Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 December 1887 — Page 2

THE IOTIANAPOIiIS JOURNAL, FKIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 18S7.

about, the eatne as the Democratic majority at present. It was remarked at that time that, . with each men who have retired as Messrs. Calkins, Peiree. Peelle. Heilman. Orta and Da Motle. there was no etroneer delegation than Indiana had. Of the Republicans then in the House from the State only General Browne and Major Steele remain. But in the place of these able Republicans who have retired to private life hare come some of the stanchest men the State has ever sent to Washington. Amove the ery brightest and moBt influential of the new Republican members from the State is Mr. Owen, of Liogansport, who is entering upon bis second term. Mr. Owen is one of

toe best-educated and most polished gentlemen in the House; and his acquired talents have not impaired bis satire ability. In other words, he retains bis '"horse sense" while he rises in the acquirements which education and experience bring to men. His years in the pulpit added to bis fund of the finer senses, while it in no way took from it the ability o look coldly into the mill-stone of life. II is practice of the law and his two years in CoDgress hare also contributed to make him thoroughly practical, while they have not dispossessed him of any of his better instincts. He 13 an eloquent talker, a close student, a penetrating observer, a faithful commit ee worker, and has an influence which few wield on the floor of the House. Mr. Owen is but forty-two years old, and those who have watched him at this end of the line predict for Dim a very bngnt Xuture. General Hovey, of Mount Vernon, stepped into his congressional duties like a veteran at the business. General Hovey demonstrated his ability at tne bar in the irst district, and in bis campaign to such an extent that he brought with him nnusual prestige. He is yet in the prime of life, and carries with him in all his work that discipline and method which is only acquired in early Ufa in the student's room and at the teacher's desk. The position the General has taken in behalf of the soldiers, in favoring universal pensions and freehoszes on the public domain for the boys who fought to preserve the .Union, has made him so popular that he is the recipient of a massive mail from every section of the country and many calls from the soldiers' friends daily. Colonel Cheadle, of Frankfort, is a thoroughgoing editor in all that he does. He condenses his work witn the precision of the editor, and is marked by a degree of modesty which will make him thoroughly appreciated as be becomes better known. Colonel Cheadle will make no mistakes. He moves cautiously and carefully, but is not slow. By method and accuracy he can accomplish much more than the average member, and with greater ease, as he never repeats and never gushes. It has been remarked by his colleagues that brilliant committee work is expected of him on account of his extraordinary common sense and methodical ways. Such msn as Colonel Cheadle always do credit to their constituents in a place like Washington, where sterling manhood and unostentatious demeanor are at a premium. Captain White, of Fort Wayne, who has just entered upon bis term, and whom everybody in '.be House is thankingfor having set aside the blundering and unpopular Lowry, has probably made friends faster than many of the other few active men on the floor. Captain White shows his character in bis face, and his genial disposition ever beams in his eyes. He is one of the roost successful business men in Allen county, snd tbo?e who know bim best say he will bring his sterl. ng business qualities into his work here, which will enable him to make a Representative his constituents will be proud of. Captain White is fifty -one years old, and is as an active as a man of thirty. Nearly all of the Democratic side of the House as well as those on the Republican side have met Captain White, and mora volunteer compliments have been showered upon bim for bis kindly disposition, generosity of public spirit, and general sterling worth than is very often heard in this cold-blooded assembly of statesmen. - The readers of the Journal need no introduction to the other three Republican members from Indiana General Browne, Major Steele and Mr. Johnston, whose years of service in the Douse take rank in the order in which they are named. They have each made for themselves reputations second to no others in Congress. They are among the prominent eomraitte-workers, influential debaters on the floor, and trustworthy men in the body of Republicans. Their constituents can well expect of them during the approaching political ordeal all that the needs of the country will demand of them. General Browne is a lawyer ' and statesman whose reputation is national; Major Steele, by actual personal experience and diligent study, has made himself an autborty, not only in military affaire, but the general run of legislation, while Mr. Johnston always makes himself felt ?n whatever capacity he directs his attention. SWESSON'S PATENT. The Senate Orders an Investigation That May Kesult in an Injunction. Washington, Dec 15. In the Senate, today, a resolution offered some days ago by Mr. Plumb was taken tip, directing the Attorneygeneral to investigate the issue of a patent to Magnus Swenson, last October, in connection with the manufacture of sugar from sorghum, and. if invalid, to commence suit to have the patent