Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1883 — Page 7

DORSEY’S STOLEN LETTERS.

A ‘D'sappolMtmenti for Those Who Expected Damaging Revelations. ** [From the Chicago Tribune.] The publication of the letters addressed to Mr. Dorsey and Got.. Jewell by several prominent Republicans during the Presidential campaign of 1880 will only serve to deepen the public regret that the ei-star-youte thief, through the mistaken clemency of a Washington jury, escaped the imprisonment which he richly deserved in some congenial penitentiary. Persops who have read these letters hoping to find in them an exposure of campaign secrets will be severely disappointed. The letters are not of such a character that anybody need be ashamed of them or regret seeing them in print. The most noteworthy circumstances connected with their publication is, that but one or two of them were addressed to Dorsey himself. The rest of them were directed to Governor Jewell, and came into possession of the star-route thief through his accidental connection with the national committee. He had them under the seal of sacred confidence. The use he has made of them in their publication by a BoUrbbn Democratic newspaper will make him politically and socially an outcast for all time to come. A man who is capable of stealing and delivering to the press for publication personal letters addressed to another is morally in a position of a robber of the mails. It is easy to believe that one who can be guilty of such conduct would not be restrained by any nice principle of honor from engaging in the star-route conspiracy for which Dorkey was tried and queerly acquitted. It will bo found; on ex am in ationof the letters in detail, that none of them is damaging or even discreditable to any person prominently identified with the campaign on the Republican side. Garfield’s letters to Dorsey were perfectly innocent. They related to matters that he might with propriety dis•cuss with any person actively concerned in the management of his political affairs. The worst that can be said of them is, that they show a tdo-credulous belief on Mr. Garfield’s part in the •character of Dorsey as a gentleman and a man of honor. The publication of these letters, so entirely upright in their tone and honorable in their sentiments, furnishes negative proof, if any were needed, that. Dorsey has no documents in Gen. Garfield’s handwriting to justify the base and cowardly insinuations which have been diseminated ■concerning the late President. The letter from Mr. Blaine, which Dorsey has seen fit to print for some mysterious purposes of his own, is highly creditable to the ex-Secretary of State. It exposes a cruel wrong which was done Mr. Blaine and the Maine Republicans during the preliminary •campaign of 1880. Mr. Blaine sent word to the National Committee thfot the Republicans of Maine had not received “one penny’s aid in the closest and most central battle of the campaign." At that time it was notorious’ that the Democrats were flooding Maine with money, and through a coalition of Greenbackers, trades-unionists and Bourbons were striving to defeat the most prominent leader of the party n his own State. . With reference to the other letters addressed to Gov, Jewell, but purloined and published by Dorsey, it is sufficient to say that they are such as politicians continually write to each other during heated political campaigns, but seldom expect to see in print. We suppose it would be idle at this late day to maintain the pleasant fiction that elections are held in this country without the expenditure of large sums of money. Money has been, is, and will continue to be used in elections for strictly—legitimate purposes. It was easily possible to spend a quarter of a million or a half million dollars in Indiana for the organization of political clubs, in defraying the expenses of speakers, bands and torchlight processions, in patrolling the borders of the State to prevent invasions of Democratic bummers and repeaters, and in hiring detectives to watch the Tammany thugs who were imported from New York to overawe and intimidate the peaceable Republican voters of Indianapolis and other cities of the State. The letters from Allison to Jewell are perhaps more unguarded than any of the others, but they contain not one incriminating word. They say that money must be used in Indiana. We know that money was lavishly used in Indiana by both sides, the only difference being that the Republicans used their money with more judgment and effect than the Democrats used theirs. The publication of these letters will not hurt anybody but Dorsey. They show that he has the spirit and the methods of a sneak-thief. Their publication at this time through the organ he has chosen will only complete the verdict of guilty which was passed upon him and the star-route jury alike by the American people when, after two trials, he at last escaped the felon’s cell which he was so well calculated to adorn. It wbuld have been better for the Republican party, perhaps, if all who desired to contribute money had imposed the same conditions as Mr. John M. Forbes did—that none of the subscriptions should pass through the sticky fingers of the ex-Senator from Arkansas; but we can not regret that he was put in possession of the instruments with which to complete his own ruin and establish the innocence of others whose only misfortune and guilt lay in associating with him on terms of equality.

