Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 30 April 1892 — Page 8

LAZINESS.

paetimes It Just Sorter Comes Natural.

(ettniei from Easy Circumstances— Somttlmai Misfortune Breed* It— Sometimes Acquired—Dr. Tat- ?!.: mage's Sermon.

)r. Talmage preached at Brooklast- Sunday. Text: Prov. xii, "The Slothful Man Roasteth f»t That Which He Took in Huntsaid:

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David and Jeremiah, and Ezekiel, id Micah, and Solomon of the text that some time they had been 'i on a hunting expedition. Spears, Dees, swords and nets were emoyed in this service. A deep pitwould be digged. In the center ^it there was some raised ground ith a pole on which a lamb would fastened, and the wild beast, not peing the pitfall, but only seeing be lamb, would plunge for Its prey dash down itself captured.

Birds were caught in gins or 3ed with arrows. The hunters ttfWen time had two missions, one lear the land of ferocious beasts the other to obtain meat for iftSnselves and their families. The occupation and habit of hunters are •a favorite Bible simile. David said be was hunted by his enemy like a partridge upon the mountain. My te^t is a hunting scene. sportsman, arrayed in a garb Appropriate to the wild chase, lets Qyip the bloodthirsty hounds 'rora ieir kennels, and mounting his fleet horse, with a halloo and the yell of he greyhound pack, they are off and way, through brake and dell, over arsh and moor, across chasms here a mistep would hurl horse and ®der to death, plunging into mire to the haunohes or into swift sins up to the bit, till the game tracked by dripping foam and od, and the antlers crack on the cks, and the hunters had just time in iat the death. Yet, after all |haste and peril of the chase, my represents this sportsmen as too indolent to dress the game prepare it for food. He lets it

Jin the dooryard of his house and ecome a portion for vermin and beasts of pre}'. Thus by one masterstroke Solomon gives a picture of laziness when he says: "The slothful an roasteth not that which he took hunting." The most of hunters ave the game they shct or entrapped oked the same evening or the next ay, but not so with this laggard of text. Too lazy to rip off the "e. Too lazy to kindle the fire and the gridiron on the coals. jKovr, what are the causes of laziees and what are its evil results? I now a man who was never up to ime. It seemed impossible for him meet an engagement. When he :as to be married he missed the tain. His watch seemed to take on •he habits of its owner and was always too slow. He had a constitu'onal lethargy for which he did not eem "esponsible. So indolence often pes from the natural temperament, not know but that there is a ititutional tendency to this vice every man. However qctive you ay generally be, have you not 011 me warm spring day felt a touch this feeling on you, "although you

Jiay have shaken it off as you would reptile? But some are so powerully tempted to this by their bodily institution that all the work of their ~'fe has been accomplished with this eth»rgy hangiug on their back or -,-%ding on their heels. You someijnes behold it in childhood. The oping^ and lounging within doors bile his brothers and sisters are at lay, or if he joins them he is behind every race and beaten in every me. (Furthermore, indolence is often a suit of easy circumstances. Rough perience in earlier life seems to be ecessary in order to make a man stive and enterprising. Mountaineers are nearly always swarthy, and ilose that have toiled among mountains of trouble get the most nerve jand brain and muscle. Those who become the deliverers of Nafras once had not where to lay their ^ds. Locusts and wild honey have 1 the fare of many a John the

Itist, while those who have been (Qled of fortune and petted and liaed have often grownup lethar-

They have none of that heroism ich comes from fighting one's own ties. The warm summer sun of bsperity has weakened and relaxed [em. Another cause of indolencc is seire discouragement. There are hose around us wno started life ith the most sagacious expectation, heir enterprise excited the remark all compeers. But some sudden nd overwhelming misfortune met hem, and henceforth they have been nactive. Trouble, instead of makthem more determined, has uverown them. They have lost all f-reliance. They imagine that all 'en and all occurrences are against em. They hang their heads where once they walked upright. They become misanthropic and prouounce 11 men liars and scoundrels. They go melancholic and threadbare to the Krave. You cannot rouse them to action bv the most glittering offer.

