Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1884 — Page 2

~ / The Republican. '* RENSSELAER, INDIANA, a E. MARSHALL, - Publish**.

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THU EAST. A Uniontown (Pa.) dispatch says: "The ■worst fear touching the fate of the men fcho were imprisoned in the coal mine at Youngstown, four miles from this place, by the explosion of fire-damp which took place there at 4 o’clock last evening has been fnlly confirmed. Six of the miners were taken out last evening soon after the disaster; two of them were dead and two of the other four are so seriously injured that there is no hope of their recovery. This left from fourteen to eighteen men supposed to be still imprisoned iu the mine. The exact number is not certainly known. The work of reaching these men was continued industriously throughout the whole night, and by this morning the dead bodies of twelve' of them had been brought out and delivered to their friends and relatives at the mouth of the pit. This makes fourteen dead in all, and, together with the four injured, accounts for eighteen, or the whole number supto be in the mine. The “scenes at the mouth of the pit as the disfigured bodies of the dead were brought to the surface and given into the hands of the wives and relatives was distressing in the extreme, and vividly recalled to mind the piteous wails' of the bereaved families who waited at the opening of the Leisenring mine last February for the bodies which they knew were coming lifeless to them from the uncompassionate bowels of the earth. It was a sad spectacle, indeed, and moVed to tears many of hundreds who had been drawn to the place by the news cf the disaster. ” The Armstrong oil well, near Butler, Pa., gushes at the rate of 190 barrels an hour, and in twenty-four hours put 8,000 barrels in tank —beating all previous records. Half a dozen stores and several dwellings at Fayette City, Pa., a mining town, were destroyed ~by fire, causing a loss of $50,000 ; insurance, $13.500 Horace Deland, of Brookfield, N. H., aged 18 years, chained himself to a brush-heap, near his father’s house, then set the brush on fire, and deliberately burned himself to death. A gash was found on one side of his throat, made by a razor, which was found near by. A note was found directed to his parents, saying he was tired of living. He gave no reason : for the act, but it is thought to have been caused by unrequited love. In a political fight at Klein's tavern. Columbia County, Pennsylvania, two men were fatally stabbed by James D. Keller, who was lodged in jail.... A fall of rock in a mine near Centralia, Pa., killed three Hungarians.

THE WEST. Mb. A. Jeffry, of Hallville, Hl.,* has a heg which he claims weighs 1,400 pounds —the largest ever raised.... The Supreme Court of Ohio has declared the Scott liquor lax law unconstitutional, the majority holding thqt the lien clause is-a license 1aw.... The capsizing of fishing boats in the Straits of Mackinaw and round there resulted in the drowning of seven persons within forty-eight hours.... The Sheriff is in possession of Harwood Bros. <fc Co.’s wholesale hardware establishment at Bloomington, 111. The liabilities reach SIOO,OOO The Governor of Idaho reports that the funded debt of the Territory has been practioally wiped out; that the population is 88,000. and that the people are entitled to the advantages of a State Government. Detroit dispatch: “Ex-Gov. Moses, of South Carolina, who is under arrest, charged with swindling the Rev. Dr. Rexford, the Rev. Mr. Atterbury, and others, .attempted suicide by hanging himself in his cell. He was cut down. Moses was subsequently brought into the Police Court charged with swindling. He pleaded guilty’, and was sentenced to three months in the House of Correction. His lawyer hopes to effect his transfer to the insane asylum.” a

