Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 January 1887 — Page 2

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'lectorship of Port Townsend. W. T., has been made a special aeent of the Treasury Depart

ment at a salary of ometh.ng over $3,000 a year. fThere is nothafcg like standing in with the mugwumps now that the campaign of 1 838 is approaching. General and Personal. (pedal to the Jrdianapolis Journal. Washington, Jan. 9. Mrs. Orrin Warner, of Fort Wayne, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Charles Bryan, at the corner of Seventh and H streets Northwest, and Samuel' Fisher and bride, also of Fort Wayne, are at Willard's. Indiana Democrats here say that Representatives Holman and Matson, who are holding up senatorial lightning rods at Indianapolis, are not expected to return here before February. Representative Bynura arrived to-night. Dakotans say that Tom Hanlon will not be appointed register of the United States land office at Deadwood, to succeed Lnse, because his appointment would not be confirmed. Those who havo listened closely say they begin to hear a senatorial bee buzzing in Representative Howard's hat, which is a new beaver bought for the occasion. DAILY WEATHEK BULLETIN'. Indications. Washington; Jan. 10, 1 A. M. Special indications for twenty-four hours from 7 a. m. for Indiana Slightly: warmer, fair weather. t:.', For Ohio Colder, wosterly winds; fair weather. .. , . For Illinois and Indiana Colder westerly winds, shifting to slightly warmer southerly; fair weather. . " . For Eastern Michigan Colder, westerly winds; fair weather, except snow on the east coast ot Lake Michigan. For Western Michigan and Wisconsin Cold, westerly, shifting to warmer southerly winds; fair weather. Local Observations. Indianapolis, Jan. 9.

Time. Bar. Ther. Hum. Wind. Weather Rain 6 A.M.. .30.00 22 98 S'east Lt. snow 0.15 2 p. M... 20.05 19 82 West Lt. snow 0.01 9 P.M... 30.05 7 81 West, Clear. J

Maximum temperature, 24; minimum euro, 7. . : "Snow-fall too small to measure. temperaGeneral Observations. - Wab Department, Washington. Jan. 9. 11:40 p. m. Observations taken at the same moment of time at ill stations. W s i o B o 8 i 3 o 3 a CCS. 3. e g. v 5 P STATIONS. o New York City 129.93 Washington City. . . 129.92 Vlcksbarg, Miss.... 130.1 8 New Orleans. La....30.08 Shreveport, La. 30.28 24Neast .31Lt snow. .OllLtsnow. 24 i South 27;Nwest 43 N west Cloudy. Cloudy. Clear. 23 Nwest 12'Nwest 17 i Nwest rort Smith, Arlc....yo.-jr Clear. Clear. Clear. Clear. Cloudy. Little Rock. Ark..'. ;o.22 (Ja'veston, Tex. . Memphis. Tenn..".. Nashville, Tenn.... Louisville, Ky...... Indianapolis. Ind... Cincinnati, O Pittsburg. Pa Oswego, N. Y Toledo, O EjCtttiaba. Mich.... Marquette. Mich... Chicago. Ill Milwaukee, Wis.... Duluth, Minn St. Paul, Minn LaCresse. Wis...... Davenport, la...... 30.26 30.20 30.08 30.10 30.05 32i Nwest 18 West 23; Nwest' 16! Nwest .02 Cloudy. Clear. Cloudy. 7 j West 30.03 16Nwest! 33 ;S west 29.53 .07 Lt snow. 29.70 29.87 29.89 29.87 29.93 lOSouth .04 Hy snow Cloudy. 14 'Sweat OjSwest 6 West r air. Fair. 6; Nwest Clear. 29.91 29.93 30.00j 30.03 3O.08 30.12 6, Nwest Clear. Fair. 0;S west OjWest 2 South Clear. Clear. iClear. Clear. 4 S west Des Moines, la..... Keokuk, la Cairo. Ill Springfield. Ill ! St. Louis, Mo Lamar, Mo LeaTenworth, Kan. Omnha, Neb Yankton. Dak Moort?head, Minn... Bismarck. Dak Fort Buford. Dak.. Ft. AssinilKjine. M.T. Fort Custer. M. 'P.. Deadwood. Dak North Platte, Neb.. Denver, Col W.Las Animas. Col. Dodge City. Kan... Fort Elliott, Tex... . Tort Sill, Ind. T.... 41 West 1 West 30.11 30.18 30.14 Clear. Clear. Clear. Clear. Clear. 13!Nwest 3 West 13iWest GjWeet 2' South 30.17 3O.30 3122 Clear.. iCleat. Clear. 30.20

