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They expect to make much campaign capital out of this action. Whether or not they will carry out their plan depends upon the success of their efforts to set a quorum. Urgent letters are being sent to members who are out of the city. One member from a far Western State, who had extremely rickety fences to look after returned to the capital yesterday in response to this call, leaving bis district in very bad shape. Delay In the Telephone Suit. Bpecial to the Indianapolis Journal. Washingtok. July 4.—There is a good deal of talk about the delay in bringing the government suit against the Beil Telephone Company at Columbus, 0., and many predict that it will never take place, as the government officials are iosing their nerve under the heavy fire of press and people. Two or three local newspapers venture the prediction, to-day, that the suit will uot be brought, Miscellaneous Notes. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, July 4. Rev. Geo. O. Little, formerly pastor of a Presbyterian church at Fort Wayne, and Mr. I. J. Kimball, formerly an attorney at Fort Wayne, both of this city now, will sail for Europe in a few days, to be gone for a couple of months or louger. Third Auditor John S. Williams, of the Treas ury Department, is at Woodmont, Va., where he will spend to-morrow with friends. All the department* will be closed till Tuesday. The wife of Assistant Land Commissioner S. M. Stockslager is at the Ebbitt House, Cape May, for the season. Her children enjoy the surf bathing of this faroons resort, and the two are much benefited in health. Miss Nellie G. Brown, daughter of the late eloquent and gifted T. M. Brown, of the law firm of Stotzenburg fe Brown, of New Albany, is st 810 Fifteenth street. TOR DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN. Indications. War Dspartmint, i Ovticz or the Chief Signal Officer. > Washington, July 5, la. m. ) Special Indications for Twenty-four Honrs, from 7 a. m., for Indianapolis and Vicinity— Fair weather, stationary temperature. For Ohio, West Virginia and Indiana—Fair weather, stationary temperature, variable winds, becoming southerly. For Western Michigan and Wisconsin—Local mins, stationary temperature, southerly winds. For Illinois—Fair weather, southerly winds, stationary temperature. Local Observations. Time. J Bar. Ther. Hum. Wind. Weather Rain. 6i’njil2i 09 78~" N'east Fair*. ....7 1# A. M.. 30.12 80 30 N’east Clear :ip. M.. 30.00 91 35 East Cloudy 6P. 11.. 30.0.-): 87 40 East Fair 10P. M.. 30.081 77 62 jCalm Clear Maximum temperature. 91: minimum temperatare. 63. _ General Observations. War Department, ) Washington, July 4, 10 p. m. j Observations taken at the same moment of time at all stations. ?S 3 f i 1 S. „£l I • f| | j 3a f New York City 30.131 68 S’east Clear. Washington (hty....30.10; 72 Calm Clear. Vioksburg, Miss.... 30.09. 80'Calm Clear. New Orleans, La... 30.09 1 77 8 west .63 Clear. Shreveport, La. 130.06, 81'South Clear. Fort Smith, Ark... |3v.01 80 South Fair. Little Rock, Ark. .. 30.03 80 Sweat (Hear. Galveston, Tex ;29.96 80! South Clear. £mnhU, Tenn.... 30.07' 81jCalm Clear. ihville, Tenn 30.05; 75 S'east Clear. Lenisville. ICy 30.06; 80; North Clear. Indianapolis, Ind.. 30.03} 79 Calm Clear, Cfinoinnati, 0 30.08' 80 Calm Clear. FWtaburg, Pa 30.10' 75 North Clear. Oswego, N.Y 30.11 6 k.S’east Clear. Toledo, O 30.11! 7-a S’east Clear. Xecanaba, Mich 30.(X) 75 Swest Cloudy. Marquette, Mich2s.9B: 77 East Clear. Chicago, 111 30.07; 79|S’east| Clear. Milwaukee, Wis 30.05 76 South Clear. Duluth, Mina 29.89; 58 N'east Clear. St Paul. Minn 29.86* 80 S’east Clear. LetCrosae. Wis 29.93 82 South Clear. Davenport, la '29.99| 80|Sonth Clear. Dos Moines, la '29.94| 85;South Clear. Keokuk. la.. 130.01 77;South Clear. Cairo, 111 30.07; 77,Calm Clear. Springfield. 11l 30.06; 80 Sweat Clear. St. Louis. Mo 30.06. 84 Swest Clear. Lamar, Mo 80.05: 76 S’east Clear. Leavenworth, Kan.. 29.94 80 South Clear. Omaha. Neb .29.90; 83'South .Clear. Yankton, Dak 29.74' 80jSouth Clear. Moorahead, Minn.. 29.57; 81 S'east Clear. Bismarck, Dak |29.47* 89 Nwest ..... Clear. Fort Buford, Dak ..29.51; 84 West Clear. FLAsainiboine.M. T 129.76 66; West Fair. Fort Custer, Mont. . 29.55; 83 North Clear. Dead wood, Dak 1 i ! North Platte, Neb..' 29.71 1 85 .S’gßSi Cloudy. Denver, Col ~22*78! 80>iouth Cloudy. vs. Las Animas, Col 29.70 84 B’east Fair. Dodge City. Kan 8 7! 82 South Clear. Cort Elliott, Tex...!29.88 74;S’east .Clear. >rtSill, Ind. Ter.. 29.93; 86 S’east Clear. ■<rt Davis. Tex.... ;29.83! 76*S’east Clear. Paso, Tex |29.75j 83 East Clear. .ft Lake City, V. T;29.80j 67 Nwest Clear. Base-BalL Louisville, July 4. —The Louisvilles batted hard to day, but fielded loosely, allowing the Metropolitans to make six unearned runs. White and Roseman played brilliantly. Score: Louisville 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 3 o—B Metropolitans 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 3 o—6 Earned runs—Louisville, 3. Two-base hit — Mack. Three-base hit —Kerins. Passed ball— Reipschlager, 1. Wild pitch—Hecker. L First base on balls—Off Heckcr, 3; off Lynch, Struck ut —By Lynch, 1. Double plays—White. Mack and Kerins; Mack, White and Kerins. * Cincinnati, July 4.