Pike County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 29, Petersburg, Pike County, 2 December 1881 — Page 1

Pike County Democrat. W. P. KHI0HT, Publisher. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE COUNTY. 0«ee in McBey’e Hew Building, M»in Ssx«*t. Ki. Birth sad Seventh. VOLUME XII. PETERSBURG, INDIANA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1881. NUMBER 29.

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NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Various Sources. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Saul, a contributor to the Frankfort Zeitung, has been condemned to one month’s imprisonment for libeling Bismarck. Till Minnesota House of Roggesentativee has adopted articles of impeachment against E. St. Julian, Cox, Judge of the Ninth Judicial Circuit of that State. The charges against him allege habitual drunkenness, lewd and disgraceful conduct, and various other offenses unbecoming to a Judge and disgraceful to the commonwealth. It is announced that Princess Louise will next month return to Ottawa with her husband, who will resign the GovernorGeneralship of Canada early in thearing. Documents found in the house of Tobin, a Fenian, at Manninghatn, England, ere said to reveal the existence of a society known as the “llovat Irish Republican Society,” which! is said to have numerous mcmbers, and whose object is the establishment of an Irish Republic by force of arms. There arc a number of additional reports of outrages In various parts of Ireland inflicted upon tenants for paying rents. Mr. J. Stanley Brown, President Garfield’s Private Secretary, and who has continued the duties of his oflice in connection with President Arthur, has resigned his position in order to prepare and edit the papers of the late President, by request of Mrs. Garfield. The new census show's the population of the States to be 49,371,340; Territories, 784,443; total population of United States; 50,155,783. Should the number of Representatives in Congress bo retained at the present figures, £93, there would he one Representative to every 169,080 of population. Upon this basis the following changes in representation would ensue in the Forty-' eighth Congress: ' Arkansas, California, Michigan, Mississippi, South Carolina and West: Virginia gain one each; Minnesota and Nebraska gain two each; Alabama, Illinois, Maryland, New Hampshire, Ohio, Tennessee and Vermont lose one each, Pennsylvania two and New York, three. Other States show no change.

it is rumorea m London tnat me Marquis of, Lorne is to l>e appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Frederick P. Lii.ley, late Deputy Auditor of the Treasury for the Post-office Department, has been arrested on a warrant charging that he received .'*8,00') ns a compensation for services to be rendered by him in proeur ng fot George F. Brott a mail contract for routo 31,008, from Donaldson to Red River Landing, Louisiana. Brott himself furnished the information upon which Lillcy was arrested. Miss Clara Louise Kellogg has publicly «announeed her retirement from the stage at the close of her present engagement, when she is to be marrie I to Mr. T. - B. Whitney, a Philadelphia gentleman. George Law, tho well-known New York capitalist, is dead. lie began life as a hod-carrier; his estate is worth several millions. The Kennebec Journal, Blaine's home organ, publishes the following: “Wo are — authorized to state‘that Mr. Blaine wilt not be a. candidate for Representative in Congross, will not be a candidate for Governor, and will not be a candidate for the United States Senate. When Blaine retires from President Arthur’s Cabinet, early in the coining month, he will devote himself entirely lo his private affairs. The rumor of his going-out as Minister to England has no foundation whatever. ” Mr. H. V. Rbdkield, the well-known Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial, died recently of consumption, at the age of thirty-five. Henry J. Spooner, Republican, has been elected Representative in Congress from Rhode Island in place of Aldrich, chosen Senator. COMMERCE AND ITOUSTRT. \ Comptroller Knox has levied art assessment of 100 per cenr. upon the stockholders of the Mechanics’ National Bank of : Newark, N. J. - The Post-office Department has dedecidcd that publishers, in addition to name and address of persons to whom newspapers and magazines be sent and index figures of subscription book, the printed title of publication, the printed name and address of the publisher or news agent, and written or printed words or figures indicating the date of the expiration of subscription, may also print upon the wrapper the request if the matter ire not called for in a certain time it may be delivered to any one of the class of persons named. This ruling is believed to be in aid of the purpose contemplated by the statute in permitting the sending of sample copies to obtain subscription. The leading distillers of the country rceently hold a convention at Chicago and resolved to reduce their operations, to pool their Kinds air4 to export all old products. It la intended by this means to cheek the surplus production of whisky and to maintain better prices.

Hood, Boubrigiit & Co:, an extensive Philadelphia dry-goods house; that failed in 1861 and compromised at 75 cents on the dollar, has Just sent to each of its creditors a check for the balance of their elaims, the aggregate amount being over $100,000. :/ The Pacific National Bank of Boston, Mr. A. I. Bcnvon, President, suspended on the 18th. The cause of the failure is Raid to be the embarrassment of Mr. Thcoiorc G. Weeks, an extensive stock operator, about $500,000 of whose paper is held by the bank. The institution, although apparently doing a prosperous business, has never been a member of the Clearinghouse, but paid its drafts through the Elliott National Bank., It has »iuce been ascertained that the Central Bank baa discounted a large amount of paper JOr the Pacific Bank and is heavily involved by the failure of the former institution. Cashier Young of the Ceil'rai is said to bare carried on his transactions ryith Benyon without the knowledge of the other officers of the bank, and be has been forced to resign. The Central’s deficit has been made good and it will continue, business. A contract has been made between the Huntington railroads on the Pacific coast and the Gould system in the Southwest, by which they will be operated as a Joint line from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, with a division of earnings on the basis of mileage. Tback-layiko has begun oa the Georgia Pacific Railway. Ex-senator Gordon drove the first spike,at Atlanta. . Paul Pioneer-Prett says that nt Yillard, of the Northern Pacific has completed a contract with Thomas L. Edison for' the construction of fifty miles of railway in Minnesota next year, upon wbleh Mr. Edison is to test: the efficiency of his electrical engines as a motive p<iwer for railroads. It Is understood the experlmentaHine will be built between St. Cloud and Minneapolis ami St. Paul and the work is to be completed within one year. The annual report of the PostttmsterGeneral shows that during the last fiscal * - yew tfce'WpegdUorcfi for tbe postal wrrictj

