Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 17 May 1889 — Page 7

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THE UEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC.

Snow fell to the depth of two inches at Hope, Dak., on the 14th. The Merchants' Exchange at St. Louis has opened war on bucket-shop gambling-

The boom for the Sioux reservation continues and will boou equal the Oklahoma craze.

Several people were killed and others injured in a cable road accident at Seattle, Wash., Ter.

Contractor J. E. McOormick, of Tacoma, W. T., has disappeared with $50,000 belonging to friends.

At Mountain Home, Pa., Jeffrey Harrison, aged eleven years, shot ana killed Sophia Everett, aged ten.

Irving Latimer has been sentenced to life imprisonment in the Michigan prison for the murder of his mother.

At Chicago, Patrick Ford, aged sixty, shot and killed his wife, aged twentythroe, and then fatally shot himself.

One thousand pounds oi opium, valued, including duty, at 116,000, were seized at San Francisco on the 10th inst.

Chief Mayes, of the Cherokee Nation, refuses to convene the ^Legislature to vote on the sale of the Strip to the gov ernment.

A collision of the Valley road at Cleveland, O., Wednesday, caused the death of two persons and seriously injured several others.

Rev. Edward C. Towne, late of Cambridge, but now of New York, threatens to sue Chauncey Depew ior 11,500 for preparing material to be used by Mr. Depew in his Centennial speech.

Mind-reader W. Irving Bishop, died at New York, Tuesday, while in a cata leptic fit, superinduced^ by the intense nervous excitement incident to the performance oi his mind-reading feats.

A gang of men surrounded the house of a farmer named Tom Phelton, at Rogersville, Ky., and attempted to take him out. Phelton opened fire on the gang, killing two of them. The others fled."

Father J. G. Boyle, a Catholic priest, arreted la^t Saturday at Raleigh, N. C., on a charge of a criminal assault on a young woman, was, Monday, arraigned, bound over to court and committed to jail.

The Scotch-Irish Congress at Columbia, Tenn., closed after a very successful session. A permanent organization was formed, with A. C. Floyd, of Columbia, as Secretary, to whom would-be members can apply.

George Carter, who robbed Farmer Coffman of $6,000 near Washington C. H., O., a few dayB ago, has been identified as the man who recently robbed Vincent Richardson, a farmer near Jacksonville, 111., of 17,000-

A special Paris cable gave an interesting comparison between American and foreign productions, drawing the conclusion that America excels in articles o! utility, while the older nations bear ofl'the palm in decoration.

At Buffalo, N. Y., Tuesday. William Kemmler was sentenced "to the punishment of death to be inflicted by the application of electricity," within the week commencing June 24. This is the first death sentence under the new law. He had murdered his mistress.

Andrew and Ole Ericson, brothers, aged eight and ten years, respectively, were drowned in the river at Crockston, Minn., jate Saturday afternoon. They fell off eome logs on which they were playing, and their father nearly lost his life in an attempt to rescue them.

Gen. Wm. 8. Harney, the oldest officer on the retired list of the army, died at St. Louis Thursday. He was born in 1798, appointed a second Lieutenant in 1818, and in 1858 rose to Brigadier General. He was retired in 18S3, serving with distinction up to that time in the rebellion.

A Washington special says that United States Consul J. L. Doty, at Tahita, has married Princess Polona, of Tahita. The Princess is a daughter of Lord and Lady Darcy, the former a British, nobleman, and the latter a native princess. The bride was educated in Europe and is heiress to the largest estate in Tahiti.

Reports from all sections in southern Arkansas are to the effect that the farmers are considerably alarmed by the ravages of cut-worms. In many places in Drew, Bradley and Desha counties, farmers have planted cotton as many as three time3 and each time the plant has been destroyed by the worms. Merchants are apprehensive and business is paralysed.

The recent count of money at the New York sub-treasury revtaled a discrepancy of 135 out out of a total euro of $184,000.000 to be accounted for. The shortage resulted from the acceptance of a few counterfeit notes in the hurry of business and the loss of a few pieces of silver. The deficiency was promptly made good and a receipt in full given to ex-Treasurer Hyatt, who was responsible under his bond for the entire amount.

