Ligonier Banner., Volume 19, Number 15, Ligonier, Noble County, 24 July 1884 — Page 2

H . o 4 ; The Ligenier Bauner, J. B, STOLL, Editor. . THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1884. B TR TS TN USRS ‘ : : i;.‘ z; m_ ; N N e ey

- Democratic National Ticket. ‘. 1. . .For President. ' . * GROVER CLEVELAND. .1, For Viee President, ' - THOMAS A, HENDRICKS. i {{Rg@xliEN'rxj‘(L ELECTORS. At Large—B, W. Hanna, W. D. H. Hunter. First Dlstri{:t, i- - Wm. F. Townsend. Second, =\’ I Henry,S. Cauthorne. Third, - ‘.- - - Aaron A, Cravens. Fourth,” - |- - l«‘nink E. Gavin. Fifth, (=lO =1 = el Ilis Heckam. Sixth, . = a 0 e N. R. Elliott. Seventh, -| - - James A.New. Eighth, - - [- = < :Jahes M, Seller, Ninth. .- -| - | - Wm.R,Oglesby. Tenth, - |- ' - - Fred Kopelke. Eleventh, .| o 8 - Wm. HgHarkens. Twelfth, n-: |-° - Williany H, Dills. Thirteenth, -, - - Mortiner Nye. DEMOCRATAC STATE TICKET, | : : : Fojr:Govcrnor, | s ISAAR BOGRAYS Lieutenant Governor, L i jMAu;LON D. MANSON. ' Secretary of State, . ¢ WILLIAM R. MYERS.. VAJ\\xditp_r of State, B JAMES H. RICE, ’ 4 For Attorney General.’ - FRANCIS T, HORD. s . For Treasurer of State. : ' JOHN J, COOPER. ‘Supeérintendent of, Publie Instruction, JOHN W. HOLCOMB&E. i i Reporteﬂr of the Supreme Court. : . JOHN W. KERN, | Tudge of Supreme Court, Fifth District, J.A.S, MITCHELL. .~ DISTRICT TICKET, » ‘ For Congress, _ : ' HON.ROBERT LOWRY.

' Epaar M. Jonnsoy, 4 talented Cincinnati lawyer, and partner of Gov. Houdley, created a consternation at :Long Branch last Saturday, by laying a wager of $5OO to $3OO that Cleveland would.carry Ohio. He says Ohio xs as certain to go for Cleveland as is Kentucky.

- .“MR. HENDRICKS represents a memory; Mr. Cleveland represents a hope. Standing upon a common plaiform and united in a common cause, their victory will be at onee the expiation of a great political crime and the triumph of long-baffled reform.”—Brook~ lyn Eaygle. ok :

- Braixe's. letter! of acceptance has fallen ﬁat—.{carcely causing a‘commotion on the |political surface. In ten day’s time it jwill cease even to bequoted. For that which was heralded in advance as beinga great docwment, its greatness:has been studiously and suceessfully qonceaﬁed. L

. ‘E};{-_ALDE:P.MAN EDWARD DUFFY, a [ Tanimzanyiﬁe, sail to a reporter: “I - employ not{less than two hundred laboring men. I talk with them every - day, and among all of the Democrats .1 have yet to-hear of any such antagonism to Cleveland as his enemies ‘“have 80 industriously 'circulated.” .

IT is to be regretted, as a contemporary remaﬂks‘, that with the abundance of money locked up in the banks and the United States Treasury, business is 8o much embarrassed. We must all wait, patiently, if we can; until crops move, to get a more liberal circulation. Farmers, ¢specially, a;:&néw looked to for relief. Sell produce and pay debts; that is duty of the hour. i e

A week ago our republican friends

were highly elated because they pretended to have ascertained that Tam- “ many Dan(‘)crats would not support Cleveland, Now they tell us that Mr. Tilden is Lmstile to him, and will knife him on ‘tHe quiet. In both - cases the " wish is father to the thought. After * the election we shall learn from Repub- " lican sources that Mr.Tilden had his “bar’l” ogen on the sly, and that the Tammany sachems, while pretgnd_ing to be kiq{cers, were quietly acting as ~ the old gentleman’s disbursing agents.

Loaax’s letter of acceptance is nearly as long-\Yinded as that of M. Blaine. Abraham Lincoln was content with less than!onertenth part of the space consumed by Blaine and Logan, in telling what he had to say on the subject of hig candj:iacy. But Blaine and Logan are not much tinctured,with Lincolnism. - They belong to a: new school of political Jieadei‘s. And then, the republican party of 1884 has but little semblance with the republican party of 1860 and 1864. It has undergone a quderjul transformation, and that by no' means for the better, e

Now, that nearly every republican whipper-snapper in the land-has had his say with reference to Grover Cleveland’s alleged weakness as/a presidenttalgcan(zidate, the Buffalo Express—the leading republican organ in West-, ern New York—comes to the front and warns its political asseciates that Grover Cleveland is a'power, and that if be is defeated it 'will require the hardet work ever performed by that party. ‘The Eapress ridicules the statement of leading Republicans as to Cleveland’s alleged weakness. Being published at; Cleveland’s own home, the Ewxpress may be preumed to know what it is talking about. e

Hox Wu. Duxeny, who was a delegate at 'large from California to the democratic national convention, went from Chicago to New York laboring under the impression that Cleveland was doomed to defeat. He was surprised upon arriving in New,York to find pretty much everyvody there for Cleveland. _Tammany, Mr. Dunphy says, will fall into linein due season, ‘and no doubt 1s entertained of Cleveland’s Jbility to carry New York by | rousing majority. 'Mr. Dunphy has lived in California since. 1849, and says he is-f:sdy\t_a‘ bet $lO,OOO that Cleveland and Hendricks will carry Californhbyihndsm'miéodty. L

NO BACHELOR CANDIDATE for the presidency has ever been defeated by the people. Buchanan and Tilden, the only bachelors that in the past were honored with presidential nominations, came out of the'contest with decisive majorities. i ;

JepeE DIxoN, late republican candidate for governor of New Jersey. George, W. Flage, Secretary of the Massachusetts Republican State Central Committee, and Senator John F, Andrews, republican candidate for congress in the Fifth Massachusetts district, have declared for Cleveland’ and }gen‘drlcks. Flagg and Andrews resignéd their respective positions with the republican organizations. Next! '

WeAT honest Republican is thére in all the land that does not, from his heart, echo the sentiment of Governor Hendricks, uttered in his Indianapolis ratification speech, . where he said: “Democrats and Republicans alike agree that we need to have the books of the government offices opened for examination.” Is not that statement true? IS it not time that an exhibit should be made? This has not been done for twenty years, and will not be until there is a change of administration.- Enough has been devéloped to fill the federal eourts with countless lawsuits during the past four years, and still a "begiuning has not fairly been made. The whole truth will never be known until the books are examined. 9 : '

HAZHD ON BILLY CHANDLER, °”, Gov. :Hendricks spiked Secretary Chandler’s campaign gun in splendid style, and we shall probably hear no more from ‘the great naval functionary in defepse of the frauds perpetrated in che bureau of medicine and surgery of thenavy department. Senator Beck takes a side shot at Chandler which effectually places him hors du combat. Inreferring to Chandler’s open letter to Hendricks, Senator Beck publicly charges the former with lying. We quote his own' language, as follows:

