Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1887 — Page 2

The Republican. RENSSELAER. INDIANA. o. E. MARSHALL. - Pcbushkb

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE BAST. William C. Hioßman, of Boston, hra flod to after swindling capitalists oat of *50,000 by a scheme to manufacture an article called/toagarine” out of common starch. Hickman has rich and influential relatives at Philadelphia. The yachts Dauntless and Coronet started from New York for the transatlantic race. The starting point in the race was Owl’s Head, and the course is to Roche's Point, Queenstown, Ireland. The Dauntless was slightly ahead nR the boats faded from sight... .Tom Rallard, the famous counterfeiter, now serving, a term of thirty years in the Albany penitentiary, is said to be a mental and physical wreck, intent only upon suicide. The funeral of Henry Ward Beecher, at Greenwood Cemetery, New York, was attended by an immense concourse of the deceased's friends and parishioners. Beecher and the other relatives took an affecting farewell as the remains at Plymouth Church. The prayer of Pastor Halliday at the grave was of an unusually touching description. The Will of Mr. Beecher bequeaths his life insurance policy to his widow, the sum to be invested and paid to her in quarterly payments. The remainder of his estate is left to his childxt*n. Fears are entertained that Mrs. Beecher will not long survive her husband. Mr. J. Q. A, Ward, the sculptor, made a very satisfactory cast of the great preacher’s face. , ■

THE WEST.

A SEBlors accident occurred on the Jacksonville and Southwestern Railroad, t between Yirden and Girard, 111., by which 1 two passenger coaches were derailed and tumbled down an embankment about eight feet high, and several persons were ladly hurt. The list of injured is as follows: Senator Elizur Southworth, of Litchfield, severely injured internally, perhaps fatally: Senator L. B. Stephenson, of Shelbyville, bruised; Senator J. J. Higgins, of Duquoiu, bruised; Senator T. L. McGrath, of Mattoon, bruised; Senator R. L. Organ, of Caxini, braised; Representative G. V. E. Fletcher, of St. Elmo, bruised; Representative J. R. Campbell, of McLeansboro, head cut and badly bruised; Miss E. B. Russell, of Carlinrille, hip severely hurt; George Roch, of Girard, face badly cut; L. M. Smith, of Litchfield, severely hurt. Senator Southworth, who was in the smoker, was thrown across the car. He fainted away and had to be handed from the car. After stimulants had been administered he was taken in the baggage-car to his home at Litchfield. It is said that the ■wreck was caused by running at a too high rate of speed. The train on the JacksonviUe Road and one on the Chica:o and Alton Road, which runs parallel with the Jacksonville Road for a distance of four miles, were racing, it is charged. The first act in the investigation of Cook County frauds at Chicago was the seizure of the books and papers of the Commissioners, the Hospital, the Insane Asylum, and the Infirmary. The documents were taken to the Grand Jury r00m... .The customs authorities at Detroit have recovered a loss to the Government of SBO,OOO by the smuggling of opium through British Columbia and Ontario. The drug was usually shipped to California as glassware. B. A. West was arrested and held in $lO,000 bail as a smuggler... .For the year ending with February the only gold and silver mine worked in Michigan yielded $43,153. The funerral of Mrs. Xeebe, wife of one of the condemned anarchists, was made the occasion at Chicago of a formidable demonstration by the followers of the red flag. /Addresses were made by George Schilling and Paul Grottkau. the latter denouncing the aufEbrities for indirectly causing Mrs. Neebe’s death. The Paris commune was eulogized at length, and its leaders treated as the pioneers of a great and good cause. Seward Mott, a Second Lieutenant is the Tenth Cavalry, was killed with a knife by a young Apache chief on the San Carles Reservation.... A grand hunt in Morgan County, Illinois, where 230” men and boys covered an area of fifty miles in circumference, resulted in the death of three foxes.. True bills were returned by the Grand Jury at Morris, IH., against Henry Schwartz anil Newton Watt for th«~niuf3er of" Kellogg Nieholls, the Rock Island express messenger....A jury at tharloUe, Mich., has given judgment against that city for $250 to James Caihcart, a captain in the Salvation Army, who was recently locked up fourteen hours for leading a parade in violation of 'orders by the authorities.... At Des Moines, lowa. Constable Fierce undertook to seize $25,000 worth of liquor in the drug store of Hurlbut. Hess A Co., but was ordered by the eourt to furnish a bond of indemnity, whereupon he decided only to guard the goods until the case is heard by Justice Gaston- Meantime the firm has advertised that if will remove its business from lowa.