0 Nwest OWest 14 Nwest 3 Calm 8 Swest 14 8 west 9:S'east

30.15 30.17 Cloudy. Cloudy. 30.18 30.03 air. 29.99 Clear. 30.07 Fair. Clear. . Fair. Clear. Clear. Clear. 30.23 8 West 30.05 23 West 9; West 30.30 30.29 30.22 8 Swest 14 Nwest Clear. Clear. Clear. Ciear. Clear. 30.3 22; West Fort Davis. Tex 30.14 46 Swest El Paso, Tex Salt Lake City, U.T 30.19 43 West 30.24 25, South Ilenry George and the Catholics. Cincinnati, Jan. 9. The Sun will publish a sensational article to-morrow bearing on the prominence of Henry George in the labor world. Since Mr. George's candidacy in New York . laboring men have " been paying considerable attention to bis views, and Henry George clubs, composed of Knights of Labor, have been organized all over the country. A member of the Henry George Club in this city, in an interview, declares that the Catholic Churqh is bitterly opposed to Henry George's laud policy, and that it will use all its efforts to crush the Knights of Labor in case the latter organization support Mr. George. The article says that a meeting of Catholic bishops was held in Baltimore, before the Richmond convention, and that the Knights of Labor were given to understand that they had best re-elect Mr. Powderly, who, the Sun says, is devoted to his religion. , , , Fatal Railway Collision. Reading. Pa., Ja.-i. 9. An extra freight train, bound for Birdsboro, on the Wilmington & Northern railroad, ran into the rear end of another freight train, near Wawasset station, this morning. Conductor Henry Huberts and a man supposed to be William Martin, who was aiding in the caboose, were killed and their bodies badly burned. Brakeman Harry Kcox, of Reading, and fireman Phillips were injured. John Roach's Condition. New York, Jan. 9. This bulletin was furnished by Mr. John Roach's physician this evening: "The vital powers with Mr. Roach seem to have declined more rapidly to-day than at any time since his illness. He cannot hold out much longer." At 11:30 o'clock to-night a representative of Mr. Roach's family said there was no apprehension that Mr. Roach would die to-night Folice Officer Dangerously Shot New York, Jan. 9. Roundsman Robert Montgomery, of the Twenty-fifth precinct, who was last night twice shot by Officer O'Rourke, whom he found off post, is in a critical condition. He says O'Rourke asked if he intended to report him, and was answered affirmatively. Montgomery left him, and while his back was turned thus. O'Rourke shot him through the wrist, and then, as his victim turned, shot him through the body, piercing his liver. Insanity of a Distinguished Lawyer. New York, Jan. 9. Sterne Chittenden, a well-known lawyer of this city, has bsen declared by the physicians at Bellevue Hospital to be insane, and will be placed in an asylum. Some years ago he was regarded as one of the leaders of the New York bar, but his genius gradually degenerated into eccentricity and finally into insanity. He is a native of Columbus, O., and his family is a well known and influential one in the State. Steamship Jxews. London, Jan. 9. The Bretagne, from New York, arrived at Havre, to-day. The Peruvian, from Portland for Liverpool, arrived at Moville to-day. The City of Rio Janeiro, from San .Francisco, Dec 11, arrived at Yokohama. Frozen to Death. Billings, M. T., Jan. 9. Yesterday A. Cruthers, David Porter and John Thurston started to walk here from Coal Mine, twelve miles north. Cruthers only arrived alive, the other two beiog frozen to death. Mix. nxriRY J. Millek, Indianapolis, Ind., was cured of severe rheumatism by St Jacobs Oil.

