Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1887 — Page 2

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

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

TMK BANT, is Allegheny City, Pa., a grocery borne lb deployed by Are and two men were suffocated in the burning building, end two otbera were fatally injured by jumping bom window*. * A collapse of pillars In a colliery at Ashland, Pa., resulted in a fall of coal, accompanied by a volume of gas. Fire men and six males were suffocated.... The Holton Dyeing, Printing and Blenching Company's mills, at Broxdale, near New York City, were damaged by explosions and by Are to the extent of $130,000. A LAD named Defreitus, who recently leaped from the Brooklyn bridge, was sent to prison for three months. Jakes N. Taggart, paying teller of the Union Trust Company at Philadelphia, who disappeared about April 18, proves to have embezzled SIOO,OOO of the company's funds.. . .By the great floods in the Kennebec River in Maine millions of feel of lumber were swept into the sea.

THE WENT.

The Illinois Grand Lodge A. 0. U. W. elected George M. Hitt, of Murphysboro, Grand Master Workman, and C. R. Matson. of Chicago, Grand Overseer, and decided to hold the next meeting at Springfield. .. The Wabash roundhouse, containing fourteen engines, was burned at Des Moines. lowa. Loss, $75,000. The estimates of the Cincinnati PriceCurrent indicate that the winter hog-pack-ing of the wjsole West was slightly larger than that of a year previonsly, but that the summer packing will show a decrease of some 10 per cent. The work of the eight * months ending with next October promises to reach a total *of about 5,000.000 hogs, against 5,644,000 for the corresponding time in 1886. The Governor of Montana has issued an order against the bringing of cattle to that Territory from the Eastern States... .Kankakee, 111., was visited by a fire, which destroyed many bnildings and did damage to the extent of about $50,000... .Afterboring to a depth of 1,136 feet at Lafayette, Ind., for natural gas, a strong vein of salt water was found, and the enterprise was abandoned A westbound passenger train on the Union Pacific was derailed four miles east of Sterling, D. T-, and six coaches were wrecked, one passenger killed and twentyfive injured... .The Murray Iron Works at Burlington, lowa, were -destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $40,000 and throwing 125 men out of employment. The works will be rebuilt at once. ...Alexander Mitchell's will has been filed in the Probate Court in Milwaukee. The bulk of the great estate goes to his son, John L„ with large bequests to his other relatives in this country... .R. Porter Ashe, the well-known turfman, seized his 11-year-old daughter on the streets of Los Angeles, Cal., and conveyed her to a hotel, from which she was afterward taken on a writ of habeas corpus sued out by Mrs. Ashe, who has recently separated from her husband. The child will remain in the custody of an officer pending a decision of the habeas corpus case. Mrs. Asho is a niece of Charles Crocker, the Central Pacific magnate.

THE SOUTH.

A monument to the memory of John C. Calhoun was unveiled at Charleston by thirty-two young ladies. There was on imposing military and civic procession. Secretary Lamar was the orator of the day....At Longview, Texas, Caleb Foster, a negro, went crazy and dashed his threef ear-old child’s brains out against a tree, le then ran into the woods with the dead body, where he was captured. NVhen found he was rending the child's body with his teeth, spitting flesh on to the ground, and all the time jabbering to himself: Three days afterward he regained his reason and asked for his child. A strict investigation showed conclusively that he retained no remembrance of the awful tragedy in which he had been the chief actor. James H. Marcum was hanged at Louisa, Ky., for the murder of his cousin, Fisher Marcum. While on the scaffold he shook hands with those around him. and smiled when the black cap was slipjted over his h^ad. Texas continues to suffer from the almost unprecedented drought A Galveston dispatch says: “The.drought of last year and that of the present season are unparalleled. In extreme northwest Texas and in the extreme southwest there have been rains of late that will prove of incalculable benefit to tLe cattle districts, but the agricultural districts, pure and simple, except, perhaps, in a limited area in northern Texas, are suffering seriously for want of rain. In all that belt of country between San Antonio and Austin, from'Austin to Waco, from Waco to Bremond, and down the Central Railioad to Houston, and in the circumference described by this geographical circle, the crops of oate and small grain are almost a total failure, while com that should be well advanced and vigorous is seriously wilted and in bad condit on at tie roots.. .TLe bodies of three negroes, named Sylvester, were found hanging to. a tree near Proctor. W. Ya., bearing a placard, “Nigger thievery must be broken up.”

