Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1886 — Page 2

The Republican. RENSSELAER. INDIANA. O. E. MARSHALL, - - .. Puihjwwcr

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. A SYNDICATE is being formed' in New York to excavate the Atlantic and Mexican Gulf Canal, on the survey mado by Gen. Q. A. Gillmore. The cut is to commence al the mouth of St. Man’ s River, on the dividing line between Georgia and Florida, run to St. Mark's, on the Gulf of Mexico, and thence to New Orleans by the existing line of waterways, saving 1,200 miles oi dangerous navigation. “Doc" Wilson now declares himself a •on of the barb-wire . millionaire Moen, which fact the latter concealed until 1870, when he experienced religion and made the confession. Since then "Doc” lias received •ome money from Moen, but the Wilson family got more for keeping silence. Wilson’s story was told in the presence of four reputable citizens of Providence, R. 1.: H» stery, »> > n r.‘V.Jv:uS dispatch, it that tie ts the soil of .v i.rst .wife, nnd that ha waa bom a few in n.tln utter the marnnge Moen, bi inc ade icon mid h protea«-dlv hiihtou«l Christian <1 <1 not wish to face the scandal Of such ui early birth for his tir-t-l, th, iu a bargain wu nuule with Jonas Wilson, o! I>nnMsonville, Ct, a stage driver, by which the babe *a« transit rre 1 to the lattor’a care and brought up as a Wilson, ’the boy lived end toiled in the iiniublo sphere to which be says Moen consigned him, and it was not until he was a young man grown that he learned the secret of, his birth. For that secret he was indebted to religious remoigo of his supposed father, Jonas Wilson, who. being on hie death-tied, and nt caring to pass the pirtals with a harden on his aoi.l. drew the lad toward him and told him who be was. After Wilson died the young follow set off for Worcester to meet his father fare to face. Their first meeting. Wilson »bvi. was exactly aa has been described. He did meet Moen that morning, and alter observing the Signe of wealth and luxury that abounded, he demanded 01 MOen •nine reparation tor the wrong done one who should be the heir to all. M<en at first refused to acknowledge th i lad, and would have driven him forth, but the bov faced bis millionaire parent defiantly, upbraiding him for the wrong done his mother and himself. He said: "I will force you to acknowledge me. and the world shall know you for w hat you are. ” According to Wilson’s story, the Wilsons, who knew the secret of his parentage, seeing •’Poe" had money and knowing it came from Moen, began to urge their claims u]>on him Their ■demands increased, and to satisfy them he had to apply to Moen for money ; and in that way much of the sum received from the banker was ■pent. Wilson snys these demands upon him grew so exorbitant that he became almost impoverished by them. ’ Advices from the coke regions of Pennsylvania are to the effect that 10,(MM) cokers are preparing to strike at the end of the month if the operators do not concede the demands made some time ago... .The proEietors of eight hotels or restaurants in artford were arrested for using oleomargarine on their tables without displaying the placard required by the law of Connecticut Kegarding “Doc” Wilson's story that he is the son of P. L. Moen, the records at Oxford, Mass., show that he was born there Dec. 1. 1853, eleven, months after the death of Mrs. Moen. .... Mrs. George M. Rice, sister of "Doc” 'Wilson, and seventeen years older than the latter, contradicts Doc's'storv that he is the •on of Philip L. Moen. She positively avers that he is her brother, and that he was named after their uncle, Levi Fessenden.... Herman Falkenburg, a tailor in New York, has been held in SI,OOO for tamperin ? with a juror engaged in the case of ex-Alderman McQuade, one of the boodle gang: In the case of the National Soldiers’ Home against Gen. B. F. Butler, the jury nt Bo ton found a verdict for $16,537 against the defendant. Michael J. Hess, a laborer, jumped from the Brooklyn bridge to win a paltry wager of $25. His body struck the water with a splash, which threw it ten feet in the air. When picked up he was conscious, and, sifter Retting well loaded up with whisky, walked home in his wet clothes. . . The will of the late ex-President Arthur, which has just been probated at New York, divides the estate equally between his two children. The estate is estimated at $150,OOO.and is chiefly in stocks, bonds, and other personal property.

