Pike County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 12, Petersburg, Pike County, 4 August 1882 — Page 1

V. T. CTIGHT, PnbUiher VOLUME XIII. PETERSBURG, INDIANA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1882. ' — .-. : * Svvwttk. NUMBER 12. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE COUNTY.

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NEWS IN BRIEF. Oompiied from Various Sources. CONGRESSIONAL. fKOCIEDim The conference report on the river end lisrbor bill recommending concurrence in all the item, except those relating to the Potomac Hats, the Hennepin and the ChesaDeaVe Canals, and the Mississippi appropriation, was adopted in the Senate, on the Slst, and a new eonferance committee was appointed to dispose of the rejected itoms. House amendment to the pension bill was concurred in. Consideration of the revenue tax l»t!l wns resumed and the amendment of Mr. Ilavard, retaining the match stamp tax, was rejected—8 to 45—and without disposing of the first! section an adjournment new conference committees were appointed on the river and harbor bill and the general deficiency appropriation bill. Tha bill to modify the postal money-order system passed. Also bills to classif y and fix salaries tor the railway man service; to authorise extension of post routes; to fix compensation of fourth-class postmasters. IK the Senate, July 22, a resolution was adopted calling for the amount of expenditures in each State since 1879 for public buildioge, rivers, harbors etc. The first section of the revenue bill was adopted. An amendment to the second section, allowing tobacco growers to sell without paying tax a. dealers, was rejected. An amendment to the third section, fixing the taxes on snuff and manufactured tobacco after Jan. 1, 1883, at 8 cents a pound, gave rise to a protracted debate, which was ent off by a motion to adjourn.» In the House hills passed: Regulating the carrying of passengers by sea; opening to settlement land in Colorado lntoly occupied by Uncompahgro and White River Ctes.

Another conference committee was appointed to settle a disagreement on the legislative appropriation bill, in tbe Senate, on the SitU. The revenue bill was discussed, and the amendment to rednoe the tobacco tax to eight oentg was voted down. Tbe rebate clause was debated and amended......In the House, Messrs. Knott and Payson presented the views of the minority of the committee on - the Northern Pacific land grant. The report was ordered printed. Further conference on the legislative bill was ordered. Hills were introduced to forfeit the unpatented lands of the Northern Pacific grant and to amend the Constitution so ns to permit tKe veto of separate items of an appropriation bill. After a discussion on the subject of printing census reports, in tbe Senate, July' S5, the conference report on tne river and harbor bin was adopted. The tax blil was then taken up, the question being oh the amendment to strike out tho requirement for Government tests of strength of sugars. The amendment was adopted.In the House, •he bill to allow drawback on imported shipbuilding material was recommitted. A resolution to call a court of inquiry as to tbe loss of tbe Jeannette aud conditKh of the vessel was referred. The House refused to agree to tbe conference report on tire river and harbor bill—82 to 97. A motion to reconsider was followed l>y adjournment. * Hr. Hake moved to take up tbe naval appropriation bill, in the Semite, oif tho 26th, and after a long discussion^ In which the motion was construed on both sides as having the effect to dispose of the subject of revenue and taxation for this session and to facilitate a probable adjournment in the course of a few days, the bill was laid aside without action.in the House a new conference on the general deficiency appropriation bill was ordered and the river and harbor conference report was adopted. A lot of miscellaneous business was disposed of and the previous question was ordered on the hill for salerof part of the Omaha Indian reservation. PERSONAL AND~POLITICAL. President Grevy has refused to aceept the resignations of the members of the " French Cabinet. Tbe Chamber of Deputies ended the crisis by a vote of confidence In the Government. - John Briqht wili iftsH the United States during the recess of Parliament. Gen. Barrios, President of the Republic ot Gautemala, dined with President Atthnron the 82d. Members of tbb Cabinet and several foreign Ministers were present., Attt.-Gen. Brewster has rendered anopinion on the issue raised between Geo. Wm. Curtis and Representative Hubbell, President of the Republican Congressional Committee, on the subject ot political assessments, in which he holds that a member ot Congress is not an officer of the Unit'ed States, so that a gift to him for campaign purposes does not fall within the statute regulating political assessment. Alonzo Bell having resigned the Assistant Secretaryship of the Interior, Secretary Teller has recommended the appointment of Merrick S. Jostyn, of Illinois, to the vacancy. President Arthur has nominated t William Hale, ot Iowa, to be Gtovernor of W joining; J. Schuyler Crosby, of New York, for Governor, of Montana, and W. W. Hoover, of California, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court ot Arizona. A The House Committee on Foreign Affairs, by a unanimous vote, reconsidered its former decision in regard to statements recently received from ex-Secretary Blaine, in response to one submitted by Robert Randall, and without objection the statement ot Blaine was made part of the record of proceedings in the Chili-Peruvian investigation. The committee also decided to

permit Randall to submit an additional statement it he so desires. Ex-Secretary Blaine sent to the committee a long letter in reply to the supplementary statement nmde by Randall. Earl Kimberly has aocepted the Chancellorship of the Duchy of Lancaster, made vacant by the resignation of John Bright. General It. P. Kennedy will contest the claims of Speaker Kelfer to a nomination for Congress in the Eighth District of Ohio. It is rumored that Attorney-General Brewster is to be transferred to the Court ef SL James, vice Lowell, to be recalled. The recent Congressional elections in Mexico turned oat generally in favor of the supporters of Gen. Diaz. At a Cabinet meeting on the 25th, in discussing the question of politieal assessments, President Arthur said that no person in the executive departments declining to contribute shall thereby be subjected to discharge or eritlolem, and no attempt to injure him will be tolerated. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. Mrs. J. F. Cummings, of Somerset, Masa., rose from bed about daylight, on the 29th, and drowned her youngest child and herself in the river. An old man named J. B. Teaulett was killed and three persons were badly shocked by lightning at Denver, Colo., on the 22d. J. H. B. Latrobe, brother of exMayor Latrobe, of Baltimore, Md., was drowned near that city on the 23d. Gerson Kingsbury, 17 years old, Jumped from a train at Sedalia, Mo., July 22, and fell under the wheels. His head was cut from the body and his shoulder and legs were crushed. J. McLane snd O. Fellows, rivals for the band of a young lady, fought a duel near Collinsville, Texas, on the 22(1. Several shots were exchanged and Fellows was killed. The bodies of throe American prospectors have been found near San Antonio, In the Sonora Talley, The natives say the men were murdered by Apaches, but it is believed the deed was com nitted by Mexicans found working the prospectors’ claims. There was a collision on the Little Miami Ballway, near Foster’s Crossing, Ohio, on the 23d. Engineer Lyons was badly brvtaad. E, H. McCalb, Judge Advo-cate-General of Louisiana; J. W. Cooksedge, of Hew York; D. A. Rindheem, of 1 ittsbirgb; J. W. Jones, ef Columbus, 'ytsre slightly injured. The engines were

