Pike County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 8, Petersburg, Pike County, 2 July 1880 — Page 1

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NEWSTN BRIEF. Compiled from Various Sources, PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. A letter from Samuel J. Tilden, addressed to the delegates from New York State to the National Convention) was published on the Slst. In tt Hr. Tilden announces his renunciation of the renomination for the Presidency and expresses his determination to withdraw from party leadership and to seek the repose of private life. The Cincinnati Enquirer of the 19th printed an extract from a personal letter to ts editor from Horatio Seymour, in which the writer says; “ I can not accept the nomination if it is made under any circumstances. I am not able to do the duties of any office. I hope my name will not be presented at Cincinnati in any way. I have never said I would accept a nomination, nor have I knowingly insinuated I would. I rely upon you to set me right with the delegates.” Col. Albert J. Myer, Chief Signal Officer, has been promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General. Col. David L. Phillips, Postmaster at Springfield, 111., died on the 19th, aged fifty-seven years.' Col. Phillips was formerly one of the proprietors of the Illinois State Journali anil was appointed by President Lincoln United States Marshal for the Southern District of Illinois. Gen. Grant has accepted the courtesies of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Boad, and will make an extended trip ewer their lines through Colorado and New Mexico. He will reach Kansas City on the morning of July 2, and go direct to Merriam Park, on the Fort Scott and Gulf Boad, and receive the people of Kansas during the dsy, returning to Kausas City in the evening. On Saturday, July 8, he will be entertained by the people of Kansas City, going to Leavenworth in the evening, spending Sunday with Gen. Pope at the Fort, and starting West Monday morning. Representative Murch has been renominated by the Greenbackers of the Fifth Maine District. The Mexican authorities decline to sanction the request of the United States that Gen. Hatch be permitted to follow Victories band of Apaches across the border into Mexico. The House of Commons, by a vote of 273 to 230, decided that Bradlaugh should not be permitted either to take the oath Or to make affirmation. This has the effect of . unseating Bradlaugh. — Prisoners in the Sangamon County Jail at Springfield, 111.,’’attempted to over, come the officers on the evening of the 22d. and in resisting the attempt S. N. Shoup, Sheriff, shot and killed Jacob Mitchell, of Charleston, Cole County, who was the ringleader and assaulted the Sheriff. The Coroner’s Jury returned a verdict of justifiable homicide. Mitchell was awaiting trial in the U. S. Court on an indictment charging him with selling liquor without paying special tax. The Vermont Republican State Convention nominated Coi. Roswell Farnham for Governor, Gen. John L. Barstow for Lieutenant-Governor, and John A. H. Page, I incumbent, for Treasurer. ntiotf for the Second Iowa District nominated LTnafey Hoops, a Muscatine County farmer, for Representative. President Hayes attended the annual commencement exercises of Kenyon College, at G&mbier, O., of which he is an alumnus. r. The Republican Congressional Convention for the Third Kansas District renominated Hon. Thomas Ryan by acclamation. The Maine Republican State Convention renominated Gov. Davis.

COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY. The First National Bank of Brattleboro, Vt., offers $5,000 reward for the arrest of President Waite. Later developments confirm previous reports of the utter failure of the bank, and, possibly, future developments may add to, rather than decrease, the liabilities, which are now placed at about $450,000. The Boston and Albany Railroad Company has increased the wages of all employees 10 per cent., to take effect from June 1. William Penicks, aged about 33, until recently employed as a farm laborer by Kirk Bundy, in Lynn Township, Posey County, Ind., on Sunday night, the 20th, shot and instantly killed Bundy's daughter, Izetta Ann, aged017, while she was returning home from her grandmother’s, and then shot himself. The two bodies were found early Monday morning lying together in the road. Penicks had become enamored of his employer’s daughter, and pressed his suit so ardently that she, not reciprocating the attachment, complained to her father, who thereupon discharged the man from his service. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. A tekkiblk storm and water-spout occurred near Dresded, Saxony, by which sixty persons are reported to have been killed. The trial of Currie, the murderer of Porter, the actor, at Marshall, Texas, was concluded on the 19th. The jury, after being out fifteen minutes, returned a verdict of not guilty, on the ground of insanity. Currie is reported to have immediately left the State. Boston celebrated the anniversary of ^ Bunker Hill June 17, with great enthusiasm. At Richmond, Va., on the night of the 20th, William Burke, a shoemaker, in a fit of jealousy beat his wife in a moat shocking manner. A neighbor, Patrick Harris, hearing the woman’s cries, went to the door to expostulate, when Burke, drawing a pistol, shot Harris through the mouth. An in. tnriated crowd soon gathered around the house and threatened to lynch Burke, when he declared he would kill his wife if they attempted to molest him. Finally some one set fire to the house, when Burke carried his threat into execution, byahooting his poor wife through the breast with a charge ol buck-shot. The crowd then rushed in and •eized the murderer, and would have lynched him upon the spot had not a large

pone of policemen come to his rescue and bore Mm off to Jail. The affair caused the moot intense excitement. Neighbors sap that Burke had not the least cause lor suspicion against his wile. The wife of Hade Brown, the condemned murderer, committed suicide at Kansas City, on the evening ol the 21st, by shooting herself through the head. It was ascertained from a letter found upon her person that she had secretly conveyed poison to her husband in his ceil, with the understanding that both should die together. Upon the officers going to Brown’s oell he was •sen to quickly put something Into his mouth, which was rightly suspected •to be poison. He was instantly seized and choked before he could swallow the potion, which, when ejected, proved to he morphine. He raved like a mailman at being lolled in his purpose. Mrs. Brown was most devotedly attached to ffier husband. She was only twenty-one ^eart of age, and fit said to have been an'un

