Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1883 — Page 2

The Republican. RENSSELAER, INDIANA o. R Marshall. - PtraLnam.

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THI BAST. At a meeting at Boston of the creditors of the leather firm of F. Shaw k Bros, the assignee presented statements showing the assets to be #5,262.000, and direct and sontingent liabilities amounting to #7,500,XX)... .Oapt Rhodes, after being warned by the Canadian authorities, made an inspection of the whirlpool in Niagara river and abandoned Ids plan of imperiling his Ufa In a prize-fight near Pittsburgh Albert Cavanaugh, of New York, “knocked out” William Wagner, a Pittsburgh bruiser, in the fourth round. In a “mill” at Hunter s Point, L. L, Dempsey and Turnbull fought twenty-three rounds, the former being then declared the winner... .Arthur W. Blanev, late cashier of the American Loan and Trust Company, of Boston, has been sent to the penitentiary for seven years for. embezzling #40,000... .The National Convention of the anti-muslo party of the United Presbyterian Church was held at Allegheny City, Pa., 2,L00 ministers and elders being in attendance. Boston will shortly open an exposition made up wholly of foreign productions, for which Congress passed a bill admitting exhibits free of duty. Exhibits will tn most cases be attended by natives in their national costumes. King Humbert has forwarded a marble bust of himself. A group of fourteen Japanese women will make wicker and straw goods daring the exhibition... .For a special purse of #2,000 Jay-Eye-See, at Rochester, beat his own best record for 5-year-olas-»-2:ls— trotting a ml'e in 2:14, thus excelling the record In the world In a boat race at Sterling, Mass., Hanlan won, Hosiner taking second place, and Lee third The difference between Hanlan and Lee’s time was four seconds and a half.... Prof. S. J.* Wilson, an eminent scholar and divine of thd United Presbyterian Church, died at Sewiokley, a few miles from Pittsburgh, Pa....JobnDevoy, editor of the Irluh Nation, has served his term of sixty days in the penitentiary at New York for libeling August Belmont. Judge J. S. Black died at his home In York, Pa, Aug. 19, aged 73 yeara He was bora in that State, and became Chief Justice of its Supreme Court tn 1854 He was Attorney General and Secretary of Slate under President Buchanan. He participated in nearly all the great cases before the Supreme Court, including the constitutionality of the Reconstruction aots, beside being engaged in the Vanderbilt will case, the Belknap impeachment, and the McGarrohan claim. On the Stewart farm on Long Island, forty sheep were killed by lightning and several others were severely Injured. THE WEST. The bank safe of J. T. Williams* of Erie, Col, twenty-five miles north of Denver, was robbed of #OI,OOO by a party of highwaymen. The robbers found the banker in the house They compelled htan to open the safe, and afterward took him out on the plains and made him swear that he would not divulge the matter till the following morning. The old gentleman respected his oath, and the facts were not known for twelve hours.....An Irish demonstration at Ogden's Grove, Chicago, was attended by 12,000 people. There were speeches, all in the Irish National vein, by Thomas Brennan, Dr. Cronin, Congressman Flnerty, and others. A declaration of principles of Chicago Irish-Americans asked for a general support of the Irish right of revolution against tyranny, lauded Parnell, and indorsed the Philadelphia Convention.... The Mayors of Fargo, Grand Forks, Bismarck, Tower City, and Jamestown have signed a call for a convention of representative men of the region lying north of tste 46th parallel, to take measures to protect the Interests of North Dakota.... The buildings and materials of the United States Rolling Stock Company, located at the junction of Blue Island and Hoyne avenues, Chicago, valued at $500,000, were destroyed by fire.... The Directors - of the Illinois Central road elected James C. Clarke President, and W. E. Ackerman and Btuyvesant Fish Vice Presidents President Ackerman declined a re-election to the Presidency.

