Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1880 — Page 1

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REWS OF THE WEEK

POKtaOX MEWS. The beginning of the end of the Beaconsfield Government Is signalized by the resignation of Lord Lytton of his position as Viceroy of India. The Russian Government is convinced that the Nihilist machinations find all their elements in England and Germany. During a fire in a creosote manufactory, London, one of the stills exploded, killing eleven persons and wounding several. Cable dispatches announce the election to Parliament of O’Connor Power and Mr. Parnell from County Mayo. Gladstone’s son is also dected from Worcestershire, East The emigration from Germany to the United States is rapidly increasing. During the week which ended on the 12th inst. 6,800 left Bremen. Most of the emigrants are skilled workmen. Russia intends to increase its fleet in Chinese waters to fifteen vessels. Vigneaux, the French champion, defeated Blouson, the American, in the big billiard match in Paris; score, 4,000 to 3,118 points. Vigneaux made a run of 1,451, and Slosson one of 1,108 points. The game was for $2,000 and the world's championship. The result of the Parliamentary elections is that the Liberals will have a majority of about sixty over the combined opposition, including the Home Rulers. Five thousand persons in the province of Orenberg, Russia, are starving, the long winter having exhausted their supplies. Otero, the assailant of the King of Spain, has been executed at Madrid. The American horse Wallenstein, owned by Mr. Lorillard, won the race for the Newmarket handicap, in England. Letters received by the Dublin Mansion House Committee show that the distress throughout Ireland is increasing. Dr. Kenealy, the noted Tichborne lawyer, is dead. He was a member of the last Parliament. The ex-Empress Eugenie arrived in Cape Town, recently, on her pilgrimage to the place where the Prince Imperial was killed. Bismarck, through his organ, the North German Gazette, complains that the Ultramontane# have not carried out their compact with him. They have opposed some of his measures in the Reichstag, and he now threatens to retaliate. It is said the prisoners of Moscow, Nijnee, Novgorod, Samara, and other depots in Russia awaiting exila to Siberia number over 20,000. Poison was recently discovered in one of the dishes on the Czar’s table.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East. Hart, the colored man, who won the recent six-day, go-as-you-please pedestrian match in New York, pockets $17,000. Ohastine Cox (colored), the murderer of Mrs. Dr. Hull, and Pietro Balbo, a wifemurderer, will be hanged in New York, May 28. The Supreme Court of Massachusetts has awarded Charles H. Worthen, formerly with Field, Leiter & Co., of Chicago, $45,000 damages for the loss of a leg by a railroad collision at Detroit several years ago. On two previc us trials the verdicts against the company 1 were for SIB,OOO and $20,000. Destructive fires are reported in the great pineries and cedar swamps of New Jersey. Myriads of birds and many cattle have suffocated. Daniel Miller and Charles Frazer were ■pothered to death in a well they were digging near Gordonsville, Pa. By an explosion of gas at the works of the New York Gaslight Company, one workman was fatally and two others seriously burned. A schooner, with all hands, went down in a gale in Long Island sound. Lucy Davene!, a trapeze performer in a circus which exhimted at Philadelphia, fell to the ground during one of her acts, receiving injuries from which she cannot recover. She is 18 years of age. While some men were working in a pit underneath a large vessel which contained molten metal, in the Pennsylvania Steel Works, near Harrisburg, Pa., the ratchet broke and the contents of the vessel were poured into the pit. Two men were fatally and five seriously . burned. Ladd & Davis, extensive dry-goods dealers of Providence, R. 1., have suspended, owing to disastrous outside speculations by the senior partner. A colored military company returning from a funeral in Philadelphia, being assailed by roughs, routed the gang with a bayonet charge. West Reports from Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky show that much of the peach crop has been injured by frost Col. Hatch telegraphs from New Mexico in relation to his recent engagement with Victoria’s band of Indians, that Capt Carroll and seven men were seriously wounded, and that the loss of the Indians was thirty killed. The latter were so severely punished that it will probably have the effect of bringing them to terms. Several notorious desperadoes have escaped from the Wyoming penitentiary, at Laramie City. A. wealthy Indiana farmer, named Daniel Swygart, living near South Bend, has starved himself to death under the balludnatieft that, if he ate, his family would suffer. Chicago elevators contain 8,854,759 bushels of wheat, 4,340,822 bushels of corn, 650,548 bushels of oats, 118,903 bushels of rye, and 462,427 bushels of barley, making a grand total of 14,426,959 bushels, against 10,873,447 bushels at this period last year. Owing to the over-supply of flour with which the market is crowded, the Minnesota millers have decided to suspend production for one mouth. The Western Nail Association has decided that there shall be a further suspension of production for two weeks. Three men—strangers—were drowned in the Mississippi river at Rock Island, DI., by the capsizing of a skiff. San Francisco has had another severe earthquake shook. A little Cleveland girl has died of congestion of the brain brought on by jumping a rope. A. R. Foote, one of the partners in Pomeroy's Democrat, La Crosse, Wis., has been sent to jail on a charge of forgery. Jake Muldrow and Nathan Fancett were hanged at Mexico, Mo., for the murder of a young man named Inlow, in September last. Maj. Maclean has overtaken Victoria’s band of Apaches in Arizona Territory, and is driving them beyond the fines into Mexico. The five desperadoes who recently es-

