Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1886 — Page 2

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NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. The Pennsylvania Bailroad Company •will issue $4,000,000 additional stock to provide for additional expenditures. This will make the total capital stock about $98,000,000. Herr Most, the anarchist, was released at New York in SI,OOO bonds. Colonel Benjamin, Assistant Adjutant General at Governor’s Island, died of rheumatism of the heart. Bartley Campbell, the dramatist, has been committed to the pavilion for the insane at Bellevue Hospital, New York. He is undoubtedly insane, and will in all probability become a public charge, as it appears that he is without property. Aiderman Jaehne, the first of the New Y’ork boodle Aidermen to be brought to trial, was found guilty of receiving a bribe for voting for the Broadway railway franchise. The jury was out only two hours.

WESTERN.

The police of Chicago are confident that at last the man who threw the dynamite bomb into the ranks of the police on the night of May 4 is under arrest. His name is Louis Lingg, he is a German, a carpenter by trade, and has been in this country only eight months. When arrested he made a desperate resistance. The detective who made the arrest went alone to the house, a squad of officers remaining some distance away. The young anarchist was sitting at the table writing. Ho seemed to have instantly recognized his abrupt visitor as an officer and grabbed a- large Remington revolver which lay upon the table. The officer sprang upon him before Lingg could shoot. The men grappled in a struggle for fife, which was so desperate that neither could use his revolver. They rolled on the floor, first one on top and then the other. Lingg got the officer's thumb in his mouth and bit it almost off. The women began to scream. At this instant the policemen on the outside burst open the door and rushed in. Lingg was instantly overpowered and handcuffed. In Lingg's trunk were found two pistols, two long dynamite bombs, a large lot of shells and cartridges, and a quantity of anarchist pamphlets and newspapers. In the trunk were a large number of letters and pieces of writing in German, which showed that Lingg had been one of the most rabid anarchists in the city, and that he was in correspondence with the leading agitators in this and other cities. The police claim to have sufficient evidence to convict him. The country adout Forest, Hardin County, Ohio, was swept by a cyclone at an early hour Saturday morning. It created .iavoc at Dunkirk, wrecking houses, killing four people and injuring fifteen or twenty. The East-bound express on the Fort Wayne Hoad ran into a clump of fallen trees, the branches of which, crashing through the car windows, seriously injured twelve passengers. A fierce storm raged Friday night in Wa.jash County, Ind. The Wabash River is out of its banks and flooding the county. Timber was leveled and wheat fields were destroyed. The Mayor of Attica, Ind., reports that the storm deprived fifty families of their homes. The Indianapolis Board of Trade sent a carmad of provisions and bedding. Later and more complete reports from the storm-swept region of Ohio show the xoss of life and damage to property to have been greater than the first accounts indicated. The tornado plowed its way in a southeasterly direction through one hundred miles of splendid farming country, leaving desolation in its wake. Seneca, Wyandot, Hancock, Hardin, Auglaize, and Mercer Counties mourn the loss of millions of dollars in property, and, above all, scores of ives. In Mercer County thirty dead bodies had been found, with many times that numoer injured. Three persons were killed at Wabash City. In Dunkirk, Hardin County, ive persons were killed and twenty badly injured; and in the vicinity of the town ave more persons were killed and a number injured, two probably fatally. In the Blanchard River valley the storm made a clean sweep cn miles long and one-half mile'wide, demolishing 100 buildings. Wyandot and Hancock Counties adjoining one another, were devasited. Carey, a prosperous town in the first-named county, received a tremendous shaking up. Seventeen buildings were completely destroyed and six persons killed outright Bloomville, South Carey, Wharton, and many other villages suffered in a like manner. Ten miles west of Tiffin, the county seat of Tiffin County, a strip of country half a mile wide and several miles in length was totally stripped of buildings, as, in fact, of all else above the surface of the earth. At Kenton and Lancaster, and in their neighborhood immense damage was done. Five persons were reported killed and thirteen wounded near Celina. At Findlaytwo persons were killed and a number injured, and at Forest the elements created great havoc. At the latter place several persons were killed, two churches were destroyed, and so violent was the storm that beds were carried some distance with people in them. The damage, to say nothing of the loss of life, is placed at $400,000. At Kenton a man was killed by lightning, a church was demolished, and considerable damage was done to buildings and property. Around Lima there was great loss among the live stock, and in the vicinity of Bucyrus over twenty buildings were wiped out by the rushing storm. In Indiana. Michigan, and Hlinois the winds were also disastrous, but very few eases of loss of life were reported except tv>o from being struck by lightning at Carlinville, HL Captain Price, with a company of

