Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1886 — Page 2

The Republican. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. O. E. MARSHALL Tvmsnu*-

TBS NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. Herb Host, the blatant New York anarchist, now languishes in durance vile, having been captured after a long hunt. New York detectives traced him to a house of ill-repute and found that be was tn the room of one Lena Fisher. They knocked at the door, and Lena came out and locked her door behind her. The door was broken down and the detectives, after a search, found Moat hidden under the bed. They dragged him out bv the heels, dusty and spider-webbed, lie was pale as a sheet. The detectives searched the room and found many copies of the Frrikrit and about two hundred books, many of them treating of the manufacture and use of dynamite and other explosives. A Winchester rifle and a policeman's club were the only weapons found. Bartley Campbell was brought into a New York court by his wife and lawyers, and the Judge ordered him committed to Bellevue Hospital for examination as to his sanity. Henry Ward Beecher, preaching at New York on the question of foreign immigration, did not want the gate's closed, saying: “Let the anarchist come. Let the socialist come. Let the communist come. We can eat them, and then digest them into American citizens. We are in no special danger from them.”... Mx- President Arthur's physicians say he will undoubtedly recover from his present illness. Alderman Jaehxe, the first of the New York boodle Aldermen to be brought to trial, was found guilty of receiving a bribe for voting for the Broadway railway franchise. The jury was out only two hours.

THE WEST.

Thb police of Chicago arc confident that at last the man who threw the dynamite bomb into the ranks of the polioe on the night of May 4is under arrest. His name isLouis Lingg. he is a German, a carpenter by trade, and has been in this country only eight months. When arrested he made a desperate resistance. The detective who made the arrest went alone to the house, a squad of officers remaining some distance away. The young anarchist was sitting at the table writing. He seemed to have instantly recognized his abrupt visitor as an officer and grabbed a large Remington revolver which lay upon the table. The officer sprang upon him before Lingg could shoot. The men grappled in a struggle for life, which was so desperate that neither could use his revolver. They rolled upon the floor, first one on top and then the other. Lingg got the officer's thumb in his month and bit it almost off. The women began to scream. At this instant the policemen on the outside burst open the door and rushed in. Lingg ■ was instantly overpowered and handcuffed. In Lingg’s trunk were found two pistols, two long dynamite bombs, a large lot of shells and cartridges, and a quantity of anarchist pamphlets and newspapers. In the trunk were a large number of letters and pieces of writing in German, which showed that Lingg had been , one of the most rabid anarchists in the city, and that he was in correspondence with the leading agitators in this and other cities. The police claim to have sufficient evidence to convict him. .... The coroner’s inquest at Chicago on the bodies of Policemen Sheehan and Flavin resulted in holding Adolph Fischer and Anton Hirchberger as accessories to the murder of the latter-named officer by means of a bomb. The towii of Dunkirk, Hardin County, Ohio, was struck by a cyclone early on the morning .of Saturday, the 15th lust., and font persons killed and between fifteen and twentv injured. The same storm struck the back of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad two miles west of Forest, Ohio. It blew down a tree which scraped the «ide of the fast east-bound express from Chicago, injuring ten or twelve passengers, one of them seriously, his leg being broken and one eye put out The storm did great damage along the Blanchard River. A cyclone swept through Albion, Mich., unroofing a number of structures, resulting in heavy losses. Jonas Drury, of Springfield, Ohio', who predicted most accurately the recent storms in that State, * based upon records for twenty years, has issued a similar warning for June 13 and 14.

Peesident Strong has announced the intention jof the Atchison Koad to build an air-line track from Kansas City to Chicago, forty miles shorter than any other route, without special regard to local traffic, the work to be accomplished within two years. A surveying party ; located at Keokuk has - finished its labors as far eastward as Galesburg, and lias a force at ujprk on the route westward to the Missouri Kiver. The inciting cause of the enterprise is the invasion of the State of Kansas by the Bock Island and Burlington roads. .': .A farmer of Inkster, Dakota, named Cowdright recently went to Pennsylvania and married into a good family by m»wn« of an introduction from a citizen. At a hotel in Fargo, the otter night, the fellow fled with $6,000 and all their baggage, leaving his victim destitute. Most of the money belonged to her... .Crop reports from the* Northwest, with few exceptions, are of the most favorable character. Frequent rains have fallen, but they have been followed by cool and pleasant weather, and vegetation now has a vigorous start Frost was- visible on the morning of the 16th throughout tte region froin Lake Michigan to Colorado, but no great damage was repeated at any point. .."While endeavoring to stretch a cable across the river at Tuscumbia, Mo., Richard Higgins and Thomas Barrett were drowned in the presence of their families before aid could be rendered. Later and more complete reports from the storm-swept region of Ohio show the loss of life and damage to property to have been greater than tte first accounts indicated. The toronado plowed its way in a southeasterly direction through one hundred miles of pplendid farming country, leaving desolation in its wake. Seneca, W T yandot, Hancock, Hardin. Auglaize, and Mercer Counties mourn tte loss of millions of dollars in property , and, above all, scores of lives. In Mercer County thirty dead bodies had been found, with many times number injured. Three persons were killed at Wabash City. In Dunkirk, Hardin County, five persons were killed and twenty badly injured; and in tte vicinity of the town five more persons were killed and a number injured, two probably fatallv. In the Blanchard Biver valley tte storm made a cleah sweep ten miles long and half a mile wide, demolishing 100 buildings. Wyandot and Hancock Counties, adjoining one

