Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1884 — Page 3

NEW ORLEANS.

■fix-011 Sect-sh Still Prevalent and Bitter. ; A. M. Thomson’s New Orleans letter ~tO“ _ Chica"i? dovrrriat: | what I saw and heard during invj|r ; joern in New Orleans, that the*Wd “seeesh” foe’inp; is more bitter there” to-day than it is in Richmond, the capital of the Jeff Dtiv-s Oonfederaey, and her citizens have done more than any other city in South to perpetuate ; the memory and bitteritpss of the “Lost Curse.” They have erected amonu-i meat in one es their public Cemeteries : to .symbolize the Confederate ca~se, another in memory of Stonewall Jacksou, and anotiler to perpetuate the valor and soldierly. heroism of Gem Robert E. Lee. In my letter of the 3d ' of March I spoke at some length of this rebel iix.min.ent business and of ! what I tdrtwght- s-teh things to the rising goneration. if it i& true, J as many So/them men assert, that | they would not restore slavery again.tf they could, it is not true that they are reconciled to the pecuniary loss which was entailed upon them by the emancipation of their slaves. Hany still cherish the hope that when the Democratic party gets control of the Federal Government again the rebel soldiers will lxi pcnsioned aud there will be some compensation given to them for the loss of slaves. This hope has much to do in keeping the South “solid” for the Democratic party, for these men know that they have always controlled that party when in power, and will control it again. I talked with one young man who expressed the opinion that the enmneipatiou proclamation was a very uriw wise act on the part of Abraham Lincglnf!), besides being clearly unconstitutional !\ in his ppinion. I attempted to justify it as a war measure, and tried to make him see that the damage done the Constitution was not irreparable. He seemed to think that the Government possesses no war powers outside of the organic act, and that the Republicans “struck below the K6lt” when they shattered the shackles of the slave. The old “secesh” feeling crops out in a business and social way quite as much as it does politically. As there is no jonger any political organization in Louisiana outside of the Democratic party, there is very little disturbance except what the Bourbons make among Themselves. A Northem man - who attempts to do business in New Orleans is undertaking “a fool’s errand,” unless he keeps his mouth shut about politics. All the Federal officeholders in the city are looked upon with suspicion, being mostly from the North, and they are not favorites in the best society. One gentleman who was originally from Wiseonsin told me that after residing in the city for fifteen years his family were still Imld at arm’s length, and had to endure the social ostracism and isolation that are born of Southern prejudice. Manual labor of any sort is still regarded as a disgrace by the old slave-holding aristocracy, and those who are too poor to get along without it are always ready to apologize for having to do it and to assure you that they were once in better circumstances. Theprevalence of this foolish feeling is well illustrated by a little incident that recently happened in the city. An old resident, and one of the “first families, ” became financially embarrassed and suddenly died, leaving his family in reduced circumstances. Two of the daughters, who had been thrown upon their own resources for a living, obtained positions as clerks in a store, where they daily went to earn their bread. But they wore not allowed to retain their former position in the “upper circles of society,” and the society paper made their case the subject of unfavorable criticism because they had become trades-people. This strong dislike of those who work is one of the most hurtful legacies bequeathed to the people of’the South by the ineradicable curse of chattel slavery, and it will probably cling to them forever. The most despicable man to be met with in the South ie the whisky-drinking, to-bacco-chewing, negro-hating loafer who is too proud to work at any remunerative and who is not qualified by education and training, for the higher grades of service. He is generally full of fight, goes well armed, and when he is intoxicated is the terror of all peaceably disposed persons.

The Opening Campaign.

