Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1885 — Page 7

The Republican. REN9SBLAER, INDIANA. m. g MARSHALL, ™- - Ftnrama.

The chief of the Swiss Federal Trareau of statistics estimates that m the year 2000 the United States will tocntain a papulation of 600,000,000. Think of waiting for the election returns in those days. We feel real sorry for our posterity. General Grant is filling two volumes with his history of the war. After they are finisljgd he will write another bodk giving his political experiences from the surrender of Appomattox to the present time. It is said that this last book will be one of the most interesting books historically that has yet been given to the country, os it will cover an inside view of Andrew Johnson’s administration, of which very little is known. Within four years past, in Tazewell, Russell, and Washington counties, Virginia, 1,600 men and 3,000 horses have been engaged in the walnut lumber trade, bringing into these counties $1,600,000. One walnut tree realized S6OO. Five hundred men are engaged in getting cut oak staves, which are shipped to Norfolk for Europe and Sbuth America. The walnut is being exhausted, but other valuable woods are abundant. A poplar tree in White’s valley measures twenty-nine feet in circumference.

Mb. Rb&kin has begun a fresh crusade against Philistinism in English society. He thinks that the ideal of young people now is to marry as soon as possible, and live in the most fashion-; able part of the largest town their incomes will allow. And he finds that huge plate-glass windows, “patent everythings going of themselves everywhere,” together with the intellectual environment of “a few bad prints, a few dirty and foolish books, and a quantity of photographs of the people they know,” take the place, in their minds, of a just conception of the “real honor of human life and beauty of the visible world.” Old people: Rev. James Marshall aged 76 years, and Mrs. Mary Moore) , aged SI years, were the happy couple recently united in the bonds of matrimony at Franklin, Tennessee. Walter Pease, of Enfield, Connecticut, is a gentleman who voted for Madison and every Democratic candidate for the Presidency since. Mrs. Nancy Coley, aged 106, is a remarkable woman living near Easton, Connecticut, Her first husband died in 1864 and the following year she married again. Mrs. Bridget Farley, of Stratford, Conneticut, is 104 years old, but she recently went to the city in her carriage and “shopped in a manner thart made the ladies of the city extremely envious. Correspondent New York Star: I am told by one who is intimate with the President-elect, that, though abstemious as a rule, he can take his horn of whisky with any man in America and "never ripple a hair on his eyebrows.” On his visits to New York, Buffalo, Elmira, Newark, and Brooklyn, he always responded to °an invitation to drink, and took whatever was going—gin, rum, whisky, brandy, or beer—and stood up to his poison like a veteran trooper. Confusion of drinks killed Sir Lucius O’Trigger, but it has no more effect upon his Excellency than water on a duck’s back. His appearance denotes a man of powerful physique, with a strong and level head that is proof against the stimulants that so demoralize less vital organizations.

Fob some time stove manufacturers and dealers have seen mica grow scarcer and scarcer, and have heard the steady complaints of stove owners and stove dealers about its rapidly increasing price. There has never been a very liberal supply of mica “in the world, what there was coming from the Rocky Mountains and the South. Last month a mica mine was discovered near Tallulah, Georgia, which is pronounced by an expert and successful mica miner to be 1 the Richest mine he ever saw in any section. The mine contains blocks that will square one foot, and the vein is adjudged to be inexhaustible. Should it so prove, it will be of immense value to people in every station in life, as well as a bonanza to the fortunate owner. Mica has come to be one of the absolute necessities of American economy. A coiutKßPOHDKicr in Remsen, N. X, sends the details of a remarkable combat v itnessed near Bordwelltown. The report says William Williams, who is employed in the tannery at Bordwelltown, while on his way to work about 6 a/ tn., saw a bnge gray owl and a fullgrown skunk engaged in a life-and-death struggle. Williams did not disturb the contestants, bnt on reaching the tannery he informed his fellowworkmen of the fact As they oonld scarcely credit the story, one of their number was sent out to verify it The man had no difficulty in finding the spot where the struggle had taken place, bnt the contest was over when he arrived, and the -victor, the owl, having tore away the fore part of his enemy's body, was feasting on the still quivering remains. As the man ap-