usually haidsome and amiablo woman, with superior natural gifts. They had one child, a bright boy three years of age. i Mbs. IIoljmann and her eighteen-months-oi l child were run over by a railway train at Grant Park Station,' Kankakee County, 11., on the 21st.' Mrs. Qolzmann was fatally injured and her baby instantly killed. Db. James A. McCrea, a pro minent and weahl y resident of Philadelphia, committed snieide by cutting his throat while in his bath-tub. He was a great sullerer from dyspepsia, and this is supposed to l ave led him to kill himself. MISCELLANEOUS. Leonard Coubtenat, an. English Radical,. i ntrodueed a resolution into the House of Commons, which, after some observations by Mr. Gladstone, passed with only one dissenting vote, to the eTeel; that it is the duty of the English Government on all occasions, when circumstances will permit, to recommend to foreign Governments a reduction of their standing armies. '■■-5, The vilago of Homonna, in the county of Zemplen, Hungary, has been destroyed by fire. Many inhabitants were burned and others injured. Famine having raged since the begins ing of winter, the misery is indescribable. . . • j A locust plague has inflicted enormous dam; iges in that portion of Asiatic Turkey lying south of the Caucasian Mountains. Over 20,00) men are employed iii endeavoring to destroy them. Haul an was badly beaten by I toss-in the Providence boat race, owing, as claimed by him, to a stitch in tfie side. The population of Kansas City, according to the new census returns, is not far from 54,00). The Dublin correspondent of the London jDaily News telegraphs: There is no longer any doubt that the famine fever has appealed in some parts of the West and South of Ireland. A letter read in the Man - sion-house Relief Committee from Charlestown, May o County, says famine feve r of the most dangerous type is very p revalent anil is making much progress. It has also appeared in Swenford, Mayo County, and GlengarlR, Cork County. The Irish members of Parliament have resolved to ask the English Government to double their proposed grant for the relief of Irish distress, and that $300,000 be voted for he construction of fishery piers. Obstructive measures are threatened unless the Government complies with there quest. Them were thirty deaths from yellow fever in E avana, Cuba, for the week ending June 15. Destructive forest fires are raging In the vicinity of St. Johns, New Brunswick. Many villages are threatened. The Irish Land bill, which has been read in tie House of Commons for the second time, provides that until t ie 31st, of December, 1881, ejectments for non-pay ment of rent in certain scheduled districts whei-e distress is prevailing shall be -deemed disturbance of the Tenant and landlord laws within file meaning of the Landlord and Tenant Aet of 1870, and the tenant shall be entitled to compensation in the discretion of the Judge of the County Court, if non-payment of rent is caused by the prevailing distress, and the tenant is walling to aentinuo in oocunatioa udoo reasonable terms as to rent, arrears of rent fine otherwise, anc such terms are reasonably refused by the lai tdlord. The bill meets determined opposition from the Conservatives, who denounce it as confiscation. The newspapers oppose the bill unqualifiedly

The Hone-Rulers have resolved to oppose ] progress on the bill for the relief of Irish distress iintil the Government introduces a bill founded on the principle of a new clause to be proposed by the Chief Secretary for Ireland, enlarging the powers of the local boards for awarding a compensation to occupiers ot land. A Bce nos Ayres dispatch, dated June 16, says: A revolution has broken out and the city in besieged. William Ralston and three others were arrested at El Dorado, Hans., on the 23d, for counterfeiting. A Bearch of Ralston's house disclosed a chest full of tools, including dies, furnace, acids, block tin and other apparatus for this kind of. work. It is reported that the Conference at Berlin is at loggerheads; that Austria and Russia me now unwilling to go as far as France and England desire, for fear of reopening the whole Eastern question. It is .reported that Itajy energetically protests against the extension of Austria's right of control in the Adriatic, and that the plotted settlement of the Montenegrin difficulty by the cession of Dulcigno is likely to fall through. Natilc nal Democratic Convention. FIRST DAT. The National Democratic Convention, met in Music Hall, Cincinnati, at noon on Tuesday, Jun 5 22, and was called to order by Senator Barnum, Chairman of the National Commit t ec, who announced that be had be en unanimously requested by the Committee to nominate Hon. George Iloac lv, of Ohio, for temporal y Chairman. This being approved by the Convention, Judge Iloadly look :he chair and made a speech ot some length. The temporary organization having been perfected by the appointment of minor officers, the roll of States was called for the appointment of members of the Committees on Permanent Organization, Credentials and Resolutions. The roll culi progressed without; interruption until New' York was it ached, when Mr. Haskins presented the claims of* the Tammany delegates to Beats in the Convention. Mr. Has sins not being accredited as a delegate, ths Chair refused to recognize him. It was :a loved and carried that all resolutions in refer snee to the platform offered in the Convention be referred to the Committee on Resolutions. The Convention then adjourned until 10 o’clock to-morrow. The Committee on Permanent Organization held a meeting and decided to report in favor of Ex-Gov. J. W. Stevenson, of Kentucky, for permanent Chairman of the Convention, and to recommend the retentio n of the teio porary organization bo far as the remaining officers are concerned. The Committee.on Resolutions organized by electing Henry Wattersou, of Kentucky, Chairmm, and .John 1*. Irish, of Iowa, Secretary. Mlssi Susan B. Anthony and other representativ es of the Woman Suffrage Association were allowed to present their case and to make arguments of considerable length. A sub-committee of nine was appointed to whom was referred all resolutions to be incorporated in the

piaiiorn. SECOND DAY The Convention w called to order at 10:401,. m. on Wednesday. The Committee on Credentials submitted their report. In the Mw sachusetts case it wa s recommended that both contestants be admitted and that the two delegations iiraitecl cast the vote of the State. The sitting members from PcnnSlvanii i were; declared entitled to their seats. regard to the contest in New Tort: the committee decided in favor of the silting delegit m and against the admission ol the Tammany delegates. The last announcement was greeted with cheers. A minority report was presented, signed by lonr members, recommencing thst Tammany be allowed twenty^ of the teventy delegates from New York: This report was greeted with mingled clicers and his les. After an hour’s debate the m u jorItyreixrtwa* adopted almost unanimously. The Committee on Credentials made Iheir report, and ex-Gov. Stevisnson was conducted to the chair amidst prolonged applause . He madeaspeeeh of some length, at the conclusion of* which a motion was . a_a • I a. ___thi. nnmiiaatie iri of to th« nomination of resident, and. a call of tor thau purpose. Ten

