Pike County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 35, Petersburg, Pike County, 21 January 1891 — Page 1

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THE WORM) AT LARGE. Summary of the Daily Nowa CONGRESS. Aivn routine business in the Senate on the 12th debate ou the financial bUl was Resumed and Senatof Allen (Wash;) spoke in favor of free coinage- Mr. Matt gave notice that at the earliest moment possible after disposing of the financial bill he would ask consideration of the copyright bill, and Mr. Paddock gave the same notice as to the pure food bill.. .Messrs. Berry and Cockrell spoke in favor of free coinage aftd Mr. Allison took the floor, and the Senate adjourned_In the House Mr Pock cry on a question of privilege, offered a resp lntion In regard to the committee on ruler refusing to report his “silver pool” resoln tion, anl directing the committee to report which brought on a long political wrangle The resolution was aim mltd by appointing s committee of five to investigate the sllvei pool and adopted. The army appropriatin’ bill was then considered until adjournment In the Senate on the 13th Mr. Morgan guv* notice of an amendment to the financial bill abolishing the tax on State banks. The financial bill then came up and Mr. Sherman spoke for four hours against the bill Hu argued that acc ording to all historical parallels under the free coinage provision gold would go practically out of the country or would be held at Its value abroad, compared with the value of silver bulion abroad. Mr. Aldrich also opposed the bill. Adjourned.. .. . After d eposing of several public buildings bills the House resumed consideration of the army appropriation bill, which occupied much time with but little accomplished. The report of the ballot box com mittee was laid before the House and the

House adjourned. WHEN the Senate met on the 14th consideration of the thruncial bill was resumed and Mr. Ingal s arg*ed at length in favor of the bill as amended favorable to free coinage. The debate on Mr. Stewart’s amendment (the free silver coinage feature) having elosed,* vote was taken add it was adopted by 42 yeas to SO nays; 26 Democrats and 16 Republicans voting in the affirmative and 27 Republicans and 3 Democrats in the negative. The amendment to str ke out the prov sion for issuing $20%0D0,0( 0 in two per cent, bonds to buy outstanding bonds was struck out. Mr. Vest then offered as a substitute for the bill a purely free coinage bill, which i^ras agreed to and the bill then parsed b^* 39 yeas to 27 nays. A mot ion to take up the elections bill resulted in a tie, 33 to 33, and the. VicePresident voted in the affirmative. Adjourned—The army appropriation bill was further considered in the House and passed, and a'ter considering for a time the District of Columbia bill the llouSe adjourned. -In the Senate on the 15th Mr. Manderson introduced a bill to establish a branch mint at Omaha. Mr. Morgan offered a concurrent resolution on the su bjept of the information or suggestion for a writ of prohibition itn the Supreme Court in connection with the Behring sea dispute, which was referred. The elections bill was then taken up and Mr. Kvarts spoke in favor of it Mr. Pasco obtained the floor and the Senate adjourned— In the House the free coinage bill was received f-rom the Senate and Mr. Bland (Mo.) expressed the hope thaC early action would be taken. The Speaker appointed Messrs. Dingley, Payne, K"well, Dockery and Oates a committee to investigate the silver pool. Mr. Dockery was excused and Mr Poole (Ark.) appointed in his place. Adjourned. Petitions were presented in the Senate on the 16th, among them petit ions from fourteen different States against the passage of the elections bill. About a doz n private pension bills passed and-the elections bill was taken up as unfinished business. Mr. Pasco spoke aga nst the bilt at much length, and at 6; 10 o’clock Mr. Wolcott (Col ) moved to ad journ, which motion was defeated by a vote of 27 yeas to 32 nays. *Then the fight commenced in earnest and was contiifued until 2 o’elo. k in the morning, at which hour there was no quorum and tire Senate was still in session. . . .In the House the District of Columbia bill was taken up, but all the speeches were on different subjects than the bill under consideration. At the evening session seventy-two private pension bills passed._

