Pike County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 45, Petersburg, Pike County, 24 March 1882 — Page 1

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NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Various Sources. OONGRRSSIONAIi FROCK EDINGS. Resolution's looking to a settlement, through convention, of claims against the Uovernraent of Nicaragua and directing the use of (government vessels to distribute flood-relief supplies were adopted by the Senate, March iOtu. The bill for a commission on alcoholic traffic w as taken up, 'the numbed of the coQimis>ion was fixed at seven, and the bill passed. The tariff commission bill, after a protracted wrangle, was taken up and laid over as unfinished business.In the House memorials were presented from citizens of Utah asking suspension of action on all Utah bills. Among the signers were 11 000 girls, 3.*>,0Qp old women, 13,000 hoys and 12,000 men. Thdclaim of Chas. P. Chouteau, after a tedious debate,- was reported from committee of the whole with recommendation that it be recommitted to the' Committee on Claims. Congress adjourned until the IStli. Consideration of the tar;ff commission bill was resumed by, the Senate on the 13th, and Mr. Slater advocated free trade. • • • 'fn the House the petition for suspension bf action on Utah affairs wa* referred. The bill for a bridge across the Mississippi, below the mouth of the Chippewa, passed. The Army bill, appropriating $20,2y3,3S0. was reported f and referred - to committee of the whole. The St. Louis Mint bill was repotted favorably. The J^enate l»i:i to punish polygamy was taken ub and a long discussion ensued on a point of order that the bill must first be considered in committee of the whole, because it provided for the appointment of salaried officers. The point was overruled and the bill went over. A joint resolution appropriating another $100,000 for flood sufferers was adopted by the Senate, March 14th. Mr. Cali’s Chili - Peru international^congress was briofljy discussed, and the postal appropriation bill* came up. A long - debate ,ensued bn amendments relating to the sub letting of contracts. No action was taken on the ‘bill.*.....In the Iloase, discussion of the Anti-polygamy hill was resumed, the Republicans pressing for a vote on seconding the demand for the previous question and the I>emoc*ats seeking opportunity to offer amendments. The bill finally passed without change. The S.na'e Chinese bill was Jaken up, Mr. Calkins of Indiana nfuking a speech in its favor.

Mr. GAHLAND’s bill for tlie improvement of the Mississippi came up in jthis Senate, on the 15tb, anti was referred to; Committee on Mississippi nnd-Tribnt»rie«. -.-.The bill directs the Mississippi River Commission 10 cause to be constructed or repaired and kept in order such levees along the banksof tlie Mississippi as they shall deem to be of the greatest importance to the preservation :>f the river channel, the prevention of devastation from bleaks and overflows, and the trade and postal set vice, under the rules of lit" War .Department. An appropriation of $->,000,000 is made for this purpose. Any expenditure or liability beyond this sum is prohibited, and no money is to be paid for levee work until the same is approved by tlie Secretary of War. The Post-cilice appropriation bill gave rise to a protracted discussion, was amended, and went over as nntiuished business: -n>e tariff commission bill was reached and MrrAllison submitted tlio report of the Committee on Appropriations,-with testimony taken in what is known as the Treasury contingent :iind investitigatton. Report anti testimony tabled temporarily.in the House, a •bill passed appropriating $201,000, to pay claims already allowed. A resolution inquiring into the legality of Sergt. Mason’s conviction was referred. The flood relief bill , passed, appropriating $150,000. The Chinese bill was taken up and the remainder of the session was mainly occupied with a personal altercation letween the Chair and Mr. Money, of Mississippi. PERSONAL AN I) POLITICAL. In regard to General Garfield's part in the removal of General Rosecrans, a Washington paper gives a story that Montgomery Bliir ascertained that President Lincolp wa guided by Gartield’o representations mot thap any other Ihffi'tmce. The recent pubi ication of on alleged letter to Salmon P. Chase from the late President moves General Itosecrans to remark that he would have court-martialed General GarHeld bad he known of the communication. The (io/os declares that Utlssia wants ro war with Germany and prajs for deliverance front the machinations off the Chauvinists. > \ / The President has nonii natedXjudge Samuel Bla cbford as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and John Russell Young as Minister Plenipotentiary lo cliina. Sheri ff Healey, of Montana, has I’ccn released by the half-breed belligereuts, and has returned to Fort Benton. Buevs Ingalls has been confirmed as Quartermaster-General of the Army. Gen. W. H. Wright, who died in Philadelphia a few days ago, was once chief of the Engineer , Corps of tire Army of . the Potomac, and commanded the pioneers on Gen. Sherman’s march to the sea. He built the bridges at Leavenworth anil Atcbhon, and went to the Isthmus ol Panama with Copnt de Lesscps. j «

VIIMHISSIONEK SHIELDS, Of ,NeW York, refuted naturalization papers to Hop Sing, part < wner of a silver mime in Nevada, on the groi nd that a Chinaman is not a free white person under the statute . There vas a scene of great confusion and disorder in the House of Representatives on the; 15th. Money of M ississippi attempted to make a personal explanation relative to t declaration made ay the Speaker in the etrly part of the season. The latter declare i that if the gentleman persisted in speaking out of order he would reprimand him, at least. Many members on both sides thought this threat was a very remarkabk one to come from a Speaker of the House. During the afternoon, Money consulted with leading parliamentarians, who concurred in the opinion that the Speaker ha il assumed a prerogative which belonged <xelusively to the House itself under the ules. It was flecidid to ascertain whether h< seriously meant to have it unundcrstooi that he would carry out his threat of reprimand. It Was for this purpose Mone r rose to a question of privilege to make a pet sonal explanation rind to give the Speaker al ;o an opportunity to make an explanation After reading from the reporter’s notes what the Speaker had said, Motiey was proceeding to protest against the unwarranted assumption of the Chair, hut he was interrupted! by the violent hammering: of the Speaker, who called Money to t rder, and declared be would not permit hin. to attack the chair. The remarkable < onduct of Keifer at this point brought nearly every member of ihe House to his feet. Scores of Democrats raised their voice s in protest agains t the arbitrary declaration. The Republicans shouted wildly, me miners began to move toward the area, and he Speaker pounded vigorously with his ;avel. By and by McLann, Of Maryland, got the attention v of the House, and in a temperate and diplomatic manner soon convi iced most of the Republicans that the Speaker bad gone too fa ■ in threatening to reprimand members. Be showed that suetvrepri hands could come; from (he House alope. H i read the rules bearing on the subject, tut the Speaker adhered to his original declaration, and appeared to be unwilling o recognize the fact that he was occupying an untenable position. COMMERCE AMD INDUSTRY. Notwi msTANDiNO the damage caused bv the floods, it is thought that in large diatr eta the overflow Krill not interfere materially with the cotton crop. Much will depend uf >n the stage of water after the freahet ru is out. The S< nora Railway, projected three yean ago to run from Gua} mas, on the Gulf of Califon la, to a connection with the American lines, has been purchased by the AtcbIson, Tope (a A Santa Fe Company. It will be com pie ed this year, Cl; a coat of $3,000,900, and i ill give the Sanic Fe a through ronte Iron the Missouri to tha waters of the Pacific on it. Tbb P cific Mill, atLitwrenoe, Mass..

