Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1881 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. A telegram from the Russian frontier states that the attempt to assassinate the Czar was not unexpected, as the police had received an intimation of the existence of a conspiracy. Several domiciliary visits in search of politic il criminals were made the night preceding the murder. The Czar was warned not to attend the parado. All the European Cabinets and the entire European press express profound sorrow for the death of the Czar. The Emperor of Germany is said to be inconsolable. Gladstone, Hartington and Granville called on the murdered monarch's son-in-law, the Duke of Edinburgh, to express condolence,, and President Grevy telegraphed his sorrow to St. Petersburg .Messages of condolence were also sent freesthe other European courts. A St. Petersburg dispatch of Marcl: 14 says : It is now stated that the asssasins win killed the Czar drove in an open carriage, and were thus enabled to avoid suspicion, and get close to the imperial sleigh. The bombs which the murderers threw, and which did the fatal work, exploded with such force as to tear up tho entire pavement aroiind the place where they struck and to make a hole four feet deep in the ground. Both the Czar’s legs were broken, the lower part of his body severely injured, and his loft eye forced completely out of itsocket The assassins were disguised as peasants. Itussakoff, who threw the first bomb, has been a student for two years at the Mining Acadeim. The second bomb-thrower has been arrested, lie is also a young man. A Cossack and a civilian, who declined to give his name, died from injuries received by the bursting of the bomb. Altogether twenty persons are more or less injured, thirteen of whom are in the hospital. Dr. Dvoriachine, who was among the physicians first summoned to the Czar, immediately fetched the necessary instruments for amputating the legß, which were held by the flesh only, the bones being broken. The blood flowed copiously from the lacerated wounds. India-rubber bandages wore applied, first to the right leg below the knee, and then to the left. The Czar’s right hand, on which was a glove, was found to be greatly lacerated. His marriage ring was broken to pieces and driven into the flesh. The surgeons tied up £he several arteries. At length, under the influence of sulphate of oxygen and ice, the Emperor opened his eyes, and respiration became more apparent. Chaplain Bjainor availed himself of tho interval of apparent consciousness to administer the sacrament, and for a moment some hopes were entertained of the Czar’s lifo. But, a minute or two afterward, his heart ceased to beat. During the final flicker of life the members of' the family surrounded the bed. The Archpriest recited the prayers for those in extremis, all present kneeling. The spectacle was heart rending. Tho Czarowitz ascended the throne of Russia as Alexander 111., and the imperial family, court officials and the troops swore allegiance to him. In his manifesto to the people he announces himself as “ Tne Autocrat of AH the Russia s, Czar of Poland, Grand Duke of Finland, etc.,” and pledges himself to devote his whole life “to care for the welfare and honor of Russia,” and calls on his “ faithful subjects to unite before the altar of the Almighty their prayers ” with his, and commends them to swear fidelity to him and his successor, “ his Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Nicolai.”

One of the chief organizers ui the attack on the Czar was arrested in St. Petersburg on the 15th and made a full confession. He denounced Russakoff in person, and the latter recognized the corpse of the citizen who died in the hospital as that of his accomplice, the man who threw the second bomb. Tho house from which the assassins obtained the bombs was discovered, and, as soon as the police appeared, the male occupant shot himself. It is said that warnings were repeatedly sent to the Czar, but he disregarded them all. The Nihilists diverted the attention ot tho police by letting them suppose the explosives were being manufactured in London, while they were being prepared in St. Petersburg. Princess Dolgourouki, tho morganatic wife of the late Czar, has left St. Petersburg, and will- not return. P. J. Sheridan, one of the Irish traversers, was arrested under the Coercion act. This is regarded as the most important arrest that has been made. A Berlin journal states that at the International Monetary Conference France will propose tho unlimited coinage of gold and silver, in the proportion of 1 to 15J/Sj, tue acceptance of the white metal to begin the same day in all countries consenting. Count Hubert Bismarck, son of the German Prime Minister, has eloped with Princess Elizabeth of Carlotti-Beuthen, a married lady of 36, who has a daughter aged 14.

In the pigeon-shooting match in .London, Dr. Carver, the American, won the championship cup and $3,250 in money, defeating Scott by a score of 79 to 74. The authorities ,in St. Petersburg have discovered a mine under the street leading to the riding school, whence the Czar was returning when he was assassinated. It was intended to blow up the imperial carriage in case tho bombs failed to do their work. Oue of the first official acts of the new Czar was to grant to Siberian exiles permission to engage in. commercial or professional pursuits after three years of good behavior. The spot where the Czar received his fatal injuries has been inclosed and covered with turf, and it is guarded by sentries of the old regiment of the Emperor Paul. In opening the Kerry assizes in Ireland, Justice Fitzgerald said 463 orimes had been reported in the last seven months. The frequency of sweeping conflagrations in Tokio, Japan, has compelled the au thoiities to put in operation a building order similar to the Chicago fire ordinance. A plot to blow up the Lord Mayor’s residence, in London, has been discovered and frustrated. The Pope has proclaimed a jubilee to Nov. 1 for Europe, and to the end of the yew for the rest of the world. A St. Petersburg correspondent of one of the London papers says that a measure had already been prepared, with the sanction of the late Czar, tending toward representative government. Since the discovery “of the~plot to blow up the Lord Mayor’s residence, great precautions have been taken for the safety of the Parliament buildings in London. The cellars have been carefully examined, and the police in and around the buildings reinforced. It lias been decided to place a religious memento on tho spot where tn.. late Emperor fell. The new Czar has authorized the announcement that he will first give his attention to the internal development of the state, and (bat hjs foreign policy will be entirely pacific,

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VOLUME V.

