Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1881 — Page 1

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HEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. The dreaded plague has made its appearance in Mesopotamia. The Ameer Abdur Rahman Khan is preparing to occupy Candahar when the British garrison ia wholly withdrawn, and Ayoob Khan’s adherents are preparing to resist, so that there are excellent prospects of lively times in Afghanistan during the spring and summer. It seems to be the settled policy of the Gladstone Ministry to let Abdur Bah-, man Khan and Ayoob Khan settle their own disputes. The French Government has resolved to recall its representative in Venezuela. The cause assigned for the action is the bad faith of (the Venezuelan Government to French creditors. The latest dispatches state that twenty 'vessels were lost on the Scottish coast during the recent storm and 200 persons drowned. Notwithstanding the reports to the contrary, it does not appear that the Irish Land-Leaguers are much scared at the passage of the Coercion act. Those agitators who were in Ireland before the measure became law have stood their ground, and others, like Dillon and Brennan, who were in England or France, are returning to the Green Isle. The first person arrested under the Coercion act was Joseph B. Walsh, of Castlefear, a merchant, who has been prominently identified with the Land League. He is a cousin of Michael Davitt. Upward of twenty others have been arrested in the country districts. Notwithstanding the efforts of the German Government, the emigration from Germany to ibis country is enormously on the increase. Whole villagosin Posen, Schleswig and Prussia proper are being depopulated, and the authorities are seriously alarmed. Queen Caroline, widow of King Christian VIII., of Denmark, is dead. The leaders of the Land League in Ireland are trying to prevent the celebration of iSt. Patrick’s day in order to prevent religious •discord. A loss of 7,000,000 francs has been incurred at Paris by the burning of the. drapery establishment on the Boulevard Haussman known as Le Printemps. No leas than twentysix persons were injured by the fire. An order has been given for the withdrawal of the British troops from Candahar. England is negotiating to secure a modification of the invitation to the international monetary conference in order that she may accept it without pledging herself to a fcvHßietallic standard. The appeal of Orton, the Tichbome claimant, having been dismissed by the House of Lords, there remains nothing for him but to complete his fourteen years in prison. Mohammed Jan, the noted Afghan leader, has boen murdered. In one of the Spanish provinces thirty persons have been arrested for making demon- ‘ Afexafrafir u.,*Czar of Russia, has at last met his death at the hands of Nihilist assassins, On Sunday afternoon, March 13, while riding with the Grand Duke Michael in a closed carriage, guarded by eight Cossacks, a bomb was thrown, which tore out the back part of the vehicle. The Czar and his brother sprung out, when a bystander drew a revolver, but was prevented from discharging it. At this instant a second bomb fell near the Czar, shattering both his legs. With a cry for help he fell, and was taken to the Winter Palace, where troops kept back the throng. The sacrament was administered to the sufferer, who survived his injuries but an hour. The two assassins stood on opposite sides of the roadway, disguised as peasants. One was so roughly handled that he has since died. The other gives the name of Roussakoff. The dead Emperor was bom in 1818, and was called to the throne while Russia was engaged in the Crimean war. The chief event of his reign was the emancipation of 23,000,000 serfs in 1891. Attempts upon his life were made by Karaksoflf, at Moscow ; by in Paris, during the international exposition; by a Nihilist, who fired at him in the streets of Bt. Petersburg ; by the explosion of a mine under the Winter Palace, and by means of an infernal machine beneath the railway track at Moscow. Alexander, the heir to the throne, was bom in 1845, and wedded the Princess Dagmar, of Denmark. The Grand Duke Alexis and the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh have left London for St. Petersburg Telegrams of condolence have been received from nearly all the leading countries, the United States being among the first to offer its tribute.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East. The managers of the Commercial Exchange of Philadelphia adopted a resolution denying the report emanating from the British Consul in that city in regard to the death of hogs by cholera, and referring the matter to a committee for investigation. Sir Edward Thornton, the British Minister at V> ashington, will be asked to correct the report. A German Socialist mass meeting in Faneuil Hall, Boston, was attended by about 4,000 persons. John W. Pittock, one of the proprietors of the Pittsburgh Leader, is dead. Ivory Chamberlain, well known as an editorial writer on the New York Herald, died of pneumonia. A fire which broke out in the Belmont oil-works, at Philadelphia, caused a damage of SIOO,OOO. '*? James W. Whittaker, Chief Engineer of the United States Navy, died in Brooklyn, from erysipelas, resulting from vaccination. The creditors of Santa Anna, exPresident of Mexico, have obtained from the Surrogate of New York, in settlement of claims, $30,000 worth of diamonds. In the Whittaker court-martial7~at New York, the expert, Southworth, testified that the paper on which the note of warning was written had been written over with pencil and the writing as terward erased by rubber. The erased words were in the handwriting of Whittaker. Over $1,500,000 in gold reached New York from Europe within forty-eight hours. A great increase in mortality is reported from New York, where the deaths last week were 800. A large boiler which was being tested in the Phoenix boiler-works, in Buffalo, exploded with terrific force, leveling the establishment, killing six men and wounding seven. Mr. Patterson, one of the proprietors, was among the killed. Fragments of the boiler were thrown a distance of half a mile. On the Pan-Handle bridge at Pittsburgh a freight and a yard train collided, throwing three oars down fifty feet, Charles Carney,

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the conductor, was killed, and Patrick Cullen, a brakeman, fatally injured. R. Harrison, brakeman, had both hands oat <M. Two more of the men injured in the boiler explosion at Buffalo have died, making eight victims. The extensive rattan-works at Wakefield, Mass., have been destroyed by fire, throwng 1,000 men out of employment. The loss is estimated at $600,000, and the insurance at 1334,000. West. A crazy man attempted to bum the insane asylum at Topeka, Kan., with its 130 inmates, but was unsuccessful. A bill was introduced in the Illinois House making it a misdemeanor, punishable by fine or imprisonment, to elope with any woman, married or single. The Southern Pacific and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroads were united at Deming, New Mexico* on the Bth of March. Ex-President Hayes arrived at his home in Fremont, Ohio, on the Bih inst., and was given a royal welcome by his old friends. He was met at the depot and escoited to his residence by a large procession. Not less than SIOO,OOO damage was caused by the flood in the Republican river in Nobraska. Nine bridges, two mills, and a factory were swept away. A dispatch from Walnut Grove, Redwood county, Minn., says that there is much suffering there on account of a scarcity of fuel, as the Winona and St. Peter road has been blocked lor two months. All out-buildings, hog-pens, railroad fences, etc., have been used up, and now many are trying to keep warm by burning straw and hay, which is poor consolation, as nono’tiave suitable stoves. A loss of $130,000 was incurred by an incendiary fire at Bosita, Col., which destroyed the business portion of the town. A conflagration in Kansas City destroyed a portion of a new block on Union avenue, between Mulberry and Santa Fe streets. The losers are Woodward, Faxon & Co., Oglebay & Co., Kelly, Mills & Co., and Leach, Olm _ stead & Hall The loss is estimated at $400,. 0.0. George W. Gridley, one of the pioneers of Butte county, Cal., is dead. He will be remembered as the man who, during the war, gave to the Sanitary Commission a sack of flour, which was sold and resold in all the principal cities in California and Nevada, and then sent East and again resold, realizing altogether over $50,000.

