Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 February 1887 — Page 4

FHE IKDIANAPOIilS JOUBNAIt TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1887,

THE DAILY JOURNAL.

TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 1. 1887. WASHINGTON OFFICK 513 Fourteenth St. P. S. IlEATH. Correspondent " , - THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. Can be found at the following places: LONDON American Exchange in Europe, , 449 Strand. TA RIS--American Exchange in Paris, 35 Boulevard des Capucines. NEW YORK Gedney House and Windsor Hotels. CHICAGO-Palmer House. CINCINNATI J. T. Hawley & Co., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE" C T. Dearing, Third and Jefforson streets. northwest corner ST. IiOUIS Union News Company, Union and Southern Hotel. Depot WASHINGTON, J). Houso. . C.Riggs House and Ebbitt Telephone Calls. Office 233 Editorial Rooms.. 242 3tmb(V$ of the General Assembly wanting he Jovrnat inriftfiie regular tension should leave their subscriptions, vith irection a$to where (hey desire to receive the paper, it the Jourual Covntinyroom. ' The House of Representatives has passed a bill appropriating $10,000 for the distribution of seed3 in the drouth-stricken counties of Texas. They would better have distributed water. Bxooks, or Maxwell, the St. Louis trunk murderer, had about faded out of the public mind, but the news comc3 that he has been again respited by the Supreme Court until the 1st of April. Justice sometimes moves with rery laggard step. "Lo, the poor Indian," does not apply to .tiembers of the Osage tribe. They occupy one of the best portions of the Indian Territory, have good farms and plenty of stock, and each head of family draws about $1,000 a vear interest on their invested funds. Saturday's blizzard was one of the most severe ever known in Dakota, Montana, and the Northwest generally. The thermometer ranged from thirty to thirty-five degrees below zero, with a terrific wind and "blinding enow-storm. The emigration agents ot the NortfiwcM; will hardly dwell on the subject in their r.ext prospectus. A NEriiEW of Mr. Blaine, talking freely about his uncle's feelings. in regard to the presidency, says: "Mr. Blaine said to me distiuctly that in his own preference he would much rather spe a friend placed in the presidential chair and go back to the State Department, where he considers that he left a great and uncompleted work, than to be President bimself," It seems improbable that the Mormon leader's will attempt to palm off a "resurrected" Brigham Young upon their deluded followers, but they are desperate, and there is no saying what wild scheme they will devise to save the power they see slipping away from them. The ignorance of their poor dupes never had stronger illustration than the belief, on the part of the leaders, as indicated by this alleged plan, that they can be so deceived. ""Mr. Cleveland's Cabinet is divided on the IntGrsfate-r.ommerea bill. Attorn a v-fp.nernl

.. i j 7 - ; . J o Garland and Secretarv Bavard. while in the

j3eate, both oppssed it, while Secretary La mar, who wta in the Senate at the same time. , - - voted for it. It is rumored in Washington that Secretaries Manning and Whitney are decidedly opposed to the bill. Perhaps the President would save time by making up his mind first, and asking his Cabinet's advice after wards. .

-' . ; j ji North. Carolina has some peculiarities of vVi government not found in any other State, and - hardly consistent with Northern ideas cf pop- ) alar government. Among others, her county Commissioners, justices of the peace and school trustees are appointed by the Legislature, instead of being elected by the people. 4. bill to change this feature was discussed four days in the House of Representatives last week, and finally ordered to be read a secsnd time, by two majority. If it passes the

tlouse it ia expected to fail in the Senate. THE Evening News asks the Journal to supply it with facts. There is reason to believe that the Nsws ft-igns a desire for information. Thei Journal has facts galore on almost any subject that could be mentioned, and the one inquired about in particular; but must respectfully state that it has more promising and profitable missionary work on hand than that of educating its evening contemporary. Had it desired so formidable a contract it would have caught the paper when young, and before it "knew it all," if there ever was such a time in its history. THE judiciary committee of the Boston city government is said to have passed a localoption Sunday law. By the workings of this aaloons would be kept open on that day in districts favorable to them, while others would be closed. This is - carrying tho local-option idea to a dangerous extreme. The system may be a good one so far as the licensing zi liquor-6eller3 i3 " concerned, though there are serious arguments against its utility; but there is no question that if it is well for one saloon in a city to be closed on Sunday, it is well for all. The . demagogues among the Qoston city fathers will gain no political capital by such a measure. ; The worst ferturo about Senator-Beck's -.railroad-attorney bill is the apparent unwillingness of the Senate to come to a vote on it

