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right of interpretation. The speaker believed the agreement would be found sufficiently clear. ASSAILING THE GOVERNMENT. Lord Randolph Churchill, the young Conservative leader, now arose, and at once launched into a savage attack upon the government He argued that the announcement just niado on behalf of the government was a terrible piece of news to those aDxious for the security of the Indian empire. ‘The government,” cried out his Lordship, “have made abase, cowardly surrender of every point at issue to Russia. I greatly fear, that as a result, we have lost India." Lord Churchhill, continuing, said that he protested against the conduct of the government in submitting the vote of credit on Monday last without giving the slightest indication of their policy and of tho exact point at issue with Russia. The latter, he contended, had for a long time been breaking tho agreement of 1873, with respect to central Asia. In regard to the Afghans, Lord Churchill insisted that the Russians long ago passed the boundary which they had promised to respect as the rightful frontier lice of the Ameer’s aominion. In 1872 a series of pledges were voluntarily given by Russia concerning the boundary, and all of them had been broken. Mr. Henry Labouchere, Radical, moved that the vote of credit be reduced from $55,000,000 to $35,000,000. The motion was rejected by a vote of seventynine to twenty-nine. The majority included the Conservative leaders. The Parnellites voted with the minority. The Speaker then put the main question —the vote of credit of $53,000,000. Several members questioned Mr. Gladstone, but failed to elieite any further information. Lord Randolph Churchill said he feared that when the news should become known in India, England would lose all the respect, sympathy and loyalty of the natives. He declared that the history of Russia’s negotiations with England was a record of treachery, fraud and falsehood. Remembering the action of the government in the present matter and the ruthless sacrifices in the Soudan, it was impossible to repose the slightest confidence in the government, and it was farcical to acquiesce in the present request. Mr. GWlstone said that there had been no change in the government's policy since Monday last, when the House unanimously voted in favor of the credit The government were trying to obtain a definite Russo-Afghan frontier, and be trusted they would succeed. At present there was no frontier in existence enabling one power to call another to account for passing a forbidden line. He contended that if the papers, when published, showed that the Ameer did not desire the advanced frontier, England had no right to force it on him. In Mr. Gladstone’s judgment, any appearance of hesitation in agreeing to the credit, would be a serious public evil. He had no objection to sweeping criticism, but when, happily, there was a prospect of a favorable issue, he asked the House not to derogate from what it had already patriotically done. A motion that the debate be adjourned was negatived by a vote of 181 to 114. Baron Henry DeWorms (Conservative) moved that the House be adjourned. Mr. Gladstone opposed the motion, saying that he did so under a deep sense of public duty. Sir Stafford Northcote explained that the opposition had no wish to exhibit a policy of hesitancy, hut simply wanted to understand the government’s policy. The motion to ftdj ourn was rejected by a vote of 169 to 111, and a further motion to adjourn the debate was rejected by IG4 to 10C. A still further motion to adjourn the House was made, whereupon Mr. Gladstone suggested that if the vote of credit was agreed to, discussion on the subject could be deferred to Thursday. Sir Stafford Northcote assented to this, and the motion to adjourn the House was negatived. The vote of credit was then agreed to. After Mr. Gladstone had announced the peace arrangement in the House, the Conservative members held a meeting and decided that it would be impolitic to oppose the vote of credit. .Emperor William will be asked to act as arbitrator, and it is expected he will consent A Calcutta dispatch says: “The public are dissatisfied with England’s concessions to Russia, and fears are generally expressed now that the English attitude may have already endangered the safety of the* party composing Sir Peter Lumsden’s surveying commission. Preparations for war on a large scale still continue in India.” The Pall Mall Gazette says it believes that England really never annexed Port Hamilton. The British fleet, according to the Gazette, has merely taken a position with a view to prevent other powers from either annexing or occupying Port Hamilton in the event of a Russian war. A dispatch from Tirpul, dated April 30, states that a dam on the Karoband river, seventy miles north of Sarakhs, burst, flooding the country for miles around and doing an immense amount of damage to the military roads that had been constructed by i.he Russians, who ftre mak ing strenuous efforts to repair them and prevent any further destruction. The dispatch also states that there can be no question as to the ownership of Penjdeb, as the city has paid tribute to Herat for over a hundred years, and that a guard for the government, composed of Afghan soldiers, has been quartered in the city since 1881. It has always been an integral portion of the province of Herat.