Thirty- one ladies of Palestine, Ohio, were arrested on a chargo of inciting riot and sending threatening letters to one Long, a saloonkeeper. It is charged that they belonged to a secret band of crusaders. Long receivod a notice to leave or die at the hands of a mob. ■Six of the ladies were discharged, and twentytwo gave bail. The crusaders claim to have sixteen indictments against Long for selling liquor to minors. nuftiHgtdn cfrkfheEter' “fir.* Ims lied with SIO,OOO left with him by the Quincy Coal Company for safe keeping. The Chicago and Northwestern railroad has secured the right of way through Bear Butte canyon, which is said to be the key to the Black Hilis. The only possible ingress to Deadwood is made through the canyon, and there is room for only one line of railway. Miss Fanny Davenport, who recently played in Detroit against Bernhardt, and drew larger houses than the French artiste, is this week at Haverly’s, in Chicago, where her success is pronounced. Miss Davenport is one of the most talented of all the modern school of “ emotional ” actresses, and her repertoire this week includes “Camilie,” “Pique,” “Lady of Lyons,” “Frou Frou.” “Louden Assurance," < Oliver Twist ” and “ Leah.” She is supported by her own company. A strike of miners at Lewis, Nev., ended in the murder of one non-union man and the wounding of two others. A Fort Assiniboine dispatch says that three soldiers of the Eighteenth infantry— Quinn, Kinney and McDonald —while attempting to cross the Marine river, were drowned by the upsetting-of their boat. South. A band of Indians has been committing depredations in Nolan county, Texas. For the murder of Miss Mattie Ishmael, at Jonesboro, Ark., four negroes were arrested, the first day’s testimony showing their guilt very clearly. At night the prisoners were placed in a church, under a strong guard, and a few hours later the villains were hanged to trees by tho citizens. United States Deputy Marshal Heflin with ten men made a raid into Letcter county Ky., in search of illicit distillers. The moonshiners, apprised of his approach, organizedand, taking a six-pounder brass cannon, left there by John Morgan during the war, masked it, and awaited the approach of the Marshal. When the Marshal and his party en. terod the pass, they fired the piece—charged with nails, scraps of iron, and the like—but overshot the ij|ark. The Marshal’s party, none of whom were hurt, dismounted, captured the piece, and drove the assailants across Perry county into Breathitt county. The Marshal and his assistants were pursuing the fugitives in Breathitt county at last accounts. The people of Mississippi City, Miss., took a negro named Ed Turner from jail and lynched him for an assault on a white woman.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Nathaniel Goff, ex-Secretary of the Navy, has been nominated by President Garfield for United States District Attorney of West Virginia, the position he held previous to liis accepting the Naval Secretaryship some weeks ago. It is said that Fred Douglass will not be reappointed Marshal of the District of Columbia, but that the place will be given to Mr. Henry, of Cleveland, the Adjutant of Gen. Garfield's old regiment. The Cabinet held a session on the Bth mst., which was devoted principally to the consideration of the request of the national banks for permission to substitute bonds for the legal U aders deposited by them for the retirement of their circulation. No action was taken, however, the question being regarded as of too much importance to be decided hastily. Gen. Grant was in Washington last week, and called upon President Garfield at the White House. Congressman Levi P. Morton was last week nominated for Minister to France by the President. The Senate promptly confirmed the nomination. Ex-Gov. Noyes, of Ohio, has been the Minister to France for the last four years. In a note to the British Legation, Secretary Blaine shows that the Consul at Philadelphia wm imposed upon by speculators as

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to the hog cholera, and expresses the hope that prompt steps will be taken toward an authoritative denial of the falsehoods. William M. Evarts, Allien G. Thurman and Timothy O. Howe have been appointed Commissioners td the International Money Conference. Walter Blaine, of St. Paul, has been appointed private secretary to his father, the Secretary of State. Carl Schurz has been sued for $200,000 by Charles D. Gilmore, a Washington claim agent, for being disbarred from practice at the Interior Department. The Secretary of the Navy haa decided to purchase the whaling steamer Helen and Mary, now at San Francisco, to be used in the Jeannette search expedition. The price is SIO,OOO. The vessel is to be manned by volunteer officers of the United States navy.

POLITICAL POINTS. The Democrats of Michigan met in Convention at Lansing on the Bih inst., and nominated G. V. N. Lothrop, of Detroit, and Henry Frallick, of Qrand Rapids, for Regents of the University. Augustus C. Baldwin, of Detroit, was placed in nomination for Justice of the Supreme Court. William P. Frye was nominated by cclamation, at tho Republican Senatorial cauus at Augusta, Me., to succeed James G. Blaine, The Governor of lowa has appointed : J. W. McDitl to fill the seat in the United States Senate lately occupied by Hon. S. J. .urkwood. The rush for foreign appointments is ,aid to be greater than ever before at the open,ng of an administration, and it will take the President some little time to wade through the list of applications,- and still longer to make up his mind. Secretary Windom, in a brief interview with a Washington correspondent, said he had always been a protectionist, and was in favor of a proper, reasonable protective tariff. President Garfield repudiates certain free-trade sentiments attributed to him by the London Telegraph. He states that he wrote to the Secretary of the Cobden Club, last August, that he did not believe in its principles, but would be pleased to see a full discussion of the tariff question. Ex-Senator Angus Cameron, of Wis cousin, was nominated by the Republican Senatorial caucus at Madison, for successor to the late Senator Carpenter, on the forty-eighth ballot. The people of North Carolina will vote next August on the prohibition question. There are five Congressional vacancies to be filled—viz.: tho one caused by the death of Fernando Wood, and those created by the election of Messrs. Conger, Frye and Mitchel l to the United States Senate from Michigan Maine and Pennsylvania, and tho one 1 created iu New York by the appointment of_the Hon. Levi P. Mq^ — 4