I'he bill prohibits members of Congress, of benefit the government and people is not imcither branch, from accepting fees as attor- practicable. A general system of coast de-

KLejtb: railroads which enjoy government sub-

sidies, commonly called land-rant railroads. Whether there is much necessity for the passage of euch a bill or not, it could not greatly curtail the law practice of any Congressman, as it would embrace comparatively few railroads. It would have looked much, better if the Senate had met the question, squardy. The dilatory tactics and the evident unwillingness to come to a vote on the measure are exciting much unfavorable comment. Senator Beck's blood is up, and he has announced his determination to call the bill up every day until it is voted on. The Senate is not wise in- dodging a vote; -

"WHAT SHALL BE DONE WITH THE SUEPLUS? The disposition of the Treasury surplus is one of the most important questions now pressing for settlement, and one of the most difficult to answer. Secretary Manning, in his late report, refers to it as "that standing shame in our finance, the Treasury surplus." Senator John Sherrnan, in his letter to the Boston bankers, said: - . "As to the greater question of how to abolish our vast and growing surplus revenue, or to appropriate it for great purposes of national safety or development rthis is now exciting the attention of Congress and the people of the United States, and, we may hope, will be solved with wisdom and in a spirit of patriotism, without regard to party ties or sectional animosities." Of course it should be solved with wisdom and in a patriotic, non-partisan spirit but the question is, how? The surplus is a white elephant on the government's hands, and growing bigger every day; what shall we do with it? The surplus revenue of the government is $10,000,000 a month. As long as we could pay off the public debt at the rate of $100,000,000 a year this was a good use for the surplus revenue. But the reduction of the public debt cannot continue mui h longer. The outstanding funded debt is so a;:a.nged that $250,000,000 of it cannot be paid before Sept. 1, 1891, and $737,776,400 cannot be paid before July 1, 1907; that is, these amounts cannot be paid before the dates named except by purchasing the bonds at a high rate of premium to the bondholder. That part of the funded debt subject to call is nearly paid off will probably all be paid by the first of next July. After that nothing more can be paid before 1891, and the Treasury surplus will begin to accumulate at the rate of $120,000,000 a - year. In other words, unless something is done, as Senator Sher man says, "to abolish the surplus," the money of the country will continue to flow into the Treasury in a steady stream at the rate of $10,000,000 a month, with no way cf paying it' out legally, unless a way is provided. - This 6tate of things should not be permitted to come about. Such an absorp tion of the money of the country could not fail to prove very disastrous to its business interests. Of course, the outstanding 'debt of about $1,000,000,000 falling due in 1891 and 1907 must be provided for, but it is not necessary to hoard money for that purpose, least of all, to pile it up at the rate of $10,000,000 a month, The fact is, a mere compliance with the sinking-fund law will pay off he entire public debt by 1907. That law requires ' 'the purchase or payment of 1 per cent, of the entire debt of the United States to be made within each fiscal year, which is to be set apart as a sink ins fuud, and the interest of which shall in like manner be applied to the purchase or payi f .1 VI 1 1 1 l mentor ine puonc aeui. unnecessary to make any other provision for the outstanding bonded debt than a compliance with the sinkintr-fund act. Hoarding money for the purpose is not to be thought of. There would seem to be only three ways of dealing with the surplus: First, abolish it by reducing taxation so that the revenues of the government will not exceed its expenditures; second, by increasing expenditures so as to absorb the surplus; or, third, by distributing it among the States and people by some legal ized machinery, to be provided by Congress. As to reducing taxation, there is this to be said: The principal revenue of the government at present is from whisky, tobacco and ?rf lnTiirlP the m-eater nart from lin- - r c i uors and tobacco. These taxes are easily borne and paid, scarcely felt at all, and it is doubt ful if their repeal would give any relief to the people or even cheapen the articles to the con: sumer. ine revenue comes to tae govern ment very easily; would it be wise to cut it off without a reasonable prospect of some com pensating benefit? A wise use of the surplus were better than abolishing it without any good result. The distribution: of the surplus among the States or people by some legalized method, to be provided for the purpose, would naturally strike the popular mind favorably. As the money comes from the people, why not send it back to through the channels of trade or by a system of national loans to the States, or in some way to be provided by Concressf Tha suggestion merits consideration, yet it is at tended with serious difficulties, and it will re quire careful deliberation to formulate a feasible plan of this kind. A Washington dispatch in the Journal recently stated that Congressman V. L. Scott, of Pennsylvania, has pre pared and will introduce a bill on the subject Mr. Scott is a 'Democrat 'and one of the wealthiest men in Congress worth several millions. His plan is to authorize the Secre tary of the Treasury to loan the surplus funds of the Treasury to the national banks at 2 per cent, a year, payable on demand. This is the main idea of Mr. Scott's bill, details omitted. It is doubtful if it will meet witbmuch favor in or out of Congress. But the idea of a legal distribution of the surplus in such a way as to fenses, the erection of a neat substantial post