“Why: he lies, He -does not tell all the facts. He says that I and other demogratic members of congress demanded D,ﬂ‘. \-jVales’ appointmeﬁ't,g but omits to state that Senator Anthony, the oldest and most honored of all the republican senators, was the first name. on the petition. He presented the petition to me and all the other Democrats who signed it. There were thi:_rty-two republican senators on the paper. Why did not Mr. Chandler tell that? I Zﬂid sign the paper, and would do it again to-day. Dr. Wales is an honor‘able man, high in his profession and high in all thé social walks of lite. He is not, perhaps,:as good a detective as Mr. Chandler. Heisigned those: vouchers when pregented tc him, believing they were correct,. 1f Mr. Chandler stood as well to-day as Dr. Walés, he could have got all the supplies neépssary for the American navy; but congress had no confidence in his integrity and refused the money. I repeat: that Dr: Wales is an honorable man, Thirty-two republican sendtors said so, and I say so. He is far aboye Mr. Chaudler in evéry lespect.”? :

PUBLIC SERVICE CONTRASTED

James G. Blaine has, as his friends claim, been in public life a léng time. An impartial review of his politi-_ cal record shows that he began as a lobbyist. Wheén the war broke out, the Harrisburg Patriot says, “he hastened to Washington to gather the profits of a contract to supply the army with Spencer rifles. He next appeared in Congress, and on the floor and in he chair he was the agent of corporai_tions and the open partner of lobßyists. Inthe Cabinet heemployed the poé“'er of the government to despoil a sister republic of a valuable property in the shape of guano deposits for the benefit of himself and a ring of thieves, e | “Grover Cleveland has served the public some time also. He was district attorney, sheriff and mayor of Buffalo and governor of his state. In each of these statious, hon: orable positions of public trust, he has been faithful to every obligation. His record’ is exempt from venality. Against his official integrity the tongue of scandal has rever been raised, No one has éver been able to bring in}{o question his probity. He has been faithful to himself, faithful to his constituents and faithful to his public duties, .

“That difference marks the men—one has’been venal, the other honest; one has been faithful, the other faithless. Cleveland’s public record covers enough space to have .given opportunity to test the mettle of the man. “He has been weighed in the balance and not found wanting.” The supporters of the democratic ticket are willing to accept the gage of battle made on the records of the men they have nominated in comparison with those of their antagonists.” ;

ARTIC EXPLORATIONS.

‘During the past week the country has been electrified by the announcement of the rescue of Lieut. A. W. Greeley and the survivors of his exploring party on the 22d day of June, near Cape Sabine, Smith’s Sound, almost three years after the expedition had sailed from St. John, New Foundland, upon its voyage of discovery. The Greeley expedition sailed from St. Johns July 17, 1881, Yofficers and crew making up 24 souls. The result of the expedition has been the reaching of a point in “north latitude higher than has before besn touched by civilized man, latitude 83 degrees, 24 mintutes being the limit of the exploration. The theory of an open sea at the North Pole is established with a fair degree of plausibility, and the scientific observations and memoranda made have been preserved for future uses, though the collections of geological and other #pecimens had to be abandoned. It is a point of no little pride to know that the relief has been accomplished within three months after the sailing or the Thetis, the Bear and the Lock Garry, the flaet going out for that purpose from American waters. The dark feature of the story consists in the melancholy fact that only 6 out of twenty-five souls who set out on the Greeley expedition have returned to home and country, b o

Since 1497, when an English expedition was fitted out under the Cabots | to explore the icy waste of the North, a steady purpose has been manifested to pass around the world by the way of the polar regions- and to learn what objects of interest might be found at the northern extremity of the globe. In the early times a mercantile dream prevailed that by sailing to the north a short route might

be found to the spice regions of india. But this idea has long since been abandoned, the expeditions of Ross and Parry having demonstrated the futility of the scheme. In. later days the researches that have been made in the North have been undertaken for purely scientific purposes—with a view of being able more intelligently to understand ocean ‘currents and their influence upon tides, electricity and movements of the air. For such a purpose Sir John Franklin sailed upon his first arctic voyage in 1818, and again in later years. Following the footsteps of this bold pavigator a number of expeditions followed him, but rather with a view to determine his fate and that of bis’ companions than for the purpose of giving to the world the knowledge which he sought to glean. When fime demonstrated that Franklin and his companions had sacrificed their lives in the cause of science—the cause in which he perished found other intrepid devotees ‘who sought to solve the prcblems which the world had not yet learned. ! In 1880 Lieutenant Wayprecht, an Austrian navigator proposed the es-' tablishment of circumpolar stati»ons,‘ or in other words military depots at stated points, with supplies for two years, and s#tended by scientific men who should wake researches from the ‘highest latitudes, and all the facts gleaned to -be used as the basis of still further investigations in case the cause of science seemed to be subserved. In this scheme Russia, England, Germany, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Flance and the United States finally became interested and several expeditions were manned. It was in pursuance of this scheme that Lieut. Greeley sailed. Whether the results of his expedition will be worth to the world the noble lives sacrificed in its attainm’ent time alone can determine. From the time of their reaching the Northern latitudes nothing definite had been heard from them until the relief expedition under Commander Schley reached a telegraph station when homeward bound. Baron Nordenskjold, of the Danish expedition reported the death of several members of the Greely party on Esquimaux authority, but beyond that nothing has been known, altheugh two fruitless expeditions were sent in search. When the six survivors reach home and have recovered from their long exposure, we ‘shall perhaps learn whether the world has been benefitted by all the knowledge the suryivors can impart. - Oune thing is certain—nosuccessful step has yet been taken in car[lying the: intentions of Lieutenant ‘Weyprecht into effect. DBut it is safe to say arctic exploration has been ‘stimulated, and new expeditions will follow in the wake of those which have gone before. o

THE FIRST ENGAGEMENT,

In the presidential campaign of 1884 the first encounter has been one in which the combattants were the: democratic candidate for the vice presidengy on the one side, and the Secretary of the Navy on the other. Inthis engagement Gov, Hendricks obtained such a signal victory ‘that we shall probably hear nothing more of Secretary Chandler’s personal efforts in the canvass. For the present, at least, he has retired to the rear for recuperation, having been badly wounded at the onset.

On Saturday night following the adjournment of the democratic national convention an immense ratification meeting was held at Indianapolis, at which Gov. Hendricks was one of the speakers. In.the course of his address the Governor referred to the recently discovered crookedness in the bureau of medicine and surgery of the navy department, whereby it has come to light that the sum of sixty-three thous-and-dollars had been paid out on false and fraudulent vouchers during the last three years and seven months. Reasoning from this discovery, ‘and the frequency with which. the government has been defrauded in late yéars of large sums of money, under the constituted authorities now in power, Governor Hendricks argued the necessity for a change ot agents and a thorough overhauling of the books, so that the people might krow what has become of the millions upon millions of money, amounting to billions in the aggregate, which has been wrung from the people in the shape of taxes, and disbursed under. republican administration.! Such an - exhibit . might awaken the people to the fact that an army of men had amassed fortunes by means of direct raids upen the federal treasury, and the guilty parties ought to be brought to trial. In proof of his statement respecting the naval frauds, Gov, Hendricks quoted the testimony of Secretary Chandler before the comwittee appointed to investigate the expenditures of the navy department. ‘Mr. Chandler was in such haste to convict Gov. Hendricks -of misrepresentation that he could not allow the Sabbath day to pass over before he addressed an open letter to that gentleman, accusing him of unfairness. The letter bears date of “Washington: City, July 13,”(Sunday) and begins by saying that ¢#a candidate for vice president should speak with decent fairness.” Mr. Chandler then proceeds to deny Gov. Hendricks’statements. He said the falsé vouchers which had been paid began as far back as June 2,1880, almost two years before he came into office; that he had no information leading to the frauds until laat December or January, except by a letter which he had received from a detective; that he at once authorized an investigation, but before entering thereon he determined to have a new chief of the bureau of medicine and ‘surgery in place of Dr, Philip 8. Wales, whose term expired on the 26th of | January ; that Dr, Wales went out of office, and was followed by Chief Clerk Daniel Carrigan on the 4th of February, after which the investigation proceeded, and the payment of $68,000 of false vouchers was unearthed; that members of congress interfered and ‘asked to have Dr. Wales reinstated, and that among those so 'asl:éqg were Senator McPherson of New Jersey, Speaker Carlisle and other democratic ‘members of congress. This letter of Secretary Thandler certainly did not disprove a single point Gov. Hendricks had stated, and at best only sought to excnse himself for the continuance of frauds after he had entered upon official duty. But Gov. ‘Hendricks was determined that Mr. Chandler should shirk no responsibility. The following

