Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1881 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. East The Eagle dock, in Hoboken, N. J., caught fire and was destroyed, with two full cargoes of merchandise and several barges anc lighters. The loss is estimated at $500,000. By the collapse of two three-story tenement houses at the corner of South Fifth avenue and Grand street, New York, ten of the occupants were killed, several fatally and others seriously injured. The buildings were of brick and about 50 years old. Through the breaking of a steel twisted rope the elevatoi of the Belvidere Hotel, New York, fell from the fifth floor to the basement, fatally injuring John Mercer, a porter, and seriously injuring four other persons.

West. R. K. Scott, ex-Govemor of South Carolina, was tried at Napoleon, Ohio, for the murder of Warren G. Drury, and acquitted. A divorce granted to Mrs. Anton Stein, of lowa City, was speedily followed by a triple tragedy. The discarded husband killed his former partner with a butcher knife, inflicted fatal wounds on the throat of her mother, and ended his own life by poison. Stein was a Polish adventurer, and was at one time connected with a German newspaper in Chicago. The guard at the grave of President Garfield has been reduced to a non-commis-sioned officer and ten men, who are camping in the cemetery. Col. Watson B. Smith, Clerk of the United States Court at Omaha, was found dead in his office, having been shot by some unknown assassin. Col. Smith was a strong temperance man, had taken an active part in enforcing the High-Li-cense law and the Sunday-Closing law, and had thus incurred the enmity of the liquor men. He had received a number of letters threatening him with death if he persisted in his opposition to the liquor traffic, and it is thought (hat he was murdered because he did not heed the threats. The murder has caused great indignation*among the respectable people of Omaha and throughout Nebraska, where CoL Smith was well and favorably known.

A party of hunters near Fort Steele, Wy. Ter., used arsenic by mistake for cooking purposes, instead of baking powder, and nearly all of them died from the effects of the dose. Oapt. J. N. Dubois, a well-known member of the Kansas City Board of Trade, and a prominent wool and hide dealer, swindled parties by means of forged and raised bills of lading to the amount of over $30,000, and has fled to escape arrest. A Chinese missionary student named Ah Kim, at Marietta (Ohio) College, committed suicide with a dose of chloral or chloroform because a servant girl had rejected his proffered love. The damage done by the recent overflow of the Mississippi in the Warsaw drainage district is estimated at $600,000 ; in the Indian Grave district at $750,000 ; in the Sny Island district at $1,000,000 ; in Quincy bay and city, $30,000 ; in and about Alexandria, Mo., $250,000; and at Keokuk and vicinity, SIOO,OOO. The total damage is estimated at $3,005,000. Mrs. Sarah A. Mosely, aged 111, died at Madison, Ind. Ed Williams, one of the notorious Williams brothers, was arrested at Grand Island, Neb., and taken back to Wisconsin. Two cow-boys were arrested for dealing in stolen stock, and were imprisoned at Bhakspeare, Arizona. A dozen masked men entered the jail, overpowered the guard and hanged the two cow-boys to a joist. John T. Smarr, a prominent wholesale grocer of Kansas City, was shot and killed by H. J. Bussell, a liveryman, without provocation. Sergeant John Hamm, who went to Old Fort Howard, Wisconsin, in 1820, and has never since been out of town but once, has passed away from earth.

South.. About 100 white and colored citizens of Greenwood, 8. C., lynched a negro named Robert Williams for an assault on a white girl. Similar justic was meted'out to a color ed citizen near Manchester, Tenn. The Governor of Louisiana has called an extra session of the State Legislature. At Marion Station, Miss., on election day, a band of negroes opened fire on the whites at the polls, by which four white men were killed and two seriously wounded. A. T. Harvey, Democratic candidate for County Assessor, was slain. Two armed squads went to the scene of the trouble from Meridian, and found 100 negroes barricaded in th# house of Edward Vance. After a fight, in which John Vance, colored, and A. G. Warren, of the Sheriff’s posse, were killed, about thirty negroes escaped to the woods, under a hot fire. Philip E. Sullivan, one of the Arkansas train robbers, a young man of intelligence and good manners, died of a broken heart in the penitentiary at Little Rock, to which he had been committed for seventy years. The conductor and engineer of a railroad train have been indicted for murder at Danville, Ky., for having by recklessness caused a collision in which five men were killed. The State House at Austin, Tex., has been destroyed by fire. The archives of the republic of Texas, the battle flags, and the Alamo monument were destroyed. The fire is suppose dto be the work of incendiaries. The loss is estimated at $300,000. The cotton crop of Georgia this year is about 30 per cent short of the crop of last year. ’ A Georgia distiller, who had been mulcted of a package of illicit whisky, shot and killed the man whom he suspected of being the informant. Commissioner Raum has issued orders to use every possible means to secure the arrest of the murderer. POLITICAL POINTS. It is reported that the President has decided upon a policy with regard to Fedora appointments in the Territories which will meet with the approval of the people of the Territories. It is, so far as practicable, to select the Government officials from the inhabitants of the Territory. It is said that the Riddleberger bill is to be rushed through the Virginia Legislature, scaling the principal of the State debt from $30,000,000 to $20,000,000, and reducing the interest from 6 per cent to 3. WASHINGTON NOTES. The Treasury Department has in stoie about $2,000,000 in Confederate bonds and $50,000,000 in notes, beside a large quantity of certificates of indebtedness issued by the Confederate Govtrnmeni, ranging from SSO to $300,000 in amount. District Attorney Corkhill arose in be Criminal Court of Washington and made a

