Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1883 — Page 3

THE BAD BOY.

'“Come in,” said the grocery man to the bod boy, as the youth stood on the steps in an uncertain sort of a way, as though he did not know whether he would be welcome or not. U I tell you, boy, I pity you. I understand your pa has got to drinking again. It is too bad. I can’t think of anything that humiliates a boy and makes him so ashamed as to have a father that is in the habit of hoisting in too much benzine. A boy feels v as though every one was down on him, and I don’t wonder that such boys often turn out bad. What started your pa to drinking again ?” “Oh, ma thinks it was losing money on the Chicago races. You see, pa is great on pointers. He don't usually bet unless he has got a sure thing, but when he gets what they call a pointer, that is, somebody tells him a certain horse is sure to win, because the other horses are to be pulled back, he thinks a job has been put up, and if he thinks he is inside the ring he will bet. He says it does not do any harm to bet, if you win, and he argues that a man who wins lots of money a great deal of good with it. But he had to walk home from the Chicago races all the .same, and he has been steaming ever •since., Pa can’t stand adversity. But I guess we have got him all right now. He is the scartest man you ever saw,” .and the’boy took a can-opener and began to cut the zinc the stove, just to see if it would work as well on zinc as on tin. “What, you haven’t been dissecting him again, have you?” said the grocery man, as he pulled a stool up beside the the boy to hear the news. “How* did you bring him to his sehsbs?” f ‘ i“Weil,‘ma tried, having the jipnister talk to pa, but pa Bible; about ;talking a littie..gWpm for the and gjjve illustrations abcrat x getting luU,, so th*u minister br>ce;Ajni an?teth«Kfcia WiMie «U&<tha sis tens c *<Hne W»d tolatoJilj qA ffii t, *he broke thermal! up by talking about rthey? had pagne - punch whbi tthav *were .ggt jn .camp- last sumiher, and .they upjldii’t hqnp any effect on hinr and !.«)< have to\xers|e my ingenuity on pa again. Me> hae> an> ■idea that 1 have'got stnne'bdhse yet* io *1 told her.ihat if she weukjdo jest I said, me and my.chum woiild scare pa so he would swear off. She said she would, and we went to work. First I took pa’s spectacles down to the optician, Saturday .night, and had the glasses taken out and a pair put in their place that would magnify, and I took them home and put them in pa’s Spectacle case. Then I got a suirof clothes from my chum’s uncle’s trunk, -about half the size of pa’s clothes. My churn’s uncle is a very small man, and pa is corpulent, I got a plug, hat three sizes smaller than pa’s hat, and took the name out of pa’s hat and put it in the small hat. 1 got a shirt about half big enough for pa, and put his initials on the thing under the bosom, and got a number fourteen collar. Pa wears seventeen. Pa had promised to brace up and go to church Sunday morning, and ma put these small clothes where pa • could put them on'. I told ma, when p& woke up, to tell him he looked awfully bloated, and excite his curiosity, and then send for me.” ’’You didn’t play such a trick as that on a poor old man, did you?” said the grocery man, as a smile came over his face. “You bet. Desperate diseases require desperate remedies. Well, ma told pa 'he looked awfully bloated, and that his dissipation was killing him, as well as all the rest of the family. Pa said, he guessed he wasn’t bloated very much, but he got up and put on his spectacles and looked at himself in the glass. You’d a dide to see him look at himself. His face looked as big as two faces, throughjthe glasses, and his nose was a sight. Pa looked scared, and then he held up his hand and looked at that. His hand looked like a ham. Just then ■ I came in, and I turned pale, with some chalk on my face, and I begun to cry, and I said, ‘Oh, pa, what ails you ? You are so swelled up I hardly knew you. ’ Pa looked sick to his stomach, and then he tried to get on the pants. Oh, my, it was all I could do to keep from laughing to see him pull them pants on. He could just get his legs in, and when I got a shoe horn and gave it to him, he was mad. He said it was a mean boy that would give his pa a shoe-horn to put on pants with. The pants wouldn’t come around pa into ten inches, and pa said he must have eat something that disagreed with him, and he laid it to watermelon. Ma stuffed her handkerchief -in her mouth to keep from laffing, when she see pa look at hisself. The legs of the pants were so tight pa couldn’t hardly breathe, and he turned pate, and said, * Hennery, your pa is a mighty sick man,’ and then ma and me both laughed, and he said we wanted him to die so we could spend his life insurance in riotous living. But when pa put ©n that condensed shirt, ma she laid down on the lounge and fairly yellei, and I laughed till my side ached. Pa got it over his head, and got his hands in the sleeves, and couldn’t get it either way, and he couldn’t see us laugh, but he could hear us, and he said, ‘lt’s darned funny, aint it, to have a parent swelled up this way. If I bust you will both be sorry.’ Well, ma took hold of one side of the shirt, .and I took hold of the other, and we pulled it on, and when pa’s head came up through the collar, his face was fairly blue. Ma told him she was afraid he would have a stroke of apoplexy before he got his clothes on, and I guess pa thought so too. He tried to get the collar on, but it wouldn’t go half way around his neck, and he looked in the glass and cried, he looked so. .He sat •down in a chair and panted, he was so -out of breath, and the shirt and pants ripped, and pa said there was no use living if he was going to be a rival to a fat woman in the side-show. Just then I put the plug hat on pa’s head, and it was so small it was going to roll off, when pa tried to fit it on his head, and then he took it off and looked inside of it, to see if it was his hat,. and when he found his name it it, he said, ‘Take it way. My head is aU wrong, too.’ Then he told me to go for the doctor mighty quick. I got the doctor and told him what we were trying