wrecked and some freij.f>t cars were thrown into the river. Two freight trains on tho Chicago A Alton eoilii>d near Bloomington on the same day. The engineer, a 1 young man named Eli Fisher, was .killed, his body being terribly Ltangied. The mystery surrounding the disappearance of Ernie Spenpet, son dt R. C. Spencer, of Milwaukee, Wls., has been solved by the discovery of the body of the missing boy in the lake, neair the pier where he was last seen. Sheehan Miller, a Itptel-keoper at Millerstown, Pa., was kilted the other night by Win. Wagner. A while togan and a,negro were quarreling and Wagner took sides with the latter. Afterward Wagner entered Miller’s bar-room and Miller attacked him for defending the negro. In the fight which ensued Wagner shot Miller dead. Miller’s j son tried to shoot Wagner. Wm. Bubl and Robert Fleming were killed by lightning in a field near Industry, Kans., on the SldL Henry Hudson, aged 73, was killed by a train while walking home from a campmeeting near Indianapolis the other night. Jeremiah Mahoney, for many years, a teacher in the public schools of. Chicago, and a ready and caustic writer, chiefly on educational topies, took a fatal dose of laudanum the other day. The Press Club passed resolutions of respect to his memory, and appointed a committee of five to attend i the funeral. 5 4, At O&ktown^Ind., a few days ag», Dr. J. X. Merritt laid dhyn In his office to read aod fell asleep. HTs lamp explod/bd, burning all his clothes from his body. He had the presence of mind to put out the flames, after which he walked home and summoned help. His injuries may prove

A few days ago, at West Baden Springs, near Paoli, Ind., a man named Marley murdered one Archer in a most cowardly and brutal manner. The murderer was aided to escape by a friend named Bundy, with whom he lived. A mob capure d Bundy, banged him to a tree, and then threw bis body in the river. At Lapeer, Mich., the other night, Elizabeth Smith, aged 74. administered strychnine to a little grandson and then took a fatal dose herself. Robert Jeffries, a fanner, was seized with apoplexy while walking in the street of New London, Mix, on the 24th,and fell to the ground, breaking his neck and producing instant death. Mrs. Kelsey, wife of a farmer living uear Kokomo, Iud., made a rope out of some yarn and banged herself to a beam In the smoke-house. Her mother died in liikei manner some years ago. F. C. Potts, of Sowers, jPotte & Co., booh publishers, Philadelphia, Pa., took his life with a revolver the other day. His business relations were of the best and the firm rated high. The mangled remains of six negroes were found the other morning on the Mobile & Ohio traek, near De Soto, Miss. They bad recently been paid, atid one colored man h»» been arrested on charge of having killed and robbed the party. Mart Stearns, 16 yean old, has l been arrested at Waynesburg, Pa., for poisouing her step-mother, with whom she could not agree.* '' 'f*r v "" A dispatch from Muscogee, I. T.,' says the Creek Nation b«is been excited by the killing of a Light-Horse captain named Scdtt b; a party of loyalists, or Sandsmen, who made the attack to rescue one of their number held as a prisoner. Capt. Scott was shot, and treated in the most shocking manner, while one of his men, who interfered, was fatally wounded. Chief Chioota called for volunteers to keep the peace, bnt the Sandsmen were desperate and the citizens' feared a bloody encounter. C. H. Wenberger, residing near Grand Rapids, Mich., fell from a window on the fourth floor of a hotel in Washington, the other day. and was so seriously injured that he lived but six hours. Charles Mosby, a convict in thq Chester (III.) Penitentiary, committed suicide on the 25th by eating the sulphur from a number of matches." At Augusta, Kyi, July 25th, Ivan W. Bowman, a prominent stock dealer, shot and instantly killed Marshal Lane. Bowman escaped. O. H. Gregg, local editor of the Lawrence (Kans.) Tribune, was drowned at Kansas City, Mo., on the 25th. ,

MISCELLANEOUS. Tub municipal council of Marseilles, has authorized the Mayor to apply for a new trial of the ease againstthe ex-Empress Eugenic to compel her to relinquish possession of the chateau presented to Louis Napoleon as a residence. t Four mills and four factories at Fairfield Me., vaiue^ at $100,000, and the C’&ss. Avenue planing mill, St. Louis, Mo., $100,000, burned the other day. In the star-route trials at Washington, Judge Wylie surprised everybody by admitting the testimony of John A. Walsh, the Louisiana witness. An attempt to burn the town of Seattle, W. T., the other night, brought the vigilantes together and twenty prominent roughs were notified to leave. Payne, whose brother was lynched last spring, was arrested. Flora Tilman, of Fort Wayne, Ind., 16 years of age, nearly killed herself with a razor, the other day, giving as a reason a call from her dead father to come to him. Thkrk is great exeiitement in the region of Windsor, OnL, o ver the mysterious disappearance of Alexander Mann, a colored Baptist preacher, and his wife, who had received threatening letter*, and whose house was burned a few days age. At the first public session of the Tariff Commission's letter was read from ex-Sen-ator William Warner, of Alabama, arguing against a change in the matter of*pig-iron. The Chemists* Association of Philadelphia Bent Henry Bower to Insist that there be no reduction In the duty on chemicals. A. J. Kinloch, the dissipated younger son of a Scottish nbbleman, has for three years been la the clutches of a hotelkeeper at Kansas City, who managed to secure the allowance of $2,000 per unnum regularly forwarded from Edinburgh. When Klnlooh became to 111 to move about Coyne had two negroes place him on the train fer New York, where he died at a police station. Miss Emily MacTavish, of Baltimore, a granddaughter of General Winfield Scott,, entered n convent last May;, and has dust been invested with the nun’s habit, under the name of Sister Mary Agnes. The lady Is exceedingly handsome, finely educated, and has a private fortune of $500,000. Capt. John S. Wise, Read, jus ter candidate for Congressman-at-Large,, and John S. Crockett, the Common wealth's Attorney of Wyeth County, Va., fought a duel near Christiansburx on the 25th. In the first round both fired at the word with‘out effect. £t the second round Crockett’s pistol went Off prematurely. Wise’s weapon missed fire in the third round. Crockett was satisfied, and the fight terminated gloriously without gore. The works of the Brown MenufaoturIng Company at Zanesville, O., covering a railroad tad river frontage of five hundred

