Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1884 — Page 2

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THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. WHDUB going to church at Erie, Pa., Adam Brabender, President of the wrecked Erie County Savings Bank, was arrested on the charge of having embezzled the funds of the institution, $150,000, and was committed in default of SIOO,OOO bail.... The millinery house of S. & J. Sommerich, of New York, has failed for $90,000. The paper of J. de Riviera & Co., sugar-dealers in the same city, has gone to protest, but they claim that with $1,000,000 in goods on hand they will soon be able to resume.... The Toronto champion lacrosse team defeated the Americans, just returned from Europe, at New York. — ——— A TORE broke out in a bakery at Bradford, Pa. Mrs. Reibley and her two children and a Swedish servant girl perished in the flames. A gentleman named Clark, of Denver, Colo., made a heroic attempt to rescue Mrs. Reibley. Two women were badly injured in leaping from the burning building. The dry goods firm of Halstead, Haines & Co., of New York, made'an assignment with preferences of $417,000. Liabilitiw are estimated at from $1,000,000 to $2,000,* 000. The failures are also announced of John W. McFarland, an iron manufacturer of Alliance, Ohio, and J. M. Hamburger, a picture dealer of New York.... The weekly statement of the New York banks shows a gain of $7,550,900 in reserve, bringing their surplus above the legal requirement by $23,861,500, the largest amount of idle money for years... .Prof. Packard, acting President of Bowdoin College. died suddenly.. . The damage by fire at warn & Co.’s furniture factory, Williamsburg, N. Y., is estimated at $300,000.

THE WEST.

Robert S. Ayers, agent of the Southern Kansas Railroad Company at Garnett, Kas., also agent for the Wells-Fargo Express Company at that place, has been prosecuted several times for delivering packages containing liquor to parties in Garnett and vicinity. The packages were sent from Kansas City, and the agent was not presumed to know what they contained. He has been fined SSO in each case. In consequence of the prosecutions, several express companies have withdrawn their agencies from G-arnett and other Kansas towns. Twelve acres in the Toledo (Ohio) lumber district were burned over, the property destroyed belonging to the Mitchell <t Rowland Lumber Company, in whose yard the fire started; Nelson, Holland & Co., and J. B. Kelly. The loss js $365,000, and the insurance about $340,000 The police of Milwaukee havp arrested a man carrying on his person SIO,OOO worth of diamonds, on which he was endeavoring to obtain advances from pawnbrokers.... W. S. Jackson, a Colorado Springs banker, has been appointed receiver for the Denver and Rio Grande Railway. W. R. McGill, President of the Cincinnati and Eastern Railroad, recently lost his life by a fall from the door of a baggagecar on the trestle-work near Winchestej, Ohio. It is now learned that he had been securing money on forged notes, the amount involved being about $30,000, and the conviction grows that he committed suicide.... Four farmers from Macedonia, lowa, appeared in Council Bluffs, with search warrants issued by a Justice of the Peace, and demanded bottles of liquor, enforcing it with drawn revolvers. They were soon arrested for carrying concealed weapons, and were threatened with tar and feathers.... Joseph Smith, son of the “prophet,” and two others from Utah, are at Richmond, Mo., comparing the Mormon Bible with the original manuscript from the plates alleged to have been given by an angel to Smith, Sr., but the reasons for the comparison have not been made public.... Maud S., while exercising at Cleveland, trotted a mile in 2.122. “Billy” and “Charley” Hamilton were hanged at Warrensburg, Mo., for the murder of Carl Steible, a German A sanitary circular, urging that precautions be taken to prevent and counteract the inroads of cholera and suggesting the cleansing of streets, alleys, ete., has been issued by the Illinois State Board of Health to cities, towns,and villages... .Everett & Weddell, private bankers at Cleveland, made an assignment Their assets are reported to greatly exceed their liabilities, which amount to $1,000,000, and it is expected that the suspension will be only temporary. The Cincinnati Coroner has just returned a verdict on account of the deaths in the riots there some months ago. He finds that the rioters were killed by the officers of the law in the discharge of their duty in preserving the peace, which is anything but satisfactory to the Germans. A REW by play George R. Shewell, entitled “Shadows of a Great City,” was produced at McVicker’s Theater, Chicago, this week, for the first time on any stage; and scored an immediate success. It is under the management of Joe Jefferson’s sons. The scene is laid in New York, the first act giving the audience a view of a pawnbroker’s shop in Catherine Market. The second is laid at Blackwell’s Island; the third and fourth on the Haijlem Biver; and the last scene is a banker’s mansion. The play is highly melodramatic, and the company presenting it is a very strong one. ' ' .

