Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1883 — Page 7

MISSISSIPPI BANDITTI.

BesolntWhs Passed by a —-n>cratic Meeting in Copiuh teanty, MisS. [From thi Weekly Copiahan.] >1 . We copy from the Meteor the following resolutions adopted by a massmeting held in Hazlehurst on the 7th of November, J. L. Meade, Chairman; Jesse Thompson, Jr., and C. I. Allen, Secretaries: . ' . Wiierbas, Certain rumors are current that the relatives of the late J. P. Matthews have threatened the peace of society in order to avenge his death by killing Democrats and destroying their property; now therefore!) e it Rcseleed, By the peopie of Copiah ■ county, in mats mooting assembled this day at the court-house of said county, that if any person shall be injured, or attempted to be injured, either in person or property any manner, by the said relatives or friends of said J. P. Matthews, that we hereby declare that we Will hold h.’s said relatives or friends who participate accountable for the same, and that we hereby regard them without the pale and protection of the law and common enemies of society, and that we will visit upon them certain and swilt retribution: be . it further R.-s< ..Ted, That eo long as the said relatives and friends 6f J. P. Matthews obey the law, as becomes good citizens, we hereby pledge them the protection of the iaw. Rrsolivd, Further, that in the opinion of this meeting it is necessary to the safety of society and the welfare of all races and classes in thi ; county, that hereafter the Matthews family shall keep out of politics in Copiah epunty, lienolveii, Further, that from henceforth no inanTor set of Tneti, shall organize the negro race aga nst the whites in this county, and that if it shall fce attempted in the future we hereby give - notice that it shall be at the peril of the person or persons attempting so to do. « Rewired, That we do hereby pledge our—selves,.,eaeh to the other, our lives and fortunes and our sacred honor, that we will all and individually -from henceforth hold., ourselves in readiness to enforce the foregoing resolutions, ’and to meet at any time , upon the call of the Chairman of this meeting. ~ RreThwf, That a committeoof twenty-four from each .-'Upervisor’s district be appointed by the ( hu ir to present a co,>y of these resolutions to the brothers and sons of the late J. P. Matthews',' and that the same be published in the Copiah and the Crystal Springs Mrtror. by the citizens of Copiah county in mass meeting assembled, That the honors . heretofore worn (and worthily so) by Beat Nord be and-the same are hereby awarded to Beat No. 3. Bo it-further , RMilved. That this resolution is by no means to reflect upon the past and present services of Beat No. jj. but to show our appreciation Qf the result of the election of the ticket, in Pent No. 3. It was also Resolved. That the clubs continue their organiza ions, and consider themselves not disbanded, subject to the call of the Chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee. Re-wlvifi, That the'thanks of this meeting be extended to the Hazlehurst brass band for ~Thefr sorvicesrur t his occasion;

The Bloody Shirt.

The’Richmond (Va. ) State, one of the most prominent Bourbon organs of the South, assails the Republican papers ’of the North and charges that they are wantonly vilifying and traducing that section by their comments upon the "affair” at "Danville, the “affair” at Copiah, and the various other “affairs” which have occurred in South Caroiinaand elsewhere. It declares that they are appealing to prejudice, ignorance, and sectional animosity,' that they are seeking to “arouse again that danger_£>lis_ spirit which should long ago have ceased to exist in this country, and that they, are waving the bloody shirt to arouse sectional hate and promote partisan ends.” If the Richmond State does not want the bloodj- shirt waved, then why does it net join hands with other Bourbon papers in the South and urge its people to remove the necessity of waving it? They have it in their own hands to stop the, waving of the ensanguined banner any time they choose.. All they have 'to do is to demand of their people that persecution, bulldozing and murder shall stop; that every man in the South shall have the right to vote -as he pleases, free from intimidation and peril to life; that the negro, shall have the same right to go to the polls and deposit his vote that a Bourbon has, and that his vote shall bo counted the same; and that Republicans shall have the right to express their opinions, to declare them on the stump, and to carry elections where they, happen to be in the majority. If this were done there would be no waving of the bloody shirt, there would be no cause for unfriendly criticism of Southern political methods, and it is litTe less than folly to suppose that the North will stand idly by and witness such rank political injustice and persecution, and the disfranchisement of thousands of Republicans, without condemning it. Does the Richmond State, in its denunciations of Northern newspapers for waving the bloody shirt, mean to imply that there is anything like political justice or equality in the South? That voters who oppose Bourbonism are allowed a free and unrestricted exercise of the ballot? That a negro has the same political freedom as a white Bourbon ? That in any city, county or district where there is a Republican majority, however overwhelming it may be, that majority can be voted and declared? That when the negro vote cannot be suppressed by violence, it is not counted out by every fraudulent device that ingenuity can suggest ? If so, then the history of events in the South during the last year anti through many previous years stamps the implications as false. The record of the last year, the massacre at Danville, the murder at Copiah, the frauds in the South Carolina Congressional districts, which the National Government is now investigating, the reduction of the vote in representative districts at least 50 per cent, below the average vote in the North, show that there is no intention in the South to depart from the policy which it has pursued for years of deny; ing free suffrage and practically restricting it to Bourbons. Mr. Matthews was shot down like a dog at Copiah for no other reason than that he voted against the Bourbons. The: Coroner declined to hold an inquest The mur- ' dervrgavo himself up and was set freest once. The ent re Bourbon community met and passed resolutions commending his act, and the murderer has announced himself a candidate for Mayor and will be elected upon the sole issue of murder. This is the violent method. The other is the fraud method, arid it was’so gross in South Carolina that the- United States Court Columbia will try the knaves it ho'’ were engaged in it, which the State will probably regard as another wave of the