Tone of the English Press. London, May s.— The Post, in an editorial, this morning, says: '’One more humiliation, when they crowd so thickly on us, would he of little moment, if thereby we avoided war, but even if the frontier question is settled, the inevitable conflict will only be postponed for a brief period.” The Standard says: “Earl Granville throws up the sponge in the most artistic manner. We have no doubt that when the Bristish empire perishes, it, too, will have learned to die aesthetically.” The News savs: “The government must continue to be ready for the worst, even while they believe the worst is not to come.” The Times says: “There is little to be thankful for, except the fact that war has been avoided at n price which, as yet, we are unable to calculate. ” _ The English in Afghanistan, lCngvne Schuyler. The great trouble of the English in the matter is Afghanistan—for it is wrong to consider Afghanistan as oue country, as it is really composed of a variety of tribes, who hold only a slender allegiance to the Ameer. Even Mr. Marvin, after insisting very strongly upon the necessity of the English protecting Afghanistan, says: “The notion of a united Afghanistan is fit only for the nursery. The Afghans are conquerors and foreignors in the whole of the country north of the Hindoo Koosh, from Balkh to Herat Their control of Herat, as Russia is continually reminding us, is of quite recent origin, and even yet they have not succeeded in imposing their rule over all the clans dwelling lyetween Herat and Cabul.” In 1873 I met, at jSamarcand, the present Ameer, Abdurrahman, and had a long conversation with him on the subject of Afghanistan and India. In speaking of the Bubsidy then given to Shere Ali, he said that while it might affect him personally it would have no effect upon the Afghans; that if the English were to give Afghanistan the whole revenue of India the people would not love the English better. With a oeference rather to the possibility of war between our own country and England, I asked him whether if an attack were made on India, and sul*idies given to the Afghans they would be willing to join in it He replied that if word were given to the Afghans that an attack were to be made against the English vn India, and that they were convinced that the war was not against India, but only .iguinst the English denomination there, they would willingly join in it without any subsidy or the necessity of much arging. Abdurrahman may ’ have changed his politics since the time he was an exile in Samarcand; now that he has ascended the throne of his ancestors, but it is much to be doubted whether be has changed his feelings, und appearances seem to show that the English must bo verv cautious in their dealings (with the Afghans. While using the Afghans us A harrier, and while promising to protect them Against the Russians, they must hesitate about interfering when their aid is not requested. It would seem even almost advisable for England to fix the boundry on the southern side of Aftbanistan, taking possession of such strategic

positions as would enable her to defend the frontier with fortresses, knowing perfectly well that the moment the Russians attempted to invade Afghanistan the Afghans would take the English side until they were free from the Russians. At present the English run the risk of their pseudoallies being divided, if not absolutely persuaded, by the Russians in case any false move is made. It should not, finally, be forgotten that there are two sides to every question. The Afghan Language. “Ah,” in the Afghan tongue, means water, as in Punjab (that is the “five waters,” referring to the five great rivers that traverse the northwestern province of Hindustan), or as in Hurrirab (the water of the “Hums”), or as in Surkh-ab (the “red water”), and so on. “Koh” is a mountain, as in Safeydkoh (the “white mountain”), Koh-i-Baba (the mountains of Babah or Baber), or as *n Hindoo Kooeh (the Hindustanee mountaia “Abad” as a terminal means & city, as Allahabad (the “City of Allah”), Ahmedabad (the “City of Ahmed’’), and so forth. “Safeyd” is white, “siah” black, “surkh” rod, “nil” blue, etc. Then there are the numerals, such as “panj” or “punj” (five), “char” or “chahar” (four), etc., all of which are descriptive of certain characteristics of the places to the names of which they are attached. “Panjdeh" is an example, for as “deh” means a village and “panj” five, as already ex plained, the name of the place signifies a collection of five Turkoman villages. Wherever “kotul” occurs it signifies simply a pass over a mountain spur. For instance, the first victory that General Roberts won in Afghanistan was at the Paiwar Kotul, the pass of the Paiwar, 9,000 feet high. The Russian Telegraph. Charles Marvin, in London Times. I have this -evening (9 p. m. ) received from Tiflis the semi official Kavkaz of March 21 (April 2), which settles at a stroke the disputed question as to whether the Russian telegraph system extends beyond Askabad or not. The Kavkaz say 6: “With regard to the construction of the telegraph from Askabad to Sarakhs and Merv, the Russki Courier of Moscow states that, according to the surveys undertaken by the transcaspian authorities the length of the line from Askabad to Merv direct would have been 280 versts [lB5 miles] and the cost 86,000 rubles [£B,6oo], not including the wire, fittings, and batteries. It being, however, subsequently decided to conduct it from Askabad to Merv via Sarakhs, which extended tho distance to 380 versts, [252 miles,] a grant was made to the authorities of 100,000 rubles [£lo,ooo], and, in excess from the general stores of the telegraph department, a grant of tho necessary quantity of wire, fittings, batteries, etc. At the present moment the telegraph between the above-mentioned points is already constructed and in full working order.” Thus we see the fact is fully established that the telegraph extends from St. Petersburg to Merv, from which relays of couriers could, and no doubt do, carry easily messages to lvomaroff, 120 miles or so south, in less than a day. Consequently, to ask for a fortnight for Komaroff to explain is to demand a most unwarrantable period of grace, during which Russia will be able to render herself still more menacing at the gates of Herat. Is it, therefore, too much to ask that a covering force be sent at once to Herat to screen the key of India during the dangerous dawdling of delusive diplomacy? A little while, and all hope of saving Herat from a coup de main will have to be abandoned.