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The Western Union Telegraph Company, unlimited, has declared a quarterly divilend of per cent, on stock and certificates representing $80,000,000. An American schooner has been lost in Fortune bay. All hands were drowned. The census shows that the native increase of population in the past ten years has gained upon foreign immigration. The National Anti-Monopoly League reports that applications for charters for branches have been received from twenty-four States. Secretary Windom has decided that the Treasury Department must refuse to allow the national banks to substitute bonds for the legal tenders deposited by them for the retirement of their circulation. The Mexican National railroad, which is being constructed by the Palmer & Sullivan Company, has made a oontract with two firms in Pennsylvania for 200 locomotives and 5,000 freight cars, and has also contracted for steel rails for 1,000 miles of track.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. • The Senate, March 7, was In session only i few minutes, and did nothing except swear in Gen. Mahone, of Virginia. It is claimed by the Democ rats that he will vote with them on the organization of the committees. At the session of the Senate on Tuesday, March 8, communications were laid before the Senate from ex-Senators Kirkwood and Blaine, announcing that they had forwarded to the Governor! of their respective States their resignations as mem. bers of the Senate. The President sent in the following nominations: Nathan Goff, Jr., to be United States Attorney for West Virginia ; Lewis Richmond, of Rhode Island, Consul General at Rome; United States Consuls—John L. Frisbie (Michigan), at Rhelms; P. M. Eder (Nevada), at Guagaquiel; Albert Rhodes (District of Columbia), at Rouen; Edward Backus (Illinois), at I’ara ; Emilio Courtaio, at La Union; John A. Haldeman (Kansas), at Bangkok; Abbot L. Doen, at Aleppo, India; John F. June (New Jersey), atNueva Lai-eda. On the assembling of the Senate on Wednesday, March 9, a telegram from the Governor of lowa was read, announcing the appointment of J. W. McDill to fill the unexpired term of Senator Kirkwood The following names were sent in by the President: William M. Evarts, of Nev. York, Allen G. Thurman, of Ohio, and Timothy O. Howe, of Wisconsin, Commissioners from this Government to the International Monetary Conference ; L. P. Morton, of New York, Minister to France; Lot M. Morrill, United States Collector of Customs at Portland, Me.; David D. McCiung, Surveyor of Customs at Cincinnati ; John W. Green, Collector of Internal Re\ enue for the Second district of lowa ; Robert S. Taylor, of Indiana, member of the Mississippi River Improvement Commission. Postmasters—Conley E. Guilford, Wanston, Ohio; George Pfleger, South Bend, Ind.; James O. Raymond, Stevens Point, Wis. Immediately upon the assembling of the Senate on Thursday, March 10, a message from the President was received. Mr. Pendleton offered a resolution providing for the organization of the standing committees of the Senate. The resolution was read, subject to objection raised by Mr. Anthony. After reading the resolution Mr. Anthony moved that it be printed and lie on the table, the subject to be called up to-morrow. Agreed to. Mr.' Pendleton then offered a resolution providing for the organization of the select committees, which was disposed of in a similar manner. President Garfield sent in the nominations of Col. Clark E. Carr to succeed himself as Postmaster at Galesburg, and Sandford A. Hudson, of Wisconsin, as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Dakota. The session of the Senate on Friday, March 11, was an exciting one. The Democrats tried to press Mr. Pendleton’s resolution relative to the committess to a vote, but Mr. Conkiing made the point of order* that it could not be considered because it changed a rule of the Senate without notice having been given. The Vico President sustained this point, and an appeal was taken from his ruling. After debate at some length. Senators Conkiing, Sherman, Bayard, Garland, Ferry and others taking part, the point of order and the appeal were both withdrawn, and the matter went over to Monday. Mr. Edmunds made his appearance and took the oath. Senator David Davis said he had no intention of accepting honors from either party, but Intended to be independent. He would not accept the Chairmanship of the Judiciary Committee, although he would vrpte to appoint the committees. He moved the substitution of Mr. Garland. The President sent in the following nominations: Postmasters— George F. Dick, Bloomington. Ill.; Orlando H. Merwin, Evanston, Ill.; Almond B. Biford, Benton Harbor, Mich.; Lorenzo J. Worden, Lawrence, Kas.; Thomas Jt. Ball, Omaha, Neb.; Henry 0. Pearson, New York,

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INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

Saturday, March s.— Senate.— The B«ate passed a number of bills of inferior importance, and spent some time in considering the House bill on taxation. A night session was held for the benefit of the Engrossment Committee and the Governor. As the formal motion to adjourn was being put, the Governor remarked: “ Gentlemen, you are at liberty to state that I shall issue a proclamation on Monday morning for an extra session to begin at 9 a. m. on the following day, Tuesday.” House.— The House passed the Medical bill and flittered away several hours in idle motions and vexations delays of the regular order. The afternoon was marked by an exhibition of the fun-making powers of the body, which was very demonstrative and noisy. At the night session there was another exhibit of lawlessness, not so pronounced, however, as marked the proceedings of the afternoon. Monday, March 7.—Senate.— The Senate worked to-day on the House bill on taxation, and a multitude of amendments were suggested. the majority with reference to the phraseology of the separate sections rather than the subject matter. An effort was made during the afternoon to pass a joint resolution condemning the contemplated improvement of Meridian street with wooden blocks, but eventually the. matter was referred to the extra session. A resolution complimentary of the presiding officer was passed, after which the President declared the Senate adjourned sine —The House was in session only an hour, and did nothing beyond passing customary resolutions of thanks. Tuesday, March 8. — Senate. —The General Assembly convened to-day in extra session, and an organization was effected without difficulty, but with some slight change from the caucus programme. Instead of Hearthwate, of Lake, the Senate Republicans put forward William H. Schlater, of Wayne, for Principal Secretarv, and the same resolution named Robert B. Sears, of Vermillion, for Assistant. and Dick Huncheon, of Laporte, for Doorkeeper. Sears is a Greenbacker, and Huncheon a Democrat. Three Democratic Senators, Benz, Yoyles, and Woods, joined in passing the resolution, while the remaining Democrats, with Poindexter and Davis, voted for the old organization. The new Doorkeeper appointed William Langstaff, of Clinton; N. M. Wilson, of Scott; Joseph Hoffman, of Lake ; William H. Pfrimer, of Harrison ; J. G. Campbell and J. Berz, assistants. The Secretary reported no changes for the present. The morning session of the Senate was sul sequently given to propositions looking to the advancement of measures in the special session, and it was decided that the succession of business from the regular to the special should be the natural succession of unfinished business. In the afternoon the Senate resumed consideration of the Tax bill.

