Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1885 — Page 3

: The Republican. RENSSELAER, INDIANA ' to. EL MARSHALL, - • Publish**.

As Indiana man baa patented a model for a straw house. The walls are to bo made of bales of straw or nav, and then plastered and bolted down. It is said to be preferable to brick and aa endurable. ■' A Brooklyn woman-has established a legal precedent by gaining a verdict for damages to property by the running of a steam motor in its vicinity. This is said to be the first case of that kind in the city of churches, and a large number of suits are liable to follow. The caterer justifies the use of the French bill of iare by English-speaking people by the crushing assertion that the majority of those who are capable of appreciating the dishes themselves are also able jfco understand the language adopted for their names. In other words, the man who thought he liked potato will find it more toothsome as a pomme de terre. The old injunction should be changed from “live and learn” to “learn French and enjoy living.”

There were 121 bank failures in the United States last year. Of this number eleven were National, seventy-sev-en private, twenty-two State and eleven savings banks. Nineteon of these failures are traceable to the fraud of bank officers, twenty-five of them resulted from unfortunate operations in stocks, disconnected from the element of fraud, and sixty-seven, or more than one-half of them, were due, either directly or indirectly, to some form of speculation.

“I was going down the street,” said Willie Smith to Justice Foot in a Chicago police court, “when a dog Tan at me, caught me by the leg, and tore my pants: I kicked the dog, and this man hit me and knocked file down.” “Your honor,” said Albert Stotzenback, the accused, “that was not my dog, it was a ‘bum’ dog that hangs around saloons on 3d avenue. He followed me on the street, and when the boy kicked him I hit him.” “According to your own story you think more of a ‘bum’ dog than you do of a human being. I’ll fine you $25 and costs.”

Lulu Hurst, the magnetic, has reached home after her winter campaign, and tells a Georgia newspaper man that she has seen all the reporters in the country since she left,and “they’re awful nice and kind." Any ambitions Indianapolis scribe who may hope from this remark that, perhaps, he made an impression upon her electric heart, will he chilled by her further comment that New York reporters in particular are “mighty nice ypung men,” but that of all places she has seen she would prefer to live in California. Evidently the “nicest” reporter is in the far, far West

“Thebe is an air of romance,” says the Boston Transcript, “about the Christian name of the young widow who has undertaken to avenge on O’Donovan Bossa the deeds of the London dynamiters. The name Yseult recalls the story of the guilty passion which gave to Biohard Wagner a theme for his music drama, ‘Tristan and Isolde,’ Yseult being but another spelling of the heroine's name, and the one that is adopted by the French. Ysolde and Ysonde are two other fashions of orthography followed by various reciters of the romance, and possibly there are a dozen other ways of spelling the name of the Irish princess."

Chicago Current: The recent decision of the Supreme Court of the Territory of .Utah, that Clawson must stay in jail, and the introduction in the North Carolina Legislature of a bill for an act making it a felony to teach the doctrine of polygamy, are evidences that the tide is against polygamy, and that Mormonism may at least be confined to the Territories —if the people act promptly enough. Some others of the Southern States should follow example of the North Carolinians. Meanwhile the Salt Lake Tribune never misses a day in the good fight against the monstrous evil. A Mexican hegira is still barely possible.

Of the'll,Boß marriages in New York city in 1884, ten were of colored men to white women, and one of a colored woman to a white man; Two men married for the fifth time, three men and two women for the fourth, 100 men and forty one women for the third, and 1,645 widowers and 1,270 widows of ...the first time remarried. Eleven bridegroom arid one bride were between 70 and6o years of age, sixteen bridegrooms and two brides between 65 and 70, and 59 bridegrooms and six brides between 60 and 66. The number of men who married under 20 was 218; that of women 2,919. The number of men who married between 20 and 25 years of age was 4,173; of women, 6,031; 3,795 men and 2,170 women married between 25 and 30 years of age.

