Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1885 — Page 2

- The Republican. f RENSSELAER, INDIANA. O. & M*naHAT.T N - ' - Publish**.

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. Gen. Grant’s unforced idleness is becoming irksome and his physician is seeking some means to divert the mind of the ■offerer. His general condition has not materially changed within the last week or 60.... J05eph F. Cottringer, of Philadelphia, ex-Secretary of the Central Transportation Company of Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty to charges of embezzlement and forgery, and was sentenced to four years’ solitary confinement. Cottringer is 68 years old and the head of a respectable family The dwelling of Josiah M. Evans, near Grahamton, Pa., was burned the other night, six of his children perishing in the flames. Evans, his wife, and three other children narrowly escaped... .Zoe 8., the famous trotter, was sold at Pittsburgh to &n Italian gentleman for SIO,OOO. The purchaser will take her to Rome Fire • in the grocery establishment of Thurber, Whyland & Co., New York; caused damage to the extent of $100,000; fully insured. THE gallantry of an engineer named George Murphy saved the lives of a number of jiassengers on the West Jersey Kailroad near Atlantic City. The train ran off the track, but the engineer stuck to his post, checking the speed of his train, but sacrificing his own life by so doing... .Fire in the Now York and New England Kailroad Company’s car shops, near Boston, ruined about one-half of the company s extensive works, the Joss being placed at $200,000, with full insurance.. The extensive cotton mills at Utica, New York, will suspend operations during the month of August, and possibly for a longer period, depriving a large'number of men of employment... .A new oil-field has been discovered on a mountain near Elmira, N. Y., the indications being that the deposit is a very rich 0ne.... Thirty persons were prostrated by the heat in New York and Brooklyn in one day.... Sixty persons were overcome by foul air and smoke in blasting at Roxburv, Pa., two of whom died.. Rev. Hr. Iremeus Prime, for nearly fifty'years editor of the New York Observer, died at Manchester, Yt., after a brief illness. John Roach, the ship-builder, bas made an assignment to George E. Weed and George W. Quintard. His preferred claims amount to about $122,000. No statement is made in regard to his financial condition, except that the trouble about the Dolphin, and the more recent decision of the Attorney General that no valid contract existed between him and the Government are the causes leading to the assignment. Roach has expended great amounts of money on the Dolphin and the three new steel cruisers, the Boston, Atlanta, and Chicago, and sees no way by which he can be reimbursed. It is also said that the trouble with the Government has preyed so heavily on his mind that it has been necessary to-keep a constant watch on him. When he found that there was no prospect of being reimbursed by the Government he decided that the best thing he. could do would be to make an assignment. He had $31,000 in bank which he drew out and paid his men. His employes number 2,500.

THE WEST.

At Chicago, Judge Frendergast, after hearing arguments of counsel in the Mayoralty contest, denied the motion for. a recount of the ballots cast at the spring election. The defense gave notice that it •would move for the appointment of a custodian for the ballots.... At Springfield, DL, Judge Treat, of the United States Court, sentenced six of the locked-out ■Wabash employes to imprisonment in the county jail—four for thirty days each and two for ten days each—for contempt of court in interfering with non-union men when at work. Neal Thornton, a desperado, who murdered Policeman Daniel Sheehan at Joplin, M 6., was taken from jail and lynched. Cleveland dispatches state th,at the iron mills in that city have shut, down indefinitely, and the strikers there are reported as still showing signs of an intention to make trouble. There are factions among the strikers, however, and some of them are in favor of returning to work at once... .East Saginaw mill-owners threaten to shut down for the year if the labor troubles there continue. One or two proprietors have already taken the Course indicated. At Bay City work has been partly resumed. The effect of high license in St Louis has been the closing of 250 wine and beer saloons since July 1.... A census just taken of Nebraska shows that the population of the State is over 700,000, as against 452,000 in 1880. The population of Omaha was increased from 30,652 in 1880 to 61,835.... .Lars Gunderson, late Postmaster at Cumberland, Wis., who absconded recently, leaving a deficit of $5,000 in his official accounts, was found in Manitoba by an inspector, to whom he voluntarily surrendered himself.... While George Johnson, a young farmer living near Alden, lowa, was kissing his wife good-night, he cut- the throat of her sister, Grace Band, who was sharing her bed, and then committed suicide. Johnson is said to have been infatuated with his victim and to have killed her to prevent her marriage, which was fixed for an early day... .Omahadispatch: “General Howard, who recently wrote President Cleveland,

