Ligonier Banner., Volume 28, Number 52, Ligonier, Noble County, 5 April 1894 — Page 2

* ® : ~y, e . » The Ligonier Banner, LIGONIER, - : INDIANA. TrE fruit crop has been practically ruined throughount. the central states by the recent freezing temperature. A AN named Reavis hasfiled a claim for 12,800,000 acres of land in New Mexico and Arizona, basing his claim on an old Spanish grant. o : . e RO .~ TrE harbor of Rio de Janeiro is one of the finest on the globe. It has fifty miles of anchorage, sufficient to float the navies of the world. -

" SECRETARY MoORTON, of the agriculture department, uses a .¢rest upon all his private stationery the representas tion of a tree with the injunction beneath, “Plant trees.” He takes pride in the fact that he originated ,Arbor day. s

It is claimed that William Waldorf Astor enjoys an annual income from his American investments of about £6,000,000 and now’ffia‘@ he has become a resident of Great Britain this income is to be subjected to a tax amounting annually to about §175,000. S ExeLAXND's ‘horticultural college for - women is-in the fourth and most prosperous year. It teachies women to take " charge q@ estates, gardensiand poultry yards. and the working day is divided " into five hours of practice out of doors s and two hours of theory. 'The course is two years. - ,

‘LOUISIANA people are clamoring for the re-enactment of the law protecting alligators. Since their wholesale destruction’ was resumed . the increase of muskrats, rabbits, opposums and other pests have been so great as to destroy levees and crops and perhaps endanger life. ST .

THE school board of Concordia: Kan., has ruled that a woman teacher of that place, who marries during the school term, shall farfeit a sum of money equal to one-half month’s salary, provided she takes-a home man, and a sum cqual to one month's salary in case the groom is imported from some other county or state. _

Tre Chiristians adopted the egg asan emblem of the resurrection for though apparently inert’it retains the elements of life. 'The co]oring of eggs dates back to ancient times. Even before the death of Christ the Egyptians, Persians and other ancient nations held the égg to be a sacred emblem.of the rebirth of mankind after the deluge.

- For the first time in a century and a half Easter Sunday this year fell on “Lady” day, the anniversary of the annunciation of the Virgin Mary. This is a fixed date in the ecclesiastical calendar, the festival occurring always on March 25, while Easter, which is dependent on the moon and the vernal equinox, may come as early as March 22 or as'late as April 25.

THE inventors in St. Pétersburg are asking the Russian goverament for patents on glass coffins. The two parts of the coffin "box and cover are wholly made of glass, which by means of a specially prepared glue of lacquer can be hermetically sealed. A netof wire secures the coffin against breakage, and the price of the article does not e(i:ceed that of a wooden one. ‘

" ProF. RicHARD L. GARNER, who went to Africa to learn the language of the gorilla and chimpanzee, returned to New York the other day.” He spent over four months in a cage in an African jungle, where he had abundant opportunity for:observution". He has learned six or eight words of monkey language and says there are about forty or fifty words in the gorilla vocabulary.

IT is announced with much confidence by the United States coast survey that the highest peak on the western hemisphere is neither Mount St. Elias in Alaska, nor Orizaba in Mexico, but Mount Logan, named after the Canadian surveyor general, and rising 19,500 feet up in the clouds. It is a recent discovery by the survey corps that engaged in {fresh observations on Mount St. Elias. i .

THE late Mrs. Eliza Ann-Clark, of Cleveland, was a’liberal patron of the institutions of that city. She-set aside from her estate the sum of £lOO,OOO for Lakeside ;hospital, £75,000 for the Old Stone church, 810,000 for the Invalids’ homeé, and a like sum for ‘the board of home missions of the Presbyterian church of America. Before her death she had- given a sum suflicient to establish Clark hall for the College for Women of Western Reserve university.

s THE word ‘‘manor” is of frequent occurrence throughout rural Pennsylvania. and it frequently marks some one of the sixty odd manors conferred upon the heirs of William Penn by an act of 1770. These manors ranging from two hundred to many thousands acres, were scattered thickly over the eastern part of the state, and their names have since become ‘the names of many townships. The manors aggrezated more than 500,000 acres, and igciuded some of the fine est lands in Pennsylvania.