Fire destroyed the six-Story bunding owned by C. E. Culver, at the comer of La Salle avenue and Michigan street, Chicago. The fire was caused by the explosion of benzine on the first floor, and spread so rapidly that the occupants about one hundred in number, had barely time to escape with their lives. Twenty-one girls and eighteen men escaped from the fifth story through the coolness and courage of James Carr, who subsequently received fatal injuries by falling from the fifth story. A dozen girls and an equal number of men escaped from the third story by means of a fire-escape on the LaSalle avenue side of the building. Some of them fell from the escape into a sub-base-ment, a distance of twenty feet, and were injured. The loss is about $115,000 F. W. Duvemois, an insuiance agent and private banker at Detroit, disappeared two we€ks ago. His wife has recently placed on record deeds transferring to her all his property. It now appears that he owes $4,000 to insurance companies and $31,000 or more to depositors... .Near Long Creek, Oregon, a party of whites stole upon a band of Indians and shot and killed two braves. The feeling against the aborigines is intense among the whites, and an Indian outbreak is threatened... .At Millersburg, Ohio, Mehler & McDowell, dry goods dealers, failed for $20,000, with equal assets. Denver dispatch: "Humors have reached here of the lynching by vigilantes of a gang of seventeen cattle thieves captured while in camp on Hock Creek, in the Gore range of mountains, about twenty or thirty miles west of Georgetown. No particulars are at present obtainable and the report is thought to be exaggerated".... During the progress of a Democratic parade at Peoria, HI., Edward Hammond was instantly killed and one Clark seriously and Erohably fatally injured by the ursting of a bomb. Hammond had the top of his head blown 0ff.... George E. Hutchinson, owner of gold and silver mines in the West, made an assignment Rt Columbus, 0hi0... .The Ohio State Dental Society, after a session of two days at Columbus, fell to pieces from dissen-. eions... .Near Escondida, N. M., a band of masked men fired into a train, a woman being shot... .The public school building at Central City, Neb., was entirely destroyed by fire. In the case against Connelly at Salt Lake City for bigamy, the Judge instructed the jury to find a verdict of not guilty. Prosecuting counsel stated it as his firm belief that some of the witnesses had perjured themselves, in which the Judge concurred, the testimony being entirely different from what was riven before the Grand Jury.... Detective Palmer, of Chicago, secured from a burglar a letter of introduction to his ac-

Steele. On the person of the latter were found 100 skeleton key?, and in his, house stolen property worth SBOO was secured.... Near Westminster, Ohio, Ben Heffner, a farmer, shot his wife dead and attempted to kill liis son, daughter, and daughter-in-dawr— His sanity is being tested By physicians at Cincinnati... .Two police lieutenants and two patrolmen have been, indicted by the United States Grand Jury at Cincinnati for preventing qualified persons from voting... .A clerk iu the office of the Cleveland Herald was called out by a man in a carriage, while his confederate took SSOO in currency from the aasli-drawer.

THE SOUTH. A sickening tragedy is reported from Rabun County, Georgia. Eugene 1 Beck, a leading citizen, who has for years been addicted to strong drink, returned home and began quarreling with his wifo. He drew a revolver and emptied five charges into her heart and head, the woman sinking dead at his feet. Miss Addie Bailey, his sister-in-law, who was iu an adjoining room, rushed out, when the remaining charge of the fiend’s revolver was emptied into her heart. The drunken wretch then laid down .in stupor and fell asleep, from which he was awakened by officers who arrested him.... The dedication of a church for white people at Parkerville, S. C., was disturbed by pistol shots by colored roughs. An officer named James Blackwell, who attempted to arrest the offenders, was shot dead from behind a barricade ..* . George T. Jackson, President of the Enterprise Cotton Factory, at Augusta. Ga., is a defaulter to the extent of SIOO,OOO. He has confessed, and assumes all the responsibility. ... .-AtßoeustaPoiht, Md., a Baltimore and Ohio freight locomotive .exploded, killing the engineer and fireman. Chattanooga dispatch; “Joseph, son of Gen. G. Dibrell, Congressman from this (the Third) district, was shot twice by Gus “Gear. One shot entered the breast, inflicting a fatal wound. The shooting occurred at Sparta, Tenn. Dibrell attempted to separate Gear and a man named Hickey, who were fighting. ”... . The Maryland Episcopal Convention at Baltimore elected as Bishop Dr. Pnret, of Washington. Wh. Mitchell, of Chicago, struck a vein of gas north of Wheeling, W. Va., which will net him between $500,000 and $1,000,000.

WASHINGTON’. * Judge Gresham, who was recently appointed Secretary of the Treasury by President Arthur, has been appointed to succeed Judge Drummond in the United States Circuit Court for the Chicago district Mr. Hugh McCulloch will succeed Judge Gresham as Secretary of the Treasury. A Washington telegram says: Secretary McCulloch visited the Treasury Department this morning and was qualified in the presence of ex-Secretary Gresham and a few others. The oath of office was—administered by J. N.—Fitzpatrick, of the appointment division. Secretary McCulloch has received a large number of congratulatory letters and telegrams from all parts of the country and several from abroad. He wishes to make public announcement of his gratitude for the kind wishes of his friends, am) to say that, owing to the pressure of business deinaiiding his attention it will be impossible for him to make acknowledgments to his correspondents individually. The heads of business and the chiefs of division were formally presented to the new Secretary at noon.

