Pike County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 44, Petersburg, Pike County, 16 March 1883 — Page 1

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PKE COMITY DEMOCRAT. OF 1XX DIM NEATLY EXECUTED REASONABLE RATES. NOTICE! \ Person* reoelvlL *» copr of the pnper irith this notice crossed l*? leadpeneil are notified that the time of their suuvaipUoa has exulted

NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Various Sources.

:e Commission. : iwm Constantinople aoe is endeavoring to arPKRSONAL AND NlT.TTlnil., Tiik Commissioner of Internal Revenue has decided that bank taxes mutt be paid up to the time the new aot lakes effect. Secretary Folgrr has giteu instructions that the word “cents” be placed on the new five-coot pieces,In ordar to meet ^Jhe requirements of law. James Gikeillan, Treasurer of the United States, has tendered his resignation to the Pi-esidont, to take effect the 1st proximo. The Pennsylvania Senate has passed a bill to forfeit the franchises of teleurarph companies that consolMate with competing lines. Herr Zerring, who was commissioned by the Prussian Government to examine and report upon American methods of agriculture, arrived in Washington, D. C., on the Ctlt, and Will visit this principal cities of this country in fulfillment of Ms mission. • , Judge Thoman has notified the PresIdent of his acceptance of the appointment on the Civil-Service.Commission. A telegram says Minister Wallace_„_ range better terms for petroleum Importations into Turkey, Du.Garcelon, ex-Governor of Maine, Jlhas been elected Mayer of Lewiston. The Michigan Demon ratio State Convention met at Lansing on the'Tth gad nominated John W. Chainpltn for Judge oi the Supreme Court, long term, and Arthur L. Clark for Regent of the State University. The nominations for Judge for. the short term and second Regent were left for the Grcenbackers, who-were formally Invited to unite with the Democrats on the basis of such Joint ticket. Dr. Isaac L. Nicholson, Rector of St. Mark’s Church, Philadelphia, Pa., has been elected Bishop of Indiana. All the furnaco, rolling mills and other works tif the Bethlehem Iron Company, Allentown, Pa., employing000 men, were in full blast on the 7th. ' i Governor Butler, of Massachusetts, lately vetoed a bill to incorporate the Union Safe Deposit Vauke,and the message, though written and aigned on the 23d df February, was dated the 26lh, when R reached the House;' On that day Governor Butler was beyond the state lines, and,-un-der the Constitution, was uol Governor. A nice law point was thus raised as to the constitutionality of the veto. The Maine Senate has passed, fifteen to nine, the hill making the punishment tor murder death. Nineteen nations were represented iu the recent trade-mark convention at Paris, I^rance. - ~ Tiir Arkansas House of Representtstlves has defeated the bill compelling all railroads in tho State to reduce passenger fare. The British House of Commons on the 7th passed to second read ing a bill to prevent the shooting of trapped pigeons. The Kansas Legislature finished its business at 11:39 oif the'Sih, passed the fisual resolutions and adjourned sifitrdlf ."— The anti-Monopolists of Nebraska have raised 1130,000 to publish a new morning paper at Lincoln. The Georgia Democratic State Executive Committee has called aconvention to meet at Atlanta, April 10, to nominate a candidate for Governor. The funeral of Ex-Governor Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, took place on the 8th. A State Convention has been called by the * Kentucky Republicans, to meet in Lexington, May 23, ouo week later than the Dcinneratic Convention* which meets at Louisville. The Greenbaokers of Michigan met in convention at Lansing on the Sth iarf accepted the proposition at the Democrats to unite on a joint ticket. Thomas C. Slferwood was nominated for.Supreme Judge, to fid vacancy, and Charles J. Willett for second 0 Regent of the University. * A. E. Kent, of San Franciseo,' Cal., oft he class of ’53, has given Yale College $(10,000 to be used in erecting a chemical laboratory. In defense of Mr. Parnell against the charges of Mr. Forster, It was stated that Immediately after the Phoenix Park assassinations the former drew up an address announcing his retirement from publia life, and was only prevailed upon to withhold it Uy the most earnest request of his party associates.

CHIMBS AX'D At Philadelphia, J*a., a tfavafer homed Jesse Williams laid his saohel oW a bench in the Pennsylvania Railroad'Depot the other day and went to get ilunch. When be returned the saohel, containing $7,000 and a gold watch, was missing. J Tue Chester (Pa.) ttrand Jury, has indicted Colonel Theodore Hyatt, Principal of the Pennsylvania M|Utary Academy, for alleged psault aiid' nnlatvhinmpfilofiment of a pupil. . B. F. Pritchard, of Washington, D. C., has been placed upon the postal fraud list, lie advertised himself as a pension iind patent attorney, when, in faet, he had been debarred from practice before ail of the Executive Departments. Julius Marcus, a New York broker, was missing from that tsitr-j number of customer** we something lHte#.V),000, - At Cleveland, O., a sc* some men were at worried ing and John Lube Watflati At Wilmot, O., apt Balcom’s pipe set her other day and she wag burned (# death. It was reported on the Oth tliat the imprisoned Spanish Socialist wire reahiving aid from mvslerloutkfouri#*., . ' Xh* dead body of Frank Hunter found in a water-tank ngaf ‘MAMilon? O? the other day and bla wife', her fithej; and several relatives had been attested on s*Bt piclon Of having murdered Ufa. u * F. H. Pitt, Secretary qf the Mnw. lar Mutual Benefit Association of flint, Mich., has been arrested on a charge of making assessments upon lh*uibeaaAii..aek count of fictitious death*. Aw old farmer namew^:.J?’wing, liviug near Somerville, ffJj Kas- frightened to death the other night by aome boys who fired a pistol near him iahphft.<' *IH 0 Joan Vouor rushed, back inboihtt burning Wabash House, in Defiance, O., recently, to save his property and perished In the flames. Arran serving twenty-eight yegnj under a life sentence for murdor, Samuel Ulman was the other day pardoned out of the Michigan Penitentiary, hi* innocence of bo charge against him having boon fully established. The police seized n number of rifles and bayoneta on the premises of a shopkeeper at Liverpool, Eng., on the 6th. The discovery waa made while the offlesrs were inquiries concerning the doings c:

A riRB whioh started in the cellar of a wholesale drug-store at Nashville, TSun., on the 7th was only subdued after £250,000 worth of property had been destroyed-. Two alleged counterfeiters were arrested at Dallas, Ts«m a few days ago suiLa, large amefnt ot counterfeit coin, besides .plaster, dies and material were'secured. It was thought there was a gang of them In that victnlty and.people were on the alert. i)B. M. A. EaxOaLl, a prominent physician of RoserWe, 0», .was called lrom his home the other night and had not been heard from to a recent date. His hat was found near a creek with a bole In It, and it was supposed he Wb thrown Id the creek. Two children of A. Evans, of Lawrence, 0.< were burned to death a few days ago In a stable, where'they had been playing with matohes. At Somerset, Ry., in a recent quarrel over the wife of Peter Goff, Henry Thdmp~ son was shot dead -by Goff, who In; torn was kUled by James. Splney, Thompson’s