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caped from the Wyoming penitentiary are robbing stages and holding up mail-carriers on the road to Fort Fetterman. w A shocking accident is reported from San Francisco. Five thousand pounds of giant powder exploded at Berkeley, near that city, by the careless blow of a workman putting a cover on a box, and twenty-five human beings were torn into minute fragments. The people employed in the manufactory were both Chinese and whites. Twelve Chinamen and an equal number of white men were killed. The effects of the explosion were indescribable. Five thousand pounds of giant powder exploded instantly, hurling the victims piecemeal into the bay and on the ground in the vicinity, hire a leg and there a hand. In one place would be found a human foot and in another a piece of skull. An arm was found a quarter of a mile from the scene. The pigtail of one of the Chinamen, with a piece of the scalp, was found lodged in a tree 300 yards away. Heavy timbers butted strongly together were splintered into shreds and scattered over the ground for acres in extent, while the waters of the bay between Fleming’s point and Sheep island, two miles distant, were covered with the debris. Large trees in the vicinity were twisted and thrown down like reeds before a fierce gale. The houses near the acid works, a quarter of a mile distant, were partially wrecked, the windows and sashes being broken by the concussion. The Superior Court at San Francisco has affirmed the decision of the lower court in the case of Kearney, and he will have to serve out his term in the House of Correction. South. A squad of revenue officers surrounded the stronghold of Buck Singleton, the notorious moonshiner, in the mountains of North Carolina, and, after a brief engagement, drove the crooks from their position. One of the officials was killed, and several woundetj. The outlaws’ retreat, which was palisaded, contained sixteen stills and, 600 gallons of whisky, all of which were destroyed. J. Tucker, colored, charged with the murder of Abe Frazer, in 1877, was taken from jai at Greensburg, St. Helena parish, La., by fifteen men, and shot to death. A Petersburg (Va.) negro, who recently assaulted a white lady near that city, has been lynched by a mob. Tire internal revenue officers have destroyed in Pickens and Cherokee counties, 8. C., nine distilleries and 10,000 gallons of mask and beer, and secured six copper stills. Frost for three consecutive nights has seriously damaged fruit in the vicinity of Augusta, Ga. Heavy frosts in Virginia have seriously injured fruit and vegetation. Bishop Pellicier, of the Roman Catholic diocese of San Antonio, Tex., is dead. William S. Bates was hanged for murder at Barnwell Court House. 8. C., on the 16th inst. On the same day, Bill Walker (colored) was executed for murder at Calvert, Texas. His last words were, “he was not going to hell, but would fiy straight to heaven.” Forest fires are raging in the Virginia wilderness. Several persons have been burnt to death, and a great deal of property destroyed.

POLITICAL POINTS. __ The Louisiana Democratic Convention expressed a preference for Gen. Hancock as a candidate for President, but the delegates to Cincinnati ro uninstructed. The Democrats of the Eleventh Indiana district have nominated Gen. James R. Slack for Congress. Republican State Conventions for the appointment of delegates to4he National Convention at Chicago were held on the 14th inst. in lowa, Missouri and Kentucky. In lowa the Blaine men were largely in the majority, and the twenty-two delegates were instructed to cast the votes of the State as a unit, and to use all honorable means to secure the nomination of James G. Blaine. The Kehtucky Convention instructed its twenty-four delegates to vote as a unit for U. 8. Grant. In the Missouri Convention the Grant sentiment was also largely predominant, and the thirty delegates to the Chicago Convention were instructed to vote as a unit for his nomination. The political friends of President Grant opened the campaign at Chicago last week by a large mass meeting in Central Music Hall, presided over by Robert T. Lincoln, and addressed by Messrs. Storrs, Swett, Logan, Stephen A. Douglas and other prominent Republicans. Resolutions indorsing the candidacy of Gen. Grant were adopted with a hurrah, and a permanent Grant club was organized, with Robert T. Lincoln President, and one Vice President from each city ward. The Republican Convention of Massachusetts adopted resolutions commending Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, for the Presidency, and appointed four delegates-at-large to the Chicago Convention, without giving them any positive instructions. The delegates are: George F. Hoar, of Worcester; Prof. Julius H. Soelye, of Amherst College; Charles R. Codman, of Boston, and John E. Sanford, of Taunton. The other delegates will be chosen by district conventions. The Maine Democrats will meet at Bangor June 1, to nominate State officers and select delegates to the Cincinnati Convention. The Greenback State Convention will be held at the same time and place. The Vermont Greenback State Convention has been called for May 3. The Greenbackers of the District of Columbia have elected the following delegates to the National Convention at T. J. Durant and Lee Crafidal ;• alternates, R. W. Wade and W. W. Johnson. The Democratic members of the Senate Committee on Rules and of the Senate select committee on the subject .of counting the electoral vote held a long private meeting at Washington, last Saturday, with a view to agreeing to some recommendation in regard to the electoral count at this session. It was substantially decided to recommend that the two houses of Congress shall adopt a new joint rule providing that in case only one certificate of the electoral vote of a State be presented to Congress, it shall not be rejected except by affirmative vote of the two houses, and that in the case of dual returns neither shall be counted unless the two houses agree that ohe of them is the true and valid return.

KISUELLANBQUS GLEANINGS. The first yellow fever of the season 1b reported at Vera Cruz. O’Leary wants to match Hart and Dobler for SIO,OOO or $20,000 against any two English pedestrians. The Board of Directors of the National Rifle Association has decided to accept the Irish challenge, the match to take place the last week of June—on Irish soil. James Gordon Bennett,'of the New York Herald, is credited with the biggest journalistic enterprise of this or any oUmi: age. His

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intention, it is currently reported, is to establish a chain of 2-cent morning newspapers from New York to the Pacific coast, and including such cities as Buffalo, Cincinnati, Bt. Louis, umcago, Kansas City, and San Francisco. The papers will, it is said, be backed by Mr. Bennett’s capital, will share in the Heralds telegraphic system and facilities, and will be, like the Herald, independent as to politics. Burned : Kistler Brothers’ tannery, at Lockhaven, Pa., loss $100,000; Proctor’s tannery, at Peabody, Mass., loss $40,000 ; Robison’s lumber yard, at Dubuque, lowa, loss $16,000; a foundry and several buildings at Lancaster, Ohio, loss $20,000.