reduced the wages of Its ; pinners, who are fill women or girls, the other day, and they abandoned the works and stopped 64,000 spindles. At ,a largely attended meeting called by the Trades Assembly of San Francisco, Cal., March 14, resolutions were adopted sympathizing with the strikers at Omaha and condemning in strong terms the aetion of the civil authorities in invoking military aid; nlso extending sympathy to the leaders of the strike who were arrested. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. Wm. Karajipe, a Prussian employee of the Cleveland (O.) Rolling Mill Company, was killed while manipulating the electric light machinery of that institution, March 10. This is the first fatal accident in Cleveland, and said to be the second in the United States, with the electric light. A msTATCir from Parkersburg, West Va., says that up to the 12h eight deaths had resultod from the explosion of the steamer Sidney, near Itiivenswooa, namely: Mrs. Little and grandson, Mrs. Mills and child, of Bcllaire, Ohio; Frank Faulkner, of Pittsburgh; Mr. Katn, of Charleston, IV. Va.; Mrs. Stephens, and a deek-hand from . Middleport, O. Ten others were injured, some of them dangerously. Mrs. Saunders, a lady 70 years old, living near West La Fayette, Ohio, was burned to “death in a horrible manner the other night. She was standing before a grate winding a clock, when her clothing took fire. Being old and almost helpless, she was unable to extinguish the flames, and her body was so frightfully burned that she lived only'a short time. Mrs. F. A.-Reynolds, a widow, aged thirty-live years, employed in the Cleveland Hospital for the Insane, threw herself into a creek running through the, grounds, the other day, and was drowned. The water where the body was found was only three feet deep. She attended church a*nd taught a class in Sunday-school. During the three months she spent at the asylum she often appeared melancholy,and spoke gloomily of her past life, as it had been one of sorrow and struggle against adversity. Jenny Perry, daughter of Edward gebard, of Lansing, Mich., was drowned white driving across the bay with three oth' er ladies, the other day. The horse went through the ice, .pulling her over the dashboard. Her body was recovered. Ella Todd, a 13-year-old girl living with her parents in Kansas City, was shot and dangerously wounded by her brother, aged 21, on the 13th. While the young man was exatning a revolver it was accidentally' discharged, the bullet striking his sister in the temple. Tlic girl sank unconscious to the floor. The ball did not penetrate the hr.mi, but severed a branch of the temporal artery, and-the little sufferer was not ex-j pected to survive.

i«iVE workmen in the employ of the Iron City Bridge Works started to cross the Ohio liiver in a skiff at McKeesport, Allegheny County, Pa., March 13th. Just before! they reached the opposite shore the boai capsized and two of the men, Shields and Murphy, were drowned. The other three managed to swim ashore, although in a greatty exhausted condition. At Grant Station, near Cincinnati, a few.days agoVTsaae Hendrick jflUlty shot his wife. The couple had been separated for some time, and Hendrick left il train as it was passing the house at which his wife was stopping, entered her room, and fired three shots,the first missing her. The woman threw her arms around his nock, and he shot her once in the head and once in the breast. He remained with her until jtpath, which occurred two. or three hours after the stooting: The murderer was arrested. The steam towboat Etna exploded her boilers, March 13, in the Great Kanawha, three miles above .Point Pleasant, W. Va. Done Anderson, of Pomeroy, a colored fireman, was killed; Capt. Henderson and several others were severely injured. The steamer took fire and burned to the water’s edge. Henry IIealy, a carpenter employed at the Homestead (Pa.) Steel Works, who was set upon aud beaten by the strikers while on his way to work, died on the 15th from the injuries received. Dallas, Texas was thrown into a fever of excitement, March 14, by the announcement that ex-Mayor J. M. Thurmond had been shot and killed, in the County Court, by Robert E. Cowart, a promine nt lawyer. Deceased was a politician and lawyer whoj has lived in nearly all the Western States. Cowart is a prominent young lawyer, a native of Atlanta, Georgia. Deceased was elected Mayor of Dallas three years ago, but was removed from office, Cowart taking a prominent part against him. Since then the most cordial hatred has existed between them. When they met in the County Court, Thurmond accused Cowart of slandering his family. Cowart denied it. They both drew pistols simultaneously. Cowart fired, his bullet taking effect a little above Thurmond’s right eye, killing him instantly. Thurmond was very unpopular, and most of the prominent lawyers have volunteered to defend Cowart, t. John Van Dyke, a prominet farmer, living near Ionia, Mich., died the other day after a short illness. Before dying he;-said he had been poisoned. Foul play is suspected. The family relations of the deceased are said to have been unpleasant for some time.

