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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMA ; \ JDant. In Syracuse, N. Y., William Tedre visited a bagnio and shot two inmates, one fatally, and then killed himself. Aunt Judy Powell, colored, died in Pittsburgh at the alleged age of 113 ycMrs. She remembered leading events of the Revolutionary war, and saw (Sen. - Washington list ' after the Yorktown surrender. The citizens of Greenwood, Steuben county, New York, resisted the sale of property to pay interest on railroad bonds, and Gov. Cornell declared the township in a state of insurrection, and warned the people to -desist from unlawful acts. - Boston has made a contract for lighting part of the city by electric-lamps. John E. McDonough, the actor, died of starvation in Philadelphia, cancer in his throat making him unable to take nourishment The Coroner of New York demanded bail in the sum of $5,000 from Orlando B. Potter, owner cf the old World building, pend* ing his indictment for maintaining a mantrap, and refusing to make it safe after being warned. Enos Sylvester, of Providence, R. L, had an “inspiration” which told him to offer up his 6-year-old boy as a burnt-offering t 6 the Lord. Neighbors interfered in time to prevent the consummation of the sacrifice, and Sylvester will go to. the asylum. Joseph E. Sheffield, who died in New Haven last week, went to Chicago in 1850 and caused the building of the, railroad to Rock Island. He has given for educational purposes no less than $600,000, one of his good works being the scientific school attached to Yale College. He leaves to a widow and six children an estate valued at $2,000,000. Went. Three outlaws in New Mexico have for some time been robbing and wounding travelers at a point 136 miles west of Albuquerque, known as Crane’s. A Deputy Sheriff led a party of citizens to the cabin of the jobbers, and a bloody encounter followed. The villains were shot dead, but one of the attacking party was killed and two others so seriously wounded that they were sent to. Port Wingate,, by special train for surgical treatment. Only one store was spared from < conflagration at Robinson, Kan., tfie loss being estimated at $75,000. Four quarts of strawberries from Florida arrived in Chicago, and found purchasers at $2 per quart. In Chicago a confidence operator named Thomas Ward, who had a heavy beard and mustache wheu arrested, succeeded in pulling out the latter, hilir by hair, and would have made way with every trace of his whiskers had his hands not been ironed behind his back. South. William Mcßae, who ranked high among Southern railway managers, died at Augusta, Ga. An opinion of the Supreme Court of Tennessee declares invalid and unconstitutional the act of April, 1881, to compromise thebonded indebtedness of that State at par and 8-per-cent interest, the coupons receivable for taxes. A number of cotton brokers of New Orleans, who had been operating, in futures, have gone to the wall. * > ■ Robert Ayres, a retired merchant of Louisville, who died the other fiay, was one of the four men in jdfferaoU coUntv who voted for Abraham Lincoln for President in 1860. The Legislature of Virginia has. passed a aw by which commonwealth attorneys'may equire seconds in a duel to testify, whieh service shall exempt them from prosecution. A gang of workmen were sent into the Pennsylvania railroad tunnel at Baltimore to repair the track. They had proceeded but a few yards when they heard the distant rumbling of an approaching train. Hardly had they caught the sound of the one train approaching when the glare of a locomotive headlight was seen in the opposite' direction. The next instant the two trains came thundering along. Terror-stricken and confused, the unfortunate men jumped from one track to the other only to step into the yawning jaws of death. Several of them had the presence of mind to crouch up against the walls of the tuuncl, a couple of feet outside the track, and thus made their escape, but five of their companions were struck by the locomotives, buried forward on the tracks and their bodies then torn and mutilated by, the wheels of the cars. Two of the poor fellows had their heads sev ered from their bodies, and legs and arms were scattered for fifty yards along the tracks. The Riddleburger bill for the readjustment of Virginia’s debt has received the sanction of the Governor, and is now’a law. Bishop W. M. Wightman, of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, died at Charleston. The oyster war has again broken out on the Lower Rappahannock, in Virginia. A fire in Louisyille, J£y., originating in the candy factory of William Ehrrijfm A Co., destroyed stock valued at $75,000, damaged W. H, McKnight's carpet stock $15,000.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Mr. A M. Soteido, who was" shot in the melee at the National Republican office, Washington, died after lingering fpr Iwo days. Clarence Barton, the editor of the- Republican, who was attacked by the Sbteldo Jj? fibers, is improving and will get well. Tbp |« apt facts regarding the afftfir do not Beehito be fully ascertained, and win probably not be developed until the trial of the younger Soteido, who is in jaiL ~ ■ Army circles are reportedexcited and annoyed over the ktteiApt tfrTOT&rt&en. Rucker, who has attained his 72d year, iutp the position from which Gen. Meigs was forced to retire on the ground that he had parsed the Rubicon of 62. The Postmaster General hasiiddressed a letter to the? Postmasters jQiroughput tUo country, asking them to respond to the appeal of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland, and solicit contributions for a monument to Garfield at Washington. Fitz John Porter had a Jong interview with President Arthur the <ghy,.dayr and invited him to as careful a pemeg 'of the records as Geh. Grant made before declaring his belief in Porter’s innocence. The treasury; has fed to the resignation, of a clerk in tlie Lighthouse Board, and Skeen, foreman of the laborers in the Treasury Department* and the removal of Hatch, the Storekeeper. Mr. Allison, Chairman, of the Senate Committee on Appropriations/hA**a letter from the President of tho Pennsylvania Railroad Company, in which (respouAlhK to inquiry on the subject) he says; “Our.fjJtJUl panyhaduot then, nor have they now, any

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JAS. W, MoEWEN Editor

VOLUME VI.

intention to make a claim for compensation for the courtesies extended to the late President . apd his family or to the Government We felt ,itto be not only a duty, but a pleasure, to do what we could to insure the comfort and aid in restoring the health of President Garfield.” The Coroner’s jury find that Soteldo came to his death by a shot from bis brother’s pistoL The Preeideut-haa quashed the charges made by Gen. Wilcox against Gen. Carr, who has accordingly been released from arrt«t. 1 A band of colored jubilee singers were denied admission to every hotel in Washington. The President gave a state dinner last week to the members of the corps diplomatique and their wives.

