Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1886 — Page 6

The Republican., _l—».— mL — i —i RENSSELAER. INDIANA. 0. & MARSHALL, - - Pruusmcß.

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE BAET* Thk National Association of Commercial Travelers bold its annual convention at New York. J. 11. Trask, of St, Louis, Was elected President for the ensuing year. Edward C. Z. Judson, better known as “Neddßunthne," died of heart disease, at Btamford, New York, last week, aged 64. He was bom in Philadelphia. His father, who was a lawyer, tried to make a lawyer of the son, but at 11 years of age he run away after receiving a flogging and shipped as cabin-boy in a vessel that sailed around the Horn. The next year he entered the navy as an apprentice on board a man-of-war, and a year later, when 13 yean old, was commissioned' a midshipman by President Van Bureu for meritorious conduct in rescuing the crew of a boat ran down by a Fulton ferryboat on Fast River. Yonng Judson was assigned to the Levant. Other midshipmen refused to mess with him because he had been a common sailor before the mast, and while on the way to join the Gulf squadron he fought seven of them, one after another,, in Florida, New Orleans, and Havana, escaping without a scratch himself, but marking four of his antagonists for life. From that time on he had the reputation of being one of the best shots in the United States. During the rebellion he served as a chief of ecouts, and has since then borne the title of Colonel, Judson was- widely known as a writer of wild tales of adven-1 tare. His first story, “The Captain’s Pig,” was published in the Knickerbocker Magazine under the pseudonym of “Ned Buntline” in 1838, when he was in his 15th year. This sketch brought notoriety to the young writer and fighter, w ho subsequently received as high as $60,000 a vear for the product of his braih and pen. For many years his annual income from story-writing was $20,000. He once earned $12,500 in six weeks, and at another time, under pressure, wrote a book of 610 pages in sixtv-two hours, scarcely sleeping or eating Turing that time. He did not know exactly how many stories he had written, but estimated them at between 300 and 400, each long enough for a book. Samttel K. Gat, Chief Clerk in the Pension Office at Pittsburgh, lias embezzled from $16,000 to $20,000 and fled to Canada. He was a leader in the Murphy temperance movement and Young Men’s Christian Association.... The New York Agricultural Terra Cottn Company's works in Ravenswood, N. Y., were damaged $60,000 or $70,000 by fire.

THE WEST.

“After twenty-one days of tiresome tactics, the jury in the anarchist case has been completed,” says a Chicago dispatch. “This could not have been effected but for the fact that the defense had exhausted its peremptory challenges. Mr. H. T. Sanford, the twelfth juror, answered all the questions pnt to him satisfactorily, saying that, although he had formed a decided opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the accused on a general theory, he felt that he could give them a fair trial. Mr. Foster, of the defense, objected to him, but the objection was promptly overruled by Judge Gary, who observed that the jnror came within the fact of his being sufficiently lligent to have an opinion, which he admitted could be governed by the evidence, seems to have been sufficient to move Lawyer Black to note an exception, as the last kick of the defense against respectability. After the long delay there is mnch satisfaction in the reasonable assurance that a jury somewhat above the average has been secured. It is in a measure a compensation for the time •wasted in reaching it. The State's Attorney was prompt in opening the case for the people, and there is no apparent reason why it should not go steadily on to a conclusion. At best, the trial must be a long one, as there are hosts of witnesses to be CTatninedr* ; ; —- Fond dc Lac (Wis.) special: “Gentlemen who have resided in this county since 1848 say that they have never before known so serious a drought Of late years marked attention has been paid to stock-raising and dairying in Fond du Lac, and these branches of farm industry have especially suffered, because of fee devastation wrough t in pastures and the shortage of the hay crop.” The last two weeks of the engagement of Mr. Palmer's fine dramatic company at McVicker's Theater, Chicago, will be devoted to the long-promised play, “Jim the Penman,” which has had such a long ruu in London, where it was bought out. Sir Charles Young, the author, is well acquainted in America and is a great admirer of this'country. He is the author of several plays. The cast for the representations at Me Vickers includes the strongest members of the Palmer company—Messrs. Davidge, Kelcey, Le Moyne, and Holland, and Misses Hill and Harrison. A. B. Thompson, the absconding bank cashier of St. Louis, left a letter stating that he had been ruined by speculation and used the bank’s money to carry himself along until discovered. He was recently seen on a steamboat in Canadian waters by a party of three acquaintances... The St. Louis Grand Jury returned indictny?nts against six members of the City Council for drunkenness and bribery in connection with the electric railway bill. Two of them —Pishon and Adams—were arrested and put under bonds of $1,500 each. . ..A murderer named Bill Haley was taken from the jail at Paulding, Ohio, by a masked mob of one hundred men, and hanged to a tree. Haley was a desperado, who some time ago got 'into an altercation with Matthew Crosby at Latty, Ohio, and killed him. On hearing the news Mrs. Crosby died in hvsterics. The people threatened to lynch'Haley at the time, but he was taken out of the county.... The severe drought still continues over nearly the whole of the Indian Territory, and ’ prairie fires are burning in every direction. The range is rapidly being ruined, and murrain has broken out among the cat! tie and many are dying.-... The first money received by the Cberokees from the cattlemen for grazing privileges is now being distributed at Tahlequah. It amounts to $300,000, each full-blood receiving $15.95. A claim for a share is made by colored residents, and the Delaware and Shawnee Indians.... A fire in Knapp, Stoat A Co.’s lumber-yards, in St. Louis, destroyed property valued at about $500,000. the insurance is estimated at $275,000;

