Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1884 — Page 2

® tje Bemocraticgenttnel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, - - - Publisher

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. DOINGS OF CONGRESS. Congress bad a dull and uninteresting' session on the Bth Inst. The Senate passed bills to permit the bridging of the Rio Grande at Eagle Pass and Laredo, Texas. A bill was introducad for the deposit in the Treasury of the receipts of the money-order system, and the payment of its expenses out of the appropriations. After some debate on the naval appropriation bill. Mi. Hale gave notice of an amendment to set aside $1,750,000 for the erection of two factories for making guns from sixinch caliber to one hundred tons. The House of Representatives pastel bills for the appointment of a commission to run the boundary line between Indian Territory and Texas; declaring that the Supreme Court of each Territory shall consist of a Chief Justice and three associates; and providing that Governors of Territories must have been for two years residents thereof before their appointment. In the Senate on April 9, the whole time was devoted to debate on the naval appropriation bill, during which Mr. Vest created something of a sensation by charging that the Secretary of the Navy would allow his personal feelings and partisan bias to do tilings in a public capacity that the best interests of the country would not warrant. In the House a struggle arose as to wnich of the many pending special orders should obtain precedence in consideration. Mr. Dinglcy essayed to bring np the Shipping bill, but the effort was unsuccessful, the motion being defeated—yeas 76, nays 156. Mr. Reagan met with like fate, his motion to consider the Inter-State Commerce bill being voted down—yeas 101, nays 120. The Speaker ruled that the unfinished business was on the Oregon Central Land-Grant bill. Mr. Stock - slager, asked the House to consider the public building bills, and moved to go into committee of the whole for the consideration of such bills. The antagonists of these measures and the more prominent advocates of the Oregon Central bill united in opposition to the motion, but they were unsuccessful, and the House, by a vote of yeas 160, nays 61, went into committee of the whole, Mr. Wellborn in the chair. Bills for public buildings at Keokuk, lowa, and Waco. Tex., were passed.

A communication from the Secretary of the Navy, urging an appropriation of $175,000 fora new revenue cruiser for the waters of Alaska was presented to the Senate on the 1 Oth lust. A tavoraule report was made on the bill to authorize the bridging of the Mississippi at St. Louis. Bills were introduced to protect employes of railroads engaged in inter-State commerce, and to forfeit the land grant of the New Orleans and Vicksburg road. After prolonged debate on the Naval Appropriation bill, the Senate adjourned to the 14th. In the House, Mr. Eaton reported a substitute for the Senate bill gd*ernlng the election of President and Vice President. A joint resolution was introduced directing the Postmaster General to apply the most effective means to protect the mails on postal cars from fire. The House went into committee of the whole to consider bills for public buildings. Favorable reports were made on measures for ix>stoffices at New Albany, Pittsburgh, Chattanooga, and Augusta, Me., but the House adjourned without taking action thereon. The Senate bill offering a reward of 825,000 for rescuing or ascertaining the fate of the Chreely arctie expedition passed the House of Representatives on the 11th inst. The House adopted a resolution declaring the charges made by Mr. Keifer against H.V. Boynton not sustained by evidence. A bill for the forfeiture of the Northern Pacific land grant was reported. A message from the President was presented, urging the appropriation of $15,000,000 for armaments for sea-coast fortifica'.ions. An evening session was held for the consideration of tension bills. The Senate was not in session. In the House of Representatives, on the 12th, favorable reports were made on bills to permit fruit-growers to manufacture brandy •without the payment of tax, granting lettercarriers a month’s leave of absence each year, and for the acceptance of the Illinois and Michigan Canal. Eulogies on the late Representative Herndon of Alabama, were delivered by nine members. The Senate was not in

EASTERN. Two thieves drove boldly up an alley In Wheeling, at 4 o’clock in jthe morning, placed a ladder at a second-story window of a dry goods store, and carried off 810,000 worth -of velvets and silks while a clerk lay asleep beneath them. In front of Bunker Hill Monument, m Boston, in the daytime, Mary A. Ruggles was held up by a thief while his partner ran off with her shopping-bag. Two prominent citizens of Suspension Bridge, named Van R. Pearson and Thomas Vedder, brothers-in-law, drove over to Goat Island. The corpse of the former ■was shortly afterward discovered with a bul-let-bode in the head, but the only trace of the latter was a pile of clothing. The horse was found tied to a tree, covered with frozen spray. Pearson had of late become so much unbalanced in mind that preparations had been made to place him in an asylum. Vid<der’s body is believed to have gone over Niagara Falls. In a speech at Boston President Eliot, of Harvard College, called base-ball a wretched igame. •

WESTERN.