preached, the owl loft its victim bud fiercely assailed the new intruder. In its last battle! the bird did not fare so Well, and was speedily'disabled and captured. ■ ’ ■— ■ 1 ' - ~7 —rr~ The Albany Evening Journal describes an exciting 6oene at a church fair, in that city the other evening. A small pig had been brought in in a box and set aside on exhibition. The little porker, unused to the confinerdent and the novelty of its surroundings, escaped from the box when the attention of the people happened to be engaged elsewhere, and ran squealing about the room. No pen can depict the consternation of the ladies at the escapade. Female shrieks and disordered drapery filled the air, and the ground-and-lofty tumbling indulged in by the fair ones in their efforts to reach tables, chairs, and other places out of the reach of the ferocious animal would have put professional acrobats to the blush. At last a general chase was instituted, and the pig's liberty was terminated by his oapture and return to his box.

Prof. John T. Smith, a prcminen Republican of New Albany,lndiana, was astonished a few days ago by receiving notice of his appointment to a $1,500 clerkship in the War Department. To a correspondent he said: “This is as much a mystery to me as to you. I never asked for the appointment. I suppose, though, it came under the civil-service rules. Several mouths ago I was requested to prepare a paper on civil-service reform, and in order to write it intelligently 1 made some inquiries in reference to the examinations. I found I could get no information upon the subject outside and determined to get it inside. I saw a notice in the papers one day that the commissioners wonld hold a session in Louisville a certain day. I applied for examination solely for the purpose of getting data for my article, which I subsequently wrote. Some time after the examination I received notice from the commission at ti ashington of my percentage, and that I had been entered upon the list for an appointment. I thought and heard no more of it, considering it a mere formal notice, until the notice of my appointment in the War Office came. It is doubtful if I accept, as my business here is of such a nature that Ido not see how I oan leave it with out a sacrifice.”

Chicago "Current: The effects of the great railway war may be seen in the last three twenty-one-day tables ol the New York Indicator. There has been a steady decline in stocks since the outbreak, and millions upon million of water have evaporated. Nothing but Elevated stock has withstood the process. When the [robbers made these evaporated millions by watering the stock, they-Bpent the money in wild extravagance. Villard’B mansion is 1 represented as being as artistic as was his rascality. When he retired to Germany for the sake of educating his son and rostoring his shattered nerves, he took with him a wondrous collection of Northern Pacific bric-a-brac.' Now,oh the disappearance of the millions which the plutocrats once wrote down on paper, the directors naturally turn to the brakeman, and say: “Heavens! man, do you suppose we can pay you the wages we did v when we were making twice as much money ?” Certainly they can. They never gave the brakeman more than would keep him alive. These ■wise men of Gotham have been at war. They knew what war was. Let them remember Camden, Liberty Street in Pittsburgh, the Sixteenth street viaduct in Chicago, the yards at East St Louis, and the scenes on each side the bridge at Omaha.

A Queer Genoese Fashion.

We soon pas b an immense house which was once a palace, but is now used for other purposes. Looking up, r we see that one of the great windows in the second story is open, and a lady is setting at it She is dressed in very bright though somewhat old-fashioned, attire. Flowers and vines cluster inside the window, and there is a hanging cage with a bird. As we stop and look at her, the lady does not move, and in a few minutes we peroeive that the lady, the qpen shutter, the Bash, the flowers, and the cage are all painted on the wall in a space where you would naturally expect to find a window. This used to be a favorite way of decorating houses in Italy, and in Genoa we shall frequently see these painted windows, tome with one person looking out, some with two, and some with none. The lady at the window has Bat and looked out the window for hundreds of years. Under her window, into the great entrance of the palace, med to pass nobles and princes. Now there are shops in the lower part of the palace, and. you can have your shoes mended by n cobbler in the court-yard. —Frank R Stockton, in St. Nicholas.

A Discriminating Jury.

Coroner—“ Gentlemen, this verdiet will never da” Juryman —“Why, what’s wrong with it?” Coroner —“Why, the deceased was ..evidently a tramp who froze to death while drunk, and ere you state that he is ~a gentleman, and came to hia death while attempting to keep his fiowers from freezing.” Juryman—“ That verdict is correct —all bnt one. word. r Substitute the word blossom for the word flowers.” Coroner—“Ah IT see! .He was trying to preserve the blossom on the end of hia nose! 'ilie veidict is correct, and the jury is dismissed,'’ —Niwman Independent Ebb |ancy yon consult, consult year parse.— Franklin.

