Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1884 — Page 3

The * Republican. ~ RENSSELAER, INDIANA. O. E. MARSHALL, - - Pubushhl

A sect is said to liavei been discovered in Rostov, South Russia, who poison children with narcotics. It was founded by a woman who murdered her children in order to relieve them from earthly suffering and prooure for them celestial*'happiness. The Sunday-school, as we now know it, is little over 100 years old. Yet how it has grown | How mighty is the tree > and how wide-spread are the branches! According to a recent and carefully prepared estimate, the number of children and Teachers in the Christian Sun. x. day-scliools throughout the world is 15,000,000. , ~~ -- Philaeelphia Call: A politician whose name has been prominently mentioned in connection with the Presidency was recently asked: “Are you a candidate?” “No,” was the prompt response. “Thank you,” replied the questioner. “I am a delegate to the Chicago Convention, and I do not believe in wasting time voting for men who will not accept the nomination. Good jnora ” “Ah, stop a moment,” said tho prominent politician. “Er—ah —perhaps we might discuss the matter a little further. Will you—er —join me ! in a glass of something ? * Three Scotchman—Dr. Watson, Mr. John Maclaren, and Mr. Robert Mackenzie—were walking over the Reichs bridge, which spans the Danube at Vienna, at a hight df seventy feet, recently, when the two younger men teased Dr. Watson, saying, that his ceurage would fail him had he to jump from the bridge into the river. All at once Dr. Watson mounted the parapet, and, before his friends could hinder him, jumped into the river, which ran at seventy feet below. Despite the coldness of the water and the current f Dr. Watson swam to the shore, where he was taken into custody by the police. Mon cure D. Conway, who, after twenty years’ residence abroad, is coming from London to Washington to live, says to a correspondent of the New York World: “A man with brains, ideas, and ability for effective work can do more real good by using his talents in the UnitetJ States than he can accomplish anywhere else. The Americans can be influenced in favor of right changes. They are disposed to know what they are shown is right. They have no prejudices in favor of existing wrong systems. They are the salt of the modern world. It is almost impossible for any person who well knows America and the Americans to be contented with life anywhere outside of the United States.” ■ ; . ' Western doctors say that some of their medical colleges are so greatly in want of students that the so-called preliminary examinations are a farce. It seems that last autumn a young man, after paying his advance fees to a medical institution, desired to attend another college, and requested that his monkey be returned. This being refused, tho youth determined to display great ignorance at the preliminary examination, and, out of the twenty-five questions put to him, answered but three correctly. Certain of his rejection, he called upon the Dean next day for his, money. He wa3 informed, however, with great affability, that his examination had been entirely satisfactory. The college cashed the claim only pfter a lawsuit threatened. 0

If there was one thing in this country needed more than another it was a qonscratching chicken, and at no season of the year is the necessity for that kind of a chicken so much felt as in the spring when the suburban resident is engaged in laying out his Bxlo vegetable garden. How long the inventive faculty of the American citizen has been engaged in the evolution of a chicken that is guaranteed not to scratch nobody knows. The want was one of those long-felt ones. A Mr. Howard, of Long Island, is the owner of the chicken, and the peculiarity of its construction consists in having one leg shorter than the other. This abbreviation of one leg not only curtails the power of the chicken to scratch, it absolutely prevents it. It only remains now to devise an incubator that will turn out whole broods of this style of chicken. Those who supposed that no good thing could come out of Long Island were mistaken. Oakland (Cal.J Tribune: Gov Stoneman has pardoned a young convict in the State prison who is a son of a distinguished, but deceased ex-Gov-ernor of the State frtSln which the son came several years ago. The father ’ has been dead a few years, bpt the mother is still living and has been begging her qpn to return, unconscious of his incarceration in the penitentiary. He was to proud to allow the family name to be' disgraced and was convicted under a fictitious name, and man-

aged to keep his mother in ignorance of his trouble. When in San Francisco he fell into the hands of designing viL lains, older that himself, and, while dissipated, was led into the commission of the crime. He was ' bnt a boy, and it was regarded as bad* policy to ruin his life by further imprisonment when he had bitterly repented his course anti was anxious to return to his home and lead the life his mother expected him to. '

