Decatur Democrat, Volume 26, Number 26, Decatur, Adams County, 6 October 1882 — Page 1

VOLUME XXVI.

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DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1882.

NEWS CONDENSED. THE EAST. Col. James B. I‘rice, ot Jefferson city, Mo., indicted for star-route conspiracy, voluntarily surrendered himself, and gave bail in the sum of $10,000....Capt E. B. Ames, son of Bishop Ames, of Indianapolis, Ind., died in the Insane Asylum at Baltimore, Md... .The Cleveland Rolling Mills and Copperas House were damaged by fire to the extent of’sL r »,000... .The Wellington Bros. A Co., wholesale dry-goods, Boston, Mass., suspended. Liabilities $700,000. Assets $725,000. They will pay their creditors one hundred cents on the dollar....At Lancaster, Pa., the lock-works of Frame & Bro. burned. Lose $20,000. Insurance SIO,OOO. Duncan A. Grant, lace importer, New York, assigned, with $27,000 preferences.... The plated-ware factory of Maltby, Stevens A- Curtis, at Birmingham, Conn., valued at $150,000, was swept away by fire, thjowirg Overone hlindr£d*mten otif of Ctnployment. ....A colored miser of Philadelphia, sporting the name of Rev. Joshua Pro vine Bond Eddy, died in a filthy hut, leaving SIOO,OOO to a brother. He was born in Virginia in the last century, traveled a circuit in New Jersey, married a daughter of Bishop Allen, and became soured against humanity ou learning of her infidelity... .Newton and Ella Wallace, and Abraham and Belle Luca«, of South Lebanon, Ohio, were drowned, in the Miami, by the capsizing of a pleasure boat... .Moulders at Smith, Vaile A Co.’s Dump works, Dayton, are on a strike. 1 C. Frost a young man of high standing arrested at Troy for robbing churches. A bag full of Bibles was found in his possession... .Duncan C. Grant, importer of laces. New York, failed for $125,000... .Typhoid fever raging at Boston, and diptheria at Natick, Mass... .Twelve thousand dollars worth of diamonds and valuable jewelry were stolen at the exposition building, Cin cinnati, from the exhibit of C. Decamp.... 10,000,000 acres of land have been opened tc settlement in Northern Dakota... .Five desperate men who recently robbed the express office at Greenville, Pennsylvania, were jailed at Mercer, where they made their es cape by gagging and binding everybody ir. authority, locking fifteen other prisoners ir their cells. A train near new Britain, Connecticut, struck the carriage of Chancey J. Welton, killing him and fatally injuring his wife.... A northeast gale at Long Branch has wrecked the bluff for fifteen miles, snapped columns in the new pier, and buried in sand the track of the New Jersey Southern road. ... .a destructive fire at Ridgeville, Pa., destroyed property valued at $92,000, includ ing tbe Democrat office A dummy car used for carrying passengers over the international bridge between Erie, Pa.,and Black Rock, N. Y., fell through the draw into the Niagara river, Ed. Bohn, the engineer, and Ed. Hershey, the fireman, were killed... .By a runaway at Albany, N. Y,, Mrs, Louis Rathbone was instantly killed, and Hon. A. J. barker and Mrs. 8. H. Strong seriously hurt. .. .The jury in the Star route cases at Philadelpia disagreed The shoe factories at Biddeford and Saco, Maine, closed. A fire at Emporium. P<«nsylvanfa, destroyed seventeen of the principal business places, causing a loss of $ 150,(XX)... .Near Cornwall Station, N. Y*., on the Middletown branch of the West Shore railway, three men were killed and three badly hurt by a premature blast. The application for a writ of habeas corpus in Sergeant Mason's case has been denied. He will remain in jail... .Nelson W Wellington, of Millbury, Mass., failed for $90,000.... As F. A. Lancashire, a butcher of New York, was on his way home he was attacked by two men, who beat him over the head and stole his pocket book, containing $8,200 in money... .Mrs. F. M. Rogers, of Cleveland, 0., while walking in Euclid avenue, Cleveland, was waylaid and robbed of a $l5O diamond pin and $22 in money. WEST AND