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS. Something; About Two Jackson County Legislators Whone Seats May Be Contested. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Seymotjb, Ind., Jan. 9. The contested election case of Senator McDonald, of Jackson county, and the probability of a contest being filed against Representative Shields, also of Jackson county, has directed particular attention to these two members of the General Assembly. W. N. McDouald, Republican, who was elected joint Senator from Jackson and Lawrence counties by a majority of over six hundred, is of Scotch extraction; his father, a native of Kentucky, settled in Vernon township, this county, in 1823. "Nels," as the Senator is familiarly called at

home, is a true type of the native Hoosier, tall and raw-boned, born among the giant oaks of Jackson county. He daily displayed his faculty for taking advantage of his surroundings; he felled the oak, and by working it into staves caused the "monarch of the wood" to drop the dollars almost as thick about h'm, as it had once dropped the acorns about his rural home. He is probably the most extensive stave dealer in Indiana, and really has no time to be a statesman. It is not expected by his constituents that be will cause the dome of the Capitol to tremble with his eloquence, but regarding his honesty, good judgment, and his fidelity to Republicanism, there is no shadow of a doubt. He will meet every attempt to rob him of his lawful rights with a Scotch stubbornness, crossed with Kentucky grit and Hoosier fairness. William H. Shields, Democrat, elected Repre sentative from Jackson county, is a native of the county he represents. His father, the late Capt. Meedy W. Shields, was a native of Sevier county, Tennessee, a grandson of Stocton Shields, of Virginia, a captain in the Revolutionary war. M. W. Shields moved to Corydon, Ind., in 181L He settled in Jackson county in 1816, when there were but six white families in the county. In 1853 he laid out the town of Seymour. He was a member of the Indiana Legislature ic 1846 and 184S; in 1852 was elected Senator from Jackson and Scott counties; in 1856 he was aeain elected to the Senate from Jennings and Jackson counties; in I860 he was a delegate to the Charleston convention. 'He left an es'.ate valued at over $300,000. W. H. Shields, an uncle of the present member, was a member of the Legislature in 1840. W. H. Shields, the member elected to serve in th present House, is a man of fine physique. He is not a politician, in the true i sense, although tutored in the school of Jason Brown. It is not expected that Mr. Shields will be a Democratic leader if he retains his seat in the House, having no ambition to be a statesman. He is noted for hi cleverness and his fidelity to the Democracy of his father. He is somewhat of an aristocrat," and will take more interest in securing the best hotel and the best seat in the House than in legislation or parliamentary usages. Au Indiana Soldier Dead. Mr. Frank Jordan, an ex-soldier of Indiana, died last Friday week at Lincoln, D. T. He was well known to Indiana veterans and to the members of the Grand Army. He was the son of Mrs. D. M. Jordan, the well-known poetess, re siding at Richmond, where the burial occurred. He was highly esteomed, as evinced by the honors pail his mortal remains. A local paper says of the funeral services: "The soldiers met at the Grand Army Hall at lo clock. At 2, under the command of Captain Pollock, with flaes at half-mast and draped in mourning, with the drums muffled and with slow and solemn tread, thev marched to the residence of Mr. Jordan, on North Sixth street. and accompanied the remains from there to the episcopal t-nurcn, wnere tne religious services were held. The coffin was wrapped in his coun try s nag. At its head was a stand, a cross and a star, all combined in one piece and made out of various kinds of flowers and plants. It was pre sented with the compliments of F. W. Beach. A large harp of bloom stood near. It was presented by Miss Minnie Hantley, of Indianapolis. A large basket of splendid flowers. presented by Miss Anna Reed, sat near the foot of tha coffin. The soldiers presented a .large wreath, handsome and emblematic. After the services at St. Paul's were over the procession, with the drum corps at its head, marched to Earlham Cemetery, where the mortal part of Frank Jordan was laid to rest The burial services were those provided by the rules and regulations of the regular army of the United States. J. V. Rowlett officiating as chaplain, and Freeman Carrington as corporal in charge of the firing squad of eight men. Indiana Notes. Levi Cline, William Cline, George Good and Jacob Good were fined afCorydon, on Saturday, for stealing a raccoon from a trap belonging to John Pfnmmer. The coon hide cost the boys in the neighborhood of $o0. A gentleman living in Orange county, this State, has four daughters, named Priscilla. Paulma, Perilda and Polly. Priscilla was born on the 20th of March, Paulina on the 21st of April, Perilda on the 22d of May, and Polly on the 23d of June the four births occurring within three years and three months. Fred Seppe, a lumber dealer of Peru, died on Saturday from iu juries received on Friday. He was loading lumber on a mud boat, when the horses started, causing the boat to slide down an incline against a pile of lumber. Mc Seppe was caught ami pinioned between the boat an4 the lumber pile. His hips and abdomen were horribly crushed. Deceased was sixty years old. The M. E. congregation at Jollietteville, Ham ilton county, having