WASHINGTON NOTES. Much alarm was created in the White House on the 18th by a false alarm of fire. A reception to the diplomatic corps was given by the President and Mrs Harrison on the 13th. The 1 \>stmaster-General. after an investigation made by post-office inspectors of the trouble at Catherine, Ala., has issued an order abolishing the post--office at that place. Secretary Proctor’s son is seriously ill at his father’s residence in Washington and the family "have been compelled to abandon their social engagements for the present. Thr Treasury Department has .authorized the allowance of the usual draw back on nails made from imported material and used in connection with domestic lumber in manufactures of cases or boxes exported as covering for oil in tin cans. General S. V, , Benet, chief of the bureau of ordnance, War Department, has beeu placed on the retired list oi the army. His services in the army extended over a period of forty-six years, during seventeen years of which lie filled the position of eliief of ordnance. THE EAST. The report of the treasurer of Harvard College shows the invested funds of the college to amount to $7,130,854. During the last year gifts for the capital account have amounted to $375,283, and for immediate use to $162,254. Martin Seacer, an engineer; John Smith and Irvin Bolich, brakemen, were instantly ’ killed and Nicholas Humph seriously injured by the explosion of the boiler of a locomotive at Gordon, Pa. The engine was standing on the track near the railroad office. Without a moment’s warning the boiler exploded. At Wilkesbarre, Pa., the Susquehanna was seventeen feet above low water mark. Street railway travel was abandoned. The great Thurber grocery firm of New York City is to be changed into a stock company with $3,000,000 stock. A, H. Ammioown, the New York dry goods dealer, has filed a schedule stating that his liabilities were $697,766 and nominal assets $461,802, actual assets, however, being only $96,246. As most of the assets are pledged as collateral, the assignee will not receive more than $12,500. Fires in New York early the other morning destroyed property to the value of $375,000. . ' . Nine persons were hurt by a collision on the Long Island rapid transit line near Denton station. Two men and two boys were killed by a car of rock running into them near Westport, N. Y., on Lake Champlain. An American bobbin, spool and shuttle company has been organized at Portland, Me.-, with $2,000,000 paid up capital. At the Republican caucus at Concord, . N. H., J. H. Gallenger was nominated for the United States Senate. The great’ Dobson carpet mills near Philadelphia .have been destroyed by fire. Loss, $600,000. Tps worst fire for years occurred re* eently in a four story block in Rutland, . Vt. Many valuable records and do«p ments were destroyed. The Stoneboro Savings Bank and the Sandy. Lake Savings Bank, of Green* ville, l’a., both of which were largely managed by the same parties, have failed. The liabilities of the Stoneboro institution exceeds the assets, but the Sandy Lake concern claims to be able to par its debts is full, a . :>

IUE WEST. The 'Warren & Lewis Lumber Company at Bay City, Mich., has filed chattel mortgages for 580,000. Tine Yakima Indians in Washington have been indulging in ghost dancing. Separate ballots will be taken in the Illinois Legislature for United States Senator, January 28 and a joint ballot the day following. Lei.A no Stanford ha^ been renominated by the Republicans for United States Senator from California. The Minnesota House completed its organization by the election of the Fusion (Alliance- Democrat) ticket. The stables of the Frteneh Amusement Company, a traveling circus, were burned at Chicago recently and twentyfive or thirty horses perished. The loss amounted to 540,000. Herman Puntlkek, of Clintonville, Wis., was devoured by wolves. Daniel Hanley & Co., commission merchants of Helena, Mont., have assigned, with $43,000 assets and $53,000 liabilities. Charles Reems, Milton Gilmore, Grant Gray and Will Babcock were instantly killed by a train on the Lake Shore railroad a few miles east of Fremont, O. All the men were returning home from market. They were in a sled, which was demolished and the horses killed. The Chicago gas trust president declares that the coming annual dividend will be passed because the money will be needed to prepare for the World’s

Fair. What is said to be the heaviest (Jamage suit ever begun in the Federal courts has been brought at Chicago by William Sturges, of New York, against John V. Far well, Charles B. Farwell and Abner Taylor, the amount sought being placed at $1,250,00,1 The suit grows out of the building of the Texas State Capitol. After nearly a year's fight the molders at Hoeftingshoff & Lane's foundry at Cincinnati have secured an advance in wages of 5 per cent. Stanford has been re-elected Sena|tor for California. The Seamen’s Union of Detroit, has withdrawn from the Knights of Labor. In Sacramento, Cal., a political quarrel resulted in Senator Campbell being assaulted by Senator Wilson, and a general knockdown ensued. In front of the Windsor Hotel ait Denver, Col., Harley McCoy insulted Chief of Police Farley, when the latter drew a revolver and shot McCoy several times. McCoy returned the fire, killing Farley. McCoy was not expected to live. A schooner has arrived at San Pedro, Cal., with 2,200 sealskins on board, caught in open water. TnE hostiles surrendered to General M iles at the Pine Ridge agency on the 15th. Lieutenant James D. Mann, Seventh cavalry, died at Fort Riley, Kan. He was wounded in the bpttle at Wounded Knee creek December 29. At the Republican caucus at Springfield, 111., ex-Goverror “Dick’’ Oglesby was nominated to succeed Senator Farwell in the United States Senate. John' C. Ham,, who has always had the reputation of being one of the most careful and upright lawyers in San Francisco, is said to be a defaulter to the amount of more than $150,000. His downfall is due to gambling in stocks. By action of the Republican caucuses of Illinois and New Hampshire Senators Farwell and Blair are retired. In response to a petition to that effect, the telegraph operators on the

