Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 July 1887 — Page 2

THE IXDIAJSTAPOIilS JOUIllsrAIv THUESDAT, JULY 7, 1887.

anybody. His tact and wisdom wm loudly applauded in thus getting out of the complication tintil the widow cave him away. "I went to sea him,'' she said; "I talked about old times. I told him what a stroggie I had to brine my children up respectably. Presently he said: 'Madam, you and yonrs shall not waut as long as I live. Count on me a your friend.' Then I told him about the postomco at . He burst out laughing. 'Why, eaid he, 'a lot of those political fellows are worryinc ne about that office. 1 guess I'll give it to you.'" In ten minutes the commission was made out and signed. General Grant's kindness to women was by no means confined to Northern ones. The Congressional influence of the Southern "States was Bo smal 1 in those days that Southern women wanting appointments stood scarcely a show of Setting them through the methods then in yogue. which depended solely noon Senators and Representatives. They sooi found out, though, the merciful side of General Grant's nature, and at least one-half the Southern women appointed in his time were upon bis recommendation. A present the chances are a little more in favor ci employine women than heretofore. It is true that the Civil-service Commissioners found when four names were certified that the requisition was much cf tenest made for a man clerk, but still the reeular qttota of women clerks allotted eaeh State is kept full. The departments are full of the widows and orphans of army and navy officers. It is true that a woman may command a high salary and Jbava a very responsible post without its adding an iota to ber social standing, but that is obviously explainable. The wife of Attorney-gen-ral Brewster was a government clerk.. So was the Marquise de Montbolon, wife of the French Minister here some years ago. The wi'e of Justice Matthews, of the Supreme Court, vra a department clerk. A niece of Mr. Phelps, Minister to England, was until lately in the Navy Department. A woman's social position i3 seithered injured nor bettered by being on Uncle , Sam's pay-roll, and their material well-being is materially enhanced. The widows, though, have most of the soft places.