feet, were swept away by an incendiary fire the other day, causing a loss of $12S,000, including twelve hundred wagons and cultivators. « Four drunken men, three American sea eapta|ns and an Austrian, while on a spree in Niogpo, China, nearly murdered the captain of a war junk, and placed in great peril the tires «t all foreigners. The Americans have been committed to await the result of the dicer’s injuries. The Kentucky tobacco men protest against the passage of any amendment to the revenue bill which permits the sale of the weed by the grower, to the value of $100, free of tax. T. H. Foster, a jeweler, was arrested In Montgomery, Ala., the other day on a ■charge of theft.. He sent a number of watches off by express and reported to Um police that he had been robbed. In the House of Commons on the 25th the Speaker read a message from the Queen announcing the calling out of the Reserves in consequence of the troubles in Egypt. One of the assassins of Lord Frederick Cavendish has been arrested in Venezuela. He gives the names of his accomplices. He has been sent td Caracas. The iron ore. unloaders at South Chicago have struck, and the soenes of the Jolt41 strike are likely to be repeated unless a Compromise is offered. 'Mr. and Mrs. Jakes Zower, of Hudson, Miohj, have just discovered at Oenoa, Ohio, a daughter abducted from , them fifteen years ago, when a mere child. The French Minister of Marine has proposed a credit of 9,500,000 francs for the protection of the Suez Canal. Da Lesseps telegraphs that Arabi Pasha has declared his intention to respeet the neutrality of the canal. Spain will send one frigate to Port Said, one to Suez, and another to Ismailia. There are twenty war-ships, half of them English, in the harbor of Alexandria. The Sixtieth Regiment occupied Ramieh, where a skirmish took place with the cavalry of Arabi Rasha. The fort of Aboukir, which flies a flag of truce, is being

neia in toe interest or Arab!. General Adye has gone to Paris to consult In regard to the allied expedition. The English in* fantry will embark for Alexandria August I * > and the cavalry five days later. The Khedive has signed a degree declaring Arab! Pasha a rebel, and forbidding -the people to pay him taxes. The Mahmoudieh Canal has fallen fourteen inches. The mail steamer from Constantinople has been embargoed on suspicion of carrying letters to Arabi Pasha, and is guarded by four British steam launches. A proclamation by the Khedive asks the people to assist the,. English in promoting the real interests of Egypt. The troop-ship Malabar, with eleven hundred British infantry and a battery, arrived at Alexandria. There are jsaid to be eight thousand destitute persons camping in the gardens at Cairo. A dispatch from Constantinople says the Porte has decided to send troops to Egypt. Hkrr Mkiling, arrested for selling plans of the coast defenses of Germany to the Russian Government, has been sentenced to six years* imprisonment at hard labor. ▲ conflagration at Radziwillow, Russia, swept away three hundred houses And left, three thousand persons heme:less.'~ • V ■'-t.". John Smith, alias James Hogan, who killed David Snodgrass, Msrshsl of Crestline, Ohio, has been sentenced to the Penitentiary for life. The steamer Rainbow, of the Louisville & Henderson Packet Company, sunk near Louisville on the 23th. No lives lost. Evert polygamist in Utah is now living opeply with only one wife, having stowed away the others 'against the advent of the commission. President Arthur has referred to the Secretary of War a petition from the Garfield Club of New York, bearing 49,000 signatures, for the pardon of Sergeant Mason. A wild storm broke over St. Paul, Minn., the other day, uprootlug trees and shattering windows. Several sail-boats were capsized at Minnetonka. An ex-Alderman of Brooklyn, N. Y., named James Dnnne, is matched to fight Tug Wilson for $2,300 a side and the championship of the world. Joseph Sayers, an inmate of the Central Prison at Toronto, Cana., was given twepty-five lashes on the bare back the other day for assaulting a young girl.

CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. There was a lively debate over a proposition to eliminate all general legislation from the naval bill, in the Senate on ' the 27th. The Douse passed the bill granting /•the ’Frisco Railway right -ot way through t’hoctaw lands. An official telegram dated Cairo, Jnly 26,' says: “Volunteers are arriving from Upper and Lower Egypt. Some chiefs of the Bedouins, who prior to the bombardment were known as partisans ot the Khedive, have promised fidelity, and all the best class of Mussulmans, including the princes ami princesses ot the Khedive’s family now in Cairo, are aiding the rebel Government.” The wife of a farmer living near Brownsville, Neb., has been delivered ot a child with fonr arms and four legs. The monstrosltv D alive and seems to be perfectly healthy. Sue rotary . Chandler is satisfied that Rear-Admiral. Nicholson, commanding the European Station, had acted in a discreet and proper manner in all he had done for the protection ot American interests at Alexandria. The new Superintendent of the Mint in San Francisco has given the position of Adjustel to Miss Sarah Brown, the daughter of old John Brown, ot Harper’s Ferry tame. An explosion of giant powder near Chicago, on the 27th, shattered windows for miles around. Four- or five persons were injured. The steamer Fanchon, running in the Atchafalaya trade in place of the ill-fated "Wilson, exploded her boiler on the 26th. She had about twenty-five passengers on board, most ot whom were drowned. Yellow Fever has appeared in quite . a bad form et Campeche, Mexico. At San Franoboo,on the 26th,- Samuel Saohs, a millionaire dry goods merchant, ahot his wife. The act was instigated by Jealousy . The wound is not dangerous. At Grand Rapids, Mich., the other day, a worthless tramp named John Qoggtns killed his wife, with whom he- had not been living for several years, because she would not surrender a little money she had succeeded in scraping together., A band of forgers have been working the small b%nks in the interior of Pennsylvania. They did not aucceed in getting much. Under the legislative, executive and Judicial appropriation bill, the oterlcal force of the War Department will be increased something over 300. For these clerkships tliere are already over 2,000 applications on file. A tornado swept through a belt of country half a mile wide in Durham and Orange Counties. North Carolina, the ether day, doing great damage.

