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

®lje geniocroticSenttnet RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, - - - Publisher.

STORM-SWEPT KANSAS.

ANOTHER DISASTROUS AND FATAL CYCLONE. Methodists In Conclave at Omaha A lengthy Address—Bad Wreck on the Panhandle—Anti-Option Bill Delayed— Wichita’s Sensation. Congressional. In the Senate, the 3d. Mr. Morgan called tip the message on the subject of an International conference as to silver coinage. Nr. Kyle then proceeded to address the Senate In favor of the free coinage of silver. At the close of his speech the message was •gain laid on the t itle, Mr. Morgan giving notice that he desired to speak upon it The conference report on the exclusion bill Was then laid before the Senate and agreed to. The House bill placing binding twine on the free list was laid before the Senate and referred to the Finance Committee. But little routine business was done In the House in the morning, and shortly after the reading of the journal the Hous? went into committee of the whole, with Mr. Oates, of Alabama, in the chair, on the diplomatic •nd consular appropriation bill. Mr. Blount. of Georgia, lu charge of the bill, moved to strike out the appropriation of *65 ,000 to continue the preliminary survey for an intercontinental railway; agreed to. Mr. Hooker, of Mississippi, demanded • separate vote on the amendment'striking out the $65,000 appropriation for the InterContinental Railway Commission. It was •greed to The bill then passed. The Senate amendments to the army appropriation bill were non-concurred in, and a conference was ordered.

. INCITED TO MURDER. Anarchists Mowbray and Nicholls Indicted at London. A London grand jury brought in true bills against Mowbray, publisher, and Nicholls, editor, of the anarchist newspaper, the Commonweal, seized last week by the police. The charges against them are based on articles in the Commonweal, inciting to the murder of Mr. Matthews, Home Secretary, and Sir Henry Hawkina Justice of the Queen’s Bench. The suppression ot the paper at the time it was effected was most fortunate, as it prevented the issue of a dangerously inflammatory number which was to have been Circulated on May Day, anl revealed its connection with the Walsall anarchists and threw further light on their doings. It in fact, completely broke up the conspiracy of the anarchists so that they were ab’.e to make no show whatever last Snn-iay. Of the men indicted an example is sought to be made which will put a final extinguisher on a species of plotting so foreign and •verse to the spirit of the" British people'.

giffiSAS §Y CYCLONES, VhreePeople Killed jfcar Topeka and the Lynn Creek Valley Devastat'd, The most terrible and destructive storm that ever occurred in that section devastated the Lynn Creek Valley, southeast of Topeka, Monday night A cyclone swept up the Lynn Valley, destroying everything that came In its path. A territory eight miles long and varying in width from half • mile to a mile suffered a total destruction of everything, 'two persons were kilted outright, and over one hundred were more or less injured. Three or four cannot lie. Many others may die. Houses were blown down, and in many instances were torn to pieces •nd scattered over areas of half a mile in diameter. Trees were torn up by the roots •nd stone walls leveled to the earth. At Moline one was killed and several badly hurt Hundreds of cattle and horses perished. In Oklahoma, also, two fatalities •re reported.

PAN HANDLE WRECK. < Passenger Train Crashes Into a Freight —Several Persons Injured. ** A bad wreik occurred on the Pan Handle Ballroad one mile west ot Scio. Ohio. The second section ot No. 2. east-bound passenger. while going at the rate of fifty-five miles an hour, crashed Into No. 85 westbound extra freight. The fireman and engineer of the freight Jumped for their lives. The passenger engine was in charge of Bobert Buchanan, engineer, and William Odlom. fireman. Both stuck Jo their posts, and Buchanan was seriously Injured InterBally. The passengers in the forward coach of the passenger train were badly shaken up and a number were injured, none fatally. Setback for Hatch. Washington dispat-h: Mr. Hatch has received another setback. He expected to have his anti-option bill disposed of this week, but there is now not the slightest probability of its coming up, and not much likelihood for next week. “You see j„ he said, “it has been decided to fellow the consideration of the consular and diplomatic bill, which now has the floor, with the river and harbor blit and when that is disposed of. the sundry civil bill win bo taken up. All this may take a fortnight; anyway there is no show for try antioption bill before the latter part of next week." Conference at Omaha. The twenty-fourth quadrennial conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church was called to order at Boyd's Opera House, Omaha, by Bishop Bowman, and Dr. S. Monroe was elected permanent Secretary. The entire morning session was devoted to a discussion of the proposition to seat the lay delegates apart from the clerical The apiscopal address contained 76,000 words, or fifty columns of matter set in small type. Bishop Foster, who read It, is slow and deliberate in speech and as his voice Is not very Strong It required nearly a halfday to de liver it.

