Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1886 — Page 3

THE KNOT TIED.

The President and Miss Folsom Securely Bound in the Holy Bonds of Matrimony. A Quiet and Unostentatious Ceremony in the Blue Boom of the Executive Mansion. Profusion of Flowers, Elegant Toilets, and Sweet Music Lend Enchantment to the Soene. The wedding of President Cleveland and Miss Folsom took place at the Executive Mansion in Washington on the evening of the 2d jnst It was witnessed only by the members of the Cabinet, thetr wives, and twelve relatives or friende of the contracting parties. Rev. Dr, Sunderland performed the ceremony in the blue room, amidst a mass of rare flowers. The bride’s dress was of ivory satin, garnished with India muslin. The President and his bride left in the private coach of Robert Garrett for the cottage of ex-Senator Davis at Deer Park, Maryland. A report of the wedding festivities is appended.

Arrival of the Bride. Miss Folsom arrived at Washington in the private car of President Roberts, of the Penn. Sylvania Road, at 5 Si) a. m., and was met at the depot by Miss Rose Cleveland, who conducted her to President Cleveland's carriage. Folsom was followed by her mother and her cousin. Mr. Benjamin Folsom, who also got into the carriage, and they were all driven rapidly to the White House. There they were welcomed by the President and his sister, Mrs. Hoyt. Miss Folsom refreshed herself, changed her dress for one of lighter hue, and joined the others at breakfast. They were a very merry party. Miss Folsom spent the entire day in the private portion of the house with her mother, Miss Cleveland, Mrs. Hoyt, and Miss Nplson. Miss Cleveland gave her some interesting information about the management of the domestic affairs of the executive mansion. Getting Ont the License. About 10 o’clock in the morning Col. Lament got into the White House carriage and was driven e the office of the Clerk of the Supreme Court of the District, where, upon the payment of a Bland silver dollar, he recijved the foUowing permit: “To any minister of the gospel authorized to celebrate* marriages in the District of Columbia, greeting: You are hereby licensed to solemnize the rites of marriage between Frank Folsom, of Buffalo, N. Y., and Grover Cleveland, of Buffalo, N. Y., if yottfindno lawful impediment thereto; and, having so done, yon are commanded to appear in the Clerk's office of the Supreme Court of said District, and certify the same, “Witness my hand and seal of this court this 2d day of June, 1886. R. R. Meigs, Clerk.” Beneath this is a blank form which, when filled out by the minister, will read as follows: “I, Byron Sunderland, minister of the First Presbyterian Church, hereby certify that, by authority of a license of the same tenor as the toregoing, I solemnized the marriage ot the parties aforesaid on the 2d day of June, 1886, at the White House, in the District of Columbia. “Bybon Sunderland," ARehearsaL On the Colonel’s return to the White House he was closeted with the President for some time. The offices of the second floor were deserted by all but Chief Clerk Pruden, who was preparing bills for the President to sign, just as though it was not the wedding day. At 11:30 Dr. Sunderland appeared and asked to see Col. Lamont. “I have the form of the ceremony made up in the rough,” he said, “and I have come up here to perfect it. I have hardly had time to think since Friday night. I have had so many newspaper men after me that I have had to sit up until two o’clock in the morning to be able to write any- • thing.” The reverend doctor was in a most pleasantly excited condition, and almost completely out ot breath. After waiting a moment he was ushered into the red parlor, where he had a conversation with the President. The rehearsal of the wedding took place at 12:30. It was informal, and was not held in the blue parlor. The President, Miss Folsom, and Dr. Sunderland sat down in Mies Cleveland's little parlor up-stairs and quietly went over the services together. There were some changes made to suit the taste of the contracting parties. When the rehearsal was about over the President stepped out and called in his brother, the Rev. William Cleveland. Then the President said to Dr. Sunderland that he had not expected his brother to be present, but that he had arrived at the eleventh hour. It would please him greatly, therefore, if Dr. Sunderland could contrive some means by which his brother could participate in the services. Dr. Sunderland said that he dO not know of any way in which the services copTO be split up, but he suggested that the Rev. Mr. Cleveland deliver the benediction. It was arranged that way. The President at first was averse to having the form of the ceremony made public, but ’ e was finally persuaded.