Several Russian editors have been summoned before the Press Censor, who requested them to refrain from utterances calculated to excite public opinion. Minister Noyes telegraphs from Paris that the French Government has agreed that all American pork loaded on ships prior to the date of the decree prohibiting its importation shall be admitted into France subject only to inspection, and with as little delay as such examination will permit A dispatch from St. Petersburg says the new Czar is about to adopt a policy which will tend to make the Russian peasants independent, prosperous and happy. Rich tracts of land will be immediately thrown open to occupation, the burdens of taxation will be lessened, and generally a great deal will be done for their comfort and welfare. In twenty-three Governments of Ruspeasants for lands alloted to them on the abolition of serfdom have been reduced 40 to 70 per cent. The reduction is about 9,000,000 roubles annually. It has been decided to erect a memorial church on the spot where the Czar of Russia was murdered. Gen. Milan, the Italian Minister of War, is dead.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East. John Sliriever, of Utica, N. Y., shot liis wife and then killed himself. Julius Schwab, a New York Com munist, says the assassination of the Czar of Russia is a warning to such men as Jay Gould aid William 11. Vanderbilt, who have cause to tremble. They are oppressing tho people, he -ays, and for just such oppression Alexander 11. was killed. At a large meeting of Communists in Xew York city, presided over by Justus 11. Schwab, one of the speakers said tho imperial families in Europe must go. In the resolutions • adopted tho American people are asked to rejoice at the overthrow of the Czar as they did at that of Maximilian. An address will be for. warded to Russia asking that aristocracy be annihilated to the very germ. Jealousy caused a double tragedy in New York, where Ernest S. Memeroth, a wood carver, shot Emil Pauly, who boarded in his family, and then blew out his own brains. A deficit of about SIOO,OOO has been discovered in the Ashuelot Savings Bank, of Winchester, N. H. Elleroy Albee, the Treasurer, has assigned his property to the bank. A most startling and extensive robbery is reported from New York city. In broad daylight two or more men succeeded in entering a large apartment filled with people on a ■ p jpulous street, evading the servants with which tie house was supplied, and, breaking in tbc apartments of one of the occupants, carried off bonds, certificates of stock and jeweliy to the value of nearly $1,000,000. After completely ransacking tho rooms in the absence of tho occupants, they escaped without detection with their valuable booty, an d lefi absolutely no-trace behind them. The victim of this bold and skillful robbery is Mr. Abram E. Simons, a stationer and p nnter, who had been printing bonds and stock certificates foi some railroad companies, and nearly $1,000,00c worth of these securities ho had taken to hit rooms for safe keeping and concealment. They are unsigned by tho proper officers, but it it said were otherwise complete. Every one of these bonds and certificates was taken, together with $2,000 worth of jewelry and valuablet belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Simons.

The Bartlett mills, at Newburyport, Mass., have been destroyed by fire. The Supreme Court of Massachusetts has decided that the law imposing on express companies a tax of 2 per cent, on their gross receipts is unconstitutional. West. It now appears that the purchase of tho right of way through Bear Butte canon to the Black hills had not been consummated by the Chicago and Northwestern railro ad, am the publication of the matter interfered witl the negotiations. The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul people are jiow trying to secure tin road. An attempt to fast for forty-two days is to be made in Chicago next month by a son of the late Dr. John Haskins Griscom, of Nev York. It is intended to be a scientific test ol human endurance, and will be supervised by several med.cal gentlemen. The- Wisconsin Assembly has passed a bill to make insanity for five years sufficient ground for divorce. Borne mischievous lads at New Bremen, Ohio, blew a school-house into fragments with two kegs of powder. Brevet Maj. Gen. Emory Upton, ol the regular army, shot himself dead in bed at Presidio, Cab A letter left by him for an offi cer expresses fears that his second volume Of tactics will prove a failure. Made insane by liquor, James Tolan entered a hotel parlor at Marine, Minn.-; and shot his wife through the heart with a Winchester repeating rifle. She sat on a sofa, with an infant in her arms and two other children by her side. The Cincinnati Price-Current publishes an extended report on the winter-wheat crop, embracing reports from nearly 400 points in the winter-wheat belt. The Price-Current says : “Taking all the evidence into consideration, with an indication of some increase in the acreage, the crop may now be considered generally promising, with a prospect for a yield not much, if any, less than the preceding year. ” Six Polish citizens of Chicago, who refused to be vaccinated, were fined $5 each. A marble tablet has been erected on the site of the old Fort Dearborn block-house. Two highwaymen attacked the stage coach near Contention, Arizona, killed the driver and wounded a passenger. R. N. Paul, Wells, Fargo A Co.’s agent, returned their fire, causing the horses to ran away, and thus saving the passengers and treasure. Miss Kaylor Ins obtained a verdict of $2,500 damages against the city of Elkhart, Ind., by falling on the ice. Jacob Powell, of Logansport, Ind., has left that city in a twentv-five-foot steamer for a trip down the Wabash and Mississippi to New Orleans. Chicago slaughtered and packed nearly six millions of hogs during the past winter. Five citizens of Arizona pursued a band of Apache mule thieves for seven days, but were ambushed and murdered by them. A collision between a switch engine and a freight train, at Parsons, Kan., killed two men and wrecked two locomotives and twenty cars. It has been decided to remove the Western Reserve College from Hudson, Ohio, to Cleveland. The latter city has raised the funds to purchase a site, and Amasa Stone has handed in a half million dollars to aid in the transfer. The inshtutiop wff take the name of Adelbert College,

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY INDIANA, FRIDAY, MARCH 25,1881.

Dakota dispatches announce that the spring immigration has commenced. One thousand persons, mostly Canadians, passed northward from Fargo, the •tker day, to select homes. The Beauplan French Opera Troupe is playing a two-weeks’ engagement at McVicker’s, in Chicago. This is the first time in our history that a troupe made np entirely of French artists has given tho heavy Italian operas here. The troupe have already given a four-months’ season in New Orleans, and is very thoroughly equipped in the way of chorus, ballet and orchestra, as well as in the number of its soloists. The orchestra numbers fortyfive pieces, the chorus forty people, and a full corps de ballet also accompanies the troupe. The repertoire includes “Les Huguenots,” “La Juive,” “Faust,” “Aida,” “II Trovatore,” “ Traviata,” “ Robert le Diable.” South. William Old and William Whitehorst were shot and killed in Norfolk, Va., as they were leaving Princess Ann Court House. The assassins Iky in ambush and .fired at them as they were driving along the road. The people of Greensboro, N. C., celebrated tlie centennial anniversary of the battle of Guilford by parades and speeches. A South Carolina lad named John Carroll, while playing with some friends on Table rock, in Pickens county, lost his footing and fell 1,200 feet. 1 Col. A. G. Hodges, of Louisville, Ky., one of the oldest editors and Masons in the South, is dead. George S. Davidson, once a Lieutenant in Latham's Confederate battery, who tired the first gun at the battle of Bull Run, died at Esteilville, Va. On the ground of insanity, Capt. Ed*ward R. Ames, of Baltimore, has been acquitted of shooting at M. W. Hodgdon. The accused Is a sou of the lato Bishop Ames, and was sun-struck while an officer in the army. He has been returned to a private asylum. On a plantation near Florence, 8. C. Joseph Biggs was simultaneously killed and ouried by lightning. His corpse was only discovered by a portion of his overcoat being left in sight. Western Texas threatens to secede if the Legislature passes the Temperance and Anti-Railway laws. The boilers of the towboat John Means, of the St. Louis and New Orleans Transportation Company, exploded near Osceola, Ark. The ooat sunk immediately, and four of her crew .re supposed to have drowned. In an attempt to execute James Blacky at Marion, S. C., the rope broke after he had been hoisted thirteen feet into the air. He ■vas restored to consciousness by means of whisky and hanged as speedily as new hemp could be procured. The training stable of J. S. Offut, in Paris, Ky., was destroyed by fire and several valuable horses burned to death. A boiler in Tyler & Harrod’s saw-mill, near Frankfort, Ky., exploded, killing three persons and wounding six. The revenue officers recently raided the moonshiners on ltunnet bog and Shooting creek, Va., and had a lively time of it. A good many shots were exahanged, but nobody was hurt.