tmotning he published an open answer to the Secretary’s open letter, in which he said‘to that functionary that he had admitted away bis whole case; that he admitted $63,000 had been stolen, only claiming that it did net wholly occur under his adniinist.rx,ion; that the frauds, according to Chandler’s testimony, covered a'period from June 21, 1880, to January 25, 1884, one year and nine months of Chandler’s term, and one year -and ten months of the terea of his predecessor; that the frauds had been concealed, and that ‘when so concealed the only remedy of the people is by a change of contrel; ‘that the fact of two administrations I't')eiug involved only made matters worse, for Chandler had been notified of the frauds under his predecessor by a detective but he paid no attention to'the warning, suffering simllar frauds to continue under his own administration a year after proper warning had been given him; that an investigation was not ordered until Government Detective Wood had made an expose of facts that had come under his own observation through the associated press; that Chandler’s excuse, of members of congress having asked for the reinstatement of Dr. Wales,] was a mere subterfuge, because such members only knew the doctor as a pleasant and seemingly efficient officer, who was the superior of the men committing frauds, while Chandler in turn was -the superior of Dr. Wales and these men also, and he could not shield himself behind the action of a subor dinate; that the highest authority in. the navy department is the Secretary himself, who suffered false vouchers to be paid for a year after notification, and it was therefore just that he should be held to an accountability.. Mr. Hendricks closed his scathing letter by saying that “this and like cases demand civil service reform,in the removal of all from office who will not seek to promote it within the sphere of their official duty and authority.” - When the reply of Gov. Hendricks was published leading republican papers at once declared that Mr. Chandler would speedily extricate himself from the dilemma in which he seemad to be placed, and would return to the charge in a way to cover the democratic candidate for vice president with confusion. Ten days have elapsed and Mr. Chandler is silent as the grave. -In fact, the review of his voluntary letter is 80 overwhelming and crushing in its character that the Secretary is clearly willing to retire from the controversy. A few such disasters suffered by our adyersaries will put'them upon a line of retreat before the campaign is half over.

—_————————————— NEW YORK LETTER.

'LOCKPQRT, N. Y., July 20, ’B4.

EDps. BANNER: As you seem to think my last letter interesting I am en | couraged to write again. I saw an item in last week’s issue stating that an effort was being made to organize a stock company 1o put rolls in the Empire mill. I hope it will not be all talk and nothing done. A.few words in regard to rolls will not be out of place. 1 think for a small mill, say of from 75 to 100 bbls., and room is an .object, a sectional miill would be preferable, but anything ot greater capacity I would advise line rolls. And, now, as to the kind of rolls, I may be prejudiced; but I think those manu factured by the John T. Noye Company of Buffalo, with the Stephens non-cutting corrugation, takes the lead of all others. The firm is keeping pace with all the modern improvements, and have added a great many new features to their mill machinery in the last year; and}l feel safe in saying that anyone dealing with them can be assured -of receiving fair and. honorable treatment at their hands, which I think the Goshen Milling Co. and J. E. Defreese will fully attest. The mill at this place is operatingl finely. I expected to start for home to-day. But in a mill the size of this one there is a great deal of work to be done after starting, so I cannot tell when I will be in Ligonier. , In my last, in regard to the number of boats on the canal, it skould have read 4,000 instead of 400; - If the democratic nominee for the presidency looks anything like the cut you present in your paper he must be a fine looking fellow, indeed, and one that no person should be ashamed to cast his vote for. But looks is not all; character is everything. And I have heard it stated by members of both parties here that he has made an honest and straight forward governor, and that certainly speaks well for him. We are having very ccol weather at this time and have had for the past two weeks; so much so, that farmers are beginning to feel doubtful as to the corn prospects. They are now, just in the midst of wheat harvest, and they say the crop is good; but from what I have seen we would call it a very light crop in Indiana. : I will close by -saying that I stop with Isaac Hacht, a very nice little Jew, and if any of my friecds should come {o Lockport I would advise them to stop with him, as they will be certain to be well treated at his hotel. : Respeétfully, 7 : A.J. CALDWELL.

. WHO LIES? Conflicting Statements Concerning Mr. Blaine’s Attitude on Prohibition. : PORTLAND, ME., June 20, 1884, Editor of the Monitor-Journal: : I am now able to say emphatically that Mr. Blaine has for several years ‘been a teetotaller—that is a friend of % our propored constitutioral amend‘ment and will vote forit. I have al‘ways known him to be a friend of the 'Maine Law, to which he has done most ‘important service, NEAL Dow, ’ ' NOW READ THIS, - No gooner had Mr. Blaine received the nomination for President, than the 'democratic papers set on foot the story ‘ that Mr. Blaine was a strong prohibitiorist, and was largely responsibls for the enactment of the Maine liquor law. Since it has been shown that Mr, Blaine is a temperate man and not'a teetototaler as thousands of others, Americans and Germans, are using beer and wine without abusing them, and that the Maine law was passed by a democratic legislature, and signed by a democratic governor two years before Mr. Blaine went to Maine, and at least ten years before he had any influence there in public affairs, the charge has been silenced.—lndianapolis Times, Juve b,-1884. 3o

—Three gallons of Gasoline for forty cents at A, 8, Fisher's, =

GOY. CLEVELAND’S YETOES. Whé‘the Reform Governor Refuséd to Sign Certain Bills Passed by the New York Legislature. The following inquiry was one day last week addressed to the editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer by a demccratic subseriber: ' : “Will you through your paper explain the following, and thereby save a life-long Democrat from voting.for a Republican for President: : Why did Gov. Cleveland veto the five-cent fare bill passed by a Republican Leﬁislature,? B Why did G)v. Cleveland veto the twelve-hour bill passed by the same Legislature? e . Why did he veto the public worship bill passed by the same Legislature? To these inquirieg the Plain Dealer responded as follows: : : % There is a vast deal cf misunderstanding about these vetoes, and of course much misrepresentation con‘cerning them on the part of the republican press. .The Plain Dealer i 8 pleased to set its democratic friend right in respect to these matters and to remove all doubts from his mind that Goy. Cleveland acted properly in vetoing the measures referred. to. First, in respect to the veto of the five-cent fare bill, about which so ;much outery is made. The bill as ‘passed by the Legislature compelled ‘the elevated railroad to reduce the fare from ten cents to five cents. This :proposition looks well enough at first ‘view, and if that was all there wasg’ about it, the Blaine organs might have some reason for blaming Gov. Cleve‘land for vetoing it. Butu the Blaine organs are very careful to conceal two very important points. In the first place, the fare was already reduced to five cents from half past five to halfpast eight o’clock in the mornings and from' half past four to half past eight o’clock in the evenings. These fares were charged at the time the bill passed and are charged now. This arrangement was made for the special benefit of the workingmen, who use the road at these hours going and re turning to and from work. At other hours when the fare was ten cents few workmen used the road, and the proposed reduction would have affected mainly bankers, brokers, business men and amusement seekers. So that the cry that this veto was in the interest of the wealthy as against the working people was and is demagogical in the extreme.