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statement to clear himself of the charges made against him in the press of having acted supinely in the matter of prosecuting the starroute cases.. The burden of the story was that Mr. MacVeagh was solely to blame in the premises. In response, Judge Cox exonerated Corkhill. A big lobby with plenty of money will, it is said, labor with the next Congress to secure a reduction of the whisky tax from 90 cents to 50 cents a gallon. Gen. Sherman pointedly ignored the instructions of Secretary Lincoln in giving his annual report to the press without submitting it, as he should have done, to his superior, and there is trouble in consequence. Sherman's comments and criticisms on the engineers have given offense to the engineers. All the personal effects of President Garfield, stored at the White House, were last week placed in special cars tendered by the Pennsylvania road and taken to Mentor. An Alderney cow given to the President goes to Cleveland, and the horses remain in charge of Gen. Swaim. Commissioner Baum will order an examination into the materials used in the manufacture of beer in all parts of the United States. It is predicted that in his forthcoming Message the President will recommend the abolition of the tax on medicines and bank checks, with other reductions amounting to $7,000,000 per annum. Following is the text of the President’s Thanksgiving proclamation: It han long been, the pious custom of our people, with the cloning of the year, to look back upon the blessings brought to them in the changing course ol seaHoiiH, and to return solemn thanks to the allgiving tource from whom they flow; and, although at tills period, when the falling leaf admonirhoi us that the time of our sacred duty is at hand, our nation still lies in the shadow of its great bereavement, and the mourning which has filled our hearts still finds sorrowful expression toward the. God before whom we but lately bowed in grief and supplication, yet the countless benefits which have showered upon us during the past twelve months call for our fervent gratitude and make it fitting that we should rejoice with thankfulness that the Lord in His infinite mercy has most signally favored our country and our people. Peace without and prosperity within have been vouchsafed to us. No pestilence has visited our shores. The abundant privileges of freedom which ohr lathers left us in their wisdom are still our increasing heritage, and if in parts of our vast domain some affliction has visited our brethren in their forest homes, yet even this calamity has been tempered and in a manner sanctified by the generous comjftssiou for the sufferers which has been called forth ' throughout our land. For all there things it is meet that thh voice of the nation should go up to God in devout homage. Wherefore I, Chester A. Arthur, President of the United States, do recommend that all the people observe Thursday, the 24th day of November, instant, as a day of national thanksgiving and prayer, by ceasing, so far as may be, from their secular labors, and meeting in their several places of worship, there to join in ascribing honor and praise to Almighty . God, whose goodness has been so manifest in our history and in our lives, and offering earnest prayers that Ills bounties may continue to us aud to our children. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington, this 4th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and sixth. . Chester A. Abthus. 11l the star-route cases, in the District Supreme Court, Judge Cox quashed the information filed against Brady, French, Turner and Brown, charged with frauds against the Government, and ordered that they be set free. After the Judge’s decision had been rendered, Mr. William Cook, of special counsel for the Government, made a long speech excul- I patorv of himself, his brother counsel and At- I torney General MacVeagh. Cook now proposes to bring the cases before the Grand Jury at an early date.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The Arctic relief steamer Rogers made the discovery that Wrangell Land is an island. A sledge party will be sent out from winter quarters to explore the coast of Siberia. In a letter to Cyrus W. Field, Mrs. Garfield expresses the thanks of herself and children for the magnificent pecuniary testimonial to the memory of the President made by the American public, coupled with the hope that it will be used in a way worthy of the illustrious dead. Another great robbery of the Government in Havana. The treasury assessment books were purloined by a dishonest clerk, and for want of them the Government suffers a loss of $20,000,000. Contractors on the Canadian Pacific road in British Columbia are about to import 1,000 Chinese laborers.

FOREIGN NEWS. Egan’s advice to the farmers of Ireland is to pay no rent, avoid the Land Court and hold the harvest. A manifesto to this effect has been clandestinely circulated throughout Ireland. The greatest of the Irish Catholic Bishops, probably the greatest man of the Catholic Church in Ireland since the Reformation, John McHale, Archbishop of Tuam, is dead. He was in his 91st year. Lord Byron’s statue was unveiled at Missolonghi, Greece, where he died. The ceremony was attended by great popular enthusiasm. Miss Emma Smith, of Peoria, 111., has been admitted to the histological department of the Leipzig (Prussia) University, being the first lady ever accorded that honor. To facilitate the working of the Land act new Commissioners have been appointed, of whom six are practical agriculturists and three are barristers. Arthur Lefroy, who murdered a merchant named Gold in an English railway car, has been convicted and sentenced to death. He maintains that he is innocent. The applications before the Irish Land Commission number 17,761. On the Brown estate, in Mayo, the tenants agreed to take leases for fifteen years at a reduction of from 3 to 10 shillings per year. At Limerick, in the case of a tenant holding over three acres of land, the rent was reduced from £l9 to £9. The Lord Mayor’s show in London was remarkable for the honors done to the American flag. The era of peace and good will between the two great nations was thoroughly inaugurated by English sympathy for the American bereavement, and it has been further strengthened by the honor done to the flag of England at Yorktown and the honors paid by the Londoners and their Chief Magis trate to the star-spangled banner. Mr. Gladstone, speaking at the Lord Mayor's banquet in London, justified his Irish policy by saying it was necessary to take strong measures to defend public law and private liberty. He said that the people of Ireland are now determined to make a full trial of the Land act, which will be impartially administered. He condemned the practice of boycotting, and said that there was a growing disposition on the part of Irish tenants to fulfill their engagements, and added that those who declined tc do this are those who are well able to do so. The Mikado of Japan has issued a proclamation of his intention to establish a constitutional form of Government Premier Ferry and his colleagues tendered their resignation to President Grevy, at Paris, and they were accepted as a matter of course. Gambetta was then sent for and intruded with the formation of a new Cabinet, and he has accepted the trust

JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 18, 1881.