JOHN LOF‘QUIST, a.life prisoner in the Columbus, 0., penitentiary, has, during the term of his incarceration, raised a ‘flock of several hundred pigeons. LEvery one of the birds knows hin and will go to-him'at call. Ile says that each has a name and that he can tell one from ithe other by the difference in their faces, which, hie claims, are as characteristic as the faces of human beings. =~ The pigeons, when they take up their morning fly for exercise, soar high up in the air and circle above but never, unless driven by hunger, g 6 -beyand the boundary of the big . walls. ' : : ONE sentence in Mr. Gladstone’s ‘letter to his Midlotliian constituents reveals the secret of his wonderful sueccess in the manifold activities of a long life. illustrates the modest simplicity of greatness and eontains a lesson for ’ statesmen and all others’ It is this: | “Whatever the merits or demerits of | my career, and certainly I have been ‘ chargeable with many errors of judg-' ment, I hope it at least has béen gov-: erned by uprightness of intention and a desire to learn.”. The favorite ‘ theme of the political enemies of Mr. ! Gladstonec has been his ‘‘wavering course,” ; TR e e

e p . . ; i Epitome of the Week. INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION, e FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. . Regular Session. L MoxNDAY, March 26.— The death of Senavor Colquitt, of Georgia, was announced .in the senate by Mr, Gordon, the colleague of the dead statesman. The customary resolution of regret was adopted and a committee of ten senators was appointed to accompany the remains to Macon, Ga., after which the senate adjonrned, The house adjourned after a brief session on account of the death of Senator Celguitt. . oo TuEsDAY, March 27.—Funeral services over the remains of Senator Colquitt took place in the senate. No business was transacted. In the house bills were introduced for the reduction of compensation of persons in the government service; to incorporate the “*American College of Musicians” ' for the promotion of music in the.United States, and to amend the intersiate commerce law by repealing all punishments by imprisonment’ for violations of the interstate commerce act and rendering the offending corporation itself punishable. - ) WEDNESDAY, March 28.—Resolutions were introduced in the senate asking the secretary of war whether subordinate employes and laborers engaged by engineer officers have been employed or discharged for political reasons; directing- the finance committee to prepare a bill for the repeal of all laws authorizing the secretary of the treasiry to issue bonds or other interestbearing obligations . without specific authority, and one calling for information regarding changes made in the weight or fineness of silver coins of silver standard -countries. A Dbill to provide for the free and unlimited coinage of silver was introduced by Mr. Stewart, of Nevada. In the house an attempt to discuss the two election cases of O'Neill vs. Joy and English vs. Hilborn showed the lack of a quorum " 'THURSDAY, March 29.—1 n the senate the pension appropriation bill was reported; and the house joint resolution appropriating $lO,OOO additional to carry out the provisions of the Chinese exclusion act and the McGarrahan land ‘claim bill were passed. -In the house the president’s message vetoing the Bland silver seigniorage bill was received. No business was transacted. - Fripay March 30.—The senate was not in session to-day. In the house Mr. Blund gave notice .that on April 3 he would move to pass the seigniorage bill over the yeto. No business was transacted. d

FROM WASHINGTON., & IN the United States the visible supply of grain on the 26th was: Wheat, 72,164,000 bushels; corn, 19,165,000 bushels; oats, 2,713,000 bushc‘ls; rye, 441,000 ‘bushels; barley, 686,000 bushels. - THE reports to congress show that exhibits were received at the world’s fair from sixty foreign nations, valued at §2%,000,000. . At the pension office a decision was made admitting insane, idiotic - and helpless children of soldiers to the pension rolls. - ' TaE speaker of the house, Charles F. Crisps was appointed United States senator by Gov. Northen, of Georgia, to fill the vacancy caused by Senator Col gu'tt’s death.| . © ExcnaneeEs during the seveén days ended on the 30th ult. at the leading clearing houses in the’ United States aggregated $741,401,756, against $885.001,934 the previous week. The decrease, compared with the corresponding week in 1893, was 29.2. THE business failures in the United States during the seven days ended on the 30th ult. numbered 238, against 244 in the previous seven days and 166 in the corresponding time in 1893. 3 Ir was decided by the acting secretary of war that a deseriter’s release is in o sense a discharge from the army nor does it in any way remove the charge of desertion. . SPEAKER CRrisP notified Gov. Northen, of Georgia, of his declination of the appointment to ‘be United States senator for the unexpired term of the late Senator Colquitt.

