Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1887 — Page 2

W Jlemocroticgenttncl RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, ... Publisher

THE NEWS GRIST.

Important Happenings in Every Quarter of the Civilized Globe. The Very Latest Intelligence Flashed Over the Telegraphic WiresTHE VERY LATEST BY TELEGRAPH. TA KIFF TALK. Cleveland Seeking to Unite Democracy on the Question of Tariff Reform. A Washington dispatch to the Chicago Tribune is authority for the statement that Secretary Fairchild is seriously contemplating a movement, with the approbation of the President and his colleagues, looking to a concentration of the Democrats in the House of Representatives and the Senate upon a measure of tariff reduction. Every member of the Cabinet is favorable to such a programme. After the experience of the last two Congresses, the President is convinced that but one course remains open to the Democratic party, and that is the formulation of u bill in consultation with such men as Randall and Carlisle and others representing the •iverse p< sitions of Democratic sentiment on the subject, for the purpose of bringing them together upon some common ground of agreement. The President has seen for some time that an issue will be made on the tariff, and has urged that it would be more sagacious to get to work at once and prepare a bill to be submitted to Congress as a measure of administration policy than to let the question continue to play havoc as a firebrand in the ranks ot the party. It is proposed to make the bill an administration question in the House, and thus bring it before the people as a distinctive issue upon which the Democratic party will stand in the next campaign. DECORATION DAY. It Is Generally Observed Throughout the Country. “Memorial day" was generally observed throughout the country. In Chicago there s is an imposing procession, in which about fifteen thousand persons participated. The graves of the Union dead in the several cemeteries were decorated with appropriate ceremonies. At Washington, New York, and other important cities imposing demonstrations were held. At various points in the South the graves of both Union and Confederate soldiers were covered with flowers. A New York dispatch says: Early in tho day Mrs. Grant stood at the tomb of the hero of Appommattox and, entering placed her personal token of flowers upon the steel casket within. Though the narrow apace was filled with foliage hers was the only offering of blooming flowers. Then Mrs. Grant went away to her home, net to be present when the public should come to tho services there. The arch of tho tomb was covered -with white immortelles and purple with these words : “In war a foe. in peace a friend " From a cross above tho arch depended a Grand Army badge of purple and blue immortelles, three fpet in length, sent from Chicago. There were offerings from tho Viceroy of China, througJi his Minister here, from the Loyal I.egion, and many others. Twenty thousand people "were there when the services began. The feature of tho day in Washington was tho special service at the tomb of Gen. John A. Logan in Rock Creek Cemetery. Mrs. Logan, supported by the members of her family, sat under the shadow of tho tomb while the General’s eulogies were being pronounced. At Springfield, 111., Abraham Lincoln’s tomb was beautifully decorated with flowers.

THE NEW FRENCH CABINET. M. Heredia Declines and General Saussier Withdraws. A Paris cablegram says: It is reported that President Grevy, in order to avoid the certah defeat of the new ministry on any important issue, will close the session of the Chamber of Deputies on June 15. The final composition of the Cabinet is not yet entirely settled. M. de Heredia has rejected the portfolio of the Minister of Public Works, and henceforth this department will be combined with the department of commerce. At a meeting of the Cabinet as first constituted Gen. Saussier announced his intention of withdrawing the military bill. His colleagues opposed such action on the ground that it would be inconsistent with the dignity of the country, but Gen. Saussier persisted-in withdrawing the bill, and was obliged to surrender the war portfolio. Crops in Michigan. The weekly crop bulletin issued by the Michigan Weather Service on Monday is in substance as follows: The temperature of the last seven days has had a beneficial eff ict on wheat, oats, barley, and grass, but has been unfavorable to corn. All fruits are doing finely. Rain has been frequent in portions of the State, but not general Allegan, Oceana, Hillsdale, Barry, and portions of Montcalm still suffer from the drought All crops are still below the average. Gaudaur Beats HanlanJacob Gaudaub beat Edward Hanlan, at Pullman, HL, in a three-mile single-scull race .for $2,500 a side and gate receipts. Six thousand spectators were present Hanlan led to the turn, but Gaudaur passed him on the way home. Fatal Accidents. The Hitchcock Manufacturing Works at Cortland, N. Y., were partly wrecked by a boiler explosion. One ma i was killed, and a half-dozen others wounded. The boiler in an elevator at Huntington, W. Va., exploded Monday, killing three men and injuring many others. Flashes from the Wires. Many high buildings in the City df Mexico were cracked by the earthquake shocks of Sunday. Rich gold fields are said to have been discovered near Golden City, Ark., the quartz showing from $36 to 859 per ton. Judge Simonton, now United States District Judge for South Carolina, is considered the probable successor of the late Justice Woods. The appointment is thought at Washington to lie between him and Congressman Hammond, of Georgia. |

WEEKLY BUDGET.