Allkhanofl's Adventures. Meshed Letter in London Paily Nev-H. The principal performer in these Russian advances, more particularly on tho Murghab, is Colonel Alikhanoff, now Governor of Merv. He is a man of some reputation, at least he is well known in the Caucasus and in the transcaspian district. He is likely to be heard of in connection with future events in Central Asia. The name he bears is Mohammedan, but Russianized. It is All Kahn. General report says he belongs to Daghestan, which was Schamyl’s country in Circassia, and that his parents were Mohammedans. At Tiflis he received his education, where he entered the array. Some time ago, from being involved in a quarrel, which either ended in a duel or would have led to an event of that sort, he was reduced in rank. After tho taking of Geok Tepe he, with one or two officers in disguise as traders, visited Merv, and shortly after lie had command of the troops which occupied that place, for it was taken without fighting. This service brought Alikhanoff hack into favor, and his former rank was restored: he was made Governor of Merv, and it is from that point that he has beeu so active lately among the Turkomans on the Murghab. he has shown himself to be bold, daring, and indefatigable. Alikhanoff is the fitting man to keep a frontier in a ferment, and he lias already proved his capacity in this line of action. When Sir Peter Lumsden visited Sarakhs in November, Alikhanoff crossed from the Russian side, ami rode through the skirts of the camp of the English commission. This was done in a very defiant style. A man carried a white standard before him, such as is borne before chiefs and persons of rank and position, and ah escort of Merv Tekkes followed. In doing this he had passed from Russian to Persian soil, but he knew that no one could or would object and that the piece of bravado could he done with impunity. It has to be recorded that he did not return to the Russian camp quite in so grand and dignified a style as be came, for his horse Btumbled, throwing the rider, whose lower garment got torn, and in 6ueh a manner that his appearance was not presentable, and in this condition he had to bent a hurried retreat.

FOREIGN MISCELLANY. A Boundary Dispute Between the Governments of Russia and China. London, May 4. —Dispatches from Shanghai state tfwit the dispute between China and Russia regarding the frontier of Mnnchooria has become acute owing to the non-arrival of the Russian members of the delimitation commission and the constant postponement of the date of their arrival at the place of metting to settle the boundary question. The Chinese commissioners have been ready for months to begin the work of delimitation, and the failure of the Russian commissioners to meet them has caused the Chinese government to fear that the same farce enacted respecting the Afghan frontier will be performed in this case. Now that the difficulty with France in relation to Tonquin has been settled, China has become more courageous aud has demanded that Russia fulfill her part of the agreement which led to the appointment of the commission. _ The Mahtli’s Troublesome Followers. Suakim. May 4. — El Mahdi's men are becoming more daring every day. Last night they surrounded Tambouk and Otoa and kept up a heavy fire on both places all night. The firing was, however, made from too long a range to be effective. Another forward movement by the British troops is expected to take place to'morrosv. Cable Notes. The eruption of Vesuvius presents a grand spectacle at night, and is viewed by crowds of visitors. Professor Paimieri thinks there is no serious danger from the eruption. The Cork County Club has expelled from membership the weil-known Irish physician. Dr. L. G. N. Tannery, because, in company with Mr John O’Conner, Home Rule member of Parliament for Tipperary, lie marched at the head of the Nationalist procession that followed and hissed at the Prince andPrinoees of Wales during their visit to Cork. _ Steamship News. New York, May 4. —Arrived: Etruria, from Liverpool; Acapulco and Australia, from Hamburg. Hamburg, May 4.—Arrived: Egypt, from New York. Wants the Facts Known. Mr. Editor: I and my neighbors have been led so many times into buying different things for the liver, kulneys aud blood tliat have done us more harm than good, 1 feel it due your readers to ad vise them when an hor.est and good medicine like Dr. Harter's Iron Tonic can be had. Yours truly, An Ohi> Suh^hibeb.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1885.