another, were devastated. Carey, a prosperous town in tfie first-named county, received a tremendous Shaking up. Seventeen building* were completely destroyed apd six persons killed butrigbt. Hloouiville, South Carey, Wharton, and many other villages suffered in a like manner. Ten miles west of Tiffin, the county seat of Seneca County, a strip of country half a mile wide and, several miles in width was totally stripped of buildings, as, in fact, of‘All else above thr surface of tho earth. At Kenton and Lancaster and in their neighborhood immense damage was done. Five persons were reported killed and thirteen wounded near Celina. At Findlay two persons were killed and a number injured, and at Forest the elements created great havoc. At the latter place several persons were killed, two churches were destroyed, and so violent was the storm that beds were carried some distance with people in them. The damage, to say nothing of the loss of life, is placed at $400,000, At Kentou a man was killed bv lightning, a church was demolished, and considerable damage was done to buildings and property. Around Lima there was great loss among the live stock, and in the vicinity, of Bucyrus over twenty buildings were wiped out by the rushing storm. In Indiana, Michigan, and Illinois the winds were also disastrous, but very few cases of loss of life were reported except two from being struck by lightning at Carliuville, 111.

THE SOUTH.

A MAD dog belonging to A. J. Hall, n farmer, of Cabott, Ark., bit his milch cow last week. The cow showed symptoms of hydrophobia, as did also two children of llall’s, who had been nourished on the animal's milk. Other members of the family are also ill, bnt may survive, but no hopes are entertained of the children’s recovery. In the Methodist Episcopal General Conference at Kichinond, Vn., a committee on episcopacy reported in favor of electing four new bishops, and the report was adopted. . . .The grain commission house of Tyson & Brothers, of Baltimore, whose liabilities arc estimated at $200,000, has made all assignment. . r . Ben Ali won the Kentucky Derby at Louißville in 2:36j, beating the record.... A representative of a British syndicate is at Baltimore prepared to contract for building the Chesapeake and Delaware ship canal at a cost of $8,000,000, provided the citizens of Maryland subscribe $1,000,000 toward the project. Gen. John L. Lewis, one of the most noted citizens of New Orleans, has just died, in his eighty-sixth year. He served as a courier for Gen. Jackson in the battle with the British forces. He was three times Sheriff of the parish and once Mayor of the city. He was Major General of the forces of Louisiana in the Confederate army when sixty-one years of age.... Dan and Lon Mann murdered Marshal Campbell and wounded Officer McCormick, at Bartow, Fla. The murderers were arrested and jailed. Subsequently a cro.wd of two hundred men surrounded the jail, disarmed the Sheriff, secured the keys, and took the prisoners to a tree near by. While stringing Dan Mann up Lon got loose 'and ran. He was promptly winged and strung up to the sameYimb.

WASHINGTON.

The President sent to Congress, on Tuesday, a message calling attention to the condition of affairs existing in Utah, owing to the Governor of that Territory vetoing the last appropriation bill, which appropriated money for the support of schools, courts, charitable institutions, etc., referring to the fact that under existing law the Legislature cannot convene for nearly two years, and recommending the speedy enactment of such legislation as will authorize the assembling of the Legislature at an early day. Also a message recommending "Congress to make an appropriation to defray the expenses of the inauguration of the Bartholdi statue.

