Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1885 — Page 6

The Republican. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. 6. TL MARSHALL, - - PcßUsma.

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

JHli EAST. At McKinney’s, N. Y., during the progress of a heavy thunder-storm, three men were instantly killed and another badly injared. On the approach of the storm six men took refuge in a shed at the base of a perpendicular ledge of bowlders. The rain loosened several of the great stones overhanging the cabin, which fell, completely demolishing the structure and instantly crushing to death, three men.... The associated Bessemer steel-rail manufacturers held a meeting at Long Branch, at which eleven companies were, represented, and agreed to reduce the production of steel rails 60 ns not to exceed the demand, that manufacturers may have better prices next year, the reduction to be based upon the capacity ' of each mill, and to take effect Jan.-1 next... .James Horace Jones, a wife-murderer, was hanged at Troy, N. Y. He made a will giving his body to his spiritual adviser, his heart to Rome, and his soul to heaven. A MAN calling himself William W. Wnnzer, Ji., attempted to swindle a bank at Farmington, Me., out of $5,000 on the strength of a telegram purporting to come from a Boston bank, showing the deposit of that sum to his credit The Farmington institution paid him by check, but, discovering the fraud immediately took steps to prevent its negotiation. The telegram, it appears, was sent by Wanzer himself by means of a loop and instrument put into the wires in the woods, just outside Farmington.... Miss Adriana Phvsick Brinckle has just been released from the Pennsylvania Lunatic Asylum at Harrisburg, where she had been confined for twenty-seven years on the charge of “extravagance and eccentricity. ” She is now 60 years of age.... A schedule of the assets and liabilities of John Roach shows the liabilities to be $2,222,877.81 and the actual assets to be $4,481,478.23, a surplus of over $2,000, 000. ....A genuine and fatal case of Asiatic cholera is believed to have occurred at Camden, N. J., the victim being Margaret Kealey, who came from Ireland a fortnight since. The anthracite coal miners are reported as contemplating a reduction of their product during September to the extent of 800,000 tons, and an advance in prices Ootl., A dozen inmates of the New Jersey asylnm for the insane, at Morris Plains, are - ill with typhoid fever. The outbreak is attributed to defective drainage. ... .While walking on a railway track at Anderson, Pa., Thomas Grepps was assaulted by two tramps, who, having robbed him of his watch and money, bound him to the rails and left him to his fate. He worked himself partially free, but a passiAg freight train cut off one of bis fingers. The miscreants are still at large.... Jotham Carpenter, sixteen years eld, shot and perhaps fatally wounded his cousin, Jesse Umberfield, of the same age, at Fort Chester, N. Y. Young Cars enter then sent a bullet through his own rain. The Toys had “beehThrowihg water at each other, and Carpenter, feeling that he had deceived the worst of the engagement, went into the house and procured the pistol with which he shot his cousin.

THE WEST.

At the competitive drill of the at Detroit the home council was awarded the first prize, and the Cleveland Club the third, which so incensed. the latter that they left the grounds and took a steamer home.... Kansas City was visited by a heavy rain-storm, which flooded many cellars and caused the collapse of two brick buildings. A tornado in Hancock County, Ohio, inflicted serious damage upon crops, and destroyed a large amount of property.... Yincent J. Scott, a private banker of Detroit. failed, as the result of a steady demand upon the resources of the bank by frightened depositors. The assets and liabilities are estimated at about $150,000.... The Payne Oklahoma colony, which lias been in camp at Caldwell, Kan., for some months, is breaking up in compliance with instructions from Capt Couch.... The Secretary of the Illinois Millers’ Association, who has just made a tour of Missouri and Kansas, says the quantity of wheat in those States is smaller and the quality poorer than reported... .James W. Marshall, the discoverer of gold in California, has just died in extreme poverty in that State. The general land office has specific knowledge of the illegal inciosure of nearly 700,000 acres of the public domain, and estimates that not less than 10,000.000 acres in addition are illegally inclosed, all of which will be thrown open to settlement proclamation.