THE INDIANA MAN. The Hoosler Who Was Seeking After the Land Office—He Concludes to “Lay Back." Washington Letter in Chicago News. My friend from Indiana camo here two or three • weeks before the inauguration and sought my advice. He told me that it was .already pretty well understood out in his State that Joe McDonald was to have a place in the Cabinet, and if he did nothing was surer than that he (my friend) could have pretty nearly anything he wanted. He gave me to understand that he had grown to be quite nn influential man in State affaire, and had a perfectly clear and fairly brilliant record as a Democrat. He had been sheriff of his county, a fact to which he often alluded in a way that led me to believe he expected me to see in it a striking coincidence; so I began to humor him that far since I could afford it He had been prominently connected with the work of the State committee; had got to know pretty nearly everybody in the State; had been telegn phed to on several important occasions for advice as to what ought to be done in sudden emergencies, and by prompt action or reply had perhaps saved the day for the party. He had also been in several congressional conventions, and had held desponding candidates up by tho susjjpenders at critical periods, and borne them on to victory. For all this they were, of course, grateful. They would do anything he might care to ask of them, and the time had come when be did not propose to be modest. Then, too, he was the special friend of Mr. Hendricks (“Old Hendricks,” he called him), and had always sided with him when there had been any controversy between his faction and any other faction in the party, and he felt that this was a strong point in his favor. I was surprised to know how great and influential a citizen my friend had become. When I had last seen him he was making a good but rather vigorous fight for an honest living by practicing law, and it used to be doubtful sometimes how the contest would end. But it had apparently ended satisfactorily, as he told me ho was married now, and that he intended to live in good style when he came here. As an old resident of the capital he appealed to me to advise him. He wanted to know which wero the best places and why they were better than others, and I was very frank and generous with him. I told him if he was seeking a place for its political influence he had best get himself made Pension Commissioner or First Assistant Postmaster-general. If he had money to invest and wanted to make use of the information he might gain in office to invest it to advantage, I recommended the Land Office. If he was looking for a chance to steal, there was no place, in my judgment, equal to the Indian Bureau. He had consulted the blue bock before lie saw me, and was very favorably impressed with some of the places in the Department of Justice. There was the Solicitor general, whose salary was $7,500. He thought that about the best thing in sight, and was evidently strongly impressed with the salary, as he often came hack to it with evident fondness in the course of our conversation. But I reminded him of the objection the Senate had made to Chandler four years ago, and suggested as carefully as I could that an older man, with a wider reputation, in the profession, w’ould no doubt be sought after, as the place was a very exacting one, and after some reflection he admitted that possibly I was right. Durine the day he went up to the Capitol and called on all his friends among the Congressmen, and for two or three days following he was about with some of them a great deal and they seemed to be very glad to have him along. Finally, when he was about to return home he told me that they had generally indorsed my judgment, and that he had concluded to take the Land Office. He was all smiles when he bade me good-bye. In fact, he had been smiling with a good, hearty, thorough sort of a smile every time I met him. and I had come to think that if anybody could have guaranteed to make me half so happy for all time to come I would have closed the bargain at once. The day before the inauguration he came to town again, still smiling and happy. The next day I saw him in the precession, radiant as a bride on her wedding morning. On the day following he invited me to dine with him at the Arlington, and seemed to be sorry that Pommery Sec was so inexpensive. He seemed to know pretty nearly all the members of Tammany and the County Democracy, and not to care much about politicians from anv other State except his own. They didn’t know, 'he said, what he wus going to do, but that was no matter. They would learn later, and it would be just as well. They would see what the West could do, and what Western men w ere made of, and this idea made him particularly jolly and comfortable. Late that evening he called tne quietly aside ar.d told me confidentially that his friends insisted he should take the first assistant post-master-generalship. He didn’t like to change very much, hut they had made up their minds about it, and ns they were very high up and very near the President, he didn’t think it to his interest to insist on the other place. He didn’t teii me who his friends were, but left mo to infer that they were party managers and most influential. They were sure to win. Then he wanted to know who his competitors were likely to be, and I gave him the names of such as I then knew. He thought them over carefully and then said he did’n think any of the half-dozen had much chanco against him. The next day there wero more candidates, but he was still confident, though I fancied his smile lacked some of the genuineness of quality it had before contained. Still he argued that since his State had been left out of the Cabinet there could be no doubt that it would he given plenty of other good places in recognition of its electoral vote. There seemed to be an argument in this and I was satisfied. Time went on. Day by day my friend grew less jolly, and then bn. began to grow’ more sad. At the end of about a week he told me very quietly that he believed he was “dished” so far as* the rostoffice was concerned. He had about maae up his mind to go hack to the Land Office. At the end of another week he began to have grave doubts about that. Then he said he and his friends had concluded to make a square issue with the President. They were going to remind him of what they had done, and inquire whether they were to get nothing in return. If tbej r did not get a satisfactory reply they intended to go home in disgust and lay back till their time should come. Sometime within the next three or four days he disappeared. On inquiry at the hotel counter I found he had paid his bill and gone home. I have not seen him since, nor heard from him, and since both a First Assistant PostmHater-gen-eral and a Land Commissioner have been appointed 1 conclude that he is still “laying back.” And there are lots of others like him*