PROGRESS OF THE COLORED RACE. Views of a Clergyman Belief that tbe South Carolina Scare" Is Political. Washington Special. The Rev. Alexander Crummell, D. D., rector of St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Washington, Is one of the best-informed and most thoughtfa colored men In the country. In a letter on the moral and social condition of the colored people f Washington, Dr. Crummell' makes some observations which have a direct-application to the relations of the white and colored races in parts of South Carolina which have been made the subject of recent sensationaV dispatches from that State. In part he writes: "I grant with deep regret that there is a sec tion of the race in this District, degraded, violent, addicted to petty and at times dangerous crimes. I beg to state here, however, as I have stated elsewhere, that since emancipation fully one-third of the Dlack race has risen to a superi ority which runs parallel with the level of white society in this country. Here, in this District, is an educated, cultivated, property-holding class of colored people, not a few, not isolated in stances, but a class proving the existence of the superiority which I claim. Next, that fully onethird more have risen, cot indeed to superiority. but certainly to a state of comfort, laborious thrift, self-support, and to domestic progress, which places them many degrees above both the mental and physical status of slaves. The citi zens of Washington, on everv side, see proofs of this statement in thousands of the laboring classes around them. There is, however, a third class which, without doubt, is in many respects as degraded, possibly more vicious, than the re strained slave population, who mistake license for liberty, who eschew industrial habits, who rush habitually into vice, profligacy and crime. Iiovr are we to account for this large third class? My answer is that tbe white society of this country is largely responsible. There are two causes which are constantly breeding this very class. The treed veople of the South are fleeing m largo numbers from the rural districts and overflowing both the large cities on tbe Atlantic seaboard and most of the great internal cities and inland towns. What causes this vast exodnsl It is owing chiefly to a Tile state of semi-serfdom into which the black farming population is held, and which has taken the place of the old system of slavery. The landed proprietors of the South, not the entire class, but a large proportion, will not work their farms nor will they sail the land to the freedmen. Instead thereof, they maintain a tenant system of tbe most grinding and destructive character, keeping this people at tbe close of very year in perpetual debt, until at last thou sands upon thousands of these wretched laborers rise up in utter despair, shake tha du3t off their feet against tbe old plantations of their servi tude and flock to the large towns and eitios. It is owing to this state of thioe that Washington has such a very large refugee black population. poor and indigent, debased and violent." Dr. Crumroel writes of what he knows, and tbe truth of his statements will not be denied by any fair-minded and intelligent man who knows the facts. There are indications, too, that the sensational stories which have begun to appear are only tbe first steps in a Democratic conspiracy to hold the South in solid line until after the presidential electioo. I he large accessions of white voters to the Republican ranks in North Carolina and Virginia, and the wavering in the Democratic lines in South Carolina itself, have wakened the deepest solicitude among the Democratic leaders. Already the word has gone out from Washington through Virginia and North Carolina that those States must be carried "at all hazards." In Virginia "Mabone must be defeated at whatever cost" There is a heavy col ored Republican vote in Virginia and South Carolina. If tbe race issue can be made para mount, if the color line can be drawn by what ever means, tbe colored vote can be suppressed in Virginia and North Carolina as it has been in South Carolina. MINOR MATTERS. Statement of the Man Who Acted as Cleveland's Substitute In the War Days. VPafhineton Special to Hew Tork Tribune. Referring to a Chicago dispatch, published in tbe Tribune of yesterday, which includes a statemeat purporting to come from the substitute furnished by Mr. Cleveland during the war, to tbe effect that Mr. Cleveland has refused to render him any assistance, a correspondent of the Tribune is enabled to say that he recently read a statement made by said substitute under oath. in which tbe man says that he, being disposed to enter the service, was asked if he would go as Grover Cleveland s substitute; that he consented to do so; that Mr. Cleveland agreed to pay him $150 when he had been accepted and mustered into the service; that he was mustered in and did receive his money; that Mr. Cleveland promised him that if he should come back from the army with an honorable discbarge, he, Mr. Cleveland, would see that be never wanted for anything; that some two years ago be became incapacitated for manual labor on account of disease resulting from his exposure while in tbe military service, and was taken to tbe county poor-house of Erie county; that President Cleveland was made acquainted with his condition. but neglected to ao anything for him; that he applied for a pension which had not been granted at the time he made his statement, and that subsequently be obtained admission to the State Soldier's Home, at Bath, of wMch he was an inmate at the time the statement was made. Indiana Pensions. Washington Special. Pensions have been granted the followingramed Indianians: Parmelia, widow of Washington Rice, Newtown: Mary J., widow otMartin Pbebns, Covington; Martha, widow of David J. Hanna, Oaklandon; Patrick Kelley, Evansville; James Hickman, Payne; Geo. Maynard, Maumee; Thos. J. McMurray, Lebanon: John Henry, Korklin: Geo. Cox, Lebanon; J. F. Harney, Ladoga: Wm. J. Larson, Worttington: Henry P. Shaffer, Pendleton; Leonard Schneider, Bunker Hill; Reuben Lozier, Poor Farm: Ruth Ann Gibson, minor J. Stephen Gibson, Walton; Wm. T IT . U....S. T T V. TV, -..! Jas. Smith, Kempton; Fielding J. Alfrey, Crawfordsville; Jacob Ratts, Campbellshurg; Ann Strong Berkley, Newport; Jas. I. Rowe, Mt, Carmel; Gabriel Hayes, Buffalo; Jere Vance, Reeds; Benj. Garian, Napanee; W. R. Marsh. Ciifty. A Famous Police Captain on Trial. New York, July 6. New York's famous and popular police captain, Williams, was put on trial before the police board to-day on complaint of a number of citizens, who charged that he allowed notorious houses of ill-repute to exist tnly and offensively in his precinct, and that be permitted such resorts as that of "Torn" Gould to violate the excise law. Rev. Father Praetori testified that when certain notorious disreputable women were arraigned in tbe police court on his (Praetori's) complaint. Captain Williams appeared and testified that he knew nothing against them. On bbaif of the Captain, lawyer Jos. Steiner testified that Williams was not in the police eourt when the case referred to by Father Praetori were tried: that the Captain consequently had net testified as to their character, and that the prisoners were discharged by the consent of Father Praetori's counsel, who acknowledged that tber was no evidence against