Poker-Rooms Closed at Wichita. No rattling chips nor cry of “ante up” bus been heard for several days In the poker-rooms of Wichita, Kan., and nobody seems to know how long a holiday the “perfesh” will be allowed The present fight on the gamblers Is led by Postmaster E. B, Jewett, who made a written complaint to the Board of Police Commissioners. Several months ago about 8300/ of postal funds were embezzled, ani the embez-.ler was found to be addicted to poker. President Cable to Resign. At Denver. It is stated on excellent authority that President Cable, of the Bock Island, will soon resign and that Mr. Tisdale will be his successor. Mr. Cable will remain in the directory. He has accumulate 1 quite a fortune and desires to take the remainder of life easier. Jumped the Track. A car on the San Francisco and San Mateo Bailroad, a new electee motor line, jumped the track tn the outskirts of San Francisco and was overturned. The car was filled with passengers and thirteen were more or Injured. Shot for Taking a Kiss. George Doyle went to the residence of Sari Dudding. a farmer,’ near Anderson. Isd. Mrs. Dudding was sitting on the >areh beside her husband. Doyle coolly Maaed bee. The busband drew bis revolver awd fired three times, shooting Doyle through the right elbow, thigh and right Doyle will die. *■ fiay. Sho Doesn’t Love Him. Tnsktinrr*. Ga.. comes to the front with fibe aMWt peculiar divorce suit on record. <Sbw fifiafialK la Hamilton A Bee, aged 87, ■MI MM defendant bis wife. Sarah, aged 81 MsaMai tbtaka Sarah doesn't love him as

BTATEOF TRADE. Gaining Slowly but Surely Improving tn AU Sections of the Country. The following la R. G. Dun & Ca’s weekly review of trade: More favorable weather in many parta of the country during the past week has brought better reports of business. Undoubtedly distribution has been much retarded by the backward season and the condition of the country roads, and in some quarters collections have been slow on that account, but this week the Improvement in such quarters has been general, and meanwhile the volume of business continues to surpass all previous records. Gaining but little, and yet gaining at least over last year, and falling behind only about 1 per cent, at the South in the aggregate, notwithstanding the great depression in the price of cotton, the volume of trade has been over 10 per cent greater than in any other year at the West, though on the Pacific slope some decrease appears That collections are on the whole satisfactory the condition of the money markets and reports from other cities clearly show. In aUparts of the country the supply of money is abundant, but the demand is not especially active.

DEEMING IS GUILTY. The Rainhill Murderer Sentenced to the Death Penalty. At Melbourne, Australia, Deeming’s trial for the'murder of his last wife, formerly Miss Mather, of Rainhill, ended in a verdict of guilty and the imposing of lhe death sentence on the prisoner. The attorneys for the defense devoted all their energies to attempting to ] rove that Deeming was insane. Deeming and his counsel encouraged the Idea that be was the Whitechapel fiend, in ordqr to sustain the theory of uncontrollable homicidal mania. During the early days of his imprisonment Deeming was defiant, and even- affected to laugh at the charges against him. and boasted ot the libel suits he would bring against the English and Australian papers after his acquittal, but after the coroner’s jury found him guilty of the Windsor murder he was very much changed, showed signs of breaking down, and finally confessed the crime for which he has been sentenced to die.

FATAL LOVE BETWEEN WOMEN. The Near Departure of One Leads to the Suicide of Another. A strange case of love between women is reported from Altamont, Tenn. Miss Katie Tipton. of that city, sent a bullet crashing through her breast, and it Is thought she will not recover. April IT Miss Lula B. Sanders and J. D. Meeks were married at Beersheba Springs, and since then Mrs. Meeks has been boarding next door to Miss Tipton's home. Their love for each other was remarkable. They would write each other letters every day. and finally a letter was written to Miss Tipton by Mrs. Meeks informing Miss Tipton that she would soon have to leave her. This letter was a reply to one she received from Miss Tipton In which the latter declared she could not live without her and that It was either Mrs. Meeks or death. Before shooting herself Miss Tipton wrote another letter saying she could not live without Mrs. Meeks, ■er--;".— - BRAVE DEED OF A POLICEMAN. Ho Receives the Fail of a Fire Ladder to Save Others and Will Die. A New York policeman’s heroic attempt ’’to save a number of lives was the feature of an otherwise umlmportant fire at the Thirteenth Street Presbyterian Church. An extension scaling ladder toppled over into the midst of the crowd, which scattered right and left, except one policeman in citizens’ clothes. He tried to break Its fall. The heavy ladder, weighing over half a ton. broke his arms and. striking striking him a fearful blow upon his head, felled him to the ground. Surgeons said he couldn't live.