A FREE-TRADE ADVOCATE. rrof. Sumner Points Out Some Alleged Protection Evils. Philadelphia Times. Prof. Sumner, of Yale Colleee, at the invitation ol the students, delivered a lecture on “Free Trade” at the University of Pennsylvania last evening. The lecturer said: “Protection is in opposition to the doctrine of conservation of energy. Every tax is a quantity affected by a minus sign. The protectionists say that the wealth and prosperity of the United States are due to their system. Nothing of the kind; it is due to the climate and soil which God and nature have given to us after the tax-gath-erer bus succeeded in diminishing it When government raises a tax on an article it advances its price to the people. Government thus lays a barrier around the Nation so that the producer inside the barrier can do as he pleases with the consumer. The free trader does not say that if we have free trade there will be- no more commercial crises. The protectionist, however, takes anew responsibility upon himself. “Wo have had protection for the past twentyfive years and hard times for the last twelve years. Protection has not brought about the promised result We have bad socialistic devices which promised to.bring us equality, but they have brought us inequality. Two years ago Congress appointed a tariff commission which recommended a reduction of tariff of 25 per ceut. Congress, however, took no notice o this, but bundled the mass of accumulated evidence into the hands of a tariff conference, and these, around a table, fixed the taxation for the people of the United States. It is an everlasting effort to get a tariff to fit us, but we never can succeed. We are living to-day under a system of taxation fitted to us twenty years ago. We have secured to ourselves the homo market, having shut others out, and now’ it is a matter of life and death to get out ourselves. "Tariff is a dead weight. We are trying to scalp each other. Tariff reduces the average amount of comfort the people of th* United States can obtain. Every iuvontion introduced into our industries lowers the wages. For

twenty years we have been saying to the people on the other side of the water, ‘Keep away those good things; we won’t have them.’ If, by taxation, wages are to be high, it is not the goods which must be taxed, but the man. Tariff has never done anything but lower wages. It reduces all the time the desirability of the land and the profit to be got out of it” A ROMANTIC REUNION. Father and Son Meet for the First Time in Twenty Years. Kansas City Times. A most dramatic scene, the sequel to a most romantic tale, occurred a iow days since in the store of the well-known druggist, Mr. J. W. Swope, on West Ninth street, the occasion being the meeting, after a separation of twenty years, between Mr. Swope and his father, Mr. C. M. Swope. The story is interesting in the extreme. Twenty years ago, in 1865, the father, * then a resident of Adams county, Pennsylvania, and a strong Southern sympathizer, quarreled with his wife, whose sympathies had been with the Union side all through the war. The stirring incidents of the war furnished frequent disputes, and the breach, instead of healing, was widened by other differences, so that at the close of the great contest each discovered the undesirability of their union. Finally Mr. Swope, out of desperation, one day proposed a most novel plan of settlement “I will toss up this quarter,” he said; “heads I go, tails I stay, and all our disagreements shall be forgotten.” The wife agreed, the coin was tossed, and heads decided that he should go. Hurriedly arranging his affairs, and leaving his wife a liberal share of the property, ho took his departure. While the singular transaction was being made, Mr. Swope glanced out of the window and saw his little five year-old son disappearing over the hill on his way to school. He never saw him again until the meeting occurred the other day. Mr. Swope went to Pittsburg and engaged in business. He traveled in every State and Territory in this country and visited Europe. But he never set foot in Adams county. His son grew up, and moved to this city and married. His wife procured a divorce and married also. Although he never saw his son, he managed to keep track of him, and learning of his son’s presence in this city, and having occasion to pass through here on his way to Salina, Kan., where he owns a large tract of land, he determined to call on him. Finding his address in the directory, he took a car and stopped at a store the front of which was surmounted by a sign bearing his son’s name. He entered, but failed to see anybody bearing a resemblance to himself. He asked if he was in the right place, and was told that Mr. Swope had moved across the street.. Turning around, he saw a young man he at once recognized as his son. He was talking to a lady, whom he afterward ascertained to bo his son’s wife. Crossing the street he disclosed his identity. The meeting was as affecting as the circumstances warranted. The father and son were soon on the best of terms, and the latter introduced his wife. They all took tea together, and the father, learning that his son voted the Democratic ticket, expressed satisfaction at the training his mother had given him. He left the next day for Salina. Mr. Swope has acquired considerable property in liis twenty years’ jaunt alone, and expects to make his home in the future in Salina. as tho climate benefits heart disease, a malady with which he is affected.