the Fifth Cavalry, is expelling several hundred squatters from the Cherokee strip. A bronze monument to Schiller, the German poet, was unveiled in Lincoln Park, Chicago, in presence of a vast concou se. The Atchison Railroad Company announces that it proposes to build an air-line from Kansas City to Chicago, the work to be finished within two years. It is said that the "Wisconsin Central Road will, in due time, share its entrance into Chicago with the Santa Fe Air-Line from Kansas City. Captain Hatfield, with a troop of United States cavalry, surprised and stampeded the camp of Geronimo, near Santa Cruz, but in passing through a canon soon afterward he suffered the loss of two men kilied and three wounded. Major Rinz, with a large Mexican force, has since joined in the pursuit Engineer Glenn, of the Sonora Land and Cattle Company, of Chicago, arrived at El Paso, Tex., and more than confirmed the reported atrocities of Geronimo and his band of Apaches. He says he has sent out surveying parties who have been murdered, and reports over twenty Americans as having been massacred, while over fifty Mexican families were fleeing for their lives.

SOUTHERN.

At Baltimore the grain commission house of Tyson Bros, made an assignment. Their liabilities are estimated at about $200,000. The firm had extensive connections in Europe and did a heavy shipping business. British capitalists sent James Black to Baltimore with an offer to expend $7,000,000 m constructing the Chesapeake and Dela ■ ware ship canal, if the citizens of Maryland will furnish $1,000,000. Dan and Sam Mann shot and killed the Marshal of Bartow, Fla., 8. W. Campbell The murderers fled, were captured and placed in jail, from whence they were subsequently taken by a mob and hanged to a tree. A Chattanooga dispatch reports a bloody riot at the Eureka coal mines in Roane County, Tennessee. A family named Ivens, consisting of father and four sons, attacked a miner named Hand with axes, picks, and crowbars. They cut Hand over the head and shoulders. The latter drew a pistol and shot old Ivens in the breast, inflicting a fatal wound. Six or eight other miners came to Hand’s assistance and a bloody affray ensued, in which four or five men were injured.

WASHINGTON.

As it passed the House of Representatives, the river and harbor appropriation bill makes the following division of the total appropriation: Mainesloo,ooo'Arkansassl46,ooo N. Hampshire.. 8,000 Tennessee 491,500 Vermont 15,003) Kentucky 257,000 Massachusetts . 214,003 Indiana 132,500 Rhode Island... 95,000|0hi0 348,060 Connecticut.... 255,000;111in0is 261,000 New York 35,000 Michigan 918,500 New Jersey 120,000 Wisconsin 335,500 Pennsylvania... 491,000|Minnesota 150,000 Delaware 105,003 Montan a 25,003 Maryland 157,OOOCalifornia 322,500 Virginia 404,000 Missouri 17,500 West Virginia.. 215,500 Oregon 605,000 North Carolina. 206,500:Wash’nTerritoSo. Carolina.... 341,000| ry 14,500 Georgia 410,500 Ohio River 500,000 Florida 304,000iFalls of 0hi0... 200,000 Alabama 375,000 Missouri River. 610,000 Mississippi 103,5'JOiMiss. River... .3,805,003 Louisiana 163,000|Exaniination & Texas 950,000 i surveys 100,000 A private letter received in Washington to William H. Bissell, the President’s former law partner, says that the President will marry Mins Folsom, at Buffalo, on Juno 12 ; or, if the illness of Mrs. Folsom, who is suffering with the Roman fever, at Paris, should compel a postponement, within a week after the return of Mrs. and Miss Folsom from Europe. The Senate Committee on Commerce has ordered a favorable report on Senator Hoar’s resolution, which requires the committee to explain the public necessity for each item of expenditure m the river and harbor bill and provides another clerk for the committee. Several syndicates are besieging Congress for a charter to introduce the cable road in Washington. The Comptroller of the Currency has authorized the Atlas National Bank to begin business in Chicago with a capital of $700,000. D. T. Patterson, formerly United States Senator from Tennessee, has been appointed Postmaster at Home, Green County, Tennessee. Ho is a son-in-law of the late President Johnson. The office is worth $240 a year.

POLITICAL.