erected and dedicated a splendid new brick church, are now enjoying a very successful revival under. the lead of their pastor, Rev. Davis, and forty hew members have been added. From the present outlook interest in the meetings seems to be on the increase, and the services will be continued for some time. There has been such great interest in the union services through the week of prayer at Noblesville that Elder Darst, of the Christian Church, will inaugurate revival services this week. Mr. Darst's services to his church have been such a3 to more than double the membership, and the auditorium, which has been once enlarged since he occupied the pulpit, is now crowded. Illinois Items. The supervisors of Sangamon county have ap propriated $5,000 to improve the fair-grounds at Springfield, and tendered them to the State Board of Agriculture. - Milton Burton, forty-five years of age, in illhealth, residing three miles from Centralia, com mitted suicide on Saturday by jumping bead first down a very deep welL Fred, noertge, aged thirteen; committed sui cide on Saturday, by haneing, at his home in west saiem, rewards county. The cause is said to have been over some trouble at school. A Cat To Be Shunned. New York, Jan. 9. Every strange eat in Flatbush is given a wide berth to-night by the inhabitants, and the board of health is wrought up to a high state of excitement over the com plications and disasters that may arise from the wanderings of one feline that has mysteriously disappeared. The family of Joseph Mauri were stricken with small-pox a few days ago. Mr. Mauri died in the hospital this morning, and his wife and three children are down with the dis ease. The health board took possession of the Mauri house yesterday and thoroughly fumigated it, but they found this morning that a cat belong ing to the household had strayed away, and they fear that it will spread pestilence wherever it may go. The animal was a pet of the children and slept with them. This, of course, renders the danger of infection more probable, and search of the town is being made for the animal Hibernians Seeking Harmony. Chicago, Jan. 9. A joint meeting of the American Board and Board of Erin, the two di visions of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, was held this afternoon to discuss the possibility of uniting the two elements into which the order was separated a few years ago by the refusal of the Board of Erin, located in Ireland, to recognize a delegate elected by the American branches. P. ONei presided over the meeting of the sections, the members of which sat upon opposite sides of the long hall. In a session lasting three hours many pleading and conciliatory speeches were

made by delegates on each side. A union was urged by Richard Powers in the name of the Catholic Church, whose prop he said the order was, and in the name of their suffering countrymen, whose brothers they all were. Another

speaker, Stephen Carmody, intimated that British spies had bad something to do with the existing differences. The spies, he said, were in every Irish society, fomenting differences. At the conclusion of the discussion it was agreed that each side should appoint a conference committee of seven to arrange a union. To-day's meeting, it is understood, is a direct outerowth of the recent convention of the Irish National League of America in this city. Prohibition in Rhode Island. New York Evenitie Post. . The first half-year of prohibition in Rhode Island ended with December, and the Provi dence Journal has compiled an interesting and valuable summary of the results. When the new system went into operation there were 444 places in the city licensed for the Bale of intox icating liquors, which paid an annual revenue of $131, 61& For several days after the 1st of July it was very difficult to buy liquor at any of these places, and a number or the dealers went out of the business, but as time went on the traffic began to revive, until now, the Journal says, "intoxicating beverages can be procured in any quantity, and in any locality, without much trouble or secrecy." The number of places where liquor was formerly sold, and is now to be obtained, is 288, to which must be added enough so-called "club-rooms, "opened by former saloon keepers for the benefit of their customers, to make the total number 404, under prohibition, or within 40 of the number under license. The arrests for drunkenness and crimes like as saults, which are largely attributable to intoxi cation, fell off very largely during the first weefcs after the change only 150 of the former and 8 assaults in Jnly, 1886, against 404 and 25 re spectively in Julv, 1885; but during the last three or four months the difference has steadily diminished, until, in December last, arrests for drunkenness reached 238, against 380 in Decem ber, 188u, while there was an increase in arrests for assaults from 11 in December. 