Approaching the Anspicions Hour. About 6:33 o’clock Secretary Lamar came lumbering-ttp- the- flagetone Walk, and -he- was followed a tew moments later by”fH6 wizenDr. Sunderland and wife. After that the guests began to arrive rapidly in the following order: Postmaster General Vilas and wife, Mr. William Bissell. Secret iry and Mrs. Endicott, Secretary Bayard, Secretary and Mrs. Whitney, and Secretary Manning and wife. Attorney General Garland did not put in an appearance. Various reasons are assigned for his absence, the most plausible being his well-known antipathy to full dress. Hb made a solemn vow not vary long ago that he would not appear in public in a drees suit- The carriages of the guests drew up on Pennsjdvanla revenue near the main entrance. The guests were shown into the state diningroom, where their wraps were removed. From there they were Ushered into the blue-room, where they were received by Miss Rose Cleveland, and where conversation was entered into for a few moments. The blue-room seemed to have received the principal attention ot the decorators, and the work was well done. The display of flowers was •imply magnificent. The room was a mass of exotic plants. There were now present in the blue-room: Mrs. Folsom, mother of the bride; the Rev. Dr. William Cleveland, the President’s brother; Miss Cleveland and Mrs. Hoyt, the President's sisters; Secretary of State Bayard, -Secretary of the Treasury Manning and wife, Secretary of War Endicott and wife. Secretary Whitney and wife, Postmaster General Vilas and wife, Secretary Lamar, Private Secretary Lamont and wife, Benjamin Folsom of Buffalo, Mr. and Mrs. Rogers of Seneca Falls, Mrs. Cadmar and Miss Huddleston of Detroit, Mr. and Mrs. Harmon ot Boston (relatives of the bride), Mr. and Mrs. Nelson of New York, Mr. W. S. Bissell of Buffalo, the President's law partner, and the Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Byron Sunderland. Miss Rose Cleveland was looking very fresh, although aha had been up since 4:30 in the morning. She wore an exquisite drees of Nile green and cameo pink duchesse satin with silver ornaments, low corsage, garnished with I link roses, short sleeves, demi-length gloves in ight tan. She carried a fan of pink curlew feathers. Mrs. Folsom wore a dress of violet satin, with garniture in white faille, with crystal violet drops in pendants everywhere. Mrs. Hoyt, the President’s sister, wore a dainty costume en traine of China crepe in robins’-egg blue, most effectively gomitured with rare old lace. Her flowers were La France roses. Mrs. Manning's dress was of white satin, flounced across the front with duchesse lace, trimmings finished with sea-pearls, square neck, and elbow sleeves. Diamond ornaments. Mrs. Endicott wore satin with silver and - white sapphire, draped in black Chantilly lace. Red pomjKJu in hair and diamond ornaments. Mrs. Whitney wore a boaice of violet with white satin and tulle skirts trimmed with violets. Diamond ornaments. Mrs, Vilas’ dress was a light-blue silk with long train strewn with daisies of eilver, front of crystal and point lace and pearl trimming. Low neck and elbow sleeves. Mrs. Lamont wore an ivory-tinted satin dress, demi-train. with a panel of crystal and pearl on the left side of the skirt, square-necked corsage, edged with crystal and jet fringe, elbow sleeves, and a beautiful corsage bouquet of jacqueminot roses. '. • Mrs. Rogers, cousin of the bride, was dressed in « costume of delicate cameo pink, with brocaded front. Mrs. Cadman, a relative of the bride, wore a white satin dress en traine, with black lace draperies and jacqueminot roses. Mrs. Hannon wore a satin dress of light orange. . —r Miss Nelson wore a handsome costume of corn- ' colored satin, with overdress Ot white antique lace, cut pctnpadour. with low corsage and

elbow iIMTM. Her flowers were jacqueminot roeep. Miss Huddleston was dressed in pink silk With bine trimming. ’ " —~;t~ Mrs.Sunderland’s dress was gray satip trimmed with lace. long train, square neck, and elbow sleeves. 1 . It wanted ten minutes of seven o’clock when Miss Cleveland,. Mrs. Folsom, and the wedding guests placed themselves in a circle about the blue-room, Mr. Bayard standing at the head es the line at the left, while Mr. Cleveland’s brother stood at the other end of the horseshoe. The Cabinet officers did not arrange themselves according to their rank, but stood in line just as chance placed them. Mr. Lamar was next to Mr. Bayard, and Mr. Whitney stood above Mr. Vilas. - At exactly 7 a messenger made a quiet signal to Colonel Lamoht from the red parlor, and the Colonel repeated the signal to Dr. Sunderland, who irffinediately took his position in front of the great bank of flowers at the south end of the room. A second later the Marine Band, which was stationed in the ante-room, struck up Mendelssohn’S “Wedding March.” while booming cannon from the arsenal swelled the chorus of sound. Then the movement from began, and the bridal party appeared. All were anxious to wat:h the President's bearing, and all agree that he wasicool and composed, showing that same self-poise exhibited by him on inauguration day. He was in faultless eveniim dress, his coat fitting like, a glove, instead ofhis usual turn-down collar, he wore a high stand-up one, with a white-lawn tie carefully knotted at his throat A white rose was fastened to the lapel of his coat. Upon his arm leaned Miss Folsom, who fulfilled the role of the traditional beautiful bride. She never looked handsomer. Her rather tall, slim, graceful, well-rounded figure was displayed to its full advantage by her exquisite Parisian wedding dress. Its soft ivory -color made a gentle contrast with the fresh soft pink of her cheeks. Her brown hair, curled loosely upon her gracefully poised head, showed gleams of reddish lights through the soft tulle veil, which fell in a trailing mfstover her dress. Her blue eyes sparkled with excitement. She walked well, with a graceful, dignified bearing. The bridal conple turned to the right as they entered the room from the long hall, marching in step with gay music from the distant ante-