POLITICAL POINTS. In response to an invitation for a conference of members of the House opposed to the Tariff Commission bill and to the extension of national-bank charters about forty Congressmen, principally Southern Democrats and Greenbackers, assembled one evening last week, Judge Reagan presiding. Resolutions were adopted looking to the presentation of bills in opposition to the pending measures which have been reported from the Ways and Means and Banking and Currency Committees on these subjects. The long dead-lock in the New York Legislature was broken by the Tammany Democrats and Republicans combining against the Tilden Democrats. A resolution was introduced in the Virginia Legislature requesting Senator Matone to go to Washington and mind his own business, leaving the State legislators to attend to State matters. The Legislative Assembly of Utah has adopted a concurrent resolution appealing to Congress to reflect seriously before passing either of the anti-polygamy bills, and asking tbe appointment of a Congressional committee of inquiry to visit the Territory. The demand for office at Washington is more eager than ever before.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The Globe foundry, in London, Ont., was damaged $75,000 by fire. Great excitement prevails in Montreal, occasioned by the robbery of cemeteries by medical students. A rumor having come from Washington that Mrs. Garfield had written a letter to President Arthur, asking him to reprieve Guiteau, a New York Herald reporter called upon the lady to inquire into the truth of the report We give the result of the interview in his own words : Her face flushed with a mingled expression of surprise and indignation, and she replied promptly, and with emphasis : ‘ ‘ Absurd. There is not a word of truth in it I have not written to the President at all upon the subject.” “How do you suppose the rumor originated ?” “I cannot say. There is no foundation whatever for it, so far as I am concerned. I have expressed no wish or opinion in the matter, and shall not.” An immense memorial asking the abolition of the tax on bank deposits and the 2cent check stamps has been forwarded to Washington. A treaty of peace has been signed between Bolivia and Peru. By its terms Bolivia is left without a seaboard. The steamship Bahama was lost on her trip from Porto Rico to New York. Twen-ty-five persons were drowned, and thirteen escaped in a small boat and were picked up and brought to New York by the Glenmorag. Albert D. Shaw, United States Consul at Manchester, reports that the practice of placing sand in bales of cotton is being extensively practiced at American parts, to the serious injury of the trade. Frauds of this nature already discovered aggregate $500,000. Rev. Lawrence Walsh, of Waterbury, CL, Treasurer of the Irish National Land League, reports that he has received $45,167 from the fund pledged by the Chicago Convention. Col. A. B. Meacham, long connected with Indian affairs, and who as Peace Commissioner to the Modocs narrowly escaped assassination at the time Gen. Canby was killed, died in Washington of apoplexy. He was 56 years of age.

FOREIGN NEWS. The explosions in the Rhondda valley mine in Wales caused the loss of six lives. Marquis de Jocas who introduced American vinos into France, had invested 600,000 francs in shares of the Union Generale, and its loss drove him to suicide. The massacre of a Jewish family of three persons is the latest Russian atrocity. Mr. Lloyd, temporary Magistrate of County Clare, and brother of . Mr. Clifford Lloyd, Special Magistrate for the counties of Clare and Limerick, was fired at from behind a wall near Bodyke. He escaped unhurt, but a policeman with him was severely wounded. Several arrests have been made of persons suspected. It is reported that the coronation of the Czar has been postponed until September. The Italian Chamber of Deputies has adopted the system of scrutin de liste which was proposed by the Government Five baronies of the County Roscommon and twelve in the County Waterford have been proclaimed by the Irish executive. The Pope has issued a letter to the Bishops instructing them to incite the people to uphold his temporal independence. Austria will enact a new and high protective tariff against all nations which do not favor her equally with the most favored. The Prussian Commission has adopted the bill depriving the state of the power to administer church affairs in vacant Catholic parishes. The Egyptian Ministry have decided npon the total abolition of slavery. Kader Pasha has been appointed Governor of the Soudan, and will take measures to suppress the slave trade in that province.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Mrs. Garfield acknowledges the receipt of a letter from Mrs. Scoville, and nnthorizes the statement that she cherishes no malice toward Guiteau, and feels profound pity for his sister and other members of his family, but asks to be left alone with her sorrow. Ella Shores, aged 14, and Howard E. White, aged 16, were married the other day at Westover, Ind. A singular feat,ure of the affair is the fact that the childbride was the divorced wife of her stepfather to whom she was married at the age of 12 years. •An expedition organized by the Gov prnorof Virginia against the oyster-thieves on the Rappahannock sailed.from Norfolk on the

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18th inst it comprised the Norfolk light artilery, wiili three-inch guns, and the Norfolk fight infantry, seventy men. Two Mexican rival editors at Guadalajara fonght a dnel with pistols, and both fell dead at the first fire. Congress is received a large number of petitions citing that the railways are public highways, built for the benefit of the public, and that the people are entitled to receive them on equal terms, and praying for legislation to regulate inter-State commerce and prevent extortion. Dr. J. Emilio Howard, whose imprisonment in Cuba some years ago created much feeling between the United States and Spain, died at Philadelphia. V. W. MacFarlane & Co., of New York, lard refiners, have suspended. Liabili* ties about $200,000. Another sea serpent has appeared at Long Branch, N. J. It was a fish-like monster, forty feet long and had horns on its head. Seventeen railroads in Pennsylvania have incurred a penalty of $5,000 each because of failure to make their annual reports, and the Attorney General will bring them to judgment. By an explosion in a colliery at Trimdon Grange, Durham, England, 120 miners were intombed. It is believed that the loss of life will exceed seventy.