In October, 1887, Morris Amerman, a farmer, of Niles, N. Y., came to Auburn, and alter disposing of produce proceeded to get intoxicated. In driving home his horses ran away and he was killed. His widow brought suit under the civil-damage act against H. B. Perry, owner of the building in which the saloon is located where Amerman bought his whisky, for $5,000 damages. Thursday morniug the jury brought in a verdict in favor of the widcw for f1,500.

The steamship City of Paris, of the Inman line, which arrived at Sandy Hook at 11:15 o'clock, Wednesday, has broken all records from Queenstown. Her corrected time is five dayB twentythree hours and seven minutes. The best previous time on record, which was made by the Etruria, was eix days, one hour and fifty-nine minutes. It is the first voyage across the Atlantic made in less than six days, and there were many men iu maritime circles who prophesied that the trip would never be made in less than that time.

Major J. W. Wham, paymaster in the United States army, with Clerk Gibson and an escort of eleven soldiers, were on the way Saturday afternoon from Wiicox, Arizona, to pay the post at Fort Thomas, and when in a narrow gorge, a few miles north of Cedar Springs, they were attacked by a party of ambushed men. A constant fire was kept np for nearly half an hour, when eight of the escort were wounded, five dangerously.

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The robbers succeeded' in securing $29,000, and escaped into the mountains. Major Wham was uninjured, and Gibbon's clothing was only torn by shot.

A shocking accident occurred about b:30 o'clock, Wednesdav evening, at Kalamazoo, Mich. A street car containing seven ladies and two gentlemen, were crossing the track when a switch engine dashed down upon it from the east, at a high rate of speed, and the drivir being unable to get the car out of the way, the helpless passengers were hurled to a terrible death. It was but the work of a moment and the fearful catastrophe was over the street car was carried almost to Academy street, the pieces flying in all directions, and the human freight being mangled in a horrible manner. Six of the ladies were killed.

Twenty-five acres of ground, closely built up with small dwelling-houses, were swept by fire in the suburban village of Moreland, 111., Wednesday night, and seventy families are rendered homeless. The fire started in the Presbyterian Church, a medium-sized frame structure, and burned furiously. The flames soon spread to surrounding dwellings, one after another, and before they could be checked a terrible conflagration was spreading terror on all sides. The lack of water supply, aided by the heavy gale, placed the lire beyond the control of firemen, police and citizens, who made every effort to check its course without avail. It is believed that the fire originated from stumps of cigarettes thrown into a pew in the church by some boys who gained admittance through an open window,

FOREIGN.'

The Nihilists are active, and the Czar is greatly alarmed. The report of the capture of hartoum proves to be untrue.

The London police raided the gambling clubs Sunday. Several English, French and Belgium noblemen were arrested.

The Edinburgh Municipal Council, by a vote of twentysthree to fifteen, has confirmed the resolution granting the freedom of the city to Mr. Parneli.

The flags on the foreign consulates andt.be public buildings at Guaymas. Mexico, were unfurled April 30, io honor of the centennial of Washington's inauguration.

Over 90,000 miners are now out in the German mining districts A council ol the Prussian Ministry was held. Emperor William taking part. It was decided that recourse muat be had to arbitration at once.

Emperor William, Tuesday, boarded the yacht Irene at Kiel, and from her deck iuepected the fleet in that harbor. Sixteen msn-of-war comprised the fleet and made a magnificent exhibition ol naval excellence. In the opening the war vessels and th« entire town were brilliantly illuminated in honor of the Kaiser.

A band of Kurds recently attacked a wedding party in the Mouch district, robbing the gu«sts and indecently assaulting the bride. After gorging themselves with the wedding feast they killed the bride and boiled her body in the kettle in which the wedding meal had been cooked.

It is stated that immediately after the Catholic congreEBes have finished their work the Vatican will a,«k the European governments, more especially those of Catholic countries, to consider the appeals made by the congresses for the restoration of the temporal power of the Holy See.

BALLOT-BOX TH5EVES. Arrest ot a Large Nnmt»«r of Personh Who Wero Concerned in the Plummerville

Outrage.

