Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1885 — Page 7

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Mr. Henry Irving nas decorated the interior of his Lyceum Theater in primrose color, and, as as he is a pronounced Liberal, in answer to the protest against his displaying the late Beaconsfield's color, he explains that the primrose is in honor of the family name of the good Vicar of Wakefield, whose uprt he plays. In Tolosa, Spain, the people en masse insisted upon it that Mr. White, a Protestant missionary, who went through the province distributing Bibles, brought the plague, so they hit upon the remedy of stoning the Englishman, who found it advisable to take to his heels. He was, however, badly bruised by the heavy missiles thrown at him.

A savings bank in Portland, Ore., has a twenty-dollar gold piece which was taken from the stomach of a slaughtered cow, and found to be worth $16.25. The milling is worn off the edge, which is smooth and rounded, but the designs upon the sides remain visible. The date of the coin is 1870, but how long the cow had been digesting the $3.75 no one can telL General F. A. Walker, President of the Institute of Technology, at Boston, is visiting the Pacific coast, and the story is revived that Senator Leland Stanford is about to invest $lO,000,000 of his enormous fortune in public institutions of learning for the benefit of the State of California. Gen-, ( eral Walker is the guest of Senator Stanford while in California. “Hugh Conway,” now known equally well by his real name, F. J. Fargus, was a Bristol auctioneer, and probably few of his clients were aware that the gentlemanly, matter-of-fact man of business, who conducted their sales or valued their furniture for them, was the author of the graceful little poems and clever sketches signed with that nomde plume, which were to be read in magazines or newspapers.

Mrs. Ann Carey, of NeW York City, recently submitted to an extra hazardous surgical operation, the result of ■which was expected to be fatal, as very few patients survive it. She regained consciousness, however, and expressed herself fully satisfied with the results of the operation. In a few hours a relapse took place, and she died, since which she has expressed no opinion of the skill of New York surgeons. Savages, when pleased, smile and make gestures indicative of the pleasuse of eating. Petherick says that the natives on the upper Nile rubbed their bellies when he showed them beads. The Australians, says Leichardt, smacked their lips and clacked their tongues, when they saw his horses and kangaroo dogs, while the Greenlanders, according to Cranz, when they affirm anything with.pleasure, suck down the air with a queer sound.

An actual case of mixing babies inextricably is reported in Milwaukee. There were two mothers of blue-eyed, fair skinned boys in the same house. At the early age of four days the infants were carelessly bathed at once, and it was impossible to identify them. The parents are distracted, but they hope that, in a few months, resemblances may be developed that will settle the question. In the meantime they have agreed to keep up a kind of joint household. ’ A farmer was hoeing hard on his patch of land, when one of those town loafers approached the fence. “Hello, Farmer 8., what do you think of the outlook ?” “ What outlook?” “Why, the business outlook.” “Didn’t know there was one.” “We are all talking about it down at the store, and they sent me up to hear what you had to say.” “Oh, yes, I see; well, tell ’em if they will stop talking and go to hoeing that the country will prosper without any outlook. Do your hear ?”

The Bev. Sam Jones ia down on the Louisiana lottery, as well as on other gambling. “If there is a blighting curse in this Country,” he says, “that is it Hear me—l believe that Beauregard and Early will go down to their graves covered with shame. If I had a boy clerking in a store for me, and I knew he was buying Louisiana State Lottery tickets, I would ship him. Why? Because I would be afraid he was light-fingered. One dollar that a boy sweats for, is worth SIOO,OOO that any boy will win in the Louisiana State Lottery.” ' ’ A van laden with valuable furniture was crossing Westminster bridge in. London, when it was discovered that the van was on fire. The fire gathered in force until the water-proof coverings, sidings, furniture, and everything, were completely under its power. The horses had • been detached as soon as the alarm was given. The flames were not subdued until the van and its 'contents were all but completely wrecked. Valuable furniture and some pictures were among the contents, which ' had just been collected from two or three sales. It is supposed that the fire originated from some sparks while

some one in the Van was smoking. The burning wreckage was thrown broadcast into the river. The death of t>r. Gwin removes almost the last of the Jackson men. He was the contemporary of most of the heroes of the war of 1812, and of all the Indian fighters of the succeeding frontier wars. Only within the last year has he shown signs of a physical decline. His mind remained robust to the end. In appearance he was most commanding, and among a multitude could not pass without attracting universal attention; over six feet in height; full, without an ounce of superflous flesh; with a great leonine head, covered with thick masses of white hair; features regular and strongly marked, and an eye which could look the devil through and through blinking.