In tbe Sharon divorce ease at San Francisco, a female witness undertook to draw a revolver on one of the counsel, and her son made ;a similar attempt. Judge Sullivan declined to hear further testimony unless the policeman at the entrance to the court-room would certify that noone present was armed. It was leaiaied in Cleveland that two young scions of wealthy families, named W. H. Boardman and Gussie Bissell, were recently married in a suburban church. The young lady's mother offered to take her to Paris, when she confessed the elopement Wheat seeding in Southern Minnesota and Dakota is a week in advance of last year. There will be a substantial increase in the acreage of the Territory. A tragedy very closely resembling the recent murder of' Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, near Chicago, was enacted the other day near Charleston, 111. An aged couple named Fleetwood were found with their throats cut from ear to ear, the bed having been fired by the assassin previous to his departure. A belt containing $2,300 in gold was stolen from a gypsy’s wagon at Metropolis, 111. Hubbard, Cashier of the wrecked First National Bank of Monmouth, Hl., has disappeared, and his family refuse to disclose his whereabouts. It is believed that the private trusts managed by Hubbard have suffered seriously. An attachment suit has been begun by the bank against him for $114,000. The business of the town for the time is paralyzed. Mrs. Langtry began a two weeks’ engagement at McVicker’s Theater, Chicago, on Monday, making her first appearance as Lady Ormond in “A Wife’s Peril,” a character in which she has achieved a great triumph. The star is supported by a strong company or players. The Chicago critics concede that Mrs. Langtry has made great

progress m ner art since ber former appearance in that city. Dr. Salmon, the Veterinarian of the Department of Agriculture, who has spent some time in the portions of Kansas, lowa, and Illinois where it was alleged some time ago the foot and mouth disease had prevailed, has made a preliminary report to his chief, Dr. Loring, in which he states that the cattle of the districts in question show no symptoms of contagious disease; that all Indications of the prevalence of the foot-and-mouth disease are absent. He is of opinion that the cattle in these places died of ergot and exposure. Dr. Salmon is also of opinion that there has never been a case of foot-and-mouth disease in the United States. At the session of the Wyoming Stock Growers’ Association, at Chyenne, last week, it was reported no case of contagious disease had occurred in Wyoming, Colorado. Nebraska, or Montana. Advices from the Idaho gold regions state that the snow was disappearing along the creeks, but in the side gulches it was deep enough to prevent thorough prospecting. The greatest activity was in the vicinity of Murrayville, where it is claimed that one man was washing out 825 worth of gold' per day. On another claim was a yield of 818.55 per man per day, On the celebrated “Widow" claim ten men were washing out a tin cup full of gold each day. It will be a month yet before active mining will have fairly commenced. Seven hundred and ninety-five reports from 609 townships of Michigan indicate that the winter-wheat crop and the clover crop will be about 97 per cent., apples about 90 per cent., and peaches but 50 per cent, of an average. A correspondent in the Idaho gold regions sends the following to a Chicago paper: "The latest excitement here is over quartz discoveries along Eagle Creejc A boy yesterday struck a lead about ten miles up the gulch, and to-day specimens of the rock were brought into camp. Several old miners are wild with Relight, and declare that carbonates have been found equal to those of Leadville." Henry’s Bank, at Mineral Point, Wis., in which the public funds there were deposited, has closed its doors. The assets are placed at 8100,000 and the liabilities are unknown. The skull and other portions of the skeleton of a mastodon have been discovered near Buchanan, Mich. The skull measures eight feet in length by three and a half in width. Two teeth found weighed five pounds each. Fifteen prisoners in the Milwaukee Jail, mostly burglars and highwaymen, have been locked in their cells for an attempt to escape. Jailer Walsh was called to furnish coal, and as he unlocked the grated door he was struck in the face and blinded by ashes. He sprang back and pushed the tolt in time to retain the prisoners.

SOUTHERN.

A meat and ice company, backed by Eastern capitalists, is to be established at Columbus, Tex., which will ship dressed beef to New York, via St. Louis, and will also manufacture oleo, oil, and butterine. It 16 said similar establishments will be started In Kansas and Nebraska. The Pocahontas (Va.) mine was entered last week, and the remains of the victims of the explosion were removed. Some were headless trunks, others had the arms and legs torn away, and all were unrecognizable, save by their wearing appsrel or other special marks. Death was believed to be instantaneous in all coses. Eight prisoners confined in jail at Gainesville, Ark., attacked the jailer, and maVj their escape. A posse of citizens pursued them, when a pitched battle took place, In which over a hundred shots were fired. A convict named Breckman was killed, three other prisoners wounded, while the rest escaped.

WASHINGTON.

