Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1892 — Page 2

®l)e jPcmocraticgetitincl RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, - - - Puiusher

HOUSEWITHOUT A HEAD

MR. M’MILLIN IS TEMPORARILY SPEAKER. ! Trouble Imminent at Coal Creek, Tenn— Bert sive YVUI Bob No Trains for Twenty YeaA—Heavy Damages for an Indiana Girl. At Washington. It I After th 3 three-day recess of the two houses the Senators were not very punctual Ik their attenuance on the 22d, for not onefourth of the whole number was present when the opening prayer was offered. The calendar wns taken up and hills were disposed of as follows: House Joint resolution concerning mining debris In California: passed. Appropriating SIOO,OOO for a public building at Bl<tnarck. N. D.; passed. To fix the compensation of keepers und crews of lifesaving stations; passed. Keepers of life-saving stations—except stations known as bouses of refuge—are to be paid SSOO per year, and members of the crews of stations aro to bo paid SOS per month during the time the stations are manned. House bill to provide an additional mode of taking depositions of witnesses > In causes pending In the United States courts (allowing depositions to be taken under State laws), was passed. The bill to prevent the adulteration of misbranding of food and drugs wns then taken up as tho “unfinished business,” and Mr. Paddock (who Is in charge of It) made t some brief remarks in its support. Mr. Bate and Mr. Coke spoke against the hill. Without acWontho Senate went into executive -session and soon adjourned. Tho House held a short session. twt transacted no business, ROASTED HER EYES. The Fiendish Act of a Young Colored Boy In Gooigla. News of a horrible story of murder and cannlbafism near Kay’s Mill, Go., has been received. Lucy President, a degraded and idiotic nogro woman, left her 9-month-old Infant In charge of her two older children. Mark and Linda, aged respectively 11 and 8 years. After her departure Mark resolve ' upon putting the Infant out of the way. HO told his sisUr what he proposed doing, at the same telling her that If she told ho would kill her. Procuring an ax, he deliberately hacked the Infant’s body until death resulted; ho then took a fork und gouged out the eyes of tho little one, which ho ronsled,%nd then, taking a slice out of either jaw, ho and his sister sat themselves down to a -feast. When the mother returned and found what had been done she did not show the least sign of maternal grief. THE ST. LOUIS CONVENTION. President Polk of tho Farmers’ Alliance Chosen Permanent Chairman. At the People’s Party Convention In Sf. Louis President Polk of tho Farmers' Alliance was unanimously chosen as permanent chairman. Miss Frances Willard was elected one of the vice presidents, and John W. Hayes, of the Knights of Labor, was made secretary. In taking the gavel Mr. Polk ■aid the convention had assembled foi action and recommended that active work ba commenced. SPEAKER CRISP SERIOUSLY ILL. The Judge Not Likely to Resume His Du. ties for a Long Time. Speaker Crisp Is a very sick man, and his condition during the last few days has given his old friends at Washington serious alarm. Mr. Crisp started for Florida, but returned to the hotel, being 100 111 to attempt the voyage. Mr. McMiUln was elected to preside daring tho absence of tbs Speaker. y win Havj 5,000 Tickets. Members of the local committee on arrangements for the National Democratic Convention mot tho members of tho National Democratic Com mitten at the Iroquois Club, in Chicago, to discuss the lssuanco of tickots of admission and other matters. At the conclusion of the conference Mr. Winston said the committees had arrived at a satisfactory agreement. _Thls Is understood to mean that the local committee w ill be allowod to disburse the 5,000 tickets asked for local distribution. Shooting at Coal Creek. A dispatch from an officer on duty witl the force of State troops at Coal Creek Tenn., says a slight skirmish occurred there. Privates Moore. Middleton and Moon, while on picket duty, were fired ai by bushwhackers. A reserve relief sent tc »M them was also fired on, and answerer ■with a volley, which seems to have don* execution, as one of the bushwhacking party was seen to throw up his hands.

First Natural Death at Hope. Idaho. James Duffy, a former bartender, has th< distinction of being the first person of Hope Idaho, to die a natural death. He went t< the Sisters’ Hospital some time ago to b< (treated for consumption, but tbs expense W*B toogreat for him and he returned anc died. He Vai an s*-s "Idler and drew £ pension of $lB a month! Miss Wood Given a Verdict, \ At Greencastle. Ind., In the suit of Mildred J. Wood vs. The Big Four Railway Company, In the Circuit Court, a jury gavi the plaintiff judgment for $12,000. Th« •mount asked for was $25,000.. The youns \ lady was badly Injured at a grade crossinf eeveral months ago, Twenty Years for Slye, In the Circuit Court of Clayton County, 110.. Adelbert Slye. the Glendale train rob"ber, who pie ado 3 guilty to. the charge o. robbery In the first do tree, was sentenced to twenty years In the psnltentlary. Kaliway Traffic Suspended. Railway communication between Conatantlnople and Western Europe is stll' •impended, owing to inundations. Heirs to 82,000,000. Three Buffalontans have fallen heir to i fortune of $2,009,000 left by au uncle ll ‘Kew York City. Six Years for Simmons. At New York United States Judge Addi eou Brown signed the order in mandate o the United States Supreme Court sentencing James A- Simmons to six years Imprisonment In the Erie County penitentiary. Simmons was one of the clique engaged In bank wrecking a couple of year •go In New Ytrla At Bay In a Coal Mine. BUI Davis, known as “Horsehead Bin,” i negro murderer, who escaped from Pocahontas, Va., while under sentence of death was captured in a coal mine near Plnevllla Ky., where he had found employment Springfield Gets It Springfield won the fight for the Illinois Haaoocratic State Convention, and the date Mt for this momentous gathering is April 27, *ad the hoar for convening 2 o’clock p. m. : "The representation is fixed at one delegate *e each *OO Democratic votes for Cleveland I* the last presidential election. ■Wrecked Off Cape Hatteras. The echooner Annie E. Pierce, of Wil*«*lagtoc, Del., went ashore off Cape Hatter**, and W»a driven upon the rocks, which at this point are considered the •sort daugerousr'cm the Atlantic coast. Ihe eaate was Instantly killed and the cupPci is-. . - -Vef*- - , a