THE WEST.

Dr, H. W. Thomas, pastor of the People's Church, of Chicago, is about to appear in a new role, the Chicago Ledger having secured the service of his pen for a series of articles during the coining’year. Readers of that widely circulated paper are to be congratulated upon this distinguished addition to its list of contributors. E.U. Brown, teacher of a school in Boone Township. Harris n County, Ind., dismissed his school a few days ago because three colored children presented themselves as pupils. The latter were assaulted by the white children, and the affair has caused much excitement. The lowa Supreme Court has affirmed the decisions of the lower court in all the saloon cases from Ottumwa, including that of the notorious “Stormy” Jordan. Customs officers in San Francisco found in the coal bunkers of the steamer Rio Janeiro opium valued at $20,000.... Theodore D. Mize, cashier of the Chicago and Minqnk Coal Company, has surrendered all his property to apply on an embezzlement believed to"be sloo,(*otf, and will retain his position ... ,L. B. Frankel A Co., the oldest mining-stock tirm in Virginia City. Nev., failed for $915,000. The creditors include many of the most prominent shareholders in the Comstock mines. Their business was enormous, the receipts being about $50,000 a day- Great excitement was caused in Virginia City by thd suspension, and if the three members of th firm had not got away unpleasant consequences ■night have resulted. John C, Mann, of.-Minneapolis, has commenced, in a Chicago restaurant, the task of eating thirty quail in thirty consecutive days, the wager being SI,OOO. Onlv three successes in this;, line adorn the records. The St. Louis Woman s Christian Temperance Union adopted resolutions condemning the serving of alcoholic liquors at . the recent dinner given by Mrs. Whitney, ■wife of the Secretary of the Naw, to a number of ladies, including Mrs. President Cleveland.... A conference will be held at Columbus, Ohio, with ex-Senator Thurman by other counsel for the Government in the Bell Telephone case as to the next 1.-gil steps to be taken—whether to appeal to the United States Supreme C ourt or commence a suit in the Massachusetts courts... The I cderal Grand Jury came into court at Indianapolis and repotted no indictments in the matter of the local election frauds. Judge Woods plainly indicated that the jury had failed to perform torduty, .. .“Jim” Ctnrmmgs, in hie latest letter to a St. Louis paper, says he is tired of being chased around the country by de-

tectives, and offers to return $25,000 of the stolen money if they let him go in peace ... I'hi- excitement in mining stocks continues in San Francisco, says a dispatch from that city. The laboring classes are taking a hand in the deal, as over $4,000,000 has been withdrawn from the savings banks during the last ten days.... The Detroit Pipe Company's factory was destroyed by fire. Lom, SIOO,OOO. ' St. Lotus has secured the next (National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, provided satisfactory assurances ' can be given that the necessary ucconi.liqdations will be furnished.' Sept. 28. 29, and 30, 1887, was fixed upoh ns the time. I 1 ' ■ ' !

THE SOUTH.

A revj be shock of earthquake disturbed the new dam of the Langley Cotton Works, in South Carolina. The dam gave way 1 Monthly afterhr on, flooding the adjacent country and causing heavy damage to railway tracks and other property. WfilUL riding in the woods near Red ' River, in the Choctaw. Nation, George Traafe came upon four negro-s who had stolen a hog and were cleaning it. To con- ' real their "crime they murdered Traafe. ■ The party were arrested, and one of them confessed the crime. They were taken from the guards who had them in charge, by ,i party of citiz< ns, and without ceremony strung to the nearest trees. Casar Robinson, a negro, was hanged by a mob nt Florence, 8. C.. for assaulting a white woman. A masked mob invaded the town of Bren) am. Texas, at midnight, overpowered the jailer, and took out Shea Felder, Alfred Jones, and Ephraim Jones, three negroes implicated m the killing of Dewees Bolton on the night of election, and lynched them. It was so quickly done that the town was not aroused until morning, when the bodies of the three men were found hanging to a tree. So sTiioxo is the prohibition sentiment in Mobile that the Saloon-keepers have asked the Alabama to-pnss a law for a license of SI,OOO. Rev. Dr. Hawthorne, of Atlanta, is going to Mobile td open the campaign.