Cipher Sammy.

Democratic shadows are rapidly lengthening into shapes which foretell the events of the next Democratic Presidential Convention. The collapse of the movement to reorganise the New York City Democracy by the body of reformers known as the “County Democracy,” and the harmony which has suddenly arisen between Kelly’s Tammany Hall and the other factions of the party in New York, the moves in Ohio and Indiana, have practically no doubt that the “old ticket” is to be again the iu-

spiratlon of the Democracy. Tilden and Hendricks! How familiar it sounds, and how easy it will be to beat. The illustrated papers and all of us will be glad to see our old friend Cipher Sammy again in the field. The illuniinated nose of Cronin, of Oregon, will loom up as a beacon fire for the voting masses, and the shrinking Marble will be once more dragged from his scholarly retirement to tell all about' his mysterious visit to Florida in 1876. The cipher dispatches are already translated, so that hard job will not have to be done over again, and all we will have to do will be to reprint them in installments like a serial story. It was to put himself in training for this Presidential race that Cipher Sammy lately ran a sixty-mile foot-race with a catamaran sailing on Long Island sound. The stories of his complete physical deterioration invented by envious Democratic rivals for the nomination have kept the Cipher Sammy Literary Bureau busy with countervailing reports /of his prowess. Thanks to their efforts, every one now knows that the old gentleman’s muscle has reached such perfection’ that he can twist Indian clubs like the Manhattan or the Tammany as if he were only pulling wire, and that he can sling an Irish bull from Greystone to the White House. John Quincy Adams was called the “Old Man Eloquent;’’ Sammy, if he makes this canvass, will go down to posterity as the “Old Man Gymnastic.” The nomination of Hoadly was, according to good information, a move in Tilden’s game. It does not seem to have, been a very shrewd one. If it did nothing else it estranged a large and not the least-influential part of the Ohio Democracy. But the blunders which Ho dly has since made with what his Democratic friend Jayhawker -cruelly calls his No. 26 mouth, opening it when it should have been kept shut and shutting it when it should have been open, have very sadly dimmed the pro pects that Ohio would lead off with a handsome Democratic majority in 1883 as the pioneer in the great work of acting as the vanguard for the march of the old ticket intothe White House in-1884. The world has had a hard time in 1883, with its cyclones, epidemics, accidents by water and rail, its earthquakes and horrible eruptions, and it will be some consolation to have the next year enlivened by a spectacle which would excite as much amusement as that of Cipiier Sammy’s contest for the Presidency. No one has yet, in American history, claimed that office on the sole ground that he was an athlete, which is, if we understand the Literary Bureau, the basis of Mr.‘Tilden’s qualifications. Athletes are very popular in this country, as is shown by the crowds that attended the exhibitions given by that prominent Democrat, Mr. Sullivan, and followed Prizefighter Elliott to the grave. Mr. Tilden’s candidacy would have a vastlystimulating effect on physical- culture in this country, a branch of education in which we are confessedly deficient, and it would also contribute unspeakably to the general health of the people. All authorities are agreed that there is nothing more hygienic than laughter, and the country would be on the grin from the day of Tilden’s nonlination to that of the election—of the other candidate.—Chicago Tribune.

Political Notes.