line of the “Nickel Plate” road between Chicago and Cleveland have been granted an advance in wages of $5 per month. Tun Indiana Legislature wants Congress to amend the Constitution so that U nited States Senators may be elected by popular vote. The largest oatmeal mill owners in the country, in conference in Chicago, have virtually agreed on a plan of consolidation. Natural gas has played out at Columbus, 6. The recent disgraceful scenes in the Colorado House resulted in murder, Inspector of Police llawley dying from the bullet wound ^inflicted by Doorkeeper McCoy. Wallace Lethers, nephew of General Lew Wallace, fell from a window in St. Paul, Minn., and was killed. Many believe it was a suicide. The two warring factions of the Colorado Legislature have failed so far to reach an amicable settlement of their difficulties. Another sensation has been sprung by Governor Hovey sending to the Indiana Legislature a special message charging Warden Murdock, of the Northern prison, with embezzling $40,000. Mrs: Steele, wife of Governor Steele, of Oklahoma, was seriously injured at Marion, Ind., by a fall on the icy pavement. There are apprehensions as to her recovery. THE SOUTH. Fire at Dallas, Tex., commencing in Hooper's liquor store, did $90,000 damage. The 1,000 striking miners at Blocton, Ala-, have decided to go back to work at the old rate. It is thought the great strike is about over. J. C. Massey, clerk of Conway County, Ark., was Committed to jail by Judge Williams, of the United States Court, for contempt in refusing to produce the ballot box used in the Congressional elections in November. Application will be made to the United States Supreme Court for a writ of habeas corpus. The prize fight at New Orleans between Fitzsimmons, of New Zealand, and Dempsey, of America, was won by Fitzsimmons somewhat easily in thirteen rounds. The locomotive works at Richmond, Va., have been burned. Loss, $125,000. Mbs. Amelia Townsend McTyejre, relict of Bishop Holland N. McTyeire, of the Southern Methodist Cnurch, died at Nashville, Tenn. She was a relative of the Vanderbilts and was instrumental in procuring the endowment of Vanderbilt University. The Marietta & North Georgia railroad will be placed in the hands of a receiver. ■ -j. The total appraised value of the estate of the late M. A. Dauphin, president of the Louisiana Lottery Company, is »i4T,ooo.; 1 . General Powell Clayton has resigned the chairmanship of the Arkansas Republican State Bxecutive Ccmniitteee, and Henry M. Cooper has been elected chairman and M. W. Gibbs (colored) secretary. Ooi-onki. John McCaull, the once great impressario, is now a hopeless invalid at his residence in Baltimore, Md. His h^r limbs are partially paralyzed, is diin, and at times he has the use of his mental faculties.

Lewis Landers, who was with General Jackson at the battle of New Orleans, died in Limestone County, Tennessee, the other day, aged ninety-nine yems. He was in fine hca'th to the very last. Grenada, Miss., has been seriously damaged by fire, the east side of the square being consumed. Loss, $100,000. GENERAL. The severity of the weather in Germany and Austria is causing wolves to become dangerously hungry, especially in the case of those which are beginning to infest the woods near many villages in the northern part of Hunghry. Bears have appeared in the Styrian mountains. Nine foolhardy- men and boys attempted to crests the Seine at Paris on the thin ice and were drowned. Baron Haussman, the regenerator of Paris, is dead. He was born in 1800. A disastrous conflagration has caused much suffering in Bombay. Over 200 houses have been burned to the ground and hundreds of families are rendered homeless. The Siccle, of Paris, announces that Mr. John Dillon, upon his arrival in Prance, will be chosen as leader of the Irish Pari amentary party. It is stated that the Bussian Government meditates a law to prohibit foreign vessels engaging in the Russian coasting trade. Cuban brigands are holding full sway. An engagement with soldiers recently resulted in the killing of the commanding officer .and escape of the bandits to the mountains. *

A Paris cable'says: There is a prospect of the formation of the French syndicate to co-operate with Clark in the completion of Argentine railway contracts. The Russian Minister of Finance is buying all the gold he can obtain abroad. It is believed that he must have accumulated as much as 25,000,000 rubles. Tue Scotch railway strikers are out of funds. Garrett M. Byrne, Nationalist member of Parliament for West Wicklow, Ireland, has been declared bankrupt. 11a rrilj.as, President of Guatemala, has made preparations for flight. Mr. Gladstone has contributed £35 toward the lialfour Irish relief fund. It is said the British Government is behind the sealing suit brought against the United States in the Supreme Court, believing that Mr. Blaine can not establish his closed sea claims in his own country. The suit is a novel one and is offensively regarded by the State Department. A number of French manufacturers have notified the Government of their intention to move their factories out of the country if heavy import duties arc imposed on raw materials. • John W. Root, consulting architect of the World’s Fair, is dead. A dispatch from - Sydney, N. S. W„ states that Stevenson, of New Zealand, defeated Bubear, of England, in a sculling match rowed on the Paramatta river. The championship match will be contested on April 28 between McLean and Stanbury. The stakes are $1,000 a side. The “black death” is reported raging in Siberia. Cable communication with Chili has been cut off, it is believed by action of revolution and the censorship of the party in power. Three earthquakes occurred on the 15th at Parral, in the State of Chihuahua, Mexico. The gallery of the convent of the Sacred Heart gave way, killing six persons and wounding nine. Actress Herndon has been divorced. M r. Charles Bradlaugh, member of the British Parliament for Northampton, the well known free th'nker, is seriously ill. The Pope has remonstrated with the Russian Government for its persecution of Catholics and for closing the Catholic churches in Vilna. The Players’ League has gone out of existence. Th„ National League, Western Association and American Association are united in a National agreement. The Earl of Devon is dead, aged 88. Business failures (Dun’s report) for the seven days ended January 15 numbered 411, compared with 403 the previous week and 336 the corresponding week of last year.