The federal authorities think now that the theft of the Plummerville, Ark., ballot-box on the night of Nov. 6, is at last cleared up. It will be remembered that while the judges were counting the vote that night five masked men entered the room, and presenting their pistols, demanded the box and ballots. Ol course they got them, but for months it was impossible to get a clew as to the perpetrators of the outrage. Two weeks ago last Sunday a young man named Warren Taylor was arrested on a charge of interfering with election officers at Plummerville. He got scared and went before the grand jury, and there gave evidence which has led to clearing up the mystery. He testified that he was in a crowd of young men who went from Morrilton, the county seat, to Plummerville that night, as "they understood it, to preserve peace, as trouble was expected. When the crowd arrived at Plummerville they were halted on the outskirts, and five men rode into town. Presently they returned and reported "everything all quiet," and the crowd returned. On the way to Morrilton the five men gave it out that the Plummerville ballot box was in the crowd. The box was taken into Wells' store at Morrilton and burned. This confession of Taylor's was the means of having a large number of witneeses from Conway county summoned before the grand jury.

Thursday, just before the grand jury adjourned, two indictments were returned, and Friday it proved ihat these indictments were ior vhe Plummerville ballot-box theft. The men indicted are: O. T. Bentley Walter P. Wells and Charles Ward, charged with unlawfully seizing and carrying away the ballot box and poll books, and the following persons are charged with conspiracy in the stealing of the box: Charles C. Reid, Ben. T. White, Thomas C. llervey, William Palmer, Warren Taylor, Ferd Lee Gunter, William L. Woods, John C. Heard and Thad. R. Wells. Reid is the young lawyer of Morrilton who has just been released after conviction in the federal court on the charge of interfering with election judges. Young Wells is the son of one of the most prominent merchants of Morrilton. O. T. Bentley is a deputy sheriff of Conway county under Sheriff Shelby.

Deputy Marshal Faulkinburg went to Morrilton, Thursday, and arrested all these men not previously in custody and brought them to Plummerville Thursday evening. They were taken befote a commissioner and released on bonds in sums ranging from $1,000 to $2,000 each. Their examination will take place at an early date. They can not be tried until the next term of court, as the appropriation for the trial of criminal cases has been exhausted. These men are all prominent young ^men, and their arrest has produced a great sensation.

THE POISONED DINNER.

AN APPEAL TO CHRISTIAN'S TO BE MORS ENERGETIC.

"O Thou Man of God, There is Death in the Pot"—Sin and Temptation Everywhere.

Rev. Dr. Talmage preached last Sunday at the Brooklyn Tabernacle. Subject: "A Poisoned Dinner." Text: II Kings, iv., 40.: "So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O thou man of God, there is death in the pot. And they could not eat thereof."

Elisha had gene down to lecture to the students in the theological seminary at Gilgal. He found the students very hungry, as students are apt to be. It is very seldom the world makes large provision for those who give themselves to intellectual toil. In order that these students may be prepared to hear what Elisha says, he first feeds their hunger. He tnew very well it is useless to talk, to preach, to lecture with hungry men.

So Elisha, recognizing this commonsense principle, which every Christian ought to recognize, sends servants out to get food for these huBgry students. They pick up some good, healthful herbs, but they happen to pick up some coloquintida, a bitter, poisonous, deathful herb. They bring all these herbs and put them into the boiling pot they stir them up, and then a portion of this food is brought to the students and their professors. Seated at the table, one of the hungry students begins immediately to eat, and he happens to get hold of some of the coloquintida. He knew it by the taste. He cries out: "Poison, poison! Oh, thou man of God, there is ieath in the pot!" Consternation is thrown over the whole group. What a fortunate thing it was that f.his student so early found the coloquintida in the mixture at the table! You will by reference find this story precisely as I have mentioned it.

Well, in our day there are great caldrons of sin and death. Coloquintida of mighty temptation is pressed into it. Some dip it out, and taste, and reject it and live. Others dip it out, taste it, keep on and die. And it is the business of every minister of religion and every man who wishes well to the human race, and who wants to keep the woi Id back from its iollies and suffe: ings, to cry out: "Beware! poison, poison! Look out for this caldron! Stand back! Beware!"