-!—-; were $33,251,736, and revenue derived from all sources $36,785,398; the number of ordinary letter postage-stamps issued was 954,128,450, the number of postal-cards, 308,536,800, and the number of newspaper and' petodical stamps 1,995,783. The whole number of letters mailed during the year was 1,040,107,34R, of which 3,323,621 found their way to the Dead-Letter Office. The report deals with the working of the Post-office money-order system, which las been satisfactory, the star-route extravagances, and the deficiencies in.the postal service. Mr. James makes objection to the system of carrying freight matter by mail, and says that the system of free delivery in cities is raoT3 than self-sustaining. CRIMES AMD CASUALTIES. Christian Tessen, a young man who had recently inherited a considerable fortune from European relatives, went to Hancock, Delaware County. N. Y., to .visit a sister, carrying, as is supposed, a large sum of money in his sachel. Before he reached her ,residence he was waylaid, robbed and murdered, and his body thrown alonside the railroad track. His sachel, filled with stones, was found in the Delaware River, near by. A barrel of naphtha caught fire find exploded on the steamer Solway, when nearing Kingston Harbor, Ireland. The burning fluid was scattered broadcast, setting the vessel on tire and enveloping in flames a large number of persons, sis: of whom were burned to a crisp and two others did not long survive. By hard fighting the flames were confined to the hold of the steamer, and after several hours, during which a severe storm prevailed, her signals of distress were observed by a pilot-boat, which ran out and brought her into port. Ed. Maxwell was lynched in the ccjurt-yanl at Durand, IVis., on the 19th. Immediately after making a statement in court in which he acknowledged the shooting of the Coleman brothers and claimed that it was in sclffdefense, a rope was thrown over his neck and he was dragged . from the room, down the stairs, and along the ground to a tree, a few yards distant, where he was run lip. He denied all knowledge of the killing Of Sheriff Lammi, of Calhoun County, and insisted t hat neither he nor his brother bad been in Illinois since the Colemans were killed.

Two reports cams in a single day of the deaths ot young children by falling into tubs of boiling water. . One of the victims was the daughter of E. Pickerson, of Surninerfield, 0,, the other a child named Humphrey, at Elgin, III. , Mr. A. B Thornton, editor of the Boonville (Mo.) .Veits, a Greenback weekly paper, was shot and instautly killed on the 19th by Thomas S. MeDearmon, City Marshal. The Veins published an article severely reflecting upon some of the City Marshal’s official acts, and a personal altercation, following close upon the offensive publication, led to the shooting. MeDearmon elaims that'Thornton first drew his revolver and that he fired in self-defense. He voluntftrily placed himself under arrest . A dispatch from Clayton, N. Y., s.ays: Frank Cappernul,.keeper of the Hub |House, his wife, two small children, and Charles Wilson, the keeper of the Cliff House, wife and two Children,ware drowned in Eel Bay while going to Gaoanoquc in a small boat. Charles Davis, a negro, who had committed an aggravated assault upon a widow named Luckey, residing near Atftens, O., was taken from the jail by a party of about t wenty undisguised men and hanged from a bridge. Jambs Cooper, City Marshal of Covington, Tenu., was kilted tn an affray with James Slaughter, a merchant of that place. Wm. Hoessel, a widower of some means, living alone at North Evanston, 111., was found murdered in his bed a few mornings sinoe. Bobbery was undoubtedly the cause, and a bloody ajr found upon the premises was the instrument with which the crime was committed. Some discarded clothes, supposed to belong to the assassin, served to identify him as a tramp who had been loitering Shout the locality for some days previous. At Columbus, Ga., Osborn Pitts drank a quart of whisky on a wager, and was earled home dead. Denison, the keeper of the saloon, has been arrested. David Cronin and Win. Dugan, telegraph line repairers, were killed near Vineennes, Ind., by a train striking tneir handcar. Several others of the party were injured.

, MI8CKLXAXKOITS. t The will of Mrs. Maria Carey, just probated in Brooklyn, N. Y., bequeaths $115,000 to charitable, educational, and religious inslitutlons. . The largest bequest is $10,000. to the American Tract Society. Joshk Walter, of the London Times, speaking in Berkshire on the result of bis tour In America, said it was desirable there should be in all English counties a body of men able to advise their neighbors who are about to go to America. Any Englishmau Otoihg to America who is a good judge of land, and who is steady and indnstHous, might be certain of becoming wealthy and prosperous before he was fifty years old. Beforo the close of thfe next century the United States would have a population of 200,(KM),000. He wished more Englishmen would go there. They would be an additional element of stability in the country, and would bo as likely to succeed there as men of any other nationality. The main building of the Ohio Idiotic Asylum, located in the suburbs of Columbus; was entirely destroyed by fire on the morning of the ISth. By good management the 014 pupils wore all sifely removed from the burning building. The fire is supposed to have originated from a defect in the beating apparatus. The loss is estimated at from $803,000 to $250,000, with no insurance. Th* town of Dayton, Washington Territory, is scourged by small-pox, which is extending into the adjacent country. The Northern Pacific Railroad has stopped running trains to Hew Taeonia on account of the. epidemic. The San Antonio (Texas) stage was again robbed en the night of the 17th, sixteen miles from Laredo. The registered mall packages were taken and the passengers relieved of their pocketbooks. A fas9ekqek train on the Havana branch of the Wabash Railway went down through a trestle about five miles from Springfield, IU., on the 18th. The trestle forms the approach to the bridge over the Sangamon River, and was eighty feet long and twenty feet high. The locomotive passed dveir in safety, but the remainder of the train, consisting of a baggage-car and two passenger conches;, went down into a general wreck. The overturned sloves set. lire to the debria, but the flames wore e:ctinguisbed before doing much damage. Several passengers were quite badly hurt, but none it wasbelievad fatally. The Forte haa informed the representative English and Oermah phtttntUropists, endeavoring to promote the migration of Jews to Turkey, that Jews will be allowed to establish themselves in separate comftmjWe* u all parts of the empire except