THE LATEST. — In the Senate, on the 17th. after a continuous session of thirty hours in debate on the Federal Elections bill, adjournment- was taken at 0 p. in. until the 19th. A resolution was agreed to calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for a statement of the accounts of John I. Davenport, circuit court commissioner. Mr. Aldrich gave notice t.iat bn the. 20th he would ask the Semite to consider the resolution to change the rules of the Senate....In the House, immediately after the reading and approval of the journal, the District of Columbia Appropriation bill was taken up in committee of the whole. The day was devoted to speeches of a political nature by Messrs. Richardson, Grosvenor, Evans, Springer and others. Action on the bill was not reached. Representative McNnus/of Johns; town, introduced a bill in the Pennsylvania Legislature, on the 19th, to appropriate $400,000 to reimburse William H. Kemble, of Philadelphia, for money advanced, by him to Governor Beaver to defray expenses incurred by the State Board of Health in removing material detrimental to the public health which the flood ot 1889 deposited m the Conemaugh Valley and other sections of the State. Hon. John L. Mitchell, Congress-man-elect from Wisconsin, has resigned the position of Commissioner of the World’s Fair for his State, and Hon. David M. Benjamin, of Milwaukee, has been recommended to President Harrison by Governor Peck for appointment to the position. An English syndicate has offered $3,000,000 for the Durango Mining Company’s plant in New Mexico. Besides the plant the company has 43,000 acres of land. The capital stock is $5,000,000. The offer will probably be accepted. The revolutionary mob which recently disturbed the peace of the province of Entre Rios has been disarmed and dispersed by the force sent against them by the Argentine Government. A remonstrance has been sent by the Pope to the Russian Government against its persecution of Catholics and the closing of the Catholic churches in Vilna. George C. Baker, a Philadelphia cus-tom-house clerk, has been arrested, charged with altering-the figures in invoices of sugar consigned to Claus Spreckles in that city. t ! George Bancroft, the venerable American historian, died, on the 17th. at his home in'W'ashington, D. 0., after a two days’ Illness, in his ninety-first year.

LTATE INTELLIGENCE. A ragged burglar came into a Pern revival meeting, confessed that he had broken every commandment on the list, in addition to breaking locks, and requested the people to pray for him. Mbs. Lucena Kuhlman, aged twen-ty-eight years, and mother of a family, was leaning against a window in an upper story of the Lynn House, Seymour, the other evening when the sash fell out, precipitating her to the ground. Her injuries are fatal. Sheriff Wm. C. Smith, of Columbus, has offered a young lady 84,000 to marry him and help him reform his drinking habits. W. W. Hake, a Terre Haute shoe dealer, committed suicide at Indianapolis by taking Opium. Mrs. Russell Blair, of Elkhart, has been driven insane by the prediction of one “Dr.’’ Baker, a fortune-teller of Mishakawa, who told her her husband would be killed in a railway accident. John Whiteman fell into a vat of boiling lye in the Indiana Paper Company's vats at Mishawaka, t£e other night. He managed to keep his head above the boiling lye and screamed for help. When taken out the flesh fellfrom his bones and death was instant. He was forty-two years of age, and leaves a family. Mrs. Eliza J. Robertson was found dead in bed at Kokomo. Dkidrich Weibke, a farmer of Allen

County, was thrown from his wagon and fatally hurt. The three-year-old daughter of Mrs. Henry Heaver, of Irvington, a suburb of Indianapolis, died a few days ago from what physicians pronounced to be hydrophobia. Three months ago the little girl was bitten by a dog, receiving a scalp wound. The other day about sixty farmers met in Wilkinson and incorporated the Wilkinson Butter and Cheese Association. The capital stock is $6,100. Shares are $100 each. Both butter and cheese will be made from the milk furnished by the stockholders. Wm. Shaffer, a farmer, living north of Peru, was going to town with a load of wheat, accompanied by his wife and two children. While they were descending a hill that was very slippery from ice and snow, the wagon slipped over an embankment, upsetting, the load falling on Mrs. Shaffer and infant child. The husband, who had the other child, escaped with slight injuries, but when he extricated his wife he found her unconscious, clasping the babe in her arms. She was soon resuscitated, but the child was dead, having been smothered by the wheat. Joseph Loch ridge, a well-known soldier of the late war, residing near Manville, Milton township, near Madison, ate a hearty supper of oysters the, other night, threw up his hand and died in a few minutes of heart disease. I The name of New Providence, in Clark County, has been changed to Barden, in honor of Prof. W. W. Barden, founder of the Barden Institute. Two boys, romping in an aisle of the Millersburg school house, near Goshen, rudely jostled Millie Bed'man, and in falling she struck her head against one of the desks, resulting in instant death. Masked burglars visited the house of Chas. Baum, a farmer living near Dillsboro, and after a light with father and son, made their escape with $27. The directors of the Indiana Wire Fence Company, at f’rawfordsville, have voted to increase the capital stock of the company from $30,000 to $100,000. Chris Warkek, of Jefferson vile, died the other day from supposed pneumonia. It is suspected that he was poisoned and his stomach will be analyzed. James McBride, accused of blowing up the Jenkins Hotel at Plainville with dynamite, proved an alibi and was acquitted.