ALTGELD IS CHOSEN. Nominated for Illinois* Governor Upon the First Ballot. Judge John P. Altgeld was chosen by the Illinois State Democratic Convention upon the first ballot to make the race for Governor. The whole ticket is as follows: Governor John P. Altgeld Lieutenant Governor Joseph B. Gill Secretary of State William H. Hinrichscn Auditor of State David Gore Treasurer Rufus N. Ramsay Attorney GeneralMauries T. colony , ( J. E. Armstrong Trustees State University....-) I. 8 Raymond I N. B. Morrison Six of Them Are Dead. The destruction of the Grand Central Theater, In Philadelphia, by fire proves to have'been far more terrible In Its results than was anticipated. Six members of the “Devil’s Auction” company lie dead .beneath the walls of the building, aud nearly three score people are In the hospitals suffering from burns. Of the men and boys In hospital seven are In such serious condition that their recovery is doubtful. All were members of the audience. Besides those who were seriously enough hurt to remain in the hospitals, fully fifty others were treated for minor Injuries. Damaged by a Heavy Storm. A terrible wind and rain storm swept over Holt, Nodaway and Atehlnson Counties in Missouri and the southern tier of lowa counties Sunday. The damage done will reach many thousands of dollars, and loss of life is reported In the vicinity of Fairfax, Mo. The Creston branch of the Burlington was washed out for a distance Of a mile and a half south of Conway. The water rose nine inches In an -hour. Destined for the Western States. The steamship Karlsruhe arrived Thursday from Bremen. She brings 2,295 immigrants. nearly 90 per cent of whom are destined for Western States.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

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RAVACHOL NOT TO DIE.

THE ANARCHIST LEADER SENTENCED FOR LIFE. He Avowh and Glories In His Crimes. Professing Zeal for the People as His Motive —Faris In a State of Great Excitement. • * The Prison for Reds. The trial of Ravachol, alias a halfdozen other names; Charles Achille Simon, alias “Biscuit;" Jao Beala, alias Joseph Marius; Charles Ferdinand Chaumartin; and the girl Rosalie Sougere was held at the Seine Assizes Court in Paris. The judges had been warned not j to convict Ravachol, and no one was ; anxious to occupy the bench during the i trial. So many threats had been made I that friends of the prisoners would at- ' tempt some desperate act to either free the accused or prevent the trial, that admission to the court-room was severely restricted. Only those personally known to the court officials and .the twenty-two witnesses were admitted. The prisoners were charged with causing the explosions at the residence of Judge Benoit, 136 Boulevard St. Germain, and at the residence of the public prosecutor, Bulot, at the corner of the Rue Clichy and the Gue de Berlin. They were also charged with attempting to blow up the police commissariat at Clichy.

The most elaborate preparations were taken by the authorities to guard against any attempt to interfere with the course of justice. The guards about the Palais de Justice were redoubled, and every part of the approaches to the building was watched closely. Only detectives and policeman could be seen in the corridors and elsewhere in the interior of the building. The attendance in the court-room was confined to the witnesses, officials, detectives, and journalists. When Judge Gues entered he at once summoned the jury, who, it must be said, presented a greatly disturbed appearance. After the jurors had taken

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their places, the prisoners, headed by Bavaehol, were brought in. They were guarded by a large squad of police. When the reading of the indictment was concluded Judge Gues examined Bavaehol concerning the murders which It was charged he committed, and also concerning the explosions. Ravachol in a nonchalant manner admitted his guilt and took upon himself the entire responsibility for the Boulevard St. Germain and the Hue Clichy explosions. When questioned as to his motives for causing the explosionsffilavachol replied: “I felt a feeling of unfeigned anger at the conviction of Le Valloirand Perret. I do not think that Benoit and Bulot should have demanded the death of the fathers of families. Then, again, the brutality of the police when they arrested my comrades revolted my conscience, and I determined upon revenge. In regard to the St. Germain explosion, I loaded a bomb that contained sixty cartridges. I dressed myself in broadcloth, and went to Benoit’s house without attracting any attention. After depositing the machine and lighting the fuse I ran down stairs and reached the pavement just as the explosion occurred. The operatfbn in the Rue Clichy was much the same, only I carried the bomb in a bag. A portion of the powder became displaced, and thus rendered it extremely dangerous to light the bomb, as it might explode in an instant. But I did not hesitate to take the risk." Ravaehol concluded his remarks with an exposition of his theories. He said: “I wish to see anarchy established and the whole people as one great family, each member ready to share what he has with his brethren. I committed those outrages in order to draw the attention of the public to the needs of the anarchists." Simon was next examined, but no new revelations were obtained from him. He admitted his complicity in the outrages. Chaumartin said when questioned that Ravachol stole from Soissy the cartridges which he intended to use in blowing up the palace of justice. The other two prisoners tried to exculpate themselves. The witnesses were then called, and their testimony corroborated all the details oj the crime as set forth in the indictment. M. Beaupaire, the public prosecutor, in his address to the jury declared that the prisoners were disciples of the famous bandit Claude Duval, and equaled if not excelled him in the daring manner in which their acts of outlawry were performed and in their utter disregard of all established laws. He said that they had not sought to convert the people to their opinions, but to terrorize them and to subject them to their will by placing them in a state of abject fear. The prosecutor caused a sensation when he read a letter from a Belgian magistrate informing him that anarchists were sending cartridges to Paris. He concluded by calling upon the. jury to return a verdict against Ravachol and Simon without any recommendation of mercy and to return a severe verdict against Beala. In regard to Chaumartin he left the jury to bring in a verdict in accordance with, the evidence. “Regarding Rosalie Sougere,” he said,“consult your hearts and consciences.” Ravachol and Simon were found guilty and sentenced to penal servitude for life. The other prisoners were acquitted.