1885, to 22 in December, 1886. The conclusion of the whole matter appears to be that, at the rate things are now drifting, there will soon be no material difference in Providence between the workings of license and prohibition, except in the fact that the community now derives no revenue from the traffic in drink, and the even more important fact that respect for all laws is diminished by the contempt shown for the law which is most talked about - Wine and Whisky. Prof. David Swing, in Chicaeo Journal. What the law should do is to prohibit the man ufacture and importation of distilled liquors and establish free-trade in pure erape juices. Vineyards would soon displace the grain fields, so far as they are planted for the distillery. Not that anybody needs wine, but because society does not follow the path of actual need, but follows also the path of pleasure. Under the law of limiting society to its needs tea, coffee, cake and mincepie would be forbidden. By the law of pleasure wi'ie might remain, but whisky and opium sb uld be declared the eternal enemies of hu manity, and should be exterminated like pirates. Whisky is the most fearful plagne which now rests upon the middle and poorer classes. Thousands of our laborers keep a small bottle of the vile fluid in their coat pocket and to it there is constant appeal. After a few years the victim goes to his bottle in the morning be fore he goes to work. He has become a drunk ard. Thus, astae men toiling in the canal of Panama die by hundreds and are hauled away J y car-loads, to be dumped like dead dogs into 'ditch, so all over our Nation and all the year through, are our workmen dropping their tools under the insanity and palsy of drink, and are falling into the final sleep. The De Jjesseps mortalitv rages for only ten years, and then a ship-canal, a good, will remain; but our whisky murder of the poor has been active for a hundred years, and leaves no result but public in jury. It is too much to ask of a reasonable age that it shall permit this slaughter of the people to continue. Obituary. Erie, Pa., Jan. 9. Elijah Babbett, the oldest resident of Erie, and probably the oldest prac ticing lawyer in the United States, died here to day in his ninetv-second year, lie was liorn in Providence, R I., admitted to the'Jafwr1824, served in tne btate legislature as itepresenta tive and Senator, and was Representative in Congress from 1858 to 1862. He tried a suit in court during the past summer, and retained his faculties to the last Lafayette, Ind., Jan. 8. Owen Ball, one of the oldest, and roost respected citizenB of Lafayette, died to-day, aged sixty-seven years. Mr. Ball has been prominently identified with Lafayette and her interests. He was the head of the wholesale grocery-house of Owen Ball & Co., and was for years connected with the City Council. Mr. Ball was the father-in-law of Col. John S. Williams, Third Auditor of the Treasury. A widow and ten children survive him. Olney, 111., Jan. 9. Judge Aa.-on Shaw died at his home, Friday night, at the age of seventysix years. Judge Shaw was a Democrat of the old school. He has held the position of State's attorney twice, was a member of the Legislature, a member of the Thirty-fifth Congress, circuit judge, and one of the most successful criminal lawyers in this part ot tne tate. Woman Shockingly and Fatally Horned. Arlington, Md., Jan. 9. Mrs. Charles Arden, aged twenty-eignt, was seated in a cnair under a Bwmging coal-oil" lamp, at her home here, on Saturday night, when the lamp became detached from its fastenings and dropped into her lap where it exploded. Mrs. A rden's cloth ing caught nre instantly. tier screams brought her husband to her assistance. Failing to smother the flames by wrapping her up in an overcoat, he carried her out into the yard and rolled her in the snow. He extinguished the flames, but his wife was so terribly burned that the flesh peeled off her limbs and body, and she died this morning. Mr. Arden was terribly burned while srying to save his wife. ' Ovations to Rev. Messaros. Philadelphia. Jan. 9. Rev. Waldo Messaros made bis first pulpit appearance since his sen sational trial at to-day s services in the Northwestern Church, and he devoted both his morn ing and evening discourses exclusively to the experience from which he emerged on New Year'sday. The previous announcement of his titles, "The Great Defender." in the morning, and "The Just Judge," in the evening, drew crowds to the building, which could not accommodate all who came. At the close of the services many pressed their way forward to shake hands with the minister, the reception lasting nearly an nour eacn time. Telegraphic Brevities. Charles Phelps, a well-known tenant in Flat woods, near Pomeroy, u., was robbed and mur dered by unknown parties Saturday night In tense indignation exists in the locality. John Povall, an Englishman thirty years old, residing at Cincinnati, took a dose of aconite Saturday nignt to cure a cold. becoming rapidly worse after midnight, his young wife set out m tne cold for a pnysician. upoi. her return tne husband was dying, and he expired at 3 o'clock yesterday morning. Engineer and Fireman Fatally Crashed. Pittsburg, Pa. Jan. 9. About 6 o'clock this evening, while shifting-engine 97, on the Pitts burg. Fort Wayne as C'hicago railroad, was standing on a siding at Manchester, Allegheny City, a train of coke was dashed into it, Engineer John Cnddle and fireman Fletcher Ague were both caught in the wreck and terribly crushed. It Is thought both men will die. Both engines were completely wrecked. The acci dent is attributed to negligence on the part of the switchman. neavy Judgments Against a Railway. Larned, Kan., Jan. 8. Two . important cases against the Atcnison, Topeka & Santa Fe Rail road Company have just been decided in the District Court here. David Clark -received a judgment for $G2,000 worth of property which was destroyed by fire, and $15,000 damages for the loss of his wife, who was burned at the same time. William Sly recovered a judgment for $25,000 for personal injuries. Failure of a Tea Company, Portland, N. H., Jan. 9. The Great Eastern Tea Company assigned yesterday for benefit of their creditors. Their assets are reported to be only one fifth of their liabilities.