THE EAST. = THE reports from various sections in the south and east show great damage tofruits and early vegetables as a resalt of the cold wave. Along the Atlantic coast railway lines in the south the damage was about $1,000,000. In the grape-growing regions of western New York the buds were destroyed and vast losses would result. THE legislature of New York passed bills making violation of the election laws a penal offense and disqualifying anyone committing bribery from holding office for five years, and prohibiting the flying of foreign flags upon public buildings. ‘ . IN New York George Ticknor Curtis, the lawyer and writer on political economy and constitutional history, died at the age of 53 years. THE death of Charles C. Baer, grand commander of the Knights Templar of Pennsylvania, occurred in Pittsburgh, aged 58 years. ~ A STRIKE of the 10,000 coke workers and miners of the Connellsville (Pa.) region was ordered. L : I~ the United States court at Philadelphia Judge Dallas filed an opinion holding that- Chinamen cannot be naturalized. - . ' _FoRr no cause known Fritz Kloetzler, a shoemaker and a socialist, murdered his wife and four chiliren and then committed suicide at Dolgeville, N. Y. In New York William R. Laidlaw was awarded damages of $25,000 in his suit against Russell Sage, who used him as protection againdt a dynamiter.

WEST AND SOUTH, : THE trustees of the soldiers’ and sailors’ home at Mount Vista, Col., wére charged with being $lOO,OOO short in their accounts. TaE Merchants’ bank of West Duluth and the People's savings bank of (Duluth,- Minn., went into voluntary liguidation. o AT the annual meeting of the Minnesota League of Republican Clubs in Minneapolis Gov. McKinley, of Ohio, was the principal speaker. In his ad“dress he defended the policy of the republican party and said the country could never be prosperous without it. ! At Pensacola, Fla., H. C. Huff and | wife, married but three hours, were - killed by Thomas Trainor, the woman’s former husband. | IN Bloomington, IL, a revival reached such a stage! that business - houses and saloons closed during the day appointed for general prayer. E - AT Terre Haute, Ind., Jim Godsey, sentenced to five years for forgery, sa{d ‘ his father had trained him in. -crime] from childhoad. = ;

‘FLAMES wiped out the town of Sutherland, Neb. k AT Springfield, 0., Howard S. Long, an agent, met Miss Lydia Brown, of Urbana, for the first time and in half an hour they were married. : THE receiver of the Lima (0.) national bank, which closed two years ago, claims a shortage of €90,000 for which he can get no explanation. = THE city. of Cherokee, la., has been selected as the location for a new insane asylum to accommodate 1,000 patients and cost more than $1,000,000. ° THE supreme court of California holds that the act of the last legislature in removing the capital from Sacramento to San Jose was illegal ’ OWwWING tofamily troubles B. McManus, of Livingston, Mont., shot and killed his wife and then cut his own throat. IN a snowslide at Canyon Creek, Wash., three families, comprising fourteen persons, were buried. Miss LinpA BiLrnings and her sister Sarah, aged 40 and 35 ye2ars respectively, took their own lives with poison at Winchester, 0., because they were about to be separated by marriage. : WaiLE watching Coxey’s army in Columbiana, " 0., Thomas Holloway, a populist farmer, dropped dead from apoplexy. . e CoLD weather did millions of dollars of damage in Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, killing almost everything green. ‘ THE residence of John Wittat MeKendree, W. Va., was burned and his eight little children and Miss Mollie Hettrick perished in the flames. - WirLiAM NONNEMACHER pleaded guilty at Antigo, Wis., to murdering his wife and three children -and was given a life sentence. SEVEN members of a family were poisoned at Indianapolis by eatin® sausage containing trichinee. ; ToeE death of Prof. John M. Ellis of Oberlin college at Oberlin, 0., occurred on a Sante Fe train as it entered Chicago from California. By the .falling of an old bridge at Radford, Va., three workmen were killed and five seriously injured.= ) THE following executions were reported: lsrael Johnson (colored) at Union Springs, Ala., for the murder of Wash Roberts (colored) January 15 last; at Paris, Tex., E. R. Gonzales, for the murder of John Daniels, May 186,. 1893; Manning Davis for the murder of John Roden December 26, 1891, and Jim Upkins for the murder, September 6, 1893, of his 6-year-old stepdaughter. A BoYy was killed and fifteen other persons injured, four of them probably fatally, by the ‘collapse of a water tower at Peoria, liL k : THF legislature of Maryland passed a bill making it obligatory on the courts of Maryland, under certain conditions, to send inebriates to gold cure institutes Tor treatment. , _ THE death of Judge Louis S. Lovell occurred at Stanton, Mich., aged 78. He was on the circuit bench in the Kighth district for twenty-four years. I a fight near Darlington, S. C., over the enforcement of the dispensary law four persons were killed and three badly wounded. Gov. Tillman ordered troops to quell the disturbance, FIRE swept away five blocks in the central portion of Barry, 111., the loss being $200,000.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. THE several foreign powers have been communicating with a view to united efforts against anarchists. ; IN various parts of Greece violent earthquakes occurred and the loss of life was considerable. TaE distinguished African traveler, Verney Lovett Cameron, was thrown from his horse and killed while hunting near Bedfordshire, England. IN Turin funeral services over the remains of Louis Kossuth were held in the Evangelical church, . - IN Athens a hymn to Apollo, recently discovered at Delphi, was sung for the first time in 2,000 years. The royal family and cabinet were present. . At Hamburg the remains of Hans von Bulow; the distinguished pianist, were cremated. , A coAL mine shaft at Koszelew, Russia, collapsed, causing the loss of eleven lives. 2 R A LAW was passed in Russia against American insurance companies, foruidding the tontine system. 'LATER NEWS.