THE SOUTH.

Tk a quarrel on a street corner in Baltimore, a sporting character named William McGowan was shot dead by Gus Slater, a nephew of the most prominent gambler in the city- McGowan last year killed Owen Gorter on the same spot The first monument to a woman raised in the United States was unveiled at New Orleans, in memory of Margaret Haugheiy, known as the Orphans' Friend, whose benevolence was extended to all worthy calls for assistance. THE Louisiana Board of Health has instructed quarantine officers to detain all vessels coming from Toulon, Marseilles, or other cholera-infected ports... .Paul Morphy, the world-renowned chess-player, died in New Orleans. THhee men were executed at Fort Smith, Ark., for murders committed in Indian Territory. A DUEL was fought at Lozier Station, Texas, on the Southern Pacific Bailway, at thirty paces, between Lieut. Cunningham, commander of the Seminole Scouts, and a railroader named Daly. The weapons used were pistols. Three shots were fired, resulting in the wounding of Cunningham in

the leg. When it became known in the camp that the officer had been wounded, several Seminoles armed themselves, and sought to assassinate Daly, but were restrained by Cunningham. The encounter is said to have resulted from a drinking bofit.... W. H. Beale and a man named Bowie fought a duel to the death at Dallas, Texas. They were close friends before the fight, and no cause can be found for the quarrel... jSeyen stores on Market street, Chattanooga, valued at $50,000, were swept away by fire.

WASHINGTON.

The pension appropriation bill provided for 150 additional special examiners in connection with the Pension Department, The places will be filled by competitive examination. Twenty-five additional appointments in the Patent-Office will also be filled in accordance with the civil-service rules. |; At the solicitation of some of the leading trade and industrial organizations of the country the Secretary of State last winter directed the preparation of a circular letter with a view to securing through Consular officers the fullest obtainable information concerning the condition of labor throughout the world, and especially in Europe. Very full returns have been received from Consuls everywhere, and are now in process of preparation in the Bureau of Statistics of the State Department for the press. The material embodies information relating not only to the rates of wages paid to all classes of laborers but to the prices paid for the necessaries of life, clothing, rent, food, etc., not only from the American standpoint as to what the necessaries of life comprise, but the actual nature and quality of the articles consumed... .Within the limits of Washington a Chicago express train collided with a local passenger train, and several persons were killed.

POLITICAL.

A dispatch from Albany, N. Y., tells how Gov. Cleveland received the news of his nomination by the Democratic convention; The first intimation the Governor received of his nomination was when, sitting in his private room off the executive chamber, in the Capitol, hard at work on routine executive business, hi heard the boom of a cannon, the reverberations of which echoed back from the hills opposite the stately edifice. >The Governor had come to the Capitol at the customary hour, and examined a number of papers requiring his early action. He remained quietly at work until half-past 12 O’clock. There were less than the customary number of chance callers, and nothing occurred to disturb the ordinary routine of the day. At about half-past 12 o’clock Gov. Cleveland, with Adjt. Gen. Farnsworth, retired to the Governor’s private room in rearo’f the Executive chamber, to consider some mat ers concerning the State camp. They were hard at work and apparently oblivious of the fact that a National Democratic Convention was in progress at Chicago. Every other moment a' blue-coated messenger interrupted the dbcussions by a bulletin of s, the voting at Chidago, received from the Assembly, telegraph office. When the announcement of Pennsylvania’s change was made a few friends of the Governor, who had by this time dropped into the office, applauded vigorously. Soon after came the formal announcement of the first ballot. Still the Adjutant General continued calling off the figures from the proof in his hand without watching to see if the Governor made Che Corrections. At about 1:45 Gen. Farnsworth with the soldier’s instinct, first heard the cannon shot. He held up his band and said, “Listen D They turned, and then came another roar from the brass “baby waker" that the Young Men's Democratic Club had stationed at the foot . of State street. Gen. Farnsworth promptly jumped to his feet and f aid: They are _firing a salute. Governor, over your nomination.” “That’s what it is,” said Col. Lamont. “Do you think so?” said the Governor. "Well, anyhow, we'll finish up this work," and at it they went again. If any doubt remained as to what the booming of emnon meant, it was soon dispelled by a telephone call, which said: “Tell the Governor he has been nominated on the second ballot." Col Lamont, the private secretary of the Governor, conveyed the news. The Governor smiled. He did not seem to beat all nervous or excited. Handshaking followed, and then the Governor said, suddenly: “Lam Ont I wish you would teleShone that to the mansion. Sisters will want to ear it." The Colonel did so.