Lord Houghton was fond of showing a letter from a certain well-known American, in which that gentleman told him .that, as he sailed down the Mississippi one evening, he heard the slaves on the banks of the great river singing his song, “The beating of my own heart was the only sound I heard,” and keeping time to the refrain with their feet, as they worked among the ridges of the cotton-fields. In speaking of this song, which was his favorite, and perhaps sweetest bit of sentiment, as he often did, he always described how he had composed it while riding on an Irish outside-car from the railway station to Carton, the residence of Ireland’s then only strawberry, the Duke of Leinster. When he arrived he committed the verses to paper, and after dinner read them to the host and other guests. The advice given to him was to destroy, the trifle as not being worthy of his reputation.

“One of the relics in the Norlands Library,” says a writer in the Lewiston (Me.) journal, “is the Washburn cradle—the cradle in which all of the seven Washburn brothers were rocked. It looks like a picture I have seen of a cradle imported in th’e Mayflower. It is a home-made piece of furniture, constructed of. pine boards an inch thick, rudely dove-tailed together. It has a buggy-top and solid pine rockers, shaped like half-moons, with no twists or scrolls to decorate them, but numerous scars where chips apparently had been knocked out of them by the paternal cowhide boot A crack has necessitated the nailing of a large cleat on the inside. The outside is painted a dark green tint. The inside never was painted, but is well browned by age. Its associations make this one of the most remarkable cradles in existence. Four Congressmen have rocked in it. Two ministers plenipotentiary to foreign countries have been lulled to sleep within its pine boards. Its soporific influence has been grateful to two Governors. It has held the Secretary of State, whom I saw looking at it with a smile the other day. By the side of the cradle, and equally venerated by the family, is a very old spin-ning-wheel, once operated in the chim-ney-corner of the Washburn homestead by Martha Benjamin Washburn, the mother of the renowned seven sons.”

P. D. Armour, of Chicago, remarked to a Tribune reporter the other day that “few people have an adequate idea of the way in which business is picking up, the process is such a quiet one. It is especially noticeable in the avidity with Which the trade, South and East, is taking hold of hog products. Of course the low prices are an important inducement to free buying, but it would not be anything like as great if people were not encouraged to believe that the times are improving and see signs of it in their own business. A good cotton crop, which is just beginning to move, enables the South to buy large quantities, and the revival of manufacturing activities at the East makes buyers there willing to take a great deal more than has been the rule with them since the hard times set in. Mr. Armour thinks that there is reason to believe that the big stocks of hog product which have weighed so heavily on the trade during the summer will have nearly disappeared before the winter packing begins. He is not sure of the prices at which the stufl will go out toward the end, but does feel pretty certain that the speculators are not making due allowance for the tremendous increase in the consumption which results from the intprovement in business. In the same connection we may note that the manager of a large iron establishment at the East is quoted as saying that the best grades of iron are now in better demand than at any time in the last few years. His company has all the orders it can fill at S3O per ton, and another company has big orders at the same price. A month ago steel rails sold at $23."

Running Night and Day.

"Yes, sah,” said a colored passenger in the smoking car; “I argue dat a black man can git .’long ins’ as well as Or white man if he’ll only work and *tend to business. Now, dere’s me and my wife. Wfe live in Inyunnapolis an’, make money an’ save it, too, ebry time. Fo’ yeahs ago we started up in business an’ by close ’tention we’ve started up so’s we now run it day an’ night, sah, an’ we’s doin’ right well” “What js ydur business, uncle?” "Laundry business, sah. My. wife she takes in washin* in de day timte an’ —an’—” “Well?” “An’ I—l takes in wasbin’ durin’ de night”— Chicago Herald.