A summary of the annual report of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company is as follows: Road earned over $24,000,000 and spent as “expenses” about $20,000*000 in various ways. The preferred stock paid 8 per cent, and the common 7 per cent The road earned over 10 per cent. The road has out about $70,01)0,000 of securities, an increase of $5,578,000. Over 306 miles of new. railway were built.... The Yesemite stage was stopped by three highwaymen near Merced, Cal, and the passengers robbed of $'- 1 00 cash, watches and jewelry....An incendiary compassed the destru'et on of the unfinished Passavant Hospital at Milwaukee, valued at $60,000. The old building adjoining contained twenty persons, who were safely taken out The oar-shops at Dayton,' Ohio, paid Its workmen $75,000 in checks, for fear that its messenger might be robbed in carrying the currency one mile from the bank. Fifteen hundred men quit work for this reason, and paraded the streets with a brass hand... .The war between the Illinois Central, Alton and Wabash roads has ended in agreement to form a mutual pooL Passenger rates between Chicago and St. Louis have been fixed at $8.70, which is higher than have prevailed for several years The Second National Bank of Warren, Ohio, has closed its doors. K. M Fitch, the cashier, admits having lost SBO,OOO in stock speculations. Bank Inspector Ellis, of Cleveland, states that the institution can pav all depositor* in full within thirty days, while the stockholders must be. satisfied with about 30 per cent. The treasurer of Trumbull county had $58,600 on deposit George Hensen, a negro barber, of Cedar Falls* lowa, by the aid of his white wife, abducted a young girl named Celissa Codner, a cousin of the woman. The girl escaped, and on telling her story Hensen Was arrested Just as Hensen had left the court in company with a Deputy Sheriff after the preliminary trial, La than Codner; the father of the victim, pasred his arm behind the officer and shot Hensen so that he died in half an hour... .A loss of 92*0,000 was incurred a•> Moline. IIL, bythe burning of the mill and yards of the Heater Lumber Company, a J Heater broke his arm in two places while at work fighting thefiamea ... .Millionaire F.oed is about to commence work on a brown g one mansion in Son Francisco, to cost $3,500,00j, exclusive of THE SOUTH. Near Goldsboro, N. C., the porter B « sleeping-car caused an explosion while

fining a lighted lamp and was Immediately enveloped in flames. A passenger, to pewvent the oar taking fire, forced the Liming man into a close compartment, from whence he lumped through a window, and, when the train was stopped, was found to be fatally horned and in a dying condition. Six hundred citizens of Oakland, Miss., took a negro murderer from jail and tried him by a public court, the Mayor presiding as Judge and the citizens voting as jurors. The prisoner confessed to an assassination for money, and the citizen* voted unanimously for immediate death by hanging. A gallows was ereoted and the prisoner was soon hanged, following most of the forms of legal exequtiona.... A oase of yellow fever having occurred at the navy-yard in Pensacola, instructions were telegraphed from Washington to transfer the marine guard to Cape Anson, six miles distant... .The South Carolina Bailway Company has expressed its willingness to furnish face transportation to organized bodies of negroes who will agree never to return to the State. At Winchester Crossing, Ky., a train on the Kentucky Central road dashed Into another belonging to the Chesapeake and Ohio line, the rear of which, containing 400 kegs of giant powder, zested on the crossing. Sparks from the wrecked locomotive ignited the powder, and an explosion followed which shook the earth for milea The depot building, three cars and an engixfe were blown to pieces, and an imaginative reporter says the debris was driven so high m air that It did not come down for ten minutes Two men were almost instantly killed, and five others mortally injured.... Perry Cely was hanged at Greenville, S. C.; Taylor Banks at Scottsbbro, Ala, and Deno Oaaat at little Rock, Ark. Beuben Robebson was lynched at Spring Creek, Ga Two other participants in a horrible woman-murder, his comrades, had previously been lynched... .Martin Bradley (colored), for attempted outrage, was taken from tail at Terrell, Texas, by a mob and banged in the asylum grounds. At a colored camp-meeting on the outskirts of Nashville, Tenn., the religious fervor of the negroes caused white spectators to fire twelve shots into the people, one white man being killed and eight negroes wounded.... Twelve stores and six warehouses were burned at Crawford, Miss., causing a loss of # 100,00 a