THE SOUTH.

“ “ AfLAJiTA (Ga.) dispatch: “About one hundred and fifty convicts employed at the Dade coal mines, oimod by Senator Brown

A Co., bavs Revolted and intrenched jsiemselves in a building. The Gate City Guards, of Rome, have been ordered by the Governor to hold themselves in readiness to go to the mines. Penitentiary Keeper Tower has telegraphed Uov. McDaniel that he .has.a. strong enough force of guards to quell the revolt, but that it would be necessary to kill three or four of the leaders or starve till into, submission. The Governor bas ordered him to adopt the latter conrae. The convicts say they will all starve to death rather than return to work.” Weatherford, Texas, dispatch: The following telegram has been sent to Hon. S. W. Lauham, member of Congress, at Washington: “The protracted drought in Jack, Parker, and other counties north and • west has caused an almost total failure of ! crops, and will produce great distress. Ifcf threatens to depopulate the country. ' Families are leaving by the hundred. Use your efforts to obtain Government aid. Telegraph if we can do anvthiug further.” The above was signed by the County Judge, Sheriff, and other officers of Jack County. This is the second appeal that has been made to Congress for aid. while Gov. Ireland has been petitioned to call an extra session of the Legislature. The alarming extent of destitution in the drought-stricken districts is not yet fully realized in Texas, and it is feared it will not be until many people have starved to death. The Rev. John Lokey quarreled with a man named McClellan over a division line at West Fork, Ark., and Lokev and his son Ephraim assaulted McClellan. The latter defended himself with a knife, fatally stabbing both of his assailants. McClellan wns arrested and released on a preliminary trial. A Chattanooga dispatch says the trouble among the convicts in the Dade coal mines at Coal City, Ga., was ended by the surrender of the mutineers and their return to work. Two days’ thirst and starvation brought them around. This ends one of the most remarkable strikes bn record. and what might have been the cause of a serious difficulty and loss of life,, Fort Worth, Texas, has been celebrating the tenth anniversary of tho advent of railroads, when the city had less than one thousand population. There are now eight roads, and ii is claimed that the citizens number thirty thousand.

POLITICAL.

A Washington telegram says: “It is now whispered that the real cause of the resignation of Assistant Secretary Smith, of the Treasury Department, was his unwillingness to be guided by President Cleveland in his civil-service views. It is said that a delegation of civil-service reformers from Boston and New York went to Washington and preferred chatg.es against him. The delegation consisted of Richard H. Dana, of Boston, and Silas Burt aud William Potts, of New I’ork, Mr. Potts being the Secretary of the Civil-Ser-vice Reform Association of New York. The charges Were preferred and ft demand made that Mr. Smith be ordered to halt in his manner of conducting his business in the Treasury. Mr. Cleveland, was in a predicament. Smith was Samuel J. Tilden’s friend. He tried to patch it up with the Assistant Secretary, but to his surprise Smith said he would resign before he would be dictated to. This nettled Cleveland, and he said ‘resign,’ " The .Democrats of the First Congressiotaal District of Indiana have nominated John M. McCullough for Congress. The Republicans of the Second Indiana District pominated Rev. M. S. Ragdale for Congress. George T. Barnes was unanimously renominnted for,. Congress by the Democratic Convention of the Tenth Georgia District. The Democrats of the Fifth lowa District have renominated Hon. Ben T. Frederick for Congress. The Democratic Congressional Convention of the Fourth Mississippi District renominated T. C. Catchings by acclamation. The Republicans of the Sixth Kansas District nominated E. J. Turner, of Sheridan County, Secretary of the State Board of Railroad Commissioners, to succeed Congressman Handbaek, on the hundred and ninetieth ballot... .Warren County, Mississippi, including Vicksburg, gave a majority of three thousand against hibition. _ . - __

WASHINGTON.