The campaign of 1884 is opening. The skirmishers are deploying, and here and there is heard a shot from the outposts; soon will come the heavy boom of the artillery and the rattle of musketry from the two great parties opposed to each other in such a struggle as will swallow up any possible side scrimmage with which political infants may amuse themselves. The columns of the Journal are sufficient evidence that the Indiana division of the grand army of Republicans is mastering to take the front rank again, as.it has always done. There can be no object in Republicans misleading each other. Public and private reports are in perfect harmony, and, therefore, it may be accepted as true that in the preliminary muttering, the inspection of-the party yanks and dpiipmenl has been such as to give hopeful warrant of success in November. But this hopefulness may be easily overdone, and prove a weakness instead of an element of strength. No man nor no army can tight well unless there is such a stimulus as brings every faculty and (ability into the highest actio.'. Looking over the whole field, and calculating the chances carefully, while’ Republicans have everything to encourage them, it is. nevertheless true that the contest will be no child’s play or dress parade. We have no patience with those carpet knights, those political featherheads, who affect to see nothing of supreme value involved in the struggle bet ween the Republican and Demo cratic parries; who talk flippantly and with persiflage about the issues, or rather the lack of issues, between the contestants; who assert that there is nothing involved other than a scramble for Office. Conceding the corrupting influence of the thirst for official place, it still remains true that office-holders ___ -v__— —A—r_£ L 2 :

and office-expectants are the smallest possible percentage of the whole people, certainly of the Republican party, while this evil influence is steadily de-' cress in the wise, opcratiou the civil-service reform pct and the steadily increasing public opinion fa vol inn civ i'-iervice reform. Whet .<■!•• wisely or foolishlv, it E still the fact tlr.it tin overwhelming majority" of the Republican voters of the Coimfry arc impressed with the belief that jfhete is, mOra in Republicanism than public place, and that Republican principles are not synonymous with postoffices. There is a large, a controlling, majority of the Republican party which believes there is somethii’g vital and fundamental to nationality and good governmeiit iii the Republican party, and for that they will Contend in the'approaching election with i.s much real anti disinterested patriotism as they have ever done. VVlTe+e'vxr tl+e ptu'ty loses tlie jiower to tints vitalize the canvass with principle's appealing'to the higher motives of intelligent, moral and rea-omibfe men, the party will have passed- into decadonee, and its end will be a mere matter of time. What is involved in the present struggle between the parties? In the first place, the blood of the Abel of American citizenship cries from the ground of the Southern States. Clubbed, whipped, scourged, shot to death, the citizenship for which hundreds ,of thousands of men died lies prone in certain States. There is no use in trying to blink this fact. It starts up with horrid front to confront those who would drown its memory in forgetfulness. Like Banquo’s ghost, it will not down. Coushatta, ” CbTfax" Grant _ Meqhattfcs’ Hall, Ellenton, Hamburg, the Chisolm massacre, Danville. Copiah County—these, and scores of other names that could bo called up, mark a broad path through a dark and bloody ground. Only yesterday the Supreme Court of the United States, in an opinion concurred in by all the Judges, affirmed the constitutionality of the power of Congress to protect American citizenship wherever it was conferred, and warned the American people against the lesson of all republics in ftistory which had been overthrown by violence or corruption. Associated with this murderous prostration of the ballot in Southern States there is the power of corruption which threatens a like prostfatibifjfi bthef/sectibnA. What party stands for corruption in politics? What party nominates its candidates with sole reference to the “bar'l?” What party introduced Tildenism into, politics, attempted the corruption of Statesand the purchase of the Presidency? What party is the willing tool of the liquor league? What party stands to-day eaten through and through with plutocracy, and in which a poor man has little or no chance of promotion ? Gall the roster of the Democratic candidates and then call the roster of Republican nominees, and see in which party poor men have been honored—' men representative of the great middle class "of "theAmmicanpeople. Franklyconceding that there has been much to find fault with in the Republican party, that 1 tere and there it has been tarred with the stick of corruption, it is still indisputable that the party has not nationalized the mighty dollar, and does not march under the banner of any barrel, whether of money, Standard oil, or whisky. No such-test of availability is ever mentioned in connection with any Republican named for high office. . Next to citizenship, there is the tariff. Trimmers would like to have it appear that there is a fundamental difference between the parties upon this question, but any candid man knows better. It is not a question of the reform of the tariff, as some Democrats would have us believe; but it is a question of the retention of the principle of protection to home industries and home labor in the American political system. Whatever may be individual differences in the one party or the other, the clear, sharp dividing line is upon the very essence of the principle of protection, and the divergence is just as decided today as it ever was. Civil-service reform in its best meaning is involved in the pending’election. The defeat of Pendleton in Ohio, and the prevalent idea that the DemocraticHouse of Representatives will refuse to make an appropriation for the com mis of the two parties and the utterances of their leading papers and public men, are evidence sufficient that Democratic success means to turn back the hands upon the dial of civil-service reform. Individual and isolated opinion cannot have any effect upon the general trend of the parties. A sound financial policy is involved. There are many indications that the wisest statesmanship and the most thorough honesty are yet needed before the United States is put upon a solid financial foundation. Squalls are already beginning to arise, and a fina - cial storm could be easily' raised by demagogues and empirics, especially were the industrial basis of the country to be disturbed by Democratic success, These are some of the leading questlons upon which the Republican party is right and the Democratic party is wrong; They are national questions: they affect nat'onal policies. There are those local and minor, but which by many may be regarded as more important even than these. Whatever they may be, whether they involve public morals or private righto, the Republican party is still nearer the right and the Democratic party nearer the wrong. On these questions the parties will gc to the battle, and the man who thinks there is nothing in the wager worthy of his best achievement, simply makes an exhibition of his own want of earnest conviction. —lndianapolis Journal. -/—/._■■ 1 ?-