WASHINGTON.

The articles presented to General Grant -; on his tottr of the world are now being placed otr exhibition at the National Museum in Washington. The collection of i Japanese gold coins is alone valued at i $5,000. There is something of a sensation in naval circles over the reported pmpose of the British Government to make a demand that the United States Government assume the portion of the debt of Virginia held bv 1 British capitalists. The report <is given plausibility by the fact that Sir Edward Thornton, lor many years' British • Minister at is servings as .Chairman of the British com- j mitlee now at Bichmond conferring with a joint committee of tbe Viiginia Legislature. .. .Daring April 399 pension certificates were issued by the Pension Office, the } largest number issned in any one month in tfcalmlory of the bureau. . Advices from Washington announce that Secretary Lamar and the President are in accord on the land question.

POLITICAL.

Mr. Bo aim?, t after remaining ihfiChicago -sor a week, left last ° week for his Maine

borne, where he will remain until be sails for Europe in June. Hit health is much unproved since his srrival in Chicago..... A bill prohibiting the playing of baae-ball on Sunday was defeated in the Illinois House of Representatives. After three days of trial and argument by six counsel, the Michigan House of Representatives, by a vote of 83 to 11, found Milo H. Dakin. Representative from Saginaw County, guilty of corruptly soliciting money to pass the Saginaw charter bill, intending to convert the money to his own nee and profit. By a unanimous vote they found him guilty of making a list of the members, with figures abowing the amount to be paid to each for seeming the passage of the Saginaw charter bill, and by a unanimous vote he whs expelled. A new liquor law has been presented in the Michigan Legislature, its provisions being very stringent. No distinction is made in the tax for vending malt or alcoholic liqnors. The tax is fixed at $50(1, and saloona are required to close at 9 p. m. It is said the bill will probably pass. Thf. New York Senate has passed a bill providing for high license throughout the State. It was framed to meet the objections of Governor Hill to the bill recently passed. i

THE RAILWAYS.

There is good authority for the statement that the Rock Island Road has decided to extend to Denver in an air-line from Horton, Kas., passing through the county seat of each county in the northern tier of Kansas.

The Pacific Railway Commission, sitting at Washington, has been investigating the workings of the Union and Central Pacific roads during the past week. C. P. Huntington gave some interesting testimony. Among other things he said that the company's lawyer in Washington was paid $20,000 a year salary, and was allowed $30,000 to $40,000 to “explain” the advantages to thee public to be derived from the approval of the Central Pacific schemes in Washington. Charles Francis Adams testified in regard to the management of the Union Pacific Company for the past three years. He expressed the belief, from careful scrutiny, that Jay Gould and Sidney Dillon had always been more than fair to the company. He reported the taxes annually paid bv the road at $1,100,000. The Merchants and Manufacturers’ Exchange of Detroit requested the Michigan Central Road to issue thousand-mile tickets to commercial travelers at the Old rate of S2O, at which price they are now sold by the Grand Trunk. One member suggested the sale of five thousand-mile tickets at SIOO, which would only be taken by commercial houses. President Ledyard offered to make a test case at the expense of the road, and ascertain if traveling salesmen can be favored.

A railroad war is predicted from the refusal of the Pennsylvania Road to sell tickets to the accredited agents of the Western lines. It is said that the latter will retaliate by legal proceedings to compel the trunk lines to show cause why they should not furnish tickets. .. .Jay Gould has purchased 166 acres of land just south of Carondelet Park, St. Louis, on which to flace the machine-shops of the Missouri acitic and Iron Mountain Roads.

INTERSTATE COMMISSION.