BLOOD UNDER THE MICROSCOPE. How an Expert Cleared a Woman of the Charge of Murder. San Francisco Cal!. “The only instance on record when the blood of two persons was compared in a criminal trial,” said Dr. Piper to a Call reporter yesterday, “was in a murder rase in Chicago. The comparison settled the innocence of the woman on trial for her life. The story of the bloody transaction is as follows: A comely woman, with $20,000, married a man in Chicago, and placed her snug little fortune in his business. In the course of time he began to abuse her, and finally 6he decided to applj r for a divorce. The double calamity of losing a woman to heat and the withdrawal of her $20,000 from his business made the brute furious, and tho next morning he was found dead in one corner of lm bed chamber, a bullet having gone through his heurt. His wife was found wounded in another part of the room. She said that her husband had come home tpe night before in a rage and began to abuse her while she was in bed; that he hit her on the he,ad with the butt of his revolver while her head was on the pillow, and spattered blood over the linen; that she jumped up and he shot her, inflicting a slight flesh wound in her side. She then rushed at him and. snatching the revolver from him, shot him through the heart. He reeled to the corner where he was found and died. The prosecution did not believe her story, and set up the theory that she shot him when he was asleep, and dragged him to tho corner, and then inflicted the wound on herself. The carpet where the dead man lay was saturated with blood. According to the theory of the prosecution, the blood on the pillow was his also. I put sections of tho pillow with blood upon it under the mieroscoDe, and drew on a cardboard the shape of the corpuscles, enlarged about two thousand diameters. 1 then put the blood on the carpet under the microscope in the same way. The comparison was wonderful. The corpuscles on the piilow were bright, round and clean. They were beautiful. The corpuscles on the carpet were large and disfigured, the result of disease. The comparison settled that question at once. The blood corpuscles were as different as day and night, and sustained the woman’s account of the shooting. She was acquitted on that and other evidence. “As between human blood and dog’s blood, the microscope enables the expert to determine precisely whether a specimen is from a human being or a dog. But it is impossible to determine between human blood and a hog’s blood. This fact convicted one man that I know of. He claimed that the blood on his clothes was dog’s blood. I was able to show that it was not dog’s blood; but if he had said that it was hog’s blood I could not have contradicted the statement.”

TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Andrew Schroth, a pork-packer of Cincinnati, assigned yesterday. His assets are about $20,000; liabilities about the same. At Sumner, la., on Sunday morning, Fred Bill, in a fit of jealousy, shot Gotfried Houserman in the head with a revolver and then shot himseif. Bill is dead and Houserman is fatally injured. William Galway, of the coal-dealing firm of Galway, Smith & Cos., Cincinnati, has applied for a receiver to take account of the assets of the firm. A receiver was appointed, and his bond fixed at $20,000. At Goldman, Ark., on Saturday night, W. O. Turnazc," editor of the Goldman Times, shot and killed Richard Whaling, postmaster at the same place. Whaling was the assaulting party. The affair grew out of trespass on the part of Whaling in the Times office. Charles E. Fuller, of Linwood, Hamilton county, Ohio, shot niraself dead in his room yesterday morning. He was a business man in Cincinnati and treasurer of Linwood. Despondency caused by the death of his wife la3t November and by ill health is supposed to be the cause. Yesterday morning a fatal collision occurred on the Baltimore & Ohio road at Lewis’s Mills, 0., between a freight traiu and an engine. William Butterworth, engineer of the freight, was killed, and John - Burgh, a brakeman, had one arm crushed off. All trains were delayed several hours by the wreck. General Grant’s Condition. New York, May 4—General Grant has been at work on his book to-day. Ho is feeling about as strong and cheerful as yesterday, and passed a fairly good night. Dr. Douglas will not return until this evening. At the Baptist pastors’ meeting, to-day, in discussing an essay which had been read, entitled “Modern Faith Cures,” Rev. Dr. Patton said that ho thought the General had proved an example of faith cure, and spoke of it as the ro#iult of th© prayers of the people of this country for the preservation of his life. Obituary. New York, May 4 —Mrs. Frank A. Vanderbilt, the widow of Commodore Vanderbilt, died at 9 o’clock this morning, at her residence, No. 10 Washington Place. She had been ill for the last few days with pneumonia. Cincinnati, May 4—Wm. B. Dodds, an old and well known manufacturer, died to day.