WASHINGTON NOTES. The returns of April 1 to the Department of Agriculture show an increase in the area sown in wheat last fall to be 13 per cent, more than in the fall previous. In the area sown in rye there is a decline of 6 per cent, as compared with the year previous. The condition is 98, the same as last year. There was a large increase in fall-sown wheat in those States that heretofore have exclusively sown in the spring. The experiment was unfortunate, and all—particularly lowa and Nel raska—report great disaster from the winter. On the whole, tire wheat crop thus far looks as favorable as in the spring of 1879. The condition of the live stock, as represented, is very favorable—better than for years. No disease is reported other than cholera among swine, and that is no worse, if as bad as last year. DOINGS IN CONGRESS. In the Senate, on Monday morning, April 12, Mr. Pendleton presented the report of the conferefte committee on the Census bill. Bills were introduced: By Mr. Ferry, to regulate promotion and fix the rank of line officers of the army; by Mr. Vance, defining and limiting the use of the Page patent; by Mr. Vest, to reduce the duty on lead ore; by Mr. McMillan, to repeal the law taxing the circulation of State banks. The conference report on the Census bill was taken up and adopted. The Ute treaty was taken up and passed, by a vote of 37 to 16. The President nominated •). M. Bynum, of Rienzi, Supervisor of Census in the First District of Missis ippi.... In the House, the Senate bill passed appropriating $200,000 for the erection of suitable posts for the protection of the Bio Grande frontier. The Senate amendments to the House bill for a public building at Paducah were concurred in. Bills introduce!: By Mr. Pheljis, extending for three years from the Ist of Jmy next the time within which the application for arrears of pensions may be filed; by Mr. Chalmers, causing a week’s notice to be given of the purchase of bonds by the treasury; by Mr. Hurd, supplemental to an act to estab.ith regulations as to imported goods in bond, with duties paid; by Mr. Geddes, proposing a constitutional amendment that no person shall be eligible to the office of President for more than two terms; by Mr. Goode, authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to secure adequate coaling stations for the use of the navy; by Mr. Martin, permitting the use of domestic materials in the construction of steam and sail vessels for foreign account; by Mr. Willits, to regulate promotions in the army, and to fix the rank of line officers; by Mr. Money, regulating the compensation of the transportation of mails by railroad; by Mr. Warner, authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to transmit subsidiary silver coins through the mails as third-class matter; also establishing a bureau of mines and mining manufactures and statistics; by Mr. Coffroth, calling on the Secretary of the Interior for information as to the delay in the payment of bounties and back pay; by Mr. Ainslie, amending the Pacific Railroad acts. The Speaker laid before the House a message from the President, transmitting the report of the Secretary of State relative to Chinese immigration. The House went into committee of the whole for a three hours’ talk on the Army bill, which time was occupied by the Republicans, the Democrats again refraining from debate. The amendment was adopted in committee forbidding the use of troops at the polls, and the committee rose and the House adjourned. In the United States Senate, on the loth inst., Mr. Slater introduced a bill forfeiting to the United States the unearned lands included in the grant made to the Oregon Central Railroad Company. The joint resolution legalizing the health ordinances of the District of Columbia was taken up and passed. The session of the day was passed in debate on the Geneva Award bill, no conclusion being reached In the House, Mr. Thompson submitted the conference report upon the Census bill, and, after some debate, the report was .agreed to. A bill giving the widow of Ma.i. Gen. Curtis, of lowa, a pension of SSO per month was passed. A*ter deb ,te, the Army Appropriation bill was pat. 3d by a party vote. An evening session was held for action upon pension bills, a number being passed. Mr. Wallace introduced a bill in the Senate on the 14th inst to define the amount and manner of the purchase of public loans to be made by the Secretary of the Treasury. A bill was offered by Mr. Maxey for the relief of certain officers and privates of the United States army. Mr. Voorhees submitted a resolution instructing the Committee on Pensions to report a bill authorizing pensions to surviving soldiers and sailors of the Mexican war. A bill to remove certain Apache Indians from one agency to another was passed. Mr. Cameron (Wis.) introduced a joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to permit members of the soldiers’ reunion at Milwaukee, in .Tune, to use artillery flags and camp equipage belonging to the Government, which was passed. The Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill was taken up. The amount appropriated is sl,146,135, an increase of $7,900 over the bill as passed by the House. The bill passed. ....In the House, the bill passed authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to dispose of a part of Fort Dodge military reservation to actual settlers, under the provisions of the Homestead laws. , The House went into committee of the whole and acoated the Indian Appropriation bill. Mr. Hutchins introduced a bill to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy. An evening session of the House was held for the consideration of bills reported from the Committee on Naval Affairs. In committee of the whole, the bills for a permanent construction fund for the n?vy, and for an expedition to the Arctic sea were reported favorably to the House. A bill for the relief of the owners of the Grapeshot passed the Senate on the 15th inst., after which the Geneva Award bill was taken up and discussed without action. Mr. Baldwin Introduced a bill to authorize the purchase of a site to enlarge the present Government building in Detroit and for the purchase of a site and erection of a Government building in said city. Bills passed granting pensions to a number of persons... .In the House, an evening session was ordered for Thursday next for the consideration of the Immigration bill. The regular order being demanded, the Speaker announced the pending question to be upon the passage of a bill reported last night from the Committee of the Whole providing a construction fund for the nay. Wlthoutv debate the bill was passed, as also a bill to equip an expedition to the Arctic seas. The Indian Appropriation bill was discussed all day, no conclusion being reached. In the evening a session was held, at which a number of bills reported from the Naval Committee were passed. Mr. Edmunds reported adversely to the bill against allowing locations for unsatisfied private land claims, sending them to the courts, and it was indefinitely postponed, on Friday, April 16. The pension claim of Jesse Phares, a scout, was discussed. A report from the Secretary of State in reference to awards of Mexican claims was laid before the Senate. The Geneva award was discussed all day, and then the Senate adjourned till Monday... .In the House, the Senate bill removing the political disabilities of Roger A. Pryor passed. Mr. Cox, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported a resolution requesting the President to take steps to abrocate the ClaytonBulwer treaty. Mr. Wilson, from the same committee, reported a joint resolution for the disposal of the Chinese indemnity fund. On motion of Mr. Bouck, the Senate joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to loan the flags, tents and camp equipage for the soldiers’ reunion at Milwaukee in June next passed. On motion of Mr. Dibrell the bill passed authorizing the Secretary of War to turn over certain condemned cannon to the Government of South Carolina, i On motion of Mr. Valentine, the bill passed for the i relief of settlers on public lands. It provides that j when a pre-emption, homestead, or timber-culture claimant has filed a written relinquishment of his 1 claim in the local land office, the land covered by such claim shall be open to entry without further i action. The Indian Appropriation bill was under 1 discussion all day. The Senate wag not in session on Saturday, April 17.... In the House, the bill passed providing sos the reapportionment of the membare of the Legislatures of the Territories of Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. A joint resolution passed authorizing the Secretary of War to furnish artillery, etc., to the soldiers’ and sailors’ reunion In Cohnnbus, Ohio, in August next Mr. Calkins introduced a bill amending the laws relative to internal revenue. The Indian Appropriation bill was then passed. Mr. Manning offered, under instructions from the Committee on Elections, a resolution for an ibvestigation into the facts relating to the reception .ny Mr. Springer of the anonymous letter relating to Donnelly ve. Washburn, and It was adopted. The balance of the day was spent in committee of the whole on the Special Deficiency big.