suggesting the possibility of a hostile demonstration at Salt Lake on the part of the Mormons on their pioneers’ anniversary, has received a telegram from the President directing him to keep all the posts of the Western Platte Department in full strength and be prepared for any emergency that may arise in Utah in. the near future. Gen. Hatch, with the Fifth Cavalry, has been ordered to remain in readiness at Ogalalla, Neb., to proceed by fast train to Salt Lake if necessary. TheSixtli Infantry, at Fort Douglas, U.T., consisting of 500 men, will be retained there, and are considered sufficient to guard against anything except an organized outbreak." Manages McVicker’s movement toward the reinstatement of the stock company system and the revival of the old comedies is meeting with good success at his theater in Chicago. Last week “London Assurance” was given every evening to good houses* and this week the “Marble Heart” wills be presented. The Daily of Saturday says: “Mr. J. H. McVicker’s revival of Boueieault’s ‘London Assurance’ is a remarkable event, and in every way Chicago’s veteran manager. The company which he has gathered about him is a notable one. The fine comedy in which it is appearing gives its leading members oppor-

trinity to put forward their best work. Of the stage setting nothing but praise can be said.” A dispatch from Milos City, Montana, says that excitement runs high there, caused by a report that five cowboys and seven-Cheyennes had bqen killed in a fight on the Rosebud. At Fort Keogh it is, learned that the Pine Ridge and other Cheyennes on the Tongue River are quarreling with the Cheyennes on the Rosebud, insisting upon the latter leaving •'their' reservation to go south upon the warpath. The Cheyennes oh the Rosebud are peaceable and prefer to remain quiet. The others threatened ¥he life of Indian ■ Agent Stevens at Rosebud. He fled to Fort Custer and telegraphed tho facts to the department commander at Fort-Snelling, Minn... . Samuel Crocker, editor of tho War Cfyief, the organ of tho Oklahoma colonists? has been arrested on the charge of “seditious conspiracy” and "inciting sedition, and rebellion against the United States Government. ” A number of other arrests of settlers on tho same charge is also recorded. Crop reports from tho Northwestern States show that in many localities there will be a better yield of Wheat than was at first anticipated, ll while tho -news concerning corn, oats, barley, potatoes, and bfiy is very encouraging... .The Secretary of the Nebraska State Board of Agriculture denies the report of crop blight, and reports of swarms of young locusts or grasshoppers in the Valley of the Arkansas and other parts of Colorado are also officially denied The dispute between the cattlemen and Secretary Lamar in regard to the trail through the Indian Territory has been settled,, the bullock barons yielding under protest to the order from the Interior Department.

TEH SOUTH.

The protest against the award of the contract for stone-work on the Government building at Peoria to the lowest bidders, on the ground that they employ convict labor, has been held to be invalid by the Treasury authorities. : . Illicit distilleries are increasing in Middle Tenneseee, and whisky is selling in North Alabama at 50 and GO cents per ga110n...,T. L. Airey, of New Orleans; has been elected President, and Jerome Hill, of St. Louis, Vice President' of the National Cotton Exchange for the ensuing two years. At a sale of Jersey cattle in Lexington, Ky., forty-six head brought the sum of $9,060, an average of $197 a liearj. One cow brought $430... .Thomas J. Boasso, Chief of Detectives at New Orleans, was shot and supposably mortally wounded by Mary C. Ivuhnc, wlio alleges that Boasso deceived her with a false marriage certificate .... David Ackles, colored, was hanged at Helena, Ark., for murdering Frank Burrell and Scylla Flannery last year. !. .Eaton Mills, colored, a noted desperado, was hanged in public at Halifax, N. C. A passenger train on, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Ee Railroad was ditched near Wallace, Tex. The accident was caused by a large irrigation ditch breaking over and washing away a portion of the track. Harvey Wilson, the engineer, Frank Atchison, the fireman, and two other men were killed; Express Messenger Bennett was dangerously hurt, and a passenger named Abbott hail his arm and leg fractured.. *. The revival of an old grudge at Stepstone, Ky., between the, Towfi Marshal, Perry Oakley, and John Smith resulted in the death of the two latter, and Nute Osborn, who came into the fiht later... .John A. Armstrong and Alexander Coen, steamboat owners and lumber dealers. Wheeling, W. Va., made an assignment. Their liabilities are estimated at $250,000.