bloody shirt. Any infraction of National or State election laws that will insure th a success of the Bourbon ticket and suppress Republican majorities is> considered justifiable in the South, and any exposure of such injustice or demand for equal political rights is resented as hostile to the South. • The South, as we have said, has it in its power to bury the bloody shirt out of sight at any time by conce ling to all its people the right to speak and act and vote as they please without iuterferepce, but until that right is as fully and freely , extended as it is in the North the bloody shirt will be waved. The fault lies at the door of the South. So long as a white or black Republican is disfranchised by violence on the one hand, or trickery on the other, it will be waved. So long as men are murdered, persecuted, terrorized, tortured, or driven from their homes for speaking or voting their opinions-, it will be waved. So long as legitimate majorities are suppressed by fraud it will be waved. So long as every election in the South is characterized by brutal outrages and unblushing corruption on the part of Bourbons, it will be waved, and the Richmond State need not®lay the Battering unction to its soul that its complaints or whines are going to stop it.—Chicago Tribune, _ .

An Incident of Gettysburg.

“Here’s where I came to grief,” said a Twelfth Regiment man, as he stood upon Seminary Ridge. “How did it happen?” was asked. “Well,” said he, “if you wish I’ll tell you, but I fear I may be wearisome? I always had the uneyiable reputation of talking too much, and On that Ist day of July, 1863, my propensity to be too loquacious came very near ending my career. You see they brought us up t<f Abe brow of this hill on the double quick, and we found we had a beautiful chance to get a cross-fire on a brigade of ‘Johnnies’ that lay. down there in the open field. We peppered them awhile,> and then our boys began to shout ‘Forward!’ and ‘Charge.’ I don’t think the order came through the regularly constituted and voluntary movement on the part of the men, who were brim full of fight on this The Colonel and Adjutant both tried to find out ‘Who gave that order ’’ but all we knew about it was that everybody in the raiment was shouting ‘Forward.’ The advance was inevitable, so our officers placed themselves in our _i we went like a whirlwind. We had captured and driven in all but about twenty or thirty rebs, after a slight resistance, and my propensity to talk was so strong upon me that I couldn’t help telling the ‘Johnnies’ that were hanging behind all about our good treatment of prisoners, etc., and thus I didn’t notice when the regiment went back to its old nosition. When I came to my senses I found I was alone. I cone uded I would go back, and so inforqied them, but they very- emphatically ordered me to remain. Now, something had to be done, so I quickly determined to take my chances of instant death- rather than perish by the slower method of disease and starvation, and I informed them in not very elegant terms, modes of expression that I do not now' use, that they might go straight to a very warm country. Then I ran, and the faster the bullets came the faster I ran, until after a while a bullet from the right came and styijck me in the left groin, and down I went. Oh, you needn’t laugh; the bullet struck me in front, I’m happy to say, and I’ve never regretted the decision I made in such a hurry.” “What became of you afterward?” was asked. “Well, I lay there unable to move, till nearly dark," and had a good chance to review the rebel army, Os most of it swept over me. Artillery wheels and horses’ feet came uncomfortably near, but I escaped death —providentially, it always seemed to me. About sunset the ‘ Johnnies’carried me back to the Pennsylvania College, but it would make too long a story to tell all my experiences there. I will only say that from that point, lying near 4 an open door, I could see many of the movements of the rebel army, including the formation and advance of Pickett’s division, and could hear the yells of the rebs as they swept forward, and the hurrah of our boys when the charge was repulsed. There were fifteen of uS wounded men at the college the oflief “we cheered, too, when our boys did, until the .rebs threatened to kill us if we didn’t stop. I shall never forget the four terrible days I passed there— days of alternate hope and sea the joy I felt on that morning when gray coats went away and blue coats appeared. But I’m getting back into my old habit of talking too much. Please excuse me. I’m apt to forget myself when thinking of those days.”— Boston . Journal.

