Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1885 — Page 2

The Republican. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. WH E. MARSHALL. Pnßtmma.

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. The epidemic in Plymouth, Pa., is abating, but the fever has broken out in neighboring villages, with a large mortality. ... .The New York Board of Trade favors a Government subsidy of thirty cents per ton for every thousand miles sailed by sail or steam vessels built and owned in the United States, and engaged in foreign commerce, the subsidy to be reduced ten cents aftef ton years. ■—— S. E. Spencer, cashier for the firm of Grant & Ward, testified at New York that loans by the concern often reached $1,000,000; that they frequently paid more for the use of money than they received on loans; and that Fish drew on his private funds to pay fictitious earnings to depositors... A mob at Springvale. Maine, attacked the residences of several active prohibitionists with rocks and firearms, inflicting considerable damage. No one was injured.. .A grand regatta, open to the world, will be held at Pittsburg in July. Teemer is making the arrangements, and the prizes will aggregate $3,000....J. H. Hutter, President of the New York Central Hoad, died at Irvington, N. Y., aged 49. Gen. Grant’s condition is one of increasing debility, without pain. The swelling on the outside of his throat is becoming larger. Gen. John A. Logan, miatalk with a New York reporter, after having paid a visit to Gen. Grant a few days ago, says: After what I have read and heard about the General 1 expected to find him in much worse condition. I don’t presume to judge of his condition, but am only sieakina of my own impressions. He has some trouble inspeakinc, and expectorates frequently, but there is nothing offensive in the expectoration. I said to him that I was gratified to find him looking better than I expected, and he replied that he was better thah he had been at times. He talked with me for an hour about his book, our old battles, and personal matters. I f< ared that I might be tiring him, and cot up and went into the little room where the stenogra her ami copyist were at work. Presently he came in there, and sat down to read a paner. He reads the newspapers closely, they tell me. The swellon the side of his face, which the papers tell about, does not show unless he turns the side toward you. The General goes about the house without apparent discomfort. I was glad to find him so comfortable, and only hope it may be many years before he leaves us. The General takes great pride in his book. I read some of the slips, and we talked about the matter. His mind is as clear as a bell and his memory unfaltering. His physical suffering seems to have nerved his mind to its best efforts. The iron-works of Oliver Brothers & Co., at Pittsburgh, employing 4,000 men, have resumed operations, the firm having signed the Amalgamated Association scale with some slight modifications which were accepted by the men.

THE WEST.

A decision has been rendered by the Ohio Supreme Court that assessments paid by saloon keepers—amounting to $2,()00,000—before the Scott law was declared invalid, can not be returned... .After striking shale gas, and some veins of rock salt, the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company discovered petroleum in their well at a depth of 2,700 feet, and the oil flow is now copious. The petroleum is unusually clear, and of the best lubricating character,... .The Illinois crop report for the mouth of June has been issued. The indications are that the wheat crop will be less than 10,000,000 bushels thi» year. Faimers are still engaged in plowing up wheat that gives no promise of returning the expense of harvesting. In many counties there will not be enough, wheat harvested for seed and consumption. The condition of winter wheat gave promise of 72 per cent of the average yield April 1, 94 per cent. May 1. and 66 per cent June 1. In Michigan all the crops look well, and wheat is much better advanced than usual. - ,