The King of Ashantee had 200 young girls killed recently that he might obtain their blood for use in mixing mortar for the repair of the state buildings. The report of the massacre is made by one of the intended victims, who succeeded in making good her escape. Confederate bonds have fallen to 12 shillings 6 pence per SI,OOO in the London market.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The various departments at Washington have completed the estimates for the next fiscal year. Nearly every department will ask for an increase over the amount voted last year. The Secretary of War will ask for $2,000,000 pn account of the increase in the price of supplies. The Interior Department will ask for $100,000,000 for pensions, of which $65,000,000 are for “accrued” pensions; and the Navy Department will ask for $31,000,000 for new ships. The Postoffice Department is nearly self-sustaining, and no demands will be made on Congress for any large appropriation. A horrible railroad slaughter occurred near Corsicana, Texas. A freight train on the International and Great Northern road ran into a gang of convicts, killing twenty-three and wounding a large number. The accident was caused by an open switch. CoL Cook, of the prosecuting counsel in the star-route cases, says that the recent defeat does not mean that the star-route cases will be. abandoned. On the contrary, he says the prosecution will be vigorously and zealously pushed. The cases will bo brought up in the Police Court in a few weeks, when it is expected that the riugsters will be held to the next Grand Jury. CoL Cook and his associates have no faith in the present Grand .Jury. The Conimissioner of Pensions takes a very liberal view of the necessities of the pension service. He says ho will ask Congress for $20,000,000 to cover a deficiency in the disbursements of the present fiscal year, while $100,000,000 is the lowest estimate for the next fiscal year. In addition to that, he says that it would be better if Congress would make an appropriation of $200,000,000 and increase the clerical force so that the arrears of pensions can be speedily settled. As, after they were once settled, the annual appropriation would be reduced to $40,000,000. Rains for two months in Southwestern Texas have raised the waters of the Rio Grande to the highest point known since the Mexican war. Matamoras is badly flooded. Joe Harris, colored, was hanged at Greensboro, Ga., for the murder of Ezekiel Langston. Henry Jenkins was hanged at Fayetteville, W. Va., for the murder of Winfield Saunders on the 16th of May last. Felix Munshower was hanged at 'Frederick, Md., for the murder of J. L. Wctzell in August, 1879. A great part of the town of Woodstock, N. 8., was destroyed by fire. The conflagration is believed to be the work of incendiaries, as the fire broke out at several places far apart. About eighty houses aud the Baptist and Episcopal churches were destroyed. The loss is placed at SBO,OOO. A fire at Modesto, Stanislaus county, Cal., destroyed SIOO,OOO worth of ' property. W. E. Tanner & Co’s manufactory at Richmond, Va., valued at SIOO,OOO, and insured, was burned. Four hotels at Old Orchard, Me., valued at $72,000, were reduced to ashes. The Atlantic Flouring Mills at Denver, Col., valued at $40,000 and insured for $25,000, were destroyed by fire. The damage done by bush fires the past season in the. Province of Ontario aggregates $2,500,000, the Lindsay district suffering the worst. The Irish landlords and their sympathizers are howling -against the decisions of the Land Court reducing rents, and the landlords are demanding compensation from the Government Cholera is decimating the British troops in Barbadoes.

NOVEMBER FLECTIONS.

Elections were held in twelve States, on Tuesday, Nov. 8. The general result of the polling is summarized below. In New York, Maxwell, Democrat is elected State Treasurer, and Carr, Republican, Secretary of State. The Democrats have a majority of two in the State Senate, and a majority of six in the Assembly. The four Congressmen elected to fill v.ci.ncics arc equally divided between the Republicans and Democrats, being a Republican loss of one. The Democratic majority m New Yoik city is 37,000. Brooklyn elected a Republican Mayor, Sheriff, Supervisor-at-Large, ten (out of a total of thirteen) Supervisors, and rive Aidermen. In Pennsylvania, Bailey, Republican, is elected State Treasurer by about 7,000 majority. Massachusetts, with but two towns to hear from, made the following vote for Governor: Long (Bep.), 96,582 ; Thompson (Dem.), 53,558 ; Andrews (Prohibition), 4,775; Almy (Greenback), 1,741. The Legislature is largely Republican. In Connecticut, out of fourteen Senators voted for, the Republicans elected ten, which gives them seventeen out of twenty-four in the Senate. The House stands 149 Republicans to 98 D mocrats, a Democratic gain of eighteen ov< r last year’s election. In Wisconsin the Republican State ticket is elected by majorities ranging from 5,000 to 7.000. The Republicans have a good working majority in both branches of the Legislature. In Virginia the Readj usters have elected their candidate for Governor (Cameron), and captun d a majority of the members of both branches of the Legislature. The Democrats carry Maryland by a good loiind majority, though the Republicans gain several members of the General Assembly. In Mississippi the Democrats sweep everything, the majority for Lowerv for Governor being estimated at 25,0C0 to 30,000. In Minne. ota, Hubbard, Republican, is elected Governor by a majority estimated at 25,000. All the constitutional amendments of general effect were adopted. The land-bond proposition was defeated. The election in Colorado was for the purpose of locating the State capital, and resulted in a victory for Denver by a large majority. In New Jersey an election was held "for members of the General Assembly. The Democrats gained three members of the Senate and four members of the House. The Republicans will, however, have a small majority on joint ballot. The election in Nebraska was a very quiet affair throughout the State. The Republican candidates for Supreme Judges and University Regents were elected by majorities ranging from 18,000 to 21,000. The Sun Worshipped From a Volcano, I write this from Mount Friji, the highest mountain in Japan. It is an immense volcano, nearly 13,000 feel high, and a famous resort for pilgrims. I am told that during the season when it can be ascended, which is in July and August, the number of piligrftns visiting it average about five hundred per day. The ascent is very steep and difficult, yet it can be made in a day. There are numerous stations or resting-places on the way up—little stone huts covered with boards and heavily laden with stones to keep them from being swept away by the high winds. The scene from the summit at sunrise is indescribably grand and it is an object with the piligrims to be there at that time and worship the rising sun. This morning hundreds of them were gathered iu its crest, with clasped hands, and chanting their prayers with a loud voice, their voices sounding far off through the clear air.— Japan Letter.

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

THE ARMY.