Five of the Independent Order of Foresters marched through the streets of- Chicago with bands and banners, in celebration of the seventh anniversary of the establishment of the organization in Illinois. After the parade, appropriate ceremonies took place at the Base-Ball Park.... Strikers- forcibly shut down the salt block of Carrier, Heath & Co., at Essexville, a mile from Bay City, Mich.: Sheriff Brennan went to the scene with a posse and a fight ensued, the mob using stones and clubs and the officers revolvers. The Slit riff was shot in the forehead by an unknown man, the ball grazing the brain. Nine of the mob were arrested, two of whom were wounded... .C. P. Judd, appointed by the President to be Special Agent of the Northwestern Labor Bureau for Nevada and the Territories, has been placed in jail at Dona ver, Col., on a charge of horse-stealing. Judd admitted his 'guilt and says he has served terms in the penitentiaries of Kansas trad Colorado for a similar offense.. /.The* family of Daniel Abagh, Jr., near New Philadelphia, Ohio, were poisoned by eating toad-stools. One boy died and .four other persons are in‘a critical condition. .. The official announcement is now made that the Wisconsin Central Railroad Company will build an independent line to Chicago, using the Waukesha route Mrs. Helen Hunt Jackson, the authoress, died at San Francisco of cancer in the stomach. She was appointed a special Indian Commissioner by President Arthur, and was also engaged by the Century company to write a series of articles on Southern Californio, Oregon, and Washington Territory. " An ei-bmkeman of the Atchison, Topeka and Suita Fe Bailroad has just obtained Judgment at Wyandotte, Kan., for $50,000 damages for injnries received in the road’s service in 1883. This is said to berths biggest verdict ever returned in the United States in a personal damage case....Chasteen Hngbe3 has been arrested at Topeka, Kan., for the murder of J. M. Smith, a prominent banker of Kansas City, Mo., who was thrown

over a high bluff at that place ami killed, on the night of Jan. 25, 1881. The crime has heretofore been wrapped in mystery.. ..In the Chickasaw Nation., I. T.. David Hunton shot and killed his cousin, Samuel Smiley, in a quarrel about the" ownership of some horses. Huuton fled, but was pursued by Smileyls friends and slain.... The lumbermen’s strike at East Saginaw, Mich., is practically ended, the terms of the millowners having been accepted.

Goldsmith’s grand old comedy, “Shfe Stoops to Conquer," will be given at MoVicker’s Theater, Chicago, the present week, With the following powerful cast: Sir Charles Marlow, Ralph Hojyard; Mr. Hardcastle, Harry Edwards; Marlow, Herbert Kelcey; Hastings, George Paxton, Tony Lumpkin, Harry Hawk; Stingo, Edwin Wight; Diggory, Daniel Leeson; Mrs, Hardcastle, Mme. Pon'isi; Miss Hardcastle, Caroline Hill; Miss Neville, Mollie Prindivillo.

A marauding band of twenty Piegan Indians, witb<Beventy-five stolen horses in their possession, were overtaken between Razor and Half-breed Creeks, Montana, by a party of cattlemen, and, during the battle that ensued, all of the Indians were killed and the horses recovered... .An Indian Territory dispatch says that a majority of the Cherokees are opposed to leasing lauds in the “Cherokee Strip.” A mass-meeting is contemplated for expression of opinion on the subject.... Fort Scott (Kari.) dispatch: “Two train loads of cattle from Indian Territory, numbering 900 bead, passed through this city to-night, eu route for Chicago, being the first to make their exit from dire Territory under the President’s order. These cattle were, brought oyer the St. Louis, Fort Scott and Wichita Railroad from the ranch of the Austin cattle Company, 165 miles west of Anthony, Harper County. ” Investigations by agents of the Signal Bureau show that locusts are very abundant in portions of Dakota and Montana, where they are inflicting serious damage upon crops. Prof. Forbes, State Ento'mologist, reports that crops in Northern Illinois are suffering from the ravages of grasshoppers.... Walter Lennox Maxwell, the alleged murderer of C. Arthur Preller, arrived in St. Louis on the 16th inst., in charge of officers. Threats of lynching were made as the prisoner was hurried to the jail. He would not talk about the trunk tragedy.... A farmer living near Rockford, Ind., has died from glanders, the ' disease having been communicated by his horses, among which it has existed for several years.... The Minnesota State census shows the population of St. Paul to be 111,397, and of Minneapolis 129,200.... The daily aggregate flow from the natural gas wells at Findlay, Ohio, now exceeds six_millian feet.