The Woman’s Home Missionary Society held its fifth annual meeting at Boston, an increase in finances and number of missionaries being reported. The old board was re-elected, and Mrs. C. B. Bliss, of Chicago, was added to the Vice Presidents. .... The Association for the Advancement of Women met at Baltimore, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, the President, delivering the opening address. DR ,Cakveb*B vMtrwiflr-his company of cowboys to Hamilton, Ont., set all the small boys lassoing. The result is that a small boy named John Carey was lassoed by his companions and dragged along the ground for some distance, receiving such injuries that ho digd soon after John McCormick, who rail away from the jail yard at Winnipeg, but was recaptured, was ordered by the Attorney General of Manitoba to be flogged. He was stripped to the waist in a snow-stonn before his fellowprisoners, and given twelve lashes. j A letter dated from Nassau, N. P., dated Oct. 24. says: The hurricane which swept the easterly part of the Bahamas, from the 10th to the 16th inst,, caused considerable damage on land and sea. A number of vessels engaged in sponging and inter-insular commerco are known to be lost. The American schooner Jonathan Knight, from Philadelphia for New Orleans, with coal, was driven upon a reef at Palmetta point, Elenthera, at midnight on the 15th and becanje a total wreck. Only two of her crew were saved. Capt. Malloy and son, the steward, and three seamen were drowned. The schooner Sail Bias, a Baltimore trader, was lost,together with the crew. There were 205 failures in the United States reported to Bradstreet’s during the week, as compared with 234 in the preceding week, and with 195, 154. and 135 respectively in the corresponding weeks of 1883, 1882, and 1881. About 81 percent, were those traders whose capital was loss than $5,000. Canada had thirty-one, an increase of thirty-two... .Attorney General Miller was hanged in effigy at Winnipeg, Manitoba, for ordering the flogging of a prisoner who escaped from jail* Miller would have been publicly scourged had he not ooncealed himself, and Premier Norqnay was made to promise that he would consider the question of dismissing Miller... .The Association: for the Advancement of Women, in session at Baltimore, re-elected Mrs. Julia Ward Howe President for the ensuing year. ... .The haDgmnn on Friday closed the careers of Albert and Charles Goodman, of St Bernard parish, Louisiana, and Isaac Fain, of Kingston, Tenp.

FOREIGN. Bismarck disclaims any dishonest intentions upon the free pities of Germany, and holds that the empire is deeply interested in the continued independence of Hamburg.... By a vote of 27 to 5 the Limerick (Ireland) Aldermen have refused to pay the extra police tax. It is believed that some of the Aldermen will be arrested and sent to prison for contempt of court ....A violent storm did serious damage throughout the British' Isles and neighboring seas. Many wrecks are reported. The result of the recent parliamentary elections in Germany is, decidedly mixed. The result has been the return of thirteen

Conservatives of the Center party, seven Socialists, six German Liberals, six National Liberals, five Imperialists, four straight Conservatives, two People’s-party men, one Guelph, and one Alsatian. In twenty-mile of the seventy-four districts there must be a second ba110t.... .Cornwall and Kirwan, the Dublin Castle officials charged with unnatural crimes, have been acquitted in Dublin. . The Pope has cabled to Trenton, N. J., asking Bishop. Q’Farrell if he made a statement that the Holy Father expressed the hope that Ireland might soon become independent of England.

ADDITIONAL NEWS. The Khedive of Egypt has received information that Chinese Gordon has been captured by the rebels, and he is now at the Mahdi’s headquarters. Previous jtp bis capture 8,000 of his garrison surrendered to the rebels, while on the way to Dongola... .It is announced as a settled fact that England has been asked by the French and Chinese Governments to act ns mediator in the settlement of the FrancoChinese imbroglio. .. .The feeling in England is that the Liberals in Germany were defeated for want of leaders, and the spread of social-reform tenets.... Sixteen people were killed and twelve seriously injured during a fire panic at the Star Theater, Glasgow. A press dispatch from New Iberia, La., gives the following particulars of a bloody affray at a Republican meeting a day or tw r o before the election: “Judge Fontelieu and eight or ten Others left here for Louisville, to hold a political meeting in the interest of Kellogg. After the crowd had assembled, « disturbance was created by persons hallooing “Hurrah for Gay.” Joseph Guilfax rushed to the scene of the trouble, and waR fired at, the ball passing through his hiit. He returned the fire. At that moment there was a general row, and Capt. Bell, a prominent sugar planter and* a Democrat, and Joseph Gilfaux, a leading Gay man, and Oliver Boutte (colored), a Kellogg supporter, from New Iberia, were killed outright. The wounded, as far as known, are : Jules Mestiyer, Republican candidate for Sheriff last spring, thigh broken; ex- Sheriff T. -Viator, shot twice in the abdomen. About a dozen others were slightly wounded. Six negroes were killed so far as known. The perpetrators were surrounded and kept under guard untill the Sheriff arrived to arrest them. A courier was dispatched to New Iberia, and in a few minutes after he arrived the town was in the wildest excitement. -“All saloons were closed by order of the Mayor, Fifty or seventy-five men left here under order from the Sheriff for the scene of the trouble. All were armed with doublebarreled shotguns and rifles. They arrested Fontelieu and Adolph Bienvenu, and five white men, who are now in the parish—jail under heavy guard. It is said a thousand shots were fired simultaneously.”

