Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1886 — Page 6

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NEWS CONDENSED.

Coneise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Senator Stanford realized from liis sale of trotters at New York 384,000, an average of 3886.90 each. W. P. Balch, of Boston, paid $2,250 for the gray filly Almacia. The remains of Thomas J. Barney, a prominent citizen of St Paul, were cremated at Pittsburgh. The body weighed 240 pounds, and was reduced to eight, the ashes being forexpress to relatives. Joseph O’Donnell, the leading spirit in all the street-car strikes in New York this spring, has been .forced to resign his membership in the executive committee of the Knights of Labor. His action in agreeing to end the Third Avenue strike was repudiated by Assembly No. 75.

WESTERN.

A serious conflict between the militia and socialistic riotors occurred at Milwaukee on the morning of the sth inst. A vast crowd of Polish Nihilists marched from St Stanislaus’ Church to fight the militia at Bay View. They refused to yield to orders to halt, and were given a volley of bullets. Four men were killed and four others dangerously wounded. The shooting had a terrible effect on the men. Seeing several of their number fall, wounded or killed, they threw themselves flat on the ground, and sought the shelter of the railroad embankment. The level of South Bay street and Lincoln avenue, being higher than the marsh, was also sought by the frantic men, who tumbled headlong into the water. There was every evidence on surrounding objects to show that •tiio militia had fired low, and “with intent to kill” as one of them expressed it Two thousand socialists congregated at Milwaukee Garden, and listened to harangues by the leaders in the afternoon. The State militia companies were sent to the scene several times, as the gatherings became too demonstrative. Paul Grottkau, the socialist leader and publisher of the Arbciter Zeitung, was arrested. Advices from Chicago indicate that the pojice have broken the backbone of anarchism in that city. “Polish and Bohemian colonies of the West Side,” says a dispatch from Chicago of Friday, “were unnaturally tame yesterday, the only event of a disturbing nature being a successful raid on the dynamite roost at the corner of Eighteenth street and Center avenue. Searches were made by the detectivos in other parts of the city, and a quantity of nihilistic devices capturod. Officer Barrett diod at tho County Hospital in the morning, and Officer Miller expired m his brother’s arms just before midnight Late last night the phsyicians at the County Hospital did not think that Officers Jacob Hansen, Nels Hanson, Timothy Flavin, and Michael Shehan would live till morning. Officer John H. McMahon had his leg amputated. August Spies and liis confederates were imprisoned in the County Jail. An effort is being made to add treason to the charge of murder against them. The contributions to the fund for the support of the families of the dead and wounded policemen have reached nearly $40,000. August and Christian Spies, Michael Schwab, and Samuel Fielden, the ringleaders of the Nihilistic plotters, visited tho police station to have their photographs taken for the rogues’ gallery, after which they were locked up again.”

The police of Milwaukee arrested two leading Anarchists—Adam Hirtli and a barber named Carl Simon—who are kept at the Central Station. Their houses were searched and several guns were seized. Governor liusk obtained from the Rock Islaud arsenal a Gatling guu and ample ammunition for small arms. Two persons died at Milwaukee of wounds received in the rioting, and two others are believed to bo beyond recovery. Cleveland polico circles were excited when it was discovered that during the night the city had been floored with a circular, printed in English and German, calling all workmen to arms to revenge the killing of some of their number in Chicago. One of these circulars was even postod on the front door of the Central Police Station. It is reported that Parsons is hiding in Cleveland. The machinery manufacturers of Chicago contemplate closing their places of business until tho employes will agree to accept ten hours’ pay for ten hours’ work. Chicago advices of Friday thus outlino the industrial situation in that city:

Some of the smaller shops, where iron molders and inetal workers are employed, have given eight-hour concessions to their men, but the larger employers, like the Crane Brothers, are still standing out. The wood-workers have agreed upon eight hours, but without extra pay. The bakers have bettered their condition, and the brewers now receive full pay with shortened hours of work The furnitureworkers have won in a few cases, though most of them are out on a strike against a solid organization of manufacturers. At Uie McCormick works the men are reoeiving an advance of 15 per cent in wages. There are 3.500 men out at the car-shops of the Chicago and Northwestern, the Illinois Central, and Chicago, Rock Island at'ji Pacific. All of the men at Pullman are still out. In the tobacco factories there are 1,000 girls and women working for S 3 or $4 per week. The Eight-hour League will try to benefit them. The freight-handlers’ strike seems to be growing hopeless. They expect the section men to strike shortly if none of the skilled unions come to their rescue. The brickyards are working, the owners having compromised tho differences between the men and employers. There are strikes at the principal bridgebuilding works. The employes at the coal and wood yards are ’ nearly all striking. The furriers are formulating demands to be presented soon. The barbers are trying to have Sunday work done away with, but are not striking. Every organ factory in the city is shut down, the men being out on strike. The planing mills have started up. The railroads are trying to run without their men, whom they are paying off and discharging. At the soap works of Kirk & Co. 600 persons have obtained eight hours. A hopeful tone pervades many of the striking communities, and they look for the ultimate success of the eight-hour movement when the present excitement has subsided. Southern Missouri and Kansas were last week visited by an immense rain-pour. Jordan Creek, which runs directly through Springfield, Mo., rose higher than for many

years, overflowing the low land and driving thirty or forty families from their homes. Some of the women and children were carried to safe places on horseback and on men’s shoulders to escape drowning, the waters in some places rising even into the second stories of the dwellings. The total damage in Springfield caused by the flood is estimated at $75,000, and in the surrounding country at $40,000. A distressing case of drowning is reported from near Fort Scott, Kan. A dam broke, and the immense body of water, uniting with the already swollen Buck Run, rushed down the valley. The house occupied by Sarah Brown, a widow, was struck by the torrent and swept about one hundred yards down the stream, where it lodged among the trees. Mrs. Brown and four of her children were mit at the time. The water rose rapidly around it to the depth of several feet Tho mother held her little six-months-old infant in her arms above the water, leaving her older children to care for themselves. She suddenly noticed that her five-vear-old boy was drowning, and in attempting to save him the infant slipped from her arms and was drowned before aid could reach it The remainder of the family were rescued.

About twenty tons of giant powder are used weekly in the Menominee range mines in Wisconsin. As the Northwestern Road will no long er transport the article, local factories are to be erected.

“Joshua Whitcomb,” the charming play with which Denman Thompson has delighted theater-goers for the last ten years, has been shelved, and hereafter that sterling actor will be seen in a new play and a new character. “The Old Homestead” is the title of his new venture. It is a sequel to “Joshua Whitcomb,” and is tho joint work of Mr. Thompson and George W. Ryer. It will be seen at McVicker’s Theater, Chicago, the present week.

At In wood, Indiana, while attempting to drive across the Fort Wayne track, John Wyiner, his wife, and two daughters were instantly killed. William J. Blew, a printer, died at the County Hospital, in Chicago, last week. In tne opinion of several physicians his death was hastened at least, if not directly caused, by the fright he received while undergoing initiation ceremonies on his entrance to a local court of Foresters. Eleven deaths have resulted from the recent socialistic riots in Chicago. Five of the dead are policemen, tho other six being rioters or innocent spectators. Over $60,000 have been subscribed by the people of Chicago fir the benefit of the families of the slain officers. Tho feeling against the anarchists in that city is very bitter, and should another outbreak be precipitated a bloody example will be made of them. At Milwaukee the disturbances have been suppressed and quiet reigns. The arrested rioters were brought into court and summarily dealt with Paul Grottkau, one of the leaders, was held to tho Grand Jury in $5,000 bail. Four militia companies are held in reserve for any turbulent outbreak in Cincinnati. The Chicago police continue their raids upon the anarchists’ resorts, and men and arms and red Hags are captured every day. T. G. Hewlett, leader of the Deputy Sheriffs who fired on the mob at East St Louis, was released on $5,000 bail, and started for Mississippi The Northwestern Hoad expects to have its track laid to the heart of the Black Hills by the end of July, and to complete its line to Fort Fctterman early in August. One hundred socialists were in meeting at Davenport lowa, and denunciatory resolutions were adopted regarding the toning down of Chicago’s Arbciter Zeitung. The man who proposed them was arrested by the Chief of Police.

SOUTHERN.

Major W. P. Green, one of the lead-, ing planters of Louisiana, was murdered by a laborer on the Creedmoor plantation, after an interchange of blows and shots. The citizens of the parish took tho negro from jail and hanged him to a tree. In the case of J. T. Cluverius, convicted at Richmond, Va., of the murder of Fanny Lillian Madison, tho Supreme Court of Appeals has decided against the prisoner, fully sustaining tho judgment of the lower court Unless the Governor interferes Cluverius will be hanged. A tree in the Macon (Ga.) suburbs, from which the recent flood swept two negroes, who were drowned, is said to be haunted. At night a white figure is seen seated among its branches, and moans, which grow louder as tho night wears on, are frequently heard.