DOINGS OF CONGRESS.

A bill for the sale of the Miami lands in Kansas was passed by the Senate on Feb. 13th, and a measure was introduced for the disposition of the Fort Larned reservation in Kansas. The bill for the relief of Samson Goliath, which involves the right of Congress to remit the sentence of a court-martial, was recommitted at the request of Mr. Logan, Mr. Ingalls introduced an act to adjust the claims of the confederated Peoria Indians of Kansas, and Mr. Hill a bill to provide suitable agricultural lands for the Southern Utes. Mr. Vest made a favorable report on the bill for a public building at Jefferson City, and Mr. Harns introduced a similar measure for Chattanooga. The Senate in executive session, after some discussion, confirmed the appointment of Col, Rucker as Quartermaster General. In the House Mr. Davis introduced a resolution calling on the Secretary of War for correspondence and other information in regard to encroachments upon the harbor of Chicago. A resolution was adopted celling for facts concerning the perils of American missionaries in Persia. Mr. Young introduced a bill to create the office of Mining Commissioner, with a salary of $4,000. Mr. Herndon proposed a constitutional amendment limiting the number of members of the House to 325. The Bupplejnental Census bill was passed. For two and *a half hours the clerks were kept busy reading bills. Among them were measures to prohibit polygamists from voting or holding office in the Territories, for a ship canal from Lake Pontchartrain to the Mississippi, to reduce the whisky tax to 50 cents per gallon, to aid in erecting monuments on Revolutionary battle-fields, to abolish the national banks, and to prevent the spread of infectious diseases among cattle. Mr. McDill introduced a bill in the Senate, on the 14th, appropriating SIOO,OOO for the purchase of governors to regulate the flow of gas in public buildings. Mr. Edmunds was defeated in an attempt to take up the Anti-Polygamv bill out of its regular order. Mr. Vance made a speech deploring the high-protective policy of the Government as retarding the growth of the South. Among the nominations sent to the Senate by President Arthur were those of John C. New, of Indiana, to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury ; E. H. Nevin, Jr., to be Surveyor of Customs at Philadelphia ; Moses M. Drew, to be Marshal for California; and H. M. Van Arman, of San Francisco, to be Secretary of the Territory of Arizona. In the House, Mr. Willetts reported a bill to prevent polygamists from holding civil office in the Territories or serving as Delegates in Congress. Mr. Orth made an adverse report on the resolution of Mr. Robinson calling on’the Attorney General for an opinion as to the suspension of tbe writ of habeas corpus in Great Britain. The Apportionment bill was taken up, and Mr. Oates argued in favor of fixing the number of Representatives at 250. Mr. Herbert desired to speak on the question, but the confusion in the hall prevented his being heard, and the House adjourned. Mr. Jackson introduced a bill in the Senate on the 15th appropriating $150,000 to make good the loss sustained at the hands of Federal troons, in 1864, by the Methodist bookhouse at Nashville. A resolution was passed to provide messengers for seven leading committees at $1,400 per year. The Antipolygamy bill was debated for two hours. The report of the commission on the cattle plague was sent to the Senate by the Secretary of the Treasury. It shows that no lung disease exists in the western centers of live-stock traffic. Four Dutch cows imported into Massachusetts brought a plague; which was eradicated in six years at a cost of $77,000. In the House • a bill was introduced by the Committee on Agriculture making the Department of Agriculture an executive department of the Government, greatly extending its powers and duties, and providing for a Secretary of Agriculture who shall receive the same salary as is paid to chiefs of other executive departments.* The Appropriation bill was discussed in the House.

The United States Senate took up the antipolygamybill on the 16th. Mr. Vest denounced it as a bill of attainder. Mr. Pendleton objected to the feature excluding known polygamists from the jury-tox. Mr. Sherman thought it was nearly time for a revelation against polygamy. By a party vote, it was agreed that not more than three of the Commissioners to be selected shall belong to the same political organization. The bill was then passed by a unanimous vote. In the House of Representatives, a bill was passed granting Mrs. Giufield a pension of $5,000 ver annum; Billrwere favorably reported to regulate the collection of tax on weiss beer, to admit Dakota as a State, to provide additional training schools for Indian youth, to erect public buildings at Columbus, Erie, and Leavenworth, and to fix the term of internal revenue Collectors at four years. The Apportionment bill was taken up. Mr. Seaton’s method was defeated by 9 to 148, and a resolution was passed that the basis of division shall be that used in the Forty-sixth Congress. Mr. Anderson’s amendment to fix the number of Representatives at 325 was adopted by 162 to 104. After an unseemly wrangle it was discovered that no quorum was present. Mr. Kellogg introduced a bill in the Senate, on the 17th, to appropriate $1,775,000 for public buildings and other improvements in Louisiana, $300,000 of which is for the, water front of New Orleans. At the request of Mr. Logan, who is seriously indisposed, an executive session was held at an earlier hour than usual Col. Rochester was confirmed as Paymaster General of the army, Edward Ferguson to be Pension Agent at'Milwaukee, and Marsden C. Burch to be District Attorney for Western Michigan. The President sent in the nomination of Wakefield C. Frye, of Maine, to be Consul General at Halifax. The new Electoral Apportionment bill, fixing the number of Representatives in Congress after March 3, 1883, at 325, passed the House without a division. representatives accorded to any State which may hereafter be admitted will be in addition to the number thus provided for. Where an increase of Representatives is given by the bill to any State the additional member or members may be elected by the State at large, and where there is a decrease tho whole number to which the State is entitled may be so chosen, unless the State Legislatures shall otherwise provide before the time fixed by law for the next election. Memorials agaipst polygamy in Utah and Jewish maltreatment in Russia were presented. In committee of the whole, a bill to restore Thomas Little to a Captaincy in the army was defeated. Mr. Valentine reported the Agricultural Appropriation bill, which calls for $302,480. A message from the President was presented, transmitting further documents in regard to the war in South America. A long report on the status of Indian. Territory was transmitted to Congress by the Secretary of the Interior. It asserts that there are no lands open to settlement or entry, the tracts in the Territory to

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which the Government holds title being re-served-by treaty stipulations. A preposition that the criminal laws of tne United States be extended over their lands has been made to the Indian delegation now in Washington and will evidently meet their anprovak

HORRIBLE AFFAIR.