HUMOR OP THE DAY. No, mother, your boy is not wandering tonight He sits* in the parlor, glued to the old arm-chair and Belindas lips, while the old man vainly listens to hear him wandor. Protection for the Poodle. Philadelphia Call. Mrs. fDe Fashion—“ Horrors! Effie don’t go near my poodle, please don’t.” Effie—“ls the dog sick, mamma, or has he been playing with children what has the diphtheria or something.” “No, dear, but you have” A Little Foggy on the Revision. New York Sun. Old Mr. Bently— I see t>y the papers that a revised edition of the Old Testament is to be published soon. Old Mrs. Bently—Does it say who writ it? Old Mr. Bently—No. • Old Mrs. Bently—Well, it’s perfectly scandalous. I s'pose it was that man Ingersoll. Not the Reply He Expected. New York Times. Sunday afternoon, (reading a selection aloud to his wife) —“Worth begets in base minds envy, in great minds emulation.” How true that is? Wife, (with a sigh)—Ah, yes, we all have a touch of envy in our nature; but to attempt to emulate Worth is hopeless. He stands alone. The Effect of Culture. New York Times. Boston girl (to Uncle James, a farmer) —Do you like living on a farm. Uncle James? Uncle James —Yes, I like it very much. Boston Girl—l suppose it is nice enough in the glad summer time, but to go out in the cold and snow to gather winter apples and harvest winter wheat I imagine might be anything but pleasant. A Successful Departure. New York Sun. Country Editor (to minister) —“I bear that you preached yesterdav on “Save My Lambs,’ Mr. B. ” Minister—“ Yes." Country Editor—“ Would you mind giving mo a synopsis of the sermon lor this week’s issue? We have just added an agricultural department to the paper, and it’s catching the farmers right and left" _ Peace on His Lips but War in His Heart. New York Graphic. The minister was struggling to put on anew four-ply collar, and the perspiration was starting from every poro. “Bless the collar!” he ejaculated. “Oh, yes, bless it. Bless the blessed collar.” “My dear,” said his wife, “what is your text for this morning’s sermon?” “F-fourteenth verse f-fifty-fifth Psalm,” he replied in short gasps: “ ‘The words of his m-mouth were s smoother than b-butter, but w-war was in his h-heart’" ♦ Why He Failed. New York Graphic. “Lose money! Why, I have lost more money than you ever saw. Five years ago I lost $1,000,000 in Paris.” “How was that?” “There was not a single electric light in that city. Not one.” “How did that lose you money?” “How? By not supplying the city with electric lamps.” “Yes, but they weren’t invented a that time.” “I know it. That’s how I lost money. By not inventing them.” Principal and Interest. Now York Journal. “Excuse me, sir, but may I ask you a question?" politely inquired a sad-eved Jerseyman of a Bowery pawn-broker. “JShertainly, shertainly,” replied the suave Shylock. “Well, if distance lends enchantment to the view, what rate of interest should be. charged?” “Vill you blease say dot again, und say it shlow?” The young man repeated the question, and before lie had time to dodge, the “uncle” knocked him out of the door with a shillalah, exclaiming: “Club rates, mein lieber freund, glub rates.”

