Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1898 — Page 6

■ JASPER II'CNTY DKMOCRAI. I F. E BaBCOCK, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - * INDIANA

EVENTS OF THE WEEK

If A report of a double murder comes from | Hartsborne, I. T., where two brothers f named Green shot two Russians named Morris and Buttawinski, killing both of them. The tragedy is said to be the onti come of a feud having its origin in Rusp si a. If-' Captain General Blaiieo lias been nn- | thorisced to draw on Paris for S2JHM).OoO . in gold, to lie applied in the payment of I the Spanish troops-in Cuba. This amount is in addition to the proceeds of the draft for $2,125,000 by the Madrid Government on London, which was sold at Havana. B- A stranger, bent on suicide, Jhrew him- | self in front of a train going at full speed f. at Bright wood and, in addition lo ending his own life, nearly caused a serious dis / aster. The sudden checking of speed threw Brakeman Frank W. Fortney of ! Bellefontaine from the train, seriously injuring him. g, ft' The most disastrous prairie fire that eVer ravaged the Indian Territory lias been brought to an abrupt stop by heavy rains. The fire Started'in Chickasaw and Choctaw nations, and it is estimated that property valued at $250,000 has been destroyed. An area of seventy-live miles Square was burned over. - Information comes to the Kansas live stock sanitary board that cattle in many sections of central Kansas are dying from eating frost-bitten oats. The volunteer , growth in the fields was very rank, and wherever stock was turned on the oats stubble death resulted. Scores of cattle have died from the poison. Col. C. V. Hard, commanding the Eighth Ohio regiment, was asked to resign iti a “round robin” signed by a number of regimental officers, and refused to do so, scoring the signers because of their taking action without making any charges. He charges their only reason is that they arc seeking promotion. Mark Murphy. 25 years old, a gambler, who went to St. Louis recently from Chicago. was killed in the resort lie conducted at It! A North Twenty-third street. His skull was beaten in with a blunt, instrument and lie died shortly after his bleed-’ ing body was discovered by Janies Johnson. son of the assistant prosecuting attorney of St. Louis. The so-called anti-ticket sealpers’ law has been declared unconstitutional by the New York Court of Appeals, and is therefore inoperative. This law, which was passed by, the last legislative session in spite of bitter opposition, declared it a criminal act for any one to sell railroad tickets in that State except the authorized agents of the railroad companies. The Supreme Court of Texas has handed down a decision iii favor of the Fort Arthur Channel and Dock Company in the injunction suit brought by the property holders near Fort Arthur. The decision disposes of all questions in connection with the completion of the canal, which is in course of construction at Fort Arthur, to connect the terminals of the Kansas City. Pittsburg and Gulf Rail--5 way with deep water, a distance ol' six | and one-half miles. One of tho' boldost robberies committed in Cleveland in years was perpetrated the , other day when the postoliice was robbed i of eleven packages containing SIOO each, or sl.looin all. The money was in a pigeonhole at a stamp window presided over by Miss Mary Berry. She left the win- | dow for a few seconds and during that brief time the money was taken. Four women were seen acting in a suspicious manner in the corridor (if the postotlicc just before the roldiery and the police believe one Of them to be the thief. A delegation of White river U.te Indians who have been in Washington several days had a hearing before the Secretary of the Interior. They submitted the matter of the lease of a large stretch of tlit* Gilsonite lands in tlieir reservation to the Raven Mining Company, and asked that tin* lease be approved by the Secretary. They made a vigorous protest against the sending of any more Government commissions to treat with them for the allotment of lands, the cession of an.v portion of their territory or kindred matters, and they asserted very positively that what they wanted to do with their lands was to lease them for revenue-producing purposes, and not lo cede or otherwise dispose of them. v

BREVITIES.