The Ohio Legislature has passed a liquor-tax bill which is a re-enactment of the Scott law, and which goes into effect from date. N. D. Wallace, President of the New Orleans Pro luce Exchange, has been nominated by the Democrats of the Second Louisiana District for Congress in place of J. C. Beard, declined. The Ohio Legislature last week passed a bill abolishing the Board of Public Works and the Board of Health of Cincinnati, and authorizing Gov. Foraker to appoint five citizens to constitute a Board of Public Affairs, whose dut es shall comprise those which formerly devolved upon the old boards. Gov. Foraker made ihe appointments the same evening. The Board of Public Works has resolved to contest the legal existence of this board by proceedings in quo warranto. It is probable that the outcome of this case will settle the existing legislative muddle. Senator Colquitt, of Georgia, is canvassing the c ties of North Carolina in favor of prohibition, appealing especially to the colored people.

THE INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK.

The former employes of the lumber yards in Chicago have quite generally returned to work on the old basis of hours and wages, but the leading agitators were not received About four hundred men had resumed theix - duties at Pullman up to Monday last The carpenters of Milwaukee compromised on a small advance on hourly wages. Telegrams to Bradstreet’B indicate

that the industrial agitation in favor of fewer hours’ work daily has largely disappeared elsewhere than in Chicago. At New York it has been a practical failure, while at Chicago the attitude of manufacturers in ’several leading lines in locking out some 47,000 employes who demanded a shorter working day promises to arrest the progress of the movement Supplementary reports show that within about two weeks there have been strikes at leading industrial centers to secure fewer daily hours of labor aggregating 201',000 employee, that 150,000 have secured concessions without striking, and that not over 42,000 of the 200,000 strikers have secured their ends. This indicates that over 190,000 employes are working fewer hours per day than one month ago, a small proportion of the total number claiming to be interested. With the favorable change in the industrial outlook general business is reported to have made some advance?.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Before the Curtin Labor Investigating Committee at St. Louis several employes of the Missouri Pacific Railroad shops testified that not only had the March (1885) agreement been broken but its provisions had in several instances not even been put into effect Father O’Leary, editor of the Catholic World, testified that he knew many strikers who were good honest men and church members. He saw that the company was doing its utmost to crush the Knights of Labor, using unscrupulous means to accompli'll its ends. The cause of the strike he had studied, and thought he knew. The Knights were a society formed to teach its members justice and equity, but looking at the entire railway system, he thought it was carried on by trickery and unfairness, from Mr. Gould down to the lowest subordinate.- He said that the employes of the road who were not Knights of Labor were afraid to speak to members of that organization for fear of being discharged. Labor notes: Several of the new freight-handlers on the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Road at Chicago became ill from the change of water and diet. They were doctored up with whisky and ginger, and nearly all the rest of the gang, on discovering what sort of medicine was being given out, became violently afflicted with cramps. One Seidell, a boycotter, was fined $25 and costs at Milwaukee by Justice Mallory, who denounced the boycotting business as an outrage. About eleven hundred carpenters at Allegheny City have struck for nine hours’ work at full pay. The Chicago steam-fitters and their helpers have struck for more pay and less hours. The switchmen’s strike at Indianapolis has proved a failure. The Pittsburgh ice companies have granted the demands of their striking employes for an advance in wages of $2 per week, and all have returned to work. There were 17,500 lumber shovers on a strike in Chicago last Thursday. The strikers at the Standard Coke Works at Mount Pleasant, Pa., have returned to work, a compromise having been effected. Nearly all the boot and shoe manufacturers of Chicago, having tried the eighthour system for two weeks, met and resolved to return to the ten-hour schedule, and not to knowingly employ an anarchist or socialist. The cutting departments of all the wholesale clothing houses in Chicago closed for an indefinite period on account of a strike of male and female tailors for better pay. The bakers and the ice men of Pittsburgh obtained their demands, and have returned to work. The washerwomen of Pittsburgh have organized a close union, and will hereafter demand $1 a day for six hours’ work. The Erie Railroad Company has organized the Erie Express, which will take the place of the United States Express on all the lines and branches of the road.

FOREIGN.

