Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 29, Number 16, Jasper, Dubois County, 14 January 1887 — Page 2

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WAMtlMMM, iM- 4 IKwXr Aktrtru nsnsl nuntto last aifut the report o the OMMMtttM Ml tnMMkoHjUk rwrtat to th Mate en the euejeet ef mUreMlfNtfflitai tint Uidlea He and foretgu eeunirie. The report oaateJaa Ubntalo: mtumli of tne jsrofr i ntetta&oa MdnumMrtatM m Um principal oeuatrte of the world. Kffort ww mad by tlM committee to group together the a vera yearly prk ef groin at Um various grata etuear In the United State for a eriee of year, aad ikow Um dtffermr hi ptw iw ujhl at various aetata between theee irrapateal moUom, which wM rtpmMt, hi a mnur. me freight and Um tendon y of Um nito et freajrut cfcarf. It ia hwn for xMpl that Um difference hi tlM vr!eeot earn between Um Atlantic port and the lake have steadily eectinod from l eeute TWhaaeelm lt to M cent per buoel iu 1Mb; between AUMlh port mh! weetern rtvorjsort front It omU in MS to 11 eonto An attempt wm made ny tn eoniMiHoo to uncertain tke rntee of freight from the priactnal iaierniediat point to the teaboard, and alo from intermediate point to the princtpol citie of vai-fcma State. The iaveetigaUon wm conducted In nope of uaeertniutug facto ia regard to tbo difference between Um rate charged for loar haul and abort haul and to throw MfM upoa tbo vexed question of a lang and a abort bam. In re la Won to this m?ulry tbo coatmtttoa say If the returns root which tbo above summary I constructed mar bo relied cm (and tbo committee boo been careful to select re turn .that appeared on their face correct) tbo ratea for local freight are evidently levied on a aomowbat general principle o: what tbo treatc will bear. In Maaaachttaetu, when terminal are taken into eoaslderatloe, the coat of trans porting a bnehel of wheat ia more nearly equitable than in any other State represented in the summary- ul1- &md th aaomolv of a leaaor rat for 88 miles than for 15 miles. In fonasytraala the local rntoaar hiffaer than in XaasachusoUa. In Ohio the rate la about the same on AO aa on M miles, while the ton heal of t bums, instead of beta relatively less, ia relatively greater. In XaeeaohueetW in 188 it cost 4.6 oonta to transport a bushel of wheat M mites; the cost in Connecttout lor tranaporting the same S mile was . cento; la Peansrtvanla. to mile. 4.1 cento, nnd i Ohio, id miles, S cento. Of course the condition may not have been the same. Further West we and in Kaasa 48. coats per bushel for transporting a bushel of wheat 44 miles, and in Masohueetta for same serrtoe n miles, .3 cento, while California pay 5.S per bushel for M mite. Tarn tag from the United State to foreign countries the committee shew the production and consumption of eereajs in Kurope, and bring out the fact that the increase in nomiiatlon has been relaUvely much greater in great grain producing j countries than in the grain buying eoun- j trie. The United Kingdom appears to . have purchased about two-thirds of .all I the wheat in the United States exported during this period, and therefore special attention be been given to England's supply of wheat. Per this purpose a table was prepared giving a summary of the wheat tamttortod into the United Kingdom of Oreat Britain and Ireland from various j slve, nnd the decade from 14 to lli, inclusive, showing the total importation ' ef wheat and the proportions furnished ' by the United State, Russia, Germany, r Brfttoh Jforth America, rranoe, Denmark. uttd aH other countries. In commenting 1 en thi table the committee says: -A glance at kthto summary not only shows the rapidity of the agricultural growth of the United State and its Importance a a food-exporting country, but ate present some of Um eeonomte change that have occurred in Hurope. in the first period the United States sapntted km than 1 per cent, of wheat imported hit the United Kingdom, and in the met period it supplied nearly M per in i,wu,uw euai it by a series of leaps and bounds MfcNMM bushel. Xmentlag the rapid rowth of imoorts of wheat which oe net appear hi thi tabto, India being elaemfted ; "U ether oountries," then ia 1 ae instance In the economic htotory i of a growth so rapid. The import from Oermaay have decreased from the aeeoud