Palestine, but they will be subjeet to Turkish laws and have to adopt Turkish nationality. { Tucker Bashaw, who pleaded guilty of participation in the Blue Cut train robbery, and whose evidence was relied upon to convict other members of the gang, has been* living at Independence, Mo., until a few clas s ago, when he left for parts unknown. It is said he has been the recipient of many threatening letters, warning him against making further disclosures. The jury in the Guiteau ease was completed on the ldth, and the taking of testimony began on the following day. Secretary Blaine was the first witness sworn. lie gave a clear and canconcise statement of the shooting as he saw it, and was vigorously cross-examined by Scoville. Other eye-witnesses to the shooting then gave their e vidence, but no material facts were elicited that have not heretofore i>een published. Dr. Bliss testified very fully regarding the treatment of the wound, and created quite n sensation by producing in court for examination a portion of the fractured vertebra! of the deceased^ which was passed around and carefully inspected by the Court and jury. He saidfithe wound inflicted was mortal, and Drs. Lamb and Woodward testified their concurrence, in this opinion. Guiteau’s demeanor in court lias been so obstreperous as to call forth frequent remonstrances from his counsel, and he Court threatened to remove him from'tiie courtroom unless he abstained from these exhibitions of ill temper, which many think are assumed by the prisoner in order to carry out more successfully the plea of insanity. On account,of a disagreement betweeu Scoville and Robinson as to the manner of conducting the defense, the latter announced his'withdrawal from the case. Scoville then entered upon an elaborate address* to the jury, occupying nearly two days in its delivery. He announced that be should base his defense

upon the prisoner’s mental irresponsibility, anil he argued that t he burden of proof under these circumstances rested upon the prosecution. Ills remarks were delivered in a conversational manner, without any attemp at oratory; and produced a very favorable impression upon all who heard them. Washington was much exeited on the 19th in consequence of an attempt to assassinate Guiteau, while on his way from court to prison. The van had proceeded as far as First street, just east of the Capitol, when a horseman, - who had been following at a greater or less distance all the way from the City Hall, suddenly dashed up to the van ou the left side, and before he had more than attracted the attention of the guard, drew a navy revolver and fired point blank through the second panel. The builet passed through Guiteau’s coat-slcevc, but only caused a slight abrasion of the skin on the arm. The would-be assassin then put spurs to his horse and fled, going toward the Maryland line. He was followed at some distance by the mounted police, and several shots were fired at him, but without effect, and he made'good his escape. A man named William Jones, an cecentric individual! living out in the country, but well known to the District police, was subsequently arrested and indentified as the man who fired the shot. He was held to bail in the sriu of $3,000. A “ crank ” has been arrested in Germany, at Viersen Station, for uWcring menaces against the life of the Emperor. A revolver, with nix barrels loaded, was found on him. His name is given as Dr. Schleuter. Smai.l-i>ox is epidemic both at Rochester and Lockport, N. Y. Little Chief 's band of Cheyenne Indians are being escorted by Federal cavalry from Indian Territory to Dakota, for settlement at Pine Ridge Agency. An Alton freight train broke through the Kankakee bridge near Wilmington, 111. The train employees escaped by leaping, but the engine and twenty-five cars were wreckod in the river-bed, causing a loss estimated at not less t han $73,000. The brush fires in Ontario during th8 past season destroyed between $10,000,000 and $15,000,000 worth of property. Capt. Payne and a few of his more daring followers have safely located. on tbe town site of Oklahoma! City, Indian Territory, and are in occupation of the stockade fort built by them last summer. So far they have not been molested hv the Indians nor interfered with by the Federal troops.

CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. In the Gnite&u case, ou the 23d, Mr. Scoville concluded his argument, frequently interrupted by the prisoner. Several witnesses for the defense were examined. Dr. John A. Rice, of Minton, Wis., a practicing physician, said he had examined the prisoner in 1876 and cauic to the conclusion he was insane. His insanity was emotional rather than intellectual. He told his friends that Guiteau ought to be secluded. Witness treated Guiteau’s father. Did not consider Idm insane. Adjourned till Friday, 25th. Tue President of Mexico is alarmingly ill. The Illinois State Board of Health has ordered that pupils shall not bo admitted to schools anywhere in the State after January 1, unless they have a certificate ot vaccination. Tiie Coroner’s Jury in the case of Ed. Maxwell, lynched at Durand, Wis., returned the following unique verdict: “De-ceased-came to his death by falling from the Court-house steps and breaking his neck.” Senator Mamone intimates that Henry ltiddlcberger is likely to be chosen as his colleague by the Virginia Legislature. At Columbia, Mo., on Thanksgiving Day, while some skaters were amusing themselves on a pond, the ioe gave way, precipitating live or si:: into deep water-, three of whom were drowned: viz.: John G. Garth, aged 18; Theodore Murphy, aged 15, mid Miss Maggie Buckner, aged about 15. Mrs. Thomas Carnes, living about six miles southwest from Bloomington, Ind., while building a fire was burned to death by the explosion of an oil can. Two men were killed and several injured by the explosion of a sugar-house boiler on Belle Aire plantation, a few miles below New Orleans. ■. - Andrew Temfes, an Indian, was recently banged at Fort Colville, W. T. , for the murder of a white man. A traiij of cars loaded with cotton burned at Houston, Tex., on the 34th, About 1» bales were totally, destroyed and as many more partially burned. Bail is refused foe the Malley boys, held in connection with the killing «t Jennie Cramer, at New Haven, Conn. A national convention of cottonplanters and manufacturers is to be held at Atlanta, Ga., commencing December C. Earlham College, at Richmond, Ind.f has been closed onaosdunt of smallpox. A little son of Mr. Loma, living near Morgan, Tone*, whil* staying witji a gun Wasu requested Uj Ms little slettr, dho was sick lu bed, to put it up. He playfully replied, “I will shoot you,” pointing the gun st her, when it was discharged, Ibe toad taking effect in her face and resulting In death, jj«, .. ,