GOLD IN THE TABLE. It Had Formerly Belonged to a Miser Who Died Years Ago. An old oak table that had been kept in the family of Mrs. T. B. Hatcher of Omaha for twenty years as a curiosity went to pieces under tho investigations of an Omaha newspaper man, and revealed to its astonished owners a secret drawer In which was concealed a fortune of healthy proportions. It appears that about twenty years ago Mrs. Hatcher’s father attended the salo of the property of a miser named Rempke, near Clinton, lowa. Ills attention was attracted to an oddly built and curiously carved oak center table about twentyfour Inches long and eighteen lncbes wide, which he purchased for a trifle The table had one shallow drawer. The purchaser toak his property home and kept it for years, giving It a few years ago to Mrs. Hatcher. Sunday an Omaha newspaper man who was visiting Mr. and Mrs Hatcher noticed the odd carving of the table and started to examine it. A small seam along one side of the table caught the newspaper man’s eye, and he began an examination which resulted fn the discovery of a secret drawer, which was soon opened. Here was a surprise. Securely wrapped in a piece of g-unny-sack was nearly $40,000 in gold, legal tender. State bank notes and some old Confedorato bills. Mr. and Mrs. Hatcher wore simply dumbfounded. PROSPECTS NOT BRIGHT. Dun's Review Says There's Nothing Encouraging In the Business Outlook. R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Trade Review says: The business situation Is not so satisfactory or encouraging as It has been. While the gradual Increase In distribution of many lines of merchandise continues, there ,1s shrinking demand and much depression In Iron. A further decline In cotton blights hopes of revival In the Southern trade, and tho speculative mania, stimulated by cheap money and by the great success of tho coal speculation, now extends to wheat and threatens to restrict exports. Notwithstanding the fact that exports of wheat have been diminishing, and for four days of tbo present week have been only 800,000 bushels from Atlantic ports, while Western receipts continue large, speculation at Chicago has lifted the price 6% cents during the week, and sales have been 57,000.000 busliels. An advance from any cause which cuts off exports of breadstuffs at a time when Europe has heavy demands for stocks marked here would not be wholesome. Corn has declined half a cent, with large exports, but large receipts. Pork products, oats, and coffee are substantially unchanged, and oil Is V,i cents higher on small transactions. Cotton is a shade lower, receipts being 24 per cent better for tho week than last year, but exports 36 per cent, greater.

O. M. TOWNER MISSING. Representative of a Chicago Syndicate Has Not Been Seen for Three Weeks. O. M. Towner, Vice President and General Manager of the Northwestern Farm-Land Company, a syndicate of Chicago capitalists heavily Interested In North Dakota farming lands und engaged In tho German colonization schema for growing barley, mysteriously disappeared throo weeks ago from Grand Forks, N. D. His friends and business associates are totally at a loss to account for his absence. They fear he has met with foul play. Towner was last seen Sunday, Jan. 29, In Minneapolis, at tho Windsor hotel, where ho was not In tho habit of staying. On that day lie told Arthur Noyes, a Minneapolis attorney of the syndicate, that certain private business would engage him until the Monday following. He had between S2OO and S3OO In his possession. His relations with the company are straight, and his business prospects were exceedingly bright

HIS MANIA IS YOUNG GIRLS. Jonathan Roberts Trying to Get 16-Year-Old Girls to Murry Him. Jonathan Roberts, 84 years old, an orthodox Quaker, and one of tho oldest, best known and wealthiest men In Eastern Indiana, will be the subject of inguest In tho Circuit Court at Richmond. Ills son has filed a petition asking that a guardian he appointed to take care of his estate, allowing that ho Is a monomaniac on the subject of young girls. Tho old man Is worth $500,000. A few months ago Roberts had a severe attack of typhoid fever. When bo recovered It was wilth a mania for tho company of young girls, and ever since ho has been looking for a 16-year-old child who would marry him. He has found several who have so planned as to get several thousand dollars from him.

RECIPROCITY WITH MEXICO. N gotlatlons Dropped for the Present—Another Effort Will Be Made. A rumor has been current at City of Mexico that tho negotiations for a reciprocity treaty between tho United States and Mexico had beon broken off. It Is authoritatively stated, however, that the negotiations have only been temporarily suspended In order to allow the Government to examine the counter propositions that have been made. The Mexican Government rejected the American propositions last fall, whereupon Mr. Ryan, the American Minister, presented counter proposition", which the authorities still havo under consideration. TO INSPECT THE FAIR. Trip of Many Congressmen by Specla Train to Chicago. Four special trains from Washington arrived in Chicago, baurlng members of Congress to visit tiie city and inspect the World’s Fair grounds. The weather was of the most miserable description when they arrived, but an extended trip about the city was made. The Congressmen came to Chigago with a view to deciding just how -badly tho exposition was in nood of an appropriation from Congress.