THE SOUTH.

A HEAVY bank caved in at the Government works on the canal at Louisville, Ky., by which one man was killed and two seriously injured... .Ex-Congressman Mallory, of Kentucky, died at his farm near LaGrange, Ky. - ~ Cheistino Add ana and Caledomo Chevarria, two Mexican murderers, were hanged in the jail yard at Laredo, Texas....A dispatch from Louisville, Ky., says that “Henry Freese was hanged at Catlettsburg, a small town on the Ohio River, in the mountain district. He was calm, and died with the declaration that he was going to glory. He slept well aud ate a hearty breakfast. His ascent to the scaffold was with a firm step. The drop broke his neck, resulting in but little struggle.”.... Buck Anderson, a desperate Cherokee Indian, was instantly killed at Fort Smith, Ark., Deputy Marshal James L. Spencer, while resisting arrest.

A picnic at Palatka, Fla., was enlivened by a mill between two dusky amazons, rivals in the affections of a colored barber, who fought seven rounds with bare knuckles. Two male friends of the belligerents then took up the quarrel, fighting with razors, and one of them receiving fatal wounds. A duel with razors between the women has been arranged.. . .Four children "of Simon Ashley, colored, were murdered at Graham, Ga., and his housO was subsequently burned to cover up the ■crime. He was away from home with his ■wife at the time.

WASHINGTON.

The following is a list of army officers who have been serving on detached duty, and who will bet compelled to join their regiments in obedience to Secretary Endicott’s recent order returning officers who have been absent four years to their companies: Capt. J. F. Gregory, Corps of Engineers; Capt. Clarence E. Dutton, Ordnance Department; First Lieutenant C. B. Schofield, of Gen. Schofield's sta'l’: First Lieutenant Jajpes Allen, Of First Cavalry; First Lieutenant Robert T. Emmett, of Ninth Artillery; First Lieutenant H. H. C. Dunwoody, of F’ourth Artillery; First Lieutenant Robert Craig, of Fourth Artillery; First, Lieutenant ’ Oscar F. Long, ot Fifth Infantry; Capt. W. M. Wherry, Of Sixth Infantry ; First Lieutenant Guy Howard. of Tweltth Infantry; Capt. George W. -Davis, of Fourteenth Infantry: First Lieutenant Joseph A. Sladen, of Fourteenth Infantry': Capt. Cyrus S. .Roberts, of Seventeenth Infantry ; Capt, J. S. Wharton, of Ninth Infan try; Capt, G. S. L. Ward, of T wen tv-second infantry; Chaplain George G. Mullins, of Twenty-fifth Infantry'. *. The action of the Treasury Department in reducing the force of special inspectors of foreign steam vessels oue-balf is reported to be due to the fact that the number of steam vessels is only one-half of what it was when the inspectors were appointed. ....The United States Treasury Department has authorized the American Express Company to receive the baggage of-passeu-gers from Europe upon arrival in New York, and forward the same to principal ports of entry in this country or Canada, the duties to 1 be paid ; t destination.

Under the compromise effected between the Navy Department and the assignees of John Roach & Son, for the completion of the three Crusiers How building in the Roach ship-yards at New York and Chester, the work of preparation is rapidly pushing forward. The compromise has been put in writing and signed by the Secretary. It is said on good authority that it includes the acceptance of the Dolphin. Acting Commissioner Walker, of the General Land Office, has declined to issue any more patents to the Northern Pacific Bailroad,pending a decision fixing the legal Status of the road. In ihis regard he follows the rule laid down by Commissioner Sparks in relation to the California and Oregon and the Oregon and California Boads. The question at issue, briefly stated, is that that road was not completed Within the time required by law, and that, until Congress takes definite action in one way or the other, no steps should be taken to place it beyond the power of tlie Legislative branch of the Govemment to protect the public rights... ..The appointment of C. P. Judd, the Special agent of the Rational Labor Bureau, who was recently, arrested in Colorado for horse-stealing, has been revoked. 7 **' , General Miles has been ordered by the War Department to hold the troops at