—Tho first Sunday game of the sason drew *6,000 persons to the ball park to see the Athletics shut out by the Cincinnatis. Good fielding and superior batting on the part of the home team gave them the victory. McPhee, Fennelly, Bierbauer and Quest distinguished themselves iu the field, while Jones's one handed catch of Bierbauer’s long fly, in the ninth inning, is said to be unsurpassed in base ball. Score: Cincinnati „.0 0 2 3 1 0 0 2 * —B Athletics 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 o—o Earned runs —Cincinnati, 5. Home runs— Jones and Reilly. Three-base hit—Fennelly. Passed balls—O'Brien. 2. First base on balls— Off Pechinev, 3; off Clark, 2. Base hits—Cincinnati, 10; Athletics, 5. Errors—Cincinnati, 3; Athletics, 4. St XjOUIS, July 4.—The champions won another game from the Brooklyns to-day by hard hitting and faultless fielding. The game was practically won in the fifth inning, when, by bunching their hits and daring base running, the home team scored four runs. About 10,000 people witnessed the game. Score: fit. Louis 1 0 0 1 4 0 0 0 I—7 Brooklyn 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 o—l Earned runs—St Louis, 5; Brooklyn, 1. Twobase hits —O’Neil, Peoples, Bushong. Threebase hit—Nieol. Total bases on hits—St Louis, 14: Brooklyn. 6. Sacrifice hits—Swartwooa, O’Neil, McClellan. Left on bases —St. Louis, 2; Brooklyn, 6. Struck out —By Caruthers, 2; by Terry, 1. Double plays—Smith. McClellan, Fhiliins. Bases on called balls—Off Caruthers. off Terry, 3. Passed balls—Peoples, 2. W'ild itch—Terry, 1. Killed iu a Church by a Woman, Charleston. S. C., July 4.—About the Ist of me. in Barnwell county, John Steadly was tblicly cowiiided, by W. T. Connelly and Al. •it, for circulating slanderous reports about Connelly’s sister Emma. At Hunter's Chapel Church, this morning, while the Snudav-school was in session, Steadly was shot and killed by Emma Connelly, who gave herself up to the authorities after the shooting. A “Reformed Catholic” Roughly Handled. Wil KRSBARRE, Pa.. July 4.—The third attempt of John Daly, the “reformed Catholic,” to speak in River Park, this afternoon, proved another failure, as tha immense crowd present pushed him towards the river, and in a minute

he and the police were shoved over the bank to the water's edge. He made co further attempt to talk. Many of the persons who were present were of the opinion that Daly received very harsh treatment. Losses by Fire. Reaping, Pa., July 4.—'This morning fire consumed about half of John Boaz's lumber-yard. Loss, $12,000 to $15,000. The fire was caused by a fire-cracker carelessly thrown into a lumberpile. Detroit. July 4.—An Ovid special to the Free Press says fire this morning driginated in E. M. Buckley’s store and destroyed four stores, causing a loss of $20.0(H), on which there was about $17,000 insurance. Several accidents occurred during the fire. ANNUAL MARCH OF THE EELS. The Amusing Way in Which the Wrigglers Get from the Sea to the Mountains. Milft.rd (Pa.) Letter in New York bun. Visitors to the Sawkill Falls, a famous cataract a mile from this village, may witness a novel sight at this time or year if they climb down into the gorge at the foot of the falls, and look closely at the bed of moss that covers the face of the rock on either side of the great body of water that tumbles over the precipice. The moss will be seen to bo alive with what at first sight the stranger w ill take to be a myriad of worms two or three inches long, wriggling and squirming upward in a very evident endeavor to reach the top of the ledge. * If the stranger should ask a native what kind of worm it is that is so persistently engaged in this endeavor to squirm its way to tho sulimit, the native would undoubtedly reply: “Them hain’t worms, boss. Them’s eels.” And so they are —young eels that have made their way up from their birthplace in the great beds of mud At tidewater of the Delaware, a hundred miles below, and which are only one small body of the main column that rushes up the river. Other portions of the main army are advancing in the same manner up all the streams that come down from the mountains on either side of the valley, and unite their waters with the river, each body trying in the same way to overcome obstacles similar to the Sawkill Falls in its progress toward the headwaters. This annual march, as it may be called, of the young eels from tidewater to the upper portions of the rivers and its branches is a most interesting sight. Standing on the bank of the river, the spectator may see the great living column pushing steadily onward. The mass re6emble3 a huge serpent. It moves near the shores. It is very black, and from eight to twelve inches through. If the spectator waits to see the end of the moving mass he must remain on the shore for three or four days, for it will be that long in passing. The eels which form this great column are none of them more than two inches in length, many of thorn no larger around than a knitting-needle, and all of them are so compactly massed 'as to form an almost solid body. By the time the smallest of the eel3 have gone*one hundred miles up the river they will be of a length of two or three inches, so rapidly does the eel fry grow. The compact, form in which those young eels make their exodus from the brackish waters of the lower river is retained until they reach the rapid upper waters, where, as stated, large bodies deploy into the different creeks. These separa tiona from the main column are mAde as if by prearrange men t. Daring the strange journey up -the river the moving mass ia open to the attacks of