THE SOUTH.

Beulah May Moore, aged 17, shot and killed Henry Allen, aged 50, at Memphis, Tenn., sending five bullets into his body. Miss Moore’s father emptied the contents of a double-barreled 6hot gun into Allen's body as he lay wri thing in death. The young woman, who will scon become a mother, alleges that Moore outraged her last June. The boom in real estate at Fort Smith, Ark., has carried farming lands near town from SIOO to SSOO per acre.... In Lawrence County, Ky., Samuel Smith, aged 10, 6hot and killed Stephen Hammond and his wife and.wounded their two children. Smith fled to the mountains, and has not been captured. ' : Col. P. B. Means, an ex-member of the North Carolina Legislature and a prominent politicians entered the Charlotte Times printing office at Concord and cowhided John B. Sherrill, the editor. The Supreme Court of Tennessee hasconfirmed a report by a referee giving Mrs. L. Bonn judgment against a bucket-shop for the full amount lost by her husband iu margin deals.... About thirty thousand acres of land near La Grange, Ky., have been leased by a patty of Cincinnatians, who expect to develop natural gas in large volume. The United States Grand Jury at Austin, Texas, has indicted a dozen or more of the Washington County election intimidaton, all white. Among them is the County Attorney, one Constable, and a County Com-

missioncr. They gave bond in the ram of SI,OOO each.. . .The hanging of Henry Artis, at Goldsboro, N. C., was witnessed by a very large assemblage, the j<»il walls being too low to bide the gallowrt Charles Phelps and Jack Howell, who have beeh at enmity for many years, met near : Sothereet, Ky. l’helpa placed his knife against Howell's breast and remarked. “I’ve a notion to cut yonr heart out." Rowell placed his knife against Phelps’ throat and coolly replied: “Cut away.” i Phelps did cut away, but, unfortunately for him, bis knife-blade broke off at the 1 second thrust. Howell cut Phelps’ throat, inflicting a fatal wound. Howell was not badly injured.

WASHINGTON.

Arranoemexth are being made at the Treasury Department to Bupply tbo demand for small notes, silver certificates, and United • States notes, which is large and increasing daily... The dorks of the Senate and House Committees on Appropriations find that the sums .actually sot aside by Congress aggregate .$247,387,144. Under the Mexican pension law 7,710 claims have been filed. The March report of the National Department of Agriculture of the distribution and consumption of whont and corii shows that 30 per cent, of tlxe crop is still in farmers’ hands. The estimated remainder is (103,000,0(10 bushels. The estimated proportion Lebl for home consumption is 1,377,000,000 bushels, lenving 28M,000,000 for transportation beyond county line's. The proportion of merchantable corn is 80 per cent. The amount of wheat on hand is 27 per cent, of the crop, or about 122,(HH),000, against 107,000,000 last year and 189,000,000 in March, 1885. The proportion held for local consumption is 194,000,000 bushels, and the proportion to be shipped beyond county lines is 203,000,000. The quality of (he crop is unusually good in the principal wheat-growing sections, the average wheat being 58.5 pounds per bushel. Information has reached the Department of State that the cholera has spread through parts of the Chilian Province of Aconcagua and Valparaiso, and is extending along the Ynlley of Aconcagua toward (he sea....D. Lynch Pringle, of South Unrolinn, has been transferred from the position of Consul General and Secretary of the Legation nt Guatemala to that of Consul General at Constantinople. The Secretary of the Interior has decided in the case of the San Francisco survey that since the patent had been issued and accepted by the city the G overnment bad lost all authority over the land in question.... President Cleveland has made a substantial gift to the Hendricks Monument Association ...Minister Manning will be allowed to quietly resign and retire from office.

