Pike County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 50, Petersburg, Pike County, 1 May 1890 — Page 1

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THE WORLD AT LARGE. Summary of the DaQy CONG RESSIONAL. After the disposition of routlno business In the Senate on the ilst Senator Kcagran ntreduced a bill to repeal * all laws for the retirement of army and navy officers from active service on pay. Senator Plumb introduced a concurrent resolution directing the Secretary of the Treasury to incroase the treasury purchase and coinage of silver to the maximum amount authorized by la w. The Senate then took up the House World’s Fair bill which was debated at length, amended and pnssed by a vote of 43 to 13. Adjourned—In the House Mr. Horsey (Neb.) introduced a bill for the coinage of silver tothem iximum allowed by law. A bill passed providing that soldiers who lost their limbs during the war shall be entitled to receive an artificial limb every three years. The bill to pension exprisoners of war was called up when Ur. Tarsncy (Mo ), who had been a prisoner of war, vigorously opposed the bilL The motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill failed and the House adjourned. After disposing of unimportant routine business in the Senate on the 22d Senator Plumb's resolution for the increase of the treasury purchase and coinage of silver was presented and Senator Kusiis offered an addition to it that the free coinage of silver is essential to a sound financial policy, and all laws limiting its coinage ought to be repealed. The subject went over and Senator Mitchell addressed tbe Senate in favor of IVs j proposition for the election of United Mates Senators by the people. The District of Columbia Appropriation bill was passed, *nd the Senate adjourned ...In the House the Ways and Means Committee presented a bill for the classification of worsted cloths as woelen. "Jhe Senate amendments to the World's' Fair bill were concurred in. The Legislative Appropriation bill was then considered in committee of the Whole until ad

jouriiment. . IN the Senate on the 23d a concurrent resolution was adopted requeslin i the Piesidcnt to enter into negotiations with Hex'co in relation to the irrigation of arid lands in the valley of the lDo Grande. Ihe conlereme report on the Oklahoma Territory hill v as agreed to. Alter passing several bil 9 of a local or private character the Land Forfeiture bill was taken up and became “unfinished business” and the Senate adjourned.Soon after assembling the House went into Committee of theWhole on the Legislative Appropriation bill and the debate that followed had but little reference to the bill under consideration. Adjourned. In the Senate on the ?4lh Senator Hoar, from the Kb ctions Committee, reported a bill to supplement the election laws of the United States, which was placed on the calendar. Senator l*ugh, in behalf of the minority, dissented from the bill in some vigorous remarks. The bill to transfer the revenue cutter service from the Treasury Department to the Navy Department was considered at some length. 'Ihe Land Grant bill was then considered until adjournment.Soon after assembling tile House went in to Committee of theWhole on the Legisl itive Appropriation bill, dr ho clause in the bill making appropriations for the Civil-teryicc Commission elicited a spicy debate in which theCommission andthc law were severely attacked, and pending debate on the motion to strike out the appropriation for the aCivil-Servicc Commission the House adjourned. Foon after meeting on the 25th the Senate took up and passed the House joint resolution appropriating $130,000 to bo used by the Secretary of War for the relief of sufferers by the Mississippi floods. The Railroad Lnml Forfeiture bill was then further debated at length. Fulogies were then delivered upon the late Representative Gay, of Louisiana, and the Senate adjourned. . .In the House a petition was presented lrotu Philadelphia business men asking the aid of Congress in tue promotion of the building of American ships to tr Mp3 with foreign ports, and also ono from merchants of New York asking for the classification of worsted goods as woolens. Mr. Cannon (III.), from the Appropriations Committee, reported a joint resolution appropriating $150,000 for the sufferers I y the Mississippi floods, which was immediately adopted. The House then further considered tho Legislative Appropriation bill. Pens on bills were considered at the evening session. WASHINGTON NOTES. Charles E. Kincaid, charged at Washington with the murder of exRcpresentative Taulbee, has been admitted to bail in $20,000. The Lincoln Monument Association has decided to put a heavy iron fence around the monument to prevent mutilation by relic hunters. A bill has been reported favorably from the Committee on Interstate Commerce giv.ng the Inter-State Commerce Commission authority to prosecute inquiries into alleged violations of the law by means of special agents, to be appointed by tho Commission, and who shall have power to administer oaths and send for persons and papers. Colonel Alfked L. Hough, Ninth infantry, has been placed on tho retired list of the army on account of age, and Captain William Krause, Third infantry, has been retired from active army service on account of disability. It is understood that President Harrison has determined to appoint ex-Con-gressman George W. Steele, of Indiana, first Governor of Oklahoma. Congress has voted $150,000 for the relief of the flood victims of the Lower Mississippi. The President signed the World’s Fair hi*{ on the 25th. Secretary Windom has ordered the return to China of nineteen Chinamen now in custody, in Washington State. THE EASTGreat damage was done to the Colebrook furnaces, Lebanon, Pa., by four explosions of the boilers. No one was hunt The demand of the granite quarrymen of Quincy, Mass., for nine hours and more pay has been refused and the men will probably strike. The dead lock at Squires’ packing house, East Cambridge, Mass., continued. The State Board of Arbitration was trying to arrange a settlement Three Chinese smugglers with several hundred dollars worth opium were captured in Buffalo, N. Y., early the other morning. The trial of Commander McCalla, of the Enterprise, commenced at tho Brooklyn navy yard on the 22d. Nine hundred miners and cokers in the Smithton district near Connollsville, Pa., have struck for Increased wages. Fires were reported raging in the Blue mountains of New Jersey near Wind gap and a"t different points along the ridge. The station of the Lehigh & Lackawanna road at Katelleo, toge ther with a post-office and a store were in ashes. A large amount of charcoal, rails, ties and timber has been destroyed. Miss Abby Moor* Goodwin, professor