The lowa State Beard of Health has prohibited public funerals of persons who die from small-pox, scarlet-fever, or diphtheria... .Harlow, Spencer & Co., a St. Louis grain and commission firm, have failed for $90,000. —: A Tombstone (Arizona) special reports that the Apaches killed four soldiers belonging to Capt. Lowden’s command in Guadalupe Canyon. A Mexican named Oshow was killed by another band of Apaches six miles south of Bisbee, in the Whetstone Mountains.... A meeting of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union At Lafayette, Ind., petitioned, President Cleveland and Secretary Manning to remove Third Auditor Williams'’ ’from office... .Sparks’ store and flouring mill at Madison, XVis., was burned, with 6,C00 bushels of wheat and 500 barrels of flour. Loss, 35,000; no insurance,.. .The princigd hotel at Sheboygan, Wis., the Park ouse, was burned, causing a loss of $25,000.... Senator Cullom’s Committee on Interstate Commerce began its sessions in Chicago last week. u A train on the Sioux City Division of the St Paul Road was blown from the track near McCook, D. T., by a cyclone. The sixty odd passengers all received bruises, but only three were seriously injured. Miles of telegraph wires were leveled. Crops generally escaped, as no hail accompanied the storm. Omaha was visited by a blast which swept away $15,C00 worth of property...., A supplementary bulletin has.just been issued at Springfield by the , Illinois State Board of Agricu ture to the effect'that the latest reports have left no room for doubt that the growing crop of winter wheat will be the smallest raised in Illinois for twentyfive years past.... The ravage? of the Hessian fly will cause an estimated loss of 10,000 bushels in the wheat crop of Richland Township, Kalamazoo County, Michigan. .. .The steamer Joe Flemming, owned by the Lemp’s Brewing Company, of St. Louis, and used for towing ice barges, was burned at Depue, on the Illinois River. The loss is estimated at $30,000, with no insurance. The company engaged by Manager McVicker, of Chicago, for the production of John C. Freund’s new play, “True Nobility," on the opening of his theater, June 29, is one of the strongest that have been organized for Chicago in many years. It includes such well-known names as Robert Mantell, Edwin Varrey, W. B. Calisle, Bussell Bassett, Harry Hawk, Luke Martin, Charles Mason, Geo. Conway, Geo. Paxton, and John C. Freund, the author of the play, Viola Allen, Ida Vernon, Blanche Thorne, Etta Baker, Uanche Vang tin, and Mamie Doud. New scenery will be provided for the play by John Maggaronovich and J, Howard Edgers, and will incude two magnificent views of the Colorado region. Manager McVicker intends following “True Nobility" with a series of standard plays, and is now in negotiation with some of the leading members of the dramatic profession with the vie* of presenting the different plays with extraordinarily strong casta. ... ■ t

McVicker’s summer season will be in reality a great dramatical festival. ' j Six dwellings and seven, barns wer,e demolished by a tornado at Pulaski, lowa, and Sol Wfyers, wife, and child, and Miss Ellen Hoffman were killed. A number of persons were injured. Five houses were destroyed at one at Victor, and the Deaf and Dumb Institute at Council Bluffs. At Sioux City the cyclone wrecked a train, injuring several passengers. Heavy rains flooded large areas of territory and swelled the streams beyond all precedent. A tornado in Nebraska caused groat damage along the line of the jUnion Pacific RailroadA colored man named Turner Graham and his wife were killed by a mob at Osgood, Ohio. The pair were quarrelsome and addicted to drink, though harmless otherwise. They had been away from home on a spree, rand when they returned they were riddled with shot„.„ ! Telegrams received by the War Department confirm the reports of an attack by Apadhes upon Lawton’s camp, near Gaudaloupe canyon, New-Mexico, in which five soldiers were killed... .Chief of Police Harrigan, of St. Louis, was found guilty by the Board of Police Commissioners of receiving a reward from outside parties for police services and was fined SIOO and reprimanded. ... .In Peoria all public gimbling-houses have been closed, and the Mayor has, besides, ordered thot the saloons must suspend business Sunday.

THE SOUTH.

Meager details of a terrible accident on the Cincinnati Southern Railroad are telegraphed from Chattanooga, Tenn. A construction train, loaded down with laborers, was passing through the New River tunnel, when.the roof and walls gave way, and fell with a crash upon the train. All was confusion, and the shrieks of the dying and, groans of the injured issued from the tunnel. It is known that six men were killed outright and twenty others were badly injurcd, fully half of them fatally. Eighteen men had to be dug out of the debris, and six were dead before assistance reached themln an affray at a. campmeeting in York County, South Carolina, one negro was killed, two'fatally injured, and a score seriously wounded. - ■ 7 A pocketbook containing certificates of deposit, promiss’ory notes, and other papers, the total value aggregating SIOO,000, was dug up by workmen at Fort Worth, Tex. The deposit certificates are in favor of A. ’T. Treadwell, a wealthy cattleman... .The Randleman Cotton Factory, in Randolph County, North Carolina, was partially destroyed by fire. The loss is $150,000; partially insured. Seven hundred hands are thrown out of employment. A dispatch from Lafayette County, Arkansas, announces the capture of a band of desperadoes who have been, operating for a long time in thit part of the State, robbing and murdering many people. Two 7 of the outlaws are reported killed, and it is expected that those captured will be taken from thqofficers and lynched... .The entire Chinese Collection at the New Orleans Exposition has been presented to the University of Michigan. President Angell, of the University, was Minister to China during the Hayes administration. ,

WASHINGTON.