CORNELL’S WEALTH.

How tb« ex-Governor or NeW TToltej Amassed Ills Fortune: * 1% has often been questioned whether ex-Governor Cornell, when walking down the fitarble steps of his palatial mansion at 616 Fifth avenue, recalls the days when his father toiled early and late in the Mphawk valley, chopping telegraph poles for what is now known as the Western Union. Does he think of his own early struggles as a telegraph operator in an obscure country village ? Does he fpel when he spends S2OO for a Christmas-tide bauble that that sum at one time rep resented his yearly income ? Does the ex-Governor, bo immaculate in his dress, so elegant in his manners, recall those days when one suit a year was a luxury seldom accorded him? And when dining at his favorite club or in company with those whose names have become famous wherever the English language is spoken, does he fail to remember the ragged little urchin who roamed the streets of Ithaca forty years ago? The history of his present vast wealth and the years of struggle and disappointment before the golden goal was reached are peculiarly interesting. To-day, in twenty-four hours he can command nearly $10,000,000. Forty years ago it would have been tall scraping for fiim to have gathered 25 cents that he would dare call his own. It is even common gossip in his native vilvage that when the ex-Governor was quite a lad his parents were at the time almost penniless. His father was seldom at home. His friends considered him a mild edition of a crank. In these days he would come under the category of a geuius. In a certain sense, old Ezra Cornell was even then a genius, if a total forgetfulness of all the ties and customs of life could have-given him that title, He had a few acres of land and a tum-ble-down old shanty for a house. He made a bare subsistence from the soil, and his wife’s labor at the washtub eked out sufficient clothing for her children, and now and then a cheap calico lor a “company” dress for herself. Old Ezra occasionally received a New York paper, and in the long winter evenings he would pour over it with the avidity that the fashionable young lady to-day does over the latest novel. Even the advertisements were a source of much joy and comfort to him. Any change from the dreary monotony of his everyday life was a godsend to him. At that time Professor Morse, the Nestor of American telegraph, had about completed his first experiments, but was puzzled whether the telegraph wires should be erected on poles or sunk under ground, This subject was long and even bitterly discussed by the projectors of the infant Western Union, and the question agitated Professor Morse and his friends for years. The reports of the differences over the subject were published in the Courier and Enquirer, then the leading paper of this city, a copy of which found its way into old Ezra’s hands.

That little paragraph ultimately proved to be the hrst Btep in the present colossal fortune controlled by his son, Alonza B. Old Ezra, without instructions from Professor Morse, and, without the faintest encouragement that his course was correct, immediately absented himself from his wretched home. He was lost to his family for months, but when he returned it was with the information that he had out “one hundred cords of poles for them telegraph fellers, and I mean to sell ’em to ’em, too.” He was the laughing stock of the neighborhood. His friends were really concerned for him, and his wife was not altogether sure that her husband had been on a foolhardy mission. Ezra, however, was confident that telegraph wires would be strung on poles, and no amount of argument or persuasion could deter him from a second visit to the wilderness, from which he returned in a couple of months, remarking that he had cut “more poles for them telegraph fellows.” He then made bold enough to address Professor Morse. He stated that he was in position to supply his company with telegraph poles, and could supply him with a wilderness if necessary. Professor Morse replied that he wanted the poles very much, but-that neither he nor his company were in a position to pay for them; but if Mr. Cornell wished to deliver them they would be paid for in stock of the company. Old Ezra after much consideration consented to the bargain, and for several years kept them supplied, always receiving in return a pile of Western Union ohromos. His neighbors continued to think him on the verge of idoov, and his family were in aa desperate straits as ever. It is a legend of Ithaca that so infatuated had old Ezra become with his telegraph-pole cutting that at one tithe his garret and “spare” room were strewn with the original stock of the Western Union, not worth the paper it was written on, and it is stated as a positive fact by the ex-Governor’s friends that his mother became so disgusted by ber husband’s course that she very frequently used the shares of the company to kindle her fire with. All this, however, was changed in a tew days. When the war broke out the demand for increased telegraph facilities brought the Western Union up with a rush. Its stock increased to an enormous extent, and old Ezra hsgan to scour his garret for the reams of it which he haa accepted for his poles. He gathered them up, and packing them in an old leathern trank, came to the city. He soon learned that with each day he became SIOO,OOO richer. The dear old gentleman could hardly appreciate his vast possessions. His family ihat had suffered so long, and Alonzo and his mo her were quickly installed into a beautiful home, with • very luxury t’ at the Monte Cristo wealth of his father could provide. He is now the sole possessor of his father's estate. In politick be is termed the “Sphynx,” but to his fellow members as the Union League Clnb he is a genial and agreeable gentleman, though by no means entlmHastio in his friendships or social relations. —New York Journal. A Theater Lunch in Kansas City. It so happened that there was a long