House. —The House reorganized by a regular ballot and strict party vote, the Republi aus continuing the old organization, with the exception of the substitution of Jim Woods, of Warrick, for Doorkeeper, instead of Capt. Evans, of Henry. The Democracy voted for Hou. H. 8. Cauthorne for Speaker ; C. O’Brien, of Marion, for Clerk, and William Benham, of Crawford,. for doorkeeper. A resolution passed requesting the retention of the employes of the regular session. Bills were introduced allowing the loan of school funds at 7 per cent., or less, and regulating toll on plank and macadamized roads ceded by the Federal Government to the State. The House committee, composed mainly of doctors, reported a substitute for Senator V *We &overnor transmitted the following message to both houses : Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives : The constitution provides that the Governor shall from time to time give to the General Assembly information touching the condition of the State, and recommend such measures as he shall judge to be expedient. My official duties since my inauguration, during the late regular session, have been onerous, and your opportunities to acquire a knowledge of the condition of the State through your investigating committees and through other means have been so considerable, that I do not regard myself as being possessed of any information relating to the condition of the State of which you are not in possession; also, some of the measures which I had the honor to recommend to you in my inaugural address have been adopted. An adoption of the others has been proposed in pending b 11s, and they are now in a condition to be considered by you. I renew my recommendations of these pending measures. I especially urge the passage of the bill, with whatever changes or additions may be deemed expedient, providing for ascertaining the best way of reclaiming the vast body of lands, the material means for the drainage of which is through the Kankakee river. The important bill concerning taxation ought also to receive your early attention, so that there may be no failure to pass the clauses providing for taxing the receipts of telegraph, telephone, express and fast-freight companies, etc., instead of taxing merely their visible property. The exigency which has rendered it necessary for me to call you together in special session could not well have been averted. The extraordinary labor imposed upon you by your undert iking critically to consider the vast body of legislation proposed to you for adoption by the commission appoint d by the acts of 1879 to compile and revise existing statutes has required you to occupy much time in the committee-room and upon the floor on that work, which otherwise would have been spent in considering ordinary legislation. Many important changes of existing laws have been proposed by the commission. It is proper that those shall receive careful attention, in order that they may, so far as they shall be adopted, not represent what is deemed best by the committee merely, but reflect the deliberate judgment of eaoh hou-e. In the progress of the further consideration of these proposed enactments, amendments doubtless will from time to time be found necessary. I venture to suggest, with the most respectful deference, that hasty amendments will be not less likely to work harm than a too inattentive consideration of the enactments proposed. Even the commissioners will not always be able to perceive at the moment their entire scope aDd effect, nor how far they may introduce inconsistencies and ambiguity, which will leave the meaning of the law uncertain until it shall be determined by the Supreme Court. There is a subject which at first view may be deemed of little comparative importance, to which I wish to invite your serious attention. In referring in bills to the title of acts meant to be amended there have been frequent instances during the regular session in which these titles have been recited incorrectly, and at some stages of not a few bills .passages or words have been omitted, or words have been changed, the effect of which has been in some cases to alter or to obscure the sense, and in others will be to convey the idea to uninformed readers that the measure has been imperfectly considered. Such faults in lawß are ever a fruitful source of legislation and of consequent expense. The way of avoiding them is easy, and is familiar to such of you as have had previous experience in legislative bodies. It is earnestly hoped that a diligent effort will be made to guard against those faults in the passage of bills at the present session. It is hoped that every proper effort will be made to finish the work which you have in hand in less than tho forty days allowed by the constitution for a special session, and that a constant desire will be felt to restrain expense where it is not obviously proper. While not withholding appropriations where they may be necessary for the public welfare, it should be your constant effort to make the burden of taxation as light as it can be made consistently with the wise administration of the affairs of the State.

Wednesday, March 9.—Senate. —The Senate passed the day in discussing and amending the House Tax bill, and agreed to meet to-morrow in joint convention to receive from the State Treasurer the paid bonds issued prior to 1841. The Secretary appointed George W. Campbell, of Rush county, Registry Clerk; Burt P. Davidson, of Tippecanoe, Bill Clerk ; Alfred Thornburg, of Morgan, Enrolling Clerk; and Martin L. Bundy, Jr., of Henry, Engrossing Clerk. House.— The House finally finished the Pnb lie Offenses bill and passed it The bill is an elaborate one of 294 sections, and makes some important changes in the criminal law, some of which are the following: The jury, except in capital cases, cannot prescribe the sentence, but this is left to the Judge; fraudulent voting is punished more vigorously; druggists must have proper qualifications ; publio officers may be punished for drunkenness and removed for the second offense j a house cannot be let tot purposes of prostitution, and every