Some time ago, you will remember, I persuaded you of the importance of being charitable in judgment of others. At the same time I said to you briefly what this morning I wish to say with great emphasis, that while we sympathize with the sinner we must denounce sin, that while we pity the unfortunate we must be vehement against transgression. Sin is a jagged thing that needs to be roughly handled. You have no right to garland it with fine phrases or lustrous rhetoric.

In the first place, I remark that unhappy and undisciplined homes are the caldrons of great iniquity.

Parents harsh and cruel on the one hand, or on the other hand loose in their government, wickedly loose in their government, are raising up a generation of vipers. A home where scolding and fretfulness are dominant is blood relation to the gallows and the penitentiary! Petulance is a serpent that crawls up into the family nursery sometimes and crushes everything. Why, there are parents who even make religion disgusting to their children. They scold them for not loving Christ. They have an exasperating way of doing their duty. The house is full of the war-whoop of contention, and from such a place husband and sons go out to die.

Oh, is there a Hagar leading away Ishmael into the desert to be smitten of the thirst and parched of the same? !n the solemn biith hour a voice fell to thee from the throne, saying: "Take this child and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages." At even time, when the angels of God hover over that home, do thty hear the children lisping the name ol

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for eternity, your littie ones gathered under your robes, are you leading them on the right road, or are you taking them out on the dangerous winding bridle-path off which their inexperienced feet may

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comes the howling of the wolf and the sound of loosened ledge and tumbling avalanche? Blessed is the family altar at which the children kneel. Blessed is the cradle in which the Christian mother rocks the Christian child. Blessed is the song the little ones sins at nightfall when sleep is closing the eyes and loosening the hand from tbe toy on the pillow. Blessed is that mother whose every heart-throb is a prayer for her children's welfare.

Unhappy and undisciplined hemes are the source of much of the wretchedness and sin of the world. I know there are exceptions to it sometimes. From a bright and beautiful Christian home a husband or a Bon will go out to die. Oh, how long you had that boy in your prayers! He does not know how many Bleepless nights you have spent over him. He does not understand how many tears you have shed for his waywardness. Oh, it is hard, after you have toiled for a child, and given him every advantage and every kindness, to have him pay you back in ingratitude! As one Sabbath morning a father came to the foot of the pulpit as I spepped out of it, and said: "On, my son, my son, my soul" There is many a young mail proud of his mother, who would strike into the dust any man who would insult her, who is at this moment himself, by his evil doing and his bad habits sharpening a dagger to plunge through that mother's heart. A telegram brought him from afar he went bloated and scarred into the room and stood by the lifeless form of his mother.

Her gray hair it had turned gray in sorrow. Those eyes had wept floods ol tears over his wandering. That still white hand had done him many a kindness and had written many a loving invitation and good counsel. He had broken her old heart He came into the room and threw himself on the casket and he sobbed ontright: "Mother, mother!" but those lips that had kissed him in infancy and uttered so many kind words spake not: they were sealed. Rather than nave such a memory come on my soul I would prefer to have roll over on me the Alps and the Himalayas.

Bnt while sometimes there are sou who turn oat very badly coming from good homes, I want to tell yon for year encoaracement it la a great ©xoeptlon*

Yet an unhappy ana unuiecipnned' home is the poisonous caldron from which a vast multitude drink their death.

I remark that another caldron of iniquity is an idoleut life. All the rail trains down the Hudson River yesterday, all the rail trains on the Pennsylvania route, all the trains on the Long Island Road, brought to these cities young men to begin commercial life. Some of them are here this morning, I doubt not. Do you know what one of your great temptations is going to be? It is the example of indolent people, in our cities. They are in all cities. They dress better than some who are industrious. They have access to all places of amusement, plenty of money, and yet idle. They bane around our great hotels —the Fifth Avenue, the Windsor, the Brunswick, the St uyvegant, the Gilsey House—all our oeautiful hotels, you find them around there any day, men who do nothing, never earn anything, yet well dressed, having plenty.' Why should I work? Why should you work? Why drudge and toil in bank and shop anil office, or on the scaffolding, or by the anvil, when these men get along so weii and do not wort?