D. F. Murphy has been official reporter of the United States Senate for thirtyfour years. Jeff Davis, Hannibal Hamlin, and Freeman Smith are the only surviving members of the body m which he entered upon his duties. The House Committee on Public Lands has agreed to report a bill forfeiting the grant to the Northern Pacific Road between Wallula and Portland. The company is to be required to construct each year one hundred miles of road, and equip the whole line to Wallula by July 4, 1886. Adam Badeau has sent to Secretary Frelinghuysen a cablegram tendering his resignation as Consul General at Havana. A committee of stockholders of the wrecked Pacific National Bank of Boston has forwarded to WashingAn a series of fourteen charges against Comptroller Knox, supported by evidence, and threatens to institute criminal proceedings. Knox says he will not resign until these charges are thoroughly Investigated.

POLITICAL.

A number of prominent white Republicans of Georgia, met at Atlanta, Ga., and laid the foundation for what they propose to call the Whig party of 1884. A resolution in the California Senate, ithanking Minister Sargent for his services in Berlin, was tabled by a vote of 22 to 13. J. G. Cannon has been renominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Fifteenth Illinois District. The Republicans of the District of Columbia selected Postmaster Conger and Perry Carson' as delegates to Chicago, and voted down a resolution instructing them for Logan. The Democratic State Convention of Pennsylvania appointed sixty Randall delegates to Chicago, but left them uninstructed. W. W. H. Davis, a county editor, was nom inated for Congressman-at-large. At the Republican Congressional Convention for the Albany district, after the election of a presiding officer, a mob made a rush for the platform and threw off the Chairman and Secretary. A scene of wild disorder was followed by the appointment in the same room of rival delegations to Chicago. District conventions to select delegates to the National Republican Convention were held in the various Congressional Districts of Indianaon the 10th inst. Following is a summary of preferences, so far as known; First District—Gen. Sherman, 2; Second Dis-trict-Unknown, 2; Third District Unknown, 2; Fourth District—Harrison, 2;

Fifth District—Harrison, 2; Sixth District— Edmunds, 1; Blaine. 1; Seventh District— Harrison, 2; Eighth District—Blaine, 2; Ninth District—Unknown, 2; Tenth District— Blaine, 2; Eleventh District—Harrison, 2; Twelfth District—Unknown, 2; Thirteenth District—Unknown, 2. It is not quite certain that a majority of the Southern delegates will go to Chicago Instructed for Arthur. There are many indications that many of them will go instructed and prepared to vote for the man whorls most likely to carry Ohio in October and New York in November. So says the Chicago Tribune. According to the St. Louis GlobeDemocrat, 11 of the delegates from Missouri to the National Republican Convention will favor Blaine, 9 will vote for Arthur, 7 for Logan, and 5 for Edmunds. Gov. Sherman, of lowa, in an interview with a Chicago Tribune reporter, said that the lowa delegation to the National Republican Convention would be uninstructed. The prevailing sentiment among the Republicans of the State was in favor of Blaine, and the entire delegation might vote for the man from Maine from the start. The most reliable political advices from Kansas indicate that Blaine is the favorite Presidential candidate of the Republicans of the State. Edmunds stands next, and then comes Arthur. Logan has a large following, but there is no organization in his interest, apparently. It is reported from Washington that Senator Riddleberger and Representatives John D. Wise and Benjamin Hooper visited Mr. Blaine at his residence in that city with a view to political negotiations. The straightout Republicans, headed by Dezendorf and Wickham, are understood to be for Blaine, and the Readjusters, feeling that he is going to win, are anxious to make terms with him if possible. There seems to be no doubt that the visit was paid. Its purpose is another question.

FIRE RECORD.

The week’s record of fires, where a loss of 810,000 and upward was Involved, Is shown in the annexed tabulated summary: / Losses. Scranton, lowa, business property.s 20,000 Aurora, Ind., Freiburg's distillery....... 100,000 St. Louis, Mo., wire rope factory 50,000 Shreveport, La., cotton mill 30,000 Philadelphia, woolen mill 10,000 East Saginaw, Mich., furniture factory.. 15,000 Bertamont, Mich., saw-mill 20,000 Hampton, lowa, grain elevator 15,000 West Point, Ga., cotton warehouses 150,000 Parsons, Kan., ilouring mill 10,000 New York, apartment house 200,000 Philadelphia, malt house 60,000 Moberly, Mo., railway warehouse 30,000 Chatham, Va., business property 15,000 Pensacola, Fla., bank and stores 35,000 Boston, warehouse and contents 30,000 Marseilles, 111., Clark’s paper mill 60,000 Port Deposit, Md., stores 35,000 St. Louis, Mo., business property 75,000 Montreal, tea warehouse 30,000 Athens, Texas, business block 80,000 Evansville, Ind., small stores 10,000 Muncie, Ind., barn and live stock 10,000 Waverly, N. ¥., railway shops 20,000 Churchill, Md., carriage factory 15,000 Hubbard-ton, Mich., ten business lib uses. 30,000 Huntsville, Tex., a square of stores 30,000 Hampton, Va., thirty buildings 125,000 Athol, Mass., Cook’s block 25,000 Montreal, iron foundry 60,(XX) Corsicana, Tex., wholesale grocery store. 60,000 Van Alstyne, Tex., five stores 25,000 Pensacola, Fla., hotel, depot, etc 65,000 Augusta, Ark., business property 15,000 Winnipeg, Manitoba, planing mills 20,000 Detroit, Daily Times office 20,000 Lanesville. Minn., stores 10,000 Knowlesvllle, N. Y., business property... 15,000