| minutes was allowed each person presenting a candidate. The first State that responded| was California, which, through Judge John K. McKlrath, presented the name of Justice Stephen J. Field; Colorado seconded the nomination. George Gray, tor Delaware, named Thomas F. Bayard, and Mr. Saltonstall, for Massachusetts, seconded the nomination. When Sew York was called there were cries of “Tilden,” “Seymour,” “Payne,” but no response came. 1 Mr. Marshall, for Illinois, presented the name of Col. William R. Morrison, and when Indiana was called Mr. Voorhees announced the name of Thomas A. Hendricks. Mr. MeSweeney, on behalf of Ohio, named Allen G. Thurman. Pennsylvania, through Daniel Dougherty, put forward Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock. Wade Hampton, for South Carolina, seconded Mr. Bayard’s nomination. As each speaker presented the name of his candidate there was more or less applause. The nominations being closed, a ballot was ordered and the roll called with the following result: THE FIRST BALLOT. Alabama—Number of votes, 90—Bayard, 7; Field, S; Thurman, 1; Hancock, 7. Arkansas—Number of votes, 12—Field, 12. California—Number of votes, 12—Field, 6; Hendrioks, 1; Thurman, 3; Seymour, 2. Colorado—Number of votes, 6—Field, 1; W. A. H. Loveland,3. Connecticut—Number of votes, 12—Bayard, 4; Hendricks, 3; Thurman, 2; I’ayno, 3. Delaware—Number of votes, 6—Bayard. 6. Florida—Number of votes, 8—Bavard, 8. Georgia—Nflmbor of votes, 22—Bayard, 5: Field, 8; Hendricks, 1; Hancock, 8. Illinois—Number of votes, 42—Morrison, 42. Indiana—Number of votes, 30—Hendricks, 30. Iowa—Number of votes, 22—Bavard, 3; Morrison, 6; Hendricks,2; Hancock,'!; Payno.2; McDonald, 2. Kansas—Number of votes, 10—Ewing, 10. Kentucky—Number of votes, 21—Tilden, 5; Bayard,6; Field,2; Hendrieks, 2; Thurman,!; Hancock, l ^McDonald, 1. Louisiana—Number, of votes, 16—Hancock, 16. Maine—Number of votes, 14—Hancock, 14. Maryland—Number of vo tes, 16—Bayard. 16. Massachusetts—Number of votes, 26—Tilden,2; Bayard, 11)4; Field, 2; Hendricks, 14; Thurman. 14; Hancock, 6; linn dull. 2. Michigan—Vumber of vot es, 22—Tilden, 1; Bayard, 2; Field, 4; Hancock, S; Seymour. ]; Payne, 1; U. T. N. Lothrop, 1; Geo. B. McClellan, 2. Minnesota—Number of votes, 10—Hancock, 10. Mississippi—Number of votes, 16—Tilden, 1; Bayard, 8; Field, 2; Hancock, 5. Missouri—Number of votes, 30—Tilden, 7; Bayard, 4; Morrison, 4; Hendricks, 3; Hancock, 12. Nebraska—Number of votes, 6—Payne, 6. Nevada—Number of votes, 6—Tilden, 3; Field, 3. New Hampshire—Number of votes, 10— Bavard, 3; Field, 1: Thurman, 2; Hancock, 4. New Jersey—Number of votes, IS—Bayard, 10; Hendricks, 4; Kandall, 3; Joel Parker, 1. New.York—Numberof votes, 70—Payne, 70. North Carolina—Number of votes, 20—Tilden, 1; Bayard, 7; Hendricks, 1; Hancock, 9; Seymour. 1; Jeremiah S. Black. 1. Ohio—Number of votes, 4i—Thurman, 44. Oregon—Number of votes, 6—Tilden, 2; Field, 4. Pennsylvania—Number of votes. 58—Tilden, 15; Bayard, 7; Field, 1: Hendricks, 1: Hancock, 28; Jewett, 1: Seymour, 3; Randall. 1. Rhode Island—Number of votes, 8—Tflden, 1; Bavard, 2; Field, 1; Hancock, 2; Seymour, 1; English, 1. , South Carolina—Number of votes, It—Bayard, 14. y Tennessee—Number of votes, 24—Bayard, 9; Field, 2; Thurman, 1; Hancock, lib Texas—Number of votes, 16—Bayard, 5; Hendricks, 1; Thurman, 1: nancqck,'9. Vermont—Number of votes, 10—Hancock, 10. Virginia—Number of votes, 22—Bayard, 19; Field 9; Hancock.( Wisconsin—Numberof votes,20—Bayard,6; Field,2; Morrison, 10; Hancock,1; GeorgeB. McClellan, 1. West Virginia—Number of votes, 10—Thurman, 7; Hancock, 3. ' Total number of votes, 735)4—Ewing, 10; Tilden, 38; Bayard, 153)4; Field. 65; Morrison, 62; Hendricks,49)4; Thurman, 68 !4; Hancock, 171; Jewett. 1; Seymour, 8; W. A. H. Loveland, 5; Pay lie, 81; McDonald, 3; Kandall, 6; G. T. N. Lothrop, 1; Geo. B. McClellan, 3; Jeremiah S. Black, 1; English, 1; Joel Parker, 1. Seven were absent from the Michigan delegation. None of the candidates having received twothirds of all the rotes cast, the Chair announced there had been no choice and that a second ballot would be taken. A motion to, adjourn was here made and carried, and at 6 p. m. the Convention adjourned until 10 to-morrow morning.

THIRD DAT. The Convention was called to Older at half* past 10 on Thursday and the roll-call for the second ballot was almost immediately pro* ceedcd with. Alabama led off with llvotes for Hancock. California followed with five for Hancock. When Illinois was reached her 42 votes were changed from Morrison to Hancock, causing the wild* cst enthusiasm in the Convention. The same demonstrations followed the announcement of the votes of Louisiana,Maine, Michigan and Minnesota—all for Hancock. When Missouri’s twenty-eight for Hancock were given there jvas another rousing cheer, delegates rising and waving hats and fans. New York cast its 70 votes for S- J. Randall. When Ohio was called, Alex. Long said the delegation asked leave to retire for consultation. ■ The State was passed. Pennsylvania also asked to retire and was passed. Ohio stood steadfast for Thurman. Wisconsin got permission to change her vote and cast twenty votes for Hancock. Here occurred another wild scene of excitement. New Jersey followed, casting her eighteen v>ote8 for Hancock. Instantly the whole Convention and the galleries became wild with enthusiasm. When at last quiet was partly restored, Hale, of Pennsylvania, mounted on a chair and shouted out, “Pennsylvania is proud of her son!” Ho went on to eulogize Hancock, and closed l>y changing the vote of Pennsylvania, making it 68 votes for Hancock. Another outburst of applause, amidst which Louisiana’s bauner, with Hancock's portrait, was borne to the front of the stage. Again Indiana voted for Hendricks. At this Btage a delegate from New Hampshire moved to make the call-of States anew. This motion was quickly adopted and State after State voted solidly for Hancock, the result as finally announced being as follows: SECOND BALLOT. Alabama—Hancock, SO; Arkansas—Hancock, 12; California—Hancock, 12; Colorado— Hancock,6; Connecticut— Hancock, 12; Delaware—Hancock, 6; Florida—Hancock, 8; Georgia—Hancock, 22; Illinois—Hancock, 42; Indiana—Hendricks, 30; Iowa— Hancock, 21; Tilden, 1; Kans reHancock, 10; Kentucky—Hancock, at; Louisiana—Hancock, 16; Maine—Hancock, 14; Maryland—Hancock, 14; Bayard,2: Massachusetts—Hancock, 26; Michigan—Hancock, 22; Minnesota—Hancock, 10; Mississippi— Hancock, 16; Missouri—Hancock, 30; Nebraska—Hancock, 6; Nevada—Hancock, 6; New Hampshire—Hancock, 10; New Jersey— Hancock, 18; New York—Hancock,70; North Carolina—Hancock, 20; Ohio—Hancock. 44; Oregon—Hancock. 6; Pennsylvania—Hancock, 58; Rhode Island—Hancock, 8; South Carolina —Hancock, 14; Tennessee—Hancock, 24; Texas—Hancock, 16; Vermont—Hancock, 10; Virginia—Hancock, 22; West Virginia—Hancock, 10; Wisconsin, Hancock, 20. Total—Hancock, 705: Hendricks, 30; Bayard, 2; Tilden, 1. Whole number of votes, 738. A motion to make the nomination unanimous was carried amidst tremendous applause from all parts of the hall. Brief congratulatory speeches were made by Messrs. Randall and Wallace, of l’ennsvivania; Hampton, of South Carolina; JudgeHoadly, of Ohio; Voorhees, of Indiana, and others, and finally John Kelly was introduced by the Chairman and declared that the nomination had reunited the Democracy of New York, at the same time cordially shaking hands with Fellows, a most determined anti-Tammanyite, while the great organ and the band-struck u p “ Auld Lang Syne,” and the whole assemblage rose to their feet