Millions Die In Ashes. The most disastrous fire of a decade swept New Orleans the other night. More than $2,000,000 worth of property is in ruins The losses on stock as near as can be estimated are as follows: A. S. Schwartz, dry goods, $500,000: P. Wcrloln, pianos and musical Instruments, $80,"00; Clenverius, drugs, $8,200; Runkle, dry goods, $75,000; Wenger, beer garden, stick and building, $32,000; R. H. D. Holmes, dry goods, $25,000; Kuehn, fancy goods. $75,000; Hoffman Bros.. $18,000; Leopold Levy, carpets and mattings, $50,000; Krueger, dry goods, $30,000; B. Fellman, dry go ids, $210,000. Pugilistic Statesmen. Senator Finn knocked down and severely chastised Doorkeeper H. .M. Belvel lu the Senate Chamber at Des Moines, immediately after the adjournment the other day. Belvel is a newspaper correspondent and in a recent letter alluded to Finn In an uncomplimentary way. Yellow Fever at Ecuador. United States Consul General Sorsby, who was among the refugees arriving by the last steamer from Guayaquil, Ecuador, reports a yellow fever epidemic there which is assuming most alarming proportions. M. Maydleux, the French vice consul, was among the latest victims

On Their Way to Liberia.' More than a hundred negroes and Indians, most of them without a penny, arrived In New York from Red Land, which is a part of the Cherokee Nation reservation In Arkansas. They were on their way to Africa, where they Intended to form a colony. Says Drinking Is No Sin. At Beaver Falls, Pa., a sensation grew out of a sermon on temperance as distinguished from total abstinence, preached by Rev. J. C. Beagen, rector of St. Mary’s Episcopal Church. The reverend gentle-

man claimed that total abstinence Is not a divine command. Hardly had the benediction been pronounced when the congregation gathered In groups and began to excitedly discuss the views expressed In '.be sermon. Some sided with the minister, others bitterly condemned him, stating that they would never enter the church doors again, while still others thought it would have been bettor not to have been so outspoken.

WALKED IN HIS SLEEP. Dime Museum Manager Shroff Badly Injured While In a Somnambulistic Fit. A. J. Shroff, 29 years old, manager of a Chicago dime museum, received probably fatal Injuries while upon a somnambulistic expedition In his hotel, Monday Mloming. His room was on the third floor, and from one of the windows access could be had to an area covered by a skylight Shroff arose In his sleep and walked out upon tho skylight It gave way under his weight, und he was precipitated forty feet to the paving below. Both his logs were fractured, and several ribs were broken. Besides these fractures, ho sustained severe Internal Injuries, whloh will probably cause his death. STUDENT GREETING TO CLEVELAND. Ann Arbor Given Over to Washington’s Birthday. Grover Cleveland has reason to b,e proud of blsrecoptlcn at Ann Arbor. Tho city was In holiday attire, and almost every Inhabitant turned out to do honor to the exPresldcnt No attempt at a partisan demonstration was made, and he was hooked for an address on the life and services of Georgo Washington, a subject which appeals more to patriotism than partisanship The general tenor of the address was such as to please the mixed audience who thronged University Hall to listen to It.