It is announced with positiveness that the marriage of President Cleveland and Miss Folsom will lake place at Buffalo on the 12th ofJune A Washington dispatch says: “Secretary Lamar says that since the report went forth that Commissioner Sparks intended resigning he has received hundreds of letters from the Northwest, in which the writers congratulated both themselves and the Government upon Gen. Sparks’ speedy retirement. It is Secre tarvLamafrbblt6fttottlbe-gi^ ty of these letters were written by land sharks. He says that no honest, bona-fide settler has anything to fear from Commissioner Sparks, and that he not only has not requested the Commissioner's resignation, but thatM wpuld.yjgprously protest if Gen,Sparks should intimate an intention to resign.” The Senate Committee on Territories has ordered a favorable report on the Vest bill fixing .the boundaries of Yellowstone Park, providing that it shall hereafter be under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, and authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to make and publish rules and regulations for the care of the .park 11—Ll_ j The total values of the exports of beef and pork products during the six months ended April 30, 1886, were $37,839,191, against $47,740,183 for the same time in 1885; and the values of the exports of dairy products for the six months ended April 30. 1886, were $10,281,185. as compared with $14,686,019 during the same time in 1885. .D. T. Patterson, a son-in-law of the late President Johnson, has been appointed Postmaster at Home, Tennessee, at $240 per year.

POLITICAL.

At Auburn, Inch, the Democrats of the. Twelfth District renominated judge Lowery for Congress. The opponents of the nominee then left the hall in a body. ... N. D. Wallace. President of the Nqw Orleans Produce Exchange, hits “been nominated for Congress by the Democrats of the Second Louisiana District..., A liquor tax hill, similar to the Scott law, has passed the Ohio Legislature, and goes into effect at once. r T. Y. Powperly. the Master Workman of the Knights of Labor, is talked of as the Democratic candidate for Congress in the Twelfth District of Pennsylvania.

INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

The business failures in the United States and Canada for tte week numbered 176. against 192 the previous week... It is claimed by tte leaders of the eight-hour movement at Chicago that 150 manufacturers and contractors in the city have conceded the demands of tte men fer eight boms. Sorqe of those who have conceded are paying for eight hours, some for nine, and otters for ten. About one-third of the employes in tte southwestern lumber district were at work Monday, and business was resumed in all the yards. A large number of the planing mills had also started np, but they were not fuljv manned. The furniture

manufacturers were firm in their refusal to make any concessions. The metal-workers were still holding out for eight-hours. Thirty-five of the manufacturers had shut down and sixteen, mostly small shops, were -running on eight hours. The Pullman employes stood firm in their demands, and Mr. Pullman threatened to close, the mammoth works indefinitely unless the men returned to work. To give in. to the strikers, he claimed, would eausa a. loss to management of S9OO a duv, $5,400 a week,or $270,800 a year. Tho strikers have lost over SBO,OOO the ten days the v have already given to the strike ... Thirty-fonr of the forty-six upholstery firms in Chicago, employing 383 men, have adopted the eight-hour system with ten hours ’pay and 20 per tent, increase for pieoawork. The twelve outstanding-firms are practically closed. In Pittsburgh the system is in general use, and in New York seventy-two firms, employing 030 men, have complied witn the demand.... Secret petitions are circulating among Pennsylvania railroad employes asking a general advance in wages of 10 per cent. The movement, it is claimed, is backed by the Knights of Labor, and is to’ include both passenger and freight men and all the men in the yards.., .The masons and hodcarriers of Worcester, Mass., have abandoned their strike, and will seek work individually. Good workmen among the masons will get $3 per day. The new men who were hired during the strike will be retained.... There is not much cohesion to the strike movement in Cincinnati now, except among the furniture-makers and safe-makers. Two of the three regiments of militia sjnt there have gone home ... The bricklayers and hod-earliers of Troy, N. Y., have returned to work, the bosses acceding to the demand of the strikers that the eight-hour day be begun at 7a. m. and end at 4p. m... .Of the 5,100 union furniture workers in New York City there are 3,034 working on the eight-hour basis and 1,100 .are locked out ami ou strike. The bosses are preparing to compel ten hours work all around.... Special telegrams to Bradutreel’a Journal, of New York, indicate that the industrial agitation in favor of fewer hours’ work daily has largely disappeared elsewhere than at Chicago, ‘ At New York it has been a practical failure, while at Chicago the attitude of manufacturers in several - leading lines in locking out some 47,000 employes who demanded a shorter working day promises to arrest the progress of the movement.

GENERAL.