The total values of the exports of domestic breadstuffs is given as follows: June, 1886, $13,702,993; June, 1885, $9,024,530; six months ended Jime 30, 1886, $69,861,566; same period 1885? $76,751,324; twelve months ended June 30, 1886, $122,800,379; same period 1885, $156,451,831. There is some talk in Washington about Congress being adjourned by President Cleveland. The power of the Executive to adjourn both houses of Congress has never been exercised, and many men in public life have forgotten or are unaware of its existence. Among the powers of the President specified in article 2, section 3, of the Constitution, is the following: “And in case of disagreement between them with respect to the time of adjournment, he may adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper.”

INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

More than half the men in the stone quarries atLemont, 111., went on strike because some unmarried ones were asked to accept a reduction of wages. ~ Three thousand tanners are on a strike at Peabody and Salem, Mass! "* Eighty plantation negroes imported to Grape Creek, 111., to work in the coal mines, have been sent back South by the labor un : ons at Danville. Under a decision of the Vermilion County Court as to the coal company’s leases, all the wfhite strikers and their families have been evicted, and are improvising shanties and sod houses in the w00d5....T. V. Powderly addressed the Eastern association of green bottle-glass blowers at Atlantic City, and they voted by 42 to 26 to join the Knights of Labor. Trouble is anticipated among the miners on the Baltimore and Ohio Road. The Hon. W. L. Scott has a few men at work at the reduced price, who have signed his iron-clad agreement.... At Pittsburgh the •green bottle blowers’ convention adopted last year's scale of prices.

GENERAL.

The next annual meeting of the American Association for tho Advancement of Science will be held in Buffalo, beginning August 18, and continuing one week. The retiring President, the venerable Professor H. A. Newton, of New Haven, Conn., will deliver the annual address. The Governor of Maine has requested the Postmaster General to so modify the regulations for sending liquids by mail as to prevent violations of Hie prohibitory liquor laws of the States.

Bryce Hidden left New York 1 the other day for Waterford, Ireland, tak- ; ing swords belonging to General Thomaa Francis Meagher, a large picture of the 1 veteran, and two of the flags carried by the Irish Brigade in the war of the rebellion, to be presented to the Yoqng Ireland Society of Waterford —Meagher’s native city, j There were 189 failures reported in the I United Htnteo last week, against 153 the j week before, 185 in the second week of ' July, 1885, and 211 in 1884. Canada had ! 11 this week, 12 last week, and 14 last year. The total number of failures in the United State* from Jan. 1 jo date is 6,777, against j 6,616 in 1885 (a decline this year of 839); 15,762 in 1884, 5,515 in I«S3, and 3,872 ;in 1882..,.The Chicago Tribune, says: : “An exchange gravely announces that the latest comet is traveling through space at the rate of 968,000 miles per hour, which is nearly 270 miles per second. The calculations of astronomers show that such a tremendous velocity is possible when a comet is very close to the sun, but that it cannot be long maintained. Only during a few hoars can anything like that rate of travel be kept up,” Sampson Roli.and and George Solomon, both colored, were hanged in Donaldsonville, La., for the murder respectively of Benjamin Gersdorff, white, and Henry Smith, colored. The scene on the scaffold gave an ideal negro hanging. When the condemned were asked if they had anything to say, Holland replied that he was going straight to glory. Death had no terrors for him. He was perfectly happy. These were no more trials or troubles where he was going. His speech seemed to nerve him. and the nervousness he showed when approaching the scaffold rapidly disappeared. Solomon was far more deliriously religious over his approaching execution, and went into ecstasies over the idea that he was going to heaven—going to sleep to wake in his Father’s mansion. He and God were no longer strangers, he said, but friends. He became so excited finally that he broke into loud shouts that could be heard far outside of the jail, and the Sheriff finally found it necessary to stop his shouting... .George Harrison, colored, was hanged at Shreveport, La., for the murder of George Allen. The prisoner was cool and self-possessed to the last, and acknowledged the murder. He said he was ready and willing to die, as he believed he would at once enter heaven.... James Daee.v, a Chicago murderer. Was executed at Woodstock, 111., in presence of about two hundred persons. He was dead in twelve minutes from the time the drop fell, and his body was soon shipped to a Chicago medical college.... Dick Townsend, a triple murderer, was hanged at Valdosta* Ga... .Jake Braswell was hanged by a mob at Flat Ford, Ga., and a murderer wns shot to death by lynchers at Frisco, Kansas. It is stated that the Panama Canal scheme has practically collapsed. The effort to effect an additional loan has not only been unsuccessful, but has brought Out' the fact that $26,660,000 of the old loan btill remains untaken. Predictions of the result are in order, but they can Scarcely fail to include a rough shaking up of the money market in France, which, may be very disastrous. The loss of so much -money -as has already been sunk m the “enterprise,” with general dullness existing in trade, and a partial failure of the wheat crop, which will render it necessary to import some 90,000,000 bnshels from foreign countries, may well be regarded as constituting a real calamity to the French people.... The revolutionary movement in the State of Tamaulipas, Mexico, is reported steadily increasing. Desperadoes on both sides of the Rio Grande are flocking to the insurgents' support, and rancheros and stockmen are driving their cattle into Texas. Serious trouble is imminent.