It is urged in behalf of the proposition to remove the Government money from the Sub-Treasur.es to the banks that the cash would be more secure and the expense of taking care of it would be greatly lessened. The use of the Government deposits would be an ample equivalent to the banks for taking care of -the money., f. The question having arisen whether an alien coming into this country and paying his "head money ” shal 1 in future be exempt from all further tax of the kind. Secretary Manning referred the matter to Attorney General Garland. The Attorney General holds that the capitation tax levied under the immigration act must be collected every time an alien passenger comes into the United States. Under tie act of Aug. 8, 1882, the tax has heretofore been levied only on the first coming in of alien passengers. In a report to Secretary Lamar, Commissioner Sparks, of the General Land Office, recommends the vigorous prosecution of suits to set aside the patents issued under the famous Maxwell land grant in New Mexico... .The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics reports that the total values of exports of domestic breadstuff's from the. United Stites during the month of MayP 1885, and during the five and eleven months ended May 31, 1885, as compared with similar exports during the corresponding months of the preceding year, were as follows: 1885 1884 May...-411,-848’986 $11,463455 Five months ended . May 31 67,581,303 56,542,247 Eleven months ended May 31.'..146,431,965 144,556,873 The Government Entomologist at Washington calls attention to the” fact that the periodical cicadre, or locusts, are due this year in not less than twenty of the States of the Union. Among the localities indicated for their reapperance are Jackson, Union, and Macoupin Counties in Dlinois; St Louis and Boone Counties in Missouri; Phillips County in Kansas; Green. Franklin, Columbiana, Pike, and Miami Counties in Ohio; Tippecanoe, Delaware, Vigo, Switzerland, Hendricks. Marion, Dearborn, Wayne, Floyd, Jefferson, and Richmon4 Counties in- Indiana; the southeastern portion of Michigan; and the vicinity of Toledo. The visitation in the two first-named States will be of the thirteen-year locusts, and in the rest those of the seventeen-year period are expected to appear... .Secretary Manning denies that he is contemplating the abolition of the Sub-Treasuries, as reported. ' * .

POLNICAL.

Five thousand colored men turneiout in Washington to welcome Senator Logan back to the national capital... .By instructions from Washington, Gen. Badger, Collector of the Port at New Orleans, removed Deputy Collector Tom Anderson, of returning board fame. President •Cleveland has appointed to be United States Marshals Frederick H. Marsh, of Oregon, Hl., for the Northern District of Illinois, and Henry C. Urnerfor the Southern District of Ohio. Other appointments have been made as follows: To Be Collector of Customs John p Robinson, for the District of Alexandria. Va. To Be Collectors of Internal Revenue —Isham Hess, for the Fourteenth District of New York; Hunter Wood, tor he Second District of Kentucky; Alfr.d C. Parkinson, for the Second District of Wisconsin: W. H. 1 arborough, for the Fourth District of North Carolina. To Be Surveyors of Custom-—John H. P. Voorhees, for the port of Denver, Colo.; Addison Cole, for the port of All any, N. Y. To Be United States Marshals—Edward M. Boykin, for the district of South Carolina; Bobt. 8. Kelly, lor the Territory of Montana; Thornes Jefferson Carr, for the Territory of Wyomine; Romulo Martinez, for the Territory of New Mexico. s To Be United States Attorneys—John Eatlett Gibson, for the Eastern Division of Virgin!t; Gustavus Van Hoorfeke, for the Southern Dis-