On invitation of the Executive Council the Hon. Elihu B. Washbume, of Chicago, will act as President of the American Exhibition which will be opened in London next May The National Association of Millers of the United States held its yearly session in Chicago last week. About three hundred and fifty delegates were present. Before the Curtin Labor Investigating Committee at St. Louis several employes of the Missouri Pacific Railroad shops testified that not only .had the March (1885) agreement been broken but its provisions had in several instances not even been put into effect. Father O’Leary, editor of the Catholic World, testified that' he knew many strikers who were good honest men and church members. He saw that the company was doing its utmost to crush the Knights" of Labor, using unscrupulous means to accomplish its ends. The cause of the strike he had studied, and thought he knew. The Knights were a society formed to teach its members justice and equity, but looking at the entire railway system, he thought it was carried on by trickery and fraud, being governed by villainy and unfairness from Mr. Gould down to the lowest subordinate. He said that the employes of the road who were not Knights of Labor were afraid to speak to members ...of that organization for fear of being discharged. Labor notes: Several of the new freight-handlers on the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Road at Chicago became ill from the change of water and diet. They were doctored up with whisky and ginger, and nearly all the rest of the gang, on discovering what sort of medicine was being given out, became violently afflicted with cramps. One Seidell, a boycotter, was fined $25 and costs at Milwaukee by Judge Mallory, who denounced the boycotting business as an outrage. About eleven hundred carpenters at Allegheny City have struck for more pay and less hours. The switchmen’s strike at Indianapolis ha 6 proved a failure. The Pittsburg ice companies have granted the demands of their striking employes for an advance in wages of $2 per week, and all have returned to work. There were"lT,Stitt lumber-shoveTS on a strike in

Chicago last Thursday. The strikers at the Standard Coke Works at Mount Pleasant; Pa„ have returned to work, a compromise having been effected. Nearly all the boot and shoe manufacturers of Chicago, after having tried the eight-hour system for two weeks; met and resolved to return to the ten-hour schedule, and not to knowingly employ an anarchist or socialist. The cutting departments of all the wholesale clothing houses in Chicago closed for an indefinite period on account of a strike of male and female tailors for better pay. The bakers and the ice men of Pittsburgh obtained their demands, and have returned to work. The washerwomen of Pittsburgh have organized a close union, and will hereafter demand $1 a day for six hours’work. It now seems'probable, says the Chicago Tribune, that the large clearances of wheat from the Atlantic seaboard during last week will prove to have reduced our visible supply in the United States to a little less than 40,000,000 bushels. It is not unreasonable to expect that it will be lessened to about 30,000,000 bushels by the close of June.

FOREIGN.

The imperial gun factories in Germany are working night aud day to complete the armament of the infantry regiments with rifles. .. .The London Standard, referring to the arrival in England of Oliver Wendell Holmes, says: ‘‘The Cephalonia has landed a guest as honored as any who has crossed the Atlantic within the memory of the present generation.” M. Pielot, a Paris defaulter who recently fled, suddenly appeared the other day in tte office of a director of the Banque Descompte and with adoaded revolver compelled the bank official to sign checks for $30,000, with which Pijlot then made good his escape. ..Heavy rains occurred in various portions of England Friday, doing much damage to crops and public highways.... At a meeting in London, Lord Hartington informed his followers that sufficient liberal votes had been pledged to insure tte rejection of Gladstone's homeglisb bicyclist, named Stephens, who undertook a tour of the world on his wheel, was arrested whileerossmg the frontier of Afghanistan. - ... ■■ ■ . ■ . The weather in France last week was cold and squally. Terrific stems occurred throughout the country. Near Montpelier the vineyards were destroyed.! The damage is placed at 1,000,000 francs. A hurricane passed over the town and partially destroyed it. Several persons were