office building in every city of 10,000 inhabitants, the establishment and maintenance of agricultural experiment stations in every State, are all methods worthy of consideration. The adoption of any or all of them would benefit the whole people.

INDIANAPOLIS AND THE BEEP TRADE. A curious illustration of the shifting of trade channels caused by the development of new industries occurs in connection with the live-stock and dressed-beef trade at Chicago. The trunk-line commission has issued a statement showing the changes in these two branches of trade during the past five years. The two principal points of Eastern shipment are New York and Boston, the latter being the distributing point for New England. . The dressed-beef business began in 1882. In that year there were shipped from Chicago to New York 3GG,487 tons of live cattle and 2,033 tons of dressed cattle. Durine: the next four vears the shipments of live cattle steadily decreased and those of dressed cattle increased until in 1886 the former were 2S0,784 tons and the latter 69,769. The same change appears in the shipments to Boston, which decreased from 76,410 tons of live cattle in 1882 to 52,431 tons in 1S86, while shipments of dressed cattle increased during the same period from 39,150 tons to 153,544. , The conclusion is ob vious that the dressed-beef traffic is displac ing the live-cattle traffic. And this change has taken place in spite of the fact thatthe trunk-line pool has constantly favored the live cattle traffic and endeavored to check that in dressed beef by discriminating rates. That controversy, however, is about ended, and under a juster railroad policy it is prob able the relative falling off of one traffic and growth of the other will be accelerated. The result will probably be that in a very few years pretty much all the beef consumed in the Eastern markets accessible by rail will be slaughtered in thJiVest. The practical effect is to bring producer and consumer nearer togetner, 10 xaeir mutual oenent Tnere is no reason why the shipment of dressed beef to Eastern markets should not be carried on at Indianapolis as successfully as at Chicago. Indiana is a great beef-producing State, and is becoming more noted in this regard every year. I his city is nearer The crreat cattlegrowing regions of the Southwest than Chicago is, and also nearer to New York. We are admirably located for the dressed-beef busi ness, and some day it will be established here on a large scale. Congress seems disposed to give the Presi-. dent a good deal of retaliatory power. A bill has passed the Senate, and has bten reported favorably in the House, authorizing him to exclude from our ports the products of all s couutries which refuse to admit the products of-the American hog in the various shapes of pork, lard, etc. The countries that have thus excluded American pork are Germany and France. They have shown a selfish and unreasonable disposition in the matter, and the time has come when this government owes it to its citizens to do something for their relief. The closing of the German and French markets to American pork has done immense in jury to that branch of trade, and all efforts to have the embargo removed have proved una vailing. Retaliation is the only course left. When France and Germany find our ports closed against the eroods thev have been used I . to export to this C0Untry they will begin to feel tue shoe pincb.inj on the other foot. Our importations from both countries are mainly luxuries velvets, laces, wines, etc., and we can do withput them a good deal better than their manufacturers and exporters can do without the money we pay for them. Foreign governments must be taught to treat the American hog with respect. AN assembly of Knights of Labor at Leb anon, in this State, recently adopted the fol lowing resolution: "We are not Anarchists, nor even Communists, but look with utter abhorrence upon anv attempt to introduce in our country the communism of Europe, which can only reBUlt in. anarcuy ana oiooasnea; and without expressing any opinion as to the guilt or innocense or tee convicts at Chicago, we are content to allow the law to take its course, ao ad ministered by those duly elected and Qualified . 1 X 1 ft to aaminisrer re. The resolution is interesting, as well for the sound doctrine it expresses as for the fact it doubtless represents the sentiments of a very large majority of American workingmen. An archism and socialism are foreign to the nat ures of native-born Americans. These dan gerous doctrines find their proper place in the 3 D large cuies ana among ioreigners; among American workingmen and in the smaller towns they meet with little or no encourage ment. As a class, our native-born laboring men are conservative and law-abiding. Very many of them are property-owners, or expect to become such, and this tends to strengthen their naturally conservative disposition.. At the Northwestern University, near Chicago, the time-honored feud3 between the fresh men and sophomore classes have lately been waged with such fierceness that it has involved even the ladies of the respective classes, who have maintained their co-educational rights by indulging in the class scrimmages with as much zest as their brother classmates. Several per sonal collisions have recently occurred between young women of the different classes, in which blows were exchanged and hair pulled in regular man fashion. At this rate the question of higher education for women will soon be settled. The many friends m Indiana of Rev. Dr. Gobin, formerly of De Pauw University, but now president of Baker University, - Baldwin, Kan., will be glad to know -that the institution is in a very flourishing condition and with the best outlook for the future. It is the pioneer educational enterprise of the State, having been founded before Kansas was admitted into the Union. Its buildings and grounds, worth fully