trict of Illinois; and Anthony C. Campbell, for the Territory of Wyoming. Receivers at Land Offices—Abraham Hall, at Milburn City, M. T.; John E. Budd, at 'Stockton, Cail.: P. K. Winer, at Tracy. Minn.; Jos. Hill, at Beatrice. Neb., vice Wm. H. Sommers, resigned: O. C. Hals, at La Crosse, Wis.; W. R. Edigar, at Ironton, Mo.; Hugh C. Wallace, at Salt Lake City, Utah. Dolores Romero, of New Mexico, to be agent for the Indians of the Pueblo Agency in New Mexico. William A. Walker, of Wisconsin, to be asent for the Indians of the Green Bay Agency in Wisconsin. - a Ex-Mayor Fox, of Philadelphia, to be Superintendent of the Mint at I hiladelphia. .Lt Robert Taylor, to be Pension Agent at Knoxville. Tenn., vice N. R. Gibson, suspended. George R. Warner, to be Register of the Land Office at Tracy, Minn. , Four thousand persons viewed the proceedings of. the Ohio Republican Convention at Spry gfield. The temporary Chairman was Hon. J. D. Taylor, of Guernsey County,’and the‘ permanent Chairman , Hoal Amos Townsend, of Cleveland. ' Hon. J. B. Foraker whs nominated for Governor on the first ballot. I General Robert P. Kennedy was given the second place on the ticket. A long series of resolutions were adopted, denouncing the administration for paying honors to the memory of ex- Secretary Jacob Thompson, for appointing “unrepenting rebels" to important offices. and for “discriminating” against ''Union soldiers; demanding the rigid enforcement of the civil-service law, and an enlargement of its scope; expressing sympathy, for Gen. Grant, and denouncing ~ the Democratic party of Ohio for the “destruction of the Scott law.” Ihe New Hampshire Legislature elected A. B. Thompson, Secretary of State; John B. Clarke, State Printer; Solon A. Cartet, State Treasurer, and Frank P. Brown, - Commissary General. .On the first ballot the Republicans Of the New Hampshire Legislature renominated Senator Henry W. Blair; The Republicans of Chicago have finally determined to contest the right of Carter H. Harrison to hold his seat as Mayor of the city. The management of the contest has been placed in the hands of a committee of five prominent Republicans.

GENERAL.

•News of a terrible disaster comes from Zacatecas, in Mexico. -, Twelve mile? from that city is situated the celebrated SantoTiburcio de Laveta Grande Mine, that has produced ever since tlie Spanish conquest, yielding unto’d millions of silver during that time; Within the past few years it has been newly developed and fitted throughout with the most cosfly modern machinery. The work of recovering and reopening old portions of the great mine had been in progress for some time, and was approaching completion. Large quantities of timber and other material, including blasting-powder, had been kept on hand. Suddenly an explosion occurred, plainly? heard at Zacatecas. Five hundred cases of giant powder had gone off by some means unknown. Ten persons were killed outright, and as many more wounded. The mine and everything near it was a complete wreck. The surface improvements were totally destroyed. On the steamers Weser and Polynesia, now at quarantine in New York harbor, forty cases of small-pox have developed since the vessels came into port... .Glanders caused the death of two men at Montreal.

There were 207 business failures during the week in the United States and Canada. The general conditions affecting trade are unfavorable. The accumulation of surplus funds at leading business centers is increasing, the volume of merchandise moving is light, and there are few encouraging features in the industrial 0ut100k.... 8. H. Seamans, Secretary of th^'Millers’ National Association, has completed and issued an exhaustive report of the present condition and:' outlook of The wheat crop as compared with the same time in 1884, compiled from replies to 3,000 circular inquiries sent to the milling fraternity and others. The report makes the probable aggregate yield of wheat in the United States this year 339,164,800 bushels, or 20,835,200 less than the estimate of the United States Bureau of Agriculture. City of Mexico dispatch: “Advices from Leon state that a few nights ago Leon River rose and entered the eastern part of the city. Two persons were drowned, the Central Railway washed out, and growing crops destroyed. On the following night a tremendous water-spout broke a few miles above the town of Paso de Cuarenta, twenty miles from Lagos City. The flood was so great that it practically annihilated Cuarenta. Thus far 170 bodies have been recovered. Many bodies were washed several miles down the valley, being discovered in fields below the town” The search is going on. Paso de Cuarenta had eight hundred inhabitants before the flood. ” The exports of specie from New York during the week were $432,127.76; imports, $38,281. The imports of merchandise aggregated $5,805,146 in value, exclusive of dry goods... .Last week’s in the principal cities of the Union shdw an average decrease of 16.9 per cent. Sa compared with the corresponding week of last year. In New York alone the decrease was 23.1 per cent.; in Chicago, 11.1 per cent.; and in the country outside of New York it averaged 4 per cent.