marauding pickerel, black bass, and other ravenous inhabitants of the river, which lie in wait among the rocks and weeds along the shore, and prey to repletion on the tender fry. A pickerel will dart from hi3 lurking place upon the eels, and daub clear through the column with his ponderous jaws wide open, and fill his capacious mouth at one swoop. A slight commotion in the line will follow these assaults, but the next instant the ranks will be again solidly formed. The eel that was no larger than a milliner’s needle when it left the place of its nativity in the spring, will be a foot or more in length when it starts on its return to tide, as naturalists agree that it invariably does, next fall. In passing ud the Sawkill ereek the young eels successfully scale two or three high dams on their way to the falls. They wriggle their way up through the moss on the rocks at the falls with apparent ease, but, although they have undoubtedly been doing the same thing for ages, it is evident that none has ever succeeded in getting over the top of the precipice, for there are no eels in the creek above the fails, while the stream below the cataract is alive with them. The jutting rocks at the summit of the ledge prove qu Insurmountable barrier to tneir further progress. But while the young eels have never succeeded in getting above the Sawkill Falls -and populating the upper waters of this creek, there are other streams emptying in the Delaware and presenting obstacles which to any spectator would seem to be greater than the Sawkill cataract, where the eels attaiu their object, for these streams and the mountain lakes which are their headwaters are famous eel grounds. This is notably the case in the outlet of Metaqua pond in Sullivan county, New York, and the outlet of Wescoline pond in this county. On the former there is a perpendicular waterfall 100 feet in height. On the Wescoline outlet there are several high dams, one of them a wall of solid masonry twenty feet high. Yet in the waters above all these obstacles the eel fisherman sets his eel lines or his traps and launches his barbed spear with a success seldom met with elsewhere. If the naturalist denies that the eel can surmount the rocky barriers thus placed in its way, then he must abandon his stubborn theory that the eel necessarily returns to salt water to breed. It would seem from the fact that the fry are unable to scale the Sawkill Falls, and that there are no eels above the falls; that the tidewater-breeding theory is correct: but then there are other facts well known in this region that would 6eem to disprove that theory. There are lakes, high among the hills, notably Parker’s lake, in the lower part of Pike county, which present no apparently possible channel by which eels could reach these waters in their journey from salt water. Yet they contain eels in abundance and of the finest quality. Some naturalists maintain that eels can journey from long distances over land from one water to another. That might be possible in some instances, where a moist and level stretch of country was the connecting link; but it would beau amazingly gifted ar.d tenacious eel that could make the trip from the nearest branch of the Delaware, over the high barrens of Pike county, to Parker’s lake, BALD-HEADED MEN OF TO-DAY. A Wig-Maker Thinks tha' the Style of Louis XIV Will Soon Come Into Vogue, New York Mail and Express. “Bald-headed men don’t wear wigs now as they once did years ago,” sadly said a wig-maker to a reporter yesterday. They don’t seem to care if they do show a sleek, clean pate, especially the married men and confirmed old bachelors. They look upon the absence of hair as a badge of intelligence or conspicuous popularity. Maybe they are right, but our profession doesn’t think so. Our principal customers are actors and women. The latter cannot stand the slightest trace of baldness, and are williug to pay well for a fine wig. Many women in society wear wigs, but they are so well made and matched in color to the natural hair that detection is improbable. Human hair is cheaper and in more demand than formerly, hence there is no necessity for anybody going through life bald-headed. I deal in all parts of the United States, and after an ex perienceof forty-five years I received an order three weeks ago for two wigs for negroes They were the first of the kind within my recollection. They wanted them curly or kinky. “Fashion ropeats itself, and my impression is that within the next decade the powdered wigs of the time of Louis XIV will come into vogue. They had style in those days. Tha head was the center to dress from then, and a cavalier made an imposing appearance. Now a big walking cane and a high collar constitute the modern cavalier. Bald heads must go. Even Usesar wore a crown of leaves to hide his bald ness, but these parquette bachelors have lost all pride. A Man of Nerve and Gall. Lowell ( Matin.) Citizen. I tell you what it is, Jenkins is a smart man. Skinner, who owed him SSO 000, put his property in his wife's hands and snapped his fingers at Jenkins. Jenkins is a masher, and made an im pression on Mrs. Skinner, who went to Chicago, got a divorce and then married Jenkins. Now Jenkins snaps bis fingers at Skinner, and hopes to get the property in his own hands, and tb** wife back on Stunner's. Don’t you forget, that Jenkins is a whole team.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, JULY 5, 1880.