In most cases these persons have ..been honorable and upright all their lives., for rogues never get discouraged, as there is always some other •./plot they have not laid and some other trap they have not sprung. JThet'e are tout few sadder sights than stmanttf talent and tact and undoubted capacity giving up life as a "ailure,, like a line of magnificent teamers rotting against wharves, oni which they ought to Jtiave been

Trying the exportation of a Nation, very great financial panic produces large -cropiof such.men. In the

great establishments where they were partners in business they are now weighers or draymen or clerks on small salary.

Reverie is also a cause of indolence. There are multitudes of men w^io expect to achieve great success in life who are entirely unwilling to put forth any physical, moral or intellectual effort. They have a great many elegant theories of life. They are all the while expecting something to turn up. They pass their life in dreaming. They have read in light literature how men suddenly and unexpectedly come to large estates, or found a pot of buried gold at the foot of the men rainbow of good luck, or had some great offer made them. They have passed their lives in reverie. Notwithstanding he is pinched with poverty, and any other man would be downcast at the forlorn prospect, he is always cheerful and sanguine and jovial, for he does not know but that he may be within a day or two of astounding success.

Indolence and wickedness always make bad luck. These people of reverie are always about to begin. They say: "Wait a little." So with the child who had a cage contaning a beautiful canary and the door of the cage was open and a cat was in the room. "Better shut the door of the cage." said the mother. "Wait a minnte," said the boy. While he was waiting the feline creature, with one spring, took the canary. The way that many lose the opportunity of a lifetime is by the same principle. They say: "Wait a minute." My advice is not to wait at all.

Again, -bad habits are a fruitful source of indolence. Sinful indulgences shut a man's shop and dull his tools and steal his profits. Dissolutness is generally the end of industry. There are those who have the rare faculty of devoting occasionally a day or a week to loose indulgeneies, and at the expiration of that time go back with bleared eyes and tremulous hands and bloated cheeks to the faithful and successful performance of their duties. Indeed their employers, and neighbors expect this amusement or occasional season of frolic and wassail. Some of the best workmen and most skillful artisans have this mode of conducting themselves, but as the t.ime rolls on, the season of dissipation becomes more protracted and the season of steadiness and sobriety more limited,until the employers become more disgusted and the man is given up to a continual and ruinous idleness. When that point has arrived he rushes to destruction with astonishing velocity. When a man with Wrong proclivities of appetite has nothing to do, no former self-respect or moral restraint or the beseechings of kindred can save him. The only safety for a man who feels himself under the fascination of any form of temptation is an employment which affords neither recreation nor holiday. Nothing can be more unfortunate for a man of evil inclination than an occupation which keeps him exceedingly busy during a part of the year and then leaves him for weeks and months entirely unemployed. There are many men who can not endure protracted leisure. They are like fractious steeds that must constantly be kept to the load, for a week's quiet makes them intractable and uncontrollable. Bad habits produce idleness and idleness produces bad habits.

The probability is that you will either have to give up your loose indulgences or else give up your occupation. Tin will take all enthusiasm out of your work and make you sick of life's drudgery, and though now and then between your seasons of dissipation you may rouse'up a sudden activity and start again in the chase of some high and noble end. even though you catch the game, you will sink back into slothfulness before you have roasted that which you took in hunting. Bad habits unfit man for everything but politics.

Now, what are the results of indolence? A marked consequence of this vice is physical disease. The healthiness of the whole natural world depends upon activity. The winds, tossed and driven in endless circuits, scattering the mists from the mountains, and scooping out death damps from the caves, and blasting the miasma of swamps, and hurling back the fetid atmosphere of great cities, are healthy just because of their swiftness and uncontrollableness of sweep. But after awhile the wind falls and the hot sun pours through it, and when the leaves are still and the grain fields bend not once all day long, then pestilence smites its victims and digs trenches for the dead. The fountain, born far up in the wild wood of the mountain, comes down brighter for every obstacle against which it is driven", and singing a new song on every shelf of rock over which it pounds, till it reaches the water wheels in the valley, not ashamed to grind corn, and runs through the long grass of the meadow, where the willows reach down to dip their branches and the unyoked oxen come at eventide to cool. Healthy water! Bright water! Happy water! While some stream, too lazy any more to run, gathers itself into a wayside pool, where the swine wallow, and filthy insects hop over the surface, and reptiles crawl among the ooze, and frogs utter their hideous croak, and by day and night there rises from the foul mire I and green scum fever and plague and death. There is an endless activity under foot and over 1 liead. Not, one four o'clock in the I flower bed, not one fiy on the window pane, not one squirrel gathering lood from the cones of the white pine, not one rabbit feeding ou clover tops, not one drop ialling in the shower, not one minnow dancing ih the sea, not one ^uail whistling from the grass, not one hawk cawing in