TjABOR MATTERS.

One Hundred Thousand Miners Consolidated vInto a Single Organization. Hazelton, Pa., June 9. T"e Miners and La borers' Subdivision, No. 1, of district assembly, No. 135, representing one hundred thousand mine employes of the anthracite coal fields. which opened its convention here last Tuesday, concluded its proceedings yesterday. The prin cipal work of the body was the formation of all the local assemblies under one head, with P. F. Brennan, of Girardvillej H. McGarvey, of Beaver Meaaow, and J. J. Meeban, of Drifton. as mast er workman, secretary and treasurer, respectively. The result of the convention will be a source of the utmost harmony, as it will strengthen the miners in their union as Knights of Labor. The maintenance of existing districts, the rock on which it was feared the assembly would split nas been avoided, and existing districts and local assemblies were reorganized. This gives fullest satisfaction, and the Knights were more than satisfied with the work performed. It was re solved to prosecute one of the coal operators be fore the courts of Luzerne county for violation of the mine laws, in order to test the constitutionality of the law. Socialists Win Again. Chicago, Jan. 9. To-day the socialistic ele ment added another to its rapidly growing list of successes in capturing the machinery of the local- labor organizations. An adjourned meet ing of the Chicago Trades Assembly was held this afternoon to complete the election of officers, and the radicals made a clean sweep. The radicals elected, over opposition, Louis Hartmann, recording secretary; Joseph Plumtree, financial secretary: R. 0. Owens, treasurer, and David B. Lum, statistician. Every officer in the organi zation is now a pronounced sympathizer with the cause of the seven men under sentence of death for the Haymarket bomb-throwing. One officer Lum, the statistician is an avowed Anarchist After the election the brick-layers' and stone-masons' union and the Knights of Labor Local Assembly 4327 withdrew from the organization. Printers and Plates. New York, Jan. 8. The decision of the governing board of the International Typographical Union on the plate-matter question, on appeal of the Milwaukee Union, is as follows: "Local unions are required to interdict the use of plates where a reduction of the working force will ensue. Union offices must be pro hibited from using news plates manufactured in non-union offices.'' . A Beer Boycott Baltimore, Jan. 9. At its regular weekly mooting, this afternoon, the Central Labor Union passed a resolution boycotting all beer manufactured in Philadelphia by brewers whose em ployes are now on strike. THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE. John Sherman at Home His Recreations and His Family Circle. Washington Letter in Chicago News. , The first time I ever saw Senator Sherman was at his country place in Mansfield. O. His residence there is very unlike the one he has in Washington. When Congress is in session and he is at the capital, he is one of the busiest of men, and has not much time to enjoy the comforts of a home; but once away from the busy scenes of the political metropolis, the distinguished financier enters with full zest into all the domestic enjoyments that go toward making a delightful home life. The Sherman homestead in Mansfield is a pretentious brick house of three stories ornamented with numerous porches, gables, and balconies, through the interstices of which the evergreen Virginia ivy twists and tangles itself in fantastic festoons and luxurious masses. The building stands in the midst of beautiful and well-kept grounds comprising about twenty acres, and here Mr. Sherman rests after his arduous labors of the winter, and diverts bis mind by attending to his little farm. When at his Ohio home he spends much of his time in the open air in pedestrian tours about the surrounding country, or in his favorite amusement of driving. He keeps a large stable of horses, big heavy brutes, and he makes them earn their living; for he is in no sense a lover of horses except for the use he can put them to, and prob ably never owned a fast horse in his life. He judges their value as he does that of men, by the amount of work they can do. Though a great part of his time is spent in recreation it must not be understood, however, that he does not work at his country home. On the contrary, he is a hard worker. The