Carrying Virginia With Federal Patronage. A Washington dispatch to a New York newspaper on the eve of the late election told how Virginia was to bn carried for the Readjust era by the employment of Federal patronage. The truth is. the hundred thousand federal ollices are used now, and have been for years, to perpetuate the rule of the Republican party. The percentage assessed on so large a number of salaries, and the enforced party' drudgery of a hundred thousand dependents, is an immense leverage to use in any contest. Power is thuMsed to perpetuate itself. Of this vast army, of office-holders, all are of the party in power. They arc paid out of the common Treasury, and are paid enough to allow them to contribute a per cent, of their salaries— usually ten pey cent—to campaign funds. This is plainly but an indirect method cl assessing tire whole people to aid a party. It makes Democrats furnish a Republican campaign fund. It is pretended that these official contributions are voluntary. Thev are voluntary in the sense that the office-hold- ! ers cannot be proceeded against with | execution to collect them. Their property cannot be attached or levied on. j They arc voluntary in no other sense. The one who has the temerity or inde-'■ pendenee to refuse simply loses his ; place. This he knows. It is said they prefer to pay to losing their offices, and that they can better afford to pay than to give up their places. The obvious and only honest answer to this is that if the salaries exceed the value of the service they should be reduced. The Government, and not a party, is entitled to the amount in excess, if the ^services are ! worth the whole amount ofthe salaries, 1 it is cruel extortion to take a per cent, j of them. It is a species of blackmail;

amounting to cowardly robbery. But we are also told that these officeholders know they would lose their places if their party did not triumph in the elections, and that it is their own sincere wish to be allowed to make tffi5 sacrifice of a per cent, to save the balance. l'his is an assumption only. But suppose it true. Is not the inference j overwhelming that if the unbought suf- j frages of -the people would make a j change of administration such change j ought to be made? Is it not the theory of our Government that the selection I of its officers shall be perfectly free, and that the competition for its control shall be without such advantage to any party as the use of the common Treasury? A majority of the people of the Union are Democrats, yet they hold none of the hundred thousand places of trust under the Government. If they were alien enemies they could not be more rigidly excluded. If they do not object to this, they at least have a right to object to the u§e of the public Treasury to perpetuate their official ostracism.' If the doctrine of the right of those in possession to use a percentage of the pay of the employes of Government be conceded. its abuse to any needed extent will uuquestionably follow in due time. If ten per oent of the Civil-Service fund shall be found insufficient to render secure «nd perpetual fine hdld of* those in office, that fund can bo increased to meet any exigency, and thirty, forty, or fifty per cent, of it be appropriated by the same coercive power which now makes poor, onearmed letter-carriers give up the ten per cent, which is wrung from their moderate pay. Precedents, as afforded in the history of thq Democratic party when it was in power, are without forpe or appositeness. The Federal patronage in those days was trilling. The numberof Federal officials , in the several States was Wholly inconsiderable in any real contest. The subject did not present itself in a form and in proportions to elicit serious consideration. Democrats could not have considered an evil which did not exist.. The “ you are another" argument has no application. That Democrats, if in power would prostitute the power and patronago of the common Treasury is, thereto e, a gratuitous assumption, false as to fact and improbable in the light of the history of 'the Democ-ratic party.—St. Louis Republican.

Corruptions in the Treasury. The report of the committee appointed to investigate alleged delinquencies in the Treasury. Department is before | the country. It is not such a document as-will increase National pride, or cievate the views of official life. The report is a story pf wickedness and crime. ; It revets in petty larcenies aud official corruption. It shows that systematic robbery pervades all departments of the great linanoial bureau of the Government, and that men entrusted with i the highest official duties have stooped to be common pillagers of the money committed to their care. It shows that the National revenues have been devoted to petty uses, and employed in private debaucheries and the extravagances of men engaged in political schemes and plans for personal advancement. The report does not show that the money was taken outright, and boldly applied to the pers nal expenditures of those who handled it, but that it was taken as the embezzeler and the thief takes it, through false entries and by means of corrupt devices. These are the acts of trickstor. They are the methods of the sharper. But the report derives is greatest significance from the faet that their pilferings were done at, a time when tho Secretary of the Treasury was a candidate before the Republican nominating Convention for the Presidency. The »report suggestively remarks that the “lunches” wero supplied just previous to tho assembling of the Chicago Convention. It does not toll us who were the guests, nor the extent of the bill of fare, but tho inference is broadly made that the lunch played a part in the Secretary’s aspirations for the highest honor in the gift of the people. The circumstance is noticeable from the fact that it is the first time in politics when campaign funds wore supplied through the medium of petty larceny. When the politician stoops to steal, he usually imitates the burglar and not the foot-pad. The robber of a till has possibly urgont necessity to extenuate nis crime, but it is a strange innovation when a candidate for the Presidency adopts equivalent methods to economise his campaign finances. That these acts of malfeasance could not have escaped the Secretary’s attention is evident from the uses "to which they were put. The Custodian of the Treasury did not steal for himself but for his employer. He spent the money for lnnehes and had it charged up to the account of candles and tiles—an ingenieit? rogue, aud one extremely useful to a man entering upon a campaign for the Presidency, and anxious to conduct it upon the most economical principles. The country will recognize Mr. Sherman's avarice if not his integrity. —Vmdui Herald.