Gew. Sherman’i Annual Report. Gen. Sherman has submitted his annual report to the Secretary of War, inclosing the reports of Gens. Drum and Sackett antl tiereports of the commanding Generals of the divisions and departments. The General says, referring to the reports of the latter, that they all show that our companies are too small for efficient discipline aud for economical service. When the treasury was poor and loaded with debt, the army endeavored to gracefully submit to overwork, but now, says Gen. Sherman, they appeal for relief, and it is recommended that Congress repeal that clause of the existing law which limits the enlisted force of the army to 25,000 men. Considerable space is devoted to the discussion of the subject of officers’ servants, Gen. Sherman maintaining that no soldier should ever be compelled to do menial labor without compensation, or without his consent, and he recommends that the existing law be repealed or modified so as to secure this end. Referring to West Point, he says it has been, and must continue to be, the fountain-source of military education in time of peace. In his judgment, the military academy at West Point fulfills its uses, and can safely be intrusted to prepare boys to become the soldiers of the future. There are in the army 430 companies, necessarily widely scattered over our vast domain, to guard the property and prevent, as far as foresight can, complications • and troubles of' every variety and kind ; at one time protecting settlers against Indians, and, again. Indians against settlers. When these occur it is always sudden, and reinforcements have to be hurried forward from great distances and always at a heavy cost for transportation of men, horses, wagons and supplies. This cost in the aggregate will, iu my judgment, be more that sufficient to supply an increase of 20 per cent, of private soldiers —all that I would ask-for this time—because I believe this increase will add little, if any, to the annual cost of the army, and yet give great relief to our overtaxed soldiers. In the last ten years our frontiers have so extended under the protection of our small army as to add at least $1,000,000,000 to the taxable wealth of the nation. This has enabled emigrants to settle up remote parts of the country, and is the principal cause of the great prosperity which is felt throughout all parts of the country. When the national treasury was poor and loaded with debt, the army endeavored gracefully to submit to overwork, but they now appeal for relief; and I do most earnestly ask the honorable Secretary of War to apply to Congress to repeal that clause of the existing law which limits the enlisted force of the army to 25,000 men, aud to enact that each and every company in the army may be enlisted to at least fifty’privates, making sixty-two enlisted men and three officers to each 430 companies, thus increasing the army proper to 36,660 enlisted men, which number, in practice, will probably never exceed 25,000. ..This should form the combatant force ; aud, as experience and universal practice have demonstrated the necessity for another or non-combatant force, 1 further urge that special provision be made.by law for each of the following separate and distinct purposes—viz:

Engineer battalion 200 Permanent recruiting companies and parties... 250 Enlisted men detailed on general service (c'.erks) 420 Ordnance Department (laborers and mechanics) 400 West Point detachments (military academy).... 192 Prison guard at Fort Leavenworth (special).... 90 Hospital stewards 195 Ordnance Sergeants. U 2 Commissary Sergeants 150 Indian scouts 300 Signal detachment RvO Total 3,789 Which number, added to the 26,66,0 before explained, will mike the total enlisted force of every nature and kind 30,449. Gen. Sherman submits a statement of the actual number of enlisted meu in the regular army Oct. 15: Cavalry 6,882 Artillery2,4ol Infantry 1i>,530 Total combatantsl9,Bls Non-combatants (engineer battalion, ordnance department, recruiting service, signal corps, etc.) 3,781 Total enlisted force of army 23,596 “Nearly every general officer commanding troops on the frontier asks for a larger increase than I have herein indicated, but this may be better accomplished by giving to the President the right to increase, at his discretion, companies most exposed to danger to any number of privates not exceeding 100, limited always in practice by the actual appropriations of money rather than by the fixed uumb.r of men.” The General asks for au increase of nine Majors in the Inspectors’ corps, and recommends that the whole question of coast defense be submitted to a board 0' high officers, while a similar board should comider the matter of military posts and stations now obsolete. These recommendations are wilh a view to the sale aud relief of the army from the care of useless forts, posts aud stations. Some old forts, Gen. Shennan admits, are worth retaining, and, in order that these may be properly taken care of, he recommends that ‘the President be authorized to transfer out of the class of enlisted meu who have served for twentyfive years or more, a number not to exceed 500, including Ordnance Sergeants (now 112), and establish a ‘veteran corps’ to be stationed at those old forts, with the rank and pay they held at the close of their active career of army service, to be subject to tffa rules and articles of war, but only te be used for guarding public propertv. One or two officers of the retired class andhalf a dozen of these old soldiers would compose a good garrison for an abandoned post or fort. By granting the retired officers thus detailed fuel and quarters, we would provide homes for worthy veterans, which would be most honorable and charitable to them and advantageous to the Government.” Gen. Sherman, in his remarks on West Point, says : “ The Board of Visitors substantially recommended that the Superintendent of the Military Academy should be a Colonel of Engineers. I will concede to the engineers al) they ask, but when war comes the engineer naturally takesrto maneuvering and parapets, whereas the infantry, cavalry and artillery must ‘go in’ and do the fighting. It was so in 1812, and 1846, and 1861-65. West Point is intended to make ‘ soldiers,’ and not professional engineers, and the word ‘soldier’ embraces everything in war. If the engineer be a better soldier than the infantry officer, then let him in war and peace have all the honor and emoluments. But our recent experience does not fulfill this assertion.” Gen. Sherman takes direct issue also with other recommendations of the Board of Visitors.

THE LAND COURT.

Consternation Among the Irish Landlords Over Its Verdicts. Dublin, Nov. 7. The Irish Land Court has given during the past week unequivocal indications of the spirit in which it intends to administer the Land act. Justice O'Hagan’s definition es a fair rent is such a rent as will enable the tenant to live and thrive, Thia was laid down at the opening of the court, a fortnight ago, and has since been applied by the Assistant Commissioners at Belfast with startling results to the rents on the Crawford estate, and on the corn-money tenant estate of Dundonald, both of which may be called rackrented. In both the rent was reduced an average of one-third all round. The Commissioners expressly said that neither estate had been managed with the liberality expected or usual with Irish landlords; hence the reduction is greater than the probable average. But these cases afford an example of what will happen to rack-rented estates generally. In both cases the Commissioners personally examined minutely the properties. There is no reason to suppose that their decision will be reversed if appealed from, nor is an appeal expected. The decision of the same Commission respecting improvements is regarded as still more formidable to the landlords. It substantially declares that improvements shall be presumed to have been made by the tenant unless the landlord can prove the contrary. This reverses completely the presumption suppoeod to have been created by the act, and shifts the burden of proof to the landlord, disregarding even express contracts between landlord and tenant, under which the improvements became the landlord’s. The result is that, in fixing a judicial rent, such improvements, which in many cases cover a large portion of the value of the property, will be considered as forming no part of the capital on which the landlord is entitled to receive rent. The decision has produced something like consternation among certain classesof landlords, and will certainly be appbaled from, though every act and yord yet proceeding fro© the