of Latin and Ureek at vassar college, died recently. She bad been an instructor at the college for seventeen years ;v Wagskk's five-story block, 73 to 79 South street, Rochester, N. Y-, was burned recently. Loss, about $200,000, Tiikke was terrible havoc by a b urstboiler at the Etna m ils at Now Pa. Three men were killed’and iven badly hurt, ib factory at Shelton, Conn., [joining tenements have been fire and Mrs. Slicu lost her loss was $50,000. secretary of the Elk a has i-1 by a New York court from any of tf»e property# I rent

ITbe strike at the Jackson mill, Nashua, N. H., has heen amicably settled. I^tre at De Buy ter, N. Y., destroyed four stores and eighteen dwellings, causing $75,000 loss. f Aix the building trades employes of Lancaster, Pa., threaten to strike May 1 for the nine hour day. JLli, the employes of the gas company at Elizabethtown, N. J., have struck for an increase in wages. The employes of Burns’ shoe factory, Lynn, Mass., have all struck for better wages. The strike at Means’ shoe factory, Brocton, Mass., has ended in a compromise. During a fire at the Unicom Silk Manufacturing Company’s works at Catassiqua, Pa., an,explosion of vitriol took place. Five men were killed and many shockingly injured. The big bucket shop.of the Doran-Wi-ight Company, New York, has suspended. Colonel E. W. Davis, first deputy sheriff of Essex County, N. J.,is missing and it is stated that his accounts are short over $10,00D. James Fallon, a pugilist, was killed in a glove fight with another pugilist named John Murray at the Bay State Athletic Club rooms, Boston, the other night. THE WEST. Captain W. L. Coven, the Oklahoma chief, died qf the wound received in the knee some time since while engaged in disputing with a man named Adams over the possession of a lot near Oklahoma City.

jure m JNeviuo & vo. s Dag warenouse, San Francisco, caused 5100,000 loss. A disastrous wreck of two freight trains on the Santa Fe railroad occurred near Galesburg, 111. Thirty or forty care were piled promiscuously. So far as learned no one was injured seriously. A Bock Island passenger train was wrecked at Des Moines, Iowa, recently and several persons were injured. Invest' gation showed that a switch had been pulled. John Bodenmiller, Secretary of the Central Labor Union, at Indianapolis, In<U, was drowned the other day while canoeing. An engine collided with a construction train at Dorn, Iowa, taking off the legs of two men and injuring several others. Two men were killed—one a mine superintendent—and five injured by a fall of rock in the Great Eastern shaft, Norway, Mich. Dig Foot and his biand attempted to int imidate a meeting of Sioux at Pierre, S. D., by riding through the gathering firing their guns. Big Foot was squelched by the Indian police and the meeting agreed to take lands in severalty. The Chicago striking carpenters had several encounters with men at work on the 22d. Fifty arrests were made. Malignant diphtheria is epidemic at Mining, Minn., caused mainly by the people, mostly Scandinavians, crowding into houses of the sick. The birthday of Oklahoma, April 22, was celebrated at Guthrie and other towns with much enthusiasm. 6 Henry N. Johnson, one of the leading members of the Richmond bar, has been nominated to represent the Sixth Indiana district in Congress by the Republican Congressional convention. Holzhay, the Michigan murderer and highwayman, was reported attempting to starve himself to death. Five Chicago firemen were injured recently by a falling floor at a fire at Padgely’s saloon, 345 Illinois street George W. Hancock has been sentenced at Salt Lake City, Utah, to ten years’ imprisonment for killing a man thirty-two years ago. It was a Mormon Church murder. There was no loss of life after all at the coal mine fire at Rock Springs, Wyo. Peter L. Mason, of Seward, made final entry of his homestead at Guthrie on the 231, being the first freeholder of Oklahoma. He had served four years in the army and was entitled to that reduction on his residence requirements. The California Republican convention has been set for Sacramento August 11. A full State ticket will be nominated. Daniel Sullivan, aged seventy-six, living near Dayton, Wis., was burned to death while firing grass and brush. ’Che whisky trust is reported from St. Paul to have purchased the independent St. Paul distillery for 5340,000. Colonel H. Berry, a large cattle owner of Southwest New Mexico, has died from hydrophobia, the effects of a bite from a rabid coyote. Ax explosion of dynamite occurred in the drug store of U. R. DOane, at Delavan, Wis., recently. Doane and another man perished. .San Francisco experienced a severe shock of earthquake on the 2Jth. Twelve lumbermen while crossing the rapids on Otter river, Mich., in a canoe were capsized. Ten reached the shore, but Charles Sebault and Louis Lecendress were drowned. Fire at Duiuth, Minn., destroyed 8,0(i0,000 feet Of lumber belonging to Payne A Co., at North Pacific Junction The loss was estimated at 5t00,000; insured for 520,000. The Rock Island has arranged for terminal facilities at Denver, Col. THE SOUTH. Bayou Sara, La„ has been almost ruined by tho breaking of the levee. Initial steps looking to the transfer of the Jefferson Davis mansion at Richmond, Va., to the ladies of the Hollywood Memorial Association, to be used as a museum for Confederate rolics,have bee n taken by the City Council. It is designed that each of the Southern States shall have a room in the building. The little town of Kyle, twenty miles south of Austin, Tex., has been visited by a tornado. No lives were lost. Greenwood, Miss., has been swept by fife. Loss, 8120,000. A coNSTRUCTioN-train on the Alabama Midland railway was wrecked eighteen miles south of Montgomery, Ala., recently. Ten men were injured, four fatally. 'There was a report that Governor Eagle, of Arkansas, knew the name of the assassin of Colonel John M. Clayton