11. E. Goodloe, proprietor of the Racket store, Eureka Springs, Ask., hus made an assignment. All tlie gambling houses in Denver have been closed, and Chief of Police Farley says he will keep them so. Henry Gaullieur, planter, painter, litterateur and cosmopolite, was found dead in his room at a New York hotel. Articles of incorporation of the International Silver Company—the silverware trust —have been filed in New Jersey. Emma Buggies, a crayon artist, aged 38 years, committed suicide in her room in a Louisville hotel liy shooting herself. At Central City, W. Va.. William Laffcrty was shot by his son James, 30 years old, und so budly injured that he died. At its convention in Concord, N. 11., the National Grange voted to hold the next annual meeting in Ohio, the city to be selected later. A dispatch from Nikolaief, Russia, at the confluence of the Ingul and the Bug, says that twenty-one jiersons have been killed there by an explosion in a rocket factory. The Forum Club of Bt. Louis has conj- - piled an address to President McKinley asking him to recommend to Congress suck legislation as will do away with the massacre of negroes in the South. The Alabama House of Representatives has ratified a joint resolution appropriating SSOO to buy a sword for Lieut. Hobson of Merrimae fame. The steamer Belgic lias sailed from San Francisco for China and Japan, via Honolulu, with so many passengers that valuable cargo had to be refused. This will be her last voyage to the Orient. At the request of President McKinley the Atlanta peace jubilee will not be known by that name. He has intimated his desire that It be known simply as u celebration o,f the victory of American y Anus. \

EASTERN.

During a dense fog a Pennsylvania train ran upon a gang of workmen on the Hackensack Meadow, killing eleven and injuring six. The nationul fraternal congress, which hits been in session in Baltimore, has adjourned to meet in Chicago in August of next year. Fire in the Greenpoint district of Brooklyn, N. Y., caused a loss of $102,000. The largest loss is sustained by Joseph Schriver & Co., furniture dealers. T. A. Hntixhurst, agent at Havnnn, Cuba, of the Pan-American Express Company of Brooklyn, attempted suicide by cutting his throat. His conditon is serious.

G. W. Schmidt, a wholesale liquor dealer of Pittsburg, has filed a petition in voluntary bankruptcy. The schedule shows liabilities of $818,722 and assets of $496,417.

, Cornell Fniversity is in a state of excitement over the elopement of E. D. Mooers, a subfreshman, and the pretty wife of E. B. Kay, an instructor in the institution. G. W. Rogers and H. G. Rue. conductor and baggageman respectively on the Amboy di vision of the Pennsylvania road, were killed by the Chicago limited at Rahway, N. J. Dr. Samuel C. Bartlett, former president of Dartmouth College and from 1857 to 1870 professor in Chicago Theological Seminary, died suddenly at Hanover N. H, lie was 71 years old. At the meeting of the corporation of Yale University, President Timothy Dwight, on account of his having reached the age of 70, which lie had long ago fixed as the limit of his service, presented his resignation. In a heroic effort to save his mother from his stepfather’s brutality, William Lindemayer, aged 14 years, was shot in the head by the stepfather, James Clements, at Philadelphia, and now lies in the hospital in n precarious condition. Another son, George Lindemayer, Was shot in the head, hut the wound is not of a serious nature,

WESTERN.

Omaha proposes to repeat the Transtnismssippi Exposition next year on a more elaborate scale.

Prof. George L. Osborne, president of tlie State Normal School at Warrensburg, Mo., died at Kansas City. At Southwest City, Mo., Scott Yergain shot and killed .T. I>. Edge, ex-prosecuting attorney of McDonald County. The Territorial Capitol Site Commission at Phoenix, A. T., has adopted plans for a eapitol building to cost SIOO,OOO. - At South Zanesville. -Ohio, N. J. C. Bowers, aged 72, postmaster, and Mrs. Mary Canady, aged 75. were married. John Kirvcs, a plasterer at Dayton, 0., blew his daughter’s brains out and then made an ineffectual attempt at suicide. Oliver Clement, aged IS, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., has married Mrs. Hannah McGinnis, ag-J 50. Site was his stepmother's stepmother. , At Cleveland, John Stefancin was shot and killed and John Fedorco mortally wounded by Sam Carr, a colored man from North Carolina.