WASHINGTON.

A FAC-siMiLEof a $5 greenback, painted on wood, was recently seized by officers of the secret service. The artist protested that there was no violation of the law against counterfeiting,'and that the block was worth SSOO as a work of art. The Solicitor of the Treasury has been asked to decide the question. The following is a recapitulation of the debt statement issued on the Ist inst., cents omitted: INTEREST-BEARING DEBT. Bonds at 4'9 percent....B 250,703,000 Honda at 4 per cent, 73/, 779,KW BtHida at 3 per cent... 71,154,2 0\ Refunding certificates at 4 per cent. 191,733 Navy pension fund at 3 per cent.... 14,’J0.?,0)0 Pacific railroad bonds at 6 per cent. 64,623,513 Principal.....sl,l 7,74‘.i,362 Interest.. 11,193,009 Total.;. ....'.51,149,242,401 DEBT ON WHICH INTEREST HAS CEASED SINCB MATL'UITY. Principal. -.3 9,239,365 1ntere5t.,..........'. 216,497 T0ta1........S 9,5.7,862 DEBT BEARING NO INTEHKST. Old demand aud legal-tender notes. 3 346,738,391 Certificates of deposit 7,025,000 Gold certificates 90 520,633 Silver certificates• Fractional currency Hess 88,3. 5,934 estimated as lost or destroyed)... £,553,702 Principal. ...$ 556,757,543 TOTAL DEBT. Principa1.51,703,796,270 Interest..". 11,711,537 T0ta151,715,527,838 Less cash items available for reduction of the deb:s 221,071,553 Loss reserve held for redemption of United States notes 100,000,030 Total debt, less available cash items $1,391,436,254 Not cash in the Treasury 40,093,536 Debt, Jess cash in Treasury, Dec. 1, 183651,351,342,633 Debt, <ess cash in Treasury, Nov. 1, 1886..;.. 1,354,347,917 Decrease of debt during the monthS 3,005,219 CASH IN THE TREASURY. Available for reduction of debt: Gold held for gold certificates actually outstanding.s 90,523,633 Silver held for silver certificates actually outstanding 105,519,317 United States notes held for certificates of deposit actually outstanding 7,125,003 Cash held for matured debt and interest unpaid... 21,001,932 Fractional currency 4,201 Total available for reduction of the debt..s 224,071,553 Reserve fund held for redemption of United Status notes, acts J an. 14. 1875, and July 12, 1882$ 100,000,003 Unavailable for reduction of the. . " debt: j Fractional silver coin. '.s 25,703,057 Minor coin..s 163,584 Total. S 25,217,6 >1 Certificates hold as cstßhT. 48,885,979 Net cash balance on hand.....v, 50,0.13,536 Total cash in the Treasury as / '■ shown by Treasurer's general account ....;.,S 439,023,740 Washington special: “Congfe'sstnftn Frank Lawler telegraphed in advance to the Willard Hotel: ‘I will lie with you Monday night with my sweet sixteen.' The hotel clerk wondered who the ‘sweet sixteen’ co.ild be. He knew Frank was manitd. but did, not think he could have a daughter of t'mt age. When Mr. Lawler arrived 1 e explained that ‘sweet sixteen’ was the. majoiity by which he pulled through in the election.” Lieut. jGreely has been mad* an assistant to Gen. Hazen, who is in illhealth. V. .The Eresident has promulgated the extradition treaty with Japan, which was ratified after being amended by the Senate last June. i Land-Commissioner Sparks has referred to the Secretary of the Interior for transmittal to Congress the report by Surveyor General Julin. of New Mexico, of his investigation of the private land claim known as Ojo del Amil, involving some 70.0, (i acres. The Commissioner concurs with the Surveyor General in recommending the rejection by Congress of this claim as unfounded and nnmentorious.