the sky, but is busy now and is busj always, fulfilling its mission as certainly as any monarch on earth or any angel in heaven. You hear the shout of the plow boys in the field and the rattle of the whiffie-trees on the harrow, but you do not know that there is more industry in the earth upturned and in the dumb vegetation under foot than in all that you see. If you put your ear to a lump of riven sod you may hear nothing in the roots and spiculae of the grass, but there are at work spades and cleavers and pile drivers and battering rams and internecine wars. I do not wonder that the lively imagination of the ancients saw in the inanimate creation around Floreas and Pomonas and Graces and Faiuns and Fairies and Satyrs and Nymphs. Everything is busy. Nothing is inanimate exept the man who cannot see the life and hear the music. At the creation the morning stars sang togethers. but they were only the choir which was to lead all the stars and ail the mountains aud all the seas in God's worship. All natural objects seem at one and the same time uniting in work and joy and worship. In God's creation there is no pause in either the worship or the joy. Amid all natural objects at one and the same time it is Hallowe'en and Whit Sunday and Ash Wednesday and All Saints' Day. All the healthy beauty of that which we see and hear in the natural world is dependent upon activity and unrest. Men will be healthy—intellectually, morally and physically—only upon the condition of an activo industry. I know men die every day of overwork.

Furthermore, notice that indolence endangers the soul. Satan makes his chief conquests over /neu who either have nothing to do, or, if they have, refuse to do it. There is a legend that St. /Thomas, years after Christ's ressurection, began again to doubt, and he went to the Apostles and told them about his doubts. Each apostle looked at him in surprise, and then said he must be excused, for he had no time to listen any longer. Then St. Thora&s went to the devout women of his time and expressed his doubts. They said they were sorry, but they had no time to listen. Then St. Thomas concluded that it was because they were so busy that the Apostles and the devout women had no doubts. Idleness not only leads man into associations which harm his morals, but often thrusts upon him the worst kind of skepticism. Loafers are always infidels, or fast getting to be.

Consumate idlers never read the Bible, and, if they appear in church, can be distinguished in an audience of a thousand by their listlessness, for they are too lazy to hear. It is not so much among occupied merchants, industrious mechanics and professional men, always busy, that you hear the religion of Jesus maligned, as in public lounging places, given up to profanity and dissoluteness. They have no sympathy with the book that says: "Let him that stole steal no nore but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may give to him that needeth." I never knew a man given up to thorough idleness that was converted. Simon and Andrew were converted while fishing, and Lydia while selling purple, and the shepherds of Bethelhem watching their flouks heard the voice of angels, and Gideon was threshing on the threshing floor, but no one was ever converted with his hands in his pockets. Let me tell the idler that there is no hope for him either in this world or in the world which is to come. If the Son of God, who owned the whole universe, worked in the carpenter shop of Joseph, surely we, who own so little, yet want so much, ought to be busy. The redeemed in heaven are never idle. What exciting songs they sing! On what messages of love they fly through all the univer.se fulfilling God's high behests and taking worlds in one circuit, rushing with infinite fierceness against sin and cruelty and oppression,and making the gates of Hell to quake at the overthrow of the principalities of darkness, and in the same twinkle of an eye speeding back to their thrones with the news of sinners repentant. The river of life is ever flowing, and the palms ever waving, and the hallelujahs. ever rising, and the harps ever sounding,and the golden streets always arush with chariots of salvation. and the last place which you ought ever to want to go to is heaven, unless you want to be busy. Alas, my hearers, that in this world there should be so many loungers and so few workers

But my text is descriptive also of those who hunt for opportunities, arid when they get them do not use them. The rabbit they overcome by an eariy morning tramp lies for days uncooked in the dooryard. The deer that they brought down after long and exhausting pursuit in the Adirondacks lies on their doorsill undressed, and the savory venison becomes a malodorous carcass.