The Blair educational bill passed by the U. S. Senate appropriates $77,009,000 to be distributed through the various States a. cling to thfe illiteracy, the ability of persons above the age of 10 yehrs to write being made the standard of distribution, and the last census the means of arriving at the estimate. According to this authority there were 6,239,958 persons above the age of 10 years in the country in the year 1880 unable to write. This would distribute the $77,000,000 as follows: Alabama 45,201,000 Missouri «1,49f t 00( Arizona...,,.. 60,000 Nebraska 132,000 Arkansas 2,424,000 Nevada.. 48,000 California.... 604,000 N. Hampshire 160,0 0 Colorado. 120,000 New Jersey... 630,000 Connecticut.. 1 310,000 New Mexico.. 680,0pC Dak0ta....;... ' 50,0J0 New York 2,625,000 Delaware..,.. 252,000 N. Carolina... 5,566,000 Florida. 960.000 Ohio ÜB&fflK G oreia 6,240,000 Orepon 85,000 Illinois. 1,740,000 Pennsylvania. 2,736,000 Indiana....... 1,320,000 Rhode Island. 297,000 lowa 560,000 8. Carolina... 2,428,000 KauFas 479,000 Tennessee.... 4,950,000 Kentucky 4,189,000 Texas 3,800,0 0 Louisiana..... 3,320,000 Utah. 100,000 Maine 264,C00 Vermont 190,000 Maryland 1,680,000 Virginia...... 6,100,D0C Mnssachnsetts 1,114,000 Wash. Ter.... 40,000 Michigan. 764,090 W. Virginia.. 1,000,000 Minnesota 400,009 Wisconsin... 660,000 Missieippi 4,500,000

Chicago Current: The latest French records of crime reveal the suggestive fact that crime has increased in the direct ratio of intelligence, the illiterate classes furnishing five criminals; those who can read furnishing six and the beneficiaries of the higher grade of instruction furnishing fifteen crimnals in an equal number of persons. These figures have been carefully compiled. What i 3 true of France is true in a less degree of England, Germany and our country, where education is widely diffused. The crimes of the highly educated are not so often in the line of murder; the tendency is to robbery under the euphemism of “embezzlement,” “violation of trust,” “short,” etc.; although the intelligent operator is as guilty as any illiterate highway robber or midnight burglar. Unfortunately for the promulgators of the dogma that education purges a country of crime, our own beloved country has vastly increased her criminal lists with the increase oi educational facilities. Of the forty thousand convicts in our penitentiaries, between 60 and 70" per cent, of them can read or write. The story of the boy who took the broken wheelborrow home and asked that it be mended, as his father wanted to borrow it again, is generally supposed to be a fiction, invented to impress upon dull intellects the sublime impudence of some people who borrow. But as sure as truth is stranger than fiction here we have an instance of it that goes the wheelborrow story several points better. A Chicago man, McFarland by name, having a little job of painting, as many people have at this season of the year, borrowed a stepladder from his neighbor, Jnmes Burns. While he was using it the step-ladder gave way and McFarland fell, breaking one of his ribs. Instead of being grateful for the loan of the ladder he brings suit against Burns, charging him with causing the accident by lending an unreliable article, and placing the damage done to his rib at $2,500. This suit, if it proceeds, ought to put the whole question of borrowing on a better understood ground. If Burns kept that kind of a ladder on purpose to lend during house-cleaning time is he legally responsible for limbs broken on it? Will the plea that ha wanted to keep on the right side of a disagreeable neighbor with a penchant for borrowing stand law, or will he have to lie about it. and adopt the didn’t-know-it-was-loaded line of defense in order to escape legal responsibility. In short, is a man bound to keep the beqt there is in the market for lending purposes or else shut up his bowels of compassion against the people who have nothing but what they borrow ?