A boiler in the shoe factory of A. T. Goodwin, at Lynn, Mass., exploded on the 15th with horrible results. The cause is not known. The building, which was of wood, 69x30, three stories high, was blown to atoms, and the engineer, John B. Moore, was almost instantly killed. Several other persons were reported killed. The firemen on their arrival commenced an examination of the debris, for the purpose of recovering tbe bodies of the dead and rescuing the injured. A portion of the boiler, weighing a ton, was thrown a quarter of a mile distant, and drove Itself into the front doorway ol a private house. Glass In the immediate vicinity was generally broken. Another piece of the boiler went flying through a covered walk across a court leading from tbe street to tbe scene of the catastrophe. The .body of the engineer was horribly mangled and bruised. He bad charge of the bolter for quite a number of years, and was looked upon as a first-class man. Had tbe accident happened half an hour later tbe loss of life must have been terrible. Fifty people were employed In the building above the boiler, but fortunately they bad not arrived when the explosion occurred. Patrick McCoffin, an insane citizen Waterbpry, Vt., recently kitted his wife and mother-in-law with an ax and hid their bodies in the cellar. MISCELLANEOUS. Agent Armstrong has been instructed by the Secretary of tbe Interior to send the one hundred Indian children under his care at the Crow agency, Montana, to certain farmers In Ohio, -to be educated and reared up to uaefulneas. In October last two miners lost their lives and several others were seriously injured at Mahanoy City (Pa.) Colliery, on account of a gangway not being properly timbered. TheMine Inspector of that district brought suit under the mining laws against George Gilgore, Inside superintend'

out, as resposible for the safety of Inside working. The case was given to the Jury on March 11, and resulted in a verdict of guilty, with a recommendation to mercy. From a point twenty miles below Memphis, where the first break In the Mis* sissippi levee occurred, the entire country Is one vast sea of water. People all through this submerged region are utterly destitute and in a starving condition. Their stock has been drowned and they are living in gin houses, stable lofts and upper stories of cabins. Hundreds are subsisting on parched corn; many have been temporarily relieved by the distribution of rations, but others could not be reached and their sufferings are vpry great. All published reports have fallen far short of giving an idea of the dam* age that has been done or the destitution prevailing. In the case of the Northern Transit Company of Michigan against thS Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada, tried in the United States Circuit Court at Mil* waukee, AY is., March 11, the jury returned a verdict for plaintiff in the sum of $111,. 106.66. A motion for a new trial was made by defendants. Guiteau is still of the opinion that the argument for a new trial before the court in banc will result favorably. He is overrun with visitors, and he importunes most of them to buy his picture and autograph. He has saved considerable money, which is to go to the best legal talent in the country defending him. He is represented by his guards as being very docile and with an extreme regard for neatness in bis person, “for,” he says, “the ladies like me to look well.” His sole aim now seems to be to make money to pay his lawyers togetbim out of trouble, and be is continually contriving new schemes for the purpose. He imagines that hisijoek, “The Truth,” will be in great demand at $2 per copy, and he devotes considerable time to preparing a new edition. Thfs matter, however, he has turned over to Mr. Scoville, who will make the contracts for printing, binding and distribution; but Guiteau wants every cent of the proceeds turned over to him for his necessities.

The St. Louis Distilling Company lost 1-100,000 by fire, March 13. Petitions to President Arthur for the pardon ot Sergeant Mason are being numerously signed. A huge meteorite fell with a great -shock at a point fifty miles southeast of Fort Assinaboine, March 10, causing consternation at Fort Benton, nearly one hundred miles southward. The Trade and Labor Union of Chicago, March 12, passed resolutions condemning the calling out of military to aid in suppressing the strike at Omaha, and directing their representatives at Washington to urge President Arthur to recall the troops immediately. The resolutions were telegraphed to Washington. Three thousand laborers of Omaha marched in procession to Jefferson Square, he other day, and indulged in denunciation of the Mayor for handing the reins of govei.ment to the military.. In the evening the troops were subjected, to a brickbatting, and retaliated by a bayonet charge, in which a machinist named G-. P. Armstrong was so saverely stabbed that he soon expired in the guard-house. . ... Four towns in Costa Rica are reported destroyed by an earthquake and thousands ot lives lost. The Michigan Legislature has appropriated $265,000 for the relief of the sufferers by the tires’of last fall. Bakersfield, Cal., has been damaged by a violent sand-storm. So dense were the clouds of sand that lamps were lighted and travel was almost wholly suspended, as it was impossible to see objects ten paces distant. The'Methodist Church building was thrown from its foundation, and the residence of Mr. Oshea was blown down, injuring him badly. The telegraph wires were ail prostrated by the storm. .Secretary Lincoln has sent to the Senate a statement showing^hat for the past ten years the cost of maintaining troops in the Indian country has been over $22,009,000 per annum. * The Iroquois Club, of Chicago, celebrated the 115th anniversary of AndrewJackson’s birth-day (March 15) by a grand banquet at the Palmer House. Speeches were made by Thomas A. Hendricks, Frank Hurd, Coi. Vitas, and others, and letters from Sam. J. Tildsn, Senator Bayard, and other distinguised persons were read.

CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. An amendment to the Post-office appropriation bill reviving the franking privilege was adopted by the Senate on the ltitb. Frkd. W. Newburgh, late Assistant Secretary of the State Board of Public Works, against whom fifty-two indictments were returned for forgeries on the State Treasury, amounting to over $20,000, has been found guilty in the Common Pleas Court at Columbus, Ohio. Gen. Sturgis, military governor of the Soldiers’ Home, Washington, D. C., in his testimony before the Senate investigating committee, says that’no portion of the money appropriated has been expended for providing means of recreation to the inmates, and charges that thechoicest products of the farm, dairy and conservatory have been delivered to two members of the board of managers at their residences. Material and mechanics have been used in adoruing their homes at the expense of the Government. Surgeon-Gen. Barnes and Commissary-Gen. MacFeely are the two members named. There was a collision on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, March 16, near Annapolis Junction, Md. The engine of an express train became disabled, was detached and moved on alone to the junction, leaving the baggage car, a parlor car and two ordinary passenger coaches standing on the track. Shortly afterward a way train came rushing around a curve, and the locomotive crashed into the rear' parlor car, breaking the platform and the end section. The passengers were thrown from their seatB and received severe bruises, but no one was seriously injured. Wm. T. Henderson, special agent for the Post-office Department, suffered injury to tlie back. E. T. Bry, of Indianapolis, Ind., was considerably bruised; Mrs. L. A. Cowan, of Baltimoie, arm bruised. United States Senator Gorman was, with his wife,In the palace car, tend, seeing the way,train approach, they moved toward the front end, eseaping injury., Samuel Weaver, brakeman of the way train, was bailly{ cut about the face and head. The seats in tbe three coaches were nearly all wrenched from their fastenings. Albert Walker was raising a heavy bucketful of ore at the Health-lift Lode, near Leadville, Colo., March 16th,-when the handle of the windlass slipped from his grasp, and whirling around pioked hftn off. his feet and hurled him into the shaft. Nearly every bone In his body was broken by the fall, and Home men >t the foot of the shaft narrowly escaped being struck by tlie falling trunk. / A wholesale discharge of passenger and freight conductors on the Union Pacific Railroad commenced at Oraaha^Marcb 16, nad there is reason to believe that as many us 100 will be laid off.