Thrice votes closed all the saloons in an Arkansas County. A contemporary gives the details: "There is a statute that at each State election in Arkansas the question of license shall be submitted to the ballot If a majority of the voters bo not for licenses, than it is tw-

lawful for the county court to grant them. At the last election the question was overlooked inadvertently- It was takhn for granted, that by common consent license would be voted. The returns sh< wed three ballots in the county against license and none for. Thuff the anomaly of. three votes closing all the saloons in the county for two years is presented. There were thirty saloons m Hot Springs, which paid a revenue of $32,000 to the county and city. The matter was taken before the courts, but the saloon-keepers were defeated, and they must suspend business for the next two years.”

A visitor to the top of Monnt "Washington concludes that the weather is really cold up there. He was convinced by a walk along the railroad with wind-blowing at the rate of seventy miles an hour and the thermometer twenty degrees below zero. The temperature does not get lower than in many other places, but the wind blows with greater velocity, it is said, than at any other known spot in the world, and this makes the cold unbearable. A velocity of 180 miles an hour has been attained, while at Pike’s Peak, 8,000 feet higher, the greatest is 100 miles, and in New York forty-five miles is a heavy gale. Of course, the air has less power as the * density increases, but even with this reduction the cold is so intense that if any one covers every part of the body, leaving only the eyes exposed, these are soon coated with frost, which closes the lids and olten makes it almost impossible to see. The moisture of the breath freezes under the coverings of the face, and a frost bite is the consequence.

S. P. public"' 'printer and manager of the Government office in Washington, has made a report to Congress, giving the particulars of the doings of the concern for the last year. It is a ponderous pamphlet, showing a very liberal use of “printer’s ink” by the wise men of the two Houses of Congress. The cost of the work completed during the year for the Senate was $149,144, and for the House $276,477. The office employs on an average 2,500 men, whose pay-roll amounts for the year to $1,7G7,3G2, or $5,646.52 per day. The estimate for the year 1885 is $2,675,000. Of course to the large sums for printing completed for the Senate and House must be added the work done on the census reports and other large, orders in process of completion heretofore ordered, thus requiring the large amout of money last given. A very satisfactory account is given of the sanitary condition of this immense establishment. Mr. Hounds says: “Congress made a special appropriation. for this importont work, and I have to report a radical improvement for the better during the last year. There has been a marked decrease both in the sick-roll and the death rate among the employes, and the entire force feel gratified at the change and as a consequence prepared to render much more efficient service.

Chicago Current: If civilization must confront dynamite, why not do it with a better face? So far the claims of the criminals who wreak their small vengeancer have been rid culously greater than their achievements. They have said they would “blow up” Parliament ; they have ended with heaving a couple of torpedoes or cannon-fire-crackers, which tore a hole in a wooden floor and wounded a dozen people, some of whom actually carried the bl .zing contrivances, and yet escaped death. The big stained windows have been broken as ruthlessly as any c owd of small boys might have broken them. The damage is far less than attended the first “great explosion" in 1883, at the Government buildings, not far away. Men are handling dynamite all over the world; more workmen are accidentally killed by its agency each year than have ever been wounded through all the scheming of the assassins. The sensation caused in Ihe public mind by the explosions is out of all keeping with their consequence. As a fact, the dynamiters have failed. The world is not at their mercy; their dream is at an end. They probably know it, and are more unhappy than the most unthinking of their hoped-for victims. A sharp watch for dynamite* throwers, together with the failure of dynamite as a destructive agent, will soon lower the business below vitriolcasting. The moment the people look at the matter practically, that moment the villains’ occupation will be gone, for, when stripped of its fright and horror, no act of vandalism is more senseless and impotent

The Consumption of Chocolate.

in 1879 25,000 bags of cocoa beans were imported into this country. Last year the number reached 55,000. The use of chocolate in confectionery is very extensive, and as a beverage it is gaining oh tea and coffee. We made last year 1.500,000 pounds, and use a ton of sugar a day. TJhe best cocoa beans come from Venezuela and Mexico, the cheapest from Ban Domingo. Only the finest sugars, mostly Havanas, can be used, as they must be ground. Most of the machinery is imported, though we have in use many improvements on the French models. The present tariff discriminates against American chocolates by taring sugar 2 cents a pound, and while foreign chocolates are admitted with only 2 cents a pound duty we have to pay 16 cents to enter French markets. —New York Tribune, v ' VT

MECHANICAL.