Men Must Have Clean Hands.

The Republican party appears tc recognize the fact that it must approach the people with clean hands. It can’t afford to load on any candidates ol doubtful record. This is true in a local as well as a broader sense. It won’t de to be right in the head, simply. Every member of the body must be healthy and without blemish. — Hushville (Ind. J Graphic.

THE BAD BOY.

“Your pa got over being seared out of his boots?” said tho grocery man to ; the Bad boy F as he took up a handful - of hicko ymuts and begat Cracking them between a couple of five-pound freights on'the counter. “ What do yon meanf* Who told you pa had been scared?” asked the boy, as he put his thumb in his mouth, after knocking the nail off with a weight. ; '“I didn’t know as anybpdv knew any- I thing about it but me and the girl. ” “O, a brakeman that runs on the ■ Chicago train ' was here tliis morning, ] and he told me your pa came up on the ’ train last night, and along there about j Kenosha ho went through the train as 1 though he had been kicked, and got ; into the postal car aud crawled under a j lot of mail sacks, and rode all the way j to Milwaukee, sweating liko a butcher, ! and as pale as a ghost. What was it • all about? You haven't been playing, another trick on him, have you?” and j the grocery man picked up the hickbry- I nuts the lx»y had left and threw them in the basket, while the boy wrapped a handkerchief around his thumb and looked’ mad. “No, I didn’t play anything on him, but I saved his life. He is an old smarty, and got himself into a scrape. You sec, pa and me went down to Chicago on a pass pa got somehow in politics. We took in the Battle of Gettysburg, where a follow can see all about the war without getting shot in the back. We came back on the 5 o’clock train, and of course pa couldn’t sit with me, but had to go and sit down in the seat with a girl that was alone. Pa hasn’t got any more sense than a cow about such things. A girl don’t -want -an -eld—duffer - her, -What she wants is a young feller, that Jm ß g°t beat’s oil -on In a h airy and smells’ sort of drug-store like. But pa thinks he is just as entertaining as when he wasyoufig, and if he weiitmto a car where all the seats but one was vacant, and that one had a girl in it, he would go up to her in his insinuating way, and take off his plug hat and show his bald head and say, "Miss, is this seat engaged?” and befdra she had time to say anything he would sit down with her and begin talking about something she didn’t care any more about than she would about the process of embalming Egyptian mummies. Well, pa sat down by a girl who was knitting, and he began to talk sweet. He said he was a traveling man, getting $6,000 a year and a share df the profits. He found fault with the railroads, the cars, the hotels, and everything, and to hear liim talk you would think he was reared in a palace, always trayeled on special cars, and was worth $11,000,000. I sat behind him. and heard what he said, and it; was all I could do to keej> from asking him if he thought ma would be expecting us home to-night, but T have harT experience enough with pa to know that when he is engaged in business that .cause® his brain to expand and throb, that the safest, way is to keep still. He told the girl she was purty, and asked her all about herself, and if she was going far, and he put his arm on the back of the seat, and acted as though he was going to hug her, but he didn’t, cause just as His arm began to get real near £othe girl’s small of her back, I imitated the brakeman and shouted, ‘Lake Forest,’ and pa thought the brakeman was right behind him, and he drawed his arm away so quick he hit the funny bone of his elbow on the back of the seat, and it hurt him like everything. The girl laffed, and pa blushed, and in a little while he had his arm there again. The conductor and the brakeman watched pa, and just as he got close to the girl, and was whispering to her, the conductor touched him on his shoulder and asked him ■what the number of his pass was. Pa had to take his arm away to get his pass, and then he put it back again, and was commencing where he left off, to give the girl some taffy, when the . brakeman touched pa on the shoulder, and asked him if it was his dog in the baggage car, chewing the hinges off the trunks. Pa said he didn’t liave no dog, and the,brakeman went away. The girl was real disgusted with pa, and I could see she wanted to have a rest. Just before the train got to Waukegan the girl said she want6d to semi a dispatch to Racine, and pa gave her some paper and she wrote a message and asked pa to send it for her. Pa didn’t want to leave his seat,- ee die 5.9 id <to .me, Hem, little boy, you get off at Waukegan and send this message for the beautifhly’Otnig tadyß-and he gave me the dispatch and a dollar. I went out at Wakegan, and read the message and didn’t send it. It read like this, ‘Father, come down to the depot with a horsewhip. There is an old drunkard on the train who has made liimself vdry obnoxious to me, gnd I want you to maul him within an inch of Ins life.’ Well I wouldn’t contribute to pa’s being mauled, so l kept it, and after the train left Waukegan I called pa into the other end of the ear and told him I didn’t think it was best to send that dispatch, so I kept it. He was mad in a minute and told me I had no right to think anything. When I was told to do a thing it was my business to do it, and ask no questions. He said he was ashamed,of me, and told me when the train got to Kenosha to go right out and send it quick. He was going to start back to talk with the girl some more when I handed him the dispatch, and told him to read it, and then if he wanted me to, send it I would. He read it, and his face got as white as chalk, and the few hairs on his head raised right up so they were stiff enough to tack down a carpet with, and big drops of perspiration stood out all over his face, and his collar just wilted right down, and he was not half as tall as before. ‘Don’t say anything about this,’ he said in a whisper. ‘I know the clerk m the mail car, and he has often wanted me to ride with him, and I guess E will go in there. There is not air enough in this car.’ Pa went forward about ts sudden ns you often see an old man go while a train is in motion, and I went and sat down behind tho girl. I said to her,‘ ‘The old party who sat with you hak,gone out to ride on the cow-catcher to get cooled off.’ She said she wished he would fall off and get left. .1 asked her if the old man was hey pa, and she said he was an old fool,