POLITICAL.

The lower house of the Missouri Legislature defeated by a vote of 68 to 62 the railroad bill which had passed the Senate. The object of the bill was to regulate the operations of railroads within the boundaries of the State, and provide that all rates should be published nnd posted in a conspicuous place; that they should be permanent, and that no rebates should, be allowed to shippers. Ex- Congressman- Feedekii'K, of lowa, hns declared himself out of the race for S.ergeaut-.at-Arms of the next House, as he found Leetiom practically in possession of the field. .. .Charlton H. Way, of Georgia, has been appointed Consul General at St. Petersburg. It is reported that Solicitor Me Che., of the Treasury Department, will be placed at the head of the Interstate .Commerce Commission... . The Massachusetts House of Representatives by a vote of 97 to Si defeated the woman suffrage amendment to the Constitution .. . .Philadelphia telegram: “William M. Siugerly, the proprietor of the Record, a Democratic newspaper, which is bitterly hostile to Congressman Randall, is understood to be at the 1 ottom of the scheme to freeze him out, and James McManes. the most powerful of the local ring of Republican bosses, has said publicly within a few days that he favpred redistricting the city so as to make nil of the districts Republican. It is doubtful whether the scheme will succeed, because it is apt to raise as mftcii opposition from Republicans as from Democrats. The chief article of faith of Pennsylvania Republicans is protection, and the protectionists generally believe that Mr. Randall serves them better than any Republican could. Ninetenths of the manufacturers of Philadelphia would put up money to elect Randall against any new Republican, if Randall’s election was in danger. Local politicians say that at a .Consultation between. Siugerly and William R. Leeds, a local boss and the leader of the Philadelphia Republicans in the Legislature, the scheme to freeze out was formally agreed, upon,, and ’they also say that the scheme will succeed unless Cameron interferes to prevent it. ” The Wisconsion Senate rejected the bill exempting honorably discharged soldiers, sailors, and marines from payment of polltaxes... .Philadelphia telegram: “Mr, Randall says that if the city is redistricted as proposed by bis opponents he will still make the race for Congress, and let the people decide whether he shall represent them or not- It is said that James McMnnes will put John €. Grady in the field against Randall.” The Indiana Supreme Court has denied Senator Green Smith's petition for a rehearing ,in the Lieutenant Governorship case, holding that the Legislature only can 'settle that cpiestion. Geokge Jones, of the New York Times, says he will not support Mr. Blaine if he is ! nominated.. The United Labor party has l nominated a city ticket in St, Louis.

INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

Milwavkee dispatch: “The strike Of the printers iu this city is at an end, the Typographical Union having allowed its members to procure work wherever they can pet it. The blow is a heavy one to the 'union, and it is doubtful if it can hold together under the strain.'’ SIX' HUNDRED men wbo struck for 10 per cent, advance in pay at the . American j AYire Works at Cleveland were paid off and : discharged. Manx of them have_poae to i Altoona, Pa., and the remainder will 'seek i employment elsewhere., , .The strike of ; the Irakemen on-the New York. Pennsyij vania and Ohio Road stopped freight traffic i between Youngstown and Cleveland.... ; Marquette. Mich., dispatch: “The rumor i of a great strike of construction laborers on | the east division of the Duluth, South I Shore and Atlantic Railroad proves true, i All workmen on the Sault branch struck, demanding an advance of from $1.40 to $2. The laborers of the middle division also went out,, striking from sympathy but making no, demand--. The total number out is about five hundred.” THE Staking miners at Peoria, HI., are greatly excited over the arrival of 100 negroes to take their places... There is bo ! change in the silk-dyers’strike at Paterson, jN. J. Ten thousand operatives are as-

fee ted, and the employers refuse to treat with the strikers except as individuals.

THE RAILWAYS.