And another point is carefully kept hidden: Governor Cleyeland in his veto of this act points out that whatever werit the proposition for five cent fare may have had, the act was in conflict with vested rights granted the road in its charter, and therefore it could not stand in the ‘courts, The elevated road was vested with the right to regulate its own fares until its net earnings had reached a given sum. This being the ¢ase the Legislature could no more abrogate that right and compel the road to reduce its fare below the figure fixed in its charter, than the Legislature of Ohio could compel the East Cleveland Street Railway to lowor its fare to two cents, when the charter fixes it at five. No act of a Legislature can abridge a vested right, and it wasupon this plain proposition Governor Cleveland rested his veto, and as an honest man and having regard for his official oath he ‘could not have done otherwise than he did.

Now, in regard to the “twelve-hour bill” and its veto. This bill made twelve hours a legal day’s work for street car conductors and street car drivers. Governor Cleveland veteed that, He vetoed it because it utterly failed to effect the object intended. It did not forbid the making of contracts under which the car conductors and drivers would be compelled to work as many hours as the company might see fit to prescribe. It is plain that if the émployes worked fewer hours, they would receive less wages,and the company might bind them by contract to work as many hours as it pleased. Governor Cleveland was convinced that this bill instead of being in the interest of the employes, was in the interest of the company, and vetoed it accordingly for that reason.

Ia respect to the *public worship” obill, alluded to by our correspondent, we presume he means the vetoing of a small appropriation made by the Legislature for a charitable institution known as the **Westchester Catholic Protectory.” Governor Cleveland struck out the appropriation upon the grounds that the institution in question was sectarian, and however deserving of recognition, to allow it an appropriation would be to make a dangerous precedent, and open the door to a general distribution of public funds among all sort of charitable institutions. ! , _ o ‘We have gone to some length to explain these matters and hope that our correspondent will understand them, and think no more of yoting for so corrupt and dangerous a man as Jas. G. Blaine is known to be. The clamor raised about these vetoes is senseless, and based upon a misrepresentation of the facts. In all these vetoes Governor Cleveland acted from a clear sense of duty, opposing futile and demagogical legislation, because he knew it to be such, even at the risk of unpopularity. The man who has the courage and intelligence to do that is the man needed for President.

LETTER FROM ARKANSAS, HARRISON, ARK, July 15,’84. Eps. BANNER: We bave been cut off from paper mail for a few days occasioned by a wash-out on Eureka Springs railroad, and the only news is, that Cleveland -and Hendricks.are the men named to beat Blaine and Logan. The ticket gives universal satistaction here, although the first choice of all was Tilden and Hendricks. Arkansas can be relied on to roll up a good, reliable majority for Reform. The “Land Offica rats” here are, at sea. They were for Arthur, 82 whichever way the election goes they are out; and one has but to look at them to see fully the extent of their patriotism and love of country. Oh, the offices, we love them still! - Crops look well; wheat and oats are above the average. Raining to-day. . Yours respectfully, L T P lORItW,

TEMPERANCE COLUMN.

(Conducted by the W.C. T. U. of Ligonier. )

The W. C. T. U. hold their next meeting at the rooms of the Y. M. C, A. next Wednesday, at 3 o’clock p. m. All are respectfully invited to attend and help us in the good work, An appeal ; parents ; Did 'you ever stop to consider that your boys and your girls of to.day are to be the men and women that will control this great nation in a very few years. There are to be soon, very soon indeed, the sober, industrious, law-loving and law-abid-ing men and women, or they are to be the shiftless, trifling poverty stric'cen drunkards and the care-worn abused despairing, helpless drunkards’ wives.

Mothers, our children receive from our training and example during the years they are with us in our homes, under the influence of our protecting care and love row, in this present time the foundation of all the good that they will diligextly pursue in their future lives, Neglect not the opportunity. Persnade yourself to take a stand with us for temperance. From others who are striving to free from this great curse you can receive strength, and by your presence and example they can widen their influ: ‘QdOOa_ f L. R B,

LIEUT. GREELY SAFE. And Only Six of His Brave CompanS ~ ions Rescued. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 17.— “Thank God, Greely has been found!” said the officer at the Navy department charged w%h the opening of telegrams, as he receiVed this morning the first section of the dispatch from Commander Schley. The dispatch came in three parts, and the whole story was not learned at once, but enough came in the first section to tell the joyful news that Greely and six of his party were alive, and to also bring the sad tidings of the long list of the starved dead. This official was not long in .communicating to Admiral Nichols,who lis acting secretary of the navy, the contents of the dispatch, and before many ‘minutes the completed dispatch was at - hand, as follows:

: THE DISPATCH. ° _ St. Jouns, N. F., July 17—9 a. m.— The Honorable William E. Chandler, Secretary of the Navy, Washingion: The Thetis, Bear and Lock Gary arrived . here to-day.from West Greenland, all well.” They were se{])arated from the Alert 150 miles north of here during a ¥ale, %t 9 p. m., June 22, five miles off rom Cape Sabine, in Smith’s Sound. The Thetis and DBear rescued alive Lieut. A. W. Greely, Sergeant Brainard, Sergeant Fredericks, Ser%aant Long, Hospital Steward Bierberbick, Private Connell, and Sergeant Ellison, the only survivors of the Lady Franklin- Bay expedition. Sertgeant Ellison had lost both hands and feet by frostbite, and died July 6, at Godhaven, three days after amputation, which had become imperative. - Seventeen of the twenty-five Eersons composing the expedition perished by starvation at the point found. One was drowned while sealmg to procure food. Twelve bodiesof the dead were rescued and are now on board -the Thetis and Bear. One, the Esquimau Turvevik, ‘was buried at Disco, in accordance with the desire of the Inspector of Western Greenland. Five bodies buried in the ice near the camp were swept away to sea by the winds and currentbefore my _arrival, and could not be recovered.

GREELY’S MOVEMENTS.

Lieut. Greely abandoned Fort ConFar Aug. 9, 1883, and reached Baird Inet Sept. 29 -fo‘llp_wing, with the entire party well. He abandoned all his boats and was adrift thirty days onan ice-floe in Smith’s Sound.” His g)ermanent camp was established Oct. 21, 1883, at the point wherehe was found. During nine months his party had to live on a scant allowance of food brought from Fort Congar and that cached at Payer Harbor and, Cape Isabella, by Sir Geo. Nares in 1875, whi¢h was found much 'damaged b]);e the la(gase of 'time; that cached by Bebee at Cape Sabine in 1882 and a small amount saved from the wreck of the Proteus in 1883, and landed by Lieutenants Garlington and Colwell on the beach near where Greely’s party was found. When these provisions were consumed the party was forced to live upon boiled seal, strips from the sealskin clothing,and lichens, and shrimps caught in good weather, when they were strong enough tomake exertions. As it took 1,300 shirimps to fill a gallon measure, the labor was too exhaustix%g to depend upon them to sustain life entirely. *“The channel between Cape Sabine: and Littleton Island did not close on account of violent gales all winter, so that 240 rations at the latter point could not be reached. All Greely’s records and all the instruments brought by him from Fort Conger are recovered and are on board.