and I agreed with her and we had quite a nice v.sit. I think If old people would keep out of the way, and not bo so fresh, young pqdple could have more fun. I sat-down in the seat with her, and got real well acquainted, and when she got off at Racine, I helped her off, and I could huagme pa in the postal ear just ”as'wealing." Well, pa : didn’i~afibw up till wo got to Milwaukee, and then he came out of the side door of the postal car all mussed ujt, and smelling niildewed like old sacks. He asked me if I noticed any unusual commotion at Racine, and 1 told him there was nothing special, only there I was an old prizefighter on tiie depot steps with a blacksnake Whip, and lota of people seeming to expect a row, and I guess tho girl sent another dispatch. Pa shivered and said, ‘Let this be warning to you, my boy, not to ever allow any female : ktfhngefs = tmget" acquaiptelT xHfii yttu, and become familiar.’ I told pa I didn’t ‘ sec any haim .in it, ’.cause I rode all the way with that girl, after he left, and she seemed to like it, and never once thought of having me horse-whipped; Pa is getting calm again, but it will be a Idng time before his hair lays down smooth again, the way it did before he got scared.” “Well, your pa is a la-la,” said the grocery man, “and ought to be kept locked up as a monk in a monkery, somewhere. ” The bad boy agreed that a monkery was prescription his pa needed, and he went out and caught on behind a cutter and was tipped off in the slush, and went home to run himself through a clothes wringer.— Peck’s Sun.

An Uncomfortable Companion.