Some of them hang around the City Halls of our great cities, tooth-piek in their mouth, waiting for some crumb to fall from some office-holder's table. Some of them hang around the City Hall for the city van, bringing criminals from the station houses. They stand there and gloat over it—greatly enjoying the disgrace and suffering of those poor creatures as they get out of the city van and go into the Courts.

Where do they get their monoy? That is what you ask. That is what I ask. Only four ways of getting money—only four: by inheritance, by earning it, by begging it, by stealing it and there are a vast multitude among us who get their living not by inheritance, nor by earning it, nor by begging it. I do not like to take the responsibility of saying how thev get it!

Now, these men are a constant temptation. Why should I toii and wear myself out in the bank, or office, or the store, or the shop, or the factory? These men have nothing to do. They get along a great deal better. And that is the temptation under which a great many young men fall. They begin to consort with these men, these idlers, and they go down the same awful steeps. The number of men in our cities who are trying to get their living by their wits and by sleight of hand is all the time increasing. Horatius of olden times was told that he could have just as much ground as he could plow around with a yoke of oxen in one day. He nooked up the oxen to the plow and he cut a large circle and plowed until be came to the same point where he started, and all that property was his. But I have to tell you to-day that just eo much financial, just so much moral, juafc so much Bpirituai possessions you will have as you compass with your own industry, and just so much as from the morning of your life to the evening of your life you can plow around with your own hard work. "Go to the ant, thou sluggard consider her ways and be wise." One of the most awful caldrons of death to-day is an indolent life. Thank God that you have work.

Once more I remark: that the dramshop is a great caldron of iniquity in our time. Anarcharsis said that the wine bore three grapes. The first w?s Pleasure, the next Drunkenness, and the next Misery. Every saloon above ground or under ground is a fountain of inquity. It may have a license and it may go along quite respectably for a while, but after awhile the cover will fall oil' and the color of the iniquity will be be displayed. "Oh," says some one, "you ought to be easier on such a traffic when it pays such a large revenue to the Government, and helps support your schools and your great institutions of mercv." And then I think oi what William E. Gladstone said—I think it was the first time he was Chancellor of the Exchequer —when men engaged in the ruinous traffic came to hiui and said their business ought to have more consideration, from the fact that it. paid such a large revenue to the English Government, Mr. Gladstone said: "Gentlemen, don't worry yourselves about the revenue, give me thirty millions of sober people and we'll have revenue enough and a surplus."

We might in this country—this traffic perished—have less revenue but we would have more happy homes, and we would .have more peace, and we would have fewer people in the Penitentiary, and there would be tens of thousands of men who are now on the road to hell who would start on the road to heaven.

But the financial ruin is a very small part of it. This iniquity of which I speak takes every thing that is sacred out of the family, every thing that is holy in religion," every thing that is infinite in the soul, and tramples it under foot. The marriage day has come, The twain are at the altar. Lights flash. Music sounds. Gay feet go up and down the drawing-room. Did ever a vessel launch on such a bright and beautiful sea? The scene changes. Dingy garret. No fire. On. a broken chair a sorrowful wife. Last hope gone. Poor, forsaken, trodden under foot, she knows all the sorrow of being a drunkard's wife. "Oh," she say, "he was the kindest man that ever lived he was so noble, he was so good! God never made a grander man than he was. But the drink did it, the drink did it!" Some day she will press her hands against her temples and cry: "Oh, my brain, my brain!" Or she will go out on the abutment of the bridge some moonlight night and look down at the glassy surface and wonder if under that glassy suface there is not some rest for a broken heart.

Lorenzo de Medici was very sick, and some of his superstitious friends thought it they could dissolve a certain number of pearls in a cup and then if he'would drink them it would cure him of the disease. So they went around and they gathered up all the beautiful pearls they could find, and they dissolved them in a cup, and the Bick man drank them. Oh, it was an expensive draught. But I tell you o£ a more expensive draught than that. Drunkenness puts into its cap the pearl of physical health, the pearl of domestic hanpiness, the pearl of respectability, the pearl of Christian hope, the pearl of an everlasting heaven, and presses it to the hot lips. I tell you the dram shop Is the gate of hell. "Oh," says some man, "I am kind, I am indulgent to my family. I am right in many respects, I am very generous, and I have too grand and generous a moral nature to be overthrown in that /Ut aay that tht pewoni

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who are in the most peril have the largest hearts, the best education, the brightest prospects. This sin chooses the attest lambs for its sacrifice. The brightest garlands are by this carbuncled hand oi drunkenness torn oft the brow of the poet and the orator. Charles Lamb, answer! Thomas Hood, answer! Sheridan, the English orator, answer! Edgar A. Poe, answer! Junius Brutus Booth, answer!