one hundred thousand dollars, are entirely free from debt, and this year it has fifty-three more

students than ever before in its history. There ' are fourteen members of tbe faculty, and the school is projected on a broad and generous basis. Dr. Gobin is one of the ablest and safest educators in the Methodist Church, under whose auspices Baker University is founded and conducted, and will make of the institution all that is possible. One of the surest signs that a man is growing old is when he begins to indulge freely in per gonal reminiscences of early life. By this test, not less than by others, Henry Ward Beecher is growing old. In his sermon in . Plymouth Church last Sunday he devoted considerable time to talking about his step-mother, who, he said, "was devout, she was singularly intelligent, she was refined to the uttermost, she had the heroic sense of duty, bat she was sad and undemonstrative of affection, and I never, when I was in trouble, went to her." Mr. Beecher said the same thing in substance, and almost in words, in a sermon delivered in this city a few months ago. From his step-mother he passed to speak of the servants in the family when he was a boy, of those he liked and those he did not like, and then of his father, etc. Possibly this kind of prattle is interesting to Mr. Beecher's congregation, but it is not preaching. Mr. Beecher is growing old. Mr. J. B. Lewis, of Pendleton, writes re specting a statement recently made in the Journal, that in 1856 there were but two votes cast in Pike county for John C. Fremont, that "in 1854 Pike county cast 645 votes for Collins, anti-Nebraska, and 619 for Hayden, Nebraska Democrat Smith Miller. Democrat, had a small majority the same year over Mr. Hall, the anti-Nebraska candidate for Congress. In 1856 Fremont had 80 votes in Pike county to 772 for Buchanan and 574 for Fillmore, Tbe same year Oliver P. Morton received C08 votes for Governor to 802 for'Willard in that county. Morton was counted a pretty good Republican that year and since. (I wish we had his Bhadow in one of the- seats in the Senate of Indiana now.) General Veatch the same year received 620 votes in Pike, and Lockhart, Democrat, received 785 for Congress. "v The florists of the State are making a good move in forming an association and arranging to give a floral exhibition next fall In every Eastern city the annual flower shows have be come important events and draw large numbers of visitors. Great interest is taken in them by amateur florists, as well as professionals and the general public, and in many places induce ments are offered to owners of choice private collections of plants to place them on exhibition; a plan, by the way, which it would be well for this association to adopt The exhibition should be held in the city, say in Tomlinson Hall, and not in connection with the State fair or at the fair ground. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher does not wholly admire high bonnets, but gracefully acknowledges the futility of pulpit attacks upon this or any other fashion of dress. If the powerful edi tors of the country .would borrow a little of Henry's wisdom and be convinced that their own influence has limits in the same direction, the public would be relieved by the surcease of chestnuty paragraphs. Sewing is taught in the public schools of Bos ton, and a committee of five men has been ap pointed by the School Board to supervise that department Out of the 70,000 "superfluous women" in and about Boston it would seem that five might have been found who were