A Fireworks Factory Explodes at Chester, Pa., Killing Sixteen and Wounding Seventy Persons. Chesteb, Pa., Feb. 17. This is the blackest day in the history of our fair city. Death in its most frightful shape has laid low nearly a score of our people, and many more have been wounded. The entire city is in mourning. Following close upon the destruction of the military academy—a severe loss of itself to our community—came an alarm of fire from Jackson’s fireworks and magazine. This was in the old Porter mansion, on Second street and the river front Prof. Jackson had occupied it for the past five or six years. He employed eight or ten hands, and was running the place to its fullest capacity in order to supply his large trade. At 7:30 the alarm of fire was sounded. In five minutes after the alarm, the fire department was throwing water on the building. A terrific explosion shook the city. The noise reverberated throughout the country as far as the Jersey shore. A mass of flame’shot nigh into the air, and the fragments of the building were hurled about. A quantity of gunpowder had exploded. It was then felt that the danger was over, and the firemen approached the flames until within reaching distance without apprehension. A large crowd of citizens gathered. At the time when the citizens were sure that tolerable control had been secured and the danger was passed, another explosion, more fearful than the first, gave a terrific shock to the earth. The scene was horrible and so awful that it is impossible to describe it The crowd of firemen were scattered in all directions, many of them with their bodies mangled beyond recognition. Some were so badly torn that it was impossible to tell what part of the body the shreds of flesh were torn from. On the spectators the effect was scarcely less disastrous. Many of them were killed, many were wounded. Those who were not rushed through the city spreading the news. Almost instantly thousands of people, stricken with terror, poured from adjoining streets to the scene of the disaster. The news was quickly spread to the country, and hundreds of people came from there. The cries of women and children, who had lost husbands and f uthere in the calamity, and the wild inquiries of added to the terrible effect of the masses of bloody corpses and wounded. All the physicians in the city and the priests and Sastors were on the spot in a short time to ispose of the dead and to assist the wounded. The nearest house was about a hundred yards away. Many of the sufferers were taken there, and every other house in the vicinity was thrown open, and kindly hands ministered to the relief of the victims. Wagons were hastily transformed into ambulances, and everything that could be done was done to mitigate the horror. In a little time a runfor got abroad that the now rapidly-spreading flames were approaching another large quantity of dynamite, and a rash was made from the vicinity. After the explosion the ground was covered with victims, some killed, some seriously wcunded and some badly hurt. Dead bodies of men lay coiled on the ground while others labored in the agonies of death. A number, writhing in their blood, moaned and groaned piteously for help. Many lay insensible of their surroundings, and others, bruised and bleeding, groped their way from the scene of the terrible accident. The scene beggars description. People prayed in the open streets, and the shrieks of the dying were appalling. The fire was abandoned, and everybody in condition to do so turned attention to alleviating the distress. Houses in the vicinity of the explosion were converted into hospitals and the wounded removed thereto.' Six Men Killed by an Explosion at Atlanta, Ga. Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 17. This morning, five minutes before going to work, the boiler of the Georgia car works, located at Cartersville, four miles from Atlanta, on the Western and Atlantic railway, exploded with terrible effect, killing six men and wounding a number of others, some of whom will die, beside tearing the greater portion of the building to pieces. The killed are Lawrence Choice, Matt Bowman, Hand Hammond, David Richardson, Richard Patterson and Sam Davis, all colored. Ellis Lawe and Henry Hickson are fatally wounded, and are expected to die at any moment. Ed L. Hand, the engineer, was turning on steam at the time of the explosion, and so badly injured that he will die. C. E. Lucas, superintendent, of sleeping-car notoriety, he being the inventor of the Lucas sleeping-car, was roughly but not dangerously bandied. Five or six others were injured by broken ribs and other painful but not serious wounds. When the boiler exploded the gauge showed only eighty pounds of steam, and the men were gathered about the boiler waiting preparatory to commencing work.

A RACE FOR LIFE.

