Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1885 — Page 3

LOGAN’S TRIUMPH.

The Soldier Statesman Chosen His Own I Successor in the United States Senate. [From the Chicago Tribune.] The re-election of John A. Logan to the United States Senate just as the Republicans secured a toajqHHf ’ of votes joint ballot was an equally to the successful canmembers of thoffininois Legislature. On Gen. Logan® part,it was a glorious victory, earnea*ljy a straightforward, manly, and stubborn fighta on the part of the it was an evidence that neWer Corruption nor intrigue ’•Would impair who had been-ejected Tile contest thus closed is One of the most remarkable in political records. When the Legislature m6t the two parties were equally divided on joint ballot. Gen. Logan was the choice of the Republican caucus, but personal enmity deprived him of two votes to which he was entitled. Col. Thomson was the nominee of the Dempcratic caucus, but was likewise unable to command the full vote of his party. Neither, candidate, however, could have been elected a* the Legislature was originally constituted even if he had received all the votos of his party. There was a dead-lock which nothing short of treachery and bribery could apparently break. The interests of the rival candidates were watched with the utmost vigilance, and both Democrats tejEpd. Repubrefrained ng orok'! a the ■anuKc. Then cw in as in the the Rejwnolicans lost a tative Logan of the wjmepetith District. But the Democrat® £ould not summon a quorum in thepjoilit 'assembly, and there was still nofcelection. A Republican successor to Representative Logan was elected and th! tie restored. Then the Democrats lost Senator Bridges District, but a Democratic sticcessdr was chosen to fill the *ftca|Py oausedwy his death, and the tme samex. The turning point came wh® Reprefentamtive Shaw, Democaahfroip the flfcrtyfourth District, was an opportunity for a majority in which the vacancy odcuaßOffwas Democratic Logan it and elected Weaver, a jMggßmnced Logan man. jfeAfter Wdav Ipr was elected there was ATJemocraHC'scheme to keep him out of his seat by obstructive tactics, but it was abandoned, before Weaver was admitted.hpolf Morrison, the regular.' Democral&r noihinee, was withother candidates were tried that somebody with a Kwdddl^gould purchase a couple of Republicari 'Jhis scheme failed ’likewise. ’The election of Gen. Logans will be “ received with acclaim all oveAhe estate, in which even a large number of Democrats will join. There has been a gen- . oral feeling from the beginning of.yfche contest that Gen. Logan was entitled to the election. He came out of the Presidential campaign with groat personal credit. The State voted for him for Vice President by a large majority. The Legislature was a tie through accident and local dissensions. Had Logan been a candidate for the Senate instead of the Vice Presidency he would undoubtedly have carried the Legislature and been elected immediately. Under these circumstances it has been conceded all along that a Republican ought to be elected, and that Logan had higher claims to the place than any one else. He has scored his victory without the use of money, without the influence es patronage, and without descending to any unfair or improper methods. In returning to the Senate under these conditions he will take a higher stand before the country than ever before, and will add notably to the strength and influence of the Republicans under a Democratic administration. Gen. Logan's Adilmss to the Illinois Legislature. Gentlemen of tne Senate and Houge of Representatives of tlsi State pf Hllasls: I congratulate you on having Drought to a conclusion this most remarkable contest, which has been going on lor nearly lour months. 1 have no words in which to express rny gratitude to the representatives of this great State o ? Illinois lor the compliment they have paid me to-day. Having been 'elected for the third, time to represent this great State in the Senate of the United Stages, 1 hope I have so acted and deported myself in the position before as to bring no discredit upon myself, my party, State, and country, and my past history is the only guarantee 1 can give for my future course. From the deepest recess of my bosom 1 again thank you for the honor you have conferred upon me. There is no position on earth which could be more gratifying than to represent this great State. In this contest, Mr. Sreak< r . and gentlemen, which has been an uuusuullr close an.l heated one, I am proud to state that nothing has transpired to mar the friendly relations existing between myself and my worthy opjonent. For thirty years this gentleman and mysplf have been friends,* and 1 trust we shall always continue* such. | Lpud elieors.| 1 believe there never has been a contest between two persons waged more earnestly for their parties than this and the mutual relations remain so pleasant. I respect Mr. Morrison, politically and sooiaUy, and I am proud to say we aro friends, and sincerely hope we may ever be friends. [Cheers. I As to the other gentleman who was my opponent for a time, 1 can eay nothing against him, nor would I want to. Mr. Tree and myself lived neighbors for many years in Chicago, and 1 have always had the highest respect for him. lie tnado as good a contest, coming late into the field, being a little short of votes, as he could ®®ke, Fo?him I have nothing but respect. In conclusion, gentlemen, I desire to say that, no matter what may have occurred dur tag this contest, it has been curried on in a spirit of fairness. No such contest has ever been known.in this country before,' and It has appeared strange to mo that theres has been so little excitement and bitterness exhibited. It is remarkable, I say. in a contest which has lasted so long and been so close, that there is so little bitterness of feeling displayed; and 1 desire to say that in representing the people of the State of Illinois in the United States Senate I shall ever try to dothat which seems tome to be my duty, representing my party and my constituents fairly and honestly- [Cheers.] I-leave here having no bitter feeling toward any one who may have opposed me. I retpeet’a tnin who will stand by his creeds and his friends, and 1 expect no more from others than is accorded to me. If Jgd to Washington I do not go there with any fire burning in my bosom or a feeling of antagonism toward any party or the present administration. I shall endeavor to represent you fairly and stand by you, all of which I believe is right Gentlemen, again I thank you, . I U nder to you my most pro fount! thanks. Lhavir not before, nor can I,