WASHINGTON.

The report of the Naval Advisory Board on the construction of the Dolphin, which was recently submitted.to the Secretary of the Navy as giving the statement of the Board in the controversy over that vessel, is a voluminous document, and almost entirely of a technical nature.' It argues that the—vessel is possessed of' the necessary strength, and says the designers alone are responsible forher speed.... A Washington dispatch says that “fire broke out suddenly in the Post building, at the icorner of Tenth and D streets, northwest, and soon the upper stories were wrapped in flames. The building was occupied by the Washington Daily Post, the National Republican, the Washington Critic, the Sunday Gazette, the United State Electric Light Company, and several other tenants. The editorial, composing, and press rooms of the four papers are completely ruined, and the business offices flooded with water. The building, which is owned by Stilson Hutchins, was valued at SBO, COO, and is said to be covered by insurance.” The Treasury Department has just completed a. statement of, the distilleries in operation in the country and their production daily- There are 327 distilleries running, producing 164,424 gallons daily. Of these, 16 are in Illinois, producing 59,737 gallons daily. The distilleries of Illinois are producing 6,200 gallons per day more than one year ag0.... Ex- Senator Francis Kernan, of New York, has declined the appointment of Government Director of the Union Pacific Bailroad. Secretary Manning has addressed a circular to manufacturers and others interested in the industrial arts, asking their views as to the feasibility of simplifying the tariff aud substituting specific for ad valorem duties. The results of the inquirywill be laid" before Congress... .Senator Manderson, of the Senate Committee on Territories, has just completed a, tour of' New Mexico, and as a result of his observations will file a report next December against its admission as a State.

POINTICAL.

First Assistant Postmaster General Stevenson declares that he is in full sympathy with the policy* of the President and Postmaster General as to. removals and appointments, and will conform '(toil The Virginia Bepublicans have nominated the Hon. John S. Wise for Governor!and H. C. Wood for Lieutenant Governor. The President has appointed William T. Carrington to be Collator of Customs for the District of Teche, Louisiana; Francis H. Underwood, of Massachusetts, to be Consul of the United States at Glas- - gow; Chin i Coy Woo, to be Interpreter of the United States Consulate at Canton; C. W. Fields, to be Superintendent of the Hot Springs, Ark.; L. D. Sale, of Michigan, to be Librarian of (he Patent Office, vice Weston Flint, reduced; aud the followingnamed Postmasters: James H. Dobbins, at BettefeatOr Pa.EAugustus Owen, at Canton, Pa.; William A- Lewis, at Evart, Mich.; Eugene L. Brown, at Eufaula, Ala.; Theodore W. Ivory, at' Glenwood, Iowa; Henry; C. Stark; at Hvde Park, Mass.; George F. A. Kimball, at Veigennes, Vt; Gardner A. Wilder, at Circleville, Ohio,’ vice H. E. Lutz, suspended; Lyman W,

■ Rodington, at Rutland, Yt, vice A. H. Tut- ! tie, suspended. The President has issued a special civilservice rule, applicable to the Pension Department. providing that appointments shall bo apportioned among (he States and Territories according to population, as shown by the last census. W. B. Webb was offered ,the position of Comn is -ioner of the District of Columbia, which has brought out the fact that exSenator Pomeroy had been anxious for the place, and was not unwilling to turn the prohibition vote of the country over to the Democrats in order to get it. Webb is a Republican, an old resident of the District, but never had anything to do with politics. .... The Georgia House of Representatives has passed a general local-option bill to apply to the counties in that State which have not adopted prohibition. The bill now goes to tho Senate.

GENERAL.