THERE was no session of the United States senate on the 81st ult. In the house bills were introduced for the free and unlimited cgjnage of silver dollars of 4138Y4 grains, (gn'd for an additional district judge for the Northern district of Illinois. The river and harbor bill wasreported, and the remainder of the day was devoted to eulogies upon. the life, character and public services of the late Representative O’Neill, of Pennsylvania. ‘ : W. B. BRozELL, a well-to-do farmer of Hurd county, Ga., shot his wife and then shot himself fatally. o Four men were burned to death and one fatally and two others seriously injured by a natural-gas explosion at Alexandria, Ind. ROBBERS secured £3,200 from the safe of the township treasurer at Frankfort, Mich. E. G. RATHBONE, of Hamilton, 0., was nominated for congress by the. Third district republicans to fill the vacancy caused by the death of George W. Houk. _ Five tramps were thought to have perished in a fire which destroyed the Rock Island hay barns at Gegneseo, IIL "Ex-CONGRESSMAN GEORGE E. HALsey died in Newark, N. J., of pneumonia after a brief illness. He was 67 years of age and a millionaire. : Tae 79th birthday of Prince Bismarck was celebrated throughout Germany. A THE German empire lost its oldest ‘official in the person of Johann Muller, jailer at Wittlich. near Treves, who died at the age of 103. ~ THREE men were burned to death in i a summer cottage at Squantum Beach, Mass. : - ‘ - PRESIDENT BERMUDEZ, of Peru, died at Lima from an intestinal trouble. " FIRE which started in a flourmill at Borden, Ind., burned six stores and eighteen residences, causing a loss of $125,000. o i ; ~ Four HUNDRED drunken strikers terrorized the town of Kast Liverpool, 0., and non-union men were beaten and the police cowed. - : e -THE sixteenth constitutional congress of Mexico assembled in semi-an-nual session at Mexico City. : | Hexry LE CARON, who was a British spy upon Irishmen in America, died in London. ; ' » | SouTtH CAROLINA was almost in a state of anarchy, nearly all the troops having refused to obey Gov. ‘l'illman in the dispensary war. He had placed the counties of Florence and -Darlington under martial law. ! 5