FOREIGN.

The treaty of peace between France and China has been signed... .The authorities at Madrid are at last compelled to admit that cholera of the time Asiatic type.,is spreading in an alarming manner through the city... .The rejection of the budget in the British Commons, was followed by the resignation of the Gladstone ministry. This action was determined upon at a prolonged Cabinet council. ’When the Premier arose in Parliament to announce the resignations, he received a hearty ovation from his ad- ’ mirers. The defeat of the Government was entirely unexpected, both by its supporters and opponents. The resignation of the Cabinet caused a feverish feeling on the Stock-Exchange and a decline in consols and Russian securities. Charles Alphonse Leon Renier, the distinguished archaeologist, is dead... .The town of Sikuch, in the Eastern Caucasus, has been wiped out by an earthquake. There is a feeling of quiet satisfaction in court circles over the downfall of the Liberal Ministry. Mr. Gladstone declares that his retirement from public life is permanent, and that he will take no part in the approaching electoral struggle, save to address his Midlothian constituency. It is said that the policy of the Marquis of Salisbury , toward Ireland will be to split the Liberal party comp etely by proposing a measure of coercion basqd on Earl Spencer’s report. Court officials now admit that Mr. Gladstone was never in harmony with the Queen on * any subject, and her . Majesty and the Premier disagreed bitterly in all their discussions about Eng and’s ’foreign affairs. It is said the Queen favors a.renewal of the Soudan campaign, the retention of Egypt, the settlement of the Anglo-Russian dispute on the basts of the Granville-Giers

agreement, a renewal ot the alliance with Germany, an entente with Turkey, and no special cultivation of an entente with France. . . .Russia offers to resume diplomatic relations with the Vatican if his holiness will induce the Catholic bishops of Poland to abandon the idea of re-establishing the nationality-of that country. .. .The British Government has ordered the payment of £IOO to each of the widows of the Canadian voyageurs up the Nile, and £SO to the mothers of the voyageurs.... The steamer Opeke Hall foundered in a cyclone in the (Gulf of Aden. There was but one survivor... .The bay colt Paradox won the Grand Prize at Paris.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

A itEGBO in Anderson County, South Carolina, sixty-one years old, began changing color a oout a year ago, and is now as white as the average Caucasian. In the contest for the league base-ball championship, Chicago' and New York are running a neck-and-neck race, with Providence and Philadelphia closely following. St. Louis, Boston, Buffalo, and Detroit bring up the rear, in the order named. The Indianapolis Base-Ball Club is to be transferred to Detroit, to take the latter’s place in the National League. Of the old Detroit club but Bennett, Hanlop, and Wood will be retained.; All the preachers in the city of Dubuque, lowa, spoke last Sunday against the curse of ball-playing on the Sabbath. One reverend gentleman declared that Sunday base-ball playing was worse than picking pockets. When Max well,,the supposed murderer of C. Arthur Preller, at the Southern Hotel, St. Louis, was arrested on the steamer at Tiritiri, he declared that he was an officer 1 in the French army, and that the whole matter was a mistake which’ he would soon explain away. LTpon his examination he stated that the articles found in his trunk bearing the initials “C. A. P.” were given him in San Francisco by a man named Robinson. The Canadian. Government has reduced canal tolls one-half for the remainder of the season; barge transportation between Kingston and Montreal will be lowered one-fourth cent, and wharfage dues at Montreal will be abolished, thus making a reduction-of three-fourths of a cent a bushel on present rates between Chicago and Montreal.... At the annual meeting of the Canadian Pacific Railroad Mr. Stephen was re-elected President. Ten million dollars of the stock is held in the United States, $15,000,000 in the Dominion, and the remaining $40,000,000 in England. It is expected that the road, the floating indebtedness of which amounts to $6,89£>,401, will be completed by the first of October... .The situation at Aspinwall is very bad indeed. There is no police force, and not the slightest effort has been made to raise the city from its ashes. A decisive battle is soon expected between the Government forces and the revolutionists. The latter are well armed and number 4,000 men, >.