A FATAL DUEL. Two Men Hot Upon the "IbMat Bn«r* In Virgin**—The CumoTUm MeetlngAw Irregular Kneomitrr—Joarph Addison, Who Appeared aa the Champion ot a Toons Xatdy, Fatally Wounded hr He* Alleged Slanderer—The Toons Ladyf Baltimore, Mil, July 8h A special from Bctersburg,' Vu, fives the true details at the duet between Richard Garland, of Virginia, and Joooph Addison, of Baltimore, which took place a few days ago. and which resulted in the killing at the tatter after numerous shots had been exchanged. The duel occurred near the little town of Lnnectiers, Va., and owins to the lack of triegraphlo faculties the particulars of the fight and what mused it remained a secret until Un-day-It now appears that Addison challenged Garland because the latter persisted in making reflections on Addison's fiancee. Miss Mamie L. Hatchett, a member of one of the ?, f. TVs The first step which led to the death of young Addison was taken by Miss Hatchett on June 35. when it appears she was informed by Addison ot the reflections upon her character placed in circulation by Garland. The young lady, in hot indignation, immediately wrote a letter, wh'ch she gave to Addison to dettrer to Garland, In w hich she warned Garland to keep his tongue quiet so far as her name was concerned; if be did not ahewoukl place the affair In other hands, and should act-answer for the rest. Addison indorsed the letter and forwarded It to Garland, accompanied by n note stating: " If you should feel aggrieved at the contents therein, which I have carefully read and im dorsed, you may remember that i t any time 1 advocate her cause, and hold myself personally accountable for her words.” Nothing further was heard fr-im Garland, and many supposed the affair had blown over. A week or so afterward, however. Miss Hatchett heard of Garland having repeated hia previous slander, to the effect that she had permitted him to kiss her, and immediately complained to Addison. The latter then wrote a formal challenge to Garland, who replied, accepting it, and the preliminaries were arranged by Messrs. W. W. Boswelil, acting for Garland, and John Banes, who was the second of Addison. What occurred after the young

men reached the appointed ground in detailed in the following statement, which the seoonds to-day prepared for publication; ‘ Garland armed himself with a tour-barreled, thirty-two-caliber pistol, and Addison with a fire-shot thirty-two caliber p'stoL After Mr. Addison was informed at the mill by Mr.' Boswell that Mr. Garland was waiting, he proceeded to meet Garland, being accompanied by three friends—Messrs. Orgain, Banes and Jones. Mr. Addison and friends walked some thirty yards ahead of Mr. Sewell, Garland’s friend. Mr. Boswell commenced to recite the whole cause of the misunderstanding between Garland and Addison, with the purpose of having the matter settled without difficulty between the principals. Before Mr. Boswell liud got into the merits of the case Mr. Addison and his friends halted and engaged Mr. Boswell iu conversation. Mr. Boswell then rode some forty yards ahead, and the Addison party followed till they reached the ground, when they were met by Mr. Garland and a friend named Roche. Messrs. Garland and Addison, were Introduced to each other. Mr. Garland, speaking first, proceeded to ask Addison some question, which was interrupted by the latter, who, in a frenay of rage, drew back h Is right arm as though tastrike Garland, who placed his haud on h:s hip-pocka* for his pistol. Addison at this jumped baqk and said: “None of that.” Garland hesitated, whereupon Addison drew his pistol from an inside coat-pocket and fired quiokly. The ballstruek Garland an the left arm, a few Inches below the ellbow. Addison snapped his pistol again before Garland could return his fire. Both beg :n firi ng then In rapr id succession. Addison snapping his pistol, wh'eh did not fire. Addison stepped backward at every discharge, and when about twelve steps from-Garland he got behind a tree, shooting, or attempting to shoot, from behind it The seconds, it is needless to say, scattered in every direction. Garland's pistol being empty, he called to Boswell to haud him hts (Boswell's) pistol, which Boswell did. Garland made ready to fire the fresh pistol, when AddJieon called out from the tree: ’^JJnfalr, gentlemen. My pistol is either empty or falls to fire.” Garland then said: “ Hare you got enough?" and Addison replied: “I have.’’ Garland thou lowered the pistol of Boswell, which he had not fired, saying: “I am satisflel if you are.” Addison Walked up toward Garland and said: “Gentlemen, lam done for; lam shot in the bowels.” Garland said to Addison: “1 am sorry for you, but you have no one to blame but you3elf,” to which Addison rejoined: “AU l regret Is that 1 tun unable to accommodate you further.” Their friends then conducted them from the field. Addiso t died the same night, and Garland was arrested and is now in jail. The spiee of romance attaching to the meeting lends it additional interest, and there has not been a duel In Virginia for years which has attracted so much attention. Miss Hatchett, the young lady concerned, had been ill ever since the death of her champion, and is represented by her friends as bemg wild with remorse. She reproaches herself with having caused Addison s death, and serious fears are entertained for her life, as site threatens to commit suicide. The feeling against Garland is very strong, and he will doubtless have to serve a long term in the penitentiary for his crime. Arab! Pasha’s Activity. It is gradually being admitted by the British Journals that Arab! Pasha is constantly receiving troops both from within and wvChont the city of Alexandria. He baa already enlisted a large contingent of Bedouins, who gave in their adhesion to him as the Khedive’s representative. Nor is he always confined to hit oamp. He has been heard from in various other {daces. Ha makes long and rapid Journeys in various directions, sometimes toward IsmaUia on the canal, andnot (infrequently, it is said, westward, toward the Libyan desert By this route he expects to be joined by El Mehid, the so-called false prophet This person is said to be at least ROM miles away to the south of Alexandria, but to be advancing northward by fdiced marches toward Cairo. His arrival is, of course, eagerly looked for by Arab), who is stated to have a too otpeh uiffipje standing with him. As the prophet advances the rumors are that thousands of Mussulmans flock tii his standard. It is believed the farther north he presses, and thus the nearer he cornea to the more populous parts of Bgypt, that the whole Mohammedan population wilt go bodily over to him, and either force the Copts and other Christians to do the same or put them to death. In the meantime, file opponents of the Ministry in England, and even the subordinate officers of the fleet at Alexandria, openly declare against the detain following Arabl up and dispersing his force, especially since it has been found that said force is being so rapidly recruited.—CMeaoo *fnmfiw Mm. We ts.