period, actually a welt a retotlvely, white, relatively, the per con lege of deereaee ha been sUadily siahing from BS to It per cent., next to M and 18, and laatIT te a per oeet. The crystaUaatlon of tb German Xmptre, the rapid increase of MMlattoa,tbe change from nnngricul tnral condition to that of diveraifted inan suggest themseive as re for the deere. In Germany yjprtMton is overtaking the feed-prodne '9? T"?:". , is overtaking the food-prod crrjr"" TT Z reperti the showing to t tor form ef price ef wheat for a series ef years, In the prhntpai countries ei va won, thus tabtos show that 'Ha average yearly rio ef wheat ia Um lowest hi India. Hanging from M oenta per bushel, at Caloutto, to S1.M at Bombay between 1071 and at comes acxv, we nrernge lor i being tt.tt per bunel at War.ir aer bushel at St Peters burg, and tt.lf per bushel at Odessa. Austria ranks third, the price ranging from tUI per beohel at Buda Pesih to tt.M nt Vtonna, and H.M per bushel at Trieste. The average price of wheat at Algiers wa for the enUr period eevered in tie inquiry at tl. per bushel; at Smyrht, Ltt per buefeel, nnd nt Beirut, f4.4l: In the German empire the price varies somewhat according to location. The f re port of Bremen eppeers to enjoy the fewest price, tlJfi per bushel, and Stettin, on the Baltic, the highest, ft. TO per bushel. Tevregprioof wbeetetttM! priadpel grain port of gland wa enaetly fl.n per bushel. Rouen nnd Haatos are the eheapeet wheat porta In Praasa, nemelv, tl.et and M.M per bushel 1 jhMHJhfintMfil H 0M tees lilies.' Ban Fiuxciseo, Jan. t A verysmsntinnat anewer to Jeffrey Lwto jnea for itroroaba juetbee filed sn the Srior Court ef tin oouaty by her hunbasnt, John Adolf Mitlnd, who to now in MeihOBrne. MaHtond, Uweugh hia towyer, ubmito a numhsr ef anwtmjw totters addressed to the ptotnUfi! and eosalng front Walter L. Penuw, WllBam Oeehrane and Frank Kitdear, ef Mew York, and M. B. tawrlta, ef with all of whom Maitland Lewi violatod her mar:ving ew. JsuRsMu. nit f erwetty ht geneenl O Ww WK WW O

MCATH ON THI RAIL.

Ttrax. O., Jaa. 1 An oatbul freight, drawn by e igin Ko, Tin, while rnnninf on an np-grade nine mile east of bore, and witbia half a mile of the village of Moaubllo, jgave out and waa unable to make the grade. The conductor ran forward with a aigwal to in the fast train, No. E. but it wee too Into, the train waa toe than a quarter of a mile distant, running at the rate of sixty-three miles per hour, and it crashed Into the freight, wrecking both engine and thobaggaffe, expreee, smoking and one passenger oar of the passenger train. Within an almost incredible short spaoe of time the wreck waa in names and the injured passengers were being burned. The passengers In the two sleepers nnd one coach osoaped, numbering about fifty. Nineteen pa s enter in the smoker were all killed. One Irish emigrant alone esped from the smoker, but afterwards died of bis wounds. He did not give hi asm. The engineer of the passenger jumped and osoaped with a dislocated knee. The ftremnn waa planed between the beams, oruahing hia hips. He lived three hours m that poaition and then died. Xino charred and blackened bodies with the limb burned away were removed and laid on the floor of the undertaker's room. The sight was a horrible one, and there was no resemblanoe to human bodies in the remains. At least ten mora are supposed to have perished and been entirely burned up. There I nothing but the bodies which can help to identify them. Among those idenUned are: Jo. FosUewalte, aged flfty-seven years, and hi two eons, Spencer and Henry, aged sighteen nnd eleven respectively. He waa from New Martinsville, W. Va., and waa accompanied by bis wife and three other small children, the four latter being saved. They were on their way to Chillicothe, Mo., to make that their home. C. P. Bradley, of One Hundred and Twelfth street, D. C, a prominent Knight of Labor, on his way west to lecture, was held by the feet in the car, his body protruding from the window. It waa impoe- ( Bible to extricate him and he burned to by Inches. He gave hi watch and into the safe keemnv of others. A Mr. Smith, of ISenwood, W. a., was in the oar next to the smoker, and was un hurt. He says the rhockwas not a very great one. He was thrown from his seat and thought