Oh, come and look over into it while I draw off the cover—hang over it and look down into it, and see the seething, boiling, loathsome, smoking, agonizing hell of the drunkard. Young man, be master of your appetites and passions. There are hundreds—might I not say thousands?—of young men in this house this morning—young men of fair prospects. Put your trust in the Lord God and all is well. But you will be tempted. Perhaps you may this moment be addressed on the first Sabbath of your coming to the great city, and I give you this brotherly counsel. I speak not in a perfunctory way. I speak as an older brother talks to a younger brother. I put my hand on your shoulder this day and commend you to Jesus Christ, who himself was a young man, and died while yet a young man, and has sympathy for ali young men. Oh,be maste5-, by the grace of God, of your appetites and passions!

I close with a peroration. Ministers and speakers are very apt to close w'th a peroration, and they generally roll up some grand imagery to express what they have to say. I close with a peroration mightier than was ever uttered by mere human lips. Two quotations. The first is this: "Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? They that tarry long at the wine: they that go to seek mixed wine. Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it moveth itself aright in the cup for at the last it biteth like a seipent and stingetb like an adder." This is the other quotation. Make up you? mind as to which is the more impressive. I think the last is the mightier: "Rejoice, Oh young ma», fn thy yon'-fe, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk thou in the sight of thine own eyes but kno thou that for all these things God wf'i oring thee into judgment." ______

WASHINGTON KOTES. The clerks who were detailed from ihe General Land Office to go to Oklahoma to assist the land officials at the Guthrie and Kingfisher land offices, returned to Washington, Tuesday. They state that at Kingfisher about eight hundred entries had been made up to last Friday, and at Guthrie about one thousand had been made. The total number oi qr.aiter sections in the territory open to settlement is 10,000, hence less than one-tifth of the whole has been filed upon. The force of clerk8 now employed at the two land offices is believed lobe sufficient to keep up the current work. Many of the stttlers, it is taid, have gone to their former homes to settle their private afiaiis, and will return next fall complete their entries and establish themselves permanently in the new Territo»y. The scarcity of water has been, to some extent., overcome by digging wells.

Ex Union soldiers are to be protected in federal offices under the present administration, even though they are Democrats, if their records as officers are good. Commissioner of Pensions Tanner, in a letter to Special Examiner Shank, at Lima, O,, deeming to accept his resignation simply be -ause lie is a Democrat, eays^that he [Tanner] does not occupy hig position for the purpose of turning out ex Un'on soldiers because they are Democrats, and that so long as he has his way the hoys who helped preserve the Union will be kept in theirpiaces, if they are good officers, regardless oi politics. It is understood that this is the outline of the policy which is to be pursued in all of the executive departments.

Postmaster-general Wanamaker said Thursday afternoon to Congressman Williams, of Ohio: "As far as the Presidential postoffices are concerned, I wish to say that a rule has been made that tbe present incumbents will be allowed to serve out their four years to date from the time of their appointment." As many of the presidential appointments were held up by the Senate for a long time, some of them nearly two years, this is a most important ruling. They will be permitted to serve four vears and no longer, and thoee who think that the department will not take any notice ot the time during which their names were before ihe Senate are very much mistaken.

Secretary Noble Friday received an interesting report from the two inspectors of the General Land Office who have been in Oklahoma since the territory was opened. They give a graphic description of the growth oi the towns, tell about barber-shops, bath-houses,

Btreet-sprinklers,fire-engines,

Among the nominations made by the President were James M. Townsend (colored), of Richmond, Ind.,to be Recorder of the General Land Office and Col. Roberts. Robertson, of Ft. Wayne, to be a member of the Roaul of Registration and Elections in Territory of Utah.