THE PEKIL OF NEW ORLEANS. The City’s Narrow Escape from Destruction by the Guns of Farrugut’s Fleet, Interview with Ben Butler. “They will put up a monument in New Orleans for you some day,"suggested a friend, ironically. “I should not be surprised,” said Butler, quickly. The mention of New Orleans started the General on a train of interesting reminiscences. One incident be recalled of the entry of tfee Union forces into the Southern metropolis that may not be very generally known. In brief, before Butler arrived with his troops, Admiral Farragut steamed up in his flagship, the Hartford, followed by his fleet, and took possession of the city in the name oi the United States government A company of marines was sent on shore and shortly after the stars and stripes were floating over the custom-house. The city was captured, but not subjected, and Admiral Farragut, apprehending that some attempt might be made to take down the colors, arranged a plan of action in case the attempt should be made. A couple of howitzers were fastened in the rigging of the Hartford and a man stationed at each one. From this elevated position the lookouts could command 1 a good view of the cus-tom-house and the town. They were instructed at the first indication of an attempt to haul down the flag to fire their guns. A broadside from the Hartford would follow, and this would be the signal for the whole fleet to open fire on the city. The next day was Sunday. Farragut, who was a very religious man, had ordered all hands below for prayers, only the officer of the day and the two lookouts remaining abovA deck. Rain threatened at the time and the fyses for igniting the big guns when in place were exposed to the weather. The officer, wishing to save tho fuses from being •spoiled, went around to each gnu and removed them to a place of shelter. Suddenly the flag was seen to go down from the custom-house. The lookouts fired their howitzers, and the prayers below came to an abrupt ending. Officers and men rushed up on deck and took their places. The thoughtfulness of the officer of the day in removing the fuses caused a slight delay, and before the broadside could be delivered, the lookoutß reported to the Admiral that they saw no indication of a disturbance or unusual excitement in the streets, and Farragut concluded that the hauling down of the flag was the act of some reckless person and not a revolt of the city, as it was afterwards found. He, therefore, decided to investigate the matter first, and gave the order to hold the fire. Nothing could have prevented the total destruction of New Orleans if the fleet had once commenced to shell the town. Farragut’B religious habits saved the city. Had he remained on deck, the fuses would not have been touched, and the broadside signal would have been given without delay, Mulford is the name of the man who exposed New Orleans to such peril by tearing down the American flag from the custom-house. He was a gambler by profession, and committed the deed m a spirit of reckless bravado. After the flag had been taken down it was torn to bits by Mulford and a party of his associates, and pieces of it were used to decorate their coats. Mulford tied a long strip of the flag in -his buttonhole, and had it on when he was arrested by General Butler a few days later. Mulford paid for his foolishness with his life. He was tried and sentenced to be hanged. Even after his sentence Mulford refused to believe that he would be executed, and he maintained this belief up to the last moment. “They will not dare to hang me," he said. Strone pressure was brought to bear on General Butler to spare Mulford’s life. What made the case more dramatic was that Mulford's wife was a Massachusetts woman, and she had a family of five little children. She pleaded hard for hqr husband’s life, but without success. An •Id Presbyterian minister called at Butler’s headquarters and began a long argument for Mulford's life. “Show your greatness by being merciful,” he said. “’Tis but a stroke of your pen.” “Yes.” replied Btnler, “a stroke of my pen would save him. and a stroke of my pen would put you in his place! It is because I have the power that I cannot afford to be governed by sentiment That man has forfeited his life, and he roust die.” Butler had in his service anumberof Northern detectives, and they gained quite a reputation for their work in New Orleans. Bnt Butler said the most valuable information was furnished him by the negroes. They were allowed to come to his headquarters freely, and although they brought bushels of chaff they also brought some grain. One evening a party of fifteen men met'at a private dinner and amused themselves by abas ing Butler and denouncing the government. The next day all the facts were reported to headquarters by one of the negroes who had waited on the party. Butler sent for them all to come to his headquarters at a certain hour. When they were all assembled in his office he said: “Gentlemen, you were at a dinner together laßt evening, and when the wine was in and the wit without, you were pleased to speak in disrespectful terms of myself. That is of no consequence. But what is of consequence is that you also abused the government of the United States. That I forbid. Gentlemen, it must stop. I shall overlook it this time, but let me hear no more of it iu the future.” The party were.thunderstruck and eyed each other suspiciously as they left the room, wonderine who had given them away. That was the effect Butler wished to produce, “and,” he said yesterday, “the results were very wholesome.” ENGLISH AS SHE IS WROTE. How a German Professor “Kidnaped” Some Good Words. William Drysdalo. in New York Times. Some day when you want to convince yourself that you don’t know anything at all about the English language, take up a dictionary and go to looking out the spelling and pronunciation of words you think you know all about. Any dictionary wiil do, but Webster’s preferred. 