and that the Killing' was due to private motives. The ind.vidual was under surveillance. » The Clayton-Breckinridge investigation commenced at Jjittie Rock, Ark., on the i!4th. Foh three days continuous rain fell all over Texas. Rivers and bayous were out of their banks. Bridges were swept away and travelers delayed. All stock in the lowlands and cane brakes were drowned, but no loss of life was reported. A Sax Augustine, Tex., dispatch recently stated that Sim Garrett and Jerry Teel were lym hed for attempting to poison Colonel John H. Brooks. For want of something better the mob hanged the men on moat hooks at the butcher shop,

OEXCBAI. Several hundred shoemakers of Frankfort, Germany, have struck. One-twentieth of all the money received from direict taxation in Servia is to be retainixl for military purposes until 8200,000 has been accumulated. Daily Nows believes that thewMB^R's of the Parnellite party were totally unaware of Parnell’s land scheme until they heard it announced by him in the House. Many of Parnell’s followers, and particularly Michael Davitt, are said to heartily disapprove the plan. The trial in T-ondon of the three Americans who gave their names as Frank Lacros,' William Smith and Charles Bob.nson, who were charged with attempting to rob Bank Clerk Stone of a bag containing £5,000, which he was about to deposit in the City Bank, resulted in the conviction of the prisoners They were each sentenced to eighteen months’ imprisonment. / In the battle between the French and Dahomians, it has been ascertained, 500* Dahomians were killed and fifty Frenchmen wounded. No Frenchmen were reported killed. * Father Lacomb, Oblat missionary to the Macleod Indians in the Canadian Northwest, says the Stories current in the press of little white captives in Indian camps are untrue. , General Hernandez, of Mexico, has administered' a severe defeat to the hostile Yaqui Indians. A monopoly in axes has been perfected by the formation of the American Axe & Tool Company with a capital of 84,000,000.