repay you for the manner you nave stood by -me in this Legislature and State. I shall ever remembeir it,JAPd endeavor to prove worthy of the trust ybu have this daySconfided me. Thank ng you again?) hope you Jtljj learn in the future that the wrong man not beotuM|M [Applause and cheers.]

WHY DEMOCRATS GROWL.

"Bwped by and Representatives oRHHp Own Party. ’ [Washington special.] i There is a very angry crowd among the ’applicants for appointment to the diplomatic, and consular service, and especially from those hailing, .from .Southern Stamps. These anxious and ambitions gentlemen have been here for several weeks at large expense,' and, so far a&jj&v can ascertain, are as far from tlie goal of thfeir ambiuon’ak upon the first day of their arrival in Washington. The hesitation and procrastination of Mr. Bayard have received the daily objurgat : ons of these impatient gentleman, who naturally attribute their failure to receive appointments to the head of the State Department. Indeed, the responsibility for delay has been charged to the Secretary by the “Senators and Representatives who have been professedly pushing the claims of their respective constituents. It would seem, however, that in very many cases the Secretary of State is not the real offender, but that the applicants are being trifled with by Senators and members. Instead of urging the appointment of the gentlemen alluded to, Senators and Representatives are daily importuning the Secretary of State and the President to appoint their own relatives to good places in the foreign service, and in several instances they are known to have been successful. Thus Senator Vest managed to have his son sent to Europe, Senator Cockrell has had his brother-in-law, E. R. Ewing, made Consul General to the City of Mexico. Senator Butler, of F South Mjtelina, has a son in the consular sM|Be, appointed by President whq he is striving to have promoted. His brother-in-law has been appointed Charge d’Affaires to Paraguay and Uruguay. The same Senator has just had his law partner, Mr. Youmans, made United States Attorney for South Carolina. Senator Blackburn succeeded in having his brother apof Internal Revenue, for his brother, his a®ointm§ta was subsequently candled. o®er Senators and Represent-' anves nojKere are pushing the cjadKs for appointment to the neglectoffiiose constituents who are relying upon their intervention for executive recognition. Of course, the wants and desires'of the constituents are made subordinate to those of the family relation, and the revelation of this fact is causing howls of indignation and eliciting vows of vengeance from those who feel that they are being duped to further the preferment of the relatives of Congressmmen-or those of their wives, who have few qualifications and no claims for the places for which they have been appointed or are b** ig urged.

WIDENING THE BREACH.