1 did this this morning, and now I make haste to write this before the language gets away from me entirely. It changes so much I expect in a short time to have to fall back on the twenty or thirty words of Spanish I know, and give up English altogether. Several queer modes of spelling and pronunciation that 1 have come across in the last week called my attention to this thing and I looked them up in Webster. I had the satisfaction of finding that in each instance I was wrong according to the dictionary. There is only one thing for a man to do under such circumstances—he must stick it out on his own eround, ana contend that the dictionary is wrong. That is what Ido in the Jtbree instances I am about to mention. In mv brief etymological researches to-day, I did something that I suppose few people have done —I read the preface to tho dictionary. It was a brash undertaking, but it paid, for I found out in a minute why we could not agree in some pronunciations and spellings. Here is what I read: “In preparing for the present revision (1882) the attention of both the editor and the publishers was first directed to the etymology. They were aware that, however admirable the industry and valuable the cor tributions of Dr. Webster in this department, trie science of comparative philology was by no means perfect in ins time, if, indeed, it could be said to exist at all. It is only within a very few years that the true principles on which this science rests have been suggested and confirmed, and the methods have been determined by which future invest igations may be successfully prosecuted. * * * In 1854 arrangements were made with Dr. C. A. F. Mahn, of Berlin, Prussia, to undertake this task. Dr. Mahn was recommended by gome of the most distinguished scholars of Germany as admirably qualified for the service, and he had been favorably known by special researches in this department. He has employed several years upon the work, and has performed it in a manner worthy of his high reputation.” That settled it; my spelling and pronunciation in New York, in 1886, were to be governed by the opinion of n Prussian in Berlin, in 1854. There was no more to be said, and I called in a very strong man, who sometimes works about the yard, to put the dictionary back on the shelf. Now for two of the words where Prussian English and American English clash. The principal of a very good school in New Jersey and I were talking about history the other day. I happened to mention Motley’s “Rise of the Dutch Republic.” “You mean the ‘Rice of the Dutch Republic,’” said he, pronouncing the word Rise just as I have spelled it, Rioe. . “No I don't," said I, “mean anything of the kind ” “But that word is Rice, not Rise, when used as a noun.” said he, l was incredulous, and wo took down a copy of Webster, which was the nearest to hand. Bure enough, Webster gave it Ris, for the noun, to

distinguish it from Riz, the verb. The principal was right According to Webster I must say “The Rice of the Dutch Republic." “Now, what do you think about it!" asked the principal. “I think that Webster is a donkey,” I replied, and though this opinion was only a private one, I see no reason to change it now. How many Times readers would have the sublime cheek to say that there “has been a great rice in the price of corn?” The hand of Dr. Mahn shows here, and the place—Prussia, and the date—lßs4 “Then how would you pronounce s-q-u-a-l-o-r?" the principal asked. “Why, squalor, of course,” I told him. “You’re wrong aeain,’' said ha “The pronunciation is squa-lor," (squay-lor.) We looked that up, and so it was. according to Webster. More Prussian English! Let me give a sample: “The family, before their Rice in life, had lived in Cherry street in great Squay lor.” That English might do in Berlin; it won’t pass in New York. Now for one sample of Prussian-English spelling. I read in the Times yesterday that a child had been kidnaped. Ah! I thought, what new crime is this to Kidnape? I looked in Webster and found that he gave his weighty (ten to fifteen pounds) authority for “kidnaped.” Here is the band of the Prussian again. “Kid” is good colloquial English for child, and is uot slang, as is often supposed. “Nab,” or “nap,” is also good English for catching, taking hold of. So when you kidnap, you literally nab a kid. The past tense of nab. according to Webster, is nabbed. The past tense of nap is napped. So I respectfully submit that the past tense of kidnap is kidnapped, our friend in Berlin to the contrary notwithstanding. I hope that Mr. Webster’s ghost, when he gives us the next edition, which will probably be about the size of a seashore cottage, will stick to the English and let| the Faderland alone. We must have everything truly English in New York, whether it’s in a dog-cart, a dude, or a dictionary. THE LESSON OF OHIO. Gov. Foster Tells How the Republicans Were Beaten by the Prohibition Question. Washington Special to Philadelphia Times. “I tremble for General Beaver and the Repubcan party of Pennsylvania in the comine campaign,” said ex-Governor Foster, of Ohio, tonight. “Republicans are confident of winning this time.” “I am glad to hear it, and sincerely hope they will. I know Beaver and like him, but I see by the platform adopted last Wednesday that the Republican party of Pednsylvania is going to wrestle with the prohibition question. The Republicans of Ohio tried it in 1882 and got wiped out, but the fight had to come some rime. Foraker, when candidate for Governor the first time, was defeated through the organization of the liquor interests in the State against prohibition. There was a large and increased Prohibition vote, nine-tenths of which came out of the Republican party. The Democrats threw out certain promises which drew the strength of the liquor interests to them and they won. The second time Foraker ran we won. The Democrats had a chance to fulfill their premises to the people. They failed to keep them, ro the State went back into the hands of the Republicans, and is likely