Mb. Gladstone said in the House of Commons on the 15th inst. that the Marquis of Salisbury had consented to form a new Cabinet. The Conservatives are far from anxious to assume the difficult task of steering the ship of state through the shoals, and there is already talk of dissension in their ranks. The London Times says it is clearly to be understood that the Salisbury Ministry must be a transition Ministry. There is no room for anew departure or policy’.... Prince Frederick Charles, nephew of the German Emperor, died of a stroke of paralysis, aged 57. The French Admiral Courbet died on board his flagship in the China sea... .The floating debt of France is now’ 1,400,000,000 francs, and the deficit for the next fiscal year is estimated at 3O,ooo,oOOfranca.,„The Austrian Government refuses to sanction private cremative societies on the ground that they tend to the increase of crime... .Earthquake shocks continue frequent in the Vale of Cashmere, but their violence is abating. The Commissioner of Agriculture has appointed Dr. Gerth, ask tiled veterinarian, to proceed West and make an investigation of the cholera epidemic that has been killing off swine in large numbers in Nebraska and Wisconsin... .The most recent statistics place the number of swine in the United States at over 45,000,000 head, which are valued at more than $226,000,000, The annual losses among these animals is very heavy. In 1873 it was estimated to reach in 1882 it was 6 per cent of the whole number in the country; in 1885 this loss increased to 9 per cent. Recent investigations indicate that these losses are mostly the result of contagious diseases. The losses in Nebraska during the last year have been, for the first time, very heavy. Repbrts from forty-six of the seyenty.three counties show that out of 1,303,695 head of swine, 460,463 were affected with the disease, and 352,921, valued at $2,445,778, died. - »

THE MARKETS.

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THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE.

Col. Charles Denby, the New Minister to China. 1 Col. Charles Denby, who goes as Minister to China to succeed Mr. John Russell Young, is fifty-four years of age. He was born in Botetourt County, Virginia. He was educated at Georgetown College, where he took three medals—more than had ever before been received by any one boy. His education was completed at the Virgtnix Military Institute. In 1853 Col. Denby removed to Evansville, Ind., where, with th< exception of three years during the war, hi has since resided and practiced law. During the rebellion he was Lieutenant Colonel

of the Forty-second Indiana Regiment .He was twice wounded. He has been a mem-, her of the Indiana State Legislature. Col. Denby was requested to accept the nomination to Congress from the First Indiana Congressional District, but declined and has devoted his time almost exclusively to the legal profession. He was indorsed by the entire Indiana delegation and by prominent men outside of that State. Col. Denby has been for years a close student of Oriental affairs, and has besides a thorough knowledge of French and Spanish, which will be of inestimable advantage to him in his new capacity. Walker Fearn, Minister to Greece. Walker Fearn, the new Minister to Greece, Servia, and Roumania, is a native of Alabama, having been born at Huntsville, in that State in 1832. He graduated at Yale College in 1851. He showed a fondness for literary studies, and at an early age became an accomplished linguist. He studied law under the tuition of Judge John A. Campbell, and was admitted to practice in Mobile in 1853. The next year he went abroad, and filled the post of Secretary of the American Legation at Brussels. From 1856 to 1858 he was Secretary of the United

States Legation in Mexico. Havingthad such experience in diplomacy, he was selected by the Confederate Government to go on a special mission to Europe. He entered actively into the military service of the Confederacy, and rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel on the staff of Gen. Preston. After peace was declared he resumed his long-interrupted practice of lav?, and made his homeln New Orleans; but he was subsequently elected Professor of Spanish and Italian in the University of Louisiana. ~ - Boyd Winchester, Minister to Switzerland. President Cleveland’s appointee as Minister to Switzerland was born in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, in 1832. His parents removed to Kentucky when he was quite young, and he was sent to school at Danville. He was graduated in the law course at the University of Louisville in 1857. The same year, after having been admitted to the bar, he elected to the Kentucky

Senate. In 1868 he was a district elector on the Seymour and Blair Presidential ticket. The following, year (1869) he was elected a Representative in the Forty-first Congress from the Louisville district, and re-elected to the Forty-second Congress, serving from December,’ 1870, to, March, 1874. When young Winchester removed from Louisiana to Kentucky, he spoke French better than his mother tongue. Of course, he is still proficient in the court language of Europe, and it will serve him to good advantage at Berne, where the Gallic element prevails. *.