POLITICAL.

Green Smith, President pro tern. of the- Indiana State Senate and hold-over Senator fiom Jennings County, has filed ■with the Clerk of the Circuit Court at Indianapolis a petition for an injunction to restrain tlie Secretary of State from transmitting to the «p*>?fe«>»- of tfie House of Kepiesenfiitives the result of .the vote cast for Lieutenant Governor at the tecent election. Senator Smith is a Democrat, and would become the actual presiding officer of the Senate should the courts hold that it was unnecessary to elect -a Lieutenant Governor to fill the vacancy caused by General Manson accepting a Federal position.,..Congressman Lowry, of the Fort Wayne (Ind.» district, has instituted pro-

ceedings to enjoin th# Secretary of State from limning a certificate of election to his successful opponent, Captain White, alleging that he u ineligible on account of not having heen properly naturalised. The books bf the internal revenue office at Atlanta show a recent increase of eighteen in the registeied distilldries of Georgia. They are allowed to sell to the public in ten-gallon packages. In only three coun* ties is the manufacture of liquors prohibited. , The President has appointed the /ollpwing Postmasters: AAt Carrollton, 111., Edward Smith; Albion, Mich., Frank F. Cole; Trenton, Miefi., Eckford Moore] Ipwin, Pa., A. Gant; 'Yonkers, N. Y., Lillian E. Keyes; Hamilton, Ohio, J. E. Lohmam The following appointments have also been made. Charles B. Mor* ton of Maine, to be Conimissoner of Navi ul on ; J. 11. Caidwell of Indiana, to be Deputy Second Auditor of the Treasury; A. E. Lewis of Pennsylvania, to be Deputy Fifth Auditor of the Treasury; Hugh A. Haralson, of' Georgia, to be Deputy Auditor of the Treasury for the Postoffice Department; John McCafferty, to be Collector of Customs for the district of Alaska;' John Cousins, to be Collector of Custopis for the district of Kennebunk. Me.: Ernest A. Umland, of Minnesota, to be Receiver of Public Moneys nt Taylor's Falls, Minn.; James McNamara, of Illinois, to be Indian Agent at Colorado River, Arizona. The President has made the following appointments: George L. Thompson, to be Collector of Internal Revenue for the Tenth District of Ohio; Francis B. Lawrenson and Thaddeus 8. Shawatts, to be Appraisers of Merchandise in the District of Baltimore; Thomas 8. Price, to be Assistant Appraiser of Merchandise for the District of New York. Postmasters—Chas. Weaseman, Warsaw, 111.; Patrick H. Carney, Waukesha. Mis.; J. E. Lohman, Hamilton, Ohio; J. W- Smith, Blackburn, Ill.; J. P. Kerr. Dublin, 111.

THE RAILW AYS.

—The Directors of the Union Pacific Road report a surplus of $5,429,000 on the operations of the first nine months of this year. At the close of December the debt of the company will .be $115,270,265, or $25,070 per mile... .The Directors of the Erie Railroad met at New York and reelected the old board of officers. The total net earnings of the road for the year ending Sept. 30 were $7,057,808. It is rumored that within ninety days C. P. Huntington will acquire entrance to Chicago for the Chesapeake and Ohio Road by purchasing control of the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago, or concluding a traffic agreement. _____

GENERAL.