The Disturbance at the Time Bradlaugh Took the Oath. Th; following details are published concerning the late Bradlaugh incident in the British House of Commons: While the result of the division on Mr. Laboucbere’s motion was being made known Mr. Bradlaugh rose from the seat which he! occupiefj on the cross-bench below the bar and advanced rapidly to the table. In a moment all eyes were turned upon him. The house, taken completely by surprise, expected that he would address them. Instead, he dipped his right hand suddenly Into the left breast pocket of his frock coat, pulled out a small, dark, shiny octavo volume, ’ with red edges, which he transferred to his disengaged hand, made a second dive and brought forth a piece of paper, made a third dive and drevifrom his waistcoat pocket a stump of pencil and amid exclamations of astonishment, not unmingled with groans of derision, “gabbled1,** through a form of words, inaudible above thf din of dissent, kissed the little book, tossed if behind the crown of the mace and held up the piece of paper in the direction of the chair, at the same time cal ing out, in an excited though triumphant voice: “I tender that as the oath, which I have taken according to law,” and just as the clerk readied the corner where he stood deposited it beside the book. There were some manifestations of contempt and aversion, but the prevailing sentiment seemed to be one of unbridled mirth. The .very daring of the act evoked peal upon peal of laughter. Then the Speaker arose in his place and called upon Mr. Bradlaugh to withdraw below the bar. Nothing loath, that person only stayed to remark that he would obey, but that, having taken the oath, he would now take his seat. Thereupon he backed toward the door, bowed low to the Chair, and presently facing about ran up the steps of the gangway which divides that part of the chamber from the cross-benches, and dropped into a vacant , scat within the body of the House. Cries of “Order! order!” rose from the opposition, but the Government ami their supporters remained impertuibablc. Mr. Speaker, however, was not to be trifled with. “The honorable member,” said Sir Henry Brand, in accents of offended authority, “lias not carried ont my instruct ons, which were that lie chould withdraw bclovv the bar.” Mr. Bradlaugh, no longer disconcerted, replied, as it seemed somewhat rudely: “I did obey your instructions and went below the tar, and have now taken my seat in pursuance of law, having taken the oath prescribed by law.” Supported by shouts of “ Shame 1 Shame!” the Speaker as instantly resented the unaccustomed rudeness, and insisted that Mr. Bradlaugh should gb below the bar and remain there, which he accordingly did. Oa a question of privilege Lord Randolph Churchill, asked the House to affirm that the seat for Northampton was vacant, as> if Mr. Bradlaugh “were dead.” Sir Henry- James, oa the other hand, suggested a more cautious

piwccuuuG. ab true case uow sioou it, saou.u, he thought, be settled in «, court of law, an opinion in which Mr. Labquchere fully concurred. Not so Lord Randolph Churchill. How, he inquired, were they to know that Mr. Bradlaugh’s hook was a New Testament and not a copy of the “Fruits of Philosophy!” It was insanity on his part to, suppose that such a pretense of complying with a most sacred and solemn form would be accepted in that place. It was a deliberate insult to the House. Matters had by this time come to such a pass that Mr. Gladstones found it advisable to interpose. He suggested that the question was one for calm deliberation snd unimpassioned discussion and proposed the adjournment of the debate. Dr. Lyons reiterated the charge of scandal and outrage, and proposed as an amendment to the Premier’s motiou: “ That Charles Bradlaugh, in tendering himself to take an oath which he declared to have no binding effect upon hits conscience, is guilty of profanation, that he hereby Is declared Incapable of sitting in this Parliament, and that he be forthwith discharged .from further attend ance.” Between the making of Dr. Lyon’s motion and the temperate speech of Sir Stafford Northcote, counseling moderation and calling on the Government to take some step to vindicate the “outrage inflicted on the dignity of the House,”| Lord Randolph Churchill walked up to t'aej table, whence he removed the piece of paper from which Mr. Bradlaugh had read the Words of the oath. Returning to hla place he examined the document, and afterward it was passed from hand to hand for iuspection until it reached Mr. James Lowther, who flung it back upon the table. Meanwhile Mr. Gladstone took pos- ’ session of Mr. Bradlaugh's little Jjpok, which proved to be not what the member from Woodstock had suggested, but a copy of the “Revised Version.” Iu spite of Mr. O’Donnell’s counsel that neither “the book” nor “the piece of paper” should be taken possession of by the responsible officer > of the House, lest some further legal quibble should arise, Sir. Bradlaugh’s “Revised Version” did, as a matter of fact, mysteriously disappear from its conspicuous position near the mace. The motion for the adjournment of the debate was agreed to, and the incident terminated.

