Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 August 1889 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, . SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 188&

THE DAILY JOURNAL SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1880. iTASmSGTON OFFICE 313 Fourteenth 5t P. S. Heath. Correspondent. KEW YORK OFFICE 204 Temple Court, Corner Beekinan anrt Nassau street. Telephone Calls. Business Ofice 23S I Editorial Rooms -42 TIEIUIJ OF SUIISCItliTION. DAILY. One year, wlthont fnntoy 3tT One year, with Snn.lay.. 14.00 Ux months without Sunday H.00 six month, with sun.iay.... 7.00 rhr rooniho. without rnntUy 3.oo Hjf e months, with handy 3.0 One month, without Suiulay 1.00 lne month, with bmntay 1.-0 WEEKLY. Per j ear $1.00 Reduced Kate to Clubs. Fuhacrihe with any of our numerous agents, or send lubtMTipUons to the JOURNAL, NEWSPAPER COMPANY, I.NDIASAPOLW, I Mi. All communication intended for fniblieation in (hitpajtcr mutt, in order to rteexve attention, be aecotnpnnied by the name and address of the wriler.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: LONDON American Exchange In Europe, 449 gtrand. PAH I ft American Exchange la Paris, 35 Boulsvard Atm Capuclnes. KEW YOBK Ollsey House and Windsor Hotel. PHILADELPHIA A. pTKemMe, 3735 Lancaster avenue, CHICAGO Palmer House. CICINNATI-J. P. Hawiey & Co., 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE C. T. Turing, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. BT. LOUIfc Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. O. Rlggs House and Zhhltt House. . Truly the Demcoracyis for reform and a clean campaign. i Sni Cot got out of tho ' Michigan City penitentiary in time to be renominated by the Democracy of his ward. Simeon is evidently out of politics. Compare the Republican nominations for Council with those of the Democracy. Tho cx-convicif city account manipulators, etc., aro all on one ticket. There are indications of a political campaign in Ohio. They have too much politics over there. People in that State uhn enlovnnict should move to Indiana. That revenue cutter Rush is doing nbblo service on tho high seas. No guilty British Bealer can escape. We may not have much of a navy, but tho ihips we do have aro equal to emergencies. Republicans of the Eighteenth ward particularly, and of the city generally, jjhould keep a good watch on Mr. Sim Coy until after election. There is abundant evidence that Coyism is to tako a fresh start. For a man who is "out of politics'' Sim Coy is showing a good deal of interest in tho doings, of his party. That party can't get along without Sim; it may also be remarked that it doesn't get alcng very rapidly with him. The result of last night's primaries , dooa not furnish any great amount of avidenco that Coyism ha9 lost its grip in the local Democracy. Tho little boss " not only holds his own, but evidently has a pretty good hold on the party reins. The attention of tho Pharisee is respectfully directed to the fact that Messrs. Simeon Coy, Thomas Markey and Michael J. Burns were renominated for Council by overwhelming majorities at the Democratic primaries in their respective wards last night. 'The fewer men in this politics tho "better," said that eminent Democratic leader, Sim Coy, on one occasion. There is no reason to suppose that Simeon has 1 1 1 il ' A. 1 A. , cuangeuuis opinion on mis point, uui the propriety of improving politics by keeping out himself has evidently not occurred to him. A number, of millionaires have died in various parts of the country during the past year, but though all have left their money behind them, only Henry Shaw has set apart any large portion of wealth for public benefit. St. Louis is to be congratulated in having possessed so liberal a citizen. Major J. 0. Cravens, collector of internal revenue, disposes of the charge that he had ignored an old soldier in his appointments by stating that up to tho tho 23d inst. ho had appointed and recommended for appointments fortyfour men, of whom twenty were soldier:! nud three were sons of veterans. Til k New York World remarks that Hie generals whose soldiers performed prodigies of valor aro those who say "conic" rather than "go," and then tells tho finance coinmitteo of tho world's fair that it will succeed tho surest and quickest by leading the way, as well as pointing it out. Aye, there's tho rub. Can it bo possible that the News is losing favor with its Democratic brethren! It protested in its most frantic stylo against tho renomination of Coy, Burns, Markey, et al., but tho grand old party failed to heed its advice. All things considered, it must take especial pride in the influence it exerts in local politics. An important duty devolves upon tho newly -elected Republican city committee when it meets to-night to elect a chairman. Great care should be exercised in the selection, and no mistake should be made. The man chosen to lead tho party in the coming city campaign should bo one in whom the people and the party can place implicit confidence. Gen. Sherman was the center of attraction at Milwaukee, as ho must necessarily be at all soldiers' gatherings which he may attend. There is a littlo tinge of melancholy in the General's speeches on such occasions, and a tendency to give them tho nature of final farewells. This is natural under the circumstances, with so many of his issociates gone, and with tho years crowding on; it is a feeling which all ihe veterans must share to some extent, but, after all, tho time for "last words' is not yet. Ho said, in his remarks to the "boys1 at Milwaukee, that he was xaakiu them his last speech, but tho

emotions of the moment no doubt gave rise to this thought. Ho may bo with the boys at many more reunions, and, as of ten as he does, 6o often will ho give them words of greeting.