—Commanders of Hudson River steamers have been prohibited by the Treasury Department ■from using the products of coal oil or petroleum as stores for illuminating or other pur* poses. An order has also been issued prohibiting steamers from carrying hay or straw as freight.—JV T. Herald. —A Texas elopement party was made up of three couples, ranging m age from fifteen to twenty years. One pair was composed of a daughter of the editor of the Waco Examiner and the daughter of the Episoopal pastor at that place. They fled to the Indian nation, and got married all at a time. —The Western tornadoes kill at long range. Mrs. Gifford of Westfield. N. Y., was so frightened at ah approach* ing storm, recently, recollecting the frequent recent devastations in the West, that she urged her family to take to the oellar, and fell dead from her chair.— Detroit Font. —It is said that the total cost of the Malley trial foots up nearly $30,000. And it all came about from a girl refusing to heed the good advice of a moth* er.— pettvit free fast,

The First Stroke of paign Work. The first stroke of Republican campaign work, as usual, is fo levy blackmail on the office-holders. Toe Congressional Campaign Committee has assessed the officers of the two houses of Congress, from the clerks down to the page boys, a per centre of their salaries. This was followedby a similar assessment of the rest of the ninety thousand persons who hold office tinder the United States Government. There is a Federal statute against the collection of moneys from officers and employes of the United States Government under which General A. M. Curtis. Treasurer of the Republican State Committee of New York, suffered conviction the other day. But this statute is easily evaded and is not at all likely to stand in the way of the collecting' agents of the Congressional Committee. A polite request is made by that committee for contributions from the office-holders and they get some very polite and significant hints from Administrative sources that the safety of their official heads will depend on a favorable response on their part to the request of the committee. The' office-holders will contribute, as they have- done in the past, some of themjsiliingly, others under constraint, only a small number probably possessing sufficient courage to refuse. The average sum levied np6n each of them will not be ifess than ten dollars and the aggregate will probably reach threequarters of a million. Thas the people in their efforts to turn the Republican party out of power find their own taxes converted into a corrupt but powerful agency for the defeat of their purpose. The salaries paid out of the revenues wrung from the taxpayers are tithed by the Republican Congressional Committee to create a fund to be employed in thwarting the taxpayers’ will. Even the salt in the poor man’s meat and the sugar on his table contribute to swell the coffers of the Republican campaign managers. And this, blackmailing of the taxpayers through the office-holders for the support of Republican campaigns has been going on for years. It is a safe estimate to put the aggregate of the moneys squeezed out of the earnings of the people in this way by the Republican party during the last fifteen years at ten millions m dollars. This is rather an extravagant sum to pay for the privilege of being misgoverned, though there is eyen a stronger objection to the policy of assessing office-holders for political purposes than that based qa its cost to the people in dollars and cents. It teaches

tne omce-hoidej himself that the governing power is not exercised by the people so much as bv the managing politicians who corruptly control' elections. It suggests to him that as his party can rob niifi of a portion of. his salary with impunity he may be tected-by his party in robbing the ernment in turn. Still more and w it is aimed at the integrity of the voters and the parity of the ballot-box. The immense sums that are raised by contributions levied on the office-holders are not exhausted in the payment of printing bills and, the distribution of. documents. Closely contested States and Congressional Districts have been literally bought Up more than once by money collected by assessments on the officers and employes of the United States Government The Republican plan of conducting moneyed campaigns is therefore simply damnable from the moral point of view. It should be the subject of denunciation in every honest, newspaper and a text to every teacher of sound morality in the land. —Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot. Hedging the Assessment Question. There seems to be a disposition on the part of our Half-breed contemporaries to flee from the ryrath to come, or in more vulgar parlance to hedge, with respect to the assessment question. They are full of virtuous protest against the t£e of the circulars sent out by the Repuwican Congressional Committee^' but the work still goes bravely on. As a rul% the Half-breed organs are in syffipRhy with the Half-breed leaders, bntajra do not see how they can take ition to the blackmailing document that Is sent with merciless impartiality to laborers, errand boys, widows and orphans in Government employ, and still claim to be in harmony with some of the most prominent men in their faction. For the Congressional Committee is by no means of exclusive Stalwart composition. “My dear Hubbell” was a Garfield man when Garfield was alive, whatever he may be with Garfield dead. Henderson has Blaine leanings, at least, when Blaine is mending fences instead of building houses, and the three Senators, Halo, Allison and Aidrich, would hardly consent to be held up as representing the Stalwart wing of the party. But the Secretary signs the circular “by order of the Committee,*’ a unanimous order so far as the circular shows, or so far as we -have any outside light to to by. In short, we do not see how the Admhiistration can be held primarily responsible for this dirty business, juQrway. The victims ire directly or indirectly of Federal appointment, it is tree, and must look to the President or bis immediate subordinates for sacrifice