canceled, the point being that Mr. Swen- ' sen was an employe of the Agricultural Department while making the experiments out of which the patent resulted. Mr. Plumb hoped that the resolution would be adopted, as the question involved was a very important one. The resolution, he said, did not imply censure on the Commissioner of Aprieu'ture, who had been very zealous and active in all matters relating to the development of the sorghum sugar industry. Mr. Edmunds suggested that there were two difficulties in the way of the resolution. One was - that this was the first time, or one of the first times, that the Senate had called upon the bead of the department to do anything affirmatively in regard to any part of the public business. In some cases the Secretary of tha Interior had been requested to suspend some action pending action on the subject by Congress. Qestions of law were committed to the Attorneygeneral while acting under the directions of the President. Another formidable difficulty was Jnot in bis own mind, but in the minds of some judges), whether the Attorney-general had a right to bring a suit to invalidate a patent unless by authority of Congress. He thought that the resolution should be referred to the committee on patents, and he made that motion. After farther discussion by Messrs. Plumb, Sauisbury, Riddleberger, Call. Hoar, Gray, Butler, Teller, George, Hawley, Beck and Sherman, the motion to refer was rejected, and the resolution was adopted. It reads: Resolved. That the Attorney-general be requested t investigate the issuance of letters-patent to llajfnus Swenson, of date Oct. lO, 188 , and if in his judgement the same is invalid on any ground, or was 1 r wured by reason of information obtained from experiments made by the government; and if in his judi-nirnt a suit can be maintained in the name of the United States, to commence finch suit promptly to have the same canceled, or the use of the same by raid Swenson, or anyone claiming under him, perpetually enjoined. . Mr. Botler offered a resolution, which was adopted, directing the ludiciary committee to inquire and report whether, in the present state ef the law, tne government has the power, or (he Attorney-general of the United States the inthority, to institute judicial proceedings to racate a patent for an invention on any ground whatever. - THE FIFTIETH CONGRESS. pontine Business in the Senate Mr. Stewart on Coin Certificates. Washington, Dec. 15. Among the papers laid before the Senate was a communication from Italian residents of Washington proposing to present to the United States a marble bust of Garibaldi, as "A link in the chain of sympathy which all freemen feel for the champions of liberty and republican government." Referred to sommittee on library. Bills were introduced and referred as follows: By Mr. Call: To prohibit United States judges and courts from authorizing the borrowing of money by receivers of railroad and other corporations, beyond the amount of their annual net incomes; also, to prohibit the appointment ef such receivers without evidence of the financial condition of the company.- He moved thair reference if the committee on interstate commerce. Mr. Edmunds moved their reference to tha judiciary committee. Mr. Call opposed that reference, on the ground that like bills had been before the committee last Congress and had received no attention. His opinion was that no relief would be afforded lo the people by the judiciary committee in the consideration of bills of such character. Mr. Edmunds confessed that the judiciary rommittee was not very much inclined to interfere with the exercise of discretion by the courts, tie withdrew bis amendment. The bills were thereupon referred to the committee on interttate commerce. After the introduction of a number of bills ihe Senate took up the bill introduced by Mr. tewart. last Monday, to provide for the issue at coin certificates to circulate as money, and was addressed by that Senator in explanation ind support of the bill. The bill was referred

to the committee on finance and then the -Senate went into executive session, and at 3 P. M. adjourned until Monday. MINOR MATTERS. Messrs. O'Connor and Esmonds Have a Short Interview with the President. Washington, Dec 15. Sir Thomas EL Grattan Esmonde and Mr. Arthur O'Connor, 5L P., called at the White House to-day, in company with Representatives Collins, of Massachusetts, and McShane, of Nebraska, for the purpose of paying their respects to the President. The Cabinet was in session when they arrived, and it looked as though they would be kept waiting for some time. The door-keeper, however, consented to take in their cards at once, but did not hold out much hope of success. Thereupon Mr. Collies wrote a brief note to the President, explaining their errand, and promising, if received, not to detain bim very long. The door-keeper took them to the President, who directed him to show the visitors into his private, library, where he said he would see them in a few minutes. They proceeded to the room indicated, and had just seated themselves when the President entered by tha door leading to the Cabinetroom, and received the visitors most cordially. The introductions were made by Mr. Collins, and a short informal conversation followed. As they were leaving the mansion Mr. Collins said to an Associated Press reporter that they made the visit for the sole purpose of paying their respects, and he was very much pleased at the consideration shown by tha President in leaving