Land Court indicates that U la disposed to hold to this sweeping principle. The effect is an enormous increase in the busineßS of the court, which, before these decisions, had shown signs of becoming unmanageable. Applications pour in by the thousand. League organs are beginning to claim this a* ’ the result of their new policy. Being unable to prevent tenants from resorting to the court, they now encourage litigation with the view of creating a complete Hock. The truth is, the farmers are acting foi themselves, having understood from Justice O’Hagan’s opening address that the court wa! to be a Tenants' Court. From recent appearances the court will be called on to readjust the whole rental of Ireland. When, through a slip of the tongue, Mr. Smith, Registrar of the Land Court, proclaimed, on Oct. 19, that “the Court ol the Land League” was open, he unwittingly told the truth. Mr. Justice O’Hagan anc bis colleagues did not hesitate, at the opening day, to declare, almost in so manj words, that they intended to interpret th< Land act and to execute it solely in the interests of the tenant applicants, and the SubCommissioners are religiously living up to that profession. The landlords expected seven treatment, but they did not count on being absolutely garroted. Mr. Parnell made a greal point against the Government by declaring that who had beer evicted during the fierce agitation in the spring would lose the benefits of the act. But Mr. Justice O’Hagan has ruled that all tenants ejected within six months before Aug. 22 (the day the Land bill became a law) are entitled to its advantages ; and, furthermore, that when a reduction of rent is ordered it shall apply to all sales which have occurred since Aug’ 22. This sweeping interpretation of the foggy fiftieth and sixtieth sections of the act alarmed the landlords, and I believe some of them resolved on consulting eminent lawyers in Ireland and England, with the view of testing it* soundness. Rut they were told what they ought to have known—that the act makes the Land Commission a court of final jurisdiction, and that there is no appeal against its decisions, not even to the House of Lords.

THE SIGNAL SERVICE.

Report of Chief Hazen, The report of Gen. W. B. Hazen, Chief Signal Officer, contains many matters of interest, among which the following may be noticed; “ I have endeavored,” he says, “to bring this service into active sympathy and co-operation with the ablest scientific intellects of the country. In this direction and in response tc my request, the National Academy of Sciences has appointed an advisory committee of consulting specialists with which I may confer as occasion demands. I take pleasure in acknowledging this courtesy as showing the establishment of more intimate relations between the scientific interests of the United States and the Signal Service. “This year has been distinguished by additional progress aud by decided improvement, which I will briefly recite : The establishment, under your sanction, of a permanent school of instruction at Fort Myer, Va.; the raising of the standard of the personnel of the Signal Corps ; the systemization of the duties of the signal service ; the preparation of new instructions for observers of the service ; the preparation of new and improved forma for the recording and preservation of meteorological data ; the preparation of special bulletins for the press, containing weather information of public interest; the forecasts of weather, of not or cold waves for periods exceeding twenty-four hours ; the forecasts of “ northers ’ for the interior plateau ; the adoption of a new storm-signal (the cautionary Northwest) for the interior lakes ; the arrangement for the increase of river service, and wider publications of warnings of floods or ice-gorges ; the changes and improvements in the publication of the international bulletin and the monthly weather review, with their accompanying chartsj4he increased information added to the tenners’ aud to the railway bulletins; the organization of a service for the special benefit of the cotton interests of the South; the extension of special frost-warn-ing to the fruit interests of the country; the investigation into thermometric standards and into barometric standards; the preparation of new hygrometric tables containing correction for altitude; the revised determinations of the altitudes of signal-service stations; the computatfoh'of monthly constants for the reduction of observed barometric pressures to sea level; the arrangements for original investigation in atmospheric electricity, in anemometry and in actinometry, and in the last subject, especially With reference to the importance of solar radiation in agriculture and the absorption of the sun’s heat by the atmosphere ; the co-operation in an expedition to the summit of Mount Whitney, Cal., for the determination of problems in solar physics; in metrology, the preparation of conversion tables for the English and metric systems ; the co-operation in the dropping of time-balls at signal-service stations ; the publication in quarto form of special professional papers; the offering of prizes for essays of great merit on meteorological subjects ; the organization of State weather services ; the new investigation of danger-lines on Western rivers ; the organization and equipment of two expeditions for meteorological observation and research in the Arctic regions of America, one to be stationed at Lady Franklin bay, the other at Point Barrow, Alaska, both co-operating in this work with a system of stations established in the Polar’ region by international conference ; the establishment of a system of stations of observation in Alaska. “A series of experiments has been made with sun-flashes, with a view of improving upon the forms of heliograph to be adopted for the general uses of the army, and it is believed that the improved heliograph selected combines great simplicity with efficiency, and possesses many practical advantages, so far as known, over similar instruments in other services. . “During the past year stations of observation on the habits and ravages of the Rocky Mountain locusts or grasshoppers were established in those sections that the experience of past years has shown to be most exposed to the ravages of these pests. These stations were at Omaha, Grand Island, North Platte and Sidney, Neb.; Cheyenne, W. T.; Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo, CoL; Fort Sill, I. T.; Fort Elliott and all other stations on the United States military telegraph lines in Northern, Central and Southern Texas, and those on the northwestern military telegraph line in Dakota and Montana. Where civilians were employed in making the observations their services were voluntary and without compensation, the Government bearing the necessary expenses for stationery and telegraphing. “It is gratifying to state that not a single report of the ravages of locusts has reached this office, and their presence has been announced only at Grand Island, Neb., Fort Supply, L T., and Fort Elliott, Tex.; but in no instance has any danger been reported. “ This year, for the first time, the Chief Signal Officer has caused to be prepared and issued, twice daily, special bulletins for the press containing meteorological information of popular interest to a greater extent than can appear, for want of space, in the official synopses and indications. They treat especially of high winds, severe storms, tornadoes, heavy rainfalls, floods, extreme temperatures, sudden and great changes in temperature, frosts, temperatures specially reported from health resort 4 during the season when frequented, and, when the conditions sufficiently warrant, fair or rainy weather, as the case may be, predicted for two days in advance. There are also forecasted the movements of the so-called ‘warm waves ’ and ‘ cold waves.’

“In addition, the Chief Signal Officer causes to be regularly made, daily, each morning, by all officers who are liable for detail in the Indications Division, forecasts or deductions of the weather conditions for the day succeeding that on which the forecasts are made. If the result of these studies is sufficiently successful, indications will, in time, be issued for all districts for periods of more than one day. “ The river reports, giving the average depth of water and notices of the dangerous rises in the different great rivers of the interior, foi the benefit of the river commerce and the populations in the river valleys, have been regularly made, telegraphed, bulletined in frames, and also published by the press at the different river porta and citica “The manner in which these reports are prepared and used, and the mode by which a ‘danger-line ’ has been determined, with water below which there is considered to be no danger, while every rise above it is dangerous, have been sufficiently explained in preceding reports. “ The information published in reference to this danger-line, in connection with the daily reports of this office, has, on the occurrence of river floods, enabled those interested to judge of the probable limits of the rises of water to be expected at the different places on the river banks and of the dangers to be anticipated. Tbirkuowledge has made possible necessary precautions for safety.’’