SOUTH. The Comptroller of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, claims a shortage in the fundE of the city of nearly half a million, caused by mismanagement of former Comptrollers....At Clinton, La., John Law and Stephen DeGant, quarreled, and DeGant was shot dead. 1-aw was a northerner... .The Western Hardware Co., Atchison, Kansas, closed. Liabilities $25,000....The strike among the workers at Wyandotte, Michigan, is at an end. It lias lasted ever since the Pittsburgh strikers went out in the spring. The men return to work at the old scale ot wages... .George Rathsock, who split his wife’s head open with an ax, a few days ago. at Manitowoc, Wisconsin, was captured in the woods and lodged in jail. William Dyniewiecz, editor of a Chicago Polish paper, killed a tramp in self-de-fence. ... At Palmyra,New York, fifteen years ago. a serious quarrel occurred between George Hollenbeck and William Stratton. They met again on Monday at Canijo pass, Texas, and fought a duel in a darkened room, Stratton being killed... .Thomas Fortune, an engineer on the Kansas Central road, while on a curve in the woods at low speed, discovered a toddling child on the track. After reversing the engine and opening the sand-box he leaped out upon the pilot and grabbed the little fellow by the clothes.... Chris. Davis, a wife-beater, fired the jail at Detroit, Minnesota, and perished in the flames.... During service at a Baptist church at Hampton Cross Roads, Va.,two drunken young men commenced firing revolvers. Levi Bryson was fatally shot by Jerry Cox, who in turn shot Cox. Both died in church... .A slight earthquake shock was felt at St Louis and Springfield, [IL, several windows were being broken. I, T. Maddox, an attendant at the Lunatic Asylum at Anchorage, Ky., was indicted for the murder of John Otto Jansen, an inmate of the asylum. The murder was caused by a mode of punishment known as ducking. ....The police at Wilmington, N. C., pursued three colored river thieves, who were stealing cotton from the wharves, so closely i hat they jumped into the swift and deej Cape Fear river and were drowned... .Me Curley and Riley, rival editors at Willspoint, Texas, fought a duel, the former being badly hurt... .John Raper was sentenced t< •even years in the penitentiary, at Chicago, for forgery... .Helmrich A Housen, brokers, San Francisco. Cal., failed, with liabilities placed at $160,000... .A cyclone passed ovei Newton, Kansas, doing much damage.... Melissa Power and Addie Johnson. New Orleans, fought a duel with butcher-knives. Both frightfully cut... .Tom Booker, a col ored letter-carrier at San Antonio, Texas, has l>een arrested for robbing registers ■ packages... .At Heathville, la., a mill-dam. carried away by flood and water, swept uown upon the house of Mr. Bush, drowning his wife and five children. At a political meeting at lAncaster, South Carolina, which was addressed by Colonel Cush, a difficulty arose between a negro and a white man. and in the riot which followed three colored men were killed and many

wounded... .The Denver and *Rio Grande road has sued the Union Pacific Company for $350,000, for unlawful use of its track on the Leadville branch... .The strike among the nail workers at Wheeling, W. Va., has closed, and the mills all resumed... .J. Robert Riculife was held for the murder of W. F. Facklar, and L. J. McClung as accessory McClung’s bail was fixed at SIS,(XX), at New Orleans... .Word has been received that T. J. Dunkle, the fourth and last of the Kewanee (Ill.) bank robbers, was arrested in Battlesmont, Dakota. Dunkle is twentyfive years old, and lived in Des Moines, lowa. ....Charles Heaton, formerly Superintendent of the American Express for Minnesota, committed suicide at La Crosse. Wis. The steamer, R. E. Lee, was burned on th« Mississippi river about thirty miles below Vicksburg. Twenty-one persons are known U) have been 105 t... .The Illinois Methodist eonterenoe found H 0. Hoffman guilty of baatardy, fornication, forgery and false- i hood, and recommended his rrpulMnn frefrn ' the church and its ministry... .Four prisoners cut a hole through the walls of the jail at Owatonna, Minnesota, and were not missed until the deputy sheriff went in to serve their breakfast... .A West-bound passenger tram on the Atchison, Topeka A Santa Fe railroad was stopped one mile west of Granada by armed men, who helped themselves to express matter, but took nothing from the passengers At Atlanta, Ga., Robert D. Bolton, Charles A. Miller, Brent and Freeland and James I. Self, deputy United States marshals and collectors, charged with the murder of Jackson J. Hioks while en a raid, were fo«nd not guilty... .The tobacco associa tion reports that during the year there has been sold 25.570,000 pounds of leaf tobacco at an average of slßl per 100, against 30,550,000 ponnds at an an average of SIO.BO the preceding year John F. Burrill, late grand secretary of the grand lodge of Masons of Illinois, was brought to Springfield from Minneapolis, charged with the embezzlement es nearly SB,OOO of funds of th? order. He waived an examination and in default of SIO,OOO bonds was committed to jaiL james hhoads, uung oy a moo at vnarlottesville, Virginia,’ for murdering Seven persons killed in a political riot at Lancaster, South Carolina... .A passenger train on the A. T, A 8. F. IL IL, was wrecked at Hutchinson, Kansas Mrs. Benj. Wilson killed a man named Allison, and then committed suicide, at What Cheer, 10wa... .Raymond A Kinsman s warehouse at Fargo. Dakota, burned. Loss $40,000....A monument to Frederick Hecker, the German patriot and soldier, was unveiled at St. Louis. POLITICAL. The Dominion Government will pay out j 50,000,000 the 30th instant in redemption of 1 the five percent. Dominion stock... .Five ; bundled hands are thrown out of employ- j ment b.v the burning of the drying room iu the Dundas (Canada) cotton mills... .Private idvices received at Lancaster, Pa., say Dr. Wickersham, minister to has re- . dgued. CoNGRESsibNAL nominations: J. Hart ■ Brewer. (Republican) at Trenton, N. J.; J. W. Meldrum, (Republican) Wyoming | Ter’y;Hon. Selugn Z. Bowman, (Republi- | can) Fifth Massachusetts District; John i Winans, (Independent) First Wisconsin District; Thomas Spriggs, (Democrat) at Utica, N. Y.;J. M. Campbell, (Republican) Seventeenth District, Pennsylvania; Stuart Cark iner, (Republican) Seventh District, Missouri; Steven C. Millard, (Republican) Twentyeighth District, New York; Harry McCormick, (Democrat) Fourteenth District, Pennsylvania; C. S. Lillie, (Democrat) Eighth District, Massachusetts; W. W. Phelps, (Republican) Fifth District, New Jersey.... Hon. Fernando C. Beaman, member of Co; - gress from First Michigan District from 1860 to 1870, died at Adrian, aged 66.... J. P. Rowell was nominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Second District of Wisconsin. Congressional nominations. E. W. Mackey, (Republican) Seventh District of South Carolina; Henry Minister (Republican) Tenth District of Mo.; James L Laird (Republican) Second District of Nebraska; W. H. Munger (Democrat) Third District of Nebraska; W. IL Steele, (Democrat) Dakota; Thomas W. Hvnes, (Prohibition) Eighth District of Ill.: F. M. Hablitzell, (Democrat) Third District Md.; J. V. 8. Findlay (Democrat) Fourtn District Md.; Geo. B. Chandler, (Democrat) First District N. H.; John IL Burck, (Republican) First District Conn.; Thomas M. Ferrell, (Democrat) First District N. J.: J. H. McCleeny. (Republican) Seventh District of Alabama: Wm. J. Nead. (Democrat) Fourth District of Penn.; Jas. Rankin, (Democrat) Fifth District of Wis.; E. B. Buck, (Demoocrat) Ninth District of Ill.; H. H. Colby. (Democrat) Eighth District of 111. Congressional nominations: Francis A. Manzanares (Dem.), New Mexico; Arthur n: ngham (Rep.), Seventh District of Peim■ylvania; Thomas J. Daily (by the Filley Republicans), Eighth District of Missouri; Richard Haney (Pro.), Eleventh District of Illinois; Dr. Moore (Anti-Monopolist), Second District of Tennesse; W. K. Turner (Anti-Monopolist), Third District of Tennesse; C.W. Brumm (Greenback), Thirteenth District of Pennsylvania. Congressicnal nominations: N. W. Nut ting. Republican. 