A premature explosion at the Even* dale Coal Mine, near Canton, O., the other mapping, fatally Injured Justin Ferrety and Louis Tangley, mihers. ' • George Carson, alias Heyyvood, an alleged notorious bank, sneak-thief, wm arrested in York City the other diiy,* charged with the larceny of $TOi,OQO.Js In endeavoring to make their escape from a tire in the Cambridge Flats in KowVork City the otipjr day Mrs. Abram Wakelautfhtar were suffocatedTa. er persons had narjmyt ep' man and l number ff capes. * The Coui^-house at Texarkana, Tex., was the scone of a sensational;; affair ou-tho 7tli, culminating in the killing of A. h, Johnson by C. E. Dixon, Sheriff of Miller Coumy. The Irouine, It was said, was caused by Dixon making war on a gamblinghouse in which Johnson was silently interested. Uriah Moter was hanged at Middlebury, Pa., on the 7th for the murder of Gretcben Klntzler in 1877. An attempt was made by four desperadoes on the 7th to rob a mail train on ' the Little Book &.Fort Smith Railroad near Van Bdren, Ark. They failed in the attempt, but killed Conductor Jehu Cein and brake.man Milton Lester, who gave the alarm. The railroad company has offered a reward of 36,000 and Crawford County one of $1,000 for the capture of the villains. J Ji j The jury in the case of Colonel Theodore Hyatt, President qf the Pennsylvania Military Academy, charged with an aggravated assault and battery on a cadet, returned a verdict of acquittal on the 8th: The bodies of several vio’ims of the recent fire at Nashville,'Tenn., were recovered on the 8th. The top of the flood was as far South as Helena on the 8tb. Further occasional breaks in the levees were reported. The stampede of plantation bands from the bottoms along the Lower Mississippi was becoming general. The-Mayor of Xerez, Spain, received a letter recently containing a threat to poison the drinking water it the prosecution of the “Black Hand” Society was continued. Joseph H. Loomis was executed at Springfield, Mass., on the 8th for the murder of his friend' David Levitt, in Agawam, in December, 1881. Two murderers were exeouted in New York City on the 9th, Michael MeGloin for the murder of Louis Hauler, and Fasqueie Majone for killing bis thirteen-year-oid wife. Bob Cochran, colored, was hanged at Clayton, Ala., on the same day, for the murdar of M, L. Drew. A repetition of the reoent Pennsylvania coal mine catastrophe was imminent in Mount Carmel, Pa., a few days) ago. The earth above the Reliance Colliery was cracking, and there was only a thin shell of frozen ground between the pits and twentynine residences and the Reading Railroad depot and tracks. The steamer Navarre, bound from Copenhagen to Leith foundered during a gale on the 8th, and of the eighty persons on board fully fifty-five perished. Seven laborers were drowned os the 9th by the siuking of a scow in New York hsrbor. Three men, supposed to be the Arkansas train robbers, were arrested near Russellville, Ark., on the 9th. One man was killed and three severely hurt on the 9th by an explosion Of giant powder at McKeesport, Pa. The river was slowly falling at Memphis and Helena on the 9th, but reports of great distress in the inundated districts were constantly coming in. One of the desperadoes who killed Conductor Cain in an attempt to rob a train nes{ Van Bureh, Ark., Was captvurcdon tfie Sib, 4t seems he was wounded in tse melee on the train and being unable to travel had lo stop at a farm-house near the scene of the murder, where’ he gave himself up, haying been deaertag by his companions. - HgATYTalnsiu the Kaladgi District, India, recently, destroyed250 house*. Two hundred girls started from Limerick, Ireland, the other day for New Hampshire, where they will be employed in various factories. William Lyon, of‘Cleveland, O., sh'dl his divorced wife through the cheek the oilier day, and, supposing that: he had killed her, shot himself through the brain, dying Ipstantly. Uncontrollable jealousy. Two new breaks occurred in the Panther Forest Levee, above Helena, Ark., on the 9lh, making four In all, and the whole aggregating two mile*** length auAfe e feet in depth. s ' *± 'Jv? T; In Chicago, Itl.,thejuiry^n’Ini cMe of Eugene Dougherty for the murder Of the Creek waiter, Nioholas Johns, the other evening brought in a verdict of guilty, with a life sentence. M. Tv Ray, assistant cashier of the Merchants’ and Planters’ Bank, Montgomery, Ala., killed,h|m-alfdpo other day, and an examination of the bodks showed his ossb-to be $10,9e9-»hort. - ~ —

, MVKXlXAlfXtVjL / It was reported vti Hhe kh that the Jesuit* of Hojtoii bad offered to assupve tbe dbbtt of the Augustinian Association of Uiwrenee, Ma«. « T«e rotth^-iiin] «*thd»^afifethert;‘> -topped five weeks ago on avcount of the uncertainty about«h* SarUf,. started upi few days ago, hut,after one heat tho plate nttU whs compelled to stop on account cf a strike by tbe ptiddlers and helpers. A secret revolutionary society, with a membership of six thousand, was said to bare been dleeovered in the North of England reoently, tbe members being well supplied with fire-arms. D. S. Walden, President of tho Oklahoma Colony which left. KVnsaa City recently for the Indian Territory, has returned end says other member* were coming home across the country. Although embarrassed In eireuntstanees hjannounced bis intention ot making another start for the Territory.

Storm signals were hoisted all along the NovaScotia boast on the flt|« A tievere snow-atgm prevailed, on the same night. There was sorae (ear of a verification of Professor Wiggins’ prediction of great storms on the 9th, 10th and 1 fth. Tub fir ft of MdUterdTReanw, s*IpT lnhlder»f ufaobinlsts aid proprietors «t the dr; dock at Locust Point, Baltimore,, Md., made an assignment a few days ago. Llabil|ties were estimated at$800jjo0. Provision was made fbr the payment first if their several hundred workmen. Tas memorial tablet in the house at Borne, Italy, formerly occupied by Professor Morse, the “father of the'telegraph,’* was unveiled a few days ago, In the presence of a distinguished assembly. Thb editor, the proprietor and the printer of the Fret- Thinkor, of London, Eng., have been convicted of blasphemous libel, and were sentenced to twelve, nine, and three months’ imprisonment, respectively. K ifj ! H j|> ‘ !