Keep the rascals out. . Don’t “turn the rascals out* of the peniteutiaries in Ohio for-they will vote the Democratic ticket.— Chicago Journal. The New York Herald calls attention to the harmony among New York Republicans, and the bi iter animosities existing among the Democrats. Tue Rochester Post-Express wants “short party platforms.” The Democracy might simply say: “Resolved, that the Democratic party wants the offices,” and let all the rest be understood. A great many Democrats claim to be in favor of the “old ticket.” Let us gently inquire, which “old ticket?” Buchanan and Breckinridge, McClellan and Pendleton, Greeley and Blair, Tilden and Hendricks, or Hancock and English ? The public land disposed of in Dakota the current year to private individuals aggregates twenty-seven times the total acreage of the State of Klio'ile Island, and yes there are Democratic statesmen who declare it is only a howling waste, and has no right to become' a State. A pap.agraph is being extensively circulated which coveys the intelligence that “a full-blooded negro in Logan county, Ark., is gradually growing white.” The Democratic party may well pray that this piece of new is true, for it has repeatedly been assured that it could hope tbblot out its disgraceful record when the Ethiopian changed his skin.— NdtD York Tribune. The Cincinnati Enquirer is trying to drive Senator Pendleton out of the Democratic party, principally because he is decent. Pendleton always did feel a good deal ashamed of his political associates, and has many a. time suffered a loss of self-respect because he had to train with the toughs and thugs and blackguards of Ohio. They have always called him “Gentleman George,” and have generally acknowledged his social, moral, and intellectual superiority, but not until now have they endeavored to expel him from their carle. “The Republican party must go.” Ylie demand was made in 1860. But the party didn’t go. The demand was repeated in 1864. But the party remained. The demand was encored in 1868. But the party stayed. The demand was again encored in 1872. But tlie party was still there. The demand* with a colossal appetite annex, was yet again pressed in 1876. v But the party retained its place. The demand, gain* ihg voice, if not strength, from a famished stomach, was the vociferation that fatigued the echoes of 1880. But the party continued to do business at the old stand. The demand is to be made again next year. The party will continue not to go, by a large majority. But, as usual, something will go. Aa usual, it will be the Democratic party, —New York Tribune.

THE BAD BOY.