person visiting such a house is made subject to arrest; advertisements for procuring abortions are prohibited ; and members of Council may be fined for intentional absence. A bill appropriating $75,000 for expenses of the special session was passed. The House instructed the Judiciary Committee to propose a bill removing the necessity of organizing tho Legislature under the Presidency of the Auditor and Secretary of State. Concurrence was had in the committee report favoring the passage of the Edwin McDowell Compromise bill, and the measure was subsequently engrossed. The Senate joint resolution was adopted to adjourn from Friday until Thursday afternoon, to give the members opportunity to return home, and vote ou the constitutional amendment The Common School bill was under consideration at the time of adjournment The Clerk named as assistants : W. L. Taylor, of Lagrange, reading clerk ; W. H. Hay, of Marion, file clerk ; O. H. Aborn, of Koscusko, Registry Clerk ; W. G. Bratton, of Huntington. and C. H. Young, of Lake, Enrolling Clerks: J. F. Wilson of Harrison, A. R. Copeland, of Fulton, and G. A. Teale, of Noble, Engrossing Clerks. Thubsday, March 10.— Senate.— The Senate passed the House bill appropriating money to defray the expense of the special session, and a bill was introduced relating to the re-location of county seats. The remainder of the day was occupied with the House Tax bill, and the sections imposing a tax upon foreign companies doing business in this State was whipped into shape. The amendment to the Common school bill, giving the people the right to elect County Superintendents, was made the special order for Tuesday, at which time will be considered the proposition to abolish them altogether. An amendment to the Tax bill was passed empowering A bank to pay tax due from any of its shareholders and retain the amount, with interest, from, the dividend. It was also ordered that foreign insurance companies shall pay taxes semi-annually on receipts. The tax on express companies was fixed at 1 per cent. House. —A resolution recommending the passage of an act forbidding the letting of convict labor for less tha*/70 cents per day was adopted. The following bills were passed: Requiring minors who have sold property to return the consideration therefor upon reclaiming the property after coming of age; requiring railroads to remove and destroy rubbish and other combustible matter along then: lines ; abolishing the offices of Town and City Assessors, and transferring the duties thereof to County Assessors ; also the bill providing for the employment of short-hand reporters in County Courts in the discretion of the Judge. The bill requiring theaters to pay a county license failed for want of ft constitutional majority. The House wrangled for several Lours over the mode of electing County Superintendents—whether by Township Trustees or popular vote —and the discussion finally turned upon the advisability of abolishing tho office altogether, and return to the old method of County Examiners. An amendment to that effect was offered, and, together with the other proposition, was made the special order for Wednesday. The joint convention of the two houses, called for the purpose of destroying the old Wabash and Erie bonds, adjourned without action, it developing that the destruction of the bonds was not intended to be done in the presauce of the Legislature, but by the State officers. Fbiday, March 11. —Senate. —Tho Tax bill was amended so as to tax all tangible property of building, loan, fund, and savings associations. The Committee's substitute for section 91 was adopted. It taxes tbe gross earnings of slecping-car companies 2 per cent. The Committee on Education recommended allowing Prof. M. M. Campbell $1,287 on his $6,600 claim for services as an educator at the Bloomington tbe &£& that it permits households to be entered and searched on the suspicion that some domestic animal is not properly cared for. He also vetoed the bill giving jurors $2 per day. House.— A number of bills were engrossed, and the House Tax bill was pushed forward a stage. An amendment was adopted taxing the gross earnings of sleeping-car companies 2 per cent. The House instructed the Committee to consider the advisability of exempting timbered land from taxation with the view of encouraging the growth of timber, but refused to concur in the Senate resolution looking to the sale of University park in Indianapolis. The bill requiring railway companies to destroy Canada thistles along then- tracks, and three Revision Committee bills relating to decedents’ estates, providing for the consolidation of two or more agricultural societies, and abolishing the offices of District Marshals for the collection of votes at the Presidential elections were passed. The bill creating a Board of Pardons was defeated, 41 to 22. The bill giving landlords lien upon one-half the tenant’s crops failed for want of a quorum. Both houses adjourned at an early hour until Tuesday next.

BANKS AND BONDS.

Text of Secretary Wlndom’s Decislen ltclative to the National Banks. The decision reached by the Cabinet on the request of the national banks to withdraw their legal-tenders deposited to retire circulation maintains that the precedents of the department in similar cases should be adhered to, and no return of legal tenders made. The text of the decision is as follows : Treasury Department,) Washington, D. C., March 11,1881. ( President Merchants’ National Bank, Cleveland, Ohio ; Sin : I am in receipt of your letter of tho sth in it. stating your bank had, -during the previous week, deposited with the Assistant Treasurer at New York SIBO,OOO in legal tenders, with a view of retiring that amount of its circulating notes; that bonds to secure the sarno, amounting to $200,000, had been forwarded from the treasury in this city to New York, and that the bank now desires to return them to the treasury of the United States, and receive back the above amount of legal-tender notes. As the action taken in this case would establish a rule by which tho department would necessarily be governed in regard to similar requests from other banks, some delay in answering your letter has occurred. It seems since the 19th ult. about $19,000,000 in legal tenders have been deposited by the banks for a purpose like that mentioned by you. Of this amount about $1,000,000 was returned by the Treasurer, the request therefor having been received before any redemption of notes had been made or security bonds delivered. In such cases, the transactions being incomplete, the department had clearly the right to return the notes, as has been done. Of the remaining amount, about $18,000,000 security bonds therefore have either been surrendered or redemptions against the amounts deposited have already been made, and transactions have been so far completed that it has been decided that the precedents of the department in similar cases should be adhered to, and no return of legal tenders be made. In this connection it should be stated no apprehension of unfavorable results need be entertained in this matter. Since the 25th ult. the department has paid out for bonds purchased about $6,500,000, and is to-day paying out on like account an additional amount of $5,000,000. In addition to these payments there has been advanced from the treasury since the Ist inst, to meet payments of arrearages of pensions, the amount of $7,583,844, and on the Ist prox. there will fall due of interest more than $7,000,000, and there are on hand of incomplete national-bank notes, which can be issued at opce to the banks, to the amount of $4,000,000, which in aggregate, will be observed, take an amount from the treasury largely in excess of the amount of legal-tender notes which have been deposited by the banks since the 19th ult., and which, it is now desired, should be returned. Letters have also been received asking if the identical United States bonds held as security for circulating notes which were recently withdrawn by the national banks can be re-deposited without transfer. This request will be granted if the bond bears no assignment except that of the Treasurer of the United States to the bank returning it. Very respectfully, H. F. French, Acting Secretary. The decision, although signed by Acting Secretary French, was actually rendered by Secretary Windom. “Wht should a red oow give -white milk?” was the subject for discussion in a suburban agricultural club. After an hour’s debate the Secretary of the meeting was instructed to milk the cow and bring in a decision according to the merits of the milk. It was blue,— tfew flaven HegUter,

A LASHING FOR HAYES.