A Nf.w York dispatch states that the of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad : Company lias passed into the hands of ; Alfred Sullv of Now York. Negotiations w ith President GnrTetthad been in progress ‘ for some time. Tins is the greatest and bids 1 fair to lie the most influential railway deal ; that has taken place in this country witbjn many years. It throws other affairs of tfio sort into the shade. The possibilities of this new control are beyond estimating. Hv the acquirement of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad—the one railway of the lnnd I that lias eter been considered out of I the market—Mr. Hally and his friends become controllers of what is probably the most extensive railway system in the world...i It stretches from New Y’ofk to almost the uttermost portions of the .South and fnr into the . \Vost. It includes the Central Railroad of New Jersey, (lie Philadelphia and Reading system, the Richmond Terminal and Richmond and Danvillo properties, the East Tennessee, Virginia und Georgia lines, the Central Railroad of Georgia, and-now, last o& all, the Raltimore and Ohio. And of all these properties there is to be made one greqt trunk line, with 16.000 miles of track. * A LEAD IN O hank President of New York, in commenting on the importance of the sale of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, said that the railroads represented in the purchasing combination, or in harmony with them, would have control of all the anthracite coal territory of the country. The Illinois Board of Railroad Commissioners has decided that the St. Louis, Alton and Terre Hnute Road must increase its passenger facilities between Benton and Duquoiu, a train to make a round trip each day. President Norman Wii.ei.vms of the Chicago, Santa Fe and California Railway officially announces the appointment of Mr. C. A. Armstrong as Purchasing Agent, his duties to begin at once, and the appointment of Mr. Emmons Blaine as General Freight and Passenger Agent, whose duties will begin April 1.

GENERAL.

James B. Eads, the constiuctor of the St. Louis bridge and the Mississippi jetties, died at Nassau, in ths Bahama Islands, in his sixty-seventh year. From a biographical sketch before us we learn that— Mr. Eats was Lorn in Lawrenceburg, Lad., May *3, 1820, and Lis early education was acquired in tlie schools of Louisville and Cincinnati. Before he had succeeded in mastering the rudiments, however, his father experienced reverses wuich necessitated the boy s withdrawal from school, lo which ho never returned. At a very early age Ue developed a taste for mechanics and a fondness for experimenting with machinery, which afterwards became tho ruling passion of his life. In September, 1833, when only 13 years old, he airived in St. Louis. The steamboat on which his father with his family had embarked to seek a hdme fartner West had burned, and the family Was .destitute. Young Eads sold apples on the streets to contribute something to the support of himself. In 18 tZ he entered into partnership with Case & Nelson, Loat-buiiders, lor the purpose of recovering steamboats and cargoes which had been wrocked, and tlie firm prospered amazingly. In 18 ho submittea to Congress a proposition to keep the Western rivers open for a term of years by removing ail obstructions and keeping the -channels free. The bill embodying bis proposal passed tho House, b.it was defeated in tho Senate. He retired from active business in 1837 on account of ill-health. During the war Mr. Eads received tho contract for building the first seven vessels ot the Mississippi gunboat flotilla. I rom the close of tha war to the time of cohstruction-of tbe great st -Louis bridge Mr,. Eads waaeiigagnd in no. .great, public works. Cpoa that bridge his fame ak an engineer was iirmly established. The bridge project was first conceived’ in 18 k). Various sites, were selected for the bridge, and the project filet with varying fortunes until Mr. Eads beg in to take' an active interest in it in 18.17. In that year ho was elected Euginocr-in-chief of the company then formed. He at on.ee secured the services of Colonel Henry l-Tad and proceeded to develop plans whicli wore subsequently followed when hridge was constructed. It was completed and opened in 1874. In 1875 Mr. Eads began the construction of a system of jetties for increasing tae depth of the water ut tho mouth of the Mississippi under contract with the Government. His plans when proposed were scouted at first by prominent engineers, but proved eminently successful. His , last great project was the Tehuantepeo Ship Canal. The National Department of Agriculture reports that thirty-six per cent of the last com crop anil twenty-seven percent, of the wheat yield are still in farmers’ hands. ... The extraordinary demand for revenue stamps to be used under the oleomargarine law indicates that (here will be a larger production of oleomargarine this year than was anticipated when estimates were last made.... The acting Secretary of the Treasury has receivedabout one hundred letters in answer to his circular inviting suggestions for the better protection of life and property from fire in case of. accidents to railroad cars and steamboats. The increased appropriation Bv Congress to provide arms and equipments for the militia does not become available until July i, but may be regarded in the nature of a permanent annual 4appropriation. The Brotherhood of Professional Baseball Players proposes soon to make some test cases of the alleged unjust fines to which players are subjected by the League and Association... . Gen. McClellan’s papers showrthat on the eve of the failure of Grant & AVard, be und Gen. Grant had arranged to take control ot the Nicaragua canal, project.