to do with pa, and he said he would finish the job. So the doe came in and pa was on the lounge, and when the doc saw him be said it was lucky he was just as he u*as, or we would have “called an undertaker. He put* some pounded ice on pa’s head the first thing, ordered* the shirt cut open and we got the pants off. Then he gave pa an emetic, and had his feet soaked, and pa said ‘ Doc, if you will bring me out of this I will never drink another drop.* The doc told pa that his life was not worth a button if he ever drank again, and left about half a pint of sugar pills to be fired into pa every five minutes. Ma and me sat up with pa all day Sunday, and Monday morning I changed the spectacles and took the clothes home, and along about noon pa said he felt as though he could get up. Well, you never see a tickleder man than pa was when he found the swelling had gone down so he could get his pants and shirt on, and he says that doctor is the best in this town. Ma says I am a smart boy, and pa has taken the pledge, and we are all right. Say, you don’t think there is anything wrong in a boy playing it on his pa, once in a while, do you ?” “Not much! you have very likely saved your pa’s life. No, sir, joking is all right when by so doing you can break a person of a bad habit,” and the grocery man cut a chew of tobacco off a piece of plug that was on the counter, which the boy had soaked in kerosene, and before he had fairly got it rolled in his cheek he spit it out and began to gag, and as the boy started leisurely out the door the groceryman said, “•Look-a-here, condemn you, don’t yen ever tamper with my tobacco again, or by thunder I’ll maul you;” and he followed the boy to the door, spitting cotton all the way, and as the boy went around the corner the grocery man thought • how different a joke seemed when it was on somebody else. And then he turned to go in and rinse the kerosene out of his mouth, and found a sign on a box of green apples, as follows: “Qplio or cholera infantum. You pays your money and takes your choice’”-— Peck's Sun.

The Biggest Foot on Earth.

Jf.there is anything.pn, earth xyliiclx contributes to make a handsome woman proud it is pretty feet. An infinite amount of misery is caused by the ladies endeavoring to crowd a No. 4 ■ foot into a No. 2 shoe, and a great: many of the masculine gender suffer with corns because the covering of their pedal extremities fits too much. | A woman with a big foot is inclined to be unhappy, but what must be the sorrow of Fannie Mills, who resides two miles east of this city. She has the biggest feet in the world so far as known, and they are still growing. The poor girl is a marvelous curiosity, and only those who have seen her ponderous feet would ever believe they are so immense. Fannie Mills is 22 years old, and resides on the dairy farm of her father, George Mills, two miles from Sandusky. The family are English, and emigrated to this country eleven years ago. The father is well-to-do, and makes a good living from the sale of milk. Mrs. Mills is a small, keenlooking woman with a pleasing face. There are five children besides the unfortunate Fanny,all of whom are healthy and good-looking. The deformed girl‘ for her feet are very imperfect, is afflicted with elephantiasis from the hips to the ankle. Her head, shoulders and bust, are normal, although she is slightly built. Fannie has a plain but interesting face. Her dark, large eyes possess considerable expression, and there is a sad look upon her countenance which shows that she fully appreciates her deplorable condition. The right foot is 1 foot 6 inches in length, and the left 1 inch shorter. ’Over the instep of the right foot is 21 inches, and over the other 1 inch less. The big toe of the left foot is 11 inches in circumference. The right foot is longer than the left by an inch, but the latter is heavier and thicker. The feet are respectively 7 and 8 inches wide. From this actual measurement of Fannie Mills’ feet one can readily imagine what marvelously large shoes she must wear. The left shoe is 16| inches long, the right 18 inches in length. The left 7} inches wide, and the other 8 inches. The right instep of the shoe measures 19J inches, the left 171 inches. Fannie Mills weighs 109 pounds, and, although delicate-looking, says she has good health. It takes two calf-hides to make her a pair of shoes, and aM her vitality goes to sustain her massive limbs and feet. The girl had usually large feet when she was born, and they have continued to grow alarmingly fast ever since. The cause of the malformation is said to arise from the fact that before Fannie was boro Mr. Mills compelled his wife to wash the swelled leg of a horse, very much to her horror and disgust. The young woman is without doubt a great curiosity —her feet a marvelous freak of nature.— Sandusky {Ohio) letter.