wait between the acta, during which the attendants handed. round glasses of ▼as passing dowjfßie dress circle an eHipy, well dressed woman beckoned to him. The boy gave her the glass of water, when, to the petrified amazement of the people in the vicinity, the lady produced a paper bag of crackers and commenced to make an elaborate lunch, nipping the water at intervals and otherwise creating a panic in the theater. Ttf the credit of the little boy, be it said, that he remained master of the situation, and waited patient}? until the glass was empty, when he offered her another one. The old lady, however, did not perceive the cold irony of the act, as the orchestra commenced to play preparatory to the rising of the curtain, she declined the second glass. —Kansas City Times,

Housekeeing in Paris.

A correspondent of the Boston Transcript writes thus from Paris: When we had been there a week we naturally expected clean sheets on our beds, but we found it was the custom of the house to change the sheets only once a month! I have since heard that it is the usual custom in France even in nice houses. Descendants of Puritan great-grand-mothers, can you believe it? We submitted. howev<jt We also refrained from reprbaoli when Amelia, smilingly and innocent of harm, after depositing on the table our bowls qf chocolate, proceeded to draw our breakfast rolls from her pocket It was better to conform to the custom of the country & possible, and when we tried very hard, as in this instance, we found we could. There was a line of forbearance, however beyond which I could not go. I imagined Amelia saving to herself. “Yes, yes, wash, seruo, scour, and rinse! Is madams already an angel that she must have everything about her perfectly clean and pure ?” Is it possible that Americans have finer senses than their French sisters ? Madame protested that everything in my room was as clean as it could be; and I found dirt in all the creases of crockery. Amelie brought me the slop pail in a triumph of successful deodorization; it wa3 simply nauseous. The table was excellent in its way, a French way, of course and breakfast and dinner were much alike. A soup, two kinds of hot meat, vegetables, salad, bread and cheese sometimes a pudding or custard, fruit but not in abundance, wine, but no ice water—always always those dreadful little “biscuit," dry as a chip and a resting place for flies all through the early part of the meal. When the hot weather came on we longed for the cool chicken salads, cake, lemonade, and ice-cream lunches of home. I had no idea that the .Frenoh were so fond of sausage, which we associate with the Germans; rather but I think We had them in Borne form almost every day. We endured the tougb, close breath of England in the patient hope of better things when we should reach France. The Parisian bread that was set before us had a crust as thick and almost as hard as an oyster shell, and if I say as dirty, too, I shall not much exaggerate; inside it was full of large holes and had a more or less sour flavor. By inquiring and persistent research we found at the bakers’ shops a kind of smalffcubical loaf, that was, —as one of our party expressed it, —“much less indelicate.” Strange to say, this was called English bread. We have come to the conclusion that French rolls, as well as French roll pan 3 are a Yankee invention.

Socialistic Foes.

The great cities are now well equipped with Communistic contingents, the members of which gather in some vacant space every Sunday and holiday and give expression to whatever thought, malice andL ignorance may suggest. Among the orators are men who have been taught by the State itself to know the falsehood of their utterances, yet the persistence of evil in educated minds has overthrown that work of the State. When Christ was on Calvary he cried: “Father, forgive them; they know not what they do.” So the benevolent citizen often feels towards the mass of the Communists. But people who tike the trouble to argue with these foes to humanity should use the history of the French Bevolotion to exhibit to the Black Flags the utter folly of their hopes of securing plunder from the rich classes. First, the orators would work each other’s execution, as Robespierre did Danton’s; as Tallien did Robespierre’s. Nest the non-combatants would execute them all in the end, to get rid oi them. Not only was this so in Paris in 1792, bnt the thing was repeated 1871. No sooner did one man rise to power than his comrades hurled him into prison. So fared Bergeret, Cluseret, and RosseL And when the people of France got hold of that motley host called the Commune of Paris, it adopted but one mode of procedure: Whoever smelled of petroleum was shot Eighteen thousand Communists fell defending their idiotic Committee of Safety, 6,000 men and women were shot at Satory, and 15,000 men and women endured the horrors of transportation to New Caledonia. In the older Paris the very cream of the patriots went to the Place de Grove and the Place de Revolution ! “O! Liberty, what crimes are committed in thy name!” cried Madame Roland, the Republican, as she approached the gnillotino. Let no Communist think he would gain by a Reign of Terror. Let every moderate man who half sympathizes with the Black Flags also remember that he would, in a month, be the Girondist, a certain offering upon the scaffold.— The Current