*» kbubht jjonuon t.r,ng.) leiegram says the Society for the Suppression of Blaspl ihemqus Literature will bring rases against luXley, Tyndall, Herbert Spencer and other Klentitta, whose Writings they hold spread unbelief. • ’ .. . j A trades-unton parade, intended as A* animfcflflct,-labor jMuohsMHon, took Tfthhco *t Albany, N. u'wie otheijdey, w6rk- ~ "Vm WmP]Mii( with men trim- Troy %ne those of AlbanT. Three thousand men were Inline. . Ida Robert were tm ,th iyi the Brooklyn (N. Y,) Museum, they were attraction , Th ~ which «80>». spir has been chants, Montreal, Cana., Bounced:' KjabillHes The will of delphia (P*.) milliqnat.-, 000 ainohg seventy-nine charitable Inttitutlons. The bequests wilt be paid out of the Income Of the estate. The residue, over a million dollars,is |gft In trust to establish two Institutions for the care and educsCfea of boys mid girls, respectively. SeyferPs body wak cremated at' Washington, Pit.'; a few daYe rigb. The heirs wouid contest the will. It was intimated on the 8th that several members of Parliament would be more, or less eatgugled in the Dublin (Ireland) murder conspiracy.' 1 .. a - ■ The Moscow (Russia) police had made some Important arrests lately,. hat no conspiracy to interfere with the coronation had beeh discovered. ? j Judge Lillet, of Washington, was confined to his bed on the 8th in consequence of injuries received in a personal encounter with S. W. Dorsey, who charged him with persuading Iterdell to testify for,the 8overoment in the star-route cases'. There were 252 business failures in the United States and Canada for the seven days ended on the 9th, against 272 for the previous seven ■dayalG»' t"? r f&sme m j The Commercial Iron Works Cleanpany, Shoreditch, Eng., has failed for £230,000. Two French columns had marched to quell an insurrection in Southern Algeria on the 8th. . . - . The Reading (Pa.) Hardware Company has increased molders’ wages ten per cent. ■ '■-r ' " . > . A report was currept at Washington the other day that, a short time before the adjournment of Congress an attempt was made to assassinale Ox-Secretary Blaine. Ladt Florence Dixie, in a recent letter'to the London Times, charged Bilggar and Parnell, as trustees of the Land League fund, wltWnot accounting for £125,000. Professor Wiggins, the Canadian weather-prophet, was up to the 9th lust, the principal sufferer by the groat storm be predicted for that date. Saryous excite-, ment over the anticipated devasfatlon had caused his utter prostration. The Secretary of the Interior has decided a case Involving the claim at. the State of California Hal ract of land of about 100,000 acres lying upon the border* of Lake Tulare. The decision approves the Creighton survey, and awards the lands to the State of California unaer the swamp-land grant act of September 28,1850. f . The German Emperor has given 8,000 marks for the relief of German flood sufferera in America.

C0»»BKB6l»iyELBGRAMB.E"#hk riw wsi-about at* stand at Memphis and Helen***! the felt, the- te-| stlne being extremely slight. Back water continued to rise lt> the bayous and around •'jy was announted'« ttlt 10th that<?udgeliUley would prosi 5. IV. Dorsey tor the assault committed on him somebiay&MfGfc -?e Uj|pnhi. bis injuries. *'TvI iTHir H *f T * N Two ladles, the ladt descendants of Amerigo Vespucci, have asked the restoration ot a small pension granted their Jamily. by the Florentines in 1690. Meetings of the Amalgamated Assoin the various districts on t)ie 19th to agree on rate cards to he submlited in the National Convention at Pittsburgh. This commander of the French squadron pn the Madagusc ir coast has keen orderetfto seize the ’ ports, but not to send troops into the interior. --tpAPTAim JiosiTS, who mas* in command when the Ui^ied States ship Taooma was lost on the Pacific Coast recently, has been found guilty of gross negligence and suspended, Jtor two years. Tint Secretary of the Interior has leased several tracts of the Yellowstone Park for periods of ten years at twoi dollars per acre. * The rooent flight of Patrick Eagan was charged as a moral acknowledgment ot Land-league UStiSfHTdRjr with tBS irilh IB-" rtoelblet. The Socialists ’attempted to hold another meeting in Paris, France, on the 10th, but they wees prevented. The otwptar were compelled to charge the mob twice, and many poople wecp knockoiM|ow% hut ho killing was reported. "' ^ The, Secretary strutted the* Naval Adv! mediately prepare plans for t^e five new war ships providedfor by tbe late Congress. A meeting of the committee of English holders ot Virginia bonds at London the other day resolved to take all possible measures to vindicate their claim. Mbs. Lucinda Forman and her daughter were found murdered with an ax on a farm near Indianapolis, Ind., on the 10th. Eleven meq wore burned to death In a lodging house at a wood camp near Deadweod, Dak., the other night. A relist oommittte which returned to Indianapolis, lad., on the 19th from a Jip down the Ohio River, reported, Ute eon-, Mon of atfalraW, New Vranklfc. Ind.; Unioi l(>wn, Ky.i ilhawneetown, Caseyville, Rose Clere and New Liberty, III., deplorable in the extreme. „ ; lom.n 'fiW lo 5 of thq, %vy has inAdvM&4 Beard to im

" INDIANA STATE NEWS. THIS LEU1SUTVBE. f SKKATE.-jJ.jtH..jbuyir.-ss was transacted od House-Several bills were pawed In tbo Hou?e,.but an early adj ur.iraout was brought about to enable the leader, t > c iueus c nicer n. 1 iuir tho-situation in the Sen te. Before tar s waion dosed for th" day tbo vote by which 1 o Qener il Apprpriat on bill pass'd was io? o.msitleeed, an I tbe ateasure wits tabled Skn vtk—?)ii tite 2d tfje dav was spent in eon sderin* tbo (Oil o ted-tdoctlou case from Mor jrauCuaty. ’Ihe majority leport, fnyorina (be sitting memb r, was adopted—lit to £1. H >U8K—T ito ‘bill to* us:in* insurance eo -nnias was paiiseiL Tbo uill giving to Mrs. May (110,010, for iiervoes or h-r husbnl as arelilt;o of the new State House, (ailed t» pass on account of the lack of a ooustltu iouaf nialnrty—40 to 47. 'I be b II to endow tbo State Uni* v rsity by a n annual tax of ouc-h (If of One j er ie:K. was pos-od. ’j he (.ill to allow tbe nri-s* out contra- toirs to complete the new State House at an expense not cxce ding *2,000,000 '.ros made the special o der for the 31. Ssnate—On the 0d tbe resolutions Instructing tbo State-House Commissioners to arranite with tbe present eon’ractors to complete t he Imdd mr witftim tbe #2 0"0,000 limitation provided by law, woe- defeated—2f> to 10. The claim of John Marlin for (44.033 for work done ■ n tbe tinsane asylum was disallowe I Suudry appjlntmoais by tbe Governor were eonfirmed. ^ ' House—The bill to complete the new StateHouse was indefinitely postponed—49 to 14. The vote on the General Appropriation bill was retpnsidercd. Senate—On the rth the Governor’s veto of (be Metropolitan Police bill was road. Tbe • b JUebb fed iwenty^slx votes and waspaTsad over the veto. AiJJorned s.ne dir. House—The House passed tbe Metropolitan , PoHoebitl over tbe Governor’s veto bv 5t ayes to 44 noes 3 ho General appropriation Mil was ra sed, but not in time to be signed by tbe Lieutenant-Gat e nor. Amounted sute die.