The President’s Work in Sowing Dissension in the Democratic Hanks. * [Washington special to, Indianapolis Journal.] During the past week the President has antagonized two-thirds of the delegations and individuals that have called upon him. First, he started out by recallinglhe“ appointment of the brother of Senator Blackburn as Internal Revenue Collector in Kentucky, because, when a boy, he Wrote a letter of the Jesse James bloocFand-thunder .order, and by revoking this appointment he not only made an enemy of Senator Blackburn, but very naturally oreated dissatisfaction all over the South. By the appointment of Mr. Kuhn to be Appraiser of Customs at Indianapolis the' President dissatisfied a number of his party friends in Indiana. Then fol-lowed-his bad move in lowa, whereby/ in selecting a Marshal for the South; ern district of that State without consulting the delegation in Congress, he has called forth vigorous protests from Messrs. Murphy, Fredericks, and Weaver. George V. N. Lothrop, appointed Minister to Russia, al the request of Don M. Dickinson, of Detroit, was not pleasing to the Michigan Democratic Congressmen. They thought that the President should give their requests some attention, and that, as Mr. Dickinson represents nobody but himself—as they express it—his recommendation certainly should not count for more than that of the Congressional delegation. They do not object to Lothrop per se, but the reason that not satisfied with his appointment is that it lessens the number of appointments left for them. On the whole, the week has produced more than a usual amount of dissatisfaction, and it begins to look as though the man of destiny is destined to make enemies of at least three-fourths of the Democratic party. Me. Hendricks has made the Vice Presidency a mere commission-shop for soliciting patronage. He has patrolled the Government departments at Washington constantly since -the new administration came into power, filing applications for office and begging appointments for the balance of Democratic Hoosierdom. “I have a friend out in Indiana,” is said to be his uni- , form phraseology in importuning everybody who controls an appointment to v use it for his benefit. He has approached every foieign Minister who has been- appointed, asking that his “friend out in Indiana” shall be selected as secretary, clerk, or attendant of the Legation. He has made himself a nuisance and a scandal,and has brought the Vice Presidency into disrepute. He had better follow the example set by President Wheeler in his time, and by Mr. Arthur until he became 1 President. He should go a-fishing.—-Ex-change. - Postmasters who are Republican editors, and who exercised the privileges of American citizenship during the last campaign, may ao well pack up their effects. The Postmaster-General has issued a reward for their Official scalps. This is an administration that enforces the civil-service rules, and the first of these rules is that no man shall give utterance to other than Democratic sentiment'

A FEARFUL ACCIDENT.