DEATH AND A PANIC.

Fatal Crash of the Ferryboat Cincinnati at New York. Every timber of the double-decked ferryboat Cincinnati groaned and shivered as the boat crashed into its slip at full speed the other afternoon in New York. Men were violently thrown to the deck and against the rails, and horses were struggling to keep their feet and trampling upon women, The accident was probably due to the carelessness of Engineer Gray and his assistant, George A. Bowman. Gray allowed Bowman, who is a licensed engineer, but who ranked as an oiler on the Cincinnati, to run the engine for him, and it was while Bowman was handling it that the accident happened. As the boat neared the slip Pilot Tuttle gave two bells to reverse the -engines, which was answered in the engine-room. The boat, however, seemed to 'be running at as high a rate of speed as ever. The Cincinnati ran straight into the bridge, striking with such a blow that it tore iff some of the solid iron facing. While the excitement was most in-

tense, Fireman Holt rushed up from the engine-room and said: “Engineer Gray has been crushed to death/ The boat had swung out into the stream and was drifting with the tide, oAs soon as the plunging of the horses had abated several of the men made their way in between the jumbled trucks and got to the door leading to the engine-room. They scrambled down the steep iron stairs and found Fireman Holt and Oller Bowman peering down into the crank pit. At the bottom lay the mangled remains of Engineer Gray. They were wedged in between the crank and the sides of the pit, and it was half an hour before they could be extricated. Tuttle, when he found the engines had stopped, had signaled for help, and several tugs went to the assistance of the Cincinnati. A couple of them caught hold of it and it was towed into the slip above where it had struck. The huge crank which churns up aad down in the pit in its revolutions round a shaft caught the body of Gray and crushed it in a horrible manner. Oiler Bowman stood holding the lever of his engine, almost paralyzed with fright, and did nothing. Fireman Holt rushed in and, taking in the situation at a glance, shut off the steam and stopped the engines.

SECOND CALL ISSUED.

Another Free Silver Convention to Be Held May 26 and 27, 1892. The National Silver Committee has issued the following call: The National Silver Committee, appointed by the first National Silver Convention, held at St. Louis in November, 1889, believing that the exigency has arisen which calls for earnest deliberation and united action on the part of the friends of bimetallism throughout the United States, hereby calls a convention to be known as the Second National Sliver Convention, to be held at Washington, D. C., May 26 and 27, 1892, one of the objects being to organize a National Bimetallic Association or league for the better promotion of the cause of free bimetallic coinage In the United States. This action is impelled by the manifest determination on the part of the gold combination to suppress the silver issue for at least another decade, and, if possible, by transmuting existing debts into gold obligations and otherwise to fasten forever the single gold standard upon the people of the United States, and thus to perpetuate the subtle system of robbery that has been carried on for the last twenty years by means of a money standard that is constantly increasing in value. His understanding must be defective who does not know that the demonetization of silver increased the money standard of the United States and of the world, and his conscience must be seared who would attempt to justify it. But Ilils increase still goes on and will go on, as gold grows scarce and dear, until the bimetallic standard, established 100 years ago by Washington, Hamilton and Jefferson, is restored, ami gold relieved of the strain of being the only money of flntd redemption for other forms or money and credit. •.As the standard is raised, prices fall and debts are Increased. The one is the counterpart ot the other, and the whole ■ Is the work of legislation. The wit ot man could not devise a scheme better calculate I to enrich one class at xthe expense ot another than by the device of an Increasing money standard, and under the operation of this device since 1873 hundreds ot millions of dollars annually of the we.ilth created by one cla~s have been steadily appropriated by another. For twenty years this has been going on, and yet a Congress pledged to the people to remedy the wrong hesitates and pauses as If hypnotized by the wand of gold. The propio want no “70cent dollars," neither will they forever tolerate, under the hypocritical pretense of “honest money,” a dollar that has grown to be a 150-cent dollar and Is still growing at an augmented rate. There may be those who are tired of the silver question, but the consequences of gold monometalDm are too threatening to permit the cause of sliver to be smothered, and to abandon It is to give over to ultimate slavery the tollers of the land. No, the silver question will not d>w n. It Is an Issue paramount t> all others. Although it Is necessarily a p dltlcal question, in the sense that the remedy must be by political action, the question ot free bimetallic coinage is not a partisan question, and the convention is not called for any partisan purpose, but to urge on all parties the justice and necessity of action on a question so vital to the public welfare. The gold monometallsts are united, active, and watchful, as recent events have shown. They have unlimited means at their command, they control the metropolitan press, they intimidate political leaders. dominate conventions, and dictate platforms and candidates. But the people will not be enslaved nor will they submit forever to the robbery of an Increasing gold standard. ,