THE EASTERN STATES. Friday night, as a fast train west on ttie Pennsylvania Railroad was nearing Kittitaning Point, Pa, the wheel of a car on a freight train east burst, and the car crashed into two passenger coaches with terrible effect, killing instantly four men and injuring many others. Telegrams were immediately sent to Altoona for physicians, and all that could be procured were detailed to the wreck. The killed and injured are as follows; Killed—Dal Graham, son of ex-Speaker Graham, Allegheny, Pa.; J. H. Stauffer, of Louisville, Ohio; Wymer Snyder, a one-legged man, of Shamokin, Pa.; John Dorris, newsboy, East Liberty, Pa,; Frank McCue, 15 East Thirtythird street, New York, will die; Charles Beidelman, of Brenfield, Noble County. Ind., dying. Injured—A. Agen, Fayetteville, N, Y., head and side; Clara Albert, Flint, Mich.; Rev. John Alford, Beaver Falls, Pa.; Hattie Luckett, colored, Alexandria, Va. ; Rev. R. H. Porter, colored, Detroit, Mich.; Edith Gase, aged eleven years, traveling with her mother. The stables of tho Belt Lino Horse-Car Company, between Fifty-third and Fiftyfourth streets, on Tenth avenue, New York, were consumed by fire Friday morning. Several tenement houses in the same block were also destroyed. Twelve hundred horses were roasted and 103 families rendered homeless. Lj-b, $1,353,000. The accident on tho Pennsylvania Railroad at Horseshoe Bend turns out to have been more disastrous than first reports indicated. Eight deaths have already resulted, and some of tho injured are in a precarious condition. Miss McMahon, a school-teacher in Florida, who was on her way to her homo in Beaver Falls, Pa, furnishes a thrilling account of the catastrophe. Tho story, told in her own words, is as follows: I was sitting about the middle of the second coach from the engine. The train was running at a high rate of speed when the accident happened. The shock was terrific. I was thrown violently against the seat in front of me. The train stopped suddenly. In a minute all was confusion, and I was at a loss to know what had happened. I soon heard shrieks from the passengers in the coach in the rear of the one I was in, and I at once knew that something awful had happened. I raised the window and looked out. The entire sides of the two coaches immediately in the rear of the one I was in were crushed in I could see the passengers climbing out over the coal-cars lying on the adjoining track. The passengers who were not injured assisted in removing the killed and wounded.

THE WESTERN STATES.

An Albuquerque (N. M.) dispatch says that Pablo Crispire’s saw mill, thirty miles east of that city, was the scene of a terrible explosion, resulting in the destruction of the property and instantly killing six men, one of them the son of the proprietor, and seriously injuring the head sawyer, Thomas Vataw. Copious rains all over the peninsula have extinguished the forest fires, says a Marquette (Mich.) special The relief fund for the Lake Linden sufferers, including the $20,000 appropriated by the Legislature, now amounts to about $40,000. Marquette sends $1,500 and a large amount of bedding, clothing, eta; Negaunee and Ishpeming about $3,000; Hancock, Houghton, and Calumet, $7,000; Detroit about SIO,OOO. The condition of the wheat crop in the Northwest has been greatly improved by the recent rains, and the prospects are now highly encouraging. The Interior Department has approved the right of way of the St Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway Company through that portion of the Blackfoot Indian reservation lying within the jurisdiction of the Fort Peck Indian agency in Montana. The distance is 177 miles, and the number of acres required 3,508, the appraised value of which is 50 cents per acre. The perils of journalism in the far West are illustrated by a tragedy that occurred at Loup City, Neb., where 0. B. Willard, editor of the Times, was shot and killed by B. F. Richardson, who runs the opposition paper, the Northwestern. The affair grew out of a bitter personal controversy that the two men had been conducting in their respective prints. Richardson was arrested, and threats of mob violence were made by friends of his victim. The winter wheat prospects have been greatly improved in Indiana and Ohio in the recent rains. In other Western States the outlook is still impaired by dry weather. Latesown grain in Southern Minnesota is backward, owing to the drought. The yield of spring wheat in lowa promises to be large. In Northern and Central California wheat has been injured by hot winds. Heavy rains are reported in the Santa Fe Valley, in New Mexico, to the great advantage of the stock and agricultural interests.