Fort Renp iu readiness to enforce the Presidential proclamation relative to the removal of cattle' from (he Cheyenne and Arapahoe Reservations. Tiie time grafted the ninchiueu will expire [Sept. 4... .The Postoffico De; aliment has been informed that the Pacific Mail Steamship Company will coniinue to carry certain mails until the expiration of its contact with the New Zealand Government.

POLITICAL.

Ex-Gov, Curtin, of Pennsylvania, in soliciting the privilege of nominating Mr. Carlisle for Speaker in the Democratic caucus next winter, represented only himself. It is understood, however, that Mr. Randall will not enter the contest against Mr. Carlisle, and that he expects to act with his party on all questions in the next House. - Vice President Hendricks, interviewed at Waukesha, Wis., repudiated the charges that he has been conspiring against President Cleveland.... . The Democrats of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Jiave adopted a resolution demanding the speedy removal of all Republicans now holding Federal offices, and mildly indorsing the administration. •

CENERAL.

President Cleveland has gone to the Adirondncks for his summer vacation. A dispatch from Au Sable Forks,‘New York, says: “President Cleveland, accompanied by Dr. Ward, of Albany, passed through here en route for the Adirondaeks. they were met at the depot by the Hon. H. D. Graves and taken to his residence, where a short reception was given, after which the party was met by Paul Smith, who took them by stage to the Prospect House, where the President, will spend a few weeks." Plattsburg (N. Y.) dispatch-: ; “President Cleveland and Dr. Ward have reached the Prospect House, Upper Saranac Lake, their destination. They had a pleasant, uneventful backboard ride of forty- seven miles from the railway terminus at Au Sable.” The notorious ex- Gov. Moses, of South Carolina, who was recently released from prison, is again in trouble, haring been arrested at Boston for obtaining money under false pretenses.... The New York Produce Exchange figures the visible supply of wheat at 39,146,239 bushels, and of com at 4,560,722 bushels. When the wife of Louis Riel, who resides a few miles from Winnipeg, heard of her husband’s sentence she became frantic, and fled from her house to the woods, where she hid. She was only partially clothed, and in her bare feet, and was nearly dead when found by her friends. So terrible is the shock she may never recover her reason. In Winnipeg a great deal of sympathy is felt for her and her children, and a subscription list has been started for them, as they are penniless. Natural gas has been struck at Port Colborne, Ontario, at a depth of 420 feet, and will be used to light the town... .The “immediate delivery” system, authorized by the last Congress, will be put into operation Oct. 1 at postoffices in all oities and towns having a population of 4,000 or over, as shown by the last Federal census The renewal of the fifteen-year contract between the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and the Pullman Palace Car Company for the operation of sleeping-cars over the Pennsylvania system, was formally executed in Philadelphia last week,,. , Sipall-pox has been declarod epidemic! at Montreal by the local Health Board. A number of Riel’s followers in the Northwest rebellion were convicted as accomplices, and received terms of imprisonment of from one to seyen years.... The International Arbitration Society has cabled to the Governor General of Canada asking the commutation of Louis Riel's sentence. A report of Capt. Healy, commanding the revenue cutter Corwin in the Northern Pacific, gives details of the loss in the ice of the barks Napoleon and Gazelle. Two boats from the barks were lost and eighteen persons perished, and four men were frozen to death in other boats. Disasters, without loss of life, t° a number of other ves-els are also reported. ... There was 160 failures ih tire United States during the week, as compared with 192 the preceding week, and with 237, 174, and 148, respectively, in the correspondingweeks of 1884, 1883, and 1882. About 77 per cent, were those of small traders whose capital was less thah $5,000, as compared with an average of from 83 to 85 per cent, weekly during the last year. Canada bad 77, a deerease of .... Special telegrams to Bradstrect’s from leading business centers report a contitiuancy of the improvement recently noted in the movement of staple diy goods, of wool, and of boots and shoes. This is specially noted in the East at the large cities. At most Northwestern centers this is reflected in reports of a somewhat heavier movement of merchandise and a more hopeful feeling among merchants. The~situatioh is rather better at the South, where the bright cotton prospects are encouraging interior merchants to purchase in excess of earlier expectations.