the Cabinet meeting to receive them. 1 he visitors were entertained at a banquet to-night, and will leave Washington to-morrow for Chicago. Kelaclng Collection Expenses. Washington, Dec. 15. A plan devised by Assistant Secretary Maynard. of the Treasury Department, and approved by Secretary Fairchild, for a redaction of the expense of collecting the customs revenues, will be put into effect on the 1st of January next. In speaking of tha subject to-day, Judge Maynard said: "There are now 130 collectiou districts in the United States; in sixty-four of these the revenues are much less than the expenses. For instance, there are forty-four districts in which the total collections do not exceed $5, 000, while the expenditures aggregate $95,000. In the other twenty non-self-supporting districts, the collections are less than $25,000 and the expenditures amount to $52,000. The expenditures of these offices will be reduced by $115,835 a year, principally by dismissals, and also by redactions of salaries in several instances. Orders for these changes, to take effect with the beginning of tha new year, have already been issued." The Postmasters Convention. Washington, Dec. 15. The postmasters convention met at 9 o'clock this morning and enlarged tha national committee by making it consist of three membeps' from each State, instead of one, as heretofore. After some discussion of the proposed bill that will be presented to Congress, the convention took a recess until 4 p.m. The national committee then ,held a meeting and selected the following officers for the ensuing year: F. W. Williams, of Iowa, chairman; J. T. Brady, of Indiana, and W. C Seanland, of Illinois, secretaries, and W. F. Kimoall, of New Hampshire, treasurer. At the evening session a committee of live was appointed te present to Congress the draft of the proposed bill for increasing their compensation, and to urge its passage. The convention then adjourned sine die. Indiana Pensions. Washington Special. Pensions have been granted the followingnamed Indianians: Mexican War M. W. Coleman, Columbus; A. V. Hester, Jamestown. New Pensions Minors of Alfred Schoonover. Alexandria; minors of Abel Heacock, Petersburg; Alonzo Burket, Hobbs; It. J. King. Ellsworth; W. B. Smith, Roanoke; W. S. Conde, Rushville; Owen Carroll, Ligonier: J. D. Kerchner, Seeleyville; B. Dophi, Vincennes; J. M. Hobbs, Hobbs; J. Corder, Hartford City; J. W. Buskirk, Gosport; J. W. Ronan, Alpine; A. Pegg. Millersburg; Jas. Triplet, Rockport. Increased J. T. Feeler, Vienna; Samuel Dillon, Bricknell; J. W. McLaughlin, Orth; J. H. Evans, Lafayette; M. S. Siddens, Hedrick; Geo. Towns, Shelbyvilie; C. L. Betcher, Liseton; J. Miller, St. Louis Crossing; D. II. Bishop, Holton; S. F. Howard, Washington; John Poindexter, Nelson; W. Brait, North Manchester; We Cordrary, Brooklyn; Alex. Cauble, Hitchcock; J. B. Spears, New Marion; F. M. Taylor, Scotland; John Schley, Indianapolis; D. H. Wilcox, North Indianapolis; J. H. Griffis, Columbus; G. Costin, Wakeland. Reissue Isaac P. Lane, Vincennes; B. F. Clark, Jonesville; A. Hertman, Kentland; J. S. Mowry, Princeton. The Mexican Mission. Washington, Dec. 15. Ex-Congressman McKenzie, of Kentucky, appears to be slated for the vacant Mexican mission. His friends say he will receive tha appointment by tha first of the year. General Notes, Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Dec. 15. Sim Coy denies that ha came here to get the appointment to tha clerkship in tha Treasury Department soon to be vacated by Eugene Higgins, of Baltimore. Sim eays he has all the office, by proxy, ho wants, and has it in Marion county. P. G. Burns, of Dayton, is at the Ebbitt. The nominations of Secretary Fairchild, Assistant Secretary Maynard and Treasurer Hyatt have been favorably reported from the Senate finance committee. Mr. Denby, American minister to China, has written a letter to Secretary Bayard saying that whatever concessions had been made to tha Barker-Mitkiewicz syndicate have since been revokVd by the Chinese government. Ex-Congressman Kleiner, of the Evansville, (Tnd.) district, is in the city, on his way to New lork. Mr. Kleiner has left the Honsier State. and is now living on bis ranch in Dakota, raising cattle. It is said he is getting rich. Losses by Fire. St. Louis, Dec 15. At Lee's Summit, Mo., to-day, a fire started in L. A. Hess's grocery store, on East Main street, and soon the whole block was on fire, destroying Blackwell & Spen cer's drug store, the grocery store of L A. Hess and the dry good's store of D. P. Austin, nine buildings and contents, aggregating $2u,000 loss on stock and $12,000 loss on buildings. Injured for $12,000. The flames were checked by tearing down intervening small houses. New York. Dec 15. Fire in the five-story building, 447 Broadway, to-night, caused $100,000 damage to the notions stock of C. F. Lauer, and the clotbmg stocx or lMvia Marks to son. Fire at 84 Mercer street damaged the dry goods stocks of Guggenheimer & Co.. S. Rosenberg & Co., Steiner & Son, and Lipman, Heborn & Co., to the extent of $70,000. The damage to the building was slight. Jacksonville, Fla., Dee. 18. This afternoon fire broke out in Hamblin'a hardware store, a St. Augustine. The flames spread rapidly to the buildings east and southeast, under the in fluence of a strong wind, and destroyed a number of buildings on the south side of the plaza. Loss, $200,000; insurance. $f0.000. Hamblin & Co. are the chief losers $100,000. Sherman. Tex., Dec 15. Fire here yesterday destroyed the business houses