THE SOUTHERN STATES.

A passenger trairt in South Carolina was stopped by the myriads of caterpillars on the tracks. One white and two colored convicts, in attempting to escape from a Kentucky “camp,” mortally wounded the overseer, and all of them were in turn shot by the guard, two with fatal results. Five men were killed and a dozm badly injured by the explosion of a boiler in a cotton factory at Natchez, Miss. A dispatch from Paris, Texas, says that the body of Sheriff Jacobs, of Lawson County, Choctaw Nation, who had been missing for several days, was found by the aid of buzzards which were devouring his corpse. About 300 yards from where the Sheriff’s body was found lay the bodies of two negroes, which had been partly devoured by the buzzards. The Sheriff’s death is a profou id mystery. Thera is no clue to the tragedy.

THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

President Cleveland appointed Henry Lacombe of New York City to be additional Circu t Judge in the Second Judicial Circu t and L W. Reid, of Virginia, to be Assistant Register of the Treasury. The Commissioner of the General Land Office favors the institution of proceedings to vacate the Rancho et Llano de Buena Vista grant in California, embracing about nine thousand acres, on the ground of fraud. The collections of internal revenue during the first ten months of the fiscal year were $95,253,C0G, a slight decrease as compared with the corresponding period of the last fiscal year. . ' ' A Washington dispatch announces the

death ot the veteran newspaper correspondent, Maj. Ben; Perley Poore. He had been a sufferer from Bright’s disease for several years, which was the cause of his death. His life has been a busy and eventful one, as the following brief biography will show: Ben: Perley Poore was bom in Massachusetts in 1820. At the age of eighteen he became editor of the Southern Whig, a Georgia newspaper, continuing in that capacity for two years. Subsequently he went to France as historical azent for his native State, rema ning abroad from 1344 to 1818. During the same period he was foreign correspondent of the 80-ton Atlas. After his return to America he edited the Boston Daily Hee and the American Sentinel. Subsequently he removed to Washington, and in 18.4 became correspondent at that city of the Boston Journal Am«w his writings are “The Rise and Fall of Louis Philippe," written in 1848; “The Conspiracy Trial," written in 186 >, and “The Political Register and Congressional Directory.” Major Poore, during his long residence at Washington, had met and known fifteen Presidents, beginning with John Quincy Adams, besides having had familiar relations with sueh eminent men as Webster, Clay, Calhoun, Benton, and Marcy. During his residence abroad he traveled through all the leading European countries, as well as Greece. Asia Minor, Palestine, and Egypt. His residence, Indian HiU Faim, near Newburyport, Mass , was built over two hundred and thirty years ago by Major Poore’s English ancestor, John Poore, but has, of course, received frequent additions, not the least interesting being the wing added by Major Poore. It contams over two hundred acres. Among the curiosities to be seen there is an oak grown from an acorn of the “royal oak” in which Charles IL hid after the battle of Worcester.

THE POLITICAL FIELD.

Gov. Hill has vetoed tho registry bill recently passed by tho New York Legislature. The following letter from Judge Thurman, says a Steubenville (Ohio) dispatch, has been received in reply to a question whether he will accept the spontaneous and unanimous nomination for Governor of Ohio: I am confined to my bed by sickness, and can only write by the hand of an amanuensis that under no circumstances would I accept the nomination for Governor. I much regret that my name is mentioned in connection with that office. I have done all I could to discourage it, and I assure you that my reasons are well founded and are inflexible. I highly appreciate the kindness of my friends, but 1 cannot accede to their wishes. Yours truly, A. G. Thurman. Attorney General Garland says ho does not want tho vacant position on tho United States Supreme bench, and would not take it if offered. Governor Hill of New York has permitted tho pool-selling bill to become a law without his signature. Interviewed in Chicago, Congressman Springer expressed the belief that Cleveland would bo renominated. Congressman Guenther says the Wisconsin Republicans are for John Sherman for President •

THE INDUSTRIAL REALM.