A memorial was rewived by the Interstate Commerce Commission, sitting at Atlanta, from .business men of Opelika, Ala., showing how railroads discriminated against that town m favor of Columbus and Montgomery. Judge ~ Chisholm, counsel of the plant system, and Gen. Alexander, of the Georgia Central, made arguments favoring the suspension of the long-and-short-haul clause. A petition was received from the Wilmington (N. C.) Chamber of Commerce and Produce Exchange, strongly urging the enforcement of the long and short haul sect.on. The Commission left for Mobile on the 28th nit. Secretary Mosely received at Washington a numerously signed petition from citizens of California, requesting the Commission not to suspend the operation of section 4 of the interstate commerce law, so far as the commerce of the Pacific coast is concerned, until an opportunity be afforded all persons interested to be heard... commit-" nicatibn from the. Chamber of Commerce of Tacoma, Washington Territory, was also received, asking that transcontinental lines be exempted from the ■ fourth section. It represents that since the interstate commerce law went into effect the rates between New York, Chicago, and Pacific coast points show an increase of lllti per cent., and in some classes of goods nearly 200 per cent The Sisters of St. Joseph, at St.-Louis, have received a letter from Judge Cooley in answer to one requesting that the interstate Commission be authorized to give the Sisters reduced rates of fare. The letter says the commission can make no order in this matter, as the railroads are empowered by the law to determine their own policy in the matter. The Interstate Commerce Commission began its sessions in the Council Chamber of the City Hall, at Atlanta, Ga.. on the 27th nit. The Commission expressed a desire to bear from the railways, and a list of witnesses was given. The first witness examined was Charles A. Sindall, Secretary of the Southern Railway and Steamship Association. He gave minute explanations of how rates are made and maintained by railroads and water lines. He was crossexamined at great length by Judge Cooley, Commissioners Walker and Bragg. T. M, Emerson, of the Atlantic Coast Line, and W. P. Sheltnan of the Georgia Central Railroad were also examined on the J same points at great length. Mr. Ogden,.of the : Southern Railway and Steamship Association, testified touching the difference be- • tween water rates and land rates. He said that, to a great extent, water rates eontrolled the rates of the railroads. He i showed how rates on certain classes of i freight would be affected if long and j short hauls should be enforced. Sol Haas, ■of Richmond. Va., agent of the associated roads of Virginia and the Carolines, testified that rates on his lines were controlled by the trunk Hues and water ; routes; the only complaint had been front [ competitive points. J. M. Culp, of the I Louisville and Nashville Road, said that rates from the West to the South were : controlled by ocean competition. The irates 4».vMieax^-Southern"CtttgarweTe

j affected by water competition. Gol. S. A. ! Pierce, President of the Columbia (S. C.i I Board of Trade, read a memorial from , that body 6e:ting iorth tbe serious . damage that would result to the farming 1 community and shipping in marketing ttieir commodities if the fourth section were About a dozen other citizens presented similar memorials. A largenumber of colored men petitioned for the enforcement of their right to equal accommodations on the railroads. Telegrams were received from the Cotton Exchange and Board of Trade of Savannah asking that Sec. 4 be enforced, A Washington dispatch says “the Commission’s corre-

j tpondepce in increasing very fast, and See- ; retary Mosely now has a forpe of five clerks ; and a messenger bard at work classifying it and answering such as can be answer-d | in accordance with decisions already made. ’* Before the Interstate Commerce Com--1 mission, at Mobile, on the 211th ult.. Col. W. Bntler Dnncan. President; U. 8. Depew, Traffic Manager, and Gol. Talcott, Vice President at the Mobile A Ohio Road, testified as to tjie necessity of a suspension of the fourth section of the law in the case of that road. Mr. Depew explained that the rates to some intermediate points be- ; tween East Bt. Louis and Mobile were creator than the full distance because the competition of the Mississippi River to New Orleans compelled it The Commissioners were informed that Memphis controlled the rates at competitive points by her low all-rail route to New York. Petitions for a suspension of the fourth section were presented from the coal and lumber interests from Mobile, Huntsville, and other towns. Louisiana planters, in convention at New Orleans, declared in favor of the strict enforcement of the law. The Union Pacific Railroad has asked for the suspension of Section 4. Jamkh Bai'Ron, Secretary and Treasurer of the Tennessee-Alabama Coal, Iron, and Railroad Company, testified before the Interstate Commerce Commission at-'Mo-bile that his company had $16,000,000 inyested in lands aud property. The business of the company had grown and expanded under the effect of low rates so that before the interstate law went into effect the pig-iron products of Alabama were 600 tons per day. All this output had to seek distant markets. Since the law went into effect the daily sales had fallen so 100 tons, mostly for shipment by water. Petitions for a suspension o? section 4 were received from Birmingham#iron men and from representatives of the Southern Yel-low-Pine Lumber Manufacturers’ Association. A protest against the suspension of the law was presented from the Mobile Cotton'Exchange. The Commission then proceeded to New Orleans.