to stay there.” “What has become of prohibition?” “It is not a party issue any more in Ohio. On that issue now the Democrats would gain nothing. The Republicans have tried to handle the subject fairly. The masses begin to see that they are the chief sufferers from the growing evils of intemperance. The statistics of the State of Ohio show the enormons sum of $70,000.000 expended in one year on rum. Os that sum not less than fifty millions were spent by people who had not the money to spend in that way, and therefore kept themselves in poverty and their families in destitution and want. It was also shown that the taxes of the people of tho State were increased five million*, of dollars from the direct conaecjuenoes of intemperate use of alcoholic stimulants. The people must be educated up to a knowledge of these facts. When they understand the enormity of the consequences, direct and indirect, upon themselves and their families they stop to think.” “The contest of the liquor interest in 1882 was formidable.” “More so than we ever had in Ohio politics. Every liquor-seller in the State contributed bis quota to a campaign fund. This was rated according to his business. The aggregate ran into the hundreds of thousands. Every liquor saloon from the Ohio to the lake was an electioneering post. The liquor men did not come out openly, but the work was done. Young men, forgetting the lessons of the horrors of drink taught them at their mothers' knees—old men, forsaking the interests of their eons—voted, at the behests of these men, with the Democratic party." “The prohibition vote is not as large iu Pennsylvania as in Ohio.” “That may be true. It is the Republican vote carried over to the Democratic party by the influences mentioned which did the damage in Ohio. The margin of majority is so large in Pennsylvania that the party has more room to work in. And the people may see the example of Ohio, and profit by it. The main point is that when a party ventures into this prohibition movement, as a party, it assumes a certaia factor of uncertainty which may or may not give it trouble. The liquor interests do not conduct campaigns with brass bands. After this campaign in Pennsylvania, the people will know more about the subject as a factor in politics. Public sentiment will then take shape, and party leaders will be prepared to meet the question in the interests of the party as well as of the people. There is no question that public sentiment, properly educated, will not hesitate long between unlicensed manufacture and sale of liquor, and regulated control of the liquor traffic. bu, with all deference to Colonel Quay’s shrewdness as a politician, solicitude for the success of the Republican party and regard for the welfare of tho people of the great commonwealth I read his proposition with fear for the party." “The question must be met in Pennsylvania, as in 0h.0.” “That is so, and should be. It must come in every State in this Union before many years, but I refer to the time of making the test We tried it on a Governor’s election. It was crowded on us, and we were sorely beaten, The result in Pennsylvania, as in Onio, will depend upon the ProhibitionUts. If the liquor interests organize, their duty will be with the pSrty that opposes them, not by separate action. That beat us. In Ohio to-day a large Democratic sentiment favors prohibition therefore, the vote now, as it was formerly, is not all one-sided.” The Cowboy Evangelist* Report of Ilia Kansas City sermon. Now I am speaking the truth. I said last night I was not going to tickle your ears. Somebody said the Cowboy was drunk because he spoke plain last night. Speaking plain is my way. I can’t help it, but I don’t believe it is a fault. It is not wrong to speak the truth. If you only knew how rough I used to be just oue year ago, you would think that the Cowboy is coming out mightily. One year ago when I would come whooping and yelling into a village, the doors would be fastened op my approach. I was tough then, but I have been improving mighty fast Somebody said 1 was drunk, because I spoke the truth to him. Well, when you catch the Cowboy drunk, you will be flying. This sanctified business is another thing I despise. There was an old lady at Keokuk, where 1 was preaching a short while ago, that said she was sanctified. I thought 1 would ask her a few questions, so I said: “Did you ever sin?” “I am sanctified,” she said.. “Did you ever sin?” I persisted. “No.” “Did you ever tell a lie?” “N-n—n—” “Look out there! You bad better stop or you will tell another one." She tumbled right onto herself then, and I guess she will not try to play the holiness racket on any one again, very soon. Calves kept gaining vigorously through the first year are worth at the end twice as much as others that have been retarded in growth. Irregularity in salting will not conduce to the laying on of flesh. Especially in dairying will irregularity in salting show in the milk. 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CHINESE SERVANTS. Mrs. Baldwin Tells Why She Petitioned Congress for the Right to Import Them. Boston llendd. A tall, slender lady, with strongly marked features, caressed a bricht-eyed tot of three years in a maternal fashion last evening in the cosy parlor of the pastoral residence of Rev. Dr. Baldwin (of the Saratoga street Chnrch), at No. 85 Lexington street. East Boston. The mother ly-appearing person was Pastor wife, the author of the recently presented petition to Congress for leave to import a Chinese house servant. The publicity given this petition has brought Mrs. Baldwin into widespread prominence almost at a single bound, because of her emphatic expressions of disapproval regarding the capabilities of the do mestic of to day as compared with the Mongolian serving man or maid. Clad mo lastly in a dress of sombre dark material and v *iring her silverstreaked brown hair parted low on an intellectual forehead and demurely coiled at r e back, Mrs. Baldwin’s was