“Well, well,” remarked the grocery nan as the boy came into the store and tat up on the edge of the counter, “you loom Up well for a boy With the ague. [ thought you couldn’t get out of bed, sou haven’t been around for nearly a week.” / “oh, the ague’s played out. I guess. they run out of quinine in this town while I was siok. Any how they fired nearly a barrel of' it down my neck,” replied thp boy, helping himself to an ipple. “I heard your father was arrested last Saturday. What’s the trouble?” Asked the grocery man as he closed a new gate at the end of the counter he had made to keep the boy away from the sugar bin?* , “Well, he did come near being run in, sure, and I guess hp would if it hadn’t been for me. You see ma has been sick ever since she went into the deacon’s cellar to draw cider and met that skunk, so she told pa if he would get a couple of good fat hens, she would try and make a pot-pie for Sunday, as she felt her health failing, and if her appetite didn’t improve soon she would go hence, whatever that means. So that evening pa started out after hens. He Was too late to get dressed ones, so he got two live ones from the market and started home. Me and my chum were layin’ for him, and when he got about half way home it commenced to rain and he started on a run so as to not get wet. We followed and met a policeman and told him we saw a man steal two hens, and pointed pa out as the man. The policeman started after him and yelled at him to halt, but pa did not hear him. Pretty soon pa saw some one was chasing him, and thought it was a,robber, so he ran all the harder. Then the policeman pulled out his revolver and fired in the air to scare pa, just as one of the hens got her wings loose and flopped it in pa’s eye. Pa' dropped with a groan and said: ’l’m shot. Tell my wife I died happy.’ Then a crowd got around him and was a-gomg to hang the pcLceman, but ho swore the shot came across the street for he saw two men run, and said he didn’t carry a revolver anyway, and the crowd might search him. But I saw him throw it over in a yard and me and my chum got it the next morning. When pa found he wasn’t dead, he called for a stretcher to bo earr ed home to die with his family. While some of the crowd went for the stretcher, the rest began to examine him to see where the bullet went in, and when they couldn’t find it, he got Up and offered to lick any man that said he was shot. Just then another policeman came up and said he recognized pa as ‘Chicago Bill,’ a notorious safe-robber and that a reward was offered for him. Pa said he was an honest man and agreed to go back to the market with the chickens and be identified. They found only one of the the chickens, but the market man knew pa and fixed it, and then the policeman began to beg pa’s pardon and pa gave him $5 to keep still about it. When pa got home he told ma how he had helped catch a safe-blower and when he got his share of the reward she could have a new seal-skin sacque." “Your father’ll kill you some day. But what about that fuss at the social at the deacon’s night before last?” asked the groceryman, as he picked the fly-specks off from a lot of muple-sugar he was putting away for “new maplesugar” next spring. “I hfiard the whole church was mad at each other over a grab-bag, and the Presiding Elder had all he could do to quiet things down.” “That don’t amount to much,” replied the boy. “There’s always something turns up when the sociable season first starts in. You see, ma was appointed a committee to fix up a grabbag. Me and my chum were digging bait that morning to go fishing, when pa came out and said, ‘ Hennery, I believe you put up that chicken job on me, and I don’t believe anything but hard work will reform you. I want you to spade up the ground under the currant bushes.’ I asked him if he wanted a hump-baeked, disfigured boy, made so by hard work. Pa said he would risk the hump, and told me to 'pitch in, and then weat down town. My chum said he would help me, and me and him got the job done before 2 o’clock. When we got done I comd in and found ma hard finished the grabbag, and had it all loaded,’with the top fastened with a puckering-string, and hung on the back of a chair. Ma was upstairs getting her Sunday clothes on, to go to the sociable, so it didn’t take me I and my chum long to empty the bag and J get first choice. Then I got our mouse trap and took it to the barn, and caught two nice big fat mice and put ’em in a collar-box with holes cut in it, to give ’em air, and dropped that in the bag. j Then my chum remembered a big nap- ■ ping turtle he had in the swill-barrel, i and me and him got that and wiped it as dry as we could, and tied it all up but its head, and put that in just as the deacon’s hired man came to take the bag over to the socialbe. Me and my chum went down to his house and waited till the people got over to the sociable and then we went over and got up in a tree where we could see through ■ the open Window, and hear all that was i going on. Pa he stood over by the bag ! and shouted, *Ten cents a grab; don’t ■ let anybody be backward in a good | cause.’ Three or four had put up their j 10 cents and made a grab, when an old maid from Oshkosh, who had been to the springs for hysterics, got in her work on the collar-box. When she got the cover off, one of the mice that knew his business, jumped on her shoulder and crawled down her neck, and the other dropped down on the floor .and started around to meet the other one. You’d a dide to seen her flop and show fcer stocking and scream. The deacon’s folks thought it was another attack of hysterics, and pa and the deacon got her on the sofa and held her while they .poured paregoric and cayenne pepper down her. When she got loose she : all the harder. Then one of the other women see the mouse and I got up in a chair and shook her skirts and asked the new young minister to help her catch the mouse. The poor fellow looked at though he would like to, but he failed. Just

then the bottom of the chair broke and let her fall over on ma and tore her bangs all Ma called her a ‘hateful thing* and told hor she outfit to be ashamed of herself. Finally they got things in order, but no one wanted to tackle the bag, and as here was where the profits come in, pa braced up and said he’d like to. know why everybody acted so ’spicuons, he’d like to • see a grab-bag that would give him the hysterics, and said ‘women are always gettin’ scared at nothin’,’ He then put down 10 cents and jammed his hand way down in the bottom of the bag, but he didn’t keep it there long. He give a jump and yanked his hand out, yelling ‘thnnder!’ Then he swung it over his head to shake it off, and brought it down on the deacon’s head and smashed his specks. Then he swung it the other way, and struck the woman President of the sewing society in the stomach and knocked hier down in the deacon’s lap. After pa had hollered himself hoarse, and thumped half the people in the' room, the turtle let go, and pa said he ‘could lick the man that put that steel trap in the grab-bag.’ Then pa and ma got mad, acd everybody began to jaw, and they all went home. There’s l>een a sort of coldness among the memliers ever since. I guess pa won’t have a hump-backed boy, but I’ll get even with him. you just see if I don’t ” And the boy went out and took a sign, “Warranted Fresh,” from the fruit stand, and hung it on to a blind horse that was hitched to a garbage wagon in front of the store. — Peck’s Sun.