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles. ’’

THE MOSROE DOCTRINE.

Report of the Committee on Foreign Relations. Representative Cox's report from the Committee on Foreign Affairs relative to the Interoceanic canal and Monroe doctrine, lately submitted to the House of Representatives, quotes at length from the President’s message upon the subject (of March 8, 1880), and severely arraigns the policy of Clayton in seeking to induce Great Britain to abandon her own unfounded claim upon the territory of an independent Spanish-American state, and inviting her to share with us the duty and privilege peculiarly our own of protecting an niteroceanic communication of infinite interest and concern to this country. Having blundered thus at the outset, the report says, he went into the moat complicated and ill-arranged geries of transactions, the final outcome of which was the treaty with Great Britain of April 19, 1850, known as the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. The report continues s “ Fortunately for the country, the Clayton-Bulwer treaty had scarcely come into operation before its fundamental provisions were violated by Great Britain by the firing upon the American steamer Prometheus, Nov. 21,1850, while ghe was going out of the port of San Juan de Nicaragua, by the Engligh brig of war Express, then lying in the port to enforce a British dominion over that part of Nicaragua.” Other similar infringements followed, the most conspicuous of these being the deliberate establishment by Great Britain, on the 17th of July, 1852, of a “new colony” in Central America, off the coast of Honduras, under the name of the Colony of the “Bay islands,” by and on account of which Mr. Cass, in the Senate in January, 1853, declared the treaty to have been virtually nullified by Great Britain. The report then details the negotiations and controversies between this Government and Great Britain growing out of these occurrences, and the ineffectual efforts to negotiate a new treaty, coming down to 1860, and continues: “ The outbreak, soon after this, of our unhappy domestic troubles and great civil war diverted public attention from Central American questions, and the ill-advised Clayton-Bulwer treaty was gradually suffered on both sides to lapse into an oblivion from which it has ffiut recently been evoked by persons disposed to controvert the policy and purposes of the United States with regard to any protectorate of life and property over any part of the Central American states on the isthmus. The circumstances in which this treaty was originally negotiated have been profoundly modified by the lapse of thirty years, and it appears to your committee to be entirely clear that, as an obstacle and possible peril in the way of a complete and pacific assertion of the sound, necessary, and vigorous American policy laid down in the President’s message of March 8, 1880, this treaty should now be finally and formally abrogated. It has been shown to have led only to great misunderstandings and controversies with the power with which we were unwisely led to make it.. It has always been equally inoperative either to guarantee the independence of Central American states or to advance the general interests of commerce. So long as it has even a formal shadow of existence it cannot but tend to cloud and obscure the perfectly simple, just and equitable policy of the United States in regard to interoceanic transit. Your com • mittee, therefore, recommend the passage of the following resolution: “ Resolved, By the Senate and House of Representatives assembled, That the President of the United States be and he is hereby respectfully requested, if the same in his opinion shall not be incompatible with public interest, to take immediate steps for the formal and final abrogation of the convention of April 19, 1850, between the United States of America and her Britannic Majesty, commonly called the ‘ ShipCanal Treaty,’ or ‘Clayton-Bulwer Treaty.’”

Sleeping a Life Away.

Nathan G. Vrooman, an employe‘of the Central Hudson railroad, residing near the city of Schenectady, is sleeping his life away. Six years ago he received a sunstroke and ever since has complained of dizziness. On the 15tli of February he was compelled to quit his work and take to his bed on account of severe pains in his head. He at once fell asleep and continued in this condition almost without interruption, day and night, for three weeks and twy days. His sleep appeared to be natural, and his breathing was not labored as in certain diseases of the brain. When aroused he seemed very morose and disinclined to converse, so that it was with the greatest difficulty any information concerning his feelings could be drawn from him. He desired above all things to be let alone and not disturbed. His appetite during this time was very fair. He ate, on alternate days, enough to . support life in an inactive state. But each time, as soon as his food was disposed of, he would at once relapse into his former apathy. What is a little singular in his case, there was at no time any symptom of fever or inflammation or delirium, nor of any material increase of the temperature of the body which would indicate any deep-seated disease, nor any paralysis or disturbance of vision. At the end of the twenty-three days he woke and became communicative. He was not suffering from any pains, but was weak. His appetite was voracious, and it was then supposed that he would soon recover his strength and return to his work. Ten days later he became sleepy and again took to his bed, where he is at present in about the same condition as at first. Day and night he sleeps without any fever, and refuses to take any food. When he awakes from bis sleep, it is with the greatest difficulty he can be make to talk. It is only by perseverance in questioning that a “ yes ” or a “no ” can be got out of him in reply. He desires to be allowed to sleep. His friends are getting anxious about bim, as it is now two weeks since he tasted food, and still his sleep continues, with no material change in his condition or symptoms. He is a single man, aged about 35 years, hard-working, sober, and industrious, and the main support of a widowed sister, with whom he resides. Death must ensue in a short time, but the ease is so remarkable as to excite the wonder and interest of the physicians in that section. The doctors are unable to give an explanation of the man’s somnolency.— Syracuse Courier.

Vitiated Air.

Dr. Willard Parker, in a lecture before the students of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, used the following apt words: “If, gentleman, instead of air, you suppose this room to be filled with pure, clear water, and that, instead, of air, were exhaling twenty times a minute a pint of milk, you can see how soon the water, at first sparkling, would become hazy and finally opaque, the milk diffusing itself rapidly through the water. You will thus be able to appreciate, also, how at each fresh inspiration you would be taking in a fluid that grew momentarily more impure. Were we able to see the air as we are the water, we could at once appreciate how thoroughly we are contaminating it, and that, unless there be some vent for the air thus vitiated, and some opening large enough to admit a free supply of this very valuable material, we will be momentarily poisoning ourselves as surely as if we were taking sewage matter into our stomachs. ”

Law of Entail.

Americans have a level way of looking at things. In conversation with an American on the subject of entail, it was remarked, “But, after all, you have the same freedom of bequest and inheritance as we have; and, if a man tomorrow chose in yonr country to entail

a great landed estate rigorously, -what could you do ?” The American answered, “Set aside the will on the ground of insanity!”

INDIANA ITEMS.