There is but one place in the United States where gun cotton is made. Until six months ago the Navy was obliged tod* pend upon England for all gun cotton used, but a manufactory has been erected at the torpedo station. Newport, which now produces all that is required for sea-going men-of-war and torpedoes.

The superiority of American dredging machines, which has been Bhown in the work on the Panama Canal, has led to orders for them by foreign governments. The last of these is from Spain. A drag boat with; 7 a screw propeller of 100-horse power, five iron barges and two towboats h-ve been called for to be nsed at the port of San Juan, Porto Rico. Although jute has now assumed such. importance as an article of commerce, the first at empts to utilize its fibre were not made in Europe until 1834-5, and it was only when the Crimean War deprived England of Russian flax and hemp that jute fibre became highly valued. The centre of trade in Great Britain is Dundee. Of late years Germany has gone largely into it. • Sawdust is mixed with common alluvial clay, now, • and the compost is ground and pres ed by machinory, and baked like bricks. The result is called terracotta lumber, which is spongy enough, the sawdust having been burned out, to admit of the nseof wood-working tools upon it. It is only adapted for inside work, and is used like brick, each piece being about a foot long, six inches wide, and four inches thick. The surface is and can be finished by two thin coats of plaster. It is lighter than a similar wall of studding and lath, heavily plastered. It holds a nail well, and it affords, it is claimed, a prime system of fireproofing. The tronble which Philadelphia is having with the masonry of her new city hall is similar to that experienced with the capitol building in Hartford a few years ago. When the latter edifice was completed, large chips began to fall from the faces of granite blocks in the dome piers, sadly marring those massive supports, and exciting grave fears about the security of the whole fabric. Further settling, however, was prevented by ben ing into the piers and filling the interstices with several tons of molten type metal. And the granite was so dexterously patched and veneered that only 'upon careful inspection oould one find traces of the damage wrought by the unevenly distributed pressure.

A valuable enamel for artistic purposes, says a Dresden journal, may be prepared from a mixture of thirty parts, by weight, of saltpetre, ninety Darts of silicic acid and 250 parts of litharge. Drawings can be made upod this enamel as upon paper, and the characters can be burnt in by means of a muffle in Iss than a minute. It can also be employed .n the preparation of photographs without the use of collodion. For this purpose a mixture of ten parts of gum, one of honey, and three of bichromate of 1 potash, well filtered, is dried upon the enamel and exposed in the camera, the image being then developed by dusting tver it a powder of ten parts, by weight, oxide of cabalt, ninety of pulverized iron scales, 100 of red lead and thirty of sand; the chromate is decomposed by immersion in a slightly acidulated bath. When washed and dried the enamel is melted by packing it upon a piece of clean sheet iron, and coated with chalk, and the photograph glazed upon the enamel is then brought to view.

The Resources of the West.

Vast are the resouces of the West Should a “down-easter” read this statement, he mignt think at once of the rich mines and fertile soil of the West; but the resources here referred to, are the rich minds, the fertile field of literature—the fertile field which is to be, but which is now, a mere clearing. The West has it in her power to bring forth a literature all her own, a literature as vast as her wide prairies, as pure and sparkling as the waters of her living springs, and as varied as her vegetable productions. Nor is this all in the future; it is even now making'its appearance, and needs only to be cultivated that it may grow to mammoih proportions. Very small, indeed is the beginning made, but this argues nothing against future growth.