or protection; but the blackmailers are Congressmen. They belong to the legislative branch in which the Halfbreeds claim that their Representatives largely outnumber the Republicans of the Stalwart, stripe. It would hardly seem fair should the Half-breed organs succeed in making capital opt of the disgrace for which they are most largely responsible. Moreover, in this sudden assumption of virtue there is something suspicious. If assessments are right in principle it is no worse to levy them in an “off year” than it is in a Presidential campaign. It may show that the ex igencies of the party are greater than usual, but not that its methods are any worse—only put to a little harder service In short, we have natural objections to seeing the Half-breed scheme fear eating the party cake and keeping it, too, succeed. The Half-breed organs know as well as do the Stalwarts that, they have enjoyed at least eight years of power which they would not have enjoyed except they had employed this and other forms of moral compulsion, and in the excitement of another campaign they will use the same bridge again, with e fervent prayer that it may not be too rotten to carry them over.—Boston Post. —A young doctor who found himself in a Dakota village without a dollar to pay a heavy boara bill concoted a plan by which a wandering tramp played the art of a small-pox patient, and *ho doctor vacoinatea the entire population of the town with some innocuous acid at two dollars each. The swindle was discovered too late, for the enterprising physician and his bogns patient skipped ontwith $300 apiece.—Chicago inter Octctn. —In the middle of June the snow lay thick at Balmoral, Scotland, and the cold waa intense. Snaw also fell in llfwhire Mtd In Norfolk, England

WE ARE THE SAINTS. The earth is for saints, ami the fullness thereof. And we lire the saints, beyond question; . Though this to outsiders may see in rather rough. And trouble their sleep and digestion. The party's united, as clearly yon sea, And that, I am sure, is no wonder; FOr why shouldn't people unite and agree When moved by such promise of plunder? Combining our force in tbe usual way. The surplus we gallantly captured; Whatever the mass of the party may say. The leaders are highly enraptured. There's scarcely a chance that our fellows have missed. In rivers and harbors and pensions; And all through the session the tax-eating list Has grown to enormous dimensions. The people, you think, are beginning to kick? Is that what you want to be saying? Beforerwe^et through they'll have cause to You don't know the cards wb are playing. We’Ve got it down One from the census reports— > The tistuf legitimate voters, . Of all t ie persuasions, complexions and sorts, Including thejiarkies and floaters. We mean to, have offices, contracts, and such, To ie the majority to us; And then, with our money, no matter how much. Twill puzzle the rest to undo us. —SI T. Sun.

fortunate l'ennsjlrania. The Pennsylvania Democrats bars been unusually fortunate this year. Their State Convention lias been conducted with perfect harmony; the spirit of the party is everywhere enthusiastic, and every independent voter in the Keystone State, even without. the help of the outspoken platform, would recognise the ticket nominated at Harrisburg as the only effectual rallying-point of the opposition to “bosses” m this year of revolts. Not one of all the candidates named aft Harrisburg was so much as tainted with a suspicion of “bossism.” The nominee for Governor, Comptroller Robert E. Pattison, of Philadelphia, was elected to the important office which he now tills in 1877, running somewhat ahead of his ticket, but as the Republicans were then staggering under the weight of the Haves fraud of 1876, this fact attracted little attention. Mr. Pattison made so good a Comptroller, he so distinguished himself by nis keen attention to the' public interest and his fearless opposition to all sorts of jobbery, that, notwithstanding some unpopularity with one wing of his own party, he was irenominated in 1880, and soon developed into such a formidable candidate that the Ring Republican standard-bearer was hastily withdrawn and a safer nominee substituted. Mr. Pattison, however, was re-elected by an overwhelming majority, running 17,000 votes, or about twenty-five per cent, ahead of the Hancock Electors, and carrying the’ city by 13,000 votes, while the other Democratic nominees were defeated by 20,000 votes. This notable circumstance led the Worid to commend Mr. Pattison last year to the Democrats of Pennsylvania San eligible nominee for Treasurer. e has now. been selected as the Gubernatorial candidate of the party even in preference to so strong and popular a Democrat as Mr. Eckley Coxe, of Luzerne, and this selection gives the country theheet’possible assurance that the Democrats of Pennsylvania have no idea of aiding the Camerons. It will encourage the Independents to continue their warfare, since not the most timid of reformers can excuse hi inself for failing to support Mr. Pattison by alleging that the interests of the State would be safer iu the hands of General Beaver. It will be said of course here and there that Mr. Pattison’s reputation is purely Philadelphian, and that he may suffer as a candidate from the long-standing divorce between the city and the rural districts. But it must be remembered that only through the vote of Philadelphia has. the Keystone State been kept in the Republican column, and Mr. Pattison has already shown himself capable of making a formidable inroad upon the Republican majority. -From still another point of view Mr. Pattison’s nomination is to be commended. The Harrisburg Convention is the first great Democratic gathering of the year. It has assembled just at the moment when the country is asking itself where the audacious extravagance of the Republican majority in Congress is to end, and what curb can be put upon the impudent disregard of decency and of efficiency in the Civil Service displayed by the Republican National Committee and the Republican Administration. Mr. Pattison’s nomination proves that on the great living issue of economical and business-like government the Democrats are sound Tieyond Seradventure. Ex-Speaker Randall’s enunciations of Republican recklessness on the floor of Congress are echoed at Harrisburg bv the nomination of a public officer of proved capacity and integrity, whose strength with the independent and respectable voters of his State overlaps the lines of his own party. In this sense the nomination is a matter of National interest, and should it ripen into an election, those who remember the political events of 1852 will not be surprised to see it become a matter of National importance. Democrats all over the country will do well to invite Republicans all over the country to compare the standard-bearer of the Democracy in Pennsylvania with his rival,- the agent of a “boss,” committed by a machine convention to the policy of “Addition, Division and Silence,” and pledged against reform in all its phases and shapes.—.y. F. World.