ana joined in singing tlie grand old air. The nomination of a candidate for VicePresident was then proceeded with. Mr. Pettis, of Alabama, nominated William H. English, of Indiana. Arkansas when called seconded this nomination, and in turn ail the remaining . States seconded the nomination of English, until John P. Irish, of Iowa, nominated It, M. Bishop, of Ohio. All the other States having seconded the nomination of English or tacitly consented to it, Mr. Bishop’s name was withdrawn and English was nominated by acclamation. Hon. Henry Watterson, of Kentucky, Chairman of the Committee on Resolutions, read the platform. It opposes all steps towards centralization and consolidation of the Government, all sumptuary laws, all discriminations in favor of corporations or monopolies of any kind, Chinese immigraion, etc.; declares for home rule, honest money, consisting of gold and silver and paper convertible into poin on demand, free public schools, the subordination of the nilitary to civil power, honest reform in the Civil service, free ships, etc., etc., etc. After the appointment of the usual comnittees, the passage of various resolutions «f thanks to officers, etc., the Convention, at : p. m., adjourned sine die.

THE PROHIBITIONIST*. K«ln«>, Platform and Notional Commit* tec. The Prohibition National Convention was held at Cleveland on the 17th, with 142 delegates, represent'ng twelve States—Arkansas, Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Wiscon- [ sin. Neal Dow, of Maine, was nominated bv acclamation for President, and A. H. Thompson, of Westerville, Ohio, for Vice-President, of the United States. The platform is as follows: The Prohibition Reform party of the United States, organized in the name oft the people to revive, enforce and perpetuate in the Government the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, submit for the suffrages of all good citizens the following platform of National reforms and measures. In the examination and discussion of the temperance question it has been proven and is an accepted truththat alcoholic drinks, whether fermented, brewed, or distilled, are poisonous to the healthy human body, the drinking of which is not only needless. but hurtful, necessarily tending to form intemperate habits, increasing greatly the number, severity and fatal termination of diseases, weakening and deranging the intellect, polluting the affections, hardening the hoart and corrupting the morals: depriving many of reason, and still more of its healthful exercise, and annually bringing down large numbers to untimely graves; producing in the children of many who drink a predisposition to intemperance, insanity and various bodily and mental diseases, causing diminution of strength, feebleness of vision, fickleness of purpose and premature old age, and producing to all future generations deterioration of moral and physical character. Alcoholic drinks are thus the implacable foe of man as an individual. 1. The legalized importation, manufacture and sale of intoxicating drinks ministers to their use and teaches an erroneous and destructive sentiment that such use is right; thus tending to produce and perpetuate the above-mentioned evils. To t he home it is equally an enemy, proving the disturber and destroyer of its peace, prosperity and happiness; taking from it the earnings of the husband, depriving the dependent wife and children of essential food, clothing and education; bringing into it profanity, abuse and violence; setting at naught the vows of the marriage altar; breaking up the family, and sundering the children from the parentR, and thus destroying one of the most beneficent institutions of our Creator, and removing the sure foundation for good government. National prosperity and welfare. 3. To the community it is an enemy producing demoralization, vice and wickedness; iti places of sale being often resorts for gaming, Jewdness and debauchery, and hiding-places of those who prey upon society, counteracting

v. nvtuTHiKu I lit; uvmwmuc puny ns uo* faithful andunwnrthy of rclianeeon thisquestion, for. although not clothed with power, bu t occupying the relation of an opposition party during twenty years past, strong in numbers and organization, it has allied itself with the liquor-traffickers and become in all States of the Union theirspceial political defenders, and in the National Convention in 1876, as an arts cleof its political faith, declared against prohibition and just laws In rcstraiut of the trade in drink by saying it was opposed to what it was pleased to call “ all sumptuary' laws." The National party has been dumb on this question. • 10. Drink traffickers having history and experience, in all ages, climes and conditions of men, declaring their business destructive of all good, finding no support in the Bible, morals or reason, appeal to the misapplied law for their justification and intrench themselves behind the evil elements of political pnrties for defense. Party tactics and party inertias become the battling forces protecting this evil. 11. In view of the foregoing facts and history, we cordially invite at! voters, without regard to former party affiliations, to unite with us iu the use of the ballot for the abolition of the drink system under the authority of our National and State Governments. We also demand, as a right, that, women, having the privileges of citizens in other respects, lie clothed with the ballot for their protection and as a rightful means for the proper settlement of the liquor question. 13. To remove the apprehension of some who allege that the destruction ol the public revenue would follow the suppression of the drink trade, we confidently point to the experience of Governments abroad and at home, which shows that the thrift ami revenue from the consumption of legitimate manufactures and commerce have so largely followed the abolition of drink as to fully supply all less of the liquor tariff. - x13. We recognize the good providence of Almighty God, who has preserved and prospered us ns a Nation, and asking for His spirit to guide us to ultimate success, we will look for It, relying on H is omnipotent arm. NATIONAL COMMITTEE. The following National Committee was appointed : Arkansas, J. 1*. Palmer, T. B. Betters; Connecticut, Elisha H. Parker, Dr. E. BLyon; Minnesota, the Kcv. A. Willey, Dr. M. D. Anderson; Iowa, Dr. D. It, Duncan, Dr. J. B. Morgan: Pennsylvania, James Black, James Parker, Jr.; New York, S. Merritt, J. W. Grosvenor: New Jersey, 8. B. Ransom, T. Edgar Hunt: Ohio, W. G. Hubbard, S. L. Roberts: Massachusetts, CBarics A. Hovey, George F. Clark: Michigan, Rev. John Russ sell. Prof. J. W. McKecvcr; Wisconsin, Mrs. C. W. Pinkham, T. D. Stone. ' —In Chelsea, England, a sparrow was observed to fly around a cage containing a canary, then to perch upon the top and twitter to the bird within. Aftera few moments he flew away, bat returned bearing a worm, which he dropped in the cage. Similar presents were received day after day at the same hour.