24th district of New York. Dr. W. D. Hall, Independent Republican 17th district, Penn.; J. W. Asbury, colore*’. Republican, 7th district, Kentucky; John Ballintine, Democrat, 7th district, Tennessee; P. A. Collins, Democrat, 4th district. Massachusetts; Edward Wimple, Democrat. 20th district. New York; Joshua Wright Greenbacker, Bth district, Pennsylvania: E M. Brayton, Republican, 2nd district. South Carolina; 8. F. Barr, 14th district, Pennsylvania. Town elections held in Connecticut. The only question at issue was license or no license. The small towns, as a rule, voted no license. Hartford went Democratic, the first time for several years.... A. B. Hepburn, Republican candidate for Congressman at large, for N. Y.» has declined the nomination... .It is said that John I. Davenport, of New York, has obtained full confesssons of the writer of the Morey letter and will publish the entire matter in pamphlet form. FOREIGN. A cablegram says: While the Je’-omist section of the Bonapartists were holding a meeting to denounce the newspapers, Pays and Corporal, the opposition section of the party forced an entrance into the hall. Revolvers, swords and canes were displayed, and a number of assaults conjmitted. The Jeromists declare that the recent duel be tween Diehard, editor of the Petit Corporal and Damassas, editor of the Combat, in which the latter was killed, was virtually an assas sination. The feud between the two sections is becoming very intense. The Republicans are delighted at these dissensions among their enemiee

The Khedive of Egypt has decided to grant amnesty to all officers from captain downward, except those who participated in the riots or donned uniforms since the campaign commenced The ministers have framed decrees for a special commission to prosecute all acts of rebellion, a court-mar-tial at Cairo to try cases for the commission, and another at Alexandria to act upon cases submitted by tribunals. The powers expect to be solicited by England to express their views on the situation in Egypt.... A A ienna newspaper publishes a story to the effect that the Emperor and Empress of Russia were secretly crowned during their recent visit to Moscow. If the Emperor survives till a public coronation the secret ceremony will be considered void. In the event of his death it will be made public so as to avoid any difficulty in proclaiming Czarowich Alexander as the lawful successoi of the crowned monarch. The Egyptian authorit e consider the country generally so rapidly returning to its normal condition that all further display of force in the provinces is unnecessary. The London Times says it has been decided to retain for the present 12,(XX) men in Egypt to carry on and consolidate the work, for which the suppression of Arabi Tasha does little more than clear the waj. The latest diplomatic row at Constantinople arose over the refusal of the Turks to permit the landing of laborers who had been engaged with the British expedition to Egypt. They were allowed to pass the Dardanelles on the demand of Lord Dufferin, but armed police forced them to remain on the Russian steamer which brought them from Port Said. A second effort by the British Minister was rewarded by the release ot the laborers... .A dispatch from Athens states that the Greek government has ordered large reinforcements to make an immediate march to Thessaly, as it is expected that Turkey will retract her concessions regarding the frontier. The rebellion of Arabs atllcdjaz is spreading, and Turkish* reinforcements are being sent to Jeddah. The Sultan has ordered the construction of a railway from Jeddah to Mecca. It is reported that England has assured the Sultan the maintenance of his Arabian possessions. The Khedive has made a speech to the heads ot the departments of the administration, in which he advised strict adherence to the special business of their departments and warned the priests not to interfere in politics. It is rumored