A Dresden (Tenn.) dispatch says that Taylor, who poisoned five men with cantliarides near Pillowville, Weakly County, from which two have died, was taken from jail and lynched. Twenty-five or thirty masked men walked into Dresden, and with sledge hammers broke down the doors of Taylor's cell. Taking hi in out, they carried him about half a mile from town and shot him to pieces. The mob was sober and orderly. Taylor was a cousin of Andy Taylor, the notorious East-Tennessee desperado. James B. Parke, prominent in the iron business at Buffalo, who mysteriously disappeared three months ago, returned with a statement that he was rendered half insane by business troubles and took a trip to Europe. Patrick McKeoavn, a saloon-keeper of Cincinnati, brought suit to recover moneys paid under tho provisions of the Scott law. Justice Anthony decided that one year and one day having elapsed since the payment of the tax, recovery was barred bv the statute of limitations. Hamilton County is interested in the decision to the amount of $400,0(10 William Brooks, a colored desperado of Logansport, Ind., was shot dead by Councilman George Haigh. Brooks had robbed a farmer, and, when ordered to surrender, fired twice at the officer... .David S. Chadwick, one of the proprietors of a brick-yard at AVatertown, AYis., tied a metal kiln door to his neck and perished in the pond. The cotton-mills around Baltimore have reduced the wages of operatives from 10 to 15 per cent... .The Danner Lund ami Lumber Company of Mobile, Ala., lias made an assignment. Liabilities. $70,000.... Chalks J. Faulkner, Chief of Staff of Gen. Stonewall Jackson, died at Martinsbnrg, AV. A’a AYheeling, AV. A'a., has defaulted on the interest on the building loan of 1881, and has an empty treasury besides. The bonds upon which interest has been defaulted amount to $150,000 A girl in Baltimore, not yet: 3 years of age, killed herself with a revolver with which she was playing.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. 8eeve5.............. $0.25 @ 6.75 Hous..; 4.73 @5.25 'Flocb—Extra 5.50 @ c.oi) Wheat—No. 2 Spring so @ .85 No. 2 Rea.. .85 @ ,86!£ Corn-No. 2......;.. . .54. & .55 Oats—White.'. 1 .34 <gi .37 Poke—New Mess.. 16.50 <317.00 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers. 0.23 @ 7.00 Good Shipping.... .... 5.75 @ 6.25 Commoß to Fair 4.00 @. 5.00 Poos ~ 4.50 :& 5.25 Flour—Fancy White Winter Ex. 4.23 @4.75 Good to Choice Spripg.. 4.00 @ 4.50 Wheat—No. 2 Sprint -.75 @ .76 No. 2Red Winter 74 & .75 Corn'—No. 2 41 @ .42)* Oats—No. 2 24 @ ,25 V Bye—No. 2. i:> @ .50 Barley—No. 2 ' 01 @ ".03 . Butter —Choice Creamery 26 @ .28 n Fine Dairy 20 @ .23 Cheese—Full Cream 12 @ .13'4 Skimmed Flat 08 @ ,0> Ei'.gs—Fresh 21 (<a .21 Potatoes—New,per bu.......... .32 @ .37 I’ouk—MessG... '.. 15.23 <«15.75 LAUD. 00?.i@ .07 TOLEDO. WnEAT—No. 2 Rod ,70 @ .71 Corn—No. 2 4S @ .50 OATS—No. 2. .27 @ .28 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 72 @ .73 Corn—No. 2. 43 @ .45 Oats—Ntf. 2 27 @ .59 Barley—No. 2.,.. 54 @ .55 Pork—Mess 15.00 @15.50 Lard 6.75 @ 7.00 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 76 @ .77Ri Corn—M xed , .36 @ .3714 ATS— Mixed v . .26 <@ .27. Rye : .49 @ .50 Pork—Mess 15.25 @15.75 CINCINNATI Wheat—No. 2 Red 77 @ .79 Corn 48 @ .50 Oats—MLxed 27 @ .28 Pork—Mess 14.50 @15.00 Lard 06&@ .07K DETROIT. Flour. 5.00 @ 5.50 Wheat—No. 1 White. 77 @ .78 Corn—MLxed 43 @ .44 Oats—No. 2 Mixed. 27 @ .28 Pork—New Mess. 17.50 @IB.OO INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red, New..., 73 @ .75 Corn—Mixed ...1,.,.... .40 @ .42 . OaTs—Mixed „. .25 @ .26 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Best... too @ 6.50 Fair.:... 1 ... 5,50 @6.00 Common 1 4.00 @ 4.50 H0g5......... 4.75 @5.00 • Sheep... 4.50 @ 5.0 i