FOREIGN.

The sensation of the day in London is the flogging of Mr. Pearce by Mr. Francis for the betrayal of the latter’s daughter. Pearce, who is a rich Tory, was to stand for Parliament at Glasgow, but it is now' thought he will be retired or allowed to make the race for some obscure borough. He does noU deny his connection with the woman in the case, but refuses to admit that he is responsible for her fall ... The Vatican has given rigid instructions to th& Irish Bishops concerning their course in the present political crisis, and is preparing rules to govern the Prussian Bishops in their relations with the Government.. 9 .. The English bondholders of the Wabash Bailway'have determined to institute proceedings under the general and collateral mortgages, and to form a new corporation, paying the debenture with new bonds. . . The Duke of Richmond has been appointed Secretary of State for Scotland, with a se t in the Cabinet.

The new phase in British politics is the stand taken by Jesse Collings, Henry Lair auchere, Bichard Dillwyn, and other Radical members of Parliament to make church disestablishment the main olnnk in. their platform, and the application of church funds to educational purposes. The Scottish Disestablishment Association has issued a manifesto urging the enlarged constituencies to demand the abolition of the state church.... M. de Brazza, Stanley’s rival in Africa, is to be made an officer of the Legion of Honor by the French Government, and wilt probably be given general charge of French colonial interests on the Dark Continent.... The Indian Governdfent has decided to permanently increase the immUerof British andlndian "troops on the Afgha i frontier to 10, (ICO men, and to construct a telegraph line to Cabal... Lord Chief Justice Colorridge of England was married in London to Miss Aimv Augusta Jackson-LaVrford, an

English lady. The ceremony was private. .. Sarah Bernhardt has become reconciled at lafet to her husband. M. Dam-da, nnd Angelo, who accompanied her on her late American tour has married a French heiress... Davitt lias again declared himself in accord with Parfael), and says he will assist hjs candidut-s m the coining election... .The average yield of wheat, corn,, and oats in England will fall below recent estimates on accpnnt of the protracted drought... - Russian agents iu Macedonia are charged with laboring tojexeite a revolt in that country ngainst Turkish rule... .Work has begun on a ship canal to connect the Caspian Sea with the Transcaspian Railway.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Charges are made! e gainst the Texas Land Board to the effect that through neglect or mismanagement $2,000,000 has been lost to the school fund of the .State. This sum, it is said, should have been collected from the cattle barons as an occupation tax for the use of grass lands. ' It is slated in a New York dispatch that “the Park Commissioners have adopted the plan for completing the work on the temporary vault in which the body of Gen. Grant lies, and for laying out walks and othqrtrise improving the part of Riverside Park iu the neighborhood of the tomb. A facing of Philadelphia brick will be laid on” the arched roof of the vault, whifeh is now covered with a heavy coat of concrete. These bricks will be .laid in black mortar and two double lines of black-faced brick will be laid longitudinally on each side the' crown of the arch, 'to conform with tjift brickwork of the walls of the vault. A coping of cnt blue-stonc will be placed on the brickwork forming the face of the arch in the roof at the front of the vault, projecting slightly over the brickwork. Several passengers on the steamer Selton were seriously injured by an explosion which occurred soon after the boat had left the dock at Philadelphia.

