Persian gulf, the instrument used being a dentists rosehead hand drill New Orleans TimesDemocrat. H'B.ir MAPMCXXID TO J4. "Is your pa-at home, little girlf "Yes, sir, do yo wish to see him ?" "Yes." "But; you won't know him if yon do see him!" "Why, what's the matter?" "Well, you see, out in the country on our farm a man and his wife got lighting, and pa he tried to stop them." "Oh, indeed!" "Yes; you'd better call again. You wouldn't know pa now." CourierJournal. i The prominet sheep raisers in Tennessee have resolved to abandon the business owing to the want of a dog law, asserting that 300,000 sheep one not be maintained against 600,000 dogs. Wbaa pity that common sense, for want of use, should have beoomo uncommon.
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