that dynamite was found among the hay stored in the railway sheds at Cairo. A Fly’s Cogitations. “I wonder what this man is doing? just light on his bald head and seo if I can hear what is going on in his thinkery. What! Now, I wonder what he slapped his pate so savagely for? Why, the man must be crazy. I went away just as quick as I saw him raise his hand. Really, he could not complain of that. Maybe he thought I was intruding, but if so, he cannot say but that I lit out at his first hint. But he seems quiet enough now. Maybe his scalp itches or something, and his movement had no reference to my being on it, so I guess I will try it again. What a nice old bald head this is, to be sure, only it’s a trifle slippery. It would make a first-rate skating-rink; guess I will try it. Whew! Wliy, the man hit his head again. Funny way he has with him; and if I hadn’t got out of the way just as I did, goodness only knows what might have happened me. He struck real hard, and if he bad hit me there is no knowing but that he might have hurt me. But maybe he hadn’t any idea of hitting me. I guess I’ll just light on his nose and see what the matter is with him. What! Why, he seems to be an awfully sensitive sort of a man, or else he has got a dreadful temper. Why, he actually hit his own nose a slap just because I crawled around on it a bit. Queer sort of a chap, anyway. Wonder if bethinks a fly has no rights in the world? Now, I w ill try him in the ear. Ah! I have got him now! Good gracious! he came within an ace of hitting me that time. Wonder what he means anyhow? I should think he was mad about something. 11l try his other ear and see how he likes that. Ah! he don’t seem to mind this one so much. Ah! by Jingoes, he must have hurt himself that time with that bat on the ear. But it’s his ear. not mine, so what should I care? I think I’ll try that skating-rink again, after Igo up his nostrils. Well, well, what is he striking at now? It must be that he don’t like my attentions, but I’ll take another turn on top of his head now, and have some fun while he is getting over his mad. “Well, I’ll be hanged! the fellow is running stark mad. See him dance and caper around the room ■ See him flop and fling his arms around as though the air was full of flying demons. Funny, isn’t it ? He don’t see me up here, but he is looking wildly around as though he wanted to fight somebody Ob '. I’ll just try his temper a bit further; I’ll get on where his hair is short behind. Ah! Fll fool around here in this stubble awhile. Now he flops his handkerchief, but I don’t care for that. I can get away from a demonstration of that kind every time. Now I have got him on the ear again, and once more he paws the air in the immediate vicinity, but I am out of harm’s way, ha! ha! Now he is red in the face; yes, he looks like a boile I lobster, and again he is dancing around the room and swearing like a trooper! Now he has quieted down a trifle and has resumed writing again! Ah! he smiles! Must be he has got on to an idea. I wonder w hat it is? I’ll just take a quiet walk over that thinkery again, and maybe I can catch on to what it is. What in the world is he making his scalp go tin’s way for? I would think he was trying to shake something off. Oh, I’ll just get a grip on here and hold on for awhile. No, he can’t shake me off; no. no! Ah !” There was a resounding whack: that lively fly. ch! where was he ? Ask of the editor, who smiled tri umphantlv as he viewed his ensanguined hand*— The Judae. ’Twas Ever Thus. The editor of the Richmond (Va.) Religious Herald thus complaintively complains: “It is strange that a man of 1 rains and education will insist on making himself the subject of conversation, but some of them will do it. We traveled a few days ago with one of that kind. He would talk f;* ely and w ith kindling enthusiasm about himself ami things pertaining to himself, but about nothing else. While cur little jokes were scarcely honored with a smile, he would shake his sides and laugh aloud at his own little jokes.’’ ’Twas ever thus.