Mr. Conkling?* Remarkable Speeds in the Senate. [From the New York Sun.] We have taken pains to procure, by telegraph, from Washington, the full text of Mr. Conkling’s speech in the Senate. It is a most remarkable speech; remarkable considering about whom it is spoken, who spoke, and what is said. The leading Republican Senator of the United States was discussing a proportion to refund to another Republican, who has occupied the office of President during the past four years, a little less than $4,000 which this President de facto paid out of his own pocket for the expenses of certain individuals who went South to manipulate election returns in his favor. - . And what does this leading Republican, Senator Conkling, say on the subject? He says it would be “ making an appropriation worse than unlawfulbe says the measure “does involve the question whether gentlemen requested to go as tourists, not as Commissioners with law, but,” as be believes, “ yithout law, on an errand not tolerated either by the constitution or by any law which -obeys it—whether they are to be paid under the guise of expenses to them, or upon the allegation that the President lias paid this money out of liis own pocket.” Then Mr. Conkling goes on to threaten, if the appropriation is insisted upon, to discuss and expose the whole matter, with the plainest possible intimation that it will be very damaging to the persons concerned. The allegation that this money was paid out of Mr. Hayes’ own pocket takes away from him the last vestige of defense—the apology that he was not an active participator in the foul conspiracy which placed him in office. Yes, Hayes himself supplied the oil for the torch which burnt up tbe honest returns that made his opponent, Samuel J Tilden, the rightful President of the United States. Let him go, guilty conspirator, to his home in Ohio, with his hundred and .fifty thousand dollars of savings in his miserly pockets, and covered with infinite shame and dishonor. ' Tire world will look upon the truthful portrait, a glimpse of which has been given, just before bis departure from Washington, by the acknowledged leader of his own party.

SENATOR CONKLINO’s SPEECH. Among the amendments to the Sundry Civil bill reported to the Senate committee was one of $3,950 to reimburse Mr. Hayes for the expenses of the MacYeagh Louisiana Commission. When the nill was reached yesterday, Senator Beck, of Kentucky, who had charge of it, explained that the amount had originally been advanced by the First National Bank of New York, and had subsequently been paid by Mr. Hayes. Mr. Beck said that he did not know mTjrc was any warrant of law for the apft would be a small thing to refuse to reimburse Mr. Hayes. The following debate then followed: Mr. Conkling—Mr. President: This amendment addresses itself to me as an appeal to sympathy. Tho First National Bank is located in the State of New York, and I cannot but feel the interest, not to say the tenderness, which naturally exists between a representative and his constituents, and when 1 reflect upon the hard and frugal road that bank has been compelled to tread, and then contemplate the idea of its losing such a sum of money, the possibility is one I cannot calmly contemplate. It requires more fortitude to inflict such an injury than I possess. If I turn to the idea of allowing the President of the United States to take out cf his meager compensation a sum like this to defray the expenses of five tourists, called in the amendment “Commissioners,” it might make an appeal which I must be hardhearted to resist. When we think of these five gentlemen, all of whose names appear in this sometimes sumptuous hill of particulars, which fails to amount to the $6,000 originally estimated, but which still does amount to a considerable sum, when we think cf their defraying such expenses unrewarded and unrecognized as they are, we must be stingy indeed, particularly when voting tho money of other people, to be willing to consent to such cruelty. The distinguished citizen of Tennessee and one other are not like the rest of these gentlemen in the rewards which have waited upon them. They are also not like the many other persons of whom we have heard so much in Louisiana, useful, handy and active as they were in services rendered about this complicated matter. They, the legion to whom I now refer, are enjoying a grand total of annual salaries paid to them in official places held as rewards for the peculiar services they rendered to the citizens upon whom these expenses might fall. Tho amendment Comes as an urgent appeal to sympathy, and yet I shall not be able to discuss it without vexing the ear of the honorable Senator from Kentucky, who doe i not wish to listen to a political discusiion. Ido not wish to engage iu it or to listen to it, and yet, if the amendment is to be adhered to, I shall deem it my duty to enter into a political discussion, so far as such discussion is needed, to solve the question of the propriety of making ail appropriation worse than unlawful, which I believe

The House of Representatives in this bill and in other bills have decided not to make it. The House of Representatives has repeatedly refused to make it. With all the facts before it, the House has repeatedly refused to pay the money. The committee of this body has chosen, by importing an amendment into the bill, to invite the Senate to consider it, and the Senator from Kentucky says that Friday is the beginning of a new administration and the day on which this session will cease, I know all this, and I want this bill in every defensible part of it to become a law. I submit, however, to the honorable Senator from Kentucky that, if he would save time, he ought not to come hero with a provision that has been repeatedly discussed in the Sen.it© ; which has never succeeded in winning even a a informal vote in its favor, but has over and over again been reported against, and over and over again voted down on the yeas and nays in the Senate; which does not involve political discuss Ion; which does involve the question whether gentlemen requested to go as tourists, not as Commissioners with law, but, as I believe, without law, on an errand not tolerated either by the constitution or by any law which obeys it—whether they are to be paid under the guise of expenses to them or upon the allegation (I choose that word because I wish not to be disrespi ctful) that the Pres dent has paid this money ont of his own pocket. I say the Senator from Kentucky ought not to bring such a quest ion here if lie does not wish it to be discussed, and discussed at length. I ask that Benator to treat his amendment as he has treated other amendments, and spare himself and the Senate the infliction of the debate which is certain to occur if this amendment is persisted in. It involves not the $3,000 or $4,000 —not the items of this bill of particulars, insignificant as they are to all of these gentlemen, whether now holding official stations, or whether, as the Senator remarked as to one of them, about to cross the threshold of distinguished official place. It involves a principle much beyond that, and much more considerable than this sum of money. I hope the honorable Senator from Kentucky will allow this cup to pass from us, and be content with the fact that this very body as now constituted, not those who went before us, but consisting of these here assembled, has again and again passed upon it. If the Senator will accept the fact, I for one will relieve him; but, if he will not, and wants to 'litigate this matter afresh, then I submit he ought not to complain of any debate. Mr. Beck—Will the Senator from New York allow me to interrupt him? Mr. Oonkling—Of couise. Mr. Beck—l desire to close the debate. I care nothing about this item, one way or the other. I hope the Senator will move to lay it on the table. I shall vote against laying on the table, because my committee has instructed me to report the amendment. If it is laid on the table, however, that enda it. Mr. Oookimg—But my honorable friend will