Poetry and romance are written on the prairies, the wooded hills j and rushing rivers, in the lives of the people, and the glowing* imaginations of western geniuses. But let not these geniuses, in their attempt to transfer this poetry and romance to paper, turn away from the hills and prairies and the lives of their neighbors. Let them not drawfrom what they have read, but from what they have seen. This will not preclude erudition on the part of the writers.; so far from it, that unless they are in a measure learned, they can not present these things attractively; but the learning should be subservant to the writing—should be employed in evolving what is written, not be hung on it for the sake of display. To the credit of western writes, be it said, there are about the little poems and short romances written by them, a refreshing originality and trueness to nature, a freedom, in short, from ent-and-dridness which distinguishes them; and this is what malt distinguish the literature of which they are, in part, the beginning St. Louis Magazine.

Jcpiteb made a lottery in heaven, to which mortals as well as gods were allowed to have tickets. The prize was wisdom , and Minerva got it The mortals- murmured, and accused the gods oi foul play. Jnpiter, to wipe off this aspersion, declared another lottery for mortals singly and exclusive of the godß. The prize was lolly. They got it and shared it among themselves. All were satisfied. The loss of wisdom was neither regretted or remembered —folly supplied its place, and tho«e who had the largest share of it thought themselves the wisest, —Monsieur de la Motle.

The measure of the respectability of a funeral in Kio Janeiro is the number of mules attached to the hearse.

THE NEW DEAL.

Sketches of President Cleveland and His Constitutional , Advisers. With Portraits of the President, Vice President, and Most of the Ministers. _ THE CABINET. A List of the New Ministry. Secretary of State, Thomas F. Bayard, of Delaware. Secretary of the Treasury, Daniel Manning, of New York. Secretary of the Interior, Lucius Q. C. Lamar, of Mississippi. Secretary of TFor, William C. Endicott, of Massachusetts. Secretary of the Navy, William C. Whitney, of New~York. Postmaster General, William F.YiLaS, of Wisconsin. Attorney General, Augustus H. Garland, of Arkansas. biographical. Brief Sketches of the Public Services of the Chosen Ministers. [Vfe are indebted to the Chicago Daily News for the following brief sketches of the President and his advisers:]

GROVER CLEVELAND, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

Grover Cleveland is a native of New Jersey, bom at Caldwell, Essex County, March 18, 1837. His father was a minister, and the President has living relatives prominent among the Protestant clergy, not to speak of his numerous clerical ancestors. After receiving such instruction as was procurable from the common school In various places of the paternal residence, young Cleveland was sent to the academy at Clinton. Oneida County, N. Y. Upon leaving this seat of learning he went to New York City, -where he filled for some time the position of clerk in an institution of charity. He is next heard of making his way West, with an emerprlsing young man, with Cleveland, Ohio, as his Objective point; but visiting, while on his way, an uncle residing in Buffalo, he was induced to. remain in tha’. city as clerk in the store of his relative. He was 18 years of age at the time, an ambitious young fellow ossessed of the earnest desire to become a successful lawyer. His uncle save ed his asp:ration,and we soon find the youth a clerk In the office of a prominent law firm, and at the same time enjoying the com torts of a good home at his relative’s house. He was admitted to the bar in 1869. His first political office was as Assistant District Attorney for the county of Erie, under C. C. Torrance. He held the position three years, until the end of his superior’s term of office, when he was nominated for Distr.ct Attorney on the Democratic ticket, but was defeated. In 18.’0, live years after th s failnre, he was elected Sheriff of Erie County, and in November. 1«81, was elected Mayor of Buffalo by a decided majority. His incumbency of this office was successful and popular. In the fall election of 1882 Mr. Cleveland was elected Governor of New York, receiving 535,318 votes to 312,404 for Folger. He was nominated for President July 12, and was elected Nov. 4, receiving 4.874,985 votes to 4,861,981 for Blaine, 175,370 for Butler, and 150,369 for St. John.

THOMAS A. EENDR. CKS, VICE PRESIDENT.