The Farmer Never Satisfied.

On a Wisconsin Central train I, met an old friend of the late Thaddeus Stevens. He told a little story related to him by Stevens thoroughly illustrative of tho fact 'that the farmer is the most discontented person on earth, whether his crops be bountiful or net. It was in an early day, and Mr. Stevens had been conducting an important suit for a wealthy old Pennsylvania fbrmer. During its progress he was the latter’s guest. While strolling over the farm, Mb. Stevens observed that the farmer’s corn crop, which was just ripening, vjss remarkable beyond anything ho had ever seen. “My friend,” said Mr. Stevens to the farmer, “this is truly magnificent! There is nothing left to be desired in your corn yield this year.” “W-e-1-1,” responded the farmer guardedly, “it is party fair; party fair. But,” and this with a noticeable tinge of sadness, “thar might be a few more cannels—just a few more cunnels—at the end of the cob"”— Chicago Cor. Louisville Courier-Journal. The machine for catching cyclonee alive has not yet been invented.

DORSEY AGAIN.

He Repeats the Story that Two High Offices Were Bought by Monopolists. Loyalty to Grant Alone Stood in the Way of Conkling’s Nomination at Chicago. If Any One Denies It, Dorsey Says He Will Prove He Was Offered a Cabinet Position. The New York Sun prints a lengthy interview with ex-Senator Ehrsey, held at his home in Mountain Spring Ranch, New Mexiea He says he was surprised at the publication of his so-called “Revelations,” recently published, and that he neither wrote nor inspired the article. He is always ready to be responsible for whatever he says, and when he goes into print, he added, he will do so over his own name. Furthermore, he wished to deny the article in question because there was so much in it complimentary to himself that it looked as if he himself had been responsible for the praise. Mr. Dorsey did not object to the article on account of any errors in it After having it read to him he had come to the conclusion that it was true. In the course of his remarks to the Sun's correspondent, in speaking of the Chicago Republican Convention, Mr. Dorsey says Roscoe Conk ing could have been nominated had he so much as lifted his finger. The whole Grant vote could have been transferred to him, and there were prominent gentlemen representing Slates opposed to Grant who went to Dorsey and to Arthur and promised to go with them if they would drop Grant and take up Conkling. Dorsey told Conkling that his nomination could be consummated if he would allow them to make the combination, but Conkling said he was sent terete for Grant and he would do sp, w , j THE FIFTH-A VENUE CONFERENCE. In speaking of the Fifth-avenue-confer-ence Mr. Dorsey said: “The minor details' of that meeting are of no great conseI quenoe. It is the single bottoßrfact that I should be known. It seempfl to me, after I had been put in charge of the committee.that the outlook pointed to 'some trouble in New York. Hayes had given tjie Republicans of that State a terrible dose of thecroton oil of power. It was not thought by Mr. Conkling nor by Gen. Arthur that it was worth while for them, upon the implied promise of a florid party that they should have their services recognized, when, sauce had for four years been .thrown, ltd their party friends, but no meat, to turn the ; wheels so that the mud should stick to them. In plainer English, the Stalwart Republicans of New York believed that if they had to do the heavy work of the campaign , there ought to be a positive pledge and I promise of recognition for what they did. Nobody was so loud-mouthed and persistent in this matter as the man who is now President Mr. Conkling took no part whatever in these discussions on this matter. Arthur and George Bliss were the running mates of that splendid defalcation. I had all I could do to perfect the arrangements for the meeting. It seemed to me that champagfie and idiocy were the ruling spirits among some New York politicians Late hours and moral and intellectual debauchery were telling their story in the varnished faces of some of these leaders. But I finally persuaded Garfield to pome to New York to meet these Stalwarts. Garfiield s executors must have my letters. These will show whether lam overstating it or not. At that conference were Morton and Arthur, Thomas C. Platt, John H. Starin, and a very wealthy New York gentleman not prominent in politics, whose name I will not now mention. Gov. Cornell was also there. I was present far the reason that they met in my room, and for the further reason that Garfield desired that I should ba ”