Winnipeg (Manitoba") telegram: “Eleven of the half-breed rebel prisoners at Regina have been sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment, three have been sentenced for three years, four for one year, nnd six have been discharged to appear for sentence when called.” The Indiana State Board of Agriculture estimates the corn crop of the State at 4,000,000 acres, averaging forty bushels to the acre, or 160,000,000 bushels. Hogs and cattle have been fed for two years past’on corn from other States, and the difficulty this year will be to find storage for the immense crop.... Chicago elevators contain 14,521,202 bushels of wheat, 779,872 bushels of corn, 199,296 bushels of oats, and 46,955 bushels of rye; total, 15,547,385 bushels of all kinds of grain, against 3,878,007 bushels a year-ago. ...A prizefight of 149 rounds occurred near BraidWood, 111., for a stake of SSO between two miners, named Patterson and in which the latter was the victor.

The commission which recently visited the Central and South American States in the interest of more intimate commercial relations between these countries and the United States has submitted a report of its w’ork iu Uruguay and the Argentine Republic. . The insignificant share of the Unitexl _States in the commerce of the River Plata territory is attributed to the lack of regular steamship communication. In both countries the commission was warmly received, and the Argentine Government is represented as anxious *to join ■with the United States Government in subsidizing steamship lines to ply between the ports of the two nations. The Italian Government desireß to send troops into the Soudan to take possession of the Red Sea coast from Suakim to Assab Bay, and an interview on the subject will shortly take place at Contrexville, in Vosges, between Premiers Salisbury and Depfetis. It is believed that if Sir Henry Drummond Wolff’s mission to Constantinople proves unsuccessful, England will consent to an Italian occupation of the eastern Soudan.

Fort Reno (Ari.) dispatch: “Scout Leslie has just come in and reports that the command of Maj. Davis met a party of Indians, killed Chief Nana and seven others, and captured eighteen squaws and Chief Geronimo and one buck. Gerouimo is badly wounded.” Fort Reno (Ind. Ter.) dispatch: “News has been received of a desperate tight between a number of cowboysj occurring at the ranch of Frank Murray, thirty-five miles southwest, in the Chickasaw Nation. A party of twen-ty-five cowboys rode up to the ranch and fired about 100 shots at the boys inside the ranch cabin, with whom they had a quarrel over stock. The boys inside, being well armed, returned the tire with deadly effect, killing Dick Covartand seriously wounding Dick Jones and Bob Woods, of the attacking party. This makes f our that have been killed over the trouble at this ranch since April. ”

THE MARKETS.

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WESTERN GOVERNORS.

of Kansas. John A. Martin was bom March 10, 1839, at Brownsville, Fayette County, -Pa. While a mere la‘d he learned the trade of printing in the office of the Brownsville Clipper. In the spring of 1857 he went to Pittsburgh and worked at his trade for a short time. In October of the same year he emigrated to Kansas. He located in Atchison, and for a short time set type for the columns of the Squatter Sovereign, Ha purchased the Squatter Sovereign in February, 1858, changed its name to Freedom's Champion, „and on the 20th of the same month commenced his long editorial career in Kansas by the issue of the first number of the paper With which he has since been so honorably identified. Since that time he has been elected to several offices, filling th,em to the utmost satisfaction of his constituents. He was Secretary of the Wyandotte Constitutional Convention, and was elected State Senator before he was tw T enty-one. He served as delegare to the Territorial Convention, at Lawrence, of April 14, 1860. During the summer of 1881 he assisted in organizing the Eighth Kansas Infantry, of which ho was appointed Lieutenant Colonel. Early in 1862 he was appointed Provost Marshal of Leavenworth, and in March of the same year his regiment was ordered to Corinth, Miss., and thereafter during the whole war it served in the Array of the Cumberland.