"Now that I am back, and am your leader again, I promise you my best efforts, and if you will stand by me as before, I promise you that when tho smoke of battle rolls away wo shall again be found triumphant." Sim Coy to the local Democracy, in his speech accepting a rcnomination for Council, With a tax rate limited by law to 00 cents, and the property valuation reduced more than $10,ooo.ooo In tli laMt ten year, the city jrrowlnsr.. and it eienes increasing witnout any increase of revenue, how could it help running in debt! The Journal. Just so. Which is why wo remarked: "Well, years in tho City Council and tho cit3' over head and ears in debt. Paying to-day thousands of dollars annually more for public lighting than it would be paying but for such 'skilled management of city finances.1 Gas light costing far more than it otherwise would; the city's streets a disgrace and a drain on tho public purse. Expenses everywhere, revenue nowhere. 'Skilled management of city finances' indeedr' Evening News. The News walked right into tho trap we set for it. The fact is, the entire bonded debt of the city was created from twelve to fifteen years ago, before the reduction or limitation of taxation. Of the bonded debt of $1,400,000, the first issue was in 18C9 and tho last in 1870. The city debt has not been increased a dollar since 1876. Since the enactment of tho law limiting the rate of taxation, the city has lived within its income, and no city in tho United States has been more economically or honestly governed. No other city of its sizo has as low a rate of taxation, as small a city debt per capita, or can show as many and as good permanent improvements in proportion to its revenue and money expended. Of tho debt which the News is now howling about, $21,000 of bonds were issued in 1873 for the purchase of tho Sellers farm, and $100,500 were issued in 1874 for tho purchase of the Southern Park. The News favored both of these jobs, and denounced every person who opposed them as coiTuptionists. The Southern Park could not be sold to-day for $20,000, and by tho time tho bonds fall due, in 1804, it will have cost the city in principal and interest $200,000. The Greenville, S. C, Xews adopts Senator Hampton's idea that the white and colored races cannot abide together permanently in tho South, and thinks the solution of the situation is in the deportation of the negroes to Central or South America, or their colonization in States by themselves. Concerning the latter plan, it is suggested that "they could organize their own States and como into the Union just as other people do, having their own representatives in Congress and the Electoral College." Regarded from any other stand-point than that of Southern prejudice, all this is very silly. If the two races could live together under the forced and unnatural conditions of slavery they certainly can under tho easier and safer ones of freedom. Why should the South wish to impoverish itself by getting rid of its only working class; and why should tho negroes who are already in the Union and recognized by the Constitution and laws as citizens, trouble themselves about forming new States, and coming in by a new route? Tho solution of the race question in the South does not consist in getting rid of the negro, but in giving liim a white man's chance. If in a free-for-all race and fair contest of brains and brawn tho whites cannot hold their own against tho blacks, they will liavo to go to the wall. Hut there need bo no fear of any such result. In making formal protest against the civil-service law, the Baltimoro Republican clubs have practically decided to march in tho rear ranks of the Republican army. Civil-service reform is far from being tho leading political issue some of its champions endeavor to make it; it is, on the contrary, one of the minor movements towards improving government machinery and substituting modern methods for the rusty and unsatisfactory fashions of a bygone period. The law as it exists may be, and, in the opinion of many earnest advocates of reform, is deficient in some particulars, but it is in the line of progress; it originated with Republicans, and the principle was incorporated in the party platform, and accepted by the Republican leaders as an essential feature of tho policy of a progressive party. Like all reforms, it meets with the opposition of tho conservative element that objects to all innovations upon time-honored customs, but this element is usually encountered in the Democratic party, and it fs surprising, as well as mortifying, to find it suddenly rampant on the Republican side. The comforting reflection is that the Maryland Republicans will soon learn their error. They aro a littlo behind the times, but, being Republicans, they will soon overtake the procession and join in every movement for reform. Col. Elliott F. Siikpaiid, in an interview at Detroit, says: When President Harrison came to the centennial banquet he was told that no subject had been assigned to him. The Democrats had arranged to snub Harrison and put him on tho tail-end of the programme, while he should have been first. Cleveland was. given a chance to boom