Frantic Endeavors of tbe Foreign Ministers at Lima to Dodge Chilian Shells —The Venerable Christiancy as a Pedestrian. [Washington Telegram.] The diplomatic correspondence of • the yea is being published at tho Government Printing Office. From advance proof-sheets is gained a very interesting account of the narrow escape of the corps in Peru upon the 15th of January, 1881. The story of this event has never been more than briefly mentioned, owing to the remoteness of the locality. Lima was surrendered on the 17th of January. On the afternoon of the 15th our Minister, Mr. Christiancy, accompanied by the members of the diplomatic corps, wept out to a village five miles from Lima to have a consultation with President Pierola and to learn from him his answer to the terms of surrender offered by the commander of the Chilian forces. The Peruvian and Chilian armies were drawn up in line of battle in the neighborhood of this town, but hostilities had been suspended for twelve hours. By an accident a heavy gun was fifed, and, without waiting for any explanation, both sides at once entered into battle. The representatives of the diplomatic corps who came out suddenly found themselves between the fire of the two sides, and had a very narrow escape. From an extract made by the English Minister, the Hon. Spencer St John, it appears that Minister Christiancy had himself a very trving time. It is evident that Mr. St John did not understand Mr. Christiancy’s relations with his wife. In his report, in describing the escape he says : “ The corps divided, one party making for the railroad train they had left but a little while before, while another party sought to gain the railroad track far ahead of the train. Mr. Christiancy, the United States Minister, advised that course, saying that, though he was not actively engaged in the late rebellion in his country, yet he understood flanking. I joined the Christiancy party, and the race for life commenced. Tne shot and shell came thick and fast, and our party displayed aH the leg activity each one was capable of. Shells would explode in front of ns, causing a temporary halt, whep an enormous solid shot in our rear, plowing up the ground for rods and throwing the dirt over and around us, would give a sudden impetus to a forward movement, and we would again hasten toward Lima. The United States Minister fared badly. Aged, tall, and of a figure not adapted to gymnastic exercises, he made but sorry work, and I felt for him deeply. The perspiration rolled off him, and at times his legs would totter, and he but feebly staggered on. It looked very serious for us, but I endeavored to cheer him up. After a narrow escape from a round shot I cried; to him: ‘Keep up a good heart, your Excellency, remember your wife at home.’ ‘Oh, i my wife!’ was the startling reply, but I noticed with much satisfaction that the thought seemed to give him renewed vigor, for he sped on with increased speed, doing excellent work for a while. Through deep marshes, over hills, climbing walls, etc., we pushed on toward Lima, tbe shot, the shell and the dirt Hying Ml around us. The distance from Lima to Milaflores is but five miles, tut we must have traveled over twice that distance to reach.the capital It was late when we got there. Mr. 0., our leader, was forlorn, dejected and in an exhausted condition ; the rest of us but little better.” In 1823 Amsterdam was visited by 102 American vessels; in 1880 by only ten.

FREE TRADE.

The True. Nation nJ Policy. In his lecture before the Brooklyn Revenue Reform Club, David A. Wells paid especial attention to the failure of the protective policy to develop the industries of the country. On this poilft he said : Tire-prime object for which the pro|ective pqliay has been instituted in this Country ahd the existing high tariff maintained is the development of our so called “ manufacturing industries ” and the rendering us a nation industrially independent In respect to most of our so-called agricultural products we are independent, and can export them to advantage in competition with all the world.* But a thing which can be permanently and profitably exported from any country cannot be protected by any tariff. This policy has now been in operation for twenty years. Has it accomplished what was intended? Here is a test question, and it can be answered exactly from data accessible to everybody who has access to the official records, and which docs not involve the least resort to hypothesis. What does an investigation of the character and value of our exports reveal ? First, that for the year 1879-80, 87} per cent, of the total exports consisted of unprotected unmanufactured products—all agricultural except petroleum; and, secondly, that the value oi our manufactured products exported constituted a smaller proportion of our total exports in 1879-80 than they didin 1869-70, and that the proportion was also smaller in 1869-70 than it was in 1859-60. Or, to put the case differently, in 1859-60 the value of our manufactured exports constituted 17.5 per cent, of the value of our total exports. In 1869-70, after ten years of a high-tariff policy, they had mn down to 13.4 per cent., and in 1879-80, after another ten years of like experience, they were further reduced to 12.5 per cent. During the same period the export of our manufactured unprotected articles increased from a proportion of 82.3 per cent, of our total exports in 1859-60 to 87.5 of the total in 1879-80. On the other hand, the value of our imports of. foreign merchandise, which was at the rate of about SIO.BO per capita in 1860, increased to 11.21 in 1870, and to $13.36 in 1880. All this talk, therefore, which of late years has been indulged in about the increasing ability of our manufacturers to command foreign markets ; all these flaming reports of Consuls, time to time are issued, to the effect thas. our industrial supremacy in these departments is being everywhere acknowledged, and that Great Britain is pervaded with apprehension thereat, is but the merest drivel and nonsense, the imagining of those who see only what they conceive it to be for their interest to see. Much boasting was indulged in at the recent tariff conventions over our success in the manufacture of carpets, and the dividends paid by the leading American carpet companies are known to rank among the largest in the country. But how about these ugly figures, from the official record for 1880: Exports, 8,541 yards; imports, 1,443,000 yards ? What, moreover, must be the condition of an industry when the persons engaged in it can go over to England, as our woolen manufacturers have done during the past year, and buy. for the price of old metal, old machinery which English woolen manufacturers have discarded as beirind the age, and bring it over to this country and work it at a profit? One would think that this fact alone would bring a blush of shame to the cheeks of those who are so clamorous about our industrial independence, but it does not seem to ; although the very idea of buying foreign ships of the most approved pattern, which we need and cannot profitably make, fills their souls with a holy horror. American sewing machine manufacturers are erecting immense establishments in Great Britain because they find that mainly through a greater cheapness of their raw materials they can better afford to manufacture machines intended for foreign markets in that country than they can in the United States. Sheffield, wdiich Senator Morrill recently reported as in a state of decadence, is exporting double the value of her peculiar goods to the United States that she did in 1879. * * *

The pressing necessity of the hour 'with us is an extension of our markets for our produce, and, in default thereof, we are certain to be smothered in our own grease. But, under the protective system, how are we going to obtain extended markets ; for protection means, both in theory and practice, restriction on exchanges and high prices, or it does not mean anything. But, with high prices for manufactured products, what chance is there for a sale of our goods in foreign markets in competition with other countries, which, by reason of free trade, the exemption of their raw materials from taxation or other conditions have already an advantage over us in respect to the cost of production ? For our manufacturers, under existing circumstances, to ever attempt to meet with such competition must entail consequences which would be absolutely ruinous, for they would be obliged to sell their exported products at a loss. Unless, therefore, something now unforeseen occurs, American manufacturers at no distant day will certainly be compelled, to adopt one of the two courses ; namely, to export their surplus products at a loss, oi‘ prevent a surplus by restricting their production and keeping a part of their machinery idle. In the first case, domestic manufacturing will be sure to be undermined by con tinual losses; in the second, there will be no opportunity for employment in our manufacturing industries of our rapidly increasing population, whose labor, as already shown, is not needed in agricultural pursuits.