WASHINGTON NOTES. President Garfield has appointed J. Stanley Brown his Private Secretary. St. Patrick’s day was celebrated more quietly than usual this year, both in this country and in Ireland. In ihe United States it took the form of Land League meetings and lanquets. Ac the request of provision shippers n Chicago and New York,,Secretary Blaine has instructed the American Ministers at Paris and London to insist upon the admission of all meats shipped prior to tho edict against pork. Secretary Lincoln has appointed Mr. Charles S. Sweet, of Chicago, as his private secretary. Mr. Sweet has entered upon his ulies. Ho has been in Mr. Lincoln’s Jaw jffice in Chicago for tho past five years. A Washington dispatch states that the nvestigation which led to the exposure of the lleged land swindle in Missouri and the arrest >f Eobert L. Lindsay in St. Louis, and of other alleged land swindlers in Cleveland and L’ittsburgb, was instigated by a letter received >y Secretary Schurz more than a year ago. This letter stated that Lindsay, whose father iiad once been in charge of the land office at fronton, Mo., had in his possession one or two boxes filled with United States land patents, which were certainly genuine, although Lindsay might have obtained them by questionable means. Tho writer of the letter alleged that Lindsay kept these boxes concealed, and had queer dealings with queer people. Tho writer, who professed to be a friend of Sec. retary Schurz, suggested, in conclusion, it might be well to look into the matter'. The Secretary secured Special Agent D. P. Terrell, of the Treasury Department, to investigate the matter. The result was the arrest of Lindsay and soveral other persons. It is believed it the Land Office the ring have obtained raudulcnt land titles to more than 1,000,000 teres of the public lands, most of which they have sold to innocent settlers, who therefore ave no valid title to the laud they occupy. In an interview with a Western Senator and several gentlemen from Salt Lako, President Garfield gave free expression to liis convictions relative to Mormonism and polygamy. He said polygamy in Utah was a foul blot on the nation's escutcheon, which should be speedily obliterated ; that he hoped Congress would take early action to place the vile institution of polygamy in course of extinction ; that any judicious measures adopted looking to that end by the legislative branch of the Government would secure his hearty approvaL Since Secretary Windom’s decision as to the withdrawal of national-bank circulation, $3,647,000 has been redeposited by frightened banks, and $828,500 in new notes taken out by others.

POLITICAL POINTS. The Governor of Minnesota has appointed Gen. A. J. Edgerton to serve out the unexpired term of Secretary Windom in the United States Senate. The new amendments to the constitution of Indiana, which were voted upon by the people of the State on Monday, March 14, have been adopted by a majority estimated, at this writing, at 100,000. The vote was very light, probably, not one-half as large as that oast in November last. One of the amendments provides for changing the time of the State election from October to November. A recent Washington telegram says : “President Garfield said yesterday to a Senator from one of the Middle States that he would send very few nominations to the Senate before the adjournment of that body. He would only fill - vacancies. It wonld be sixty days, at least, before he began to make any important changes. He also outlined the policy that be intends to pursue in the se-