a picture of perfect domes ticity rather than that of one who would be prejudiced as anxious to wrestle with a muchmooted question of international importance. “My object in offering this petition} Well, I am free to admit that it was not altogether a selfish one. I had two objects in view in presenting that petition. One was, of course, for my own need. The other, and the principal one, was to emphasize the unreasonableness and injustice of our anti-Chinese laws. It’s a fact that lam a freer woman in any country than I am in the United States; that is, as far as housekeeping goes. A woman has, to my mind, far more opportunities for accomplishing good in any other country than ourown. Why? Because her time is not in the least interfered with by the supervision of servants.” “Are you willing to place yourself on record, Mrs. Baldwin, as classing the ‘heatheu Chinee’ far to the front as a servant over his Christian co-laborers?” ventured the Herald reporter. “1 haven’t the slightest hesitancy whatever in telling the public that, in my opinion, the Chinese are the superiors of any nation on earth in the practice of domestic duties,” replied the lady. “I consider the Chinese unapproachable hi their duties as house servants. This conclusion is arrived at after years of experience among them. You most know that Mr. Baldwin and myself have passed .twenty years of our lives in China. In 1862, within three weeks of our marriage, we sailed for India and the Celestial empire, commissioned to perform ecclesiastical missionary work. Most of that time was utilized in the Flowery Kingdom of the tea leaf. Four of our five living children were born in China. My youngest, this little elf I have in my lap. is truly American born. Two of our offspring lie calmly reposing’neath the sod in China. Our residence Vag at Foochow, which is the head-centre of the greatest tea-producing district in the empire. Os course, my children were always looked after by Chinese nurses and governesses. And, as a natural consequence, they all learned the language of the country first, in fact, not until they arrived at the age of four, five or six years, was it deemed prudent to attempt to impart to them the language of their parents. Naturally, their little brains could barely stand the pressure of struggling with two languages at the same time. When leaving China four years ago we brought with us our up-stairs man servant, ICa-Ku. He was as thoroughly familiar with the duties of the kitchen as he was with those of any portion of the household, and, in addition, he had become a most devout Christian. We held oar family prayers in Chinese every other morniog, and he took his turn in praying with thb rest of the household. KaKu was most Godlike iu his devotional exercises, and the prayers that used to issue from his lips were astonishing in their applicability to the requirements of the person or the situation. He fitted his prayers to the needs of all the members of our family. In that hot climate it was necessary to employ! at least four or five servants to a family. The fewest we ever had was three. In all the time we lived in China, what with our entertaining, and there was no inconsiderable of the latter from the fact that Dr. Baldwin was at one time vice-consul for at least four nations) and our rather excessive household duties, there was hardly a breach or drawback in the direction at consummation of household affairs from the kitchen to the garret. ” “Why not —if you think so highly of Mongolian nionials, Mrs. Baldwin —engage some of those at present located in the divers red-painted laundries in this country?” questioned the reporter. "I have two reasons for not employing any of the Chinese at present in this country,” answered Mrs. Baldwin. “First, I speak the Fookinese dialect, and have the person in mind that I wish to employ; second, and* the question has already been answered in my previous statements. I wish to reopen the question of Chinese importation by giving Congress an opportunity to again discuss the merits or demerits of this outrageous anti-Chinese law. The immigrants of to-day are, and always have been, from the district of Canton.—from the six districts of Canton, more properly speaking. There is a far different patois from that of Foochow. The six companies of San Francisco are falsely charged with bringing these people over to America. It is not so. One point in my petition to the honorable Senate and House of Representatives, which I have not yet seen published, is this: ‘To relieve Congress of any embarassment in the objectionable term, laborer, I will promise to secure a person who would be so skilled in his work beyond anything I have found hero that he may be termed “artist or professor.”’ ” “What has been your experience, Mrs. Baldwin. since your arrival in this country, with domestics —that is, how many different ones have you had and of what nationality?” “During the first twelve months following our arrival here, four years ago,” said Mrs. Baldwin, “I was forced to employ twelve different cooks. This was at Newark, N. J. One cook, a robust Irish lass, remained with us only ten hours. Her abrupt departure was due entirely to |the |presence of Ka-Ku, who, I presume, I have already told you emigrated with us to America in 1882. This Milesian maiden objected strenuously to eating at the game table with the Mongolian, although it was entirely optional with her whether she did so or not Ka Ku left us iu September 1884. We were sorry indeed to lose him. A nwre faithful worker, or one more devoted to the welfare of my children it would be almost impossible to find.” “Have you heard from the public to any extent since the publication of your petition?” **l have received a number of communications,” replied the lady. “Most of them were not of a congratulatory character. This morning I received a most insuiting letter from a woman in New York. Its contents would be of no interest to the public. I also received one from