himself, and the idea was to have the President blunder in an extempore speech. Uut the scheme failed, as the President touched the chord that thrilled every patriotic citizen present when he touched on patriotism, urging that the American flag should be in every school-room. The story of Democratic management is probably true. It was part of the plan to boom Cleveland, who wants to bo renominated, and loses no opportunity to get himself before the public at dinners and banquets. But Democratic managers should know by this time that they cannot embarrass General Harrison by assigning him to an extemporaneous speech. He is made of dillerent stufV from the other man. The Evansville Journal has an amusing habit, whenever an elopement, financial failure or caso of petit larcency occurs in this city, of moralizing upon tho awful depravity and social rottenness of the -capital. If wo were disposed to adopt the atrabilious philosophy and

imitate the dyspeptic example of our. namesake on the river, we might find an opportunity in the confession of Assistant Postmaster Denny, implicating about sixty citizens of Evansville as winners at the gaming-table of his stolen money, and the immediate cause of his ruin. A dispatch says: "Amongthe gentlemen implicated are many leading citizens, merchants and professional men." In a city as large as Evansville ympleasant things will sometimes transpire,"but it would be obviously unfair to cbntfemn the' en1 tiro population on account of the gambling habits of "sixty of its leading citizens. Wo think, however, it can bo safely asserted that if any defaulting government officer comes to tho capital

to gamble away stolen money, he will not lose it to our leatliiig citizens, merchants and professional1 men. The agents of the Becktold-Williams school-book syndicate are amused at tho suggestion that old school-books, however valuable, can bo used: as books of reference. If these distinguished edu cators will inouire of any primary school-teacher in Indianapolis, they will find that she is provided with any extra set of first readers, differing from those in use, in order that she may occasionally substitute them for the regular les sons and thus supply a needed variety in tho daily routine. Furthermore, they will discover that such teachers aro continually on the lookout for supplementary reading matter suitable to their grades, and aro apt to buy copies of- all the first readers in market. Naturally the need of this supplementary matter will be much greater where the principal text-books aro inferior, and tho importance of keeping tho old books is at once evident. What is true of tho lower grades is, of course, equally so of the higher ones. "When the geography classes, for instance, como to Indiana in tho Minnesota edition of the Becktold series it will be convenient for them to turn to other books that contain some information about the State. TnE Louisvillo Courier-Journal attempts to prove that England is more prosperous than tho United States, and says her growing trade is the result of "a system which imposes on trade only such restrictions as aro necessary for tho general good." Just so, but 'the United States is not England, and experience has demonstrated that in this country protection is necessary . for the general good. "Every one for himself," is the rule of governments. By tho way, the C-J. does not mention the greatstrike in London, and tho mammoth processions of unemployed workmen among the evidences of British prosperity. The total number of desertions from the army during tho last year was 2,800, and from the navy 749. The former are very numerous, ' considering our small army, and as compared with the navy it seems to support the charge that common soldiers are very badly treated by the officers. It must be remembered, however, that tho opportunities for desertion aro much greater in tho army. than in the navy, and the temptation for I a young man or. any nniumon ana spirit to leave either is very great. Before Perry Thrall, of Macon, Mo., died last Friday, he confessed that a murder, for which a colored man in that State was hanged some years ago, was committed by himself. If Thrall has established a precedent, and this sort of confession becomes epidemic, a panic may result in the first families of the South. The white men down there who have gone free while innocent negroes have been punished are many. The Becktold-Williams school-book ring rail at Superintendent LaFolletto for advising people to "evade the law" by refusing to part with their old schoolbooks at the ring prices. Now, really, is there any provision in the law compelling people to give away their prop erty if they don't want to! If sothen the law is even more wonderful than has been supposed. Commissioner Mason, of internal revenue, is saiu to iavor a repeal oi the tobacco tax, and thinks it will be done. In that event the number of internal revenue officers could be reduced fully 20 per cent., and while the revenuo would b3 considerably diminished the expense of collecting it would bo de creased proportionately. Mrs. Hamilton, the wife of one of New York's "four hundred," who distinguished herself