Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1883 — Page 7

POLITICAL AFFAIRS.

Greenback and Republican Conventurns in lova and Pennsylvania. ' Gen. Weaver Bamed for Governor— The Resolutions. Im OnoibMken. TSie lows Greenback State Convention met at Dee Moines, and was called to order by the Hon. R H. Gillette, and, after prayer by Rev. Dr. & Hunting, of Des Moines, Mr. Gillette delivered a short speech, in which he declared that the' end and arm of the Greenback party was the overthrow of every system which opposes the right of every person to do as he pleases; to enforoe -the doctrine of the Declaration of Independence, “That all men are created free and equal” and further the enfranchisement of -women. It is a hard task, he said, for opposed to the movement is every form of railroad corporations, 'usurers, and everything representing capital. He also declared that the party was tar prohibition & Kenwarthy, of Mahaska was ■called as Temporary Chairman, and a Davis ■county man was appointed Temporary Secretary. The Committee on Credentials reported .sixty-six counties represented, two-thirds of the counties of the State. The Committee on Permanent Organization recommended the following: Chairman—W. S. Kenworthy, of Mahaska. Vice President—T. Q. Lee, of Hamilton Secretary—J. Burke, of Jasper. Assistant Secretary—W. H. Robb, of Union. Reading Secretary—J. W. Muffly, of Polk. The report was adopted. A motion was made to refer to the Committee on Resolutions, without debate, all resolutions offered in the convention, which, after considerable discussion, prevailed: The following Committee on Resolutions wai appointed: First district, M L. Edwards; Second, L. Hoops; Third, M. S. Hitchcock; Fourth, L. H. "Weller; Fifth, George Carter; Sixth, Gen J. K Weaver; Seventh, I. Brownell; Eighth, J. L. Brown; Ninth, W. Wolllcker; Tenth, F. H. Lee; Eleventh, Daniel Campbell. Gen Weaver,Chairman of the Committtee •on Resolutions presented the following report, which was adopted with but little opposition: The National Greenback Labor party of lowa, In convention assembled, doclare: 1. The right to Issue mo*y and control the ■volume thereof belongs to the people, therefore we demand the abolition of all banks of issue and the substitution of legal tender currency in lieu of bank currency, the volume to be strictly regulated by Congress. 2. We favor the unrestricted coinage of gold and silver. 3. We are opposed to all refunding of the i»-•terest-bearing national debt which places it beyond the power of the Government to pay at will, and we demand that said debt be paid as -rapidly as possible. - 4. We demand a graduated income tax whereby capital shall bear its just share of the public burden. 6. All men have a natural right to a portion of the soil, and, as the use of the soil is indispensable to life, the right of all men to the soil is sacred as life itself; all public lands granted to corporations and forfeited by reason of non-, performance of the conditions of said grants should be immediately reclaimed by,the Government, and all pnblic lands should by held for homes toy actual settlers. 6. The Patent law Should be so amended as to protect inventors, give the people the benefits to be derived, and prevent the formation of monopolies which rob the inventor and the people. I. We favor civil-service reform, and to that end hold that all public officials, as far as practicable, including the President and Vice President, shall be elected by a direct vote of thef ■people. 8. We favor a low tariff and a revision of the present tariff laws, to be adjusted in the interest of labor and not in the interest of monopolies. 9. We demand the abolition of the Railroad Commission and the passage of laws regulating railroad and telegraph charges upon an equitable basis and the establishment of a postal telegraph system. 10. For the purpose of protecting the people from harassing and tedious litigation In courts remote from their homes, all railroad companies and other corporations doing business within this State, should be required by law to incorporate under the laws of lowa. That said corporations be required to litigate their causes in the State courts in common with all other citizens. 11. We demand that each party having a State organization shall have a representative on each election board.