Mr. Bold has Resigned. The Paris Gaulols states that Whitelaw Reid, the American Minister to France, has resigned, and will soon leave Paris for the United States. The report lacks confirmation, but Is generally credited In official circles. At New York, the report that Minister Reid has resigned finds no confirmation in the Tribune office. It is known among newspaper editors and publishers, however, that for some time past the Tribune’s editor has eontemplated resuming his journalistic labors, A Washington dispatch says: An unofficial report comes from the Stale Department that the resignation of Whitelaw Reid has been received. Outwitted a Gas Monopoly. The Capital City Gas Company, Des Moines, which has a monopoly, is striving hard to bold its exclusive privilege and keep up the price of an inferior article of gas. The Council passed an ordinance reducing the prlco from $2 to $1.25, but the company procured an order restraining the Mayor from signing it The Council then passed a similar ordinance, and tho Mayor signed It at Will Not Go Upon the Stage, Mrs. Blaine, who obtained hor divxjrco at Deudwood, S. D.. Saturday, has loft for the Hot Sprlncs, where she will tarry for several days before continuing her journey to Sioux Falls, H. D. After a few days’ rest there, sho will leave for some quiet point In tho South, where she will quietly rest for a couple of months. Sho denies that sho Intends to go upon the stage Troops Tackle a Summer Job. Tho several troops of the Third United States Cavalry are still engaged In ac lve scouting operations on the lower Rio Grande frontier. Gen. Stanley believes that Garza Is still In hiding In the chaparral, a short distance from Pallto Blanco, Tho troops will be kept In tho field until Garza Is captured or until he Is definitely located In some other part of tho ct^intry. Decatur Heavily Damaged. At Decatur, 111., fire entirely destroyed tho public library block. In which were located a number of stores, a business college, lodge rooms of secret orders and the Western Union Telegraph Company. The losses are $150,090, partly Insured. Dynamite Used as an Argnment. As the outcome of a difference as to tomporance In tho little town of' Newport, Tenn., dynamite was used as a forcible argument. A saloon was blown up and incidentally two stores adjoining ' were destroyed. Chicago Men Buy Silver Mines. Tho Silver King Group, including Silver King, Bonanza Boy, Lady Helen and two other claims near Rod Mountain, Col., have just boen sold In Chicago. Tho capitalization is $440,000 und $40,000 working capital. Ho Ceuld Not Eat and Died. At Trenton, N. J., Fetor Smith, seventy years old, died of exhaustion. He was taken with tho grip about fifty-three days before, and since that time had not tasted a mouhful of food. Mount Aetna Active. Mount jEtna Is In an unusual stato of volcanic disturbance. The people of Znffarano, a market town on the eastern slope, have abandoned., their dwellings in consequence of a series of violent shocks. Many Shipwrecks Reported. Many shipwrecks are reported from the Irish coast as a result of the recent storms, and It Is believed that the loss of life has been considerable. Hold Up tho Con. Five toughs tried to rob the conductor of a street car in St. Paul, but only succeeded In wounding him and smashing the cor windows. Burled Under Snow. France and Germany are covered with snow to a depth that has brought railway traffic to a standstill.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime $1.50 @ 5.50 Hoos—Shipping Orades 3.00 @ 5.25 Sheep—Fair to • hoice s.OU @ 5.50 Wheat—No.S2 Red 9J @ .92 Corn—No. 2 40 @ .41 Oats—No. 2 29 @ ,3 » Rye—No. 2 8754® .88% Butter—Choloo l reamery 28 @ Cheese—Full Cream, flats 12 @ .13 Egos—Fre h J 7 @ jg Potato, a—Car-loads, per bn 30 @ .49 INDIANAPOLIS. CATTLE-Shipping 3.25 @ 4.50 Hoos—Choice Light ; 3 5(1 @ 5.0!) Sheep—Common to Prime 3.t0 (£5 25 Wheat-I'O. 2 Red 92 @ .9-2% Corn—No. 1 White .40 @ .41 Oats—No. 2 White '. 33 & 34 • ST. LOUIS. Cattle 350 @ 4.75 Hogs •. 350 @ 5.00 Wheat - No. 2 Red .02 <9 93 Corn—No. 2 36 ® .37 Oa-js—No. 2 .30 (9 .31 Rye—No. 2.... 78 & .81 CINCINNATI. Cattle 8.50 @ 4.50 Hogs ’. 3.U) @5 00 Sheep 3.00 @ 520 Wheat—No. 2 Red 96 @ .97 Corn—No. 2 40%@ .41% Oats—No. 2 M xed 32 @ .33 DETROIT. Cattle 3.00 @ 5.01 Hooa 3.00 & 5.00 Sheep 3.00 @ 5.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red 67 @ .99 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 41%@ .4254 Oats—No. 2 White 34' @ ,35 * TOLEDO. Wheat—New .90 @ .93 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 40 @ 41 Oats—No. 2 White 32 @ 34 Hi* 86 @ .87 BUFFALO. Beep Cattle 4.00 @ 573 Live Hogs 375 @ 5.25 Wheat—No. 1 Hard 1.03 @1 04 Corn—No. 2 4b @ .47 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—Ro. 2 Spring., 87 @ .88 Corn—No.'S .37 @ .»□ Oats—No. 2 White 31 tea 32 Eyk-No. 1...... 85 ® 87 Barley—No. 2, {$ & .54 Pork—Mess....' 1175 @12.25 NEW YORK. Cattle. 3.50 @5.25 Hp 05...., 300 @ 5.50 5heep....... 4.00 @ 6.30 Wheat—No. 2 Red. 109 @lll Cork—No. 2 ................... ,49 .31 Oats—Mixed Western 36 @ 83 BuTTEB-Creamery .a p jn Pork—Mass 9.75 @40.54,

AIMED AT THE FARMER

THEY SAY ANTI-OPTION LAWS WOULD HURT HIM. President HamlU and Other ChlcAgoans Attempt to Show that Pending Measures Would Depress Prices of Grain und Live Stock and Derange Business. Speculators Talk. President Hamill and four other members of the Chicago Board of Trade appeared before the Senate Committeejon Judicary to protest against thd legislation contemplated by the Hatchand Washburn anti-option bills. President Hamill made a long ■ address, and was followed by Thomas A. Wright and Michael Cudahy. “Speculative bodies,” urged Mr. Ham--111, “are necessary to adjust the relations between the supply and demand of products. ■ The advance in prices checks consumption and stimulates production, and the fall in price checks production and increases comsumption. There is some price at which they are perfectly adjusted, and this is termed ‘proper price.’ The speculator makes the actual market value conform to it. He cannot influence it, since the supply and demand do that, but he merely determines the actual market price and makes it coincide as nearly as possible with the proper price. Fluctuations should be as little as possible, and the tendency of speculation as conducted by file boards of trade is to ke,ep the in a state of equilibrium. The movement of wheat last fall was enormous. Under the existing system the dealers and exporters placed wheat for delivery in the future at high prices. The orders were filled, and by" the time the farmer was able to deliver it the machinery of commerce was in motion, and the crop moved off easily at good prices. No glut ensued, and the sellers as well as the buyers were benefited. The speculative supply, as a third element, prevents undue enhancement of prices. The speculator is also an important factor in distribution. Buying in a market relatively cheap and selling in a market relatively high prevents accumulation at some points and undue depletion at others, and this equalizing process helps distribution.”