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

lection for offices in the different States. He thinks the best judges as to who shall be selected for such positions are the Senators and Representatives most interested. He said that they knew better than he possibly could who should be appointed and he intended to rely in the main in making his selections upon them.” Ex-Chief Justice Caton, of the Illinois Supreme bench, is in Washington urging the Senate to reject Stanley Matthews, on the ground that he is not a resident of the circuit, and the people of Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana don’t want an outsider put over them again as United States Judge. Senator Lamar is the only member of the new Judiciary Committee who favors the confirmation of Stanley Matthews as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. The President is reported to be decidedly apathetic about the result. Private letters received in Bloomington from Senator David Davis deny that he has any intention of resigning the Senatorship. He means to serve out his full term, which expires March 3, 1883, and then to return to Bloomington to manage his private business.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The subscription to the perpetual fund to provide for a life income for the oldest ex-President of the United States has been completed. It amounts to $250 000, of which $216,000 has been paid up, and so invested that it will yield an annual sum of $13,160. George Jones, of the New York Times, who was chiefly instrumental in raising this fund, says that an analysis of the list of subscriptions i i his possession shows the following distribu tion of amounts : Twi subscribers of $25,000 $ 50,001 I liree subscribers of SIO,OOO 30,(M Eighteen sub.-cribers of $ ,000 90,001' l bice subscribers of $2,500 7,5 w i’wo subscribers of $2,000... 4,0 m Forty-eight subscribers of $l,OlO - 48,000 One sub criber of $750. 750 Twentj -one subscribers of SSOO 10,50; Twenty-seven subscribers of $250 6,750 Five subscribers ot S2OO 1,000 Thirteen subscribers of SIOO 1,30 One eubrCriber of SSO 50 Various subscribers for small amounts 150 Total $250,000 When it becomes necessary to provide for the ultimate disposition es the fund a meeting ot subscribers will be called. The Philadelphia Press prints a letter from Gaboon, west coast of Africa, giving new> about Stanley, the explorer, Stanley’s party, when last seen in November, were on the Ogowe river, far in the interior of Africa, They wen in a mountainous country, and obliged to trave l overland, for the river was full of rapid i. I’heir progress was slow. There are no provisions to be had where they were. The mei were eating rice and the donkeys corn and hay, all brought from Europe. The names of the contributors of $169,000 of the fund for Gen. Grant, raised by George Jones, of the Now York Times, have been published. J. W. Mackey, Jay Gould and William H. Vanderbilt contributed $25,000 each.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. In tho United States Senate, the oath of office was taken, on the meeting of that body on Monday March It, by Messrs. McDill, of lowa, and Cameron of Wisconsin. Mr. Morgan offered a resolution de. nouncing assassination as a means of redress for any grievance. On the question of organizing the Senate speeches were made by Messrs. Pendleton, Conkling and Hill, the lattei inquiring particularly what Senator chore' by Democrats would prove false to his trust Mr. Mahone took a position in front of the Viet President’s desk and declared that he Bhould vote a; he pleased; that he owed nothing to the Democrats, and that the Democratic party had done more injure to the South than anything e’te. Mr Voorheos offered to be oue of two Di-ino-cratsto pair off with vacant Republican seats. Th< President nominated Stanley Matthews,of Ohio, to bt Associate Justice of the United St.-tcs Supretrt Court; Don A. Pardee, of Louisiana, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Judicial Circuit; John W. Powell, of Illinois, to be Director of the United States Geological Survey; Orlando H. Brewster, Louisiana, Surveyor General of the United States District of Louisiana. Postmasters— George J. Williams, Youngstown, Ohio; Thomas J. Anderson, Topeka, Kansas; Jacob M. Wells, Marion, Ind.; John R. Dowd. Rockville, Ind.: Mrs. Prescilla W. Wilson, Braid wood, Ill.; G. W. Mitchell, Charleston, Ill.; -TameH. Clarke, Mattoon, Ill.; John Kennedy, Hastings Minn.; Eden N. Lavens, Faribault, Minn.; France' W. Seeley, Lake City, Minn.; Edward Russell, Davenport, Iowa; William C.Hawley, Manchester,lowa; George Crane, Dubuque, Iowa; Justus T. Moak Watertown. Wis.; Frank Patterson, Junction City Kan.; William Mulienix, Bristol, Tenn.; Henry VY Turner, Lexington, Mo. The Senate session was very brief on Tues day, the 15th Insk Mr. Voorhees called up his resolution asking the Attorney General for the names o Deputy Marshals appointed to guard the polls at thi October election in Indiana. It was amended so a to call also for information as to the necessity so their appointment, and in its new shape was adopted An attempt was mado by Mr. Pendleton to call nj his reorganization resolution, but it failed, and th Senate adjourned. Senator Edgerton, of Minnesota, took hi seat on Wednesday, the 16th inst. A resolution w* adopted calling for the correspondence betweei Mexico and the United States, from 1859 to 1861, ix reference to a proposed treaty. Tho Democrat went through the motion of calling up the organization resolution, but did not attempt to press It t< a vote. There was a little filibustering oi the part of the Bepublicans, after which the Senat adjourned. The President nominated S. Dan. Horton to be Secretary to the Commission to attem the International Monetary Conference at Paris Also the following Postmasters: William H. Hart man, Waterloo, lowa, and George B. Reichnekej Wyandotte, Kas. Surveyors of Customs: John R Leonard, Indianapolis, Ind., and Joseph L. Gaston Chattanooga, Tenn., and B J. Watson to be Nava Officer at San Francisco.

The credentials of Senator Edgerton, of Minnesota, were presented to the Senate on Thursday, March 17, and he took the oath of office. Mr. Pendleton said he had received information which induced him to believe that it would be Impossible to obtain a vo'e upon the pending resolution this morning, and he therefore moved to adjourn. Agreed to. The appointment of Hon. James A. Wildman as Postmaster at Indianapolis was sent to the Senate this afternoon by the President Col. AF. Rockwell was also appointed as Commissioner of Public Buildings and Grounds. Tim Senate was organized by the Republicans, on Friday, the 18th inst, Mahone voting wiib them, and David Davis with the Democrats. The vote stood 37 to 37, Edmunds and Vance being paired, and Vice President Arthur gave his casting veto in favor of the Republicans. The committees, nj irranged by the Republican caucus, were then appointed. As soon as Senator Frye was sworn in, Mr. Anthony, Chairman of the Republican caucus, offered the list of committees prepared in the caucus as an amendment to the resolution offered a number of days ago by Mr. Pend eton. The vote stood 37 to 37, and the Vice President said that, the vote being a tie, he would vote in the affirmative, and declared the resolution adopted. The President nominated Philip Doppler to be Collector of Internal Revenue of the ixth district of Tennessee; George H. Starbnck, of New York, to be Supervising Inspector of Steam Vessels for the Second district, and the following Postman ters: James .C. Sherman, Menominee, Mich.; Joseph E. Wilkinson, Sidney, Ohio; John G. Magaw, Coshocton, Ohio; James A Wildman, Indianapolis, Ind., and William L. Hfcrvey. Minneapolis, Kan. The following are the Senate Committees as elected, the firßt named on each committee being the Chairman: Privileges and Elections—Hoar, Cameron (Wis.), Teller, Sherman, Frye, Saulsbury, Hill (Ga.), Vance, Hugh. Foreign Relations Burnside, Conkling, Edmunds, Miller, Ferry, Johnston, Morgan, Hill (Ga.), Pendleton. Finance—Morrill, Sherman, Ferry, Jones (Nev.), Aliison, Platt (N. Y.), Bayard, Voorhees, Beck, McPherson, Harris. Appropriations—Allison, Logan, Dawes, Plumb, Hale, Davis (W. Va.), Beck, Ranßom,'Cockrell. Commerce—Conkling, McMillan, Jones (Nev.), Kellogg, Conger, Ransom, Coke, Farley, Vest. Manufactures—Conger, Hale, Jewell, McPherson, Williams. Agriculture—Mahone, Blair, Plumb, YanWyck, Paris (W. Va.), Slater, George,