FOREIGN.

" Russia has sent secret instructions to all Government Railway Inspectors on the subject of the mobilization and transportation of troops...: It is announced that Russia and Austria have reached an agreement for the settlement of the Balkan troubles. ... A foreman in the torpedo works at Chatham, England, has been dismissed for giving to foreigners, information regarding improvements in naval devices. “Marvelously extensive and rich goldquartz veins,” the dispatches say, have been discovered in the Transvaal goldfields, and which, when fully developed, will prove among the richest in the world. ; The Egyptian Minister of the Interior has resigned in disgrace... .The Stanley expedition for the rel.ef of Emm Bev has arrived at Cape Town... .Christine Nilsson has been marr ed to Count Miranda, and it is reported- that -she- will- retire 11 from the lyric , stage .... The railway being constructed by the Russian government from - the Caspian Sea has reached Charjui, on the River Oxtts... M. de Lesseps. who is now in Berlin, where the Emperor has treated him with-marked Consideration, declares that France is decidedly lh favor of peace.... The Shah of Persia has granted a concession for the erection of a hospital in Teheran under the direction of W. W. Torrence, physician of the American Presbyterian Board Of Missions. Fourteen commissioned, officers who participated in the recent revolt in Bul- . garia were sfept near Rosgrad... .Lytton ! Edward Sothern. tire actor, son of the late E.'A. Sothern, has just died at London..,, . The German Parliamefit paised the | septenate bilk fixing for seven years

the numerical peace effective force of the nrmv at 408,400 men, or one man to eg<h JOO inhabitants according to last year’s census. This is an increase of something over 43.000 men to the standing urm.v. The vote stood—yeas 227, nays 31, and 84 opponents abstained from voting, making the opposition 115 against 227, a singular triumph for Bismarck. An increase of taxation of course must follow this enlargement of the standing army in order-to support it. The war scare appears to have blown bver. France is not going to attack Germany, and Bismarck saya there will be no war unless she does. __

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

The Swiss Federal Council has asked the banks of issue in the Republic to keep on baud specie to as high an amount as possible above the legal miuimum, so as to be constantly prepared against a possible financial panic A dispatch from St. Petersburg says that six studeilts were arrested on the Newski Prospect, near (he Anitchkiu Palace, having in their possession a quantity of explosives. They were awaiting the coming of the Czar, oa his way to the Cathedral, to take part m the anniversary service The Tope announces the creation ot five new Cardinals and the appointment of fourteeu Bishops. The Rock Island Road, through the failure of its negotiations for .the ust V the Kansas Pacific track between Topek .* and Kansas City, is about to construct a line on the north side of the Kaunas River. E. A. Randolph, a talented and energetic colored lawyer of Richmond, is enTTeavoring to organize the negroes of Virginia for the advancement of their industrial interests, with the intention of supporting whichever political party leads in the path of progress. The Congregational ministers of Chicago adopted resolutions highly eulogizing the late Rev. Henry Ward Beecher ai an author, iin orator, a patriot, and a philanthropist. The only objector was Rev. Hemy L. Hammond, who is unable to ignore the Tilton scandal.... An Italian miner, living at Diamond, 111., accepted SSO from the man who had eloped with and married his wife, and permitted the pair to depart lor New Mexico. The deserted husband then gave $lO to a Justice to dismiss the charge of bigamy preferred against his flighty spouse... .Dispatches from Mackinaw City report the ice only a foot thick, and predict that the Straits will open by April 10. The editor of the Omaha Bee has made charges that the Judiciary Committee of the lower house of the Nebraska Legislature has accepted bribes to kill a certain clause in the Omaha charter and to suppress the act making gambling a felony. An investi. gating committee has been appointed.