A State’s Varied Resources.

“What are the products of Kentucky?" asked thfir teacher. “Tobacker!” yelled little Sammy. “What else?” “Whisky!” veiled Tommy. “What else?” “Kamels!” yellod Johnny.—lndianapolis slimes. . 1 ■ _ ■' 1 The wife of a Methodist preacher in Georgia takes tnrns with her husband at preaching. When his parishioner* see the old gentleman digging worms in the back yard they know that it is his day off

OBITUARY.

SuOTffi DMir of Ex-Vice President Schuyler Colfax at Mankato, Minn. r Heart Disease the Cause of Death— A Sketch of His Career—Other Deaths. Hon. Schuyler Col fix. of South Bend, Ind., ex-Yloe President of the United state*, died on the 13th Inst., In the Chicago, St. Pan), Minneapolis Mid Omaha passenger depot at Mankato, Minn., of heart - disease. Mr. Colfax arrived In Mankato on the morning train of the Milwaukee Road, and, after Inquiring the distance and way to the Omaha depot, walked to that place, a distance of about threefourths of a mile, while the mercury stood at 30 degrees below zera Upon arriving at the depot he inquired of the baggageman where the gentleman’s waiting-room was, and lmmediatly went tn, where three gentlemen were seated waiting for the west-bound train. There was nothing in his manner when he entered the depot to attract the attention of the other occupants of the room. They noticed that he was breathing hard, bnt thought nothing of It, considering that a fast walk was the canse. He looked out of the window and at a map on the wall, and then seated himself upon a bench in the room, crossing one leg over the knee of the other. About five minutes after he entered the room one of the gentlemen present noticed his leg drop from the knee npen which he was resting, and that his face was growing pale. Several of those In the room hastened to his assistance, thinking that the sudden change of temperature had caused him to faint; bnt he gave only one gasp and was dead. He had not spoken after entering the room, Us last words being those of thanks to the baggageman who had directed him to the waiting room. No one knew the identity of the man who had passed away so suddenly until a letter was noticed in his pocket directed to "Hon. Schuyler Colfax, South Bend, Ind.” Other letters found upon his person left no donbt that the body was that of Mr. Colfax. The Coroner was notified, and during the afternoon held an inquest. The Jury, after examining four witnesses, rendered a verdict in accordance with the above facts. The relatives of Mr. Colfax were at once made aware by telegraph of his sad death. The remains were taken to the spacious parlors of Ur. 2. G. Harrington, and there properly prepared and laid In state. The following day they were placed in charge of a delegation of Odd Fellows, and escorted to the late home of the deceased, at South Bend, Ind. Mr. Colfax, at the time death overtook him, was en route to Hurou, Dak., on business connected with Odd Fellowship, of which he was a prominent member. BIOGRAPHICAL. Schuyler Colfax, seventeenth Vioe President of the United’ States, was born in New York City March 33,1833. His grandfather. Captain Colfax, was an officer of the revolutionary army and commandant of Washington’s body guard. His father died before Schuyler was born, and when he was 10 years old bis mother married again, and for the next three years he was engaged in his stepfather’s store. In 1886 the family emigrated to Indiana and settled In New Carlisle, St. Joseph County. During the five following years Schuyler was a clerk in a country store. In 1841 his stepfather, Mr. Matthews, w r as elected County Auditor, and removed to South Bend, bcuyler was appointed his deputy, and began to stndy law; but after serving two years as Senate reporter for the Indianapolis State Journal he established in 1848 a weekly paper at South Bend, called the St. Joseph Valley Register, of which he was both proprietor and editor. In politics It supported the whig party, and in 1848 Mr. Colfax was sent as a delegate to the Whig National Convection at Philadelphia, of which body he was elected Secretary. In. 188 p he was a member of the Indiana State Constitutional Convention, in which be spoke and voted against the clause prohibiting free cohered persons from entering the State. In 1861 he was candidate for Congress, and wgs defeated only by a majority of 216, though his district was strongly Democratic. , In 1832 he was a delegate to the Whig National Convention at Baltimore, which appointed him Its Secretary. Two years later l;e was elected a Representative in Congress by the newly formed Republican party, and was re-elected for the six following terms. In 1856 he supported Mr. Fremont for President, and daring the canvass a speech made by him In Congress on the extension of slavery and the aggression of the slave power was circulated to the extent of more than half a million copies. In the Thirty-fifth Congress Mr. Colfax vu made Chairman of the Committee on Postoffices and Postroads, whichplace he continued to occupy until his election December 7, 1863, as Speaker of the Thirty-eighth Congress. He was re-elected Speaker again >in 1868, and again In 1867. In 1868 he made a Journey across the continent to the Pacific coast, and in May, 1868, the Republican National Convention at Chicago nominated him for Vice President of the United States, with Gen. Grant as candidate for President. He received 822 vofes ol the 630 that were polled by the convention, and was elected in November: and on March 4, iB6O, J 1 ® was Inaugurated Vice President, and took his seat as President of the Senate. In 1870 he wrote a letter which was published, declaring his Intention to retire from public life as soon as bis term of Vice President had expired. He was subsequently led to change this determination, and at the Republican National Convention at Philadelphia, in 1872, be was a candidate for the nomination aia Vice President and received 314 W votes, 384 >6 being given to Henry Wilson, of Massachosete, who was accordingly nominated on the first ballot, and ehosen in the subsequent Presidential election. In 1873 Mr. Colfax was implicated in charges Of corruption brought against many members of Congress, bnt the Judiciary Committee of the House reported on Feb. 24,1873, that there was no ground for the Impeachment of Mr, toltax, since, if there bad been any offense committed by him, it was before he became Vice President. Since that time he has taken no part in politics, bat has frequently appeared as a public lecturer.