GENERAL.

The National Sons of' Temperance of America held their convention at Halifax, N. 8., last week. An increased membership was reported... .The Baltimore and Ohio Company has purchased the Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Toledo Road, and will honor the paper indorsed by Commodore Garrison and the Andrews brothers. Bowdoin College, of Brunswick, Me., held its annual commencement exercises last week. Among others, the degree Doctor of Laws was conferred upon ex-Secre-tary Blaine, who attended the exercises, and addressed the alumi at the annual dinner. In the National Base-Ball League contest the Bostons lead with 40 games won; the Providence has now 38, New York 34. Buffalo 27, Chicago 26, Cleveland 21, Philadelphia 18, and Detroit 13. In the Union Association St. Louis has now 36 games, Boston 26, Chicago 25, Baltimore 23, Cincinnati 21, Philadelphia 15, Washington 14, and Kansas City 3. In the Northwestern League the Grand Rapids and Quincy have won 36 games each, Bay City 34, Peoria 31, Saginaw 30, Milwaukee 23, and Minneapolis and Muskegon 19 each. London dispatch: “The cholera plague at Toulon and Marseilles appears to be extending. The number of deaths at the former place Monday was ten and at the latter fourteen. The people of both cities are tearing, and it is feared they will spread the plague. Eoreigners now arriving in London are subjected to medical examination. Persons infected are taken to the hospital. These precautions are taken to prevent the entrance of the cholera in the city.”

FOREIGN.

The Swiss Republic protests against the quarantine in Italy, which is enforced equally against the Swiss and people of other nationalities. A letter from a Chinese official to a wealthy and influential Chinaman at San Francisco announces that the Pekin Government has determined to combat the French, at the same time ordering a tax to be levied on all Chinamen living in the United States. A secret treaty is also said to exist between Germany and China whereby the former will support the latter in a war with France. Mr. Andrew Carnegie, the Pittsburgh millionaire, has quarreled with his English partner, Mr. Samuel Storey, M. P., over the management of their half a dozen halfpenny newspapers. Carnegie furnished the money and Storey the brains for the journalistic enterprises. Storey was making the papers too radical. Hence the quarrel. ... At Whitehaven, England, Irish Nationalists made an attack on an Orange procession. Shots were exchanged, and several persons seriously injured. A telegraph boy was killed... .The Gladstone party refuses to accept the compromise offered by the Tory Peers through Lord Wemyss on the franchise bill. This probably ends the negotiations for the present.... China continues to maintain her bluster in

the dispute with France, and the latter is reported as firm and determined. A week VjiH settle the question of whether it will end in war or peace. England, it is reported, is inciting China to fight,...A train conveying the Emperor of Austria found the rails misplaced at a gorge near Podgoritea, evidently with murderous intent. . . . The British Government has information that Osman Digma has seized the port of Asia, six miles from Suakim.. J .The cholera epidemic at Marseilles is spreading. The people are fleeing from the city in large nunfbers. The railway stations are crowded with people trying to secure passenger tickets.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