Ihe Emperor of Germany has ordered repressive measures against the Socialists engaged in the labor agitation. The plans of the mobilization of the Russian army have been stolen, creating a profound sensation in high military circles. The Pope is sa'd to be incensed at the Archbishop of Naples and will have him suspended. A notable ball in aid of the African Red Cross Society was given in Brussels the other night. The King and Queen of Belgium and. Henry M. Stanley were notable guests. The manufacturers of Aix, France, have warned their employes to remain at work Mqy 1 under pain of dismissal. All the employes of the German railroads have been warned that they will be dismissed if they take part in the May day demonstrations. It -was rumored that disputes had arisen in the French Senate and it was feared that a collapse of the Ministry was not far oS. > Five sisters named Bomiveroff committed suicide together at Moscow, Russia, the other day. The young women were Nihilists and feared arrest. Tiieke was an anti-Semitie riot at Baila, forty-three miles southwest of Cracow, Austria, recently. Many Jewish shops were sacked. Eleven of the mob were killed by troops and many injured. Jane Artutks was burned to death in her home at Belleville, Ont., the other night. ; Her husband was also burned, probably fatally. Emperor William was cordially received on his recent visit to Strasburg. The oil refinery of Sir W. A. Rose & Co., London, was destroyed by fire recently. Loss, 5600,000. Business stagnation is repflfcted on the Isthmus of Panama. An English syndicate has bought the Western railway of the Argentine Republic for 841,000,000.' This gives the Government some cash. Jay Gould is said to have obtained control of the Mexican Central. Captain Schmits, a Russian officer, who sold his torpedo plans to the Germans for 81,000, has been ordered to be shot. Emin Pasha’s expedition left Zanzibar for the interior on the 35th. Herr Schippel, a Socialist member of the Gorman Reichstag, has been sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment for attacking the Government’s labor movements. Business failures (Dun’s report) for the seven days ended April 24 numbered 218, compared with 214 the previous week and 213 the corresponding week of last year. Portuguese at St. Vincent are charged with refusing aid to shipwrecked British seamen.’ _ v THE LATEST. In the Senate, on the 26th, the day was devoted to the calendar. Senate bill to carry out, in part, an agreement with the Sioux Indians of Datota for the sale of a portion of their reservation, and appropriating 81,800,000 for the purpose, and House hill to pay A. 3. Wory, of Connecticut, for use of gun patents by the Government, amended by increasing the amount from 830,000 to $125,000, were passed.In the House, in the absence of Mr. Speaker Read, Mr. Burrows, of Michigan, acted as Speaker pro tern., and the session of the entire day, lasting up to eleven o’clock at night, was passed in the effort to secure a quorum. On the 25th one hundred and fifty boys at the Planet mills in Brooklyn struck for shorter hours. Their demands were conceded, and the boys went to work again on the 26th. The fifty-eighth anniversary of the birth of General Grant was fittingly ob-' served, on the 26th, (the 27th being Sunday) by the Americus Club of Pittsburgh, by a banquet to which 310 distinguished guests sat down. The toasts and speeches occupied the hours until midnight. The wife of Stevo Brodie, of Brooklyn, the bridge jumper, has been missing since the 17th. On the 27tli Brodie offered $1,000 reward for any information as to her whereabouts. Chick Brothers of Haverhill, Mass., discharged all their shoe cutters, on the 26th, on account of a disagreement about wages. George Pfaff, aged twenty-four, one of the employes of the Unicorn silk mills at Catasauqua, Pa., who was injured during the late fire at the mills, died, on the 26th, of his injuries. In the celebrated case of Emma Cameron, who has a claim against toe Government for damages done during the

war on her place, “Cameron Hill, near Chattanooga, the Senate committee, on the 26th, agreed to a report authorizing the Secretary of War to pay Mrs. Cameron whatever he shall find to be due her. Baltimore, Md., was visited, on the the 2?th, by a destructive hail-storm, in which the stones were as large as a man’s fist, some of them rugged and sharp on the edges as steel blades. Nearly all the window panes in the city were broken. Casper Sokr, the head clerk of the Newark, N. J., Post-Office was committed to the Trenton jail, -on the 27th, in default of #5,000 bail for embezzling $6,000 from the money order de partment tfewric PofWmoe. ^

STATE INTELLIGENCE The Indianapolis carpenters’ strike has been settled, contractors agreeing on- eight hours and thirty cents an hour. Twenty thousand ccrds of cottonwood will be shipped from Commerce, Mo., to Muncie within the nes t few weeks to be manufactured into^ paper. D. H. Davis’ residence and saloon burned at Brazil. Loss 520,000; small insurance. Joseph Lect.aike was instantly h illed by being struck by an engine on the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago road at Hanna Station, near Laporte. David Wihjrisy was struck by a train near Marion and instantly killed. THE Columbus Starch Works will resume operations June 1. At Indianapolis James R. Graham, a detective, was declared insane. Anxiety to figure as a “sleuth” unbalanced his mind. The Presbytery of Ft. Wayne, on the 22d, took up the question of the proposed revision of the confession of faith, which resulted 30 for revision to 5 against. John Bodenmieler, business manager of the Labor Signal, and well known throughout the State on account of his efforts on behalf of organized labor, was drowned in the canal at Indianapolis at a late hour the other” afternoon. He was out boating with a friend, when the boat was capsized by a sudden gust of wind, and both were thrown into the canal. Bodenmiller became entangled in the ropes of the sails, and. though an