Ten Girls * n a BuriwgStruCTßre at v Five or Lost, Three Using Dished to Pieces on the » Pavement. -r- —‘. 1 One Mother Finds Three of Her Daughters Laid Out in the Morgue. Cincinnati was, the other day, the scene of a shocking fire disaster, by which sixteen or seventeen human lives were sacrificed. Eighteen girls/mostly the support or help of their families, lunched merrily at noon in the large front room on the fifth floor of the Sullivan printing works, No. 19 Two hours later mod of themgrere flLd. Ten of them were suffocatecHby the fhnpke, their bodies shriveled and scorched®) y the heat of a fire that cut o& J wiih scarcely a warning. It would be hard to construct a more perfect death-trap. It was on the top floor, with three w.ndows in front and one in the rear, where an ell of the building gave room. It was entered from a narrow stairway in the tear, which wound around the elevator, well fenced-in with wooden lattice-work. The second floor held the heavy presses. A boy brought up a gallon can filled with benzine to clean the type forms, Nobody knows the cause, but something caused ihe benzine to explode near the press next the elevator wall. The burning fluid spread to the ink-well of the press and to a drying-rack filled with freshly printed sheets next the elevator. Sullivan, the proprietor, saw it. He caught a lot of heavy brown sheets of paper to smother it out. In an instant all the room saw it was uselesk “My God," said Sullivnn, “tell the —girls up-stairs.” His brother flew up the stairs to the tindery. The flames were there as quickly as he, climbing up the lattice-work of the elevator like a flash. The girls were terrified out of their senses. The flames cut off their’only means of escape. They rushed .to the front windows. The flames reached forward and caught at them.' Fiveof them leaped from the windows and were crushed to death, or died within a few minutes. A great crowd had gathered and looked on with groans and cries of horror or warning, but were powerless to help. One or two brave men tried to catch the girls as they fell, but were only hurt themselves. The men from the next building had caught .up a long rope kept for such uses, and going on the roof held it over a window. John Sullivan saw it, and helped first one and another to catch it, and they were safely lowered. By that time the rest were quiet and crouching in the corners or on the floors, rapidly suffocating. Sullivan caught the rope, but had barely started downward when the flames reached out and burned the rope off, and he fell, never breathing afterward. Before this, however, another printer, who came up "with Sullivan, had remembered the skylight near the front and above the side of the room. Below it ran a binder’s bench piled high with stock. Mounting this, he threw open the skylight, and easily climbed out on the roof. Several 'others—bath boys and gitls—followed, but Sullivan and the S rest were too exerted to notice this means of escape, by which every one might.easily have been saved, since on the roof they could have walked a square in any direction away from the fire and out of the remotest danger. Meantime an alarm had brought the firemen. So well did they work that within fivie minutes they were able to enter the building and go to the fifth floor. Here the bodies of ten girls were found distorted in death. Some were shriveled by the heat till their skin peeled off. It was an awful tragedy, within a very short time. Not over twenty minutes had elapsed since the explosion of the benzine. The news seemed to permeate the city as by an electric shock. The street was packed with silent, sympathetic crowds. People sought for their dead children with blanched faces and a voiceless agony that was pitiful and met instant sympathy from thousands. The dead were borne out by the firemen and laid out for recognition for the few minutes before being removed to the morgue. An eyewitness says: “A loud scream attracted my attention, and, looking, I saw an awful sight. Black smoke was pouring from the roof and fifth-floor windows, ■which were crowded-with women and men. They were screaming and throwing themselves forward and backward from the ■windows. I saw seven girls and two men fall in a heap and lie motionless and bleeding. Cries of * Stop jumping, for God’s sake,’ arose from the multitude, which gathered in an instant, as they spied a rope thrown from the roof and dangling within reach of those in the window. A girl grasped it and climbed down nearly to the ground, and fell. A man—he was a hero, too—reached for it, but cries that it would not bear the weight of two checked him. The smoke was too much for him, and, sooner than jeopardize the girl, he leaped from the windo, and we picked him up u terribly broken. The flames follower them so closely that several were on fire ae they jumped from the window. The scen 0 was the most horrible *1 ever saw; Thj crowd cheered ever? time a victim mad j leap.” The scenes at Habig’s undertaking establishment, where the bodies were taken and where friends and relatives came to identify them, were of the most painful character. In one case a policeman of Covington, Ky., identified! his sisters Lizzie and Doliie Handel, who were ’twins. Mrs. Meier found the body of her daughter, and* had to be led away from the terrible sight. Mrs. Leaban had the awful experience of finding her three daughters amongthe dead. The fatal list, as now made up. is .Anna Bell, ■ aged 40; Doliie and Lizzie Handel, twin sisters, 20 years; Fannie Jones, 22 years; Delia, Katie, And MarVjLeaban, sisters, aged 23.14, and IG. respectively; Katie Ijawry, 29 years; Lizzie Annie Mclntyre. 20 years; Fannie Norton, 34 years; Katie and Mary Put»am, sisters, 22 and I'3, respectively; John Sullivan. 22 years; Lillie Wynn, 20 years. The injured, are: WfH Bishop, printer, 23 years, crushed and burned, will probably die; Josie “Hawks, broken leg; Emma Pinchback, unconscious, will probably die; Nannie Shepherd, head badly cut. A large portion of the foothill region of California is being ctevasted by such swarms of grasshoppers that they threaten to ainount to nothing Short of a plague. The Rev. M. J, Cramer, D. D., United States Minister ,to Switzerland, has been called to the chair of systematic theology in Boston University. i *-* - . ■-■ ■ I —— -f- i Australia lost $44,000,000 from pleuropneumonia, introduced by a single cow that was supposed to have recovered , The longest legitimate word in the English language ii disproportion ableness.

PUMPED TO HIS DEATH.