The Silver Committee In this crisis call upon the people everywhere to come forward and send delegates to this convention. 1 he call is extended to all. who earnestly favor the immediate restoration ot free bimetallic coinage in the Uuited States, and each Congressional district is requested to send two delegates, and each State and Territory to send two additional dele-gates-at-large. Farmers’ AUlanqp organizations, State Granges, PMrons of Husbandry, Knights of Labor, and all other industrial organizations favorable to the free coinage of silver are also invited to send one delegate for each local organization. A cordial invitation is also extended to all citizens who, by pen or otherwise, have been advocates of bimetallism. Members of Congress and of the Legislatures of the several States who favor the restoration of the bimetallic standard and the coinage of sliver on the same terms as gold are especially invited to attend and participate In the proceedings of the convention. By order of the National Sliver Committee. A. J. Warner, Chairman, Lee Crandall, Secretary. Washington, D. C.. April 23.

A Little of All Sorts.

Mr. James A. Taylor has been acquitted in New York on the charge of having married sixty women, but the women are still living; justice is sure and vengeance follows on.—Kansas City Star. Mrs. Cleveland is fearful her little daughter, Ruth, will be kidnaped. There is more danger of her becoming the wife of some creature who will mistreat her after the tender care of a lovely mother has reared her to womanhood.—• Springfield Monitor. Boston “nerve" is equal to any emergency. A woman from the Hub who was in Rome when the Pope was so seriously ill offered to give him the benefit of .“Christian science” treatment. Everybody is laughing about it—everybody but the Boston woman.—Philadelphia Press. It is said that in the alleged duel between young Borrowe and Mr. Fox both participants were dressed in the conventional dueling dress of new frock coats and top hats. It is really too bad that the bullets did not perforate the top hats and the empty heads they contained.The world would not have been the loser by it.—Milwaukee News. The dastard.y anarchist outrage in Paris, by which at least two persons have been maimed for life and the safety of many others was placed in imminent peril, reveals the existence of an alarming condition of affairs in the French capital. It emphasizes the fact that the police authorities there are unable to cope with the organized gang of murderers who, for a year past, have been perpetrating these crimes with an ever-in-creasing boldness and recklessness It shows that the conspiracy against law and order is more widespread than was supposed and that the assassins are resolved to have revenge on any who incur their displeasure or interfere with the carrying out of their sanguinary programme. The only offense of M. \ ery, the proprietor of the case in which the bomb was exploded, was that Ravachol, the instigator or perpetrator of the outrage committed in the Rue de Clichy March 30, was arrested in his place, and he was suspected of having informed the police of the terrorist’s presence there. —Chicago Post.

GRANTS FAME IN STONE

NEW YORK HAS BEGUN ITS ’ MONUMENT. Ceremonies of a Most Elaborate ami Imposing Character President Harrison Wields the Golden Trowel—Appeare-nce of the Completed Monument. Honor to Gen. Grant. The corner-stone of the nation’s monument to Gen. U. S. Grant in Riverside Park, New York, was laid with becoming ceremonies. The weather was all that could be desired, a cloudless sky, bright sunshine, tempered by a moderate breeze blowing over the Hudson River. Long before the time fixed for the dedication ceremonies the Immense grand stand, erected in close proximity to where the monument will stand and partly surrounding the corner-stone, began to All with those who had been invited and had tickets, and by noon it was computed that there were fully eight or nine thousand persons on the stand. The large number of ladies, in their bright and showy spring costumes, heightened the already brilliant spectacle. This crowded stand, with about three thousand veterans of the. G. A. R. formed in line around and about the resting-place of their dead hero, with the charming scenery along the Hudson River and the Palisades in the distance, formed a picture which has seldom if ever been I surpassed if equaled. Shortly after noon the Presidential , party, escorted by Troop A, of the National Guard of New York, left the Fifth Avenue Hot.l and proceeded to Riverside Park. In the carriages were President Harrison, Mrs. Grant and members of her family, Secretary Foster, Secretary Rusk, Secretary Elkins, Postmaster General Wanamaker, Private Secretary Halford and many other distinguished guests. As the Presidential party approached the tomb the