room, and faced the officiating Mr. Whitney settled his glasses oned pr twice more firmly upon his face. Mr. Larfiar stood with his hands behind him, and gazed with a look of dreamy rapture upon the bride, who, under the scrutinizing gaze of the small group, flushed and paled alternately. Mrs. Folsom fell back to the left to meet Miss Cleveland, and her friend Miss Nelson passed to the opposite side of the room from the, Folsom relatives. Mrs. Hoyt stood by them. The Rev. Dr. Sunderland was never more sonorous and impressive than in his performance of the ceremony. The little man inflated himself and made the most of every inch of his height, maintaining throughout great selfpossession and dignity. His thirty years of experience’ had prepared him for just such a Wedding. He wasted no time. Entering the Holy Estate. Dr. Sunderland then said, very solemnly and distinctly: “Forasmuch as wears assembled to observe thehply rites of marriage, it is needful that we should seek the blessing of the great God, our Father, whose institution it is, and therefore I beseech you now to follow me with reverent hearts in prayer to Him : “Almighty and Everlasting God, the Father of our spirits, the framer of our bodies, the giver of every good and perfect gift—Thou who. canst see the end from the beginning, who knowest what is best for us Thy children, and hast appointed the hoiy rite of marriage to be sacredly observed throughout allgenerations, regard now, we beseech Thee, Thy Servant, our Chief Magistrate; enddw him plenteously with Thy grace, and fill him with wisdom to walk in Thy ordinances. Be very nigh to him in the midst of many cares and grave responsibilities. Day by day may Thy law direct him and Thy strength uphold him, and be Thou forever his sun and shield. Be Thou graciously pleased to look down upon this Thy daughter, even as Thou didst favor the chosen Rebecca and many noble women that have adorned the world. May she indeed be a precious boon of good to her husband, to cheer and help him continually, a woman gifted with the beauty of the Lord and shedding the sweet influence of a Christian life upon the nation in whose sight she is to dwell. Wilt thou approve what we Thy servants come to do in Thy name by thine authority and under the laws of the land in which we live, and graciously assist them, this man and this woman, who are here to be united in the bonds of holy wedlock according to thc institution of Thy words. Mercifully be pleased. Almighty God, to vouchsafe to each of them Thy grace that they may well and truly weigh the unfailing vows which they are now about to make Io each other in the presence of this company and b3fore Thee, and that they may be enabled hereafter at all live together as to rejoice. in the of this uniop with joy unspeakable and full of glory, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen." Turning then to the company, Dr. Sunderland said: “Marriage is honorable among all men in that a man shall leave his father and mother arid shall cleave unto his wife and they twain shall be one flesh. It was constituted by our Creator in the first paradise. It was confessed by patriarch and priest, prophet and apostle. It was confirmed by the teaching and adorned with the presence of the Redeemer, and has been honored by the faithful keeping of all good ms n and women since the world bee an. It is not therefore to be undertaken lightly or unadvisedly, but soberlv, discreetly, and in the fear of God. Into thi holy estate this man and this woman come now to enter. If any now can show just cense why they may not be lawfully united in marriage, let him now speak, or else hereafterforever hold his peace." Addressing himself to the bride and groom, Dr. Sunderland then said: “If you desire to be united in marriage you will signify the same by joining your right hands." - ... The bride and groom then joined hands, and of the latter Dr. Sunderland asked: “Grover, do you take this woman whom you hold by the hand to be your lawful wedded wife, to live together after God’s ordinance in the holy estate of wedlock? Do you promise to love her, cherish. comfort, ana keep her in sicknesaand in health, in joy and in sorrow, and, forsaMng all others, keep you only unto her so long so you both shall live?"

The Groom (firmly)—l do. Dr, Sunderland—Frank, do yon take this man whom you hold by the hand to be your lawful wedded husband, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of wedlock? Do you promise to love him, honor, comfort, and keep him in sickness and in health, in joy and in sorrow, and, forsaking all others, keep you only unto him so long as you both shall live 1 The bride answered, in a low but clear voice, “I do." Dr. Sunderland—ln token of the same let the wedding ring be passed. Mr. Cleveland put the plain gold band on the bride's extended finger, and with increased solemnity Dr. Sunderland said: “Forasmuch as Grover and Frank have here agreed and covenanted to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of wedlock, and have confirmed thesame by giving and taking a wedding ring; now, therefore, in the presence of this company, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, I pronounce and declare that they are husband and wife, and what God hath joined together let no man put asunder.* The Bev. Dr. Cleveland then pronounced the benediction: “God the Father, God the Bon, and God the Holy Ghost, bless, preserve, and keep you, the Lord mercifully fill you with all spiritual blessings, and grant that you may so live together in this world that in the world to come you may have life everlasting. Amen." ~ ! -V V - V The Bridegroom’s Kiss. President Cleveland bent over and kissed his bride full on the lips. The other gentlemen present were not accorded the privilege of saluting the bride, who confined her favors to the ladies;otherwise, however, there was nothing to mar the harmony of the occasion. t Congratulations. Mr. Whitney made a graceful speech to MrsCleveland, and Mr. Lamar showered oompli.