REPUBLICAN GOSPEL.

The. Democratic Party Arraigned for Its Manifold Sins of Omission and Commission. A Brilliant and Telling Speech by Hon. W. P. Hepburn, at Des Moines, lowa.

The present position of the Democratic partyin this nation is a proof of the potency of calumny and crime—the fact that they exist today, and are controlHbs agents in this great nation, is a satisfactory proof of how great results may be achieved by base and ignoble means. It is a singular thing. It must appear wonderfully strange to people who ate not affected by the possessions and interests that affect us, who know little of onr politics, who occasionally have heard of the stirring events that have occurred on this continent in the last quarter of a century. It must be wonderfully strange to those of a philosophic mind to see a party ruling the destinies of this nation that nave been for twenty-live years in public disgrace upon the continent. To find a party ruling this nation that when last intrusted with power betrayed their trust, were untrue to the principles of liberty, were untrue as the custodians of the unity of the States and were content that their union might be a dissevered and dishonored ' union. A party organization that during the last twenty years of its power did nothing that was not in the direction of human slavery, had no policy not in harmony with the will of the slaveholder, pretended to principles that might not be so molded at any time as to conduce to the interest of slave propagation and labor. It ought to be a singular spectacle to them to see an organization that thus defeated itself, this organization that has thus been false to its duty and trust, elevated to power over that magnificent organization Whose history in each and every day has been the history of good alone to the people. [Applause.! We all know the force of reiteration. To-day a statement is made. We scout it becitntte of its entire absence of truth. Tomorrow it is repeated again and again. It is voiced by thousands and, though it is repugnant to our moral sense, although we know it lacks every factor of truth, yet at last it enforces a species of recognition, and In the of men may come to have many seemings and garbs of truth. It is through .thisquality of the human mind, thus to be impressed, that this party has been permitted to achieve power. Who does not remember the slanders of the Democratic party? They have been the stock in trade. They have never been troubled with •proof. When they were overwhelmed in the falsity of one charge they have instantly seized upon another, and so have gone on through the decades. The Republican party was the great robber of the Treasury. No proof, absolutely none. The records are searched and it is found that the moneys of the nation have been cared for with a fidelity never known before. Their losses have been but the fraction of a mill, as compared to the dollars lost under the best and most honest of Democratic administrations. They have said, if we could inspect the books of the Treasury we could convict you of every charge. A distinguished Democrat said that the bonds of the nation fraudulently issued, and m the hands of innocent holders, were to be counted by the hundreds of millions of dollars. Time and again he attempted to impress these theories upon the public. He was given an opportunity to search the records and found that all these charges were erroneous. On other charges of defalcation a committee of three Democrats and two Republicans made a most thorough search, aided by experts, and a Democratic clerk, and after the closest scrutiny not a dollar was found to have been misplaced. [Applause,] But the first thing the new administration strove to do was to complete the proof of the charges of corruption. Again every possible effort was made, every facility was given them, and we are unable to find a single false entry in all the records of this great Government. [Applause.] They wanted to count the cash in the Treasury. They have counted it and every dollar was there; every cent was there; save two, and they are now found. [Applause.] They charged that the Republican party, in the interest of corporations, in order to restrict the circulation and increase interest notes, had accumulated $450,000,000 in the Treasury. They demanded that it should be scattered among the people. It was the very bone of commercial life, they said. The stringency of the money market and the pressure of the hard times last year and this were to be traced directly to this fact. T his was a false statement. Republicans stated that there was no such surplus there, every dollar there was requirfed to be there ny the existing law, sloo,i 00,000 of it was there as a redemption fund for the greenbacks. It is that which gives the greenback its par value with gold. Nearly $300,000,000 were .there because they were the deposits ot the people represented by'gold and silver certificates—the money of the depositors to be paid to them when the certificates were returned; $35,000,000 of it was money of the banks kept there by law. There was about $20,900,000 or $25,000,000 we said, and that was for the current expenses of the Government. The first report that was made the Civil Service Secretary of the Treasury, the man who was not an offensive partisan, nor in any sense devoted to Democratic purposes, the first report that man made proved conclusively the falsity of every Democratic charge and the absolute truthfulness of the Republican defense. There was but $>,>.00,000 of surplus in the Treasury, so said the Secfetary twenty-three days after his introduction into office. [Applause.] Mr. Hendricks said the money belonged to the people, and that it would be distributed. Some bucolic cuss from the Indiana backwoods sent for his SB. These stories had their effect. Carlyle said that England was an island containing about 18,000,000 fools. That may not'be applicable to America, but we have some here and we call them mugwumps. It has influenced weak-minded gentlemen, who were millionaires by inheritance, poetical in their tastes and usually parting their hair in the middle; that class of gentlemen reflected over the matter, and there were enough of them to secure the election of the Democratic nominee. We have a right to complain at this kind ot warfare; it is unfair and dishonorable. But these are nothing in my judgment to the charges that are being made in another section of the country. It is the duty of every patriot to condemn the condition there—6,ooo,ooo of slaves were created citizens of this country. This gave 38 additional votes in the electoral college and House of Representatives, all ot which go to the South—given to be representative ot the new element taken into citizenship. Instead of permitting it to be representative, the white population iu many sections secure to themselves this power, and thbse for whom it was granted are robbed of all its benefits. After a scathing review of the Southern methods, as exemplified by the shot-gun, the tissue ballot, the Chishom and Matthews murders, and numberless other outrages of a similar nature, the speaker continued:

But these Democratic gentlemen say we must not talk, upon questions of this kind. They say that these are not legitimate topics of discussion. That we are simply trying to rake over the dying embers of hate that were left by the war; that we are simply trying to open old sores that were beginning to heal under the influences of time; that these questions were settled long ago. Gentlemen, there is an Inspiring sentence in the platform of the Republican party, when it declares that “no question is settled until it is settled right.” 1 care not how long this wrong may have been canonized dr condoned, the question is open. It is open for the discussion of every honest man. It is open to the indignation of every indignant man. until it is settled right. IL have been talking to yon of the crimes of recent date. Print Matthews was slaughtered two years ago. Judge Chishom only a little time before! It is only a few years since the "night riders of Alabama and the “barbarians” of Mississippi were out upon their track of blood, burning the huts of those who were once slaves, lacerating their backs, men and women, and committing other crimes, but to deter them from coming to the polling places as American citizens. Why/ we in lowa passed a law thirty years ago giving to the Governor of the State in certain instances the power of removal of an officer. It is a long time since the law was passed. An exercise of that authority Was indulged not long ago. Both the Republican party and the Democratic party had accepted this law, but rose up in l ist to condemn it. Why? Because the offense, if it be an offense, is of recent date. Just as lam here to condemn, just as lam here to arraign the Democratic party, not lor crimes of twenty years ago, but tor crimes of yesterday, the crime of to-day, the crime to be committed tomorrow. In this State this Democratic party is insisting upon being intrusted with political power. * Ten thousand young men will cas t their first vote on a day early in November. Ton, young men, are asked to ally yourselves w.th the Democratic party. I ask you to stop and think before doing such an act. It is too important a step to be rashly taken. No man from the surface or record to-day can tell where to go as a political factor. It is his duty to have some knowledge of the or- 1 gamzation* that bids him ally himself withit. it is on! ya pretense. If some stranger should ask ypu tp cast your lot with him, yoa would want to know someth ng of his past. It he had bad associations of this kind in the past, you would want to know how he had'treated his associates It be had desired to be intrusts 1 by you with power to act tor yon. you would want to know how he had carried out his previous trusts. 1 ask you to look at the historj