They roast not that which they took in hunting. Opportunities laboriously captured, yet useless, ard that which came in invitingly, like a string of plover and quail and wild duck hung over a hunter's shoulder turn to something worse than nothing. So with Agrippa when almost persuaded to be a Christian. So with the lovely young man who went away from Christ very sorrowful. So with tens of thousands who have whole hands full, whole skies full of winged opportunities which profit, them nothing at all, because they roast not that which they took in hunting. Oh, make out of this captured moment a banquet for eternity. The greatest prize in the uni verse to be won is the love and pardon of Christ.

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THE MEWS CONDENSED-

Ohio has passed a law prohibiting Sunday shaying. Moro than five thousand immigrants landed in New York on the22d.

Gold in paylngquantitles has been found along the James river, in Virginia. A falling wall at Jonesvllle, Pcnn., on the 22d,killed three men and fatally injured three others.

A Sioux City. Iowa, Judge, on the 22d, decided that the running of street cars on Sunday is a necessity.

The town of Slight's. Mich., was totally destroyed by fire on the 22d. A score of families were made homeless.

Josiah Beldon, a California pioneer, and later a distinguished citizen of New York, died in that city on the 25th.

Twenty-five tramps, who boarded aboxear at Ottumwa, 111., were switched up towu and delivered to the city marshal.

Mgr. Charles E. McDonnell was consecrated Bishop of Brooklyn Monday. The pagent was striking and the ceremonies solemn.

Charles H. Reed, who assisted Scovlllo in the defense of Guiteau, the assassin of I President Garfield, died at Baltimore ou

Sunday. During the past week 10,240 immigrants were clanded at the port of New York. This Is the largest number landed in one week this year.

A gang of tramps camping near Fairmount, W. Va., got Into a drunken row among themselves Sunday and began shooting at each other. Three of them wore killed.

King Tebareimoa, of Big Makin and Little Makin Islands,of the Gilbert group, who sailed from San Francisco for home on the 22d, desires the United States to establish a protectorate over his kingdom.

Over 200 bakers of Cleveland are on a strike. They demand that they be exempted from night work in the future, and that baking concerns shall employ no one except through the labor bureaus organized by the bakers.

Joseph Bertrand, an Indian of tho Pokagan tribe of the Pottawattomies, died at South Bend on Thursday, aged 110. He was thouglit to be the oldest man in Indiana, and was#a noted character. The town.of Bertrand,Mich., was named after blm.

Edward A. Traslc. the notorious realestate and bond swindler of Chicago, has been sent to prison for eighteen years. Traslc has becomo notorious the world over and his victims number into the thousands. Though indicted scores of times he has until now escaped punishment.

Joseph Mazzarki, the Egyptian .lew, who 011 March 5 last, shot Rev. Dr. H. P. Mendez, rabbi of the Nineteenth-street synagogue, New York, because he refused to give him $100, has been convicted and sentenced to ten years in State prison, the extreme penalty.

A deputy United States Msrshal lias arrested John O. Little, for four terms the sheriff of Cherry county, Nebraska, on a charge of cvttle stealing. Little is said to be the leader of one of the worst gangs of cattle thieves in the West. They have, it Is asserted, stolen and shipped hundreds of cattle to Chicago.

George M. Abbitt, an old recluse living at Mansfield, Mass., has been robed of t24,000 in stocks and bonds, which lie had concealed in tomato cans about his house. His grandson, George V. Steward, Bighteen years of age John M. Traft, of Great Falls, N. II., and Dr. J. M. Ilahn have been arrested for the the theft.