Government Credit in Europe.

National credit has had its dangers in the past, in the extreme East and the extreme West, from Oriental gov- ! ernments and from North American ' States or South American republics; but the day is close at hand when a great crash ofj government credit is coming in Central Europe. The debts cf “Europe, ” and this practically means the larger half of Eurojve west of Russia, have risen, in fifteen years, from $13,200,000,000t0 $21,600,000,000; the cost of government has risen onehalf, and the cost of national armaments in still greater ratio, until they cost $900,000,000 a year, keep idle 3,200,000 men and employ 1,800 ve-sela. Meanwhile there is scarcely a landowner, whether bending over the spade and walking between the plow-handles or taking rent from te iants, who does not find his lalx>r worth letfs than it was by reason of the cheap food which floods Europe from beycnd the sea and Tikes “pay* in the precious tribute of men. The end is certain in the sudden sloughing off of the gigantic mortgage now lying on Europe, and which is robbing it of almost every advantage which capital needs for high profit in an old country. — Philadelphia /res*. \ • Thebe is no use for money equal to that of beneficence; here the enjoyment grows on re ect on, and our money impost trulycurs when it cease* to be in our possession— Mackenzie. 1

THE BAD BOY.

•Ah, here you are. at last!” said the grocery man to the bad boy. “I was afraid the change in the standard of tune would mix you up so you would not come.” “Oh, you needn’t ever be afraid that I will get left, ” said the bad boy, as he used the can-opener to open some peanuts. “I would have been here sooner, only pa met with a serious accident, and .1 had to go after a plumber for him.” “Had to go after a plumber?” said the grocery man, in amazement. “Are you out of your head? Why didn’t you call a doctor? What has a plumber got to do .with the practice of medicine?” “Well,! proposed to call a doctor, but pa wouldn’t have a doctor. He told me to get a plumber to the house as quick as possible. You see we have been troubled with rats at our house, and we tried poison, but they got fat on it. We tried ‘cats, and the rats drove the cats away. So pa went down and got some steel traps and set them around on the floor of the basement. The floor is cement and just as smooth as can be, and me and my chum go down there and skate with our roller skates. This morning pa came down and wanted to put on my skates. I told him he couldn r t~ _ skate,7iHid that ! should think, after his experience at the rink last winter, when he pulled a girl all to pieces, grabbing at her to keep from falling, that he would try some other amusement; but he said he knew all about it, and he didn’t want no fool boy to try to tell him anything. When a man gets old and thinks he knows it all there is no use trying to argue with him, and so I unbuckled my skates and pulled them off, and he put them on. Well, lie wabbled around for a few minutes, like.a feller that has been drinking gin, and held on to things till he thought he had got his bearings, when he struck out for the back end of the basement. As he came along by the furnace one leg began to go over towards the neighbors’, and he grabbed hold of the corner of the furnace, swung around behind it, out of sight, and we heard an earthquake,* and something snapped like a steeltrap, and pa yelled ‘By crimusj and ma came down after some sassidge for breakfast, and she saw pa, and she said ‘ Merciful goodness,’ and by that time me and my chum had got there. Well, you’d a dide to see pa. He had come down like a ton of 'coal, right on that steel-trap, and it had sprung and caught a whole mouthful of pa’s pants, and about a pound and a half or two pounds of meat, and pa was grating his teeth to try and stand it. ' Oh, it was the most ridiculous position I ever saw pa into, and he got mad and. told me to unspring the trap. We turned him over, and me and ray chum tried our best to open the trap, but it was one of these traps with a strong spring, and we couldn’t. Pa was the only one that could spring the trap, and he couldn’t go around behind hisself to get at it, so I told him I would go after a doctor, but he said this was a case where a doctor was no good, and he wanted a plumber ora blacksmith. Pa wanted to go up in the parlor to sit on the sofa while I was gone after the plumber, but the trap was chained to the furnace and we couldn’t get it loose, so pa had to lay there on the cement floor till the plumber came. The plumber laughed at pa, and said he had done all kinds of plumbing before, but he never had a call like that. Well, he got pa out, afid I don’t suppose there is a madder man in town than pa is, but there was nobody to blame but himself. Say, do you see how I can be blamed about it ?” “Naw, they can’t blame you,” said the grocery man, as he lit a clay pipe. “But this ought to be a lesson to you that life is one continuous rat-trap, always set and baited with cheese to catch the unwary. The business man goes about his business unconscious that the rat-trap is set where he can get into it. He extends his business, gives credit and gets credit himself, everything is booming.and he is sailing along as nice as your pa was on the roller skates, when all at once there is a slack up in business, he can’t collect what is owing to him and he has to pay what he owes, he clutches and claws at friends for help to keep him from falling, but friends have got all they can attaud to to keep on their feet, and they do not reach out to help him, and suddenly his feet go out from under him, and he strikes something hard, and he finds that he is in life’s great rat-trap, and EE creditors do not hurry to unspring the trap, ahd he waits for the plumber as your pa did, and thinks what a fool he has made of himself. A boy gets a situation in a store at $5 a week,, and in three months he thinks he owns the store. He is promoted and has his salary raised, and then he begins to dress better than the proprietor, plays billiards till the saloon closes, goes to his cheap boarding place with beer enough in him to start a new saloon, gets to buying wine and hiring livery rigs, and some day a plain-looking man calls on him and takes him up to the police station, where he is told that his cash account is S6OO short, and as he hears the key turn in tlie door of his cell he realizes that he has dropped square on to life’s rat-trap, which he knew was there all baited for him. but he did not have sense enough to keep away from. Ah, boy, beware of the rat-trap. Here, take your hand out of that barrel of dried apples. How- do you know but there is a trap set in there ?” “That’s what I want to find out,” said the boy, as he removed his hand and looked in the barrel to see if it was really loaded for him. -“Well, sir, your sermon on the infallibility of the rat tran, has done me good, and-J only wish you could preach it to pa, , He “gefsTiffo more Troublethan any man I ever saw. You heard about his coming near being lynched in the Fourth wqrd ? It was all on account of his prowling around trying to save something. You know the alley over there where they have had so many incendiary fires? Well, they have detectives all around there to try and catch the firebug. sent pa over there to hire a colored who fives in the alley V© do the washing,‘and the detectives - -