Thk Boonville jail at present is without a single occupant. The Cannelton cotton-mill has received four now looms the past week. The Palace Theatre, burned a year or more ago, at Columbus, is being rebuilt. Diphtheria has been raging among the female patients at the insane hospital, two cases of which have proved fatal. J. S. Coleman’s hardware store, at Morgantown, burned down the other night. Loss, $15,000; insurance, $6,000. William Glover, a colored preacher at Jeffersonville, has been sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary for stealing a wagon and harness. Some unhung scoundrel gave to a horse owned by Richard Smith, of Madison, feed mixed with broken glass, causing its death in a few hours. John G. Decker, a leading farmer of Decker township, near Vincennes, accidentally shot himself while hunting a squirrel. He was killed instantly. Samuel H. Barton, of Monroeville, Allen county, has received $25,000 as his share of a European estate of $300,000. When first notified of his heirship he treated the matter as a joke. The National Butter, Cheese and Egg Association will assemble at the hall of the Indianapolis Board of Trade, at noon, Wednesday, the 28th inst., and continue three days. There is said to be a Lieutenant of volunteers in Indianapolis who was ordered there in 1865 to await his discharge, and who still waits. His back pay amounts to over $22,000. Thlsre is a proposition at Kokomo looking to the dissolution of the charter of the city and a return to a village form of government, in order to reduce expenses and pay the public debt. Lightning struck a slab in the Northern Cemetery at New Albany, and photographed a cedar tree, that stood near by, on both sides of it. The picture is so perfect that every branch is recognizable. The New Albany woolen mills, the largest factory of the kind in Indiana, has jujt put in additional machinery, increasing its capacity one-fourth. These mills have large orders from the Government. Dr. J. H. Lemon, of New Albany, reports a curious freak of nature in that city. A 13-year-old son of J. Booth is found to have his heart on the right side of the breast, while the liver is on the left side of the abdomen. The widow of the late Gen. Jefferson C. Davis has arranged for the immediate transfer of his remains from Clark county to Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, to occupy a lot in the vicinity of Morton’s and to have a suitable monument. There are now 120 live applications for pardons in the Governor’s office. Sixteen have received executive clemency this year. During the entire term there have been 243 petitions out of more than 600 that received favorable consideration. Chauncey, a 4-year-old son of Frank Jarret, of Fall Creek township, Marion county, was burned, to death by a fire kindled to keep him warm while his father was mending the fence on his farm, the little fellow watching him from a distant part of the field. Northern Indiana Conference. Following are the ministers’ appointments made by the recent meeting *of this conference: Fort Wayne district—Abijah Marine, presidingelder. Fort Wayne—Berry street, C. G. Hudson; Wavne street, A. E. Mahon; Centenary, F. L. Wharton; Third street, to be supplied; Huntertown, D. P. Hartman; Harlan, J. H. McMahon; Auburn, H. J. Norris; Garrett, to be supplied; Leo, J. A. Lewellen; Fremont, E; 8. Preston;'Angola, E. Holdstock; New Haven, P. 8. Cook; Cherubusco and Coesse, B. Tolby; ArCbla, to be supplied; Decatur, J. B. Carro; Monroe, I. J. Bicknell; Geneva, B. Sawyer; Sheldon, Joseph H. Slack; Monroeville, W. R. Wones; Ossion, Newton Burwell; Bluffton, 8. E. Erwin; circuit, H. C. Myers; Roanoke, Y. B. Meredith; Markies, James Wolpert; Huntington, M. Mahan. W. G. Yocum, President of Fort Wayne College, member of Wayne Street (Fort Wayne) Quarterly Conference; Cadis Albro, professor in Fort Wayne College, member of Berry Street Quarterly Conference. Goshen district—A. Greenmnn, presiding elder. Goshen, W. O. Pierce* Mishawaka, A. Cone ; Osceola, J. H. Jackson ; Middleburg, J. T. Blackmore; Elkhart, M. H. Mendenhall; circuit, W.- 8. Stewart; Bristol and Van Buren, M. H. Lampert; La Grange, C. E. Disbro; circuit, J. G. Slussor ; Lima, J. K. Waltz ; Orland, W. M. Van Slyke ; Waterloo, H. J. Lacey ; Butler, C. H. Wilkinson; Hamilton, J. W. Paseall; Corunna, J. Johnson ; Kendallville, J. Green ; Wolcottville, C. King ; Wawauka, H. C. Klingjer ; Ligonier, C. W. Church ; New Paris, G. B. Work ; Milford, W. Lash ; Napariee, O. P. Downs; Albion, J. W. Smith; missionary to Mexico, A. W. Greenman. Muncie district—E. F. Hasty, presiding elder. Muncie, F. T. Simpson ; North Muncie, T. Sells; Winchester, P. Coria nd ; New Burlington, A. J. Lewellen; Dunkirk, P. J. Allright; Pennville, J. W. McDaniel; Montpelier, D. F. Stright; Hartford City, N. Gillam; Albany, D. C. Woolpert ; Eaton, J. L. Ramsey; New Corner, R. H. Smith; Jonesboro, C. E.‘ Bacon; Alexandria, H. C. Smith; Anderson, A. W. Lamport; Perkinsville, C. Harvey; Anderson circuit, to be supplied; Fishersbnrgh, T. H. C. Beale; Pendleton, A. F. Bremington; Fortville, J. 8. McCarthy ; McCordsville, T. J. Elkin. Richmond district—C. Skinner, presiding elder. Richmond—Pearl street, W. J. Tigus; Grace Church, H. A. Buchtel; Centerville, J. M. Woolverton ; Cambridge Yhtv, O. 8. Harrison ; Dublin, E. 8. Freeman; Lewisville and Ogden, W. 8. Boston; Knightstown. H. H. Phillips ; Charlotteville, James Leonard ; Greenfield, J. F. Rhoades; Philadelphia, W. Anderson ; Williamsburg, G. W. Howe; Hagerstown, J. M. Mann; Newcastle, Thomas Stabler; Spiceland, Newton Wroy; JEddletown, M. Wayman ; Cadiz, J. Thomas; Whitewater, J. 8. Carns; Fountain City, W. H. Pierce; Winchester Circuit, to be supplied; Trenton, W. Peck ; Union City, H. J. Meek ; Ridgeville, T. E. Madden; Portland, P. J. Parrett; circuit, to be supplied; J. Earp, professor in Indiana Ashbury University, member of Grace Church Quarterly Conference; W. P. Walker, J. H. Pike, Chentachung Tejni, missionaries to China Warsaw district—J. W. Welsh, presiding elder. Warsaw, R. A. McKaig ; Silver Lake, J. J. Smith ; Wabash, C. W. Lynch ; Wabash circuit, to be supplied; Marion, W. 8. Birch ; Lafontaine, N. E. Tmkham ; North Manchester, B. A. Kemp; South Whitney, F. A. Robinson ; CoI lumbia City, W, H. Daniel; Larwill, M. H. Smith ; Pierceton, W. E. McCarty ; Leesburg, 'A. B. Shackelford; Webster, R. 8. Reed; Bourbon, J. W. Lewellen; Inwpodj H. Woolpert; I Lincoln, A. C. Gerard; Perrysburg, J. W. Mil- ' let; Mexico, J. H. Ford : Palestine, M. Swad- | net; Akron, J. B. Allenman; Lagro, H. M. 1 Mott; Antioch, E. P. Church ; Warner, J. T. ■ Fetro; Mount .Etna, to be supplied; Marion ' circuit, to be supplied. Kokomo district—B. D. Robinson, presiding elder. Kokomo, L. A. Betts; Miami, J. Lowrey; Peru, C. H. Brown; New Waverly, J. B. Cook. Logansport—Broadway, D. M. Brown; Market Street, C. P. Wright; Wheaton, A. 8. Woolen; Walton, John Harrison: Jerome, Y. M. Deamef; Xenia, A. H. Currier; Banta Fa, J. 8. McElwee; Tipton, M. G. Metz; Russiaville, M. G. Brown; Sharpsville, D. D. Howell; Westfield, W. D. Parr; New Brittan, R. B. Powell; Boxley, A. M. Patterson; Alto, T. J, Cooper; Cicero, W. C. McKaigh; Noblesville, F. Craft; Point Isabella, N. Baker; Elwood, C. E. White; Kempton, L. J. Naftzger; Shielville, 8. M. Hathorn; Big Springs, J. M. Howard; Windfall, t A_ G. Mendenhall; G. N. CampbtlJ, conference helper.