meats upon her. He said that he had never in his life seen any one whoso completely satisfied his ideal of a mistress of the White House. “You will not only rule as a queen in the White House," he said, "but you will also be a queen in all our hearts.” This, with a low bow which Mr. Lamar alone knows how to make, was considered the banner compliment of the evening. Mrs. Folsom, the bride’s mother, who had shown deep emotion during the ceremony, was the first to tender her congratulations. Miss Cleveland followed her, and then the Rev. Mr. Cleveland and other relatives and friends in turn. While these congratulations were going dh the Marine Band performed the bridal chorus and march from “Lohengrin." Meanwhile the chimes throughout the city were making pleasant music, and Presidential salutes were fired by batteries of artillery near the river. The obime ot bells of the Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal Church rang out Mendelssohn’s Wedding March. President Cleveland and his bride led the way into the Bast Room, the adornments of "which were in keeping with its majestic proportions, and its ample space and brilliant illumination gave an excellent opportunity for a display of the ladies’ toilets. The room presented a mass of exotic plants. In the Dining-Room. After a brief season of promenading and conversation, during which the congratulations were renewed, the company proceeded „to the dining-room of the mansion, where a collation was served. There was no formal order observed ; the guests sat at the small tables, or slowly prohaenaded the room as they discussed the menu. The souvenirs of satin boxes containing pieces of the bridal cake, each one bearing the hand-painted monogram ot “C. F„” were greatly admired. The decorations of the dining-room were also i of an elaborate character. While the collation was being served the bride slipped away to her room and changed her bridal robes for a heavy traveling dress of gray silk, after which she returned and was joined by the President, who in the meanwhile had changed his dress suit for a traveling costume. At 8:30, President and Mrs. Cleveland bade their friends good-by and left the White House through a private exit from the red-room into the south grounds. In a closed carriage they

-were driven away, amid showers of rice that were thrown after them, and'eriesof “Godspeed" came from the rear porch. The bridal party having left the White House, the guests made merry for a short time. By ten o'clock all the guests had tiken their departure. The President and his bride were driven to the depot, where they took the train for Deer Park, Ma., for a week’s honeymoon. A Sketch of the Bride. Miss Folsom, whose Christian name is not Frances, but Frank, was born in 1864, says a Buffalo paper, and Will be 22 years old the 21st of July. She was bom at No. 168 Edward street, this city. As a child she attended Mme. Breckel’S French kindergarten, Later the family moved from Edward street to the house now occupied by Mr. George J. Letchworth, in Franklin street. At the time of Mr. Folsom’s death, in 1875, they were living at the Tifft House. Mrs and Miss Folsom were in Medina when this accident happened. After the funeral they went to Medina, where Mrs. Hannon, Mrs. Folsom’s widowed mother, resided. The Harmon family had a good social position, and owned considerable valuable real estate, including milling property. While in Medina Miss Folsom was a pupil at the High School. Returning to Buffalo in a few years, Miss Frank entered the Central School, and she and her mother boarded with Mrs. Jonathan Mayhew. While enrolled as a pupil at the Central School her name used often to get transferred to the boys’ lists, and so, in order that it should sound less masculine she temporarily inserted .the capital C after Frank, calling herself Frank Clara. This explains why her name now often erroneously appears with the initial in. She was a regular attendant of the Central Presbyterian Church, of which she is a member. Her mother occupied Mrs. R. D. Boyd’s house, on Franklin street, and from there Miss Folsom went to Wells College at Aurora. Her Central School certificate admitted her to the sophomore class at Wells College, which she entered without preliminary examinations in the middle of the school year. Miss Folsom was a great favorite at Wells College. Her tall, commanding figure, frankness, and sincerity made her the queen of the school. She was graduated from Wells in June, 1885, her graduating essay taking the form of a story. The hampers of flowers sent to her nearly every week, beginning about the second year of her college life, from the Executive mansion at Albany, and the particularly abundant supply that came from the White House conservatories when she was graduated, were only a few of the many little attentions paid her, the knowledge of which her college mates spread abroad on scattering to their distant homes for the summer vacations, thus exciting public gossip concerning Miss Folsom’s relations to the President. Miss Folaom has always been in the habit of spending her summers in Folsomdale, Wyoming County, two miles out of Cowlesville, at the residence of her late grandfather, Col. John B. Folsom. It is the typical homestead—a rambling farm-house set down amid the lovely scenery of the valley. Sundry newspaper reports have made Mr. Cleveland the benefactor of Miss Folsom in a money sense. Such statements are absolutely untrue. Her mother’s income has always been ample for their support, and any extra funds needed were always to be had from the grandfather, or “Paps John," as Miss Folsom called him, and whose recent death will make her the heiress of a goodly property. Miss Folsom's character is that of an unspoiled, ingenuous gir], full of self-pos-session, and' with tco much common souse to be overcome by her sudden elevation. Her chief characteristic is her intense loyalty to her mother, who is a charming woman. Miss Folsom’s life has had its deeper side. She is old for her years. One of her accomplishments is a rars gift for letter-writing. In dress her taste is very simple. Her hair is soft and brown, of a shade between dark and light She wears it combed back from her forehead, and loose, wavy tendrils escape here and there. She has violet-blue eyes, and a rather large nose; her eyebrows are very heavy and nearly meet The chief and striking beauty of her face is her mouth and chin.