Thomas B.Scott, notion dealer, Richmond, has failed for $10,000. Babbits have become a pest in the orchard region of Clark County. Rev.W. F. Pettit,found guilty of murder in the first degree for the killing of his wife, has been denied a new trial and will go to the Indiana Penitentiary for life. Horace McPherson, near Akron, was terribly disfigured by the accidental discharge of his shotgun in his face. He . may die. Two colored boys named Wood ana Mack Underwood, aged thirteen and eleven, were arrested at Terre Haute, a few days ago, for setting fire to their father’s house last March. It burned to the ground, with all its contents. The boys fired the house during their father's absence, all ten o'clock at night, for the purpose oy getting forty dollars that was in Jthe house. They hid the money in the hollow of a tree, and no suspicion was excited until recently when they began laying in a supply of pistols, Flobert guns, silver watches, gunpowder and such articles They broke down when questioned and confessed. There was no insurance on the building or household articles The young prisoners are in jail. , John Gray was found dead in his bed at Ilazelton. Marshal Callahan, of Brazil, returned the other evening from Bloomington, where he arrested Albert Roberts, John Walsh, Frank Crosby and John Dacy, the quartet who broke into Diegle’s clothing store a few nights since. They were brought before Judge McGreger, in the circuit court at Brazil, and each sentenced to three years in the Southern penitentiary at Jeffersonville. The grand jury of Montgomery County returned an indictment against Daniel Sullivan, who is charged with taking a piece of chicken and a piece of fish from a lunch counter, all valued at twenty cents Sullivan has been placed under $300 bond. William S. Pope has sued his moth-er-in-law in the courts at New Castle, for alienating the affections of his wife, and asking $5,000 damages. Natural gas, with a strong flow,was struck at Princeton, the other evening at a depth of 630 feet. Mormon meetings, are being held at West Fork, Crawford County, and four proselytes have been secured. At a dinner given by Dr. Wm. Lomax and wit^ht Marion, there was assembled a party of ‘forty persons, but wo of whom were under sixty years of age. At Marion, the wife of Edward Poindexter, colored, was found dead at her home under circumstances that suggest foul play, The body was near a nat ural gras fire, and the face and arm and me side considerably burned. While -Albert Cochran was walking along on Main street, Peru, carrying a gun, he slipped and fell, causing the gun to be discharged, the contents entering his foot, necessitating amputation at the ankle,

GEORGE BANCROFT. Death of the A feed Historian, Politician and Di{domat—A Brief Sketch of His life and Labor—He Passed Peacefully Away, After a Brief Illness, In His Ninety-First Year. Washington, Jan. 18.—George Bancroft, the venerable historian, died at his /'"T"—home in this city' at

3:S0 p. m. yesterday. He had been sick only tow days and was on the street but four days ago. On Thursday 1 e took to his bed as a matter of precaution. but was taken seriously ill Friday.. From that time until yesterday after

George Bancroft: noon he failed rapidly, and all^day hovered between life and death. At 3 p. m. the doctor left, thinking that Mr. Bancroft would live through the night, but before the hour was up Mr. Bancroft was dead. His end was quiet and peaceful and the prime cause of his death was simply the weakness of old age. % His LIFE ANT) LABORS. Mr. Bancroft was in his ninety-first year, lie wa9 born October 3, 1800, in Worcester, Mass, llis father was a clergyman. He prepared for college at Exeter, N. H.; graduated at Harvard in 1817, and went to Goettingen, Germany, where he resided for two years, a pupil of Benecke, Artaud, Bunsen, Eichhorn, l'lanck, Heeren, Biumenback and Dissen. He was given the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by the University of Goettingen in 1810, and it was about that time that he devoted himself specially jfro history. This devotion did not prevent him from publishing a volume of poems in 1823. From 1820 to 1822 he resided in Berlin and at Heidelberg, where he enjoyed acquaintance with two great men—Humboldt and Goethe. He returned to America in 1822 and was for a short time Greek tutor at Harvard, o The year of the publication of his book of poems he opened a school at Northampton, Mass., with Dr. Joseph G. Cogswell. lie occupied his leisure with the study of United States history and found time to publish, in 1824, a translation of Heeren’s “Politics of Ancient Greece,” and ‘in 1826 an oration advocating universal suffrage. He was elected to the lower house of „ the Massachusetts Legislature without being a candidate in 1830, and refused to take liis seat. He declined a nomination to the S,tate Senate the next year. The first volume of the “History of the United States” was published in 1834, and the second was completed in 1838, in,which year he w as appointed by President Van Buren collector for the port of Boston. He was* then a resident of Springfield, Mass., and had given up his school. In 1840 the third volume of his history was published. He was the nominee of the Democratic party in Massachusetts for Governor in 1844 and was defeated. He was, however, appointed Secretary of the Navy when PresiSt Polk went, into the White House. He two things while in this Office that are i*eially noteworthy, fie established the Naval Academy at Annapolis and ordered the seizure of California for the United States. Congress had persistently refused ^appropriate money for the establishment of a Naval Academy. The new Secretary, by diligent examination of the law relative to his powers, ascertained that he could designate a place where midshipmen must await orders, that he could uirect instructors to give them lessons at sea, and that he could follow them to the place of their common