At a meeting in Pittsburg the blast furnace men of the Mahoning and Chenango Valley and the Wheeling and Pittsburg districts unanimously demanded a reduction in the price of coke from $2 to $1.53 per ton. Philadelphia stonecutters struck on account of the employment of non-union men in some of the.yards. It G. Dun & Co.’s weekly trade review, issued on Saturday, says: The most important news of the week is that crop prospects have decidedly improved. In view of the great speculation in wheat and cotton, and the false reports carefully* circulated by interested parties, it is of service to know that our own agents telegraph from Wisconsin, “local rains have helped the agricultural districts from Minnesota, “rains throughout the Northwest have very materially improved crop prospectsfrom Kansas City, “prospects are excellent tor exceptionally large crops"; “recent copious rains of great benefit” from Now Orleans ; “crop prospects generally good”; and these are samples of favorable dispatches from nearly all quarters. The fear ot injury thus far seems satisfactorily removed, and if harm to wheat or cotton is to come, it must bo from climatic influences in the future. This good news for the whole country is disheartening, however, when financial psospects have come to depend upon the success of gigantic speculations for an advance in prices of products. The financial future is also affected by the large receipts of the Treasury, amounting for ton months and twenty days to 831,612,867 more than the recepts for the same part ot the previous year. At the same rate the Treasury must take from the markets a very large sum every month after the last call for 3 per cents maturing July 1, and Washington dispatches state that tho administration will purchase bonds with great reluctance, if at all. The last statement of New York banks showed an increase of losses and reserves because Mr. Manning’s new bank was for the first time included,but the drainage of money to Chicago to meet the needs of speculation still continues, the return to that point from the interior being retarded by real-estate and other activity extensively prevailing.

THE INTERSTATE COMMISSION.

St. Louis grocers have lodged complaint with the Interstate Commerce Commissioners against the Missouri Pacific Railway Company. F. B. Stahlman, Thirl 7,ce Presid nt of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, appeared before the Interstate Commission Friday, to answer statements made by Commissioners Fink and Gault, of the Queen and Crescent Route. He says that if there was any exception anywhere on this continent that cal ed for relief under the four h section, tie whole Southern system of railroads was that exception. By an elaborate statement of rates Mr. Stahlman sought to remove what he called mistaken impression, to the effect that Southern railroads had deliberately gone to work to build up Alabama interests at the expense of other section! of ths country. The rates were fair and equitable, and the people were satisfied with them. He was not aware of any necessity for relief in the matter of pig-iron rates at points on his own line, but he did desire relief on through traffic to New York. The Chairman suggested that such an order would be futile unless qther connecting lines joined. Mr. Stahlman replied that the Lake Erie and Western was so situated that it could unite with his road on a $4 rate to New York without violating the law.

THE FOREIGN BUDGET.

The 10-s of life by the Cpt<xa Comiquo fire nt Paris is much greater than at first supposed. Sixty bodies had been Recovered up to Thursday evening. In the Chamber a Deputy estimated the number who perished at 2JO. A credit of 200,(DO francs was voted' for the relief of the suffers. A special from Paris says: The consternation caused by the Opera Comique disaster was increased to-night by a terrible discovery, similar to that made after the burning of the Brooklyn Theater in December, 18<6. At 11 o'clock tae pompier's, working with picks, came upon u mass of human remains, from which they dragged forty