Hr. Tllden—Ills Letter or Withdrawal. The following is the letter of Mr. Tilden declining a renomination: _ I New York, Jqnc 18. To the Delegates from the State of New Tore to the Democratic National Contention: Your first assembling is an occasion on which it is proper ft>r me to state to you my legation to the nomination for the Presidency, which you and your associates are commissioned to make in behalf of the Democratic party of the United States. Having passed my early years in an atmosphere filled with traditions of tne war which secured our National Independence, and of the struggles which made our continental system a government for the people, by the people, I learned to idolize the institutions of my country, and was educated tp believe it the duty’of a citizen of the Republic to take his fair allotment of cape and trouble in public affairs. I fulfilled that duty to the best of my ability fdr forty years as a private citizen, although during all my life giving at least as much thought to public affairs as to all other objects. Ihavenever accepted official service except ior a brief period, for a special purpose, and only when the occasion seemed to require of me that sacrifice of private preference to public interests. My life has been substantially that of a private citizen, it was. I presume, the success of efforts in which, as a private citizen, I had shared to overthrow a corrupt combination, then holding dominion in our metropolis, and to purify the Judiciary,, which had become its tool, that induced the Democracy of the State, in 1871, to nominate me for Governor. This was done in spite of the protests of a minority that the part I had borne in those reforms had created antagonism fatal to me as a candidate. I felt constrained to accept the nomination as the most certain means of puttiug the power of the Gubernatorial office on the side of reform, and of removing the impression wherever it prevailed that the faithful dischapge of one’s duty as a citizen is fatal to his usefulness as a public servant. The breaking up of the Canal ring,the better management of the public works, the large reduction of taxes and other reforms accomplished during my administration, doubtless occasioned my nomination for the Presidency by the Democracy of the Union, in the hope that similar processes would be applied to the Federal Government. From the responsibilities of such an undertaking, appalling as it seemed to me, I did not feel at liberty to shrink. In the canvass which ensued, the Democratic party represented reform In the administration of the Federal Government and a restoration ot our complex political system to the pure ideas of the founders/ Upon these issues the people of the United States, by a majority of more than a quarter of a million, chose a majority of the Eiectbis to east their votes for the Democratic candidates for President and Vice-President. It is my right and privilege here to say that I was nominated and elect ed to the Presidency, absolutely free from any engagement in respect to the exercise of its powers or the disposal of its patronage. Through the whole period of my relation to the

riwyucuuy luw wvorjminjfiQ my p>wer to elevate, and nothing to lower, moral standards in the competition of parties. By what uefarious means the basis f >r a false count was laid in several 01 the Stat< s l need not recite. These are now matters of history, ab >ut which whatever diversity of opinion m ly have existed in either of the great parties of the country at the time of their consummation has practically disappeared. I refused to runs »m from th*»Returning Beards of the Southern States the documentary evidence by the suppression of which, and by the substitution of fraudulent ana forged papers, a pretext was made for the nerpetration of a fal$e e m it. Too Constitutional duty of the tv two houses of Oongressto oount the Electoral votes as cast, and to give effect to the will of the p oplc as expressed by their suffrag e, was never fuimied. The Electoral Commission, for the existence Of which I have no responsibility* was formed, and to. it the two Houses of Congress abdicated their duty to make the count by a law enactment that the count of the Commission Bhould stand as final unless overruled by the concurrent action of the two Houses. Its'faJse count was not overruled, owing to the complicity of^the Republican Senate with the Republican majority of the Commission. Controlled by its Republican majority of eight to seven, the Electoral Commission counted out the men elected by the people, and counted in the mep not elected by the people. A subversion of the election created a new issue for the decision of the people of the United States, transcending in importance all questions of administration. It involve > the vital principle of self-government through elections by the pe p*.e. The immense growth of the me ms of the ballot-box which is corrupt influence over i_______ at the disposal of the party having possession of the Executivo Administration had already become a present evil and a great danger, tending to make elections irresponsive to public opinion, hampering the power of the people to change their rulers, and enabling the men holding the machinery of G >v eminent to continue and perpetuate their power. It was iny opinion in li<»6that the opposition, attempting to change the Administration, needed to include at least two-thirds of the voters at the opening of the canvass, in order to retain a majority of the election. If, after such obstacles had been overcome, and.a majority of the people had voted to change the administration of their government, the men in office could still procure a false count. founded upon frauds, perjuries and forgeries, * * ' ' “ tcbn furnishing a pretext of documentary evidence oh which to base that false count, and if such a transaction were not only successful, but if after the allotment of its benefits were made to its Contrivers, abettors and apologists by the chief beneficiary of the transaction, it were condoned by the people, a practical destruction of elections by the people would h$ve been accomplished. rfx The failure to install the candidates (chosen by the people—a contingency consequent upon no act or omission of mine, and beyond my control—has thus left mo for the last three years and until now, when the Democratic party, by its delegates in National Convention assembled, shall choose a new leader, the involuntary but necessary representative of this momentous issue. As such, denied the immunities of private life without the powers conferred by public station, subject to unceasing falsehoods and calumnies from the partisans of an Administration laboring in vain to justify its existence, I have nevertheless steadfastly endeavored to preserve to the Democratic party of the United States the Supreme issue before the people for their decision next November, whether this shall be a Government by the sovereign people, through elections, or a Government by discarded servants holding over by force and fraud. And I have withheld no sacrifice and neglected no opportunity to uphold, organise and consolidate against the enemies of representative institutions the great party which alone, under God, can effectually resist their overthrow. Having now borne faithfully my full Share of labor and care in the public service, and wearing the marks of its burdens, I desire nothing so much as an honorable discharge. I wish to lay down the honors and toils of even quasi-party-leadership, and to seek the repose of private life. In renouncing a renom>nation and reflection indispensable to an effectual vindication of the right of the people to elect their rulers, violated iu my person, I have accorded as long a reserve of my decision as possible; but I cannot overborne my repugnance to enter into a new engagement which involves four years of ceaseless toil. The dignity of the Presidential office is above a merely personal ambition, but it creates in me no illusions. Its value is as a great power for good.

to me wiumtj. . I said four years ago, in accepting the nomination: “Knowing as I do, therefore, from fresh experience how great tho difference is between gliding through an official routine and working out a reform erf systems and policies, it is impossible for me to contemplate what needs to be done in tho Federal Administration without an anxious sense of the difficulties of the undertaking. If summoned by the suffrages of my countrymen to attempt this work I shall endeavor, with God’s help, to be the efficient instrument of their will.” Sueh a work of renovation, after many years of misrule, sueh a reform of systems and policies to which I would cheerfully have sacrificed all that remained to me of health and life, is now, I fear, beyond my strength. With unfeigned thanks fortho honors bestowed on me, with a heart swelling with emotions of gratitude to tho Democratic masses for the support which they have given to the cause 1 represented and their steadfast confidence in every emergency, I remain your fellow-citizen, Saml kl. J. Iiluin. One evening lately a woman employed at the Summit House, Mount Wachusett, Mass., being out just at dark gathering flowers aid grasses, was suddenly en-' veloped in a dense cloud, and, thick darkness immediately following, she was unable to find her way back. She took nearly an opposite course, and was soon lost in the woods. Heavy rain coming on, no one was out to hear her cries lor help. A heavy thundershower prevailed during the night, from which she took partial shelter under a large tree. At daylight, rain still conthming, she again began her wanderings, and, finding a little mountain brook, followed that, believing it would bring her ent somewhere, which in due lime brought her to the highway, on the west base of the mountain. She then followed the road around to the Mountain House, where she arrived about seven o’clock in a very exhausted condition, having for eleven hours been exposed to continuous heavy rain. t -—New York will give the Democratic nominee fifty thousand majority. _The warrior statesman can nov take that much-needed rest.

RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL, —President Chadbourue, of Williams College, has resolved to deny college aid to any student who is caught smok-j ing. —Twenty-five candidates for the ministry are sent out this year by Yale College, most of whom have already chosen their field of labor. —The Christian at IForit thinks there are few situations less enviable than that of a Methodist minister sent to a church that doesn't want him. —.4LJ recent meeting of the Presbytery of Memphis two cnurches of colored people -were enrolled, and one colored mas was received as a candidate for the ministry. _ 4-The Evangelical Ministers* Association of Boston, at its next meeting in September, is going to take up the much discussed question of “The Theater: Should the Ultimate Aim be to Exterminate or to Purify It?-’ —Old Christ Church, Cambridge, Mass., is one of the oldest Episcopal Parishes in this country, having been founded before the Revolution. But, singular to say, it has never been out of debt, and its house of worship has never been consecrated, though it is more than a hundred years old. —Theodore Monod, the eminent French Protestant who was expected to visit this country during the present season, will be unable to come owing to the illness of a member of his family. Another prominent French Prottestant will come for the purpose of laying before our people tlio cause of Protestantism in France. —Some American churches might learn a lesson from the fact that in the island of New Hebrides, in the Southern Onean, three thousand seven hundred pounds of arrowroot were shipped recently for London by the native Christians who have been gathered in by the Gospel within the last thirty years. Their Offering is to make payment for an edition of the Old Testament, as it is now being issued in their language.

—■the statistics gathered by the Secretary of the graduating class of Harvard show the probable occupations of the members as follows: Law, 75; business^ 25; teaching, 13, medicine, 13; ministry, 3; studyc 2;undecided, 34; civil engineering, private secretary, library work, electrical engineer. 1 each. The religious views of the class are: Uhitarian. 34; Episcopalian, 34; Orthodox, 22; Presbyterian, 4; Catholic, 3; Baptist, 8; Universal 1st, l;Swedenborgian, 1; undecided, 27; liberal, 15;none, —Prof. Russell, of the Normal School at Worcester, Mass., made an interesting statement at the Teachers’ Institute the other day concerning his pupils' habits of eating luncheon. He said it had been the invariable rule of mothers who put up a luncheon for their children to give them the most indigestible food in the house, rich cake among other things. To introduce a better state of affairs tables were placed in a large room on the lower floor and a hot oloset was fitted up. When the pupils go to school they place their lunchbaskets in this closet, and at the dinner hour’assemble in the ^dining room and place" their food on the table. , Naturally, exchanges are made, and this is productive of good. A surprising variety of dishes is taken daily. ![ WIT AND WISDOM. —The difference between horse-rad-ish and a reddish horse is this: One is not a horse at all, and the other is a horse of another color. —Farmers do not hear the cornstalk. Neither do men who wear tight boots. But there are some things which speak louder than words. —“Women,” quoth Jones, “ are the salad of life, at once a boon and a blessing.” “In one way they’re salad, indeed,” replied Brown, “ they take so much time in their dressing.” —“ Always get up from the table hungry if vou wish to avoid dyspepsia,” is a hit of advice that boaraing-house keepers should not neglect to paste up in their dining-room. • —They say that insects can’t reason, but a spider at the West End has stretched his. web right over the portrait of a bald-headed man. And he doesn’t go hungry, you just wager.— Boston Post. —The New Orleans Picayune wants every rule to work both ways. It says: “There is no instance known of a man sentenced to imprisonment for life having his sentence commuted to hanging.” 1 —The superior moral sense of won - sa is conclusively shown by the fat t that a dressmaker, after promising five women that she will do their gowr s first, so that they may start for the country, never tosses up a cent or “shakes” to see upon which she shall 50 to work, whereas a tailor frequently yields to the temptation to resort t o these immoral and illegal ways of solving a problem.—Boston Advertiser.

—“It is the present fashion to gm brides money instead of the tradition tl silver-ware and trinkets.” The change is to be commended. Pretty often the bridegroom runs short of funds before the wedding-tour is half o"»»ph»teil. anil if the bride had been given money instead of silver tea-pots'-and things she could have helped him ont of his financial gloom. A lot of silverware at hone when you are a few hundred miles therefrom with not enough money to pay a hotel bill, is a hollow mockery. — Norristown Herald. —When a Carson man got wdl enough to be out after a difficulty with a mule, he fixed the treadmill of his sawing machine so that It would re 11, put a tempting measure of oats in the manger at the upper end, and left the mule alone with the contrivance, a id after the animal had worked for haD a day in a vain effort to climb up to the si? oats, every time he had stepped for wan l on the mill it having rolled back with him; that mule was the most fatigued and ugliest, maddest and most disgust- | ed animal in Nevada, and the avenger felt as tickled as though he had won forty-eight dollars, at poker. —“Are you prepared for death?’, i the olergyman asked, with a tremor of ‘ emotion in his voice, as he took the si afe woman's hand in his own. A shade of patient thought crossed the invalid’s face, and by and by she said “she didn’t hardly believe "she was; there was! the little bed room carpet to be taken up yet, and the paint up stairs had hardly been touched, and she. slid r ot want to put up new curtains in the dining room, bnt she thought if she didn't die until next Monday she would bj about as near ready as a woman with » big family and no girl ever expected to le- P. S.—That woman got well.iiarlington Hawk-Eye. —There is a Boston Bible class with a teacher on a salary of St,COO a year*