A STRUGGLE WITH ICE.

" “From Hare Island to Smith’s Sound I had a constant and furious struggle with ice in impassable floes, but the solid barriers were overcome by watehfulness and patience., No opportunity to advance a mile eseaped me, and for several hundred miles the ships were forced to ram their way from lead to lead through ice varying in thickness from three to six feet an when rafted much greater. . ‘““The Thetis and Bear reached Cape York June 18, after a passage of 2] days in Melville Bay, with the two advance ships of the Dundee whaling fleet, and continued ,t 6 Cape Sabine. Returning seven days later, they fell in with seven others of this fleet off Wostenholm Island and announced Greely’s rescue to them, that they might not be delayed from.their fishing grounds. nor be tempted into the angers of Smith’s Sound in view: of the reward of $25,000 offered by Congress. Returning across Melville Bay we fell in with the Alert and Lock Gary off Devil’s Thumb, struggling through heavy ice. ‘Commander Coftin did admirably to gqt along so far with the transport so ear?y in the season before the opening had occurred. ; “Lieut. Emory, with the Bear, has sup{mrted me throughout with great skillfulness and® unflinching readiness in accomplishing the great duty of relieving Greely. L 3 A LUCKY RESCUE. i

‘“The Greely party are very much.improved since thejr rescue, but were critical in the extreme when found and for several days after. Fortyeight hours’ delay in reaching them would have been fatal toall now living. “The season North is late and the closest for years.. Smith Sound was not open when I left Cape Sabine. The winter about Melville Bay was the most severe for twenty years. This great result is entirely due to the unwearied energy of yourself and the Secretary of War in fitting out this exEeditlon for the work it ‘has had the onor to accomplish. : ] “W. W. ScHLEY, Commander.”’

‘NEW YORK, July 20.—The steamer collier Loch Garry, which accompanied the Greely relief expedition, will start to-morrow on her return to New York. The Thetis, Bear and Alert will proceed to Portsmouth, N. H., during the latter part of the week, in obedience to telegraphic orders from the Secretary of the Navy. Memorial services were held in the St. John churches to—daly for the dead of the Greely party. The bodies are Ereserved on board the Thetis and -the ear awaiting the completion of the hermetically sealed caskets which are being made on shore for them.: - Every casket will be fitted with burnished steel handles and have on its face a silver plate with the name, regiment and company engraved upon ii. When completed it will welﬁh about 250 pounds. The bodies will be removed from the alcohol casket to the the hermetically sealed casket, whichwill be bolted and sealed. They will be transported on the cargo deck of each vessel. - :

At the pressnt the bodies of Lieut Lockwood, W. A. Ellis, R. R. Snyder, W. F. Jewell, David Ralston and Edward Israel are on board the Thetis, while those of Lieut. Kislingbur}:: DI Panf,‘William Whistler, David Lynn, ‘William Cross and Joseph Ellison are on board the Bear.! :

~The body of:Frederic Christainsen ‘was turned over to the authorities at Disco and buried with naval honors. His body, wrapped in the American ‘ensign, was escorted from the Bear Dy a de.tai’l of officers and men. On landing it was met by the Danish Inspector and other authorities, and carried to. the church, where the minister of the settlement held a short service. From there it was carried to the little cemetery and buried. The bodies of the remaining dead were lost in the ice near the sßot where they lost their lives. . The other -Es?uimau of the party was drowned in his kayak. Sergt. Rice was buried in the snow of Baird Inlet, and the others, Nicholas, a sailor, Charles B. Hen--Iy, Jacob Bender and H. S. Gardner were buried where they fell on the icefloe, which tide and thaw soon washed away. t :

Wide Awake Druggists.

Messrs. D. 8. Scott & Son are always alive to their business, and spare no pains to secure the best of every article in their line. They have secared the dagency for the celebrated Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption. The only certain cure known for Consumption, Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness, iAsthma, Hay Fever. Bronchitis, or any affection of the Throat and Lungs. Sold on a positive guarantee. Trial Bottles free, Regular size $l.OO. - 20-Iy-8,

THE QUESTION has often been asked. “Who struck Billy Patterson?” We dont know; but it was Thomas A. Hendricks who struck “Billy” Chandler. : ) -

—Cobbling done in a neat manner and on the shortest notice at F. W. Shinke & Sons. : »

i L NEWS DIGEST. Albert Miles, a négro was han%ed at Natchez, Mississippi, for the murder of his wife. ' ‘ : Burglars blew a safe in tgg)sqstoﬂice at Swanton, Vt., securing )in cash and $7,000 in notes. ok The failure is announced of Buford & Co., extensive plow manufacturers of Rock Island. . o Carrier-pigeons liberated at sprin%-1 field, Illinois, flew:. to Cleveland. about eight hours. - : _ May White and Mamie ThorF. two Raltimore disreputables, were fatally shot in a bagnio Saturday. : Over two hundred clerks in the pension bureau have received ;iromotion, glégo average advance in salary being The Boston nine leads the Providence club in the contest for- the National }{e&%\xe championship, Chicago ranking

The completion of the Livingston extension of the Kentuck(%_ Central road gives a direct line from Cincinnati to Knoxville. : ey

The report that cholera-infected rags are being sent from Euro%a to this country is denied by the Dominion authorities. . Sl franaik

Rev. Dr. E. N. Potter, president of Hobart college has declined the bishopric of Nebraska, to which he was .recently elected. P - Captain W. B. Chew, a veteran conductor on‘ the Baltimore and Ohie road, has béen arrested for embezzling funds from the company.

The Garfield monument committee has accepted Keller’s design for a monument to be erected at Cleveland, which will cost $150,000. : ¢ A railway wreck near Canton, Ohio, Saturday evening, caused .serious injuries to fourteen persons, but none of the passengers ‘were killed. . A camp-meeting isin progress on the summit of Lookout mountain, where the Southern ‘association of Spiritualists has secured ample grounds. - James Wier, of Muscatine, lowa, ‘was fined $2OO for selling liquor. He took an agpeal to the district court and reopened his saloon for business.

Hiram Campbell & Sons, who own the Mount Vernon and Sarah furnaces at Ironton, Ohio, have suspended payment, with liabilities of $300,000.

. The summer trotting-meeting at the Chicago Driving park wound up with a victory over the best stallion record, a mile being made by Phallas in'2:l3%. Some boys playing in a lumber-yard at Davenport unearthed a box containing several pounds of counterfeit 10 cent pieces, bearing the date of 1844. After dama.ge -of $50,000 had been done by fire at the mission.of San Jose in California, the old church was saved by the use of claret wine as an extinguisher. i . The cholera scare i 3 materially affecting European travel. A boat which took 202 cabin passengers from i New York a year ago only took forty Saturday. ;

The directors. of the Cincinnati Southern road have voted to change the gauge of their tracks, which has become necessary in'the interest of competition.

The people of Des Moines have- at last made up the purse of $50,000 required to secure the permanent location of the state fair,and the state will furnish an equal amount. “The court of errors of New Jersey has released two printers of Deckertown who were sentenced tolonlg terms in state prison for criminal libel perpetrated by their employer. :

A railway superintendent in the south has aroused a feeling of indignation by {)rohibiting the distribution along his line of advertising matter belonging to foreign roads. During the absence ef her husband Mrs. Herne fled from a stock farm in Dickinson county, Kansas, with a gambler of Abilene, taking $4,000 in cash given her for safe keeping.