Ailitin Ziegenhein, son of Mayor Ziegcnhrfri'"Of‘St. Louis, died suddenly of acute hernia iu Paragould, Ark., where he had gone on a hunting trip. Maj. A. It. Anderson died at Mot Springs, S. I)., as a result of blood poisoning contracted while at the Grand Army encampment at Cincinnati. Julia Reidel was accidentally shot and killed by her brother Walter at their home near Cincinnati while carelessly handling a shotgun. Doth were school children. A Portsmouth (Ohio) special says: "h ire destroyed .Dice’s livery stable, the Farmers’ Hotel and Frick’s-flouring mill and residence. The loss will reach $75,000, partly insured.” The woi-kmon of the Libby Glass Company of Toledo have completed the largest cut glass bowl ever made in the world, for presentation to President McKinley. It weighs over seventy-five pounds, J. H. Southall, who secured some $600,000 in ten States on fraudulent Government time chocks, was found guilty at St. Paid, Minn. lie was sentenced to serve from six to ten years in State prison. At a mass meeting of citizens of Omaha it was decided to purchase the exposition buildings and plant of the Transmississippl and International Exposition Association and hold an exposition next year. A petition has been filed in the United States Circuit Court at Wichita, Kan., for a receiver for the Hutchinson and Southern Railway. Plaintiff is Mrs. Kate A. Bennett, a stockholder, who charges fraud. Dan Williams, a prominent ranchman at Lake Ethel. N. L>., wag shot through the head by a man named Warner, and died instantly. The murdered man was formerly warden of the State prison at Bismarck. N. D. Indian Agent Nickerson of the Shoshone reservation received a telegram from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs notifying him that Indians are illegally killing game and settiug fire to forests in the Teton mountains of Wyoming. Aaron L. S. Campbell, the wealthy Hamilton, Ohio, stockman, assigned to Linus P. Clawson, The personal property is $7,5(H) and the real estate $125,000. The assignee’s bond is $150,000. No statement of liabilities has been made. A fast passenger on the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton crashed into the rear end of n freight near Toledo. Three persons on the passenger were seriously injured. The engineer and fireman escaped injury by jumping from the train. The wire worm is doing great damage to the new wheat in northwestern Kansas. Many fields have been totally destroyed. Fi.vmers say the worm was in this year’s stubble and was a product of the rniny season in July and August. Two fierce encounters between union miners and negroes occurred at Springside, n suburb of Paiin, 111. Many shots were fired, but no one was injured. The trouble was precipitated by an attack upon a union miner by an unknown negro. Dispatches announce serious prairie fires iu Gregory, Tripp and Todd counties, South Dakota, the ruin of thousands of acres of range and the loss of many cattle. Iu northwestern Nebraska the losses od grain and farm buildings are even heavier. A desperate attempt was made by two convicts to escape from the Columbus, Ohio, penitentiary. Guard Charles D. Lauterbach of Mount .Vernon was shot

and killed, while Convicts O’Neil and Atkinson received injuries of a serious noture.

J. A. Brandrcth, who claimed to be a nephew of the millionaire pillmaker of that name, was found dead in his cell nt the county jail at Fresno, Cal., having been arrested on a charge of vagrancy. Alcoholism is supposed to have caused his death.

The unknown man who recently attempted to kill Turkish Consul Hall in San Francisco by moans of explosives sent by mail, forwarded no less than six packages of dynamite and fulminating caps from Butte, Mont., to the Sultan’s representative.

The dead body of .7. B. Gronninger, a wealthy ranchman of Terry, Mont,, was found on the Big Four tracks at Delaware, Ohio. The remains were considerably mutilated. There is strong evidence that tiie man was murdered and his body placed on the tracks.

Great indignation and excitement prevails at Madisonville, one of the most aristocratic suburbs of Cincinnati. As Susan Williams, a white girl 16 years of nge, was riding on horseback into Madisonville, she was stopped and pulled from her horse by aii nnknown negro, M. It. Todd, cashier in the defunct Fillmore County Bank at Preston, Minn., was indicted by the Grand Jury at Preston on a charge of embezzlement on four counts. Todd offered to plead guilty, but District Judge Whyloek refused to permit him, and the case will go over to the January term for trial. Two freight trains on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific collided at Moscow, lowa. One man was killed and one injured. A wrecking train about to start to the scene from Wilton was run into by the fast mail. The fireman of the latter was badly hurt and sixteen men on the work train were injured, some seriously.

An engine pulling a heavy lot of cars, while going up a grade near Converse Station, Ohio, exploded with fearful results. The fireman was killed and three trainmen fatally injured. The bodies were blown some distance away. The train consisted of twenty-five cars and each was derailed. The report of the explosion was heard for Iniles away. An electric street car on the Tacoma, Wash., Railway Line was derailed five miles from the city the other evening by the controller failing to shut off the current on a heavy down grade. The car was smashed to splinters by striking tlie side of a cut ten feet deep through which it was traveling. Seven persons were aboard, and all received injuries, but Fay Roberts, motorman, is hurt the worst. He may lose a leg. A sale of shorthorn cattle from the herd of H. C. Duncan of Osborn, Mo., attracted many breeders to the Kansas City stock yards. Fifty head sold for an average of $214 each, though twelve Crtiickshauk shorthorns, bulls, cows and heifers brought an average of S4OO. The highest price realized was SI,OOO, paid by J. W. Smith & Son of Allerton, lowa, for the 3-year-old bull Baron Diidding. The lowest price was $lO5, for a 3-year-old cow.