competent to look after the needle-work; but, doubtless, the five men chosen were "Miss Nancys" and that makes it all right. The Labor Commissioner of Indiana makes the rather surprising announcement that pan C3fmh bas increased 50 per cent in sixteen years, and that the checking of the steady ad vance of pauperism in this country will be one or tbe most perplexing questions of the age. -Fmladelpaia iteeord. That would be a real valuable item if Indiana had a Labor Commissioner, but up to the pres ect time there is and has been no such officer. A Philadelphia critic announces that what Mrs. Langtry wants is abandon. Well, perhaps she does. Mrs. Langtry is not the actress whom a journalistic admirer of Indf&napolis, with the intention of conveying a neat compliment, once described as the "most abandoned woman on the stage." The sudden decision of the Chinese minister at Washington to build himself a house prob ably grew out of his experience at the reception the other evening. He wants a house so ar ranged and fortified that he can keep the Ameri can barbarians out "Constant Reader" wants a list of the Indi ana towns which are boring or about to bore for gas. Tase tne postomce directory, dear friend; take the directory. Space is limited, and the Journal cannot afford to issue a supplement con taining the list ABOUT PEOPLE AX D THINGS. In Washington society: "Are you married?'" he said to the lady, Who charmingly poured out the tea; . "Oh, no sir," she said, with, a simper, "But I am quite willing to bt." Washington Critic. An analysis of the vote of the Senate on the woman suffrage amendment by sections shows that New England and the Western States .gave a small majority for the resolution, that the Pacific section was tied on the issue, and that in the Middle States and the South, woman suffrage had only a solitary supporter. Princess Louise of Wales, the eldest daughter of the Prince of Wales, is described as nice and amiable, not so pretty as her mother, bul hav ing sufficient of the sweetness of her mother's expression in her innocent face to give her a sin gularly interesting appearance. She is made to dress with uncommon plainness. The remark of the Mississippi pilot to his as sistant, in Mark Twain's last book, is 60 applicable to some one man whom everybody has among his acquaintance that it is worth the price of the work: "Well, taking you by and large, you do seem to be more different kinds of an ass than any creature I ever saw before." A large German firm at Bamberg has orginated a novel plan for attracting customers. Adjoining their store is a cafe and restaurant Every purchaser obtains a ticket of admission. on which is marked tbe value of the goods purchased. If he has spent a dollar, he gets a cup of coffee gratis; if two dollars, a steak or chop, and so on to a dinner of several courses, with wines, etc Miss Enpicott, the daughter of Secretary Endicott, goes out in society a great deal this winter, and is quite popular. She is not pretty, except for the charm that youth and a fresh complexion carry, and has fair hair, round, blue eyes and email, round features. She is flattered when told her accent is English which t is, very and takes long walks, and is as fond of pouring out tea as though born in a London fog. Representative S. S. Cox is slowly recovering from his severe illness In a private dictated cote to a friend in this city he says that he suffered a million deaths, but was lifted through

by two pictures, one on each side of his bed, of a lifeboat going out and one coming in. "Know