GENERAL.

A resolution against the Irish coercion bill was passed in the Dominion House of Commons.... A banquet was given at Pittsburgh, Pa., Wednesday night, in honor of Gen. Grant’s 65th birthday. Many prominent people were present... .Crop reports received at Toledo from every important wheat county in the six principal winter-wheat States show that the present prospect of the growing crop is very favorable except in Ohio, which averages only fair. Michigan needs rain. Missouri, Indiana, Illinois, and Kansas report a better prospect than a year ago. All States except Michigan have had plenty of rain recently, and show material improvement since the April Agricultural Bureau reports were gathered. The acreage is about the same as last year. The best crop promises to be well marketed. Michigan reports a quarter of the crop remaining, but Kansas and Missouri have very little of it on hand. The Mulattos mine in Mexico has been purchased for £660,000 by an English syndicate. There are 15,000,000 tons,of ore in sight, assaying sl6 to $26 per ton... .There was a total of 191 failures in the United States and Canada the last week, against 199 for the preceding week and 207 for the corresponding week last year. A hurricane swept over the northeast coast of Australia the 22d of April. The pearl-fishing fleet, numbering 400 boats, was destroyed, and 550 persons perished. ....During a gale on the North Atlantic coast, boats in charge of lobster fishers off Tusket Island, New Hampshire, were capsized, and six men perished. Many others had marvelous escapes.... The steamer Benton, of Singapore, was sunk in collision with a bark off the island of Formosa, and 150 persons Were drowned. ... The schooner Flying Scud was recently lost off the coart of Alaska, with the owner, Captain, and fourteen native hunters.

Members of the Canadian Parliament are endeavoring to secure from the government some indication of the policy to be pursued this season by the Americans in regard to the Behring sea seal fisheries. A rival telegraph company has astonished the Western Union by announcing a rate of $1 for ten words between New York and San Francisco, which is a cut of 33 per cent. A reduced rate was also made on money orders.'.. .The Schooner Louie O'Neill went to the bottom of Lake Erie after colliding with the schooner Thomas L. Parker. Every member of the crew perished with her.

FOREIGN.

A satisfactory adjustment of the Franco-German difficulty over the arrest of the French Commissnrv Schiiaebels is deemed probable.. .. Customs officers throughout Great Britain and Ireland have received stringent orders to search all vessels arriving from America. China, and the East, the English Government having been warned that explosives have been sent from San Francisco to ports in the East, to be transhipped to England. Mr. Gladstone and wife visited tho grounds of the American Exhibition in London, and witnessed a special .perform-, nhce of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show for their benefit. ’At a lunch given afterward by the managers of the exhibition, Mr. Gladstone, replying to a toast, said the institutions and progress of the United States' had been subjects of great interest to him ever since he studied life in Washington many years ago- He always referred students who desired to 6tudy political life to the early history of America. Then, saying that Englishman and Americans were kinsmen and should have affection for each other, he concluded: “I rejoice that the clouds which once obscured our mutual vision have almost vanished ' from our political sky, and that the future is bright and promising as the warmesthearted among us could desire.” Mr. Lahovchere has with characteristic courage turned the tables on the London Times in the matter of the alleged Parnell letter. In an address to a London meeting a few evenings ago he declared that the Times published the Parnell letter knowing it to be a forgery, in order to create a sensation, and thus improve its circulation, which has been rapidly falling off. He al6o charged that the Times management bonght the forged letter from a worthless scamp, knowing him to be such, and knowing also that he could have no connection with Irish societies or with Mr. Parnell. At the conclusion of these charges Mr. Laboucbere invited the proprietors of the Times to sue him for libel. The invitation will not be accepted. To do so would force the Times to explain how it obtained the now notorious letter, and from whom. AS uneasy feeling prevails in Europe, owing to the att tude of Germany and France. The Budget Committee of the Reichstag has ad >pted the Governm nt estimates lor ineieasing the efficiency of the army, under ih« conviction that a collision with France ean-