.. VETOED. The President Refuses to Sign the Seigniomge Bill He Sends a Message tolCongress Giving in . Detail His Reasons jor This Action— He Says the Bil is Neither 5 Wise Nor Oppartune—Full : | * Text of the Veto. - ; WASHINGTON, ‘Marca 30.—The following is the full text of the president’s message vetoing the Bland seigniorage bill: To the House of Repreentatives: I return without my approval house bjll numbered 1936, entitled ‘“An act directing the coinage of the silver bullion zeld in the treasury and for other purposes.” . My strong desire to avad disagreement with those in both houses of c¢ngress who have supported this bill, would lead me to approve it if I could believe that the pull¥ic good would not be thereby endangered and that such action on my part would be a prope’ discharge of official duty. Inasmuch, however, as I am unable to satisfy myself that the ploposed legislation is either wise or opportune, my conception of the obligations and responsitilities attached to the great office I hold forbidgthe indulgence of my personal desire, and inexorably jconfines me to' that course which is dictated by my reason and judgment, and pointed ott by a sincere purpose to protect and promote tte general interests of our people. . : i The financial disturbance which swept over the country during the 148 t year was unparalleled in its severity and disastrous consequences. £ ; . There seemed to be almost an entire displacement of faith in our finazrcial ability and a loss of confidence in our fisca policy. Among those who attempted to assigncauses for our distress it was very generally ccanceded that the operation of a provision of law then in force which required the governmentto purchase monthly a large amount of silver bullion and issue its notes in payments theréfor. was either entirely; or to.a large extent, lesponsible for our condition. This led to the rpeal on the Ist day of November, 1893, of this scatutory provision. We had, however, fallen so ow in the depths of depression, and timidity axd apprehension had so completely gained contml in: financial circles that our rapid recuperation could not be reasonably expected. . ; Our recovery has, nevertheless, steadily progressed, and though less than five months have elapsed since the repeal of the mischievous silver purchase requirement, a wholesome improvement is unmistakably apparent. Confidence in our absolute solvency is to such an extent reinstated and faith in our disposition to acdhere to sound financialmethods is so far restored as to produce the most encouraging results both at home and abroad. The wheels of domestic industry have ben slowly set in motion and the tide.of fereigh investment has again started in our direction. i | Our recovery being so well under way, wr ing should be done to check our convalescéffe; nor should we forget thata relapse at this time would almost surely reduce us to.a lower.stage of financial distress than from which we are just emerging. I believe thatif the bill under consideration should become a law it would be regarded as a retrogression from the financial intentions indicated by our recent repeal of the provision forcing silver ballion purchases; that it would weaken, if it did not destroy, returning faith and confidence in our sound financial tendencies and that as aczonsequence our progress to renewed busine s health would be unfortunately checked anda return to our recent distressing plight serioudy threatened. This proposed legislation is so related to the currency conditions groving out of the law compelling the purchase of silver by the government, that a glance atsuch conlitions and a partial review of the lav referred to, may not be unprofitable. ! : Between the 14th day of August, 1890, when the law became operative, and the Ist-day of November, 1893, when the. clause it contained directing the purchase of silver was repealed, there were purchased by the secretary of the treasury more than 168,000,000 ounces of silver ‘bullion. In payment for thi§ bullion the government issued its treasiry notes of various denominations, amounting to nearly 156,000,000, which notes were immediately added to the currency in circulation among our people. -~ Such notes were by the law made legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, except when otherwise expressly stipulated, and were made receivable for custtoms, taxes and all pub, lic dues, and when so received might be reissued. They were also permitted to be held by the banking associations as a part of their lawful reserves. e :