WASHINGTON.

The House Ways and Means Committee lias decided to report a bill making the full term of the bonded period on distilled spirits six years instead of three. The Secretary of the Treasury is unable to grant the request of the officials of New Orleans for the free admits on of certain blocks of marble presented for the city park by the Government of Mexico. The existirg labor troubled were a topic of discussion at the Cabinet meeting on Thursday, in the course of which the riots in Chicago and Milwaukee and elsewhere were referred to, with a view of takin»nucli pre-< cautionary measures for the protection of Government property as may be found necessary. George W. Julian, Surveyor General of New Mexico, has sent to the Commissioner of tho General Land Office a complaint against the inaction of Congress on opinions as to three fraudulent grants which keep three hundred thousand acres from settlement

POLITICAL.

What is called the “Blaine and Logan Faction” nominated Judge Flagg for Congress in the Second Louisiana District The regular Republicans, the preceding day, nominated Capt Henry N. Martin. The lowa Greenback State Convention met at Cedar Rapids and nominated J. 0. Sanke, of Dallas, for Secretary of State; L. F. Ellsworth, of Mahaska, for Treasurer; J. Y. Myers, of Linn, for Auditor; and J. W.

Brown, of Casa, for Attorney General. The platform denounces fusion with Democracy as treachery to principle, demands unlimited coinage of silver, and arraigns both old parties for faithlessness to trusts, etc. The Republican members of the Ohio Senate, by a viva voce vote, declared vacant the seats of the absent Cincinnati Democrats, and seated the four Republican claimants from Hamilton County.

MISCELLANEOUS.

The following is a comparison of latest returns from four States in regard to winter wheat. The figures show the per cent of condition at the present time as compared with a year ago and the probable yield of this year as compared with that of 1885, both being stated in millions and hundredths of a million bushels: P. C. Crop. P. C. Crop. Ohio 95 26.17 74 20.59 Illinois 94 14.47 59 10.68 Indiana 94 41.08 58 26.67 Kansas 13.00 .. 11.20 Totals 94.72 69.14 Being an increase of 37 per cent, for the four States which last year gave 19.6 of the total crop. This average applied to all the winter wheat area would give an increase of about 76,000,000 bushels; or a total crop of 433,000,000 bushels if the spring wheat yield bo the same as last year, which now appears probable. Fire at Hull, Quebec, burned over an area of ten acres and left 150 families destitute. Senator Sherman thinks that Irelend should have a local Legislature and Parliament which would make its autonomy correspond to that of the several States in the United States, Dish representation in Westminister to remain as at present Frank Clement, an actor connected with the Modjeska company, threw himself in front of a train at Newark, New Jersey, and was beheaded. Periko Fernandez, a wealthy Cuban, of Hawthorne, N. J., was shot and killed by his wife, who then suicided by blowing her brains out About seven hundred members of the Freight-Handlers’ Union of Chicago, after a stormy session of several hours, resolved to declare the strike off. Six hundred hatmakers are idle at Newark, N. J. At Troy 150 molders struck against eleven hours’ work per day. The bricklayers at Omaha lost the strike and returned to work. Steinway & Sons’ employes disobeyed the fiat of their union to quit work. The street-car drivers and conductors at Toronto, Canada, have inaugurated a strike because tho companies refused to employ Knights of Labor. The employing metal workers of Chicago met and resolved to open their shops on the ten-hour basis, as also did tho furniture manufacturers and the lumber dealers, none of whom will make any concessions of any kind to their employes. The briekmakers of Chicago returned to work in a body, and other trades were expected to follow. General Master Workman Powderlv, of the Knights of Labor, acting under the authority vested in him by the General Executive Board, liai issued a call to the various assemblies of the order for a special session of the General Assembly to be held in Cleveland, Ohio, Tuesday, May 25.

FOREIGN.