—New York City has the youngest burglar on record. He is eight years old and his plain unvarnished name is George Johnson. He was arrested in company with thieves much older than himself, and when questioned as to what part he played in the depredations, said: “I’d be a fly an’ pipe off the perlice while de udder fellers were working the inside racket.” When-asked what he did when strangers approached he replied: •• Yell ‘Cops,’ an’ skip de gutter. ” Instead of lockingthe hoy up the “perlice” sent him home to be spanked and put to bed.—N. Y. Herald. ---— —An Allentown Constable recently saw some suspicious looking characters, one of them masked, dividing some money behind an old stone quarry. Being a Constable he thought they had earned the money, and were merely wearing masks to keep their noses warm. He was afterward greatly surpised to hear that a farmer had been robbed. No arrests. —Philadelphia News. —James Fogarty, of Chicago, tried to eat three quarts of peanuts-in twenty minutes on a bet of $5, and it took a surgeon a whole hour to get the shucks out of his throat and call him the biggest hog in America. • _ —A too funny man named Bristol threw a chew of tobacco to an elephant attached to a circus, exhibiting at Cleveland, Oswego County, N. Y., and ba rely escaped being killed by the enraged animal. , _ —There is a postmaster in Louisiana named Takeaway, but he only takes away a salary of $85 per year.

RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL. —Kansas boasts four women among her County School Superintendents. —The membership of the Protestant Christian Churches in Syria has doubled within the last lire years. —The grounds, buildings and apparatus of the universities and colleges of the United States are valued at $39,623,434.—Chicwjo Herald. —In India there are-no less than thir-ty-four different Protestant Missionary Societies. Of these twenty-three are European and eleven American. -t-Mts. Josephine Louise Newcomb, of New York, has contributed $20,000 to the library building, fund of Washington and Lee Umvt«rsity. Lexington, Va. Her late husband, Warren Newcomb, a few years ago gave $10,000 f x the same object—-iUTf Herald. —Concerning the ringing of church bells, the Christian at Work says: “if some people don’t like the ringing, cotton is still abundant, and a supply can easily be had for filling the cavity of the auricular tragus and lobule, so as to exclude ’the vicious vibrations of the terrible eedesiologjeal tocsin.” —Rev. Dr. Bums, the Canadian “heretic” who sinned by writing a letter of sympathy to Dr. Thomas, of Chicago, and expressing agreement in his views, has been unanimously aequittted by the Wesleyan Methodist Church of Canada, which does not see wherein he is guilty of heresy.—Springfield {Mass.) Republican. —-In Baltimore. Md., a handsome new Methodist Kpicopal Church has been dedicated in memory of Rpbert Stravvbridge, the first preacher of .that denomination in America. The desk is made of wood taken from the first church built by Mr. Strawbritke in Carrol County, Md., in 1794, and tho other pulpit furniture from the oak tree under which he- preached before there was any “meeting house.”—-SL Louis Globe. —The doctrine of sinless perfection was discussed in the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, lately held at Huntsville, Ala. Some congregations of this denomination have gone’as far as the Free Methodists in professions of perfect living. A revision committee advised that liberty of conscience be allowed on that subject, but by a large vote'the following was adopted: “The doetrine of sinless perfection is not authorised by the Scriptures, and is"* dogma of dangerous tendency.”—AT. F. San, —There are 537 churches in Philadelphia—a figure which entitles that town 11 to be called “the city of churches” in contradistinction to Brooklyn, and the assessed valuation of this property, according to the official report just 'published, is $17,000,000. The largest valuation is that of the Roman Catholic Cathedral ($285,000), and the next largest the Jewish Synagogue on Broad street ($220,000). These figures, of course, represent only a percentage of tho actual values, but in tho eity of brotherly love.—N. Y. Times.

How to Walk. It may seem at first ridiculous to pretend to -teach grown people how to walk as though they had not learned this in infancy. But we are willing to venture the assertion that not one person in twenty knows how to walk well. How few people there are who do not feel slightly embarrassed when obliged to walk across a large room in which are many person? seated so as to observe welfeaeh movement; How many public speakers there are who appear well upon the platform so long as they remain standing still, or nearly so, but who become almost ridiculous as soon as they attempt to walk about. Good walkers are scarce. As we step along the street, we tire often looking out for good walkers, and we find them very seldom. What is good walking? We answer, easy, graceful, natural walking. Nearly all the good walkers there are will be. found among gentlemen, since fashion insists on, so trammeling a woman that she cannot walk well, can scarcely make a natural movement, in fact. To walk naturally, requires the harmonious action of nearly every muscle in the body. A good walker walks all over; not with a .universal swing and swagger, as though each bone was a pendulum with its own separate hanging, but easy, gracefully. Not only the muscles of the lower limbs, but those of the trunk, even of the neck, as well as those of the arms, are all called into action as natural walking. A person who keeps his trunk ami tipper extremities rigid while walking, gives one the impression of au automaton with pedal extremities set on hinges. Nothing could be snore ungraceful than the mineing, wriggling gait which the majority of youngladies exhibit in their walk. They are scarcely to be held responsible, however, since, fashion requires them to dress themselves in such a way as to make it impossible to walk otherwise than awkwardly, and unnaturally. 1 We cannot attempt to describe the numerous varieties of unnatural gaits, and will leave the subject with a fewsuggestions about correct walking. 1. Hold the head erect, with the shoulders drawn back .and the chin drawn in. Nothing looks more awkward and disagreeable than a person walking with the head thrown back and the nose and chin elevated.