United States Band pjayed “Hail to the Chief," while heads were uncovered, handkerchiefs waved and the immense throngs shouted their huzzas. After a few moments’ quiet Rev. Hr. John Hall offered up a prayer, which was listened to by all in deferential silence. The President of the Grant Monument Association, General Horace Porter, then delivered an address detailing in brief the doings of the association and their status since the inception of the project. The event of the day was the laying of the corner stone by President Harrison. After putting mortar around the stone with a gold trowel that Superindent Brady had made for the occasion, the stone was lowered into position. The corner-stone box, made of copper, was then filled with the relies which will be buried in it. They s were: Constitution of the I nite I States. Declaration of Indep* n Icnce. Articles of confederation. The Bible. Memoirs of General Grant Memorial Day pamphlet. May 30 and 31, 1886. A copy of Mayor Giant's pr clamatlon regarding the Grant monument. A new American flag. Medals and coins from the United States mint Various illustrated and dally papers. President Harrison tlfen briefly addressed the assemblage, after which the band played a selection of national airs. Chauncey M. Depew then stood up, giving the audience the signal for another tremendous outburst of cheering. Mr. Depew began by declaring that the predominant sentiment of General

Grant was his family and his home. He shrank from display all his life, and would have preferred being buried by the side of his father and mother, but appreciating the claim of his countryImeu upon his memory, 'he chose New York as his final resting-place, because it was the me-

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tropolis of the country. He made but one condition, and that was that his loyal wife should be buried by his side. He would have no monument, however grand, which would separate him from her during the unnumbered years of the hereafter. Continuing, the orator said: New York, in accepting tills bequest of General Grant, has assumed a sacred trust. Upon no municipality and its citizens was ever devolved a more solemn duty. From the tenderest motives, he took from the national government the task which it would most loyally and lovingly have performed, and Intrusted it to this great city. The whole country are enlisted in the army of reverence and sorrow, but he appointed New York the guard of honor. Let the monument which will rise upon this cornerstone be worthy of the magnitude of the i metropolis and the grandeur of the subject. General Grant needs no stately shaft or massive pile to perpetuate his memory. The republic Is his monument, and its history during what must always be its most critical and interesting period will be the story of his deeds. Mr. Depew then sketched General Grant’s career, and summed up his character as follows: No man can be truly great unless he Is also magnanimous. Grant was the most, self-sacrificing of friends and tbcmost generous of foes. “Unconditional surrender. I move immediately on your works.” were the conditions Grant offered Buckner at Donelson, but in the darkness of the night he entered the prisoner’s tent and said: “Buckner, you must have lost everything: take my purse.” He had been for mouths making toilsome efforts to break through the confederate lines, but after the surrender of their defenders he refused to go within them. 'I he failure to capture the confederate capital had exhausted the resources and impaired the reputation of all the generals who had p e.-eded him, but when it lay prostrate at his feet he sternlv declined the triumph of an entry at the head of his victorious army. It was difficult to win his confidence, but when once gained, his heart, his efforts, and his fortune were at command. Neither secret nor open enemies, neither direct charges nor anonymous revelations could disturb his friendship for anyone he bad once trusted. To Sherman and Sheridan he eave unstinted praise. He was so entirely free from envy or jeulousv, so enthusiastic in his admiration of tbe-e Heu-

tenants, that he a Warded to them th* larger share of credit Mr the ultimate triumph of the Union cau»e. But these same qualities, so creditable to his ingenuous and generous nature, became the chief sources of his mistakes and troubles when he was treading with tirrteafned steps amid the quicksands of political and business life. The culminating triumph of Gen. Grant was that he received and returned the sword of Lee. The one act typified the victory and perpetuity of the Union and the other that Its defenders forever after would be those who with equal and unequaled courage had fought to save and to destroy It