I 9' ' ' • ■'. ' ■ 7 ’ ■I ‘ Professor Odium Plunges from Brooklyn Bridge to ths WatE'n es East River,' and Is Taken Out Dead. [New York telegram.] • A cab left the New York entrarice of the Brooklyn I ridge and was driven to the middle of the great span. Here the driver palled up i and two men got out and bega-i to climh the railing. Before they had reached the t p a bridge policeman came toward them, brand shine hie < lub and ordering them to “get down Out of that ” yVhile be was wth the young man a covered * wagon containing j Prof. E. Odium and a cornranien stopped about 100 jeet behind, toe cab. Quickly divesting himself of the blur flannel in which he was dressed. Prof. Odium, clad in a red shirt and trunks, jumped from the carriage, and sprang lightly to the railing. He quickly reached the top, and. po.s----i ing himself for a moment, hs stood < rect and ■ glanced hurriedly at the surface of the Fast I River, far below h in, Ihe peoi le on the bridge I sent up a cry as horror when they saw the iTofessor prepare to plunge off the bridge into j the river, 135 feet ben ath his tect The poI liceinan, whose att ntion had now been directed from the two men, rushed toward the Professor. Before he had gone a dozen feet Prof. Odium, without a mom nt s hesitation, had leaped out - from the railway and into the air. He heid one hand above his bead as a rudder to guide him ; in his descent. A tng and a schooner floated lazily in the stream several yards b. low the bridge. The tug was filled with club men and reporters. Boy ton stood near the prow/ anxiously watching the bridge. The moment Professor Odium's bodv was seen to leave the railing, Farry E. Dixey, the actor, started a stop-watch, which he held in his hand tn Order to time the descent For nearly a hundred feet the Professor came down all right, feet foremost; he shot .downward with the speed of a meteor, his red snit making him easily discernible for a long distance. When within thirty feet of the water his body began to turn. As if realizing his danger. Professor Odium brought down his hand with a warlike motion to aid him in recovering his balance; the movement was, however, made too late, his bodv had now turned so far it Was impc ssible to" Change its course. Half a second late® with a mighty splash that threw up the watafc on all sides as if torn with a shell. Prof. Ocjwn’s body s ruck the water on one sidfe, and sKk out of sight. A rowboat soon came to the rescue, and l*rof. Odium was taken from the water. A few moments later he was transferred to the tug and restoratives were administered. After considerable rubbing the eyes of the Professor opened. “What kind of a jump did I make?" he whispered- ■ “First-class, my" boy," responded Boyton, “you'll be all right in a Lt'le while;" but he was insensible again before the words had hardly left hl»iips. f— —I ~~ ■ ■ The tug steamed hastily to h?r slip, and just as the pier was reached a shudder passed through the frame of the Professor, and then, -.after breathing heavily once or twice, liis heart stopped beating, and he was pronounced dead.

GEORGE V. N. LOTHROP.

The New Minister to Russia.

George Van Ness Lothrop at Easton, Bristol County, Conn., August 8, 1817. His early years were spent on his father's farm. Graduating from Brown University in 1838, he entered the law school of Harvard University, but in 1839 removed on account of ilk-health to Prairie Ronde, Kalamazoo County, Mich., where his brother, the Hon. Edwin H. Lothrop, had a large fann. After restoring his health he went to Detroit in 1843 and resumed the study of law, beginning practice in 1844 as a partner of IL Bethune Duffield, under the firm name of Lothrop & Duffield, which continued until 1856. In April, 1818, he was appointed Attorney General of the State of Michigan and held the office until January, 1851. He has two or three-times received the complimentary vote of the Democratic members of the Michigan State Legislature for United States Senator. He was a member of the Michican State Constitutional Convention of 1837. For twentyfive years he Was general attorney of the Michigan Central Railroad. From the time of his entrance upon active professional Ijfe Mr. Lothrop has enjoyed a wide celebrity throughout Michigan as a lawyer and politician, and a cultured, courteous, and popular gentleman of the old school. For many years he has been considered the most prominent lawyer and orator of Michigan, and the fact wiis tacitly recognized lhat if the Democratic party ever came into power he would be given one of the best positions. Mr. Lothrop led the Michigan delegation at the Charleston National Convention in 1860, i and really headed the Douglas sentiment in ‘ that body. During the war he gave cordial : support to all jhst uhd necessary measures 1 of the Government.

Mutilated National Bank Notes.

[Waahington special.] Treasurer Jordan has made a slight change in the working of the national bank redemption agency, which will' result in some, reduction of expenses —how much remains to bo reen. The Treasurer of the United States is authorized bv law to redeem mutilated, rational bank currency. It has been eeitoinary to construe -the word “mutilated’’ liberally, and bills not mutilated but considerably worn have been sent tg the Treasury, new bil s returned, and the old ones destroyed. Mr. Jordan construes the law more strictly. National banks have been asked to send in only really mutilated bills, and when bills that are still I serviceable are sent in new bills will be I issued in their places, but the old bills are to be paid out by the Treasury. It is not expected that this will make much difference with ih - number of persons:employed in the redemption ag.ncy. but it will probably reduce the amount of work required of the Rureau es .Engravtoe imd-I’xintingi but it will be some time before this result becomes ajiparent. This policy is the reverse of tlial pursued by tno Bank k of England, which never pays out the s-anie note twice, no innto r how good its condition may be. Jordan’s action is based on the belief that the hw does not "authorize, the retirement and destruction of bills that are still serviceable. . ‘ Maj. Bcrke, the retiring director of the New Orleans Exposition, has suffered much in htalth from his work in that capacity, and is also said-.to have obligations to the snin of SI'SO,OTO. The Hon. John Bigelow is soliciting funds for the erect,on of a monument to William Cullen Bryant in Central Park. Mrs. Tom Tht'/18, now the Countess Magri, wears for shoes a child’s No. 5, and the Count wears a child's No. 8. i The Governor General of -.Canada, re--1 ceivek a salaiy es a yehx. -V ’’