not long be postponed. Bismarck will demand that France abstain from intriguing in Alsace-Lorraine, while Gen-’ eral Boulanger, French Minister of War, has issued a letter as an appendix to a pamphlet entitled “The Next FrancoGerman Battle.”... .M. Schaebeles, who was released from prison by the Germans, received an'ovation on reaching French territory.. . .The trouble between France and the Congo Free State regarding territorial boundary lines has been satisfactor.ly settled... .William O’Brien, the Irish - patriot, is on his wav to Canada to denounce the tyranny and dnplicity of Lord Lansdowne.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

The following ia a recapitulation of the public debt statement issued on the 2d inst. by the United States Treasurer: INTF.HKHT.-B FADING DEBT. Bonds at 4'* percent. 8 250.000,000 Bonds at 4 per cent 737,707,510 Bonds at 3 per cent 28,079,950 Refunding certificates at 4 i>er cent. 177,750 Navy pension fund at 3 per cent.... 14,000,000 Pacific Railroad bonds at 6 percent. 04,023,512 Principal .*1,004,678,712 Interest ?.. v .. 8,780,652 Total.. .V '*1,103,450,308 Debt on wrich interest has ceased since . MATURITY. Principal *6,310,715 Interest 193,301 T0ta1..... *0,504,013 DEBT BEARINU NO INTEREST. Old demand and legal-tender notes *340,738,183 Certificates of deposit. 6,350,039 Gold certificates..: 04,434,48) Silver certificates 137,74 i,430 Fractional currency (less 58,475,934 estimated as lost or destroyed)... 0,048,172 Principal *501,211,573 TOTAL DEBT, Principal....... ?1,693,201,0J0 Interest (■.O/a.OoO Total *1,704,174.057 Less cash items available for reduction of the debt S 204.118.450 Less reserve held for redemption of United States notes 103,000,000 Total 304,118,459 Total debt less available cdsli Items ..... .......1,340,050,498 Net cash in.the Treasury. 34,810,036 Debt leSicash in Treasury May i, IMS/..- V— ........81,325,179,459“ Debt less cash in Treasury'April 1, 188/ 1 1,318,223,/5i Decrease of debt during the inontn * 13,033,038 CASH IN THE TREASURY AVAILABLE FOR REDUCTION OF PUBLIC DEBT. Gold held for gold certihcates actually outstanuing *04,434,485 Silver held forsilvor certificates actually outstanding 137,740,430 U. S. notes held for certificates of deposit actually outstanding 8,350,000 Cash hel l for matured debt and interest. unpaid [ 15,284,072 Cash held for bonds called not matured and balance of interest..,.. 8,305,950 Fractional currency y,922 Total available *264,118,459 RESERVE FUND. Held for redemption of U. S. notes, acts January 14, 187.3, and Julv 12,1882......' * 100,000,0J0 Unavailable for reduction of debt : Fractional silver coin... .*20,801,070 Minor coin 113.532 Total * 27,028,658 Certificates held as cash 34,072,743 Net cash balance on hand 3i, 880,038