A rußLic meeting, held at Toronto passed resolutions that the further admission of Chinese into Canada should be rigidly restricted if not totally prohibited. Larner B. Harrison, President of the First National Bank of Cincinnati, has been appointed by the President in the place of ex-Governor Noyes, resigned, as Government Director of the Union PacificRailway. Two American railway employes are in jail at Sabinos, in Chihuahua, charged with insulting the Alcalde’s wife. The United States Consul is investigating the cases, which are claimed to be part and parcel of a systematic persecution to which Americans in small Mexican cities and towns are being subjected.... When Gen. Middleton and staff reached Winnipeg, the other day, they were-wannly greeted at the station by fifteen thousand people. Five hours later the troops arrived and marched through the gayly decorated streets to the City Hall, where an address of welcome was presented by the civic authorities, to which Gen. Middleton responded. At night the city was brilliantly illuminated. .... It is intended by the opponents of the civil-service rules to bring the law before the United States Supreme Court, that its constitutionality may be tested... .The -receipts of the Direct Cable Company during the six months ended June 30 were £32,467 less than for tho corresponding period of last year, owing to a reduction in the tariff of t 0115... .The National Cotton Exchange of America met at Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs, Y T a., with W. H. Gardner, of Mobile, Ala., as President. The Master House-Painters’ Association of the United States and Canada held its first general convention in Chicago. Titus Berger, of Pittsburgh, was chosen President for the ensuing year. According to reports to Bradstreet’s, there were 185 failures in the United States during the week, against 170 in the preceding week, and 211, 162, and 131 in the corresponding weeks of 1884:, 1883, and 1882 respectively. About 90 per cent, were those of small traders whose capital was less than $5,000. In the principal trades -they were as —follows^—Grocers, 28; liquors,. 26; general stores, 15; drugs, 12; manufacturers, 10; tobacco and cigars, 9; furniture; 9; produce and provisions, 7; dry goods, 6; shoes, 5; 5; fancy goods, 5; hardware, 5; books, stationery, etc., 5: millinery, s; hotels and restaurants, 4; clothing, 4; bakers and confectioners, 3; grain and millers, 3; hats, 3; jewelry, 3; bankers, 2. Bradstreet’s, in its weekly commercial summary, says: “The general trade situation, as reported by special telegrams to Bradstr eel’s, is characterized by the customary dullness observable at this season of the year. The plethora of money reported from the leading financial centers is as heavy as ever. The industrial situation is less satisfactory, and strikes and industrial suspensions have increased> Mercantile collections are less prompt. There is a slight gain in the movement of general merchandise reported from Chicago, and leading dealers in various lines there look confidently forward to a good fall trade. At Boston general trade is very dull, and the prospect for the coming autumn is cousidered doubtful. There is ft partial exception so far as dry goods are concerned. The lines of samples out are said to be extensive and already active, and some dealers look ahead to a good trade in the autumn. ” ... .News comes from Quebec of the drowning of three young men and a young lady, at St. Alero des Mont, County Maskenonge, Canada. They were crossing a river in a boat, which upset.

FOREIGN.

Jn the contest for the League base hall championship, the Chicago nine still maintains the lead, with the New York, Providence, Philadelphia, and St. Louis clubs following’in the order named. The Boston and Detroit clubs are tied for the next place, and the Buffalos are at the foot of the class. Chicago has won 45 games, New York 42, Providence 34, Philadelphia 27, and Detroit and Boston 20 each. The great Munster Bank, of Cork and Dublin, has suspended payments. The liabilities amount to $8,750,000. The majority of its shareholders are ladies who are solely • dependent upon its dividends for their income. The managers of the suspended Munster Bank will endeavor to borrow 'sufficient money in England to liquidate the bank’s present indebtedness. A run was begun on the Hibdtnian Bank, which has fortytwo branches in Ireland, and which has been compelled to require a seven days’ notice of an intention to withdraw deposits. 1.... At a eonfere: ce of English sugarrefiners held in London it was resolved to petition the Marquis of Salisbury to'bring before the people an alleged injustice by the American Government in paying a bountythrough its firnff laws to American exporters of refinfed sugars... .The Salvation Army in England purposes to establish a system of pickets In front, of houses of ill - fame, the object being to make a note of all who enter such places.... At Paris a decree divqrcing the Marquis de Caux from Madame Patti has been pronounced.. M. de Lesseps is urging upon the French Minister of Public Works a scheme„for a canal, navigable by the largest iron-clads, from Havre to Marseilles. A cabinet council was held at London to consider the Buseo-Afghan boundary question, u£t&t which Lord Salisbury, Lord Iddesleigh, ninTSir Michn&l Hicks-Beach had a consultation at the foreign office with Baron de Staal, the Russian Ambassador. It was subsequently announced that the negotiations between England andißussia were progressing in 1 a satisfactory manner. The French foreign office is advised that (ho massing of Bussjan droops at Zulficar Pass is with a view to the seizure of Herat The French Minister to St. Petersburg, who was about leaving on a furlough, Las been'ordered to remain at bis post because of the gravitv of the situation. Thd Ameer has issued a proclamation announcing his investure with the decoration of the Star of India, and dr- \\ ' ■ XT