the train had left the track. Nobody waa very seriously hurt in hi roach beyond bruises, cuts and burns. Physician were summoned from this city and Ke public, and rendered eMcient service to the wounded. About a doaen persons were wounded, In addition to those killed, not menUoned above. Prominent railway officials were pre. Mt investigating the matter. It is impos ble to tell now who wm to blame, but it 5g jend that the engineer, fireman and g, wnole crew of the freight train were drunk and neciectf ul of duty. The corotier of the county will make a full lavestigation. The wounded were all hustled out of the county a quickly as possible by the railroad olieiala. The accident is charaed to the conductot and engineer of the freight tram. They puii out of Republic when they should thirty-fire minute to make the run 0 fovr ud m quarter, which re aulrsd only eighteen minute, THK mittixkacocx sMisrim. 8rRIX6FIKL1 Jan. 4.-MIU4n-ttMtiM' tw.Unn of a fright ful accideateariv tbla morning. The Modoe train from Albany approached the depot one hour behind Um and running about thirty-fir miles an hour, and when within n few reds of the station five of the six car left the track from some cause not definitely learned, but thought to be a broken journal The train consisted of Kngin No. t, expree, baggage, smoking car, one day coach and two sleeper. The engine and express ear kept on Um mala track and the baggage car waa thrown agaiact the engine of the local west-bound f rehjht, which bad just pulled ia and wa standing on the west-bound main traek. The freight engine wan thrown on it aide and completely wrecked. The baggage and smoker and one day eoeoh immediately took fir and were consumed, except the bodies and truck. The head of the first sleeping car va charred, but not otherwise damaged. X4tT or tk ixjunsn. Cbarle B. Packard, WestfieM, printer, son of Dr. Packard, of Westfleld; injured in loin and ether severe Internal i a Juries; ; also bad scalp wound. It i feared he will i ao recover. 1 Praata Thorn psoa,reoa7 of the United State Ufa Bering station at uampbeu, . 7 John lenders,' West Springfield, fireman -UMfiUa ml i jus aamwl Is a um il -1 of the loonl freight; badly gasbsa about . Ev4 Mr. and Mrs. B. 8. Whltford, Providence, It I. ; thrown from seat and bratosd. Mr. Whltford wa badly out under the tower jaw. Leeter L. Word, Spring; cut on H. Clark, estor, Windsor Leeks, Conn,; throw out ef window aad left leg eut and bruises. Mr. J. M. Jeak and daughter, Mr. F. M. Chandler, ef Troy, N. Y., a their way to Ludlow with Um body of Mr. Jenka; Mrs. Jeak slightly spraiaed her ankle. The body of Mr. Jenka waa burned. T. Dwyer and Emeline Dwyer, with their adopted daughter, Miss Mary Sekerino, of Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands. Mies Sekerino had her face slightly cut The through New York nnd Chteuge mail wa o thto train, and the mail for nl) New Kngiand. There were five pouches of thi mail, and all were destroyed. All Um Westfield aad Pitt field mail, and the Albany letter mail were destroyed, making fourteen letter pouches that were burned. There were about eighty sack oi mall on the train, and all hut sacks w ra burned. XuttNA, Hi Y, Jan. i. At four o'clock yeeterdsy morntngthe west bound Krk expree train, No. IL earn Into collision with an engine, up which were seven men, in the tkutnjmft yard in thi eity. Conductor Wheeler had hi collarbone broken In two place. Engineer A. Wal lace, Plreaeea GriMn, Kxpre Messenger Cromwell and a brakeman were badly brutood, but net seriously Injured, amgine No. Mi and fit nnd on expree oar were wrecked, The wet hound traek wm Mocked for nine hours. At Painted Feet, trahM were alee delayed by another wreak, ht wWoh aeveral ears were burned ant brafeo neesed Muna, ef