IX We hold that the representatives of labor liave the right to combine to protect all their constitutional rights and they should be protected by law In the exercise of that right, and -we demand legislative action whereby all differences between mine owners and laborers may be equitably adjusted. 13. We demand equal political rights for all men and women. H. The manufacture and ssle of intoxicating liquors as a beverage should be prohibited, and the will of the people as expressed at the nonpartisan election of June 27, 1882, be respected and carried out, and we arraign the present executive of the State for permitting the will of the people to be overthrown. 15. The claims of the bondholders have been xegarded by the party *in power as more sacred than the claims of the soldiers of the Union. We declare such distinctions to be humiliating and wrong, and we demand that Congress shall immediately pass such laws as will place the soldiers upon an equal footing with the bondholders. We also favor the passage of a law by the State Legislature exempting pension money and the homesteads purchased therewith from •execution and attachment. 16. We point, to tue acts of our last Congress in renewing national-bank charters, in reducing bank taxes $12,000,000 per annum, and to their failure to reclaim forfeited fond grants; also, to the escape of the star-route thieves, some of whom confessed their guilt, and to the development of fa,.id in the Tr "usury Department, as •exposed by the Hon. F. H Murch, as evidence •of the unprecedented corruption of the party in . power, and to show that public moneys and public interests omnot longer safely be Intrusted to their hands. ‘ The Hon. J. B Weaver was nominated for ■Governor; Sanford Kirkpatrick, of Wapello, for Lieutenant Governor; D. W. Church, of Adair, for Supreme Judge, and Miss Abbie ■O. Canfield, of Des Moines county, for Superintendent of Public Instruction. Gen. Weaver thanked the convention in a meat speech. CoL Harper, of Illinois, made a short speech, which was extremely moderate and •conciliatory in its tone. The following State ■Central Committee was chosen; First district, R C. Brown; Second, J. L Enos; Third, M 8. Hitchcock; Forth, L H. Weller; Fifth, B. 0. Henderson; Sixth, W. 8. Kenworthy; SeventßE. H. Gillette' Eighth, W. H. Rogg; Ninth, Thomas Benedict; Tenth, not chosen; Eleventh, J. R Somers. Pennsylvania Republicans. The Republicans of Pennsylvania held their State Convention at Harrisburg. s lt was a very quiet affair. There were no contesting delegations. John Cessna presided^ and the business in hand was rapidly disposed of. Williany livesey was nominated for State Treasurer on the sixth ballot, and Jerome B. Niles was declared the nominee for Anditor after the fourth ballot The following platform Was adopted: The Republican party of Pennsylvania makes declaration dt Its principles as follows: I. We unqualifiedly approve and demand a continuance of that system of protection to home industry whioh has proved itself to be the basis of National independence, an incentive to industrial skill and development, and a guarantee of a just and adequate scale of wages for labor; and we denounoe all attempts to rednoe the rates of the tariff below a level whioh will accomplish these objects.