The Line at a Dog and Boy.

A well-dressed boy occupied a corner ■eat in a Fourth avenue street car. Beside him sat a wide-awakb Skye terrior. The car contained other passengers and was moving slowly up center street The conductor was a brisk man with a ,mild blue eye. “Hello 1” said he, when he got a glimpse of the boy and the dog. “You get out of this.” “What for ?” said the boy. , “’Cause we don’t allow no dogs in these cars.” The boy was disinclined to be separated from his dog, and consequently left this conveyance- A passenger, who had frequently seen women accompanied by dogs riding in the Fourth avenue cars, casually remarked that it seemed unfair to enforce the dog rule against the male and not against the female sex. “ Well,” said the conductor, “my orders are to draw the line at a dog and a boy.”— New York Times. * . r "

A BRILLIANT SPEECH.

Remarks of Congressman John A. Kas* son, Upon Accepting the Chairman* ship of the lowa Republican , Convention. You meet to-day, gentlemen of the convention, for the inauguration in lowa of the Republican campaign of 1884. Let your furrow be deep as yon put the Republican plow of lowa into the national soil, and let your lines be straight, as they always are. and I can promise you a rich and abundant crop this fall in the Republican harvest. Day after day at Washington they are forming the issues of the campaign, and these are now so far formed and presented tO the people that we can already anticipate what the verdict is to be. The people of the United States have learned to trust the Republican party with their most important business interests. They have witnessed the growth of unparalleled prosperity under Republican management. They still look to that party as earnestly as ever before. Nowhere else does the nation look with confidenoe, -—i —■ —:: ; -: —’’ , -:. •" --—~ We have some issues presented to us lying very near the hearts of the people. One of them is now under debate in Congress. There is, underlying the prosperity of this country, the great principle of fostering the interests of home industry as against the interests of foreign nations. We know throughout this country that the great activity and enterprise of the United States owe their wonderful development to our steady adhesion to the principle of protection. That principle gave the promise and secured the fruits of a prosperity unexampled. Here at home is the greatest competition in the manufacture of fabrics used by the people. Everywhere in the United States, under the fostering care of the system of protection to home industry inaugurated by Washington and continued ever since, except during certain intervals of free trade, the country and its wealth have advanced as no nation has done before. But now the fear of an abandonment of this principle is causing onr great industries to tremble for their future. A year ago the tariff was revised and reductions made-much larger than free traders allow. Industry and trade then hoped for a period of rest without further immediate agitation. No sooner had the Democratic House of Representatives assembled, than, in obedience to party dictation, they began to agitate both the capital and the Labor of the country with fears of further losses to the investments of the one and the wages of the other. At this moment the chief cause of depression in business in the United States arises from the alarm and insecurity attending the introduction of this bill now pending in Congress. f Yet the Democracy declare that this is only their first step in their assault upon the industries of the country. They are to follow it with successive blows toward the establishment of free trade. In a word, they are attempting to again inaugurate the policy so fatally adopted in 1883. Many men who are now before me remember well the consequences of that experience. In 1837 the evil culminated in a crisis, and every business interest in the country went tumbling into bankruptcy and ruin. Can you wonder that we now stand shoulder to shoulder against such a system, and thafZweL would arouse the people