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and Mlstsaaed SoeTox, Jan. a. L. Brooks, a LlaeoU. farmer, while riding toward lxington eartjr yesterday morning, dtscovered in the anow about two rod beyond Uie stone watt at the aid of the road, the detached head of a man, Ita shock of hair matted with blood. It bad appareatlv been chopped og with a dull axe. The features were contracted, as If the man had suffered agony. Just above and behind the left ear were several deep gains two or three inches long, The hair wm short, thick and brown; the forehead lew; the nee small and complexion medium. A few feet away lay a bare arm, small, but muscular, severed at the sooulder. The hand appeared to be that of a blacksmith. Jumping into hi pung, Mr. Brook drove rapidly to Lexington and notified Um authorities of hi discovery, which confirms tee suspicion, aroused by the finding of the bloody clothing in Lexington Tuesday, that a horrible murder had been committed In the vicinity. On receipt of the information a reporter and two other men visited the scene. The? found near the arm a blood-besmeared piece of the JSWafcy Jfvrf of December St, which corrapomla in date and appearance to a bloody piece of 1 tho santa paper which was picked up yesterday near Um bundle of clothing. The latter was so besmeared with blood as to imlloiite being used as a towel by the murderer. A largo rubber horse-cover bad been thrown from the road for the purpose ef concealing the remains, but it failed of ita purpose by landing upon Intervening bushes. There was a pool of blood iu the middle of tUe road. The party followed the road for over a mile to a densely wooded hill. On the left of this, in a deop guilt, a naked, headless, body was found. Deep cute in the hip and foreleg indicated that the murderers had severed the left limb as they had the right, which had been rudely chopped off at Um thigh. One arm was also missing from the body and presumably was found with the head down the road. Dr. J. O. G. Pllton, who led the party, gave immediate instructions that no one should touch the remain or approach too near the place to destroy such traces of the perpetrators of the crime as might exist. A time-table of the railroad between Somerville nnd Boston was found in the murdered man's pocket; also a ticket to Somerville. This leads the police to surmise that the man may have belonged to Cambridge, Somerville er Boston. The left leg of the body is still missing. The place where the body was found i a very lonely one. The man might have been murdered, chopped to piece and thrown out.of a wagon without danger of observation. A young man named Xowlan called upon the Somerville police last evening and expressed bis belief that the murdered tuaH was his employer, George A. Cod man. a milkman of Somerville. Kowlan says that Codman drove away Tuesday morning in a sleigh with a young man whom he addressed a "Frank," and who was a stranger to Xowlan. Codman had collected all the money he could, and told Xowlan he did know when he should return. Codman's clothes, aa described by owlan, correspond with those found with the body, especially the mittens, which had been mended with bed-ticking. The police are confident that this clow will lead to a solution of the murder. A dispatch from Lexington states that the body ha been fully identified as that of George A. Cdman, the Somerville milkman. There la no clew to the murderer, nor has the team with which Codman and his companion left Somerville been found. The money which Codman started with about two hundred and fifty 'hilars is gone. OLEOMARGARINE. Mtetfthe Deelston That thr Stti (Meossaraariae Law of Paaylvn4 Is ComIHuUeaal. Pirrsncneii, Pa., Jan. . The decision of the State Supreme Court that the law prohibiting the sale and manufacture, of oleomargarine is constitution 1, has created great surprise among firms handling the article in this city. The eight wholesale 2t u.s who had already taken out the semi-annual fetO-llcense, immediately discontinued the sale of oleomargarine. Mr. 8. 2. XcCombs, Armour Co.'s agent in thin city, in an interview yesterday, aoM that the oleomargarine trade of Western Pennsylvania amounted to 000,000 annually aad that the decision renders useless the two factories in this city ewned by Robinson fit Co., nnd the Pittsburgh Melting Company, both of which have closed down nnd discharged their employes. An appeal will probablv be taken to the United States Supreme Court. It is predicted that Um price for the dairy article will soon be advanced to fifty cents par pound. i i s - A PRINCELY GIFT, And One That WH1 Nve IXusstlided KHn. Xe OnpurtunHr te 9arrl nr QalMrte Over. CiiLCxncs, O., Jan-. At the monthly and annual meeting of the Pemale Benevolent Society yesterday afternoon Mr. Wm. 