Military Affairs—Logan, Burnside, Cameron (Pa.), Harrison, Sewell, Cockrell, Maxey, Grover, Hampton. Naval Affairs—Cameron (Pa.), Anthony, Rollins, Miller, Mahone, McPherson, Jones (Fisa), Vance, Farley. Judiciary—Edmunds, Conkiing, Logan, Ingalls, McMillan, Garland, Dai is (Ill.), Bayard, Lamar. Poetoffices and Post-Roads—Ferry, Hill (Col.), Platt (N. Y.), Sawyer, Mahone, Maxey, Saulsbury, Farley, Groome. Public Lands—Plumb, Hill (Col.), Blair, Van WycV, McDill, Jones (Fla.), Grover, Walker, Morgan. Private Land Claims—Bayard, Jones, Call, Edmunds, Allison. Indian Affairs—Dawes, Ingalls, Saunders, Logan, Cameron (Wis), Coke, Pendleton, Walker, Slater. Pensions—Teller, Platt (Ct), Blair, Mitchell, Edgerton, Groome, Slater, Jackson, Camden. Revolutionary Claims—Johnston, Jones (Fla.), Hill (Ga.), Anthony, Dawes. Claims—Cameron (Wis.), Frye, Teller, Hoar, Conger, Pugh, Jackson, George, Fair. District of Columbia —Ingalls, Rollins, McMillan, Hawley, McDill, Harris, Butler, Vance, Gorman. Patents—Platt (Ct), Hoar, Mitchell, Edgerton, Coke, Call, Williams. Territories—Saunders, Kellogg, McDill, Sawyer, Butler, Garland, Vest. Railroads—Kellogg, Saunders, Toller, Hawley, Sawyer, Sewell, Lamar, Grover, Williams, Jones, Brown. Mines and Mining—Hill (Col.), Jones (Nev.), Van Wyck, Miller, Hampton, Fair, Camden. Revision of Laws—McMillan, Platt (Ct.), Hale, Davis (III.), Pcnd.eton. Education and Labor—Blair, MorriU, Burnside, Edgerton, Mahone, Maxey, Brown, George, Fair. Civil Service—Hawley, Rollins, Jones (New), Hill (Col.), Butler, Walker, Williams. Contingent Expenses—Jones (Nov.), Platt (Ct), Vance. Engrossed Bills—Saulsbury, Call, Conkiing. Ru es—Frye, Hoar, Sherman, Call, Gorman. Improvement of the Mississippi River—Mitchell, Kellogg, Van Wyck, Frye, Jones, Cockrell, Jackson. Transportation Route* to the Seaboard—Harrison, Cameron (Pa.), Blair, Platt (N. Y.), Beck, Voorhees, Camden. Joint Committee on Public Printing—Anthony, Hawley, Gorman. Joint Committee on Enrolled Bills—Platt (N. Y.), Rollins, Pugh. Joint Committee on Library—Sherman, Hoar, Vo Oi hees. Joint Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds —Rollins, Morrill, Cameron (Wis.), Jones (Fla.), Vest. Civil Service—Sawyer, Rollins, Dawes, Hampton, Groome. Census—Hale, Morrill, Cameron (Wis.), McDill, Pendleton, Morgan, Harris. Epidemic Diseases—Harris, Lamar, Garland, Jonas, Teller, Miller, Sewell. Nicaragua Claims Davis (W. Va.), Groome, Johnston, Hawley, Mitchell. On Erection of New Library Building—Voorhees, Butler, Morrill.

INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

Tuesday, -March 15.— Senate.— The Senate proceeded with the farther consideration of the House bill on taxation. 2m amendment was adopted making the Lieutenant Governor a member of the State Board of E jualization. Also an amendment depriving “ professional ferrets” of their occupation by providing that County Commissioners shall not employ other than the officials prescribed by law to discover omitted property. House. —The House killed the bill directing that revenue derived from liquor licenses should revert to public libraries. The Insurance Committee recommended that the bill relating to foreign life insurance companies be laid upon the table: that the House bill prohibiting the taking or receiving of applications for ii'e insurance policies on the tontine plan in the State be indefinitely postponed, and that the House bill relating to foreign insurance companies be similarly dealt with. The first report was concurred in, and action upon the other two deferred. Amendments to the constitution were offered, forbidding the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in Indiana. These amendments were referred to committees. There was a severe struggle over the bill compelling druggists to take out license, the opptoents finally securing a postponement. The price of publishing delinquent taxes was fixed at 35 cents per description. Wednesday, March 16.— Senate. —The feature of -the day’s work in the Senate was the adoption of an amendment to the Tax bill abolishing the publication of delinquent tax lists. Afterward the vote was reconsidered, and a long discussion ensued, but no vote was reached before adjournment. Other amendments made to the bill were as follows: That where a tax deed proves to be invalid the holder oan recover only lawful charges, with 8 per cent, interest, and requiring the Treasurer to give ten days’ notice of sale of personal property for delinquent taxes.

House.—The Ryan Election bill was passed by a vote of 54 to 34. A new feature is the provision that all ballot-boxes should be uniform, the box being so arranged that it cannot be shifted by the Election Board itself. The ballots are to be preserved a given length of time, and each ballot is to be numbered by the clerk as it is cast. Mr. Gibson’s bill concerning the landlords and tenants, giving the former a hen on tho crop, was also passed by yeas, 82 ; nays, none. The House then proceeded to the discussion of the >pecial order, being the consideration of the ill for a reorganization of the State Prison, which was ordered engrossed for the third reading by yeas, 49 ; nays, 40. Thursday, March 17.— Senate.— The Senite to-day finished consideration of the Tax fill on which it has worked for the past month, md immediately took up tho bill from the Cod.fication Committee relating to offices and offl;ers. The most important changes over the iresent Tax law are those doing away with the minting of delinquent lists and taxing semi-an-mally the gross receipts of foreign insurance •mpanies $3 on SIOO, and not allowing any Eduction for actual losses sustained in the Rate, A concurrent resolution was adopted ustructing the Committee on Fees and Salaries n both houses to draft and report a bill fixing tie fees and salaries of public officers in this state.