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man—the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse—the keeping up a hollow show that must soon come to an end. Have the courage to appear poor,' and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.— Mrs. Jameson. ■—' —_ . - Ingersoll says that a man’s surroundings are responsible for his belief. Mohammed held that women can not enter the kingdom of heaven. He had eleven wives. A pistol ball in motion was_photographed in Italy the other day, ’and yet it takes a woman longer to get ready to go somewhere than it did when Joseph Was in Egypt Molecules are very small—nearly as small as the souls of some people.

OHIO REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.

While the interest in the State Republican convention centered in the nomination of Governor, the"most significant > indica-1 tions of party spirit were tne evident disposition toward harmony and the ringing declarations of the platform, says a Springfield (Ohio) correspondent. Judge Joseph B. Foraker, of Cincinnati, Was nominated on the first ballot, by a vote of 469|, and the nomination was made unanimous. The convention was one of the most harmonious ever held in the State. There was evident a hearty good feeling from the first, add it is the almost unanimous opinion that there will be a stirring, old-fashioned campaign, calling out as heavy a Republican majority, as in 1884. It was noticed that every mention of the Paine of Gen. Logan provoked a hearty cheer. The following platform was unanimously adopted amid ringing cheers: The Republican party of Ohio announces the following platform of principles: right to vote, accorded by the Constitution of the United States, is the concern of the whole people, and must be secured at all hazards to every citizen in every part of the Republic. Existing guarantees must be sacredly maintained, and additional cues provided it necessary that the equal protection of the laws and the equal enjoyment of the suffrage shall not fail or be abridged in any wav through the connivance, neglect or fraud of any of the States of the Union. The Democratic party, which owes the n tional victory last fall to the willful suppression of the ballot, can not bo looked to for the enforcement of these constitutional guaranties, and the hope of the friends of equal laws and equal suffrage is in the Republican party, which pledges itself to wage the contest to a successful end We want such legislation as will harmonize the relations of cap Jal and labor and promote the welfare of the people and protect and fester the industries of the State. We favor the establishment of a National Bureau of Industry, the enforcement of the eight-hour law, and adequate appropriations from the public ,revenues for general education wherever the same are needed. We denounce the importation of contract labor, and favor the most stringent laws to effectively prevent it. We are opposed to the acquisition of the public lands, or any part thereof, by non-resident aliens. We are in favor of a protective tariff which will encourage American development and furnish remunerative employment to American la bor, and we are opposed to the British policy advocated by the Democratic party under the guise of- a tariff-for revenue only.— We demand the restoration of the wool duty of 1867, or its full equivalent, and we denounce the Democratic Congress for failing to make good the pledges they made in its bei alf. We condemn the action of the present administration in lowering the national flag upon the public buildings at Washington as a mark of respect to a man who dishonored the one and sought to destroy the other: who planned with cruel determination in his hiding place in Canada to overwhelm the Northern cities with fire, and to sweep to death their inhabitants by scattering everywhere the gei ms ot infectious and fatal diseases. That the elevation to important and honorable offices of the Government of unrepentant rebels whose political disabilities have not been removed is a flagrant violation of the Constitution and an insult to the loyal people of the whole country, and we denounce the administration of President Cleveland for its .general discrimination so far made against Union soldiers and men who fought against the Union. . - ■. ■ ■ , Rhe Republican party, which enacted the present civil-service law, will faithfully maintain it and cheerfully aid in all needed amendments to give it full force, and it is committed to' extend the law to all grades of Service to which it is applicable. Ample appropriations should be made’ to enforce it in letter and spirit, and all laws at variance with the object ot existing reform legislation should be repea ed. Having accomplished this inuctrthe party pledges itself to still further and higher reforms. It looks with deepest regret upon the failure of the present administration to promote the reforms of the civil service so auspiciously begun under Republican administration. The Republican party of Ohio demands the repeal of the limitation contained m the pension arrears act of 1878 so that all invalid soldiers shall share equally and their pensions begin with the date of disability or discharge, and not with the date of application. We denounce the Democratic party for the destruction ot the Scott law and the consequent increase of burden of taxation v-pon all property and the abandonment of an annual revenue of $2,000,000, and, while recognizing the people’s right to amend the organic law, we demand the enactment of such legislation as will give us the most practical and efficient meas--ure for the regulation and taxation of the liquor traffic attainable under the constitution. We denounce the Democratic Legislature for its treachery to the pledge on the subject of contract labor, and their incompetency and extravagance and wanton disregard-of the true interests and good name of our own State.