Ponies.

The most popular pony is the Canadian, which is rather large for a pony and small for a horse, but he is much stronger and hardier, in proportion to size, than the larger animal of the horse kind. Exjxisure and inattention brin gs the horse down to the pony class, which not only affects the animal so subject at the time, but by long continuance, the dwarf size!* beebmes characteristic in successive generations. Along the coast of Virginia and North Carolina, the islands are used for breeding ponies. On Chincoteague island, which is not far from the Virginia and Maryland line, on the Atlantic coast, ponies have been bred for many years, many of them being nearly as small us the Shetlands, but not so shaggy. The ponies come into the world with no care from man afterward, except to be branded, and, as the island is nearly barren of vegetation, it is a matter of surprise how the animals can subsist, thrive, and multiply as rapidly as they do, and that, too, in the face of the fact that du ting the existence of storms and severe cold they have no shelter. The supposition that long-continued exposure and neglect will ultimately destroy all that may remain of a breed is not verified in tnis case, for, despite their hardships, the ponies, when broken to harness, will outlast the best of horses, go longer without food and water, seldom become sick, and live to a good bld age. In strength they cannot equal the avefage horses, as size is against them, but in proportion to their weight they are superior for drawing a load over a long distance in a short period. They never seem tn tire, and never founder. They demonstrate, however, that if we neglect our stock we deteriorate them in other ways. Size will be reduced, and more difficulty is encountered in training and domesticating animals that have been abandoned to their own resources. And then, who knows how many poor creatures actually perish on these exposed islands before the stronger and more robust become capable of undergoing the trying ordeal necessary for perpetuating its species. The “survival of the fittest” alone was the result, and no doubt many years elapsed before the herds became numerous. But the ponies were not dwarfed in vain, for small as they are, they are useful in many ways, and always become favorites, no .matter in whose poss ssion they fall. They have passed through the critical stages, and are now distinct as a breed.— Farm, Field and Fireside.

Unconscious Genius.

Genius is often unconscious of-its power. Perhaps it is always so at the beginning of its career. Shakespeare did not take the trouble. of collecting Lis plays; he had little thought of their making him famous. Thomas Bal!, tl:q Boston sculptor, began his career as a painter, with no thought of mod&ling forms. But one day, his unconscious genius made itself vsgr.cly felt by making him restless toward his art and dissatisfied with his work. He had keen painting a picture, and it so wearied him that he scraped it all out. He shut himself up in his studio for two or three days indisposed to see any one or to do anything. Suddenly, he was seized By an impulse to model something. He went to a sculptors studio near by, got a lump |of clay, and began. After trying several things he made a miniature bust of Jenny Lind, then the star of the music-loving world. The little bust made a great hit, and from that day Ball knew that his vocation had found him.

Yes, Sah!

Yes, sah. We quite agree with you, sah, that there is a sort of delicious frankness, sah, about the following that will be appreciated beyond the bounds of West Virginia: Some five or six years ago a political party orator delivered an address for his party st Winfield, Putnam county, W. Wa. When in the zenith of his oration he was stopped by a powerful voice among the listeners. “Look here, sah. May I ask you a question?” -e— — , „ “Yes. sah; you may, sah.” _. “Well, sah, to know, sah, ii you as-e not the man, sah, that I had down bar in jail, sah, for hog-stealing, sah?” “Yea, sah, I am, sah,” came the response; “but I got clar, sah.”—Editor’s Drawer, in Harper’s Magazine. ’lt is said that dwarfs die of premature old age and giants of exhaustion,

OFFICIAL PAP.