dering tbe illumination of Herat in honor of the event... .The new treaty between China and Great Britain, by the terms of which the interior of the Chinese Empire is opened up freely to the opium trade, has been signed by representatives of both powers The cost of the Tonquin campaign, according to the French Budget Committee, ? will be 470,000,000 francs, of which only 270,000,000 francs have been voted ... A large number of Americans have been blackballed who were applicants for admission into the Bachelors’ Club of London.... The Chinese restriction bill has passed the Dominion Senate without amendment.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics reports that the number of immigrants arrived in the United States during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1885, was 387,821. being 122,013 less than the immigration during the preceding fiscal year, and 401,171 less than during the year ending June 30, 1882—the year of the greatest immigration. The arrangement between the Pennsylvania and the New York Central Bail-ways is said, on high authority, to have been practically consummated, and to contemplate an offensive and defensive alliance, with all that the , term implies.... In the, sculliug race v three miles, at Pittsburgh, Gaudaur defeated Teemer by a length in 19:35, beating the best record by 29| seconds. Hosmer, Hamm, McKay, and Ten Eyck also started. s Quo WARRANTO preeeedings have been begun before the Ohio Supreme Cou t against the board of managers of the penitentiary to test the new law empowering the managers to parole first-term prisoners. .... Chicago elevators contain 11,893,435 bushels of wheat, 824,792 bushels of corn, 393:121 bushels of oats, and 8,436 bushels of rye; total, 16.119,784 bushels of all kinds of grain, against 4,564,526 bushels a year ago... .Two families; numbering seven persons, were swept away while attempting to ford the Walnut River near Douglas,'Kan. All were drowned save one... .The Wells & French car and car wheel shops, at the comer of Blue Island and Ashland avenues, Chicago, were destroved by fire, the loss being between $200,000 and $300,000. A deputation which visited the "Earl of Carnarvon, Viceroy of Ireland, to ask his support of a scheme for a Government guarantee of a loan of £500,000 by the Bank of Ireland to the Munster Bank was informed by his Lordship that the Government had no power to take such action, except in an emergency threatening a national calamity.... The Scotch riflemen won by eight points the maten for the challenge trophy at Wimbledon. Joe Vinton, of Montreal, who has saved thirty-two people from drowning, has been presented with a gold watch and chain hv Canadian officials... .The heat last week was a source of discomfort and complaint at nearly every point in the country both North and South. Sunstrokes were numerous and some of them had a fatal ending. Neiv York telegram: “John Roach’s assets are saicl to be about $4,008,600. His liabilities have not been ascertained, but it is thought he will be able to pay them in full, and have a handsome for|uno left. Ilis legal representatives will soon have a conference with Secretary Whitney, after which it is probable that he may resume business. All his employes have been paid in full. Only a sufficient force will be retained at his yards to fulfill existing contracts.”

All Comes Even in the End.