FOREIGN.

Another member of the Bright family, W. S. MaeLaren, has been elected as a Gludstonian from one of the Cheshire districts. He has described his uncle’s grand committee plan for Irish measures as “one of the miserable competing schemes from Birmingham.” Mr. Bright’s son told the voters of Stoke-upon-Trent before they elected him that he felt humiliated at seeing hia father —going- into—theTory lobby against Gladstone.... The’ Radical papers are now industriously quoting Mr. Bright’s home-rule speeches against him-. They wish to know whether the author of the expression, “force is no remedy,” will now vote for cdercion... .The Duke d’Aumale and Duke de Chartres, with a suite of fifteen persons, have arrived at Brussels... .Queen Victoria will visit the Edinburgh Exhibition, August 18.... An English company will establish a royal bank in Madagascar, with a capital of £2,000,000. The London Times, commenting upon the Tory victory, argues that there is a singular lack of personal weight among the Conservative leaders, and this necessitates a Conservative-Liberal Unionist coalition. “The Conservative party,” adds The Times, “will be less strong than it was hoped it would be. Whether Lord Hartington joins the Government "or not, the Government will be compelled ’to take him into its counsels and ask his assent to its measures; it must, in fact, adopt his proposals ami accept his terms. Surely the only satisfactory method is for (he Liberal Unionists to become part and parcel of the Government. The formation of such a coalition, however, would in no sense mean the permanent obliteration of party lines or that Lord Hartington had become a Tory.” The London Daily News says: “The Liberals hold the position coveted by the Pamellites. They are the arbiters of the fate of governments. Lord Hartington will keep an independent attitude.”

A m r.r, between Gen. Boulanger, Minister of War, and Baron de Lareinty, arising from the remarks of the Baron in the French Senate relative to the expulsion of the Due d’Aumale, was fought in *a forest near Meudou, five (miles west of Paris. When the command to fire was given, Baron de Lareinty shot at Gen. Boulanger. The latter coolly awaited the result of the 6hot without firing himself. Finding himself untouched by his opponent's bullet, General Boulanger raised his own pistol, and fired into the air. The combatants then left the field.... .The net polling in the Irtish Parliamentary elections up to the 19th inst., with seven boroughs to hear from, showed 1,386,983 anti-Gladstonianr and 1,296,853 Gladstonian votes. The Tories had elected 317 candidates, and the Liberals 187, showing a majority of 122 against Mr. Gladstone on his Irish policy. The Conservatives are openly professing their readiness''to assume the Government without the assistance of Lord Harrington, says a London dispatch. Lord Salisbury, while accepting Lord Harrington's rejection of coalition as final, has not abandoned his efforts to bring about a joint ministry. He has turned his attention to the other unionist leaders, and has made overtures to the Duke of Argyll, Sir Henry James. Mr. Goechen, the Marquis of Lome, and others- Sir Henry James still adheres closely to Lord Harrington,

and Shares his independent attitude.... James JuliAr, who recently wrote an offer of marriage to Queen Victoria, colled at Windsor Castle for his answer, and was taken into custody. He was found to be crazy, and was sent to an asylum.... The convention between European steelrail manufacturers will not be renewed. Holland bas already ordered large quantities of rails from Krupp.,. .The German • Government is reported as ready to enter into an extradition treaty with the United States and England by which dynamiters may be returned... .The marriage contract between Patti and Nicolini provides for the retention by each of their private fortunes.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