, • A® to the prospect of free trade in the future, Mr. Wells said in conclusion : It is not generally known that Adam Smith, after writing his unanswerable argument in favor of free trade in his ‘•Wealth of Nations,” closed the dis eussion with an expression of opinion that to expect that freedom of trade would ever prevail in Great Britain would be as absurd as to expect that Utopia would be there established, and he assigns as the main reason for the opinion “ the private interests of many individuals who irresistibly oppose it,” and whose influence he declared could not be overcome. It is happily true that Adam Smith’s anticipations were not realized and that his teachings largely contributed to a different result. But it is equally true that this result would have been greatly delayed in Great Britain had not reform been necessary to prevent revolution on the part of a starving, discontented people, made hungry and discontented by the restric tiona on trade, which in turn made food

dear and employment scarce. Now 1 predict that history is going to repeat itself ; that, notwithstanding the weakness of individual efforts, economic reform in the United States in the shape of free trade, reduced tariff taxation and the repeal of the navigation laws, is coming much more speedily than most persons anticipate. The people of the United States, in respect to most public matters, attend but one school, and that is the costly school of experience. And this school is now open ; instruction has begun, and heavy penalties for failure to learn are being inflicted. We are already suffering punishment for errors in fiscal and commercial legislation by the loss of over $900,000,000 annually in our trade with the British North American provinces; by the decadence of our foreign commerce and the almost total destruction of our mercantile marine. Other penalties are in the course of preparation ; restriction of production by reason of restriction of markets and consequent stagnation of business, increasing pauperism and social disturbance. Under such experience the people must soon learn that future national development and the maintenance of a high-tariff policy are two things inconsistent and incompatible. Natural events are also working in the direction of tariff reform. The completion of the railroad system between the United States and Mexico will speedily force its consideration and will lead to an attempted reciprocity or Mexican annexation, and the latter is most probable, for the men engaged in these enterprises will soon find out that their investment can’t pay under the existing tariff, and they are not likely to accept the situation and do nothing. Tariff reform is therefore certain at no distant day, and, although individuals or associated effort will not effect it, they can do much to intelligently direct and hasten its progress.

Who the Bourbons Are.

It has long been the Republican habit to apply the term “ Bourbon ” to everybody who is a Democrat in politics and opposed to the principles, policy and methods of the Republican party. It will probably interest those, to whom the term imports either reproach or contempt, to know who the Bourbons are. This interest is gratified by a writer in the Atlantic, which, it is hardly necessary to say, is a magazine the partisan sympathies of which have always been with the Republicans. The writer says: As used in the North, this word “ Bourbon ” designates a class of white men composed chiefly of the leading citizens of the Seuthern States. The Bourbons are the principal business men, lawyers, physicians, teachers, clergymen, merchants and farmers of the South. They are everywhere the leaders of society in the best sense of the word. Aside from political matters, they are much like other people, or like the best people in our Northern communities. They do not appear to love what is wrong for its own sake, nor to prefer falsehood, baseness, cruelty or rnjustice to the virtues and good qualities which are elsewhere revered by good men. They are amiable, truthful, conscientious, kind, public-spir-ited and religious, resembling very closely the foremost men in our New England towns in all the important elements of personal character; differing only, in general, in being more communicative and having less reserve than is usual among New Englanders. As to their political action, it seems to me to have been largely it evitable; the necessary product and result of the peculiar conditions of life and society in the South since the civil war. It does not appear to have been owing to sheer depravity on their part, nor to any choice or agency of theirs, that there was for some years a disturbed afid unsettled state of things in the Southern States. Collisions between different classes followed unavoidably upon the elevation of the emancipated slaves into political superiority over the disfranchised white citizens of the country. There has never been any such completeness of organization among the people of the South since the war as many persons believe to have existed there. That part of our country is distinguished by much greater feebleness of community and a less organic life than belongs to Northern society ; and the Bourbons are not really responsible for everything that has been done south of Mason and Dixon’s line. The men thus designated are, as a class, eminently social, hospitable, honest and upright men, if we ieave their politics out of view. They have, in large measure, built up and maintained such moral, social, industrial and religious organizations and activity as the South now possess, and much of what is best and most encouraging in the present: state of things in the principal Southern States is due to them and to their efforts for the practical reconstruction in a time of extreme difficulty and uncertainty, when their resources were most discouragingly slender, and when they had no precedents to guide them except such as were furnished by the experience of mankind in the long contest between civilization and barbarism in the past. I think they have made mistakes and have done wrong things since the war. I am not certain th>t we or anybody else would have done better than they. In conversation with these gentlemen I everywhere expressed my conviction that illegal interference with negro suffrage could not be continued without the most serious injury to all Southern interests, and it would be better that Southern men, Democrats, should make the ballot entirely free to all who are legally entitled to its possession and then endure whatever ills might, result. They always replied that disturbance, violence and fraud Were each year diminishing, and that negro political supremacy would be utterly ruinous for the State and for society, and insisted that if, the Republican party in the South possessed the character and employed the methods of the same party in the North they would gladly co-operate with' it; that they were ready to discard and abandon their present political organjzfftion whenever any other party would take up the real problems of the South and seriously address itself to their solution. In studying the Bourbons I hawe been forced to conolude that nothing has yet been attained anywhere much better than the domestic life of this class of the Southern people in its intelligence, refinement, beauty and general elevation and wholesomeness.