watched pa. When he came out of the wbman’s house and was walking along towards the street he saw some shingles and shavings by the * side of a new building, and he picked up a bundle to take home for kindling. The detectives caught him, with the kindling in his arms, and they .said they had got’the firebug, and the" people were looking for a rope for pa, when I came up and told them he was all right. My! how scared he was, but when I got him home I didn’t think it was right for him to tell ma that he cleaned out the whole police force.” “No, he ought not to have done that. But that kindling story should be a lesson to us to avoid even the appearance of evil. In such a mcfaient as ye think not—” “Oh, give us a rest,” said the boy, “When you talk so confounded good I always watch you, because you are either mixing cheap flour with buckwheat flour, or whittling the lead out of the weights, or charging half a pound more butter than you send to a house. I am onto you,” ,and the bad boy went out to help an old man carry a heavy basket home, and the grocery man charged a pound of dried apples to tlie boy’s father, and everybody was happy. —Peck's Sun. —_>——.. . f.

Mr. Jones Has an Off Day.

Mr. Jones, although he is of a very sanguine temperaipent, has days when the world is all hollow and his doll stuffed with sawdust. One of these occurred to him recently when he put on his winter overcoat for the first time and started out to catch the next car.—He caught The car; also caught his foot in the door, and was shut up by the driver, who, when he saw his mistake, released him so suddenly that he was shot into the lap of an old lady, who had only breath enough left to scream: “Mercy sakes alive, man! Take me money, but spare me life !” Jones apologized,'and then smiled at One or two whom he knew, but there seemed a coldness and constraint on the part of the passengers, and a determination to avoid him. The ladies buried their noses in their handkerchiefs, and the gentlemen threw open the car windows and glared at Jones as if they intended to throw him out, while the old lady aforesaid was heard to mutter something that sounded like “pestilence. ” “Board of Health ought to be informed of this,” said a red-faced man, angrily; “it’s"a criminal offense, that’s what it is, for a fumigated patient to leave the hospital and go about in public!” Two ladies said they felt ill and left the car. Then the red-faced man addressed Jones. “Can you reconcile it with your conscience,” he asked, severely, “to go about like a walking nuisance among your fellow men ? Have you no regard for the healthof .the community ?” and he covered his face with a polka dot spread. “Good heavens! what do you mean?” demanded the alarmed Jones. “I mean, sir, to protest against your presence in this public" place, carrying an odor of camphor and other disin-, fectants, which show that you are an escaped fever patient. It is absolutely outrageous, sir!” “Ha-ha-ha!” laughed Jones, hysterically. “He-he-he! —fever patient—escaped! Ho-ho! Because I forgot to take some lumps of gain camphor out of the pockets of my coat—dismfectants —ha-ha-a-a 1” The disgusted passenger left the car and Mr. Jones put his feet up on the cushions and laughed softly to think what a joke he had to tell Maria when he got home. But who knows what a day will bring' forth! Jones was going down to the postoffice a few hours later, and as he walked airily down Griswold street, thinkidg of the rise in dried apples, he twirled a natty cane he carried and sang with a voice up to concert pitch a line from one of his favorite war songs: • “Let me like a soldier fa-a-all!” Some ladies were passing, and they looked at him with that admiration he always excites in the female breast, and he raised himself on tip-toes, swelled out like the impresario of an opera troupe, and in a voice several octaves higher, warbled: “Le-Uet me like a so-ho-ldler fa-all.” Then he stubbed his toe on a stepladder, on whichra small boy was washing windows, and 'it climbed all over him, and the soap and water extinguished all his martial valor, and when theJiook and ladder company rescued him he only uttered—one word, which seemed to be a Welsh combination of m’s and n’s. , Mrs. Jones was sitting at the parlor window knitting a pair of plaid silk earmuffs for a Christmas present to Jeptha when the ambulance drove up with his remains; she counted fourteen “thread under, thread over” —then she went to the door and identified him. “And you promised me you wouldn’t touch a drop of anything to-day,” she said, in a four-volume voice, as she looked up and down the street. “Take him round to the coal shed, driver, and leave him there till he sobers off.” Poor Jones! — Detroit Free Press.

Parallel Remarks of Great Men.

In Bartlett’s “Dictionary of Familiar Quotations,” says the Pittsburgh Dtitpatch, Lincoln’s “Government of the people, by the people, for the people,” is paralleled by similar phrases from earlier speeches by Theodore Parker and Daniel Webster. No original is suggested, however, for the equally famous passage from the second in-, augural a Idress: “With malice toward pone, w.th charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to ‘ see the right.” The following expression, however, bears an close a re? semblance as to be worth quoting: “In ell a rity with at! mankind, Learing no malice or ill-will to a»y human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fgHow-men’, not knowing what they do. ” . It occurs at the close of the letter addi eased by John Quincy Adam l , on July 30, 183*, to A. Bronson, of Fall River, Mass., in response to an invitation to attend a Celebration, on Aug. 1, of the final abolition of in the British West Indies. -L -'p «... — : ——

THE REPUBLICANS.