Indiana tttlnn The Indl .napolis grain quotations are: Wheat—No. 3 Red, *l.C9J£@ 1.09%. CornNo. 3, 58@'»3)£c. ’ Oats—41@4 3^c. The Cincinnati quotations are: Wheat—No. 3 Rod ♦1.11 @1.13. Com—No. 3, 55@~>6}£c. Oata —No. 2, 43>f@43e. Rye—No. 3, 67@6Se. Barley—Notiain L Edward Goe & Co,, retail grocers at Indianapolis, have failed for abbut 113,900. £omething of a sensation was created In Indianapolis the other night by J. A. Downey, a mall-carrier, attempting to shoot Janies Caldwell, whom he accused of having been the eanse of tronble between himself and wife. The revolver failed to discharge, and Caldwell, badly frightened, fled through a rear door and eluded pursuit. A lively fight occurred in Franklin, Johnson County, recently, between Jasoh West and Bob Watson. Bob was trying to collect a t f wtty cent debt of; toqn, when he got mad iiod drtsw a knife on shim. They then catnrrieiicedUghMng, and both were severely punched. Bo) was cut In the nock and breast, and Jason was pounded ud considerably by Bob’s fists. I 0» <h_v «?. Henry McLaughlin, the train wrecker, has received two years hjthe penitentiary. This wagon his second trial. He .was put off ah Evansville & Terre Hante train In Neve i her, i nl tried to get even by placing obstructions i '.yl Lightning-rod agents have been swind'ing the farmers In Hauooek County by the r contract method. ' i ’ ' ’ ' ^ The forty-one miles of main and fen miles of side-tracks of the Terre Haute & Southeastern Li ics have been leased by the Bee Line. By this transaction the Bee Line will become the possessor of over One thousaud acres of coal 1 nd. & ... A prominent Lafayette druggist recently sold Purdue laboratory some saltpeter which was adulterated with ninety-five per cent, of rock salt. Prof. Wiley is the chemist, and adulteration is a State offense. The dealer was probably ignorant of the nature of the stuff. Jmt ignorance in such cases is hardly The notorious Joa Walters was a few days ago lying In the corridors of the statton-bouse at Richmond dying with a bullet from Policeman Chrisman’s revolver ip hi* lungs. He had drawn a revolver on the off! -ere who were going to arrest him, and Chrisman shot him to keep him from klillng another policeman. Walters has serve 1 in ths Indiana and Iowa penitentiaries for beating a bunk at Iodi napolis and stealing three car-loads of cittle at Grfnnell, and b >a hal at least a dozen shooting scrapes with officers who have tried . to arrest him. George Robinson, superintendent of Bird’s Transfer, at Indianapolis; is reported to have fallen heir to 19,O X) by the death of an uncle in Vicksburg. Mrs. James Andres, wife of one of the leading men of Shelby County, and a sister of the County Recorder, attempted BUlcide the other nigh^-by t king arsenic. Her home is five miles from Bhelbyvllle. - §hehis four interesting children. She could not recover. No cause was known for the depd. ' A saw-'oflf was h*uled>to a mill in Wabash County recentty "which measured fifty-one inches across the end. wad the scales, which have a capacity of twelve tons, would not u •) Ishhc Evartn, living about five miles southeast of KocfeiR£r£arise County, committed suicide the other afternoon, by taking morphine. His wife had deserted him, and he was despondent. W. L. Benton, of Brownstown, Jackson County, went hunting a few days ago In th; bottoms of White River, and hiUhed his horse by the halter. He wus gone but a short time, and on his return found his hone dead and suspended by the halter. Edw rd L. Miller, of Indianapolis, was arrested a few days since charged with kidnaping his own child- He recently. secured a divorce and was awarded the custody of the child on. condition tint be would uot remove it from the city: His divorced wife learned of his Intention to remove to Ohio, and hence the arrest. In default of ball Miller was sent to jaiL John Gunning, a wealthy farmer living east of Shelbyvillo a few u.iles, dropped ‘dead while feeding his atoek a few mornings ago. HJs little, boy found his body near a corn.crib. The new building erected by the United States Government, at While’s Mann d Labor Institute, Wa.’<a*h CouutjL is now ready for oceupsnfey, had the tfvenly Indian children to be educated there are to be brought from the West immediately. ■oiT^^ifiljSSw K*i“ven--':oar-oW oently with some other ch ldren! hill in a straw-stack, and the otliers. while UBdertahjia' to smoko him out. accidentally Bred the stack, and the child was burned to death before heconldget

—The exflcutors of the late Chief Justice Joel Parker, of New Hampshire, have notified the trustees of Dartmouth College of their readiness to pay the college $50,000, as the first installment of Judge Parker’s bequest for the establishment of a law school in the college _j_ _ —A well-dad and respectable man recently created a great stir in London by promenading tins streets saudwiched between two boards Whi' h bore these placards; “General Postoffice—Discharged for not saluting a eferk. Twen-ty-live years Her. Majesty’s servant.” Dr. Julian, a New York savant, s there in not a modern building ich will be in existence 1,000 yeara hence- There’s always someone rising up to say something to keep folks awake at night and make them miser-able.-Vs rhic £k<m«rvtUe Journal, 'JO >0 ‘ip I Ua.

THU CHANGES IN 1HE TAiUFVj BILL.