resilience on snore. He economized in his department, and in that way obtained a fund to meet the expenses. He secured from the Secretary of War an abandoned military post, which was ceded to the navy. So when Congress met again it found the Naval Academy established at Annapolis. Then it made sufficient appropriations for the repair of the buildings and for the maintenance of the academy. As a side issue Mr. Bancroft reformed the naval observatory at Washington, secured large appropriations for its improvement, and established a system of promotion on m'erit in place of age. He gave the order to the commander of the American squadron in the Pacific to seize California in event of war with Mexico, and never neglected an opportunity of impressing this order, sending it by every possible-channel. It was carried into effect before he left the Cabinet. During his term as Secretary of the Navy ho also aeted as Secretary of War for a month and gave the order for the occupation of Texas by the army of the United 8tates. He did not, however, 'remain tlio entire term in the Cabinet, but in 1846 was appointed Minister toGreat Britain, remaining until 1819. In May, 1867, he was appointed Minister to Russia, but in 1868 was transferred to the North German confederation, and. in 1871 was accredited to the German Empire. He was recalled at his own request In 1874. While Minister at Berlin he proposed the reference to the King of Prussia of the dispute between the United States and Great Britain concerning the northwestern boundary of tlieUnited States. He wrote the replies to the argument of Great Britain and won the case. Great Britain had persistently denied the right of emigrants to the United States from Great Britain or Ireland to throw off allegiance to the mother country and become citizens of the United States. Mr.Bancroft negotiated a treaty with Prussia containing a formal recognition of the right of expatriation at the will of the emigrant, and secured similar treaties with the several German States. England watched these negotiations, and on their conclusion she also abandoned her claims to perpetual allegiance. On his return to America in 1849 Mr. Bancroft resumed work on his history and published the fourth volume in 1852. In the succeeding fifteen years of his absence from Official life he published five more volumes of the history, and in 1874 printed the tenth volume. In 1875 he revised the work and printed it in six volumes in 1876. Two more volumes were printed under the title “History of tie Formatioh of the Constitution of the United States” in 1882. He again revised the whole work and printed the matter of the tsrelve volumes he had*published in 1834 andnn82 in six volumes (1885). He wrote much on many subjects, printing an article la the Mugaztne of American History as late as June, 1886. “*In May, 1882 (nearly nine years ago), he wrote to a friend: “I was trained to look upon life here as a season for labor. Being more than fourscore years old I know that the time for my release will soon come. Conscious of being near the shore of eternity I await without impatience and without dread the beckoning of the hand which will summon me to r<ln no biography of. Mr. Bancroft is there any mention of his family or any other than what might be called the public facts of his life. He was for several years on the edge of the grave, as it seemed, and several times reported dying. V Merely a Matter of Justice. Johnstown, Pa., Jan. 18.—Representative McNelis, of this city, will, on Tuesday introduce a bill in the Legislature which appropriates $400,000 to reimburse William H. Kemble, of Philadelphia, for the money advanced by him to Governor Beaver to defray expenses incurred by the State Board of Health in removing the material detrimental to the public health which the flood of 1889 deposited in the Gonemaugh Valley and other sections of the State. It is expected that there will be little, if any, opposition to the passage of the measure. Wholesale Incendiarism. Sioux Citv. Ia.. Jan. 18.—Great excitement is caused by two attempt s made last night to fire the town of Covington, Neb., across the river from here. Five buildings Vere fired of nine prepared, all of them being dives communicating with other buildings, Chiefly wooden, and in each cgse augur-holes had been bored through the sidings and oil poured in. Preparations had been made to destroy the Pontoon bridge to cut off assistance from here, and it was at first believedto be the work of vigilantes to destroy andxid the place of bad resorts and tough characters, i