house is most conveniently arranged, and every comfort that money can buy or refined taste suggest may be found. Here are collected his library and many of his private papers, and many of the great speeches delivered in the Senate were pre pared in this quiet country retreat Of the public life of the financier we need not speak, for he has been so long before the eyes of the world that his political career is familiar to every one. But the popular estimate of tne char acter of John Sherman would, perhaps, undergo a change if the people would pause an instant and look into his private life. Those who have met the Ohio Senator in his public capacity have found him cold and unsympathetic, and they have left his presence with an unfavorable im pression of bis character. I find in my expe rience with public men that they may be divided into two classes. The one is always on the hunt for popularity with the people; they always have a flattering word, a stock of meaningless politeness, and a patroniz ing familiarity that strange to say, makes them many friends. The other, and by far the smaller class, are very oinerent iney express tnem selves in the fewest words possible; they have no time to waste, and seem to consider public busi ness as a business, and not the plaything of an hour, lt is not within my province to say which of these classes have the correct idea of the duties of public men. All of us know that the two classes exist, and it is for every one to have his own opinion about the matter. Be that opinion what it mav, we have only to say that John Sherman belongs to the latter class. But if he is cold and heartless, and, perhaps, cal culating in his public life, the distinguished Sena tor is another man when he passes within the portals of his simple home, even if its master is rated as twice a millionaire. The Washington residence of the President pro tem. of the Sen ate is situated on K street, one of the most fash ionable thoroughfares in the city. The house is built of unpressed brick, painted brown, with foundations and basement of stone, and facings of the same material. The windows and doors are large and old-fashioned, with rounded caps and transoms, and plain stone steps with iron railings wind up to the little porch which leads into the high front door. Altogether, it forms a strange and rather pleasing contrast to many of the magnificent dwellings wmcn nave been erected around it. The interior of the house corresponds with its old-fashioned exterior. Everything is very com fortable and convenient, but there is nothing like luxury in the surroundings. In the parlors we find a few paintings and etchings, selected with the best of taste. Then there is a choice collection of bric-a-brac and specimens of ladies' needle-work, which, in their arrangement, show the refined taste of a woman. The usual tables. sofas and other ordinary furniture complete the furnishing of the parlors. Back of these rooms, and running across the entire rear of the house is the dining-room, that most impor tant apartment of the residence of a public man. Senator Sherman does not entertain as frequent ly now as when he was Secretary of the Treas ury; his hospitalities being for the most part confined to small receptions and select dinner parties. The family is small, consisting of but three members, the head of the house, his wife, a lady of great popularity, and an adopted daughter, a young lady of much intelligence and refinement The taste of the ladies, however, does not seem to incline much toward social pleasures, and they live a very quiet life, taking very little part in the whirl of social life that goes on so incessantly around them. Across the ball from the parlors is the study and library, where the Senator spends most of his time when at home. He can be found here nearly every evening, and, with his wife, pursues his reading. Mr. Sherman is. perhaps, one of the greatest readers in public life, and not only is be a reader, but an earnest student, as well Besides keeping abreast of current affairs by means ot a large list of newspapers, he keeps well informed on current literature, and is a voracious student of every new work on finance. He is, also, a great reader ot the autobiographies

of distinguished statesmen, and financiers, and the lives of those who have made a stir in the world, In the library there is a splendid collection of books of this character.