Jeff H. Patton, Worthinston; Samuel Wetzel,

THE UNION PACIFIC INQUIRY

The Investigators Strike a Memorandum Among Gen. Fremont's Papers, The Contents of which Seem to Indicate that a Great Deal of Grease Was Used in Pass-. ivg the Original Union Pacific Bill. Leavenworth, Kan., July G. The Pacific railway investigating committee arrived here this morning, and held a p ablic session in the board of trade rooms, at which they examined a number of witnesses. Among the parties examined were Shaw F. Neely, mayor of Leavenworth; Alexander Caldwell, president, and H. Miles Moore, secretary of the board of trade; Henry Schindler, correspondent of the Kansas City Times; Edward Stillings, a lawyer; Wm. Todd, a wholesale grocer; Leonard T. Smith, and Gen. James C. Stone. Several of the witnesses - testified that the people of Leavenworth were placed at a disadvantage for business by the manner in which the Union Pacific was running the Kansas Central and other branches, the citizens claiming' that the business of the branches was made subordinate to that of the main line, which operated practically as a discrimination against Leavenworth in favor of Kansas City. This they held to involve a breach of an understanding entered into by the city of Leavenworth with the builders of the Kansas Central, by which, in consideration of $250,000 aid given to that road by Leavenworth county, that branch was to be run and operated as the main line was. Gen. James C. Stone testified that he was one of the promoters and organizers of the Leavenworth, Pawnee & Western railroad, which subsequently became the Kansas Pacific. It was through his activity that the original Pacifio railroad bill was passed through Congress. The difficulty previously had been that each point on tbe Missouri river which it bad been proposed to make a starting point for a transcontinental line had jealous rivals in all other river points, and he conceived tbe idea of haying a road from each point, such as Kansas City, Leavenworth, Omaha and Sioux City. By such a combination the rival interest had been adjusted and the bill went through. While giving his testimony he was shown a copy of a memorandum found among Gen. John C. Fremont's papers at the time the General went into bankruptcy, Hallett and Fremont having bought out Stone. Tbis memorandum purported to account for the disposition of about $4,000,000 of the stock of the Leavenworth, Pawnee & Western railroad by Gen. J. C Stone and Gen. Thomas Ewing, jr., to secure the passage of the Pacific railroad bilL It gives the names of parties to whom its stock purported to have been issued, the original of the memorandum containing running comments in the hand-writing of this witness to the several items. When asked as to those comments, he testified that he wrote them as the expression not of himself, but of Sam Hallett or others who were interested. In this memorandum, opposite to the item, "R. W. Bratney, 2,000 shares," was the remark, "supposed to be for Pomeroy." Pomeroy was the Senator from Kansas then. Opposite the item. "Henry Bennett, Elmira. N.Y.. 20,000 shares, $1,000,000," was the comment; "supposed to be for IL B.Bennett. J. P. Usher, CalebSmitb, and R. W. Thompson," and tbe additional comment, "Usher and Bennett right; let Smith and Thompson elide. " Opposite the item, "E. W.Chase, Chaseville, N. Y.," was the comment, "But little service, mostly blackmail." Opposite the item, "J. F. Cowan. 3,900 shares, $195,000," was the remark, "Supposed to be for T. Stevens," and the additional remark, "If any of this stock, or land, or money promised this man is really for Mr. Thaddeus Stevens that part ought to be respected." Opposite tbe item, "Mrs. Wallace, of New York Herald, 400 shares, $20,000," was the word "Right." Opposite the item, "Dewey. New York. 800 shares, $40,000," -as the word "blackmail." Opposite the item. "Wilson, New York Times, 200 shares, $10,000," was the word "right." Opposite the item "B. F. Camp, New York city. and others, $20,000," wss the comment, "Cut Camp to tbe red; supposed to be for Carlisle, of Virginia." Opposite the item, "Jones. 