The German Government has dispatched the war-ship Falko to the North Sea to watch the operations of English fishermen. German papers express satisfaction with the arrest of Herr Most and other anarchists, and express the hope that they will be severely punished. A terrible hurricane swept across the middle of Spain. In Madrid alone seventy persons are known to have been instanty killed and 230 others seriously injured. Snowstorms are reported in the north of Ireland and Scotland. Schumacher & Schull, rice merchants, of London, failed, with liabilities of $900,000 and no assets. It is rumored that Mr. Gladstone has some intention of withdrawing the homerule bill. There was a slight earthquake shock in the county of Dumbarton, Scotland. Stephens, the Englishman who is making a tour of the world on a bicycle, has been arrested in Afghanistan. Several manufacturing firms in the Province of Ulster, Ireland, are considering the advisability of moving to Germany. A meeting of the followers of Lord Hartington was held in London, for the purpose of cementing the Whig and Radical opposition to the home-rule bill. Sixty-four persons attended. The meeting unanimously adopted a resolution declaring that those present would oppose the second reading of the home-rule bill. Active efforts have been commenced for the Germanization of the four eastern provinces of Prussia. A large estate near Gnesen has been purchased from a Polish nobleman, to be sold in small tracts to German farmers on condition that they will not marry Polish women. Several persons were killed and damage to the amount of 1,000,000 francs was done to the buildings and vineyards at Montpelier, France, by a hurricane. Five lives were lost in the Italian town of Lonato, and two German ships were foundered in the River Oder. Gladstone is confident of the success of his Home Rule measure for Ireland, while Hartington, Chamberlain, et al. are just as confident that they can defeat it on the second reading. A great meeting of the opponents of the bill was held in St James’ Hall, London. The Conservative leaders who spoke against the measure were enthusiastically cheered.

ATER NEWS ITEMS.