MltS. VICE-PRESIDENT HENDRICKS. Impression Made Upon a Visitor by Our “Indiana Leading Lady.” National Republican. “Mrs. Hendricks wishes you to walk up stairs.” said the colored man who had taken our cards at Willard’s. Up one flight we went, and down a long, low hall. Behind us promenaded a couple of waiters carrying trays. They were conversing in a stngo whisper. “Jim,” said one, “(ley sez de Wice-presidunt tuck de rooms way down de fur end ob dis corrider caze he’s feared uv being ’sassinated.” “Hallelugarutn!” exclaimed the other; “who wants to ’sassinate dat soft spoken, meek Moses? Mrs. Wice-presidunt's de one to 'sassinate. She’s de power. Take de steam injine away, an’ de cars stop short,” concluded the second voice, with a smothered guffaw. By this time we were entering the Vice president's room. A cheerful light from the cent* r chandelier pervaded the rather small parlor and flashed from the mirror faced book case in one corner. The open grate fire, although homelike, was oppressively hot. Mrs. Hendricks received us cordially and introduced the Vice president, who shook hands, smiled amiably, inado several harmless, friendly remarks, and then resumed his seat with a dutiful air which seemed to say: “Look at my wife. She’s captain. She’ll do the talking. 1 play second fiddle. I’ve followed her advice all my married life, and soe what I am today.” Then Mrs. Hendricks presented several congressmen nnd half a dozen ruddy-faced, beaming, loose jointed Hoosier giants in baggy clothes, who were all crowded up together on one sofa. They were evidently office-seekers, who in fancy were already feeding in Uncle Sam's pantry. A fair-haired, inoffensivelooking private secretary wrote at a dosk in ono comer. It was evident that he was made to know his place. Mrs. Hendricks wore a handsome black silk and a bunch of fresh flowers at her waist. Although not young, the Vice-presi-dent’s wife is erect and elegant in form, swift and elastic in movement, with rich, black hair, dark, glittering eyes, strong, sharp features, and a spring lock mouth. She is in temperament the exact opposite of her husband, who, without her indomitable will, restless ambition, ana hard, practical view of life to constantly ferment his amiable quiescence, would to day be slain Mr. Hendricks, the Indianapolis lawyer, n short, the Vico president and his wife are one, and Mrs. Hendricks is that one. As Papa Hendricks leaned comfortably back in a rocker, his mild, blue eyes, amiable, weak mouth, and placid white face—utterly void of force—formed a striking contrast to his high spirited, nervy wife, who scarcely sat down for a moment, so eager was she to successfully manipulate the political wires about her. Attempt to Burn an Orphan Asylum. Cincinnati, May 4. —This morning a ten-year-old inmate of the Covington, Ky., Children's Home was awakened by the smell of smoke, and by hearing glass broken in the kitchen. He aroused the matron, and she called the fire department in time to prevent a catastrophe. It was found that elaborate prepara tions had been made to destroy the building, the kitchen being selected as the place to start the fire. The fifty children were panic-stricken, but were controlled so as to prevent injury. The matron says a similar attempt to burn the house was made ten days ago. America’s Finest Art Gallery. Detroit, Mich., May 4. —Randolph Rodgers, the distinguished sculptor, is now packing, and will soon send to the University of Michigan, the whole collection of the casts of his works, more than sixty in number. These added to the collection of about seven hundred pictures which the late H. C. of Coldwater, Mich., be queathed to the univorsity, wiii make the art gallery of that institution much the finest of any possessed by any American institution. Hint to Express Messengers. Cincinnati Inquirer. The thrifty farmer nover sleeps till he has carefully locked up his live stock and a few loads of hay. Tlhj express messenger, however, intrusted with the safe keeping and safe delivery of thousands of dollars, thinking it cowardly to turn the key in his door or spring the latch, leaves the way uninterrupted for the entrance of any thug who may chance to board the train,

and bravely goes to sleep. He forgets that th lion's courage only serves him in his wakeful hours, and, so forgetting, goes to sleep. Express messengers would do well to learn, and learn thoroughly, that discretion is the better part of valor, and lock their doors, and lock them securely. Then, if they keep their eyes wide open they are not likely to be surprised by some uncouth stranger and brained. Protection on Railways. Philadelphia Times. The Indiana authorities are apparently as helpless iu the presence of train and express robbers as those of our own State in dealing with Abe Buzzard and his gang of outlaws. That an express train could be stopped and robbed in the near neighborhood of Harrodsburg surpasses belief. The only man on the train who seems to have exhibited any pluck was the express messenger, who was shot It is time that measures were taken by the railway companies, in conjunction with the authorities, that would make these train-robbing exploits an utter impossibility. The plain truth about the matter is, that large amounts of valuables are transported daily without proper protection. It is cheap to have no guards and no arms on an express car, but it is not good management Strike of Railroad Shopmen. Denver, May 4.—Five hundred shop-hands of of the Denver & Rio Grande railway, in this city and Salida, went out on a strike this morning. They demand the discharge of two objectionable Denver foremen and the reinstatement of about a dozen men recently discharged to reduce force. The strikers threaten to stop all trains, except mail, if the demand is not acceded to within three or four days. The Death-Roll at Plymouth. W it.kesuAßßE, Pa., May 4.—The death-roll at Plymouth to day was the highest since the outbreak of the epidemic. Eleven deaths were reported up to 5 o’clock this afternoon. The funerals of five victims took place to-day. A large number of persons are lying at the point of death. f ‘How Can She Ever Love Him?” Is what you often hear said when the prospective groom is the victim of catarrh. “How can she bear such a breath?” “How resolve to link her destiny with that of any one with a disease that, unless arrested, will end in consumption, or perhaps insanity?*’ Let the husband that is, or is to be, get Dr. Cage’s Catarrh Remedy, and cure himself before it is too late. By druggists.

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