S. Hat aay ampins to the public 1 mangy arising fraßLaredundant .revenue should, after ns I Inn ilinfisfliiiisl debt as fast as its conditions permlt. be distributed from time to time to the several States upon the basis of population to reUeve them from the burdens of local taxation sad ptvnde means tor tbs edocattan of their people. S. That, as the depredated trade dollar Ja largely to the hands of our laboring people, and is a disturbing element to the business of the country, we declare it to be the duty of Congress to adopt snch legislation as will insure its full redemption and conversion into other coin for circulation. , A That we prates* against the practice of foreign Governments-to aiding or enforcing the emigration of thfir pauper and criminal classes to this country, and we call upon the Geneial Government to take proper steps to prevent the , same. A The Republicans of Bgansylvaaia most heartily indorse tfye wise and conservative administration of President Arthur, and believe his administrative policy has, under the circumstances, done much to secure the pres nt happy and prosperous condition of the country, and thus we recognize in him a faithful and worthy supporter of our lamented martyr, President James A. Garfield. A We heartily approve of the provision made by the Republicans In Congress for giving the patriot soldiers of the late war a preference according to qualifications for positions under the Government. Soldiers and sailors, their widows and orphans have a first claim on the care, protection and gratitude of the American people. 7. We commend every effort to hikngnrate a thorough and correct civil-service reform to all the departments of the national and State administrations? • 8. We require that all offioes bestowed within the party shall be upon the sole basis of fitness; that competent and faithfnl officers shall not be removed except for cause, and that the ascerta ned popular will shall be faithfully carried ont by those holding office by favor of the ■TW tne Republican party is unequivocally committed to the economical administration of the affairs of the commonwealth, the abolition of all taxes not required for the necessities of the State Government; that all laws t< prevent fraud and waste should be rigidly enforced and faithfnl care given to the multifarious interests intrnsted to the State Department of the Government. 10. That the Republican party of Pennsylvania hereby pledges itself to secure the passage of snch legislation as will tend to a reform of the government of the State and Its municipalities, and more particularly pledges itself to provide for cities snch reform charters as will correct existing abuses and promote good and economical government. 11. That the Democratic party in the Legislature of Pennsylvania is responsible for retarding the legitimate and necessary business of the Legislature, or using the calling of an extra session at an expense of more than $209,000, and preventing a fair and just apportionment of the State and Congressional, Legislative and Judicial districts, and we hereby heartily commend the action of the Republican Senate on these measures. Whebeas, It is the sense of the convention that the freest and fullest expression of Republican sentiment should be encourged and sought in primary meetings, which are the fountain of party action and source of fibpnlar rule, and that this object be promoted by holding primaries for the election of delegates to the conventkm, throughout the State as . far as practicable, on some convenient day not remote from the convention; therefore. Resolved, That the State Committee be instructed to inquire into the expediency of fixing a uniform-day throughout the State for bolding primaries for the election of delegates to State conventions.

GLEAMINGS.

Watermelons are selling in Florida for 5 cents eash. The annual income of the Sultan of Turkey is #15,000, (M). , Lyons, lowa, has a match-factory whioh turns out 300 gross per day. Thirty-four men in Uvalde county, Texas; , own #300,000 worth of sheep apiece, The poet of the Hartford Post speaks of' an old straw hat as a symphony in last year’s sunburn. A gentleman of Sumfcerville, Walton oonnty, Fla, has established a gopher park, and is said to have 930 head at work. The Baptists are about to invest from #75,000 to #IOO,OOO in the erection of a denominational college in North Dakota It is estimated that the miners and mechanics of Butte, M. T., have on deposit at the three banks in that city about #300,000. The Missouri State Teachers’ Association? in its session, passed a resolution that no member in the association shgiild receive the title of Professor. Wmfc The liquor-dealers of San Buenaventura, CaL, have resolved to withdraw their patronage from the two local papers because the latter advocates high license. In Portland, Ore., the ship-owners claim they have the advantage in view of the large expected wheat harvest on the coast, and are generally asking full rates for freight. The peaceful community of McPherson, Kaa, which has a population of about 3,000, gets along with a police force which consists of a City Marshal, who is also ’ Street Commissioner of the town. A ton of silver coin is now being turned out daily at the Philadelphia Mint The most of this is in dollars and small coin, notably dimes The demand for 5-cent nickels is in advance of the ability to supply- - . The American arid the Mexican nickel are engaged in a tight race at El Paso, Texas The latter, though worth i V cents less, Is rather getting away with the former, for some unknown reason, though at .Laredo and other points on the Rio Grande the merchants refuse to receive the Mexican nickel at par or face. The Denver Tribune is responsible for the statement that a “Gout Club” has recently been organized in that cltv, with Judge Steok, President; Ward Lanoion, Secretary; Judge Ward, Umpire; and J. R Belford, General Inter] ocutor. it is generally known as the “Historical Club,” inasmuch as these gouty philosophers generally dovote themselves to the discussion of historical questions, including such abstruse inquiries as “Why didn’t Moses have a front name?”

ABOUT PEOPLE.