The owners of ﬁf‘tﬂ thousand head of cattle at Oklahoma have formed a pool to reduce the expense of taking care of herds, and will employ one man and eight horses to every thousand head.

W. T. Kailey, postmaster of Camden, N. J., has been arrested for the embezzlement of $3,000. A warrant has been issued for the apprehension of his assistant, Jesse K. Mines, on the same charge. : ’ Thomas J. Navin,. the abscond_ing mayor of Adrian, -Mich, has maile from a Cuban town a letter opening negotiations for a compromise with the estate of E. S. Clark, which he robbed of $90,000. j :

Reports from all the agricultural counties of California show that the June raing decreased the yield of wheat 135,000 tons and of barley 80,000 tons, while the hay crop was damaged 40 per cent. 5 : Four men escaped from jail at Marion, lowa, by cutting the bars of their cells and knocking down the jailer. All were recaptured, the sheriff sending a bullet through Mitchell, the '_Ce%ar Rapids murderer. ' , :

Charles Pulty, a fare-collector on the bridge at St. Louis, was hurled from the structure by:the protruding step of a mail car, He fell eight&r feet’ to the water, and was drowned before aid could reach him. An iron steamer toaccommodate two tﬂousand passen%ers. with a length of 225 feet, is to be built at Detroit, after the gat»tem of the’ CitY of Xingston, which makes twenty miles per hour on the Hudson river. o

By the fall of a scaffold atthe skating rink bemcierected on Washington boulevard, icago, a large number of workmen were ¥recipitated fifty feet. Two received Tfatal ;injuries and six others were seriously hurt. ’

A correspondent of a London journal, who was sent to investigate the commercial resources of Mexico, reorts having been so badly clubbed by gandits that he lost his hearing, but he boasts that'he killed his assailant. © A strike is threatened ‘in New York among the laborers. They ask a reductiop from ten to nine hoursa day in their labor rather than ap increase in wa%es. Many of the builders, it is thought, will accede to the demand.

The Milwaukee, Lake Shore and ‘Western road has signed an: a%reement to extend its tracks %S-Ashlan in consideration of depot-grounds and a site for:docks on the bay. - Two thousand men are now at work at Black River.

In the suit brou%?t by wholesale ﬁwelers of New York to'‘compel M. C. cDonald, of Chieago, to refund $lO,000 for diamonds for which he gave chips to a gambling salesman, Judge Blodgett decided in favor of the defendant. i

Lair, one of the men charged with the murder of the Ward brothers at Devil’s Lake, Dakota, was ac%uitted Wednesday on the ground that he was present as a reporter. The remaining cases will Erobably be removed to Fargo for trial :

In Gilmer county, Ga., the wife of Dow Grace has been killed by a mob, who put out her eyes, {vierced her body with a sharpened pole and hung her lifeless and ,t;nutgated form te a tree. It is thought to have been the work of revenue informers. %

Caroline Hamilton, a mulatto, died at Wheeling, W. Va.,Sunday morning, aged 110 years. Five weeks ago sh& absolutely refused to take food, and nothing passed her lips since that time.. Her father died at Pittsburg, many wears ago, aged 108" :

The re’gublicans of the Sixteenth Illinois district nominated ex—Attomc}v. General McCartney for c_omiress. - de M. Allen was glaced in the field by the democrats of the First district of Missmsipgi. and D. E. Robinson was nominated by the republicans of the Sixth district of that state. : i

There died Wednesday in the penitentiary of New Jersey a convict who was formerly ;\anitor in a bank at Elizabeth, where he was cauﬁz)t ﬂshing‘u(f» bills from the teller’s desk with a cord, sinker, and shoemaker’s wax, through a hole in the floor above. 2 '

An assignment;was made Wednésday, bg Edmund Yard, Jr,, & Co., lace merchants of New York, on account of the difficulty of obtainini‘money on singlename 835)61‘. Their liabilities are over $1,000,000, and they gave preferences for over half that amount. ok

At Canon City Oregon, a man named Nunes shot his wife. 'H®r dead body fell over her babe, who sat in her lap at the time the fatal shot was fired, and crushed it to death. Nunes then shot himself through the head. Nunes was jealous of a man named McFadden, a local editor, who has fled to ess cape being, lynchet’l. . . : The assi‘%nee of Grant & Ward, New York, has filed an inventory showing labilities of $16,792,647, actual assets of $67,174, and nominal assets of $27,139,088 He repotts that they kept no. ifs%mtd or cagh book, had no; complete st of assets; g 1 ved Jaige

amounts of seeurities left With them as securities for loans.” =~

The membérs of the wrecked banking firm of Fletcher & Sharpe, of Indianapolis, have deeded all their real estate to a trustee for the benefit .of their creditors, their wives jolming in the c_onveﬁan,ces. The run on two other privatebanks abated atnoon Wednesday, large quplies;Of currency. having been received from the east.z = - -

In the district court .at. Cincinnati,charges were presented against T. C. Campbell, the criminal lawyer, alleging that while Oyo%osecutﬁng attorney he extorted $l,OOO from a woman. nameg,' Winnemeyer; that he corruptl¥ place three men on a jury in the trial of Silas W. Hoffman, and that he obtained adivorce for Hai C. Young on false testi--mony. e e Frank Crandall haslain in jail in Detroit for nearly a vear on a judgment for aeceptix‘lg $5,000 on a genuine draft from Fort Worth, which 'should -have been filled out fo $500.. He was about to be released under the old “debtors™ ‘act when the bank which he victimized 4pplied for a writ of error. It ds progose_d to keep him in jail several years ypayiixjghisboard. e e o Mr. D. L. Moody, the American_ evandgelist. arrived at New "York from ‘London 'Sunday. Sundaly week he | gre‘ached at Queenstown, lreland, and e arrived in' New York Sunday in time to- attend m_ormng serviee. Mr, Moody sags he intends to remain in: America the rest of his life. He willdevote himself entirely to missionary. work here. He expressed pléasure at the growth of the religious feeling in En;ﬁ%and. The Episcopal Church there is adapting itself to the people, and the dissenting bodies. espeeially the Wesleyans, are ‘gaining ground daily. He speaks hopefully. of ihe progress of temperance in the mother country. . Theindications are that the coming national convention of the Prohibitionists, at Pittsburg, will be the l‘arﬁgstever held bfy the organization. * The delegations from the" different. states and territories will ‘be represented as follows: Arkansas. 41; California, 18; Connecticut, 6; Dakota: Territory, 4; Delaware, 1; Illinois, 45; Kentucky, 18; Maine, 4; Massachusetts, 9; ‘Maryland, 16; Michigan,.ss; Minnesota, 20; Missouri, 85; Nebraska, 20; New Hampshire, 4; New Jersey, 17; New York,7s; ‘Ohio, 41; Pennsylvania, 28, and Wisconsin, 55, Total, -511.. Kansas is a re- | publican grohibition’ state and has not chosen delegates. The:leading ¢andidates for first place on ‘the ticket are: IDr: R. H. McDonald, of California; A. A. Miner, 6f Boston; 8. D. Hastings,of Wisconsin; Jdmes Black, of Pennsylvania; ex-Governor St. John, of Kansiz}ms, kand Clinton B. Fiske of. New ork. 4 Sl