House.— The Common Carriers’ bill passed he House this morning with but six voting in ihe negative. The bill provides that there shall be no greater charge for freight carried a ess distance than is charged for a longer disance; there shall be no discriminations nade among shippers; competing points •n a road shall not receive any advantage over other points, and there shall be no charge for switching or transferring ;ars, except when they are compelled to pay raclsage. Section 2 fixes the following rates: b’er all distances not exceeding twenty-five uiles, 6 cents for eacli 100 pounds ; for all distances exceeding twenty-five miles and not exceding fifty nules, 7 cents for each 100 pounds; ■'or all distances exceeding fifty miles and not xceeding seventy-five miles, 8 cents for each 100 pounds; for distances exceeding soventy--five miles and not exceeding 100 miles, 10 cents for each 100 pounds. Section 6 prohibits railroads from increasing their charges a greater sum than the rate of freight charged by at the time such freight is offered for transportation. The bill also passed for the protection of sheep husbandry and the taxing and killing of dogs. A constitutional amendment was proposed making the term of all county and State officers four years instead of two, and rendering such officials ineligible for re-election until four years after the expiration of their term. The bill reorganizing the benevolent institutions was ordered engrossed after a sharp partisan fight. The remainder of tho day was occupied with the School bill proposed by the Codification Committee, during which, the effort failed looking to the abolishment of County Superintendents. A concurrent resolution was adopted for a joint committee to report upon the feasibility of consolidating the State prisons. The House also adopted the Senate concurrent resolution for the Fee and Salary bill. Friday, March 18.— Senate. —The Benate during the morning session took up the Tax bill on third reading, reaching a vote early in the aftenoon. The bill passed—33 to ll.*Bome progress was made on the bill relative to offices and officers, and by resolution it was decided to take up ihe General Appropriation bills on Thursday next. A - ' committee was instructed to inquire into the feasibility of an appropriation for representing the State in the World’s Fair of 1883, and a joint resolution was introduced requesting Indiana Congressmen to favor the passage of an amendment to the Federal constitution prohibiting the disfranchisement of citizens of the United States on account of sex, which was read the first time and referred to the Committee on the Bights and Privileges of the inhabitants of the State. House. —The House worked the greater part of the day on the School bill, and among the amendments was one reducing interest on the gphool-fund loans to 6 per oent; also, permit-

ting half an hour’s instruction each day in German. After engrossment the bill passed—ss to 26. A joint resolution was introduced requesting Congressmen to favor an amendment to the Federal oonstitutien for the enfranchisement of women.

MAHONE.

Ben Hill’s Parting Salute to tbe Little Virginia Renegade. Never before has there been such an exhibition iu the Senate, where a gentleman shows his Democracy by going over to the Republicans. I will not defend Virginia; shd needs no defense; she has given to the country, and world, and humanity some of the proudest names in history. She holds in her bosom today the ashos of some of the noblest and greatest men that ever illustrated the glories of any country; and I say to the Senator from Virginia that neither Jefferson, nor Madison, nor Henry, nor Washington, nor Lee, nor Tucker, nor any of the long list of great men whom Virginia produced ever accepted a commission to represent one party and came here and represented another party. (Addressing himself to the Republicans.) I commend him to you. Is there any man on that side of the chamber who dcubts the honorable Senator was sent to this body as a Democrat V Is there a man in this va-t audience who doubts? Is there a man in Virginia who doubts it? The gentleman himself will not deny it. Up to this hour it was not known on this side* the chamber or in the country how the gentleman would vote. The Senator from New York (Mr. Conkiing) seemed to have information that somebody who had been elected as a Democrat would vote with the Republicans, and I wanted to find out who that was. It seems I have uncovered him. The Senator (Mr. Mahone) will not rise and say he could have been elected to this Senate as a Republican or if he had given notice that in the organization of this body he would have voted with the Republicans. I have no objection to the gentleman remaining oucside tho caucus; Shave no objection to the gentleman be inn inependent ; l have no objection to a man taking every side to a question ; but I do object to anybody coming into this high council, sent here by one sentiment, commissioned by one party, professing to be a Democrat, and after he gets here acting with the other party. If the gentleman, as he has very broadly hinted, changed his opinions and lvs party affiliation (as he had a right to do), he should have gone to the people of Virginia and said : “You believed me to be Democratic when you gave me this pos tion, but I now feel it my duty to cooperate with the Republican party, and I return you the commissiou you gave me.” If the gentleman had done that he could have asked the people of Virginia to renew his commission* and he would have had a claim to tbe title of manhood to which he pronounced himself entitled here in such theatrical style. I have done what the newspapers could not do. what both parties could not do, what the whole country could not do ; I have brought out the Senator from Virginia. But now, in tho kindest spirit, I make a last appeal to the honorable Senator, whatever other fate befall him, to be true to (he tiust which the people of Virginia gave him. Whoever else may be disappointed, whoever else may be deceived, I appeal to the gentleman to be true to the people and sentiment of the party which have kindly comissioned him to a seat in this body.

Mahone & Co.

Tlie Republican party in the Senate is the “Co.” Malione is the important and commanding member of the firm. The Republicans in the Senate of the United States have formed this partnership with Mahone, whom but recently they denounced as a “traitor” and “repudiator” at the opening of the Garfield administration, in order to give to the incoming administration the flavor of civil-service reform. We are not at this moment dwelling upon the infamy of Mahone, who was purchased by the Republicans, and who, by selling himself, lias lost his tenacious hold upon a large portion of the people of Virginia who have admired his courage and fearless independence. Mahone has been goaded by Democrats as well as bribed by Republicans. We will leave Mahone and his treachery to the criticism of others, to the State of Virginia, and to the comments of all men everywhere who love honor and hate treachery, and to the memories that hang about’ the fate of the man whose price was a mess of pottage. But Mahone’s partner and inferior in the firm consists of the Republican Senators of the United States. No Republican United States Senator can hereafter lift up his voice in denouncing repudiation. At the opening of this administration the Republican Executive and the Republican Senate are both placed upon record upon one important question. Garfield chose his Secretary of the Treasury, his Financial Minister, from the most flagrantly repudiating State of the Union, Minnesota; and Hie Republicans in the Senate, in a body, form a copartnership with the man whom they have all arraigned as a “vile repudiator.” The country will not fail to take not'ce of these facts. It is expected that many individual members of the Republican organization will be devoted singly to the spoils. It was not expected by the country that by notoTiously-corrupt methods the Republican members of the Senate of the United States, together with the re-cently-elected Vice President of the United States, and by his vote of doubtful legality, and by the sanction of the newly-inagurated President, whose inaugural address contained such beautiful words concerning the reform of the civil service, the purity of administration, the sacreduess of suffrage and idealism in government, w r ould, as one man, wade through corruption to a partnership which they have pronounced ignoble and dishonorable, to the seizure of some party spoils. The firm of Mahone & Co. will take a prominent place in our history, just as the theft of the Presidency, four years ago, will always be conspicuous in our annals.—Cincinnati Enquirer.

The Free-Trade Movement.