CONFEDERATES IN THE SADDLE.

[From the Philadelpha Press.] The following is a list of the officers and emoluments which have been conferred by the Democratic administration upon Confederate and Union soldiers. It does not include the great number of appointments which have been given to civilians in the South or in the North. The disparity in the favors which have been given to the soldiers of the two armies will be apparent to any one: L Q.C. Lamar, of Mis-| Lieutenant Colonel in Bissippi, Secretary of a Mississippi rebel regithe Interior. ment and Confederate Minister to Russia. Augustus H. Garland, Servedin both of Arkansas, Attorney branches of the ConfedGeneral. erate Congress. Henry R. Jackson, of Brigadier General in Georgia, Minister to Confederate service. Mexico. Alexander B.Lawton, Brigadier Generaland of Georgia, Minister to Quartermaster General Russia (since declined, iu rebel army, disabilities never removed). T. J. Jarvis, of North Captain in ConfederCarolina, Minister to ate army. Brazil. Anthony M. Kelly, of Papal enemy of Italy Virginia, Jjlmiiter to and rebel friend of Jeff Austria. David, having written a book praising him. Eugene Higgins, of « Deputy 1 rovost MarMaryland, Chief of the snal at Richmond, Va., . Appointment Division under Winder, whose of the Treasury Depart-cruelty to the Union ment. prisoners is a matter of history. J.D.C. Atkins, of Ten- (Served in the rebel ntssee, Commissioner army and in the Conof Indian Affairs. federate Congress. James I). Porter, of Adjutant General on Tennessee, Assistant rebel Gen. Cheatham's Secretary of State. staff. Gen. Joseph E. John- Division Commander ston, of Virginia, Com- in Confederate army, miasioner of hallways. Henry Muldrow, As- Colonel of ConfederBistant Secretary of the ate cavalry. Interior. Robert B. Vance, of Brigadier General in North Carolina, Assist- rebel army, ant Commissioner of Patents. James M. Morgan, of Served under privaSouth Carolina, Consul teer Capt. Semmes. to Melbourne. J. Ernest Meiere Con- Confed , and declared sul to Nagasaki (com- in Washington recently mission withdrawn). that he was proud of having been a reWei. James Blackburn, of Served in rebel army, Kentucky, appointed and wrote that he wantCpllectoy of Internal ed to see Union blood Revenue, but appoint- flow deep enough to ment canceled. swim liis horse in. Chas. M. Shelley, of Brigadier General in Alabama, Fourth And- Confederate army, itor of the Treasury. R. M. T. hunter, of Member Of ConfederVirginia, Collector of ate Senate. Customs of Rappahannock District. » UNION SOLDIERS HON OBED WITH OFFICE. W. F. Vilas of Wls- Colonel of volunteer cousin. Postmaster regiment of UiiionßolGeneral. diets. Gen. J. C. Black, of Served in Union Il'inois, Commissioner'army. of Pensions. | Some weeks ago it was given out that “Meade, ” th® Copiah County, Mississippi, butcher, was invited to vacate his office, to - which he had been recently appointed. Immediately “the respectable Democrats’' of that State protested. M ttde continues in office, and ,f all is quiet cn the Potomac. ’’ See here, you sniveling, inhuman gossips! How dare you repeat that e which may injure others, without benefiting yourself in the least ?— Barbers’ Gazette. Napkins are made from the bark of the paper mulberry ip Europe.