BIX men, members of the Executive' Board of the local lodge of the Knights of Labor, have been arrested at Wyandotte, Kan., charged with wrecking a train on the morning of April 26, and causing the death of two persons. The affair has caused great excitement among the Knights at Kansas City. s \ The Boston Journal of Commer caisTO* - sponsible ter the ntatefneht that a firm in Chicago is building a machine that is expected to roll out a chain from a solid iron bar without the necessity of welding a single link. The bar is to be passed through h set of four rollers which squeeze it into a series of links forming a perfect chain. The principle is in some respects the same as that already employed in obtaining a chain by casting, but with a great advantage over-the product of that process in point of tenacity.... A Canadian coach was robbed by six masked inen twenty-five miles south of Humboldt Station, N. W. T., the highwaymen abstracting $20,000 from the mail bags and, it is alleged, killing the driver. The Chicago Civil-Service League has forwarded to Washington a complaiut that all the members of the local board are Democrats, and that about three removals for political reasons are made every two working days in the Poatoffice and Custom House. Commissioner Oberly intends to recommend that one or more Republicans be placed on tne board. Thomas Power O’Connor. M. P., sends a cable dispatch to the Chicago Times, in which he says: The feeling is Increasing in political circles here that tne Tories will try to remain In office by the support of the Irish vote in Parliament. There are numerous indications that the attempt will be made. This can be done in many ways without at tlrst compromising tne leaders of the Tory party, should that oe desired. It is probable that the matter will be approached in such a way aB to leave tho door open- to retreat in the eventof failure.and enable the first Lord o 1 the Treasury to deny all knowledge of anything of the sort. The indications are that part of the price offered for Irish support will be an Irish land bill acceptable to the Nationalists. Mr. Parnell, has already stated that the landlords of Ireland will never again have such terms as Gladstone offered them, and the Nationalists were willing at the time to indorse. It is difficult, therefore, to see what inducements the Torieß can offer the Nationalists in connection with land purchase that will not at tho same time rend their own party in twain and alienate the LiberaUUuionista. Difficult as the task will be, there is good reason to suppose that such a bill is to be prepared, and that the Irish will havethe choice of rejecting it and remaining in opposition, or accepting it and keeping the Tories in office against all comers. The oleomargarine bill was the subject of a long and warm discussion in the Senate on J uly 19, Messrs. Miller, Edmunds, and Van Wyck advocating, and Messrs. Vance, Veßt, and Ingalls opposing the measure. In the course of the debate Mr. Ingalls replied to some remarks by Mr. Miller, saying that his (Miller's) humor was very much like the attempt of a hippopotamus to dance on a slack rope. (Laugnter.J The Senator from New York had seen fit to present him (Ingalls) as a country peddler, dealing in bogus jewelry and “elixirs of life.’’ lu reply he- wished to say that he had never stood before the Senate advocating a measure in which he had the strongest personal interest—as the Senator from New York had done. That Senator was in the dairy business. He had a dairy farm and a herd of dairy cattle, putting its produce on the market as the product of Oak Hill or Oak Deaf creamery. And he used the whole power of his official station as Senator and as chairman of a committee to get the measure away from tho committee to which it belonged and referred to his own committee, and he stood on the floor of the Senate day after., day advocating a measure which was to, increase directly the profits of his own product. A more shameful spectacle had never been presented to the American people than hod been presented in regard to this measure. In the other house it had been under the leadership of the chairman of a committee who was himself efigaged ih tße dairy bOTtncFS' p ond trrthi s body that gentleman was reinforced by the Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture (Mr. Miller), who was engaged in the same business, and who was to profit by the legislation. Mr. Miller, apparently laboring under great excitement,. rose to reply. He denied having referred to the Senator's (Ingali’s) calling in early life, and went on to say that whether this bill became a law or not it would not add one farthing to any profit which he could possiblv receive. The House’of Representatives, after adopting an amendment providing that the guns, projectiles, etc., purchased shall be of American manufacture, Sussed the fortifications appropriation bill. Mr. lorrison offered a concurrent resolution for the final adjournment of Congress on July 28, and it was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means., ■

THE MARKETS.