WHEAT.

A Reduction in Acreage in Europe and This Country Next Year Probable. The monthly report of the Commissioner of Agriculture, says a Washington telegram, contains some interesting facts concerning the crops and grain markets of Europe. It seems that stagnation and depression in prices are agitating the farmers of Europe as well as of this country. There is little if any profit to the farmers, and it is believed that the inevitable result will be a reduction in the acreage of wheat next season. The crops have been unusually large, and the abundance theTe, as well as elsewhere, has furnished a supply almost unprecedented, and vastly in excess of the demand. The disheartening price which all grain is now bringing is even a severer blow to the fanners than the bad crops of previous years, and coming when their resources are pressed to the utmost, the future is looked forward to with dismay. The papers are teeming with farm statistics showing the cost of raising grain per acre and the resulting mcney returns in the markets. Average English wheat brings $1.03 per bushel, which is less than it can be raised for in that country. A year ago, when the average was 20 per cent, higher, it was said there was more money to be made with average crops at that price, and now as the reductions in rent have not kept pace with the falling markets the amount of loss per acre is the only question. A writer from Great Britain estimates the wheat yield of that country for the present year at over 74,000,000 bushels. He estimates the requirements of the 36,000,000 of people to be fed at over 300,000,000 bushels, of which 74,000,000 bushels are supplied at home, leaving 126,000,000 to be imported from foreign countries. About this amount was imported last year. The writer continues: “The stock of foreign wheat in the warehouses on Sept. 1, 1883, was known to be enormous, and this stock has probably been reduced. The total price of wheat during the past year has also caused a larger proportion of homegrown wheat to be consumed by stock, and the still lower prices which are likely to prevail during the coining year will tend to increase the consumption. The imports of foreign wheat during “each year do not, therefore, at the present time supply so reliable a measure of the annual requirements as was the case formerly, when the stock of foreign wheat had not assumed such gigantic proportions. ” This condition of the grain market in Europe, which draws so heavily from our supply, it is believed, will result in a large reduction in the acreage in this country next year. With an increased foreign demand and a smaller supply, the price of cereals would be raised, a movement of the crops would become more active, and a better condition of things generally is predicted for next year.

WARDS OF THE NATION.

The Annual Report of the Indian Bureau. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in his annual report, says the progress of the Indians toward civilization is most encouraging, and that it is fair to presume that in the near .future they, will be no longer a bnrden but a help to the Government. He states that the Indians’ appropriation is too small, and urges the necessity of passing an appropriation bill early in the session. Congress is urged to pass a stringent law prohibiting the sale of arms and ammunition to Indians, and to enforce the law forbidding the sale of liquor to them. Touching the removal of tho Crow Indians, in Montana, it is stated that it has thus been made possiblo to add to the public domain at least 3,000,000 acres of the reservation, leaving still all the land necessary for the use and occupancy of this tribe of Indians. If these 3.000,000 are so disposed of as to give the Crows some benefit from the proceeds thereof, they will no longer require any aid from the Government, and thus one factor of the Indian problem will have been solved, aud an example and incentive given other tribes of Indians to do likewise. Great good has resulted from the establishment of courts for the trial of Indian offenses, and an appropriation of $50,000 is asked to pay the salaries of judges. The Commissioner calls attention to the necessity of establishing a United States court in Indian Territory, and recommends that the bill pending before Congress. to prevent timber depredations in that Territory, be made to include coal and other minerals. A more liberal compensation is asked for the Indian police, and their efficiency is warmly commended. School work is reviewed at length, its great value demonstrated, and the necessity 6hown for the expenditure of a much greater amount of money in this direction. Attention is called to the fact that Congress granted a right of way through Indian Territory to the Gulf, Colorado> and Santa Fe and the Kansas Southern Railroads, and the statement is made that the Indians consider this a violation of treaty obligations. The Commissioner refers to the invasion of the Indian Territory by Payne and others, and says there is no possible exense for these repeated lawless invasions. The lands are not public lands in any sense as yet, whatever disposition may be made of them hereafter. It is manifest that, without the passage of some stringent law, intruders can only be kept out by the troops, and should they at any time be temporarily withdrawn for any purpose, the Territory would be rapidly overrun. The Commissioner indorses the report of the commission to review the award of damages of $36,000 to the Indians, on account of the construction of reservoirs at the headwaters of the Mississippi, and says no one cin compute what evil consequences may arise ' should Congress ignore its duty to these Indians by a failure to make appropriations to carry out the terms of the award..