It is considered certain that the men who robbed the express car on the Rock Island Railroad some time ago and murdered Kellogg Nichols, the messenger, will soon be in the custody of the authorities. The fugitives have been located in a small village not far from Joliet, and have been fully identified by Orrin Austin,* a farmer living in Kendall County, HL, a few miles from Morris, w-here they took breakfast on the Sunday after the crime was committed. Bloodstained clothing, supposed to have been worn by the Crouch murderers, was found buried on the farm of Jacob Hutchins, near Jackson, Mich. The identification of the garments may lead to new arrests. Judge Rogers, of Chicago, in charging the Grand Jury authorized to take charge of the cases of the murderous anarchists, told them that no public speaker had a right to advise murder or arson, and that one could be held responsible for the result of incendiary language. Said he: * * * I refer to these constitutional rights because some men who are s > inconsistent as to say that there should bo no law and no such rights as that, yet claim the protection of that right in its broadest sense—and, indeed, interpret to suit their own mind—that a man ma/get up in a public speech and advise murder, arson, the destruction of property, and the injury of people and their lives. That is a wild license that the Constitution of this country has never recognized, any more than it has been recognized in the worst despotisms of old monarchical Europe, and I hope and you hope never will recognize. A man must be held responsible for his acts, and he must as well be held responsible for his speech. Another of the wounded police officers has died at Chicago, making the sixth policeman murdered by the bomb on the 4th of May. The Canadian authorities have seized the American fishing-schooner Ella M. Doughty at Englishtown, Cape Breton, for purchasing bait within the three-mile limit Capt Jesse Lewis, owner of the schooner David J. Adams, which was seized a few days before the Doughty, being unable to fight his case in the Admiralty Court at Halifax, the American Fishing Union of Gloucester, Mass., has taken hold of the matter and will fight it to the bitter end. There was a perceptible falling off n the number of hands employed in the lumber district, at Chicago, on account of groundless rumors of interference. The Typographical Union of Washington ordered an increase of from 49 to 59 cents per 1,000 ems from the daily papers of Washington. The matter was laid before a board of arbitration, which decided that the demand was not warranted. The printers will abide by the decision. Most of the Chicago metal-workers have returned to work. Nearly all the foundries are running with a reduced force. The hat finishers at Reading, Pa., were locked out rather than grant their demands. The pottery establishments at Akron, 0., also closed, and the shoe factories at Stoneham, Mass., shut up rather than grant any advances to their men. At Louisville, Ky., Davis, Trabue & Co., wholesale cotton dealers; Trabue, Davis & Co., cotton factors, and Davis, Mallory & Co., wholesalers of dry goods and notions, made assignments. The three firms are connected, and owe in the neighborhood of $500,000, principally to Eastern houses. Senator Frye’s bill authorizing retaliation for the recent action of the Dominion of Canada in excluding United States vessels from certain privileges in Canadian ports passed the Senate on the 17th inst. The Senate confirmed the nomination of Mrs. Thompson, Postmistress at Louisville, Ky., after debating over it for an hour. Senator Blackburn made a long speech against confirmation, but secured only five negative votes besides his own. The House passed the urgent deficiency appropriation bill, and by a vote of 203 to 8 the Senate bill providing for the study of the nature of alcoholic drinks and narcotics, and of their effects upon the human system, by the pupils in the public schools of the Territories and of the District of Columbia, and in the Military and Naval Academies and Indian and colored schools in the Territories of the United States. Mr. Boutelle introduced in the House a bill appropriating s>o,ooo for the erection in Washington of a bronze monument to the late Edwin M. Stanton.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Beeves $4.50 @ 6,50 Hogs 4.50 @ 5.00 Wheat—No. 1 Whites 92 @ .93 No. 2 Redßß @ .83 Corn—No. 2 Oats—Western36 @ .40 ~ Pork—Mess■ .... 9.25 @9.75 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers 5.75 @ 6.25 Good Shipping 5.25 @ 5.75 Common 4.25 @4.75 Hogs—Shipping Grades 4.00 @ 4.50 Flour—Extra Spring.., 4.50 @5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Spring7s @ .75J4 Corn—No. Zv-rn-. .36 @ ,36)<j Oats—No. 2;28 @ .29 Butter—Choice Creameryl7 @ .18 Fine Dairvl4 @ .15 Cheese—Full Cream, newlo @ .12 Skimmed Flatso6 @ 07 Eggs—Fresho9 @ .10 Potatoes—Choice, per bu4o @ .48 Pork—Mess 8.50 @ 9.00 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—Cash .77 @ .78 Corn—No. 2.36 @ .37 Oats—No. 229 @ .30 Rye—No. 2 66 @ .67 Pork—New Mess 8.50 @ 9.00 , TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 282 @ .85 Corn—No. 2 38 @ .38% Oats—No. 2 32 @ .?3 ' ST. LOUIS. W’heat—No. 2 Red .80 ® .81 Corn—Mixed32 @ .33 Oats—Mixed Pork—New Mess 9.00 @ 9.50 ” CINCINNATI Wheat—No. 2 Redß4}A@ .85% Corn—No. 2 36 *@ .37' Oats—No. 2 .31 @ .32 Pork—Mess 9.2> @9.75 Live Hogs 3.75 @ 4.50 DETROIT. Beef Cattle 4.50 @ 5.50 Hogs 3.75 @ 5.2.5 Sheep 3.50 @ 4.50 Wheat—No. 1 White,Bo&@ .81% Corn—No. 236 @ .38 Oats—No. 2 32% @ '.36% INDIANAPOLIS. Beef Cattle 4.00 @6.00 Hogs 3.75 @4.25 Sheep 2.25 @ 4.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red.Bl @ .83 Corn—No. 2 33 @ .34 Oats—No. 2 33 ,3QU EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Best; 5.50 @ 6.00 Fair 4.75 @ 5.25 Common 4.00 @ 4.50 Hogs 4.25 @ 4.75 Sheep 3.00 @5.00 BUFFALO. Wheat—No. 1 Hardßs @ .86 Corn—Yellow .3) @ .40 Cattle 5.00 @ 5.75

CONGRESSIONAL.