JOHN SHERMAN.

The Testimony in the Pitney Investig&tion He Did Not Want Shown— When You are Secretary is a Good Time to Build a Barn. The Washington Sunday Gazette, in its comments upon the Treasury investigation, and upon the action of the Senate in refusing to call for the testimony, publishes what follows : The following is a part of the sworn testimony of the investigation as to how houses and stables were repaired : Work done by me (W. Paul Brown) in Government time, and paid for by the Government, while employed in the United States Treasury Department: By order of Mr. Frank Hessler, worked May 15, 16, 17, 18, 1878, on Secretary Sherman s stables, in Stanton alley. Charged to the Third Auditor’s Office. Making six large doors for Secretary Sherman. Charged to Second Auditor’s Office. June 13, 14, 1878—Working on Secretary Sherman’s stables. Charged to Supenntendent’s Office. July 6, 1878-Working on Secretary Sherman’s stnhleH. Charged to Organization Division. July 15, 1878—Working on Secretary Sherman’s stables. Charged to Register’s Office. Aug. 29, 1878 —Working two-eighths of a day on Secretary Sherman’s house, and twenty feet of sat>h cord. Charged to Bureau of StaWorking five-eighths of a day on Secretary Sherman’s house. Charged to Register’s Office. Working five-eighths of a day on Secretary , Sherman’s stables. Charged to the Register’s Office. September, 1878—Working six-eighths of a day on Secretary Sherman's house. Charged to National Bank Redemption Agency. September, 1878—Working five-eighths of a day on Secretary Sherman’s house. Charged to Register’s Office. Oct. 17, 1878 -Working four-eighths of > day on Secretary Sherman’s stables. Charged to Marine Hospital. Oct. 31,1878— Working three-eighths of a day on Secretary Sherman's house. Charged to Register’s file-room. Nov. 9, 1878 —Working three-eighths of a day at Secretary Sherman’s house. Charged to making drawing-boards for Supervising Architect’s Office. Nov. 18, 1878 —Working five-eighths of a day on Secretary Sherman’s house. Charged to making drawing-boards for Supervising Architect’s Office. Jan. 11, 1878—Working one-eighth of a day on Secretary Sherman’s stable, repairing drain spout. Charged to National Bank Redemption Agency. June 5, 1879—Making and fitting fly-screens for stable windows and doors. Charged to National Bank Redemption Agency. June 6, 1879—Working four-eighths of a day, repairing doors for manure-pits for Secretary Sherman. Charged to Marino Hospital. This W. Paul Brown also swore that he had done a great deal of which he kept no account, but for which he was similarly paid. His wages were $3 per day now. I will follow this by a letter regarding the Superintendent of the cabinet-shop, Frank Hessler, who directed Brown to do the work, just particularized, on Sherman’s house aud stable :

April 19, 1881.—In the spring of 1879 I made an affidavit against Frank Hessler, the present Superintendent of the cabinet-shop, to the Secretary of the Treasury, aud by him referred to the Chief Clerk for investigation, the charges being the taking of lumber belonging to the United States Government for his own private use at home without permission, and for using the time belonging to the Government for his own interest, and for having keys by which he would enter the hardware-room after the (then) Superintendent had left the bui’ding in the evening. Said affidavit had been read to the said Hessler in my presence, and that of the Superintendent of Buildings, which he acknowledged to be true. C. M. Miller. There was considerable testimony taken like that I lave instanced, but you won’t find any reference to it in the Meline report, and accompanying letters from Upton and Power. I think you now comprehend why such strenuous efforts were made to prevent the Senate from asking Mr. Windom to produce the tettimony. The flood of lively comment, however, has caused Sherman’s offering a resolution directing an investigation into the treasury contingent fund for a period of ten years past. He wanted it referred to the Committee on Finance. Good old, honest, precedent-hunting Senator Morrill is its Chairman. There never was anything more adroit. It is expected by this investigation to prevent another of broader scope. Even this narrow inquiry may be broken down under astute manipulation long before it reaches the hazy period. Mr. Sherman does not appear to advantage in all this. The resolution showing “how tc investi gate” deceives nobody.

Esthetic Stealing* in the Navy Yard. It is reported that petty abuses and stealings have been discovered at the navy yard here similar to the operations of Pitney with the contingent fund of the treasury. The story is that a magnificent set of furniture has been made in the cabinet shops at the navy yard, which was packed in boxes marked ‘ ‘ private property,’’and forwarded tothe home of one of the navy officials on Lake Champlain, atacosttothe Government of $800; that 200 small bronze propellers have been cast at the foundry out of Government material, and 200 small bronze anchors from the same material, all of which were made from the screw of the Farragut flagship Franklin. Seven sac similes of the cast of the bronze head of Lincoln were taken. These have been given to political friends. The total expense of such fancy work is reported to be SIO,OOO. — dispatch.

An Ex-Confederate on Army Reunions. Judge M. R. Cullen, of St. Louis, recently addressed the following letter to the Globe-Democrat of that city: The St. Louis Republican erroneously stated that I was present at the meeting ot ex-Con-federates who anticipated attending the reunion at Moberly, Mo. As your paper circulates largely among ex-Con federates, not only of this State, but of other States, will you permit me briefly to give some of the reasons which control me when I refuse to join in these “reunions?” I know I will not be misunderstood by my old comrades when I disagree with some of them as to the propriety of having these social gatherings. My feelings are as warm for them, personally, now as when years ago we were mutual aids in a common effort. These sectional distinctive reunions of the Union soldiers and the ex-Confederates, in my humble judgment, tend to revive not only tha agreeable associations and memories of friends, but to revive the slumbering r.ud expiring fires of the hearts of enemies. It seems to me the sooner we of both sides bury in oblivion the causes of the late war, the passions engendeied by that strife, and tho sorrowful wrongs or resplendent glories (if any there can be on either side) connected with our mutual misfortunes, the better it will be individually and collectively for every man, woman and child in the State and nation. In those nations where each party, the victor and conquered, meet separately to glorify themselves, the spirit of hostility is kept alive and transmitted from sire to son for many, many long years and generations, and in place of peace and prosperity, eternal hato is tho national calamity. I believe these separate reunions on both sides, Union and ex-Confeder-ate, will be the source of more heart-bickerings at least than any other scheme that can be devised by cunning politicians. I was a Confederate. I have no apology to make for my conduct. lam proud of the record of that people, but I am now a citizen of the American Union, and I will not do any act to keep alive sectional ill-feehng. I am satisfied we injure the cause of emigration to our State and the cause of our friends in the North when we assemble merely as the repreu ntatives of the Lost Cause. Both sides can appropriate the large amount of money expended in these.