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DETltOiy. ' Beef Cattle *.50 @ 5.25 Hogs. ;..... 4.25 # 5.25 Sheep i... 3.50 #4.50' Wheat-No. 1 White.- .83 # .84 Corn—No. 2.,..; .'. 40 # .42 Oats—No. 2.. i 32 # J 4 INDIANAPOLIS. BfeEF Cattle 3.5 D # 5.3» H 005...,. 4.50 # 5.U0 Sheep - 2.25 n 4.00 Wueat—No. 2 lied .75 # .77 Corn—No. 2 34 # .36 Oats—No. 2 .29 # .30 EAST LIBERTY, Cattle—Best 5.00 # 5.50 Fair. ~t ;.. 4.25 #4.75 Comuiuu. 3.75 # 4.25 Hogs 5.00 #5.50 Sheep 3.50 # 4.50 BUFFALO. Wheat—No 1 Hard sc @ .87 Corn-No. 3 38 # .40 CATTLE........................Vi. 4.50 #5.25 ‘

UNSAFE SAYINGS.

A ( ashler of a St. Lou in Bank Absconds with $40,000 of Depositors’ Money. The Customary Promise that All Debts Will Be Paid in Full Speedily. [St. Louis dispatch, j The Provident Savings Bank of this city has closed its doors and made an assignment, Almond B. Thompson, the Cashier, having absconded. Carlos 8. Greeley, a heavy depositor, filed a petition for the appointment of a receiver over the bank, alleging that Cashier Thompson had not been at the bank since the 12th; that a partial examination of his books show a deficit of over $40,000, and that it is believed a fuller examination will swell the amount to a much larger sum. The court appointed W. H. Thompson, of the Commercial Bank, receiver of the institution. Until to-day no outsider imagined for a moment that the bank was embarrassed, and no run was made upon it. The investigation of the books had been under way since Tuesday morning. At noon to-day the Directors decided to close the doors." As soon as this action became known throughout the city, large crowds of depositors congregated around the bank, anxious to know the nature of the embarrassment, and calling upon some one to inform them. No one answered the call, and the excitement increased until it became necessary to call the police, who are now upon the scene to quell any possible disturbance. The largest number of depositors are clerks j and poor men and women, so that the fail- j ure will not affect to any great extent the commercial interests of the city. The President of the batik, J. S. Gar- j land, has been absent from the city for about six months and the cashier has as- ! sumed hi 3 duties as well as his own. The bank' statement of yesterday shows total assets of $1,166,829 and total liabilities Of $985,782. The amount of the deposits is j $426,649. The directors of the bank say that they will not be able to realize on their apparent assets to their full extent. Thompson, the absconding cashier, is a graduate of Harvard College, and since he has held his responsible position in this city has been regarded as a man of sterling integrity. He is President of the Harvard I Club of this city and of the Light j Cavalry, and a prominent Knight Tem- j filar. He announced his intention the \ atter part of last week of accompanying the Light Cavalry to the State Encampment at Sweet Springs; and it was generally supposed that he was there. Advices from that point, however, state that he has never been near the camp, and it is supposed that he has joined the army of defaulters in Canada. No cause for his defalcation can be assigned other than fast living, for he has never been known to speculate. •<••• The amount of Cashier Thompson’s bond was $30,000. The bond was signed by Carlos S. Greeley and the cashier’s father, who is a wealthy retired liquor-dealer. W. H. Thompson, the reoeiver, says that the bank has been carefully managed, and that few, if any, bad loans exist. It is nis opinion that the depositors will be paid in full. Many of the stockholder say they are willing to turn their stock into a fund with which to pay the depositors dollar for dollar. j

A TIMELY HINT.

A Warning from President Cleveland to Federal Office-Holders. — They Must Respect Oivil Service, and Not Be Too Active m Politics. The following executive order from the President is sufficiently explicit to explain itself: » Executive Mansion, 1 Washington, I>. G., July I*. 1886. f To the Heads of Departments ih the Service of the General Government: I deem this a proper time to especially warn all subordinates in the several departments and all officeholders under the General Govern- ! meat against the use of their official positions in attempts to control political movements in their localities. Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters. Not only is their time and labor ‘ due to the Government, but they should scrupulously avoid, in their political action, as well as in the discharge of their official duty, offending by a display of obtrusive partisanship their neighbors who have relations with them as public officials. They should also constantly remember ihat their party friends, from whom they have receive 1 preferment, have not invested them with the power of arbitrarily managing political affairs; They have no right as officeholders to dictate the political action oft their party associates, or to throttle freedom of action within party lines by methods and practices which prevent every useful and justifiable purpose of patty organization. The influence of Federal offices should not be felt in the ma- I ’ nipulations of political primary meetings and 1 nominating conventions. The use by these j officials of their positions to com- | pass their selection as delegates to polit- | ical conventions is indecent and unfair, and proper regard for the proprieties and requirements of official place will also prevent their assuming the active conduct of political campaigns. Individual interest and activity in political affairs are by no means condemned. Officeholders ore neither disfranchised nor forbidden the exercise of political privileges, but , their privileges are not enlarged nor is their dutyto party increased to pernicious activity by . officeholding. A'just discrimination in this regard between i the things a citizen may properly do and the j purposes for which a public office should not be ; used is easy in the light of a correct apprecia- I tion of the "relation between the people and those intrusted with official place and a con- ! sideration of the necessity under our form of government of political action tree from official | coercion. You are requested to communicate the substance of these views to those for whose guidance they are intended.