■Total cash in Treasury as shown by the Treasurer s general account. .8 461,10 \896 Cholera is disappearing in Chili, and the blockade to commerce is about to be raised Chicago elevators aud vessels contain 14.0a9,9UJ bushelsof wheat, 9,012,645 bushels of com, 1,495,866 bushels of oats, 137,120 bushels of rye, and 51,141 bushels of barley; total, 24,786,(384 bushels of all kinds of grain, against 16,026,609 bushels a veaT ago. .. .The supply of all kinds of grain in sight in this country was decreased lasi week 2,517,703 bushels. In wheat the decrease amounted to 1,364.147 bushels, and in corn to 566,147 bushels. The visible supply of wheat is 47,313,476 bushels, aud of corn 18,650,550 bushels. The explosion of a steam-pipe on a towboat at Pittsburgh caused the loss of one life and the fatal injury of two other persons. .. .The burn ng of a breaker of the Lehigh and Wilkesbane Coal Company, at Sugar Notch, Pa., caused a loss of $60,000.

Three eases of genuine leprosy and three “suspicious” cases exist in St. Martin's Parish, Louisiana. Two suspicious cases are reported at New Orleans... .Fire at Louisville burned elevators, warehouses, freight care, and other property, the total loss being $250,000. A general strike of New York cigarmakers was inaugurated last week....A lockout has been inaugurated in the Cincinnati shoe factories. A strike of Chicago hodenrriers also took place. Fire totally destroyed the immenseplant of the Chicago Bridge Company, at Chicago. Th&ioss is $400,000. Two firemen were seriously injured by a falling crane. Four hundred men were thrown out of employment. ®

THE MARKETS.

NEW YOUK'. Cattle $ 5.00 $ 5.75 Hogs 5.50 6.00 Wheat—No. 1 White ,93%@ ,97Ja No. 2 1ied............... .94, i<S .95 * Corn—No. 2 48 V<4 .51 Oai s—White. ~.: . .38 '<3l .42 Dork—New Mess 14.75 (<<,15.25 CHICAGO. * Cattle—Choice to Prime Steers 5.00 & 5.50 Goo t Shipping... ... 4.50 <<( 5.00 Common 4.00 a* 4.5 J Hogs—Shipping Grade 5......... 5.25 ft? 5.75 Flour—Winter Wlieat A. 25 (81 4.50 Wheat—No. 2 Spring.: B)V<3 .81V CpRN—No. 2 37 ~«Ji .38 * Oats—No. 2 26 (3 .27 Bitter—Choice Creamery .21 «$■ .23 Pine Dairy .18 (3 .21 Cheese—Full Cream. Cheddar. . «i ,14<4 Full Cream, new...„ . .jgSpjy .14 y Eggs—Fresh JoV<« ,11V Potato!s—Choice, per bu 75 * 3 .80 * Pork—Mess 22. 1 a<n 23.25 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—Cash .78 ,«■ .79 .CORN—No. 3 ................... .. .38 & ,38’j Oats—No. 2 White .30 «« .31 RYE—No. 1, , .59 (<4,.8l Pork -Mess 15.25 (5 15.75 ■' TOLEDO. IVheat—Lake Sboro. @ .85 Corn—No. gt, .41 Oats 28 .30 * DETROIT. Beef Cattle 4.25 5.00 H <Gs 4.00 5.00 mem? 4.5 j Jt 5.15 Whra r—No. 2 Rad .... -T .BIV '<< .84 Corn—No. 2..(.v5. ;.. —;-r ;41%3 .42*4' Oats-White : 32V >* .33 SI. LOUIS Wheat—No.2;.... .82- .81 Corn—Mixed 35t .30v. Oats—Mixed 28 *<3 .29 Pw-K-New Mess w CT ,'.v"v T yiV 0 < d >NCINNA ' rl ‘ A, i t U|L Corn- No. 2 .42 id, !43 * Oats —No. 2 .30% 3 .81% Pork —Mesa IC.OJ d< 16,50 Live Hogs .!..... 5.00 & 5.75 BUFFALO. - Wheat—No. 1 Hard 88v>>;<® 89V Corn—No, 2 Ye110w.,., .43%5i .44% Cattle 4.25 44 4.75 „ - INDIANAPOLIS. ; HKEI' Cattle. ~. ....... -r- .... 375 41 5.25 Hogs . .. ............ 5.03 44 5,75 Sheep 3.50 *1 4.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red......T“.. .8.) & .80JJ* Corn—No. 2........... .38 <3 .39 OAS*—M rxed ........ 28 4# 29 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Best ~..vr~3.0<) »t 5.23 y Fair,,., ..... 4.50 # 5.(0 Common 4.35 4.5> Hogs 5.75 <3 6.25

THE MITCHELL FUNERAL.