of this organization. If you Ao, you will find nothing in fifty yearn fit to commend it to you. The Democracy of to-day point with pride to the fact that every foot of territory we have acquired since the old colonial days up to the purchase of Alaska was acquired by Democratic rulers. I will grant that fact, but the acquisitions of Louisiana and Texas were but concessions on their part to the Slaveocracy, and a proof of the debasing power, that that element always held over the rest of the party. On the other hand the acquisition .of Alaska was a patriotic act performed in the earnest desire to serve the Union. Let the Democrats get what glory they may from such a comparison. As I said before, this Democratic party has always been the obedient slave of the slave power. There has never been a demand made of the Northern Democracy by them that was not yielded to, not one. Why is it that yon are so afraid to trust the Democratic party? It contains many highminded gentlemen with whopf we live and transact business, and worship, and meet in society and know to be onr peers. We know them to be honest, upright men. Why are we unwilling to trust them with the reins of government? Simply because tne Democrats of the North never did control this nation. Simply because they are always controlled by tteso Southern gentry who control them in the manner' I have depicted. If this nation was to be ruled by our Democratic neighbors we could not have the same objections that we now have; We know the same methods will be pursued in the future as in the past. The Democrats of the North have nothing to do with making a platform, nothing to do with the selection of the candidate. They furnish in the South the great preponderance of the political power. 150 to 50 odd; just in proportion as they furnish the votes just in that proportion do they claim the right to dictate the policy for the party. These gentlemen J of the Democi atlc party, if guilty of no other offense, their treasonable conduct during the years of war, their semi-rebellious conduct during the period ot reconstruction, their hostility to wise methods of treating the building up of the currency, fix them in my judgment as unfit for puolic control. They have in this State to-day signalized their belief in the old doctrines that originated more than twenty years ago by nominating a man who was in full sympathy with those who were ready to throw every barrier in the way of the Republican party while it was putting down the slaveholders’ rebellion. This standard bearer was in full sympathy with that iniquitous resolution passed the 29th day of August, 1864, when they did explicitly say that after four years of failure to put down rebellion by the experiment of war they now demanded that there be a cessation of hostilities in order that negotiation might be reSorted to. After four years of failure, I see before me some men who were comrades, who were at the front the time of the pas- a sage of that resolution. 1 know something of the spirit of indignation that ran through the ranks of the army as we scanned the proceedings of that convention, f our years of failurel How deeply the taunt and the insult were felt. We did not think that there had been four years of failure. We looked with pride upon the fact that from the borders of lowa to the Gulf the men ot the Northwest had matched as a triumphant host, leveling every fortress of the enemy upon the banks ot the Mississippi River. It had opened it to the commerce of the world, and that river flowed on unfettered to the sea. We had marched through Kentucky and Tennesse; We had marched on down through Georgia; we had fought the battles between Chattanooga and Atlanta. We had captured Atlanta, and General Sherman was then prepariug his host for its grand march to the sea. iApplause.] On the eastern slope we had fought the battle of Antietam. We had fought the battle of Gettysburg, and had won a victory, and the broken hosts of Lee had been driven in rout across the Potomac River.. Grant had crossed the Rapldan. He had crossed the Rappahannock; he had fought the battles of the Wilderness; he had fought the battle ot Spottsylvania, and Cold Harbor, and North Anna, and the victorious army under his command had, seated itself like a very nightmare around the Confederate capital. Their coast was blockaded from the Chesapeake to. the Rio Grande. No vessel could escape laden with cotton to pay the delinquent interest on their foreign loan, and the Confederacy had tottered to.the ground. Their armies were in rags. Their commissariat was emptv; their munitions of war were expended; their railroads were worn out and in ruins; their currency was worth but a few mills on the dollar. The w hole Southern Confedracy was in a condition of collapse. The whole Confederacy was tottering to its fall, and the great want of the Southern Democrat, who had presided over its destinies, was that they might have a cessation of hostilities. A little time for the opening of the blockade so that steamers might go forward with their cotton, so that they might pay the delinquent interest upon their debt, so that they might rehabilitate their credit, so that they might reclothe their army, so that they might till again their magazines of war and put a well-fed, well-equipped army in the field to confront the victorious ho.ts of the North. That is what the Confederacy in its d>re extremity wanted, and that is what the Northern Democrats said they should have. After four years of failure to put down rebellion by the experiment of war, we now demand a cessation of hostilities. And this man now from Monona County, the Democratic condidate at this time for Governor, was one who indorsed that section.