OTHEK UEAIHB. Earl of Aylesford. A recent dispatch from Biz Springs, Tex., announces the death at that place of the Earl of Aylesford. His disease was acute inflammation of the bowels. His death was entirely unexpected by bis friends. The Earl had been complaining for several weeks. His remains were embalmed and forwarded to England. Aylesford was one of the heaviest land-owners la Texas, hia ranch covering about 40,000 aores of grazing land. The Earl of Aylesford was born in 1849, and came to his title and estates, which are among the largest and most productive in Great Britain, before he was of age. At 22 he married Edith, the daughter of CoL Peers William-, M. P., of Temple Court, Berks, England, and bad by her two daughters. The marriage was considered an advantageous one on both sides, for the groom had rank and wealth, was recognized as a future leader in society and politics, and the bride was one of the loveliest women in Europe, famous at four coarts for her beauty and attractions. Governor Hale, of Wyoming, * Governor William Hale, of Wyoming Territory, died at Cheyenne, after a lingering illness from kidney complication. He was appointed Governor by President Arthur. Aug. 3, 1882. Hu former residence was at Glenwood, lows. He was 48 years old. William W. O'Brien. William W. O’Brien, one of the most noted criminal lawyers in the West, died at his home in Chicago, of peritonitis. He was bom In Leitrim. Ireland, May 22, 1831. and received a common perish education. In 1854 be came to the United States, and for a time remained in New Orleans. The next year he settled hi Peoria, 111., and was employed aa a porter at one of the hotel-. He studied law, wee admitted to the bar, and rapidly went to the front as a jury advocate. In 1871 he removed to Chicago, where, although handicapped 1 by unfortunate social habits, be did an immense practice. Mr. O’Brien waa in his &lfs year. Isaiah Bynders, Capt. Isaiah Bynders, one of the old-time Democratic politicians, died at his home in New fork. He was stricken with paralysis, and his dying words were, “Give me brandy." bynders, in the ante-bellum days, wielded larger political influence in New York local pojtiticaUum any man'of hia time. He was 7-3 yearn old. Sib Akthub Sullivan, the composer, has issued a sort of pronnneiamento in the the London Daily News, in which he announces the death of Italian opera. Col. Boudihot, the Indian Representative. has given Senator Voorhees an elegant robe, made from the skins of wildcats killed by the Colonm in Arkansas. Thomas King, a car-starter in Pittsburg, is aaid to be a son of an English peer and a graduate of Oxford. Clara Louise Kellogg has a mania for reel point lace handkerchiefs.

INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

13th in reoefrlhg and hearing Mr Mb, the more important of which were, one for a ey rings la the ro«d ( law and another for holding an aleotidJfSOT tot CiMlfttfflfliffll f|t COBfflfltMWL his seat. He was very cordially received, bnt appeared a little nervous at first, and was not well acquainted with the personnel of the Senate, many of the members having faces with which be was not familiar. He is a master of routine, however, and promlam to make an efficient President. The last bill Introduced was one abolishing the office of Fish Com miahioner. Gov. ToraHarma retired from the Presidency of the Senate, indorsed by a unanimous vote as an able and Impartial parliamentarian. The session two years ago was a stormy one, and the five days of the nst week were models of decorum and good feeling. The principal portion of the forenoon session of the House was spent in listening to the report of the committee on rales, and in discussing the same. The rules adopted are substantially the same as those used by former legislative bodies. The most important change made Is In the amendment of the rule requiring all bills introduced to be read by sections en three several occasions before being referred to the committee. Under the rale adopted Mile may be inferred Immediately after the first reading. It was stated by the committee that the purpose of this departure from old-time naqge was to expedite business by disposing of worthless measures In the shortest order possible. Martin Morrison, of Clinton, we* eubstituted for P. J. Kelly, as reading Men of the House. The Senate standing committees were announced by Lieut Gov. Hanson on the 14th. The Chairmen are as follows: Elect tons. Duncan, of Brown: Finance, Wllllard; Judiciary, McCullough; Courts. Smith, of Jay: Education, Johnson, of Tippecanoe: Corporations, Null; Roads, Johnson, of Dearborn; -Benevolent institution, MeClnre; Agriculture, HtU: Banks. Schosa; Printing, HilUgass; Public Buildings. Rahm; State Prisons, Hoover; Canals and Internal Improvements, Ernest; Fees and Salaries, Richardson; Claims, Wler; Military Affairs, Howard; Bills, Sellers; Federal Relations and Rights of Inhabitants of State, Faulkner; Temperance. Thompson; County and Township Bnatoeas. Mclntosh; Public Health, Bryant; Insurance, May; Railroads, Magee; Mines and Mining. Benz; Suycrvtmon and Inspection of Senate Journal, Brown; Executive Appointments. Shively; Coneressionsl Apportionment, Dav; Legislative Apportionment. Zimmerman. Senator Faulkner, as a railroad attorney, asked to be excused from serrioe on the Railroad Committee. The request was granted. Bills were Introduced In the House, read the first time, and referred to appropriate committees: To create an Appellate Court; to regulate foreign fire insurance companies doing business in this State; to amend section 8 of the act relating to the powers and duties of coroners, being section 18 of the Revised Statutes of 1881; to define the righto and liabilities of hotel and Innkeepers; to provide for the appointment of a commissioner of railroads, defining his powers and duties, fixing his compensation, etc. ; to amend an amendatory act concerning highways and the Supervisors thereof; for the better protection of quails and pheasants; to amend section 12 of the act concerning highways and the supervisors thereof; to repeal section 4847 of the Revised Statutes of 1881 ; to regulate the practice of medicine In Indiana: anthorizlng county commissioners to construct free turnpikes In certain eases; ter therepeal of the drainage act of April, 18*1; to amend section 2009 of an act concerning crimes and the punishment thereof, approved April 14. 1881, being section 2117 of the Revised Statutes of 1881 ; to provide for the purchase of stationery for the county officers by the commissioners. ; • - ■- ;