Former White House Weddings. The White Mouse has been the scene of several weddings, each and all ot more or less display. Probably the wedding ot Nellie Grant ana Algernon Sartoris on May 21,1874, was the most brilliant of the half dozen taking place there. The Ecst Boom was the scene, and the pair stood under an immense floral bell, with a background of flowers filling the big east window. There were six bridesmaids and a noted company. It was a morning wedding, ami General Grant gave away his daughter with tearful eyes and ill-concealed emotion. Later on in President Hayes’ term, his niece, MISS Emily Platt, and General Bussell Hastings were married. The wedding was in the Blue Parlor, decorated with flowers, and here also the bride stood under a bell of flowers. To go bask te the beginning of the White House weddings, the first one was in President Madison’s time, when Miss Todd, a relative of Mrs. Madison, was the bride, and John G. Jackson, of Virginia, who was then a member of Congress, was the groom. The first East Roam wedding was that of Elizabeth Tyler, whose father was then President, and William Waller, of Williamsburg, Va. Miss Tyler was just 19, as was also Nellie Grant, when married. President Adams' son, John Quincy, Jr., married his cousin, Miss Johnson, in 1826. The wedding took place in the White House, in President Adams' administration. When General Jackson was President there were two weddings In the White House. Miss Easton, his niece, and Mr. Polk, of Tennessee, and a relative of Jackson, were married. The other was that of Miss Lewis, of Nashville, And Mr. Paqueol, who was afterward Flench Minister to this country. Martha Monroe married Samuel Gouvemeur, who was for a while President Monroe's This wedding 'took place in the East Boom, and the bride was just turned IT. V i The wedding of Mr. Cleveland is the ninth taking place in the White House, but it is the first wedding there of a President President Tyler’s second wife was the first mistresskof the mansion going there as a bride. Mr. Tyler and Miss Gardner werp married in New York, but came on to Washington and held their wedding reception in the White House. \

JAMES G. BLAINE.

Mis Address at the Portland (Me.) Meeting —The Home Rule Principle Indorsed. Directly after the publication of the call for this meeting I received a letter from a venerable citizen in an adjacent county asking me to explain if I could ju fit what the Irish question is. I appreciate the question, or rather I appreciate his request for an explanation of the question that calls forth so much svmpa thy and excitement on the part of the world at large, and evokes so much opposition among those who are directly interested. There may bedanger of not giving attention enough to the simple elementary facts of the case. Now what is home rule ? Why, it Is what every jjtate and Territory ilifhe United States enjoys, and It is what Ireland does not enjoy. In a Parliament of 156 members, Great Britain has 513 and Ireland has 105, and except with the consent of that Parliament Ireland cannot organize a gas company, or horse railroad company, or ferry over a steamer, or do the slightest thing that implies legislative power. Now suppose we bring that home, and the State of Maine should be linked with the State of New York, relatively as large with the State of Maine as England in number with Ireland, and your beautiful city here could not take steps for its own Improvement, nor the State of Maine organize an association of any kind or charter a company of any kind unless an overwhelming galaxy of the New York Legislature gave her consent How long do you think the people of Maine would stand it? That is a simple question between England and Leland, except that there is a great fact in addition which would not apply to New Nork Ohd Maine, that there are centuries of wrong Which have built up monuments of hatred on the part of those who are subjects of oppression, and which have aggravated the question between Ireland and Great Britain far beyond the limits that would be found between New York and Maine. I suppose if the question were left to the United States to decide we would say: “Adopt the federal system, have your legislature for Ireland, your legislature for England, your legislature for Wales, your legislature for Scotland, and your imperial parliament for the British Emfdre. Let questions that are Irish be settled by rishmen, questions that are English be settled by Englishmen, questions that are Welsh be settled by Welshmen, and questions that are Scotch be settled by Scotchmen. Let questions that affect the whole empire of Great Britain be settled by Parliament, in which four great constitutional elements shall be impartially represented." I say that would be the shorthand method of settling the question, for we have lived that way for nearly one hundred years in the United States of America. Ido not forget, however, that it would be political empyricism to attempt by any prescription to give the exact measure or exact details of any measure that should settle this long dispute between Great Britain and Ireland. I am admonished by what I have noticed in the British Parliament in the discussions concerning America, not to be too forward in knowledge or details, or in prescribing the exact measure, because, I suppose, they would retort that we know quite as little about their precise troubles as they know about ours. Therefore, I do not stand here simply to savthat Gladstone’s is a perfect measure ; Ido not’stand here to say that I ever could give you the exact details of that measure. Ido not say that I ever took time to examine them; but I say that lam in favor of any bill that shall take the first step toward righting the wrong, and of handing over the Government to Ireland. Lord Salisbury says if the Irish do not wish to be governed by the British, they should leave. But the Irish have been in Ireland quite as long as Lord Salisbury's ancestors have been in England, and very likely, for aught I know, for I have not examined his Lordship’s lineage in Burke’s peerage. Very likely his ancestry were Danish pirates or peasants in Normandy, who came over with William the Conqueror centuries after the Irish people were known in Ireland. Further on Blaine said: If the home-rnle bill shall pass and the Dublin Parliament be granted, there never was an association of men since human government was instituted which assumed power with greater responsibility to public opinion than the men who will compose that Parliament, because if they are allowed to form it it will be by reason of the pressure of the public opinion of the world, and I know that the Catholics of Ireland and the Presbyterians of Ireland can live and do just as the Catholics of the United States and .Presbyterians of the United States live—the citizens of one country, each giving to the other the perfect right of conscience, each declining to interfere in any manner with the perfect liberty of the other.