Mme. Patti is engaged to sing fiva nights in January, at the National Theater in the City of Mexico. An alleged agent of Mr. Abbey put in an appearance the other day and begun the sale of seats for the Patti nights at the box-office, the crowd of buyers fairly blocking the adjoining streets. For two days the Sale continued, and on the third day. the alleged agent absconded, taking with him over $20,000, but leaving $4,200 in silver, which he could not handle comfortably. The affair has caused the wildest excitement, and the speculators and other victims keenly mourn their lost dollars. A herd of possibly two hundred head of buffalo is in the bad lands of Dakota, near the headwaters of Beaver and Glendive Creeks. It is thought that Indians drove them down from British soil. ' On her last trip from Antwerp to York the steamer Westernland met with a frightful disaster, involving the death of six men and the infliction of serious injuries to thirteen others. A huge cross-sea was suddenly encountered and it fell with terrific force upon the forward deck of the steamship. The Westernland was then seven days out from Antwerp. The deck was crushed in and buried the unfortunates beneath a mass of wood and iron debris. The next instant the water swept along the gangways of the main deck, carrying several persons with it. The crash was terrific, but before the appalling nature of the accident was realized by the passengers the officers of the ship had all the men, available engaged in the work of rescue. The injured were carried to the intermediate cabin, which was transformed into a hospital. When the Westemland reached New York the injured passengers were transferred to hospitals. An inspection of the vessel afforded some idea of the terrible blows she had received. The crushed deck was known as the forward whaleback. It was constructed of four-inch pine planks resting upon massive iron beams. These iff turn were upheld by three-inch iron rod stanchions. The vast volume of water struck the whaleback about fifteen feet from the stem and crushed in a section twenty-nine feet long at d extending the full width of the steamship. Mr. Duff will devote the third week of his company’s engagement at McVicker’s Theater to Gilbert and Sullivan revivals, says the Chicago XetM. The first three evenings the “Mikado” will be given, with Miss Vernona Jarbeau as Yum-Yuin, Mr. Ryley as Ko-Ko, and others of I the ' cast identified with the ad- | mirable performance of the Japanese opera I given last season by the Duff company. The remainder of the week will be given to a revival of-“lolanthe,” of-<which opera an elaborate production is promised. Miss Jarbeau has introduced into “The Mikado” a new brand of kisses, the noise of which i resembles that made when a cow draws her | foot out of the mud, and which Mr. Duff's : agmt states would cause an “aconite to | forget his vows.” , A dispatch from an Arizona town states that Governor Torres, of Sonora, I has thrown into prison the editors of Mexii can journals published at Guaymas and Hermosillo for opposition to the State Government.

FOREIGN

T. D. Sl'l.l.iVAN has been re-elected Lord Mayor of Dublin.- and a solicitor named O’Keefe was ehosen Mayor of:-Lim-erick. Each has pledged himself to refuse any honors offered during the year by the Queen. M. Rouqvet, Secretary of the Paris Municipal Council, having forwarded to United States Minister McLane the petition adopted by the Council, Nov. 29, asking that Governor Oglesby exercise Executive clemency toward the condemned Chichago Anarchists, Mr. McLane calls atten- : tion to the fact that the petition would be much more efficacious if addressed direct to the Executive of Illinois, but consents : to transmit the same as desired. It is reported that the French steamship • Chandernagore, with 1,200 French troops : on board, foundered during a cyclone near Algiers, and that ell hands were 105 t.... Spain has induced Bismarck to abandon his proposal to establish a naval station at the Caroline Islands.... A colliery explosion

in Durham, England, killed thirty miners. The corporation of Dublin adopted resolutions denouncing the conduct of the Government in prohibiting the National League meetings at Sligo and elsewhere. Lord Mayor Sullivan and Mr. Sexton delivered addresses. None of the Conservative members of the corporation were present. The Piincess of Wales has just completed her forty-second year. Emperor William of Gennanveelebrateson Jan.il the eightieth anniversary'of his entry into the German army.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