100 shares. $3,000," was the comment, "supposed to be for Mrs. Friend." Opposite the item, "Ross, Fletcher, Holliday and Stinson. Kansas, 2,400 shares, $120,000." was the comment, "hold over tnern in terror." ThJ witness disclaimed any personal knowl edge as to where this stock eventually went. He did not know personally that any of it had been given for the purposes of corrupting legislation. The R. W. Thompson alluded to was the "Dick" Thompson, according to the testimony of this witness, who was afterward Secretary of the United States Navy, and the Smith referred to was at one time Secretary of tbe Interior. The services rendered by the Mr. Usher alluded to had been to explain the bill to members of Congress. Being a Western man, he had had considerable influence. On the adjournment of the session the com missioners left for Kansas City. THE FIRE RECORD. Twenty-Eight Buildings Destroyed at Graf ton. W. Va.-L.oss Nearly 8100,000. Cincinnati, July 6. A special from Grafton, w. vs., says: "A nre prose out nere yes terday in a building in Latrohe street, and be fore it was checked totally consumed, with al most all their contents, twenty-eight buildings, including two of the largest hotels, two furniture stores, two drug stores, two milinery stores, the Standard Enterprise newspaper office, one hardware store, one jewelry store, one clothing store, a numDer or otner stores, offices and pri vate dwellings. No organized fire department exists here, and only by the hardest work on the part of the citizens was the fire finally con trolled. The total loss will reach nearly $100,000. and the insurance is only about $12,000. The fire is supposed to be of incendiary origiu." More Destruction at Clarendon. Special to tbe Indianasolls Journal. Erie, Pa., July 6. The fire in the woods sur rounding Clarendon was driven back over the site of the town, to-day, by a change of wind. The tanks and oil-well rig of Patrick O'Connor, of Clarendon, took fire, and the well, rig and tanks of Beatty Bros., of Warren, were burned, with five outfits owned by the Anchor Oil Company, together with other miscellaneous oil appliances. A revised count of tbe buildings burned on Monday, wired to property owners to-night, foots up 231- The loss overruns $100.U0 The tents sent by Governor Beaver have ar rived, quantities of lumber have been sent in from the surrounding country, everybody there this evening is under shelter. James Maboney, the alleged incendiary, had a hearing to-day and was held for trial under heavy bail. The Quebeo H arracks on Fire. Quebec, July 6. Between 11 and 12 o'clock to-night fire broke out in the barracks at the citadel, and it has extended 300 yards, enveloping nearly all the buildings facing the entrance. There is great consternation among the residents in the neighborhood. All the available force on the battery are blowing up buildings to prevent the fire from reaching tbe magazine, and a trumpeter is sounding the bugle as a signal of danger and for all hands to keep clear. The fire made its way across the main entrance and is now burning to the western extremity of the block. A number of bombs are exploding, and the worst fears are entertained. Many timid citizens are leaving the city, thinking the magazines are sure to eo' Sir A. P. Caron, Minister of Militia, who was in the city, was speedily on the spot, and worked like a Trojan, rendering most valuable advice tn officers and men in their efforts to subdue the tire, vine nre is stm raging. Other Fires. Nf.W Vork Jnlv fi. Virtk at. Vn ta - ion - J . V fcU OOJ Grand street, to-night, caused an agzreeate loss of $35,000, of which Alexander Brothers, dry goods, lose $20,000. Rochester. N. Y.. July 6. The Conesus Lake Salt and Mining c.nm non. Lakeville, at the foot of Couesus lake, were totally destroyed by fire at noon to-day. Loss, $50,000; insurance, $10,000. Ptrffvvvvs' W T1 Tnt 4 o A V : - " - , ... . , v uij i. Afc w U luia morning fire destroyed the stock of drv goods of Cowhick & Whitcomb. valned at. sM9.vno.n- and damaged the building $15,000. The stock was insured for $90,000, and the building for $2,500. The insurance is distributed between thirty Eastern and foreisrn comnn(A Th raiiK of the fire is unknown. Mr. Walter Died by Arsenical Poisoning. Denver Jnlv ft Tb a rlth f John A. Horse Company, and one of tbe most prominent citizens of the State, was announced on Sunday, cation was caused here to-day by the discoY&ry