Gen. McClellan has become an Insurance agent * s' Mr. Beecher will spend the summer in California. There are no descendants of President Jackson living. Thurman says Blaine is the greatest of living politicians. Judge Hoadly is a graduate of Weetern Reserve College. Judge Hoadly’s mother was a sister of exPresidant Woolsey, of Yale College. Robert J. Burdette, the humorist, is spending the summer at Ardmore, Pa. Attorney General Brewster nowwearfca full salt of ecru pongee, with its cambric ruffles. Or the 153 young men who applied for admission at West Point, twenty-seven wen rejected. James Payn, the English novelist, is said to be strikingly llkeTalmage in personal appearance. ,» Mr. A 8. Abell, the proprietor of the Baltimore Bun, la estimated to be worth #15,000,000. Gee. H. W. Slocum has taken the unexpired lease of Gen. Shermanis house in Washington, and Representative Wadsworth will make his winter home in the one in the same row that was formerly oooupied by Mr. Blaine •

THE COLORADO TRAGEDY.

Massacre of Commissioners in Grand County. - ! V* Particular* of the 'Bloody Bn. •• AOUBIGPr ■*«*• .> _ ■ mm m \ w r * [Denver Telegram.] From a multitude of conflicting report! constantly being ieoetred Oonceraing' the Grand county tragedy, it to difficult to get the real facta in the case. Texas Charley tells the following story of the fight, which to deemed ‘authentic: Day, Wbtber and Dean left Mrs. Young's boarding-Ifouse for town, and when about twenty-live paoes from the house were pass* tog-a lot qf pineeCknd rooks, Webber walking thirty* steps behind Dean and Dav. Four masked men jumped out from behind the rooks and pines and shot Webber in the back, just above the hips, the ball passing through Ub body. Webber aried: "I am shot,” and ran toward Day and Dean, and fell before them. The leader of the masked party (Mills) then sprang on Dean, knocking him down, and began pounding him over Hie head with his gun. Day drew his Revolver and shot Mills behind the ear, -the powder from the pistol burning his hair. Mills fell on top of Dean. As soon as Day was shot the man ran back toward Mrs YooHg’s'ide-house, and some masked men , came up behind him. Day shot at him, and it to belieVed wounded him. A shot from behind 'struck Day and the ball passed through his heart He ran fifteen steps and fell dead the path. Webber was uncon scions after failing, and at 11:80 the Bame nightyvfgAdying. His last words were: “Four feotoSt water on my wounds ” Webberto andMSy’b bodies were taken to Webber® ransTon Frazer’s farm, from whence Day’s bwtownß taken to the springs, where it will bo buried. Mills will be buried, at Grand Lake. Dean to at Grind Lake alive at last aocotmta. Coffin, Martin and William Redmon, Supposed to be of the attacking party, have so far eluded arrest The trouble that led to the shooting was the result "of an old feud, dating back to 1859, whenjthe obunty was created by act of the Legislature and the Beat located at Hot Sulphur At the election held In 1880, the people by a vote changed the county shat to Grand Lake The matter was taken to the Diqtricf Court and then to the Supwrfae Court Meanwhile the hatred existing Jjetween the two factions was growing WS intensity, culminating yesterday in the bloody work. Grand oounty has three. Commissioners—Barney Day, R. G. Mills, and R P. Webber—a majority whom. Day and MilM were of declaring the voter®illegal that Created Grand Lake the county beat and removing the records back to the 'Storings. The Commissioners had a regular meeting at Grand Lake. Just what was done to not positively known, but it is reported they decided to. declare- the office of County Treasured vacant because of his refusal to file a saupactory bond During the meeting DaywWebber and Clerk Dean stopped at Mrs Young s boarding-house, a quarter of a mile arogtnd the end of a small lake. The road leatofeg from Mm Young’s to town is ' througfiwSthicket of small pines It was while pxSMrag this point that the officials were slMgclSfewn in the manner described J. G.yMiUs, one of the Commissioners killed WaS? a man of unenviable reputation He came to this State from Mississippi, a fugitive From justice, having, in company ’’’with onjfe O. & Lee, shot and killed W. £L Hill Ballard The affair occurred ©bfc 1, 1875, in Holmes county. Mills was fora time local editor of the Cheyenne Leader J leaving that paper in 1879 and going directly/into Grand county, and became identified with the North Park Miner. He was a bojd writer, and bore the reputation of beinjra whole-souled fellow. He was a native, of Vermont S. P. Webber was a young and energetic lawyew who was for five .years Assistant Btate’g3Lttorney for the State of, Illinois, at Chicago. He was a man generally well liked, find preferred the law to violence In the secernent of any question, although he was by ho means a coward Barney Day was an old'-timer in Colorado, having been one of the first to come overland to Denver about twenty years ago. He emigrated to Middle Park In 1875, and has lived there almost continuously ever since. He hap a large number of warm personal friends, and leaves a wife and one child T. J. Dean was a native of Michigan He entered the army at the breaking out of the war, and distinguished himself for bravery and abUtty, and was breveted Colonel. He was afterward wounded and taken prisoner, and was f oir a long time one of the unfortunates whqWere confined In Libby prison He was disabled from.hia wounds, losing one eye apd being otherwise seriously hurt Upon getting out of prison he came to Colorado, afrjd has been here since He went to Park tolß7l or 187& He to about 55 years Jot age was for a long time Superintendent of Public Schools of Clepr Creekicounty, and afterward held the position ox County Judge of Grand county.