fleeting of the National Committee at Washington. ' — Chicago the Place and June 3d the Time for the Next Convention. The National Republican committee convened at the Arlington hotel, in Washington, .on Wednesday, Dec. 18, and was called to order by John A. Martin, Secretary. W. E. Chandler nominated ex-Senator Chaffee, of Colorado, temporary presiding officer, and he was elected unanimously. D. M. Sabin, at Minnesota, was nominated by Elkins for permanent President, and elected by acclamation. On tbe first ballot for the place of holding the convention the result was as follows: Chicago, 14; Cincinnati, 12; Indianapolis. 4; Philadelphia, 8; Saratoga 8. The second ballot resulted as follows: Chicago, 17;. Cincinnati, 17; Indianapolis, 0; Philadelphia, 0; Saratoga,o; and the third: Cincinnati, 21-; Chicago, 20; Saratoga, 4 ; Philadelphia, 1; Indirnnpolis. 0. On the fourth ballot Chicago was decided as the place for holding the convention, the result being hailed with cheers. Senator Frye on presenting his plan for a new basis of representation, earlier in the day, supported it with a vigorous speech. He : said it presented a subject which demanded J honest and conscientious attention. When any gentleman made a proposition to change the form of the National Convention every man who was a candidate for President, or who had one, immediately eniffedht it. He denied that he offered the new plan in favor of the interests of Mr. Blaine and in opposition to the interests of Mr. Arthur. He had not a candidate, and, so help him God, he never again would have one. Mr. Frye then quoted statistics to show that the representation from the Southern States, which were anti-Hepubliean, was nearly as large as that from States which were surely Republican, and argued that his proposition was in the interest of absolute Justice, which the Na- 4 tional Committee could not afford l to deny. Mr. Forbes (Massachusetts) briefly supported the proposition submitted by Mr. Frye, stating that the country would criticise the party if it refused io inaugurate reform in the organization of the convention. When the committee reassembled at 7 p. m. discussion began over a point of order which had been raised that as the committee had ip Feruary upon a basis of representation it could not now again change that plan. Secretary Chandler spoke against the point of order, holding that the committee had the power to change tbe basis. Senator Logan crenied * that the committee possessed the power; the National convention only had such power. Mr. Chandler, continuing, apptealbd to the members from the South and from the Territories to vote for the Frye plan, arguing that it was demanded by-the sentiment at Republicans in Republican States. Gen. Bradley (Kentucky) favored the position taken by Senator Logan. In reply to a taunt that the South could not give a single electoral vote to the Republican candidate, he said that if the Republican party of the North had given to the South the care and attentionrthat It gave to the doubtful States North the,South would furnish electoral votes". It had given lives for the good of the party. Dr. Hicks (Florida) said there were graveyards miles long in the South filled with murdered Republicans. Mr. J-lerce (Rhode Islandf'woE sorry to see the debate take such a wide course, and feared if it was reported in the newspapers it would delight the Bourbons offHbe country. The South had given us a President in 1876. Redid not favor departing from the present plan. After further expressions of opinion from various memberßOf committee, Mr. Magee (Pennsylvania) moved, and Mr. Reynolds seconded the motion,.,to refer Senator Frye’s plan to the next National Republican Convention. The vote on this motion, by States, resulted as follows: Yeas— Arkansas, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Rhode Island, Connecticut, South Carolina, Georgia, Texas, Florida, Virginia, lowa, West Virginia, Indiana, Idaho, Iltinoi-i, New Mexico, Louisiana, Utah, Kansas Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oregon —25. Nays—Alabama, California, Delaware, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Washington Territory, New Jersey, Ohio, Tennessee, Vermont, Wisconsin, Arizona, Dakota, Wyoming, New Hampshire—lß. On motion of Secretary Chandler, it was resolved that this committee views with regiet and indignation the' recent attempts to suppress human rights and destroy free suffrage and an honest counting of ballots in the various States by'methods at war with humanity and civilization. Against the prevalence of such methods the Republican party stands sacredly pledged, and we extend o’ur sympathy to all the sufferers from such inhumanities, and pledge our earnest and unconditional cooperation and the right hand of our fellowship to all men and all organizations, whatever may have been their past political action, who now unreservedly commit themselves to organized efforts to secure free education, free suffrage and the protection i of life and property to all citizens, without regard to their race or color, political opinions or votes. The following call was then adopted: A national convention will meet at Chicago on Tuesday, June 3,1834, at 12 noon, for the nomination ot candidates to be supported dent and Vice President at the next election. The Republican electors of the several States and all other voters, without regard to post p liticsl differences, who are in favor of elevating and dignifying American labor, protesting and extending home industries, giving free popular education to the masses ot the people, securing free suffrage and an honest counting of ballots, effectually protecting all human rights in every section of our common country, and who desire to promote friendly feeling and permanent harmony throughout tbe land by maintaining a . National Government pledged to these objects and principles, ate cordially invited to send from each State four delegates at large, from each Congressional District two delegates, and for each Represe tative at 1 arge two delegates, to the cdnrqation. The delegates at large shall be chosen by popular delegate State conventions, called on not less than twenty days’ published notice, and held not more than sixty days before the time fixed for the meeting of the National convention. The Republicans of the various Congressional districts shall have the option of electing their delegates at seperate popular delegate conventions, called on similar notice, and held in the districts at any time within the fifteen days next prior to the meeting of the State conventions', vr •" by snbdMsfcm* ot tbe State conventions into district convent one, and such delegates shall be chosen in the la ter method it not elected previdhs to the meering of the State conventions. All district delegates shall be accreoited by the officers of such district Conventions. Two delegates shall be allowed from each Territory and from the District of Columbia, similarly chosen. Notices of contest shall be given to the National committee, accompanied by fnl printed statements of the grounds of contest, which shall also be made public; and preference in the order at hearing and determining contests shall be given by the convention according to the date of the reception of such notices and statements by the National committee. 'ibe committee then adjourned to meet in Chicago, May 31, 1884.

VERY OLD PEOPLE.