Mr. Hamill continued that the bill would have the effect of prohibiting merchants from handling products in legitimate channels of trade. While itwould allow the farmer to sell his products for future delivery, the merchant who bought of him would be prevented from selling until the actual delivery was made. “The result is,” ho continued, “that while the farmer has the naked right to dispose of his property, even before he has raised it, he can really dispose of his wheat only, and Ill's to the miller alone. His corn, rye, and barley must be sold, if sold for future delivery, to a dealer who, under the provisions of the bill, would bo prohibited from disposing of such property until its actual delivery! It entirely eliminates all legitimate competition in the purchase from tho farmer of his products, for the reason that the.miller and maltster alone remain unhampered as possible buyers from him. It discriminates solely in favor of the miller and maltster, and creates a monopoly for their advantage by driving out every other dealer and warehouseman.”

Under the bill, said Mr. Hamill, the packer of hogs, now the only important buyer in that line, would bo prohibited from contracting for future delivery of pork products. As the result the packer would be compelled to insist upon a larger margin t» cover the additional risk of market while manufacturing. This would tend to reduce the price to the grower or farmer. As a final objection to the bill Mr. Hamill urged that it would result in overturning and unsettling to the extent of the total destruction of long and well understood usages in the handling of agricultural products. Tiro restriction placed upon the business of buying and selling would prevent men from engaging in a legitimate trade. Thomas A. Wright followed in a long argument in which he cited the legal phases of\the situation and quoted from various decisions to show that contracts such as were made on boards of trade were legitimate and recognized as such by the courts. In closing he claimed that the effects of the passage of the law proposed would be to drive capital out of the business of handling agricultural products. To prohibit futures would be to remove the only insurance affQrded the dealers. He thought the measure was intended solely for the benefit of tho big millers. Senator Washburn, the author, who was in the milling business himself, made no objection to this intimation. Mr. Wright produced some statistics recently gathered by S. K. T. Prime, of Dwight, showing that many farmers as well as millers and grain merchants throughout Illinois, lowa and Minnesota were opposed to the anti-option bills. It was also shown that selling future delivery was a practice coming into vogue in many agricultural districts, and the farmers were taking the same advantages as the grain dealers to insure themselves against loss by selling for delivery ahead.

The Salvation Army.

The strange spectacle of a band ol rioters making an attack on the Salvation Army was witnessed at Eastbourne, England. A number of its members were severely handled and the bannei taken from them. What use has such a crowd for a salvation banner?—Louisville Times. The Salvation Army had a pitched battle at Eastbourne, England, in which, apparently, they had to fight both the mob and the police. Their bravery showed that they possessed the courage of their convictions and the treatment they received indicated that there is need of some kind of an army in that locality.—lndianapolis News, Salvation Army reports shows that there are nearly 1,400 corps, 3,700 officers and 2,50 ft locg.l officers connected with the army in the British Isles. And still baccarat scandals, aristocratio divorces and general rottenness among Britain’s upper classes are rampant. The army should change its base and order a general assault on Satan’e strongholds in high places where he is most strongly intrenched.—Grand Bapids Democrat.

Bled While Dancing.

A young woman fell dead at Pittsburg while dancing. The moral is: Girls, don’t—but, like the theatrical “gag” at rehearsals, this moral had better not be spoken.—Kansas City Journal. Still another woman has dropped dead while waltzing. This is the third case reported within a fortnight, and still the dance goes on. The social .toe is bound to be fantastic If it dies in the attempt.—Boston Herald. 89ME people will use the chee of the Pittsburg young lady who died while waltzing as a warning against dancing, but it will not be a fair Illustration. Dancing in itself is not wrong, and only the abuse of it is an evil. —Baltimore American.

Strange Symbol.

Among the most extraordinary pieces of symbolism known to have been used by the early Asiatics was a figure of a donkef’s head used as a representative of the Deity.

INSTRUCTED FOR HILL.

NEW YORK’S DELEGATION IS SOLID FOR DAVID. 1 rhe Albany Convention Orders the Presentation of tho Senator’s Name for the Presidency and Adopts the Unit KuleAntls Will Bolt. York State Convention. New York’s solid vote will be cast on the first ballot at the National Demosratlc Convention for Senator Hill, and

there will not be one delegate of the sev-enty-two to follow the example of Tam-? many Hall In 1884 and protest against the use to which the unit rule put his vote. The Albany convention settled things as 'far as the first ballot >at Chicago goes, for ’the convention instructed the delegates to “present”the

D. b. HILL.

name of David B. Hill, and that means that they must vote for Hill at least one ballot, and as much longer as the majority of seventy-two delegates say, for 'rom n 'jw on the unit rule governs them. The convention was for Tammany, Hill and tariff reform, tnd it applauded each of them. Everything was done with a view to its effect on Senator Hill’s presidential canvass. Not a speech was made except by Temporary Chairman Beebe, Permanent Chairman Sickles and Senator Hill. These speeches had been prepared in advance, submitted and revised and copies were for distribution.