One of the Largest That Ever Took Place in the City of Milwaukee. Impressive Services by the Clergy at the Church and the Pilgrimage to the Grave. . [Milwaukee special.] , The funeral of Alexander Mitchell was the largest ever witnessed in Milwaukee. It took place from St. James Episcopal Church. Before removing the casket from the house, Rev. Dr. Keene read a prayer in the presence of the family. The scene at the church was in accordance with the beautiful ritual of the Episcopal Church, of which Mr. Mitchell was a devoted member. About all of the seats in the church were reserved for the relatives and friends, for the Governor and staff, the State and city officials and delegations of societies, commerce and railroad bodies and delegations. The casket was opened, and the remains lay in state until the hour of the fnnerah A constant stream of people had been

passing through the church, and during the forenoon thousands viewed the remains. The face of the dead man looked lifelike aod natural, and there were many sad scenes and incidents during the day as old friends looked at the dead man for the last time. The casket was heavily draped, and on its lid rested a cross of eaila lilies. A special train from Chicago brotight hundreds of people, many of whom could not get near the church. During the service the broad avenue was blocked with a dense mass of humanity that had gathered to pay their last respects to the dead millionaire and citizen. Hundreds of strangers from over the Northwest and from other parts of the country were present. The service was impressivelv conducted by Rev. Dr. Keene, Mr. Mitchell’s old friend and pastor, and Rev. E. G. Richardson, rector of St. James Church. At its close a vast funeral cortege formed and slowly wended its way to Forest Home. There was no military display, and the long line that followed the remains was made up of railroad and other employes of the big enterprises of which Mr. Mitchell was the head, of old settlers, and of societies in which he had long held membership. As the cortege passed through the Soldiers’ Home a guard of 600 old veterans acted as an escort from one gate to the other. At the grave in Forest Home Cemetery the service was brief, and was conducted entirely by Dr. Keene, and consisted of the committal and a prayer. All flags over the citv were flying at half mast. The stores and shops closed at noon, and during the afternoon business was as entirely suspended as on the Sabbath.

Stories of the I)ea<l Millionaire. [From the Chicago Times.] In 1879 the Democratic State Convention at Madison nominated Mitchell for Governor while he was in London. He sent a cable dispatch positively declining the nomination, but omitted his signature, as is customary, to save expense, when the sender of a cablegram is well known. The enthusiastic Democrats would not accept the dispatch as genuine because he had not signed it. "Jim” Jenkins, the Milwaukee lawyer, was a delegate in the convention. and defended the genuineness of the dispatch by explainng the custom as to cable messages. “Cablegrams cost forty cents a word,” he said, “and we all know Mr. Mitchell’s economical habits waere expense is not necessary. By not signing his name to his dispatch Ije saved eighty cents.” The argument wns conclusive to, the Democrats of the outlying ’Milwaukee wards and of the backwooilß, and the declination was accepted. Yet in political matters, when he took an interest on one side - or the other, Mr. Mitchell was not only generous but lavish of money. He attended a meeting of the Democratic State Central Committee in 1871, when ex-Senator J. R. Doolittle was the Democratic candidate for Governor. “How much money do you expect to raise?” he asked. He was answered by Sat Clark that they ought to Lave about $5,00U. “Give me the pen,” he said, and pulled the Eapet toward him. He signed for $2,500 alf the amount said to be required—and drew bis check for the money. It was about all the money that they had for the campaign. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention at St. Louis in 1876, where Tilden was nominated for President. Doolittle, George B. Smith, Joe Rankin, N. D. Fratt, and others were his colleagues. At the close of the convention their several bills were sent to their parlor, the cost of which (SSOO for the week) was apportioned among them. Ringing the bell as a clerk appeared Mr. Mitchell snid: “Make the bill (he prononreed it “bull,” with a bur in his pronunciation) for the room out to me. It was done, and he drew his check for the whole amount.