excellent swimmer, was drowned before he could extricate himself. He was about 35 years of age. The twenty-one-months-old boy of Webb Kummel, who lives near a stream near Cambridge City, crawled under a gate, and in an attempt to cross a footlog fell into water several foet deep. When found life w:as thought to be extinct, but by contijnuous effort for hours he was resuscitated. . Edward Aszman, of Cincinnati, who was convicted and sentenced to be hanged for the murder of Bertha Elff, at Indianapolis, has been granted a new trial. A large oak saw-log, hauled in to Haley’s saw-mill, Columbus, from th®' woods, which wa$ cracked and somewhat wind-shakeni in the heart, while being quartered up, ‘ fell apart, and blackshakes began running in every direction. Twenty-seven of the reptiles of all sizes were killed, besides several that got away, the largest of which measured six feet seven inches fn length. - Wm. A. Parker, aged seventy-four, a millwright from Azalia, while inspecting the machinery of the various manufactories at Columbus, and while at the cerealine mills was caught between a moving box and the wall and crushed to death, being rolled about thirty feet in a space abtmt eighit inches wide between the brick wall and car. Manfobd Davis, Democratic nominee for auditor of Clinton County, died on the 23d, at his home, near Forest, from* injuries received a-few days before by a kick from a horse. At Logansport, the three-year-old child of Lewis Cottner, residing north of the city, was thrown violently to the ground from a wagon and run over by both side" wheels, mangling its body. Its life is despaired of. Jure, the four-year-old son of August Sarasinzin, was burned to death one wile south of Washington by his clothing catching fire. A fund of 5200 has been raised by the O. A. R. Post at Montgomery, to aid in the prosecution of the men who took David Hosea, an old veteran, from his house and whipped him almost to death a week ago. _ William Henderson and John Ryan were arrested while in the act of loading a lot of hams that had been stolen from tho Marion County infirm* ary. Both prisoners had spent the winter in the poor house, and had lately been turned out. Henderson has already served two or throe terms in the penitentiary. As M ns Kempfer, a prominent German lady of Mishawaka, near Elkhart, was embracing her sister, who had just arrived from Germany, Mrs. Kempfer fell dead of heart disease, tliprfgh she had been as well as usual. There are now seventy-two lodges of the Farmers’ Mutual Benefit Association in operation in Harrison County, comprising a membership of over two thousand. The organization has thus far refrained from meddling in politics, but it is intimated that it will take a hand id the fall elections. Miss Minnie Lert issued invitations for a progressive j euchre party at Elkhart, and surprised the guests by turning it into a weddings Courts were trumps, and Miss Minnie was t'-» first prize won by Charles Nelson. At Madison, the jury in the case of Reuben Levy vs, the Ohio and Mississippi Railway Company, returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff fos $500 damages on account of injuries received by his wife, at North Vernon, hi October, 1887, by falling into a ditch. One man was instantly killed, another fatally, and a third seriously injur’d by a premature blast at Cementville. A Pan-haxdi.e inspector named Westermann was killed by cars at Indianapolis. Willie Bryan, aged 11, son of Gecrge Bryan, a gro^^ fell under a northbound train on the G. R. and I., it Portland, and had his right leg crushed above the knee, necessitating amputation. One of the teams belonging to the Omnibus Lines took fright the other evening at the Forth Depot, Green:astle, and, running north on the Monon 'track, knocked 'own the section bass, John Sharkey, lulling him instantly. He leaves a widow and seven chiliren. Fanner Fisheji, tho defeated Republican candidate for trustee of Hi ion Township, Shelb ■ County, has fib contest papers agait sit Cyrus Montg uiury, his Democratic i sponent, whowa elected by 47 maj< ity. Fisher c laiges bribery.

an imuanapoi i s policemannam u ob*t ties, was accide tally shot by a lother policeman in a c ase after bhrgla i. Clinton Anth < >ny, aged sixty, ,n insane patient ir the Delaware < cnnly asylum, has he« i granted a pens <m of $24 per month w; th arrearages of { i fllt.r 63. Ilis insani j was the resu ; of a wound in the held received in th service in February 1863. Wm. Woods, ol: Raysville, an er ploye at the paper-m:. ;1 in Knigh tstow , fell into a boiling lyit vat while at wot t, the other day, and vt as horribly scalds i. A body found, on the lake shoi near Tollerton, is sut: posed to be that c Miss Mattio Bacon, vho disappeared from her Imrdinff-h; nae in Chicago, larch

LAW MUST BE SUPREME. '- S The president Directs the Attorney-Gen** eral to See that the Laws of tin United States are 1'roperly Respected in Certain Count es of Florida — Attorney-General MUIer*s Directions to United States Mar. shal Weeks. Wa8HiGTox, April 27.—The President hail sent to Attorney-General Miller tli£ following letter: Executive Mansion, April 24. To the Attorney General: Sir—I have had frequent occasion, daring the last six months, to confer wjth you in reference to the obstruction offered in tho comUie# of Leon, Gadsden, Madison and Jefferson, in the Sttiitc of Florida, to the execution of the process of the courts of the United States. It is not necessary to say ujore of the situation than that the- officers of the United States are not suffered freely to exercise their lawful functions. This condition of tli ngs can not be longer tolerated. You will therefore instruct United States Marshal Weeks, as sooh as he has qualified, to proceed at onee to execute such writ3 of arrest as nyy be placed in his hands. If ho apprehends resistance, he willemploy such civil posse as may ssem adequate to discourage resistance or to overcome it. He shonkl proceed with calmness and moderation, which should always attend a public officer in the execution of his duty, and at the same time with firmness and courage that will Impress the lawless with a wholesome sense of the danger and futility of resistance. You will assure the officers of the law and those who have foolishly and wickedly thought to set the law at defiance, that every resource lodged with the Executive by thb Constitution and the laws, will, as the necessity arises, be employed to make it safe and feasible to hold a Federal commission and to execute the duties it imposes. ’ Yery respectfully, ? , [Signed.] BENJAMIN IIAURISON. Acting upon the suggestions of tho*