The Colonial Exhibition, in London, was formally opened by Queen Victoria, who was enthusiastically cheered. A selected choir sang an ode composed by Alfred Tennyson for the occasion. Nearly all the members of the royal family were present Cases of cholera are reported at Venice and Vicenza, Italy. A dispatch from Burmah states that the insurgents have got possession of Mandalay and have destroyed by fire no less than four thousand housoa Among the buildings burned were the Chinese and Siamese basars. The hostility of the natives who remain loyal to tho dethroned King Thebau to the Chinese is intense, because of China’s openly avowed indorsement of Great Britain’s seizure of Burmah. Tho officers commanding tho British forces have telegraphed to Lord Dufferin, the Viceroy, that they are powerless to prevent the rebellious rioting of the natives, and have urgently asked for re-onforcemetits. John Rogers, manager for Miss Minnie Palmer, was arrested at London for threatening to fight a duel with Mr. Arnold, a member of “My Sweethcat” Company, whose attentions to Miss Palmer were not relished by Mr. Rogers.

Greece lias announced its intention to defend its territory against all advances by foreign soldiers. The Greek fleet has left Salamis, and the foreign squadron has returned to Suda Bay. All the foreign representatives except tho Russ.ian Minister have departed from Athens, and a gunboat has gone to Constantinople to take on board the Greek Minister. Two battalions Of the garrison at Athens have already started for the frontier, and the reserves at Yola and Velestino have been pushed to the front. There are indications that Thessaly will be the scene of the first hostile operations. Gen. Lord Wolselev has denied the statement attributed to him that if home rule were granted to Iroland he would resign his command for the purpose of leading an army of Ulster men to resist the new Irish Government, and that 1.000 other British officers would follow his example. The socialistic member of the German Reichstag, William Liebknecht, will make a trip to tho United States in September to agitate his views and raise collections. Gen. Wolseley con siders'G lads tone a traitor and refuses to have anything to do with him even to sit at the same table, and some of tho papers claim that the military support the General’s views on Irish affairs. In the event of war between Turkey and Greece it is probable that Russia will intervene as tho ally of Greece. Such intervention would probably be the commencement of serious complications throughout Europe. Germany, Austria, England, Prussia, and Italy have notified Greece that a blockade o 1 her ports has been ordered

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Labor notes: Nearly every member of the United Nailers, Rollers and Heaters’ Association has signed a petition asking for reinstatement in the Amalgamated Association. A strike of bakers at Pittsburg resulted in a bread famine, as the few small establishments in operation can only supply their regular customers. The Ajax Forge Company and the car works of Wells & French, Chicago, opened short-handed at the *old rate of wages. McCormick’s reaper works, Chicago, are running with a fuR force for the first time since the strike. Nearly all the railroads opened up at Chicago on Monday with a full force of freight-handlers, and the strike seems to be over. Many of the old men who applied for work were taken back, but some of the roads refused to re-employ their old hands. The Malleable Iron Works, Chicago, started up. with 800 men at nine hours’ pay for eight hours’ work.

A fire broke out at Gainesville, Fla., destroying all the buildings and contents on the south side of tho city square. The aggregate loss is about $70,000, with very little insurance. The Quincy, Missouri and Pacific Railroad was sold at St. Louis to a representative of the bondholders for $1,000,000. Companies have been organized in Indiana, with ample capital, to develop gaswells in Wells, Jay, and Delaware Counties. News has been received in Tombstone, Arizona, from Fort Huachuca, to the effect that the Mexican forces were repulsed with great loss in their attack on the Cojene.-.’ stronghold on the Yaqui River. Under a decree of foreclosure, the Quincy, Missouri and Pacific Iload was sold by a special master at St Louis. Edwin Parsons, of New York, acting for the first-mortgago bondholders, paid $1,000,000 for the line. William Fordyce, of Wabash, Ind., overtook Alf Watkins, a married man, as he was walking with Fordyce’s daughter, and cut him dangerously about the head and face. Watkins is likely to die and Fordyce has been placed in jaiL During the recent rjpts in Chicago, Bohemian anarchists sacked and destroyed a drug-store at the corner of West Eighteenth street and Center avenue. It now develops that nearly a dozen nihilists who participated in the looting of the store have died from drinking poisonous concoctions under the belief that they wore swallowing tangle-foot whisky. A half-dozen more are sick nigh unto death, and with small hopes of recovery. It also transpires that several of the participants in the riots were buried in the Bohemian Cemetery without permits, which leads to the conclusion that the policemen fired their pistols with better aim and more deadly effect than was at first supposed. Tho owner of the building occupied by the Nihilistic Arbciter 'Zeitung filed a bill to set aside the lease granted to the backers of the paper on the ground that the contract lias been broken by tho storage of explosives in the office, and the lease was canceled. At the meeting of the Chicago Methodist ministers resolutions were passed denouncing the rioters. There is a decided improvement in the labor situation at Cincinnati, and no violence is now anticipated.