Five men undertook to rob the Citizens’ Bank at Weston, Ohio, hut were frightened away by A. M. Neifel, living opposite the bauk, who had been aroused by the noise of sledges and drills. As Neifel opened the bank door the four men inside opened fire on him. Instead of retreating he emptied the six Chambers of his own weapon, badly wounding one of the thieves, who was aided in getting away by his companions. A short distance away a fifth man was waiting with a team and buggy that had been stolen from the local livery stable. As the firing began tlie citizens poured out of their homes and some forty shots were fired. A pool of blood and a dropped revolver marked the place where the buggy stood. The five men leaped into the vehicle and drove rapidly away.

WASHINGTON.

Gen. Don Carlos Buell, one of the few surviving generals of the civil war, died at his home, Airdrie, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. The American Association of Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, in convention at Washington, elected Dr. 11. P. Arms by president. Secretary Long has issued an order increasing the age requirement in the case of apprentices admitted to the naval service from 14 to 15 years. Captain Joseph B. Foraker, son of the Ohio Scmntor, lias submitted his resignation as assistant adjutant general and returned to Washington from Havana. Secretary Long, in his annual report, will recommend the construction of thirteen new war vessels and an addition of 5,000 men to the enlisted force of the navy. If will require $50,000,000 to carry out the Secretary’s recommendations. The Court of Claims nt Washington rendered a judgment of $1,809.400 in favor of the New York Indians, who entered suit against the United States to recover the value of certain lands donated to them in Kansas and subsequently disposed of by the United States.

FOREIGN.

It is reported that Iloilo, capital of the island of Panay, is in the hands of the insurgents.

I>r. Stephen 11. T.vng. president of the' American Chamber of Commerce, is dead at Paris. lie was 00 years old. Advices from Seoul say that the Corean Government has issued orders that foreigners are to be stopped from trading iu the interior. Francis de Prosscuse, the well-known writer, has been expelled from the French Legion of Honor because of his denunciation of certain officers for their treatment of Dreyfus. The Formidable, the largest war ship ever built, was launched at Portsmouth, England. She is of 15,000 tons displacement and is 400 set long. Her cost exceeds $5,000,000. The Dowager Empress of China is said to have concluded another secret treaty with Russia, by the terms of which China is to employ Russian soldiers for the defense of the Chinese coast. Bishop Earl Cranston, of the Methodist church, and family, and Rev. Dr. Lowery were mobbed in tlie streets of Peking. Dr. Lowery had a rib broken, but succeeded in getting the others to a place of safety. The Marquis of Lansdowne,,British Secretary of State for War, has issued the necessary orders for the enrollment of a battalion of 1,000 Chinese to serve under British officers at Wei-Hai-Wei, the recently acquired British naval station in China. Joseph Chamberlain, In a speech at JLoc-

don, declared that Great Britain did not need an alliance for her own security, and asserted that England requires a better guaranty (from Russia) than paper agreement to secure the policy of an open door” in China. A terrific explosion occurred in the Case de Chunipeaux, Paris, France, underneath the offices of the Havas agency. A woman was killed outright and eight other persons were seriously injured. It is thought that the explosion was due to ignited gas, but there are rumors of on anarchist plot. The Boer forces, after a heavy musketry fire and artillery bombardment, stormed and captured the mountain stronghold of Chief (Jpefu of the Magatos tribe, in the Zouttansberg district. Opefu recently massacred a missionary and his family and the Transvaal Government sent an expedition to punish the natives. The latter attacked the Boers, but were driven into the mountains. Two Boers- were killed during the storming of the mountain stronghold.

IN GENERAL.

The world’s gold output for 1S()8 is estimated at $275,000,000. The date for the Spanish evacuation of Cuba has been definitely set for Jan. 1. Ex-President Cleveland, Capt. Robley D, Evans and E. C. Benedict sailed on the latter's yacht for a two months’ trip about Cuba and Porto Rico. The Canadian cruiser Petrel seized a lot of gill nets belonging to American fishermen" in Lake Erie, which it is claimed were set in Canadian waters.