The Chinese Immigration Bill as It Passed the lienate. Washington, March 9. The Chinese Immigrat ion bill, as passed, provides that from and alter the expiration of ninety days after the passage of the act, and until the expiration of twenty years after its passage, the coming of Chinese laborers to the United States shall be suspended, and prescribes the penalty of imprisonment not exceeding one year and a Sue of not more than $500 against the master of any vessel who brings any Chinese laborer to this country during that period. It further provides that the classes of Chinese excepted by treaty from such prohibition, such s.s merchants, teachers, students, travelers and diplomatic agents,, and Chinees laborers who were in the United States on the 17th of November, 1880, shall be required as a condition for their admission to produce passports from- the Government of Chinn personally identifying them and showing they individually belong to one at the permitted classes, which passports must be indorsed by the diplomatic representative of the United States in China, or by the United States Consul at the print of departure. It also provides elaborate machinery for carrying out the purposes of the act, and additional sections prohibit the admission of Chinese to citizenship by the United States or State courts, and construes the words “Chinese laborers'” to mean both skilled and unskilled laborers, and Chinese employed in mining. -->The United States Circuit Court foi the Northern District of New York has virt ually decided against the claim of N. W. Green to be :he inventor of the “driven well,” on the ground that such wells had been in use prior to the alleged invention in 1861. A preliminary injunction was sought against certain parties, and the request was refused for the reason stated. The decision is regarded as making a highly important precedent concerning the validity of the patent -—Mr. Holloway, of England, in memory of his deceased wife, has endowed at Engham an institution for the higher education of women. The college buildings are palatial in size. The Principalis to be a woman, nnd qualified female ghysicians are to reside at the college. It. Holloway has conveyed to the Trustees a sum of £460,000. The students are to be allowed to choo** own places of worshio, I .

Guiteau, an Offihoot of Republicanism. _ Gniteau, the moral monster, while he lives is a source of ceaseless annoyance to the Republican party. Guiteau is a Republican production. He was educated in Republican schools of political thought, theory and practice. He hates the Democratic party with an intensity as blind and bigoted as characterized Blaine, Dorsey, Belknap, Robeson, Conkling, Arthur, John Sherman, Hayes Or any other Republican who has won notoriety by stealing money from the Treasury, violating the Constitution, utilizing perjury, rewarding thieves, debauching courts or fighting for spoils. Guiteau murdered Garlield, and evidently ought to be hung. The courts have pronounced him sane. The declaration is made by high authority that the assassin knew what he was about, and the monster reiterates the statement that he was the agent of Deity, and that his mission was to kill the President that harmony might come to the Republican party. Tims it is seen that the crime of assassination is interwoven with Republicanism. It is well known, indeed it is a part and an important part of the history of the Republican party, that it split into factions over the question of spoils. These factions nursed their hate until they glowed and burned like lavatides. Such exhibitions of venality and depravity never before disgraced Christendom, The fight proceeded, and demoralization increased. The Senate of the United States, that once"* august body, the boast and pride of the country—was degraded to the level of a bucket-shop exchange, where the agents of the Republican party unblushingly appeared and bargained for such a political Pest House patient as Mahone. As the fight proceeded Conkling's back founded up until at last, unable longer to stand the policy of Blaine and Garfield, he walked out of the Senate and referred his case to the Legislature of New York. To that body the fight was transferred, and the scenes that were enacted defy exaggeration. For a time all the worst passions of Republican spoils hunters were in the ascendency, and bribery and perjury triumphed. This done, Guiteau appears. A Republican student in a College where every professor was an advocate of fraud, bribery and perjury as forces and factors to achieve success whether in a factional fight among themselves or in the broader field of battle, when contending against the Democratic party, it is not surprising that he conceived the idea that murder was the only remedy for Republican infamies, and, since the Republican party had always claimed to

me viwu auu uiuuuuj puny, II, is not surprising that Guiteau should imagine that Deity had inspired him to commit murder as the remedy for the less flagrant crimes of his party. It is a well-established fact that crime leads to crime in the career of parties as well as in the course of individual life. For many years the Republican party had Utilized crime as a means of obtaining and maintaining power. It had assassinated Constitutions, debauched Courts, trampled upon laws, murdered Legislatures. indorsed thieves and had finally, by offering Federal offices as a reward for perjury, reversed the will of the American people and placed a fraud in the high office of President. All this was Guiteauism in its first stages, in a modified , form—crimes against law and liberty that in the very nature of things must inevitably lead to the commission of other crimes more horrible in their nature—and the crime came at last, a fearful retribution, an awful climax, an overshadowing horror. Garfield, the President, fell bleeding mid dying by an assassin’s bullet, and for a time all hearts beat like muffled drums in the presence of the Republican catastrophe. People said: “ This will hush factional wranglings; these Republican spoils fighters will be shamed into silence and deep humiliation.” But such was not the result: Arthur, who drew the capital prize in the lottery of assassination, mounted into power; and while symbols of mourning were everywhere displayed—while a sense of humiliation and degradation bowed the people in the dust—while bells were tolling—while Guiteau was saying that Deity “inspired” him to murder Garfield to harmonize the Republican party, the Indianapolis Journal, a Stalwart organ, sent forth the shout that Arthur was President “ by the act of God,” and from that day to this the old factional fight has been going forward. Blaine has been kicked out of office. Grant moves upon Arthur’s works when it is desirable to dispose of a Half-breed. Conkling is more potential than when he was in the Senate, Guiteau howls, Blaine barks, and Republicanism, covered all over with a record that grows in blackness the more it is analyzed, comes to the front and asks the American people to indorse its record and whitewash its infamies. We shall see.—Indiana State Sentinel.

Missing From the Files. It js given out from the Department of State that a part of the correspondence relating to the so-called Peruvian Company is missing from the files. The disappearance of these letters, which are said to have contained some important revelations,. naturally excites surprise. If Mr. Blaine were a man easily embarrassed, he would be placed in an awkward position in regard to these papers. He has done what no former Secretary ever ventured to do—he has carried off into private life copies of all the official dispatches in this Chilian and Peruvian business. More than this, he has openly exhibited to several persons what he claims to be the original drafts, with the emendations, of the instructions to Mr. Trescott. He has exhibited them in order to excite hostility against the President, and to create the impression that General Arthur has changed front in regard to the “■policy ” which had been contrived to entrap him. Mr. Blaine came into possession of those drafts as Secretaiy of State. They belong to the public archives, and form a part of the current history of a diplomatic negotiation. As an individual or private citizen, Mr. Blaine had no morp right to appropriate them to his personal use than he would have to take away the original Declaration of Independence, leaving an engraved copy in its Elace. Who knows what changes may ave been made in the instructions after they were submitted to the President? Putting aside the misdemeanor involved in this act of purloining public papers, suspicion is . necessarily excited that the man who oonfesses guilt in that respect, and even glories in the trick, is also responsible for the stolen correspondence, the possession of which he does not acknowledge. The belief is Ssneral here, and strong, that Mr. laine is fully informed how those letters disappeared, and through whose instrumentality they got out of the department And, if they were not destroyed, he knows where they now are.