by eviscerating her servant girl, is gaining a measure of public sympathy. A good many women who have not tried Mrs.' Hamilton's method of settling the servant girl problem, will look on with interest to see how it works. The last request of tho Maryland negro who was hanged yesterday was for a watermelon. He was not hanged for stealing watermelons, but for murder, yet thero are those who will insist that this was a case of the ruling passion strong in death. Master Workman Powderly's chicken roost has been despoiled of all its blooded stock by thieves, and the master workman is disconsolate, according to reports from his Pennsylvania home. He isn't a friend of that kind of labor. Tun people who have been praying for ram should discontinue their petitions un til after Labor day. I here is ai general de sire that the sun should shine on Monday. To the Xlltor t the Indianapolis Journal: Please state in your next issue when and wiiere natural gas was iirst round in Indiana. Peoria. 111. r. r. l. At Eaton. Delaware connty, and Kokomo, Howard county, in October, 1S86. ABOIT PEOPLE AND TUIXGS. The oldest public house in England is "The Seven Stars," at Manchester. It dates back to the time or tdward 111. Alexander Mackenzie, ex-Premier of Canada, is in delicate health. Mr. Mac kenzie was offered the doubtful honor of knighthood ten years ago and refused it. - T " T 1 I A. ,1 lie 18 a uriCK-iayer uy irauo. rn rw - . TiiEODOKK iiltuzs was one oi me paseencers recently on the Deadwood coach at Butialo Hill's wild West show in Paris. Mrs. Langtry is also mentioned as enjoying tnis exhilarating experience. DritiNO his visit to Norway the German Emperor made himself very popular, and the inhabitants of the towns aud villages which ho visited were everywhere delightetl wiiu nun. nna warmiy praised in pleasant and simple manners. He rotlo aIouc in a carriole when on his country ex

cursions, and wan so much pleased with the conveyance that he purchased one, and also bought a Lofodden boat for use on tho lakes at Potsdam. The British Museum' has paid 37,000 marks for the prayer-book which tho late Louis of Havana ordered from Franz Fleschutz. It is adorned with copies of the decorations of the famous so-called "great church treasure." Mrs. J. M. Kellogg, wife of the Attorneygeneral of Missunri, has been installed as First Assistant Attorney -general. She was admitted to. practice in the Supreme Conrt eight years ago, and is a member of the State Bar Association. For several years she was a partner in the law business of her husband, the old firm name being L. B. & J. M. Kellogg. The Johns Hopkins University received a bequest of 8100,000 from John W. McCoy, a wealthy merchant, who died last week in Baltimore. He also gives to this institution his library, and to the Pea body Institute his gallery of paintings. The university is made residuary legatee. The remainder of the estate, valned at about $150,000. is divided among friends well-known in the literary world, among them Colonel Richard Malcolm Johnson, the Southern writer. The "Sunshine Mission" is a new enterprise projected by Mrs. John A. Logan. Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, Miss Kate Sanborn and Miss Frances Willard, and others, who propose the organization of a joint stock company, with a capital of $50,000, for the establishing of a central - training home where both American and foreign girls will be received, cared for, trained, and homes secured through an intelligence bureau. After that branch homes in all the larger cities will be established. In a recently published memoir Sarah Pugh. a well-known Quakeress, tells how, when somebody complained about the poor show made by America in the great exhibition of 1851, she replied: "You must remember that America is young that I, a woman now living, remember when we used to ask for the return of a pin that had been borrowed, and one of our school mottoes was To see a pin and let it lie. You'll come to want before you die. Miss Pngh, it should be added, was born in 1800. The. idea of making Queen Victoria a colonel of German dragoons has struck a good many people as rather odd; but it is said that female officers were quite common in the British army about 150 years ago. At that time, it is said, persons who had a pull on the government were in the habit of christening their daughters by masculine names, getting them commissions in the army and drawing the pay for the service which the girls did not perform. Colonel Victoria, of course, does not draw pay, but is content with the military glory which goes with it. The Archduke Albrecht, commander-in-chief of the Austrian army, is the wealthiest man in Austria-Hungary. The other day, while on a tour of inspection in Hungary, he spent forty-eight hours in a sriall Erovincial town. The bill presented to im amounted to' 153 12s. It was paid without a murmur, but the next day the ofiiccrsoftho garrison received strict orders not to set foot in the hotel in question, and for the next twelve months no military band will be allowed to play in the. town. That will probably make the innkeeper's extortion the dearest transaction be ever attempted.