To a reporter at Lockport, N. Y., Gen. Butler said he did not like the Democratic nominees, but he would take no definite action until he had read the letters of acceptance of all the candidates. The Mark Lane Express, in its weekly review of the British grain trade, says: “Trade in foreign wheat very dull. The market is decidedly weaker, especially for American, the supply being excessive. A dispatch from Starkville, Miss., says that in October, 1882, B. J. Bffiffih’s two boys, aged 12 and 14 It now turns out that a negro &phed Newton Carpenter, living with Parishatthe time, poisoned water which the hoys drank. Newton confided the matter to a negro woman who a few days ago told Parish. Carpenter was arrested and said he got the poison from a negro doctor, Ned Macks, a notoriously bad character. Macks was also arrested. A posse of half a dozen men had them in charge, when the prisoners were seized by a disguised mob and hanged.... A masked mob took Dick Jones, a negro, from jail at Owensboro, Ky., and hanged him. The jailer fired on the party, killing one man, and fatally wounding another. The mob then shot the jailer, who died soon after. After damage of $50,000 had been done by fire at the mission of San Jose, in California, the old church was saved by the use of claret wine as an extinguisher. .7. .D. B. Buford & Co., of the Rock Island (Ill.) Plow Works, have made an assignment. The liabilities are $500,000, while the assets are placed at SBOO,OOO Burgert & Hart, wholesale boots and shoes, at Toledo, Ohio, have made an assignment, with liabilities of SIOO,OOO. It is understood that a successor to Judge Drummond will not be appointed until December, when Congress meets. PostmasterGeneral Gresham will then be appointed almost without a doubt. In the meantime business in the United States Circuit Court •will be seriously delayed. Another reason is urged for the acquisition of Cuba by the United States. It would add to the sanitary safety of the nation. We are constantly threatened with the importation of yellow fever from Havana. If that city were controlled by Americans it is urged that it would be a most healthy city, and the contagion-breeding menace would be removed. The horse Sour Mash was driven twenty miles in 77:35 in Hampdpn Park, at Springfield, Mass... .The Court of Errors of New Jersey has released two printers of Deckertown who were sentenced to long terms., in State prison for criminal libel perpetrated by their, employer.... A dispatch from Parker, Pa., says seven men were buried by an embankment caving in. Frank Gleason and Michael Miscabrough were killed, and Bernhard Singer, William Piper, Charles Allick, William Kenturach, and John Schalk injured. Singer and Piper are hurt internally, and will probably die.

The value of the total imports of. merchandise of the United States, exclusive of specie and bullion, for the calendar year 1883, amounted to $687,077,666, against $752,843,507 for the previous year, showing a decrease for 1883 of $65,768,841. The value of the total exports, domestic and foreign, exclusive of specie and bullion, for the year 1883, amounted to $795,175,701, against $767,781,946 for the previous year,, showing an increase for 1883’of $27,193,755. The value of the total imports of specie and bullion for the year 1883 amounted to $36,209,318, against $22,500,913 for the year previous, an increase for 1883 of $13,708,4 05. The value of the total exports of specie and bullion for the year 1883 amounted to $31,843,440, against $56,038,134 for the year previous, a -decrease for 1883 of $24,194,694. The total foreign trade of the United States, imports and exports, exclusive of specie and bullion, was, for the calendar year 1883, $1,482,250,367, against $1,520,825,453 for the previous year, a decrease for 1883 of $38,575,086.

THE MARKET.