Dr. Hammond says when you stick your finger in your ear the roaring sound you hear is the circulation in your finger. Probably when you stick in a lead-pencil the same roaring which you then hear is the circulation of Rap in the penoil.

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NUMBER 4.

INDIANA NEWS.

Barney Birney, of Madison, ran a splinter into his hand and died of lockjaw, r Subscriptions aggregating about $45,000 have been made at Vincennes for locomotive works. . A company has been formed in Crawfordsville for the manufacture of barbed wire and metal fence-posts. Ross Jones, aged 53, discouraged by his failure to abstain from liquor, committed suicide at Greensburg.A wedding in high life at Wabash had to be postponed because the groom, who lives at Polo, 111, missed the train. Charles T. Voorhees, son of the Indiana Senator, goes to Washington Territory to begin the practice Of law. There were 1,774 deaths in Indianapolis last year. This, compared with the ratio of increase in population, is a very good showing. Some experienced coal men are mak ing preparations to go into the coalmining business on an extensive scale in Washington and Daviess counties. South Bend is the greatest wood market in Northern Indiana. Wood is hauled in every day on wagons from localities distant eighteen to twenty-two miles. The Logansport Pharos has a SIO,OOO libel suit on its hands, growing out of certain charges affecting the good name of Joseph V. Tartman, a school teacher, and a young lady. John Black was shot an 4 killed by a man named Robinson, in Brown county, for traducing the character of Robinson’s sister. Robinson is still at liberty, the sympathy of the community being with him.

Franklin Beard, of Warren, who for two years has been a student in the Chicago Medical College, went home without giving notice, and killed himself with a razor. He showed unmistakable signs of insanity. Minnie Moyer, a little girl of 8, died at Columbus, after a few hours’ illness. At first the trouble was supposed to be congestion of the brain, but now it is thought her death is the result of a hit in the back while playing at school. The city of Evansville had a population last May, based on the returns of taxable polls and enumerated school children, of 32,878. This is a gain over the census count made only eleven months before of 4,598, or about 15| per cent. Quite an interesting addition co the collection of the State Geographical Museum at Indianapolis is an American elephant’s molar tooth, weighing eight pounds, which was presented oy Peter H. Wright, Superintendent of the Foor Farm, who found the curiosity. A private bank at Terre Haute was robbed of $1,500 in currency in the usual style, one man engaging the cashier in conversation while an accomplice passed behind the counter. The man who did the talking was arrested, and gave his name as Ben Simon and his residence as Chicago. There is a man living in Greene township, Morgan county, 62 years old, who never took a political newspaper, never rode in the “ kivered keer,” and never owned a time-piece. He has lived there ever since he was 9 years old, and has belonged to the Methodist church since he was 19 years old. The City Council of Terre Haute has adopted a resolution to instruct the City Attorney to draw up a contract with the Brush Electric Light and Power Company to light the place on the tower plan. The company will put up five towers, 4,000 to 16,000-candle power each, and one of 20,000. The consideration is SIO,OOO per annum, including repairs.

The prevalence of typhoid fever at Indianapolis is becoming alarming. There are quite a number of cases reported, and several deaths have occurred. It se. ms that the students of the Indiana Medical College have suffered especially from it, three deaths from among their number having occurred within the last few days, and others are now sick. Mrs. Campbell, one of the prominent workers in the prohibition movement in this State, and who has lately been working in Parke, Johnson and Knox counties, expresses the opinion that the prbspect for obtaining a prohibition majority in the next Legislature is very favorable. She says the country districts, rather than the towns and cities, are mainly to be depended on. She finds persons opposing prohibition who favor womansuffrage, and the voting upon the two questions will be independent.

Mention was made som? weeks ago of a 4-year-old boy at the Surgical Institute who had been an inveterate smoker for over two years. The little fellow at that time was unable to walk, owing to complicated spinal troubles, believed largely to originate from an unlimited use of narcotics, the child ordinarily smoking twqqty cigars daily, beside innumerable cigarettes. Since treatment of the case began no tdbacco has been given him, and he is now able to walk and in a fair way to recovery. At least no harm was done by the sudden breaking of a bad habit,’and the boy’s body and mind give indications of healthy improvement. News.

The civil suit of Lena Miller vs. Mrs. Clem et el. has been compromised. It was brought in November, 1876, to recover $7,500, which the plaintiff claimed had been obtained from her by Mrs. Clem through fraud find., misrepresentation. Judgment was had in January, 1878,'for $8,487.50, which included interest on principal. The defendants appealed to the Supreme Court, where the case remained Until a compromise was reached, by which Miss Miller, or rather her creditors, to whom she had assigned the judgment, received $6,500. Tl,e attorney fees cost the Clems not less than $5,000, and court costs added $1,200. Following this suit Miss Miller prosecuted Mrs. Clem -in the Criminal Court, and the jury found her guilty and recommended imprisonment for four years in the female reformatory, Where she now is. The Criminal Court dotrts, including SIOO fine and attorneys’jfees, is estimated at $1,500, making a grand total of full $14,000, if not more. In other words, she defrauded Miss'Miller out of $6,500, and the investment' cost the amount as above, beside which the game was broken and Mrs. Clem wAs so-, curely put away for four years > Fire-Proof Paper and Ink. According to a German paper, a very promising success has been attained in the manufacture of fire-proof paper and ink. In making the paper ninety-five parts of asbestos was used With, five parts of wood fiber; these, by ajd of glue, water and borax, were made into a pulp, winch yielded a fine, smoeW pa-

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per, which could be used for writing purposes. It had the unusual quality of sustaining the influence of white heat without injury. Fire-proof printing and writing inks were made by combining platinum chloride, oil of lavender, and lampblack and varnish. These ingredients produced a printing ink, and, when a writing fluid was wanted, Chinese or India ink and gum arabic were added to the mixture.