TROOPS AT THE POLLS.

Attitude of the Democracy-Able Argument of Gen. Ewing in Reply to the Republican Speeches. The following is a synopsis of the speech of Hon. Thomas Ewing, of Ohio, m the House of Representatives, defining the position of the Democracy upon the question of placing riders upon appropriation bills: The House resumed consideration of the Armv Appropriation bill, and was addressed by Mr. Ewing. He said the Democratic side had been severely criticised for not having taken part in this' discussion. He was surprised at that. The pending amendment was practically a Republican projwsition, as at the extra session only twelve Republicans had voted against it, and the Republican leaders had crowed over the fact that more Republicans than Democrats had voted for it. It was practically their thunder, and the Democratic side had not supposed that it was expected to answer their prepared tirades against the very amendment wluch they had so unanimously and emphatically supported. Now their objections come in a Babel of cries. All were distressed at this amendment, from the vacant chair on the Republican side (Garfield’s), which was an eloquent protest against the sudden somersault of liis paity, down to the gentleman from New Jersey (Robeson), who, having been absent at the time of the previous adoption of the amendment, was uncommitted, and free to dip his pencil into the blackest of colors in attempting to paint the effect of the amendment. In twelve years the Republican partv had placed on appropriation bills 387 political riders. The gentleman from Connecticut (Hawley) arraigned the Democratic party for placing riders on appropriation bills. That gentleman had been a member of the For-ty-third Congress, which had tacked forty-four political riders on appropriation—bills forty-four rebellions in one Congress. He (Ewing) was not much of an advocate of riders on appropriation bills, but he did not tremble at the idea that the Republican party -would arraign the-Democracy before the people this fall for putting riders on appropriation bills. What were the riders? In whose interest? In the interest of monopolies or tyranny? No, the Democracy had put on three riders. The first had been the prohibition of the degrading use to which the army had been put, of dispersing it into little squads all over the country, and putting each squad at the beck and call of Deputy Marshals. The next rider had been a proviso, that as long as Marshals were to be used to invest the polls, they should at least be chosen by United States Judges, whose high character would give the country assurance that the Marshals would not be used as mere instruments of party triumph. Many Republicans had voted for the rider. Their most distinguished leader had framed it with his own hand, and declared he would vote for it if he was the only man who did so. But, under the pressure of party exigency, when he felt that liis party must get up a little political clap-trap and sectional agitation, that gentleman, when the roll had been called, had beenjfound voting against the amendment which he had framed and swore to stand by. The third rider was contained in the pending amendment. He quoted from the speech made by Robeson, to the effect that this amendment “ bound our defenders hand and foot and sawed the flagstaff of the country.” There was a law on the statute books in the very words of tliis amendment. The party of the gentleman from New Jersey had cast more votes for that law than the Democrats had. Where had the gentleman been when his party had been binding “ our defenders hand and foot?” He could not have been off junketing, certainly, at such an hour of peril. Mr. Robeson —I was paired with the leader of the opposition, F. Wood, of New York. Mr. Ewing—That pair did not save “the flagstaff of the country.” What a spectacle, he continued, the Republican party binding “our defenders hand and foot.” It was a case very much like Whittaker, at West Point. The suspicion was that the party complaining had bound itself. Some gentlemen on the' other side had said that the Democratic party ought not to assume that Hayes would use the army • unlawfully. If George Washington were President he (Ewing) would not he willing that he should have power to use troops at the polls. Possibly Hayes might not make bad use of that power. Another President might come in after nim, who would not be quite so goody goody as Hayes. He might be a man of ambition, and of willfulness. It might be Gen. Grant —[slight applause on the Republican side, and cries of “It will”]—who had said in 1876, in n message to the House, that it was well understood that the presence of United States troops at polling places never interfered with the franchise of any citizen. Over 100 years after independence had been fought for and won, the gentleman from lowa (McCoid) had stated that American troops at American polls had no alarm for him. He (Ewing) would be ashamed of the other side of the House if he believed it could calmly utter and feel such a sentiment as that. Had the love of liberty died as arts.and sciences progressed? Had this wonderful advance of the country in the arts and sciences, this power which enabled the people to explore the hidden dephts of the universe and to use latent and invisible powers of nature, been accompanied with the decay of love of liberty in the American heart? If he felt that it had, he would pray to God that the people might give up steam and lightning and go back to tire wooden plow and hewed-log cabfii of their liberty-loving sires. He did not know but that the Republican party might succeed in breaking down all the safeguards of onr liberty, and in handing over term after term to a gentleman whom it was pleased to call (ignoring 1,500,000 soldiers who had done the figliting) the savior of bis country. But whether it could or could not succeed in that, those who believed that the use of troops at the polls should not be permitted could not excuse themselves for failing to make this fight; and he could tell the gentlemen on the other side that, if they proposed to cany it before the people on the stump, and put themselves in a position of opposing that prohibition, the Democratic party would meet them upon it and it might be that they would not come off with quite as flying colors as they had last fall. Mr. Humphrey—ls we do not succeed, we will not turn the Government over to you with a war and a rebellion on your hands. Mr. Ewing, in conclusion, declared that, on whatever side troops might be at election precincts, bayonets would become tire base instruments of the petty despot who sent them to thenoils. The question then recurred on the bill and amendments. The minor amendments were adopted without division, and that relative to troops at the polls by a strict party vote—yeas, 116, nays, 95. The bill then passed—yeas, 118; 95 another strict party vote, with the exception of Nicholls, who voted in the negative.