A recent telegram from New York says : Congressman Hurd, of Ohio, is just now very busy in this city organizing free-trade leagues, with the view of making the movement national. He says the intention is to have a league in in every State in the Union before the year is out, with the parent society in Washington and the financial and executive bureau here. The campaign is to be pushed something aftej the fashion of the Land League in Ireland, subordinate societies reporting periodically to headquarters for counsel and instruction. The idea seems to be that the Democrats lost the last Presidential election solely in consequence of the msimanagement of the tariff issue, and it is part of the programme of the new organization to prevent like mismanagement in future. At the same time the aim will be not to make it appear an exclusively Democratic movement, and to that end it is quite likely several Western Republicans will have a place in the management. Mr. Hurd has no doubt that free trade will overtop all other issues in the next Presidential election, and that, as the people need to have clear ideas on the subject, it is not a moment too soon to commence agitating the question. He would not be surprised if the next State ejection in

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Ohio would turn on this question. Cooperating with Mr. Hurd are many wellknown New York gentlemen of large means, who have only been sentimental free-traders heretofore, but who have pledged themselves to take a more active part in the agitation in future. As soon as the State leagues are thoroughly organized a series of public meetings throughout the country will follow.

SENATOR DAVID DAVIS.

His Speech in Ihe United Stilton Senate Defining - llia> Political Matin. Mr. President, before casting my vote on this occasion it is proper for me to state the reasons that determine it. In 1877 the Legislature of Illinois unexpectedly elected me Senator. I was not m any sense a candidate for this honor, and when applied to for the use of my name I declined to answer the request. Numerically the Republicans had a plurality of that Legi-lajtuuui and my distinguished colleague (Mi - . Logan) was their nominee. The Democrats stood next in strength, and a small body of Independents held the balance of power. The two last united, and they voluntarily conferred upon mq toe distinction which I now hold. No man ever entered Congress freer fiom political committals or from personal obligations than I did four years ago. I had been identified with the Republican party, and still look back with pride to its grand achievements. The extreme measures after the war and the excesses incident to civil strife drove tens of thousands into the Liberal movement of 1872. I found myself in company with Charles Francis Adams, Horace Greeley, Carl Scliurz, Stanley Matthews, Reubon E. Fenton, Murat Halstead, Charles Sumner, Lyman Trumbull, Samuel Bowles, John Wentworth, Whitelaw Reid, Leonard Swett, and others known to fame, who had been conspicuoui Republicans. Some of them have returned to the fold from which thev had separated, doubtless prompted by patriotic motives. I have never acted distinctively with the Democratic party, and unless its methods change and its wdsdom is broadened there is little prospect of my revising opinions calmly formed. The country would be materially benefited by a reconstruction of parties, especially since the errors of one seem unhappily contrived to prolong possession of power in the other. Standing between these two great organizations, and exposed to the carpings of the organs of both, who regard independence of party as a crime, is not an agreeable position to occupy ; but it has suited my politics, because I could not accept either extreme. I have voted on all pub ic measures, without regard to their political origin, according to my convictions of right, and I propose to contmuo that course until the close of my Sen tonal term. Dreams of ambition do not disturb my sleep. When the day for retiring comes, I shall go hack to private life, as 1 came out of it, carrying with me the consciousness of having striven to discharge every duty. An honorable recognition of the trust generously confided to my keeping by Democratic votes in 1877 requires me to sustain the existing organization of the Senate, lor which I disclaim all responsibility. Parts of it are neither agreeable to my taste nor to my judgment. I do not refer to the formation of committees. , In giving this vote it is proper to say, whatever may be the result, that I can accept no honor at the hands of either side. A new administration is starting out under exceptional circumstances. The States were numerical y divided at the Presidential election. A few thousand votes separated the two principal candidates in a poll exceeding 9,000,001). Both branches of Congress are almost balanced. The country craves a respite from angry discord, and most of all it needs rest from sectional strife. The voice of patriotism demands peace and fraternal fellowship, North and South, East and West. Every good citizen should desire the success of the administration, for we all ought to have a common interest in the glory and m the greatness of the rt public. Measures intended to advance either shall have my cordial support. The President and his Cabinet are entitled to a fair hearing, and to be judged impartially by their acts. If they fail to justify the public confidence, it will be a misfortune which has overtaken otlier administrations having equally good intentions and prospects. Itlollows from what I have said that 1 shall vote for the formation of all the committees as reported by the Senator from Ohio, except the Committee on the Judiciary. I wish to retain my old place on that committee; and, profoundly thankful to my Democratic friends lor the distinguished honor of being placed at the head Ot that committee, I must decline that position.

Fashionable Dogs.

“The fashion in dogs,” said Mr. Dan Foster, the fancier, to a New York Sun reporter, “changes from year to year, the same as in women’s dresses. I should name as the most fashionable dogs at this time the rough-coated St. Bernard aud the English pug. The St. Bernard dogs are rare, but there is a demand for them reaching as far as Colorado. The pups are worth from SSO to SI,OOO. The English pug is a dog that went and came. He has undergone vicissitudes, he has. Near a hundred years ago there wasn’t a fashionable lady’s coach in England that didn’t have his singularly ugly muzzle poking out of it. He had been brought over by a sailor from Japan. The first strain imported was very black, and went to Lord Willoughby; the secoud, lighter, was brought over by the same sailor, and went to Mr. Morrison. By these names the two strains of pugs are still known. Ten years ago they were almost unknown here; now, fat and sleek, they may be seen by the score waddling with ladies in Broadway and looking out of curtained windows in Fifth avenue. They cost from $25 to S2OO each. Col. Sellers bought one, a male, at the bench show some years ago aud made the mistake of calling it Clytemnestra. The pug has no voice. He is worthy on account of his ugliness aud affection. “Then, for a scarce and fashionable dog, I should name next the King Charles spaniel. He first came to England as a present to Charles 11. from King Charles of Spain. I pretend to have a supply of dogs, but I own only a single pair of these, which I keep for breeding purposes. The male weighs five pounds and the female seven pounds. The animal is black and tan in color, and is worth from SIOO to S2OO. “Then comes the small black and tan, a common lady’s pet, with a bark so big that it shakes him all over; he is worth from $25 to $125, according to his size and marking. The small bull and terrier is a pet of fashionable men. He “pure white, and is worth from SSO to $250. And the Japanese pug is a remarkably fashionable dog. He rides in carriages that have coats of arms on their panels. He is rough coated, and is black and white or yellow and white, and he costs $l5O and 200. “Did you ever,” continued the fancier, relapsing into the region of soul, “see a Scotch colly? He is as soft and beautiful as a dream. He’s got eyes like a maiden in love. He is very rare in America. Mr. Joe Jefferson, the actor, had one, and I presume has him now, that was a beauty. A colly would cost from SSO to S3OO. Then, I shall name, to close the list, the Italian greyhound, which is worth from $25 to $150.” A baby is not a very large thing—- “ only a baby,” says the poet—and yet this inconsequential package of tender humanity will, with scarcely an apparent effort, drown the heavy breathings of a mighty engine, outbellow the raging ocean, banish sleep from two decks of a steamboat, and chain the attention of a thousand sleepy paegengers for &eyen consecutive hours.