After an eloquent appeal for the bloody shirt, and a masterly showing of the relative merits of the two sets of candidates, the speaker closed with the following appeal to the young men in behalf of the Republican party: You will find where upon all occasions it has labored to elevate the laboring man—to give him a fairer chance in the competitions with wealth and with the power of wealth. You will find where among its earliest transactions it gave him the homestead; you will find that there are now 850.000 of these homesteads, true American homes, scattered all over the prairies of- the West, the largess of the Republican party; you will find that where new questions were to be grappled with it has grappled with them, that where new problems were to be solved, it has solved them. You will find that its heroism in the war was but the least, or among the least of its achievements and deservings. You will find its wisdom after the war, war, its wisdom in creating a currency, its wisdom in giving us more than four times the circulating medium than we had twenty-five years ago, Its wisdom in the payment of the debt, its wisdom in giving credit, in giving us a position among the nations of the earth. All these will be commendatory in your judgment. All these will entitle it to honor at your hands. All these will entitle It to your most favorable consideration. ■ ■ ' ' -

A Debt-Making Party.

Not a single .bond call has been made since the Cleveland administration came into power. The new-fangled debt statement shows apparent decreases in the public debt, but a close examination proves that these figures refer only to payment of interest and that nothing has been done to lessen the principal. The utmost that can be claimed is a reduction of less than one million dollars in the public debt in the course of seven months. Compare this with the ten-million sweeps every six weeks or two months under preceding Republican administrations, and a very good idea will be gained of the Treasury management under Manning. The revenues, instead of being applied to the payment of the public debt, are piled up in idle accumulations or dissipated in increased expenditures. However, this is only what all intelligent people should have expected as the result of turning the country over to Democratic control. Throughout its history the Democratic party has been a debt-making and not a debt-payjng party." Under every Democratic rule heretofore the country has been carried deeper and deeper in debt: The same rule prevails in the States. There is not a Commonwealth m the Union that has been under Democratic rule for the last twenty-five years without being plunged deeply in debt. The Democratic habit pf treating public revenues as spoils to be eaten by hordes of officeholders is so chronic that the party invariably proves itself unequal to the ta k of reducing a debt.— Chicago Tribune. The Democratic administration has claimed reduction in the national debt from month to month, but it is now said that these “reductions” are only tricks of figures whereby necessary payments of interest are made to appear asa diminution of the principal. Under Courbon management the real reduction has been less than $1,000,009 in seven months. 4 /- • a • 9 . 4

MONTREAL’S MOB.

The Canadian City the Scene of a Fearful Anti-Vaccina-tion Riot. A Howling Mob Wrecks Health Offices and Public Buildings—Residences Fired. [Montreal special.] Montreal was the acene of a violent riot this evening as the resnlt of the movement for compulsory vaccination. The FrenchCanadians have shown strong opposition to compulsory vaccination sin?e the start, and trouble has been feared. The English were determined, however, that no more delay would be allowed, and decided at once to carry compulsory measures into force. A branch office was started in the East End, and Orders were given to-day to begin the thorough vaccination of all persons in the French-Canadian quarter. At an early hour this morning the office was opened. A crowd at once began to assemble, and thebuilding was soon surrounded. Several French-Canadian citizens addressed the gathering, which was becoming more and more riotous, and advised pacific measures. A squad ot police was called out, and toward afternoon the mob dispersed, threatening, however, to return in the evening. They kepi their word. At seven o’clock to-night the building was surrounded by a noisy, threatening crowd of French-Canadians, who began operations by storming the Health Office, smashing all the windows, and creating a general havoc. The mob next went to the residence of Dr. Laberge, of the Medical Health Office, stoned it,and shouted defiance. On marched the mob, gathering in numbers as it went, its objective point being the City Hall. The authorities had by this time got wind of the mob’s intentions, and the fire-bells sounded a general alarm, calling the whole police force from the various stations to the Central Station at the City Hall. The mob arrived, however, before the police had mustered, and took possession of the streets around the hall. Showers of stones