killed and a number injured. Severe gales were also experienced iu Germany. Twwshipfr that were lying in the River Oder foundered and five persons were drowned. A cyclone which passed over Lonato, a town- of Lombardy, destroyed a large number of honses. rive persons were killed. ~. .The work of Germanizing die schools of Prussia has commenced, the first step in which is the passage of a law giving the Government die appointment of all the te.mhAr« IgM B*Y. military attache of the Turkish Embassy at Paris, fought Viscount Vigier a duel with swords. The latter was wounded. .The Pasteur institute fund, in Loudon, has reached $150,000.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Judge Rogers, of Chicago, in charg. ing the Grand Jury authorized to take charge of the cases of the murderous Anarchists, told them that no public speaker had a right to advise murder or arson, and that one could bp held responsible for the result of incendiary language. Said he: * * * I refer to these (it ndltutionol rights because some men who are s > inconsistent us to soy that there should be no law and no such rights as that, yet claim the protection of that right in its broadest sense—and, indeed, interpret to suit their own mini—that a man may get up in a public speech and advise murder, arson, the destruction of property, and the injury of people and their lives. That is a wild license that the Constitution of this country has never recognized, any more than it has been recognized in the worst desjiotisins of old Imonarchicr.l Europe, end I hope and you hope never will recognize. A man must be held responsible for his acts, and he must, as well beheld responsible for his speech. Another of the wounded police officers has died at Chicago, making the sixth policeman murdered by the bomb on the 4th of May. ■ The boot and shoe manufacturers of Chicago have decided to return to the tenhour system,.. .The planing mill owners of Chicago rejected the proposition of the fatfiking, -box makers to return to work at eight hours per day for eight hours’ pay.... Ajnong the industries most seriously injured by the labor strikes is the building trade, both at the East and West. In Boston, it is said that, of $3,000,000 awaiting investment this year in building operations during the coming .summer, more than $1,500,000 has been withdrawn, owing to the timidity of investors, in consequence of a prospective prolongation of the Jabor troubles. In New York, as ~Tfie mechanics and laborers made settlements with the builders in advance, no strike has occurred, and consequently the depression in the trade there is not nearly so great as in other cities. In Chicago,the builders, previous to the strikes, generally refused to enter into large contracts until they could fully determine what would be the outcome of the then anticipated labor troubles, including the eighthour movement. The result has been that a very large amount of capital which would have been invested in building has been held back, and, as a consequence, both the general trade and labor markets have been most seriously injured, with no material corresponding benefit. The cod-fishing schooner Ellen M. Doughty, Of Portland, Me., was seized at Englishtown, St. Ann’s, C. 8., for buying bait on a permit from the Portland Custom House. The firm at once notified Secretary Bayard and Senator Frye. There is tremendous excitement at Portland over this second seizure, and everybody is eager for retaliation.. The fishing schooner David J. Adams was pounced upon by the Britishers only a few days before the seizure of the Doughty... .The visible supply of wheat and coin is, respectively, 39,590,730 and 9,817,861 bushels. Since last report wheat decreased 2,356,801 bushels. and com has been reduced 805,042 bushels.

Under directions of the Ways and Means Committee Mr. Mdrrison will call up the tariff bill in the House as soon as the legislative and executive appropriation bill is disposed of, so reports a Washington correspondent, who assumes to speak by the card. In a fight at Martinsville, Va., J. K. Terry was killed, and the latter’s brothers, Colonel P. D. Spencer, three other white men, and two negroes probably mortally wounded)" Senator Frye’s bill authorizing retaliation for the recent’ action of the Dominion of Canada in excluding United States vessels from certain privileges in Canadian ports passed the Senate ou the 17th inst. The Senate confirmed the nomination of Mrs. Thompson, Postmistress at Louisville. Ky., after debating over it for on hour. Senator Blackburn made a long speech against confirmation, but secured only five negative votes besides his own. The House passed the urgent deficiency appropriation bill, and by a vote of-203 to 8 the Senate bill providing for the study of the nature of alcoholic drinks and narcotics, and of their effects upon the human system, by the pupils in the public schools of the Territories and of the District of Columbia, anil in the Military and Naval Academies and Indian and colored schools - in the Territories'of the United States. Mr. Boutelle introduced in the House a bill appropriating $50,000 for the erection in Washington of a bronze monument to the late Edwin M. Stanton. - ~ ~ ; -

THE MARKETS.

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POWDERLY’S WISE WORDS.

The j Are Found in His Latest Circular to the Knighta of Labor. He Thinks the Order Has Lost Ground in ‘ Public Estimation—The Rea- —,, sons Thecefor. ".