A Glance Into the Blue Book in Which Are Printed the-Names of tior* eminent Employes. The Ohio Man Still Holding His Own in the Various Departments. [Washington Telegram to Chicago Tlmee.l There is a work published biennially by the Government of the United States which contains little else than names, and there is ten times more effort made by people to get their names into this book than there is to get theft names into the book of life. It is the United States Official Register, commonly called the “blue book.” A few years ago one moderate-sized volume answered the purpose. In 1879 the work reached the dimensions of two thin volumes; the edition of 1881 consists of two volumes, each containing nearly ‘JOO pages. The index alone fills :3J pages, the names being arranged in four columns on a I age. One of these two volumes is devoted exclusively to the postal service, though the employes of the department in Washington are provided for in the other volume. The register contains the name of every person employed by the Government, his or her birth-place, residence, when appointed and salary. There are over 100,000 names in the two volumes but this does not mean, as is commonly and incorrectly said that the civil service contains IOu.OOu offices. The register contains the names of all mail contractors and of all army and navy officers, and of all mechanics and laborers employed under the army enginers, and other persons who cannot be called officers or clerks. But it is a mighty army of the servants of a great nation. The last register, though dated July 1, 1881, did not appear until a year and a half ago. It takes time to get up such a catalogue. The next register will be dated July 1, 1888, and the appointment clerks in vtw rious departments are now making up their lists of officers and employes connected with the service at that date or on July 15. In soipe of the departments the official census was taken as a matter of covenience on the last day before the Civil-Service law went into effect. In preparation for this general United States register, a new register for the Interior Department bar just been prepared. It shows 3,0Jl persons on the Department rolls, not j including Indian police, as the unabridged register does, but on the other hand not limited to the employes here in Washington. Just about one-fifth of the whole number are women—G2L There are 721 men who served in the army or the navy, and there are 204 colored persons, for complexion is shown in this Departmental register, though it was not indicated in the last general one It is true that the majority of the colored people employed in the department are watchmen, janitors, messengers, packers, laborers, and charwomen, but seventy-one are clerks and copyists with salaries ranging from $720 tofl.bOJ. The latter sum is received by two men, one a Principal Examiner in the Pension Office and the other a Chief of Division in the Land Office. Four are clerks at ♦ 1,400, twentytwo are clerks at $1,20.1, twenty-five are clerks at S'-JOO, fourteen are copyists at SIX 0, and fourteen are copyists at $720. While a large proportion of the women are copyists at ss.oo, quite a number are clerks with salaries running up to $1,400, and at least one Illinois lady gets sl,€oo. The following table shows the States from which 3,091 officers and employes of the Department were appointed: Maine 52 Massachussetts.... 90 Vermont ............ 46 Connecticut....... 61 Rhode 151 and........ 20 New Jer5ey........ TO New York ....331 Delaware ...X, 9 Pennsylvania........24B Virginia. . 132 Maryland....... ....100 North Carolina..... 35 west Virginia 37jGeorgia.. *9 South Carolina...... 29lFlorida 15 Alabama ; ‘JllLouisiana 29 Mississippi22!Texas 18 Arkansas Is Kentucky 34 Tennessee-., 62 Ohio 18< Missouri t. 2 Michigan lib Indiana ■ 140; Wisconsin..,., 64 111in0i5............... 145|Iowa„ ■ . 197 Minnesota ... .43, Nebraska 26 Kansas 69‘Nevada 7 Colorado 431 Oregon 13 California 4iiWashington. 5 Dakota slldaho 4 New Mexico..; 6 Wyoming 3 Montana 2 Utah 2 Arizona 2 Diet, of Columbia.. 4f>s Indian Territory 2 , New Hampshire 35 Total. 3,091 There is not a very serious disproportion in the distribution of clerkships and other places among the States where the Republican party is strong. New York and Ohio seem to have a little in excess of their quotas, but the excess Is not great Illinois does uot get quite its share. Colorado and Indiana have a little more than belongs to them, but the personal equation must be expected, and the head of the department is from one of these States, while the head of the largest bureau in the department is from the other. What will at once strike the reader as surprising is the number of appointments from Maryland, Virgiuia and the District of Columbia, especially the latter - There is a natural explanation for this. In the first place, a large number of the employes are janitors, watchmen, scrubbers, packers, laborers, messengers, etc. The jobs are naturally given to people near by, that is, to residents of the District and the adjoining pare of Man-land and Virginia People do not come to Washington from remote 1 arts of the country to get menial employment The otuer consid ration is that the solidlv Democratic Southern States do not get their quotas, and the-shares that would go to them on an equitable arrangement go io the neighborhood of the capital; as the South has no political reasons to urge for office, the places arc disposed of for person ti reasons to people whom Congressmen get acquainted with here. Beside all this, there is. of course, an advantage in being on or near the ground when vacancies occur. It might be said still further, that nearly everybody in the District came here from some one of the States, so that appointments from the District are scarcely more than appointments at large. The Postoffice Department has not pubI sned a register, but Mr. Hodges. Appointment Clerk, ha s furnished the number of em ploves of the Department in this city from each State and’territory. The table is as follows: Arkan5a5............ 3 Connecticut.......... 5 Colorado 4 Florida...., 1 Delaware,.. 3 Illinois 17 Georgia 4 lowa v 12 Indiana. 26 Kentucky.'. .... 5 Kansas. 9 Maine.. S To :i Diana.... 7 Massrchusetts.. U Maryland.., 44 Minnesota.-. 3 Ml huran ..... 11 Missouri 6 Mississippi 4'Nevada. 2 Nebraska ' 3’NewJersey 19, New Hampshire 5 North Carolina...... 5 New York. 56 Oregon .............. 1 Ohio. 24 Rhode Island 1 Pennsylvania. 49 Tennessee....' 24 South Carolina 8-,Vermont..... 8 Texa:., 5 West Virginia 10 Virginia 29 Arizona 1 Wisconsin 14 District of Columbia. 110 Montana li California.. 51 Total ~,..563