Richfield, N. J., Is the rendezvous for hundreds of the meanest tramps 011 earth. Judge Ross organized a party of farmers Saturday and proceeded against them. A Qglit ensued, but the farmers captured nineteen of the "never-workers." The Judge opened court on the ground and 6entenced each of the prisoners to ninety days in jail.

The steamship Conemangh with a cargo of about (5,000.C01 pounds of Hour. 8S.000 pounds of rice aud other provisions for the famine sufferers of Russia, sailed for Riga, Russia, 011 the 23d. from Philadelphia. Frances B. Reeves.Robert McWade, and Charles A. Bowman have been selected as envoys to superintend the distribution of the Conematigh's cargo.

GMenmore, a small station near Pennington, N. J., on the Bound Brook railroad, was the scene of% destructive lire Monday night,, which destroyed $125,000 worFn of property belonging to Edward Wells. Twenty-eight head of high priced horses were burned, and valuable Jersey cows. Prince Allen, tho well known stallion, valued at $20,030, was burned to death.

Some six months ago A rend Arends, a well-to-do farmer, ot Lincoln. Neb., hung himself becauso pretty Mary Hove, a neighbor's daughter, did not, return his love. Arends left a will in which ho bequeathed his farm and possessions, valued at $10,000 to Mary. Friday she came into court in response to a summons, but positively declined to tile tho will for probate, dramatically tearing up the document before tho astonished eyes of tho relatives and renouncing her claims in favor of Arend's mother, who resides in Reynolds county, Missouri. CA singular accident occurred

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the Erie

railroad near Salamanca. N. Y., Sunday morning at 3 o'clock. The train was rounding a curve just east of tho city when it struck a heavily loaded coal car which projected over the main track. It caught the corners of the coaches and tore out the entire sides of eacli one of them. All of the coaches were vestibuled, and many of them weresleepors filled ^vith people, yet not a single passenger was injured.

A gang of toughs attempted to rob a train at Wallace, Kan Monday night, but failed. They first attempted to rob the express car but tho messenger adeptly turned out the light and hid the money. A bullet barely missed his head. They then turned their attention to tho passengers but tho latter having received warning met them with drawn revolvers. After an exchange of shots the robbers de camped with a sheriff's posse in pursuit.. A child was hurt by a stone thrown by the rascals.

A thrilling tale of a vessel being hemmed In by an ico Ooo in the north Atlantic was learned upon the arrival at Philadelphia

of the now steamship Caprtvl, Captain McNabb, from Shields. The Caprivi became wedged between ice fields April 11, at night, and remained fast for thirtyeight hours in a perilous position, with her crew rendered almost senseless from tho cold, which froze even the spirit compasses. Hourly her position grew moro alarming, and there seemed atone time to be little hope but that the vessel would be ground to atoms in the ice formation. Captain McNabb says it was the most perilous passage he ever mado.

It is said that reports received from different countries have satisfied the President of the advisability of an international monetary conference and that he lias practically decided to take the initiative in the matter. It is also understood that he will soon send a special message to Congress transmitting the correspondence on the subject. Senator Stewart is outspoken in characterizing the alleged plan as "an electioneering device absolutely devoid of any honest purpose to carry out the express declaration of Congress in favor of the full remonetlzation of silver." Senator Teller does not see how the conference can have any practical result in view of th» Insurmountable limitation to be placed upon the conference, according to the reports. It Is quite clear that none of the Republican silver Senators have been taken into the confidence of the administration in the alleged project.

POREIQN.

Another Haytiau revolution Is probable soon. Tho first newspaper to be published in Canada on Sunday made its appearance. Sunday morning at Montreal.

It is believed that British agents are at work endeavoring to induce Brazil to annul its reciprocity treaty with the United States.

The Valparaiso newspapers are opposed to sending a minister to the United States, alleging that, in view of the treatment of Chili by President Harrison's Cabinet, it would be better to defer tho appointment until a new administration comes Into power at Washington.

An official telegram from Hue. the capital city of Annam, tells of a drowning accident by which oyer a score of lives wero lost. On April 20, tho telegram on the 25th states, a sloop foundered in the river Claire and thirty soldiers aboard the vessel were drowned, together with the eaptain.