The following secret circular has been received by tho Knights of Labor of Chicago, and will be read in the various assemblies during the coming week: Noble Order of the Knights of Labor of America, Philadelphia, Pa.. May 3.-To the Order Everywhere, Greeting: The response to the secret circular issued March 13 has been so generous and the indorsement of the sentiments contained in it has been so unanimous that 1 feel encouraged and strengthened in the work. Nearly 4,000 assemblies have pledged themselves to act on the advice contained in the circular of April 13. I feel that it only requires the coming to the front of tho real men of our order to set us right before the world. 'We have been losing ground, so tax as public opinion is Concerned, tor some time. One of the causes is that we have allowed things to be done under the name of the Knights of Labor for which the organization was in no way responsible. lask of our members to keep a jealous eye upon the doings of the labor men who never labor, and when they charge anything to our order in your locality eet the seal of your condemnation upon it at once by denying it. If a paper oriticlses the Knights of Labor or its officers do not boycott it, ana if you have any such boycott on remove them. A journal not long since made some uncomplimentary allusions to the General Master Workman of the Knights of Labor, snd.at the next meeting of the nearest assembly a nrotion was cast to boycott the paper; not that alone, but every person who advertised in the coluuinß of the paper. I wrote to the assembly asking that they remove the boycott and it was done. We mmtbe&r in mind that our General Master Workman is only a man, and is not above criticism. We demand for ourselves the [“right of free speech.” We cannot consistently deny it to others. We must tolerate fair, open criticism. If a reply is neccessary make it in a gentlemanly, dignified manner. If wo are criticised or abused by a blackguard sheet treat it as you would the blackguard himself—in silence. That our aims and objects are good is no reason why our members should be regarded as beings of superior build or material. We are no. more the salt of the eaith than the millions of unknown toilers who do the work of the world. In our dealings with laborers and capitalists we must deal justly and fairly by them. If we would have equity done to us we in turn must do equity to others. This is the aim of. the Knights of Labor, and must not he lost sight of in the future. •

Let me direct your attention to a few little abuses: I find that whenever a strike occurs appeals for aid are scattered broadcast among the assemblies. Do not: pay one cent for such purposes in the future unless the appeal comes from your own District Assembly or the General Assembly. If boycott notices are sent to you, burn them. I have in my possession over 400 boycott notices which were sent to assemblies with a request thaw they be acted bn. Let me mention some of them: A member is editing a paper. He fears a rival, and proceeds to get into an altercation with him, boycotts him, and then asks of the order to carry it out. A certain paper is influential in one or the other of the political parties. Members of the opposing party conceive the idea of getting rid of the paper, and they invoke the aid of the Knights of Labor, first taking the precaution to have the paper in question say something uneomplimentary of the Knights of Labor. In fact, our order has been used as a tail for a hundred different kites, and in future it must soar aloft, free from all of them. I hate the word boycott. I was boycotted years ago, and I could not get work at my trade for months. It is abad practice; it bas been handed to us by the capitalists. I have no use for it only when everything else fails. Appeals for aid, circulars, petitions, advertisements of every kind are scattered everywhere through the order. I copy a letter which comes to me on ,the subject: "A large part of our time has been spent in reading boycott notices and appeals for aid, keeping us until 12 o’clock. We were led to believe the Knights of Labor to be an educational institution, but this kind of education is not productive of good. We have no time for instruction. What do you advise us to do ?" I advised them to either burn or table these matters, and now ask of the Secretary of each assembly to do the same. If.your Journal were not- boycotted by our members it could be made the medium of communication between the general officers and the order, but the Journal is not read in one-quarter of the assemblies. Some assemblies send out documents addressed to “Secretary of the Assembly No. .” In many places the secretaries have been discharged because of this practice. No member has the right to address another in that way, and if it is ever practiced again the offender will be punished. In future the General Executive Board must not be interfered with in the performance of its duty. If vou have confidence in them, sustain them and' obey them; if not, aßk tor their resignations. We have had some trouble from drinking members and from men who talk abont buying gunß and dynamite. If the men who possess money enough to buy guns and dynamite would invest it in the purchase of some well-selected work on labor they would put the money to good use. They will never need the gun or dynamite in this country. It is my opinion that the man who does not study- the politics of the nation and the wants of our people would make bnt little use of a rifle. The man who cannot vote intelligently and who will not watch the man he votes for after he is elected cannot be depended upon to use either gun or dynamite. If the head, the brain of man, cannot work out the problem now confronting ns, his hand alone will never solve it. If I kill my enemy I silence him, it is true, but I do him. I would make a convert rather than a corpse of my enemy.