Tlie Charges Against Mr. Blaine. The announcement is made bv those near to President Arthur (that he is convinced of the necessity of removing Mr. Blaine from the office, of Secretary of State, because Mr. Blaiiibhas been retarding the prosecutiou of the Star-route defendants. If Democrats made any such charge as this, a Republican method of answering it would be for any editor or orator of that party to wrap.himself in the American l!ag, lire off an old horse pistol, wadded with the New York Tribune. and shout aloud from his doorstep that the men “ who undertook to destroy this Government,” twenty years ago, had no right, to prevent those who then “saved it,” by vigorous oratory to deserting soldiers', from stealing themselves rieh at the present time. But when a Republican Executive is represented as making this charge against a Republican Secretary of State, the case is bravely altered. « President Arthur needs no reason for retiring Mr. Blaine. The right of a President to select his own advisers is unquestionable. His right to do so without being required to assign any reasons is accepted everywhere. It has been the habit of Presidents to exercise both rights always. For a President’s friends to assign any reasons why he makes a Cabinet change is unusual. For an act of the kind to be declaredly based upon reasons which impute a moral and a public, and, perhaps, an indictable offense to the man to be removed, may be said to be extraordinary. The bearing of this fact on the published charge that President Arthur linds Mr. Blaine to have been shielding men who are about to be indicted for State Prison offenses is plain, when one considers that Mr. Blaine eculd be retired without any reason other than the President’s wish, and that no Republican

tjaDinet omeer was ever Delore thus injured and insulted in the act. or as a means of getting rid of him. The charge will have to be disavowed or justified. If effort is made to justify it, the rctirment of Mr. Blaine (for such reasons) would only be the beginning of a duty of prosecuting him in the courts; it he is to tie removed for an oftense, he should bo presented for punishment for it on proofs of having committed it; or, if the offense be au indictable one, or the evidence only moral evidence, cither or both facts should be minutely set forth. James G. Blaine is too conspicuous a man t and occupies too con- $ spicnous an office, to say nothing of the place he holds in the sensibilities of his countrymen, owing to late events, for him to be removed for specific cause, without that cause being exhibited and examined. Mr. Blame has many warm friends and many enemies in his party. The former have always declared him to be as upright as ho" undoubtedly is bravo and brilliant. The latter have always posted him as scheming, revengeful and venal. They have twice de eat ed him for nomination for President, because of thbir allegations of the fatally defensive campaigi? to which he would subject his party. At last Mr. Blaine became the monitor of an Administration, and was credited with dispensing its reVaail cndrrpveoges with special reference to punishing those Republic** ans who had long punished him. The wounding of General Garfield brought Mr. Blame nearer to the observation of the country than any other Republican, except his dying chief. The death of the late President left Mr. Blaine, on the whole, the most prominent, though, perhaps, the least powerful, in respect of outlook on favors, of any Republican leader. His party friends see they must love him for himself alone. His party enemies see that their hate is in no peril of any power which he now has with which to defend or to retaliate. In these circumstances the dignity or magnanimity of letting him retire unsmirched is wanting to his enemies, who are publishing him as an offender and preparing the way for his removal, not as a chieftain, whose opportunities were dashed by death-, but as one who has made his power the screen of crime. Disappointment and disaster are not enough to intlict on him. Disgrace must be added. The Stalwart ‘ Administration apparently will have it so. Well, then, if this is "the sample of chivalry or consideration to be furnished by the Republican party, the country will insist that the specifications bo submitted, and that a broken statesman’s claim on the sympathies of all feeling men, political opponents or political coadjutors, shall be vindicated, or proved to be undeserved. The accusation must be renounced or the evidence must be presented.—Albany Argus.

What is Party! . It is an error to suppose that party relations can be thrown aside at will. If a party is worth anythin" it is worth preserving. As we understand them, political organizations art the result of combinations between men of identical purposes. The association is made to give strength and vitality to political views. The opinion of many is of more consequence than the opinion of a single individual. Hence party relations. If founded in honesty and the principles embrace living issues, they cannot be deserted without a breach of faith. The defeat of an opponent does not atono for an abandonment of principle. Success won by political apostasy is no success for a party. It only shows that dishonest politicians have crept into a party for political purposes, ana are ready to abandon it when these purposes can be more easily attained in some other way. These are the class of politicians who advise citizens’ movements and independent campaigns. It is not political principles they are contending for but political office. They care nothing for the party and had as leave disrupt it as preserve it In the army these people are called deserters, in religion they are known as. apostates, in society as vagabonds and in politics as traitors. They never fail to inspire distrust and are usually regarded with contempt Not unfrequently these compromise movements are put up as half-way houses, asylums of refuge for deserters from one ' party to another. It takes away a part of the stigma of apostaoy and encourages the traitor to believe that he is only half way despised. But th ese compromise movements are never used by men of honest convictions. They take no stock in political masquerading. Very often a politician gets up a citizen's movement to enable nim to sell out his party to some individual or office- seeker. Under the shield of independence he hopes the more readily lb play the traitor. But aparty (nan from principle never does these things. He prefers to face defeat with his colors tlying than to worst an opponent who has the courage of honest, though hostile convictions.--V. K Express. — Four hundred and fifty new buildings are in process of erection in Washington City. Secretary Blaine’s is the most expensive, and will cost W8.000.