of the refusal of the attending physician to give a certificate of death. It is now charged that Mr. Walter's death was caused from arsenical poisoning, and that there has been a crime committed.

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS. Two Brothers Make Spirited but Unavailing Fight Against "White Caps.' LonSsville Courier-Journal. John Tower, living at Marengo, Crawford county, Indiana, was divorced from his wife, a few week's ago, on the grounds of too intimate relations with a certain John Nauser. who had also been divorced from his wife. One week after the divorce was decreed Mrs. Tower was married to Nauser. Last Saturday night the "White Caps" proceeded to the home of the newly-married couple, and, breaking in the door, dragged the bridegroom out with the intention of chastising him, after the time-honored custom of their lawless organizazation. Before they could get Nauser strapped up to a tree, preparatory to the switching performance for which the Crawford county "White Caps" are so famous, be broke from their grasp and wielded a club so vigorously that tbe vigilants were compelled to beat a retreat not, however, before they had beaten up their intended victim in a fearful manner. Sherman Nanser, brother of John, was shot through the abdomen in the row, but was not killed. The Mausers are said to be men of undaunted courage, and their successful resistance to tbe gang of outlaw seems to be a conspicuous proof of it. Shelbyville Taken In by a Sprinter, Special to the Indlanaoolis Journal. Shelbyville, July 6. On the Fourth of July a fellow pretending to be a gypsy came to this city and attended tbe exhibition at the fair ground. He claimed to be an expert foot-racer, but would not enter the footrace that day, as the purse was too small. To-day he ran a- hundred yards on the fair grounds with Harry Cross, a professional, and beat him badly. Some two hundred dollars bad been up on Cross, which the gypsy won, making the boys here furious. About three hundred dollars was also lost on Cross on private bets. The gypsy turned out to be H. M. Johnson, the champion runner of America. The boys to-night are very sick ever the money lost. Stabbing at Elkhart. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Elkhart, July 6. Last night M. H. Levy, a clothing merchant, and Nelson Upham, a former Baloon-keeper, got into a controversy in regard to a remonstrance against securing a saloon license, Levy having been prominent in the remonstrance matter. In the course of the difficulty Levy, apparently under the impression that Upham was about to strike him, stabbed bim in the right side with a pocket-knife, inflicting a very dangerous wound, which bled copiously. Upham was attended by a surgeon, while Levy was locked up, but was soon after released upon a bond of $1,000, to await the result of Up ham's injury. Gone with the Horse and Boggy. Special to tbe lrdlanauolis Journal. Shelbyville, July 6. Last Friday a man from Dayton, O., giving his name as K E Mendon, came to tbe liver; staple oz lounges tvaiKer and hired a horse and buggy, saying he would be m the country a week, but would return every night. The firm let him have an irongray horse and a good buggy, and he started out. He has not been heard of since, and the indications are that he captured the outfit. The firm is out about $300 for the property. Oaa Found at Spleeland. Special to the Indlanaoolis Journal. Spiceland, July 6. Well No. 1 was shot with one hundred quarts of nitro-glycerine this evening, with great success. The pressure has in creased several times its former strength, and the well is now sending forth a large blaze. The pressure is fully as strong as the beBt wells at Muncie or Portland, and will afford all the gas the town needs. Indiana Notes. The residence of Otto Vogely, at LaPorte, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday, including all its contents. Loss, $1,000. The saloon and billiard hall of John Cawley, At Greencastle, was broken into by thieves on Tuesday night, who secured a considerable amount of money besides carrying off the pool and billiard balls and several cases of chamt pena. -- 11 1 1 - 1 -rIllinois Items. Captain John H. Gnnn, a well-known lavyer of Springfield, expired on Monday, at his father's home in Kicmnndy. A teem of horses ran away at St Elmo, on Tuesday, killing a boy named Sefton, and sen ously hurting a boy named Williams. The Farmer's Mutual Benefit Association be gan a convention at Mount Vernon, on Tuesday, noiaing us sessions witn ciosea aoors. LABOR MATTERS. The Presence of Pinkerton' "Detectives In the Coke Regions Liable to Cause Trouble. union-town, jra., ouiy o. rne presence or Pinkerton's armed men in the coke regions has caused intense excitement, and serious trouble may follow. The strikers are indignant and denounce the action of the operators in bring ing the detectives into the regions in the loud est terms. Last night five hundred strikers at West Leisenring held a meeting and unani mously resolved to continue the strike. At Jimtown, it is said, the men are weakening and a large number are expected to return to work before the close of the week. William Mullen, secretary of the Miners' Asssciation. in a statement to the newspapers, says: "The men are quiet but determined, and the introduction of the Pinkerton detectives into the coke region will be tbe advent of a bitter feeling between employers and employed that years will not eradicate. The strikers will be counseled to keep within tbe limits of the law, but tbe landing of Pinkerton's agents has been the starting of rioting and of bloodshed wherever they have been used. There may be some disturbance in the Conellsville coke region, however, and some lives lost. Tbe responsibility will rest upon those who brought the detectives." The detectives are in charge of Superintendent Linden, of Philadelphia, aad Captain Foley, of Chicago. They are not here, they say, to cause trouble, but to prevent it aid protect those whji desire to return to wori. They will remain until the strike has been broken. This was the day set by the operators for a resumption of work by those of their old employes who had expressed themselves as willing to go back at the old rate of wages. The works geserally throughout the region were open to a.l who desired to return. At a number of them the strikers reported and were put to work. At no place was the number large, though, as the operators say, there were enough to show that a resumption of work had actually commenced on the morning designated. Everything is quiet, and so far Pinkerton's men have had nothing to da - Will Refuse an Advance. Pittsburg, July 6. The Western Flint-bottle Manufacturers' Association has about completed its preparations for the wage convention at At lantic City on the 15th inst. It is stated that they will strenuously refuse to grant any ad vance and also ask reductions in several particulars, notably in tbe 10 percent, paid for lettering bottles by the men, which the manufacturers will insist on being stricken out. Society of Christian Endeavor. Saratoga. N. Y.. July 6. At to-day's session of the Society of Christian Endeavor, George M. Ward, general secretary, submitted his report He sooke of the rapid growth of societies. Last year there were in existence 850 societies; To-day there are 2.314 recorded divisions, with a membership of 14u,uuu Jvery oiaio m me Union is represented, with three exceptions, and every territory but three, together with Syria, China, Japan, Jiicronesia, odiu, ocuuanu ana England. In the United btates tne most noticehi prowth has been in the Western States. Between the Mississippi and the extreme Pacific slope the following denominations are represented: Congregational, Presbyterian, Baptist, Catholic, Reformed Christian, Lutheran, Friends, Episcopal, Moravian and Unitarian. A Rebellion Quickly Suppressed. Shanghai, July 6. A rebellion recently oc curred at. Cbang Chan, near Shanghai, which was quickly suppressed, and ninety of the con spirators were executed, several secret socie ties renewed in idb province ot jviangsi a Pout tbe same time, and a military otucer and eleven soldiers found to be implicated in tbe uprising were beheaded. Steamship News. Queenstownv Joly 6. - Arrived Arizona, from New York. New York. July 6. Arrived State of Nevada, from Glasgow. Plymouth, July a Arrived: Waesland. from New York, for Antwerp.

TUB M'GL INN CASE.