Referring to the land question, Blaine said: “In the year 1880 Leland produced 4,000,006 bushels of wheat But wheat is not the crop of Ireland. She produced 8,003,000 bushels of barley. But barley is not the great crop of Ireland. Now we begin to strike into the next item, to which she is specially adapted. She produced 70,000.000 bushels of oats. The next item I think everv one will recognize, as it is peculiarly adapted to Ireland. Of potatoes she produced 110,000,000 of bushels—within sixty milliops of the whole product of the United States. She produced turnips and mangolds, put together, 185,000,000 bushels. She produced of flax 60,000,000 pounds. She produced of cabbage 850,000,000 pounds. She produced of hay 3,800,000 tons. She had on her thousand hills and in her valleys over 4,000,000 head of cattle. In the same pasturage she had 3,500,000 head of sheep, she had 560,000 head of horses,- and 210,0C0 head of asses and mules. During the year 1880 she exported to England over 700,000 head of cattle, over 700,000 sheep and nearly 500,000 swine, and now in that territory, not quite so large as the State of Maine, and out of this magnificent abundance the life of which has scarcely been known since the richness of Goshen, there are men in want of food, and they appeal to the charity of the stranger. Why should this be in a land that can produce so very abundantly ? Why should any one want? The great Law Giver of Israel ordered that “thou shall muzzle the ox that treadeth'out the com, ” and St. Paul added in quoting, in his epistle to Timothy, “that the laborer is worthy of his reward." And yet many of the men who are producing these great results that almost turn the imagination in their extent, are absolutaly in want of sufficient food. I do not think it is difficult to find a reason. Seven hundred and twenty-nine men own one-half the land in Ireland, and the other half is owned by about three thousand more, and of rural farm land there are but nineteen thousand two hundred and eighty-eight owners in ail, whereas there are twelve hundred and fifty thousand adult males in Ireland. Produce that condition of affairs in Maine—in New England—to-morrow, and the distress there would be as great as the distress has been in Ireland. Now. Gladstone' says that this condition of affalrs must cease, and the men who till the soil in Ireland must be -allowed to purchase and to hold it But I did not tell the whole story on this land. As the British authority I quote gives it, three thousand seven hundred and fifty persons own over four-fifths, and they take from the tenantry that cultivate the land sixty-six millions of dollars of rental per annum. Now, mark you, I am talking of the little island not so large as Maine, and they pay a rental of sixty-six millions of dollars per annum, and then they pay an Imperial tax of 835,000,000 and a local tax of $15,000,000 more. There are $117,000,000 to be wrought out of the bone and flesh and spirit of the Irish peasant, and no wonder he lies crushed and down-trod-den. I believe the day hath dawned for his deliverance. From the experience of - Ireland's past it is not wise to be too sanguine of a speedy result. I, therefore, for one, shall not be disappointed to see Gladstone’s bill defeated in this Parliament. The English members can do it, but there is one thing which the English members can not do—they can not defeat the public opinion of the civilized world. And Lord Hartington made a very remarkable admission when, in a complaining tone, he accused Gladstone of having conceded so much that the Irish would nevsr take less. Well, Ido not know the day. whether this year, or next year, or the year after, that final settlement shall be made, but I have entire and absolute confidence that it will never be made on as easy terms as Gladstone now offers—if his mils are defeated—to give, or if I was in a position that would authorize me to give advice, it would be this: That the time has come, and is coming, that will probably try the patience and mettle of the Irish people more severely than In any other age in the progress of their long struggle, and my advice is that by all means, and with every moral influence that can be used, all acts of violence be withheld. You have earned the consolidated opinion of the Christian world, that believes in government. Do not have it divided. Let .no act of imprudence produce reaction.

A farmer of Ithaca, N. Y., had to defer the completion of some important legal papers the other day Because, after trying for twenty minutes m his lawyer’s office to recollect the full name of his wife, he failed to do so. '' ’ ' " ;■ A NEW English dictionary containing 240,000 words is about to be published. This seems to be a direct effort on the part of the learned author to curry favor with Senator Evarts and the man who is moving. Imprisonment for debt has been abolished in New York State.

BASE-BALL.