MOBTON. “What was the purpose of the conference?” “I do not desire to reflect upon the living or dead, but history is history, and it may be of service to the country to tell it Therefore I say that the sole purpose of that meeting was to induce the Republicans of New York to believe that they were not to be cheated as they had been before. ” “The great party had come to that, then?” “Well, that 'was the object of the meeting.” “Was there any agreement made there to which Gen. Garfield, as the candidate, became a party?” “Why, certainly,” said the ex-Benator, in most vigorous utterances. “It was agreed point blank and promised as the price of the support of »hese New York Republicans that Levi P. Morton was to be made Secretary of the Treasury in the event of Garfield's election. There can be no possible question of denial of that. The persons whom I have already named above must bear witness to the truth of this statement. Senator Plumb, or Kansas, can bear witness, and from Garfield s own talk with him. I know it is a convenient way now of answering me to say that Ido not say what is true. I tell you that Mr. Morton was pledged in the presence of those gentlemen the Treasury portfolio, and that j ledge was violated, and 1 don't care three tigs for any contradiction. The fact remains, and I don’t think any friend of Garfield will attempt to deny it. I see that Swaim seems to be swift now in denials. Perhaps he wou’d like to have me tell the story of his avarice and pretensions. I will not dp it just now. I don’t care to dig up a sprig when I’m getting at a tree.” -How about the promise to allow a syndicate of New York bankers to control the refunding of the bonds?” “Weik there isn’t any doubt about the practical tiuth of that statement I know by that arrangement we pulled the pinfeathers out of one man in New York who had been getting rich at the Government crib, and who refused to contribute anything. He’s a prominent banker, not far from Wall street ” STANLEY MATTREWB. “Now, Senator, is it true that a trade was made with Garfield by Jay Gould and 0. P. Huntington to secure the appointment of Stanley Matthews for Assocate Justice of the Supreme Court, and that the consideration was the payment of a very large sum into the treasury of the National Committee?” “Well, as to that, I will say that Garfield being dead and the men be left behind being many of them liars, I hardly care to trench upon the grass-plot of a grave or upon the eager ear of falsehood, still I think it just to be just I think it wise to be truthful Men are living who can defend the dead if they care or dare to. I will say, then, po-itively, emphatically, that the trade intimated by the Sun is true in all its substantial features I say categoricaly that Garfield promised the two greatest monopolists in New YorkJay Gould and C. P. Huntington—that Stanley Matthews should go, at the earliest opportunity, upon the Supreme Bench, and he agreed, if the vacancy occurred before he was inaugurated that he see to it that Hayes made tee appointment. The interested parties who seemed anxious to control the Supreme Bench promised the Garfield campaign fund SIOO,OOO. They paid their money and got their man ” “Do you speak of your own knowledge?” “Why, of course, and 1 hardly think the parties to that arrangement will make any aeniab It is absolutely true. ” “How do you know wps money was paid?” “One of the most eminent men in New York brought it to me in Indianapolis.” “Mr. Thomas C. Platt?” “Since you name him, he was the man. I turned the money over to Mr. Ed Stephenson, who is now, I believe, the President of a bank on Sixth avenue, in New York. I told him we didn t need so large a sum in Indiana, and adv.sed him to take a part of It back to Gov. Foster in Ohio. Forty thou-