FRANCE’S GREAT POET DEAD

Victor, Huero, the Aged Litterateur, j Breathes H.s Last at saris Alter [ “ a Painful Dlnesx He Declines Spiritual Consolation—A Sketch of the Great Poet’s i —~—— Life-Work. /.' ; - j Victoy Hugo is! (dead. The word-painter who, as poet, diainatist. and novelist, electrified the world, passed away at his home in Paris at 1:30 o'clock on the afternoon of May 22, at the ripe age of 83 years and 3 months. There are all sorts of reports as to his last hours.' One story is io the eL fuct that he Suffered hours of agony before the qnd came. Tlsis is no doubt magnified greatly in ceriaia qua’.ters from the fact that he refuse i spiritual consolation at the close.* Par.s dispatches give the following particulars- of thj last hours of the ~immortal poet: Victor Hugo’s C' ndition had grown so manifestly worse that his death was regarded as certain to take place within a few hours. VV hen this tact became known Cardinal tilth.ert, the Archbishop ot Paris, t-ent Specially to Hugo's res.dence, offering to viaij him and administer spiritual aid and the rites of the Catholic Church. M. Lockroy, the poet's son-ih-law, rer plied for M. Hugo, declining with thanks the Archbishop’s tender^ saying for the dy ng man: “Victor Hugo is exteettng death, but ha does not desire the services of a priest," His last words were ' Adieu, Jeanne, adieu,” addressed to his favorite granddaughter. The s -enes in Paris follewing the death of Victor Hugo remind the observer forcibly of the night of Dec. cl, 1882, when Leon Gamlietta had just died. The streets and cases are filled with groups discussing the sad event, and many persons are wearing ti e little mounrng badges w.th a photographic ]>ortrait of the dead poet in the center, which are already for sale by the thousand. In the Senate, M. Leroyer delivered a eulogy on M. Hugo. The speaker said that for the past sixty years Victor Hugo had been the admiration of France and of the world. He had now entered immortality. His glory belongs to no party, but to all men. Prime Minister Brisson delivered a eulogy in tbp Chamber of Deputies. He said the whole nation mourned the loss of Victor Hugo, and moved that the funeral of the poet be conducted at the state's expense. The motion was greeted with applause. It is proposed to inter the poet's remains In the Pantheon, and that the day of the funeral be declared a day of national mourning, on which all the Government offices, the schools, and the theaters shall be closed. The poet was sketched as be lay upon his death-bed by Bonnat, the painter, who will transfer to canvas the impression taken. The sculptor Dalou took a cast of his face Nadar took a photograph. Glaze made another sketch When his death was announced there was a great rush of reporters to the house, and the servants were obliged to repel them. L< ckrov closed the front door, leaving the table in the street for visiting cards. Uhe body was embalmed, :.nd immense quantities flowers were brought to the residence. Mme. Bernhardt, dressed completely in white, brought wiih her an immense crown of v. hite rp-ies. Deputations fromthe municipal government and from Parliament offered their conaolmce. It is reported that M. Hugo bequ»athed his manuscripts to France, and that he left it to the Republic to select a hur al place lor his remains, and tos-decide as to the torm of his funeral. Balt his iortune, 4,0u0,(K)> irams. was bee,u athed bjPHugo to his daughter Adele, who is in a lunatic asylum. It was Hugo’s wish that his heirs and executors should hereafter join in building a lunatic asylum. '1 he clerical papers denounce Ijockroy for withholding from .Victor Hugo the message fiotri cardinal Guibert offering to attend the death. ItiographicaL The following brief sketch of thia intellectuaLgiant’s life-work will afford the reader Some idea of the immense activity of his career of more than four-score Victor Marie Hugo was born at ifiincon. Feb. 2s, 1802, his father being a coion“ln the Fieuch army. From Besancou he was carried to Elba, to Paris, to Rome, and to Naples before he was 5 years old. In 180‘J hereturned to Frnn ie and received a classical instruction at a religioushouse. The firsi volume of his “Odes and Atal-’* lads" appeared in 1822, and his tales “Ham of Iceland’ and “Bug Jsrgal” were written about this time. In 18-26 he pub ished a second volume of "Odes and Ballads,” which exhibited a