The Struggle for the Championship In the National League and the American Association. The Detroit and St. Louis Olubs Still in tha Lead Notes and Go isip of tha National Game. The League base-ball season opened the Ist of May. All the clubs, barring two, were thought to be evenly matched, and the predictions were many that none of the teams would win their first three games straight. How near these predictions came to being trne will be Keen: At the end of the first week's play the Chicagos were in the van. They had won five games and lost one, while One was postponed. New York came next, with five victories and two defeats. Detroit was third, with four games won, two lost, and One postponed. The Philadelphias were fourth, Washington fifth, St. Louis sixth, Boston seventh, and Kansas City last. At the end of the second week the Chi ’agos and Detroits were tied for first place, New York and St. Louis for third, while Philadelphia, Boston, and Washington followed, one ' game apart. Kansas City was still at the bottom of the list. Rain prevented all the clubs from playing the games scheduled for the third week except those played by the Detroits. The result was that the-Wolverine team gained a lead of two games over the champions. New York dropped to fourth place and St. Louis advanced to third. Philadelphia also Came up a peg, Boston stood sixth, and Washington and Kansas City were trailing. The close of the fourth week showed little chan e in the positions of the ihree leaders. In the American Association the St. Louis Browns lead the van, with Pittsburgh a close second, the Athletics one game behind for third, Brooklyn and Louisville a tie for fourth, Baltimore and Cincinnati also tied, and the Metropolitans bring up the rear. The following is the record of games won and lost, at the wind-up of the fourth week of the season’s play: LEAGUE SCHEDULE. . Clubs— 'Won. Lost. Chicago 17 4 New York. ............. 14 -—th Detroit 7/. .... 19 3 Philadelphia 9 11 St. Louis ..... 9 14 805t0n..... 5 16 Washington. ..... —A- 15 Kansas City 5 12 THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Games Games Clubs— won. lost Athletic * 17 12 Baltimore 14 I 16 Brooklyn 15 12 Cincinnati..' 14 19 Louisville 15 17 Metropolitan 8 18 Pittsburg 18 15 St. Louis 21 13

I DIAMOND DUST. ... The Philadelphia League club players all wear high plug hats. Chicago was the first club to play an errorless game this season. IT is claimed that it will take 5,000,000 base-balls to supply the diamond this year. Houck, of the Baltimores, fouled a ball in his. own face, and knocked out two of his teeth. - The only thing gigantic about the New York Club is the big’head.— Philadelphia Herald. It required fourteen innings for Leavenworth to beat St. Joseph, at Leavenworth, May 18, by a score of 11 to 10. N. K. Noyes, right fielder of Dartmouth’s freshman ball team, broke his leg by catching his foot in first base while running. While playing in a game near Kankakee, 111., William Studeman was struck on the side of his head by a pitched ball, and died in ten minutes. Buck Ewing says: “Detroit is going at a great pace, but the whole fabric hinges on one man—Bennett.” Buck thinks if he should be disabled the club would be nowhere in the race.

Out in Kansas City, it is said, they have devised a new scheme to worry batters. A small boy perches on a roof outside the grounds, and, with a piece of looking glass, casts reflections in the eyes of the batsman at the critical moment. This idea could be worked to better advantage in some place where they have had more sunshine than Kansas City has enjoyed recently. The great amount of bragging done by the “New York Giants,” as they were pleased to dub the League nine from that city, has lessened the popularity of that team away from home. Brag did not win the championship for them last year, and will not do it this. If one must crow when on top, it is advisable to always keep an eye open for a soft spot to fall on when one’s turn comes to go under. The Philadelphia Sporting Life “The St. Louis Brows have a new trick to worry pitchers and deceive the umpire, and worked it several times in Brooklyn last week. The wrinkle is to hug the plate closely and lean away over it, thus making the pitcher deliver wildly or else hit them. In the latter case the Browns have a knack of stopping the balls against their bodies with their hands, so as to escape injury. Anything to get on base is their motto. The first game played this season in the East by the Chicago Club was at Washington, and the Western giants were slaughtered to the tune of 7to 0. The Washington people went wild over the famous victory, and President Scanlan, of the home olub, immediately telegraphed President Spalding, of the Chicago aggregation: “Send on a club that can play ball.” The following day the two clubs met again, and the Westen) lads came off victorious by the one-sided score of 20 to 0. Spalding thereupon wired Scanlan: “How much ball do you want, anyway?” William Salentine, aged about 25 years, and a member of a prominent South Side family, died from apoplexy induced by over-exertion while engaged in a game of base-ball to-day. Upon crossing the homeplate in a “hbme-run” the young man reeled and fell to the ground in great pain. This soon passed away, however, and, contrary to the advice of his friends, he insisted upon resuming his play, taking his appointed position in the field. A few moments later he started to run in the direction of a batted ball, when he again fell to the ground and soon expired, with every symptom of apoplexy.— Milwaukee special.

The official figures showing the batting and fielding averages of the League clubs for the first month's work have been issued. The leading pitchers are Ca«ey of Philadelphia and McCormick of Chicago. The best ranking catchers are Hackett and Briody, both of the Kansas City Club. Start of Washington leads the first basemen in fielding; Richardson of Detroit the second basemen; Sutton of Boston the third basemen; Glasscock of St. Louis the short stops; Hornung of Boston the left fielders; O’Rourke of New York the center fielders; and Fogarty and Thompson are tied for first place among the right fielders.

HOOSIER HAPPENINGS.