?Y_ ‘On the demand of the holders these treasury ‘notes were to be redeemed in gold or silver-coin i in the discretion of the secretary of the treas- ! ury; but it was declared as a part of this re‘demption provision that it was *‘the established policy of the United States to maintain the two . metals on a phrity with each other upon the { present legal ratio or such ratio as may, be proi ‘vid‘ed\ by iaw.”’ { ; The mfoney coined from such bullion was to . be standard silver dollars, and after directing | the immediate coinage of a little less than 28,000,000 ounces, the law provided "that as much of the remaining bullion should be thereafter | coined as might be necessary to provide for the’ i redemption of the treasury notes issued -on its | purchase, and that “any gain or. seigniorage i arising from such coinage shall be accounted i for and paid into the treasury.” ' This gain or seigniorage indicates so much of | the bullion owned by the government as sho 1d . remain afiér using a sufficient amount to coin I as many standard silver dollars as should equal | in number the dollars represented by the treas- ’ ury notes issued in payment of the entire quan--1 tity of bullion. These treasury notes now out- ! standing and in circulation amount to :152,951,- : 28), and although there has been thus far but a | comparatively small amount of this bullion | coined yet the so-called gain or seigniorage as ! above defined, which would arise from the coini age of the entire mass, has been been easily as- | certained to be a quantity of bullion sufficient ' to make when coined fifty-five millions, one | hundred and fifty-six thousand, six hundred and | eighty-one standard dollars.. Considering the present intrinsic relation between gold and sil- . ver the maintenance of the parity between the | two metals, as mentioned in this law, can mean | nothing less than the maintenance of such a | parity in the estimation and. confidence of the | people who use our money in their daily trans- | actions. : : ; l! Manifestly the maintenance of this parity { can only be accomplished, so far as it isaffected { by these treasury notes, and in the estimation | of the holders of the same, by giving to such holders, on their redemption, the coin, whether ] itis gold or silver, which they prefer. It fol- . lows that while in terms the law leaves the ‘ choice of coin to bé paid on such redemption to _the discretion of the secretary of the treasury, “the exercise of this discretion, if opposed to the demands gf the holder, is entirely’ inconsistent with the effective and beneficial maintenance of the parity between the two metals. ; If both gnld and silver are to serve usas ' money, anc i they together are to supply our | peop:e a safe and stable currency, the necessity | of preserving this parity is obvious, Such ne- | cessity has been repeatedly concéded in the ! platforms of both political parties and in our federal statutes. It is nowhere more emphat-, ically recognized than in the recentlaw which | repealed the provision under which the bullion . now on hand was purchased. This law insists | upon the ‘‘maintenance of the parity in value-of ; the coins of the two metals and the equal power ol cvery dollar at all times in the markets and in the payment of debts.” “The secretary of the treasury has, therefore, for the best of reasons not only promptly com- | plied with every demand for the resumption of these treasury notés in geld, but the presentsituation, as well as the letter and spirit of the | law, zppear plainly to justify, if they do not enjoir, upon him, a continuation 9f such redemption. The conditions I have endeavored to present may be thus summarized; ~ First—The governmént has purchased and now has ¢n hand sufficient silver bullion to permit the coinage of all-the silver dollars necessary to redeem,in such dollars, the treasury " notes issued for the purchase of said silver bullion and enough besides to coin, a 8 gain seizniorage, 55,156,681 additional standard silver dollars. $ Second—There are outstanding and now in circulation treasury notes issued in payment of the bullion purchased amounting to -152,951,280. - These notes are -legaltender in payment of all debts, public and private, except when otherwise expressly stipulated, they are receivable for customs, taxes and all public dues; when held by banking associations they may be counted as part of their lawful reserves and they are redeemed by the gowernment in gold at the option of ‘the holders. These advantageous attributes. were deliberately attached to these notes at the timse of their issue; they are fully understéod by our people to whom such notes have been distributed as currency and have inspired confldence in their safety and | value and have undoubtedly thus inducéd their continued and contented use as money, instead of anxiety for their redemption / Having referred to some incidents which I ‘deem relevant to the subject, it remains for me

to submit a specific statement of my objections to the bill now under consideration. This bill consists of two sections, excluding. one which merely approvriates a sum sufficient to carry the act into effect. ;z‘l‘he_ first section provides for the immediate coinage of the silver bullion in the treasury which represents the so-called gain or seigniorage which would arise from the coinage of all the bullion on hand, which gain or seigniorage this section declares to be $55,156,631. It directs that the money so coined, or the certificates issued thereon, shall be used in the paynient of public expenditures, and provides that if the needs of the treasury demand it, the secretary of the treasury may, in his dist}etion, issue silver certificates in excess of suclt’ coinage, not exceeding the amount of seigniorage in said section authorized to be coined. : ;1 The second section directs that as soon as possible after the coinage of this seigniorage the remainder of the bullion held by the government shall be coined into legal tender standard silver dollars and that they shall be held in the treasury for the redemption of the treasury notes issied in the purchase of said bullion. It provides thatas fast as the bullion shall be coined for the redemption of said notes they shall not be reissued, but shall be canceled and destroyed in amounts equal to the coin held at any time in tjhe treasury derived from the coinage provided for, and that silver certificates shall be-issued on such coin in the manner now provided by law. It, however, especially declared in said section that the act shall not be construed to change existing laws relating to the legal tender character or mode of redemption of the treasury notes issued for the purchase of silver bullion to be coined: The entire bill is most unfortunately constructed. Nearly every sentence presents uncertainty and invited controversy as to its meaning and intent. The first section is espe-’ cially faulty in this respect, and it is extremely doubtful whether its language will permit the consummation of itg supposed purposes. I am led to believe that the promoters of the bill intended in this section to provide for the coinage of the bullion constituting the gain or scifiniorage as it is called, into standard silver dollars; and ye# there is positively nothing in the section to prevent its coinage into any description of silver coins now authorized under any existing law. I suppose this section was also intended, in case the needs of the treasury called for money faster than' the seigniorage bullion could actually he coined, to permit the issue of. silver certificates in advance of such coinage; but its language would seem to permit the issuance of such certificates to double the amount geigniorage as stated, one-half of which would not represent an ounce of silver in the treasury. The debate on this section in the congress developed an earnest and positive difference of opinions as to its object and meaning. In any’ event I am clear that the present perplexities and embarrassments of the secretary of the treasury ought not to be augmented by devolving upon him the execution of a law. so uncertain and confused. lam not wiiling, howeyer, to rest my objection to this. section solely on these grounds; in my judgment sound finance does not commend a further infusion of silver into our currency at this time unaccompanied by further adequate provision for the maintenance in'our treasury of a safe gold reserve. Loubts also arise as to the meaning and construction of the second section of the bill. If the silver dollars therein, directed to be coined- are, as the section provides, to be held in the treasury for the redemption of treasury notes, it is suggested that, strictly speaking, certificates cannot: be issued on such coin *‘in the manner now provided by law,” because'these dollars are money held in the treasury for the express purpose of redeeming treasury notes, on demand. ‘Whatever else may be said of the uncertainties of expression in this bill, they certainly ought not to be found in legislation affecting subjects so important and far-reaching as our finanees and currency. In stating other and more important relations for my disapproval of this section, I shall, however, assume that under its provisions the treasury notes issued in payment for silver bullion will continue to be redeemed as* heretofore, in silver or gold, at, the option of the holders; and that if when they are presented for redemption, or reach the treasury in any other manner, there are in the ’treasuri coined silver dollars equal in nominal value to such treasury notes, then and in that case, the notes will be destroyed and silver certificates to an equal amount be substituted. I am convinced that this schemec is ill-advised And dahgeropus. : &