1 ncle Remus’ Folk-Lore. THE RA1I IX, THE BEAR AND THE BUIXFROG% U “ Dai ituz one season, said Uncle Remus, priiinij thoughtfully at his whiskers, “v in Brer Fox say to hisse’f dat he specl he better whin in en plant a goober i ft teh, en in dem days, men, hit wuz tec! on go. De wud wern’t mo'n out’n his monf "fo' de ground ’uz brak’d up en d< 'joohcrs ’uz planted. Ole Brer Rabbit, .10 so£ off en watch de motions, he did, !*>•.’ he sorter shet one eye en »>ng to his ehilluns: . - “‘Tt-y ! Tonga lee! I es i ins pea, I pick am pea. Hit iitow m de groins', hit grow *> tree S Ti-j' i 1 dens goober pea.' **Sho’ ’nuff, w’ende goobers ’gun ter ripen up. eve’v time Brer Fox go down ter bis patch, he find whar somebody bin grill;blin’ ’raongst de vines, en be fit mi*;!r ty mad. He sorter speck who e sor it body is, but old Brer Rabbit he cove? h a tracks so cute dat Brer Fox dun n si how ter ketch ’im. Bimeby, one diiy Brer Fox take a walk all roun’ de grorn’-pea patch, en’twan'tlong’fo’ he fin s a crack in de fence whar de rail done uin rub right smoove, en right dar he so ha a trap. He tuck’n ben' down a hick’ ry saplin’ growin’ in de fence crone er en tie one een’ un a plow line on de (op, en in dc udder een’ he fix a loop- uiot, en dat he fasten wid a trigger right in de crack. Nex’ mawnin’ w’en ale Brer Rabbit come slippin’ ’long en cropethoodeerack.de loopknot hatch ’im behime de fo’legs, en de saplin’ llew’d up, en dar he waz twix’ de heaven en de yeth. Dar he swung, en he fear’d he gwineter fall, en he feafed he sgsrer’nt gwineter fall. Wiles hehm; a fixin’ up a tale fer Brer Fox, he h ss.r a lumberin’ down de road, en prese nt’y yer cum ole Brer B’ar amblin’ ’lone i urn whar he bin takin’ a bee-tree. Brer Rabbit, he hail ’in. “ Howdy, Brer B’ar!’ ** Bier B’ar he look ’roun’ en bimeby hi see Brer Rabbit swingin’ fum de saplin , en he holler out, “ Hoey, Brer Rabbit! How you come on dis masvuin’?’ “' Much oblije. I'm middlin’ Brer B’ar ’ sez Brer Rahbit sezee. Den Brer Bar, he ax Brer Rabbit w’at I;e doin’ up dar in de elements, en Bret Rabbit, he up’n say he makin’ dollar minnit. Brer Ra’r, he say how? Brei Rabbit say he keepin’ crows out'n Brei Fox’s groun’-pea patch, en den he ax Inr B’ar ef he don’t wanter make dollar minnit, kaze he got big famb’y er cliilinns ftsr'ter take keer nh, en den he make sech nice skeercrow. Brer B'at ’low dat he take de job, en den

ore liaoutu snow lm now ter ben' down de ssplm’, en ’twant long ’fo’ Brer B'ar wuz swingin’ up dar in Brer Rabbit’s place. Den Brer Rabbit be put out fer Brer Fox’s hosse, en w’en tie got dar he sing out: ‘ ‘Brer Fox! Oh, Brer Fox! Come out yer Brer Fox, en I’ll show you de ma t w’at bin stealin’ yo’ goobers.’ 41 Brer Fox he grab up his walkin’stick, en bofj un urn wentrunnin’ back I do vn ter de goober-patch, en w’en dey fo; dar, siio nnff dar wuz ole Brer Par. ^ ^ • ''l ' * ei :oilei . “ ‘Hit ’iro in <le ntbuf. Brer Fox; hit ’i n in de xnonf;’ en Brer Fox, he draw'd back, wid de walkin’ cane, en blip he tuck ’im; en every time Brer B’ar’d try tor spiain, Brer Fox’d shower down on him. * ‘Wiles all dis ’uz gwine on. Brer Rabbit, lie slip off en git in a mud-hole c n des ief his eyes stiekin’ out, kazehe Jsnow’d dat Brer B'ar d be a coinin’ utter ’im. Sho miff, bimeby here come Brer B’ar down de road, en w’en ha git ter de mud-hole, he say: “Howdy* Brer Frog; is you seed Brer Babbit go by yer?” “‘Hedes gone by,’ sez Brer Rabbit; en ole man B’ar tuck off down de road like a skeer’d mule, en Brer Rabbit he come out en dry hisse’f in de sun, en go home to his fambly same ez enny udder nan.” “ Well, Uncle Remus,” said the little boy, counting to see if he hadn’t lost a marble • somewhere, “ the Bear didn't catch the Rabbit after all, did he?” “Now you talkin’, honey,” replied the old man, his earnest face breaking np into little eddies of smiles; “now yon talkin’, sho. ’Taint bin proned inter no Brer B’ar fer to kotch Brer Rabbit. Hit sorter like settin’ a mule fer ter trap a hummin’ bird. But Brer B’ar, he tuck’n got hisse’f inter some mb’ trubbie, w’ieh it look like it mighty easy. Ef folks could make der livin’ longer gittin’ inter trubbie,” continued the old man. looking curiously at the little boy, “ole Miss Favere wouldn’t be bodder’n yo’ ma fer ter borry a cup full er sugar eve’y now en den; en it look like ter me dat 1 knows a nigger dat wouldn’t be squattin’ roun’ yer makin’dese yer fish baskits.” “How did the Bear get into more trouble, Uncle Remus?” asked the little boy.

“ IN atchui, honey. Brer B ar he took a notion dat die Brer Bull Frog wuz de man wa’tfool ’im, en he say dat, he’d corae np wid ’im ef ’tw'uz a year afterwuds. But ’twan’t noyear, an ’twan’t no moht’, en mo' n dat, hit wan’tskasely a week, w’en bimeby one day Brer Ba’r wuz gwine home fnm de takin' nn a bee tree, en lo en oehoies, wlr> should he see but ole Brer Bull Frog settin’ out on de aidge er de mnd-puddle fas’ sleep. Brer B’ar drap his ax, he did, en crope up, en retch out wid his paw, en scoop ole Brer Bull Frog in des dis way. Here the old man used his hand ladlefashion by way of illustration. ‘‘He scoop ’im in, "en dar he wuz. Wen Brer B ar got his clampers on ’imgood, he set down en talk at ’im. “ ‘Howdy, Brer Bull Frog, howdy! En how yo’ fanibly. I hope dey well, Brer Bull Frog, kaze dis day you got some bizness wid me w’at'll fits’ you a mighty long time.’ “Brer Bull Frog, he dunner w’atter say. He dunner wat’fc r«p en he don’t say nuthin’. Ole B’ar he keep ratmin* on. “ * Yoner de man w’at tuck en fool me ’bout Brer Rabbit t’er day. You bad yo’ fun. Brer Bull Frog, ennow I’ll git mine.’ “ Den Brer Bull Frog he gin ter git skeerd, he did, cn he un’n say: “ ‘ W’at I bin doin’ Brer B’ar? How I bin foolin’ you?’ 3 <“ Den Brer B’ar laff en make like he donno, but he keep on talkin'. “ *Oh. no, Brer Bull Fiug! Yo* ain’t de man w’at stick yo’ head”up outin de water en telt me Brer Rabbit done gone on by. Oh, no! you ain’t de *aau. I bound yen ain’t. ’Bout datti^cyou wuz at home wid yo’ fambly wha^ yon aiiera is. I dunner whar you wuzXbut I knows whar you is, • Brer Bali Flog, en hit’s yon e a me fer it. Atter de crocs down dis day you don't fool to mo’ folks gwine ’long dis road.’ \ “< Vse, Brer Bull Frog dunner w’a\ Bier B’ar drisin’ at, but he know sump’n hatter be done, eu dat mighty ««xin, kaze Brer B’ar ’own to s«»n >»is