The Work of the Senate and Hous® of Representatives. The Senate, in discussing the interstate commerce bill, on the 11th inst., tabled an amend- • ment to fine and imprison men who conspire to interfere with the running of trains. The President nominated Clarence E. Greathouse, of California, to be Consul General at Kanagawa. The Mor.se of Representatives passed a bill for the appointment of three cominisioners, to settle Spanish and Mexican land claims in the State of Colorado and the Territories of New Mexico and Arizona. They are to receive salaries of $5,000each, and to serve for four years. While the army appropriation bill was under consideration, Mr. Wheeler, of Alabama, made charges against Edwin M. Stanton, Mr. Lincoln’s Secretary of War, which precipitated a violent partisan debate, Messrs. Hepburn, of lowa, and Hiscock, of New York, coming to the defense of ' the dead War Secretary. Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, submitted in the Senate, on tne 12th inst., a concurrent resolution expressing it to be the sense of Congress that negotiations should be entered into between the United States and Chinese Governments with a view to securing such modifica--tions of the present treaty with China as may result in stooping the coming of Chinese to this country, except in the case of diplomats and their servants, and except also in the case of persons at sea to seek a place of shelter. The Senate, by a vote of 47 to 4,. passed the interstate commerce bill, which provides for a commission of five persons, with a. principal office at Washington, to inquire into the business and management of all common carriers. The House of Representatives passed the army appropriation bill, after voting down an amendment to Increase by SIOO,OOO the item for the Springfield armory. A bill extending the jurisdiction of the Court of Claims over claims for the use of patents and patented inventions against the United St ites v. as reported to the House. The Houso considered the diplomatic appropriation bill without d : posing of it The general pension bill was discussed by the Senate on the 13th inst. The Senate concurred in the House amendments to the bilL providing for the sale of the old bridewell lot in Chicago. The following nominations were confinned : Collectors Seeberger of Chicago, Se ipp of Milwaukee, Cadwallader of Philadelphia; Marshal W. M. Campbell of Minnesota; H. F. Merritt, Consul at Aix-la-Chapelle; L. T. Boyd, Receiver of Public Moneys at Bayfield, Wis.; and J. B. Webb, Register of the Land Office at LaCrosse, Wis. The House of Representatives passed the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill, with an item of $150,000 for contingent expenses at consulates. The House discussed without action the bill to enlarge the powers and duties of the Department of Agriculture. Messrs. McCreary (Ky.) and Weaver (Iowa) supported the measure. Mr. Reagan (Texas) opposed it on constitutional grounds, and said he would offer as a substitutehis bill to create a Department of Industries. A petition from citizens of lowa, praying torthe abolition of the American House of Lords,, was presented in the Senate on the 14th inst. A bill was passed to authorize the Kansas City and Gulf Road to lay its tracks through Indian Territory. Bills were also passed for public buildings at Lafayett?, Indiana, Fort Dodge, lowa, and St. Paul, besides largely extending the limit of previous appropriations for other points. Henry F. Severns, of Kalamazoo, Michigan, was nominated by the President as successor to the late S. L. Wlthey as United Spates Judge for the Western District of Michigan. D. C. Fulton was nominated United States Marshal for the Western District of Wisconsin. The business (?) of the House was confined to debate on the pension bill, which merged, itself into a tariff talk before adjournnvut was reached. After a spirited debate, the House of Representatives, on the 15th inst., passed a bill toestablish a sub-treasury at Louisville. Mr. Morrison caused to be read a letter from the Treasurer of the United States, expressing the opinion that the functions of the sub-treasuries at St. Louis, Baltimore, Cincinnati, New Orleans, and Chicago might be performed by national banks with greater economy and much less risk than under the present system. The Senate was not in session.

Our Ex-Presidents.

The Drawer referred some time ago to the young man who is one day to be President of the United States, and the desirability of his fitting himself for this position. But on reflection the subject assumes a graver aspect. What the young man ought to be thinking of is his ability to become an ex-Presi-dent. Anybody can be President who gets votes enough; the ability to get the votes is quite distinct from the qualifications to fill the office. And when a man is in, thanks to the excellence of our machinery, he cannot do much injury in four years, except to himself and his party. Moderate ability will carry him through respectably. But it requires a great man to be a successful ex-President. The office of President is a very exalted one. And when the man lays it down and retires and stands alone, and people compare him with the position he has just left, he must have very large proportions to stand the comparison. This aspect of the case has not been enough considered. Men are very anxious to get the office, and their fr ends push them for it, without thinking of the figure the successful man may make when his term is over. The fact is, that in the contrast he may appear much more insignificant than if he had remained ia private life. There has been a great deal of talk lately about giving the exPresidents a pension in order to place them in a position of dignity, and enable them to maintain something of the state* the people have been accustomed to see them in. It has been often remarked that a king out of business becomes an object of compassion, even if he has invested money in foreign funds. Nothing but the possession of great qualities can save him from contempt. It is so with an ex-President. The practical suggestion to be made, therefore, is that the young man to whom we have alluded should fit himself to be an exPresident. If he cannot attain the character and the qualities needed for that, he may be sure that the office of President will be but a hollow satisfaction.— Charles Dudley Warner, in Harper's Magazine.

When Hannibal Hamlin Was a Boy.

A story of a yoxithful prank of Hannibal Hamlin is told. When the exVice President was a boy in Paris seven persons were baptized in a stream north of Paris Hill. Hamlin was one of a party of boys who, hearing of the approaching ceremony, smuggled an old cannon and seven cartridges into the woods near the stream. As the dripping converts, one by one, were lead out of the stream, one by one the cartridges boomed in the old cannon. The unholy salute caused great consternation and anger, but the mischievous youngsters were not caught. —Norway (Me.) Advertiser. <<