NEW YORK. Beevess 7.00 @ 8.00 Hogs 5.25 @ 5.75 Flour—Extra. 5.00 @ 6.25 Wheat—Na 2 Chicago. 92 @ .93 Na 2 Red Corn—No. 260 @ .62 Oats—White...3B @ .44 PORK—Mess. 15.25 @15.75 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers. 6.75 @7.25 Fair to Good 5.25 @6.00 Butchers’ 5.00 0 5.50 Hogs 5.25 @5.75 Floub—Fancy White Winter Ex 5.25 @ 5.75 Good to Choice Spring... 4.50 @ 5.25 Wheat—Na 2 Sorins’ .80 @ .81 & No. 2 Red Winter. .87 @ .90 Corn—No. 251 @ .53 Oats—No. 2.....*. .29 @ .30 Rye-No. 2....t.\60 @ .62 Barley—Na 2....60 @ .62 Butter—Choice Creamery 17 @ .18& Fine Dairy.l3 @ .15 CHBESE—FuII Cream.oß & .09 Skimmed Flat .03 @ .04 Eggs—Fresh...ls @ .16 Potatoes—New, per brl 2.00 @ 2.50 Pork—Mess 22.25 @22.75 LarD... 07 @ .0714 TOLEDO. Wheat—Na 2 Red .86 @ .87M Corn—No. 2 m @ .55 Oats—Na 232 & .34 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—Na 280 @ .81 Cobn—Na 247 @ .48 Oats—No. 2...32 @ .33 BARLEY—No. 2.54 @ .56 POBK—Mess 16.25 @16.75 LABD.... 7.00 @ 7.50 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 84 @ .85 Cobn—Mixed. .45 @ .46M Oats—Na 2 .26 @ .27 Rye.... .55 @ POBXr—Mess..... 16.00 @16.50 CINCINNATI Wheat—Na 2 Red .90 @ 91 COBN .53 @ .55 Oats—Mixed..34 @ .35 Pork—Mess 16.00 @16.50 Lard.o7 @ .07)4 DETROIT. Floub «.oo 9 6.50 Wheat—Na 1 White....... 1.01 @ 1.02 Corn—Mixed. l .53 @ .55 Oats—No. 2 Mixed3B @ .35 Pork—Mess 19.25 @19.75 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—Na 2 Red 86 @ .88 Corn—Mixed. 48 @ .50 Oats—Mixed. , .30 @ .33 „ n EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Best 6.00 @ 6.50 Fah- 5.50 @6.25 ’ Common. a 75 @ 4.25 Hogs. .. 5.50 @ 6.00 5heep....... 4.0 a @ 4.50

JAMES G. BLAINE

His Resumption Record Malignity a. Overreaching Itself. [From the Boston Journal.] Every man who remembers political events must know that Mr. Blaine was pne of the foremost advocates of specie resumption and honesty in financial affairs. As long ago as 1868, when Mr. Pendleton proposed to pay the Government bonds by issues of greenbacks, Mr. Blaine, as Chairman of the Maine Republican Committee, caused a special circular to be cast broadcast over that State, and was criticised for so doihg. When the resumption act was passed it was not discussed in the House, so that all the expression of opinion on the subject is to be found in the roll-call. It was strictly a party measure, reported on and passed first by the Senate by a strict party vote, such men as Bayard voting against it. In the House its passage was resisted by Democratic leaders, and the roll-call shows that several Massachusetts members voted against it because it was not sufficiently strenuous to meet their approval, and Gen. Butler voted the same way because he did not believe in specie resumption at all. Mr. Blaine did not vote because the Speaker of the House rarely votes. He was known by his friends to be heartily in favor of the measure. The next Congress was Democratic, and it was given out that the Democrats would undertake to repeal the resumption act. Hearing of this, Mr. Blaine, before the new Congress met in December, 1875, prepared an elaborate speech in favor of resumption and against inflation, to be delivered on the first occasion that offered. Before that speech -was delivered an enemy stole a copy of it, and it was published in advance of its delivery in one or two papers. Jan. 10, 1876, in committee of the whole, Mr. Blaine delivered his speech. It fills over three close columns of the Journal. It is unnecessary to quote much of it, but the following sentences will show where Mr. Blaine stood at the very outset of the fight for the resumption of specie payments: The honor of the National Government and the prosperity of the American people are alike menaced by those who demand the perpetuation of an Irredeemable paper currency, lor more than two years the country has been suffering from the protration of business; confidence returns but slowly; trade revives only partially; and to-day, with capital unproductive and labor unemployed, we flrd ourselves in the midst of an agitation respecting the medium with which business transactions shall be carried on. Until that question is definitely adjusted,it is idle to expect the full measure of prosperity to which the energies of our people ana the resources of the land entitle u£ as to the value of the currency from day to day is injurious to every honest industry. And, while that which is known as the debtor class should be fairly and generously considered in the shaping of measures for specie resumption, there is no justice in asking for inflation on its behalf. Rather, there is the gravest injustice; for you must remember that there is a large class of deserving people who would be continually and remorselessly robbed by such a policy. I mean the labor of the country that is compelled to live from and by its daily earnings. >,. . There is not a cotton plantation in the South, not a grain or grazing farm in the West, not acoal pit or iron furnace in Pennsylvania and Ohio, not a manufacturer in New- England, not a shipyard on the Atlantic coast, not a lumber camp from Penobscot to the Columbia, not a mile of railway between the two oceans that would not feel the quickening, gainful influence of a final and general acquiescence in measures looking to specie resumption. . -