6. Deshler, a millionaire banker of this city, presented them with a check for 9109,000. The amount I to be dedicated to the society, the fund to be known an the Betsey Greene-Deshler fund. The principal ia to be kept intact and invested In government or State bonds. The income is to be paid to the treasurer of the society, except WOO per year, which is to be kept out for expenses, aad until ltr three-fourths of one-half of Um income to to go direct to the society and one-fourth to tho Hannah Hell Miss ion. The other half of the income up to the year mentioned Is to be invested with the principal. Prom lKff to 19T four-fifths of the income gee to the society and one-fifth to the Hannah Xell Mission. At that time it is anticipated the principal will have doubled itself, and will bo allowed to grow no larger, and the entire income is to be given five-sixths to the society and one-sixth to the misjUy Ktre In Clnetnaati. OtxciJtXATf, Jan. . At eleven o'clock laet night a general alarm called but the entire department. The fire was m the wholesale boot and shoe house of Jit linn Benckensteln Co., at Xo. MM West Pearl street The building, a five-story n tonsfront brick, wa completely burned out, and the ntook entirely consumed. Tho building wa owned by I. J, Mack, aad Wa fully insured. Benckensteln had n large stock of good en hand, valued at from 100,000 to 110,000. On account of the beavv fir wall the adjoining bulMiagM unharmed except by water. The uaipj. aMMfcsd VMea Mfi jMsuMLaaaja ajUHUAh Lei m War) VlvWIirBPB1. fffl YWKwWWn 9nl fnVTI rei m The total toea will prshahlr

AN INFAMOUS MCASURC

the -- " " " I m How The paasagu by tite Sennte f tke MU reoealing tke xure-f-Onto not tertnittittod a usurpation by that nuy wUicb kne extended over petHotl at nearly twenty year. Under that law bHe powtu' of rentovnl waa taken from the Preatuout ami hMigtHt in the Senate, and Utougrh the act ha wot beH nt all time enforced it kn served at inter val aa a refuge tor the feudal km! of tke Senate when they saw fit t et themalve up a a auperior to tke Chief Magitftmte. Tki not wm ptwMNMl in 19C7 ky a CouRt'etui ootttaiHiuir RnpuUlean majority trf more thaw two-third and wa desijftteil to keep in fflee tke UepHblloaiiH of whom Amlrew Johtiaon sought to rid hiinwlf. Johnwn's break with hia party, which hal hnrtlly yet become warm in te omews, prrcinitatocl a factional quarrel of unexampled bitterness. His iolicy wa not the policy of the great party chiefs who not long before had doubted the wisdom of re-electing Lincoln, lusthu, too, might develop ideas not in harmony with those of the more extreme members of hi party, and to provent his carry insr it out all the energies of the organixation were directed. The ioiMeaeioii of the ofliees Iwing as important a matter m the eatimation of the various ietersa any oiuar, thev iaid the Tonure-of-Olfieo act in 1867, for the punoe of deprivinjr the President of the power of making changes in office without tho consent of the Senate. As it stood originally tkis act practically took from the Pres ident hia constitutional powers and lodsred them in the Sennte. Without it consent lie could not oven remove an official wlto waa incompetent, cor rupt or neglectful. Except by it per mission he could not change his own Cabinet. It was intended to shackle an executive officer who could not oth erwise be controlled. If he would not obey the wishes of the party which had electetl him that party, having alolute control of both branohes of Con gress, would deprive him of the ability to execute the office which had lwen conferred upon him. Mr. Johnson vetoed the act, but it became, a law by the two-thirds vote of a partisan Congress, and thus the usurpation beFor tke violation of this law Mr. ... Johnson was impeached, and in its support a great party, mindful only of partisan advantage and tho spoils of office, fixed in American history a page as dark as any thatis to be found there. But for the removal by Mr. Johnson of Secretary of n ar Stanton and tho ap pointment of General Loreuxo Thomas as Secretary ad interim it is not likely tkat the impeachment proceedings would have beeir" undertaken. Every tliing else depended upon tke maintenance of these charges, and as they failed all else failed. The fury of party-might be