Grant’s claims upon the gratitude of his countrymen are many. He will have peculiar remembrance for having, with President Lincoln, Immediately recognized that the republic must live as the fathers had founded It The most brilliant jewels in his crown of glory will be’ that, though a conqueror in the field, he counseled through life, and advised with his pen when in his last hours his voice had failed, peace and reconciliation among his countrymen, and that, though a soldier President he successfully demonstrated the justice and wisdom of settling disputes among nations not by war, but by arbitration. The tendrils or loyalty and love stretch from this monument to every soldier’s grave in the land. This imperial city proudly and affectionately assumes the custody of his remains. The people called from the absorbing .cares of life by his natal day and this solemn ceremony take up again their burdens with lighter hearts and brighter hopes for their children and their children’s children because of the career and the deeds of Ulysses S. Grant On resuming his seat it was several minutes before quiet could be restored, the repeated shouting and clapping of hands being almost deafening. Dr. John Hall then pronounced the benediction, and the services ended by the firing of a salute of twenty-one guns from the United States ship Miantonomah, stationed in the Hudson. The ceremony was marked as being without pomp or ostentation; in fact, such a one as the deceased general would have desired. There was no marked martial display, but here and there in the crowd was a sprinkling of officers of the army

VIEW OF THE COMPLETED TOMB.

and navy. The whole ceremony was civil from every point of view. The ‘Monument. The Grant Monument, in which the remains of the General are to lie, has been materially changed in the past month, but as far as the exterior is concerned it remains as impressive in appearance and design as at first planned. Many of the central columns within have been eliminated from the plans, and a good deal of the panel work will be omitted. The plan of the crypt has also been materially changed, and as now designed will be simply a circular opening protected by railings above, but without the ornamental work first planned for the sides. The designer of the monument, Mr. John H. Duncan, has reluctantly made the changes advocated in the line o's economy, and expressed himself grateful for the fact that the liberality of the subscribers has permitted the exterior of the monument to remain practically unchanged, but for some slight modifications at the southern entrance. It is now about seven years since the death of Gen. Grant, and during that time the movement for the erection of this monument has been going on slowly. It took six years to collect the first $150,000 —less than half the amount needed—and It has taken the reorganized committee little over six weeks to

insure the collection of the remainder. Never in the history of similar movements has work undertaken under such disheartening circumstances been so enthusiastically and successfully concluded, and the praise must go to Gen. Horace Porter and his splendidly man- ■ aged departments. Last year, on April I 27, he was the orator of the day at RivI erside Park, and his words then preI saged that he was ready and willing to ) undertake what other men had failed to accomplish. He was made the PresiI dent of the reorganized association, I which was enlarged by legislative enactment, and night and day since that ■ time he has spoken enthusiastically to > meetings of citizens of every trade and I calling, and has worked with a generalship worthy of the cause he has put ; his heart and soul in. | M e all enjoy doing that which we can i do well; and one reason why the hours outside our work are so often meager in the pleasure they yield is because we attempt a dozen things, none of which we successfully accomplish. Of course | the result must be unsatisfactory. If i we will but submit to some degree of self-discipline in a single direction where we are interested, the pleasure I we shall derive will be more than doubled, and the effective results will te an added happiness. Mr. Ruskin says it is not enough that the function of art be well imagined; it must task the beholder also to imagine well, and this so imperatively that, if he does not choose to rouse himself to meet the work, he will not taste it or enjoy it in any wise. The New York Legislature has adjourned.

IN THE CRYPT.

DOINGS OF CONGRESS.

MEASURES CONSIDERED AND ACTED UPON. At the Nation’. Capital—What Is Being; Done by the Senate and House—Old Matters Disposed Or and New Ones Considered. The Senate and House. The 27th, the House went Into committee of the whole (Mr. Oates, of Alabama. in the chair) on the diplomatic and consular appropriation bilk Mr. Hitt of Illinois moved an amendment, having for its effect the separation of the missions of Colombia and Eucador, which the pending bill consolidates in one mission. The amendment was rejected. Mr. Hitt several efforts to prevent .the consolldation of missions and the reduction of salaries of ministers to the South American republics, but his efforts were of no avail. He then offered an amendment to restore to ,500 the salary of the'Mlnister of Venezuela (the committee having eut It to 85,000). No quorum voting on the amendment, the committee rose and the House adjourned. In the Senate, after routine business, the army appropriation bill was taken up. the question being on striking out the House proviso which prohibits payment of transportation of troops and supplies of the army ov er any of the bonded lines owned, controlled, or operated b/tfie Union Pacific Bailway Company (Including the lines of the Oregon Short Line and Utah Northern Railway Company), or by the Southern Pacific Company over lines embraced in its Pacific system. After a long speech by Senator Morgan the House proviso was struck out; yeas, 26; nays, 20. The bill was then passed, and the Senate adjourned. The House transacted no business the 20th, except that the Sibley tent bill, which has been clogging the wheels of private legislation for the past- two months, was finally laid aside with a favorable recommendation, after having been amended so far as to refer the claim to the Court of Claims for adjudication. The Senate Is discussing the different appropriation bills. It is stated by some Senators that Congress will probably be in session in September. On the 2d, the House passed the bill putting binding twine on the free list. Numerous petitions were presented in the' Senate against legislation for the closing of the World’s Fair on Sunday; also a petition from a Methodist Church In New Hampshire urgently protesting against further adverse legislation against the Chinese. The House also passed the free ship bill. This bill admits only two existing ships to American registry, the City of New York and the City of Paris. But it provides that the company at once build two similar vessels in this country to sail under the American flag.