A registered letter containing SI,OOO, sent front New York by John E. Madden, the noted horseman, to his wife in Lexington, Ivy., was opened en route and the money taken. The Government is investigating. Arthur Sewall & Co.’s four-masted schooner Talofa, Captain Fletcher, from Guantanamo for Port Tampa in ballast, has been totally wrecked on Cozumel Island, off the eastern coast of Yucatan. Two of the crew drowned. A letter just received from Lieut. Robert E. Peary states that probably no message will be received from him for several years. The Hope cleared the ice fields all right, but Lieut. Peary expresses fears that the Windward may be delayed by the ice closing in. The United States immigration commissioner nt Quebec has refused to allow Fatrick Flanagan, a passenger on the steamship Gallia, to enter the United States. The objection is that he has just been released after serving fifteen years in a British prison for connection with a dynamite plot. Official figures on the recent election show that the constitutional amendment providing home rule for cities in Minnesota carries by a vote of 26,945 to 12,809. Returns from thirty-seven counties on the proposition to extend the franchise to women on school matters show 27,860 and 18,079 against, which carries it. Ex-President Benjamin Harrison has been retained by Venezuela to represent that government before the arbitration commission to settle the dispute between Great Britain and Venezuela over boundary lines. Gen. Harrison is aw id to have received a retainer of SIOO,OOO. Ex-Sec-retary Tracy is said to be an associate with Gen. Harrison, and his retainer is reported to be $50,000. Passengers on the steamer Dirigo. from Skaguay, bring news of the draowning of two men in the Fifty-Mile rapids on the Yukon River. Four men left Lakejpeiinett on a scow with fifty tons of provisions. When the scow reached Fifty-Mile her seams opened and she sunk. Two men, Smith and Halloway, swam ashore. The other two, whose names are unknown, were drowned.

11. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: “The situation is clearer and the improvement in business which was expected after the election has begun. Payments through clearing houses are far the largest ever known—for the week, 37.3 per cent larger than last year and 33 per cent larger than in 1892. The glass workers have resumed, the anthracite coal output is heavy and much beyond the present capacity of markets, the troubles in Illinois coal mines have been settled and the new strike of shoe workers in Marlboro, Mass., is now the only labor hindrance of consequence. It is noteworthy that in spite of all changes the price of spot wheat has but slightly changed. The exports for the Week, flour included, have been 3,968,708 bushels from Atlantic ports, against 3,237.344 bushels last year, and from Pacific ports, 988,093 bushels, against 2.191,334 bushels last year, making in all for two weeks of November. 0,312,331 bushels, against 9.939,804 bushels last year.

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to SG.OO; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice, $3.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 3 red, GUe to 07e; corn, No. 2,32 cto 33c; oats. No. 2,24 c to 26e; rye, No. 2,50 cto 52c; butter, choice creamery, 21c to 23e; eggs, fresh, 20c to 23c; potatoes, choice, 30c to 40c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle;" shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep and lambs, common to choice, $3.50 to $5.50; wheat. No. 2 red, 08c to 69c; corn, No. 2 white, 32c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 29c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.50 to $3.75; sheep. $3.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,09 cto 71c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2,20 cto 28c; * rye, No. 2,51 cto 52c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,09 cto 71c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 34c to 30c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 27c to 29c; rye. No. 2,55 cto 57c. Detroit—Cattle. $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.25 to $3.50; sheep and lambs, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 72c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 27c to 29c; rye, 55c to 5Ge. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed. 71c to 73c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 27c; rye, No. 2,51 c to 53c; clover seed, new. $4.70 to $4.76. Milwaukee —Wheat. No. 2 spring, GGc to 67c; corn, No. 3,32 cto 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 28c; rye, No. 1,51 cto 53c; barley, No. 2,40 cto 48c; pork, mess, $7.50 to SB.OO. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, common to choice, $3.50 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice wethers, $3.50 to $4.75; lambs, common to extra, $5.00 to $5.50. New York —Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 75c to 77c; corn, No. 2,39 cto 40c; oats, No. 2,29 cto 31c; butter, creamery, 18c to 24c; eggs, Western, 23c to 24c.