corpses. Many are now believed to be in the debris of the theater. The following are the latest official figures-: Total number of bodies found, twenty eight of whom were identified ; thirteen severely wounded; sixty slightly wounded.; 100 missing—that is to say, those reported to the police as having gone to the Opera Comique Wednesday night, but who have not turned up. This brings the total list up to 226. Nearly all the bodies are those of well-dressed persons ; many still have on their gloves. The bodies were twisted into stiange, weird shapes; some seemed broiled as if on a gridiron. Under the debris of a narrow staircase was a group of seven corpses whoso charred and blackened members were intertwined in almost Laocoon ooils. One of these was that of a woman whose face was literally roasted like an overdone piece of beef. In her ears glistened a large pair of solitaire diamond ear-rings. The right arm was fractured ; the left arm was wound about a smaller corpse, appearantly that of a girl about twelve years old, probably her daughter. The other corpses of this group were so black and so mangled that it was almost impossible to say whether they were the remains of human beings or of animals. The Italian Chamber of Deputies has passed a bill to increase the army. f-EVENTY-iTYB bodies have been recovered from the ruins of the Opera Comique at Paris. The number of victims is now placed at one hundred. A Calcutta cab’.e reports that a cyplone has completely devastated the district of Orissa, India. A etoimer with 753 persons on board was caught by the cylona, and is believed to have been lost A cable dispatch from Paris states that M. Rouvier has formed a cabinet, as follows: M. Rouvier, Premier and Minister of Finance. M. Flourens. Minister of Foreign Affairs. M. Spuller, Minister of Justice. M. Fallieres, Minister of’lnterior and of Public Worship. Gen. Saussior, Minister Of War. Admiral Jaures, Minister of Marine. M. Develle, Minister of Agriculture. M. Etienne, Minister of Public Works. M. Cochery, Minister of Posts and Telegraphs. M. Berkelot, Minister of Public Instruction. The cabinet is composed, the dispatch says, of moderate Republicans, or of the union of the left, and the operation will be a trial of reaction against radicalism, militarism, and socialism. The party of the Right, with a sense of their own security, have promised the new ministry full support A cable dispatch from Glasgow, Scotland, reports a terrible explosion in a coal pit eight miles from that city. Forty-five miners, who wen imprisoned in the upper seam of the pit, were rescued, but one of them died after being brought to the surface. Access to the lowest seam, where seventy men were confined, was for several hours blocked by the debris tumbled down by the explosion. It was in this seam that the explosion occurred. When it was finally reached, it was too late to rescue any of the miners who were at work there. Not one of the unfortunate men was found alive. The total number of lives lost by the explosion is placed at seventy-five.

THE CONTINENT AT LARGE.

The National Convention of Brewers concluded its sessions at Baltimore Thursday. William A. Miles, of New York, was elected President, and Thies J. Lsfens, of Chicago, is one of the Viee Presidents. Thirteen thousand dollars was voted the brewers of Michigan, Texas, and Tennessee to aid in fighting the Prohibitionists, and $9,0C0 was voted for publication purposes. The next meeting will be held at St Paul The excitement over tho railroad question in Manitoba is increasing. At Winnipeg, Wednesday night, Sir George Stephen and Mr. Van Horne, of the Canadian Pacific, were burned in effigy. Proposals for building the new railway will be advertised for by the Provincial Government next week. Resolutions were adopted Friday by the General Council of the Reformed Episcopal Church, in session at Philadelphia, recognizing adultery as the only scriptural ground for divorce, and forbidding the marriage of divorced persons, excepting only when the decree was awarded for violation of the seventh commandment. A resolution was introduced at Friday’s session of tho General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church of North Americi, and referred to a special committee, declaring against all measures of license or tax of the liquor traffic, and that entire prohibition was the only effective, permanent remedy to end the evils of strong drink.

THE MARKETS.

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BASE-BALL STRUGGLES.