The Bureau of American Republics is informed that a new use has been found for bananas, which will greatly add to the value of that fruit. In several places in Central America Hour is now being made from bananas, which, under chemical analysis, is found to contain more nutriment than rice, beans or corn. A manufactory on a large scale is being established at Port Lamon, Costa Rica.

Tho London Standard's Zanzibar correspondent confirms the recently-publish-ed story about fighting in Uganda, east Africa. I ween Protestant natives and Cathol converts, led by King Mwango. The Protestants, he says, were well armed with Snider rifles, and were victo:'cu until Captain Lugurd, tho British East Africa Co npany's agent, arrived with reinforcements armed with Maxim rifles. There were heavy casualties on both sides. Ashe and Winton being among the killed. The com spondent also says that Bishop Heath reports that many Catholics have been sold into slavery. He states, as well that the Catholics are massing their forces to renew the attack on the Protestants.

Tho dean of Gloucester has made an interesting discovery in the Gloucester Cathedral. He has found the remains of Osric. King of Nortliumberia, who was buriod in the year 729, beneath the beautl fui shrine erected to his memory, which stands at the right hand of th\j high altar in the choir. The shrine, which is the worlc of an abbot of Malvern, of tho days of Ilenry VIII, ha* generally been supposed to be merely a memorial. Dean Spence adopted the tradition until recently, when, studying Leiand'snotes, ho concluded that the shrine was Osric's actual resting place. He had two panels takeu out of the stono loculus, when a leaden coffin was disclosed exactly beneath tho King's effigy. The coffin's contents allowed tho remains to be of very ancient interment.

AN ALLIANCE CONFERENCE.

The Farmers Alliance loaders have called a conference of all members of Executive committees of all the Southern Staves to meet at Birmingham, Ala., May 3. The sessions are to bo secret. The politicians are wondering what it means. Tho circular calling the session says: This is the most critical period in the history of the order. Never has there been ^stich a universal and such aloud cry from 'the order to the officers for directions how to conduct tho local fight. Never has there been as little concort of action among tho officers of tho different States and sections. This, if allowed to continue must be fatal concert of action 13 Imperative, and success cannot be achieved without it. Tho political contest threatens tho destsuction of the order. The lack of cohesive and uniform action by the order threatens the peril and slaughter of its friends. The emergency is groat and tho necessity for full and free council by all the executive officers is greater than at any time in tho history of tho movement.

If lamp chimneys get burnt or too much smoked dissolve a lump of soda about the size of a small egg in a pint of hot water add to it about a teaspoonful of the oil of vitriol. Let the lump chimney soak in it for an hour, turning if needed. Rinse in clear water and wipe dry with asofl cloth. Be careful in handling oil o! vitriol as it burns everything with which it comes in contact.

''John," said Mrs. Harkins, ':ther are burglars downstairs." "Ver^ well, my dear. Go tell them to move on." "Why, you awful brute!" "Why? You requested me not to interfere in domestic matters lust night. Surely this is one."—Humor's Bazar.

POLITICAL,

Shelby Republicans are for Chase. Henry Watterson prefers Carlisle as a' Presidential nominee.

Alliance loaders claim their cause is steadily growing in the South. The Republicans of the First New York district have elected Blaine delegates to Minneapolis.

Senator Teller says ho will not be a candidate for President on a free silyer or any other platform.

The Governor of New York has called an extra session of the Legislature for to redtstrict tho State.

Fre? silver people of Colorado claim to have 30,(0) votes in that State pledged to voto for no one but a free silver man for President

Ex-Speaker Reed is said to be opposed to Harrison's renomination because a postmaster whom he did not like was appointed at Portland.

The Republicans of the Eleventh District have nominated Capt. W. F. Daley, of Peru, for Congress, and in the Sixth they have renomlnted Congressman Johnson.

It is Intimated In dispatches of the 23d that the opposition in the Republican party to the renomination of President Harrison Is conducting a still hunt, and has quietly become very formidable.