Men who own capital are hot our enemies. If that theory held good the workman of to-day would be the enemy of fits fellow-toiler on the morrow, for after all it is how to acquire capital and how to use it properly that we are endeavoring to learn. No! The man of capital is not necessarily the enemy Of the laborer; on the contrary thev must be"brought closer together. I am weal aware that some extremists will Bay Ham advocating a weak plan, and will say that bloodshed and destruction of property alone will solve the problem. If a man speaks such sentiments in an assembly read for him the charge which the Master Workman repeats to the newly initiated who joins cur “army of peace." If he repeats his nonsense put him out. “In the hands of men entirely great the pen is mightier than the-sword." To that I odd: “In the hands of men entirely mouth the gun is harmless as his word.” To our drinking member I extend the hand of kindness. I hate the uses to which rum has been put, but it is my duty to reach down and lift up the man who has fallen a victim to the use of liquor. H there is such a man within sound of the Secretary’s voice when this is read, I ask him to stand erect on the floor of this assembly, raise bis hand to heaven, and repeat with me these words • I l“I am a Knight of Labor. I believe that every man should be free from the curse Of slavery, whether the slavery appears in the Bhape of a monopoly, usury, or intemperance. The firmest link in the chain of oppression is the one I forge when I drown, manhood and reason by drink. No man can rob me of the brain my God has given me unless lam ft party to the theft If I drink to drown grief I bring-grief to wife, child, and sorrowing friends. I add not one iota to the sum of human happiness when I invite oblivion over the rim of a gloss. If one moment’s forgetfulness cr inattention to duty while, drunk brings defeat to the least of labor’s plans a lifetime of attention 3o duty alone can repair the loss. I promise never again to put myself hr such a poBition." If every member of the Knights of Labor would only pass a resolution to boycott strong drink so far os he is concerned for five years, and would pledge his word to study the labor question from its different standpoints, we would then have an invincible host arrayed on the side of justice. We have, through some unf fortunate misunderstanding, incurred the enmity of several trades-unions. While I can find no excuse for toe unmanly attack made upon us by some of these people at a time when we stood face to face with A most perplexing question, neither eanl see any good reason why there should be any cause for a quarrel. Labor Notes. The sewing girls of Chicago have"organized a union 4,000 strong. *— A number of the railways at Chicago refused to re-emplov the striking- freight-handlers. The Wabash Road compelled its strikers to sign a document pledging them to withdraw from any labor organizations to whichthey belonged before re-engaging them, . The Chicago North Side lnmber-shovers, 4,000 in numoer, have resiimed work on the old basis of the p'aning-mills and sash, door, and blind factories have started up again. Fifteen.'hundred colliers along the Youghiogheny River, and also at the mines of the Hon. W. L. Scott; at Scot! Haven, Pa., have resumed work at the advance » f wages demanded. The men struck about two months ago and have been idle ever since

CONGRESSIONAL.

The Work of the Senate end House of Representative*. ,

The Senate, in discussing the interstate commerce bill, on the Uth lust., tabled an amendment to fine SMB imprison men who conspire to interfere with the running of trains. Tho President nominated Clarence E. Greathouse, of California-to oe Consul G«mrsl at Kanagawa. The House of Representatives passed a bill lor thea,ppoiutinent of three commisioners, to settle Bpauish and Mexican land claims in the State of Colorado and the Territories of New Mexico and Arizona. They are to receive salaries of Jfl.ooo each, and to serve for four years. While the army appropriation bill was under consideration, Mr. Wheeler, of Alabama, made charges agaiust Edwin M. Stanton. Mr. Lincoln’s Secretary of War, which precipitated a violent partisan debate, Messrs. Hepburn, of lowa, and Hiscock, of New York, coming to the defense at the dead War Secretary. Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, submitted in the Senate, on tne 13th inst., a concurrent resolution expressing it to bo the sense of Congress that negotiations should be entered into between the United Statep and Chinese Governments with a view to securing such modifications of the present treaty with China as may result in stooping the coming of Chinese to this country, except in tho case of diplomats and their servants, and except also in the case of persons at sea to seek a place of shelter. The Senate, by a vote of 47 to 4, passed the interstate commerce bill, which pro-’ vides for a commission of five persons, with a principal offico at Washington, to inquire into* the business and management of all common oarriers. The House of Representatives pußaed the army appropriation bill, after voting down an amendment to increase by fcliO.OjO the item for the Springfield armorv. A bill extending the jurisdiction of tho Court o> Claims over claims for the use of patents and patented inventions against the United States was reported to the House. The House considered the diplomatic appropriation bill without d'. pising of it. The general pension bill was discussed by the Senate on the. 13th iuet. The Sonnte concurred in the House amendments to the bill providing for the sfcjtopf the old bridewell lot in Chicago. Thetolßtsing dominations were confirmed : Collectors Seeberger of Chicago, Seipp of Milwaukee, Citdwallader of Philadelphia; Marshal W. M. Campbell of Minnesota; H. F. Merritt, Consul at .. Aix-tesGh«j»Ue; L. T. Boyd, Receiver of Publifc Moneys at Rayfteld, Wio. ; and-. Webb, Register of the Land .Office ! At LtfCrbsfce, \Vi3. Tho House of Roptefgntati Ves passed the dip: lomaticiand bill, with an item of tor contingent oxpenses'at consulates. The .House‘dlscussetl without action the b.U tasMHarge the powers and duties of the Departmental; skflferitum Messrs; McCreary (Ky.J and JK«S&e*(lowa> BuppOrtod.tlie measure. Mr. Reagan (Tfe Xlffl op'poS «fc)on s 1 1 1 l i tional ground%>and said he would offer. substitute hia bill ; to fir-eate ag}epartjsent pf j£dustri»»,. A petition fromcitizenSof. EOya. praylng for the abolition of the American ifeSMfbf Lords, was presented Senate on the a bill Vas passed to authorise the KjUUfSB City and Gulf Rowl to lay itoiriu-ks through Indian Territory." BiMS- were also passed? for pu®Hi<ir buildings at Lafayette, Indiana, *Fort Dodge, lowa, and St. Paul? besides lftjsely extending the limit of .previous appropriations, for other points.' F. SOverns, of Kalpiazpo^ Michigan'', .utas nominated by,*the President as successor to • the - • Wlthey as United*®ates Judge., for , the Western District at Michigan. D. C. Fultqp was nominated United States Marshal for tlie Western District of Wisconsin. Tho tihsiness (V) of the House was confined to debate op the, pension bill, which ■nm'ri:<>d itself iutdteUanlT talk before adjournment was reached . ■ r After a spirited debate, tbe Hbui%*;Of Itepresentatives, on. the I,7th inet., passed a bill to establish a sub-treasury at Louisville. Mr, Morrison caused to be read a letter from the Treasurer of the United States, -expressingJthe opinion that the functions of the sftb-treasuries at St; Louis. Baltimore, CincluhlfN. Orleans, and Chicago might bo perforqied by national banks With greater ecorrouiymwjdroueh less risk than under the preedit, syCTfttjgSaßil Senate was not in session