An Interesting Hatch of Miscellaneous (' News From AH Parts of the Mate. F” ■ ......1..,. ■ i —John McCoy, a well-known citizen of Charleston, has died at the age of 64 years. —The Terre Haute Light Infantry is having a regulation uniform made in Philadelphia. *—™ i —Sam Fields’ residence, near Cory, was burglarized, and $154) taken from under his pUlow. —Burglars broke into W. H. Sattler’s whisky store, at Terre Haute, and carried off six thousand cigars. —The Cement mills, of Clark County, on a demand for higher wages, have largely reduced the number of their employes. —Charles Wachtel, of Scipio, sprung from a train running at thirty miles an hour, and fractnred his skull, dying soon afterward. —At Mount Healthy, 8. B. Brown, township trustee, was bitten by a copperhead snake while repairing his fence, and death is expected. —Word has been received at Evansville of the killing of George Metcalf, of that city, at Austin, by a man named Ravel, in a quarrel. —At Goshen, Charles Courtes and William Jacobs quarreled in a saloon over a girl. Courtes stabbed Jacobs and fled. The wound is in the breast and may result fatally.

—There are 365 ex-Union soldiers in the township in which Jeffersonville is situated. There are seventy-five soldiers* widows, of whom only seven have remarried. —Mrs. King, wife of E. D. King, editor of the Hendricks County Gazette, fell dead while walking across a room in her residence at Danville. Her death was caused by heart disease. —The remains of a-mastodon have been unearthed near Elkhart. -The frontal bone was fully three feet wide, and one well-preserved front tooth weighed four and one-half pounds. —Charles, the 3-year-old son of William Hassler, while playing in the yard at the Penn House, near Fort Wayne, raised the cistern cover and fell in and was drowned before he was missed. —The members of the Thirty-first Indiana regiment have made arrangements to hold a regimental reunion, at Rockville, Sept. 8 and 9. Good lodgings and faro will be furnished all visiting comrades. —Daniel Kallenbach, an aged citizen of Henryville, fell from a load of hay and was killed. He dropped his hat, and in making an effort to catch it fell under the feet of his mule team, one of which kicked him in the head, producing almost instant death. —At New Haven, six miles east of Fort Wayne, Henry Miller, a tramp, in attempting to board a Nickel Plate freight train, slipped and fell under the trucks. His right foot was crushed to a pulp and the left fearfully lacerated. Both feet wero amputated. —Henry Fray, who was taken to St. Anthony’s Hospital at Terre Haute with a cut in his hand which threatened to occasion lock-jaw, was turned out of the hospital and wandered away. He was next found dead in a ditch some distance from the city. He was old and dissipated, though at one time a well-to-do farmer and coroner of Sullivan County. —Horace Madlem, aged 26, and Miss Mamie Giddings. aged 22, were drowned at Bristol, in the St. Joe River. They were crossing the river just above the dam, in a boat, when it upset, and neither being able to swim, they were swept over the dam and drowned before aid could reach them. The body of Madlem, who was a school teacher, has not been recovered. —Mr. Joe Schofield, of the firm of J. Schofield & Son, went to his mill, at Madison, one morning recently, in usual health, bnt soon complained of illness and said he believed he would try to get home. Mr. George Patton, a relative employed in the mill, assisted him across the street to his residence, and he was laid on a couch. He grew steadily weaker for some minutes, and at noon breathed bis last. He was 69 years old. —The following list of patents was issued to Indianians during the past week: Barber, Ira, and J. F. Craft, La Porte, twowheeled vehicle; Cain, Jacob, Fort Wayne, rubber eraser and pencil holder; Gaines, Wilber H., Trenton, hay knife; Gartside, William N., Richmond, core material; Hamilton, James J., New Castle, automatic railway signal; James, Lycurgus L., Medora, whiffletree; Marchand, Charles F., Larwill, clod crusher . and pulverizer; Maurer, William F., Harmony, shoe; Moore, Ambrose, Attica, outside card receiver; Root, George R., Indianapolis, coal breaker; Talcott, Charles R., Valparaiso, perpetual dial calendar. —An inmate of the Tippecanoe County Insane Asylum, named John Snyder, recently took a notion that he owned the building, and that the commissioners were trying to swindle him out of it He procured a chisel and hammer, and going to the corner-stone commenced to demolish it, and to erase the commissioners’ names. He was captured, and immediately made a savage assault on the keeper, named Severson, with a knife. He was disarmed and secured. A search of his room revealed a butcher knife and a heavy club concealed in the bed clothing. The man confessed that he laid plans to “do up" the commissioners the next time they visited the asylum. Snyder has been an* inmate of the asylum about a year, formerly living near Buck Creek. —The forty-seventh annual commencement exercises of Deßauw University will begin Sunday, June 20, when President Martin will deliver the baccalaureate sermon, Rev. Dr. R. M. Barnes will deliver the annual address, and an address will be made by Rev. Dr. I. J. Hight. Interesting exercises will take place on Monday and Tuesday; Wednesday, reunion of the society of the alumni, oration by Hon. Lafayette Joseph, of -the class of ’65. and poem by Rev. A. Kummer, class df *73; Thursday, graduating exercises of the. senior clasp ,