An Analysis of tbe Situation from the Standpoint of the Chnrch Authorities. New York, July 6. The position of Dr. McGlynn was the chief topic of conversation in Catholic circles yesterday. The prospect is that while the edict of excommunication will go formally into force, it will not be the cause of any public ceremonial in any church. The fact of his notification and the further fact that he is no longer a priest of the Roman Catholic Church or a communicant ot that body will be published in the newspapers. Concerning the true position of the Roman Church with reference to Dr. McGlynn and all other citizens of this country, a Times representative, having heard that one of the most noted as well as most intellectually eminent of the local fathers had been engaged in succinctly setting forth the church view of the matter, yesterday called upon the priest in question and was informed that the rumor was true. Under the heading, "The Citizen McGlynn and Rome's Aggression," the eminent gentleman later furnished for publication bis analysis of the situation from the stand-point of the Church, as follows: "There seems to be a lack of fairness in the charges which, of late, have been so recklessly hurled against the Catholic Church and our holy father, the Pope, for disregarding, or ignoring, or limiting, or trampling upon the rights of citizenship. Some, as a matter of course, take up such a cry and shout it aloud, because they have grown to look upon American citizenship as a sacred treasure, enshrined with a palladium which enemies or intruders are ever striving to force. Such as they, perhaps unwittingly, imagine that any chastisement which may justly fall upon a man on account of bis own personal conduct or character in some other relation, is an invasion or tampering with his right as a citizen. Others, however, must know better, and they cannot forget that the cry of assailed citizenship has been, in the history of tbe past, too often made the attractive subterfuge of the wrong doer, who sought shelter from the penalty of an unlawful act by trying to throw around himself the mantle of the citizen and by claiming sympathy or protection on account of that garb. It is well for all alike to remember with thankfulness that the American citizen has a grand shield of protection thrown around bim, and that the stars and stripes float over him for safeguard and defense wherever he travels and wherever he calls for aid in the name of that flag against an unjust aggressor. At the same time it must not be forgotten that whenever an American citizen becomes, of his own accord, a member of a corporation, or a club, or a company civil, military or religious he is bound by the constitutions of such associations, and roust not, in the supposed supremacy of his citizenship, hope to violate with impunity the rules or by-laws be freely pledges himself to obey. The obligations are clearly distinct and separate; and it would be utter destruction to any corporation or society within a State to admit that a member may violate its law and still retain honorable membership, simply because he is a citizen of the State, and as such is shielded from censure of every kind by any society less than the State of which he is a citizen.' it is believed in the parish that Miss Munier, Dr. Carey and John R. Feeny are marked out by the Archbishop for excommunication on account of the defiant attitude which they have taken. It is an undoubted fact that there has lately been a gradual, but sure, return of worshipers to St. Stephen's, and there is little doubt that Dr. McGlynn's excommunication will turn four-fifths of the supporters still left him among his old parishioners. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Worms are destroying the cranberry vines near Berlin, Wis. It is feared the vines will be permanently injured. One grower who expected to harvest 15,000 bushels will not gee any. M. A. Bull, conductor of a Baltimore & Potomac freight train, was killed, yesterday, he being crushed between the bumpers of two cars. The accident occurred at Washington, D. C At the meeting of the New York First Assembly District, United Labor party, Tuesday night, the Rev. Dr. Edward McGlynn was elected a delegate to the national convention at Syracuse, on Aug. 16. The prisoner arrested on Tuesday night at LansinEr, Mich., as Harry McMunn or Matt Kennedy, who was implicated in the Cleveland fur robbery, claims to be Jesse B. Lamb, a farm hand, and to have had novconnection with the murder of Hulligan. The Boston Daily Advertiser and the Evening Record have been sold to Charles E. Wbitin, of Whitinsville, Mass., for 8100.000. All of the stock of the old corporation is wiped out and all of the old stockholders retire from the ownership in the new concern. A. D. Parant, the defaulting cashier of the Ilochelaga Bank of Montreal, arrested at Buffalo recently, was yesterday handed over to Chicago detectives, who had requisition papers for the prisoner. Parent will be prosecuted in Chicago under an Illinois State law for having stolen funds and securities of the bank in his possession there. Attendants McIIugh and CI ear y, who were lately placed in custody by the verdict of a New York coroner's jury, who accused them of beating an inmate of Ward's Island Insane Asylum named George Farris so brutally that the man died, have been indicted for manslaughter by the grand jury. The prisoners were arraigned in the General Sessions Court yesterday, and pleaded not guilty. A man named Joseph Perault was found dead in a field at Cote St. Louis, near Montreal, on Tuesday. His head had been crushed id by a stone weighing fifty pounds. Two men named Dupre and Charlette have been arrested on suspicion of being the murderers of Perault, as the deceased had been drinking with them and Dupre had made threats to the effect that he would kill Perault. The Itrannlgan-M'Govern Throat-Cutting. New York, July 6. Albert Brannigan and Maggie McGovern, who on the night of June 27, were found in the letter's room with their throats cut. appeared in the police court to-day. They have both been held as prisoners in Belle vue Hospital, as each accused the other of doing the throat-cuttiag. Miss McGovern to-day made an affidavit that Brannigan, with whom she had been keeping company for some time, and who boarded with her brother and sister-in-law, with whom she lived, entered her bed-room by force; that she resisted his advances and threatened to tell her brother, and that be then cut her throat with a knife, inflicting a wound that nearly proved fatal. Brannigan was committed for examination. Miss McGovern's examination on the charge that she cut Brannigan's throat was set down for next Saturday. How Old Is He Anyhow? Terre Haute Gazette. Yesterday Col. Thomas H. Nelson delivered his fiftieth Fourth of July oration, at Marshall, 111. Time does not wither nor custom stale the infinite variety of his eloquence. Within his bosom the fires of patriotism burn as brightly and he is as enthusiastically for the old flag and all the accompaniments as he was a half century ago when, just after his admission to the bar, his maiden effort as a Fourth of July orator was delivered on the sacred soil of Kentucky. Looking back over tbe long vista of years the patriarch of to-day finds that many of the hopeful prognostications of the youthful patriot have been more than fulfilled, and he entertains the highest hopes for the perpetuity of our free institutions. Affairs of John Slade & Co. New York, July 6. The assignee of John Slade & Co., dry goods commission merchants, who suspended yesterday, has not yet ascertained the amount of tbe assets and liabilities. Ibe labilities are believed to be about $775,000, "ll'n?"1200'000- The 8to valued at $a00,000, but large advances have been made on it. I he outstanding assets are very large and it is not expected that there will be much shrinkage. Besides, there is real estate owned by members of the firm valued at abont !?; nnn It is thought that the firm can nav fmm t inn cents on the dollar. Fears have been expressed thatsome of the mills to which the firm has made advances will experience difficultv. now that their backing is withdrawn. Sculptor Shannon's Fatal Misstep. Cleveland, July 6. Mark Shannon, of Painesville, O.. a sculptor well known in New York and Chicago, met with a horrible death at Erie, Pa., to-day. He was at work on a government building being erected under the direction of Supervising Architect Hell. A misstep precipitated bim from the roof to the ground. His body was crushed, and death resulted immediately. . Mistook It for a ltuffalo Scrimmage. Portland Orejronian. The Cleveland view of the war would seem to be that two very worthy gentlemen, going home full of wine on a dark night, ran into each other fcnd fought and bit and scratched and gouged each other all night until the morning sun rose n the scene of their quarrel and revealed their tames and fame. But tbe great civil war was lot an accident; it was not & dark night action,