A resolution offered by Senator Logan, directing the Committee on Pensions to report back to the Senate tho Ingalls bill, providing for the ropeal of the limitation on the arrears or pensions, was agreed to by the Senate. A bill to limit the commercial privileges of vessels belonging to foreign countries which restrict the privileges of American ships was introduced. The same measure was offered in the House. Mr. Beach (N. Y.) introduced in the House a resolution amending the rules so as to subject to a fine of 55100 every member who is absent during a call of the House. The House passod a bill to punish the advertisement of lottery tickets in the District of Columbia. With the intention of putting to service the sum of 555(1,507,005 lying in the Treasury at the close of April, Mr. Breckinridge introduced a joint resolution directing the calling in of 831,000,000 in 3 per cent bonds by the end of August. Mr. Bland introduced a bill providing that any holder of standard gold or silver coin may deposit the same with the treasurer or any Government depository in sums of not less than 810, and receive therefor notes to bo called “coin notes" of the United States.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Beeves $5.00 @ 0,50 Hogs.. 4.50 @5.00 Wheat—No. 1 White 95 @ .97 No. 2 Red 90%@ ,91« Corn—No. 2 .47 @ .48' Oats—Western 37 @ .39 Pork—Mess 9.25 @ 9.75 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers 6.00 @ 6.23 Good Shipping. 5-00 @5.50 Common 4.25 @ 4.75 Hogs—Shipping Grades 3.75 @4.50 Floor—Extra Spring 4.50 @ 5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 77 @ .77ts Corn—No. 2 : 34W@ .35k Oats—No. 2 29 @ .30 Butter—Choice Creamery 17 @ .18 Fine Dairy 14 @ .15 Cheese—Full Cream, new 10'6@ .12 Skimmed Flats 06 @ .07 Eggs—Fresh 10 @ .10 y. Potatoes—Choice, per bu 40 @ .48 Pork—Mess 8.75 @ 9,25 „ T MILWAUKEE. Wheat—Cash .78 @ .79 Corn—No. 2 .34 @ .35 Oats—No. 2 29 @ .30 Rye—No. 1 66 @ -67 Pork —New Mess 8.75 @9 25 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 85 @ .88 Corn—No. 2 37 @ .33 Oats—No. 2 32 @ .33 Tlr „ ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 85 @ .86 Corn—Mixed .32U@ .33 ’4 Oats—Mixed 29 @ .30 ~ Pork—New Me 55....... 9.00 @9.50 „„ CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Red 87 @ .89 Corn—No. 2 .'.... @ Oats—No. 2 @ .33 Pork—Mess 9.25 @ 9.75 Live Hogs 4.00 @ 4.59 _ „ DETROIT. Beef Cattle 4.50 @5.50 Hogs 3.50 @ 5 -00 Sheep.. 3.25 @4.50 Wheat—No. 1 White 84 @ .85 Corn—No. 2 ; 37 @ 33 Oats—No. 2 .' .83 & m „ „ INDIANAPOLIS. Beef Cattle 4.00 @ 5.75 Hogs 400 @ 4.50 Sheep.. 2 .50 @4.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red. 85 @ 87 Corn—No. 2 34 @ .35 Oats—No. 2 30 m 34 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Best 5.50 @ 6.00 Fair 4.75 @ 5.25 Common 4.00 @4.50 Hogs 4.25 @ 4.75 Sheep 3.50 @ 4.50 _ „ BUFFALO. Wheat—No. 1 Hard 87 @ .88 Corn—Yellow | ,42 @ .42U

CONGRESSIONAL.