Revolution in Education.

It is a striking fact, the turning of so many first-rate minds to the subject of education; and a great revolution in scholastic affairs, however gradual, will certainly result from it. No subject ought to be so universally interesting. If.none seem so tedious to us, it may be because our own education was so bad; or that we have reflected so little about it that new suggestions find in our minds no soil to strike root in; or that the complexity and practical difficulties of it® paralyze our faculties; in any ctise, the more reason for spurring ourselves to the study. There is no subject more beset with popular errors, none in which science is more useful, explanatory and suggestive. Not only every professional educator but every father and mother (amateur educators) ought to have some acquaintance with psychology. However absurd this seems, I defend it on the ground that nothing else enables one to interpret the faint and fragmentary recollections of having been one’s self a child: without which how can other children be known, and, if unknown, how trained? At school I often used to wonder whether the masters had ever been to school, they knew so little of what we boys were thinking, feeling, and about to do. I have heard an educated woman say of her baby, squalling of course at six months old, “I believe he knows he’s doing wrong.” Heautomorphism, in default of science, is ever the first resource of explannation, i. e.,we judge of others by ourselves. Discipline without knowledge and therefore without sympathy, an outside wooden machinery, hampering and crushing, is the same in school, in homes, and in prisons. —Popular Science Monthly.

THE MARKETS.

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BEECHER AT REST.

The Sufferings of the Eminent Brooklyn Minister Ended by t > Death. i A Sketch of the Deceased’s Career as Pastor, Author, and Lecturer. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was stricken with apoplexy at his home in Brooklyn on Saturday, March 5, and lingered until the following Tuesday, when death relieved him of his sufferings. During these three days the great preacher lay in a comatose condition, surrounded by tho members of his family and physicians. His faithful wife was by his bedside- almost continuously from the hour he was stricken by the fatal

illness. Dr. Searle made the following statement in regard to the distinguished divine s last hours: “Mr. Beecher began to fail decidedly at 3 o’clock Tuesday morning. His respira--tion was rapid. At 4 o'clock the family was summoned. Death came slowly and stealthily. His respirations gradually became faster and faster until they reached sixty a minute. His pulse was variable and often reached 140. He still remained in the same condition except as to breathing, his eyes closed, and he was entirely unconscious. The motions of the right arm became less irequent, and were finally stopped almost entirely. About 9 o'clock in the morning we could detect the first symptoms of immediate death. His pnlse ran up still higher, flickered, and fluctuated until 9:28, two minutes before his death. His pulse ceased almost entirely at the wrist, being so faint that it could hardly be detected, and then stopped altogether. TLere was a rattle in Lis throat, paiuful to those around him, but unfelt by him owing to the failure of the nerve center of the respiratory organs, together with the failure of the heart's action. His death was ve,ry easy, as painless if not as pleasant as death from suffocation or by drowning is sajd to be.” Tlio Death-bed Scene. [New York telegram.) The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher died at 9:30 o’clock Tuesday, morning surrounded by all the" members of his family except those for’whom distance or sickness made it impossible to reach his bedside. S. V. White and E. A. Seacomb of Plymouth Church and Maj. J. B. Pond were also present when death’s summons came. The family had been summoned to the death bed early in the morning by Dr. Searle, who detected the signs of rapidly approaching dissolution. At about Ba. m. Mr. S. V. White announced to those gathered before the house that the end was very near, and even (hen the sobs of the sorrowing family could be heard all through the house. At 9:30 o’clock Dr. Searle, who had been holding one of Mr. Beecher's hands, said: “Mr. Beecher is no more; he is dead.” It is difficult to describe the scene at this moment. Notwithstanding the fact that his death was looked for, that it had been expected hourly, it seemed to come with such crushing force that the family were completely prostrated with grief. They could not bring themselves to the Ead realization that the kindly voice of the husband, father, and grandfather was forever hushed in death, and that they had only the remembrance of his kind admonitions. Mrs. Beecher, who had borne up so bravely from the first, and who had watched so constantly at the bedside of her dying husband, was utterly broken down, and when supported by her son Harry, as she tottered from the room, looked as if ,it would not be long before she would follow her beloved husband. Tlio House of Sorrow. No crape was hung on the door of Mr. Beecher’s late heme to announce that the great orator was no more. Mr. Beecher had always expressed a dislike of this custom and of the gloom associated with crape in the presence of death. Instead a magnificent wreath of white and red roses and lilies of the valley tied with white satin was hung at the left side of the doorway. Many telegrams of condolence were received by the stricken family,, among them the following: " " “Executive Mansion, I . ~ “Washington, 1) C., March 8. j “Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher : “Accept my heartfelt sympathy in this hour of your bereavement, with the hope that comfort may be vouchsafed from the heavenly source you know so well. “Grover Cleveland.”