NEW YOKE. The relitical Situation—Jubilant Democrats and Despondent Republican*. [New York Cor. Chicago Timcfl.J The political contest opens in this State with union in the Democratic ranks and with bitter feeling and much dissension among the Republicans. For once a Democratic convention did a wise thing at the critical moment, and there is every prospect that the device adopted at Syracuse to secure harmony will serve its purpose for the present canvass, and bring to the ticket the united Democratic vote of this city. The immense vote of the State of New York is so evenly divided between the two great parties when both are united that a contest between them on equal terms is always doubtful. Unfortunately for the Republic ins it can not be claimed that they are at present heartily united Imd in a position to exert their full strength. There is a very ugly feeling among the Cornell men, who urge that they were defeated by forgery and bribes. The 1 Albany Journal and the New York Times all but bolt the nomination, and the Buffalo Express, it is said, will support Cleveland. The Utica Herald, the Syracuse Journal and the Rochester Democrat cannot give very enthusiastic support to the ticket even if they pretend to swallow the dose. The Times and the Tribune of this city say more in praise of the Democratic ticket than they said of the Republican nominations. The Times says: “The nomination of Mayor Cleveland, of Buffalo, for the office of Governor, is likely to prove one of exceptional strength and popularity. He appears to represent not only the better element and higher character of the Democracy of the State, but, partisanship apart, some of the best qualities of our civic and political life. He seems to belong to the type of rising public men of which Comptroller Pattison, of Philadelphia, is another Democratic example, and Mayor Low, of Brooklyn, is one of whom the Republicans are justly proud. It will be as well to admit his merits and his strength, and face the fact that he will be a hard man to defeat in such a canvass as is now fairly opened in this State.” The Tribune says: “The nomination of Mayor Cleveland means hard work for the Republicans. Yesterday’s convention means a united Democratic party with all that that implies. There must be-a united Republican party to face it. if the Republican ticket is elected this fall.” A great many Republicans are disgusted with the part Jay Gould took in the defeat of Cornell. As a political boss they have even a less liking for Gould than as a Wall street speculator. They believe that Folger owes his nomination mainly to Gould’s influence, and they look upon this fact as so significant and dangerous that they will either vote fqr Cleveland or will not vote at all. The Democrats are jhbdant over the situation. They claim that Cleveland will draw a great many Republican votes in the western part of the State. His is the section of the State that has been strongly opposed to Conkling. Nearly all the. Western New Y’ork delegates, with the exception of the Buffalo city representatives, were strongly in favor of Wadsworth or Cornell, and hot against Folger. Folger’s own home went against him. It is argued, therefore, that the Democratic candidate will make large gains west of Cayuga, in a region that goes strongly Republican. Manv Republicans say the administration has made a grave mistake, and that if Folger is defeated, as he probably will be, it will be the death-blow to Arthur's aspirations for a second term. Despondent Wail front a Republican Organ. The Albany Evening Journal, the old Central Republican organ of New York, takes a despondent view of the political situation in the Empire State. The result at Syracuse has considerably increased the responsibility of the gentlemen who controlled the Saratoga Convention. While Grover Cleveland may not be the man who could poll the biggest Democratic vote next November, he is certainly the one Democrat of all named at Syracuse whose candidature would best appeal to Independent Republican sympathy. From a purely partisan point of view measured by the test of getting ont the whole Democratic vote—his nomination does not seem so strong. If to fire the Democratic heart was the thing desired at Syracuse, Gen. Slocum was the man. If to insure splendid party organization with well-greased cogs was the aim. Banker Flower was the man. Both of these important considerations were put aside, and their representative candidates laid on the shelf to make room for the theory of capturing Republican votes, and for the candidate judged most likely to effect that capture. It is wise to look at the nomination in this light. The Democrats have explicitly invited the Republicans who do not relish the machine outcome at Saratoga to vote for a reform Democrat who was nominated by smashing the only semblance of michine existing in his party. It is idle to shirk this question. Nothing but sheerest folly could prompt the course of pretending not to know that Cleveland's nomination is a direct bid for Republican votes, and that there is danger of the bid being widely accepted. This is not the year for a “rally-round-the-flag-boys” campaign. The old fife and drum literature will fall very flat and cold this autumn. The situation must be looked in the face and frankly discussed. All the results to be desired may not be reached by tins discussion, but there is at least a chanee of it. To “go it blind” in this crisis would be as certain destruction as to walk with bandaged eyes on the brink of Niagara's chasm Judge Folger is at the bend of the department at Washington which has been the most reckless agent of a chance administration’s crusade against Republican sen'iment and selfrespect in this State; and, although he is the nominee of the convention, he is in a position which is condemned outspokenly by ten of the chief Republican dailies in the State, and repudiated by ahuo-t all the great Republican da lies outside. If there are any means by which these loads can be lifted from Judge candidature, they cannot be adopted too soon. If it is possible to restore Judge Fclger to the position he occupied ip the heart of Republicanism two years ago—to wipe from the mem-