The output of the oil wells in Southern California this year will reach 160,000 barrels. None of the wells are of any great depth and none are heavy yielders. Most of them require to be pumped. At Puenta, Los Angeles County, the other day, a genuine “gusher” was struck at a depth of about 500 feet. The workingmen of New York are discussing the advisability of taking a hand in polities as an organization, and propose to run lleiuy George for Mayor. A newspaper at Pekin, .China, was started in the year 911. Ben: Peyley Poore is writing some personal reminiscences of US first editor. Cardinal Gibbons is summering in the Dees- Park cottage recently occupied by the' President and Mrs. Cleveland. The death is announced at Wiesbaden of the widow of the great composer, Giacomo Meyerbeer, aged 82 years. *-• ; ! ' - A yocno poet out West, in describing heaven, says: “It is a world of bliss fenced i& with girls.*

GROVER CLEVELAND.

NATIONAL LAW MAKERS.

Brief fluauaory of the PreceeA ‘"tmjgm of Ceaffres*. r ’ ' * ‘ & Three reporta from tho Senate Committee on Privilege* and Election* upon the Payne case were submitted to the Senate, on the 15th hut. The report signed by Senator* Pugh. Saulsbury, Vance'and Eu*ti*, the Democratic members oi the committee, sets forth at length the public history of the case, recognize* the transcendent importance of throwing around the Senate of. the United States the highest safeguard* against seating a member whose title was procured by bribery, fraud, and- corruption, and describee the processes by which the shiner* reach the conclusion that there is no ground for further proceedings against Mr. Payne. The report saye the committee's first act was to comply fairly with tho first request of the Ohio House of Representatives to make an examination of the testimony taken by the select committee at Columbus. Upon this testimony Mr. Hoar made a report to the committee that, after careful reading, no evidence, opinion or statement whatever was found personally inculpating Mr. Payne jn any way with the corrupt use of money in connection with his election. Neither did such examination show that enough had been found to justify the charge that the election was procured by the corrupt use of money. This report asks that the committee be discharged from further consideration of the subject and that it be indefinitely postponed. Senators Teller, Kvarts, and Logan unite in a report in which, after reciting the circumstances surrounding the Senatorial election in Ohio In 1884, it is said that no action was taken by the State Legislature which elected Senator Payne oalling in question the validity of his olection, but that the new Legislature iu January of the present year had adopted tne resolution under which tho investigation of Donovan’* charges had been made. The Senate committee had found it proper to accept tho presentation of the case set out' in the majority and minority reports of the select committee of the Ohio House of Representatives. The only constitutional warrant for an investigation in a case like tnat presented is in the clause making each house of Congress the judge of the qualifications of its own members, and the clause conferring the right of expulsion. The signers of the report do not find that a case has been presented that would affect Mr. Payne with such turpitude as would tolerate his expulsion from tho Senate, nor that testimony is accessible that touches the subject of the personal inculpation of Mr. Payne. They therefore turn their attention to the question of- the validity of his election to the Senate. The report holds that the evidence in such a case must show that the fraud which it alleged was committed embraced enough in number of the voting electors to have changed the result The testimony presented by the Ohio House of Representatives showß the numbpr of members i of the General Assembly that have beon brought into Inculpation and the weight of evidence against him. Senators Hoar and Frye ip a separate report state that they eannot concur with the views expressed by the other members of the committee, and say they think a cebc is -presented in which it is the duty of the Senate to permit the petitioners to present their evidence and to authorize the issue of proper process to aid in procuring the attendance of witnesses. The Senate is the only court which can have jurisdiction of the question. The report concludes with a resolution directing an Investigation of the charges, and with a recommendation that it be adopted. The amendment to the river and harbor bill increasing the appropriation for improving the harbor at Chicago from $75,000 to $150,000 was rejected by the Senate on the 16th Inst., as also the amendment Increasing the appropriation for the Missouri River from $375,000 to $600,000. An amendment swelling the appropriation for the Mississippi River, from the passes to Cairo, from $1,687,500 to $2,250,000 was