WASHINGTON. N. W. Fitzgerald, a pension agent in Washington, made a brutal attack upon Gen. H. Y. Boynton, the well-known correspondent, and was knocked down by the latter’B assistant Subsequently ex-Congress-maa Pelham took up the fight and fiung Fitzgerald into the gutter. The Treasury officials are very much puzzled at the appearance of another counterfeit coin which is likely to deceive even the average expert It is a#s gold pieoe, and Is worth #4 53 in gold. The counterfeit is said to be the best ever made, and its perfection has created the grave suspicion that the Government dies have been tampered with or an Impression taken from them. Placed side by side with the genuine #5 giece, the difference can scarcely be detected y any but experts. The weight is nearly the same, and can only be detected by the gold scales; It is. stated at the Treasury Department that, by reason of the vigorous action of the Government in prosecuting the opium smugglers on the Pacific coast, the duties collected in San Francisco on opium during the last fiscal year were more (ban #1,000,OCO in excess of the collections from that source in the previous year. A mechanic in the Treasury Department at Washington recently found bills aggregating #IO,OOO under a punch, but it is claimed that they had beeen canceled. A young woman sorting paper in the basement found #4OO in good money and took it to tbe proper officer. Another discovered #25 worth of good revenue stamps in waste paper.

POLITICAL. A Washington dispatch to the Chicago Timet reports that Ex-Senator McDonald, of Indiana* has made his appearance there on a political mission; that “he (McDonald) has ascertained that Mr. Tilden is determined to secure the nomination for the Presidency next year, and that important conferences are daily being held at Greystone.” The Virginia Bepulican Straight-out Convention met at Richmond the other day. The platform adopted favors a strict adherence to the Republican principles and protective tariff, indorses James G. Blaine for ihe Presidency, condemns the action of the administration in aiding Gen. Mahone in the repudiation of one-third the State debt, declares the power thus given Mahone has been used for the persecution of lifelong Republicans, that the power given by the administration to Mahone makes him virtually President of the United States for the State of Virginia* expresses unalterable opposition to one-man power in Virginia, represented by Mahone, and ca’ls the attention of the administration to the results of such a system in other States..... The Michigan Prohibition State Convention met at Eaton Rapida They voted to raise $lO »,100 as a campaign fund, indorsed the platform of the National Convention at Chicago, declared in favor of constitutional and statuaiory. prohibition of the manufacture of liquor as a beverage, arraigned the Republican party for bad faith in not submitting the / question to the people, and declared that the party is incompetent to deal with the liquor question. The New York State Republican Convention will be held at Richfield Springs on Sept 19 The delegates will number 476.... .Acall for the next Congress of the National Liberal League, to be held at Milwaukee, Sept 21-23, has been issued Official returns from 109 out of 117 counties in Kentucky show the following vote for Governor: Knott, Democrat, 129,191: Morrow, Republican, 85,620; Knott's majority, 43,571. In 1879 the same counties gave Blaokburn 42,775 majority. The remaining eight counties in 1879 gave a Democratic majority of 1.142. Gov. Busk, of Wisconsin, has pronounced for Lucius Fairchild for President, and pledges the State for 40,000 majority for him... .A Biermann has accepted a nomination for Governor of Minnesota at the hands of the Democratic State Central Committee: Ex-Gov. William W. Holden publishes a card in a Raleigh (N. G.) paper an.aooncing his withdrawal from the Repub- ' llcan party, and stating be is not a member of the liberal party. GENERAL. Mexican advices report that in the town of Nacori, Lieut Moreno, commanding a detachment of Merlon troop#, bed » battle with a band of V*) Apscbes wiiO bad killed five of bis pickets. Ttoe troops rm out of ammunition and war# to retreat