of J. D. St. Clair. E. & D. Batemao, P. E. Keyser. S. D. King and S. W. Burrows. The total loss is $20,000; in sured for $G,000. The postoffice, with all its con tents, was destroyed. Halifax. Dec 15. W. S. Symmonds &: Co.'s foundry was burned to-day. together witfi fonr buildings containing the entire equipment of the establishment. The loss is $00,000; insured for $6,oca Saraccse. N. Y.. Dec 15. W. P. Sabrey. wholesale hats, and W. F. Barton, cigar manu facturers, suffered $45,000 loss by fire to-night. Steamship News. New York, Dec 15. Arrived: England, from Liverpool. Queenstown, Dec. 15. Arrived: Italy, from New York. Liverpool, Dec. lo. Arrived: Nova Seotian, from Baltimore. Southampton. Dec 15. Arrived: Ems, from New York for Bremen. Lizard Point. Dec 15. Passed: Steamer Maryland, from Baltimore for London. Well-Known Men Charged with Murder. Wharton, Tex., Dec 15. Two of the bestknown men in the county. Captain Van Houghton and James Gallagher, were arrested on Tuesday, charged with being the parties who took Mrs. Brown, an aged widow, and her eighteen-year-old son from their bouse, at East Barnard, and riddled them with bullets. The evidence against them is purely circumstantial, and both men declase their innocence. The Continental Life, Hartford, Conn., Dec. 15. Tha insurance commissioner, having secured access to the( books of the Continental Life Insurance Company, finds that they show on Dec L 1887. $97,000 additional improvement since Jan. 1, or almost 50 per cent, altogether. AVer's Sarsaparilla is a perfect cure for scrofula, that dreaded taint iu the human system.

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS

Yllya Well-Enown Hail road Man Was Refused Damages in a Slander Suit. The Slayer of Mr. Hay Admitted to Bail in $25,000 How an Illinois Peace Justice Administered the Law Gleanings. INDIANA, Mr. Broughten Fails to Obtain Damages from Director William McGrew. Special to the Indianapolis Journal Fort Wayne, Dec. 15. Judge Woods adjourned the United States Court this evening and left for Indianapolis. The jury in the case of Frederick Broughton, against William McGrew, brought in a verdict , for the defendant, after deliberating but ten minutes. Broughton is ex-general manager of the Chicago & Atlantic railway, and McGrew is president of the First National Bank, at Huntington, Ind., and the director in the railroad company. It was charged that at a meeting of stockholders, held at Huntington, in September, 1885, McGrew declared that on the occassion of one of his official visits, Broughton was drunk in his private car, and that these declarations were publicly made by McGrew after the close of the meeting, hence the thirty-thousand-dollars slander suit. The jury held that MeGrew's statements were of the nature of a privileged communication, and therefore not actionable. Broughton claimed that because of them he had been unable to secure suitable employment after he had resigned his eight-thousanddollar position as general manager, -which, by the way, he held at the time of the noted smasp-up at Koutz. Robinson Admitted to Bail. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Jeffersonville, Dec. 15. The habeas corpus proceedings in the case of the State against Jacob Robinson, charged with the murder of Samuel Hay, in Charlestovvn township, on the 9th of last July, which have been in progress here before special Judge Friedley. of Madison, since Tuesday morning, were brought to a close this evening. The proceedings were to decide whether Robinson's case was bailable. Fully fifty witnesses were examined. Judge Friedley, after the conclusion of arguments by attorneys, decided to admit Robinson to bail in the sum of $25,000. The prisoner immediadely furnished the required bail and was released from custody. He left for his home in Charlestown township, in company with his wife and daughter Lillie. The mob spirit seems to have all died out. aud no talk of lynching Robinson is heard. His bondsmen are James K. Marsh, N. S. Matthews, R. P. Lewman. Wm. P. Bottorff and George W. Lewman. Prison confinement has wrought quite a change iu the general appearance of the prisoner. He looks pale and emaciated, and has lost considerable flesh. The trial of the case is set for the first Monday of the January term of the Circuit Court. G. A. R. Relief Movement. Special to the IndiananoMs Journal. Mcxcie, Dec. 15. There is a movement on foot among the G. A. R. men of this county to devise some plan by which a fund known as the soldiers' relief fund shall be created. The purpose is to petition the Legislature to enact a law authorizing the several boards of county commissioners to levy a tax say one-half cent on each $100 valuation, to be collected as other State and county taxes; this fund to remain in the several county treasuries subject to the ord?r of the township trustees for the relief of dependent soldiers and the widows and orphans of those deceased, in proportion to the number in each township. John Stewart Post, No. 310. G. A. R., of Yorktown, has appointed a committee to draft resolutions suggesting a suitable law to accomplish the desired result. Oil in Hamilton County. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Noblesville, Dec. 15. While drilling a gas well on the farm of Samuel Craig, one mile nofiieast of this city, to-day, a fine flow of a superior quality of oil was found at the depth of thirty feet in the Trenton rock. The depth of the well is a little more than 1,000 feet, and drilling, is still progressing. The oil flows from the well, and experienced oil men pronounce it the largest well and best quality of oil in the State. ' Much interest is manifested, and further developments of the well will be closely noted, as a large yield of oil is expected. Minor Notes. The store of Eli Greensfelder, at Loganpport, was entered by thieves, Wednesday night, and robbed of about $500 worth of goods. At Muncie, yesterday, Benjamin Tweedy was sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary for committing an assault on the person of Miss Cora I). Perry, last January. The girl was simple. ILLINOIS. How the Red-Eyed Law Is Administered by a Jackson County Justice. ficeclal to ihe Indianapolis Journal. Vincennes, Ind., Dec. 15. Wm. Bonner is a justice of the peace in Murphysboro, a town m Jackson county, Illinois. Samuel Derrington is his son-in-law. The son-in-law tried to damage the character of the justice and bring him to disrepute and ridicule. The father-in-law grew wrathy and sued the son-in-law for libel, As justice of the peaco Bonner brought the suit before himself. Ho had his own constable, James Woolsey, serve all the papers, and the case eventually came up before himself as justice, lie heard all the evidence and then called his own constable to the chair. The constable administered the oath and the justice took the witness stand to testify before his own court in his own behalf. Thus far the justice was getting along wonderfully with his own-case. After resuming the judicial chair he listened patiently to all the arguments of counsel on both sides, summed up the evidence and rendered judgment against his son-in-law, Darrintcton, in favor of himself, for $5,000 damages. This is the most peculiar suit on record. The case will, no doubt, again be heard before other courts. Brief Mention . While clearing, on Tuesday, farmer Thomas, living in Hooppole Bend, seven miles south of Carmi chopped down a tree which fell on his wife. Her recovery is doubtful. Miss Annie Roach, the fourteen-year-old daughter of Mr. David Roach, an old citizen of Pana, left her home some time on Wednesday afternoon, taking most of her clothing with her, and has not yet been found. She left a brief note, saying: 'I am gone, and you need not look for me, for you will not find me." There is no reason assigned for her strange departure. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Annio Burk, aged twenty-two, (laughter of William Burk. a gardener near Toronto; Ont., confessed to poisoning her mother, who died on Tuesday. She had threatened to poison the whole family. She recently attempted to stab her father. Anton Sohomer, of Chicago, a Bohemian, who has been separated from his wife for about two years, met her at the door of her house, yesterday, and without a word, drew a revolver and shot her m the nead, mulcting a dangerous wound He then placed the revolver to his own head, fired twice and dropped dead. Tho remains of William McCabe, a well dressed middle-aged man were found lying accross the tracks of the Little Miami railroad, near Cedarville. O., at an early hour yesterday. There wasja deep gash on the head, evidently inflicted with a blunt instrument, and his watch and chain were missing. It is believed that the man was murdered and the body placed on the tracks to cover up the crime. Ihe body was sent to Xenia, Ohio. The stage running between Little Rock and Carrolton. Ark. was robbed on it3 outward trip Wednesday, near the half way station, bythree men who appeared suddenly from a thick wood. The driver put whin to the horses and was only stopped by the robbers shooting one of the horses. The four occupants of the stage then were ordered out, under cover of revolvers. Six hundred dollars and two gold watches were taken. The stage .was then allowed to proceed. Nstby on the Grasplog Capitalists. From a Recent Letter. I hate a capitalist, no matter how ho becume one. 1 hate tne mean-spiriteu, groveiin retcu which will work ten or more hours a day, de-In-ivin' hisself uv beer, terbacker and cards, and ilyards, and hos racing, and sicb, savin' peny

by peny till he hez ground enough 2 out of the world to have a shop uv his own; and to employ other men to slave fur him and thus 'go on ac-

cuinmuiatin til ho owns things. Such men are monopolists, and the enemies of: labor, and gnnaers. , o it CALIFORNIA AS SHE IS. An Old Resident of the State Futures a Dis couraging Condition or Affairs. St. Louis Post-DiiDatch. ' The newspaper representative expressed bis surprise at having a denizen of California praise any section of the country as exhibing greater indications of prosperity than- his own State, and stated that it was the general impression that California offered the best opportunities for the acquisition oz wealth of -'any State in the Union. - "I know that is the general impression," re plied jir. Parrott, "but nothing could be further from the truth. Years ago California was moat prosperous, but now it is very much the reverse. For several years the industries of the State have been on the down grade, but they never were at so low an ebb as at the present time. Before the development of the wheat fields of Kansas, Minnesota and Dakota, the valley of the San Joaquin and other districts had almost a monopoly of the English markets, and large fortunes were made by the wheat-growers. Bnt cow the conditions are altered; wheat has fallen in price, and the profit from it is little or nothing. Besides this, the deposit of silt from the hydraulic mines in the mountains has