'thb Thirltf t'fasiigFs dfliicl bj> Ihe cHrffi*ren»f3 Committee in the Tax and Tariff 1 ill twhid j bill, thus modified, waa passed by U ngreas today) arc in the items riven below, tbo t kiss 11cation and rates being ;rs follows: SCHEDUUK A—CHKM1CAI, PRODUCTS. Glue, 20' per cent: ad valorem. Alumina aifiui, patent alum, alum substitute, sulphate of alumina and aluminous < ake and alum in crystals or ground, SO cents per 100 pounds. Baryta, sulpbuteof.’or haryles manufactured, one-fourth of one cent per pound. Oil or essence of rum, 30 omits per Ounce. Jugs or bottles in which natural nvneVal water* are imported are stricken from the Senate free list of chemical*. SCllBDUM: U-KAHTHLNW.UU-. AMIlcLlSSWARE. .Chlhtb JMgceptinf piriait and bisqu* wafe< including plaques, orilameni and stahiotces, painted, Oiherwisc decorated Ur ornamented in any manlier, au 1 on earthen, s One and crockery _ P3*?"-'2.'lorod’ ®°'K or minoral^ubsgfnces. n tT^ef5l1y° etfumS? Ated or providodLJpr in thfk rot, *6 par oeut. ad valorem. Green and o Torcd glass, bottles, vials, domllohns ami carboys tooyered or unejvrre 1', pickle or preserve jars, an 1 other plain, molded or pressed, gr-en and colored bottle glass not out, engraved or pniuted, and not specially enumerated or provided for In this act, < no sent per pound; if tilled and not otherwise in this act providod for, said articles shall pav s* percent ad valorem in addition to the duty onthecont nts. Alt glass bottles and decanters and other like vessels of glass shall. If filled, pay the same rates of duty iff addition to any duty chargeable on contents as if not filled, except as in this ant otiberwAe especially provided for. Cylinder and c own glass pol sh- d, not exceeding 10x15 inches s likre, 2'4 cell s pef Square fodt; above that -and not exceeding 16x24 inches square, 4 cents per square foot; above that and not exceeding 24x31 ino-ies Square, 6 cents pet squhre loot; above that and not exceeding 24x'i0 inches square, 20 cents per 8 lunrC fo t; ‘all above that, 40 cents per square foot. SCHEDULE C—METAI.fi. Iron-ore, Including manganiferous iron-ore, also dross or residuum fremburnt py rites, 75 cents ppr ton. Sulphur Ore, as pyrites, or sulphuret of iron in its natural state; containing not more than 3K per cent, of coppef, 75 cents per ton, provided that oro contaiungmore than2 percent, of copper shall pay in add t on thereto 2 ! cents per pound tor the coppor contained therein. Iron In pigs, Iron kentledge, spiegeleisen, wrought a d cast scrap-iron and scrap-steel, threot intbs of one cent per pound; but nothing shall bo deemed scrap-iron or scrap-stool except waste or refuse iron or steel that has been in actual use and Is fit only to be remantK factured. Steel railway bars and railway bars made in part of steel, weighing more than twenty-fire pounds to the yard, *17 per ton. Bar iron, rolled or hammered, comprising flats not loss than one inch wide, nor lo-s thin three-eights of otle inch thick, eight-tenths of one cent per pound; comprising round ir >u not loss than three-fourths of one inoh in dtameifir, and square if on not less than threefourths of one inch square, one cent per pound; comprising flats less than one inch wide or loss than three-eighths of an inch thick, round Iron less than three-fourths of an Inch and not less than seven-sixteenths of one inch in diameter, and square Iron less than three-fourths of one inch Square, ode and one-tenth of one cent per pound; provided that all irm in slabs, hlo< ms, loops oroth r forms less fin’shCd than iron in bars and more advanced than pig-lion except ea tings, shall, be rated as iron in bare and pay duty aoiordJngly, and none,of the above iron s tall pay a less rat - of duty than 35 per cent, ad valorem; provided, fuf then all iron bars, blooms, billets, ors zes or shapes of any kiud In tbe manufacture oC winch charcoal is used as fuel shall be subjected to a duty of $22 p r ton. Iron or steel tee-i ails, weighing not over twenty-live pounds to the yard, nine-tenth- of i cent pef pound; Iron or steel flat rails, punched, eight-ten tbs of one cent per pound. Bound iron, in coils or rods, less than soveusixteenths of one inch in d umeter, and bars or shapes oil rqUsjJ iron not specially enumerat d or provided for in this act one and two-teaths cents per pound. Boiler or other plate iron, sheared or unsheared, skelp-iron sheared or rolled in grooves, one and one-fourth cents per pound; sheet-iron, aommonor black, thinner than one inoh and one-gilf and not thinner than No. 20 Wire gage alone.j one-tenth of one cent per pound; thinner than No.23 wire gauge and net thinner ihan No. :S ifire gauge, one and twotenths of one cent perpound: thinner thaiutfo. 25 wire gauge and not thinner than No. at wire gauge, one and five-tenths of one cent' per pound; Khinuer than No- 20 wire gauge and all iron commercially known as common or black taggers iron, whether put up in b >xes or bundles, or not, ID per cent, ad valorem; provided, that on all such iron nnd steel sheets or plates aforesaid, excepting on wb» are known commercially in tin platemteene pint‘s, and taggers tin. and hereafter provided for, when galvanized or coated with zinoorSpeltor or ether metals, or any alloy of those metals, three-quarters of one cent per pound additional, Fol shed, planished, or glanced sheet-iron or Sheet-steel, by whatever name designated, 2>4 cents per p und: pr v.ded, that plate, or sheet, cr taggers iron, by whatever name designate! eth r than polished, planished, or glanced, here n provided for, which has been pickled or cleane t by acid, or by anv other material or process, and which Is cold-rolled, shall pay oae-quarterof o le cent per pound more duty thane rresponding gauges ot o, maton or black theet tr taggers iron. Cast-iron vessels, plites, stove-plates, and sadirons tail u*’ Irons, hatters- irons. Irons, . . H_ and castingsof iron not specially enumerated orprovided for in this act one and one-feurth cents per pouul. Iron or steel railway fish-plates or splice bars, one and ohe-fourth cents p r pound. Anv Is, anchors, or parts thereof, mtiUrons -----iveanprf pa ts there, f, we ghiag each twenty-five pounds or more, two cents per p Und. • ••-' Steel Ingots, cogged ingots,blooms andaWh*,* by whatever process made; dk-blceks. or blanks, billets and bart, and tapered and beveled bars, bands, hoop-, strips and sheets of ton rods, pressed, sheared, or stamped shapes, or blanks of sheet or plate steel, or combinations oI steel and iron, punched or not punched, hammered molds or swaged steel, guu molds not in barrels, allot s used as substitutes for steel tools; all descriptions and shapes of dry, sand-loam, or iron-molded st -ei castings; all of above c'a-sos of steel not otherwise specially provided tor in this act, valued at four cents a pound or loss, 43 per centum ad valorem; above four o ntsa pound and not above seven cents per pound, two cents per pound: valued above seven cents and not above ten cents per pound, two and threequarter oenis por pound; valued at above ton cents per pound, three and one-quarter cents per pound; provided thaton all iron and steel bars, rods strips, or steel sheets, of whatever ' in or steel bars of f-regu-cold-rolled, cold-ham-shape, and on lar sbape or Sered, orpolii e ordinary \ mering, and on si E-'roU or king in ■ ' Lthe r saw plates, There iclrou) shall be paid one-quarter ota cent por peund In addition to the rates provided in this act. Steel wheels and steel-tired wheels for railway purposes, whether wholly or partly finished, and iron or steel locomotive, car, and other railway tires or parts thereof, wholly or partly manufactured, 21! cents per pound. Iron or steel Ingots cogged ingots, booms, or blanks for the same, without regard to the degree of manufacture, 3 cents per pound. Iron or steel rivet screw, nail, and fencewire rods,round, in coils, and loops, not lighter than No. 5 wire gauge; valued at 31! cents or less per pound, 6-10 of 1 cent per pound. Iron or steel Wire, flat, with longitudinal ribs for the manufacture of fencing, six-tenths of one rent per pound. There shall be paid on galvanized iron or steel wire, except fence wire, one-half of 1 cent per pound, in addition to the rate imposed on the wire or which it is made. On iron wire, rope, and wire strand, 1 cent per pound in addition to the rates imposed on wire of which it is made. On steel wire, rope and wire strand, 2 cents per pound, in addition to the ratos imposed on wire of which It is made. Steel not specially enumerated or provided for in this act 45 ner oent ad valorem (with the same long proviso as in the Senate hill). Pens, metallic, 12 cbnts per gross. Penholder tips and penholders, or parts thereof, 30 per cent ad valorem. Mineral substances in a crude state and metals nnwrougbt not specially enumerated or provided for In this act, 20 per cent, ad valorem. Manufactures, articles, or wares, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, composed wholly or in part of iron, stetil. copper, lead, nickel, pewter, tin, zinc, gold, stiver, platinum, or any other metal, and whether partly or wholly manufactured, 45 per rent, ad valorem. , Schedule D (wood) is unohangad.