A gentleman having, at the invitation of the Superintendent of an insane .asylum in Massachusetts, inspected the interior of tho building, asked leave to go out in the grounds, The Superin-tendent-showed him jihe way, and then left him for a few moments, with the assurance that the patients who were at work in tho garden were harmless. The gentleman was met as he stepped into the garden by a quiet, respectablelooking man, who bowed pleasantly and asked if ha might show him through Taking him- for the gardener, the visitor thanked him and accepted his offer. They walked together, and the visitor was surprised at his companion’s intelligence and refinement. He was apparently a thorough horticulturist, and spoke thoughtfully Upon the flowers they examined. Pausing before a gorgeous bed of pansies, he stooped down oucUpicked half, a dozen kinds amihanded them to the .visitor with the words: “Observe those colors, diffeacst in eat-h flower, and yet each color is so placed as to blend, or to make an agreeable contrast with the color besidb -it—No bud faste there, sir. I teli you w/hemGod-jipijS the colors He doesn’t very often make mistakes!” T l'hey walked slowly along, talking on various topics, and as they passed by a grass-plat, the man picked up a sickle that lay near by, and trimmed the borderof a flower-bed With it. Then, with the. instrument still in his hand, he continued hue Walk with the visitor. This act confirmed the latter’s convic< tion that the man was a gardener, and he was more than ever surprised at his intelligence; As they retraced their steps to the ■ house, the man with the sickle suddenly i turned to the visitor and exclaimed, I ‘“You have not, I think, noted anything ? strange in my conversation ?" | "“Why, no,” answered the visitor, in ! surprise; “except that I have enjoyed it i exceedingly, and am much obliged to you for your kindness. ” "There is nothing in my appearance to cause you to doubt my sanity, is | there?” ■ “Not at all,” replied the other, beginning to ft el a little uneasy. “You would, then, take me for a sane man, wouldn’t you?” “Cer—cer —tainly. ” “Well; to be frank with you, I am sane on all the subjects we have couched upon. But do you know,” said he, as he drew a little nearer and whispered in the car, “do you know, I sometimes have an irresistible longing to cut a man’s head off ? I can’t control it- when it comes over me. I ' haven’t had srtch a longing to-day, but ‘ I Tiever can toll when it will seize me, i It may be at any moment. I can’t tell.” I Imagine the feelings of the visitor at intendeht appeared, With an anxious look on his face. He was attended by two keepers, who took the sickle from the man and led him into the building. The Superintendent explained to his frightened friend that the man was a I dangerous patient. By some trick he ! had thatjnoming escaped the vigilance I of his keepers and strolled into the igarden. The vid* or congratulated himself on his escape, but was nevertheless so shocked that insane asylums are not at ; present his most attractive visiting i places.— Youth’s Companion. ■ ■

Drummond’s Phlox.

I In the year 1835 Mr. Drummond, a botanical collector in the service of the Glasgow Botanical Society, while trav- : eling in Texas, discovered a very pretty • species of Phlox, which bears his i mune. It was one of the last plant, i that he sent home, for soon afterward !be visited Cuba and died there. Sir W. Jackson Hcrkes? in naming the speries.remafked that*be did so in order that it might serve as a frequent memento of. its illustrious, but unfor- ! tunate, discoverer. Never were words i more truly spoken, for wherever annual j plants are grown, the different varieties ■ of Drummond's Phlox are found to be • occupying a prominent place: and if ’ the illustrious Drummond had only given us th s single plant, he would well deserve our deepest gratitude tad respect.—Floral World. A plant is found near Damascus, in Syria, which coils and uncoils according lo tile changes iu the weather, indicating any change from twelve to forty-eight hours in advance. It indicates in odvanEe Of mercury, and can be destroyed only by fire. There is ! nothing useful or beneficial that nature l does not provide in the shape of J plants.

THE TARIFF.