We have now outstanding more than §338,000,000 in silver certificates issued under existing laws.. They are serving the purpose of money usefully and without question. Our gold reserve, amounting to a little more than §100,000,0.0, is directly charged with the redemption of $346,000,000 of United States notes. When it is proposed to inflate our silver currency it is a time for strengthening our gold reserve instead ‘of depleting it. - I cannot conceive of a longer step toward silver monometallism than we take when we spend our gold to buy silver certificates for circulation, especially in view of thg practical difficulties surrounding the replenishment of our gold. : This leads me to earnestly present the desirability of granting to the secretary of the treasury a better power than now exists to issue bonds to protect our gold reserve when for any reason it should be necessary. Our currency is in such a confused condition and our financial affairs are apt to assume at any time so critical a position that it seems to me such a course is dictated by ordinary prudence. I am not insensible to the arguments in fayor of coining the bullion seigniorage now in the treasury and I believe it could be done safely and with advantage if the secretary of the treasury had the power to issue bonds at a low rate of interest under authority in substitution of that now existing and better suited to the protection of the treasury. : : " I hope a way will present itself in the near future for the adjustment of our monetary affairs in such a comprehensive and conservative manner as will accord to silver its proper place in our currency; but in the meantithe I am extremely solicitous that whatever action we take on this subject may be such as to prevent ‘loss and discouragement to our people at home and the destruction of confidence in our financial management abroad. f GROVER CLEVELAND. EXECUTIVE MANSION, March 29, 1834. .

A LONG CHASE Results in the Capture of Charles Ketch~ um,; Alias Charles Hardin, the Express Robber. . Fr. SmitH, Ark., March 30.—After many months of long and hard chasing about the United States, Charles Ketchum, alias Charles. Hardin, wanted by the Wells-Fargo Express Company, was captured Wednesday at Alma, a small town twelve miles from here. In September, 1892, while acting as messenger for the express company, running between Cincinnati and Louisville, two packages containing $25,000 were placed in his charge, and when the packages arrived at their destination at Galveston, Tex., they were found to contain nothing but brown paper. Ketchum, or Hardin, as he was known, was suspected, but enough evidence was not at hand to hold him: He then entered suit for §50,000 damages, but disappeared when the case was called. ' : . Other facts came to light and detectives were placed upon his tracks, and since then he has been wandering from one end of the country tc the other. For the last six months the detectives have been almost upon him, but with characteristic shrewdness and cunning he evaded capture. G. B. Simpson and F."J. Dodge, of the express company, learned that a letter was to be‘sent to him at Alma and hastened there, being preceded by Ketchum. At 9 o’clock in the morning when he entered the office he was placed under arrest, and when searched $19,000 was found upon his person.: He was taken to St. I.ouis on the noon train. ; Within the last three months the detectives say they have followed him from Fort Wayne, Ind., to Chicago, thence to Baltimore, Philadelphia, Cineinnati, Louisville, and back to Chicago and Fort Wayne, from which place he came down south. He wai"'anescaped convict, :having been sent up for highway robbery in Migsouri a few years ago. His parents have lived in this city the last three months. ) : - Sudden Death. : CHicA@co, March 80.—Prof. J. M. Ellis, of Oberlin college, died suddenly at the Santa Fe railway station yesterday. In company with a party of traveling friends, he was waiting for a | noon train. Shortly after 11:30 he was attacked with a sudden spasm, and g;ed ‘before medical aid could reach l