By far the most interesting of the contents of the library is the very large collection of autograph letters from the most distinguished men in America. Tbey date back to fifty years and more ago, when Sherman was first starting out in his career. hen still a young man he con ceived the idea of keeping every letter be re ceived, and the result of this determination is that he has a vast collection of letters, covering every period in the Republic's history for the past quarter of a century. They are all care fully arranged and classified, and by the aid of a comprehensive index any one of them can be found at a moment's notice. Should the Ohio Senator ever reach the goal for which he is a recognized aspirant, we may be sure these letters will be of use to him in paying off old scores. But though he 13 the recipient of so many letters, he very rarely writes one, and seems to have taken to himself as a rule the old adage, ''never write a letter and never destroy one." If this adage had been adopted by many another statesman, what a difference there might nave been m American history. It is a question what will become of these letters when Sherman dies. No doubt many of them are of sensational interest and, should they be pub lished, a light may be thrown on some facts in our public histojy that would be start ling. The most interesting of the many letters would be those which have been exchanged between the Senator and his brother. the General. The two brothers have always been the best of friends, and not the smallest cloud of discord has ever come between them. It is not generally known that the statesman narrowly escaped being the soldier of the family and vice versa. The father died when John was about six years old, and the Ueneral very little older. The family were in poor cir cumstances, and Thomas Ewing offered to adopt one of the boys, . "the smartest and tht best." as he expressed it A family council was held, and it was decided that 'Cumoy," as the future soldier was called, should be the one. So the paths of the two boys diverged. John studied law and went into poli tics; his brother went to West Point and became the General of the Army. But to return to the letters. The two brothers have corresponded all their lives, aud the Senator has every letter that the General ever wrote him. There are thousands of them, pasted in four huge vol ume, and they contain a history of the soldier brother's life. In these days, when everything relating to the war is in such great demand,, what a feast it would be to read these letters. They are addressed from every place under the sun. From school, from West Point, from the plains when he was a simple lieutenant, then during the great civil war, before great movements, af ter bloody battles, irom headquarters, on a drum-head, and from every conceivable place and under every conceivable circumstance, and they were written, not for the public, but for his second self, and everything was told and noth ing kept back. No doubt one of these days they will ail be published, and certainly they will form a most interesting contribution to the history of the war. The domestic life and personal habits of the Senator are remarkable for their regularity and method. Nothing can be simpler than his home life. As we have 6aid, he is another man in private life from what he is in his public ca pacity. He arises about 8 in the morning, and immediately has his breakfast He then reads the morning papers and attends to his personal correspondence. - isy this time it is, per haps, 11 o clock, and his carnage, drawn by two ordinary looking bay horses, is at the door. He is driven leisurely to the Capitol, and every morning is promptly in his chair at 12 o'clock and calls "the Senate to order. He works hard and earnestly that he may get through and leave his desk clear of work when the time for adjournment come. He is cool, deliberate and parliamentary, and makes an excellent presiding officer. But once at home he is lust the reverse. Here ne is one of the most domestic of men. He is, in his way, affec tionate, considerate and even demonstrative. As he does not take his home life into politics, so he does not take politics across the threshold of his home. He represents in his life two sea sons he leads a double life summer at home, winter outside. A Suggestion for the Revolutionists Indianapolis News. If the United States Senate should hoM that a State legislative body, organized in violation of State law, was a mere mob, without legal power, and on that ground refuse a seat to the Senator elected by such a body, the seizure of the Chair of the Senate by Mr. Smith would spoil a little party game badly. Hope Deferred. Louisville f'onrier-Journal. When, after the last great day, some leaning angel shall say, "Well, Gabriel, have you got em all up? that mighty trumpeter shall wearily respond, "Yea, verily, except a few hundred Kepublican office-holders in Washington, and I have blown m vain to them for twenty four hours. They'll never come off!" - Will Retaliate. Minneapolis Tribune. If this "Cleveland and Grady" talk is kept up the Tribune will be forced to nominate Belva Lock wood and Winnie Davis. Winnie has done as much towards brideing the bloody chasm as Grady, and well, everybody knows Belva. Sure of That Much. Boston Transcript. England proooses to tax foreign workmen $25 a year. There is one satisfaction in this proposition. The workmen will have to be paid at least $25 a year in order to make it possible for them to pay tne tax. They Don't Expect It.' Chicneo Jonrnal. If the Democrats m the Indiana Legislature are cetermmed Dot to have a joint session, how do they expect to elect a Democratic successor to Senator Harrison? The People Who Write About It. Ch.caeo Jonrnal. George rarsons Latbropbas published a mag azine article on ' Journalism. lt is surprising how much men who are not journalists Know on the subject. Dr. McGlynn Will Not Go to Rome. New Yohk, Jan. 9. Though Dr. McGlynn is still silent in regard to his intentions, the Times and the Herald assert, on the authority of "a close friend, that the Doctor has decided not to go to Rome. Ayer's Hair Vigor, for dressing the hair and promoting its growth; an indispensable toilet article. Absolutely Pure. This powder never vat-ies. 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