GENERAL NOTES.

hr England, Canon Wilberforce has made a vigorous attack upon the holding by the Established Church of its immense property in public houses, a number of the most prosperous gin palaces being maintained under its direct administration. < Mrs. Anandaieai Joshee, the wife of a Brahmin employe of the Government of India, has come to America to study medicine in the Womans Medical College in Philadelphia. Mrs. Langtry holds mortgages on property in New York to the amount of ♦81,090.

PATENTS.

Commissioner Marble's Report for the Year Ended June 30. The Business of the Office—Recommendatlons to Congress. [Washington Dispatch.] The Commissioner of Patents has submitted his report for the fiscal year, ended June 30,1883. It shows the following facts: APviacAnoxs. For patents 32,845 For dedgn patents 1,099 For reissue patents For registration ol trade mark 5........ 854 For registration of labels “48 Total 36,734 Total in 1832... '....k. 30,062 Caveats filed 9.688 PATENTS AND TRADE-MXKKB ISSUED. Patents granted, including reissues and t designs J....... tM* Trade-matks registered Labels registered t 618 Total 22,688 Patents withheld for non-payment of final fees 2,058 Patents expired 7.471 BECEU-TS AND EXPENSES. Receipts from all sources ... Expenditures tnot including printing). 677,628 Surplus 518,255 Increase in receipts over 1881.......... 805,989 Increase over 1882........ .............. 165,020 The number of applications awaiting action on the part of the office July 1 was 4,899, an increase of 89 per cent, over laest The Commissioner rays the business of the office is steadily anderapidly increasing in each of the divisions of the office The success of the patent system, the Commissioner says,ia due largely to its liberality to inventors and the security and protection it affords them. It was not intended that revenue to the Government should be obtained by charges made for vesting in the inventor the right and title for a limited time to the exclusive use of his invention. But not only have the fees received qn applications filed been sufficient to pay all the expense’s of the office, but a large surplus—nearly 32,5C0,(XX>—now stand to the credit of the office in the Treasury. Greater liberality might, perhaps, be extended to the inventor by reducing the fee to be paid before a patent can issue, and with beneficial results. Certainly a more equitable rate of fees could be adopted than is now provided by graduating the fee to the character and nature of the invention. The fees now required in some cases are excessive and in others exceedingly small In this way, rather than by an indiscriminate reduction in the fees now charged, as is urged by some, justice would be secured, and the office still be self-supporting. Attention is called to the fact that a large number of Examiners and Assistant Examiners have resigned during the last yean The Commissioner assigns as the principal reason for these resignations the insufficiency of the salaries allowed, and says the office feels the loss of such experienced men more than any other bureau. He adds: “The same reason, substantially, .which requires an increase in the force of the offices in order that the work may be promptly and efficiently done, exist for urging proper salaries for securing the most efficient men for doing this class of work.” Tift report recommends thac Congress confer upon the Commissioner authority to institute proceedings to determine the question of the public use or sale of an invention. The tention of Congress is again called to the necessity for amending the statutes relating to the issue of foreign patents, either by granting the patent for a definite term, where the invention has first been patented In a foreign country or countries without any conditions subsequent, or by granting it for the full term ot seventeen years from the date of the earliest foreign patent