Lieut. Col. Martin was promoted to be Colonel on the Ist of November, 1832, and was Provost Marshal of Nashville, Tenn., from December, 1862, to June, 1833. The regiment under his command took part in the battles, of Perryrille, Ky., and Lancaster, Ky.; the campaign against Tullahoma and Chattanooga; the battle of Chickamauga; iiie siege of Chattanooga; the storming of Mission Ridge; the campaign in Eastern Tennessee in the winter of 1863-4; the campaign from Chattanooga to Atlanta; and the subsequent pursuit of Mood northward. Col. Martin commanded the Third Brigade during the siege of Chattanooga; and commanded the First Brigade, Third Division, Fourth Army .Corps, from August, 1864, Until his muster out at Pulaski, Tenn., Nov. 17, 1864. Returning home, ho resumed control of the Atchison Champion early in January, 1865. He has been Commander-in-chi ff of the State Encampment, Grand Army of the Republic; a delegate from E anfias 1° the National Republican Conventions of 1860, 1838, 1872, and 1880; a member of the United States Centennial Commission and one of the Vice Presidents of that body; was elected by the two houses of Congress one of the Board of Managers of the National -Soldiers’ Homes in 1878, and re-elected in 1882, being Second Vice President of that body until .1884, and was elected Mayor of Atchison in 1865. He was effected Governor of Kansas in 1884, defeating ex-Gov. Gliek, the Democratic candidate, by 40,000 majority. . ■ r Gov. Dawes, of Nebraska. James W. Dawes, Governor of Nebraska, was born at McConnellsville, Ohio, on Jan. 8, 1815. Removed' from Ohio-to Wisconsin in 1856, locating in the town of Newport. Received a common-school education; worked on farm summers, attending school winters. From October. 1834, to October, 1868, clerked for G. J. Hansen & Co., general merchants, at Kilboum City, Wis. Studied law at Fox Lake, Wis., and was admitted to the bar Jan. 10, 1871. Was married-at Fox Lake, May 11, 1871., Located at Crete, Neb., Sept. 5, 1871. Eu-

gaged in mercantile business from Sept. 5, 1871, to March, 1877. Was elected State Senator in 1876. Engaged in the practice of law since 1877. Held the position of Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee of Nebraska from May, 1876, to September, 1882. Elected delegate to the Republican National Convention at Chicago, June, 1880’, and was named by delegation as member of National Republican Committee for Nebraska for term of four years. Trustee and Secretary of Doane College, at jCrete, Neb., since 1875., Elected Governor of Nebraska November, 1882, and re-elected November, 1681. «

“Oh, missus, I’s tarible skeered. Las’ night I dreamed mos’ all night I wnz a-dyin’, an’ Is ’feared I ain’t long fer dis world. ” “"Wliy, you shouldn’t be alarmed; yon know dreams work by the rule of contraries.” \ 1 “No, missus,* I kan’t see dat, csoZ night fo’ last I dreamed, I felled down a well, an’ shuah I doan’ understan’ how I could fall up one.” — Harper’s Bazar. “ Coen that is thoroughly ripened on the stalks in' the field, well dried in the sun, traced up and placed in a room, possesses remarkable vitality. Some seed. corn was disposed of at an auction sale in Vermont in the spring of 1883 said to be thirty veeps old, but it sprouted readily and produced a large crop. . - Look after your wife; never mind yourself, she’ll look after you. -4 ; White rabbits are fashionable pets in Paris. ' v

JAMES W. MARSHALL.

Death of the Original Discoverer oj .* Gold on the Pacific Coast. He Dies in Extreme Poverty—The Romantic Story of Hih Life and Struggles. [Placerville (CaL) special.] There has just died at his home, in Coloma, a poverty-stricken, disappointed old man, four years past the allotted three store and ten, who laid the foundation of California’s wealth by his intelligence and sagacity. This man, whom California has so shamefully treated, wa i James W. Marshall, who, in January, 1848, made the discovery of gold at Sutter’s Fort, and worked such a revolution in a wilderness country that in less than three years thereafter it was received into the sisterhood of States. The history of Marshall’s life reads almost like a romance. He was bom in Hope Township, New Jersey; in 1812. After receiving a plain education he learned the trade of a coach and wagon builder. He was smitten with the “Western fever” when about twenty-one years old, and,, having traveled in Indiana and Illinois, bought a farm on the Platte Purchase, near Fort Leavenworth. Kansas. His health was poor, and bis doctor said he must either die or seek a change of air. May 1, 1844, he joined a train of 100 wagons bound for that, at the time, almost unknown land, California, The party reached its destination in June, 1845, and camped at Cache Creek, about forty miles from where Sacramento now stands. From that point its members took their several ways. Marshall and a few others went to Sutter’s Fort, Sacramento County, where he entered the service of Gen. Sutter.