MISCELLANEOUS. The complications arising from the collapse of the Garden CCity Warehouse ompany were increased by the arrest of H. J. Dike on a capias secured by the First National Bank of Chicago. The number of persons killed during the Haytien revolution is officially declared to have been 7,000. The Calumet and Hecla Mining Company has for the first time in seventeen years passed its dividend, causing its stock 'to drop in the Boston market from 225 to 200. Col. Aguero, the Cuban leader who crossed from Key West, made his way toward the interior and was joined by numerous factions. The Government has called upon Spain for more troops, and has re-established the censorship over dispatches. Reports to the department at Washington say the area sown to winter wheat is 27,600,000 acres, and that the average condition of the crop at present is 95, against 80 in April last year. The Mexican Government having agreed that only goods actually sold shall be stamped, the stamp-act excitement is virtually ended. Seventeen firms engaged in the manufacture of vapor stoves, with a capital of $1,500,000, have formed a combination to equalize prices. • During the first quarter of the pres, ent year the issue of two and three cent stamps exceeded the issue for the correspond' ing period of last year by 27 per cent. There has been a falling off in the postal-card issue of 13,000,000 since the inauguration of the two-cent rate. Charles Reade, the popular English novelist, died in London the other day, aged 70 years. For some months he had been indelicate health. Other deaths among notables during the week were: M. Jean Baptiste Dumas, a French litterateur and statesman; Dr. James G. Ramsey, physician and author, of Nashville, Tenn.; ex-Congressman Charles D. Hodges, of Carrollton, Ill.; Harrison Gray Otis, a distinguished citizen of Boston; ex-Lieut. Gov. Jabez Fitch, of Ohio; Emanuel Gerbel, German poet; Jem Ward, the old-time English pugilist; Rev. Thomas A. Cheek, a noted lowa colored minister; Henry Hitchcock, of Galesburg, 111., a prominent railroad man; James Lake, of Rockford, 111., who was Quartermaster under Gen. Rosecrans; Gustav Richter, famous German painter; William Procter, the well-known soap manufacturer, and Alt Burnett, a. noted humorist, both of Cincinnati; ex-State Treasurer John M. Milliken, of Ohio. Col. Heron and Mr. Valentine, of the Wells-Fargo Express Company, have arrived in the Mexican capital for the purpose of extending the business of their concern.

FOREIGN.

Two men charged with having explosive bombs in their possession, were arrested at Birmingham, England. The Spanish War Department reports that the revolutionary force of Gen. Aguero in Cuba is 1,400 strong, and is making for the mountains of Las Tunas. The French in Tonquin bombarded Hoanghoa for six hours, and then found the town evacuated by the Chinese. The French

Minister is ordered to asx ot China the establishment of a limited protectorate over Tonquin, but will make no demand for indemnity. Marquis Tseng has been summoned to Pekin. Parnell's migration scheme, the purpose of which is to transfer the landless peasants of the “congested ” (overcrowded) districts of Ulster and Connaught to the unoccupied lands cf other parts of the island, is meeting with great success. The Catholic priests are aiding, and are subscribing for shares In the company to further this purpose which Mr. Parnell has organized.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