Sketch of HU Life. It is half a century ago since Henry Ward Beecher, then boyish-looking and aged 24 years, preached his first sermon, and his maiden effort was delivered “before an ex* tremely orthodox congregation of Presbyterians in a little white frame church at I.awrenceburg, Ind. It is probable that from the first he gave great promise, for, after remaining in Lawrenceburg for only two years, we find him promoted in 1831) to a much better position in Indianapolis, where he remained several years, and where he first attracted national attention. His, Presbyterian beliefs seem to have gradually become weaker during this time, and in 1847, his Indianapolis congregation becoming convinced that he was wandering into forbidden paths and inclined to overturn well-established dogmas, it became necessary that he should find, another and more liberal flock. Plymouth Congregational Church in Brooklyn wanted a pastor, and Mr. Beecher was taken on trial. He pleased the congregation so well that he was soon installed as regular pastor, and from that day to this he and Plymouth Church have been so closely identified with each other that it is impossible almost to think of a time when he was not the regular occupant of its pulpit Mr. Beecher came from one of the most remarkable and most talented American families—the 6ame famk’y which has given us Charles and Edwari '.eecher and Mrs. Harriet Beecher Btow<\ He was the fourth son of the eminent Da Lyman Beecher, and received most of his theological training at Lane Seminary, near Cincinnati, 0., under his father’s eye. He was born at Litchfield, Conn., June 24, 1813, and after attending some public Latin schools en- ~