Solomon Eversull, of Hamilton county. Conn-, has just celebrated his 100th birthday. Robert W. Knight, the oldest citizen of Portland, Me., died on Sunday, aged 93 years. After living to the age of #9, Matthew Arnold, of Colchester, N. Y., committed suicide. , ' ' ' Arthur Connelly died recently in Lockport. IfcTrtt the age of W years and H months. . There are three old persons in Baldwin county, Ga„ Sylvia Cambert and Peter Hall are each 113 years of age. and Mary English, has just passed her 110th birthday, Johs O’Mali a, of Cleveland, died recently at the age of 105 years. He had never been ■loir, and just before he died be said he felt drowsy, and apparently fell asleep. . Kanct Reilly, of Oregon, when a girl, -dtwifiwn the Atlantic to the Missouri, tad subsequently when moving in Oregon made the entire trip on foot. She in now 90, Cable, the New Orleanist novelist, will reaideld the North hereafter.

U. S. SENATE.

A Complete List of the New Committees. Following iff a ligt of the new committee* m arraxp-od by tho United States Senate: STAjmtSO COMMITTEES. , Priviibges and Elections—Messrs. Hoar, Cameron irf Wisconsin, Sherman. Frye, Lapham, Salisbury. Vance, Pugh, and Jonas. Appropriations -w Messrs. Allison, Logan, Dav-es, Plumb, Hale, Beck, Ransom, Cockrell, and Cail. Foreign Relations—Messrs. Miller of California, Sherman, Lapham, Edmunds, Wilson, Morgan. Pendleton, Vance, and Brown. ' Finance—Messrs. Morrill. Sherman, Jones of Nevada, Allison, Aldrich, Miller of New York, Bayard, Voorhees, Beck, McPherson, and Harris. Commerce—Messrs. McMillan, Jones of Nevada, Conger, Frye, Miller of New York, Ran»m, Coke, Farley, and Vest. ManufactuitH—Messrs. Riddlebergcr, Sabin, Dolph, Williams, and Colquitt. Agriculture—Messrs. Miller ,of New York, Blair, Plumb, Vance, Van Wyck, George, Williams, and Fair. Military Affairs—Messrs. Logan, Cameron of Pennsylvania, Hand-on. Sewell. Hawley, Cockrell. Maxey, Hampton and Camden. ' Naval Affairs—Me-.-rs. Cameron of Pennsylvania, Anthony, Hale, Mahone, Miller of* CaHfornla. McPherson, Jones ot Florida, Farley and Butler. ' Judiciary—Messrs. Edmunds, Logan. Ingalls, ' McMillan, Hoar, Garland, Bayard, Lamar and Pugh Public Lands—Mew*. Plumb, Hill, Blair, Van Wyck, Dolph, Walker, Morgan, Slater and Gibson. , ~ 'lndian Affairs—Messrs. Dawes, Ingalls, Harrison, Cameron of Wisconsin, Bowen, Coke, Walker, plater and Gorman. Private Lan i C'ininis—Messrs; Bayard fehair man), Edmunds, Manderson, Jonas and Colquitt. Pensions—Messrs. Mitchell, Blair, Van