sand dollars was kept for Indiana and the rest went to Ohio. I want to say right here that I never received or paid out a penny during the whole campaign. At the commencement I had wit enough to remember ber the eunuchs of criticism. ELECTION FUND?. The conversation between Mr. Dorsey and his interviewer then passed on to the Indiana and New York so-called election fund. “You say a large sum was raised and i brought to you. The necessary implication is that this was partially obtained from Jay Gould and C. P. Huntington in consideration of the appointment of Matthews. ” “Well, you must draw your own inferences. I think on the,whole that Mr. Gould, Mr Huntington, and a prominent editor of New York could answer your question better than 1 can As I never sold an office, nor bought a Cabinet Minister, nor paid a price for election to public office, I cannot answer so well Well, let that go. There was spent In Indiana about $400,030, not a nickel of which oame into my hands The Republican organization there was as good as it could be, and the credit of It is due to John G New and CoL W. W. Dudley. What I eld was simply supplementary to their work. All of this money was paid out by Mr. Stephenson and Mr. Dillon.” ARTHUR. Speaking of the “Dear Hubbell” letter, Mr. Dorsey skid, among other things: “Why nothing, nothing was left undone to raise the fund that Gen. Arthur thought necessary to secure the election of the ticket We left no stone unturned. We wanted money, and we got it I will say right here that of all the men with whom 1 have come in contact in public life, Gen. Arthur is one of the most obtuse. I do not th nk he hai been faithSil to his friends. He is trusted least by those who know him best, and if it were proper to go into the details of the private Hie of a public man—well, Gen. Arthur’s old friends in New York can sufficiently decorate him in that regard.” JAMES AND MACVEAGH. In regard to Garfie d’a alleged dissatisfaction with Postmaster General James and Attorney General MacVeagh, Mr. Dorsey says: “Garfield, after a good deal of wobbling. had determined upon the early removal of both. .If he had not been shot the day he was, within a week other parties would have taken MacVeagh's and James’ portfolios. I think he had determined to appoint Gen. Beaver, of Pennsylvania, Attorney General, and would have been glad to appoint Tom Platt, of New York, Postmaster General, hoping that this wdmd heal the breach in New York- MacVeagh’s treatment of Blaine and of William E. Chandler was so infamous that there Was-only one* of two altematlvealeft—either MacVeagh 'had Wjo out or Blaine had.” In- concluding this interview, Mr. Dorsey says; business of Rooertsana appointment was another rape on honesty. We might go on fowmonths in tfils Way, showing whatwa* agreed, and the faithless banner in which each promise was carried .put. Arthur himself, if he can phase the ghost of Garfield from the White House, CoL Dudley, Tom Platt,' Jay Gould, G‘ P. Huntington, Mr. Vanderbilt, and Mr. August Kuntz, can all verify these little anecdotes I name, them; I make my statements; I have given names and places. You will see it these are denied. You know, however, that a million dollars are always timid. So far as I am concerned my bank account with all these gentlemen is balanced.” THAT CABINET POSITION. Mr. Dorsey’p attention was then called to Gov. Foster’s recent denial that Garfield ever offered Dorsey a Cabinet place, Mr. Dorsey said: “When Foster, or Swaim, or anybody else says that Gen Garfield only offered me a Cabinet place to make me ‘ feel good,’ and with the expectation that I would decline it, they simply state what is untrue., Gen Garfield urged me in the strongest terms over and over again to accept a place in the Cabinet When I declined ft, as I did repeatedly, and, as my letters, now probably held by Swaim, will show, Garfield was amazed. I say that he urged with all sincerity that I come into the Cabinet. I say that 1 declined. If anybody cares to deny that now, we will give them proofs. ”

Political Notes.

The New York Times is of the opinion that the Republican party is afflicted with the glanders. The only remedy for glanders when it attacks a horse is to kill the animal and cleanse the stable. The Republican party will have to take that sort of medicine. Some of the iron men of Pennsylvania who profess to be unable to pay fair wages to their employes have found thousands of dollars to put into the hands of William Mahone, to be used in his effort to preserve the solidity of the colored vote in Virginia.—Washington Post. The Boston Post felicitously remarks that “young Mr. Thurman, of Ohio, seems to have discovered that while people honor and respect his father they don’t care two straws about him or what he thinks, and he has therefore done the wisest thing he could do; he has shut up. ” President Arthur has at last got ■started on his “swingin’ ” feat. Edmunds is watching him with a jealous eye, and Blaine is prepared to write a particularly-vicious paragraph about him in that book in case the performance excites too much favorable mention.—Atlanta Constitution. The Republican party believes in stealing the Presidency; it believes in buying the Presidency; it believes in fostering and protecting monopolies; it believes in corrupting elections as a matter of personal pride; it believes in extortionate taxes and in collecting from the people $150,000,000 more taxes each year, than the necessities of the Government require. Let it be understood that we do not mean the great masses of the Republican party, but the leaders and controllers of it. Honest members of the Republican party, should there not be a change ? Tipton (Ind.) Times. One of the rumors from Massachusetts is to the effect that Butler will stand by his declaration that he is not to be a candidate for the election as Governor, and will advance his old competitor, but present hearty supporter—Hon. Charles P. Thompson, of Gloucester—for the Butler-Democratic nomination, taking the stump for the latter, and making the campaign on the State issue his Administration has raised. Rev. Dr. Bartol, of Boston, in a recent lecture said of Butler: “Some of you think you do not like the Governor, but is he not awakening you? No one is perfect. Let us beware of thorough-going disapprobation.” The indications are, notwithstanding Judge Gresham denounces Southern Republicans as a set of “d—d scoundrels,” that the Republican party is now concocting a scheme by which Confederate bonds can be paid, and that it is to be used as bait to catch i Southern Republican votes. It should I be understood that the Supreme Court, ■ has been partisanized for the express purpose of deciding questions in the interest of the Republican party, ex- , cept, possibly, Stanley Matthews, who 1 is principally owned by Jay Gould, he having paid SIOO,OOO for him.—-Jyir , d van apo lis Sentinel.