WASHINGTON,

A special treasury agent rex}:)rts ‘that rags from the cholera districts of - ‘gygt and I'urkey are being brought into-the ‘United States through Canada ports, @ ° “f It is understood tiat a successor to Judge Drummond will not be appointed until December, when congress meets. = PostmasterGeneral Gresham will - then be appointed almost without a doubt, lln the meantime business in the United States eircuit courts: will be seriously delayed. . = . % Secretary Frelinghuysen has ' instructed the consular officers at London, Liverpool,. Marseilles, Havre; Bordeaux, Bremen, and ‘]:la.mburg% to employ competent: physicians to u;gpec all vessels and passengers depart- | ing fiom those ¥orts;to the United ‘Stateg, . and to refus% ‘clean bills of health to- all. unless upon the recommendations of such physicians and sanitary- inspectors. - The consuls are instructed toreport.promptly by cable any cases of ififectious disease. s Indian Commissioner Price has received a letter from Mr. Geo;ge Yoakan, Cheyenne M. T.,that outs a differentsphase upon the troubles of the Cheyennes than that telegraf)hed hence several weeks ago. He states hat the stories of Indians killing cattle belonging to herders are all -fals>,"and, oriﬁinate with' the stockmen themselves, who desire to force the Indians off their lands that ﬁleﬁmay settie 'u'é)on and appropriate’ them. He further states that these herders have fenced in lar%e areas of; public domain, preventing through transit and keep-: ing out actual seftlers; = I - . e ai

There were 106 promotions in- the patentoffice. Monday preparatory to a large increase of the ?resent -clerical force. .The. rooms formerly.occupied’ by a part of the Census Bureau have been leased by the Interior department, and will be pccu%ied the Ist of next inonth by. the Indian Bureau The twelve or fifteen rooms inthe Interior Depaitment thus vacated will.be placed at sthe disposal of the commissioner of gatents : to accommodade his increased clerical force; The cominissioner -believes that the- office will soon be able to dispose of the accumulated patent business, and to keep: up hereafter the current' business of the- office. Three new ‘divisions #vill be. created, the chagpeter of which is not yet determined. A board of experts is now making an investi%atmn with a view to ascertaining how far ‘the business of the different bureaus is in arrears, and to recommend such correective ‘measures as in_‘their judgment will facili‘tate the public business. =~ =..

The surgeon general of the marine hospital service has /telegraphed the health authorities at New Orleans that the -secretary of the treasury has. directed vessels of the revenue marine: service to patrol. the coast of the United States, including the gulf coast, as.a precau_tiquari{ ‘measure agdinst cholera. Quarantine will probably be established against Canada and also against Mexico, in which latter place there is a reported epidemie of {‘ello'w fever. The *‘epidemie fund,”” of which there is .an unexpended balance of about $78,000, will be utilized by the authorities for thése purgoses. The admipistration has determined o make every. £possible_ effort to prevent the introduction of contagion.. © .°- D

At a meeting of the cabinet it: was decided to take vigorous measures to prevent the introduction of cholera into the United States. The state and treasury. departments will act together'm‘ enforcing the regula-~ tions which are to. be ' prepared. 'An order will be issued prohib'i?pg th’: imxgqrtation of rags from all infected ‘countries for ninety days, or longer; if necessary.. It was. also decided that vessels' of the revenue marine service should establish a cordon .along the coast to prevent the landin%‘of-@ll vessels from- foreign ports . which do:not possess clear bills of health, . = . : : A HIGH COMPLIMENT TO GREELY,

A London dispatch -says: Sir George Nares, the distinguished arctic explorer, says this tribute to Greelys success: “f want to felicitate Lieutena_nﬁeely'on his safety and success in making ‘the longest stride yet made toward a knowledge of .the arctic mysteries. My thoughts have been with Mr.”Greély from the time he! started, and now that we have got some aceount of his experience, I see thathe has shown splendid leadership and wonderful stren%th and firmness of character. - His keepi(x)xf is crew together during such a long period and such trying times. is a brilliant feat-and wOrthar of every-praise. I seethat the stores eached by my expedition proved useful.to the Greely party, and I am very Flad they did so, for that gives England another claim to a share in the glory of the achievement. But. it must be' admitted that Mr. Greely’s achievement has placed America in the van of aretic research up to .the preésent moment. This eminence has hitherto belonged to Enﬁland, and whether she will be con:ﬁe,nt to take second Iplace remains to be seen. ‘I hopenot, and 1 shall be ready to try to carry the Union Jack further North than the Stars and Stripes whenever 1 am wanted. 2 Lok s i

. THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT. . Col, Casey, in charge of the Washington monument, is dlsapf)ointed at the failure of the contractor to deliveér stone for .the final laxgrg, but- has - made- arrangements. biy_ which he hopes. to finish the monument this year.. It has now reached 482 feet_(;i and only eighteen feet moxe are to be added 1o comglete. The engineer officers now think that v placing an extra force: of men' at work wnd by working at night with the use of electric lamﬁs the stones can be cut by hand and the work pushed so that eyerythingcan be under covervl‘)rv thetime snow flies, 'ln that event the Washington monument will be practically completed this year, and wiil be a pronounced success. '~ There is: no .doubt as to the security of the foundation, about which there was so much talk a few years ago.- As the construction of the shaft progressed: the most minute and careful scientific watch of ‘its stability was kept with the most satisfactox:{o, results. When it is remembered that the total weight which. was to be added to the old portion of the monument was 21,000 tons, and that but 450 tons of the amount remain to be added, there cannot be the slightest doubt of its stability. . .. e REDUCED TELEGRAPH RATES. .

The most important news on -the stock market is the announcement that an imme~ diate reduction in telegraph rates will be made by, the Baltimore & Oth; the Postal, and the Bankers’ & Merchants telegraphic combination to Western cities.. This is the. actual beginning of what proniises: to be a great telegraph war, with the three eomFanies above mentioned on one side and he Western Union on the other, In astock market which has not lost all sense of shock from repeated violent blows such a %ospect would have influenced prices, but Western Ug\on did not fluctuate' more than on an ordinary da‘.‘y, and was strong at the close, ‘The new rival lines_are quife powerful corporations, and the Western .Union is a splendidly equipped and wonderfully organized system, with a reserve 6f financial strength, The fight will interest the %mb lic in glvlng it the cheapest and best telegraPh cservice in the world. The contest will be Dbitter, and pro‘bsblfv a long one, The effect on the;eamings of the companies at first %lanoe.'wcmld seem -to_be to-very ﬁll'eatl{ ecrease them, but a cheapening of e tolls between great centers has fraquently resulted in a profit from an increasing | busines% - While it is known taust what the result of a railroad war would be in this respect, the result. of eompetition between telegraph companies igpréi),lgmgtical. Bhic Ex-Minister to: Germany. A. A, Sargent says that his troubles with Bismarck b ; 008 affor ko nsswted g dudlopof bi 3 of