Wyck, Cullom, Sabin, Slater, Jackson, Camden and Colquitt. Postottices and Post-Roads—Messrs. Hill, Sawyer, Mahone, Palmer, Wilson.Maxey, Saulsbury, Groome and Jackson. Revolutionary Claims —Messrs. Jones of Florida (Chairman), Garland, Williams, Anthony and McMillan. Claims—Messrs. Cameron of Wisconsin, Hoar, Pike. Dolph, Manderson, Jackson, George, Gibson and Kenna. District of Colombia—Messrs. Ingalls, Aldrich, Riddlebergcr, Pike, Palmer, Harris, Vance, Brown and Gorman. Education and Labor—Messrs. Blair, Mahone, Miller of New York, Aldrich, Bowen, George, Call, Pu«h and Groome. . Patents-rMessra. Piatt, Hoar, Mitchell, Lap- = ham. Coke, Call and Camden. Civil Service and Retrenchment —Messrs. Hawlev, Dawes, Mitchell, Miller of California, Pike, Walker, Williams. Lamar and McPherson. Territories— Piatt, Conger. Manderson, Butler, Garland and Vest. Raitroarls—Messrs. Sawyer, Hawley. Sewell, Sabin, Riddlebergcr, Cullom, Damar, Williams, Jonas, Brown andMLenna. —Contingent. F.rpanaes—Measra. Jone* Of Nevada, Platt and Vance. . Engrossed Bills—Messrs. Saulsbury, Call, and Allison. „ . Rules—Messrs. Frye, Sherman, Ingalls, Harris, and Pendleton. „ Mines and Mining—Messrs. Wilson. Bowes, Van Wyck, Jones of Hampton, Fair, and Camden. Improvement of Mississippi River —Messrs. Van Wyck, Mitchell, Cullom, Pike, Jonas, Cockrell and Jackson. . „ x Revision of the Laws—Messrs. Conger, Platt, Hale, Pendleton, and Kenna. „ ' Transportation Rentes to the Seaboard— Messrs. Aldrich, Cameron of Pennsylvania, Manderson, Palmer, Farley, Slater, and Gibson. JOINT COMMITTEES. Printing Committee—Messrs. Anthony, Hawley, and Gorman. , , Library—Messrs. Sherman, Hoar, and VoorEnrolled Bills—Messrs. Sewell, Riddlebergcr, and Colquitt. Public Buildings and Grounds—Messrs. Mahone, Morrill, Cameron of Wisconsin, Jones of Florida, and Vest. . To Examine Branches of the Civil Messrs. Cullom, Dawes, McMillan, Hampton and Groome. „ , To Investigate the Condition of the Potomac River in Front of Washington—Messrs. Ransom, Vest. Gorman, Conger, Cameron of Pennsylvania, Sabin ana Hill. To Make Provision for Taking the Tenth Census—Messrs. Hale, Morris, Sawyer, Wilson, Pendleton, Morgan and Fair. -- Epidemic Diseases—Messrs. Harris, Garland, 1 Jonas, Hampton. Sewell, Bowen and Frye. Nicaragua Claims—Messrs. Maxey, Grqome, Beck, Hui and Dolph. Woman Suffrage—Messrs. Lapham, Anthony, Blair, Palmer, Fair, Jones ot Floiida, and Brown. JOINT SELECT COMMITTEES. Additional Accommodations for the Library— Messrs. Voorhees, Butler and Dolph.