A PERSIAN PAGEANT.

How the Shah Received the First Dip* lomatic Representative of This Country. His Name Is Benjamin and He Was Presented with Grand Ceremonies. [Washington Telegram,] fl G. W. Benjamin, the first diplomatic representative of the United States to Persia, gives the following account of his reception by the Shah: A brilliant pageant had been prepared outside the walls of Teheran at one of the royal pavilions. At the stairway of the pavilion Mx Benjamin was met I y Nas'r el Mulls, or the General-in-Chief of the armies of Persia, and a glittering crowd of prominent officers blazing with blue, scarlet, silver, and gold and decorations innumerable - of diamonds and costly gems. Mr. Benja- I min was escorted to an audience hall by the 1 Genera! 1 .-Chief, where an exchange of courtes. was offered and accepted. Next Mr. Benjamin was taken to’theoourt below and mounted upon a fine horse to continue his travels. This was the signal for every uia to mount, and the cortege of nearly I,COo royal guards was put in- motion, they be.ng brilliantly and elaborately costume X As the procession moved across the plain toward the beau iful turreted gate of the city, which is decosated with particolored glazed tiles, the Oos?acks dashed hither and thither between the lines, firing muskets in the air and exhibiting the most brliant feats of horsemanship The streets were lined with spectators. At intervals were stationed police or squads of military. Passing through the grand squase of the Department of War, the .cortege filed into the new or European quarter of the city. On approaching his quarters Mr. Benjamin was told by an aid that 300 soldiers were marshaled at the entrance to receive him. Mr. Benjamin dismounted, returned the salute, and, accompanied by the General-in-Chief ana his staff, was escorted to a recep-tion-room. where further courtesies wer e shown and refreshments enjoyed. Mr. Benjamin next made an informal call on the Minister for Foreign Affairs at his residence, according to the custom of the country.- Tie havhetd office thirty-trtx years and is a conservative and astute-statesman of kindly manners and disposition. . The IVth of June Mr. Benjamin received a cad from the Brand Chamberlain, whois ason-in-law of the lShah. and who Informed Mr. Benjamin that his Majesty desired to receive him at 1 o'clock p. m. the 11th. Mr. Benjamin was taken to the palace in a landau furnished by his Majesty and drawn by six horses, each mounted by a liveried postillion. Twenty royal Ferqushes or footrunners clad in scarlet and wearing plumed tiaras preceded the carriage, together with a score of horsemen accompanied by Mohamoudan, the second master of ceremonies Mr. Benjamin arrived at the gardens of the palace, which are.beautified with fountains and shrubbery and foliage arranged artfully wild, after a style peculiarly Persian. All were ushered into a spacious and hand-’ some hall, where the first masrer of ceremonies and other gendemen and dignitaries go geously arrayed were in waiting. Here Mr. Benjamin was invited to make the seat of honor and treated to -“tea and kaliaun,” ■ or water pipe. r 'Boon after the made to Mr. Benjamin that his Majesty was in readiness to receive him, and thereupon he was conducted by the first master of ceremonies to the palace itself. “At this moment,” says Mr. Benjamin, “a salute fired in honor of the United States thundered over the city, and on entering we ascended a magnificent staircase The walls were decorated in part with paintings of European masters. From the staircase we entered an audience-halj of proportions, and most linpreßStve In effect. His Majesty stood at the upper end. Leaving my outer shoes at the door, as prescribed by the treaty of Kourmantchio, I made a low bow andwalked up to where the King was standing.” Mr. Benjamin then addressed the King in French, and presented his letter of credence. His Majesty replied that it gave him great satisfaction to see an American Legation at Teheran, and he considered that both Governments would be further benefitted by increasing the intercourse and diplomatic relations of the two peoples. After this ceremony his Majesty expressed strong hopes that the United States, now that*it had established a Legation in. Persia, should maintain one permanently at Teheran. At the conclusion of the audience with his Majesty, Mr. Benjamin made a formal call upcn the Secretary of Foreign Affairs, and pa : d his respects also to his Royal Highness, Nalb Sultan, who is Secretary of War and one of the sons of the King, and thanked him for his miH ary escort

OUR FORESTS.