CLIPPINGS.

Gov. Butler does not travel on Sunday. The dentist to the court of Italy is an American. Sacramento is shipping sweet potatoes to Montana. Mmf.. Gebster, ill with rheumatism of the throat, has canceled all her engagements. President Darling, of Hamilton College, has been elected a member of the Victoria Institute and Philosophical Society of Great Britain. In Cleveland John T. Raymond advertised a grand parade of “the new party," and in the evening hired 100 small boys to march through the streets with torches and transparencies, on which was inscribed: “Vote for John T. Raymond for Congress.” The streets were crowded that night to see the parade, and the theater was packed all week. Lieut. Greely has leased a house on I street, Washington, for the winter.

WILBUR F. STOREY.

Biographical Sketch of the Deceased Proprietor of the Tiroes* A Life of Great Ambitions, Arduous Labors, and Brilliant Successes. Wilbur F. Storey, editor and proprietor of the Chicago Times, died at his residence on Prairie avenue, in that city, on the 27th of October. His death was not unexpected, as it hid become generally known that his physical system was seriously impaired and his mind shattered. For some time before his death his mind was entirely powerless and inactive, and the only evidence of life remaining was shown in respiration and by his pulse, both of which were faint. His passing away was painless.,. Wilbur F. Storey was one pf the best and most widely known residents of Chicago. His reputation as a journalist rankftl among the foremost. When in his vigor he was radical and aggressive, and at the same time comprehensive and well poised. These qualities were reflected in the great newspaper which he edited so ably and successfully for so many years. He had qualities which drew to him many strong and faithful friends, and attlie'same time made him bitter enemies. His influence, and that of the Times, when he was actively at its head and shaped and enforoed its policy, were very great. But few, if any, journalists in this country have wielded a wider or more potent influence. From the Chicago Daily News we glean the following biographical sketch of the deceased journalist: Mr. Storey was born Dec. 19,1819, in Salisbury, Vt. His family was of the same stock as that of the celebrated jurist. He.passed the first ten years of his lire on his father’s farm, attending a country school in the winter only. When he was 12 years old, his father having moved to Middlebury, he entered the olfice of the Middlebury Fress Press, to learn the printing business. He remained there until he was 17, with the exception of one winter, during which he attended school. At 17 he had saved sl7, and with this small amount, added to $lO which his mother gave him, he went to New York to begin life for himself. As a youth he was said to be quiet, retiring, and industrious, and rather averse to society. In New York he worked as a compositor on the Journal of Commerce for a year and a half and then came ' West to LaPorte, Ind., where he established a Democratic paper, he undertaking the mechanical part of its management and the celebrated Ned Hannegan afterward United States Senator, being editor. This enterprise did not succeed, and Mr. Story purchased a drug store. Failing in this, also, he established a Democratic paper in Mishawaka called the Tocsin. After editing it a year and a half he went to Jackson, Mich., and studied law for two years. At the end of that time he started the Jackson Patriot, and conducted it with such ability that he pushed to the wall the Democratic paper already in existence there. After editing the Patriot a year and a half, he was appointed Postmaster by President Polk and held the office until deposed by President Taylor. Having sold his paper when he became Postmaster, he was again without an occupation. Soon he went again into the drug business, and dealt also in groceries, books, and stationery. While in Jackson he took an active part in politics, and in 1850 was elected a member of the constitutional convention of Michigan by a large majority over Austin Blair. Having an opporUmity to acquire an interest in the Detroit Free Press he availed himself of it, and in 1853 removed to Detroit. Before long he became half owner and subsequently sole owner of the paper. When he went to Detroit the Free Press was a feeble organ with almost no circulation or influence. In eight years Mr.Storey paid for the entire concern, saved about $30,000 and made the paper the most able, prosperous, and influential Democratic organ in the West. For the first six years Mr. Storey did all the editorial work on the paper and during the next two years had but a single assistant. He was always the first to reach the office in the morning and the last to leave it at night. His remarkable success was duo not alone to his ability as a journalist, intellectually speaking, but to untiring industry. It was not unusual for Mr. Storey to remain at his office until the paper