The South is experiencing unusually severe winter weather. Last week show fell continuously for over sixty hours in North Carolina anil Virginia. At Asheville, N. C., “the beautiful” was twenty-seven inches deep on a level. The roofs of the Asheville Tola ;co Works, the Shelton factory, and of Dickson Watson's wholesa.e provision’ house were crushed in, entailing heavy losses. In Virginia the depth of the snow ranged from twelve to twenty inches. In the vicinity, of Columbia, S, C., sleet fell for three days, and the ground was covered wi h ice from three to six inches. The Supreme Court of Missouri has sentenced to boy of sixteen years, named James S; Pay ton, for the murder of n chi d in Christian County.... Congressman William T. Price died at Black River Falls, Was., on the 6th of December, after a protracted and painful illness. William T. Price was born iu Pennsylvania, only 17, 1X24; - was member of the Wisconsin Legislature for several terms; was County Judge of Jameson County iu 1854 and 185'.l; Presidential elector in 18 ?8, and elected to the Forty-eighth, 1 orty-niuth, and Fiftieth Congr ses. Mu. Mi ni’IIV, of lowa, was asked at Washington if the Hennepin Canal people had given up their effort. - . —"Give up llennepin?” he re [ lied, “we give up nothing. Why, a report has been made by the engineers in accordance With the direction of the river and harbor bill, last session, and the report will soon be before Congress, if ttie Government Printer ever gets a chance to print it. There is life in the Hennepin yet.” James McMillan has withdrawn from the United States Senatorial light in Michigan. This, it is said, practically insures the election of Col. Frank B. Stockbridge. E. Price Greenleaf, a miser, of Boston, who died last week, bequeathed $500,000 to Harvard University. GreenlSaf requested that his photograph, taken on his death-bed, be copied in oil, and hung upon the walls of the college. There are in sight 50,558,5:21. bushels of wheat and 11,738,755 bushels of corn. Since last report wheat decreased 13,557 bushels, while corn has increased 310,760 bushels... .The schooner Edith was lost off Miquelon Island, coast of Newfoundland, with a crew of thirteen men. The Porte has issued a circular to the' Powers to the effect that the Sultan assents to the candidacy of Prince Nicholas of Mingrelia for the Bulgarian throne, and invites the Powers to co-operate for a speedy settlement of the Bulgarian question. The galleries of the Senate Chamber were filled with spectators, when, at 12 noon on Monday, Dec. 6, the second session of the Forty-' ninth Congress was opened. The presiding officer, Mr. Sherman, laid before the Senate several of the annual reports of the heads of departments, which were ordered printed. Resolutions were adopted fixing the daily hour of meeting at noon ; informing the House that the Senate was ready to proceed to business, and for the appointment of a committee to wait on the President for the like purpose. Messrs. Ed■nunds and Saulsbury were appointed such committee. The credentials of senator Williams, of California, were presented and the oath of office was administered to him. Several bills were introduced and referred. At 2 o clock the President's message was received and read, shortly after which the Senate adjourned. The House was called to order precisely at noon, 241 members r. spending to their names. On motion of Mr. Morrison, of Illinois, a resolution was adopted directing the Clerk to inform the Senate tnat the House was ready to proceed to business. On motion of Mr. Reagan, of Texas, •. resolution was adopted for the appointment of a committee of three membersto join a similar committee appointed by the Senate to wait upon the President and inform him that Congress was ready to receive any communication he might desire to make. Messrs. Reagan, Breckenridge of Kentucky, and Reed were appointed as such committee. At 12:40 a recess was taken. Upon the reassembling of the House the committee appointed -to wait upon the President announced that it had performed its duty, and that the President would communicate in writing with Congress forthwith. Mr. Pruden, the President’s Assistant Secretary, was then announced, and presented to the House the. President’s annual message. It was immediately read by the Clerk. Shortly afterward the House adjourned.

THE MARKETS.

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DOOMED TO A SLOW DEATH.