were rained upon the building, and many windows were .shattered. The police were still in the stations, and, as usual, a delay occurred before they were ordered out When they first reached the street they had only their small wooden batons, which were utterly useless on the mob, which continued its work of destruction, moving completely around the building. An order was given to arm the force with muskets, but the men, strange to say, were kept standing in the station while the mob continued its work outside. Several of the policemen and the Mayor’s brother armed themselves with revolvers and blazed away from the door of the station, silencing the mob on that side. On the other side, however, the work was kept up, and ths health officer got a severe handling. A large number of people were here undergoing vaccination,-and had to fly from the mob. In the midst of the din a cry was raised, “To the newspaper office!” and in a few minutes the crowd, now numbering several thousand, had formed into line and were on tbe way. The mob marched down the principal streets, singing and shouting, and made for the office of the Mornin (/ Herald, a large fivestory building on Victoria Square. Their number was considerably increased on their way, and they surrounded the newspaper office several thousand strong. The building, which occupies a prominent position, was brilliantly lighted up; apd formed a good mark for the rioters. The windows were soon smashed, and the rioters took full vengeance upon the paper, which has been the most active and plain-spoken about the French- Canadians. For over half an hour the mob had It all their own way, the police remaining inactive in the station while the work of de-

struction was going on. While engaged at the newspaper office the rioters gave expression to various threats, and said they would show the English whether it was they or the French who would rule the city. The English were roundly abused, and a number of violent scenes occurred. When the police did arrive on the scene the mob again formed and marched back through the streets to the East End, where they held a mass meeting, and after several inflammatory speeches proceeded to the homes of several of the doctors and stoned them. The rioters before dispersing went'down to one of the objectionable vaccinator’s houses and fired it. The fire brigade were hastily summoned, and extinguished the fire before any damage was done. When the riot was at its height the cries were frequently raised. “Bum the city!” and “Down with the English!” That such a thing as the small-pox should serve to awaken race hostility is indeed remarkable; but the fact is that it has been the cause of more bitterness than even the most serious subject of quarrel. To state the case very simply, the French in Montreal have been harboring and breeding the small-pox with apparent indifference to the loss of life it was causing, and complete indifference to its effect? upon the ; English, population. The English have suffered to a small extent from the ravages of the disease—poor 'Sir Francis Hlncks fell a victim to it through infection carried to his house by a servant—but their business losses as the result of the prevalence of the epidemic have been most serious. The French would not vaccinate, were reluctant to lend themselves to any sanitary measures, but preferred to fight the disease, if at all, by pious observances and ceremonies. A gentleman on the Citizens’ Committee to-day proclaimed thatthere were at least 4,000 cases of small-pox in the city. The opening of the Theater Eoyal has been in- | definitely postponed on account of tfae epidemic. The health officials are encountering the most. determined opposition in their work of placarding, especially in the East End of the city, and several arrests > have been made.

SPLINTERS.

The railroads of Pennsylvania employ 70,000 men. , ] IT will take three months and $2,000 to ’mount Jumbo. The Giant Monument fund in New York has reached nearly $83,000. Carlotta has turned her forty-sixth year, and is recovering her reason. Hannibal Hamlin has worn an overcoat for but two winters in his life. The old home in Savoy of Jean Jacques Bonsseau is to ba turned into an hotel. Mrs Van Cott has more magnetic power than any other lady preacher in this country. • Florence Nightingaije is one of the English contributors to the Gordon memorialfund. Cola Stone, the champion longdistance wheelman ofthe world, has just died in St Louis. > > / . j - The Mills Building on Broad street, New Fork, gives office room to 3.000 persons.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Fmnk Kelley, of Francesville, 14 years old, died from a horse’s kick*. —Two school teachers of Morgan County have had their licenses revoked because of immorality. —A woman residing at Beacon has attained the age of nineteen and is the widow of four husbands, and now expresses a desire to enter a convent. —A mammoth gray eagle six feet seven inches across the wings was shot and disabled just east of Connersville. It is the first one seen there for many years. —The Indiana monument on the field of Gettysburg will he unveiled about the 25th of October prox. The exact datj has not been settled, but it will be near that time. —George W. Banks died at Greansbtirg of heart disease. He was a member of the Thirty-seventh and One Hundred, and Forty-sixth Regiments of Indiana Volunteers during the war. —ln a dwelling in Honey Creek Township. near Lafayette, three couples were married Thursday, three clergymen, of the Baptist, Methodist,'and Presbyterian faith, performed the ceremonies. —A farmer living two miles and a half from Muncie has a pumpkin-vine which, if stretched out, would measure almost a fifth of a mile, -and which has borne over 1,500 pounds of pumpkins. —Lee L’rmstone and wife, of-Frankton, about a month ago paid a visit to his wife’s parents, who reside six miles dist int, and remained a day or two, when they took their buggy to return, and have not been heard from since. —The Jeffersonville Plate Glass Company has made an assignment of its property, and will go out of business, being unable to compete with Pennsylvania manufacturers. The indebtedness is $160,000, and the assets are estimated to be worth SBO,OOO.