The work of the convention was quickly done. George Standish Weed, son of Smith M. Weed, made a temporarily successful protest against the report from half the delegates of his Congressional district, giving the other half no delegates to Chicago. 'That was the only approach to a fight against Hill anywhere on the floor of the convention, and Mr. Weed did not mention Senator Hill’s name, though it was well known that if he was sustained at least one delegate hostile to Senator Hill would be sent to Chicago. Outside of New York, Brooklyn, and Troy there were few prominent Democrats among the delegations. Mr. Croker and Mr. McLaughlin made thein delegations as 3trong as they could, but in the country districts the leaders soem to have sent the lesser men to the State convention and reserved for themselves the place of delegates to the national convention. Ex-President Cleveland’s name was not mentioned during the proceedings at any time, and no allusion of any kind to him was made. Senator Hill, in his speech, talked of Governor Tilden, and the platform refers to the time of Tilden. The intermediate administrations are skipped. After the convention had adjourned, a conference of objectors met in Union Hall and organized. Ex-Secretary Fairchild called tho conference. to order, naming as Permanent Chairman F. D. Locke, of Buffalo. Mr. Fairchild said that the cons rence was to express disapproval of the methods prevailing at the other convention, and he hoped action would be taken of a forcible character. A large number of delegates from New York had arrived at noon and nearly every city in the State was now represented, not by paid politicans, but by men interested in the welfare of the State and nation. Mr. Fairchild said that a convention would be held later which would send delegates to Chicago. Chairman Locke, upon taking the chair, said: Gentlemen of the convention, there are times in the history of tho party when it is necessary for men to assert their rights, 'the will of the majority of the party has been seized by a small faction of tho party who wish to use the party for their own personal benefit, or what benefits they may receive from one man, and that man Is David B. HiU. What remedy have wo against this order of things If we are not protected by the law? What remedy, I again ask. If It Is not (p revolution? What Is the duty of self-respecting delegates under such conditions! We beileve In tariff reform, honest money, honest public administration for the public good. Wo believe that the office should seek tho man, not the man tho office, and It is such a man as this who should go before the Chicago convention with the Indorsement of the representative Democrats of the State The list of delegates was read and a large number of the names were loudly applauded. Thirty-six of the sixty counties were represented. After further speeches the convention adopted resolutions to hold an anti-Hill convention at Syracuse May 31 to elect delegates to the Democratic convention at Chicago and then adjourned. It is said that the plan of campaign of the provisional State committee, so far as determined, is to get 100,000 signatures of Democratic voters throughout the State to a pledge against Hill and lay this monster pledge before the Chicago convention

The Typhus Epidemic.

We are sending Russia bread and Russia is sending us her hunger-bom fever. —Kansas City Journal. The breaking out of a typhus epidemic in New York is giving the metropolis an object lesson in the value of cleanliness and sanitation which seems to have been much needed.—Detroit Free Press. If New York has a r al epidemic of typhu6 fever no small share of the blame will fall upon those Trenton authorities who sent a party of “suspects” to the metropolis in a railway car that was crowded with people. The parties responsible for such gross criminal carelessness must be punished to the full extent of the law.—Boston Globe. The appearance of the typhus fever in the tenement district of New York is creating some excitement there. The disease was brought into the port by a number of Russian refugees a few days ago, but how a shipload of fever-infected people could get through quarantine is not explained Typhus fever is the child of famine and it thrives in dirt.— Ohio State Journal. The introduction of typhus fever by Russian immigrants presents a grave subject for consideration. The readiness of th's country to assist the sufferers from famine will be ill-requited by an epidemic of disease. It is a case that demands stringent measures, and the responsibility for the admission of these people, which was contrary to law, should be promptly fixed and dealt with.—Washington Star.

An American Duchess.

Anothek American girl has married a foreign duke. There is too much of this meddling with our home industries, altogether.—Boston News. Miss Mitchell has varied the monotony of the heiress marriages with foreign noblemen by marrying a duke who has estates and an income.—Rochester Herald. Lovely American woman was again captured yesterday by a titled foreigner. Well, here’s hoping that the pretty Duchesse de la Rochefoucauld may be happy.—Boston Globe. Pebhaps the most striking thing shout the match is that the bride was Wedded without any dower—a circumstance so rare in the history of our interantional marriages as to be wet thy at comment.—New York Journal.

BURNED A BIG BLOCK.

FIRE IN NEW ORLEANS’ BUSINESS CENTER. A Disastrous Blaze Breaks Out In a Re; tall Store and (Destroys Two Million Dollars’ Worth of Property—List of Principal Losers. Crescent City Flames. At New Orleans two millions of money went up in smoke the other night by the destruction of a large retail dry goods establishment in the city. The scene of the fire, says a dispatch, was in Canal street, the principal thoroughfare of the city, at the point where It is intersected by Bourbon. Schwartz’s establishment, a commanding structure and but recently completed, occupied the corner of Canal and Bourbon. It was afour-story building, with mansard roof—a brick, stone, and iron edifice, surmounted by a high clock tower. At 10:16 o’clock a waiter in Moreau’s restaurant, on ihe opposite side ofCanal street, perceived a small tongue of flame licking its way along the cornice of the roof and hastened to give tho alarm. The depi r.ment responded promptly, but experienced great difficulty in getting to work, and the whole edifice was ablaze before a stream could be brought to bear upon it. Tho flames spread backward to Kraus Bros.’ establishment and across Bourbon street to Clouverius’ drug store simultaneously, and the department found itself in a moment powerless to cope with the destroyer. A general alarm and then a repeated general alarm were sent in, and suburban engines were pressed into service. Backward the fire spread to Hoffman’s, to the left it attacked Werlein’s, and crash followed crash as the falling roofs overburdened the floors beneath, already laden with stocks of merchandise, and each gave way in turn until the interior fixtures of the stores and their contents were piled in a blazing heap on the ground.