jaws tereedder en foam at de inoui, and Brer Bull Frog holler out: “ Oh, pray, Brer B’ar! Lemme off dti time, en I won’t never do so no mo’. Oh, pray. Brer B’ar! do lemme off d:4 time, en I'll show you the lattes’ beetree in de woods.” • “ Ole Brer B’ar, he chomp hts toofics en foam at de mouf. Brer Bulf Frog he des up’n squall: 7-1 •* ‘Oh, pray. Brer B’ar! I won’t never-'T' dosonomo’! Oh, pray. Brer B’ar lemme off dis time?’ But ole Brer B'arsay he gwineter make way wid'im. en den he sot en study, ole Brer B'ar did, how he gwineter squench Brer Bull Frog. He " know he can’t drown ’im, en he ain’t got no tier fer ter bq’n bu'n'im, en he git mighty pestered. Bimeby ole Brer Bull Frog, he sorter stop his cry in’ en bjs boo-booin’, en he up’n say: . *“Ef you gwineter kill me. Brer B’ar, kyar fee ter dat big flat lock out dar on de aidge er de mill-pon’, whar I kin see my fambly, en atter I see um. den you kin take your ax en s'qttsh me.’ Dis look so fa r and squar’ dat Brer B’ar he ’gree, en he take ole Brer Bull Frog by wunner his behine legs, en sling his ax on his shoulder, en off he put fer de big flat rock. When he git dar he lay B> er Bull Frog down on de rock, en Brer Bull Frog make like he lookin’ ’roun’ fer his folks. Den Brer , B’ar he draw long breff en pick up his axe. Den be spit in bis han’s en draw oack en come down 011 de rock—now!” “ Did he kill the Frog, Uncle Remus?” asked , the little boy, as the old man paused ' to scoop up a thimbleful of glowing eiqbers in hi3 pipe. “’Deed,-'on dat he didn’t, honey. Twix’ de time w’en Brer B’ar raise up > wid his ax en w’en he come down wid c it. Ole Brer Bull Frog he lipt up en dove down in de mill-pon’, kerblink-ker-blunk! En w’en he riz way otit in de pon\ he riz a singin’, en dis yer’s d* song w’at he sing: v “ ’Inglegrojam?, my joy, ray, joy— | InRlegoJnng, my joy: I’m rieht at home, my jpy, my joy— Jnffleyojamr, my Joy! ** That’s a niightv funny song,” said the little boy. “ Funny now, I spec,” said the old man, “ but twern’t funny in dem days, r en twouldn’t be funny now of folks know’d much ’bout de Bull Frog langwi’dge ez dey useter. Dat’s w’at.” —Atlanta (Go.) Constitution.

FACTS AND FIGURES. —J. H. Simonds, of Warehouse Point, Conn., believed to be New England’s largest tobaceo-raiser, who for the last six years has raised from 40 to 45 acres of the weed, will increase the acreage to 50 this vear. —The distance from San Francisco to Galveston by the lines of railroad now progressing is figured as follows: From San Francisco to El Pas >, by w ), by way of Lathrop, 1,239 miles; from El P.iso to San Antonio, 550 miles, and from San Antonio to Galveston, 234 miles—making 2,103 miles. —A ton of gold or silver contains 29,166,66'ounces. A ton of gold is worth 875. A ton of silver, at the prest- rate per ounce, is worth about $32,-ent-rate per o. -•QW0|~~^K cubic foot of gold weighs 1,- _ 200 pounds’, and is .worth nearly $40&000.’ A cubic foot of silver "weighs 000 pounds, and is worth about $10,000. The value of gold ooin. bars and bullion ip circulation'in the Wor d is estimated at $3,500,000,000. This would make in a mass a twenty-five foot *ube. —Bog butter, a substance found in bogs in the west of Ireland, anti supposed by the common people of the district to have been ordinary butter hidden away ages ago by the fairies, or hastily bur.ed by smugglers, is no; of animal origin at all, but has been shown by Mr. John Plant to be s£ perfectly natural production arising from the decomposition of the vegetable matter forming the peat, and to belong to the large family of mineral resins, or hydrocarbon compounds. —Prof. Bencke, of , Marburg, Germany, after measuring 970 human hearts, says that the growth of that orj gan is greatest in the first and second years of life. At the end of the second year it is doubted in size, and daring the next five years it is again doubled. Then its growth is much slower, though from the fifteenth to the twentieth year its size increases two-thirds. A very slight growth is then observed up to fifty, when it gradually diminishes. Except in childhood men’s hearts are decidedly larger than those of Women. —Caviare is one of Russia’s favorite dishes and it is much thought of in Turkey. Greece and Italy. It is rather singular that a large amount of the , caviare sent to these countries comes from Michigan. The Bay City Press gives an interesting account of the manufacture of this article. The eggs of the sturgeon are cleaned and salted and then the liquid is pressed out of them and they are packed in small kegs preparatory to being shipped abroad. It may seem like carrying coal to Newcastle to bring salt into the Saginaw Valley, still all the" salt used in the

making’ of caviare comes from Kussia. Last year 50,000 pounds of eggs were shipped from that one locality. —A considerable steel-making industry exists in the present day in China, on the Up pair Yangtze, whence the steel— is sent to Tien-tsin for shipment and distribution. It fetches much higher prices than the Swedish steel imported into the country. The Chinese metallurgists recognize three kinds of steel, namely, that which is produced by adding unwrought to wrought iron while the mass is subject to the action of fire, pure iron many times subjected to fire, and native steel, which is produced in the southwest. The different names for steel are twan kang, or ball steel, -' from its rounded form; kwan kang, or sprinkled steel; wei tee, or false steel. The Chinese, apparently, hare known how to manufacture steel from the Very earliest ages. Japanese (Join in San Francisco. It is becoming noticeable that a class of small, thin Japanese coins, of insignificant value, is being put extensively into circulation in this city for a great deal more than they are intrinsically worth. The coins are really worth about three eents, but are made to do duty for the United States half-dime. This practice has been observed on a street railroad, in making change for passengers. The constant appearance of these coins seems to indicate the existence of a ** syndicate” for speculative purposes. The speculation is a very contemptible fraud, which the public may resist by refusing to accept a three-cent Japanese coin for a five-cent piece. In one instance a ten-dollar roll of sigiposed fi¥e-c*»t pieces, obtained from a broker, was found to contain thirty thtee-cent Japanese jokor*. wort h only ninety cents, but intended to passed for one dollar and fifty cents. The roll was returned and the broker tirade up the difference.—-So* Franeiso*