An attempt has been made to assassinate the President of Guatemala. He was slightly wounded. Fronde, the English historian, promises to visit America soon. The Ohio Legislature adjourned last week until next January, after having appointed a committee to investigate alleged election frauds in Cincinnati. The session began Jan. 8 last. A. B. Lee, a farmer, who went insane over the Crouch tragedy, committed suicide with morphine at Jackson, Mich. Gov. Hoadly, of Ohio, has appointed a commission of four to rebuild the Cincinnati Court House. It consists of two Republicans and two Democrats. An explosion of fire-damp in a mine at Elizabeth, Pa.) about eighteen miles.from Pittsburgh, killed two men and severely injured several others. John C. Perry, who had accepted the position of Justice of the Supreme Court of Wyoming, was stricken with paralysis in the streets of Brooklyn, N. Y. He died in two hours. Business has been fully resumed in the capital and other Mexican cities, and the stamp-tax affair is ended. The steamship Reliance, built last year and valued at 8350,000, was wrecked off Bahia, Brazil, with her cargo, including 7,000 bags of coffee. The passengers, crqw» and mails were sVved. French Canadians continue to leave the province of Quebec in large numbers for the United States. They find nets homes, principally in the New England manufacturing towns, though some form colonization companies, generally headed by Catholics, in Dakota and the Northwest. The Catholic Bishops are alarmed at the exodus, and propose to join in a pastoral advising their people to remain at homo. Majority and minority reports have been prepared by the sub-committee of the House Committee on Pacific Railroads. The former proposes to extend the provisions of the Thurman act to theJKansas Pacific Road, and to withhold from tho subsidized lines all payments for services rendered. The minority report states that at the maturity of the bonds issued there will be due the Government 8102,376,312. The naval appropriation bill, with amendments for the construction of cruisers and for the preparation of plans and estimates for an armored vessel of 8,500 tons displacement, passed the Senate on the 14th inst. A petition was received from Mrs. James A. Garfield and five hundred other citizens of Cleveland, praying that the Nez Perces be returned to their home. A favorable report was made on the resolution granting certain publications to the Cincinnati Law Library. Bills were introduced to place General Fremont on the retired list and to forfeit the unearned lands of the Northern Pacific Road. Several sections of the bankruptcy bill were considered. In the House, Mr. Reed offered a resolution, which was adopted, directing the Committee on Agriculture to Inquire into the introduction of the foot-and-mouth disease in Maine through the oversight of Federal officials, and to report a bill to reimburse citizens for expenses in suppressing the disease. Mr. Turner introduced a bill for a tax of 3 per cent, on incomes of $5,000 and of 10 per cent, on SIOO,OOO or more. Measures were also presented to bridge the Ohio River at Cincinnati; to place on the free list agricultural Implements and all machinery usedin the manufacture of farm products; to retire John C. Fremont with the rank of Major General, and to establish a signal station at Houston, Texas. A bill to bridge the Potomac near Georgetown was defeated in committee ot the whole.

Flowers and Men.

As there are some flowers which yon should smell but slightly, to extract all that is pleasant in them, and which if you do otherwise, emit what is unpleasant and noxious, so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable, a more intimate one would be unsatisfactory and unsafe.— Landor.

THE MARKET.

NEW YORK. Beeves $ 7.00 @ 7.75 Hogs 6.00 @ 6.75 Fi.oub—Western 3.00 @ 5.50 Wheat—No. 2 Chicago 924@ .93’4 • No. 2 Red 97 @ .99 Corn— No. 2....................... 55 @ .57 Oats—White 39 & .424 POBK—Mess 16.50 @17.00 BAUD 08%@ .09 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers. 6.25 @6.75 Fair to Good 5.50 @ 6.00 Common to Medium.... 5.00 @5.75 Hogs 5.25 @ 6.00 Flour—Fancy White Winter Ex 6.50 @5.75 Good to Choice Spring... 4.50 @ 5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 78 @ .81 No. 2 Winter 78 @ .79 Core—No. 2 43 @ .49 OATS—No. 2 33 @ .36 RiE—No. 2 65 @ .56 Barley—No. 2 65 @ .67 But IKK —Choice Creamery .27 @ .29 Fine Dairy 24 @ .27 Potatoes—Peachblows 32 @ .35 Eggs—Fresh is @ .16 Pork-Mess 16.Q0 @16.50 Lard 08 @ .084 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 85 @ .86 Corn—No. 2 53 @ .55 Oats—No. 2 32 @ .35 Harley—No. 2 63 @ .65 Pork—Mess 16.00 @16.50 Lard ... s.oo @8.50 ST. LOUIS Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.06 @ 1.074 Corn—Mixed 45 @ .46 Oats—No. 2., 34 @ .36 Rte.... 55 @ .56 Pork—Mess 16.50 @16.75 Hard - 08 @ .084 „ CINCINNATI Wheat—No. 2 Red. 1.01 @ 1.024 Oats -Mixed. . 35 @ .36 Pork—Meso....- 16.25 @16.75 Laud 08 @ .084 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red 90 @ .92 Corn-No. 2 53 @ .55 Oats—No. 2 37' .38 „ DETROIT. Flour . 5.50 @6.25 Wheat—No 1 White...., 95 @ .96 Cobn—Mixed 49 ea 51 Oats—No. 2 White 38 @ 39 Pork—Mess 19.5 j @20.09 „ INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—No. 2 RedW 99 @1 00 Corn—Mixed .47 @ .49 Oats—Mixed .33 $ ’34 „ , EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Best 4.75 @ 5.75 Fair 4.95 (g too Common 40) @4.50 HOGS... 6.50 @ 6.75 hHEEP 3.75 @5.25

THE EDUCATION BILL.