leg, he says, "that my system had saved nearly tmrty thousand lives, I thought perhaps that 1 could hold the rudder and pull through." lie adds: "I wish some good writer would show the effect of such associations on human misery and happiness." In his young manhood the late Earl of Iddesleigh was esteemed the cleverest amateur actor in England, and at one time he actually thought of going on the professional stage, "Later in ne he was much interested in the church, and read the lessons in his son's church at Pynes, probably, as often as Mr. Gladstone performed the same services at Hawarden. He was, also, the author of a revised and improved form of the marriage service. ; In the town of Jackson, Tenn., there is a shabby-looking house occupied by negros, one of the rooms of which was, until recently, embellished with paper representing real estate now worth more than $2,000,000. The four sides were covered with land grants beloneint? to one of the volumes of the Land Office for'West Tennessee that has been missing since the war. Mr. uates, Kegister or the Jjand Office, has carefully gathered up these valuable documents, and will soon have them is shape for future reference and preservation. The death has recently occurred of James Nicholson, the last survivor of the storm-beaten passengers of the Forfarshire, who were rescued by Grace Darling. He never forgot that awful night, when, as he and all in the rigging thought, an angel with long, vellow hair flowing in the wind, appeared, pulling vigorously to their ship's side through the storm and drift: but he very rarely spoke of it He, however, had enough of the sea, aud for twenty-six years afterward he arove a locomotive on the Edinburg & ulasgow railroad. He was seventy-one years of age, and in the employment of an oil company when he died. Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, on his recent visit to the Sultan of Turkey, had a very fine present made him in a strange manner. It seems the Sultan wished to confer some personal decoration on him, which Mr. Chamberlain declined, and then on his daughter, which was also declined. Then, when he was taking leave, the Sultan placed an envelope in his hand, which Mr. Chamberlain put in his pocket and thought no more about forseveral days. On opening it he found a very costly cigar case. It is described as being of a dull red-colored material, with a crescent of rubies at the top, just below a crown of diamonds, and below that the initials "E. IL," worked in diamonds also. T That dashing confederate cavalry leader, Gen. Thomas L. Rosser,hasbeen at the Gilsey House, New York.for several days. The General is asplendid specimen of physical manhood, a tall, wellformed, athletic man with a ruddy color in his cheeks. - He makes his home in Minnesota, where he is heavily engaged in railroad contracts. His winters are spent in Virginia, his old home, so as to be near his son, who is a student at the University of Virginia. The General is a strong Democrat, but a remark that he dropped yesterday about the Indiana senatorship contest indicated that he is disposed to drop party lines in certain contingencies. Said he: 'i have really been hopeful that Senator Harri son would be returned trom Indiana, l am a Democrat, as evervbodv knows, but if men like Harrison are kept in the United States Senate this country 13 safe m all emergencies." COMMENT AND OPINION. "Advertising always pays," to be sure, but we are sorry to say that advertising is not always paid for. Liowell Citizen. Many gentlemen In the front rows of the orchestra remove their hair, as has often been notice'd, and it is no more than fair that the ladies should remove their hats. Boston Globe. The Chicago Journal says it will be about two hundred years before the woman suffragists succeed with their issue in this country. The Jourual was probably thinking of Democratic civil-service reform when 'it spoke. Chicago irioune. Bismarck informs the voters of Germany that the Constitution under which they are supposed to have some rights doesn't amount to a row cf pins. No wonder that the Socialists come from that country to the United States with an idea that government is mere tyranny. Atlanta Constitution. 