The Question Considered by the Democratic Houle,Caucus at Washington. l ; A Large Majority Pledged to Support the Morrison or Some Similar Bill. f Mr. Carlisle's Proposal Relative to Internal Revenue Taxes—The Minority's Position. Tho proceedings of the caucus of the Democratic members of the Hocse, called for the purpose of outlining aoiuo action upon the tariff quektlbhTa«rteus reported by the Associated Press at Washington: Throughout most of the session, u hich ia.te.l from Bp. m. till midnight, the attendance was very large, there being only ten members absent.' and "TBcYowaceomiToT' stcßness bf“Ai>seh‘do froin the city. Carlisle moved that the rules of the pr ..-ent Congress be adopted ms the rules of the caucus, except that-tho debate be carr.ed cn under ttve-minute limitation for speeches. This was agreed to. It was also deeiiied, before the business of the evening was entered upon, that a future caucus should be called upon the written request of twenty members. Mr. Morrison thensmted theob.ectof the caucus. Ho said it was for the fiurposo of com ng to an understanding, if possible, On tat iff legislation. The Democratic members of the Ways and .Means Committee, who believed in a reduction of the war tariff, had presented a measure on which they desired to have an expression of opinion of the Democratic members of tho House. It has l>ecn announced in the press, he raid, that those who were not successful in controlling the organization of the House of Representatives would oppom any measure for reducing _ war taxes or the discussion of such a measure by this Congress. He stated that the war taxes derived-froiri internal revenue, which at one time yielded tho Government ?;>QO,000,000 a year, had been from time to time : reduced until only the revenue on tobacco, malt liquoi a, and distilled spirits remain .’d. He said he did not believe in any further reduction of the internal revenue as a matter of principle, but as a Democrat desiring harmony in the party, and for the sake of harmonizing conliicting views, he would aarce to repeal the tobacco t.ix and to reduce the tax ou brandy distil od from fruits, provided such action could be had in connection with the induction of customs duties. For the purpose of testing the sense of the caucus, Mr. Morrison said he would offer a resolution which ho did, In effect providing that the Ways and Means Committee bill should be taken up, and that after reasonable time lor discussion “a bill” should be passed. Mr. Hopkins offered an amendment to the effect that the caucus should pot be binding upon individual members. A long discuesion followed the offering of the resolution, which was participated in by Messrs. Morrison, Eaton, Converse, Blackburn, Randall, Hopkius, Kin£, Morse, tlibi'l!, Kosigwn, Rosecrans, Tully, O’Neill, of Missouri, McAdoo, Wilson of West Virginia, Wa-ren, Dorsheimer, Hutchins, - Hoblitzeil, Holman, Nichols, Hardeman, Beach, Spriggs, Adams of New York, and Bland. *’ Mr. Randall briefly counseled moderation and conciliation, and suggested an unexcited conference, with a view to agreeing upon some bill lor which all /Democratic members could vote—a bill that wonhl provide tor amoderate reduction of customs duties and at the same time of a partial reduction of the internal-revenue taxation. As to making the tariff bill a subject of caucus action In the sense of controlling a member’s vote, he said it was contrary" to Democratic principles, and contrary to the principles of representative government to attempt to bind any one on a great economic question, and thus Beck to compel a representative to vote against the known opinions and interests of his constituents. Mr. Carlisle said he was desirous of having the caucus come to some agreement, if possible. on the reduction of tho tai iff. In order to do so an 1 secure such reduction, he would agree to repeal the tobacco ta x and all licenses connected with the same, and to a reduction on brandy.dist-illed'from fruits to 10 cents per gallon. Messrs. Reagan and Ho man urged harmony, and opposed all efforts to bind members of the party by the action of the caucus. Both declared that the action of the caucus should be regarded as merely persuasive. Several members announced emphatically that they were opposed to the Morrison bill, but the predominating sentiment was largely in favor of considering the bid and agrec-ing to a measure that would receive tho sanction of the House. Besides Mr. Randall, Messrs. Tully and Eaton opposed the measure. Mr. King offered a resolution to the effect that a committee consisting of seven members of the House and six Senators be appointed to consider and report at a future caucus, on the pending proposition. The resolution was voted down. -Mr. Morrison moved that the Hopkins amendment be modified so as to provide that the action of the caucus should not be binding upon individuals except to such an extent as each member might feel influenced by the wlshtsof the majority of his associates. This amendment was adopted. Ho then called the previous question upon Mr. Hopkins’ amendment as modified, which was carried — 114 to 57. The resolution was then adopted by a yea and nay vote —114 to 57. The following is the resolution as amended and adopted: Rexolvcd, That the bill commonly known as the Morrison tariff bill shall be taken up for reasonable time for debate allowed thereon, and after such debate that a bill l>e passed for a reduction of duties and war-tariff taxes. That the adoption of this resolution shall not be considered binding in controlling the individual action of Democrats, except to the extent that each member may feel that he ought to be influenced by the expressed opinion of the majority of his associates. Mr. Carlisle then offered tho following resolution, which was adopted—Bß to 57: Reftolred, That, in r rder to reconcile conflicting opinions and secure legislation reducing taxation, a plan for the reduction of taxes at the present session of Congress shall embrace a provision repealing all internal revenue taxes on tobacco, snuff, and cigars, and special taxes connected therewith: and also reducing the tax on brandy distilled from fruit to 10 cents per gallon: Provided, such repeal and resolution shall not be male except in connection with a reduction of tariff duties. The largo vote against considering the Morri.“on tariff bill was the subject of much comment after the adjournment of the caucus. Opponents of the bill assert unhesitatingly that the fifty-seven Democratic votes cast against the caue is leso’ution. together with nearly every solid Republican vote in the Rous--*’, will certainly de eat the bill whenever it co nes up for action.