On the Diamond.

Following is a showing of the standing of each of the teams of the different associations: NATIONAL LEAGUE. W. L. Wc.| W. L Sc. Boston 11 3 .786 New York... 6 6 .500 Louisville...lo 3 .769 Pbiladeip'a. 6 8 . 429 Brooklyn.... 9 3 .7501 Washlngt’n. 5 8 .334 Pittsburg.... 9 4 .692 Chicago 4 10 .286 Cincinuati...lo 6 ,625 Sk Louis.... 3 11 .214 Cleveland... 7 7 .500 Baltimore.. 1 13 ’.71 WESTERN LEAGUE. . W. L. T?c. w. T< Wo. Milwaukee... 7 2 ..78 Omaha 4 5 444 Kansas City. 8 4 .667 Columbus... 5 7 ’417 SL Paul 4 5 .444 Minneap’lis. 2 5 .286 Toledo 4 5 .444)Indian’pTs.. 0 6 .000 fIKE LEAGUE. T . W. L. W. L. ye. Joliet 5 0 l.uO IQuincy. 1 2 .333 Peoria 3 1 .75o!'l'erre Haute..l 3.250 Jacksonville .3 1 .750 B. 1.-Moline...l 4 .200 Evansville.... 2 2 .50 ilßockford. o 3 ....

Mostly Medical.

Now begin to save your old newspapers to protect clothing against moths, for the ink on the newspapers is nearly as repulsive to them as is camphor or coal tar. A medical news letter from London, dated Jan. 30, told of 506 deaths in London in a week due to the grip. London has been having a tough winter and a very serious visitation of the epidemic. The Jamesburg (New Jersey) .Reform School has a boy six years old having the manners and maturity of a man of twenty. He is altogether too precocious,, too strong, too self-willed, 'and seemingly too dangerous to be at large. Dr. F. Drewry reports a great increase of insanity among colored people since the abolition of slavery. From 1880 to 1890 the negro population increased only 1.46 per cent., while the number of insane negroes doubled, so that now there is one to every 800—due, It is thought, to the abuse of freedom by a people who have been accustomed to discipline and regulation. In cases of membranous croup the steam from vinegar gives great relief to the patient, but it should be kept up continuously by placing the vinegar in an ordinary bread pan and putting hot flatirons from the stove into it. It is not pleasant for the attendants, and it is some trouble to keep up the steam this w.ay, but a physician who hast tried it thoroughly finds it very effective. Dr. R. H. Harrison, recalling some ways in which people go crazy, cites a few cases seemingly due to isolation or too much centering the thoughts upon self. His conclusion is: “To have a sound mind and keep it, have some interests outside yourself. If you have no family and home, do something for somebody. There are compensations connected with self-denial which the preachers have never told us of." Modern football is rather a warlike sort of pastime, and the London Lancet has been reviewing the accidents of the last season in England. It Has reported twelve cases of death directly attributable to injuries received in football matches, some of the causes of death being acute bronchitis, rupture of the intestines, rupture of the kidney, injury to the brain. If it be said that such ac-_ cidents are the result of unnecessarily’ rough play, the reply is that the game is never played in any other way.—Foote’s Health Monthly.

Femininities.

There are now about 200 American ladies who practice law in the courts or manage legal publications. First small boy—What does your ma do when you lie to her? Second small boy—She tells pop I take after him. r It is reported that a woman in the South Mountains, North Carolina, “recently gave birth to a child on her 70th birthday. If a man is selfish, getting married will not cure him of it. The same will not always hold true in regard to a woman. If a young man is always talking about himself, it will save you a great deal of trouble to let some other woman marry him. A reaction against the subdued lights for dinner table has ‘ set in. Shaded - candles and lamps are again giving place to a blaze of gaslight or electric light. It is unaccountable that a man should take mustard suppers, drink beer, smoke rank cigars, tell strong anecdotes, and then imagine some nice little woman likes to kiss him. The Nicaraguan Government is making the most liberal offers to intending coffee growers. It gives to a married man 240 acres, and to a single man 120 acres of good coffee ground. “I would not be a woman, for then I could not love her,” says Montaigne. Lady M. W. Montagu says, “The only objection I have to a man is that I should then have to marry a woman. ” Seeing a runaway horse dragging a little boy by the feet along a road, a nervy Hastings (Neb.) girl took a hasty aim with a rifle she had with her and killed the horse, thus saving the boy’s life.