I am told, Mr. Chairman, in tones of most solemn warning, that this county is not able to maintain its paper money at par with coin. Sir, I reject the suggestion with scorn! and it seems to me if 1 could be persuaded of its truth I should be ashamed to rise in the American Congress and proclaim it. . . . It would be an unpardonable moral weakness in our people—always heroic when heroism is demanded—to doubt their own capacity to maintain specie payments. . . . To-day we are suffering from timidity of capital, and so long as the era of doubt and uncertainty prevails, that timidity will continue to Increase. Steps toward inflation will make it chronic. ... In any event, Mr. Chairman, whatever we may do or whatever we may leave undone on this wtjole financial question, let us not delude ourselves that we can escape a specie standard. No nation has ever succeeded in establishing any other standard of value. No nation has ever made the experiment except at great cost and sorrow, and the advocates of irredeemable money to-day are but asking us to travel the worn and weary road traveled so many times before—a road that has always ended in disaster, and often in disgrace. This speech was widely commented on. Indeed, the Nation, which was edited by one Of the present editors of the New York Evening Post, the paper which told all inquirers that it could not find that Mr. Blaine had any resumption record, and repeated the statement after the Journal had called attention to it in the issue of Feb. 17, 1876, quotes Mr. Blaine as declaring that “the policy of the Republican party is to get back to specie payments by a firm and consistent course.” The only occasion in the House when Mr. Blaine had an opportunity to vote against the repeal of the resumption act was Jan 17,1876, when Mr. Holman presented a resolution declaring for its repeal. Mr. Blaine, with all of the Republicans except four, voted against the resolution. Columns of extracts might be given from Mr. Blaine’s speeches during the period that specie resumption was threatened to show that he was one of the ablest and stanchest champions of that measure. The course of the papers which have raised this issue fitly illustrates the methods which his foes have adopted to defeat Mr. Blaine. Either of the papers named could easily have ascertained Mr. Blaine’s record on specie resumption. Indeed, it is difficult to believe that the intelligent men who write and supervise the editorial work of those journals can be so ignorant of current political history as to declare that they do not know that Mr. Blaine was in favor of the resumption act. Their course in this respect is in keeping with that which his foes are pursuing. They will stop at nothing which unscrupulous malignity can suggest It is “anything to beat Blaine.” In this case malignity has put on the dunce’s cap.

Blaine and Logan in Tennessee.

The Memphis Avalanche publishes a letter from Mr. William R Moore, which was addressed to the chairman of a Blaine and Logan meeting. In the course of this letter Mr. Moore said: J I shall vote for the party policy represented by Blaine and Logan, and for the following reasons, viz.: 3 ’

1. This ticket represents the liberal, enlarged, broad,national idea, as against the narrow, hide-bound, proscriptive, and provincial Bourbon policy of the opposition. J,; 2. It represents thA great American protective system of Henry Clay, as against the British free-trade and “revenue only” idea of England and. her American agents. As between England and America I am for the latter. As between our well-fed laborers and her starving paupers I am for the former. 3. This ticket represents the right of every qualified voter to cast and have it counted one honest vote, and no more, for the party of his choice. lam in favor of this, too. 4. It represents a policy that would protect every American citizen at home and abroad. lam earnestly in favor of this. Without giving further reasons, therefore, let it suffice that they satisfy my own judgment and conscience; and I cannot but believe that they will satisfy also the judgment and conscience of a large majority of the sober, reflecting voters of the nation. ' We want no free-trade policy established here yet. We, especially of the South, are the last people on earth to ask for it If, under our present protective system, the mills and mines of Tennessee and the South are springing up as if by magic in every part of the country, will the owners, officers, and stockholders thereof be disposed to throttle their life by votes for free trade? Ido not believe it. Will our our own business men in Memphis, even though they call themselves Democrats, have the courage to walk up and openly vote for a free-trade policy that will eventually close up» our eleven oil mills, our cotton mills, our iron mills, dur stone foundries, and throw our laborers and mechanics out of employment ? I mistake them much if they Will do Sft fLiLj

GEN. LOGAN.