went to press, at 4 o’clock in the morning, and then to return at 8 o’clock to resume his labor. In 1861 Mr. Storey realized that he had built up the Free Press to tlie limit of prosperity which its field permitted, and his ambition urged him to something of larger scope and dimensions. After hesitation between Chicago and several other cities, he decided to come to this growing commercial center of the West. At—that time, , the Chisag o Times had deteriorated from being the influential organ of Stephen A. Douglas to a paper of almost no influence or standing, and with a circulation less than 1,200. Mr. Storey bought the paper and at once began the work of making it the influential journal it subsequently became. He practiced the same industry and wonderful application, and exerted the same remarkable journalistic ability by the exercise of which he had gained success in Detroit. The rebellion bad just begun and the time was one of great political excitement. Mr. Storey sent out numerous special < orresgondents with the different armies, used the telegraph most liberally, and the Times had always the freshest-war news, often outstripping its contemporaries in the completeness and accuracy of its accounts of battles and operations at the front. The attitude which the paper took editorially during the exciting times of the rebellion was such as to givo tho paper an enormous circulation. Mr. Storey was accounted a rank copperhead and ardent rebel sympathizer, and shaped the policy of his paper accordingly. Numerous threats against his life were made by exasperated Unionists, and once the Times was suppressed for a few days by military order. Whatever else may be said of the course of the Trines at that time, it certainly was such as was best calculated to increase its reputation and circulation. The paper grew verv rapidly into one of the greatest journals erf ’tho West, and Mr. Storey was obliged again and again to increase its publishing facilities. The financial success of the paper was great, and Mr. Storey, as was often said, had more money than he knew what to do with. In 1567 the Times building on Dearborn street was built by Mr. Storey. This was burned in the great fire of 1871, after which Mr. Storey built the existing 27m es building at the corner of Fifth avenue and Washington street. For the past six or seven years Mr. Storey has done but comparatively little in the matter of editing the 'l imes. The strain of hard ’’work and close application began to tell upon his system, and he was obliged to relax his labor.. In the spring of 1881 he took a European trip in hopes of regaining his health. AVhile abroad he suffered a paralytic stroke, and was almost immediately brought home. He grew better, and undertook to do editorial work again. It was apparent, however, that the vigor of his mind was gone. Subsequently he spent periods of greater or less length at Green Lake, Wis., Hot Springs, and other health resorts. During last winter lie was in Philadelphia undergoing medical treatment. From there he returned last spring in a partially demented and physically weak condition. It has been more than two years since he did any editorial work on the Times, and since his return from Philadelphia he has not been at the office. One of the strange ambitions of Mr. Storey's declining years was to erect for himself a magnificent residence, of proportions and elegance so great as to entitle it to be called a palace. As is well known, he entered upon this undertaking some years ago, and the mammoth white marble edifice, still unfinished, though having ;aten up hundreds of thousands of dollars in s construction, remains down on A’incennes - iv nue to testify to his strange desire. In personal appearance Mr. Storey was tall and always neatly attired. His hair was abundant and snowy white. His forehead was high and his hazel eyes clear and bright. As a journalist Mr. Storev had a clear, concise, and very forcible style. He was more of a poragraphist than essayist. In his editorials he often repeated the prominent idea again and again, each time with verbiage so foroible yet different that the effect was like that of the repeated blows ot a battering ram, as many who have felt the force of them can testify. Even his enemies, and they were many, attest to his remarkable ability as a journalist.

It is said that gold and silver mines changed hands over the result of the Owens-Murphv prize-fight at Butte City. They do things in a large way out in Montana. Washington McLean has given up his comfortable residence in Cincinnati to his son and his bride. The old gentleman will make Washington his future home. It has been proposed to furnish the railroads with grain cars built entirely of steel. It is said that more groin can be carried with less wear and tear. One of the daughters of Henry WadsworthXongfellow is engaged to be married to Mr. .Thorpe, brother of Mrs. Ole Bull. The Metropolitan Railroad in London runs 1,21 i trains a dav.

A Simple Remedy.