Among the nominations made by the President, Friday, were Jas. M. xownsend (colored), of Richmond, Ind., to be Recorder of the General Land Office and Col. Robert S. Robeitson, of Ft. Wayne, to be a member of the Board of Registration and Elections in Territory of Utah.

THESAMOAN CONFERENCE*

A Berlin correspondent »ays the Samoan conference has agreed upon the land commission question, and its side issue is also agreed upon—the matter of placing restrictions upon the sale of fire-arms and liquor to the natives. The conference has also decided that the election of a king shall be left to themselves. ,,Wl.

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THE STATOCAPITAL-

Governor Hovey Thursday took th«'"' initial step toward removing the persons who he believes are illegally holding office under acts of the recent General Assembly. As abeginnine he appointed Prof. John Collet Chief of the Bureau of Statistics and Natural.Science* to take the place of Professor S. S. Gorhy, who was elected to the position by tljie General Assembly. The .appointment, made on the ground that the Legislature did not have the power to elect the officer, is for the purpose of bringing the question into ihe courts. Three weeks ago, after the insane Hospital case had been decided, Professor Gorby' called on the Governor and as?ked. for his commission. His request, was refuged, and the overnor then told him he had beiter bring suit immediately to establish any right hem ight have to a commission. Other appointees of the Legislature who had not received their commissions were also requested to enter suit, and one of those claim ini? to act as trustees fort institution for the Biind diel so. Pi-of. Gorby refused to begin any action, and Thursday the Governor, having reason to belive that suit wss not to he brought decided to bring the controversy to an end by appointing a successor to the Professor, Prof. Col lett, who was State Geologist "under Gov. Porter, accepted the ocsition. Thursday his commissi* was- made out and signed by the Governor, .tie received it. Fridr.y morning, jnd after qualifying demanded possession, the office irom Pror. Gorbv. Ihe appointment of Professor oile-tt. of course, means that the courts will ho at once called on to decide who ip ()H le j".l incumbent oi the office.

^'here is now at the State fair grounds, at Indianapolis, a horse that has been pronounced by many horsemen, including the representatives of the French government recently sent to this country to inspect American stock, to be the handsomest animal of the kind in the world. This horse, known as "The King.-'is the property of Judge II, M. Whitehead, of New York, a iormer law partner of the late Samuel J. Tilden, who bae refused £1:5,000 for iiim. The animal is in the care of the well known driver, Dan Drinkworth, and will be trained moderately. It wili be shown in October at the great St. Louis fair and afterward at the national horse show in New York city. On Sunday morning Mr. Drink worth moved the horse around thu exposition track and gave a numbi-r of local ^horsefanciers the opportunity to see the animal.

The new trustees of the Central Hospital for the Insane held their first business meeting Thursday afternoon. It occurred at the hospital, and was attended by all the members of the board. The first glance at the accounts of the old board showed that there was an immense amount of work to be done. President Carson decided that as the old trustees had retired under suspicion of wrong doing, it was the duty of their successors to re-audit all the unpaid accounts, extending back over several viontbs. That was immediately begun, and with the assistance of an attorney the trustees thus engaged spent the entire afternoon. President Carson when asked what the unpaid accounts would aggregate, said "I think the amount will not tali short of $70,000. The last maintenance money Mr. Gapen drew from the State treasury was for March, but at that time there were many unpaid bills that came down from the preceding months. Bills oi this chaiacter ran hack into December, and there are many for January, February and March. Wo intend to carefully examine all or them and he certain they are correct,."

Governor Hovey, Monday, exercised executive clemency in the following cases: William

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houses opened, and they say that Guthrie has now a population of G,0u0 male citizens, leaving the female population to be estimated. With regard to the troubles and complaints that have come from these sources, they say: "Public confidence has been restored hereby the prompt action of the government."

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for manslaughter. On account of a petition signed by Judge, jury. Prosecuting Attorney. Catholic priest and many other citizens-!, the Governor paroled the prisoner, on conditio)! that he refrain from drink.

Professor John Collet made formal demand on Professor S. S. Gorby for the State Geologist's office, Tuesday morning. As was expected,the latter refused to surrender the office. Then the two rivals sat down and had along friendly chat about geelogv. Professor Collett will probably begin legal proceedings within a day or two, for the purpose of having the entire question set at rest.

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