Thomas A. Hendricks was horn in Ohio cm the 7th of Ser tember, 181.>. H was gra anted from Sou h Hanover College, in th-.t State, In 1-40, waen he rein ved to Chambersbnrg, Pa., and began the study of law. Three years lat rhe WiiS dml.ted to the bar an i b gan the praett e of his pro seloa in indiam. His career opened auspiciously, and In a few years he became a lawyer of excellent standing. In 1818 he w>.s elected t> the S;ate Legislature, and in 1850 was a delegate to the State Constttut onal Convention. The next year he was elected to the Honse of Representatives, and in 1853 his term expired. Ho was appointed Commies oner of the Gene-al Land Oilice by President 1 lerce, and from this on he has been on of cue most important political characters in Indiana. In 18 ohe ran for Gove-no against Henry 8. Lane, and was defeated. He was e'ected to the bniced States Se ate in .863 lor the long term. After leaving the Senate in iB6O he practiced law in lodianapol s until 18 2. He was .hen made the candidate for Governor of the State, and was elected by ama ority of Bis name was pr sen ted to'the Democratic National < onvention ih 1868 as candidate foirtbe Presidency, and he would no doubt have received the nomination but for the Ohio delegates, who. by persistently voting for Horatio Seymour, finally caused a stampede in his iaver Again, In 872, he was proposed as a candidate in the Democratic ational Convention. and bnt for the unexpected l unions of that time he would probably have been the nominee of his party. He was nominated for \ ice President in 1876, and was nominated for the same othoefn l‘M. He was married near Cincinnati on the 25th of September, BUS, to M:** Eliza C. J.oraan, by whom he had one son, born In 1848, bt who Jived to be only 3 f ars of a- e. This was the only child, and its death greatly affected the father. He was nurtured in the Pr sbyterian faith, nd was a m inber of that common on nntil the o ganl atmn of St. l am's • p:sc't>al Church in Indianap lis in tee year 1862, when he became a member of that parish, and was elected Senior Warden. THOH. F. BATAKD. OF DELAWAME, ffiECBSTABT OF BTaTZ. Thomas F. Bayard ys the h reditary Senator from Delaware, repres nttog the third snec s# re generation of h » family to octupy a seat lnths.Dni.ed States Senate from th t State. Besides Us grandfather and father. Us uncle, I ■ ‘ '

brothers named bayard were among the

Huguenots that fled from France to escape the massacre of St. Bartholomew’s day in 138*. They went first to Ireland, and later to New York. Senator Thomas V. Bayard was born at Wilmington, Delaware, Oct. 29. 1828, and was educated at Flushing school. Though trained for a mercantile life In his early years, he adopted the profession of the law and was admitted to the bar in 1831. He was appointed United States District Attorney for the State of Delaware In 1833, bat resigned the following year. March 1, 1869, he succeeded to his father’s seat in the United States Senate, a place he now h‘ Ida by a third election. He was a member of the electoral commission of 1876, and has oßen been a prominent figure in Democratic conventions. Ho has been the reco nized leader of his party in the Senate for a number of years, and at the last two National Democratic Conventions his name was favorably considered in connection with the Presidential nomination. Senator Bayard's career as a lawyer has nothing in it of more than local importance, though he has long been recognized as one of the beet lawyers in his State. He has made a record in the Senate of being a diligent, conservative, and watchful member. His constant attendance on the sessions of. the Senate, his long service in that body, and his close attention to its business, have made him one! of the best-informed Senators. Though a thorough partisan, his political opinions have not narrowed his grasp of public affairs. He is a graceful and pleasant speaker, but is not given to muoh talking. He is a man of good judgment, well balanoed, and deliberate. Personally he is tall, smooth-laced, and & finp specimen of physical manhood in the prime of life. , Socially Mr. Bayard’s family ia said to be exclusive, ana to have aristocratic tendencies. He, however, is of a genial nature and poDnlar with his fellow Senators.