Tub following Mils were introduced in the Senate on the 15th, read the first time, and severally referred to appropriate committees: To amend section 12 of the act of April 8. 1881, concerning drainage; to amend the act of Maxob 2. 1881, concerning highways and npemun thereof; to provide for the speedy publication, distribution and sale of the Indiana reports by the reporter of the Supreme Court, and repealing ail laws except the section of the act of March 19, 1875, to fix the number of Senators and Bepresentatives to the Gen ral Assembly; to amend section 2 of th > general incorporation act, being section 3258 of the Revised Statutes; to legalize the Incorporation of the Union i can and Savings Company of Marion County; supplemental to the act of May 11,1881, for the orga lzation and regulation of the State Militia; to amend sections 1 and 7 of the act of May 13, 1852, prescribing the duties of the Clerk pf the Supreme Court; to amend the act of April 14, 1881, regulating Insanity inquests and the commital of insane persons to hcsji’als for the ins ae. In the House the following bills were Introduced: To create the Twenty-first, Twenty-second and Forty-seventh judicial circuits; supplemental to the drainago act approved April 8, 1831; to repeal sections 1 and iof an act of April 10,1881, authorising aliens to bold real estate; for an act for the incorporation of towns; providing for the election of officers, etc.; relating to live stock, importing, breeding, and herding companies, authorizing and prescribing the manner in which they may be incorporated, etc.; to require railroad companies to fence their tracks, etc.; to amend section 4830 of the Bovised Statutes of 1881; to provide a safe deposit for county and township funds; to legalize the Incorporation of the Union Loan and Trust Association of Marion Conntv; to amend an act to allow the charters of turnpike and gravel road companies to be extended in ceita n cases, approved March a, 1885; to amend section lof aa amendatory Justices of the Peace act; to regulate the running of passenger and accommodation trains; concerning notes given for attorneys' fees: to fix the time for bedding courts ltfthe Thirty-filth Jnd cial Circuit; to empower Township Trustees to purchase and keep in repair public eemeteri s; to amend section 8 of an act of March 8, 1873, amendatory of section 24 of the common school law; to amend section 1 of the act to stnrhorize County Commissioners to provide suitable asylums for children who are a charge upon the counties; to amend the act crefling the Forty-tbird Judicial Circuit: to provide for the incorporation of an asylum for indigent females and authorizing the grant of aid thereto. Several petitions were presented in the Senate on the 16th, for scientific temperance instruction in the common schools. A report from the Judiciary Committee recommending the indefinite postponement of Mr.' Poulke’s bill for cslling a constitutional convention being presented, ft was made the special ordeg for the 2lst. Mr. Bailey otiered a resolution to create a standing committee on cities. Mr. Maty offered a reeo ution for the appointment of a committee of three to ascertain from Gierks of the Circuit Coarts in the several counties the whole number of civil, criminal, and probate causes begun, the number of centre settled and in process of settlement, and the number of guardianships settled and p-riding In each of said courts from Jan. 1,1881. to Jan. 1. 1886, inclusive. Mr. Bailey introduced aMU for the appointment of a State boiler Inspector. Senator Atkinson brought up a resolution concerning the consolidation of the Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home with tne Asylum for Feeble-Mind-ed Children, and calling for a joint a mmittee to prepa r e a bill for henceforth conducting the two institutions under different managements. There was nothing of an especially interesting nature n the proceedings of the House. Immediately after the opening of the eeesion Representative Lloyd, of Ripley County, offered a concurrent resolution Instructing the United States Senators of the State of lodiana and requesting the members of Congress to vote for the immediate repeal of the clause of the pension aw recalling an applicant tor pen-ion to prove himself to have been of sound physical health at the date of his enlistment. As the resolution was first read it called for the repeal of the entire law, but Mr. Sm th. of Tippecanoe, saw Hie error, and moved aa amendment so as to refer only to the objectionable clause. The resolution passed unanimously as amended- Later on a joint resolution, offered by Representative Robertson, was passed, favoring the pensioning of soldiers of the Mexican and civil w.rs without discrimination or grade, and asking for the rereal of tha limitation act, Mr. Sayre wanted to except JeJ Davis in the list of soldiers of the Mexican war, but was too slow in offering such an amendment. The re; ort* of the standing committees were received, and favorable recommendations were made nrou several measures. The Committee on Rlvhtc and Prtvileg s made a f vor ibis report on the Moody MU In the interest of hotel - keepers. ' • ■,■■■ 1 1

Unwritten Law.

So far as men become good and wise and vise above the state of children, so far they become emancipated from the written law and invested with the perfect freedom which consists in the fullness%nd jqyfulnees of compliance with the higher and unwritten law; a law so universal, so subtile, so glorious, that nothing but the heart can keep it— Buskin. ,■* ■ * ?■“ : _ r _ Tbs first or done happened la Edon. It was a perfect burry-Caia.