About a year after this, and after Marshall bad begun life in the stock business on a farm of two leagues in area, the Mexicans made an attempt to prevent a body of American emigrants from entering California. This led ter the Bear Flag war, in which. Gen. Sutter, Marshall, and others assisted, as volunteers, Gen. Fremont, of the United States military post at Sutter Buttes, in the defense of their countrymen. Fighting was frequent and severe. Marshall took part in all the engagements of the campaign, which resulted in a treaty signed March, 1847, recognizing the independence of California. Marshall procmed his discharge and returned to Sutter’s Fort. Upon his arrival he found that most of the cattle he had left on his far.m had been stolen or strayed during his nbsenoe. He therefore gave up his farm and began arrangements to start in the lumber business at Coloma, Amador County, as active partner with Gen. Sutter, who undertook to furnish the necessary capital. Work was begun on the mill in August, 1847. The 18th of January following Marshall was superintending the building of the mill-race. After shutting off the water at the head of the race he walked down the ditch to see what sand and gravel had been removed during the previous night. He strolled to the low r er end of the race and stood looking down at the mass of debris. At this juncture his eye caught the glitter of something that lay lodged in a crevice on a ritfile of soft granite. He stooped and picked up the substance. It was heavy, of a peculiar color, and different from anything he had seen in the stream before. He was satisfied that he had indeed made an important discovery. In several days he collected a few ounces of the precious metal, and as he had occasion to visit Sutter’s Fort in a short time he took the specimens with him. He infermed Sutter of his discovery, but the General was incredulous, and it was not until chemical experiments had settled the question beyond all doubt that he would admit the mineral was gold. At last all doubts faded, and the excitement began to spread. The news flew over the country like wildfire, and those whites who were then in California went into the quest for gold with greatardorand energy. Additional revelations were made daily, and the news of the discoveries was spread. Then came the maiF_rush from the East ai)d the old world. It was a furious race for wealth. In 1849 every sailing vessel and steamer landing at San Francisco was crowded with adventurers. They knew that gold had first been found in Coloma, and many went thither. Without inquiry or negotiation they squatted upon Marshall’s land about the mill, seized his work oxen for iood, confiscated his horses, and marked the land off into town lots and distributed them among themselves. Thus robbed of his property he perforce became a prospector, but never succeeded in finding much gold. The neighbors who had spoiled his possessions added insult to injury bv presuming that he knew the whereabouts of rich deposits of gold and refused to give information to them, and persecuted him on these false suppositions. To add to his troubles his title to the laud he had purchased prior to his great discovery was questioned, and he lost it all. The State has helped him a little, but only’a little, in his hard fight against poverty, all the more severe by reason of his advanced age.

PENNSYLVANIA GREENBACKERS.

Proceedings of tlie State Convention— The Platform and Candidates, The State Convention of the Pennsylvania Greenback or National Labor party was held at Erie on the 12th in fit. Twentyone counties we e represented by fortytwo delegates. William Wilhelm, of Schuylkill County, was made permanent Chairman. Speeches were made by several delegates, and the resolutions submitted by Thomas A. Armstrong, of Pittsburgh, were adopted. They indorse the National platform adopted at Indianapolis, in 1884, denounce the policy of hoarding money in the Treasuiy, favor the issuance of fail legal-tender money in place of national bank notes, demand the enforcement of laws prohibiting railroad discrimination, and demand that the right of petition shall never be abridged by State or National-Governments. A resolution to submit prohibition to the popu ar vote was tabled. Dr. N. C. Whitney, of Warren County, was nominated for State Treasurer, * and T- P- Rynder, of Butler County, was made Chairman of the State Committee. The Longfellow monument will be modeled by Franklin Simmons, one of the younger bfliid of Bcnlptors jn the Roman art colony. Henry Shaw, the St Louis pbi'anthropist is making a trip 1 East, the first time he has been away from St. Louis in twenty years. . William Dean Howells says that no woman can live in the house with a genius. ... " There were twice as many lynchings aa hangings in this country last year.