tered Amherst College, from which he was graduated. It cannot be said that he had the educational advantages of his eldest brother, nor of Charles, who was born two years later, but what he lost in education was more than compensated for t>y hia natural ability and his energy air a stndent. At, any rate he entered the ministry the most scholarly man of tbe three, and from the very first sermon preached by him before the Coagregationalists of Brooklyn to the day of his death he made his power felt, not only in the church to which he beearne attached, but his ideas exerted a wonderful influence upon all other denominations. Mr. Beecher's fame became familiar throughout the length and breadth of the laud in a short time, and the Plymouth Church, which soon became known as “Beecher's church,” was enlarged to accommodate the tremendous crowds which gathered to hear the eloquent preacher. He spoke on all topics of current or national interest; he attacked abuses and criticised politicians; he opened up his battery of satire upon (he institution of slavery, and denounced the American Government Tor not wiping out the great stuiu upon tho nation; took hold of the abolition movement, and invited the slaves - of the South to strike for liberty, declaring that every one of them who entered New York would be protected; ridiculed the slave party in Congress; Called the slaveowners vulgar traders in human flesh, and, in a word, ilid everything within his power to bring down odium upon the South, and to raise the feeling in the North to such a pitch that a clash would be inevitable between the two sections and the slave question finally settled forever. He had no doubt ns to the ability of the North to bring the South to terms, and he looked forward to the inevitable struggle with confidence. Beecher’s name became famous among the abolitionists and obnoxious among the slaveholders. He was admired by half the country and thoroughly hated by the other half. But enemies as well as friends thronged to hear him, and although tho Plymoutti Church had seating capacity for 3,000 persons the aisles were often filled, and hundreds of people stood up in have and galleries during the delivery of what may be appropriately termed his great religio-political lectures. During the years of excitement which preceded the Southern rebellion, and during the rebellion itself, he maintained that slavery must be abolished at any cost. When the war broke out he did perhaps as much as any other man iu tho country to inspire the people with patriotism and enthusiasm, aDd his discourses always contained more politics than religion. After the war he settled down more closely to the discussion of purely religious topics, but now and then he departed from tbe well-worn scriptural paths, and launched off into politics, political and social economy, questions of international law and trade, and, in short, there was scarcely a topic before (he public upon which he did not give his views, whether it concerned the local government of Brooklyn or the claims of the United States against Great Britain. Mr. Beecher had for a number of years been a regular contributor to the columns of religious and family newspapers, and out of one of these connections a scandal arose in 1874 which greatly impaired his iufluence and for a time threatened to destroy it entirely. Mr. BeecHer was a prolific and always an interesting and instructive writer. He began by contributing to the Cincinnati Journal, a religious Weekly, of which he afterward became editor. He was a constant contributor to tbe Independent from the date of its establishment in 1858, and from 1861 to 1863 be was its chief editor. He wrote also for tho Farmer and Gardener, and contributed lo other agricultural newspapers, farming being one of his numerous hobbies. For a number of years be edited and was part proprietor of the Christian Union, which, under bis management, became a valuable property, and he contributed weekly sketches and a novel to Mr. Bonner’s New York Ledger. His principal published works are: “Lectures to Young Men,” “Life Thoughts,” “Sermons on Liberty and' War,” “The Plymouth Collection of Hymns and Tunes,” “Royal Truths,” “Eyes and Ears,” “Star Papers,” “Norwood, a Novel,” and a large number of voluiij.es of “Plymouth Sermons.” His greatest* and most pretentious undertaking was a life of Christ, which was never completed according to contract, and which resulted in a large amount of litigation between himself, his publishers, and their successors. The changes which have come over Mr. Beecher’s theological views during the last ten years are so fresh in the minds of the people that it is not necessary to particularize them here. It is enough to say that he has been ,at times on the very verge of infidelity anti at times in the very core of orthodoxy. His congregation was not a particular one respecting questions of religion. It cared more for the man than the doctrines which he preached. It was a sensational congregation, and it admired him because be satisfied its demands for something at once unique, sensational, and interesting. They are few who can call his doctrines sound, and there are many who will pronounce his teachings pernicious, but he was always assured, no matter how radical or how liberal his views might be, of the support of that portion of the American people who have no settled opinions of their own about religion or a future state. He became popular with a large class by denying tho existence of a hell and making the sinners of his congregation feel as comfortable as possible for the time' being. Mr. Beecher visited Europe thrice, but has never traveled extensively abroad. As a lecturer he was very successful, and accumulated a large fortune in this way alone. He was a man of fine appearance pi early life, but of late years he became rather corpulent and lost considerable of that sprightliness which his congregation so much admired.

HU Desire Was to Continue Preaching. [Bismarck (Dak.) special. When Henry Ward Beecher stopped here on his Northwestern lecture tour three years ago he said in one interview in nnswer to the question as to when he intended retiring from the pulpit and the lecture field: “I intend to preach for fifteen years.for I helieve that a retirement from active work would hasten death.” Be farther stated that in his opinion if his father had not retired when he did he would have lived fifteen years longer. When here Mr. Beecher was accompanied by J. B. Pond, the business manager of the tour, and Pond told many interesting stories of the pranks and evidences of youthful humor of the great divine. Among other things he gave a representative of a Bismarck paper a note written by Mr. Beecher white in Jamestown. Mr. Beecher had been annoyed along his journey by invitations and demands for ffiim to preach, and going into Pond’s room at the hotel in Jamestown he wrote the following: “Dear Sir—You ask me to preach for you. lam a lecturer, not a preacher; you have barked up the wrong tree. I’ll be d—d before I shall preach for you. “J. B. Pond.” The note was written by Mr. Beecher and left on Mr. Pond’s table. . The present style of ladies’ hats is so tall that it is said they are felt on high.