GOOD ROAD

Advantages of Good Roads. There are, It Is estimated, 300,000 miles of highway roads In the United States, about 20 per cent, of the roads of all the world. Great Britain has 120,000 miles of highways aud these are some of the best In the world. Germany has 275,000 miles of roads, and some of them are as poor as the roadways of a great country can be. France, which has taken an enlightened view of the good roads question for many years, and nas spent by governmental or local authority over sl.000,063,000 on highways, has a road mileage of 330,000, more than any other country. Russia, with an enormous area, has only 70,000 miles of roadways, while Italy, a smaller country, has 55,000.

There are approximately, though the number is steadily on the decline, 14,000,000 horses In the United States (there were 15,000,000 by the census of 1890), and there are about 2,000,000 mules, principally in the South, the annual cost of fodder for these animals being $1,500,000,000. On fine stone roads one horse can haul as much as three horses can haul over the average dirt road of this country. It is estimated that it would be necessary to build about 1,000,000 miles of macadamized roads in the United States in order to have as good a system of public highways as is found in several European states. At $4,000 a mile this would involve an outlay of $4,000,000,000—a pretty large sum. But if one-half of the draft animals could he dispensed with by the building of such roads there would be an annual saving of $700,000,000 in the sod bill. Consequently if road bonds were issued bearing 3 per cent, interest 6,000,000 miles of macadamized roads could be built without Increasing the annual expenses one dollar.—Buffalo Review.

Wide Tires in Maryland. A Washington correspondent, on a recent bicycle trip out of the Capital city, made some interesting observations, which he relates In the Indiana Farmer. He says: I started earls* In the morning, heading north on the old Frederick pike and the first thing to attract my notice agriculturally was the hay coming to the Washington market. It was in big loads—four and six horses and practically all the wagons were fitted with wide tires, four inches and upwards. During my first fifteen miles I counted nineteen large loads and all but three of the wagons had wide tires. Where broad tires prevailed I generally encountered good roads; not necessarily that wide tires on wagons will make all roads goodhut my experience was that the two went pretty well together. Good Roads Attract - uminer Visitors. It is acknowledged, says the Nashua Telegraph, that “if the Granite State Is to hold the prestige of the past and still remain the great Mecca for visitors and tourists, that the State must see to it that the roads are put in the best condition possible. The people of other States are building systems of splendid roads which form a very attractive feature, and one that will do much to attract outsiders. New Hampshire has got to do the same, and a grand State road up the Merrimack valley to the mountains is an immediate demand of the condition of affairs at the present time.

They Save the Freight. The Paulsboro, N. J., correspondent of the Philadelphia Record says: “Many boats that have for years carried truck from Philadelphia markets have stopped fully a month earlier this season, as the farmers are carrying their produce over the new stone roads and saving freight.”

President McKinley’s Desk.

The desk at which President McKinley sits was a gift of the Queen to a former occupant of the White House. This piece of furniture has an interesting history. It Is made of tough British oak, taken from the remains of the illfated ship Resolute, which, in 1872, went northward in search of Sir John Franklin. Three years afterward some American explorers found remnants of the vessel stuck in the Ice ,and brought them back to the United States. They were bought by the United States, who courteously offered them to Queen Victoria as being a treasure more appropriate to be preserved by Great Britain than America. Her majesty accepted the gift, and thanked the President warmly for the gracious act, and accompanying her letter was the desk, which is now one of the treasures of the White House. Newcastle (England) Chronicle.

Pig Fooled the Dog.

Here is a true tale of a dog aod a pig. They were both warm friends. They used to eat their cold potatoes off the same plate, and but for one thing would never have had any trouble This was the fact that the dog had a kennel and the pig had none. Somehow the pig got it into his head that the kennel belonged to whichever could get into it first, so every night there was a race. If the dog won he showed his teeth, and the pig had to lie on the softest plank he could find. If the pig got In first Toby eould not drive him out. One rainy afternoon the pig found It rather unpleasant slipping about on deck and made up his mind to retire early. But when he reached the kennel he found the dog snug and warm Inside. “Umph!” he said, butToby made no reply. Suddenly ad Idea flashed upon him, and trudging off to

where their dinner plate was lying, be carried It to a part of the deck where the dog could see it, find turning hie back to the kennel, began rattling the plate and munching as though he had a feast before him. This was too much for Toby. A good dinner and he not there! Piggy kept on until Toby had come round in front of him and pushed his nose into the empty plate. Then, like a shot, he turned around and was safe in the kennel before Toby knew whether there was any dinner on the plate or not.