A Boy Dies from the Effects of a Drunk.

A recent dispatch from Carlinville, DL, says: Thomas Fogarty, a youth 16 years of age, was found lying In an iasensib'e condition in the southern part of the city Sunday morning. Investigation revealed the fact taat be and two ot er boys bad appropriated a jug of whisky belonging to a passenger at the depot and got beastly drunk, He remained in a comatose condition until Co'clock in the evening, when be died. The other boys reached home and were saved.

SPLINTERS.

Jcmbo to be taken to England early In October. K, ‘: <Vyoximo Tbbritobt has but eight organized counties. Col. Framer. of Lexington. Mo., found a nest of forty rattlesnakes, and killed most of them wl.h a club. A gold watch, with a bullet in the back of the case, where It lodzed after gotUA through a llr ■<* s* ~ **i jflitt '■Si HJrlan 1 i Utt UliivT it -vz, tTJiVtiJs VO *» . IX. yit’juii.. tk iv, ot Saginaw, Mich. It saved Ms father’s life during the war. ~ . •In the room of a kloptotnan'ac in London were found over 900 tunbrelLiS.

HAVOC BY THE WINDS.

A Series of Cyclones in Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, and the Carolinxs. Great Loss of Life and Incalculable Damage to Property—lncidents of the Storm. ..In Kentucky. large section of the rich films Grass region of Kentucky was recently visited by a great calamity in the shape pf a cyclotjc, which destroyed some half a dozen villages, killed about twenty people, and inflicted incalculable damage to lurm property. During the afternoon the oppress! e atmosphere and gathering clouds go-, e evidence of au approach ng storm, and a light rain began to fall. This gave way Jjct hail, wh ch ppurod down like shot, aceompaniud..by h'gh winds. Fhr tnttrw tncrcr.°e f in fnry nnt W it formed a Cyclone, whith struck Colemansvil e full on • the southwestern side, and in a few momente. had almost obliterated the town from existence. The inhabitants rushed frantically irom tbi ir houses, which tottered and fell, l arge tre torn i tom their roots were . violently throw n against dwellings, carrying them along.. Entire buildings were carried away, leaving not a vestige behind except thd foundation. Other hol dings were carried a distance of from one hundred yards to n half mile distant. Shattering debris of legs, stones and trees as so much dust. Every one either ran into the street or fought reluge in cellars, and many were injured by falling timbers, which dropped around in all directions. In the midst of the storm a Mrs. A. H. Lail rushed out of tho house with her infant, three weeks old. The storm tore the child from her arms, while she was blown across ti!<> street against a neighbor's house. Fhe was picked up insensible and badly injured, and the baby was found dead 210 yards distant. Seven or eight people were killed atcolemansvllle., and many were badly wounded. No one in -the - village escaped injury. Reaching Monnt Nebo, it destroyed every house and occasioned a great loss of life and property. Stock of all kinds was seen flying through the air. Still onward bound, the storm with greater force next struck Conroy, tearing down every building. This place suffered greatly. Going thence to Antioch, it is now impossible to ascertain whether a towneverstood there ornot. But little idea of the havo; occuaioned by the tornado can be conveyed in a word picture. Some few incidents may, however, serve to convey to the reader an Impression of the power of the storm. Trees we.e torn from the spots where they had grown tz> large proportions from little shrubs, carried a distance of live niiles,nnd then again d.opped to the earth, denuded of their bark and stripped of their limbs. Two boys, who were fishing in the Licking River, took refuge at the mouth of a railway tunnel, and were blown through it to its other opening, a distance of 800 yards. A negro discovered his crunk in - a tree top several hundred yards distant. Babes were blown from their mothers' arms and killed. Those who went to their work in tho morning have not yet returned to I heir families. Two children supposed to have beon lost were next morning found in a cellar and rescued. Bodies of dead perions were found strewn along the roads, immense numhera of cattle and other stock were also slaughtered. At one place a man flying through the air was seen, but he can not now be found. A church was lifted from sight and lias not yet _beenYieaEd-0t..