tQemocrutii JOB PRIHTIMO OFFICE Km better (mOIUm than any office la Worth wm Ur* Indian* for the execution of ail branches of JOB PRINTINO. %ii i i PROMPTNESS A SPECIALTY. Anything, from a Dodger to a Prioe-Uet, or front • ramphlet to a Footer, black or oolored, plain or fancy. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.

ELOCUTIONARY ASPIRANTS.

Queer Persona Whs Think They Possess Drnnsnlle Tnlent. (From th« New York Sun. 1 “There Are some queer persons who try to learn elocution,” a well-spoken prefessor Baid. “It is really surprising to see with what persistence those who are positively disqualified will strive to acquire the declamatory art. Public school education is responsible for a good deal of this. Take a class of college boys; they are almost men. Their tastes and capacities are thoroughly marked. It is obvious that some of them have no aptitude for elocution. Their voices are inadequate; their action is irretrievably bad. Yet the 'curriculum requires that they should declaim regularly. No amount of natural disqualification relieves them from this duty. The result is that they only furnish sport for their companions, and go 'tliWElgfiWie college course with only a perfunctory performance of this part, of their duties. Of course, this in direct conflict with the most advanced thought on the subject of education. Both common sense and science dictate that it is a waste of time to try to teach sonic persons some things. Vast sums o money and long periods of time mis. lit be skved by refraining from attempts to perform the impossible in teaching. “But there are some funny instances of persons of more mature years trying to learn elocution. Persons who nave had little or no education in school, who can neither read nor pronounqe, to whom a proper name is an insurmountable obstacle and a word beyond the commonplace a rubicou, think they can be fitted to shine in elocution. Those persons always trip up on pronunciation. They make the most ludicrous blunders without the faintest conception why they aro laughed at. You may say that we ought not to try to teach such persons. You might as well say that a dry goods merchant should not sell unbecoming goods. Here is a young fellow who is doing moderately well iu business. He goes into company and finds that eloention is all the rage. He secs others brought into prominence by readings and recitations. Ho thiuks that he can make his mark, and he comes to me or some other professor to get instruction. I had a young grocer who took a notion to reud Shakespearean pieces. Ho tripped over every unusual word, he stumbled over every proper name, and he absolutely fell down on the point of memory. It was only by dint of bard hammering that I could get him drilled into one twentyminute reading. Filially I got tired of taking liis money, and had to send him away. “Then I had a fat, fussy little fellow, who took anotion to play Hamlet with a dramatic association. I told him frankly that his physique was not fit for the character. Imagine the melancholy Dane with a paunch! I had a big butcher once who wanted to play “Claude Melnotte.” He was better fitted to lug a side of beef than to toy with “Pauline.” It seemed wrong to take his money, but I was afraid to tell him the truth. I believe the audience cured him at his first and last attempt. But the climax of absurdity was a little bantam fellow, who took a fancy for heavy parts. He wanted to play CoriolanuH or Jiichard 111., or other parts that required voice and action. I never saw him trying one of those characters without thinking of tlie fable of the toad and the ox. His tragedy was always very funny. When I first began teaching I used to try to get these fellows to listen to the truth. I got no thanks for my honesty, and only lost my Customers. Now, when any one comes to me to be taught I do the best I can to teach him. I never get tired taking their money as long as they don’t get tiried paying.

Sacrificed.

Wordsworth, in his “Ode to Duty/’ prays, “Give unto mu, midn lowly wise, Tlie spirit ot self-s icrittce." An incident occurred in a boys’ school, some years ago, which illustrates the spirit of the self-sacrifice which the poet craved. One day, there landed in New York a number of German immigrants in great destitution. Tlie principal of the school called the boys together. Reading to them from a newspaper a statement of the emigrants’ distress, he asked-whether they would give something to relieve the poor Germans. Instantly there were vociferous offers. “I’ll give two dollars;” “I ll give one;” “I’ll give three,” cried out the excited boys, until a large sum was subscribed. But all the boys together had oniy enough pocket money to pay a small part of the amount. The principal said to them that undoubtedly their parents would pav the sums named if made an item of charge in the school bills. But what he wanted to know was whether they would give their own alms, without calling upon their parents. “Are you willing to give these poor creatures your dinner?” lie asked. The boys assenting, it was decided to select two of the most expensive dinners, to make their own meal on bread and molasses, and to give the difference in cost to the destitute emigrants. As the school was a large one, this difference was represented by a sum of money which greatly relieved the sufferers. But the Doys were also benefited. They were taught a lesson in self-denial, and he that giveth best who giveth that which cost him something.

Crime and Superstition.

Catherine De Medicis, one of the French queens noted for vice and cruelty, was a victim to superstitions fears. Her public policy was bold, and she was generally thought to lie a woman of great courage and unfailing resources. Her reign, and her subsequent administration as Queen Mother to the Jroung king, was a brilliant period iu the listory of the French Court. She fascinated strangers by her elegant manners, and corrupted great statesmen by the wiles of eburt beauties. But the great Queen was a genuine coward. An astrologer attended her in the palace and in all her journeys. She never engaged in any enterprise without consulting the stars, and after her death a great variety of amulets and charms were found on her person. In the last year of her life a great comet blazed in the heavens. It frightened her terribly as an omen of coming death. It shone in the windows of the palace at a great feast, and she could not sit in quiet till all the shutters were closed, and the gloomy portent was shut out Tub Duke of Devonshire has a private park and flower garden at Chatsworth, containing 2,000 acres of land, the finest private grounds in England. The flower garden alone employs e**ty laborers,