1 Beer and wine close the tap between abstinence and dram-drinking. Most of the liquordrinkers are recruited from the ranks of the beer-drinkers, and not from those of the abstainers. It is all wrong, therefore, to suppose that beer and wine are going to be in any measure a substitute for stronger liquors, and legislation that proceeds on that basis is wrong in principle. New York Mail and Express, The Roman Catholic Church does not keep a debating society. It insists that all its ministers shall preach an approved body of doctrine. If Dr. McGlynn wants more liberty he must go outside, where there ia plenty of room, with every opportunity for free speech. By trying to stay in and go out at the same time he is only encouraging the outbreaks of rowdy religion which keep the police busy at St Stephen's. New York Tribune. We have stated the main reasons for our conviction that the law interstate commerce as it stands cannot be executed in practice. But we should consider it a national misfortune if this awkward attempt 6hould result in the entire failure of railroad regulation by the federal government Nor do we fear such an outcome. We believe, on the contrary, that this first experiment will gradually lead to a better understanding of the true requirements of the case. and to sound legislation in accordance with them. New York Evening Pest Roar Collision on the Burlington. Chicago, Jan. 3L The through Omaha passenger train on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy road passed Aurora at 3 o'clook this morning, from which point it runs to this city without stopping. Thirty miles from this city it was compelled to stop, owing to a blockade by a freight train. A brakeman was sent back over the track with a danger signal to stop a local train from Aurora. Before it arrived the man with the signal was recalled, as the Omaha was again ready to proceed. Before the man with the lantern reached the rear of his train, and before the Omaha had started, the Aurora train came dashing into the rear of 1 te sleeper. In the gray of the morning, the enjrmscr of the local train discovered the blockade enly in time to reverse before the collision came. The engine of the local train partly buried itself in the rear of the last sleeping car. The platform was demolished, and tho entire end of the Pullman, including the closets, crushed in. Tho front of the rear sleeper and the rear of tbe second sleeper were also driven into each other, so that there was no escape from the doors. As the coaches remained on the track, the passengers at once began to crawl out of the windows. There was no fire to add horror to the scene, and in a few minutes all were known to be safe. One man who was in the wash-room of the sleeper would have lost his life bad not the collision broken a hole in the roof, through which he escaped. Although the passengers were badly shaken up no one was seriouEly injured. Assassination in Arkansa. Little Rock, Ark. Jan. 31. InteDigfence of a sensational tragedy in uuicot county has reached this place. Richard Buckner and J. C. Winston are prominent citizens of Dermont Buckner is an attorney and Winston a merchant It is stated that the former had received from an Eastern wholesale house a draft against the latter for collection. When Buckner demanded payment Winston refused, saying, as alleeed, that several items covered by the draft were too high. The men started to find two merchants who were to decide the points in dbpute. Buck ner walked in aavance of Winston. A doublebarreled shotgun stood at the door of a store they passed. Buckner seized the weapon, and turning, discharged both barrels at Winston, tearing his face away and killing him instantly. Bucltncr is under arrest and lynching is threatened. o Sir Roger Convicted. .'-. Nkw Ynttir Jan. 3L Charles Ogden Ferris, who claims to b Sir Roger Tichborne, was con-tft-nw i Brooklyn, of defrauding the government of &t,200 lp8100 pong; which it was prorfift fft$ the war. The seatenfo wTiWe"ed. icted daring