It was a fight in broad daylight, when both parties saw each other's faces and knew exact

ly what they were fighting about. HIGH PRICES FOR COAL. The Chicago Dealers Add Twentj-Fire Cents. and the Price Is Expected to Go to $9. Chicago, July 6. The Inter-Ocean to-morrow will publish the following, bearing on the price of coal in this city: "The advance of 25 cents a ton in the price of hard coal, July l,has started a good deal of thinking among the large consumers of Chicago. The advance is some what early, and tbe presumption is that the price will advance bevond the maxi mum of last winter $8. The coal barons of the East are really responsible for tbe present advance, although there are other contingent causes that must betaken into consideration, such as the advance in water freights and tbe interstate-commerce bill, but the chief cause, so the local dealers say, lies in the fact that the Eastern coal syndicate decided to put up the prices and the local men were simply compelled to follow the orders from headquarters. The Chicago Coal Exchange has no option in the matter, and must save themselves when the prices are advanced in the East. This is the view that the local coal men take of the subject. On the other hand, a gentleman who is at the head of a firm that uses a large amount of coal annually stated yesterday that there was a coal ring of no mean proportions, the members of which ran things to suit themselves. 'The price of coal to-day,' said he, 'in this city, is $6.75 to $7 a ton. Any one who is not a dealer cannot buy it for less, no matter what onantity he may want. In 1879 and 1880 the price got as low as $3.75 per ton. This was the result of open competition in mining. A great many men with small means opened mines, and worked for themselves economically, thereby being able to undersell the coal kings and great corporations. These men thereupon put their heads together and put down the price of coal still lower, crushing out the little fellows or compelling them to join the combination. The next year we bad coal up again here to $6.25 at wholesale. But it was not until last year f that the ring succeeded in perfecting their organization, and then they made things so tight that the price of coal was made arbitrarily by a committee for each month, and no party was allowed to sell it for private consumption below tbe fixed rate under penalty of a fine and of having bis supplies cut off. Now they again propose to put the screws to us. With tbe supplies of coal we have, with easy and ready means of transportation, there seems to be no reason why the retail price of hard coal should be above $5 per ton in this city." "Another gentleman, who was conversant with the subject, said: 'This advance in the price of coal is unnatural, and is purely the result of a combination to make the price of coal touch a high figure by the middle of winter. Last season the ring began its ' advance so late that the price never reached a higher figure than $3. This time they propose to commence the raise soon enough to permit the price to go to $9 per ton by regular advances. Last year the consumer might get his coal for $6, but this time the consumer has not been able to get a ton less than $6.50. Now, they have put the price to $6.75 and $7 per ton, and there is no knowing where they will stop. It does not cost any more to mine the coal this year than last, and the transportation is fixed by the coal and railroad ring." THE FARMER'S LOT. It Is Not a Happy One as It Appears to the Western Mind. Pes Moines (la.) Leader. Records of lunatic asylums show that the percentage of farmers and their wives who go insane is greater than those engaged in any other business. Considerable effort is made to account for the fact. The Leader desires to offer a suggestion or two, which may or may not be new to the other students of the subject 1. The farmers in this country, and in most civilized countries, are generally business managers and not mere wage-workers. They have not only to work hard, but also to manage a certain amount of capital. This is true whether they rent or own their farms. In most other occupations requiring management the manager does little else but manage. Hence he does not have to worry about his business affairs when he is already worn out with hard work. His employes have plenty of hard work, but no worry to speak of. They lay down their cares when they lay down their tools, and the tools are tha heaviest. Tbe farmer, on tbe other hand, bae to endure both work and worry. And it takes a good deal ot worry to make farming a success. If it isn't a success, why, that is enough to worry anybody: for, small as bis capital may be, it is all the farmer has. It is all that stands between him and penury. The smaller it is th.e keener the management required to make it support him end his family. 2. The farmer's life is a lonely one. The prisoner in his cell is not more effectually barred from human speech than is the farmer at bis plow. Year after year he plows the same fields and paces the same prison-yard, amid the same scenes. There is no bum of machinery or rattle of streets to drown his thoughts. They keep gnawing away at his brain, wearing out the precious tissue and wearing it in the same old grooves. In silence and solitude so dense that they can be felt, engaged at work which cannot