On the opposite side of Bourbon street Clouverius’ building was the first to collapse, and it carried with it ihe walls of Dunkel’s establishment. McCloskey’s confectionery establishment was a mass of seething flame, and Kreger’s buildings were also burning fiercely. But the Nickel-Plate shoe store intervened to save the main entrance to D. H. Holmes’ immense establishment in Canal street, and that portion of the store was but little damaged. . Schwartz’s stock, valued at over $500,000, was insured for $363,000, and the building for $35,000, considerably below its value. Holmes’ stock was insured for twice as much, but the damage to it is not thought to be so great. Clouverius carried SB,OOO insurance on stock and tho others were insured in proportion. Every insurance company in the city has about an equal share of the loss. The risks have been divided. Most of the buildings were newly erected and considered separate and excellent risks. The individual losses, so far as they can be ascertained, are as follows: Lobs. Insurance Schwartz & Sons 11500,GC3 §366,000 Benevolent and Protective Order of £.lks.., 15,000 W. T. Cl Oliver! uy 8,000 8,000 Wenger’s Garden 60,000 -40,000 D. H. Homes 25.0C0 600,000 Mme. Goddard 1,000 10,000 Mme. Godin 3,000 3,000 J. M. Hoffman 17,000 15,000 John Curry 163 8. G. Cregler 20,000 16,300 John MoCloskey 10,000 0,000 Franz Bros 40,000 20,000 Philip Werlein 75,000 60,000 The buildings destroyed collectively are estimated to be worth fully a quarter of a million, while many other buildings were badly damaged, as well as their contents, and not included in the above estimated loss.

GROWTH OF WINTER WHEAT.

Reports from Several States Show It Has Not Passed the Critical Condition. Winter wheat has not yet passed beyond the critical state, and the next few weeks may make considerable oh e gee in the situction. An authentic report says: In Illinois the outlook Is at present encouraging. From 47 per cent, of the correspondents come reports that th« crop is In flrst-olass condition. In an additional 30 per cent, of the State the condition, while not quite up to a full average, is still very fair. Not quite one correspondent in five gives the condition as poor. The causes that have brought about this poor condition in these counties is the same that existed at the last report In wheat, namely, the dry fall and the failure of much of the grain to come up. In Indiana the condition at this time is somewhat better than in Illinois. Some of the wheat is reported a 3 weak, but not more than 21 per cent, of the correspondents report the condition as poor. On the other hand, nearly 60 per cent, declare the outlook as good, and in the other sections it is fair. The standard of condition in Ohio is below that of Indiana, 40 per cent, of the correspondents returning the outlook as good. About 46 per cent, give the condition as fair, and the others as poor. In some of the counties the snow has gone, and the freezing and thawing may have a very bad effect on the grain, especially where the condition is low. In Michigan 75 per cent, of the correspondents report the condition as good, 20 per cent, report fair, and only 5 pei cent. poor. In many of the counties the wheat has been covered with snow the greater part of the winter, and in the other counties was covered during the coldest weather that we have had.

Jupiter and Venus.

Jdpiteb and Venus played a taking open-air engagement, but they are now starring alone. —Boston News. Venus and Jupiter, although drawing apart, present a lustrous and beautiful appearance in the western sky. Jupitci Is a noble star, but for effulgence Venus rather takes the shine off him.—Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette. Dubing the recent “justaxposltion” oi Venus and Jupiter they were still 400,000,000 miles apart. That is enough to make the average space-writer open his eyes.—Bt. Paul Globe. If the recent astronomical flirtation between Jupiter and Venus results lithe world coming to an end it will bs another evidence of the truth of the old adage to the effect that there’s always a female in It. —Des Moines Leader. Who knows but that the late conjunction of Venus and Jupiter may have marked the disappearance of the grip! This theory is at least as plausible as any other on a subject about which nobody really knows anything for a certainty.—Boston Globe.

To Manage Husbands.

The best suggestion came from Lily Devereanx Blake, who proposed as the best rule for- marital happiness that the wife should not always ask the husband where he was going when he went away and where, he had Men when he came back. Lily is a darling.—St. Joseph Gazette. Sobosis, while adnSitting the amenability of husbands to management by their wives, is careful to define the only method that can be regarded as infallible. This means to a glorious end is described in sugared terms but, brought down to pith, it consists in the delusion of man, the making him believe that he ts having his own way, while, in fact, his better half is having hers.—Pittsburg Dispatch.

THE SENATE AND HOUSE.

WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAWMAKERS. Proceedings of the Senate and House of Representatives Discussed and Acted Upon—Gist or the Business. The National Solons. On the 18th Inst the House went infocommittee of the whole (with Mr. Bynum of Indiana In the chair) on the Indian appropriation bilL Mr. Peol made the opening speech and explained the bill’s provisions. After an animated debate the committee rose. In the Senate Mr. Sherman, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, reported back favorably the joint resolution Introduced by Mr. Perkins requesting the President to return to the Republic of Mexico twenty-one battle-flags, which were captured by the army of the United States during the late war with Mexico. The resolution was passed, A bill Increasing the limit of cost for public building, at St Paul, Minn., to $1,400,000, was passed, as was also one increasing to SBOO,OOO the appropriation for a public building at Omaha. Senator Palmer of Illinois spoke In the Senate on the 18th on the subject of an alteration of the Constitution of the United •States which shall provide for the election of Senators in Congress by a direct vote of the people of the several States. In the House- the free coinage bill was discussed at some length. Mr. Bland, of Missouri, spoke enthusiastically In favor of the bill, while Mr. Harter, of Ohio, as vigorously opposed It Mr. Harter, in the course of his talk, said he would like to pay members of Congress with the 70cent dollar and see how they would like It If anything should be made a legal tender It should be tho corn of Kansas and not the sliver of Colorado. Silver was then laid aside for the nonce and the consideration of the Indian hill was resumed. Mr. Smith, of Arizona, criticising some of Its features, especially the appropriations for the Carlisle school. The Indian appropriation bill was generally discussed until adjournment Owing to the fact that the Congressional excursion to Chicago was to start early in the afternoon of the 10th few Senators were present and the Senate adjourned early. A bill appropriating $400,000 for a public building at Tacoma, Wash., was passed, as was also one granting the right of way to tho Duluth and Manitoba Railroad Company across the Fort Pembina Reservation in North Dakota. In the House the an- 1 nouncement of the purpose to call up the tariff question about the first of March was made in the Ways and Means Committee at a brief session of the full committee. Republicans did not object Mr. Bland offered a resolution providing for a reprint of the silver bill and for printing 10,000 additional copies of the majority and minority reports. Both Senate and House adjourned until the 23d.

Snubbed.

Tennyson has been accused of a certain surliness in his manner of receiving visitors; but who can wonder at that, when four-fifths of the number are lion hunters or newspaper people in search of facts? One of these double-barrelled bores has been so foolish as to write an account of his interview, telling just how he was snubbed by bis patient host. This is his description of the beginning of the affair: “He laid down the book he was reading and eyed me through his glasses with a searching, scrutinizing glance, as he is extremely shortsighted. Then he nodded. ‘Pray sit down,’ while his frail white fingers toyed absent-mindedly with the papercutter. ‘Have you also taken the trouble to come out here, simply to tell me that I am a great author? Pardon me; but be assured that the honorary visits of a grateful public can reach incredible dimensions.’ The beginning of our interview was not very encouraging." Quite undismayed by this palpable fact, the unwelcome visitor remained and teased the old poet with questions. Tl)e report continues in this strain: “I thought it time to leave, and rose. ‘I hope I have not disturbed you.’ ‘Not In the least, but you will oblige me by leaving now,’ he replied. ‘Would you allow me to call again?’ ‘You will be welcome if you have anything particular to communicate to me, but otherwise it would, most likely, be unprofitable to both of us. Do you think you can find your way? Oblige me by ringing the bell.’ Then a dapper servant, with a set smile and faultlessly brushed hair noiselessly made his appearance. ‘Show this gentleman the nearest way to the railroad station.”’ Dike Mark Meddle, this “gentleman” will not be satisfied until he has received the kick he courts.

People and Events.

The Archbishop of Canterbury canters London on a fine cob. Thebe are 10,000 organized brass bq.nds in the State of Pennsylvania. A gibl In Norway mast be able to bake bread before she can havo a beau. Cbicket was played under the name of “club ball” as early as the fourteenth century. The proportion of Anglo-Saxon words in the English Bible is 97 per cent, of the whole. Dbied fish was formerly, and is still to some extent, a medium of exchange in Iceland. Within the last three years the Indians have disposed of 2,600,000 acres of their lands. The Disstons have a mausoleum in Central Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, that cost $65,000. The sandblast process is now applied to the lettering of tombstones. Many a man’s record will thus be blasted. The fund to Mrs. Grimwood, the heroine of Manipur, which was started by the Princess of Wales, has been concluded at the sum of $6,500. And now the court of Vienna is all in an upset by the reported engagement of the Crown Princess Stephanie to a wealthy American gentleman. A baby born in Georgia a few weeks ago has two grandmothers, two greatgrandmothers and one great-great-grandmother to nurse and pet him. Neal Dow is 87 years old, and vigor- * ous enough to get in a rousing whack for prohibition now and then. He lives in the house he built in Portland, Me., sixty-five years ago. , - \ The new Government of Brazil has suspended proceedings In the confiscation of the property belonging to Princess Isabella and other members of the family of the late Emperor. The Speaker of the House of Commons is a very’lhcky person, who _is enabled to draw a’salary of $25,000“a year while he exercises the functions of his office, and when he is retired is hoisted to the peerage and revels in a pension of $20,000. Mbs. Vibginia Thompson, a daughter of Alexander Campbell, who founded the “Campbellite” sect, has been postmistress of Louisville under five administrations, and is not only a clever and reliable official, but a matronly looking beauty of fine presence and excellent manners. The Rev. Samuel A. Eliot, who succeeds the Rev. Brooke Herford in his Boston pulpit, is one of the youngest clergymen in the country. He Is but 29 years of age, and a second son of President Eliot, of Harvard, whom he resembles. He has been preaching in Denver during the past two years. James Whitcomb Riley is called the most popular of the American poets by the leading magazines. All of his work has a refreshing and strengthening tone that makes it most pleasant reading, and tributes ate being paid to it in many quarters.