BRIEFS.

NimsyEEV floor mills are running at Minneapolis,^ The liquor license in Bismarck, Dak., is #1,030 per annum. Selves Cm, N. M, pays its public school teachers #250 a month. Mubtabdvtllk Is the name of a new town In Washington Territory. Kausah will elect Judges in six of its eighteen Judicial districts this fall < „ Dakota has forty-eight money-order offices, and the number is constantly increasa A tubtle was brought into Cedar Key, Fla., #a few days ago, that weighed 425 pdunda f * Although the introduction of horse railroads in Germany is of recent data fortyfour towns of the empire have already constructed lines Thebe Is a movement in Cleveland, as there is in Chicago, to establish a manual training school similar to the flourishing school in St Louie. A Lakeland (Mina) Sawmill works twentyfour hours in the day, six days in the week, and cuts 200,000 feet of lumber, 70,000 laths, and 80,000 shingles, the latter in eleven hourA Th i widow of Dr. Glenn, the great California farmer, will realize this year #710,000 from the grain crop. Now is the time for the enterprising young man in search of a partner to go West Statistics show that the growth of timber in Kansas is yearly increasing beyond the consumption. It was feared at the first settling of the State that the timber would disappear in a few yearn Lost) Wolsklet’h souvenir of the Czar’s coronation, given him by the Czar him—iif is a magnificent gold snuff-box bearing the Czar’s portrait set in brilliants on the coven Other fine diamonds are fixed in various paitsof the box. One of the mighty subjects to be discussed at the Concord School of Philosophy this near is “The Distinction of Reality ana Potentiality from True Actuality” When that iUscussion fairly setdin, it will be time for A; rest of the world to take to the woeyaa Buffalo Exprtu.

THE BAD BOY.

“Why don’t you tale an ioe-pick and clean tne dirt out from under your fin-ger-nails,” said the grocery man to the bad boy, as he oamd< in the store and stroked the oat the wrong way, as she lay in the sun on the counter, on a quire of manila paper. “Can’t remove the dirt for thirty days.' It is an emblem of mourning. Had a funeral at our house yesterday,” and tiie boy took a pickle out of the tub and put it into the cat’s mouth, dbnd shut her teeth together, on it, and then went to the show-case, while the grocery man, whose back had been turned daring the pickle exercise, thought by the way the oat. jumped into the dried ajbple barrel and began to paw and scratch with all four of her feet, and yowl, that she was going to have a fit. “I hadn’t heard abont it,” said the grocery man, as he took the cat by the neck and tossed her out in the back slied into an old oyster box full of sawdust, with a parting injunction that if she was going to have fits she better go out where there was plenty of fresh air. “DeAth is always.a sad thing to contemplate. One day we are full of health and joy, and cold victuals, and the next we are screwed down in a box, a few words are said over our remains, a few tears are shed, and there, is a race to see who shall get back from the cemetery first, and though we may think we are an important factor in the world’s progress, and sometimes feel as though it would be unable t 6 put up margins and have to stop the deal, the world goes right along, and it must annoy people who die to realize that they don’t count for game. The greatest man in the world is only a nine spot when he is dead, because somebody else takes the tricks the dead man ought to have taken. But, say, wh&gia dead at your house?”