DEATH FORETOLD.

A Very Strange Case Near Baltimore. 4 ‘ . .. [Baltimore Dispatch.] At the services attending the funeral of Christopher C. Brooks at Mount Olivet Cemetery, near this city, the Bev. C. E. Felton told how the young man had foretold his own death, and the pastor of the Mount Vernon Methodist Church, in commenting on It, said it was one of the exceptional phenomenal cases which point a newer and higher philosophy. Young Brooks was 17 years old, and died in Brooklyn, N. Y., last Wednesday. He belonged to' a prominent family here. His mother, who had i been traveling in Europe, was summoned ■ home by cablegram announcing her son's illness. On her return she found him able to go about, and his physicians had no fears aa to his perfect recovery. The youth stated, however, that a former teacher and friend of his, a Mr. Hall, who died about five months ago, had appeared to him in a vision and- told him he would die of heart trouble Wednesday, Dec. S, at 3 o'clock p. m. Young Brooks had never had any trouble with his heart, and his friends to whom he made the statement were in no way concerned—about it, Dr. Maw, his physician, laughed at it, and said he was certain on the contrary that he would get well. The young man was, however, thoroughly impressed with the belief that he would die at the time indicated. A few days before that time ba sent flowers to some friends with a note saying: “ I shall never again be able to express my appreciation of your kindness." He accompanied a lady friend to an entertainment the afternoon of Dec. 4, spent the evening fit her company, and received a promise that if he wrote for her the next afternoon she would come to sayjjood-by. His physician told the brother and mother of the youth ■ that he would divert his mind from the subi ject by physical means, and Tuesday night ! put a fly-blister on bis neck. Wednesday j morning young Brooks rose as usual, ate an unusually hearty breakfast, and to all appearances was good for a long life. While taking lunch with the family 0 usual at 8 o’clock be complained of feeling faint, and asked to be assisted to his room. After resting fn the bed a few moments he wrote to the young lady, and in about twenty minutes sbe arrived. He died fn the presence of the family at 3:10 o’clock of paralysis at the heart. His physician and his, mother arrived but two or three moments later, and were shocked to find his prediction fulfilled.

SMALL TALK.

The Atlanta Gwttfu/ion is building itself a new office out of Georgia granite. A Bridgeport (Ct.» gentleman will publish all the rejected poems he can end. The name of the only negro member of the House of Representatives is O’Hara, Potatoes in Southern Illinois are 25 < cents a bushel, and dealers do not want them | at that. Detroit can show cedar-block pavement* laid eight years ago which are yet in good condition. Allan Pinkerton sue* Philadelphia tot 52.000 for catching Major Phipps, the almaaouso thief. Frank 8. Thomas, a gambler in poor I health, killed himself in Galveston, leaving a note saying: “1 take this means of getting well. A plain box is all 1 want-’’ A man with a wooden teg may bo said to bo Mumping the town. < .