L. Q. C. LAMAR, OF MISSISSIPPI, SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR

L. Q. C. .Lamar is a native of the State of Georgia. He comes of an old family which has distinguished itself in government affairs ever since the Dec ara lon of Independence. He was bora in 1825, and graduated from Emory College, Georgia, in 1846. He was admitted to the bar in 1847. He moved to Mississippi in 1849 and soon after was elected adjunct professor of mathematics in the university of that State. At the same time he held the place of assistant editor of the Southern Review. He returned to Georgia in 1850, locating at Covington for the practice of law. He was elected to the Legislature of Georgia in 1853. and in 1854 moved to Lafayette County, Miss., where he owned a plantation. He was elected to Congress in 18*6, and re-elected in 1858. He resigned bis seat in 1860 to become a member of the Seoes--8 on Convention of his State in 1861. and the same year entered the Confederate army, being shortly pr *moted to a colonelcy. In 1863 President Davis sent him to Russia on a diplomatic mission. At the close of the war in 1866, he became prof.-sso. of political economy and social science in the University of Mississippi, and the following year professor of law in that institution. He was elected to Congress in again in .874. and succeeded James L. Alcorn in the United States senate, in 1877, to which place be was ;e-elected for the term beginning March 5,1 83. He has been in public life aver since he came of age, and is a man of large experience, though no; a hard worker like Bayard. He is Suiet, reticent, and something cf an idealist. " ring the troublous reconstruction peri**! be was liberal and conscientious in Ids views and threw his influence on the side of harmony between the different sections of the country. His mind is remarkable rather for its fine temper than its force He is an eloquent speaker when aroused, though be is not often beard in Congressional d bat". He mad? a n -ttoaal reputation In his eulogy of Charles Sumner on the floor of the House. He is a man slightly above the average height, possesses a full, rounded figure, and has the bearing of a student snd scholar.

A. H. GARLAND, OF ARKANSAS, ATTORNEY GENERAL.

Angustus H. Garland was born in Tipton County, Tennessee, June 11,1831 His parents removed to the Stare of Arkansas the following Sar and settled in the bottom lands of tbs Bed ver Valley. At a suitable age young Garland was sent to Bard-town. Ky., to bo educated in' wh.t. was then the most famous seat of learning in the ho tbwest. His academic studies were Pursued in the Catboßc colleges of St. Mary and Bt. Jo eph. During the latter part of his residence in Bardstown he read law, and attended the rial of esn-e* in the court-room whenever he had the opportunity. At that time the loral b. r was very strong. Garland profited greatly by tb s practice as well as by Us studies, which ns pursued with persistent devotion. Returning home he continued to woo that jealous mistress the law, and in U 33 was admitted to praeU eat Washington, Ark. In 1856 he removed to Little Bock, the capital of the State. He was

—ir' '""HZ stfSrsstiSSS "lon of Arkansas as lout a• t&ere was-any hops of a peaceful solution of acoitenal differthrew ln'hia IoWUhMs wait a member of the Provisional Congress whch met at Montgomery, Ala., in May, 1861. and took part In drawing up the Ccmstltntftm of tit* Confederate States. Dining the straggle between the Federal and Confederate governments be gave bis counsel to the Southern cause, first ssa B*presentative and afterward as Senator. He was serv m t as a Senator in its Congress when the Confederacy collapsed. In ISIS Mr Carland pettttoned the Supreme Court of the United States, to practice therein without taking *?!* Ironclad oatb,~ at the same time submitting an argument to support of his petition which was a masterpiece or reasoning: He won Ms esse, which was not decided until the December tom of the Supreme Court, 1867. While tt was lending he was elected Unit*! States Senator from Arkansas. He appeared to take his seat in the Senate March 4.1867, but was not permitted to do so. In 1874 Hr. Garland was elected Governor of Arkansas without opposition. His election as Senator took place to January, 1876, without opposition. He began his term aa successor to Powell Clayton, Republican, on March 8, 1877. In 1883 he was. re-eleete i. sn<l his term of service would not have expired until March 8,

DANIEL MANNING, OF NEW YORK, SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY.