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feasts more profitably by providing for the widows and orphans of the glorious dead, and for the relief of those unfortunate survivors who need assistance and a helping hand. I wish to see the day when the patriot’s tear that drops on the grave of the Confederate will trickle to the bier of the Union soldier, and the patriotic sigh for the Union soldier will echo from the tomb of the Confederate. Yours respectfully, M. R. Cullex, Formerly Colonel of Cavalry on Gen. Kirby Smith a Staff, C. 8. Army.

GOLD AND SILVER.

Prod net of the mines of the United State*. About two years ago Congress voted an appropriation of $5,000 for the collection of statistics touching the production of the precious metals in the United States. The work was assigned to the San Francisco Mint Bureau. The work of the compilers was completed about the Ist of January. The report makes a large volume of 395 pages, covering the bullion production in all the States yielding precious metals. Following is a statement of the product of gold and silver in the United States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880 : Gold. Silver. Total. Alaskas 6,000 $ $ 6,000 Arizona 400,000 2,000,000 2,400,000 California 17,500,000 1,100,000 18,600,000 Colorado 3,200,000 17,000,000 20,200,000 Dakota 3,600,000 70,000 3,670,000 Georgia 120,000 120,(00 Idaho 1,080,000 450,000 2,430,000 Montana 2,400,000 2,500,000 4,900,000 Nevada 4,800,000 10,700,000 15,700,(00 New Mexico 130,000 425,000 555,000 North Carolina... (15,000 95,000 Oregon 1,000,000 15,000 1,105,000 South Carolina... 15,000 15,000 Utah 210,000 4,740,000 4,950,000 Virginia 10,000 10,000 Washington Ter.. 410,000 410,000 Wyoming Ter.... 20,000 20,000 Other sources.... 14,000 14,000 Totalss36,ooo,ooo $30,200,000 $75,200,000 After completing the above table and fortifying the correctness of the total from every available source, statistics were gathered for the last half of the calendar year of 1880, in order to show the product from Jan. 1, 1880, to Dec. 31, 1880. The result shows only a comparatively slight variation from the reported yield for the fiscal year, and is given as confirmatory evidence of the accuracy of the table presented above. The purchases of silver for coinage purposes in 1880 were 24,659,600 ounces, valued at $28,694,800. It is estimated that $2,000,000 of this was foreign production. This would leave $26,700,000 for domestic production. The amount of silver exported in 1880 was $7,750,000, and the amount consumed in the arts was $4,000,000. This gives a total product of silver for the calendar year of $38,450,000, against $39,200,000 for the fiscal year. Following is a statement of the bullion production of the Pacific coast States and Territories, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1881, according to returns made by owners of mines to the Superintendent of the United States Mint at San Francisco, Cab: Gold. Silver. Total. Ca1if0rnia517,936,323 $ 757,525 $18,743,848 Nevada 2,534,792 7,776,818 10,311,610 Arizona Ter 554,547 7,796,306 8,350,823 Idaho Ter 1,541,634 1,078,316 2,620,568 Oregon 853,613 69,671 823,284 Washington Ter... 90,000 90,001) Alaska Ter 1,900 1,900 T0ta15523,462,197 $17,479,263 $40,942,033

A Mistake.

It happened in a rough mining town in Colorado. There was a grand ball at the ranch of Whisky Jack, a well-known charactor in the “diggings,” and the “ elite ” of the district responded to the call in full force. The party was held in a rickety old barn belonging to the host, and with a few red strips of flannel, a grotesque accumulation of mountain roses, and a row of dripping candles, the appointment of the place were perfect. My first partner in the giddy dance was the wife of the man who killed the village postmaster because he refused him a letter ; she was fat, fair and forty, and danced with the grace of a cow. My next partner was the daughter of this charming pair, a young girl just bursting into the loveliness of womanhood ; she was badly freck’ed, and sported a wart on her nose. My next partner was a blooming grass widow, a fresh arrival-; and then I rested. I began to comment on new faces in the room. My companion in this pleasant pastime was a heavy-bearded miner, uncouth, roughly dressed, tobacco slobbered, and very profane.. This was our first meeting, and I hoped it would be the last. “ There goes a hard looking case,” I whispered, as the wife of the man who hilled the postmaster sailed by. “ She’s a bad ’un. ” “ Yas,” replied the man, “I’d hate to have the critter step on me. What an elegant target she would make for a poor marksman !” “Yes,” I said, and turned my eyes on a tall, raw-boned creature sailing towards us supported by a little man with sandy whiskers and red-top boots. “ Here comes the boss.” “How ?” “ The boss, I say; ain’t she a lovely chimpanzee ?” “A what?” “ Chimpanzee!” He glared at me a moment and then reached for his revolver. “What is a chimpanzee ?” he growled fiercely, his red eyes growing large. I saw that I had made some mistake, and hastened to explain. “ Why—why,” I stammered, backing off, “ a chimpanzee is a lovely creature found in Africa—nothing so gorgeously beautiful as a chimpanzee. That is the highest compliment a lady can receive. ” “O !” and the man looked relieved. “ Yas, I think so, myself, stranger; she is a lovely champanzee; she’s my wife.”

Old Time Reformers.