The Springfield, III,, State Register says that so far ninety-three Democratic conventions have been held in Illinois. Of the delegates selected 473 are instructed for Palmer, 52 for Cleveland, and the remainder uninstructed.

The most spirited and largest attended primaries for years were held by the Republicans of Columbus, O..Saturday night, for the selection of State and Congressional delegates. The contest was a square fight between the Sherman and Foraker forces, the former making an almost clean sweep, electing 22 out of 27 State delegates and a solid Congressional delegation, instructed to send administration men to the National convention.

The yote of Louisiana, fifty-two parishes, including Orleaus, official, and seven estimated, is: Fostsr, anti-lottery Democrat, 79,501 McEnery, Democrat, 46,678 Leonard, regular Republican, 30,103 Breaux, custom-house, Republican, 11,112 Tennehill, People's party, 7,578.' The Legislature stands: Foster, Democrats, 50, including several Farmers' Alliance men McEnery, Democrats, 57, Republicans, 10 Farmers' Alliance and People's party, 7.

The vote for Governor in Louisiana, as far as received to the 22d, is as follows: Foster, 72,126 McEnery, 46,558 Leonard, 12,212 Breaux, 11,330 Tennehill, 4,713, eight parishes yet to hear from. Foster'* majority will probably reach 20,000. In 2?ew Orleans the vote for mayor was: John Fltzpatrick, 20,547 Joseph Shakespeare, 17,239 Fitzpatrlck'a majority, 8,256. In the Legislature the Republicans will doubtless hold the balance of power as between the Democratic factions.

Chris Magee was in Washington in the early part of the week, and called upon Mr. Blaine. Mr. Magee is quoted as saying that the question of Mr. Blaine's candidacy for the Presidency was brought up, and that Mr. Blaine declared that if the nomination was brought to him on a silver ealver he would not accept it. Mr. Blain» is said to haye added: "I feel so serious: upon this question thatevenln the impos-' slble event of my- being nominated and elected against my wish, 1 would not lake tho oath of office."

THE CHINESE BILL-

A Substitute for the Home Measure is Adopted by the Senate.

After considerable debate and many unsuccessful attempts to amend, the Senato Monday, by a vote of 43 to 14, adopted a substitute for the House Chlneso exclusion bill, as follows:

Section 1. That all laws now in force prohibiting and regulating the coming in to this country of Chinese persons and persons of Chinese descent are hereby continued in force for a period of ten years from the passage of this act

Sec. 2. That any Chinese person or persons of Chinese descent, when convicted' and adjudged under any of said laws to' bo not lawfully entitled to be or remain in the United States, shall bo removed from the United States to China, unless he or they shall make it appear to the justice, judge or commissioner before whom he or they aro tried that he or they are subjects

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in which case he or they shall bo removed from tho United States to such country, provided that In any case where such other country of which such Chinese persons shall claim to be a citizen or subject shail demand any tax as a condition of the removal of such person to that country he or she shall be removed to China.

Sec. 3. That any Chinese person, or persons of Chinese descent, arriving under the provisions of tho act, shall bo judged to bo unlawfully within the United States unless such person shall establish by affirmative proof to tho satisfaction of such justice, judge or commissioner his lawfui right to remain in the United States.

Sec. 4. That any such Clilncso person, or persons of Chinese descent, once convicted and adjudged to bo not lawfully entitled to be or remain in tho United States, and having been onco removed from the United States In pursuance of such conviction, shall bo subsequently convicted for alike offense, shall be imprisoned at hard labor for a period not exceeding six months and thereafter removed from tho United States as hereinafter provided.

S WASHINGTON.

Mr. Dalzell, of Pennsylvania Monday submitted to tho House a minority report on the bill to place tin plato on the freo list. After an exhaustive history of tho tin plate industry In this country by which Mr. Dalzell claimed to show that the attempts to establish tho industry failed for want of protective duty, he criticised tho bill as inconsistent in its provisions which, while maintaining tho duty on sheet iron aud steel, plates.finished plates aro on the froe list

Mr. Waanamaker says the time has not arrived for one cent postage.