WHO WILL BE SPEAKER?

What the Leading Candidates Claim for Themselves. Some of Them Evidently Making Wild Calculationr. [Washington Telegram to Chicago Daily News.] There is a prospect that the canvass for the various offices in the House will begin earlier this year than usual. All of the leading candidates intend to be here by Oct. 15. A gentleman who is watching the canvass of the three leading candidates for Speaker regards Randall as the leader. He will have the twelve votes from his own ; State, the New England vote, except that of Collins, from Massachusetts, who is for Cox. nine from New York, four or live from Ohio; all of West Virginia, three from Virginia: the vote of Delaware; the majority of Illinois; Wisconsin and Michigan; one each from Nevada and Arkansas; three from Missouri; two from Tennssee, three or four from Texas, three from Louisiana, all bnt two of Alabama, four from Georgia, three - from South Carolina and North Carolina < each and three from New Jersey. t Carlisle claims the nine from Kentucky, ; eleven from Missouri, five from Arkansas, j five from Michigan, tweri e from New York, one from Massachusetts, two from Virginia, I the majority in the Ohio and Illinois delegations, six from Wisconsin, one from losra, all of Louisiana except one, all of Texas except two, all of Mississippi, three of Alabama, one of Georgia and a part of North and South Carolina. Cox claims twenty-one from New York, five from Michigan, six from Ohio, four from Indiana, one from Missouri, two from California, one from Massachusetts and a large scattering vote throughout the Bomb. Carlisle claims to have over ninety votes pledged Cox believes he has rixty-eight, while Randall is confident of over seventy. As theye are only 191 votes, it will be seen that some of the candidates are misled, as they all claim large strength in New York ana duplicate each other in enumerating their individual strength. Randall is now making much the closer canvass, and, as he has the money interests of his party back of him, is drawing to his standard the doubtful voters who are anxious for One thing, and that is to go with the winning man. There are three candidates for the Clerkship of the House. These are John B. C.ark ‘ of Missouri, John D. C. Atkins of Tennessee, and Edward L Martin of Delaware. All are ex-members. Stilson Hutchins is sometimes mentioned as a candidate, but he is makirm no canvass. The contest will be between Clark and Atkins, with the odds in favor of Clark. The latter when in Congress was a bitter opponent of Sam Randall, He is not opposing Randall now. carefully avoiding any complication with the Speakership candidate-. There are three candidates for the office of Sergeant-at-Arms. Ohio furnishes two, ex-Congiessman Leedom and John G Thompson, the old Sergeant-at-Arma The Suestion between these two men will be ecided by a vote in the Ohio delegation. ; The third candidate is Gen. Ccit, of Con- , necticut, a gallant soldier during the war, who has never held office at Washington. He'labors under the disadvantage of being comparatively unknown. Two Eors named Dennis Shea and George j Marshall engaged in a scuffle at Holyoke, I Mass, and Marshall was thrown to the ground, dying almost instantly. The doctors say that his death was caused by asphyxia. the lungs being gorged with . blood, while one ventricle of the heart,was empty. ’ ■ . ', Arrxa a severe thunder-storm near Montemorelos, Mexico, a shepherd who had gone to shelter, while returning to his flock, discovered and killed in a field a fish over five feet long, which apparently had fallen from the cloud* j Can’t get drunk on water’ Nonsense! Go onayatching trip and tee if you cant.