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begin to fully occupy his thoughts, be cannot help but think, and, of course, he can think only of things that have come within the range of his observation and reading. It is where these are limited that tbe danger is greatest. When not at work the farmer bas, as a rule, a quite lonely time. His rigid notions of morality prevent his relieving his mind by those amusements which all classes of city people indulge in often to their own salvation. It is an old saying that "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." And some of the most wholesome city amusements are not possible in the country. 3. The diet of most farmers is not conducive to good mental health. This is partly their own fault. All Iowa farmers might, without additional expense, live better than town people do. They could have a greater variety of better and fresher vegetables, and also, if they own then farms, of fruit. Fresh beef might be too expensive for them, but if they had all the vegetable food they could easily raise they would need but little meat of any kind, and their fat pork would not hurt them. This variety would help them in two ways. It would make meal-time happier and more of a relief from workaday dullness, and it would make them physically and mentally healthier. But, of course, the farmer's poverty shuts him off from some of the dietary luxuries of town life. Still most of these luxuries come from the farm. Think of the chickens and turkeys, and the hundred other dainties which farmers raise only to sell. LINCOLN AT GETTYSBURG. How Tils Famous Address Was Delivered and Received. W. C. K., in Manchester (N. U.) Mirror. An article going tbe rounds of tbe press eontains some glaring misstatements regarding Mr. Lincoln's remarkable speech at the dedication of the Gettysburg Cemetery. Tbe Hon. Edward McPherson, member of Congress from Pennsylvania, was mentioned as authority for the statements made, but he has since disclaimed the responsibility. It was my great good fortune to

be present on that occasion with my regiment, which accompanied the presidential party as a guard of honor, and I am able to correct some of tbe errors contained in the article referred to. The erroneous statements may be briefly summarized as follows: L The oration was hastily written on the train between Baltimore and Gettysburg. 2. It was read by the aid of spectacles, hesitatingly and in a low tone of voice, so as to be inaudible except to those in the immediate vicinity of the speaker. 3. It made but a slight impression upon the audience, was not reported, and but for fortuitous circumstances would have passed into oblivion. 1. It is, of course, probable that the President may have jotted down some notes of the speech on the train, but that it was all carefully, thoroughly thought out beforehand must be plain to anyone who considers the matter. The greatest speech which ever came from human lips was cot extemporized in a railroad car. The ideas and the diction are of the very highest order. Orators, like poets, are boro, not made; bnt no orator ever lived who could make such a speech without previous hard thinking. 2. The speech was not read. Mr. Lincoln held a piece of paper crumpled in his hand, but did not once refer to it while sneakine. He did not have on his glasses. Like most Western publio men he was thoroughly accustomed to speaking in the open air, and did so witbent app. rent effort, in a clear, distinct voice, perfectly audible where any regiment was stationed, outside of the audience proper. He spoke without tb slightest hesitation, and with an intense earnest-", ness such as I have never heard from any other man. He was as one inspired. His great soul Nsv illumined his haggard features, and his grand utterances seemed to have more than human an thority. 3. The speech made a most profound impression upon tbe audience. Men lowered their voices in discussing it with eaeh other. Tbe beautiful oration of Edward Everett, which preceded it, might, so far as tbe audience was concerned, as well not have been delivered. The President's short speech obliterated all else. All the leading newspat.ers were represented at Gettysburg that day. end the next morning the speech was published all over the land. I may be permitted to add that when the President began speaking I was a Democrat, when he finished I was a Republican a conversion as sudden as tbat of St. Paul, and I trust ft permanent. He Wasn't There.. Philadelphia Press. We do not sea the name of Mr. Cleveland's

substitute among those of the old soldier bova who have been booming things at Gettysburg. A favorite occupation is painting ribbons, which are now so largely used in decora'Cion. Mottoes, more or less elaborated. ar .a favovi design. These ribbons are tied every whMre, in piace ana out or piece, x ne great danger ia tbat a really pretty fancy will be overdone," and thus fall into disfavor. men Baby was sick, we gave her Castorta, When she wa a Child, she cried for Castoria, When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, Whea she had Children, she gave them Castoria, Indiana State Journal

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