How About a Fourth Term ?

The question of the expediency of a*| third term directly involves the expediency of a fourth term also. Gen. j Grant had scarcely retired from the Presidential chair before his closest personal and political friends began the demand, which has since grown so loud, for his return to the office. During all the years that have followed the American people have been kept wondering whether he desired or would accept a third election. A single word from him would have shown them just what they had to expect, but he did not choose to speak it. They know now that he is a candidate, because he makes no effort to check the efforts of his friends to nominate him. The silence of years remains unbroken. Let us suppose Gen. Grant nominated, elected, inaugurated. Does any one doubt that history would repeat itself ? Can any one doubt that the men who Vegan the present agitation for a third term would, in due time, begin another for a fourth term ? We should be told that the emergency he had been placed in office to meet was not yet ended; that his work would be left unfinished if he were compelled to retire at the end of one term. The absurd claim that he is the only “strongman” in a nation of freemen would be revived. Let any one who doubts this reflect that many men who are now in office, and will be in office until March 4, 1881, owe their places to Gen. Grant. (This is the secret strength of the third-term move-

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ment.) Let it be remembered also that every man who is in office after March 4, 1881, would owe his continuance in office to President Grant. It would be astonishing, u?ider these circumstances, if, with the precedent of a third term already set, there were not a loud cry for a fourth. Gratitude has been defined on high authority to be “a lively sense of favors to come. ” Who can doubt that, if all this should come to pass, Gen. Grant would maintain the same absolute silence he has preserved for the past three years ? Who can doubt that the American people would be allowed to speculate for years about his intentions, only to find at last that he would not refuse a re-election if he could possibly secure it? Is any friend of Gen. Grant authorized to say now that, if he is elected for a third term, he will not be a candidate for a fourth ? Will Gen. Grant himself say so ? We think not— New York Tribune.

Eight Years Ignored.

The men who are running Grant for a third term and an empire present the record of their candidate’s career in two chapters. The first begins with Vicksburg and ends with Appomattox. It deals with his military operations in the field. The second chapter begins with Grant’s departure by Red Star steamer from Philadelphia in 1877, and contains the history of his wanderings over the face of the earth down to date. It records the honors said to have been paid him abroad, follows him around the globe, and enters minutely into the particulars of his appearance, behavior and conversation in Europe, Africa, Asia and the West Indies. The third-term men would like to have the country believe that their record in two chapters is complete. But there is another and a very important chapter which they leave untold. From 1869 to 1877 Gen. Grant was President of the United States. What sort of a President did he make ? Did he turn his opportunities to good purposes or to bad ? Was his administration honest or dishonest? Did he call around him honorable men or scoundrels? Was the history of the eight years during which Grant held the office of President a history upon which good men dwell with pride or with shame ? The third-term shouters are silent about these eight years. But the people have not forgotten them.— New York Sun. ______ The Chances in Ohio. Ex-Gov. Bishop, of Ohio, arrived here to-day. He is not at all willing to concede Ohio to the Republicans next fall. He says that the status of the State has not yet been precisely determined. “It can be considered,” he said, “ fair fighting ground for all parties. The politics of the State for the last seven years demonstrates the correctness of my views. In 1873 Allen carried the State by 800 majority. Up to that time it had been unbrokenly Republican for fifteen years. In 1874 the State was carried by the Democracy by 17,000. Then, next year (1875) Hayes was made a candidate for Governor against Allen, and was elected after one of the hardest-fought contests ever had in the State, by something over 3,000. In 1876, the Presidential year, the Republican State ticket was elected by about 6,000, and Hayes received the same majority. In the following year Bishop was elected by 22,000. In 1878 the Republicans recovered the State by about 3,000, and in 1879 Foster carried it. In these seven years the Democrats have had one majority which goes ahead of anything the Republicans have had. A majority of 800 made a gain of about 20,000 votes.” These figures, Mr. Bishop said, induced him to believe that there was nothing reliable about the State, and that, with a good ticket that will harmonize all conflicting elements and proper zeal and work, the State can be carried by the Democracy.— Washington Cor. Chicago Times.

An Idea for Ingersoll.

Col. Robert Ingersoll, in addition to being a good many other things, is also a hero worshiper. But there are heroes and heroes in this world. His appear to be altogether of the earth, earthly. There was Blaine, his plumed knight, his paladin, his archangel wiWi a flaming sword in his hand, guarding forever the delicious recesses of his party’s paradise. Do you know Blaine? He wrote some damaging letters once to a man and had desperate need one day to have them back. First he sought them with the abject fervor of a guilty pleader. Next he borrowed them to read and kept them as though he had borrowed a horse and buggy and held on to both. Then he read such of the mass as hurt him least, suppressed the balance that told of absolute crime, fell fainting in the arms of his partv, and was justified and glorified. Ingersoll’s exultation over him amounted to almost positive idolatry. He threw about him the arms of his rhetoric and embraced him as though he had the beauty of a Madonna and the holiness of a Christ.— Sedalia {Mo.} Democrat.

The Oldest Republic.