The Apaches Not to Be Tried—Changed Conditions Will Exterminate Them. News comes from Florida, Where ths recently captured Apaches are in prison, that Geronimo, the bloodthirsty chief of the band, is suffering from a lung affection that is extremely liable to turn into hasty consumption. In that event nature may solve a problem that the administration is puzzled over. \What to do with Geronimo is a matter that is sorely trying the wits of

GERONIMO.

the high officials at Washington. The people of Arizona are clamoring for his scalp. Under the terms of capitulation it appears that Gen. Miles promised the old fellow his life. Here is where the rub comes. Geronimo is a half-breed Mexican, and is about 50 years old. He was captured and adopted by the’ Mwicaus when a mere child. His health at present is said to be very delicate. , [Washinston special,] The fa‘e of the Indians captured in the Miles campaign is practically settled. It was not decided when they were first sent East whether any of them would be tried lor crimes or not. The President has examined the case very carefully, and has come to the conclusion that life confinement for all of these Indians in Florida, where they can do no harm, will be the most thorough punishment which can be visited upon them. As a matter of fact, the five hundred Indians transferred to Florida have been sentenced to a lingering death. They been brought up in the mountain countries, accustomed to freedom in the pire, cold air of high altitudes. Their confinement in the warm climate of Florida will simply result in their dying off like so many sheep. Experienced army officers do not think that there will be one of them alive at the end of the next' five years.

M'COSH AND ELIOT.

The Presidents of Princeton and Harvard. Presidents McCosh and Eliot, of Princeton and Harvard Colleges, have been brought quite prominently before the public lately, on account of theAinpleasantness growing out of Harvard's 250th anniversary celebration. New Jersey’s famous educator conceived that a grave indignity was inflicted upon him on that occasion, and in a state of dudgeon turned his back

JAMES M’COSH.

upon the University halls long before the conclusion of the -exercises. Correspondence has passed between the two distinguished men of letters, and, so farms public protestations, explanations and apologies go, the trouble has been smoothed over in a manner satisfactory to both. Faithful likenesses of the men are herewith presented. James McCosh, Princeton’s President, is a Scotchman, is 75 years old. and was educated in the famous schools of Glasgow and Edinburgh. Cuarles W. Eliot, President of Harvard University, is a native of Boston, and is

CHARLES W. ELIOT.

now in the fifty-third year of his age. He was prepared for college at the Boston Public La:in School, and graduated (A. B.) at Harvard in 1843. Johnny says he is his mother’s canoe, and she is always able to paddle ih —Merchant Traveller.

SECRETARY WHITNEY’S REPORT.