in the presence of this peril which threatens their prosperity? But the Democracy is not (inly reckless of the business interests of the country. They are equally reckless of the duties of patriotism. In their devotion to the most violent principles of parties and politics pur adversaries have forgotten the very principle itself of American patriotism. They have lost the habit of regarding the right and left arms of our national security and defense. They hardly regard them worthy of recognition. They have refused, year after year, the proper support due to the army and navy. What a change from the past! I see scarcely a man before me who cannot remember the time when no national celebration by either party was complete without a toast to the honor of the army and navy of the United States. Your Demoemtie nnd free trade clubs now meet year after year without a word of gratitude to the army and without a syllable of regard to the navy. We stand to-day powerless before the guns of the other nations of the world. We have not a ship that can resist the power of even Chili and Peru. We have rights to maintain and wrongs to redress with the Governments of South America as well as those of Europe. Both native and naturalized citizens of ours have been outraged. Our records show it. And yet the Democracy refuse the means demanded by the executive Government to maintain onr rights and redress our wrongs. There was a time in the history of this country when our statesmen were ready to speak in terms of praise of onr navy. That magnificent orator and statesman, Daniel Webster, said, not so many years ago as to be forgotten: “We have a commerce that leaves no sea unexplored, a navy that takes no law from superior forces.” The Republican party to-day demands tbe restoration of that condition for our country. The Republican party has also demanded legislation for the benefit of our agricultural interests, for defense against cattle diseases, and for the protection of our export trade in meat products At gainst the efforts of foreign governments for their exclusion: and for the establishment of a Bureau of Animal Industry, all for the benefit of Qur farming interests. We advocate it. The Democracy raises against us the cry of State rights and the doctrine of the resolutions of 1798, and by a large majority of their party attempt to thwart our efforts. But we continue the But, gentlemen, there is not time now for me to speak of all the measures before Congress and the country. There are other questions we have to consider to-day. Using a figure of speech, lowa is one of the fairest daughters of the Union. Are you surprised that there are several suitors for her hand this year? The boys are gathering abont her and looking upon her fair face. She is hard to suit; she likes them all prettywell. James seems to have caught her eye more than any of the others. But I notice that the fair and honest girl looks a little lingeringly into some of the other faces. She looks up to Chester, and says: “You are a noble fellow. I remember the difficulties under which yon came into the place which you now occupy, when all was discord and confusion. You have reunited the Republican party, closed the mouths of its opponents, sad given ns a pure and successful administration, and yon have made Republican success possible year. I have a prior attachment, eight years old.” I have a little weakness for the nnder dog in the lowa fight, and I can’t help telling yOu here, where it won’t do a bit of good, that Gen. Arthur has wonderfully met the demands of the Republican party and redeemed all of his promises. I will take the liberty to say this much to you, although lowa has an earlier attachment: Justice demands it. Then there is Mr. Edmunds, qf Vermont, whom I have known fpr many years. His ability and eminent judgment can safely be trusted. There is also that darling of many of lowa’s soldiers, John A. Logan, and if lowa can, lowa will give him a hearty vote. Then, if all these more prominent lights and geniuses get into conflict and cannot agree, I nee this lovefy Miss