ruined thousands of acres of the finest land in the State, and has most seriously interfered with transportation on the Sacramento river, which has been rendered almost unnavigable above Sacramento. Hydraulic mining has been about put down, but a great deal of irreparable damage has been done, and then the scoppage of the mines has deprived the StaVe of a great revenue. Thus one of the - two great industries of California has been rendered nearly worthless. "In the other leading ' industries," continued Mr. Parrott, "that of fruit-raising, the condition of affairs is even worse. Our oranges at one time were considered the best in the market and commanded very high prices. But since the orange groves of Florida, and especially of Louisiana, have sent ont so many million boxes annually, the California fruit has fallen greatly in price, and there is little profit in It. The grapes, pears and peaches are also worth much less than they were, and several crops have failed, notably the crop of this year, which scarcely amounted to anything. Then the railroads have fastened a death-grip on the throats of the farmers and fruit-growers and take nearly all they make, leaving them in a most poverty-stricken condition. Then the everpresent Chinese question is giving more trouble than ever, and altogether the outlook is very gloomy." "What shape has the Chinese question assumed, Mr. Parrottr "There has been a very general change in the way that the Chinese are regarded. Three years ago nearly everyone was in favor of driving tnem out, but now people begin to eee that to do this will result in the ruin, temporarily at least, of California, it is a popular fallacy that Chinese labor is cheap. The fact is that a Chinaman charges nearly as much for a day's work as anyone else. The reason that so much of the labor is done by Chinamen is that in certain fields they are far more efficient than any others. This is especially true as regards handling fruit. I have tried both Chinamen and whites, paying them both the same wages, but I was obliged to give np the latter after one year's experience. Nearly every Chinaman 1 employed handled the fruit in the most delicate and careful manner, and scarcely a box was injured by bad packing, while fully 40 per cent of tha boxes packed by others were spoiled by containing bruised and decayed fruit. This was so universally the case that no fruit-growers could be induced to employ acy but Chinese help. This led to a great dissatisfaction among the workmgmen, and a number of attacks were made upon the Chinese in the country and smaller towns. Being a timid people, they very generally abandoned the country, and the consequence was the partial failure of last year's crop, and the total failure of that of this year. The California Board of Agriculture, at it, meeting held a few days ago, issued a circulars stating that the failure of the crop was due to lack of labor to handle it, and inviting Eastern workmen to come to California, where wages were higher than anywhere else in the country. iJut this will not do any good, even if laborers come to supply the places of the Chinese. The fruit and grain men have hard work to make a living now, and if they are obliged to pay a higher price for poorer work, it will not result in giving those out of employment good wages, but will compel the farmers to go out of the business, thus throwing on tha labor market those now at work. A curious commentary on the state of affairs in California is the fact that, while the fruit was rotting on the trees for want of men to pick it, there were probably more idle workmen in San Francisco than in any city of (similar size in tha Union. However gloomy the outlook in California at large may be, the prospects of San Francisco are infinitely worse. The city is out of all proportion to the requirements of the State, and must go down. California by the last census had less than a million of inhabitants, and one-third of these lived within ten miles of the center of San Francisco. In the days when there was but one transcontinental line, and the entire Pacific coast was supplied from San Francisco, a large city could be sustained; bnt now tha Northern Pacific has taken away all the Oregon and Washington Territory trade, and the Southern Pacific all that of southern California and Arizona. People are not willing to have their goods hauled past their doors and then sent back from San Francisco, and the result bas been that the roads drop the freight all along tha road, building up a number of small towns at the expense of the metropolis. The Canadian Pacific threatens to interfere with the Asiatic trade by establishing a line of steamers from their terminus, and it looks as if San Francisco would be reduced to supplying the country in the immediate vicinity and shipping the wheat crop. Of course, this will not furnish employment to half the inhabitants, and I look for a very great decrease in the population of the city within a short time." "What in your opinion will fbe the eventual outcome of tha present situation?'' "I think that it will e beneficial to California in the long run, as the-present farming and land srstem will have to be changed. California todav is practically without a class of farmers who work their own land, but it is a country of great proprietors. The changes in the labor market due to the cut ting-off of the supplv from China will render these immense farms unprofitable, and eventually lead to their being divided into small tracts, and cultivated