fice:at’ serlin, and that they arese from his - d,efeml%ﬂonto pre\'enttge‘ German Gov‘ernment from %ressinz naturalized Ameri‘can citizens into the German military serwvice. Bismarck, said Mr. Sargent, held that the Banerott treaty was ratified prior to the- - of Alsace-Lorraine to Germany henee natives of A{]sa.c&Lograine who had ‘emlglmtéd to the United States beforeor during the Franco-Prussian war were subm‘tjo miilitary dutg upon their return to xermangoil; even thouzh pos-essed of naturalization papers. Mr,/’ Sar%ent took acontrary view, and the dizlo,mat c fight between him and: the German Chancellor waged for months.. Bismarck, wg.\le never conceding this point raised, finally aldowed the cases to proceed on their merltsi He, however, never forgave Mr. Sargent,” and never lost an oppogumty of shofving his dgf:leasure; Bism , Mr. Sargent continued, allows no man near him who will not acknowledge .that he. (Bismarck) is the su(i)reme man’ whose wish must be obeyed, and the diplomat;stationed at Berlin must make up ' his mind tojsubordinate the interests'of his own Governthent to those of ‘the German Chancellor if he desires to stag' at his post. “Mr. Sargent considers Bismarck as a wons derful man, with marvelous will power, consistent in his ends, buf qtterl{ inconsist‘ent in his means of obtaining those ends. He will descend to any meaus to carry out a . Eurpose‘ and will never rest content while is object remains unreached. : . ' | )SENDING OUT PUB. DOCS. * . “The legislative chambers at the capitol at Washington are deserted and the corriders are fre%uexlped onlty by strangers who come to see/the sights of the national capitol; but ' on the lower floor, where.the document and - folding roomss are situated, there is great activity, Congress has left theusands of ‘speeches and public documents of. all sorts - to be folded and sent out through the mails, and ps a large force of employes is requirecj to attend to this work, men and boys who have the good fortune to have secured the influence of senators or congressmen find _ltgcmtx,ve employment for some: months. "The amount of mail matter of this character that'is carted away from the capitol daily ‘would fill a mail-car. . The reports of the. department of agriculture—of which menibers of the house are entitled to 256,000 and senators 56,000—form the, larger part of the daily mail from the capitol at_ this time of the year, but there are also many other public documents to be tolded and directed for mailing, besides hundreds of ' théusands of speeches, .The %reatest demand is for%he tariff speeches of Mr. Hurd, Mr. Kelly, Mr. - Motrison, and Mr. McKinley.- Several hundretl thousand -of Hurd and MeKinley’s tariff speeches have already been sent to the/west and north, and the total will probably aggreﬁate,a millionbefore the campaign cloges. = All of this matter is transported umier the franking privilege at the expense of the government, which also furnishes the envelopes for speeches and the wrapping foridocuments. - The cost of printing is paid by the person ordering extra copies of" speeches beyond the number allowed to members, and this exgense lis generally borne ouf of the funds of the national congressional campaign committee. - The Congressional Record continues to make its a = pearance laden with speeches on various, subjects, from oleomargarine to the tariff angd the‘Yellp.w:stqne park. Upon any sub-

j'&f”t. ‘upon which the member who has obtained “leave to print,” can be found a few remarks supposed to have been delivered in -the senate or house at any time during tho last six months. L T = Tk FOREIGN. : 3 : il G ———— Egyptian rebels to the number of .thirty thpusand are marching on Dongola. .

Bismarck has ordered. plans for a canal from the Baltic to the North sea, and will ask the reichstag te. make an ‘appropriation {o{)its construetion. - - ; ne hundred Ipersons,~i;l.clu.clin.g' _A number of ‘women, have been arrested at.Warsafw by the imperial ﬁolice on the charge of ‘being implicated in Nihilist plots. ; - “Phe police of Vienna have beén in?tmct‘ed to arrest Mormon missionaries who are 'fo"hmd endeavorir%g to. make converts. A wéarrant 18 out for the’apprehension of Paul Hammer, of Nevada. ; - The engine of an express train on the Manchester and Sheffield railway, in England; broke an axle at Pénniston, sending the cars through a bridge. - Twenty-five p:Esen%ers were killed and 'forty were seriously injured. - = ' v vDr.. Koch, the eminent German scientist, _w&m is justly celebrated for’ his researches ‘into the causes-and preventives of cholera, has received from the French government thie distinction of the Grand Cross .of the I.Qgion of Honor. i i Andrew Carnegle, the Pittsburg iron millionairg, is a partner with Mr. Storey, M, P., in seventeen English x'lews;fapers coixdupted in the interest of the liberals. He denies the rumor .sent over the cable that there is a misunderstanding between them. A deputation of Canadians, favorin%‘ the ‘Amportation of American cattle into Great Biitain, will next. week be introduced to thie British authorities by the mar(iuis of Lorne. Copies of the laws of the cattlerais-, ‘ing states will be exhibited, to show that there need. be little fear of infectious diseases. i . The circumstances which led, to the discoivery of the plot to blow u&r tye palace of the Czar during his stay at Warsaw are ‘}']ust made public. It atppcars the Nihilists had ortlered a student o'¥ersonate a high Holice Jofficial, who was the tather of the student’s fiancee. The student refused and pﬁlsoned himself. Two_of the letters which-he left toihis betrothed led to the discovery 'of the ‘conspiracy. e : x

{' ° 'MISERY'AT MARSEILLES. “Dispatches from Paris say that on Wednesday - fifty-three deaths occurred: from ‘chiolera at Marseilles, eleven at Toulon, incliding the commissary of police, the chief prison _warger, and Municipal Councillor lArizard, and dxe wife of Admiral Fisquel. At Marseilles since the first appearance. of tl}g plague it is estimated that no less than fifty thousand people have fled from their ‘hames. ‘Tar barrels are still being burned at! night to ?{urify the air, and the great cloudsof smoke arising from the blazing Pl{fS float lazily over the clt?'. No rain has _ allen for many u.ys. Foul gases emanate - fréom the (Parchgd earth, and the streets pre- © seht ‘& deserted ai)pearance. The dead- - carts rattle over the blistering ‘pavement with painful regularity. Relatives of the- - of the scourge seldom accomﬁany -the remains to the grave. ' Nearly all the business honses in thecity have been closed befause of the utter stagnation in trade. Many merchants, unable to meet debts contracted in Paris and Lyons, have gone into' bh}lkrupbcy. : i : . In-the quarter where the cholera first took up its march through this city, many sad scenes are enacted. Here the streets are narrow and dirty. The buildings on either side bear evidences of age. The peogle live in ‘squalor and. filth, and here the’ eath-rate is heaviest. Whole families have been annihilated within one week, and many of those who assisted in their ‘burial have also fallen victims to the }.glague. Chloride of lime and other disin-~' fectants have beén sprinkled along these dirty lanes. "No good has yet resulted from ' these eleven-hour Precautions, _however," ‘and the plague still finds plenty of ma‘terial to feed upon in the hovels reared in - ‘this densely-populated district. O __Statistics compiled at the office of the ‘Royal Medical society show the number of; deaths from cholera in this city since the outbreak of the plague to be 578—an aver-' a%e of nearly twenty-five a day. . _ln the twenty-four hours ending at 8 o’clock Monday evening fifty-seven deaths occurred at Marseilles. The chamber of. }.commerge has voted an a%)propnation of: 10,000 francs for the relief of the sufferers. . The plague has made its appearance at' Bn%noles, a town of about 6,000 inhahitants in'the department of Var, Three dgaths occurred there. The é)amc among the.in‘habitants has extended to the government officials, many of whom have fled.- At Toulon forty-six deaths occurred in twentyfour hours. During the same time 170 cases were registered at the hosng:al. Shop-keepers are closing their establishments, the flight of residents -is universal, ‘and even the men stationed at the arsenals are leaving. - The refusafi of the municipal authorities to allow a procession of women ° in the streets offering prayers for the cessa= -tion of the scourge has created a bad im</ pression. | AR

. ROCHESTER, N. Y.—l have been a-great-sufferer from: rheumatism for more-than twenty years, at times suffering most excruciating pain. I have used nearly every remedy I could hear of, or that was recommended by sym--pathizing friends, but have never found any relief from their use until I commenced ‘with the Rheumatic Syrup, which I have been using for a shoit time; but itis helping me so much that I now have faith that it will cure me. 'lt has already done me more good than any remedy I have ever used.—MßrsS, EmMILY J. NORCROSS, Over 8 East Main St.

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