lowa looking out of the northwest eoi..er ot her eye at the son of one Abraham Lincoln, whom her mother ioved all over. And so I think, while I will honestly declare the choice of lowa when I get back to Washingdon, that I may also E say that lowa Republicans love principles more than men, and will fight for the nominees of the Republican convention by a great majority.

The Democratic Tariff Fiasco.

Probably no great political party, controlling by an enormous majority the popular branch of the National Assembly, on the eve of contesting the possession of the Government, ever made so humiliating a confession of imbecility as the Democratic party has made in striking out the enacting clause of the Morrison tariff bill and abandoning the whole project of war-tax reduction., * This action would hive been startling enough if it had been taken early in the session, thus frankly acknowledging the irrepressible dissension in the party. But the revenue reformers made a struggle to keep faith with the country. They won a victory at the outset by electing Carlisle as Speaker. Morrison and* his associates in the Ways and Means Committee have been steadfast to the cause of tariff reduction, and they have acted with moderation. The proposed legislation has been discussed elaborately. It received the approval of the revenue reformers as a step in the right direction. The protectionists could not have expected a more reasonable bill if any measure of tariff reduction were to be proposed. The taxes are abstracting from the people 100 millions; a year more than Congress knows what to do with. To continue bleeding the people in this way is admitted to be sheer robbery, and wholly inexcusable. The Democrats the day the vote was taken had a clear party majority of eighty over the Republicans in the House. The latter opposed the bill for partisan reasons, just as the Democrats opposed the Republican revision bill of the previous session. But the Republicans, with a very narrow majority, acted together and passed their bill, which has resulted in material relief. The Democrats with their enormous majority have gone to pieces. They have confessed to the country that they are incapable of agreeing among themselves, and that no legislation whatever is to be expected from them on questions of the utmost financial importance to the people. The Democratic fiasco is not to be attributed to any differences as to details. The party has split upon the principle involved—upon the simple question of any reduction. The bill was not defeated because a reduction was proposed on the horizontal plan; any other scheme of reduction would have been similarly defeated by the protection Democrats. Proof of this is to be found in the fact that six years ago, when!the Demcrats were in control of the House by an immense majority, Col. Morrison, then as now Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, -proposed a bill to reduce the tariff by means of a general revision, taking more off some articles and less off others, and that measure met the same fate as his “horizontal” measure session. The protection Democrats denounced his bill then for exactly the opposite objections raised against his present bill. It was said six years ago that his bill favored some commodities more than others; that it took too much tax off one article and not enough oft' another; and that the fair and equitable policy was to treat all interests alike. This winter he brought in a bill on that very plan, and it met the severest Democratic resistance for the very reason that it was framed on the lines of equity and treating all alike. The fact is that the Democratic party, with an overwhelming majority in Congress, is not prepared to reduce tariff taxes by a horizontal cut of the tariff, nor by any revision thereof, nor by any other method of reducing the war tariff. It has made an open confession that its pretenses have been false, and that it has no policy upon which the country aen place its trust. —Chicago Tribune .

. The great opportunity of the Republican party lies in winning the support of this reform and independent element. With that support, success is fissured. Without it, success is not merely uncertain, it is altogether improbable, and nothing but fatuous blundering on tbe part of the Democratic party will make it possible. This aspect of the situation ought to be thoroughly impressed upon the minds of the delegates who are to gather at Chicago within a month. Some of them may not like to recognize it, but it is a stubborn fact which must be taken into their calculations if they propose to act with a view to party success. Neither of the two men who will go into the convention with the largest number of delegates favorable to their nomination can bring to the party the support of this e’ement which is so essential to success. To nominate either of them would be to invite defeat. —New York Times. The fact is that the Democratic party is desperately endeavoring these days to have its cake and eat it, to run with the hare and halt with the hounds, so far as the tariff is concerned. In the same breath it solemnly drclares that it will never condone protection, but is not to be understood as standing for free trade. Just as soon, however, as an attempt is made to induce .it to formulate its distinct and positive tariff convictions, it shuts its mouth and declines to be interviewed. Apart from all other considerations, the exhibition it is making, of itself pn the tariff issue ought to secure the defeat of the Democratic party in November.—New York Tribune* In a few months the Democracy has completely Undermined itself, and. at the opening of a Presidential campaign they were bold to claim they would win four months ago. The Democratic party has within the last few months been stripped of every assumption, bared of every pretension or protestation in favor of reform, even according to its own peculiar notions of reform, and stands on the verge of the 9 Presidential election naked, without an issue, and hungry--hungry for office.— Kansas City Journal.

TWO BUSY LIVES ENDED.