Text of the Measure Passed by the United States Senate. Following is the text of the Blair education bill passed by the 'Senate, and now on the Speaker’s desk in the House: Be it enacted, etc.. That for eight years next after the passage of this act there shall be annually appropriated from the money in the Treasury the following sums, to wit: The first year the sum of $7,(00,000, the second year the sum of $10,000,000, the third year the sum of $10,000,000, the fourth year the sum of $13,000,000, the fifth year the sum of $11,000,0(0, the sixth year the sum of $9,000,000, the seventh year the sum of $7,000,000, the eighth year the sum of $5,000,0.0; which several sums shall be expended to secure the benefits of a common-school education to all children of the school age mentioned hereafter living in the United States. Sec. 2. That such money shall annually be divided among and paid out in the several States and Territories in that proportion which the whole number of persons in each who, being of the age of 10 years and over, cannot write, bears to the whole number of such persons in the United States. Such computation shall be made according to the census of 1880. Sec. 3. That no State or Territory shall receive any of the benefits of this act until the Governor thereof shall file with the Secretary of the Interior a statement, certified by him, showing the character of the common-school system in force In such State or Territory, the amount of money expended therein during the last preceding school year in the support of common schools, not including expenditures for the rent, repair, or erection of schoolhouses, whether any discrimination is made in the raising or distributing of the school revenue, or In the school facilities afforded between the white and colored children therein, and, so far as is practicable, the sources from which such revenue were derived, the manner in which the same were apportioned to the use of the common schools, the average attendance in each class, and the length of the school term; and no money shall be paid out under this act to -any State or Territory that shall not have provided by law a system of free common schools for all of Its children of school age, without distinction of 'race or color, either in the raising or distributing of school revenue, or in the school facilities afforded; provided, that separate schools for white and colored children shall not be considered a violation of this condition. The Secretary of the Interior shall thereupon certify to the Secretary of the Treasui y the names of the States and Territories which he finds to be entitled to a share in the benefits of this act, and also the amount due to each. Sec. 4. That the amount so apportioned to each State and Territory shall be drawn from the Treasury by warrant of the Secretary of the Treasury upon the monthly estimates and requisitions of the Secretary of the Interior, as the same may be needed, and shall be paid over to such officer as shall be authorized by the laws of the respective States and Territories to receive the same. Sec. 7. No greater part of the amount appropriated under this act shall be paid out to any State or Territory, in any one year, than the sum expended out of its own revenues in the preceding year for the maintenance of common schools, not including the sums expended in the erection of school buildings. Sec. 8. That a part of the money apportioned to each State or Territory, not exceeding onetenth thereof, may yearly be applied to the education of teachers for the common schools therein, which sum may be exnended in maintaining institutes or temporary training-schools, or extending opportunities for normal or other instruction to competent and suitable persons of any color who are without necessary means to qualify themselves for teaching, who shall agree in writing to devote themselves exclusively for at least one year after leaving such training-schools to teach in the common schools for such compensation as shall be paid other teachers therein. Sec. 11 provides that the Governor of each State shall furnish all needed information to enable the bill to be carried out for his State, and make full report as to the use of money furnished.

OBITUARY.

Charles Reade. Charles Reade, the noted English novelist, who died recently in London, .was born in 1814, the son of an English country gentleman, in as enviable a social position as can well be conceived. His boyhood was both robust and studious, the right preparation for a life of astonishing intellectual results. He was educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford. After graduation he read law, and gained a Vinerian fellowship at the University of Oxford in 1842. A year later he was called to the bar. While Mr. Reade's chief distinction has been in the fields of fancy, his voice has been not infrequently heard on social and political questions. His novels, moreover, some more particularly than others, have dealt with abuses and strongly suggested the necessity of reform. In “It Is Never Too Late to Mend,” for example, published in 1856, the atrocities of prison discipline, as then administered, weie dealt with in a most powerful manner. We may be pardoned for addins- that purpose in a literary work outside of the artistic intention, while perhaps marring it as viewed from the standpoint of mere art. is not regarded with disfavor by readers' in the English-speaking countries. This is particularly remarkable wnen a contrast is made between English and French writers on fict on. Charles Reade began his long list of successes as a novelist with “Peg Woffington,” published in 1853, a work which evinced the manly sympathy, independence, and liberal views of the author, while evidencing mastery in style, construction, and imaginative power. In the same year he produced “Christie Johnstone." “It Is Never Too Late to Mend” appeared in 1856; “ White Lies ” the next year afterward. Of his remaining works “Griffith Gaunt,” published in 1868, is the most talked about; but “ The Cloister and the Hearth,” produced in 1861, is regarded by the best judges as his ablest production. Henry J. Byron. Henry J. Byron, dramatist and actor, whose death was announced by cable a few days ago, was born in Manchester, and completed his education in London. He was one of the most tkillful and prolific writers of burlesque extravaganzas. His earliest effort In this line, “Fra Dlavolo, ” produced at the Strand Theater in 1858, was speedily followed by several successful pieces, among which may be mentioned “The Maid and Magpie,” “Aladdin,” “Esmeralda,” “The of Lyons,” “Grin Bushes,” and a comedy entitled “The Old Story.” He wrote “Babes in the Wood,” “111-Treated II TrovatOre,” “Mazeppa Travestie,’’ “Miss Eily O'Connor,” “Dundreary Married and Done For,” and original comedies, “War to the Knife” and “A Hundred Thousand Pounds.” Mr. Byron contributed extensively to periodical literature, was the first editor of Fun, and was the author, of a three-volume novel, “Paid in Full,” originally published in the Temple Bar magazine. He made his first appearance in London as an actor at the Globe Theater in his own dramaof “Not Such a Fool as He Looks,” Oct. 23, 1869. His latest pieces were “An American Lady,” a comedy in three acts, produced in March, 1874; “Old Sailors,” a comedy brought out at the Strand later in the same year, and “Our Boys,” which was immediately popular on both sides of the Atlantic a few years ago.