He Disposes of the Latest Slander Regarding Him. In the Senate of the United States, on the sth of July, Gen. Logan called attention to the recent speech of Representative McAdoo, of New Jersey, in which that gentleman spoke of Gen. Logan as a “land-grabber.” After denying the accuracy of the allegations uttered by Mr. McAdoo, as well as certain charges based on them, contained in the New York Herald, Gen. Logan made a full and detailed statement of the entry of certain lands in New Mexico by Maj. Tucker and others, upon which entry these untrue and malicious stories were founded. The explanation was clear and explicit, was supported by testimony from the Secretary of the Interior and Land Commissioner, and clearly establishes first, that there was no wrong contemplated or done by the entry of Maj. Tucker and his associates; and, second, that Gen. Logan was not a party to the entry of the lands, and had no interest in the transaction.

The tattoo process goes on. Blaine is the victim to-day. It is the same old paint pot. Along its sides are deposits of the same material which were employed on Lincoln, Grant, Sherman, Hayes, Garfield, and Arthur. “By their works shall ye know them. ” As the tattoed men hitherto have survived the slimy work of slimy men and are to-day honored, whether living or dead, so shall the victims of to-day outlive the work of their defamers, and come to places where they can look down in peaceful content upon the men and party whose attacks have been outrageous, and whose constant cry against political opponents and brave soldiers for a quarter of a century has been, Crucify them! Crucify them! If it had been Edmunds instead of Blaine this year, the blear-eyed defamers would have daubed his portrait on board fences as a warning against brandy guzzling; if it had been Lincoln he would have been pictured as a dude; if it had been John Sherman he would have been shown with one arm deep in the Treasury; no matter who, the mudslingers would have been busy all the same.— Hartford Courant.

The disgusting theorists and college fools around Boston who are now exclaiming against Mr. Blaine for keeping up the traditions of his country with respect to the States on the American Continent are entirely unaware that it was John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts who created the Monroe doctrine, who wrote all the papers on that subjects and issued them in the name of James Monroe. The Monroe doctrine is nothing but John Adams’ and John Quincy Adams’, and James G. Blaineis the upright successor of the founders of Massachusetts. The donkeys now parading in Massachusetts act as if they had the bar sinister in them and were ill-begotten.— Gath. Mb. Blaine cannot be beaten by Pharisaic pretenses of superior virtue. The people are altogether as honest and upright as the Pharisees When the votes are counted we shall see that it is easier to find a majority for Mr. Blaine in Massachusetts than it has been t<? carry the State for any other Republican far removed from popular sympathy. New York City will have to give a heavier Democratic majority than it has ever given yet if it is to overcome the votes of the rural counties this year. The secret is that everybody is wiser than anybody. The millions made this ticket, and the millions will elect it.— New York Tribune.

s If the best man God ever made ran for the Presidency, he would have to wade chin-deep through obloquy. Defamation elected Garfield, Lincoln, and Jackson. As soon as a man achieves anything by brilliancy, eloquence, or statesmanship, all the hounds of hell are turned against him. — Rev. Dr. Talmage. ■ Mr. Blaine visited the Soldiers’ Homie at Augusta, Me., last week. In the course of a conversation he expressed himself in favor of a liberal policy toward the veterans. Every day it is becoming more painfully evident that Mr. Blaine will not carry a single European State.— Ex.

SUGGESTIONS OF VALUE.

Do all your mending once a week. Eat slowly and yon will not over eat. Late at breakfast, hurried for dinner, cross at tea. A place for everything and every thing in its place. Fob ventilation open your windows both at top and bottom. Awayls lay your table neatly whetheryou have company or not Water as hot as can be taken, is excellent in case of nausea and vomiting. Salt sprinkled on a carpet before sweeping, lays the dust and brightens the colors very much. Machine grease may be removed from wraps and such goods, by dipping the fabric in cold water and soda. A cvp of hot water is a good tonio and stomach cleanser, and a sure cure for constipation. It should be taken in the morning and evening; just after rising and before retiring. Kerosene oil will soften leather hardened by water, and make it as pliable as new. A few drops of the oil on the hands, after being in the water, will prevent them from chapping.