2. Step lightly and with elasticity— not with a teetering gait— setting the foot down squarely upon the walk and raising it sufficiently high to clear the walk m swinging it forward. A shuffling gait denotes a shiftless character. But do not go to the other extreme, stepping along like a horse with “string. halt.” A person with a firm, light,' elastic gait, will walk much farther without weariness than one who shuffles along. A kind of measured tread or rhythm in *he walk also seems to add to the power of endurance, although, for persons who have long distances to travel, an occasional change in the time will be advantageous. 8. In walking, do not attempt to keep any part of the body rigid, but leave all free to adapt themselves to the varyiug circumstances which a constant change of position occasions. The arms naturally swing gently, but not violently. The object of this is to maintain the balance of the body, as also by the gentle swinging motion to aid m propelling the body along. Correct walking should be cultivated. It ought to be taught along with arts and sciences. In our military schools it is taught; but these schools can be at tended by but few. Invalids, especially, should take* great pins to learn to walk well, as by so doing-they will gain more than double the amount of benefit they will otherwise derive from the erercise.— Sqme Ewul-&9Qh

FACTS AND FIGURES. —Confederate $1,000 bills hare lately been selling in Atlanta, Ga., for $9, and $100 bills for 25 cents. —During the past fiscal year 46,633 agricultural patents were issued from the General Land Office at Washington. —Chicago Journal. s-'-—A statistician estimates that the people of the United States have topay twenty-three dollars a minute for Congress while In session. , —The crops of cotton and corn in Texas will be the largest ever raised in the State. The acreage of cotton is 28,450 acres over last year, and of corn 40,850 acres.—St- Louis —The root and herb establishment in Carroll County, Va., is said to be the largest bn this continent, 8,000 pounds of roots being taken in every week. Within a radios of thirty miles there are over 2,000 varieties of medicinal flora, of which over 1,200 specimens have been collected. —The Sues Canal is one of the most valuable pieces of property in the world. The net profits last year were over $5,000,000. This was an increase of over 28 ptr cent, over the profits of the previous year. Each ship that passes through the canal pays a little over 20 cents a ton. —N Y. Herald. —During the past six months 92 persons, aged 90 and upward, died in Philadelphia. Of thesa 17 were men and 75 were women. Five of the women were centenarians, and one man, the oldest of the lot, was James MeTague, who had reached the 'age of 109. There were also 178 men and 311 women who were 80 or beyond it when death'called them away. These statistics prove that women are the longest lived.—Philadelphia Jteeord. —The coal-fields of Alabama cover 10,860 square miles, and the ceal is all bituminuoug, but differs widely in quality. The best coal in the State, and in fact in the United States, being fully equal to English cannel coal, is thq Monteva’lo coal. No industry in the State has had so rapid a growth as the coal industry. In.1872 only 10,000 ton* were mined in the State; in 1879 the annual output had been swelled to 290,000 tons; in 1880 to 340,000 tons, and in 1381 to 400,000 tons.—Chicago Times. ' —The overseers of the poor in Boston, have $525,828 in trust funds, the income of which is annually distributed for specific purposes, in accordance with the desires of the donors, or disposed of by the overseers for the best interests of those whom they deem entitled to receive it. Thi largest of these funds is the “ David Sears charity,” amounting to $260,645. Other large funds are tne Boylston education fund, amounting to $126,131, ajjd the Pemberton general fund, amounting to $104,602.

WIT AND WISDOM, —Shallow men believe in lucfcj strong men believe in -tause and effect. —You can have what you like in this world, if you will but like what yon ‘My Jear, I think I'll buy you a little dog. 1 t>Oh. no!” -she replied, "do not! I prefer giving you all my affeotions!”—/Voj/rcss. —Here lu.4 a man whose earthly race Is run; He ntiS'il the hammer of a towllmr min. And blow into the muzzle Just because He wished to know it it was loaded—and It —SomtrviSe Journal. —Mr. Editor: Will you please answer who was “David’3 wile’s mother?'* and you will greatly oblige a reader.—Lis-' zio. Certainly, with pleasure. David’s wife’s mother was David’s mother-in-law.—Philadelphia News. —An accordeon factory at 1.. ng Island, N. Y., was destroyed by lire a few days ago. The police are looking for the incendiary. It is supposed the peo-, pie want to present him with a valuable testimonial.—Norristown Herald. —Gus De Smith Called at a very fashionable house on Austin avenue a few days ago and acted so queerly that when that lady’s husband came home, she said: "What is the matter with young De Smith? He acted so strangely. 1 think there must be a screw loose about him somewhere.” ‘'Reckon not. I saw him this morning, and he was tight all over.”— Texas Siftings. —A store up-town has a sigh which reads: “This is a tin-stcfre.” An old inebriate staggered in recently, and after a good deal of fumbling in his pocket, put five cents on the counter. “What do yon want?” asked the proprietor, indignantly. “ Wa-wa-want a-a d-d-d-drink!” “This is not a liquor saloon!” said the proprietor, with awful emphasis. “Wha-wha-what!” said the drunken man, astonished. “Why, Jcf-Jo-Jones said I could get a horn here!”— A*, f. Tribune. —A good adviser says; “Next to the love of her husband, nothing so crowns a woman’s life with honor as the devotion of a son to her. We never knew a boy to turn out badly who began by falling in love with his mother. Any man may fall in love with a fresh-faced girl, and the man who is gallant to the girl may cruelly neglect the poor and weary wife in after years. But the big boy at middle who is a lover of his mother i age is a true knight, who will love his wife in the sere-leaf autumn as he did iu the daisied spring. There is nothing so beautifully chivalrous as the love of a big boy for his mother. Boys, think of this.”

Sympathetic and Combative. “ It is not often that' one finds the sympathetic and combative elements of Irish character more finely blended than they are in the following story: “Teddy Kelly was employed as a section hand on a railroad, in an unguarded moment he undertook to occupy the main track instead of allowing the priority to an express train that waa overdue. After the train passed it waa discovered that Teddy had been disfigured almost beyond recognition. His Emerald coadjutors gathered around the remains, bemoaned the untimely taking off of their comrade, and remarked what a pity it was that the poor fellow should have been so horribly mangled. After their flood of grief had spent its force it was suggested that one of their number be sent to break the sad news as tenderly as possible to Mrs. Kelly. Mr. Patrick Dolan was unanimously elected to perform this mournful service. He hurriedly betook himself to the Kelly mansion and knocked at the door with enough severity to suggest the hurling of a young thunderbolt. In a few moments the woman of the house was in the presence pf the visitor, and the following conversation occurred: •• Dolan-* Is the Widdv KeUy inf’ "Woman—'No; the Widdy Kelly does’nt Eve here, but I’m Mrs. Kelly•‘Dolan—‘You're a liar, for the ourree is just cornin’ aroond thp ooynerP Our CotUiitetU,