Th? Co- dltiim of the Navy and Recommendations for Its Improvement. The report of Secretary of the Navy Whi'pey renews Lia former recommendation for a consolidation of the bureaus so as to insure responsibility in the purchase and care of supplies, and says that so far as his power extended he had consolidated in one bureau the general purchases of the department, the care and custody of stores, nnd had created a system of book-keeping by which the responsibility for the carol and disposal or property can be had. To show th it there is nt present no real responsibility for property belonging to the department, the Secretary quo.es from the report of a board appointed by-him to miike an inventory at the different naVy yards mid naval stations. The in venton' shows aif accumulation of stores and supplies aggregating over $20,000,000. nearly $3,000,000 of which is obsolete and useless. Among other items there are 46,566 aiigers and bits, of which 25,274 are at closed yards where no work is likely to ba done. ' The Secretary confesses that the experience of the department in its first attempt to create modern vessels of war has been disappointing. He says: “One characteristic which an unarmored cruiser must po-sees is great speed. This is deteimined by the function which she is expected toperform in modern warfare. She is a ‘commerce destroyer.’ She must be able to escape from iron-clads and outrun, so as to overhaul, merchantmen. If slower than iron-elads she could not keep the sea, and if slower than merchantmen she might as well stay in port. * * * When the Dolphin, Boston, Atlanta, and Chicago were projected and contracts for their construction entered into it was well known what speed ought to be attained, and what weight and character of machinery per ton of displacement was necessary to obtain it. Commercial vessels had at that time attained speed ranging between‘sixteen and nineteen knots, and cruisers were built in other countries attaining the same speed.” The Secretary compares the trial trips of the Dolphin and Atlanta with those of English and French boa's only recently completed, to the disadvantage of the former. The Dolphin was designed for 2,300 indicated horse power, and developed less than 2.300, while the Alacrity and Surprise, English boats of 3,000, developed 3,173 and 3.079 respectively. The Atlanta was designed to attain 3,500 horse power, but her engines develop less than that. • - The report gives the bids and awards of the new cruisers, and says regarding cruiser No. 1, for which no bid was rece ved within the limit set by Congress, that orders had been given to reduce her size to bring it within such limit, $1,100,000. The report treats of armor and guns for monitors and armor clads at great length, and deprecates the fact that this country should be content to be dependent on the manufacturers of other nations for the fabrication of armor and high-powered guns. In this connection the Secretary recommends the appointment of a commission to formulate a scheme of naval construction, and continues: “If Congress should at its next session make provision for the manufacture in this country of armor and of high-powered guns, and should take steps for securing a broader and more intelligent consideration and treatment of the general subject of construction proper to be undertaken, no time in the end will be lost, and mistakes will be avoided. Meanwhilfeitis my duty to call attention to the urgent necessity for immediate action.” _j...„The Secretary says that if the estimate of the Chief Constructor of the Navy is correct, in six years only three of the serviceable cruising vessels now on the list will be left, and, unless a new navy shall be created, there will be none in existence after that lapse of time. Concerning expenditures, the report says: “In the adjustment of accounts for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1886, after paying all liabilities for the year, it is believed there will be an unexpended balance of from $600,000 to $659,000, about one-half, which is for the pay of the navy and the marine corps, showing a total expenditure of about $13,500,000, or upward of $500,000 less than the appropriations. These amounts do not include the expenditures for steel cruisers and the competition of the double-turreted monitors.” The report cites that this is the first time for many years that the expenditures have been kept within the estimates. Secretary Whitney recommends that the naval acadeifiie course be shortened to four years, instead of six, as at present, and also urges that apprentices be admitted to the academv. The remainder of the report is devoted to detailed reports from the heads of the various departments.

HORACE GREELEY.

The Famous Editor Believed the North Should Have Paid lor the Slaves. [Richmond (Va.) special.] The Rev. Dr. William Norwood, a prominent Episcopalian clergyman of this city, was the minister who performed the marriage ceremony on the occasion of the wedding of Horace Greeley, who was then an unknown young man, though giving promise of future prominence. Dr. Norwood was at the time rector of a church in North Carolina, and the future Mrs.. Greeley was a school-teacher living in the same parish. When Mr. Greeley Visited North Carolina on his courting expeditions he and Dr. Norwood struck up an acquaintance which lasted to the close of Greeley’s life. At the end of the war, when Greeley visited Richmond to go on Jefferson Davis’ bail bond," he sought out Dr. Norwood, his old friend, and discussed the late war very earnestly with him, each trying to convince the other. The subject of this debate is made public today by Dr. Norwood. The point which caused their warmest expressions of differing opinion was Dr. Norwood’s assertion that the North' was legally and morally bound to pay the South the full market value of the liberated slaves. Greeley at first treated the proposition as monstrous, finally, however, saying: “I will think over the subject as you have [presented it and see you before I leave Richmond, when I will let you know my conclusion.” * When Mr. Greeley returned later in the day, he said to bis old friend: “Doctor, I have thought it over, and, after weighing the matter calmly, am convinced that the North ought to pay the South for the slaves.” Ebenezer —“And are you sure, Sarah, you don’t love me? I have been persistent, I know, but I wanted your love. Don’t you think you’ll miss me?” Sarah —“I don’t know. I see so much of you that I don’t know whether I’d miss you or not. Give me a fair trial, and stay away a month, won’t you?” Ebenezer (bitterly) —“A month! Might as well call it a year!” Sarah—- “ Well, let’s call.it a year, then.” “ Not exactly the square thing—The “cartwheel” silver dollar. Always attending to the panes of others —A glazier. ■