Unfortunately for the e.T-Secretary, hi? antecedents do not inspire confidence in any explanation - lie may attempt to make of this'transaetion. " The Mulligan incident, though not alogether fresh, is deeply engraven on the public*memory. Mr. Mulligan was called to Washington as a witness to establish serious charges against Mr.-'Maine, and he held Mr. Blaine’s own letters to prove these charges. On the night of Mulligan's arrival at Washington he was invited, with other witnesses, to visit Mr. Blaine^s house; He declined to go there. The next morning Mr. Blaine Went to his hotel, and, as Mr. Mulligan testified under oath, be there besought him on his knfces to save him from disgrace and his family from ruin. After a second conference between Mr. Blaine and the witnesses, at which every effort and appeal were made to Sreyent the impending disclosures, Mr. laine visited Mr. Mulligan in his room. He there begged for the privilege of reacting the criminating letters, m the' hope of being able to explain away their guilty admissions, and pledging his word to restore them forthwith. Mr. Mulligan*, in a moment of confiding weakness, and perhaps of sympathy for the broken man, handed him the package, and Mr. Blaine instantly made ofl with it, and the correspondence was burned. That audacious act prevented a catastrophe at the time, which Would have finished the political career of Mr. Blaine. * , ' if there were any real, mystery about the papers now missing, the MiilUgan episode would afford a sulliciOat ex* planation.—W. 11 Sun. A Representative Stalwart’s Opinion.

McCullagh, the editor of the St. Louis Qlobe-Democrat, is a representative stalwart leader, and his opinions about Garfield and Blaine emphasize the manner in which those names were treated at the meeting of the New York stalwarts* under the name of the Lincoln Club, the other evening. In a talk during the fall of 1880 with General Garfield about the statement that' Grant men would* have to take back seats under hi3 Administration, McOullagh says that he said to Garfield: “ The Grant men were beaten at Chicago, and they know it. They went into the fight to win, and they lost. They don’t expect to occupy the boxes, but they would like to have a fair show in the dress circle^ Even if they should be pushed into'the back seats or cjowded-into the top galleries they will stay through the circus, but after that they will do a heaptof kicking if they don’t get good treatment,’’ General Garfield laughed and said he did not know exactly what I meant. I explained to him at some length the animus which seemed to dictate these attacks, which were mainly directed against Grant and Conkling, and I wound tip by saying that we did not propose to have it regarded as a penitentiary offense to have supported Grant at Chicago or to regard Conkling as one of the accredited leaders of the Republican party. General Garfield looked at him for a moment, rose from his seat, put his hands on his shoulders and said: “My dearfellow, you don't knowme if yon think that with my consent the services of Grant and Conkling can eypr be forgotten or ignored by the Republican party. I know these men well; I know what they have done, and I know that if I am elected I wiJJ owe as mijch to them as to any two men in America.” All this time; says McCullagh, Garfield was making a league with Blaine for the humiliation of Conkling, which, not without reason, McCullagh pro: Bounces “insincere.” It was done by Blaine’s “magnetism”—the magnetism by which a snake swallows a bird. MeCuliagh’s opinions of Blaine are nearly as bitterns those which Grant holds oi that statesman, are in fact probably an echo of Grant and the stalwarts. Blaine is “incapable of disinterested friendship;” he is “a public man who has been ‘on the make’ during his public career, advancing from a poor-house to a palace on a sadary which never paid his expenses.” As to his friendship for Garfield, Blaine told a Democratic member of Congress from Missouri—who said laughingly that fie was looking for documents defending Garfield in the Credit Mobilier and De Golyer matters —that he (Blaine! was looking foi something of that kind himself, but he couldn’t find it. Blaine’s foreign policy, says McCullagh, ought to be good for two years in the penitentiary for every hour in the State Department. It is Beaconstield’s “jingo policy” withmoney in it. “James always has his eye to the main chance.” * McCullagh was, in 1876, as hot-headed a champion of Blaine for the Presidency, as he was of Grant in 1880. On being gently reminded of this, he remarked that Medill, Of the Chicago Tribune, and Halstead, of the Cincinnati Commercial, suddenly sprung a record on Blaine about which his supporters knew nothing when they went into the fight. But all that Medill, Halstead and the rest did to “spring a record” was to publish the record of the Mulligan letters, which was already a perfectly well-known incident in Mr. never heard of this until it was sprung on them, they did not read the papers; it is a strange confession, certainly, for a newspaper man like McCullagh to make. It is one of the strange contrasts of politics, and a proof of a want of principle and conviction on their part, that while many of Blaine’s supporters in 1876 were, like McCullagh, Grant men in 1880, Blaine’s critics of 1876, like Medill and Halstead, are adoring worshipers and defenders of Blaine now* It is curious in the light of all this fierce contempt and hate offhe Stalwarts for the Half-breeds and "of the Halfbreeds coldness toward Arthur and the Stalwarts, to learn from McCullagh, who is one of the most savage and unsparing of them, that Arthur’s Adminstration is very successful and that its tendency is to unite the Republican party. If Arthur can “ unite” Blaine to Grant, Storrs to Medill, Reid to McCullagh, Chaplain Newman to Carl Schurz, he can unite the Republican and Democratic parties and be President by a unanimous vote the rest of his National life.—Detroit Free Press. If Blaine’s supporters

—Miss Minnie Fish, a school-teachei in the town of Scriha, near Oswego, N. Y., was adifclentally hit by a snowbaU thrown by one of her scholars. The icy missile struck her on the back of the head. Brain ferer resulted, and she died. , —The Recorder of Elmira, N. Y., was somewhat surprised by having a man who was arrested as a common drunkard pull out of his pocket a roll of bills' and drafts amounting to $12,000, with which to a pay a fine of $5. - -An editor in Illinois announced the death of his paper thus: “ Weconcluded to 'kick the bucket.' It has been a question of slow starvation or suicide, and we've determined on suicide.”

RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATION AL. —Milwaukee organizes! six Baptist Congregations during the pas; year. —Camp-meetings are only just being introduced among the Methodists of Australia. —Jacob Sleeper has been Superintendent of a Methodist Sui day-school in Boston for» fifty-two consecutive years.' ' —All the Princeton College boys have Signed a pledge to be good aid not kick up any more BObberies, and worthy Dr». MeCosh is much rejoiced, —The Presbyterians of ' Ireland ar<4 thus early making arrangemr nts for the Pan-Presbyterian Council, which 'meets, in Belfast in 1884, —J. S. Marquez, of Bogoa, United States Of Colombia, a student ip a business college in Poftghkeepsie, N. Y., telegraphed his father the oth :r day for permission to remain and complete his course. The message snd rqply cost $73. —It is stated that the Episcopal Clergymen's Insurance League in the last thirteen years has paid $316,000 to the widows and orphans ot deceased clergy men, and of this sum $ 151552 was paidduring the year last pasi, —The Isaac Rich bequest, amounting to over $2,000,000, plaecs B iston University beyond the probability of financial trouble. In commemoration of Mr. Rich’s generosity, the university has established in the academic department sixty-fdur free scholarships, whieti will be divided equally between young men and young women. -pSonn; of the 'Danes living in Leadville belong to a religious body called Skages, who centuries ago pi noticed human sacrifice and still hold to it« in theory. The Leadville colony lately met on an anniversary occasion, and, as a part of’the rites, their leader cut himself unceremoniously in the arm, shedding a bowlful of sacrificial Mood. * —The BTfiiess, the organ of the Irish Presbyterians, says concerning a proposition for Union in the Episcoj iai Church: > “’There is room in Ireland for only one really strong Protestant Church, as figures show, and if all who hold High Church theories would g~> to their own place, there might be one great, powerful, useful community, the differences between the various evangel ieal bodies being capable of adjustment.” ' —The Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church, Brooklyn,, of which Rev. , Geo. F. Pentecost is jvj^tor. has had remarkable growth the past yt ar. At the beginning of it the people w orshiped in a hired house; now they have a $40,000 home free of debt, and more than 200 members have been added; while the congregation is estimated at 1,500, and the Sunday-school has 900 scholars. This-shows what activity Pn .l organization can do under able ltadship and God’s blessing.—N. Y. Examiner.

The Man Who Outsuffered All. “They are making lotarof fuss over the fact that the Jeaunet e survivors were compelled to live on walrus hide for three weeks,” said Diffenderfer down at the club 'the ether night; “just as though that was anything so terrible. Now, if they had gone through the hardships that I have, they might talk.” * .“Cook’s been burning your buckwheats, I suppose?” said Baggs, with a satirical wink, “Oh! I’m in earnest,” said Diffenderfer. “for instance, I ims lost oh a Michigan prairie once, aid for three days lived on a 3 single ti jld mouse I caught,” “ That’s nothing,” said a lother member, contemptuously. “Ain’t, eh? Another time I was shipwrecked in the South Seas. Floated around oi) a raft sixteen days, with nothing to eat but a pair of old bootlegs among ten of us.” 4 . “Good, soft calfskin isn’t so bad,” critically observed Skill more, who claimed to have been a pirate, or something. in early life. “Then, on another oceision,” said Diffenderfer, bracing up again after awhile, I was locked, by mistake, in a bank vault, and had to subsist over Sunday on Government bonds and coupons.” “Lotsof men doing tha;nbw,” said old Botts, gruffly. “I escaped from the Rel>s, during the war, at New Orleans,” sai l the narrator, growing paler and mote determined as he went on^ “ and for six weeks hid in a swamp imd lived exclusively on the cast-off skin of an alligator.” “You should have boiled it,” said Guffey, calmly. “That’s the way I used to do in Africa.” There was a silence that eould be out with a knife after that for sometime, when, just as the crowd w is chuckling over the supposed extinguishment of the story-teller, Diffenderfer took the bitin his teeth and made one more desperate brash for fie lead. “But, gentleman,” he continued, solemly, “ those were hardships, indeed; but nothing, compared to in experience I once endured in this city about three years ago. Through an unfortunate combination of cireumsfc races I was compelled to eat three hotel steaks in one week!” And'with awe-struck faces the sympathizing crowd arose and awarded tile survivor the official cake. j-San Francisco Post,

Brought to Tine. f A young man on i: street in Steubenville, with a fez cap, a fra; pie cane, and smoking a vile cigarette wb ich awakened a suspicion in the minds of the neighbors that a dead mule was in the immediate vicinity, stepped off the sidewalk to allow a woman to pass. “Thankyou,” she said. “Not at all, madame; I assure you I always give way to the weaker sex.” . The lady slowed up when she heard this, and came back to the young man. • “ What did you observe, sir?” “I said (smile forced) that I always gave way to the weaker sjx.” “ Ah, "did yon,” pursue i the woman, grabbing him with a firm hand by the throat-latch. “Do you know who you. are (shake) calling the (shake, shake) weaker sex?” “I—ugh—that is, I—mean to say— you hurt my neck—politeness is constitutional in our—ouch—fa mtly. ’ ’ “’Tis, hey! Well (shake, shake, shake) if you think I’m one of the weaker sex you are off your reckoning” to Here she gave the young man a dextrous flip which st ub mm three times around, after which he fell undfer a fence, while his cane a id fez cap flew over into a bed of las, year’s hollyhocks.” “Now, after this, remember young man, you can’t play no weak sex game on me. I propose to vote before that dVspeptic-lookiug moustache of youm has more than seven hi irs on one side and nine on the othe:Steubenville Republican.