CHIPS.

Several young ladles in IJetroit will start a school for Journalism. “Coffin” is the rather suggestive name of the commander of the arctic steamer Alert. Noble sentiment by a Washington department clerk: "Let me but draw the nation’s salary, and I care not who does the work.” ’ Bridgeport, Conn., has a dog boarding school. The owner of one of the dogs pays the trainer $25 per month for its board and tuition. Chief Justice Park, of Connecticut, has sued the New Haven Rwfater for SIO,OOO libel in stating that he had allowed his sheep and cattle to starve on his farm. About 150 miles north of Missoula, M. T., a region has been discovered by an exploring party in which are twenty two cascades over 500 feet in height, and a true glacier with a mile frontage and f>oo feet fall. It is said to be a more wonderful region than the Yellowstone. A New Haven goat crawled into his owner’s open oven and roasted itself to death.

PRESIDENTIAL.

Preparing for the Great Qua< rennial Political Contest Conventions for the Selection of De egates In Four of the States. STATE CONVENTIONS. Pennsylvania Democrats. R. Milton Spear presided over the Penney vania Democratic State Convention, whic met at Allentown. The Chairman’s refe ence to Randall in connection with the Pres dency was enthusiastically received. Th resolutions adopted denounce the attempt sand to have been made recently to overtur the principles of government ordained by th Federal Government, and proceed as follows We are against centralization, monopoly, ex travagant expenditures, subsidies, and th debasement of civil service to pai tisan spoliation. We believe that the elector) frauds of 1876-7, by which S. J. Tilden an Thomas A. Hendricks were cheated oat of th offices of President and Vice President, to whic they were fairly elected, was a most dead! blow aimed at our system of representativ government, and the duty of drivin from power the men And party who mad that fraud triumphant is the mos sacred obligation ever imposed upon con scientious freemen. We favor tariff for revenue limited to the necessities of the Governmen economically administered, and so adjusted if its apnlication as to prevent unequal burden) encourage productive industries at home, an< afford just compensation to labor, but not t create or foster monopolies; and to this end fa vor the abolition of the internal revenue systen of taxes, and such an adjustment of existing tariff duties as will be consistent with thesi principles. The importation under contract o foreign pauper labor is. an evil which should b remedied by judicious legislation. Besotted, That Samuel J. Randall is th choice of the Democracy of Pennsylvania as th .candidate of their party for President. By long 'faithful public service he has illustrated an un faltering devotion to high political principle ant fealty to the Democratic party. His honest: and honor, his capacity and courage, his faithfu labors and signal abilities have merited and woi for him the confidence and support of the peo pie of the United States. The planks relating to tariff, labor, an< State administration were applauded, but th< most hearty cheers were given and repeate< again and again when the resolution refer ring to Randall was read. The platform ai read was adopted, and then loud cries wen gnade for Randall. The gentleman was sen for, and when he appeared, a delegate wh< had the floor at once declared, amid a burs of cheers, that he “gave way to the nex 'President.” As soon as quiet was Mr. Randal addressed the convention, briefly assuring his hearers that he should continue to pur sue his previous aggressive course it obedience to the principles advocated bj Jefferson, Jackson, Polk, and Buchanan His remarks were greeted with great ap plauee. The various contests having beet arranged by the Committee on Credentials Gen. Davis was nominated by aoclamatioi for Congressman-at-large. Delegates to th< National Convention were then selected. The delegates-atrlarge are: William J. Harrity, of Philadelphia; William AT Wallace, o Clearfield; James P. Barr, of Allegheny; Eckly B. Coxe, of Luzerne: B. F. Myers, of Dauphin; and William H. Sowden, of Lehigh