4- copy of the new commercial treaty between Mexico and Germany has been published in Galveston. By its provisions Germans are to pay no taxes not levied on Mexicans, and are to be exempt from military service and forced loans John W. Mackey has been made trustee of a majority of the stock of the Postal Telegraph Company. He intends to have a uniform rate of 1 cent per word to all points reached, and to sell stamps for various amounts, which can be affixed to any message..... John Jarrett having declined a re-election as President of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, William Weihe was chosen as his successor. Weihe is a Democrat and a member of the Pennsylvania Assembly. He announces his sympathy with tbe tariff principles of the association and his determination to pursue the same policy in tbe future which has marked the administration of affairs in the past under President Jarrett The long strike of the telegraph operators came to an end on the 17th of August On that day the Executive Board of the Brotherhood of Telegraphers sent out an order to members to return to work, and expressing regret at the failure of the strike. The manager of a Boston office told a committee of the Brotherhood that he would select fifty of the best operators from the strikers. One of the la.ter, with a destitute family, took a desk at a reduction of $5 per month, a committee called at the War and Postofflce Departments at Washington and asked the dismissal of clerks who were spending a vacation by working wires for the Western Union Company in Philadelphia Master Workman Shaw, of St Louis, i* said to have piedic ed that the Brotherhood will be renewed and a second strike occur within six months. In Chicago a striker named Adam Snell is held in #4LO bonds for a brutal assault upon John B. Odell, employed by the Western Union Company. In New York the brotherhood voted to give the girls the first opportunity to resume work. Twelve to them secured situations, and forty-five men were taken back, all of them signing an agreement to abandon their organization. Alexander & Taussig, sugar-dealers at No. 27 River street, Chicago, made a voluntary assignment. Their liabilities ore about #60,000. This disaster carried down the house of Taussig A Hammerschlag, of New York, whose liabilities are said to be #235,000.... Notwithstanding seven days of considerable apprehension, during which weak firms founa it hard to stem the commercial tide, the failures of the country last week fell twelve in number below the scores of the previous two weeks, whieh had been 182 for each week. D. C. Leroy, an American oattle dealer, spent two weeks at Casas Grandes Mex, in an attempt to organize a band of Pueblo Indians to enter the Sierra Madrea and rescue Charlie McComas from Juh’s band. Ha offered #I,OOO, but oould get no aid... .The boot and shoe factory bf B. McCreedy & Co., at Montreal, valued with its stook at #IOO,OOO, was destroyed by tire..... News reaches San Francisco of great gold discoveries on the Yukon river, in Alaska