FACTS AMI) FIUUBES. —A tunnel has been cut through an extinct volcano in Jfew Zealand. It is* 8.000 yards in length. -There arc said to be 4,003 paper mills in the world, producing annually 22.000. 000.000 pounds of paper. —A good cement for repairing glass is said to be secured by dissolving- tine glue in strong acetic Sjeid to form a paste. —Mr. Carl Bock, a naturalist now exploring Siam, discovered in Sumatra two years ago the smallest antelope in the worid. The adult of this species was barely fifteen inches in length and nine in height. —There are over 20,000 . men and 100.000 horses and mules employed in railroad building in Texas. There are about 2,000 miles of road under contract and about 6,000 more to be contracted for. —In Ireland the Only fuel known is cleat, the Esquimaux use oil for fuel, in Asia grass is, burned, in Arabia camel chips, and people whp live along the shores of Nova Scotia bum the antlers of the moose. —To give some idea of the extent of the spool-thread business, it is estimated that 20,000,000 dozen spools, or 210.000. 000 spools of six-cord thread, were sold last year, besides all threecord makes and the 500 and 2.400 yard spools that are put up for manufacturing purposes. Two hundred yards to the spool is the popular measure in the united States, while in England spools vary, some having 60, others 100, 300, 500, and so on. —Ten years ago a blast furnace which would make AX) tons of metal per week on 600 tons of fulel was considered a big thin". They have biast furnaces in Pittsburgh which produce 1,500 tons of metal per week on less than 1,500 tons of fuel. The old method of heating permitted the fiame to pass out of the furnace stack at a temperature of 3,000 deg. F. They are now using the regenerating stoves in Pittsburgh, and do not let the gases out until they have utilized ail the heat except 300 deg.

WIT AND WISDOM. —Row me oh! said Juliet, as she went boating with her lover.—Lowell Courier. * —“I’ll take another pull at this bottle said the corkscrew, when the cork refused to come out; “I need strength!” —Philadelphia Sun. —Why is it that a man coming out of a saloon always looks one way and goes another?—Exchange. He is looking for another angel. —.K O. I’icagune. —Young Man: Good breeding may be defined as a capacity for enduring, with a pleased and interested expression of countenance, the conversation of a bore.—Boston Cost. —If this country had been laid out right the surplus water in the Mississippi River could have been used to wet down the grass in New York State, and the overplus of office-hunters in Washington could have been used to break stones f on the highways of Kansas.— —The New York Sun says that “Miss Ida Peteet, of Troy, returned from church the other Sunday, and in putting on a pair of shoes found a snake in one of them.'* A Chicago man came home the other night and fbund several snakes in his boots. The effete East cannot head off the boundless West when it comes to snake stories.--Chi-cago Tribune. —A Texas woman is gradually becoming petrified. Her feet and hands are already as hard as stone, and when her cheeks undergo the same metamorphosis she will be fully competent to enter a newspaper office, draw a chair up alongside of the editor and reel off the following legend: “I have here an illustrated history of the Patagonians four full-page engravings in each number to be completed in seventy-nine parts at fifty cents a part making three superb volumes worth their weight in gold which no library should be without and if you put your- name ngre at the'head of my list I’ll furnish you the first three numbers gratis and you give me a little notice in your paper and willyouputdownyourname?” — Norristown Herald.

The Mutilated Currency Question. “I can’t take that nickel,” said a horse-car conductor to a man who got in at the City Hall. “ Vot vos de matter mit dot goin?” asked the passenger, blandly. “ It’s no good. It’s got a hole in it,” replied the conductor, gruffly. “1st dot so? Off you plase you show me dot holes.” “Look at it. We can’t take any such money as that.” “Oxcuse me,” smilftl the passenger, and he handed over a dime. “That’s worse yet,’’ growled the conductor. “ Vos dot dime full of holes, too?” asked the passenger,” looking up innocently. -“Here’s a whole side chipped out. We fin’tallowed to take mutilated money,” and the conductor handed it back. “So?” inquired the passenger. “Haf you changes for heluf a tollar?” and he passed over another coin. “What's this?” asked the conductor, contemptuously, “It’s as ■ bald as a deacon. There ain’t a scratch dn it to show whether it’s an overcoat button or a skating rink. Haven’t you got any money?” . “Veil, I should make smiles!” said the passenger, good-humoredly. “ Here is fife tollar, and yon can baste it together vcn you got some leisures. Haf you got changes off dot fife tollars,” and he handed over a bill torn in four or eight pieces. “I don’t want no more fooling,” said the conductor. “If you can’t pay your fare, get off.” “Veil, don’d makero many droubles. I vill bay you;” and he pulled out a Mexican quarter. “Gif. me bennies,” he suggested. “Look here, are you going to pay your fare or not?” “ Off gonrse. May be you vas rating for dat moneys," and he took back his quarter and substituted an English sixpensn. “Now you get off this -car!” roared the conductor. “ Vere has dese cars got by?” asked the passenger, rising to obey. V Fulton Ferry,” said the conductor. “Den I may as well got owit. You dell dem gompanies dot some dimes de make more mouey as oder dimes off dey dook voteffer dey got instead of going midout nodings, don'd it?” And the smiling passenger, having ridden to the end of the line, crossed the ferry, observing to himself: “Dot vas petter off I safe such moneys, und some dimes I go owit to East Nyarick und it don'd goat me no more as nod5 ings at Eagle,