A New York reporter tells what may be a true story about the Syrian immigrants detained at Castle Garden. "A very large lithograph representing the head of Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, used as the advertising card of a certain brand of cigars, hangs in a conspicuous position on one of the walls of the garden. Tho serene and saintly vis age and the apparently shaven crown of the man represented in this picture struck tho Svriaus as evidently those of some new American saint, and they thought, proba bly, the patron of the place. With the greatest solemnity andreverence. therefore. they crossed themselves and devoutly mur- . mured prayers before it." It is reported from Milan that the Baron ess Cautoni, a young lady of nineteen, cele brated for her beauty as well as for her startling originality, has announced her in tention of undertaking a journey into the interior of Africa. She will be accompanied by a relative, an elderly lady belonging to the Austrian aristocracy, and attended by several male and female servants. An othcer in the Italian army has undertaken to lead tho expedition, and is already busily encaged in making arrangements. The party will set out on Iov. 1, and the tour will last for a year. After a call at Aden. Massowah will be visfted. and thence the Baroness, with her followers, will penetrate imo me interior ox me comment. A writer in the Boston Advertiser tells that a young friend in Maine has been much embarrassed recently by the kind attention of Mrs. Annie Louise CaryRaymond. "It was at the reception which followed tho concert given by Mrs. Raymond, a week or two ago, in Portland. Our young man, when a little shaver. had been a neighbor and favorite of the great si ngers. For seven or eight years they had not met, and now, the once infant in knee-trousers, had become a fine-looking young man of twenty-four, uoou evening. as, waicuing nis opportunity, ne approacneu the prima donna. Mrs. Raymond's faco i ' i glowed with pleasure as she caught sight of her old friend. 4Vhv. hullo. Steve!' ex claimed she, clasping an arm about his neck, and kissing him heartily. And that was not all. She did not remove her arm from where it had fallen, in her impetuous embrace, but stood chatting with 'Steve thrift for some moments, izreatlv tcfthe aston ishment of the assembly and the chagrin of the modest youth. But when Mrs. Raymond's admirers hear this story they will love her all the more.'7 COMMENT AXD OPINION. ' William L. Scott will settle that strike by discharging his miners and closing the mines, uemocrattc ana mugwump journals will remember with surprise that Mr. fecott is not a protectionist. Buflalo Ex press. 1 We are told daily that free trade is a sure preventive of trusts and strikes, and it is free-trade England that furnishes us the news of this most dangerous of irnsts and this greatest of strikes. Louisville Com mercial. The proselyting work of Mormon elders is about the most offensive and exasperating business which is carried on in civilized countries, but in the long run it is not good morals or good policy to stop the operations of these carnal peripatetics by hanging them up by tne thumbs. Jsew York lribune. - The tariff reformers think tliatevervbodv is giving his days and nights to the tariff. uecause an am iooks as Dig as a camei xo their eyes they imagine that everybody's eyes are built that way. The fact is that for the present the American people are tired of having tariil reform talked to them from morning's light to eve's decline. They have heard enough talk. New York Sun. Commerce is moving in the right direction, and the indications are that before xnanv months the balance of trade will bo on the side of the United States. The protective tariff, together with the certainty of its continuance, is doing its legitimate work. This work will receive a still stronger impetus when the government adopts a liberal policy toward merchant ships which carry the American Hag. Rochester (X. Y.) Democrat. It is not unlikely that one of the pressing subjects which Congress will be called to consider in the near future is th question of securing to the negro the political rights guaranteed to him by the Constitution. Whether or not surlrage should have been given to the negro when it was, there can be no just dissent from the conclusion that, having been granted to him for more than a score of years, its exercise should now be protected at any cost. Iowa State Register. Instead of sending trains with Northerners to tho South, bring trains tilled with Southerners to the North. Bring those who cannot afford to traveL Carry them through the prosperous cities, towns and hamlets of the North, take them through our manufacturing cities, our educational and religious institutions, and tell them their prosperity is something we glory in as citizens of the United states. It will do more good than perambulating trains or wordy speeches. Boston Journal.

CLOSE OF ME ENCAMPMENT