by the owners; but before this comes about there will be several disastrous years. Our rich men see this, and the continual drift of our millionaires toward New York, and tie wav in which they are putting their money into United States bonds shows plainly what they think of the situation. The immediate effect will be bad, but the ultimate result will be most beneficial to the State, as it will be transformed from a sort of camping place, which it now is, to a State which has a settled population and settled industries." Meeting; Mr. Gladstone at Midnight. Andrew Carnecio. On another occasion Mr. Blaine and ravself were to dine with a small party at Lord Wolverton's to meet Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone. The streets of London were so completely blocked by the jubilee crowds that we were detained and did not reach the house until 9 'o'clock. To get there even at that time we were obliged to leave the carriage and push through on foot. Mr. Blaine evinced neither fatigue nor impatience. At midnight we started for home, the streets being still thronged to their utmost capacity. Mr. Gladstone set out in his carriage, and Mr. Blaine and I decided to walk. As we were going along Pall Mall I heard a voice in the crowd that I took for Mr. Gladstone's. Mr. Blaine thoogut it impossible. But I saw a figure with his coat collar muffled up around his face crouchi ng against a wall. I went up to him and found that it was Mr. Gladstone, who had left his carriage at that grim hour to mingle with the throng incog. to listen to their sentiments. Taking care not to betrav him, I whispered: "Ah! what does Gravity out of his bed at mid night.'" "Go to bed. my boy," he replied, "go to bed." Justice on Top. Judge (some years hence) The sentence of the court is that you be banished for twenty years. Anarchist Thanks, judge. I go mit the next steamer. Judge I have not finished, sir. You are to be banished to a prohibition state. -(Prisoner famts.) If the children have already -taken cold and cough, complaining of a tightness in the chest, try this: Into a half-pint of icy-cold water dissolve a teaspoouful of salt; bathe the chest with this, applying with cloth, sponge or hand, completing by slapping vigorously and rubbing with a rough towel. The glow that will appear will not be merely external, but will extend throughout the body, giving a feeling of buoyancy and great ease in breathing. The Pope has received among his jubilee gifts about 50,000 bottles of champagne; a wine he does not drink.

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WASTE-BASKET ADVERTISING . Some Facts and Figure for the Study ofFo glee Who Spend Their Money on Circulars. Philadelphia Times.

This is the season of tha year when tha grand son of bis grandfather and fogy business men generally waste thousands of dollars by wastebasket advertising, iney seiaom aavemse in cewsnaners. which now go into every family. and are accepted by all as the legitimate medium. ior traae to reacn mo peomc. iuoj uuu vertise becanse their grandfathers didn't do it. obviously forgetful of the fact that those grandfathers had no newpapers of general circulation through which ta reach the public. A few of them now and then venture in newspaper adver tismg, and, true to their grandfathers' ideas, they bunt for what they suppose to do cneap aavertisiug. and thevend in raving half as much for an advertisement that reaches a few thousands as it would cost to reach ten times as many of a much mora thrifty class. The strong hold of the grandson of his grand fattier in advertising, or what be supposes to ba advertising, is for the waste-basket, lie gets up five, or ten, or twenty thousand circulars. such as bis grandfather got up when circulars were a necessity, in the absence of generally circulating newspapers; be gets them printed according to his fancy; he puts them in envelopes; he stamps them with a single stamp, which re quires tbem to go out unsealed; be sends them to the post-office, whence they ara delivered from house to house, only to be thrown into the waste-basket by the servants, las open circular is known to be an advertisement, and from a fogy dealer, and they go their way into tha waste-basket in nineteen bouses out of twenty, without even attracting the curiosity of the servant. These circulars, if of the cheapest kind, cost, including postage, printing and envelopes, $1.50 for 100; $15 for $1,000. $150 for 10,000, or $300 fot $20,000. and not one in fifty is read or even seen by the customers they are expected to reach. Tha grandson of his grandfather doesn't seem to know that for $150, the cost of 10,000 of tha cheapest circulars, which are seldom opened and never read, would place nearly a column advertisement in the three most widely-read newspapers in Philadelphia, where it would reach mora than a quarter million of bona fide subscribers or purchasers, and where it would be likely to be seen by a full million readers. It is thus that the grandson of his grandfather wastes his money in waste-basket advertising. Then there is another class of the bnsiness grandsons of their grandfathers. They are progressive; they mean to advertise by circulars to attract attention; they understand that unsealed circulars go into the waste-basket, and they get np a pretty circular, seal it in the envelope, mail it, and congratulate themselves that they have made a grand stroke of business progress. And how does their account stand? Their circulars, including postage, printing and envelopes, cost 