ory of Kepublicans the tilings which | have happened since July 1, 1881—the | work cannot be begun too swiftly or vigorously. We confess we do not know how it is ' to be done. Doubtless the gentlemen i who went to such lengths at Saratoga to procure Judge Folger’s nomination will be able to suggest some way of turning the hands of the Republican clock back fourteen months, and restoring to the Republican nominee the prestige he enjoyed when he last carried this State. We await their announcement of a solution of this problem with profound anxiety. Fifteen Hundred and hinety hew Offices. The profligate Congress at the late | session created 1,590 now offices, among which several were revived, like the Assistant Secretaries of War and of the Navy, that had been abolished as superfluous at the close of the Rebellion. This enormous increase of patronage was made principally to satisfy the constant and pressing demands of politicians. Pretexts of various kinds were manufactured as an excuse for such scandalous prodigality. Among others it was alleged that pension claims would be rapidly advanced and decided by an additional force. Twelve hundred and ten clerks were given to the Pension Bureau, to the Adjutant General and to the Surgeon General for this purpose. These raw recruits have all to be educated in the duties to which they are assigned, and instructors have been appointed to teach them the rudiments of official routine. Many of them are hopelessly incompetent, as were others in the increase made last year for the | same professed purpose. In this latter I case the teachers were incumbents who I were displaced by ignorant successors ■ that are not more fit for service to-day i than they originally were. These appointments and all others ! are controlled by politics. Even in the I scientific divisions, where technical knowledge is essential to successful ad- j ministration, partisan influence claims j recognition, asserts authority, and in I nine cases out of ten prevails over j merit, however conspicuous. And now, after creating this army of ■ officeholders, it is found no provision | was made for housing them properly. They actually stand in the way of each other in the different bureaus, and cannot be seated for want of desk room. In order to keep up appearances, some of them are detailed for night service, to take the places of others who occupy ■ the seats during the day. Bqt this is a mere sham, invented to cover the pay j of clerks who have nothing to do, and ! ■who were appointed as a reward for po- ■ litical service alone. Sometimes this sort of patronage is sold by the "influence” which stands behind it. < Iffice brokerage is said to be a regular business at Washington, and I the organs contain daily advertisements I offering liberal premiums for situations | in the diflerenfdepartments, the bonn- j ty being graduated by the value of the ; place. This traffic could not be carried on, and certainly would not be prosperous, ! if there was not collusion between the I insiders and the outsiders. The actual ! and the prospective vacancies, the ' causes for removal and the opportnni- | ties for admission, straight and crooked, | are known better to the appointment , clerks than to the Secretaries themselves This information has a mer- ) chantable value, and it is not infrequently sold to brokers, to applicants and to others interested in getting it quickly. The condition of a public service subject to this corrupting contamination must be deplorably bad. — Neto York Sun. Mortified. As a class, physicians are sensitive t® the obligations of their profession. Their gratuitous visits to the homes of the poor, and the readiness with which < they respond to midnight calls in cold and stormy weather, illustrates their sympathy with the old French proverb, “'VofieZesse oblige,'’ (nobility binds to noble conduct). But here and there a black sheep ap-| pears among these servants of human- ■ ity. The following anecdote, told by an ! officer in the British army, exhibits a : physician who waa both inhuman and a snob : Lord Richard Cavendish, the son of the Duke of Devonshire, arrived at a small Swiss watering-place, with a servant dangerously ill. The nobleman travelled as plain Mr. Cavendish, and was only known as such to the public. There being no doctor for the moment at the 1 laths, his lordship was glad j to hear of the arrival of an English ; physician, who was passing through the j place. Going to him, he begged him as j a favor to see his sick servant. The doctor brusquely refused, saying j he could not be bothered during his short holiday. Lord Cavendish bowed j and turned away. The landlord, who I knew the rank of his guest, said to the ‘ physician: “Do you know to whom you were ! speaking?" ; “No,” lie replied, “nor do I care: I cannot be pestered in this way.” “Well,” replied the landlord, “he is ■ the son of the Duke of Devonshire.” “Bless me!” exclaimed the medical snob, “you don't say so?” and stepping ; forward was about to withdraw his selfish decision. But the quite dignity of the noWeinan caused him to hesitate | and then retire, a mortified man. “I regret extremely, for the credit of i my profession,” said a gentleman. 1 standing by, whom no one knew, “to . have been a witness to such a scene. I < am a physician”—at the same time giv- ! ing his name, which was that of one of j the distinguished physicians of the day | —“I shall be happy to prescribe for ; your servant.” — Youth’* Companion. ■ Nine Tailors Make a Man. The word tailor, in the phrase “Nine tailors make a man,” had originally (says an exchange) no sartorial reference at all. From Queen Elizabeth —who is said to have acknowledged an i address from eighteen tailors by saying, : “Thanks, gentlemen both. —” to Carlyle. : the saying has been mistaken. The orig- ; inal word is “taler.” The exact spelling I is not known, but it is connected with j the "tally” or “tale” of Milton’s shep- i herd; or it may be “tollers." In some . parts of England on the death of a parishioner, the church-bell tolled once, throe times, etc., according to the age of the dead person ; say, once for an infant, three times for a girl, but always nine times for a man. So passers-by would say, when the bell had stoppeu •Nine talers make a mau.”