FACTS AXD FIGURES. —Seventy patents were issued to women from the United States Patent Office last year. —In Gold Hill, Nev., honses and lots „ which a few years ago were valued at . from $2,000 to'$5,000 each are* being ^ raffled off. „ • 1 ./. ■ —Major. Eaton, the corp popper a'pl ’ * seller of Lowell, Macs., h$s popped*, jn * . thirty years\>f business, three thousand bushels of com, seasoned * tlWup wft h * , three barrels Of salt, and made* $0,000 ' ■ a year. . • . —The‘fastest passage ever made under .sail from Hong JCong <o San«Fran-** * cisco, has beeV accomplished l>£ tho Wandering Jem . a Mtjfiu; built vessel, • which covered -the distance.in-thirty-four days." # • *_.'**. —Th(j oyster fmfiitig and- packing in-: dustries of Maryland and Virginia give employment to 40,01)1 hands, who receive" wages to the amonnt of $6,956.444 yearly. The amoitnt invested in this business is $9,606,976. —Under the license system Ne w York receives annually $537,178,22, Philadelphia, $153,616.82: Chicago, $263,316.63; Boston, $267,845; Louisville, $234,208,21; San Francisco, $420,717.20; St. Louis, $580,036.99, and Cincinnati, $40,393.27. —According to Herr Richard Ahdrep there are 6.139,000 Jews in the world. Five-sixths live in Europe. Asia has 182,847. The greatest proportion is in Roumania, or twice as high as in Russia. Norway; he says, contains only - thirty-four. —During 1881, at the Philadelphia Mint alone, 59,174,635 new coins wore made, viz.: 2,200 double eagles ($20); 3 877,160 eagles ($10); 5,708,800 half eagles; 550 $3 pieces; 580 quarter eagles; 7,660 gold dollars; 2,163,975 silver dollars: 10,975 half dollars; 12,975 quarters; 24,975 dimes; 72,375 five . cent pieces; 1,081,575 three cent pieces; ' 39,211,575 cents, and 960 “trade dollars.” Total value, $76,976,1654. Ttf count these pieces, twenty-four persons would have to work nearly nine hours every week day in the year, and count one piece every second. —There are 300,000 dogs in our State. What is fed to those dogs would make j . 90,*000,000 pounds of pork net. At six cents per pound this would bring $5,- - 400.000. This sum would build 5,400 school-houses at $1,000 a piece.—-Nash-ville Banner. Yes; but just imagine every man waking in the morning to find himself without a dog—no dog to kiekp Allowing one dog to one man, there might be 300,000 sitieides as the result of the disappearance of the 300,000 dogs, not to mention the universal despair of families and the starvation of millions of fleas. Once you go into statistics, there is no. making amend.— Louisville Courier-Journal.

WIT AND WISDOM. —A man bom at sea cannot be proud of his native land.’ —Kick vour corn through a windowglass and the pane is gone forever. —In old England they used to hang woman for merely ‘hooking” a' dress. —Moonbeams are the strongest timbers used in- building castles in the air. —N. 0. Picayune. 1 —“The baby elephant isn’t an ;csthctic, but its front legs are twoumd its hind legs two too.”—Philadelphia? Chronicle- Herald. . . —If we were to follow the absurd rule never to speak until we have something .. to say many of us might just as well have been born dumb. - —Milwaukee is still tickled over the fact that she is the windiest city in the United States. She doesn’t have to keep a dish-cloth out on the line all the , week to dry it.—Detroit Free Press. - 4-An Ohio journalist tired twenty-six shots at a stuffed alligator lying on a sand-bank, and then paid a boy two shillings to tell liim whether he was cross-eyed or only stone blind. —If you would relish ?ood, labor for it before you take it; if you would en- , joy clothing, pay for it before you wear ,. it,' if you would sleep soundly take a" clear conscience to bed with you. —A celebrated lawyer said that the three most troublesome clients he ever had were a young lady who. wanted to be marriedj a married woman who. wanted a divorce, and an old maid who didn’t know what she wanted. —It’s a deep mystery—the way the heart turns to one woman out of all the rest he’s seen in the world, and makes it,easier fbr him to work seven years for her, like Jacob did for Rachel, sooner than have any other woman for the ing—Teacher—John, what are your boots made of? Boy—Of leather. Teacher —Where does .the leather come from? Boy—From the hide of the ox. Teacher \ —What animal, therefore, supplies you with boots and gives you- meat to eat? Boy—My father.—Exchange. _ —“ Can pa make a circus, ma?” “I don’t know, Johnny. I suppose he could if he had a great deal of money to buy horses and wild animals. But why do you ask, Johnny?” “O, nothing much. Only I saw that Gaston fellow, that you told sis not to have anything to do with, standing with his arm around •=* her at the back gate last night; and lie said to sis, ‘I s’pose if your old man came around now he would make a circus;’ and sis . laughed and said: 4 You bet.’ ”—Chicago Tribane.

Leaving a Man in the Lurch. It was on a street car coining up from the Union Depot yesterday. A man with a very hoarse voice looked _ across the aisle at a man with a country satchel between his feet, and said: ’ “ Wintry day, isn’t it?” “ Hey?’’ called the other, as he put his hand to his ear. ‘‘Seems like winter, doesn’t it?” shouted the man with the hoarse voice. “Hey? hey?” asked the deaf man. “ He says,” began a man who was standing up, “he says it seems like winter.” . At this moment the hoarse-voiced man rose up and slid out of the car., As he did so the deaf man rose up, laid two parcels on the seat, and called out! “ Speaker louder—V m deaf V * “He says it seems like winter!” bawled the man standing up. .. “ Who says so?” He turned around to the hoarse-voiced man, but that person had skipped. “ Who says so?” demanded the deaf man. ^ . . “ I—I—why, I say so.” “ Well, what of it?” Haven’t I sense enough to know that it is winter weath- „ er? Don’t try any of yottr guys on me or I’ll knock tl}e top of your head off?” Then the deaf man sat down and the, “middleman” sneaked out and dropped off the car and said he would spend the rest of his life looking for the hoarsevoiced man.—Detroit JVee Pr sss.