“One hundred doses for £l,” is the way a patent medicine heads its “ad.” Man takes sl. worth. Then: the undertaker comes along and it costs the man SIOO for one dose. Thus we see all things come- around even in this old world, after all. When wheat is cheap flour is high, and when you can buy a Whole stall-fed ox for four cents a pound, beefsteak keeps right up to nineteen cents, with a close flavor of the horns at that. When the telephone company chops two holes through the roof of your house for nothing, it makes up for it by charging you fifty cents for telling the coal man to bring you twelve tons of hard coal when you only tried to order three quarts of ice cream from the confectioner’s. Oh, it’s aIL right. At least “is” is, and whatever is, is right— R. J. Burdette. The distance from Chicago to the sun has been figured down to a moderately close certainty; but what is needed in hot weather a good deal more than nice precision in such, matters is a suspender that won't fade.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. ' i 8eeve5,.....-../..'. $6.25 @ 6.75 H0g5...... 4.50 @5.25 Wheat—No. 1 White ...... .08 & 1.00 No. 2 Red 1.00 & 1.01 Core—No. 2 «... .52 @ .64 Oats—White .39 ■& .42 Pork—New Me 55....../. 11.25 @11.75 Lard .06?i@ .07 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers. 5,75 @6.25 Good Shipping 6.25 @6.75 Common. 4.25 @4.75 Hogs 4.25 (gt 6.«0 Flour—Fancy Red Whiter Ex.. 5.25 @5.50 Prime to Choice Spring. 4.00 @4.50 Wheat—No. 2 Spring. 88 @ .88’i Corn—No. 2 46 @ .460 j Oats—No. 2. oi @ .82 Rye—No. 2 58 @ .50 Barley—No.-3 .44 @ .46 Butter—Choice Creamery 16 & .17 Fine Dairy 18 @ -.15 Cheese —Full. Cream, new 00 @ .09?$ Light Skimmed .03 @ .04 Eggs—Fresh. .11 -12 Potatoes—New, per brl 1.00 @ 1.25 Pork —Mess 10.00 @10.50 Lard L* 6.50 @ 6.75 TOLEDO. IVheat—No. 2 Red ,93 & .95 Corn—No. Oats—No. @ .34 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2. 87 @ .83 Corn—No. 2........... •** <® -4] Oats—No. 2 33. @ .34 Rye—No. 1 *>B & ,69 BARLEY—No. 2 .60 @ .62 Poke—Mess.. 10.00 @10.50 ST. LOUI& Wheat —No. 2 Red 1.02 & 1.03 Corn—Mixed.... 44 @ .45 Oats—Mixed . -33 @ .34 Rye, i• •...»«..*• ...•••• •* *53 (£si .55 Hay—Timothy ll.op @16.00 Pork —Mess 10.25 @10.75 CINCINNATL > , Wheat—No. 2 Red: .tv' -98 @I.OO 1 Corn. 48 @ .48!$ OATS-i-Mixed .i* -S3 @ .34 Rye—No, 2 Fail...i:. 1 - 60 <3 /62 PoRK-^Me55............. ’ 10.50 @ll^ DETROIT. Flour 6.50 @6.00 Wheat —No. 1 White -96 @ .97 Coen—No. 2 •' -46 SLr.Jjj Oats —No. 2 White -3o @ .37 Pore—New Mess ...-,••••• ILO ° INDIANAPOLIS. •jJyWheat—No. 2 Red. 94 -96 Corn- Mixed................ « -46 Oats —Not 2 ... ‘33 & .34 EAST LIBERTY. „ - Cattle —8e5t...... .V- 6.50 @ 6.a0 Fair........... .1........ 6.00 @5.50 Common, 4.00 @4.60 H0G5..............: , 4.69 9 6.00 Sheep 4-25 & 4.75,*

WESTERN GOVERNORS.

' Bussell A. Alger, dor er nor of Michigan. j- Was, bom in Ohio, February 27, 1836. His parents died when he was 11 years old, and for the next seven years ho worked on a farm, getting some schooling at Richfield Academy in the winters. Then he entered a law office, and in 1859 was admitted to the bar. Rad health caused him to relinquish his profession, and in 1861 he moved to Grand Rapids to go into the lumber business there. In the same year he entered the Second Michigan Cavalry. Next year he was Wounded at the battle of Boonville, Miss., and soon after promoted to he Major of the regiment. October 16, 1862, he was appointed Lieutenant Colonel ’ of the Sixth Michigan Cavalry, and June 2,