change in his literary and political opinions, and tn 1827 he composed his drams "Cromwell.” In 1829 he published his “Last Days or a Condemned Criminal.” the terrific interest of which secured in immense success. M. Hugo prepared a further attack on the stiff and unnatural style of French- dramatic literature in his “Hsrnani," first played at the Theatre Francais Feb. 26, 1830, and which caused a scene of riotous confusion. The Academy went so far as to lay a cause of complaint against.bis attempted innovations at the toot of the throne. Charles X. sensibly replied that “as to matters of art he was no more than a private person." Shortly alter the revolution Of July, 1830, his “Marion de Lorrne.” - which had been suppressed by the censorship.under the restoration, was brought out with success. “Le Koi s’? muse” was performed at the 1 beatre Francals in January, 1832. and the cay aft, r its production was interdicted by the Gov t rnment. After publishing a number of drawaUc pieces of various merit he was admitted into the Academy in 1841,. and was created a peer of France by Louis Philippe. In 1849 be was chosen Prudent of the Peace Congress, of which he had been a leading member. In 1862 Victor Hugo went into exile in Jersey, Guernsey, and elsewhere, and refused to avail himself of the general amnesty issued Aug. 15, 1860. On the fall of the empire, however, he hastened back to ids native country, entered heartily into the republican movement, and was returned to the Na- ' tional Assembly at Bordeaux, which he soon quitted in disgust, sending, on March 9, ‘ 1871, the following characteristic letter to the President, M. Grevy: “Three weeks ago the | Assembly refused to hear Garibaldi; to-day it refuses to hear me. I resign my seat.” M. ! Hugo then went to Brussels, but the Belgian Government, alarmed by liis violent writings : and his avowed sympathy with the Commun- ; ists, expelled him from the country. He then sought refuge in the seclusion of the little town oi Vi an den, in Luxemburg, where he composed , “L’Annsee Terrible.’’ Returning to Paris in j July, 1871, be pleaded earnestly for the Jives of Ferre, Itossel, and the. other Communists to no effect. At the next elections he was defeated j by M. Vautrian. AL Victor Hugo has given an account of this period of his career in "Actes et I Paroles," published in 1872. He wrote much j. after he quitted France in 1852. His satire “Napoleon le Petit” appeared In Brussels in 1852; “Les Chatimenta.” at the same plvoe, in 1853; and i "Contemplations” at Faris, in, 1853. His fame rests principally on his "Notre Dame de Paris.” which has been translated into most European languages, and is known in English under the title of the “Hcnchback ot Notre Dame," a book the Roman Catholic clergy never forgave him for. His semi-historical and social romance, “lies Miserablee.” translated into nine languages. was Issued at Parts, Brussels, London, New York. Madrid, Berlin, St. Petersburg, and Turin the same day, Aprjl 3,185>. This was followed in 1864 by a rhapsodical work on Hhakspeare, not likely to add to his reputation. His last novel. “L’Homme Qui Bit,” appeared in 1869. M. Victor Hugo was a prolific -writer, the principal of his works being “Claude Gueux,” a tale; “i.ucrezia Borgia.” “Marie Tudor,” “Buy Blas.'' “Les Burgraves." and "Marlon de Jxmne.’ plays; and *’Le iihin.” a bcok of travels. His most recent woras r.re "La Legeuilodea Hiecles,” new series: “Histoife d’ uh Crime,” being an account of the coup d’etat of Louis .Na;o eon; "Le Pape.” a poem; “Li Pltie Supreme," a poem; ‘'Religions et Ileligion.”a poem, which, beginning like "Les ChaLments,” in a tone of, comedy and irony, reviews creeds and Systems, passes from Catholicism to nihilism, acd concludes by an affirmation of a theism without “eatchecriisms, kor»n«, and gramma:s;” “Lea nuatre vents de-i'Esprit,” issi, poems; and “ Torque maria," a dramat.c poem, 1882. A New York man is held in S3OO bail for shooting three cats and breaking up a feline concert at midnight. And this is called a free eountry’ , - Ex-Gqv. Foster, of Ohio, in an interview says he is not a candidate for United States Sena-or, but that Senator Shtrman will be re-elected. Gten. Hazen, of the Signal Service, has brought . a suit for libel against New. i York Times, cltiiniffng SICO,(kJO damages. A. new baby at the Japanese Legation has been named after the President, j