THE PLUTOCRATIC RADICALS. HauiMi for the Perpetuation of Sectional Strife. Mr. Edmunds, of Vermont, is the gentleman who so recently showed his sincere regard for the welfare of the country by securing two cents a pound on maple sugar from the Treasury for the sap-boilers of that State. Mr. Hoar, of Massachusetts, is a Senator who during a long legislative experience has never failed to use all the power of his intellect to rserve the ends of the Northeastern “Commune ol Capital.” Mr. Chandler, of New Hampshire, is as subservient a tool of plutocracy as. is Mr. lloar, and he has moreover a record in connection with the worst psriod of jobbery in' the navy which has fixed his moral status so that no one is at all in doubt concerning it. These three men constitute the triumvirate which is attempting to coerce the Senate into passing the Davenport force bill, under which elections are to be controlled By District of Columbia returning boards, backed by bayonets. Behind this bitl is “the American Pro

tective Tariff League. the association of monopolists organized to furnish the fat fund of 1888 and to control money and supply through Federal legislation. It is because of this demand for the bill that Messrs. Hoar,- Chandler and Edmunds are so determined on its passage. A strong sentiment has grown up in the West against Northeastern ‘‘control of money, and the agricultural States of the South sympathize with it, while in the South from: year to year there is growing up. a stronger competition in manufactured goods with the Northeast. The result of this, if not cheeked, will be more and cheaper goods in the market and more money to buy them with. The tariff prevents the agricultural States' from buying outside the country, and the plutocratic States of the Northeast’have in so much a monopoly. But the tariff can not be used to prevent Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee from manufacturing their own eptton and other raw materials in competition with the plutocratic States. The only method by which this “over-, production,” as the Northeastern trusts call every thing which cheapens the necessaries of life, can be prevented is by reviving the old sectional quarrel on the line of a manufactured race issue, t The plutocratic radicals are attempting ivio do that for the South, while at the same time they are trying to keep money and supply controlled against the West. When every thing else fails them, when the West rises in a tremendous revolt against them, it only makes them the more desperate and the more determined on returning board and bayonet. Only through such means can plutocracy maintain the control it has usurped over a free people.—ti*. Louis Bepuhlic. JINGO JUGGLERY. The Disturbing Element in the Republican Party. An Oregon frifiid of Mr. Blaine is quoted as saying, by authority, that the Secretary “is not advocating reciprocity for4a Presidential boom, hut only for the good of the country.”’ This alleged confidant of the Maine politician's ambitions adds that “Spain and Spanish-speaking countries annually consume 4.000,0(8) barrels- of flour not produced in their countries, the duty on which is 80.80 a barrel.” ’ This may not have any political hearing, but it sounds remarkably like the sentiment of that letter about a “single bushel of wheat or a single barrel of pork,” which beyond .question was a powerful political factor in the contest between “the Man from Maine” and

his ambitious and bumptious nvtd, exCzar'Reed. • The Blaine spokesman concludes by saying that “the United States could furnish every one of those barrels, of' flour, if they got the chance. You can put it down that Blaine won't run in 1893.” This is a clear ease of “nonBetjuitur.” To attempt to construct so strong a platform for Blaine for the mere purpose of announcing that he won’t stand on it would be a sort of nonsense in which astute politicians do not indulge. If the Republican platform for ’93 is going to be the Blaine platform of partial free trade through optional reciprocity, it is hard to see how any other than Blaine himself can stand upon it. President Harrison clearly could^not without an absolute surrender to his Cabinet officer. If the President shonld make that surrender, he would surely alienate the McKinley elements as represented by The declaration of the officers and organs of the Protective Tariff League and the Manufacturers’ Club. With respect to principles, as well as with regard to possible candidates, the condition of the Republican party is one of seemingly hopeless discord and disorder.—N. Y. Star. THE RESULT OF OPPRESSION. The Outcome of a Tyrannical System of The Farmers’ Alliance is the product of indignation and despair—indignation at the merciless exactions imposed on the agricultural interest by the Republican party and despair that the other great National party would ever be able to obtain the supremacy and right the wrongs perpetrated by its powerful adversary. That this indignation was originally well founded is beyond question. It is doubtful if the ali-important industry of agriculture was ever subjected in any country, except, perhaps, in feudal France just before the Revolution, to so many crushing burdens as the Republican party heaped upon it in this. It is also beyond question that the despair of the Democratic party ever coming into power was also originally well founded. Those who organized the. Alliance saw nothing between them and eternal spoliation but the unaided strength of. the farmer. • Since this vista was presented times have altered. The policy of the Republican party has been changed only to intensify it, and the indignation which was originally justified by that policy has now more justification than ever. The relief that party pretends to give is merely illusory; the burden basin reality been grievously augmented, and the hypocrisy which seeks to sugar over the superadded wrong is a fresh motive for new detestation. But on the other side of the picture there has been a genuine and decided change. There is no room now for despair as to Democratic supremacy and the permanence of that supremacy. The Republican party has had its day and must go. The exigency which called it into existence is long over. The great party of the future in this country is the Democratic party, and no oppressed popular interest ever looked to jKfftJ to vain.—Ytyrlg, Merciless Exaction.