1853, Colonel of the Fifth Michigan Cavalry, his regiment being a part of Custer’s famous cavalry brigade. July 6, 1863, he was wounded at the battle of Boonesborough, Md. Altogether he took part in j sixty-six battles and skirmishes. He was j brevetted Brigadier General and Major General “for gallant and meritorious services in the field.” In 1855 the General removed to Detroit and engaged extensively, in the lumber business. He is now one of the i largest lumber operators in the State of j Michigan, and is interested in many enterI prises. General Alger was elected Governor of Michigan on the Republican ticket November 4, 1884. * J. M. Busk, Governor of Wisconsin. Governor Jeremiah M. Rusk was bom in i Morgan County, Ohio, June 17, 1830, and is therefore 55 years old. He removed to Wisconsin in 1853; held several county offices; was a member of the Assembly in 1862; was commissioned Major of the Twenty-fifth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry in July, 1862; was soon after promoted to ! the Colonelcy. Served with General Sherman from the siege of Vicksburg until mustered out at the close of the war, and was brevetted Brigadier General for bravery at the battle of Salkehatchie; was elected Bank Comptroller of Wisconsin for 1866 and 1867, and re-elected for 1868-9; represented the Sixth Congressional District in

the Forty-second Congress, and the Seventh District in the Forty-third and Fortyfourth Congresses; was Chairman of the Committee on Invalid Pensions in the Forty-third Congress; was a member of tha Congressional Republican Committee for several years: was a delegate tp the National Republican Convention at Chicago in 1880; was appointed by President,Garfield and confirmed by the Senate as Minister to Paraguay and Uruguay, which appointment he declined; was also tendered by President Garfield the mission to Denmark, and the position of Chief of the Bureau of-En-graving and Printing, both of which he declined. He was elected Governor of Wisconsin as a Republican in 1881, and reelected in 1884, Isaac P. Gray, Governor of Indiana. Isaac P. Gray is a native of Chester County, Pennsylvania, and is .about 55 years old. His parents emigrated to Ohio in 1836, and in 1855 Governor Gray moved to Union County, Indiana, where he stiU resides, He is by profession a lawyer; served in the war of the rebellion, with the

rank of Colonel; was defeated for Congress in 1866; elected Stato Senator in 1868; delegate to the Liberal Republican Convention at Cincinnati in 1872; elected Lieutenant Governor of Indiana on the Democratic ticket in 1876; defeated for the same office in 1880; was the Democratic nominee for United States Senator in 1881; and was nominated and elected Governor, on the Democratic ticket in 1884. A MAN may have a head so stuffed with knowledge that his hair can’t grow, and yet have his feet knocked blear out from under him by a question or two from a little midget too small to know an idea from a gooseberry. Measured by its bulk, a fly is fourteen hundred times as strong as a man, and yet Boston puts screens in the windows and throws the- front door open to Sullivan. — : —. What piece, of liorse fnrnitnre does an old . bachelor resemble? A sir-single.

FREE NIAGARA.