depended upon to pass laws overriding the constitution nnd degrading the Presidential office to the level of a Senatorial appendage, hut when it was proposed as a penalty for the violation of such laws to depose the President ami put in his place a chieftain who could have no legal right to the place tkere was a revolt on tke part of several Senators of conscience and ability, and tke country was spared the crowning infamy of witnessing tke d exposition of a Chief Magistrate whose principal offense had been the observance of his oath to support tke coifstitntion and transmit his offioe unimpaired to his successors. Immediately on the inauguration of General Grant tke party necessity of a Tenure-of-Ofllce act disappeared. Both houses of Congress were Republican, as was the Executive Department, and one of tke first acts of tke House of Representatives was to mm a bill repealing tke laws which had been passed for the purpose of shackling Johnson. But the Senate, having tasted blood, . was not prepareu urns eany to reitn quish the power which it had usurped, It failed to act on tke House bill. In hia first message President Grant, who in Johnson's day hail supported the Tenure-of-Offiee bill, attacked it in un measured terms, savin? that " it was incompatible with a faithful and efii etent administration of tke Govern menu" letter on the itonse once again passed a bill repealing the act, this time voting more than six to one in favor of its annulment. The Senate again refused to concur. It had gained the upper hand of the President, and it was not willing to retreat from its post tion. Forty years before this WolBter, Clay and Calhoun had fought the same battle with Andrew Jackson and had failed. The advantage gained as against Johnson was not to be aosmtoneu without a struggle. The law might be permitted to fall into abrance during the ad ministration of a friendly President, but it was argued that it should stand antl be reviveu as occasion niignt war rant. Under it Senators were made the dictators of Federal patronage The President was helpless, unless he eould make sure of tkeir support. Gen oral Grant had a way of dealing with men which soon convinced some members of the Senate that it wonld be more profitable to them to fall in with him than to undertake to fight kirn, ami, after some caucusing, the Senate, tn 18f, passed a bill so amending the Tentire-of-Ofllee act as to repeal the section against which most complaint had been made. As amended, the law permitted the President to suspend Federal offiee-boMer during the recess sf Cofurress, and to name fsteoeesors, who were to be eowmisekmed until

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I aui tu HBtUii wbji to fall. u. . I f I. 1 I uauuLul in ciaue wmen smw umided UtiU, in iki event, the oW irf- ! ... .... . A.. 1.1- I fk" ahtmd itwmotiiately return U hto post, but wiUi tkat triokeu out notning reniMlnwl lor um rroaMtHt w . umlvr Miioh eifeuntnoe, but to Hame wtotbw man. Thud the law whs piiwticMlly inoperative, thougk ito rrtntkH loit UM MatHtO imhiks nna ween rightfully regarded by all rt'eaidenU sine Jokiiaon a an iiuiHrtinniio. Tlie rejel of tke law by tke Senat will t followwl, a a matter of course, by aiwilar notion on tke part of the IIoimw, and the Congrewlonal tiuriatlon whiek began in a sihII ngkt will etui nt a time wkan, wmler theadminlt rat Ion of another party, a 8twefl effort to make the civil ervic noraetlilnsr more than a party machine i in progl'tum. It Will uotiDiieaa im urgwm oartam quarter that the williHgne of mm& KeiHibiioan to upiort tae re 1M5i n)Wj out of a hoie that in two y,WM tHev wm control the White ii0MWf m it may then be handy to i,ttVH the President tnifetUred in tho jjiattor of ofHco-srivinir. When Mr. Lincoln was inntifcunUed it took him Hbout sixtv dava to elean out every Democratic office-holder in thq conn tn- 'n,u roat achievement could not 1m repeated with the Tenure-of-Olllca on tii look. lint fairer men will give the llepubllcans who supported the repeal of a vicious law the credit for doing so on conviction, without reference to the party consequences. Tho action taken is one over which all good citizens may congratulate themselves, as it is n step backward toward that system of constitutional government which was sadly disarranged in the days of war and pawiou. CAtd Herald. SEVERAL LIES NAILED. Dr. Putiney, the Ap-lRtee of the tenlnn OMoe, Itnie Otst He Wa Kver at AhdrrNUHVIllr. f:.tn.i-il Hlfti'lr Iihk writton tn :i Kansas Mt of thu 6n.ml Armv of tUJ R0Ub. n lva,.,.,,- at whose atpointment to a place in the Pension Oll'tee there has been some complaint. In his letter he says : Dr. l)iaey wa appealed to the office M now bold ia thh buresa alter examination and certification by the United SUtes Civi!