.To heal cut fingers with rapidity, saturate the part with alum water; it' will sting sharply for a little bit but will soon stop for good and heal) quickly. I have tried it several times. ' The deposits of fine coal ashes found' on the ledges of the kitchen range or stove, surpasses polishing powder and fluids for cleaning nickle plated ornaments on stoves. Sifted ashes wouldi scratch the ornaments. Here is a. receipt for French pickles delicious; one colander of sliced green tomatoes, one quart of sliced onion, one l colander of pared and sliced cucumbers, two handsful of salt; Let it stand 1 twenty-four hours, then drain through a sieve; add one half ounce of celery I seed, one-half ounce allspice, one teaspoon of pepper, one tablespoon of tumeric, one pound of brown sugar, two tablespoons of mustard and one gallon of vinegar. Here is my receipt for omelette:! Three tablespoonsful of milk for each egg and a pinch of salt for each one; also, beat the egg quite light, pour into a pan in which a piece of melted; butter the size of a walnut has been melted, watch very carefully, the bottom mush be .lifted up incessantly with a clean knife so that the so iter parts; run in, in this way it will be cooked through without turning it over. It should be cooked only about three or four minutes. Three eggs are enough for an omelette for a small family.

“A Darter uv My Own.”

According to the Hour, Sam Kimper was a ferryman on a western river, who, although much addicted to drinking, was a good, straightforward fellow, always courteous and correct in his dealings. One night as ho was “poling” a man and a woman in a buggy across; the river he heard her say, “What will my fater think?” Further talk ensued* during which he recognized the voice of a doctor’s daughter living a few miles down stream. He did not like the man’s voice and was confirmed in his prejudice when the fellow began talking about going to Cincinnati and not letting her father know of their movements for a week. The girl began crying and the fellow answered roughly. She begged him to take her back home. “Take you back home,” said he in a rough laugh. “Let a bird out of a cage; after you have fairly caught it ? Oh, no! I love you too well forthat.” By this time the boat was nearly across the riter, and Sam said to the stranger “Mister, the current’s pocty swift today ; there’s a right smart freshet on. Recon I’ll have to ask you to make the lines fast ashore while I hold the boat agin the bank.” The man got out and stood at the bow of the boat. Sam; poled it against the bank with such violence that over went the man on to the shore. Sam let the boat drift away and turned to the girl, amidst the howls and curses of the man in the water, said: “Reckon ye don’t want him, no more, do ye?” "No! no,” she exclaimed. The gild being in doubt about her ability to drive home, even after she had reached the other shore,. Sam let his boat go down the stream. “What are you going to do ?” asked the girl. Boat ye down to the steamboat landin’fur your town.” “That will be; a dreadful lot of work all for a silly girl.” “I’ve got a darter uv my own,*' said he. Pretty soon he stopped poling, and the girl said he must be very tired. “Not a bit of it‘” said Sam. “I’m! slowin’ up so’s to reach there abouti dusk.” “Just what I wanted to ask you to do,” said the girl. “Thought so,” said Sam. “I’ve got a darter uv my own.” Every thing was favorable, and no'one saw the carriage drive off the boat. The girl promised that her father should pay Sam handsomely. “I don’t want bis money,” said Sain. “I’ve got a darter ,uV my own. There’s one thing I do want,” said Sam; “if doctors don’t know good stuff from bad, nobody does, an’ of he could send me a good solid drink o’ somethin’ seein’ ’twill take me two or three hours to pole the boat back.” The promise was rfeadily given and in a few minutes down came the doctor with a bottle of brandy and; two men tc pole the boat back; but Sam said the brandy would be more useful as well as better company. The doctor wanted to know how he could; repay him and Sam answered, “You can repay me in kind, es ye ever get a chance. I’ve got a darter uv my own, ye know.” Thebe are no persons more solicitous about the preservation of rank than those who have no rank at all. Observe the humors of a country chris- : tening, and you will find no court ini Christendom so ceremonious as the quality of Brentford.— Shcnstpne. A woman in Florida, named Cross, gave birth to an infant son which, weighed only one pound. That Cross; wasn’t hard to bear. An oat is Letter than a wink to • bind horse.