p^nauun*. a—ouuah. All sugar above No. 13 and not above No. 18, Dutch standard. 2 75-10) oents per pound. Sobisdule F (tobacco) unchanged. SCHEDULE <3—PROVISIONS. Comfits, sweetmeats, or fruits, preserved In sugare. spirits, sirup, or molasses, not others wise spec fled or prov ded for in this act, and jellies of all kinds, 35, per cent, ad valorem. _ SCHEDULE H—LIQUORS. Ginger ale and ginger beer, *0 per cent, ad valoiem, but no separate or additional duty shall be collected on bottle) or jugs containing the game. SCHEDULE 1—COSWON AND COTTON GOODS. On all cotton cloth not bleached, dyed, colored, stained, painted or printed, exceeding 1($) and not exceeding AM threads to the square (hell, counting the wnrp and tilling, three cents per square yard; If Pleached, fou r cents per square yards « dyed, colored, stained,

paint 'd or printed, live cents per square yard; provided. that t»n i li cotton cloths not exceed* fng 3»to threads to the sqttarfl inch, counting the wnrp ntid tilling, dot bleached,, rtypdj eol> sta md. piloted or piitotlVvnltteilqt <W-uts.per Square yat.1; there -r r - .— . .-.-shdil ne paid d (utv of tO per cent, ad valorem. BCHKDULB a—HEMP, JUTE AND FLAX 0«OdA brown and Jute butt; bleached linens, Uiio'ig,\ciuivu3 prtdding bottoms. crash huckaback hnndkVfehiefs, mwnd; or other manufactured flax, jute or hemp, of which flax, jute Or hemp shall be the component; irtui onat or <i4et vnld \ Hot special!/ enti Iterated or pr ivltLd for in this act, J3 per cent ad valorem. The Cotiteronoc Committee strike out the Pennt3 proviso thatlikW manufactures of Jute butts, or in which lute butts arc the component of Chief value. Should be subject to 20 p r cent, ad valorem, and also strike out the Senate.provision imposing It ditty of 20 per Cent, on “bagging 10r ctlttort composed Of jub butts orof which .iute butts may be th# component of chief value.” • blax, JUte, and h IflpS, 58 per Cent, ttd rub Oil-cidth foundations Or floor-C'ath, Canvas or btirlapSj exceeding Sixty inches id width) add made of tini, jute, or hemp, or #hf h flax, jute, hemp; of either Of them shall be the compone nt matef .al of chief Valiio, id nor bent, ad valorem. ; Ol -eldths fof fldnrs, stamped; painted ol pahitedat or oh nil other cloth (except'silkHit .cloth), and on water-prodf olotn ho»othet-wt«e provided for, 40 per cent, ad valorem. Ragging for cotton or other manufactured, not specially enumerated or provided for in this not, suitable to tho uses which cotton bagging is appli-. d. composed In whole or part of hemp, jute, jute-butts, flax, gunny-b gj, gunny-cloth, or otbor material, and valued at seven cents or less per square yard, one and one-half cents per pound; valued at over so ren cents per square yard, two cents per yard. All manufactures of hemp or mnniln, or of which hemp or manila shall bo a component material of < hief value, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, 35 per cent, ad valorem, , SCHEDULE K-WOOL AND WOOLENS. Clothing; ready-made, And wearing apparel of every descript on not specially eniiiiiii hted or provided for in this act, balmoral or baimbi al skirts and ski ting and go ds of similar desc iption, or used for like purposes, comrosed who ly or in part of wool,‘worsted, the hair of the alpaca goat or other animals, made up or manufacture i wh illy or in part by tailor, seamstress or manufacturer, except knit goods, 40 c uts per pound, nnd in addition therein 35 per cent; ad vale; om, Clliaks, d lmans, j ickufs, talmiiS, or othtn outside garments for la lies'.iiud bhildrens’apparel and goods of similar description of use l for like purposes, composod whrliyor inpirt of wool, worsted, the hair of the alpuoa goat, or other animals, made up or manufactured wholly or In pai t by tailor, seamstress, or manufacturer, except knit goods, 45 cents per pi un i, and in addition thereto 40 per cent ad valorem. Saxony, Wilton and Tournay velvet carpets, 45 cents per si/unre yard, and in addition thereto £0 per cent, ad valorem. Brussels carpus. 30 rents per square yard, lud iu addition thereto3>per cent, ad vailorcm. audi __ _ Schedule N (silks) not changed. schedule m—books, papers, etc. Books, pamphlets, bound or unbound, and all printed matter not Specially enumeg ited or ptovided for in this act, ongraviDgg, bound Of unbound.etchings. Illustrated books; mapS; ana charts, 25per cent, ad valorem. schedule n—sundries. Card clothing, 85 cents per s tuaro foot; when manufactured from tempered steel wire, 46 cents per square foot. Grindstones finished or unfinished, $1;5 par ton. Salt In bags, sacks, barrels, or other packages, 12 cents p-r 40J pounds; ltt bulk, eight cents pet 100 pounds. Tne long Senate proviso for drawbacks of all duties paid on salt for the purposes of curing fish or for curing meats, if exported, is rtp talued unaltered. MISCELLANEOUS. The Conference Committee have stricken tba Senate provision impost g a duty df 40 per cent “on gold watches ana gold watch-cases," leaving them to come In at a rate of 25 per cent., which the Senate provided for watches and watch cases in general. The committee have stricken out gardenBeods from the Senate free-list on “chemica a.” and have stricken from the freo-1 st of “sOadrle3” the following; "Books and pamphlets, bound or unbound, and all printed matter exclusively In a foreign language ana not specially enumerated or provided for in this act. “Jute-butts a id yeast-cakes." Toe Senate provisions in regard to customs ditties upon al articles not named in the foregoing statement are left unaltered by the Conference Connntt'O. The committee have inserted in the bill the following provision: “If two or more rates of duty should bo applicable to anv imported article It shall be classified for duty under the highest of such rates." INTERNAL-REVENUE. Only three changes have been made In that part of the bill relating to in'ernal revenue, ihe provision which repelled the taxes on capital and deposits ol banks and ban ters has been changed so a-Lter Include a so National Banking Associations. The date upon wh eh the reduction of (he tax on tobacco, sm i ITS. cigars, cigarettes and tho reduction of spedal license taxes, shall go into cdfeet has been changed from July 1 to May ’The provision relating to drawback kaa been changed to read as follows: "Provided, that on nil original rnd unbro’ on factory i ackagos of smoking aud. manufactured tobacco and snuff, cigars, cheroots and cigarettes hold by m n ifacurers or dealers at th • time such reduction shall go into effect, upon wh ch tax has been paid, there shall lie allowed a drawback or rebate of the full amount of reduction, but tho satne shall not apply in any o iso where the claim has not been pres -nted within sixty days following the date of i eduction; nnd such rebate to manUfa tnrers may by paid in stamps at the reduced rat 3: nnd no claim shall be allowed or drawback paid for a les* amount than $10.”