-nie_prganjsras-£oiind jteont five miles distant. Rocks weighing- three tons were tdrrie quite a distance, and the ground was much torn up. Vast quantities o 1 vvater wcreffird'ivn irom SBeYlyer. " A man. sought refuge behind a freightcar; flying debris was seen to ene mpass h tn, and he I can not now be foun I. Tho chimneys and foundations of buildings were carried awav. I lead chickens and she :p were picked up in the adjoining cornty, which were recognized as having been blown from points several miles distant. When the cyclone first appeared it looked like an im-men-e circus tent filled with and being carried along by the wind. After the tornado had finished its work a heavy hail-storm prevailed. Houses, cattle, and all kinds of stock were carried through the air as t iough they were but chaff, and being thrown to the ground dead, or with limbs broken so thiit it was necessary to shoot them in order to relieve their Bufferings. Fragments of destroyed buildings, cooking utensils, etc., were found twelve or fifteen miles from where they wtre blown. At Putnam, Ky., a number of hoius were demolished, several people killed, and a number wounded. John Hartman, a brakeTnan on a freight train, was blown from a freight-car and carried about forty feet, alighting on bis head in a creek, breaking his neck, and causing instantaneous death. In Indiana. Tho village of Fcipio, Ind., near the Ohio liije, was wiped out by a tornado, Only two houses were left Intact. Rev. Joseph W inston was killed. In the region about Shelby- , ville, dwellings were swept away, and out- : houses, fences, hay and straw-etack i scattered all over the farms. Fon-sts were up- ! rooted and destroyed. Near Connersville a 1 cyclone forty rods wide swept everything clean for a distance of two mllles. i In crossing Whitewater River,- the war I ter was lifted in an immense sheet, and the stream left momentar ly dry. A cyclone fifty feet wide swept through Richmond with alarming velocily, tearing all sorts of rubbish wLh it. A Baptist church was wrecked, and several buildings unTowed: “* W Oreenfieia ty? wtMtry twoirrflesiffongwaKdevasistcd, t>arna.-:feffleoß; and hay-etacks being mixed into' an inextricable mass and swept away like chaff. . In Ohio. A clyclone swept through a section of Ohio contiguous to Dayton, at about the. same time the Kentucky storm was performing its work of destruction. The towns of Ridgeville, Shakertown, Centervil o, Spring Valley, aad | South Charleston suffered greatly. Two men '■ were killed at Ridgeville, and another, who i had taken refuge on a covered bridge, was I blown into the stream and drowned. At' I Ripley many houses were unroofed, and farm dwellings, barns and fences were demolished. In North Carolina. A large section of North Carolina was swept by a fierce cyclone, and many people ! killed. At Newton thirty houses were blown down, one woman killed anff fourteen persons wounded. In Lenoir a whole family were killed. At Mecklenburg six residences were leveled an-1 a number of people injured. In Iredell County everything was swept clean in the truck of the ton: ado, trees being carried a distance of two miles. In South Carolina. A fierce cyclone for the third time within a few weeks devastated a large section of South Carolina. In Chester County many dwellings and barns were blown down, and several persons killed and wounded. A 7-year-o d boy was eaught in the storm and has bees miss ng ever since. In Grtenvil e County serious damage was wrought, and two lives were lost.

CHIPS.

Thru cows in Nantucket hare this spring given birth to cal res without eyes. Two entirely white opossums. with dark eyes, were recently found at Hot Springs, Ark. ' . ■ Adolph Stein, 17 years .old, of New York, dressed himself in Ms "mother s ctolhee and hanged himself. - The district meesettsar boys have been ordered to wear clean sdtoes, standing collars, and short hair. There are seventeen candidates for Sheriff In Union County, Oregon.'