Gladstone’s Memory.

Mr. Gladstone's amazing memory Is Illustrated by an anecdote given by G. W. Smalley In Harper’s Magazine. It describes what occurred during a cabinet meeting. There arose a question of constitutional usage, on which Mr. Gladstone took one side and the minister whose department it concerned another. The argument perhaps leaned to Mr. Gladstone’s side; but argument is seldom In England a final cause of political action, and when this colleague, who was contending against his master, as he had good right to, found himself hard pressed, he said: “There is no precedent.” “Yes,” replied Mr. Gladstone, “there Is a precedent. The point was raised and settled in Sir Robert Peel’s time, and while I was President of the Board of Trade in his cabinet.”

Then turning to his privtae secretary, Mr. Gladstone said: “If you will please go to the second desk in the small library, the third drawer on the right hand, in the last compartment at the back of the drawer, you will find a bundle of papers tied with black ribbon, dated 1845, and labeled It. P. Bring me that.”

It was brought. Mr. chose out of this parcel of documents, which had slept for forty years, the memorandum he had in mind, opened, and read it out to his cabiiiet. It was a minute by Sir Robert I’eel on the question raised —a question relating to trade, a full statement of facts, a decisive opinion on them, and a complete answer to the objection as now raised by Mr. Gladstone’s colleague. “Now I ask you,” said the minister who told the story, “how are you going to stand up against a man with such a memory as that?”

A Savage Monarch.

The Bey of Charjui is a Mohammedan ruler of the district in Turkistan of that name, which adjoins the celebrated River Oxus. He Is, however, under the control of the Russian government. The Bey’s appearance is picturesque. He is generally clad In a gayly colored kbalat, bound round by a highly ornamented girdle, and a large white turban on his head. His reception of Europeans is most cordial, and he is wont to organize entertainments in their honor. A correspondent of St. Paul’s gives an account of such feast: “We were taken to an open undulating plain, in which a tent had been constructed and tables spread with a variety of fruits and sweetmeats, which was afterward replaced by a more substantial meal. The Bey himself sat near the table, but, being a Mohammedan, he did not join us at the feast, nor did he provide vodki or wine. We had, however, a liberal supply of coffee and sherbet. The tent was open at one side, and we had a view of about a hundred horsemen, clad in gay raiment. The carcass of a newly killed goat was thrown among them, aud after a scrimmage of about a quarter of an hour, one of them succeeded in carrying off the prize without dismounting from his horse, aud as he rode off with it in triumph he was pursued by the others, but he succeeded in retaining it as his property. This was repeated several times, and it was followed by music and dancing.”

Lotteries in Old Havana.

“Life and Society in Old Cuba” Is the title of an article in the Century, made up of extracts from the journals of Jonathan S. Jenkins, written in 1859. Mr. Jenkins says: In Havana the stranger’s attention is arrested by the venders of lottery tickets, who stand on the street corners with a pair of shears in one hand and sheets of lottery tickets in the other, ready to cut off any number for buyers. They are very adroit, and are apt to persuade the credulous that they will draw a fortune in the scheme. These licensed lotteries are one of the great evils there, especially to thie Spanish people, who seem to be born gamblers, and for whom the chances of dice, cards, and lottery tickets appear to have an irresistible charm, all classes In Havana dealing in them habitually.

He Kicks.

V’Yes,” said Mrs. Flinders, who has ben sitting to the celebrated artist, M. l’Orgalrs, for her portrait; “I am sure it is going to be a speaking likeness of me,” A sickly pallor overspread the features of Mr. Flinders, and he replied: “Then I ehaß not accept it. You talk enough for an entire family. I want no speaking likeness of you In the house!’ 1

Could Use It.

Mamie—Only think. Fren Saunders has given Carrie Moore a diamond for an engagement ring. Steve—That’s all right. Carrie’s father is a painter and glazier. The diamond will come In handy in his business.—Boston Transcript.

Warships to Re Well Furnished.

The furniture of the battleships Kearsarge and Kentucky, orders for the making of which have been received at the Portsmouth navy yard, Is to cost nearly SIOO,OOO. ;' You can pick up a boy’s school book, and find instantly where he Is studying; every page he has passed over la full of marks and dirt * ,