—While Bishop Scott, charged, in connection with h»’ brother and Frank Poor, with the murder of William Haynes, was testifying in court at Muncie he became Violently insane, and was removed to the jail, where a number of men were required to held him. —At Russellville, Putnam Coranty, Thomas and Gborge Wilson, cousins, met in a public .road, and an old feud was settled by Thomas shooting and killing George. The trouble dates back some years, and a woman figures as the chief cause. The murderer escaped. —Henry N. Spaan, a prominent lawyer, and ex-Judge James E. Heller, got into a fight in an Indianapolis court. Spaan charging the ex-Judge with untruthfulness. Armed with chairs, both men came in collision, and intense excitement followed. Spaan was uninjured, Heller bad an eye' discolored, and both were fined $lO for contempt. —Karl Kessler, 15 years old, living at Lafayette, was shooting at a glass tumbler the other day with a rifle. The ball rebounded and struck him in the eye. Fearing to tell his parents how the accident occurred, he said that he had fallen against the point of a nail. The wound healed over and no mwe attention was paid to it until a day or two ago, when a play mite struck him on the same spot The boy fainted, and an examination showed the bullet flattened against his skulL —The County Commissioners might, utilize the Fall Creek mansion as a summer resort for tramps. For such purpose it v well situated, being on the banks of Fall Creek, where the fishing is fair to middling. In addition it may be said that the building is hot surpassed by any of the hotels in modern improvements and conveniences. It contains hot and cold water, luxurious bath-rooms, elegant diningrooms, fine wash-rooms and clo eta, elevators and furnaces. It would, no doubt, be well patronized.— lndianapolis Sentinel.

—An Indian, styling himself “The Star of the Cheyenne Tribe, ” has been delivering lectures in Corydon for some time past. He formed the acquaintance of a very pretty young lady at Bradford last spring, and has ever since paid her marked' attention, at different times giving her valuable presents of jewely, ete. It is now announced that they are engaged to be married, but the laws of, the State are such that they cannot secure a license. The young lady’s parents seem to offer no objection to the marriage, but on the contrary, rather encourage it. It is reported that they are making arrangements to go west to be united in wedlock.

—The magistrates of Jeffersonville reap a rich harvest from the eloping couples, says the Louisville Courier-Journal. There is considerable competition in the business. Each magistrate has his “runner” or agent, who waits at the ferry-boat, and who, by long experience and close observation, can tell an eloping couple at a glance. One agent more enterprising than the rest, has stationed himself at tlie Short Line depot in Louisville, and catches them before they come over. These fellows usually stand in with the magistrates for hklf the. fee. Sometimes, however, the “happy man” gives the guide a fee for showingpthem the ropes. He procures the license, finds a magistrate, swears to the girl’s age, and, in fact, does everything but marry the girt himself. —Ellesley Bennett, the 4-year-old grandson Of Squire Keigwin, pf Jeffersonville, tied a String to a dog, and the animal seeing a pig started after it, dragging his little master along the ground and fracturing his left arm in two places. ' „ —The death of Dr. Thomas Mclntyre, for tiventy-five years Superintendent of the Indiana Deaf and Dumb Asylum, is announced. “ ’ —Quails anef rabbits are more abundant in Wayne County than last year.