Wealth and a Cold in the Head.

People who are poor, and who catch cold and sneeze around, and have red noses, are apt to envy the rich, believing that those who are wealthy, and can take every precaution against raking cold, must be exempt from such annoyances, but statistics show that the millionaire is just as apt to take cold as the poor peanut roaster or the tramp, and his millionaire bazoo is just as liable to be blown as the poorest nose in the land. The same draft of air that gives the emigrant a cold in the forward oar, will pass along to the palace sleeping-car and blow up the trousers leg of the millionaire Senator and cause him to sneeze. He may wear underclothing that cost as much as the house of the poor man, but he cannot be exempt from cold that reddens his nose. And what can a millionaire do to cure his hightoned cold ? There is no expensive medicine, a dose or two of which can make him as good as new. He has got to go through the same treatment to cure himself as the washwoman has. He has got to soak his feet in mustard water, dnnk a bowl full of ginger tea, put a compress on his lungs, a mustard plaster on his back, an onion poultice on his throat and feet, and gargle the same diabolical stuff that the poor devil has. His millions, or his high position as statesman and a scholar and a judge of pine logs, does not help him when the cold comes. He may run well for office, but not better than his nose does for a cold. When the chill and the sneeze attacks a rich man he is on a par with the poorest of God’s creatures. Then what is the use of wealth, if it does not exempt the owner from a cold ? Some of the pooest men in this country are the healthiest, while some of the richest are the greatest invalids. The country is full of millionaires who are paralyzed, dyspeptic, rheumatic, and filled with chronic ailments that they would trade for a poor man’s health, and throw in all their money, and the poor man would not trade. If wealth would bring exemption from disease there would be an excuse for going it blind in search of wealth, but as it is almost certain to bring with it some diabolical disease that knocks the fun all out of a man, we advise poor men not to fool away their time trying to obtain the confounded stuff. We wouldn’t pick up a million dollars in the road, unless there was a guarantee that there was no gout or rheumatism or dyspepsia hanging onto it.— Peck's Sun.

He Had No Fun in Him.

One of the members of the Methodist Conference held in Detroit was out for a walk at an early hour one morning, and encountered a strapping big fellow, who was drawing a wagon to a blacksmith shop. “Catch hold here and help me down to the shop with this wagon, and I’ll buy the whisky,” called the big fellow. “ I never drink,” solemnly replied the good man. “Well, you can take a cigar.” “I never smoke.” The man dropped the wagen-tongue, looked hard at the member, and asked : “Don’t you chew?” “No, sir,” was the decided reply. “You must get mighty lonesome,” mused the teamster. “I guess I’m all right, I feel first rate. ” “ I’ll bet you even that I can lay you on your back,” remarked the teamster. “I never bet,” replied the clergyman. “Come, now, let’s warm up a little.” “lam in a hurry.” “ Well, let’s take each other down for fun, then. You are as big as I am, and I’ll give you the under hold.” “I never have fun,” solemnly replied the member. “Well, I’m going to tackle you, anyway. Here we go.” The teamster slid up and endeavored to get a backhold, but he had only just commenced his fun, when he was lifted clear off the grass and slammed against a tree-box with such force that he gasped half a dozen times before he could catch his breath. “Now, you keep away from me,” exclaimed the minister, picking up his cane. “Bust me if I don’t,” replied the teamster, as he edged off. “What’s the use of lying and saying that you didn’t have any fun in you, when you are chuck full of it? You wanted to break my back, didn’t you ?”

Denominational Statistics.

The following statistics in regard to the various religious denominations in the United States are from the New York Observer. Figures preceded by an asterisk are estimated: CAwcA Orgwni- Minh- Cmmuzatum*. ter*. nicantn. Adventtata 060 181 1*,1« Baptista— Regularo6o 18,60 S 2.206,327 Di.cip1e.2,866 2,000 *850,000 Freewill 1.471 1.29* 74,851 Ahtt-Mlmion *»oo *4OO •*o,ooo Tunkerw 710 1.656 ’90,000 Winnebrennarlanu.... *4OO 850 *BO,OOO Mennonite*.. *A2O *9O *20,000 Seventh Day 84 HO 8,548 Six Principle 20 12 2,000 Congregation alls t» 8,745 8,577 384,332 m» •.<« «».«> Friends”!?!"."’*Boo *loo*ooo Lutheran.6,B66 3,299 738,302 M M?e!' Northl7,lll 11,636 1,700,302 M. E. South • -■<- 8,807 828,301 African M. E 1,«8 214,808 M. E. Zfon, African.. 1,600 190,900 Methodist Proteatanta 1,31* 113,406 M. Evangelical Amoelation 1 893 112,197 Concord M. E «38 112,800 American Wealcyan... Free Method!.!. 271 12,642 Independent MethodtatT. 31 12,560 Primitive Methodl.ta, 196 8,210 Union American M. E. 101 2,560 United Brethren in Moravian *75 9,491 New Jerusalem *9O *4,278 Presbyterian.— Northern 5.598 5,086 581,401 Southern 1,957 1,061 121,945 Cumberland 2,570 1,386 118,988 United 814 704 82,987 Reformed.. 153 128 10,478 Annotate Reformed.. 106 89 6,688 Reformed (Dutch).... 507 658 80,572 Reformed (German),. 1,403 763 161,002 Unitarian. 3*6 *OO UniveraaU.ta 789 786 88,048 The Boman Catholic church reports 5,866 churches, 6,471 priests (Bishops .included), and 6,377,330 population. Bomb one who has taken the trouble to look the matter up says that Kansas contains as many people of foreign birth as do the States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee and West Virginia combined.— Leavenworth Times,