Annual Session of the American Forestry Congress at St. Paul. The annual meeting of the American'Forestry Congress was held in the Capitol building at St Paul, President George B. Loring in the chair. President Loring in his annual address treated of the state of forestry in the United States He stated that the dearingsin the old settled parts of the country were being filled up with trees so that in Ohio, Maine, New York, and other. States the acreage of forest is growing constantly greater. In the other States, where the subject of forestry is gaining, the same attention is also given. In the States where Arbor day has been established the number of trees planted increase year by year. The address treated of the decrease of pine timber, showing that the supply will be exhausted in the Northern States in a few years at the present rate of cut. So much depends in the near future upen the pine forests of the Gulf States for lumber. Much remained to be done for the care of forests, much timber being wasted by wanton burning and cutting. The public mind should be aroused to the importance of the subject The President indo sed the suggestions of the Land Commissioner in his re-port-for 1882, in which bespeaks of the difficulty of suppressing the unlawful cutting of timber, ana asks for some general ana comprehensive law regulating who may cut timber on the Government lands; fpr what purpose it may be cut; and providing a penalty for unlawfully destroying forests. He pointed out the effect of forests on rainfall, and closed by saying the United States, which had been so busily engaged in lumbering for the last forty years, should devote itself now to forestry. Resolutions were adapted in memory of Dr. J. A. Warder, and L R. Hodges, of St Paul, and Arthur Bryant, of Princeton, HL, deceased members. The following officers were elected: President, George B. Loring, of Massachusetts; Vice Presidents, H. G. Joly, Quebec; George L Becker, St. Paul; Recording Secretary, N. H. Eggleston, Washington; Corresponding Secretary, B. E. Fernon, Pennsylvania; Treasurer. Charles Mohe. Alabama; Executive Committee,B. G. Northup, Connecticut; Marion Higby, Ohio; J. G. Knapp, Florida; J. S. Hicks, New York; J. L Buad, lowa. A resolution was adoped asking the Commisssfoner of Agriculture to call, during the winter, a meeting in Washington of the representatives of all associations and institutions devoted to the into tests of forestry. E. Wright of Boston, moved a committee consider what elect damming the sources of the MBs sslppi river have on the fores.s of Northern Minnesota. The motion was carried. Mr. parson, of Topeka, Kan., read q letter on the profit of planting forest trees. He gave an example es a man investing <5,000 in 400, acres of trees, which in sixteen yean brought a profit of 800 per cant on the sale of trees alone.

RAILROADS OF INDIANA.