Death /of Cyrus H. McCormick, the Well-Known Reaper Manufacturer. Charles O’ Conor, the Celebrated Lair- * yer, Joins the Silent Majority. "i? ' Cyrn» H. McCormick. Cyrus Hall McCormick, the well-known millionaire and inventor, and proprietor of the famous McCormick reaper, died at his home in Chicago on the 13th of May. Cyrus H. McCormick was bom in Rockbridge County, Va., Feb. 15, 1809, and was consequently 75 years old. His parents were of Bcotch-Irish descent, and he inherited from bis father an inventive turn of mind that did him great service while he was yet a young man. Bom on a farm, he early saw that agriculture was not keeping pace with mechanics and manufactures in inventions for the relief of labor, and when 15 years old he began his inventions for the improvement of farm work by constructing a “ cradle,” which he used in the harvest field with success. His father had previously invented a reaper, but, failing to attain Hie success hoped for, it was laid aside. The son observed the defects and patiently went to work to reifiedy them. In 1831 be achieved his aim and gave to the world the first practical reaping machine. He built it with his own hand, and tested it in the harvest field. Although successful in his attempt, he did not at once embark in the manufacture, bnt kept adding improvements from time to time. Afyput this period he became interested in the smelting of iron, and engaged in that business until reverses earne upon him, and he removed to Cincinnati in 1844, where he made arrangements to manufacture < the reaper. Two years later, discovering Chicago to be a better field for the establishment of such a business, he at once began the work. In 1848 he made and sold 700 machines, in the following year 1,500; since then the annual sales have regularly and rapidly increased until pdw not less than 50,600 are sold every year. The Hon. Reverdy Johnson, in an argument before the Commissioner of Patents in 1859, said that the McCormick reaper had already contributed an annual income to the whole country of $55,000,000, which must increase through all time. The world at large has not been slow to honor Mr. McCormick for what he has done for agriculture. Medals and decorations have been bestowed on him by the crowned heads of Europe, and at every international world’s fair ever held he was awarded superior honors for his inventions. He was the founder of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of the Northwest, and at its inception bestowed SIOO,OOO to endow a professorship in it, and from time to time, occasion required, he increased his donations, so that they more than tripled the original gift. Recently he learned that the seminary required enlargement and houses for the professors, and gave SIOO,000 for the purpose. Ho gave to the Washington and Lee College, of Virginia, and few bnt himself know hoy? many struggling churches, colleges, and schools are indebted to his generosity for means of maintenance. In view of his beneficence, and the worldwide reputation of his reaping-machine, perhaps no other name is more widely known than that of C. H. McCormick. Mr. McCormick was an active politician, and stood high in the councils of the Democratic party, to which he adhered. In 1872 he bought the Interior, the organ of the Presbyterian Church in the West, and has retained the ownership ever since. The value of the estate left by the deceased is estimated in the neighborhood of $20,000,000. Whatever the exact figures, he was one of the wealthiest —if not the wealthiest —men in Chicago.

Charles O'Conor. The great jurist, Charles O’Conor, died in Nantucket, Mass., on the 12th of May, after a protracted illness. For more than a week he had taken no nourishment whatever. His mind was clear to the last His dying words were simply “My God.” Mr. O’Conor was born of Insh parents in New York City. His father came to this country near the beginning of the century, shortly before the birth of the son, and was then in possession of much wealth. This he subsequently lost, and a consequence was that the son received a comparatively limited education. In addition to the ordinary branches of the primary schools, he obtained some instruction in Latin from his father, and also in French. In 1824 he was admitted to the bar, and almost at once entered upon a large, successful, profitable, and distinguished practice. The defects of education he overcame by a life of study. Hje devoted himself exclusively to the law, and during his fifty years of professional life resisted every appeal and inducement to engage in politics. For many years he was confessedly at the: head of the American bar. As early as 1829 he had taken distinguished rank as a lawyer in the New York courts. Since then he had been conspicuous before the country for his ability. Eleven years ago he volunteered his services, in the interest of public morals, to prosecute the municipal officers of New York City an'd county, accused with Tweed in conspiring to plunder the public. His services were all the more valuable in this instance because the influence of his personal and professional character was almost irresistible. The only official position he ever held was the office of Unjted States District Attorney of New York; this place he accepted at the personal request of President Pierce, but resigned it after a year’s service. He was a member of the” 1 conventions which framed the Constitutions of New York in 1846 and in 1864. He was an able constitutional lawyer. Mr. O’Conor was an intense Democrat on all questions of constitutional interpretation. The doctrine of State sovereignty and State rights was often and abjy discussed by him. In* 1872 he was nominated for President by the antiGreeley Democrats, who held a convention in Louisville, and also by the Labor Reform Convention, which met in Philadelphia, bnt peremptorily declined to be a candidate under any circumstances. His ambition was confined solely to his profession, where he was eminently successful.