“Our rooster. Take care, don’t you hit me with that canvassed ham,” said the boy, as the grocery man looked mad to learn that there was nobody dead but a rooster,s when he had preached such a sermon on the subject. “Yes, how soon we are forgotten when we are gone! Now, you would have thought that rooster’s hen would have remained faithful to him for a week at least. I have watched them all the spring, and I never , saw a more perfect picture of devotion than that between the bantam rooster and his hen. They were constantly together and there was nothing too good for her. He would dig up angle worms and call her, and when she came up on a gallop and saw the great big worm on the ground, she would look so proud of her rooster, and he would straighten up and look as though he was saying to her, ‘l’m a daisy,’ and then she would look at him as if she would like to bite him, and just as she was going to pick up the worm he would snatch it and swallow it himself and chuckle and walk around and be full of business, as though wondering why she didn’t the worm after he had dug it for her, and then the hen would look disappointed at first, and then she would look resigned, as much as to say, ‘Worms are too rich for my blood anyway, and the poor, dear rooster needs them more than I do, because he has to do all the crowing,’ and she would go off and find a grasshopper and eat it on the sly for fear he would see her and complain because she didn’t divide. Oh, I have never seen anything that seemed to me so human as the relations between that rooster and hen! He seemed to try to do everything for her. He would make her stop cackling when she laid an egg, and he would try to cackle and crow over it as though he had laid it, and she would get off in a corner and cluck 'in a modest, retiring manner, as though she wished to convey the idea to the servant girls in the kitchen that the rooster had to do all the hard work and she was Only a useless appendage, fit only for society and company for him. But I was disgusted with him when the poor hen was setting. The first week that she sat on the eggs he seemed to get along first rate, because he had a couple of flower beds to dig up, which a press of business had caused him to neglect before, and a couple of neighbor’s gardens to destroy, so he seemed to be glad to have his hen retire to her boudoir and set, but after he had been shooed out of the gardens and flower beds he seemed to be nervous, and evidently wanted to .be petted, and he would go near the hen and she would seem to tell him to go and take a walk around the block, because she hadn’t time to leave her business, and if she didn’t attend to it they would have a lot of spoiled eggs on their hands, and no family to bring up. He would scold, and seem to tell her that it was all foolishness, that for his part he didn’t want to hear a lot of chickens squawking around. He would seem to argue with her that a brood of chickens would be a dead give-away on them both, they would at once be classed as old folks, while if they were alone in the world thev would be spring chickens, and could go in young society, but the hen would scold back, and tell him he ought to be ashamed of himself to talk that way, and he would go off mad, and sulk around a spell, and then go to a neighbor’s henhouse and sometimes he wouldn’t come back till the next dray The hen would be sorry she had spokefcf so cross, and would seem pained alMl going away and would look anxiously for his return, and when he came back after being out in the rain all night, she would be solieitious after his health, and tell him he ought to wrap something around him, but he acted as though he didn’t care for his health, and he would go out again and get chilled through. Finally the hen came off the nest with ten chickens, and the