FOREIGN. While thirteen men were being hauled to the surface at a mine near the town of Redruth, in Cornwall, the rope attached to the car broke and twelve of the men were precipitated to the bottom of the shaft ana*instantly killed.... The de-positors-in the small London savings bank, upon being refused their funds on demand, wrecked the premises and the police would not interfere.... Thirty armed men stopped a Spanish railway train near Barcelona, obtaining plunder to the amount of $10,000....1ta1y and Morocco are having a misunderstanding, which will, without doubt, Increase the troubles of the Spanish Government In Ealing,Middlesex county,England, a private insane asylum was burned, five of the inmates and the proprietor perishing in the flames and many others being seriously burned. James McDermott, the Irish leader, of Brooklyn, was arraigned in Liverpool and was remanded on evidence that be had been seen examining public buildings in company with Dillon, a convicted conspirator. ... .Some of the Spanish insurgents have already been garroted by the King’s authorities Mr. Foote, the newly-appointed Minister to Corea, reports having secured at the capital a house made of wood and paper, in the midst of hovels and filth. He can only find pine boughs for fuel, and says nearly all articles of fuel are brought from other countries.... In the British House of Commons, during a debate on the vote for the expenses of the Land Commission, Parnell declared that unless the deficiencies of the Land act were speedily remedied he would lead a deeper and more desperate agitation than any yet witnessed.... Spanish newspapers lay the blame of the rebellion on the heads of French speculators in Iberian securities The corruption and rebellion fund raised is alleged to have amounted to $150,000. The Russian Minister of the Interior has ordered the enforcement of the decree prohibiting Jewish raanu acturers from employing Christian workmen. Redmond, who represents the Irish League in Australia, writes that his mission is proving successful... The electrical exhibition at Vienna was opened with great ceremony by the Crown Prince Rudolph. In the British House of Commons, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster stated that the foot-and-mouth disease in cattle had been carried from England to America, and that the Canadian cattle now suffering at Bristol had been in contact at Liverpool with Infected Irish animals.... Twenty-two students in Russian universities, about two for each institution of the kind, who have recently been editing papers without the aid of the Imperial censors, are now starting on a press excursion to Siberia... .Eight thousand English weavers struck last week for an increase of wagea Mr. Gladstone, in the English House of Commons, emptied the vials of his eloquent wrath on Mr. Healy, not long ago elected from Monaghan. At the close of his philippic the Premier declared he regretted that Mr. Healy had pleaded the wrongs of Ireland as an excuse for remarks so reprehensible: Mr. Biggar interrupted the Prime Minister so often that the Chairman took him severely to task. Mr. Hehlv replied defiantly.... The Prince of Wales will soon visit the Emperor of Germany, and will attend the autumn maneuvres of the German army. It Is thought that the French may take tuis as an indication of an alliance between Germany and England. . r .The executions of the four Spanish in-urgent sergeants re-' parted seme days ago appear to have been exceptionally cruel and brutal Three volleys were poured into them by fellow Insurgents who had surrendered.... It is announced that the Pope has already broken the tacit agreement recently entered Into with Prussia This important statement Is made by the organ of Bismarck.. . .Casamicciola, which was r cently destroyed by an earthquake, is being rapidly

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

A cable dispatch from London says that Cetewayo, the Zulu King, has turned np alive and well, though he was severely wounded in his last battle with his insurgent people. He has made a formal request to Queen Victoria asking that she will order a full inquiry into the treatment he has received at the hands of the people who are under her protection.... Official reports say tbe British wheat acreage is 13 per cent below last year's average; and frem reports from 239 districts it is lea: ned that in onlv eighty-nine will there be an average yield, while in thirty-tin ee sections the crop will exceed that usually harvested... /Ihere has bean serious rioting between tire Catholics and Orangemen of Coatbridge, Scotland. Two policemen received dangerous wounds. Mounted officers dispersed the mob with twenty arrests... Denis henaliawe,, an- Orangeman, while being evicted from his house at Banbridge, Ireland, shot three policemen... .In County Silgo, the Parliamentary election resulted in a victory for Nicholas Lynch, the HomeRule candidate, over Kane O’Hara the Conservative candidate.... Francis Carey, brother of the informer, was assaulted by two would-be assassins in Dublin. He drew a revolver and captured both of the men, taking them to the police station. Assistant Postmaster General Hatton says that the surplus revenue of the Postoffice Department will probably exceed #2,500,800 for the last fiscal year, an advance of #1,000,000 over the surplus of the previous year “The saving is largely due," says Gen. Hatton, “to the cutting down of the star-route incident to the exposure bf the star-route ring;” Mortimer Hill went to his father-in-law’B house, near Munoie, Ind, where his wife was, and taking off his boots crept to the window of his wife's room while she was lying in bed with her babe. Taking careful aim he shot her in the breast, and immediately fired a ball into his own head and another into his heart, tbe latter wound causing instant death. The couple had been married only a year, but lived unhappily on account of Hill's drinking habits On a ferryboat plying between Detroit and Windsor, Luke Phipps, a bar-tender in the former city, walked up behind his wife Effle, fired three shots into her body, and die fell dead Jealousy prompted the crime. ... .Ezra Douglass, a printer, was killed by his wife at Nebraska City, Neb., the woman, who was insane, then putting a bullet through her own brain At Cincinnati, Ohio, Burt Scbeibel shot and killed Miss Jessie Stubb, and then took his own life. Jealousy.... .Sijas Merchant manufacturer of ice machines and water pipes, Cleveland, Ohio, has made an assignment His assets are estimated at#lso,ooo, while his liabilities will probably not exceed #IOO, €OO.