Youths* Department. COURAGEOUS JOHNNY. “ Come one, come nit, the e rocks shall fly From their firm bast as soon as 1." Roared Johnny. Sa a voice so load It proved hi a, hero i f the crowd; He was a Captain with a sword Made from a whittle d bit of board. They marched upon the v llage green: And thouirh no foo j ust t i iere was soon. They trod as proudly as it war. With all its glories, vas a >t far. And, as if spurring hem to strife. One big boy whistled for t life. They had a tin pan i or a irum v'That made the very echois hum; Their paper caps ha l tubjjd peaks, Tired were t heir legs and rot tbe;<- cheeks; They moved itxratber aigaag lint; Vet was it martial, I 'old a ad fine. , Just then, old Brind e eht need to pass. Nibbling the wayside wet di and grass. Seeking the daintiest bits to eat— t'ioverorthisties prickly sweet— Aud anxious for a patch of shade. She came upon this crane parade. She lifted up her mc ck-ejcd face: Grave was her look and t low her pace: So long she stared, twas evident She wondered greatly what it meant; And if her Ihorns were so -n to shake. Clearly ’twas only by mistake. But Johnny spied bar, nc aring t hus, Looking so huge and dab reruns: Just as he finished he ti ird time Shouting his tierce iefiar t rhyme, Down dropped both voice and sword, and he Over the fence went instantly. Easy and pleasant' tis to rjuote The valorous wordi another wrote; But he who rank ar d file would lead .Should prove hii courage by his deed. Small virtue na the do uenee. Of him who’s first to elin b the fence. % — Ft uth's Companion.

A BRaVE BOY. pis name was Frank Thompon; he whs fifteen years old, rani he lived in a laVge city in the State of Ohio, where he was a pupil in on; of the public schools. He was a slender lad with quiet gray eyes, gentle ways, and with nothing of the “brag1' about him. Some of the boys called him a coward because he never would fight; and whenever a rough fellow would shake his fists in Frank’s :ace with “You don’t dare to fight,” Frank would quietly say: “I dare act to fight;” which was a much braver thing tc do. > But there came a di.y after which no one doubted Frank’s bravery. It was it mid-winter, and the !ires in the schoolbuilding were fed with bushels of coal in order that the rooms might be kept warm for the hundreds of boys and girls in the school-ro< ms in that very cold .winter weather. Suddenly the teach ir in the division where Frank Thompson studied discovered from a clout, of smoke that burst into the room that the schoolbuilding was on fire and there were five hundred Children in it; and in loss than one moment half the children in her room knew, ns did she, of the dan§er, and were pn; pari aw to rush out of oors. The teacher, Miss Olney, said not a word, but sprin ging to the door, she lifted her hand and with a commanding gesture motioned the pupils back in to their se its, * ad they dared not disobey She then I turned from the room to warn the oth :r teachers of the danger and to gh a the alarm of tiro. . Quick as a flash, a deader boy with sjw the room had rise n to his feet to escape as quickly as possible The boy at the door w as Frank Thompson. “ Stand back.1" he cried; “not one of you can pass through this door! lhisobey orders, and you trill be crushed on the stairs!”" And do you th nk a boy moved? Not one. The pale-faced Hashing-eyed lad at the door with uplift ed hand was equal to an army with bar ners. Every one felt that the boy who dared not to fight, dared to hold Fi is post, and guard it, too. And so he stood until the teacher returned, when he stepped into a passage-w »y, and fairly flew to one of the lower rooms, where he knew there was a tiny little follow, weak and lame, who might be. overlooked and lost in the danger. fHi nting him ont of the crowd of little cues, Frank lifted him in his arms and never lost hold of his burden unfit he had put him safely down at his mother's door, two or three squares away. Cher he returned to the Hchooi-buiidtng from which the children had all safe!r escupod by leaving it in quiet order, and the fire-en-gines were rapidly putting out the fire. You may be sure there were no boys to call Frank Thompson a coward after that. The story of his bravery, his quick, determined action, got into the newspapers, and sevc ral gentlemen had a gold medalmade-, and On it were these words: To Fraqk Thompson, From the Citizens of C-, In Honor of a I rave Deed. Dee. 21, 1880. This was the date of the fire. And the medal was hung i .bout Frank’s neck in the presence of all ais school-fellows, while one of the gentlemen made a little speech, ip w rich he told the pupils that it was always a bravo lad who dared to do right, and always a coward who dared to do wrong. And now that the story is told, let ns give three cheers for brave Frank Thompson and all the other boys like him.—Wide Awake.

A Pig Cauglt iu a >% Trick. My story is a >out a potato field in “Old Virginia.” It lad around it “a stake and rider fence.” The potatoes grew and grew, in sunshine, dew and rain. They wen; now as big as hensr he owner of he fold saw that there was something wrong with his potato patch. The vines v’ere torn up, and the potatoes were gone. But who was the thief? By watching, may be, the robber might be found out. The farmer hid himself among some bushes. But he saw nothing, except one of his own little pigs. Piggy was coming slowly, slowly along tote big road. He was raotin g all the way, and granting at. evrry step. Did the pig know where he was going? One corner of the rail fence rested on a large hollow Jog. That log was just like the elbow of a stove-pipe. One of its ends was out tide and one was inside of the potato field. The sly pig went straight tcf that log! With a grunt, he crawled in at one end of it, and, with mother grnnt, he crawled ont at the e ther end. into the 1 field. There he begin, at once, to root ; up the nice potatoes and to eat. them. The farmer jumped over the fence. In a trice the bars were put down. There was a loud ca l: ‘‘Here, Rover, Rover, sock him! seek vim, sir!” And the dog chased the thieving rascal I squealing from the field, v The farmer said to himself: “I’ll fix things all right” Then he turned the log so that tne elbow was in the field, and both of iis ends were on tha outside. Then the farmer hfd and watqhed again. Mr. Pig ca re along a second time. He thought everything waa right. He crawled into the log once mora. He eriw ed t hiough it. But he . wAf itii} 9p ti}$ oftWi l« pfthe I