Haverhill. I feel assured that the latter was written at the instigation of the Knights of Labor. I haven’t a doubt that ray name is on the black list of the Knights of Labor, in consequence of the frank expression of my views contained in mv petition. A peculiar circumstance was that, out of the daily receipt of letters anent the subject, those who took umbrage against my expressed views as recarda Chir ese and other servants were confined to the New England States almost altogether. In one letter I received the other day from the West the writer said she desired me to have the thanks of one housekeeper, at least, for my courageous and wholly independent action.” The gentle defender of the almond-eyed inhabitants of the Celestial empire here lapsed into a most roseate description of existence in China, and waxed eloquent in upholding the bland-like Chinaman against his traducers. She exampled the shooting in cold blood of scores of Chinamen in the far West, recently, and the calm attitude of China in connection therewith. Summarizing the latter part of her recital, Mrs. Baldwin presented a great many points of painfully apparent injustice which had been inflicted upon the “yellow man,” and added that were it not for the fact she had lived in other countries, her faith in Christianity would, bjr this time, have been well nigh shattered. PAYING OFF. How the Members of Congress Get Their Money Each Week. Washington Hatchet.. It is interesting to watch the way in which Uncle Sam’s sons draw on the old man at the Capitol. Take the lower House. The bank for the members is conviently situated alongside the Speaker's room at the west side ot the wing, and is conducted as any other banking house. Checks on it are good commercial paper anywhere in the country. There are seven men connected with the management of the

bank, iuclnding the Sergeant-at-arme. The Deputy Sergeant-at-arms gets $2,000 per annum, the cashier $3,000, the book-keeper the paying teller $2,000, the messenger $1,300, the page $720, and a laborer $5 a dav during the session. There is an average of $150,000 in the safe while the House is in session. When money is needed the messenger goes to the Treasury with the proper papers, accompanied by a Capitol policeman, and returns in a street-car, usually with about $40,000. If there is a call for a larger sum the Sergeant-at-arms jumps into a carriage and goes after it himself. The pay of the members begins the4th of March after their election, and a check is sent them every month, unless they otherwise direct Their accounts are certified by the Clerk ot the House, as there is then no Speaker. The pay of a member is $416.66 per month, but to avoid fractions they are paid $416 for four months and $417 for eight months. Tbo Treasurer only recognizes and makes payments. Many an old member is nu* der the impression that his per diem is alwaya placed to his credit, and could be drawn out before every sunset, but he is mistaken. The $5,000 per annum is divided into twelve installments at Mr. Manning's end of the line. JuVhe* a member dies his pay ceases on the day of his death. The salary of the successor commences the day after the decease of the former member, though the election may not occur for several months. The new member, in other words, draws pay for time he never serves. The members draw their money in different ways. There are probably twenty of the present House who let their salaries run into nesteggs. Among these are Scott and Everhardt, of Pennsylvania; Powell, of Illinois: Boutelle, of Maine; Healy, of California; Jones, Stewart, and Reagan, of Texas; Ellsbury, of Ohio; Stone, of Massachusetts, and Wakefield, of Minnesota. Scott has over a year’s salary owing him—about $6,000. The other members mentioned have front SI,OOO to $3,000 to their credit There are a couple of dozen of members who always overdraw, or rather borrow from the head of the bmk. They borrow, or get in advance, sums ranging from $lO to S3OO, and at the end of the month they have nothing. The great majority of the membors draw all that is coming to them at the end of each month, particularly those who have their families with them. Some of them never see an outside bank, but let their monthly salary remain, and draw it out in small sums. Others take out their salaries and place them in other banks. But this not done as much* as formerly. A number of them got caught ia the Middleton Bank that broke some time ago. Most of the members do all their financial business over the counter of the Congressional Bank, and some of them pile checks up as high as $60,000 in a single session. The employes of the House, 150 strong, are paid off at this bank as a matter of accommodation. During the long sessions $60,000,000 pass through the wire wicket of the House bank. Charged with Bigamy. At Edinburg, yesterday morning, Constable Reinhold, of Dogberry Row, this city, arrested William Morris, a section hand on the J., M. A I. railroad, on a charge of bigamy. It is reported that Morris has three living wives, one of whom is in Indianapolis. He arrived in Edinburgr last March with his last wife from Greenwood. Indiana, where his parents reside. Morris to twenty-eight years old, said to be sober and industrious, and his arrest caused considerable stir at Edinburg, where, during his short residence), he had come to be well tbonght of. The queer thing about the arrest is that though he started with Constable Reinhold, of Dogberry Row, for Indianapolis, neither the jail nor the station-house contains any record ot Morris’s arrival. Reinhold was found at hl home late last night, but would give no answer to the reporter’s queries concerning his prisoner. Morris could almost be forgiven his escape and justice be thoroughly satisfied had he taken Reinhold with him. The best bred stock costs the most money, bul its produce brings a great deal more than tht produce of that which is badly bred.

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