CHIPS.

U. 8. Grant, Ja, held 5,000 sliares of Keely motor stock. English shooting cj,ubs have killed 897,000 pigeons in the last five years. The Czar, the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria-Hungary, and other sovereigns and leading statesmen will meet at Nice this summer. Joseph Cook has a relic of the Cincinnati riot in the form of a- penholder made from a piece of a telegraph pole that was shattered by bullets. John L. -Sullivan, the pugilist, has been giving his views on men and things. He says that the West has motp “suckers,” while in the East few people drink from a j««- ' i '‘ "W Six distilleries of Durham, Conn., are making extract of witch-hazeL

TARIFF LEGISLATION.

The Provisions of Mr. Hewitt’s New Revenue Bill. Representative Hewitt’s tariff bill, introduced in Congress on the 12th inst, it framed on a different principle from the beheaded Morrison measure, though it contains many of the features of the latter, besides many others. It is entitled “ A bill to modify existing laws relating to duties on imports and internal-revenue taxes and to enlarge the free list.” Extensive additions to the free list are proposed. The bill, after making modifications to simplify the administration of the custom taws, provides that after tho 30th of June, 1864, the internal-revenue tax on brandy distilled exclusively from apples, peaches, and grapes shall be 10 cento on each proof gallon or wine gallon when below proof. After Jan. 1,1885, no article mentioned in Schedule I (cotton and cotton goods) shall pay a higher rate of duty than 40 per Cent, ad valorem; in Schedule J (hemp, jute, and flax) than 30 per cent; l in Schedule M (wool and woolens) than 70 per cent; and carpets and carpeting shall not pay a higher rate than 35 per cent ad valorem; and in schedules B ana 0 (earthenware and glassware, and metals) than 50 per cent On all articles, except those specifically excepted, mentioned in Schedule A (chemicals), D (wood), G (provisions), M (books), N (sundries other than precious stones), and E (sugar) there shall be levied 90 per cent, of duties now imposed. On the articles in Schedule F (tobacco) there shall be levied 80 per cent of the duties now imposed. On still wines in casks the duty shall be 40 cents a gallon. It repeals tha clause of tho law' pf 1883 which imposes a tax of B-10 of n cent per pound on iron or steel rivet, screw, nail, and fence wire rods, round, in coils and loops, valued at 3J cents or less per pound, and authorizes tho Secretary of the Treasury to refund to any manufacturer of fence-wire or wire-baling ties the amount of dnties which may have been paid on imported iron or steel wire-rods actually used in the manufacture of fence and b&lingties. The fallowing articles are put on the freo list: Salt, in bags, sacks, barrels, (m other packages, or in bulk; coal, slack or culm; coke; coal, bilominons or shale, provided this shall not apply to coal imported from Canada until that Government shall have exempted from the payment of duty all coal imported into that country from the United States; timber, hewn and sawed, and timber used for spars and in building wharves; timber, squared or sided, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act; sawed boards, plank, deals, and other lumber of hemlock, white wood, sycamore, and basswood, and all other articles of sawed lumber; hubs for wheels, posts, last-blocks, wagon-blocks, ore-blocks, gunblocks, heading-blocks, and all like blocks or sticks rongh hewn or sawed only; staves of wood of all kinds; pickets and palings; laths; shingles; fine clapboards;spruce clapboards; wood,unmanufactured, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act; iron ore, including manganiferous iron ore; the dross or residuum from burnt pyrites and sulphur ore and iron pyrites; copper imported in the form of ores; lead ore and lead dross; nickel in ore, matter; chromate of iron, or chromic ore; bay; chicory root, ground or underground, burnt or prepared; acorns and dandelion