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It will, perhaps, require a little stretch of the imagination on the part of the reader to recognize the fact that the two portraits at the head of this article are of the same -individual ; and yet they are truthful sketches made from photographs, taken only a few months apart, of a very much esteemed citizen of Illinois—Mr, C. H. Harris, whose address is No. 1,622 Second Avenue, Rock Island, 111. The following extract from a letter written by Mr. Harris explains the marvelous changein his personal appearance. He writes : * ““ Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery saved my life and has ‘made me a man. Myhome ph§sician says' T am good for forty years yet. You will remember that I was just between life and death, and all of my friends were sure it was a case of death. until I commenced taking a second bottle of ‘¢ Golden Medical Disoovery® when I became able to sit up and the coug% was very much better, and the bleeding from my lungs stopped, and before I had taken six bottles of the ‘Golden Medical Discovery’® my cough ceased and I was a new man and ready for. business. e I now feel that it is a duty that I owe to mg fellow-men to recommend to them the ¢ Golden Medical Discovery ’ which saved my lifé when doctors and zl;fl other medicines failed to do me any good. : 1 send to you with this letter twoc{; my photographs; one taken a few weeks before 1 was taken down sick in bed, and the other was taken after I was well.” These two photographs are faithfully re-produced at the head of this article. : Mr. Harris's experience in the use of * Golden Medical Discovery” is not an exceptional one. Thousands of eminent people in all Earts of the world testif{, in just as emphatic nguage, to its marvelous curative powers over all chronic bronchial, throat.and lung diseases, chronic nasal catarrh, asthma, an kindred diseases. : . Eminent physicians prescribe ‘ Golden Medical Discovery” when any of their dear ones’ lives are imperilled by that dread disease, Consumption. Under such -circumstances only the most reliable remedy would be depended upon. . The following letter is to the point. It is from an eminent physician of Stamps, Lafayette Co., Ark. He says: ¢ Consumption is hereditaxxr in my wife's family ; some have already died with the disease. EM{ wife has a sister, Mrs. E. A. Cleary, that was taken with consumption, She used Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery, and, to the surprise of her many friends, she got well. My wife has also had hem-. orrhages from the lungs, and her sister insisted on her using the ‘ Golden Medical Dis-.

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covery.” I consented to her usingit, and it cured her. She has had no symptoms of consumption for the past six years. = People having this disease can take no better remedy.” Yours very truly, = . . From the Buckeye State comes the following:. ‘I was pronounced to have consumption by two of our best doctors. I spent nearly $3OO, and was no better. I concluded to try Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. I bought and used ei%ht bottles and I can now say with truth that I feel just as well| to-day as Ildid at twenty-five, and can do just as good a day’s work on the farm, although I had not done van’vlg work for several years.” e - ruly, your friend, - Mr. Dulaney's address is Campbell, Ohio. *I had catarrh in the head for years and trouble with my left lung at the same time.! You put so much faith in your remedies that I concluded to try one bottle or two, and I derived much benefit therefrom. I used up three bottles of Dr.'Szz}ge’s Catarrh Remedy, five bottles of your ‘‘‘Golden Medical Discovery,” and in four months I was myself again. I could not sleep on: my left side, and now I can sleep and eat heartily. So long as I have your medicines on hand I have no need of a: doctor; I.do not think my house in order without them. Yours truly, / <7 m&Marlow, Baldwin Co., Ala. Clf it wou}dfi be an{ more convincing, we could easily/fill the columns of this Eaper with letters testifying to the cure of the severest diseases of the throat, bronchia and lungs; by the use of ‘‘ Golden Medical Discovery.’ To build up solid flesh and strength after the rip, pneumonia, (‘‘lung fever”), exhausing %evers, and other prostrating diseases, it has no equal. It does not make {at like cod liver oil and its nasty compounds, but solid, wholesome flesh. ' = complete treatise. on Throat, Bronchial, and Lung Diseases ; also including Asthma, and Chronic Nasal Catarrh, and pointing out successful means of home treatment for these maladies, will pe mailed to any address by the World’s Dis@nsary ‘Medical Association .of Buffalo, N. Y., on receipt of six cents in stamps, to pay postage.