A correspondent writes rtMs /ollqws : “You published not long since some very fine articles on dyspepsia, etc. I would like to suggest a good substitute for piLs, tonics and liver-regulators, used so much by in-door people "(who eat but little and have but little appetite for.what they do eat), as well as by many others, who suffer from constipation. "It is simply coarse wheat-bran. One can easily determine by experiment how much he should use. I have found a half tea-cupful a day to be my own proper quantity. I mix two teaspoonfuls of sugar with the bran, moisten it - well with cold water, and eat it raw I find it quite palatable. “Without further change in the diet, Constipation will disappear within a day or two, the appetite improve within a week, and, within two weeks, 4 one will find himself after dinner some clay with a headache on hand, caused by overeating—a shame in one old enough to know that he who has an appetite has something to control. The action of the bran is mechanical. There has not yet been time for any radical improvement of the digestive organs.” The above suggestions are well so far as they go. The bran will relieve constipation in all ordinary cases. This is what gave the old Graham bread its value. But the whole wheat-flour introduced within the last few years, we think in most cases, will be fouud an improvement on both. It is an improvement on the Graham bread, from the method of grinding and from the careful selection of wheat. It i 3 an improvement on the white flour plus bran from the great fineness of the bran, thus less liable to cause acidity, and. from its comprising that portion of the wheat—always bolted out from white flour—on which largely the brain and nervous system depends. The Avliole wheat-flour not only relieves constipation, in many cases, but helps to cure dyspepsia, by nourishing those nerve centres whose vigorous condition is essential to the action of all the organs. But it must not be forgotten that dyspepsia has many forms and many causes, and each should have its own peculiar treatment. Every form, however, requires the removal of the cause as the nine qua non. — Youth’s Companion. -i_

An Indian’s Honesty.

An exchange tells a story _of an ‘'lndian’s Honesty” which carries with it an excellent lesson. The native, or uneducated Indian, you know, was addicted to the use of tobacco; but now that we have the Carlisle Indian School, and the the government is furnishing so many helps to enlighten the red man, with the growth of knowledge all such vices must dissaponr, and the Indian become the g<?od citizen all who read this are aiming to be. Well, an old Indian once asked a man to give him some tobacco for his pipe. The man gave him a loose handful from his pocket. The next day lie came back and asked for the white man. “For,” said he, “1 found a quarter of a dollar among the tobacco ” “Why don’t yon keep it?” asked a bystander. “I've got a good man aid a bad man here,” said the Indian, pointing to his breast, and the good man say, *it is not mine; give it back to the owner.' The bad man say, ‘Never mind, you got it and it is your own now.’ The good man say, ‘No, no! you must not keep it.’ So I don’t know what to do, and I think to go to sleep, but the good and had man keep talking all night, and trouble me; now I bring the money back and I feel good.” And the writer goes on to say that “like the old Indian, we have all a good and a bad man within. The had man is Temptation, the good man is Conscience, and they keep talking for and against things that we do every day.” I have no need to ask you if the bad man or the good man wins, little bright eyes as you read this for yours is the task to put Temptation far away, but do not you meet every day some one who is listening to the bad instead of the good man within? _ ,

The Fate of Russian Rulers.

The church of SS. Peter and Paul is the burial place of the Emperors, and a solemn place it is: The large white tomb of Alexander 11. is regarded with veneration and surrounded with emblems of grief; they call him their martyr emperor and honor him as the emancipator of the serfs. Next lie 3 his father, Nicholas 1., who poisoned himself. By his side is the body of his eldest brother, who, having married a Polish lady for love, abdicated the throne, which he had forfeited by marrying beneath him. But the abdication could not save him; he disappeared, and his death was considered necessary to avoid a revolution. Our guide, continuing the sad history, said: “Here lies Paul, who was suffocated; there is the body of Peter 111., who was assassinated; there is the tomb of Annie, who was exiled to Siberia and died of a broken heart, and next lies her son, who was stabbed.” We looked at the gilded magnificence of the church and the calm of the beautiful marble tombs, and shuddered with horror at the recital.— St. Petersburg Cor. Hartford Times. ,

One of Charles Reade’s Corrections.

The last night I was at Bloomfield lerrace, previous to Charles Reade's leaving England, he read to me aremarkable paper which he had written on the book of Jonah. The sub ject was handled in his masterly manner, but in the full flow of his impetuous eloquence, we stumbled upon one of his characteristic blotches. It was to this effect: “Having now arrived at this conclusion, we must go the whole hog or none.” I made a move—he stopped and said: “You don’t like the hog. I see?” “I don’t,” I replied, “doyou ?” “Well, it’s a strong figure of and its understanded of the people, bat you are right, John —yes, yon are right. It's scarcely scriptural—so out it goes.” — Temple Bar. " Five thousand molecules can sit comfort ably on the point of a pin. H 9rein the molecule differs materially from man.