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observe that a motion to lay on the table not only cuts off debate, but brings the Senate to vote upon the merits of this amendment as those merits have been stated by those who Mr. Beck—ls the amendment is laid upon the table that ends it Mr. ConkUng—lf laid upou the table that is the end of it, and if the Senator can assure me that such a motion will prevail I will gladly forego any discussion. Mr. Beck—No. If it is not laid on the table it will be still open to discussion. Mr. Conkling-I am aware of that, but still I would not like to take the sense of the Senate, after wha£ has been said, without the Senate having brought back to its recollection and attention at least some of the circumstances which surrounded this transaction, without having read the papers which constituted the open, public and ostensible object of this embassy. All that will take some time, and time should be given to it—as little time as possible. But Ido not wi-h to go into it unless the Senator from Kentucky feels called upon to insist upon his amendment. If he will let us take the bill as the House 6eut it to ns, and rest upon the fact that over and over again Ibis question lias been passed upon, both in committee and in the Senate, I shall be glad to leave it there ; but, if he will not, then I do not see but all those who feel aB I fuel, that this claim ought to bo not only defeated, but discussed sufficiently to display its merits, must proceed in that course. Mr. Thurman—l want to adjourn this fight over to the next Congress. I want my friend from New York to meet my successor, a member of Mr. Hayes’ Cabinet, under which what my friend from New York thinks was n great crime was perpetratod. I want him to meet my successor lace to face, and discuss the propriety of this thing with him. not with me. I want him to meet the new Attorney General, MacVeagh, who was one of those Commissioners, and who was said to have had most persuasive eloquence in getting out the Packard Legislature, who, by the way, were cooped up in a house, and had not a particle of jurisdiction. I Want him to come to this contest with some foes worthy of his steel. He has nobody here now to battle with him. The Senator from Kentucky has shown the white feather and mn at the first fire. Ido not feel called upon to defend this administration or its ways, or the way that it got into power. Ido not do that, but my successor is aide to do it. I say, therefore, to the Senator from New York, as the preux chevalier, as a man ready to put his 1- nee in rest against any foe that sounds his trumpet and calls him to the encounter, let this thing go over until my successor is in his seat and until the new Attorney General will be up m the Department of Justice. That is the way to do this thing. Do not ask to lay this amendment on the table as a final and decisive vote to determine the question on its merits. Oh, no. Wait until the men who inaugurated it, who executed it, and who are able to defend it are within the lists. Now, I move to lay the amendment on the table, for I want to have it taken up then. The amendment was then laid on the table.

A Japanese Sermon.

In Isabella Bird’s “Unbeaten Tracks in Japan” this sketch of a sermon on domestic life is given : Would you like to know how very diverting a sermon in Japan can be made ? f The following is a fragment of a translation of one of considerable length. The sermon, as is proper, takes a text which is to be found in the Chinese classics : ‘ ‘ That which is evil, be it but small, do not. That which is good, be it but small, fail not to do.” The echoes of a thousand pulpits are in the opening sentences. “ These words, my good friends, » xx- l: 11--I the Shogaku, which is so well known to all of you. They are indeed blessed words, well suited to our text this evening. These words are short, but they contain an invaluable lesson.” Two or three pages of thorouglily-valuable and condensed moral teaching follow. Sounder ethics on this subject could not found, and the terse maxims are illustrated by anecdotes and comparisons leveled to the capacity of boor or child. The sermon concludes with an imaginary dialogue which I can well believe will arrest the attention of the largest congregation ever gathered under one roof in Japan. A misfortune may have its origin in a word, Take as an example the way a husband calls to his wife. Should ho summon her with a pleasant “Here, good wife,” he will reply with a soft “Ai, Ai.” Now take the reverse of thaff* Husband—“ What are you pottering at there? Just stir about, will you—these short days, too 1 ” Wife—“ I know the days are short, and that’s just it. If any one comes to the door I’ve got to answer, and the washing to look after beside. I haven’t got five or six hands to do all that, have I?” Husband—“ Are you going to give your husband any of your ill chat ?” Wife—“ Well, what are you doing hugging that fire-box all day instead of lending me a hand now and then ? ” Husband—“ What’s that, now? Look here, I’m not an ox, I’d have you know ; you are not going to put a rope through my snout and lug me all over the place. ” And so they go on, he a fine, strapping young fellow, and she a sweetlooking young girl, a rival to BentenSama in very beauty, by turns now red, now green with passion. Husband—“lt would be but a small matter if one killed a useless hussy like you outright. ” Wise —“ Oh, just please kill me now ! do kill me ! I’ve got a good stout father and elder brother to take care of me. See there ! just you kill me now 1 ” Husband—“Oh, I’ll soon do that! ” Such a hubbub ! They are not the great things of life which call for our watchful care ; they are the small affairs, the so-called trifling matters, the yeas and nays, the questions and answers in our daily home life. Peace in a household is like a joyous music in the dancing ears of the gods in the region of heaven.

Decline of the Italian Race.

One of the reasons for the deformed, rickety, dirty, wretched, thievish inhabitants of Italy is the total absence of proper sanitary arrangements in Italian towns and villages, from the palace to* the hovel and room tenement. Italy—the land of sunshine, art and song—is a land of filth and vermin. There are marble palaces, art galleries and blue skies, but neither sewers, drains nor adequate scavenging. Hence strangers who are tempted to visit the world-renowned cities pay a fearful penalty in risks from fever and certainty of mosquito stings, as also of punishment from other domestic torments. There is not one Italian city properly sewered, drained and scavenged. The best hotels use cesspools, out of which pass foul gases and putrid fluids to contaminate both air and water. Ironclads with 100-ton guns, Royal Cuirassiers, Royal Carabinieri, customs officers, excisemen, police, municipal guards and Jesuits will avail Italy nothing’ in removing the fearful causes of disease and human distortion. When will statesmen learn that the greatness and strength of a nation are not alone in magnificent cities, palaces, ironclads and standing armies, but in the health, comfort and content of the people ? The further lesson also requires to be learned, namely, that, where the mass of the people are allowed to grovel in filth and misery, there can be no true security for property. A whiff of wijjnot cure such disease.

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GARFIELD'S ADVISERS.