tablod. The amendment reducing all appropriations in the bill 25 per cent, was then agreed to and the measure put on its final passage and adopted. The Senate also passed the naval appropriation bill. In the House ol Representatives an effort to pass the pension bill of Elizabeth Luce over the Presidential veto was lost by a vote of 116 yeas to 124 Similar action was taken on the measurj pensioning Catherine McCarthy, the vote being yeas 122, nays 97, but in the case of Joseph Romiser the bill was passed over the veto—yeas 175, nays 38. Quite a sensation was created in the House by a personal encounter between Messrs. Cobb (Dem.l of Indiana,,and Laird (Rep.jpl .Nebraska, growing out of the charges made by the former on the floor of the House, to the effect that the Nebraska member had been concerned in a land ring. Mr. Laird made nn attack upon tho Publio Lands Committee, of which Mr. Cobb is chairman. The latter undertook to defend the committee, and in the course of his remarks charged the Nebraska member with having been a memoer of a land ring, who retorted by calling the gentleman from Indiana a liar. Mr. Cobb declared that Mr. Laird did not dare to come outside aud repeat his language. Mr. Laird is said to have replied that the gentleman could not get out soon enough for him. With this the pair started through the lobby into the basement. Some one called Mr. Parson's attention to their exit, with the statement that they were going outside to fight it out. Thereupon Mr. Payson hurried through the doorway, and coming up with: tho would-be combatants on the stairway caught Mr. Cobb by the collar and remonstrated with him for pursuing so boyish and fooHsh a course. He succeeded in getting Mr. Cobh to retrace his ateps so far as the west door of the lobby, Mr. Laird following, whon the controversy broke out afresh. Recurring to the charges Mr. Cobb had made against him in a '6p®SCh several weeks ago, Mr. Laird angrily declared that bo (Mr. Cobb) was liar.* Mr. Cobb rejoined that Mr. Laird was “a but the words had hardly passed his lips before Mr. Laird struck him a heavy blow on the mouth and nose. A stream of Ulood trickled down Mr. Cobb's face, and he was thrown backward against tho doorway. A crowd which had collected interposed at this juncture aiid the combatants separated, Mr. Laird taking his seat in the House aud Mr. Cobh reclining in an easy chair in the lobby, where he was surrounded by friends. There was every reason to believe that, if interference had not come in the shape of Mr, Payson, who sought to pour ' oil on the troubled waters, a sanguinary personal combat would have resulted. Roth of tho members concerned ore of powerful physique, and tear the reputation of men ready at all limes to defend themselves in a fitting manner. Mr. Cobb Btonds six feet and over in bis shoes and is..of proportionate breadth, bulls somewhat at a disadvantage on the scoro of age, being in the neighborhood of fifty-eight or sixty years old. Mr. Laird is but thirty-seven years of age, with a girth of chest that would ornament an athlete, and a fiery, impetuous temper.

The Committee on Indian Affairs made a report to the Senate, on the 17th inst., recommending the passage over the President’s veto of the bill granting railroads right-of-Way through the Indian reservation in Northern Montana. Mr. Blair, from tho Committee on Pensions, submitted a report adopting as tho report of "the majority of the committee the report before submitted on the message of the President vetoing the bill granting a pension to Mary J. Nottage, and which was recommitted by the Senate. The report was adopted by a strictly party vote. Senators Whitthorne, Camden, ana Wilson of Maryland, submitted a minority report, defending the President’s action in the matter. Tne Senate decided to consider the oleomargarine bill, and then refused to refer it to the Finance Committee. The House of Representatives, in considering the fortification appropriation bill, rejected an amendment to increase the item lor sea-coast armament to 83,500,000. The Prince of Monaco and the French Admiralty are perfecting a scheme for determining the direction and force of the Gulf stream by means of* numbered floats, which will be launched at intervals with a request that finders report the time and posi-J tioff of picking them up. hr Germany there are now eijght schools of forestry, where a training of five years is necessaij for students seeking government positions. France supports a s ngle Bchool at Nancy. There is too much talk. Plenty of men are always willing to fight an army two miles off, but few of them can be depended on to attack or vanquish anything at close range. Praise is what we generally get for doing that which ought to mortify ns. A really goc*l deed is seldom recognized even by common civility. A man may have a very good know ledge of the world, and yet fail because he has too poor an opinion of his chances in it.