President, Attorney-General Miller yesterday sent the following letter to Marshal Weeks: *1 Washington, April 23, 1890. Hubert G. Weeks, United States Marshal, Jacksonville, Fla.: ^ ? Sir—You have doubtless ere this received your commission as United States marshal lor tlie Northern district of Florida. For Beveral months past it has been reported that in certain counties In your district warrants of arrest issued by United States Oonrts have not been executed because of resistance, actual and threatening, by those sought to be arrested and their partisans. This state of things can not and will not bo longer tolerated. A letter from the President, of which 1 inclose a copy, speaks for itself. You will at once proceed upon the lines indicated in the letter, and will report promptly any attempts to interfere with yon in the discharge of your duties. 1 am informed that recently, in some places, the marshal, seeking to serve writs hi ordinary civil cases, has been refuse<|. the ordinary accommodations, such as horse hire, hotel entertainment, etc., to enable such service to be performed. By such means the officers of the Government can be put to great inconvenience, but they can not and will not be prevented from executing the process of the court Means can and will be found fOr transporting and subsisting the Government officers, wherever It is necessary for them to go in order to arre3t and bring into court offenders against the law. Very respectfully, [Signed] W. H. IL Miller. A GENERAL DENIAL. The editor of the Jacksonville(Fla.) TimesUnion Denies the fxistcnce of the State of Affairs Charged Above and Makes Counter Charges Against the Federal Authorities. • Jacksonville, Fla., April 27.—Editor Hawthorne of the Times-Union publishes an open letter to President Harrison stating that the people of Florida regard the President’s letter to AttorneyGeneral Miller with surprise and a deep sense of injury. They are convinced that the statement it contains about resistance to legal process in Florida must have been based upon misinformation as to the actual state of affairs in the counties named. This misinformation probably existed in the reports made to the Department of Justice by officers of the court for this district. Mr. Hawthorne proceeds to cast discredit upon the' reports by asserting that District Judge Swayne openly boasted that the policy of his court would be one of bitter persecution of Democrats. This threat put the Democrats on the defensive, and provoked widespread suspicion of Judge Swavne’s tribunal. The letter goes on to say that the United States jury commissioner flagrantly discriminated against Democrats, twenty-two out of twenty-threo members being Republicans. Wholesale indictments against Democrats for political offenses were then found on most unreliable testimony. This roused the people to indignation and fear. In the cases that came to trial the court’s rulings were often partisan. No wonder the people of the counties referred to shrank from appearing for trial before such a court, or that they preferred the hardship of concealment to the dangers of unfair trial. These people are industrious and law-abiding. They have been terrorized by the political persecution to which they have been subject. This accounts for their reluctance to admit prooess, but they have been grossly misrepresented in other respects. They are not inhospitable to the marshals. Tho Writer has the . statement of eleven of the3o marshals that thov were “treated like gentlemen” at Madison, where it has been alleged that they were refused accommodations. If the court is cleansed of partisanship and injustice so that it merits the confidence of the people, it will meet no resitance, obstruction of evasion. The Emma Cameron War Claim. Washington, April 27.—In the celebrated caso«of Emma Cameron, who ha3 a claim against the Government for damages done during tho war, on her place “Cameron Hill” near Chattanooga, the Senate committee has agreed to a report authorizing the Secretary of .War to pay Mrs. Cameron whatever he shall find to ho due her. Mrs. Cameron is now a resident of San Francisco.

Rescued-from the Deep. New Yoke, April 27.—The steamship Ceresi, plying between New York and Haytian ports,- arrived . here yesterday with seven of the passengers and crew of the wrecked steamship Italia, who were picked up in the last stages of exhaustion on the morning of April 17 between Fortune Island and Bird Boick. They were without food and water and had had nothing to eat for twenty-four hours when picked up. The passengers were Mr. and Mrs. Humphreys, of Columbus! 0. Mr. Humphreys is a relative of tlje wife of ex-Senator Thurman. The Worst Storm and Highest Waters Ever Known In Northern Texas. New Orleans, April 27.—The TimesDemocrat’s Dallas (Tex.) special says: The most destructive flood over known in the histor^1 of North Texas is now passing through the Trinity river. The great rain on Friday raised every tributary of it far out of their banks. Yesterday and last nfight it rose rapidly, and at ten o’clocINpassed the highest water-mark ip fifty years. In front of this city it is two miles wide, extending to the foot of Flanders Height, west, and to Oak Cliff, south of the city. On fkft north »ll m ..J i': ■

FACTS FOR FARMERS. Female laier !n TarMf-Froteeted Fact* ories aud on Farm*. I mean now to demonstrate to ,my friends, the farmers, the undoubted fact that, far from the most protective policy that the world has ever seen during a quarter of a cen tury in this conntry elevating and bettering the condition of the working classes; it has had the tendency of degrading domestic life, and putting labor and hardships on those that are least able to bear them. First, I will-compare the female tabor in factories of this country in 1860, under 14 years of a revenue tariff, with that in 1880, under 30 years of a protective tariff. In I860, after 14 years of revenue tariff, this country employed in manufactories the following hands, namely: Males above IS years old.1,0*0.049 Females above 15 years old. 250,80? Now, T call tho attention of my readers to the most significant fact that in the factory’ labor under a revenue tariff no hands—whether male or female, according to tho official statistics—were employed below the age of 15 years. Now let us turn to the year 1880, after 30 years of blessed protection, which, it is claimed, made this Nation happy: In 1880 there were employed in manufactories, males above IS yeors...3,085,335 Females above 15years......531.039 Children from 10 to 15..... 181,031 In the first place we find that protection has naturally doubled the hands employed, but it bas, unfortunately, nearly doubled the female labor, viz.:

from 270,81-7 in 1860 to 531,639 in 18S0. If protection is such a blessing and gives full work and good wages to fathers of families and husbands, why should the female labor double? Besides this, what a sham, swindle and disgrace is a protective tariff which has enlisted 181,921 children under the age of 15 years to work in factories? ' Is it not as clear as sunshine that this slaughter of the innocents of 181,900 children in the factories is simply for the purpose of having cheap labor? If these 181,900 children were not allowed to be employed would not their places have to be taken by persons above the age of fifteen years, who naturally would get higher wages? Again, by employing 531,639 women the factories are only employing cheap labor. Of what earthly use is a protection of 80, 90 and oven 100 per cent on woolen goods, or 40, 50, and even 70 per cent. dn cotton goods, if we have to employ the same class of labor which, when it is employed In Europe, we sneer down as pauper labor? Has not this protective tariff proved a curse by introducing the employment of children at all? We have it on statistical record that no children below 15 years old were employed in factories before 1S61, and anybody who chooses to consult the census returns of 1830 can find that fact in the compendium, vol. 2, page 930. And now as to the employment of females. Let me show the contrast between the farmer’s employment of female labor and the employment of female labor by the pampered protective industries. The farmers in 1889 employed in the United States and Territories Male laborers....,. 7,075,983 Female labor. 591,510 which is a little over 7% per cent. The manufacturers employed Males above 15 vear3 old... ....2,025,335 Females above 15 sears old. 530, 339 which is about 21 per cent., besides the 181,900 children. But this is not all. Of the agricultural employment, of the 594,519 females we find that the 11 cotton-producing States, namely, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia, employed 537,314 females, which, as every American will understand, is colored labor by females who for the last 250 years ha ve been, as it were, to the manor born, and who, after all, are mostly employed in picking cotton, which compares to the j close labor in the walled factories as : roast beef compares to oatmeal cakes, j Anyhow, we find that the farmers who j live in the West and Southwest and p;rodftee our breadstnffs, cattle and dairy products only employed in 1880 57,196 females as laborers oa their farms. All honor to the farmer. He does not look for cheap female labor. He does not press children of tender age into employment. He pays full and manly wages, and treats bis white help as his equal. I speak of course of those millions of farmers employed in raising breadstnffs, dairy produce, etc. But they are iaxed by those of their fellowcitixens who employ weak women and children of tender age, and who by the grace of a protective tariff make them pay 50 per cent, in average more oh nearly alt manufactured articles they use on their farms and in their households. The other day Senator Dawes made a speech at the paper manufacturers’ meeting. The worthy Senator is a famous protectionist and took occasion to deplore the inadequacy of protection on worsted goods. Now, It is a fact that in the worsted-mills of the United States there were employed in" 1880 the ■following hands: Itettes above S5 years.... —.6,435 Petn.-ui-s above lu years....—-..9.473 Children less than 15 years. 2,895 This is an edifying exhibit, is it not, when wo find an industry that employs double as many women and children as men? Of course, the reason is simple; cheap labor is sought for and got. Well; then. The Senator, as I said, deplored the inadequacy of the tariff on worsted goods and wants the duty raised, which in other words means that the people in general, and the farmer in particular, who use most«of the worsted goods, shall pay a higher price for it.- Now, my worthy friends— I mean yon, tax-ridden farmers—what

do you suppose is actually the duty on worsted goods under the present tariff? Let me. enlighten you. In 1886 I find by the Government returns thsCthe duty on worsted goods, either partially worsted or wholly made of worsted, was $3.18 per cent and 08.15 per cent. Now, would anybody conversant with these facts •believe that a higher duty should actually he demanded by a Senator of the United States? You farmers, who have seen a shrink »ge in the price 'Of your wheat withll four years from $1,10 in average in Chicago to 68 cents per bushel at present—and it may be even 65 cents before this year is out—are actually asked to pay more than 83 per cent and more than 6S per cent tax respectively on the different kinds of worsted goods that your cold climate in winter makes a necessity. Can ussurance, nay, brazen impudence go fur!her? When your wheat and corn go down in price, because you have to compete with the truly pauper labor of India, Russia, Turkey and Egypt, yon must grta and liC-a's it .But when it comes f«? you to buy % asrtwytf.ry woolen garment fee m petOMik tax it

not sufficient and more taxes are demanded. And yet you have it in your own hands to stay this oppression. If yon were any way outspoken in your demand that this curse of protective taxation should cease, then-would protection, like its original ancestor, Lucifer, be hurled from its present high place to that bottomless pit where it belongs,—From Moore’s Letters to Farm- _ ers. • * ON THE ROAD TO RUIN. Honest Men Everywhere Are Tired of Republican Corruption. The Republican majority of the Senate of the United States, animated Dy the same unreasoning partisanship which has induced the Republican majority in the House to unseat Democrats, has refused admission to Messrs. Clark and McGinnis, Democratic Senatorselect, and has seated Messrs. Sanders and Power, Republicans. A fair-mind-ed man who attentively followed tho controversy might reasonably reach the conclusion that neither set of Senators was strictly entitled to seats. A resolution was offered to that effect, but it was defeated by a strict party vote, and so the Republicans gain two Senatorial . votes, to be cast by two men who represent a Democratic State. The Republicans in both houses thus acting are cumulating reasons for the overwhelming defeat of their party in the Congressional elections to be held this fall. Mr. Speaker Reed is wielding the gavel of the National