The pig grunted. Ho lifted up his head. He looked all around in great surprise. He wondered what was wrong. Then he grunted louder, and tried once more. Again ho failed. And he failed as often as he grunted and tried. The merry farmer laughed loudly at the wicked and astonished pig. Thieves are sometimes caught in their slyest tricks!—Our Little Ones. Hew to Introduce People. “I do dislike to introduoe people to each other,” said Eva to me one day last week. “Why, pray?” I asked, “It seems to me a'very simple thing.” “Well, when I have it to do 1 stammer and blush, and feel so awkward. I never know who should be mentioned first, and I wish myself Out of tho room.” * V , “ I t hink I can make it plain to you,” I said. “You invite Mabel Tompkins , to spend an afternoon with you. She has never been at your home before, and your mother has never met her. When you enter the sitting-room, all yon have to do is to say: ‘Mother, this is my friend Mabel; Mabel, my mother.’ If you wish to be more elaborate, you may say to your auut Lucy: ‘ Aunt Luuv, permit me to present Miss Mabel Tompkins; Miss TVjmpkins, Mrs. Templeton.’ But whitu you introduce Mabel to your father, or tho minister, or an eUtoriy gentleman, naming the most distinguished personage first, you present your brother, his,chum, and your cousin Fred to the young lady, naming her first. Fix it in your mind that among persons of equal station the younger. are introduced to the older, and that inferiors in age, position or iutlnence are presented to superiors. Be very cordial when, in your own house, you are introduced to a guest, and offer your hand. If away from home, a bow is commonly sufficient recognition of an introduction. Please, in performing an introduction, speak both names with perfect distinctness.”—Harper's Young People.

How a Confederate Scout Heard His Death Warrant Read While Hiding. The scout was surrounded. He took in every thing at a glance and determined to cut ltis way through^and risk the chances. But the ladies represented to him that this was certain death. They could conceal him, and S-assented. The young ladies acted promptly. One ran to tho window and askeu who was there, while another closed the ftack door—that in front being already fastened.- S—■— was then hurried up the staircase, one of tho ladies accompanying him to show him his hiding place. All had, taken place in a few moments, and tho Federal troops |hre sudden'evidence ot their estimate of S-. They lirod a voliev through the front door and the bullets whistled by the young ladies, ‘ihen the door was burst in and the troopers swarmed into the house. S-had been conducted to a garret bare of all furniture, but soma planks celling, and man might con mounted quietly and stretchcd~himseli at full length, and the young lady retired and returned to tbe lower door. From his jtereh S-— then, heard all that was said in the hall beneath. “Where is the guerrilla?” exclaimed the Federal officer commanding tite detachment. “ What guerrilla?” asked one of tho ladies. - . , - y “The rascal S-.” “ He was here, but he has gone.” •• That is untrue,” the officer said, “ and I ,am not to.be tritlod with. I shall s search this house. But tirst read the orders to tho meu,” h6 added, turning to a Sergeant. The Sergeant obeyed, and S-dis-tinctly overheard the reading of his death warrant. The papbr chronicled his exptbits, denounced him a3 a guerrilla and bushwhacker, and directed that he should not be taken alive; Ihe men were expressly ordered to kill him, not to take him prisoner. This was noi reassuring to the scont conoealed under the rafters above. It was probable that he would be discovered, in which case deafh would follow. There was bat one thing to do—to sell his life dearly. After ransacking every room on the tirst and second doors, the Federal troops ascended to the garret. The ladies had attempted to divert their attention from it, bat one of them asked: “Whatroom is that up there?” “The garret,” was the reply. “ He may be tbore—show the way.” “You see the .way,” returned tho young lady. “1 do not wish to g6 up in the dust; it would soil my dress.” “You go before, then,” said the trooper to a negro girl who ifad beeniuade to carry about a lighted candle, for night had come now. The girt laughed and said: “ There was nobody up there,” but at the order went tipstairs to the garret, followed by the troopers. The decisive moment had - come. S- heard the trampy feet and cocked both his pistols. The light streamed into the garret, and looking over the edge of his plank he saw tho garret lillea with troopers. All seemed over and his discovery certain; he was about to spring down and lire, when the men growled: “Curse it! there! snooting here,” and went down the stairs again. The servant girl had saved h&n by a ruse.. She had taken her stand directly beneath the broad plank upon which S- was extended, and the deep shadow had concealed him. To this ruse he doubtless owed hit life. An hour afterwards the Federal detachment left the house in extreme itl-humof, and before morning S-was miles away from the dangerous locality where he had overheard his sentence of death. S-is no4t one of the leading clergymen in Virginia. — Ittiladdphia Times.

. —The works for utilizing some of the enormous water power of Niagara River are now in progrees under the allspices of the new company formed not long since. In 1850 a canal threequarters of a mile long, thirty-tire feet wide and ton feet deep, with a fall of tyro feet, was constructed. The canal leaves the river above the falls and empties into a reservoir below. FoOr wheels were in operation formerly. The new company has nearly completed a wheel-pit near the reservoir forty-feet long by twenty feet wide, and sank in the solid rock'eighty-six feet Jn this pit will be placed three large wheels, to which the Water will be led t>y huge iron pipes. This will give an. availablohead of 134 feet, and the possibilities oh power seem inexhaustible. —The Methodist Episcopal Church South hask eleven mission stations along the Rio Grande and the Mexican border, with sixty-one preaching-places, 447 church members, and- 373 Sundayschool scholars. ? ‘-.-i ;• . • :• --- ■ . * Hp-’al -