San Marino, the oldest and smallest republic in the world, is situated in i Eastern Central Italy, and is governed ! by a Legislative Senate of 60 members, ' elected for life; an Executive Council of I 12, two-thirds of whom go out every | year, and two Presidents, elected for six montffs. The territory of the republic' ! is twenty-two square miles in exter t, I and embraces five small villages, with a i population in 1874 of 7,816. The capital, of the same name, is perched on the crest of a mountain 2,635 feet above the sea, and commands a splendid view of the Appenines on one side, and at sunrise of the Dalmatian coast, across the Adriatic, on the other. It is said to have been founded early in the fourth century by St. Marinus a con verted stonemason, who fled from Remni (thirteen miles north) during the ; Diocletian persecution. There is a ■ standing army of 131 officers and 819 ' men, and it has an annual revenue of i about $22,000. The principal produets are fruit, silkworms, and vine. This little republic exists, of course, by the sufferance of its powerful neighbors, but owes much also to the good sense and energy of its citizens, the most dis- ! tinguished of whom has been Antonio Cnofri, a contemporary of the First Napoleon. There xs a history of the re- ! public by Melchiorre Delfico. A few days since a horse and a bull in a stable at Tipton, Pa., engaged in a i desparate pitched battle, w’hich resulted fatally to the former. They were, tied in adjoining stalls, and the horse reached over and nipped the bull. The old fel- > low got mad because he could not bite ■ back, and brdke loose. He then gored tfe h H's * sq badly in the side that he died.

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NATIONAL CONVENTIONS.

Before many months have passed, the candidates for President and Vice President of the United States will be nominated by National Conventions that will represent the several parties. The convention system was not established until long after the adoption of the constitution. Washington was elected without any nomination whatever. After him the candidates were presented by party caucuses in Congress. Even as late as 1832, President Jackson was a candidate for re-election without lieing nominated by a convention. The Democrats, however, held such a convention to choose a candidate for the office of Vice President. Since then all candidates have been chosen by conventions, consisting usually of delegates, regularly elected from all the States. In the early days of the Republican party, however, conventions had no existence in the Southern States, and Mr. Greeley’s first nomination as a Liberal Republican was made by a mass convention. A National Convention is made up of representatives from each State, to the number Of twice its representation in Congress. Thus Delaware, with two Senators and one Representative, has six delegates; Ohio, with two Senators and twenty Representatives, has fortyfour delegates. Sometimes, but not idways, two delegates are admitted from each organized Territory. Conventions formerly consisted of only one delegate for each Senator and member of Congress. The custom sprung up of electing twice as many delegates and allowing only half a vote to each. The later way is much better. It is the business of a National Convention first to make a “platform,” or a declaration of the principles of its party, and then to nominate candidates. The platform is made by a coinmittee on resolutions, consisting of one member for each State. The work of this committee is usually submitted to the convention and adopted entire, all the contest over it taking place in secret. Sometimes opposition is made in open convention, but it is rarely successful. While it is comparatively easy to secure an appearance of harmony as to party principles, contests over the candidates cannot be avoided. This is particularly the case in Democratic conventions, which adopt a rule that no candidate shall be nominated unless he receives two-thirds of all the votes. In 1860, Mr. Douglas had a clear majority of votes on every one of the fifty - seven ballots taken in the Baltimore Convention; yet he never received two-thirds, and the convention divided and nominated separate candidates. Again in 1868 Mr. Pendleton went into the convention with great strength, but Mr. Seymour w,as nominated on the fifth day of the session and on the twenty-first ballot. ' Only two ballots were necessary to nominate Mr. Tilden at St. Louis in 1876. Mr. Lincoln was nominated in 1860 on the third ballot, and again in 1864, almost unanimously on the first ballot. Gen. Grant was nominated unanimously and on the first ballot, both in 1868 and in 1872. Mr. Hayes was nominated in 1876 on the seventh ballot, after a very hard struggle. The conventions of third parties are rarely of much interest. There was so so much division in 1860 that the candidacy of Bell and Everett was quite an important matter. But few people now remember that Gen. Fremont was a candidate against Mr. Lincoln in 1861, although nobody voted for him, or that Mr. O’Conor was voted for by a handful of Democrats in 1872. At the last election, in 1876, the Greenback party made its first national appearance with Mr. Peter Cooper as u candidate. He received in the whole country less than 82,000 votes, or only twice as many as the Greenback candidate for Governor received in Maine last September. No doubt the party will have a candidate this year, and something more than the usual interest will be attracted by its convention. The reason for this is the very wide difference of opinion as to the condition of the party. Outsiders are apt to think it has had its day, and is dead. The leaders think differently, and promise to astonish the country. The preparations for the several conventions are now going on, and will draw increasing attention until the candidates are selected, when the seventeenth Presidential canvass for President’ of the United States will be fairly opened.

The Difference.

No doubt men and women differ essentially in character. It is shown in every experience of life. When, for instance;, a man is driven to the verge of despair, his natural impulse is to shut himself up alone in his chamber and tear his hair. If, on the other hand, the same sad fortune overtakes a woman, she at once takes a firm hold of her husband’s hair. It is this fact which leads some one to say that the smoothness of the husband’s crown is the sure criterion of the wife’s misfortunes. The Hartford Times, of Hartford, Ct., says of the Continental Life Insurance Company, of that city : “The sixteenth annual statement of the Continental Life is published in today’s Times. Sixteen years of experience in life underwriting covers nearly all the salient features of the business, and may well entitle the company to rank among the thoroughly-established companies of the country. “The Continental has in force 8,394 policies. They have issued and restored during the years 1,253, relatively a large number, and, of course, accompanied by a corresponding expense. The endowments maturing and paid during the year amounted to $205,615.23; this payment is greatly in excess of any which the company will hereafter be called upon to meet in any one year on existing policies; this, with the other disbursement aggregating on account of policy-holders $612,691.48, accounts for the large disbursements of the year. It will be observed that the company has receivedin interest and rents $127,696.57, a sum equal to nearly 6 per cent, on their gross assets, and in excess of the claims by death, $30,424.06. Since orgaxxization the company has disbursed, on account of policy-holders, $5,215,621.83, and now has assets of $2,797,323.28, a surplus on a 4-per-cent, basis of $268,750.34, while on a 4}-per-03nt. basis the surplus reaches $421.465.2a” The wholesale lager-beer brewers of New York have decided to advance the price of beer from $8 to $9 per barrel. The increase in the price of hops, malt, ice and other materials, the brewers say, has compelled this advance,