root, raw or prepared, and all other articles used or intended to be used as coffee or as substitutes therefor, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act; jute, jute-butts, .flax-straw, flax not hackled ot dressed, tow of flax or hemp, hemp, manila, and other like substitutes for hemp not specially enumerated or provided for; sunn, sisal grass, and other vegetable substances not specially enumerated or provided for; bristles; beeswax; Bme; glycerine, crude; extract of hemlock and other bark used for tanning not otherwise enumerated or provided for in this act; indigo, extract of, and carmined; tartars, partly refined, including Lee’s crystals; cement, Roman, Portland, and all others; whiting and Paris white, dry; nitrate of potash or saltpeter; wood tar; coal tar, erode; coal tar, products of, snehae naphtha, benzine, benzole, dead oil, and pitch; all preparations of coal tar, not colors or dye, not especially enumerated or provided for in this act; ochre and ochrjr earths, timber and umber earths, and siennA and sienna earths; all earths or clays unwiought or unmanufactured not specially enumerated or provided for in this act; all barks, beans, berries, balsams, buds, bulbs, and bnlbons roots and excrescences, such as nutgalls, fruits, flowers, dried Abets, pains, gums, and gum resins, herbs, braves, lichens, mosses, nuts, roots, and stems, spices vegetables, seeds (aromatic, not garden seeds,) and seeds of morbid growth, weeds, woods used expressly for dyeing, and dried insects, any of the foregoing of which have been advanced in value or condition by refining or grinding or other process of manufacture, and not specially enumerated or provided for in this act; iron or steel sheets or plates, or taggers-iron coated with tin or lead*, or with a mixture of which these metals are a component port, by dipping or any otli<^process, and commercially known as plates, teme plates, and tag-gers-in; wools of the third class, commonly known as carpet wools; asphaltum; living animals ;coppcras, or sulphate of iron; microscopes imported by physicians for professional use, nnd not for sale; copper in ingots, old copper, regains of oopper; goatskins; rags; books in foreign languages, and professional books not published in the United States, imported iu single copies, for use and not for sale; crada borax, refined borax, and boracic acid; grindstones in the rough; stones, unmanufactured or undressed, freestones, granite, sandstone, and all building or monmental stone, except marble not specially enumerated or provided for; paintings in oil and and water colors and statuary, not otherwise provided for; osier or willow prepared for basket-makers’ use; waste and all raw and unmanufactured material not specially provided for by the existing law. Sec. 8 abolishes all fees, and the oaths required by existing laws relating to the entry of goods are abolished, and it is prowhere such fees constitute all or part of the compensation of any such officer the latter shall receive iiilicn thereof a fixed salary. It is further provided that the Secretary of the Treasury shall grant permission to any firm or corporation to withdraw from bond alcohol or any spirits containing alcohol, subject to the internal revenue tax, in specific quantities, of net less than 300 proof gallons, without payment ot Internal revenue tax on same or on the spirits from which it may have been distilled, for the sole purpose of use iu indnstrial onrsuits.

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A Georgia paper extols “the natural, advantages” of the Fort Gainee Cemetery. It costas dollar in Milwaukee to say that a man is “personally a very line fellow, but scoundrel.” The rote was fixed by a justice in a slander snik y . Mosquitoes me so thick in New Orleans just now that the people are literally living within mosquito-bar tents, and have them over their dining tables as well as beds. JPapeb is now used in Gennaay instead of wood in the manufacture of lead ponoila. -A. " > ■-