The Work of Congress. Washington, March A. All the regular annual Appropriation Ml’a obtain© 1 passage in both houses an 1 have become laws. The Sundry Civil, the las upon which agreement was reached in conference, received the Presidents s'g.iatuie at ten o'clock this morning- r During the Fortyseventh Cringross 10,670 b lls and joint resolutions have beon introduced in the two hoeshs (\01i in the House and 2,till in the Senate), nod of these 832 have bean introduced In the Hocae and 057 In the Senate during the, sess.on just closed. lit^ach house a great majority of tbme measures still remain with the committees to which they were referred, and of those reported from the committees the larger number remain upon the calendars of the respective houses. t. Aside from the regular annual appropriation bills 163 bills and Joint resolutions passed both houses during the session and became lnwa Among the more important of these are the following: The Tax and Tariff bill (to reduce the lev. done). The Civil-Service bill. The Japanese Indemnity Fund bill. To provide for a new Mixed Commission, In accordance witb the treaty of April 25, 186ft, with the United States and Venezuela. To mo 11 fy the.postal money-order system, andforoth r purposes. To readjust the salaries of postmasters.. .To afford assistance and relief to Congress^ and the Executive Department in the investigation of claims and demands against the Government. To prevent the importation of adulterated tea. To encourage the holding of the World’s industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition in 1884 Granting the right of way for railroad and telegraph purposes through the Fort Smith reservation, Arkansas. Joint resolution to adjudioette the claims of New York brokers for ref undlng taxes. To print the agricultural reports far 1881 and 1882.

To allow Canadian groin to bo brought over the border to be ground. To refund to the State of Georgia money expended for common defense In 1777. To recify and establish the title of the Unit cd States to the site of the military post at HI Paso, Texas. ?■* To reimburse the States of Oregon and California for moneys paid In the suppression of the Modoc war. 7 o provide for the holding of the term of the District Court of the United States at Wichita, Kan., and for other purposes. Extending the time for filing claims tot horses lost by officers and enlisted men. To amend section 3J83 of the Revised Statutes. relating to tho tax on perique tobacco. Authorizing the examination and audit ng of certain claims against the Freedman’s Savings Bank, and the payment of certain dividends barred by tho act of February 31,1881. To increase the fees of witnesses in the star-route oases from west of the Mississippi Riven To regulate the construction of bridges across the Ohio River. Among the provisions of tbetfost-office Appropriation bill is cne for twcacent letter pash age after the l»t of October next *"\1 'i ftrt TJwf'l 'A . r .v T - * «■ * i. * T ■ I ■*! i O f? |.

With False Pretense#, The word ‘•Republican,” as applied td the party In power, is a stupendous falsehood. Jefferson’s was the •‘Republican’* and Hamilton's the anti-Re-ptibliead, Or, more properly, the “Tod,feral” dr Central!/atioti party. Its practices edr+espoflded with its chosen designation. some six yeuf; ago, when the Democratic.JJarty Was domiaflt in Congress. there- wriS it demand/ by heads of departments, for more Clerks The Item :crafWf Congress chowrto practice economy. and instead of conceding Wh it Was Asked, added an hour to the mini' cr through which department clerks were kepi at their desks Prttdtically they thiis added abottt oSO-sUV-etlth to the number of u lerical employes of the Government. The clerks did not complain b t it was enough and all that should bs exacted at their hands. But the Democrats won prestige for this wise and economical legislation, and the Republicans, so called, think oiir t atty has Wofl more by giving paternity to. the so called Givil-Serv.co Kaftrm bilf. drberafdte, when there Is no demand for inbrri cfefks or wore clerical labor, arid Whert every faithful, honestly laborious ele k tinds himself exhausted by steady, tedious, painstaking tasks, each day made more irksome by the monotonous, wearisome exactitude required, and even more painfully tiresome bv irre ersiblc attention demanded, then, that the He ublieans may get even w th the ISemoera s*as fefmme s, these pseudo Republicans would add another hour to the number through which these clerks must be confined to crowded prisobs, in which the very air inhaled becomes poisonous and the last hour s work ir Ore painful than that of the six preceding it.

oix nours xor stuay ana inree tor recitations, which are restful, are all that are demanded of students in Colleges. Cont nnan* physical exertion, If ttt all Varied, may be endured ten and fivefc twelve hours in each twenty-four; but this tedious', painstaking, silent, sedentary, stupefying toil of a Government clerk who'discharges tasks assigned him with fidelity, and for such alone Congress is supposed to legislate, i>re ; nrdensome enough as thev are, and the Republican, party, in its shame, less effort togeteven with its opponents by wronging the defenseless clerks should not be approved. Tips party has been in power more thais twenty years. At any time within that period it might have reformed the abuse rectified by the I'emocratic majority in Congress six years ago: httt now, when it sees Cleave and a Democrat, goverring New York, and Patterson a Democrat set over Pennsylvania, and another over Massachusetts, and a Democratic Congress elected, it becomes suddenly over-vir.uous and overrighteous, and would practice its Pharisaism and humbug ihe country, when iio add tional labor is requred by the departments, by subjee iflg the defenseless cler s to exactions as runous to Government interests and true pubi c economy as wrongful an l needless.- The present force of clerks can do all the Work re .uired by the departments by toiling till four o’clock each day, even if the worthless dead-beats, and they are numerous, Who have been thrust into clerkships, as paras t*s and washers of dirty linen for Republican Congressmen, be dirch 'rge 1. They are bunglers, and often dishonest, and. relying for retention in o I ce upon tlieif great patrons, are the loafing, whisky-swill-ing idlers who produce the impression that the Government e'erk is an idle, unharnessed, stupid, unthinking Government mule, only fit to be cuffed and victimized by Republican demagogues. Let any Congressman as’; any honest, industrious clerk whether the Government will be the gainer by adding to present hours or toil, and the an wet* will be uniformly in- the negative, and it will be. as well, the nnmixed truth. No weary brain can discharge tasks most painstaking and always exacting minutest accuracy, and every clerk will con ur -with us in saving that even now two-thirds of erroneous and defective work is done between three and four o’clock, when patient labor begins to merge into realms of that brain weariness next akin to sleep. We happen to know precisely what we are talking about, and hope never to know ft again. —American Register The Next Democratic Candidate. It. is ’ess than a year to 1884, and while we do not wish to see the Presidential ball set spinning too previously, people never he'ess think and talk .much upon the subject, and what is “thought about and talked about, can, without impropriety, be written about, when it is a question o' such general public interest as this^is conceded to be. Of eourse we do hot propose to offer ad•vice, or make suggestions to the Republican party. ft e can trust it in its present demoralized condition to keep on in the broad way of disintefr, t’on nnt 1 it reaches the last ditch. he Democracy should be careful not to follow it. even to gratify its own curiosity. but rather profit by its mistakes, an I deserve the confidence which the Republicans forfeited.. Circumstances, frequently of sudden formation, often guide thc .se'eetiop of candidates, and a year’s forecasting is, therefore, at the best, of comparatively small valhel Still t! ere is no impropriety in taking our bearings now, even though the • may.show very different latitude and longitude a year henqp. The Democracy in 1«84 will have no lack of excellent ’men available for their purposes, but it must be remembered that the old things are passing away, and that new issues are driving to the front and demanding serious considei ation. Locality, or sectionalism in Itself, Is ffffqtiently given

more weignt tnan it is worte in a National Convention, it seems to us that it is better to take a representative man from the eonter ot new ideas than from the centeV of population or the center of wealth or the center of in'lucnces of a special, one-sided and frequently selfish character. New York has furnished our candidates for the last twenty years, and with one exception she has given us splendid material. But there has been a new adjustment of sentiment even since 1880, and uestions that then were used simply as sentiments must bo inserted now as planks in the platform that will stand the hardest stra n that may be pat upon them. The center of new ideas seems to ns to be the West or Northwest The leaders of the policy that must ultimately prevail are found in that section.* They are men of ability, of consistency, of courage and of honesty. They represent the principle which must be the watchword of the strife, better, we think, than the representatives of most (ther sections, though many of the latter are warm sympathizers and general co-workers with them. Circumstances have done considerable to make the situation as we have described it; bot in politics, as in other things, we are the creatures of circumstances to a large extent, apd our duty lies in matting the best of them.—Itosfore ftwf, 6 , . ~ I T \ # Jk » * M .1 i * I i YV • ; t*