Tho Grand Army Finishes Up Its Work at Jfilwaukee and Delegates 1 Isperse. Debate Over the Status of Post Officers Com missioner Tanner Interviewed Officers of the Auxiliary Organizations ElecteST Milwaukee Ang. SO. The closing session of the National Encampment was held to day. The call to order was made at 9 o'clock, so that the business might all be disposed of before noon and enable the delegates to leave tho city after dinner. Tho encampment was in session four ljpurs and cleared the desks of some im portant business. There was a prolonged discussion over the resolution favoring the allowance of a pension of $12 per month to all soldiers who prefer to live at home and will relinquish their right to euter the national military asylums. It met with so much opposition that by a vote of the en campment it was ordered to lie on the tabK The encampment then took up the subject of general pension legislation and adopted the following, without discussion: Resolved. That the action of thetwentr-second National Encampment upontbe subject of neces sary pension legislation by congress is nereuy rcalfirnied, and the pension committee is hereby lusiruotea to pursue all proper means to secure legislation in accordance with such policy. The above resolution embraces the disa bility bill, and also calls for the passage of a per diem service pension bill. Ihe reso lution amending the rules so that live members might constitute a Quorum in posts having less than fifty members was adopted. The principal debate of the dav was had over the resolution to deprive past depart ment commanders of the right to vote at the National Encampment. Upon the present basis of representation, the membership of the encampment consists, besides tho reguiariy-elected delegates, of past national othcers and past commanders. The latter grow in number from year to year, and have been stigmatized as the "House of Lords," because they are made life members, and cannot be removed or deprived of any of tho privileges of the regularly-elected delegates. This has been vigorously opposed by the Massachusetts delegates. The committee on resolutions handed up two reports, the majority recommending adverse action, and the minority recommending that the resolution be adopted. After a discussion, the majority report was adopted by a vote of 187 to S3, and the old plan will be continued. It is tnougut tne matter is now finally disposed of, and what has been a bone of contention for years will not come up again. The proposition to admit to qualified membership the eldest Sons of Veterans, without, however, the right to vote or to wear the badge, was rejected. A letter from Mrs. Sheridan was read, returning thanks for the memorial page and portrait ot uenerai Sheridan, which had been given in the renort of last vears nroceedincs. The usual resolutions of thanks to all who had placed the encampment under obligations to them were then passed. ihe business of the encamnment having been concluded. Commander Warner dei ? i . . j nvereu a ciosmg auuress on retiring irom tho chair. The adjutant-general then called the officers-elect to the platform, and the ceremony of installing was performed. After this was accomplished the encampment adjourned. The Council of Admin istration met immediately thereafter, but its work was simply technical and of no public interest. I he visitors are leaving the City in battalions, and the streets have a deserted look as compared with their condition yesterday. The railroads are rnnnintr few special trains out of thecitv to-dav. but are increasing the size of the regular trains ami uiviuiug ineni inro sections in sucn a way as to accommodate all the departing visitor. . - New Council of Administration. Milwaukee, Wis., Aug. SO. The Grand Army council of administration is an nounced to be as .follows: Alabama, E. G. L. Ward, Selma; Arizona,' not represented; Arkansas, Michael Kirsch, Little Rock; California, R. V. Treat, Los Angeles; Colo rado and Wyoming,. M. J. Haggerty, Gree ley; Connecticut, August J. Fenn, Winsted; Dakota, F. C. Peck, Sioux Falls; Delaware, Jas. Boon, Wilmington; Florida, W. James, Jacksonville; Georgia; C. T. Watson, Atlanta; Idaho, George L. Shout. Boyd City; Illinois, A. D. Rhodes, Evanston; In diana, Benj. Schaller. Richmond; Iowa, P. B. Raymond, Hamlin: Kansas, O. II. Colter, Topeka; Kentucky, W. L. Collins, Louisville: Louisiana and Mississippi, James H. jawier, aew uneans; iua jp, jonn Anderson, La Langan Bend; Massachusetts, 11. ,JJ. u. Alerymoutu, , Lowell; Michigan, Louis J. Kayntz, Adrian: New lork. Joseph B. Hill. Rochester? Minnesota, Albert Scheffer, St. Paul; Missouri, Pinion VOie. or. iouis; aiontana, not represented; Nebraska,. P. S. Plaikson, Omaha; New Hampshire, William S. PillsYork city; Ohio. L. H. Williams. Ripley; Oregon, not represented; Pennsylvania, Wm. McClellan, Pittsburg; on the Potomac. John r. Church, Washington; Rhode Island, Henry C. Luther, Providence; Tennessee, W. E. F. Wilbourne. Greenville: Texas.HI. W. Naves. Fort Worth: Utah, not represented; Vermont, E. J. Ornishv, Braham; Virginia, Frank L. Glade, Norfolk; cismiipoii 1 territory ami aiasxa. j. k. u. McCoy, Pacoma; West Virginia, Charles E. Anderson; Wisconsin, J. A. Watrous. Commissioner Tanner on the Indorsement. Chicago, Aug. 80. Commissioner of Pen sions Tanner is taking part of his vacation in this city. Ho was asked, to-day: "What do you think of the G. A. Jl. resolution in-f dorsing yon?" He replied: Congress man Terkins had scarcely reached the floor In the convention before I had done the same thin?. I thought I knew what