Brief Blographlen of the Cablaet miulMtern. James G. Blaine, of Main), Secretary Of State, was bom in Washington connty, l*a., Jan.*Bl, 1830 ; graduated at Washington College, Pa.; adopted the editorial profession, and went to Maine, where he edited the Portland Advertiser and the Kennebec Journal. He was a member of the Maine Legislature in 1869, 'BO- - and '62, serving the last two years aH Speaker of the Houso; was elected to the Thirtyeighth, Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, Forty-first, For, ty-second, Forty-third and Forty-fourth Oougresses (serving in the Forty-first, the Fortysecond and the Forty third as Spoakor) ; was elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Lot M. Morrill, appointed Secretary of the Treasury, and was elected for the ensuing term, which will expire March S, 1883. The people are familiar with his campaigns for the nomination for the Presidency. William Windom, of Minnesota, Secretary of the Treasury was born in Belmont county, Ohio, May 10, 1827 ; received an academic education ; studied law at Mouut Vernon, Ohio ; practiced his profession in that State an 1 ill Minnesota until 1859 ; was elected Prosecuting Attorney for Knox county, Ohio, in 1852 ; removed to Minnesota in 1855 ; was a Itepretentative in the Tliirty-Hixth, Thirty— eveulli, Thirty-eigihth, Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses ; was appointed by the Governor of Minnesota, in July, 1870, to fill the unoxpirod term of the Hon. Daniels. Norton, deceased, in the Senate of the United States ; was subsequently elected ns a Itopublican, and was reelected in 1877. His term of Bei vice will expire March 3,1883. Robert Todd.. Lincoln, of Illinois, Secretary of War, is the only surviving child of A 1 raintiu Lincoln. He was born in Springfield, 111., Aug. 1, 1843. Ho prepared for college at Phillips’. Academy, Exeter, N. H., and, having euteied Harvard,.graduated in tlio summer of IHOI. Four months subsequently lie became a member of the Harvard Law School. But hi fore finishing the course he went into the niuiy and was on Gen. Grant’s staff with the rank of Captain, from Feb. 20 to Juno 10, 1805, serving until the war closed. He then returned to lus law-books, and completed Ids studios, lie located in Chicago, and was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of the State Feb. 25, 1867. He has taken very little part in politics, but has devoted his attention almost exclusively to his law practice, which has been large and lucrative. Samuel J. Kirkwood, of lowa, Secretary of the Interior, was born in Harford county, Me., 10ec. 20,1813: received a limited education at the academy of John McLeod in Washington city; removed to Richland county, Ohio, in 1836, and studied law there ; was admitted to the bar in 1843 ; was elected Prosecuting Attorney in 1846 and again in 1847 ; was in 1650-61 a member of the convention that formed the present constitution of the State of Ohio ; removed to Johnson county, lowa,in 1855: was elected h> the State Senate in 1866 ; was elected Governor in 1850 and again in 1861 ; was in 1803 nominated by Prosident Lincoln and confirmed as Minister to Denmark, but declined the appointment ; was in 1866 elected to the United States Senate to fill the unexpired term of Hon. James Harlan ; was in 1875 again elected Governor of lowa and resigned that office Jan. 31, 1877; was elected in Jaunary, 1876, to tlio United Staton Senate as a Republican to succeed George G. Wright, Republican. His term of service will expire March 3, 1883. Thomas L. James, of New York, Postmaster General, was born in Utica March 20, 1831, and is now in his 60th year. He was educated at the Utica Acafiomy, but, at the ago of 15. he was thought old enough to begin to work lor Himself, and w<*a 10 I—irn flic printing business to Wesley Bailov, the veteran abolition editor of the Liberty Press. Young James served the full term of his apprenticeship, five years, and in the meantime rote several articles for the JAlhvlu Press, which were accepted and printed. In 1857, shortly after the close of Lis apprenticeship, ho started the Journal at Hamilton, N. Y. He was also made Collector of Canal Tolls, which office he held for five years, performing at tlio same time liis editorial duties. In 1861 he located in New York city, and from that year until 1869 he held various responsible positions in the Custom House. In 1869 ho was made Deputy Collector of the Third Division, which position he held until 1873, when ho was appointed Postmaster of New York city, the duties of which he has continued to discharge ever since. William H. Hunt, of Louisiana, Secretary of the Navy, is a native of the State from which he is appointed, having been born in 1835. During tne war. he was a Union mn«, and since the war has acted with the Republican party. He was first broughtinto prominence in Louisiana politics when he became the counsel for Gov. Kellogg in his contest with McEnery. Ho subsequently became a candidate for Attorney General on the Republican ticket, was elected, and served one term ; ho was re-elected as Attorney General on the ticket with Packard. Curiously enough, he was thrown out of office through the influence of the MacVeagh Commission, which overturned the Packard Government and insti.llod Nichollx while the preparations were being made to soat Hayes m Washington. MacVeagh, the head of tlio commission, and Hunt, the overthrown Attorney General of Louisiana, now meet on a common plane in Gen. Garfield’s Cabinet. Soon after this Mr. Hunt was appointed a Judge of the Court of Claims. Wayne MacVeagh, of Pennsylvania, Attorney General, was born at Phoßinxville, Chester county, Pa., April 19, 1833. He graduated at Yale College in the famous class of 1853, and then studied law with the Hon. Joseph J. Lewis, of Westchester, and was in that borough admitted to the bar April 26, 1856. Soon after his admission to the bar he was elected District Attorney of Chester county, and served in that capacity for three years. In 1863 he was made Chairman of the Republican State Committee. Iu 1873 he was appointed Minister to Constantinople, but rosigneck in 1871. In 1872 he was a member of the State Constitutional Convention, in which he took a leading position. He was one of the organizers of the National Republican League, which worked against the nomination of Gen. Grant for the Presidency last year. Mr. KaoVeagh, in an address at a public anniversary in New York, a year ago, thus set forth his political platform : “ I happen, among other unpopular and impracticable things, to entertain a sincere desire for the relief of the civil service, and I would trust to your practical common sense whether or not It might lie of advantage to our foreign trade in the future that that service, instead of being filled by decayed noliffeians seeking a temporary asylum as a reward for partisan labors, should lie filled by such busy, energetic and working men as can only be secured by the attraction of that permanent tenure."

A Cat Story.

A man now living in Kingston emigrated to the West many years ago, and bought a house which had stood unoccupied for a considerable time. The first night lie heard sounds which convinced him that there were rats in the cellar, and on investigation he found that hundreds of the creatures were disporting themselves there. Having eaten a quarter of beef down to the bone, they were playing tag among the shelves and boxes. He offered to introduce the family cat, but she declined to be presente<l. The next day she was missing, and the family thought they had lost her; but on the fourth day a familiar “meow” was heard, and there was tabby at the head of a column of three dozen catsjn light match - ing order, their backs up and their tails rampant. The front door was opened and the detachment moved down the cellar stairs in good order. The. next morning a flour barrel full of dead rats was buried behind the house, and the cats returned to their homes. — New York Tribune.

It Often Occurs.

A Newtown young woman went with her father to the railway station to meet a female friend she had invited to visit her, and to come by a certain tram. The expected visitor did not arrive; greatly to the disappointment of the young woman, and very much to the surprise of the father, notwithstanding his daughter’s letter of invitation was in big pooket ftt the time. -zJXmbury Newt,