Humber of Miles and Value of Improvements in Each County—Only Four Counties Without at Least One Line. [From the Indianapolis Journal.] The report of the work of the State Board of Equalization will soon bo ready for printing. It will be more elaborate this year than ever before, andds being very carefully prepared. From the tabulated statement of the Auditor of State showing the number of miles of railroad operated in each county, with its tax valuation, the following summary has been takes, giving the total tax assessment which goes to each county, together with the valuation on the improvement on the right of way: Total ImproveMlles tax as- ment on Counties. main sees- right of, traok. ment way. Adams 53.78) $ 252,111 $ 3,295" Allen 140.29 2,175,695 171,405 Bartholomew 42.11 356,386 3,855 Benton 45.82 415.028 3.900 Blackford 26.33 2C6.477 2,325 , Boone 38.46 432,608 2,290 Brown 1 Carroll 59.10 502,548 5,190 Cass.• 87.181 1,447,162 33,170 Clarke 65.53 706,704 12,530 Clay 43.38 613,428 I 4,262 Clinton 101.13 570,178 4,390 Crawford 25.42 135,749 800 Daviess 18.12 212,648 1.060 Dearborn 49.18| 550,562 11,261 De atur 45.48 424.264 6,530 DeKalb 85.69 1,245,697 62,355 Delaware 64.97 617,502 8,885 Dubois 37.31 199,687 2,450 Elkhart... 58.83 1,126,496 72,070 Fayette 42.761 264,212 3,815 FlOVd 19.97 153,252 11,425 Fountain 94.84 499,282 4,410 Franklin. 31.01 150,158 1,350 Fulton. 42.85 241,540 1,850 Gibson. 60.89 511,833 7,175 Grant 70.90 482,841 4,315 Greene 65.45 201,913 2,970 Hamilton 47.08 346,504 2,180 Hancock 64.87 602,293 4,610 Harrison 17.15 89,885 150 Hendricks..,.- 78.19 940,238 4,529 Henry 96.47 825,428 7,440 Howardsl.2s 344,851 4,485 Huntington 48.31 544,223 59,484 Jackson....; 50.41 574,012- 11,785 Jasper 30.74 253,344 1,610 Jay 62.60 396,247 3,215 Jefferson 21.54 166,448 10,825 Jennmgs...;... 63.97 545,921 2,235 Johnson 41.51 338,528 4,420 Knox 78.14 689,748 18.980 Kosciusko... 87.49 1,125,540 17.011 Lagrange • 16.96 162,435 1,350 Lake 200.92 - 2,815.640 26,218 1 Laporte 203.78 2,772,989 41,937 Lawrence. 66.81 489,249 4,085 Madison 88.70 498 249 4,725 Marion.. 165.94 2,538.196 195,000 Marshall 88. 6 . 1,171,256 14,992 Martin.., 19.88 217,290 2,029 Miami 76.47 709 037 29,660 Monroe 29.22 709,666 3,050 Montgomery 97.84 576,406 4,595 Morgan 40.24 202.545 2,560 I Newton. 21.78 220,321 1,545 Noble 74.36 1,171,918 18,105 Orange 9.51 67,888 1,700 Owen 40.78 230,0421 8,885 Parke 49.67 316,960 1,872 Pike 14.87 79,824 25 Porter 129.83 2.155,258 32,036 Posev 71.40 591,198 2,120 Pulaski 43.52 389,453 2,325 Putnam 89.99 1,617,805 • 6,737 Randolph 83.16 829,927 7,570 Ripley 30.86 361,125 2,565 Rush 62.93 401,143 5,700 Scott 21.32 435,114 2,250 Shelby 58.27 507,851 5,930 Spencer 27.07 143,074 750 Starke 60.05 985,430 6,084 St. Joseph 67.56 1,185,888 23,900 Steuben 19,01 193,198 2,200 Sullivan 47.26 202,907 3,950 Tippecanoe 103.84 1,152,271 45,893 Tipton 45.11 419,787 2,870 Union 14.32 153,571 2,425 Vanderburg 45.25 433,733 60,650 Vermillion 54.10 402,153 2,900 Vigo 92.02 1,085,702 53,669 Wabash 80.44 697.816 24,220 Warren 30.24 350,505 7,695 Warrick 2L97 116,534 200 Washington 27.64 193,352 900 Wayne.. 85.05 736,590 32,220 Wells... 73.75| 164,645 3,850 White 69.08 604,159 4,910 •Whitley 58.33 796,915 12,840 Total 5,240.19 $54,209,228 $1,322,739 t T~ ■ The counties which have no railroads running within their territory are Brown, Ohio, Perry and Switzerland. The counties having the largest number of miles of railroad are Laporte, Lake and Marion, while Orange has the fewest miles. The valuation is highest in Lake county, but Marion leads in the eost of improvements on the right of way. The improvements on the Louisville, Evansville and St Louis, in Pike, cost less than is credited to any other county, the amount being <25. Indiana Items. Richard Cowan, colored, reputed to be 110 years old, died at Gibsonville. ArTndianapolls the wife of George Reissner, boot and shoe dealer, committed suicide by jumping from a window in the secondstory of her residence. Miss Anna Mills, 70 years old, of Utica. Clark county, drowned herself in the Ohioriver. Temporary insanity is suppose! to have driven her to take her life. While attempting to kill a mink, at Booneville, William Gimlisoh accidentally shot his wife, the ball entering the knee-cap, inflict. Ing a dangerous wound. Joe Hogue, son of Zebulon Hogue, of Wheatland, had one of his legs cut off. A team of horses ran away with a mower, and the boy was caught in front of the knife A tramp entered the house of an old colored lady at Madison, and drove her out at the mnzzle of a pistol. Her daughter returned home and he frightened her away with a butcher knife, and then ransacked the house and escaped to the hills. As a train was leaving the depot at Shelbyville, somebody threw a large stone through a car window, striking an old lady by the name of Smith, who lived at Sunman, twenty mile? east of Greensburg, on the temple. Information now comes that she is dead from the effects of the blow. * At Hazleton, Pater Le Fare was running a belt on a pulley, using a stick for the purpose. The stick became fastened in the wheel, and after one revolution it was thrown with terrible force, striking Le Fare in the bowels and penetrating deep into his body. It is reported that the young man died the same night At Seymour, John McCammon's wife died and was buried at the expense of the county, leaving four children. McCammon, a good-for-nothing drunkard, came home and abused his family, when about thirty neighboring women gathered in, tied him to the bedstead, and were about to administer a whipping when the City Marshal came and released him One of the most horrible accidents occurred at Montpelier, to Hosie Moricle. He was fireman on a thresher engine, and was moving the engine to another stack He was going across a bridge, when it gave •way, letting engine and tank both into the stream. He was riding between the engine and tank, and when It went "down his foot was caught and held so tightly that he could not get out for fifteen minutes. All thia time the steam and hot water poured on him. scalding him to death. He suffered intense agony. He expired in a short time after he was got out