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Mrs. W. B. Jackson, 81 years did, died al New Albany. . —ln the northern* counties of the State about two-thirdy of the bees died last winter. • • Hon. Francis Wilson, Judge es the Bloomington Judicial District, died suddenly at Bedford. ' ■ —Richmond clsfJfiW more miles of pavement anil a gieater ntmher of shade trees than any city of its popu'ation in Indiana. —The candidates for city offices at Shelbyville pledged themselves to have nothing to do with traffic in votes, or make any contribution fop that purptfie. —William D. Bousel, of Milan, was arrested at Aurora, while attempting to pass counterfeit money, dftver one hundred counterfeit dollars were found in his possession. —Amos E. Buckley, of Thornton, who has aided in hiking charge of the Indiana educational exhibit at New been elected Superintendent of Schools in Fort Worth, Tex. —Hany Kocher, a carpenter of Co'nmbus, had his lower jaw nearly torn off by a vicious mare. He entered the stable where she’' had a young colt, and was caught by her and terribly mangled. —An Indianapolis watchman of an iron fonn dry has put in his spare time cuiving excellent figured -representing the cross and crucifixion, all excellently done, and inside of a glass bottle holdihg a little less than a pint. —Albert . Norton a three yeais' convict from Vigo County, has made his escape . from the Jeffersonville prison. Norton is I about 2G years old, five feet eight and a naif ’ inches high, blue eyes, sandy complexion and red hair. —Miss Clara Brown, a quiet and respectable young lady of Washington, danghter of H. C. Brown,, miller, is mysteriously absent from heme. She disappeared recently, and it is not known whether she has been abducted or left of her own accord. —The banking firm of Hyatt & Levings, of Washington, has been able to strike a dividend, and instead of paying twenty-five cents on the dollar, as was atfirst thought, it now can only pay lO per cent. It will be remembered that the firm failed list autumn, with liabilities estimated at $125,000. —Mark Vinnedge, a well-known young man of Plymouth, nged 10, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head. He had been a wild young man. He was at the Reform School for one term, father tried to make him go to scnoojf but he said he would die first And he. did. —At Fort Wayne, Ephraim Fox, while in his barn feeding stock during a heavy thunder-storm, dropped dead. At first it was thought his death was caused by lightning, but at the Coroner’s inquest it developed that death was the result of heart disease. He was 56 years of age, and leaves a large family. —Justin Study, Superintendent of the Richmond Public Schools, in attempting to kick a football which carifej near him, while his scholars were at play, lost his balance and received a heavy fall upon a brick pavement It is thought no bones are broken, but his injuries will lay him up for several days. ” ’ —At Metamora, a German, about forty years old, who could not speak English, was run over by the cars and killed. On his person was found an envelope postmarked Richmond, Ohio, addressed to V. Kasen, care of C. Rausch, Falmouth, Ky., also a bill for books bought of Max Wiel & Co., 412 Vine street, Cincinnati, dated Jan. 30, 1885, and shipped to VaL Kasen, care of C. Rausch, Falmouth, Ky. Nothing of value found on his person. —Out of about two thousand pupils in the Richmond schools, Dr. Moore finds that nearly three hundred, or 13.8 percent, have defective vision, while 26.1 percent of these, or 3.6 per cent of all, are afflicted with myopia—short-sightedness—and a very large majority of these are girls, there being nearly two hundred girls and a little over one hundred boys with defe stive y vision, while about fifty of the girls amithirty of the boys are afflicted with mopio. Adolph Lindeman and Charles NeUin, two 12-year-old boys of New Albany, who have been reading dime novels until their heads were filled with a desire io travel, disappeared from their homes Monday of lost week. They were heard of at Coalsbnrg, Ky., and arrested on a telegram. Lindeman had taken S2OO belonging to his brother, and when found only SIOO was recovered. The, boys were armed with three revolvers, hooks, keys, and other articles of doubtful character. —lt has been discovered that the law passed by the last Legislature to reduce and regulate the public printing of the State provides that the reports of the State Bureau of Statistics and of Geology shall be printed only biennially instead of annually, as heretofore. The result will be that the work of the statistical bureau will be almost useless in every alternate year, as there is no way of getting the information it collects disseminated. The cutting off of the regular report was probably made through t a mistake, as the bill was very carelessly amended in the House. —James liiley Graham, the canvasman of Miles Orton's circus, who was alleged to have struck Margaret Eversole, a child, in the face, for looking under the canvas at Jeffersonville, was acquitted, the evident not being sufficient —New Al >any fishermen caught in the Ohio River a golden carp weighing thirteen pounds. It probably escaped from some fish-pond during an overflow. —Maurice Thompson will read a poem at Woodstock, Conn., on July 4.