was comin, and I used every means to arrest it. I told them I was under investigation, and as such was not a proper subject for Indorsement. I asked them to wait a year rather than take such action then, liy that time I thought the investigation would be finished, and It would be more to the point. Among the best friends I have, Fairchilu and Jiurdette thought the same thing, and said so. They insisted on passing a resolution, so, at my request, Barnum s substitute was presented. It differed from the original resolution in the absence of any ailoston to attacks by the press, and a change of the reference to the pending investigation. When it was presented Inever saw such enthusiasm. I myself did not hear a dissenting voice. I should have preferred that nothing had been done. jJoyal Xadlei. Milwaukee, Aug. SO. The ladies of the G. A. R. convention have elected national officers as follows: President, Mrs. Frances -Wood, ox Topeka, Kan.; senior vice, Mrs. jatuerine r. iiirst, 01 iouisvine, Jy.; junior vice, Mrs. C. G. Brnner, of Altooiia. Pa.; treasurer, Mrs. Annie F. Grnbb. of Camden. N. J.; chaplain. Ms. N. C. Reynolds, of Chicago; counselor, Mrs. E. Roby, of Chicago; counsel of administration, Mrs. Julia M. Johnston, of Altoona, Pa.; Mrs. Nellie 1. Anderson, of San Antonio, Cal.;Mrs. Charles W. Gerwig, of Allegheny City, Pa. The report showed, among other things, that the present membership is about 15.000. . President of the Relief Corps. Milwaukee, Aug. SO. The business session of the National Woman's Relief Corps was resumed at Immanuel Presbyterian Church. The report of the committee on pensions and relief was adopted. Mrs. Anna Wittenmeyer, of Philadelphia, was elected president. -- Chickasaw election. LirrLK Rock, Ark., Aug. SO. Advices received from Tishomingo. Chickasaw Nation, say that the official returns from the recent election for members of the lower house of the Chickasaw Legislature show a decisive majority for the progressive party. Tho Legislature meets at Tishomingo in September. In addition to tho sale of lauds and the allotment iu severalty, the question of disfranchising the white citizens wiU also be discussed. Extensive C av Discovered. Romk, Ga., Aug. SO. While a well was beinir dug three miles in tho country yesterda', and wliuu tho woxk-ueii had dujf to a

bury. Jerry l)cjKt; rsew Jersey, J. R. M1II1an, Newark; iSew Mexico, James H. Purdy, anta Fe: New York. A. M. Underbill. New

depth of twentv-five feet, to their consternation the bottom nf tl

out. dropping them tun fret and lodging tnem in a cave. An exploration wa tho next thine in onlfi nnrt it vtr-ia fntitul tli.it the cave was miles in length, with cham bers Of various sizes hern and there. FinallV the CAVA t.irtl th mreral ntitrtments leading in various directions. An exploring party will thoroughly explore all parts of the cave to-morrow. LEADERS OF THE BAR. Officers for the Ensuing Year Want Uniform ity in Statutes Eanquet. Chicago, Aug. 30. The American Bar Association reassembled this morning, and proceeded to the election of ofticers for tho ensuing year. Mr. Edward Hitchcock, of St. Louis, was chosen president Other officers are as follows: Secretary. Edward Otis Hinckley, Baltimore; treasurer, Francis Rawle, Philadelphia; executive committee the president, secretary, treasurer, David Dudley Field, New York, cx-presi-dent ex officio; Georgo A. Mercer, Georgia; J. Randolph Tucker, of Virginia; Charles C. Bonney, of Illiuois, and one vice-president from each of the States. In the list of vice-presirtnts are some well-known names. President Harrison was chosen from Indiana, and ex-Attorney-Keuei.ii n. variant; iiom ArKansas. An amendment tofhe constitution, em powering the executive committee to select the city in which the next meeting is to be held, was accepted. The following resolu tion was passeu: . Resolved. That in view of tha trmwincr haaty and ill-considered legislation, anil of de tective phraseolocy in the statute law. this association recommend tbe adoption by the several States of a permanent system hy which tueliufvtrtftut duty of revising aiul maturing the acts ntrodueed Into the legislatures hall be intrust ed to competent ohicers either by the creation of special commissions or committees of revision and devolving the duty upon the Attorney-general of the State. W. II. Russell, of California, caused onito a commotion by introducing a resolution heartily indorsing aud commending Chicaf o'8 ettorts to secure the world s fair in lWi 'resident Field decided that the resolution was not gerinain, and it was- withdrawn. Alter the transaction of some miscellane ous business. President Field delivered a speech of farewell, and the assembly dis solved. To-night the members attended a banquet given them, at the Grand Pacific Hotel, bv the Chicago Bar Association. Mr. Field's theme for a toast was, "The American Bar Association." The other sneakers were Alexander Lawton, of Georgia, on ''The Bar;" Thomas J. Semmes. of Louisiana, "Law Reform," and Judge Thomas M. Cooley. of Michigan, 'An International uourt ot justice." ihe latter toast was also responded to by communications from noted European luminaries, including Alnhonse Ri vier. Lord Chief-iustice Coleridge, Lmile de Lavelno and Vvm. E. Gladstone. Mr. Gladstone's words