By fire in the Eclipse lubricating refinery, at Franklin, Pa., nine tanks, many stills, and some valuable machinery were destroyed. Losb #-00,0t0... .The temporary embarrassment of Joseph F. Paul & Co., Boston lumber dealers, is announced. Gen. C. P. Stone estimates the cost of the Florida ship canal, 187% miles in length, and sufficiently wide to allow of the passage of two sea going steamers of the first class, at #46,000,000. The saving of distance between New York and New Orleans will be 500 miles. T?he official reporter of the Presidential excursion party sends word from Camp Teton, Wyo. Ter., that the party were all enjoying excellent health, but were unlucky as fishermen. The report, describing the march fiom the preceding camp, says: “The course was in a westerly direction, along the north side of the Gros Ventre river. The trail was beset with few of those difficulties which the fortnight’s trails in the wilderness has made so familiar. After having climbed to the summit of a long hill, about five miles from Camp Arthur, there suddenly burst upon the view a scene as grand snd majestic as was ever witnessed. Below, covered with grass and flowers, was a lovely valley, many miles in extent, through which threaded the river on whose banks the last camp was pitched. Along the whole western edge of this valley, with no intervening foot-hills to obstract the view, lowered the magnificent Teton mounta ns, their snowy summits piercing the air 8,000 feet abo\e the spot where the party stood in reverent admiration, and 14,609 feet above the level of the sea It was tbe voice of every member of the party that that sight alone would have fully repaid all the toils and perils of the march. ” The Washington monument now weighs 70,000 tons.

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JUDGE BLACK.