It is the general opinion of the reformers of our day that they, or at most their immediate predecessors, were first in the field, and that all was darkness before. As far as suffrage is concerned, the fact that women could vote in New Jersey seventy or eighty years ago throws some doubt upon this claim. The suspicion is strengthened into conviction by an appeal to history. A Massachusetts woman has discovered that Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams, and generally his wisest counselor, as far back as 1774 wrote to him in behalf of woman’s. citizenship. He was at the time in attendance on the first Constitutional Congress at Philadelphia. She specially asked him to remember the ladies in the new code of laws and to treat them better than his ancestors had done. Mercy Otis, sister of James Otis, about the same time hit upon the since much used phrase of “ inherent rights,”'declaring that they “ belonged to all marikind, apd had all been conferred on all by the God of nations. ” These are old ffulnoritej according to the American standard *ol antiquity, but we think Semiramis aefl Zenobir, saying nothing of other ancierft" women of note, must have held very much the same idea of the equality the sexes. If no utterances of theirs tm this effect are extant, their careers'can. still be studied, and “actions speak louder than words.” The annual product of gold is now less than $100,000,000, and its foreign coinage is practically suspended. In the United States the production has gradually diminished. In 1878 it was $47,266,107; in 1879, it was $38,900,000; in 1880. $36,000,000.

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INDIANA NEWS.

Mbs. Nano; Clem, confined at the Reformatory, is reported to be in bad health. The attempt to have water-works at Richmond was defeated by a large vote at the polls. Small-pox is raging at Madison, and the public schools have been closed in consequence. Miss Alice Dunham, daughter of the late Judge Cyrus Dunham, of New Albany. has joined a theatrical combination. Seymour L. Fierce, city clerk of Shelbyville, has just succeeded in securing a back pension which amounts to $2,800. The post-office at Belle Union, Putnam county, was burglarized, the thieves making away with several hundred stamps and $lO in money. Calvin Fletcher, fish commissioner of Indiana, has gone to Washington to purchase SSOO worth of carp with which to stock the Wabash and Eel rivers. George W. Stephenson, president of of the Muncie school board, has been arrested, charged with bribery in securing his election as a member of the board. • U At Taylorsville, Bartholomew county, Jerry Toleu, a well-digger, was nearly drowned by the sudden inrushing of water while he was at work in the bottom of a well. The total additions to the Indiana geological cabinet this year number upward of 1,000 specimens, and its collection of upper Silurian fossils is unequaled in the West. A farmer named Ballanger, living near Hagerstown, Wayne county, was stung on the neck by a bee. His whole face became covered with hideous sores, and, as a result of the iting, he has become insane. •: ' . A stone train, in running backward on a swifch near Greenburg, Decatur county, struck a horse, ditching several cars. The conductor, Milt Bryfin, was killed, and a brakeman seriously injured. . .i An intelligent township trustee in Owen county sends the following report to the bureau of statistics regarding the vocations of women: “ Onr women marry early, and their husbands live long and die hard.

A report from Bedford says: Tomato; watermelon, and pumpkin vinos full of half natured fruit, and new potatoes the size of pigeons’ eggs, at this season of the year are rather unusual in this latitude, but we have them. New Indiana patents; J. P. Bond, Warsaw, grain-cleaner; H. Coker, Indianapolis, steam grain-dryer; C. G. Conn, Elkhart, piston-valve musical instrument; J. 11. Gilbert, .Qharlestown, chair or stool; T. Scantlin, Evansville, self-measuring oil-can; O. Stechhiin, Indianapolis, bod-lounge. The Supreme Court of this State has decided that a conveyance of real estate to an assignee in bankruptcy was a judicial sale under State law. The one-third dower of a wife then becomes an actual estate, and the court holds that the wife cannot be relieved from her responsibility for a mortgage on the entire premises in which she joined; a sale of the husband’s two-thirds will not satisfy the mortgage. There has been a movement on the part of wives of bankrupts to set up claims to one-third of all real estate, under the State law, but this decision settles that question. The Indiana Baptist State Convention held its annual session at Terre Haute. The Rev. S. E. Jjeonard was .elected President, and the Rev, S. H. Elgin Secretary. The report of the board shows that twelve missionaries have been sustained during the year. Moro than $14,000 has been raised, t It was shown tliat 300 towns in the State w.ore without a Baptist church. The subject of education was thoroughly considered, including the relation of Franklin College to the Church. Sunday-school work and home missions were also discussed. There was a large attendance of ministers and others. Brown county is one of the smallest counties in this State, and at the same time one of the very best, so far as hills and hollows are concerned. For years ffold has been known to exist within its imifs, and in 1850 there was a great rush of people’from the adjoining countries into it, who went in search of gold, which was found to exist over an extensive surface of the county, but owing to a want of mining knowledge, but few of them gathered any of the precious metal. Since then. prospectors have been engaged, at intervals, in searching through the hills, and it is reported that gold duartz that is rich enough to pay handsomely for working it has been discovered.

Lawrence county is having a lively poor house squabble. Sometime ago the Grand Jury visited the poor asylum ou a tour of investigation, and the report they handed in to Judge Watson told a story of neglect and barbarity, so far as the treatment of .paupers was concerned, sufficient to disgust any decent citizen. This enraged John Scroggtui the Superintendent, and lie openly declared his intention to bring a suit for libel against the members of the jury. Bcroggan also published a communication in the Bedford Maynet, in .which he virtually charged the gentlemen with Vein of perjury. ' This, in turn, has got the backs of tho grand-jurymen itp, and at least two of them intimate thejr willingness and desire to . bring suit against Scroggan for libel. As the affair looks now, there will be a lively time before the affair is done with. •’* ’*»•

A scene occiired in the Circuit Court at Shelbyville that is not often witand one that was considerably Eixed with the ludicrous and pathetic ements. The case. of Sandefur vs. Ijis wife for divorce was on trail, and a considerdjje number of spectators was present to hear the testimony. The defejjaant made no case save for the custody of their child, so after all of the had been on the stand the divorce was granted by the bourt. As as the decision was rendered, Sandefur and the woman who only a moment before had been his wife were noticed to repair to one corner of the room. Fora fdW minutes they engaged in conversation, and theh their eyes were filled with} tears. . Im Another moment just stuma>qene o£. hogging (and kissing traiifflared as few-perspns ever saw be-fore-WpubHc. The norite were unintprruyted till Judges Hord broke the *silem>> vjkh the remark tli#t he thought •from tijp demonstrations made that the live together, and taking up his pen ne erased from the docket thelteeree of divorce, making them,husband and wife onge more. In the place "of each gfijthg a separate way, the precoupk?hatrt again-started ortTifc’s path together* 1 -*• < ♦ .. «