The International Park Opened at the Falls on the New York Side. State and Dominion Officials Present in All . Their Glory—Music and Speechmaking. [Niagara Falls special.] Niagara never before saw such a throng as to-day attended the opening of the State Park. Seemingly aU Western New York itself into the village. A score of speciar trains brought delegations from many States and from Canada. The word “Welcome” greeted the visitor at every turn. Bunting is dispMyed in every part of the village. The- Union Jack, the Irish Green, and'the Tricolor are mingled With the Stars and Stripes. The hotels are lavish in display. The fronts of the International, Cataract. Spencer, and others are almost hidden from sight by ricb-hued decorations. In front of the Cataract is a fine arch. Many handsome decorations on the Canada shore show sympathetic rejoicing. The Reservation Commissioners nSet at the Cataract House at 10:30 a. m. There were present Commissioners Dorsheimer, Robb, Rogers, Anderson, and Green, and Secretary and Treasurer Leighton Williams. The following cablo dispatch was read: "London, Eng., July 14. “To the Representatives of the State of New York at Niagara Falls: “The Commons Reservation Society congratulates the State of New York on securing the Falls to the public.” About 11:30 a delegation representing the Canadian Government drove over from the Canadian side to take part in the ceremonies. It included Lieut. Gov. Kobinson, of Ontario; the 'Hon. Oliver Mowatt, Premier of Ontario; Provincial Secretary Hardy; Lieut. Col. Gzo.WPki, Chairman of the Canadian Niagara Falls Commission; Commissioner Langmuir; and the Governor General’s secretary. An informal reception was held during the morning in the hotel parlors occupied by Gov. Hill. The Canadian visitors were presented to him and remained until the time arrived for the ceremonies of the day. THE OPENING CEREMONIES. The formal opening ceremonies were held in Prospect Park, whose well-kept domain was early given over to the lawless tread of a public which needed police restriction, and had it not. At 12:15 o’clock Gov. Hill, Hon. Erasmus Brooks, James G. Carter, of New Vork, the orator of the day, and Bishop Coxe, made their appearance in the pavilion, escorted by President Neilson of the Prospect Park Compauy. They were followed by the staff of the Governor, State officials, Niagara Reservation Commissioners, and others of prominence. The ceremonies, carried out according to program, included fine vocal and-inartial music, the latter by military bands from Buffalo and the Mexican National Band, present by special invitation. Bishop Coxe read a prayer written for the occasion, and the Hon. Erastus Brooks, President of the day, made a long address. The formal presentation of the Park to the State was made by the Hon. William Dorsheimer. Gov. Hill’s reply went into details. He gave the crowd a history of Niagara, said the State would undertake to care for the reservation, and wound up with merited praises for the Commissioners, and none the less merited eulogies for the, cataract. Tbe orator of the day was the Hon. James C. Carter, of New York City, a prominent lawyer, who has been active in “The Niagara Falls Association of New York.” His oration dwelt upon the sublimity of the falls, free access to which the park is inteuded to secure, the evils of private proprietorship in Nature’s wonders, and reviewed the proceedings and negotiations which resulted in the purchase of the park by the State. Letters of regret and-congratulation were read from President Cleveland, the Gover-nor-General of Canada, and from Samuel J. Tilden. Lieutenant Governor Robinson of the Province of Ontario and Premier Mowatt of the Dominion Government made bright speeches. The military parade in the afternoon was brilliant It was reviewed by Gov. Hill, who left early for the East. A MOTLEY CROWD—SWEPT OYER THE FALLS. The crowds lingered to enjoy "freedom” and fireworks. A sergeant of the guard during the parade having orders to keep horses from the line of march attempted to enforce them. A mounted orderly attempting to ride past him, the sergeant thrush his bayonet into the horse, killing it. The sergeant was arrested. The. friendly Canadian from the near towns, pipe in mouth and girl on arm, was everywhere. The farming community of all Western New York seemed to have hitched up and driven to the village. Prospect Park looked like a monstrous picnic-ground. Even the Tonawanda reservation sent in its Indian delegation, gay in cambric and red feathers. All day long these throngs walked the streets. The hackman, as a feature of Niagara, was wiped out of existence. The crowd was the great thing. People trooped over the bridges in endless battalions and marched shoulder to shoulder through the moist and shady pathways, of Goat Island.. Farmers hitched their teams among the shrubbery which private management had hitherto so sedulously guarded. The deep woods of the island locked as though given up to a vast camp-meeting. The Biddle stairway was free, as it always is; and the number of people who went toiling up and down its tedious spiral was so great that further admission was repeatedly denied. The trip to the Cave of the Winds cost a dollar apiece, but the lessees reaped a harvest. The inclined railway in Prospect Park was run at twenty-five cents a head as usual. There was total lack of police supervision, and it was a constant remark during the day that accidents were being invited. About six o’clock two Buffalo women were about to cross the first bridge to Goat Island when one of them, a Mrs. Mclntyre, ventured upon the unguarded planks at the edge of the pier. Turning, she called to her companion, “You’re a coward! Come ons” As she spoke she lost her balance, fe'.l into the rapids, and was swept over the American FaU. ' •' . i The Mhtor of Helena, M. T., is a barber, and after enjoying a “shave” at his worshipful hands a visitor w ent out “to look for an Alderman to black his boots. ” Marie Van Zandt has made herself a great society favorite in London.. She, receives £SO ‘for attending fashionable parties after the opera. ScOTcfit'shepherd dogs are now employed at the Cape of Good Hope in herding ostriches, a work tfhich they perform with great sagacity. The University of Tennessee has conferred the degree of Doctor of Law? upon Professor W. G. Sumner, of Yale. Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll’s family are summering at Nahant, Mass.