were: I rejoice that an association attached to a IkkIv so important as the bar of America should give its approval to the important conception con veyed in tne pnrase "an international court or justice." Whatever tends to substitute peaceful methods in an honorable se ttlement of controversy for the use of tho sword, commands my warm sympathy. Of that sympathy I have,' as I trust, Kiven evidence when 1 had the honor to to rnnie xi mister or tuis country, ant i neea not say that I continue to cherish the same sentiment In my unollicial station. SELECTED THE WR0XG VICTIM. A Black-Mailing German landlord Brought to Terms by an American Tourist. New York, Aug. SO. Julius Jacoby, a well-to-do builder and real estate operator, of Brooklyn, went to German y, last spring. to undergo a course of treatment for rheu matism at the Wildbad baths, near Htuttgart. Here he took apartments on May 27 at the Restaurant Funk, the leading hotel of the place, owned by Wilhelm Funk. Un der his physician's orders, ho arose ato o'clock every morning, and went on a long walk before going to the batlrng pavilion. Mr. Jacoby liked the treatment and his quarters, and felt he was getting better. On Sunday, June 2, as ho was rolled cosily up in his blankets in his room, an imperative knock at the door aroused him from his pleasant thoughts, and a gaudily-uniformed person entered and began to rummage about tho room, without offering a word of explanation. When Mr. . Jacoby asked the reason for these actions, he was gruilly told to keep still and await developments. The officer looked under the carpet and in every book, unfolded newspapers, upturned tho bed, examined every one of a lot of bank notes to the yalne of some SO.000 marks, and a draft for SS0.000 marks that reposed in Mr. Jacohy's pocket-book, and finally said: 'I am now of the opinion, sir, that you did not steal 3,700 marks from landlord Funk this inoming." Beforo Mr. Jacoby could recover sufficiently from his astonishment to make reply, the landlord, who hud beenstandingin tho hall, j'elled out: "It's lie. He did steal my money, and he buried it in the mountain side when he was out for his morning walk." Jnst then Frederick Cook. Secretary of the State of New York, and Dr. Haussman, who were also stopping at the'Restaurant Funk, and had been told that Mr. Jacoby was to be arrested ior theft, came into the room, and. after blowing up the, landlord, advised Mr. Jacoby to remove at onco to another hotel, and ask that the matter be immediately brought to tho attention of the authorities. Mr. Jacoby did so. bnt the excitement of the ailair so worked upon him that when the information was brought to him. the next day, that tho landlord had found the money under his own mattress, ho was in a raging fever. Mr. Funk, of course, sent around an apology; but Mr. .Jacoby s menus were not satisfied to let the matter drop there, and immediately called upon Fnuk. and asked him to show the 3.700 marks that ho had lost and found. This he could not do. and when pressed for an explanation of his conduct he becamo very angry, and finally intimated that tho money had been stolen and placed under his mattress when the the theft was discovered. When Mr. Jacoby recovered from a two weeks' illness he started in to punish Funk, both civilly and criminally. The landlord then became badly frightened, and got into the habit of falling on his knees whenever he mot his late lodger in tho street. Mr. Jacoby was obdnrate for a Ion? time, bnt finally a greed to hold his lawyer's hand if Funk would agree to give 1,000 marks to the poor of Wildbad, 500 marks to the town hospital, and 500 marks to tho Wildbad Home for Crippled Children; to insert an abject apology in every German and several New York city newspapers at his own expense, and to pay nil costs and lawyer fees, a total sum of about 4-0 marks. Funk begged and cried, and nil his riv tives begged and cried for easier terms, but Mr. Jacoby ottered the alternative of a heavy fine, the revocation of his license, and a long imprisonment, and Funk finally came to terms. Mr. Jacobv said 3estcrday that he believed the whole idea was that of black-mail, aud for that reason he was bound to punish Funk as severely as possible. Tourists Arre-ted as Tickpocketi. Lucerne, Aug. SO. Mr. Washburnc, the United States minister to Switzerland, has made a formal protest to the Rucdesrath against the wrongful arrest of four American tourists at Berne, on the charge of being pickpockets. The persons referred to were liberated after two days imprisonmeut. No apology was made to them for the mistake that had been made. Heavy damages are claimed. Another Seal Poacher Disobeys Order, Victokia, B. C, Aug. SO The schooner Pathfinder arrived from Behnng sea last night. Captain (VLeary reports that his vessel was boarded by the revenue cutter Rush in BehringKca. July 9. Lieutenant Tnttle took 854 cal skins that wero on board and all the gun and ammunition, and then placed the quartermaster of thn Kuhh on hoard. a itli instructions to tako the schooner to Sitka. Alter the Rii!i left the Pathfinder headed for Victoria, despite tho protect of tho prize crew. Production of Cotton. New Yohk, Aug. at. The total net receipts. of cotton at all ports since Sept i, lbbi, axuoiuit to ,Ci,UJ b !. ' '