IT RESTS WITH BISMARCK.

So Says Minister Pendleton in Discussing the Question of Peace or War. Farnell Indicates Vaguely What Is Needed to Remedy Evils from Which Ireland Suffers Three Hundred Lives Lost at Sea. TBE EUROPEAN SITUATION. Minister Pendleton Declares that the Final Solution Bests with Bismarck. . New York, Jan. 31. Hon. George H. Pendle ton j Unite! States minister to Germany, who arrived here on the steamer Saale, yesterday, was seen by a reporter at the house of bis son, Frank II. Pendleton, to-day. Mr. Pendleton said he had come on a short visit He intends to rest two or three days, and will then go td Washington to report to the Secretary of State. After that he will .go to Lis home iu Cin cinnati, where he will remain for a brief period before his departure for hit post of duty. Mr. Pendleton was asked as tohU views of the possibility of war in Europe, and the general feeling in regard to it at the German capital. He replied that he had been on the ocean for nearly two weeks, hence was not informed as to recent developments in the matter. Since he landed Mr. Pendleton has not been able to catch up on news. "The situation," he re marked, "when I left Berlin was very much strained. The powers of Europe, from a general feeling of insecurity, have been making immense preparations. There are tremendous military works and armaments on every. side. I heard Von Moltke say that it was a condition of affairs that must have a solution. It -nay have changed bince then. The Reichstag was dissolved on the question of the military bill on the Friday before I left Berlin. " Nothing new occurred befors 1 sailed." Mr. Pendleton said that he could not see that anyone in Germany desired a war. In fact, every effort was being made to avoid it Tha old Emperor was extremely anxious to havo peace during his time. Bismarck was not ready for war now. He would not be ready nntil thtt military bill had beengyassed and the army reorganized. "In fact" added the embassador, "it 6eems that Bismarck would accord heartily with any proposition for peace with honor. The Emperor will, in a short time, celebrate hisninetieth birthday. Bismarck is seventy-two. Both wish for peace. The middle classes are not anxious for war, as the burden will fall heavily upon them. There are, however, certain classes in all countries whose condition would be advanced by war. But the great masf of people desire peace. Their opinion! count for' nothing. Von Moltke, Bismarck and two or three others settle such matters. In France, General Boulanger leads. One peculiar thing would strike- Americans in Europe. That is, how little the people influence the policy ol the rulers." Mr Pendleton then 6poke at some length o! the struggle in the Reichstag over the bill providing for an increase of 62,000 men 'for the army for a period of seven years; of its advocacy by Bismarck; of the refusal of the Reichstag to grant it for more than three years, and of th immediate dissolution of that body, practically as the story , was told at the time, from day to day, in the Associated , Press dispatches. Mr. Pendleton -concluded with the remark that it was impossible to tell what the result might be. Everything depended on the decision of the Chancellor. - 1 A German Tiew of Boulanger. - Berlin, Jan, 31. The Post (semi-official) in a leading article, headed -"On the Edge of-tJ, Knife," says: "The position of General Bou langer is now not only strengthened, but is becoming unassailable. He is supported by the radical Chauvinists. He controls the peaceloving masses, also, because Hhe latter Are unable to give acceptable form to theij wishes, finding their judgment confused by the events of past years. This state of things can only be v changed by a temporizing government waiting fori a happy inspiration to accept true peace. But a government under Boulanger is scarcely likely to be able to temporize. He is master of the situation to a degree that neither Thiers nor Garnbetta ever was. He can only govern the situation by keeping up the warlike im petu? he has given it. The impression left on the minds of all observers is that the armaments f t : . I i 3 a a : . feverish energy, Boul&nger no longer has powetf to lead the people back to the path of peace. In he attempted to do so he would have to quit hi! post burdened with reproach for having le& France to the brink of a great periL" Tho German Reserves. Br.RLiN, Jan. 31. The German reserves sum moned for practice will, it is reported, be called from the western provinces. The Kreua Zeitung is endeavoring to allay the alarm caused among the people by the calling out of the reserves by reminding the country that tha budget of last October provided for the calling out of 115,000 reserves for practice with the ne repeating rifles,' and that the 72,000 now called constitute tho first installment of the whole body then arranged to be called. Paris, Jan. 31. A brochure, entitled "The Art of Combating the German Army," will be published here to-morrow. Ihe author says the brochure was printed ten years ago, but that it was withheld from circulation at the earnest desire of the Due Decazes, who was then For-! eign Minister, and who feared that at that time its issue would have a bad effect abroad. IRISH AFFAIRS. Gist of Parnell' Amendment to the Queen'fi Speech Gladstone's Views. London, Jan. 31. Mr. Parnell's amendment to the address replying to the speech from thd iuvu ecu iui u buak iuo iviniiuua UBlYVtfPU mo owners and the occupiers of land in Ireland have not been seriously disturbed in the cases where those among the owners have granted to tenants such reductions as were demanded by the prices of agricultural and pastoral produce. The remedy for the crisis in Irish agricultural affairs will not be found in increased stringency of criminal procedure, nor in the pursuit of such novel, doubtful and unconstitutional measures as have recently Veea taken by her Ma jesty'g govornment, but in such reform of .law and sys tern of government as will satisfy the needs and secure the confidence of the Irish people. - Mr. Gladstone, in another article in the February number of the Nineteenth Century, contends that though Ireland formerly gained concessions from England through fear of an attempt by Ireland to repeat her former tarctics, it would be like warring against heaven now. Eng land's strength as compared witn ireianu s is at ten to one. He would rather rely, he says, upou England's innate sense of justice, Mr. Glad stone defends the American donations to Ireland, on the ground that they have done much to stave off famine. Foreign donations, he says, if in aid of a bad cause, make it a shade worse, but if in a good cause serve to remind us of our doty. To the contention that the granting of home rule to Ireland would be to hand over ta$