rooster seemed- very proud, and when anybody came out to look at them he would crow, and seem to say they were all Ipa chickens, though the hen was a long 'time hatching them, and.if it had been him that was setting on them he could have hatched them out in a week, or died » trying. But the exposure told bn him, and he went into a decline, and one morning we' found him dead. Do yon know, I never see a hen that seemed to realize a calamity as she did. She looked pale, and her eyes looked red, and she seemed to be utterly crushed If the chiokens, which were so young they oould not realize that they were little orphans, became noisy, and got to pulling and hauling over a worm, and conducted themselves in an unseemly manner, she would talk to them in hen language, with tears in her eyes, and it was a picture of Woe. But the next day a neighboring rooster got to looking through the fenoe from the fclley, and trying to flirt with her. At first she was indignant, and seemed to tell him he ought to go about his business, and leaye her alone, but the dude kept duoking, and pretty soon the widowed hen edged up towards the fence and asked him to come is, but the hole in the fence was too small fte liim, and then the chickens went out in the alley, and the hen followed them out. I shall always think she told the chickens to go out, so she would have au excuse to go after them, and flirt with the rooster, and I think it i» a perfect shame. She is out in the alley naif the time, and I could cuff Her, It seems to me wrong to so soon forget -n deceased rooster, but I suppose a hen oln’tbe any more than human. Say, you don’t want to buy A good dead rooster do you? You could pick it and sell it to somebody that owes yon, for a spring chicken.” . “No, I don’t want any deceased poultry that died of grief," and you better go home and watch your hen, or you will be bereaved some more,” and the grocery man went out in the shed to see if was over its fit, and when he came! back the bojrwas gone, anil after a while the grocery man saw a crowd in front of the Btore and he went out and found the dead rooster lying on “the vegetable stand, with a paper pinued on its’ breast on which was a sign, “This rooster died of colur. For sale cheep to hording house only .” He took the dead rooster and threw it ont in the Btreet, and looked up and down the street for the bad boy, and went in and hid a raw hide where he could reach it handy.— Peck's Sun.

Tricks of Diamond Smugglers.

The recent sale of smuggled diar monds was the largest in the Custom House record, and shows the audacity with which this fraud is practiced. The method is very ingenious, and the system has been so well arranged that our officials have been compelled to employ spies in foreign ports, who telegraph the departure of suspeoted persons. As soon as the latter arrive they are taken to the searcher bureau m the Custom House, where, if Accessary, they are stripped to the skin. The clothing is also searched, even to the seam, and sometimes the heel of the boots are removed to see if they are not hollow. Even the hair is oombed, and a wig (if one be worn) is throughly examined. In one instance a passenger by one of the Cunard steamers had’ SIO,OOO worth of precious stones concealed in the lining of his boots, which were discovered and confiscated. The man was a dealer in these articles, and was determined to continue in the traffic. In a short time he went again to London and soon returned. On this occasion he was closely searched, but nothing was found. As soon as he was released, he went back to the steamer and carried off'a large quantity of diamonds be had secreted in nis room. Some time age the authorities received notice of the departure of a notorious diamond smuggler from Europe for this port. On his arrival he was taken to the searchers’ bureau and thoroughly examined. In his pocket was an invoice of eighteen precious stones, and his clothe# were examined, each garment by itself. The officers wCre gratified to discover the precise number mentioned in the invoice, and allowed the man to depart. When he went home he removed a plaster from his back, in the ridges of which he had concealed the true diamonds, those discovered being merely imitation, placed there in order to deceive. The ingenuity with whioh these frauds have been practiced has aroused still closer search and one of the results is the seizure of the last-mentioned invoice.— New York letter.

Some Characteristics of Grant.

Grant loaned me money when I had sickness in my family, and when I went to pay it back to him, he looked np over his paper and said: * “Never mind it now; when you get $50,000 a year and house-rent, I’ll take it.” Grant was very particular about his orders. If one of up disobeyed, he was sure to lose his situation in a hurry. And then again he was very particular about Mrs. Grant’s orders, It wouldn’t do to argue any of hevs>rders with the General. He simply wouldn’t listen, but would say in that quiet way of his, while his sqffare-cut jaw would look even more 4etermined than ever: “I wish yon to understand that Mrs. Grant’s wish is my wish. I shall not discuss the matter. See that her orders are carried out.” And vet the General was not a henpecked husband by any manner of means. —A While, House Attendant, in Boston Traveler. A life spent worthily should b* measured by a nobler line—by deeds, not years.— Sheridan.