The Work of the Senate and Hone*of Representatives. The Senate passed the postoffice appropriation bill on the 4th inst., with an amendment giving SBOO,OOO for transportation of foreign mails by American steamships. Mr. Hoar read a letter from Mr. Tompkins, Secretary of the committee of the Ohio House that investigated the Payne affair, to the effect that in the copies of the report printed for the Senate there appeared an interpolated paragraph reflecting on the majority of the committee. The letter was referred to the proper committee, and the report was ordered printed in correct form. In the House the Weaver-Camp-bell election contest from the Sixth lowa District was taken np, the majority report in favor of Weaver, the sitting member, bein'* adopted. The bill to grant right of way through the Fort Seldon military reservation to the Bio Grande, Mexico and Pacific Railroad Company passed the Senate on the sth inst. The Senate confirmed the nomination of Z. M. Zullck to be Governor of Arizona, and rejected that of Charles PoUard for Associate Justice of the Supremo Court of Montana. The nomination of R. 8. Dement, to be Surveyor General of Utah, adversely reported from the Public Lands Committee,. was recommitted. In the House of Representatives an adverse report was made on the Senate bill providing for a commission on the subject of the liauor traffic. A bill was favorably reported to the Senate on the 6th inst. to apply to letter carriers the provisions of the section of the Revised Statutes - making eight hours a work. The President nominated James H. McLeary, of Texas,. to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Montana. The river and harbor bill passed the House by forty-one majority, after a struggle through several weeks. It appropriates about $15,000,OCO. The House Judiciary Committee reported adversely a joint resolution contemplating a constitutional amendment providing for female suffrage. Congress did nothing of importance on tho 7th Inst. The Senate was not In session, and the Honse devoted the day to the private calendar. Fifty-five bills granting pensions were • passed. The House of Representatives passed a bill t on the 6th inst,, authorizing the Kansas Cityand Gulf Road to lay its tracks through the Indian Territory. Tho military academy bill was passed. It appropriates $297,805 for the maintenance of the schools at Annapolis and West Point. The Congressional Printer notified the • House that his presses would have to stop unless an extra appropriation of $200,000 was made before the 25th of the month. Members of tho Bouse were taken by surprise on receiving vetoes of two private pension bills, in which tho - President had taken time to discover grave faults. The Nennte was not in socßion.

James II. of England.

James 11. of England was the second son of Charles I. and Queen Henrietta Ma,ria. He was created Duke of York in infancy. He accompanied his father during the civil war, and was taken prisoner, but escaped, disguised as a girl, in April, 1648, and went over to Holland. He served with distinction in both the French and Spanish armies, and after the restoration returned toEngland and was made Lord High Admiral of the English navy. In the ensuing war with the Dutch he commanded the English fleet ably. In 1660 the Duke had married Anne, daughter of Edward Hyde, the Earl of Clarendon. In 1671 this lady died, leaving two daughters, both of whom subsequently sat upon the throne of England. Before her death she disavowed Protestantism, through the influence of her husband, who several years before had become a Catholic. In 1673 the Dukewas compelled by the conditions of the “test act” to resign the office of Ad-mii-al. This same yeir he married Mary of Modena, a Catholic princess. So strong was the feeling in Parliament and through the kingdom against him for his change of religion, that he was obliged to go to the continent to reside for a time, and a bill excluding him from succession to the English crown passed the House of Commons, but failed to pass the House of Lords. He returned while this bill was pending and was made Lord High Commissioner of Scotland, but was so unpopular there that he did not remain long. However, in 1685, after his brother’s death, he succeeded to the throne without opposition. His reign was brief, however, being filled with contentions with Parliament and tho Established Church. He seemed utterly wanting in the tact of his brother, but, like his unfortunate father, rashly contended for the right of personal government which he believed the “divine right” of a king. In the first year of his reign occurred Monmouth’s rebellion. This was not generally upheld by the people, and was soon overthrown, all those implicated in it being punished with great severity The subsequent acts of the King, his claim to the power of dispensing with laws athis will, and dismissing the Parliament whenever it would not carry out hiswishes, convinced the people that his permanent rule could not be tolerated, and in 1688 William of Orange, James’ son-in-law, was called over “to protect the liberties and religion of the English William came, and James was forced to abdicate the throne. James made an effort to regain his crown by undertaking an expedition to Ireland in 1689. The troops and money for this expedition were furnished byKing Louis XIY. of France. The cxKing was received kindly in Ireland, but at the battle of the Boyne his army was totally routed. The remaining eleven years of his life were spent at St. Germain* in France, in vain intrigues for recovering possession of his lost kingdom.— lnter Ocean.

A Reasonable Request.

Bill Simpson is an engineer on the I. &G. N. Railroad. He was off duty at Austin a few days ago. He met Judge Peterby, with whom he was acquainted. “I say, Judge, I wish you would do me a favor. “I’ll do it.” “It will be appreciated by all the engineers on the I & G. N. Railroad.” “What can I do for you all ?” “Please don’t hang around the depot when the trains are coming in. They are everlastingly mistaking your red nose for a danger signal, and it coafuses them,”— Texas Siftings.