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The Moon and the Earth. A reader who signs himself “One of the Boys” asks what he evidently thinks I are some funny questions about a statement that appeared in the Companion to the effect that the earth lost consid- ■ erable territory when it parted with the | moon. As an answer to some of his questions, we will give the theory of the formation of worlds that is at present accepted by astronomer*, for the benefit of interested readers. Millions of years ago a vast mass of . fiery nebulous matter is supposed to I have filled and extended far beyond the I space now occupied by the sun and his family of worlds. As ages rolled on, changes took place ;in this vaporous mass. The inner and | larger portion condensed and took form as the central sun, and the outer portion contracted into concentric rings, which in process of time became planets and satellites; sun, plants and moons being indissolubly bound together and forming our solar system. No astronomer has yet found out the way by which this result was brought about, or why the earth should have but one moon, while Saturn rejoices in eight moons besides his wonderful rings. This, in a few words, is the foundation of what is known as the nebular hypothesis, or the theory that ages ago our system was a mass of fiery vapor, that in cooling has condensed into globulous masses or worlds, that we call sun, planets and their moons. Most of these worlds are still cooling off to the stage which all matter must reach, the general law being the larger the body the longer it will take to cool. Thus the moon, being smaller than the earth, has cooled off until it is a dead world unfit to sustain life. The I earth, millions of years hence, unless I interferences that are contingent occur, will be in the same condition. Even the sun himself will ages hence lose Iris i light and heat. “ One of the Boys” will see that im- | mense periods have elapsed since the moon in the cooling process “sloughed j off” from the earth, and that his quesi tions are connected with one of the I most difficult problems of astronomy. | If “all of the boys” will study this ? grand and ennobling science, they will ; find material for unending interest and entertainment in the fascinating and marvelous truths it reveals. — Youth's Companion. The Mound of the Jew. “Between Heliopolis and Zagazig," says the London Neies, “there is an interesting spot connected with later : Jewish history. It is called Tel-el-Yo-j hoodec, or ‘The Mound of the Jew.’ In ! Josephus, b. xiii., c. iii., will lie found I an account of it. Onias, the son of the I high priest of the temple of Jerusalem. | got permission from Ptolemy' and Cleopatra to build a temple in Egypt which should be like the one at Jerusalem, j Josephus says it was much inferior. I Still, such a temple was constructed, I with priests and a service the same as I the Jews were accustomed to. The | place was known previously as Leonto- | polis, and a temple had stood there, i and a palace of Ramoses 111. existed at I it, all of which was in ruins when Onias | constructed his temple, which also is | now gone, and nothing but mounds arc left to mark the spot. Onias in his let j ter to Ptolemy quoted in favor of his ; proposals the prophecy in Isaiah six., j 19: Tn that day shall there be an altar j in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the i Lord.’ These words are acknowledged by Ptolcrny ami Cleopatra as being the inducement which caused I hem to make the grant. This temple attracted Jews and there were other cities in the district where they predominated, but little is known regarding them." Mas. Stowe, the woman suffragist leader of San Francisco, appeal'd in trousers before the Social Silence Sisterhood the other day. 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