Daniel Manning was educated in a newspaper office. He began at the age of 9 as sa errandboy, became a reporter at 15, and subsequently a city editor, and graduated the general manager of a newspaper company. He afterward became identified with the management of the Commercial National Bank of Albany, and finally its President. While employed In tha newspaper office he became familiar frith local politics, and as a reporter of legislative proceedings of New York be acquired an extensive acquaintance with State political affaire. Ho already had something more than a local reputation as a politician when, in 1876, ho became a member of the New York State Democratic Central Committee, of which body hewae made Chairman in 1882. He managed the campaign that elected Cleveland Gove nor of New York, and was the first to name the latter for the Presidency. Cleveland’s nomination for the office is generally conceded to be due to the adroit management of Mr. Manning, and bin election to the no less ably conducted Presidential campaign in New York. Mr. Manning ia a remarkably uccessful organizer and shrewd politician. He has had no experience in public affairs nor as a munag r of great financial inter* eets. His personal habits of close economy and bis success in private business enterprises may be the foundation for great success as Secretary or the Treasury. His record is yet to be made. Mr. Manning is 47 years of age and a native of Albany, N. Y, __

WILLIAM F. VILAS, OF WISCONSIN, POSTMASTER GENERAL.

William P. Vilas traces his genealogy to Or Richard de Vilas, a crusader under Edward L of England. He was born in Chelsea, Vt, Jaly 9,1840. His father was a member of the Vermont Legislature in 1860, but removed to Madison, Wis., in 1861, where be became proniin nt aa a Democrat in the politics of that State. William F. graduated from the Wisconsin State University in lsw.snd two years later entered upon the practice of the low. in 1862 be raised a company and entered the- Unkm army as Captain, tie was rapidly nromoted and resigned a Colonelcy in 1863. Hem one of the letter ere in the law department of the Wisconsin Stats University. In 1873 he was one of the committee of three appointed to revise the statutes of Wisconsin. He was President of tbs Democratic convention that nominated Cleveland, and la now a member of the lower bouse of the Legislature of bis State, the first elective office he ever held. Col. Vilas to an aide and eloquent advocate, a studious and hard-working lawyer, and a brilliant man. WILLIAM a ENDICOTT, OP MASSACHUSETTS, SECRETARY OP WAX. r William C. Endicott to a native of Salem, Maas., where he still res dee, and to now about (9 years old. He gndn ted from Harvard College in 1847, and entered upon the practice of law in iB6O. Gov. Washburn appointed tin to a place on the Supreme bench of Massachusetts, which position he resigned in 1889 on account of ill-health. Until 1860 Judge Endicott was an old-line Whig. but from that time forward was a Democrat. He never was prominent In politics until the last campaign, when be was the Democratic candidate for Governor of the Bay State. Aa a lawyer ha to said to be thorough, painstaking, and dignified. He stood high in the ranks of the judiciary while ■ member of the Supreme bench. He to a de* seendant of John J .ndicott, one of the first colonial Governors of Massachusetts His mothm was a daughter of tha Hon. Jacob Crowninshield, who served a term in Congress, mid was President Jefferson’s Secretary a€ the Navy fr m 1806 to 1899. . WILLIAM C. OT SEW YORK, SECRETARY or th* navy. William 0. Whitney was bora at Conway, Maas, in 1840. He graduated at Yale CoUege m 1893, and at the Harvard tow reboot to 1864- He at once began the practice of Jaw in New Ycfck city, and speedily drifted Into politics He was appointed Corporation Counsel of New York City 1 upon the downfall of the Tweed Tine- His energy and ability in clearing up the mass of litigation that grew out of the ring a fraudulent transactions made his reputation as a lawyer. He laid the foundation of a comfortable fortune * daughter or unTer w. njne, or unio* one oi the millionaire stockholders of the Standard CHI Company. Throughout hie political career be has enjoyed intimate retottotis with flam—l J. Tllden, and has Labored under the advice and direction of the sage of Greyatone for the orrerYork Cttv.* J ML*\&itney conceived the plan of organising the County Democracy of New York, and largely aided In ita execution. He is a successful organizer, and. after Daniel Manning; ■ i- ■ ' ~ 1 ’ - | i -1 ii r ' i;'- \ . Mint. Rttttkay writes from Turin Owl her brother, Laois Kossuth, ia ia good Twain* lime to reduoe a