-Srvic Commission more than thirteen months Vfo, upon my selection, lie then was sad now U a eltiien of the United States, and ou equal footing with evry other eU.zes. There were no preferred applicants for the plaee to whk-h be wal appelated, lie hac slnoe diokarged all the duttei of hi oBte in an aM aad ancient manner, m shows by the reports to me of his superior officer, the medical referee, lie has harwony with hl lawfal superioni ta their ana nonest. lie is in nil alike tbo reonlrenwntc of sound judgment. of puhite polk-y aad of exUtii law. Dr. Dfthurr may remain in pubUe office, wi far aa I am onoernel, while theae conditions exkt. The fereKoiag statement includes the entire law of the case, but that you may not misapprehend the wisdom of fcta appointment, and that you may know who ana wai w yovng man la and ban been, ana that you may Know that the nature of yoar resolution It not true and that your uenunaiattos Is leveled at one who in IcSS waa but a ahlld, and who never saw the plaee you mention (Andersonville), I append certain papers for your eenatderatUai. and will your attention ia eoaeluahm to the fact that the Union soldier has suffered no harm at Dr. Dabney's hands la his year or more of service, m the record of the Pension Bureau shews. Appended to this is a letter from Mr. Dabney, saying: I waft bora on a cotton plantation in Hinds County, Miss., Mar 1, liw. I new was en listed la any army, l never was at Anuersonvllleln mytif. I never served as iruard anywhere. I never Sred a gun at any person In my life. St far aa I know no political influence was brought to bear to procure my present ap pointment. A Republican civll-servtee uommission eerunoa to my nines, uenerai street, Republican eunaidr of a post of the Grand Army o: the Republic is New Orleans, recommended me (by letter to you) as being a suitable man tor the position ef United States Kx amlnln; Surgeon. So (ar a I know no one ia .your department knew my political faith whea I waa appomteu to tais omee. NEWSPAPER DRIFT. The Secretary of the Nary, Mr. Whitney, is iu danger of getting him self disliked. He seems to think: it incumlient upon him to run his department on business principles to buy tho best goods, to pay for them the lowest market prices, and to insist upon getting exactly what was contracted for. Cincinnati Enquirer. Congress has shown too great readiness to push forward all kinds of claims without reference to the decisions of the Pension Bureau. The open system of pensioning, recommended by the President, is the fairest method of dealing with the claims of the veterans, and will prevent- any recurrence of tlte infamous Dudley system. AU buny Argue. It has always lieen a mystery to the American people how Robeson and the other Republican Secretaries of the Navy could use up so many millions of naval appropriations and never have any navy. One would expected them to "have mors navy than they would know what to do with. But, in fact, that seems to have occurred to them, too, and to have been just what they were trying- to avoid. The completion of a splendid navy would have been the greatest possible misfortune to them, for then tho appropriations would have stoppi! for want of a decent pretext. 4k Moines Lender. -A burglar who waa doing a neat job on a safe was horrified, on looking a a . a up, to see a man standing quietly beside him. He was alxmt to retire, when the gentleman said: "Go ahead. I am interested in that job." "Why?" asked the astonished burglar, "no cause I have forgotten the combination, ami no living person knew It but myself. If you can get that safe open I will make it worth your while." JfarUngten JVs Prm. Egotism is a man without a collar earrylnc a gok4-ksa4ed eea. ifew ananunanmnt AlmanlnnL JnnnMavV erTwwO

OHOOL AND OMUftOH.