What the Cloee at the Tear 1800 Revealed. '• The record of the Republican pi For 1890 is one that the party w< gladly expunge from its annals, commences with the dictatorship Speaker Eeed in the National He af Representatives, and Closes wit iesperate and insane effort in the f ate to impose upon a free people hi net rule at elections. The proceed of the Republican majority in Cong have been characterised by nsurgjh of the most reckless description; d) gard for the choice of the people unseating legally elected (Senators Representatives, shameless ext* gance to the extent of seriously barrassing the Treasury, the paseag a bill outlawing importers, and th< famous tariff bill, which has w such disastrous disturbances'*-.* channels of business, the exposiw frauds in Government departments, attempt to place the force bill, the sidy bill and a highly dangerous fl cial bill on the statute books. JSj The year 1890 is also memorable the grand uprising of the Amer people on the fourth of Nfflrep which almost annihilated the 8*pu an party, and taught political deaf does that there was a power Uiisaf defy. Quay, Platt, McKinley, M«fl all the bosses that strutted sq.’inso' ly and confidently cm the poll boards for the first ten months' o# year, are now objects of contempt derision. In American polities, tt fore, it may be Seen that ltlwgM The MeKtoK most notable year, iff law has had the immi

increasing' prices and wages, of stimulating M trusts and adding to the long, business failures. The dose of 11 found the Secretary of the ’ a dazed condition'of mind

come of the financial situation, ana RWI publican financiers in Congress ing with a bill that is likely to eompli-' cate the situation still more. It was, indeed, a very ominous year lor the i party and Administration that eni ' upon it with such confidence and in spirits.—Albany Argus. NOTES AND OPINIONS. -Speaker Reed’s remark that is a time for patriots to keep t months shut, taken in connection "wit his impressive silence since the* elec, tions, leads to the inference that he '■ skiers himself a model patriot.—Bet j Herald. , JjggjHp I -The Republican papers are p* ing out that sugar is cheaper, and i it is due to the McKinley tariff bilRV it is likely that sugar may be lo ‘ in price. But it is one of the " where the tariff was removed, praxes th»t,theJtarifE is a*taxi—^ Press. * * *. * - The first result on wages-that has* occurred since the McKinley bill be*" came a law, in this locality, seems to - be a reduction ol tep per cen^tthp''?*

largest steel works, bill has advanced the the necessaries and from ten to twenty ductjon in .wages Su the nature of com] burgh Post.

-It looks very much as if President Harrison and Secretary Blaine were attempting to imitate the policy of the third (and last) Napoleon, who sought to amuse the French with outside ques-1 tions because the internal situation had become intolerable. But have theses statesmen forgotten the National hu- j miliation and calamities which followed| the Napoleonic policy?—Philadelphia.) Times. • V- ' . ,’£■ ■' —-In “the defeat of the force bill the j Democrats in the United States Senate! have earned the gratitude of the conn'd try, and the people wHl look witn equanimity on the crocodile tears) shell by Mr. Hoar and his allies. Not evbn the flood of oratory favoring legislation for the benefit of silver-mine ownefl will lessen the feeling -of rejoicing* the escape from the intended basis fH dead,” says theNew York Age (Rep.),, organ of the negroes. '•It has gone to keep company with the Federal education bill. The Republican party has broken faith with the’ voters of the. country upon two or. three measures upon which it won the elections of 1888. The best interests of the Afro-Am*a»« leans have been cut-to pieces in tlte. House of their friends. The treachery ] of the Hayes administration has been J repeated under the Harrison adminiaJ tration.” ‘_ |_ a A Reckless Resurt, The whole discussion of the foro4 bill, on the' part o? the Republican press, is distinguished by a-studious disJ regard of the constitutional objection* to the measure. The |)31 is pernicious! enough in itself, but it'is worse as establishing a precedent for the filching away, little by liltle, of the rights of sovereign States, which should be preserved inviolable art all hazards. . There will Be, A, desperate fight against the passage of the act, and, if it does pass, ft _ will be the final nail in the coffin of- the recklesa| party that is its sponsor The legislaJ tion of the present session of Congres* is not for to-day, nor is the Nation any State -so ephemeral an institution that there Is any excise for making iffi the plaything of smaU politicians whu will be dead and'gqne, while the evff they have done may still live and have an active effect. One would think that the desperation of defeat .had turned' the brains of the seamen, for they arejM| reckless of the f rupt spendthrift debauch, at the e —Detroit Free ! of his Harrison by the aid of' ers triumphed in the orgai Indiana Republican Sta1 and his “boom”'fprre-e] well started in JherHoos

got rid of somehow.” ‘ prolific in Dudley " toral vote to ‘ soap” and was V Dudley’s “blocks of flvV’ risonas a fldus Achates i Howdy, who, it Is to be hoped, ! I enough” to vlolatelfw and i •bsCMcmq Tim«§ -- .