Texts. tit ft recent debate in Congress tho' following statement was made: "Tho total amount raised by taxation for school purposes in tho whole country, as Shown by the census report, in 18SU, was $75,-1 ■>"4.018. Of ti^S oin un t beio was raised In the sliive-hoidiDg Stales f0.2r6.138. Tbeammint peri npi aof the e. tirepopplation nUscdin the Northern states was f206. Had the Southe.ntitateg miami n«]arg< up amount p r capita it wi aid have raised tsR,sfl£^?.or moretnan four times what they actually d.1'! raise." As this is one of those te\fs which Republican papers are fond of pseaoht'flg Upon, it is worth Brief e\athinat*‘on. i Assii’m'tig the correctness Of the figures* —and they profess to have been drawn from the official returns of the last census—wliat is there surprising about them? The wonder is, not that the Southern States faded to raise $38,6.2,292 for educational purposes, but than they were able to ra;se $9,276,12(5! *Aside from the fact that the South is far less wealthy than the North, and always h;ts been, the financial resources of tho former were drained t«J exhaustion by four ya irs’ disastrous war. The expenditures of the North in this war were, scarcely felt by the people of lh*tt section, owing to the immense imp«tn< given to ml kinds of business and tho rapid advance of values; while the business of the Smith wns-pHtetieally destroyed by invading armies and a rigid blockade, and property of all kinds depreciated in proportion. Worse tliftik the war was the Republican reconstruction which followed it; lasting in one shape .or another for ten years. What the sword spared the carpet-bag and negro Governments ?tole or wasted, and then.saddled the Staffs with debts which the most strenuous efforts can not pay for some time to come. Less than six years have ela> sod since the Southern people escaped from the Ke-< publican yoke and bearsn to -wild liter

j any ••irom tne grounclup. < Iney nave i worked hard, and the success ach'eved has been surprising; but all they have done is but a drop in the bncket com- | pared with what remains -to do. Aside from the political and industrial embarrassments produced °l»y a large colored ) opulation continually stirrcit up by Republican agitators, this class ot‘ the community cannot, as a r ;le, be reached by taxation, for the sirnp’o rea . son that the vast majority of them have nothing to tax* Consequently the burden falls a itioet exclusively upon the whites, who not only have Jo re tore their shattered fortunes, hut must pay for keeping the ftovernmenC'l machine in motion. Instead, therefore, of re- , Broaching the South lor dev< tin;: so 11 tt e money to the maintenance at ! schools, it would l e more appropriate ; and just to praise her jfor giving so i much The f9,00d,000 costs her more | self-sacrifice than $90,000,000 would : the North, and it is adding insult to in- ! jury to find fault with those who are do- * I ng tlie'r . est in the f ee o- tremendous I obstacles. In every Southern State the ! cause o popu ar education is receiving ! the attention its snpreme importance deserves, and the fact that more | ub io i schools have been established since the I Republicans were driven from power 'there than ever before ought to dose ! Repnbli an month ; on the sub'ect. If the money sto'en and wasted during tlio | re onstru tion period had been saved, j these schoo $ wo i.d be ten times more numerous than th y are. In the same debate from which the above extract is taken we find a mu h more significant and suggestive paragraph: v “The census reveals the fact that in South Carolina the incre :te in I he colored population tue e nthe last decade was forty-three pec c^nt, while the increase of the white population w»s only thirty-tire per cent. At that rat** of increase within tw^my-tive yeais the white race w 11 be substantially ekt rpnt'Ht, or completely overshadowed • umeri< ally. Then? ar * now two to« ne of the black rat e in South Carolina. In the State of Miss ss;ppi they increased fortv-six per t out in the last decade, £ while the increase of the whites was much les*. I The colored population of Mississippi at the ! gnttte rate of incr ase would in twenty-two ! jeariU e double what »t was n 1880.” 80 far, then, as the future prosperity ' of South Caro ina and Mississippi is con1 eemed, an evodus of the colored popu. lation on a large scale would be a great blessing. Tne increase, however, proves that the main argument of the : demagogues who favored whole sate emigration had no foundation whatever; | because such increase shows—according to a well-known principle of political - economy—that the colored people must be, on the whole, well-treated and in reasonably comfortable condition. If it were otherwise they would diminish in numbers. Hut the question naturally arises, if the bl: eks in SoutlfCarolina and Mississippi are increasing far more rap- ’ idly than the whites, what is to become I of these States in the not very remote . *> . ! hereafter? There are two blacks to one 1 white in South Carolina now, and Mis- o ■> : , sissippi seems to be traveling the same 1 road. It is not to be expected that the majority will always consent to be cou- ! trolled by the minority, and we know I from bitter ex; erience the inevitabic consequences of negro domination. The race thus far has shown itself utter- • ly unfit for self-government, to say nothing of the government of the whites; yet a rule which means ruin most sooner or later be set up unless the majority is wi'ling to submit to the g.iidan o of the m n0~tfyxor some outlet is found for the snrpius black population. The pro lem as it stands is a dirt cult one to solve, and its ultimate solution is involved in serious doubt, and may be accompanied by grave oange- s. Fanatics and fools may regard the prospect of Africanized stutes with complacency, but every honest and sensible patriot ^ must see in it nothing short of a great public calamity, which the Nat'on should • pray to be spared.—St. Louis Jttpublv:ar.

—“ I should like to be excused from jury duty, your Honor,” said an old gentleman in the Criminal Court, yes- , terday. “What excuse hare you to . oiier?” asked Judge Phelps. " I’m not in good health.” “Have yon a phys:cian's certificate to that effect?” ‘ o. your Honor.” “Then you’ll have to serve.” “ But, Judge there’s another reason.” “ What is it?” “I often get cranky.” “Cross off his name,” commanded the Court, much amused. Tito oW gentleman hobbled out. and there was a titter in the court-room. —Baltimore Sun. —Senator Sherman has all the letters he has received in thirty years, filed in scrap books and indexed. ihere aie over 40,006 of them, from all sorts of people, including many from General Gherman from his cadetship at West Point to the present day. It is said that the General’s letters, confiding: to his brother his hopes and fears and views during the great campaign of the war. would be most valuab e and interesting, if the public coaid only get at them.— Detroit Post. __ —An insane woman created an excitement at a hotel in Ottawa, Canada, recently by her violence in demanding an interview with the Marquis of Lome She was pacified only when she was granted a telephonic conversation with what she was told was the Marquis, but who. in roalitv was a clerk in another part of the hotel. The deception was very soothing. h r