The sermon, fur preiwblng wWek John Knox tMiid U itoHitltr rf few jmhuij uihiu4ou from jH-eachiHg, in . . ' .,..1 1.1 1M4, recently hroujght Jf.OTS from n KiiglUih eulleetor. A morement is on foot looking te the enlargement of Princeton College to university proportioni. Tke suggestion came from its honored l'l aside ut McCsh.--V. Y. Tim$. Four years ago, tke town of W skater, 1), T., was uniieopled. Reoently religious services were kekl by Mve different denominations in Ave different churche!.--Weje Jhrald. One-third of the ixiiMilntion of Willndelphia hold nieml)erhiis in her tt7 ohurclies, and alKitit one-fourth tlM population attend divine service on Sunday. -Vhilmklpkia t'raM. A lad in South Ikmton having handed his teacher a note, rending; Licking don't do this hoy no good; talk to him," provoked an inquiry that led to the discovery that he had himself written the note. itesfoH Jaurml. Our jieople desire extempore sermons, and yet yon persist iu u.sing kotos." Famishirg Pastor 4,My dear brother, as I never have any nobis in my iMketlook v use. you should not object to my using them in the jrnliu'W'MftfdjjtVi Cull. A resolution has been adoptsl by tho Cleveland (0.) Board of Education requesting the Connnittee on Judiciary to rejHirt what legislation is necessnry in owler that tho Cleveland Manual Traiiiing-School may Ihj made in some manner a jwrt of the publicschool system. Kev. Dr. William D. Wilson, long senior professor and registrar of Cornell University, has resigned, hut will continue to lie professor emeritus, lie will reside henceforth at Syracuse, and will devote himself to training young men for the ministry of tho Protestant Episcopal Church.UKato Courier. It is urged by some that missionschools and household training-schools for girls should Imj utilized to turn girls to domestic service rather than to the shops and factories. That they will not reek this service is largely a matter of caste, which women can do some thing iu their homes to remedy. We ton Herald. One hundred and forty-nine of the five hundred and tjiirty-seven students I enrolled at Berlin University areAmerleans, i lie uay win come wuen applicants for the higher techical education of .foreign universities need not go bevond our shores. Great institutions , of learning great in the distinction of their appliances, their libraries and their wtrotiage can not be reared in a day. lint as our own institutions go there are few nietl who can afford to ignore them. Chicago Inter Oemm. READY FOR FUN. An CMS Man Who I rerffetly Willing to Vlay Any Klad r C.amr. It was dark in the doiot one day in December when the evening train came in. An elderly farmer was backed up against the partition, watching, in open-mouthed wonder, the big pulling engine ami the yellow cars as they discharged their paseengers, when a handsome young girl in a seal-skin cloak tladied forward and, throwing herself upon the honest granger's manly breast, imprinted a kiss upon his sun-burned cheek, and exclaimed : "You dear okl pa, I knew you would Ins waiting for me ! And how's mother and how's John ? and, oh 1 Pm so glad to get back and, whore's my trunk ? and, oh I pa, you take the check and let's hurry." The granger waa okl and dried up, and ho had never known what it was to have a wife, much less a daughter. He mistrusted the young lady in the seal-skin cloak had made a mistake; lMtt instead of stammering and humming and hawing, he came gallantly up to the scratch, and throwing ImHIi arms around the fair creature he made up his mind to Imj a father to her or die in the attempt. Imprinting a kiss like the reiKirt of a pistol, on ker cheek, he enthusiastically ejaculated : Oh, yer mothe'rs well, an' John an1 Henry an' (smack) sn' Jane an' Susan (smack, smack) an' Horace an' Belindy an' Calvin (smack), oh, they're all smart an' hearty, an' " By the time the young lady's friends could get to her, she had slid into a stone-faint, and they had to lug her home in a hack, while the.aged granger, as he finished the third round with her outraged youngman, andsaiintereu out of the depot, leaving him with a bad eye and a ruptured coat, chuckled to himself: The old man's getting old an' stiff an' careless like, but when any young females want to play any games o Copenhagen, they'll Hud him right to time and I shouldn't Ixt s'prised if it rained 'fore niim o'clock. G'latig, Kat!"--1'M. - a i 1 letter Than a Door-Bell. A pair of lead knuckles weighing seven or eight ounces were taken from a prisoner who was being searched at liiMidiiimrtm-s the other day, and tin sergeant picked them up and asked: What do you use Ui6ks for?" To knock on the door and 'rouse up my wife when I get home late," was tins reply f "Then they answer for a door-boll, eh?" "That's It, Mr, only tkey are ten times as reliable. You can't hit your wife with a door-belt if she come downstairs jawing, hut yon can with Ikes. I'm a poor man, sir, and have to rtmly all sore, of eonomy." MrU Fr.