The Race for the Pennants— How the Professional Clubs Stand. Chicago Still Weak in Pitchers, but Will Strengthen Soon—Base-ball Rumors. [CHICAGO CORRESPONDENCE.] The struggle for the championships of the two great base-ball organizations continues with unabated interest, although in the National League the Detroit Club is winning its games from rival clubs Bo easily that it seems to be a foregone conclusion that the Wolverines will take the pennant, and that without any very strenuous effort The same condition of affairs seems to exist in the association race, in which the St. Louis Browns are evidently so superior to competing teams that the winning place of the pennant in that organization may be named at this writing with little likelihood of a mistake. The following tables will show the work of the teams in both organizations up to Monday, May 23: ________THE league. •2 rfUl • S-at .Hi Clubs. 42 a * ® o | 3 o|n | g M £2l ? *g § § ?S3 ZiS Sigi'S s Detroit 5 ..I 5 2 2 620 Boston 3 i| 4 . 5 215 Philadelphia 3.. 31.. 1 2.. 9 New Y0rk....,1 3 .. -2,.. 3 413 Pittsburgh 1 1 3 .. j 2 7 Chicago 1.. 1.. .. Il’ 4 7 Washington 3 11 3 .. .. 7 Indianapolis 1.. 2 Games lost 2 512| B>2ioil3ilßi.. ASSOCIATION. " n ® nd h lliliilWi pQiulm wi-cpiSl 0 — 1 >— St. Louis— 2 2 4 6 4 4.. 22 Brooklyn 2 3 0 1 3| 4 13 Cincinnati 2 2—.. 1 71315 Baltimore 1 2 2 6 415 Louisville? 1 .. 4 2 3 3| I|l4 Athletic 1 2.. 1 1— 1 4110 Cleveland 1 1 11 1 3! g Metropolitan 1 1 i—| 4 Games lost 4 9|12jl0’iff] 15,19iw|.. STILL WEAK IN PITCHERS. The Chicago club has improved but little, if any, in its playing during the past week, and all because of its unfortunate weakness in the pitcher’s box. When a ball team knows that it is weak in any one particular quarter it is going to funk. At least that is the case with the majority of ball clubs, and the Chicago team is no exception to the rule. Save upon the days when Clarkson pitches the boys take the field with little hope of winning. TALK OF CONSOLIDATION. It is rather significant that at this time when the interest of base-ball lovers should be held down to the winning and losing of games in the fight for the pennant that the old question of consolidating the American Association and National League into one great organization should be given the prominence it is now enjoying. President Spalding still has the idea of one great League in mind, and never loses a chance to give it a push. He has been working hard of late with the various other club presidents to gain supporters for bis plans. His idea now is to drop the Metropolitans and Clevelands from the American Association, and the Indianapolis and Washington nines from the National League at the end of this season. Then the League and the Association will be consolidated under the title of the American League. The New Yorks, Philadelphias, Athletics, Bostons, Brooklyns, and Baltimores will comprise the Eastern section, and the Chicagos, Detroits, St. Louis, Louisvillee, Cincinnatis, and Pittsburghs will form the Western division. The Western teams can make one trip East, and the Eastern clubs can return the visit. Each nine could thus play six games with every other club in the League. It may be stated as a fact that several League clubs are strongly impressed with the practicability of this plan, and will give it cordial assistance should there be any chance to carry it into effect. OTHER RUMORS. It is a fact that the Athletic, the Cleveland, the Chicago and the Indianapolis clubs are all trying to purchase Pitcher Hudson’s release from St. Louis, and have offered bis figures for him, but Von der Ahe has declined them all. This fact, considering that he has three such splendid pitchers as Foutz, Caruthers and King, strengthens the opinion which is becoming general in baseball circles here that this is the last season of the Browns in the Association if they again win the championship, and that they are figuring to take the place of Indianapolis in that event next year. It is also apparent that the new scheme includes the superseding of Detroit by Cincinnati, the players of the Detroit Club to be taken charge of by the League when that town is forced to drop out, the choice players to be distributed around to strengthen ,the weak clubs, and the balance to go to the best obtainable market. Quite a sensation is expected to develop under this head in a very short time.

ANSON ON THE LOOKOUT. Captain Anson nor President Spalding has as yet succeeded »in securing un additional pitcher, but that Anson is by no means idle or indifferent to the wants of the club may be presumed from the following dispatch fiom Washington: Captain Anson while here visited Bob Bair twice and endeavored to secure the services of that crack twirler, who has been living in quiet retirement since last fall. Barr hesitated on account of his recent illness, but Anson insisted, and it is probable that the Washingtonian will in a few days don a White Stocking uniform. He is to receive $3,01)0 for tiie season, furnished suits, and be exempt from reserve. Another dispatch says: Surprises will never cease. The latest rumor Hying around in this neck of woods is that Presu dent Von der Abe is trying to purchase the interests of Mason and Simmons in the Athletic Club, of Philadelphia. Von der Ahe and Sharsig met at the recent meeting in Cincinnati, and the St. Louis President told Sharsig that he was ready to purchase the stock held by Mason and Simmons, and that he would pay the money right down.