3 cents each f $3 for 100; $30 for 1,000; $300 for 10,000, and $600 for 20,000. The $300 paid for 10,000 sealed circulars, most of which are pitched into the waste-basket as soon as opened, would pay for a column advertisement in every morning newspaper published in Philadelphia, where by over 300,000 subscribers and purchasers would be reached, and nearly a million and a half of readers secured; and taking $G00. the cost of 20.COO sealed circulars, which seek the wastebasket, a column advertisement could oe put in everv newspaper in Philadelphia, morning and evening, at the bignest rates ana in tne best po sition.1, which wonld practically reach every home in Philadelphia and in most of the surrounding country from which trade is drawn to our city, and two, three or more of these papers would often go into the same family, buch is the practical business sagacity of tha more liberal grandson of b?e grandfather. We leave out of the calculation the yet more liberal and progressive grandson of his grand father who gets uo costlv circulars costing from $5 to $10 per hundred; $50 to $100 per 1,000; $500 to $1,000 per 10,000, which go to limited circles, and usually share the fate of their cheaper brethren by landing in the waste-basket. They expend aa much to reaeh 1,000 people, who are not reached at all except to accumulate their wastepaper, as would bring their business prominently before everv customer of every class wittnn tba range of Philadelphia trade; but the grandson of grandfather will be the grandson of his grandfather to the end, and he will waste hundreds of thousands in waste-basket advertising and won der why others thrive in business while his trade is dying out of the dry rot. The genuine fogy who doesn't advertise at all is wiser than the grandson or his grandfather wbo thinks that because circulars bad to take tba place of news papers half a century or more ago, they must ba so still; but the intelligent, practical, progressiva business man who didn't happen to have a grandfather to narrow and crib his ideas of bus iness, takes tne vastly cneaper ana oetter col umns of the generally-circulated newspaper to confer with the public, and he grows in business and prosperity because he shuns waste-basket advertising as tne most idiotic waste of money. Stop wasto-basket advertising; it doesn't pay. Some Pretty Trifles. Minneapolis Tribune. A description of a few little novelties that may be easily made will perhaps be acceptable to some. To make a pretty paper holder, take two Japanese fans of different sizes, tha large ona for tha back and the small one for the front. Stiffen the small one with wire. Unite the two and fasten into the stained black handles. A pretty embroidery for the front fan is, sew on and outline the birds, nowers and songs wnich are painted on the paper ground with filoselle of a corresponding color, ihe edges of the fans are bound with ribbon, which is twisted around the wires and tied in a bow at the side. Two pretty trifles may be made as follows, by those who do wood carving. First is the yard .stick. One side of the measure is made of white wood, marked in inches. The other three sides ara carved and stained brown. The handle, five inches long, is carved in any design to suit tba taste, and tied with the inevitable bow of ribbon. Another is a camp stool, with legs and fram carved and stained brown, and the top in leather work. A waste-paner basket, easv and cheap, consists of a piece of thick gray cardboard, foldad and cut cornet-shape. Both sides of the cardboard are pointed in large leaves in gold, tba paint being put on pretty thin. Holes are then bored one inch from the two side edges and two inches apart, and theu laced rogether with a cord of chenille or tinsei. Chenille braid is past ed around the top. Hows of red fawn and brown satin ribbon, the ends ornamented with pompons, trim tne cornet aDove ana two pom pons finish the point below. A hair holder is very pretty, made from a Ningpoo fan, by lapping the sides over each other, fastening firmly and covering the lap with bows of ribbon, artificial flowers or grasses. A Bishop Enforces a Church Lair. Living Church. Bishop Philander Chase was on a visit to a parish, attended by his nephew, afterward Dr, hamuel unase, who bad ta&en part in the service. Before the celebration the rector arose and gave the usual invitation to members of other churches to remain and partake of the boly communion. The Bishop, sitting in his chair. called out very colloquially, "Sammy, Sammy, read the rubric after the confirmation office!" And "Sammy" read: "And there shall be none admitted to the holy communion until such time as he be confirmed, or be readv and desir ous to be confirmed." "Now," said tha Bishop, if any of the members of other evangelical churches here present are ready and desirous to be confirmed, opportunity will be offered." Kailroad Retrenchment. Sprinefield Republican. The first step in Baltimore and Ohio railroad retrenchment is the election of Samuel Spencer as president at a salary ot $2.000. Robert Gerrett only got $4,000 in that office. There is no necessitv for having the colt in a fat condition. Keep it growing, and aim to get the largest frame possible before it "becomes three years old. Gladly Recommends It I contracted, some weeks ago, a severe cold, with pain in my side and shoulder. I. gave your Salvation Oil a trial and it relieved me at once. Charles S. Gilbekt. 318 Hollins street, Baltimore, Md. 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