Our Ex-Presidents.

The Drawer referred some time ago»» to the young man who is. one day to be President of the United States, and the desirability of his fitting him-elf for this position. But on reflection the subject assumes a graver aspect. What the young man ought to be thinking of is his ability to ‘become an ex-Presi-dent. Anybody can be President who gets votes enough: the ability, to get the votes is quite distinct from the qualifications to fill the office. And when a man is in, thanks. to the excellence of our machinery, he cannot do much injury in four years, except to himself and his party. Moderate ability will carry him through respect : ably. But it requires a great man to be a successful ex-President. The office of President is a very exalted one. And when the man lays it down and retires and stands alone, and people compare him with the position he has just left, he must have very large proportions to stand the comparison. This aspect of the case has not been enough consid- • ered. Men are very anxious to get the office, and their fr ends push them for it, without thinking of the figure the successful man may make when his term is over. The fact is, that in the contrast lie may appear much mo,rei.U-. significant than if he had remained in private life. There has been a great deal of talk lately about giving the exPresidents a pension in order to place themin a position of dignity, and enable them to maintain something of the state the people have been accustomed to see them in. It has been often remarked that a king out of business becomes an Object of compassion, even if he has invested money in foreign funds. Nothing but the possession of great qualities can sav<s him from contempt. It is so with an ex-President. The practical suggestion to be made, therefore, is that the young man to whom we have alluded should fit himself to he an exPresident. If he cannot attain the character and the qualities needed for that; he may be sure that the office of President will be but arliollow satisfaction.-"- Charles Dudley U'arner, in Sarpir’s Magazine. When Hannibal Hamlin Was a Boy. A story of a youthful prank of l Hannibal Hamlin is told. When the exVice President was a boy in Paris seven persons were Baptized in a stream north of Paris Hi.-l* Hamlin was one of a party of boys who, hearing M ceremony, smuggled an old cannon and seven cartridges into the woods near the stream. As the dripping converts, one by one, were lead out of the stream, one by one the cartridges boomed in the old cannon. The unholy salute caused great consternation and anger, but the mischievous youngsters were not caught. —Norway (Me.)Advertiser: All the cables of the Brooklyn bridge are found to be magnetized in the direction of their diameter, the upper surface of the cables throughout their length being of south polarity, and the lower surface north. designed, as it Were, in imitation of the peculiarity winding course of the river Meander, from which it derives its name. ~ Answer not a ward when unjustly accused, and you are the eonqtleror. J- :