House for tbe last time. such a tidal wave as swept over the Republican party in 1874 will ingulf it again. There is little doubt that the Democratic majority in the next House will not be less than fifty. The party thatpromotes the corrupters of elections, that to gain voters ignores the claims of Democratic Territory while admitting new States with bizarre or dangerous constitutions, that to stifle the minority departs from the parliamentary construction which has obtained unbroken for a hundred years, that mocks the demand for reduced taxation with vicious tariff legislation proposing a net increase in levies, that proposes extravagant appropriations, that prostitutes the civil Bervice to partisan ends, .that while decrying fosters trusts and monopolies, that bribes from the public exchequer the pension-hunting, the subsidy-demand-ing, the tariff-asking class—this party, degenerate, extravagant, corrupt, is doomed to defeat.—Chicago Times. i POLITICAL DRIFT. --The essential idea of the new tariff bill is to protect Pennsylvania and the West from the pauper labor of New England.—Providence Journal. -The new tariff bill raises woolens from about 39' to 80 per cent. Cottons go up from 35.64 to 38-06 per cent. More patches and fewer shirts will be th« order.—^t. Paul Globe. ——The municipal elections are “lbcal issues,” but, as a whole throughout the country, they show the political undercurrent. The^pountry is certainly Democratic in its town vote. The only hope of the Republicans is gains among the farmers, and with the McKinley bill as an issue their prospects are gloomy.— N. Y. Star. -The statisticians have figured It out that the new wool tariff will add from twelve and a-half to thirty-three cents a yard to the price of carpets. But it is the opinion of" McKinley and the Republicans that poor men do not need carpets as inuch as the wool raisers and carpet weavers need protection.—Chicago Globe. -It was Mr. Randall’s pride to live in a small house in one of the obscurer parts of Washington, - and on a street which, though he was Speaker and chairman of appropriations during many years, was among the last streets of the city to be decently paved, because he would not have it said that he used his great power to benefit himself.—N. ¥. Herald. -Senator Evarts has at last intrta duced the queerest biU ever heard of. When General Lafayette came to this country in 1824 he was brought over .‘in the ship ^Cadmus. The descendants Of the then owner want the United States to pay Lafayette’s fare, and they charge the modest sum of $9,371.67. Mr. Evarts is the champion of this claim. Senator Bfeir ought now to introduce a bill in favor of the Norwegians, to pay Leif Ericson's fare to this country.—Chicago Herald. , —-“The people at large little knowi,” says Senator Ingalls, in an interview published in a New York paper, “What a tremendous undercurrent of thought is moving with irresistible force throughout the whole length and breadth of the West” The Senator is right The current of thought he refers to is moving with irresistible force, and it is moving against Ingall ism. When it has moved a little , further the bantam bluster of tbe Kansas Senator will have been silenced. Let the undercurrent of. thought move, and move quickly as well as irresistibly.—Chicago Mail. -The farmers have^t good deal to learn on the subject of taxation. While they are complaining of State and locafi takes and the crushing weight o! their mortgages, they forget the National taxes and the .blessings of the protective policy for which they are paying. It is in reality the National taxes that are / crushing theta. They sell the products of their land at prioes fixed by competition in the markets of the world. They pay for what they buy at prices fixed by a tariff that enables monopolies and combinations of manufacturers to draw enormous profits from the consumers of their products. That is where the farmers’ burden comes from.—N. Y. Times. ,

' I Dana’s Attack* on Mr* Cleveland. The last public man the New York Sun has flattered by its rude taunts, gibes and coarse epithets is Mr. Cleveland! The paper has made .a speciality of denouncing, ridiculing and blackguarding the ex-Preaidont for about seven years, and it seems to have reached a point at which the object of it all sees fit to pay some attention to the attacks. The bounding of Mr, Cleveland, a man used to take and give sturdy blows, was bad enough after he retired from the Presidency to the privacy of his home in tipper New York and bis law oftoe; but, when it is sought to harass and wound him by striking his amiable, lovable, gentle wife, the work becomes simply infamous—an indecency — an outrage which not alone Mr. Cleveland, but every gallant man, every gentleman in the whole world will reseat, if the source from which the outrage proceeds is worth the notice of good men. In the South or West the Sun would have to tnenl Its manners or take the consequences— personalijWof its odious, illegj$m*te prooeedipgf.—