Missouri Republican. ® The Republican State Convention of Mis-I® souri met at Sedalia, and was called to order® by R. T. Van Horn, Chairman of the State® Committee. Chester A. Krum, of St. Louis,® was made Temporary Chairman. The usual! committee of one from each Congressional® district was appointed. The Hon. J. B.® Henderson delivered an address® urging harmony and an uninstructed® delegation to Chicago. The conventional adopted the report of the Committee on® Credentials, and elected Gen. O. Guitar, of® Boone County, Permanent Chairman; Jamei® C. Broadwell, of St. Louis, Secretary, and R.® T. Van Horn, Gen. Prentiss, J. B. Header-® son, and H. E. Havens delegates-at-large. ® A mass-meeting of both Filley and anti-® Filley delegates was held in the morning in® 'the interest of harmony. Mr. Filley called® the meeting to order and urged the delegates® to not as though there were no factions in the® party, but to present a ticket and platform® which every Republican could Indorse. In® ,the convention, Mr. Filley, who was not a® was unanimously invited to a seat® on the platform. He then made another® speech in favor of harmony. He declared® he did not wish to be Chairman of the® new State Committee, and would not® take the position under any circumstances.® .Hethen shook hands heartily with Col. Van® Horn and John B. Henderson, amid loud ap-® plause, and retired from the hall. ■ The Committee on Resolutions reported the® following, which were adopted: I Resolved, That the Republicans of Missouri® renew their allegiance and adherence to the® principles of the Republican party, as enunciated® in the national platform of 1830 and carried out® by the national administration of President® Arthur, a Resolved, That the Republican party of Mis-® souri, having buried all past differences, will® discountenance any man or set of men who® seek to create dissension in its ranks, and we® hereby pledge our unfaltering support to the® national nominees of the party. ■

Arkansas Republican. The ■ Arkansas Republicans met in State! Convention at Little Rock, and appointed as! delegates-at large to the Chicago Convention] Powell Clayton, H. H. Cooper, Logan H,| Roots, and M. W. Gibbs; alternates, H. L. I Remmell, E. C. Morris, R. B. Thomas, and.] M. A. Clark. The following district delegates] were chosen: First District—Jacob Trieber and S. H. Hol-| land; alternates, J. P. Jones and M. G. Turner-] Second District—John J. Johnson, Ferri] Ha vis: alternates, O. M. Spellman, O. M. Nor-| man. Third District—A. A Tufts, George H. Tomp- 1 son; alternates, H. W. Adkins, B. G. Bryant. Fourth District—M. W. Benjamin, Jacobi Toes; alternates, Wiliam Laporte, Josiah] Clark. I Fifth District—Lafayette Gregg, Kidder Kidd; I alternates, J. W. True, J. A. Spradling. All the delegates are unpledged, but, it is I understood, are favorable to Arthur, if pos- I sessing good chances. The following resolu- I tions were unanimously adopted: Resolved, That the administration of Presi- I dent Arthur has commended itself to the Re- I publicans of the country, and to the people at I large. When he was called to the Presidency I he found the Republican party distracted bv I internal dissensions. His wise and prudent ad- I ministration of the affairs of the Government I has tended to heal these dissensions, strengthen I and build up the party, and enable it now tv present a united front to the enemy, with full assurance of success in the coming campaign; also, I Resolved, That we put a full State ticket in the field. | A resolution indorsing Senator Logan was offered as a substitute, but declared out of 1 order under the rules. Georgia Republican. The Georgia Republican State Convention met at Atlanta and elected M. U. Clark temporary Chairman. Considerable time wastaken up in the discussion over the contested delegation from Chatham County. That settled, R, R. Locke, the Marshal of the Southern Georgia District, was elected permanent Chairman. A. E. Buck, N. A. Pledger, L. M. Pleasants, and C. D. Forsyth were elected the delegation to Chicago from the State at large. The delegates go uninstructed, but are considered for Arthut as long as he has any hopes of success.

ODD FACTS AND FANCIES.

.The first tenement house in twenty-two years Is shortly to be built in North Truro, Cape Cod, Mass. Men from 21 to 65 years of age pass the hours playing marbles in the streets at Angel’s Camp, Calaveras Co., Cal. Dennysvtlle, Me., has no railroad, and in sixty years not a building in the town has been burned. Liquor has not been sold there during sixteen years, and in that time no person has died between the ages of one and twenty. Platinum wire has been drawn so fine as t© be absolutely invisible to the naked eye.