Death of the Eminent Lawyer and Statesman. 4 Sketch of His Long and Eventftl Career. Judge Jeremiah & Black died at his home tn York, Pa, after a week’s illness, on the 19th of August His death was as calm and peaceful as the setting of a summer’s sun. Bis two sons, Chauncoy F. and Henry, bis daughter, Mrs. Hornsby, his son-in-law, Mr. Hornsby, and A B. Farquhar were present when he died Just before bis death he ■poke with qtafidenee of the future, saying to his son Chaunoey that he had no fear at crossing the dark river adding: “I would that I were as oomfortaole about what I leave behind in this world ” He spoke of business and private matteis to his son. and in the midst of it would stop and refer to his faith in Christ On one occasion ha said: “I would not have yon think for a moment that I fear to ci osa this river. I have taken care to arrange for my future over there, and therefore death has no terrors for me.” When his beloved wife knelt by his bedside, comforting him with her sympathy and love, he gave utterance to the following prayer: -Oh, Thou beloved and most merciful Father, from whom I had my being and in whom I have ever trusted, grautf, if it be Thy will, that I no longer suffer this agony, and that I be epeediiy colled home to Then And Oh, my God, bless and comfort this my Mary.” Jeremiah Sullivan Black was descended from a mixed ancestry, composed pf the German and Scotch-lrisfi elements. Me was bora in the Glades, Somerset county, Pa, June 10, lblO. His father, Heury Black, was a man of prominence in Southern Pennsylvania, and was a member of Congress at the time of his death. Young Black finished hie “schooling” at 17, after having gained a fair knowledge of the classics, mathematics, and, above all most precious to him, a thorough grounding in the knowledge of English classic literature. When his school days ended he went home to work on the farm, but his stud. 63 were not neglected, for by the light of the morning fire he conned his Horace and Virgil, committing to memory each day a certain number ot lines. Before he entered upon his profession he had not only translated but learned the whole of these books by heart. Under Chaunoey 1-orward he studied law, and in 1831 was admitted to the bar. When he was 28 years of age he married hie instructor s daughter, she being 17. About this time he joined the sect kuo.vn as the Campbeiiites or Disciples of Christ, with whom he remained in fraternal relations the rest of his life. Gov. Porter in 1842 appointed him pretid.ng Judge of the Franklin, Bedford and Somerset districts, and, though a party fight was made on the appointment, the unanimous approval of the members of the bar decided the matter in his favor. This office he held with great credit for nine years When the position was made elective he was chosen for the short term, and filled the Chief Justiceship most acceptably for three years Judge Black wqp re-elected for fifteen years, but was compelled to resign after serving two, President Buchanan calling him to the Cabinet ais Attorney-GeneraL where he remained until 186tl His moss conspicuous service while holding this office was the protectionfof the claims ictde by Americans against the fraudulent pretensions of the Spanish in regards to lands in California. Mr. Stanton was associated with him in these labors. When Judge Black was made Secretary of State Stanton became Attorney-GeneraL Throughout the war he remained a staunch War Democrat When Black retired Irom the Cabinet he resumed the practice of law, and few men have enjoyed so large a practice in the Supreme Court of the land as he. His manner was characterized by eminent legal ability, courage and skill. He talked to the court deliberately, without notes, and cited authorities from memory. The most important cases in which he was engaged were: The Milliken case, the Yanderbuv will cave, the McGarrahan claim, the Belknap impeachment, and the electoral content In no case where public interests were involved, as in the Milliken case, did he take a fee for Eervices rendered Judge Black was elected a member of the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention in 1873, and was urgent in pressing the needs of the legislative reform. He served without pay. Not-only as a jurist, learned, exaot, and apt, has he made himself known to the people of the whole nation, bat as a writer of political and theological articles he has won a place among the classic writers of the age. His answer to the strictures on Christianity by CoL Ingersoll, given in the pages of one of the principal magazines in the land, provoked much critici m and praise. For a , time it was the topic of conversation and' of leading newspaper articles, and its ciS cu'ation passed the boundaries of the United States into Canada and England, where it was unenu vo- - al:y commended. His last noted political paper was on “ Monopoly,” and the strong v iews he uttered, backed by keen, logic and b ting words, were as rapturously applauded by his sympathizers as they were condemned by those opposed to its views. Personally Judge Black was imposing in his stalure and mamers. Nearly six leet tall, with shaggy eyebrow's tha/in repose gave him a stern aspect, his strong bodily L ame and erect carriage made him a remarkable figure in any assemblage. Though noted for the radical views he held in poiti tics, he was a great social favorite, and Garfield, Carpenter, Ingersoll and B 1 ine always sought him out when in Washington. Even That! Stevens defended him once in the House, w'hen attacked by some one on the Democratic sideLawyer as he was, statesman and scholar of high ability, deeply read in literature, Judge Black devoted more time to the studv ind perusal of the Bible than persons would, think possible His ideas of right and wrong gained in the strict old school of Presbyterians remained with him throughout his lfe and make his character shine - with a brightness that mere culture or even genius could never produce. He was an American in every sense of tbe term, the peculiar product of a community whom, for rugged strength and grand ambitions, the world kaA never seen excelled

SINGULAR ACCIDENTS.

A sot crawled into a mill at Lawrence, . Ma«a, and went to sleep on a very wide . belt. When the machinery started fie wai killed. * Two Georgia boys were in swimming. One of them snapped a revolver under the water, and was greatly surprised when it was discharged and <lllß young companion was An Illinois snake charmer gave a publio exhibition with a copperhead. The charm didn t work, but the tnake did, and week* elapsed before the showman knew that he 1 would recover G G Reyno'ds, of Marietta, Ga, had a scythe tEr wn over his shoulder and was riding a mula The animal, fr ghtened at a passing train, threw he vnolds to the ground, and the scythe took his head ott. m