His gifts to charity were very numerous, and he even allowed himself occasionally to be bled to a reasonable extent by frauds and deadbeats whom he knew lo be such. He had some worthy pensioners, generally poor Scotchmen, to whom he gave regular gratuities. In church matters and others of a really deserving character, he usually let the begging committee get all that they could raise from others, and then made up the remainder himself. When Mitchell was worth SIOO,OOO or $200,000, and was regarded os a growing Western banker, he made bis first forfiiat visit as a capitalist to the East and went on to Wall street. He was immediately selected as their prey by the wolves of the street. He had determined to try his luck a little in stocks and they found out what his purchase was. They manipulated the stock, working it down, and hung on to it with —(haiacUiistic tenacity!" He was called upon for margns, and kept putting up and putting up. It did not take him long to ‘catch on.’* and he saw what the sharpers were at. He at once drew and rnised enough money to buy at its greatly depressed value every dollar of stock which he had margined for a considerable portion of its price as it then stood.. “Take that, dom ve,” he said mentally and alond to the whole of Wall street! as he bade it good-by.

The stock rebounded with force as tha artificial pressure mu taken off, and the I blacklegs who bad been selling it short to "skin” him saw it advance above the price at which he had made the original purchase, so' that he unloaded at a .profit and they were the loeers. One or two anecdotes that are characteristic of a grimly humorous side of his disposition may be told. Four or five years ago a book-keeper in his bank proved a defaulter. The clerk had a desk near the vault, out of which, by some sleight-of-hand, he had stolen money for years and falsified the books so as to cover it. Exactly how it was done could not be explained, and nobody could tell how much cash he had got away with. The sum stolen was supposed to be hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the thefts had been going on for at least six or seven years before they Were discovered. Mitchell was talking about the weather one day to a friend, and " smiled lightly at the loss. “But,” said he, “there’s my nephew, John Johnston, who is an expert book-keeper and has charge of the Ikjoks, and he can’t tell how it hap* pened. It s a dom’d good joke on John Johnston (hat he couldn’t see what was going on before his eyes.” The late Chief Justice E. G. Ryan, of Wisconsin, had something of the toady in his disposition while ho was struggling for a livelihood as a needy lawyer. After he became Chief Justice he decided till the cases under the absurd granger laws against the railroads, and the St. Paul line suffered severely. The Chief Justice met the railroad magnate after the decisions were given. “Why, how well you are looking, Mr. Mitchell,” said the Chief Justice, with an affability that at that period he showed to few men. “Yes,” said Mitchell, “I’ve been getting sot (fat] on your decisions.” The sneer cut the great jurist like a knife, and he walked nwav without a word.

BASE-BALL.

President Young Addresses n Letter to the Official Scorers of the National League. * . Attacking the Reserve Rule—President Spalding Unjustly Oensured-rNotes of the Game. Attacking the Reserve Rule. The unwarranted attacks of certain papers upon President Spalding, of the Chicago Base-Ball Club, regarding the sale of the releases of players to other clubs has earned the contempt of lovers of fair play, says the Inter Ocean. The reserve rule was the salvation of the professional base-ball clubs that adopted it. The National agreement protects the smallest club in its list'and no matter how good a player they may develop, they are protected against the desertion of the plaver by the offer of a big salary. But for this rule the spirit of rivalry which exists between the professional ball clubs of the country would result in the total disintegration of every professional team at the end of each season, aud the competitive bidding by clubs for ball-players’ services would finally’ result in extravagant salary lists that would bankrupt every club that attempted to stand up under it, and effectually kill the sport professionally. The Cbicagos were the last to sell a release; all the other clubs had sold releases. President Spalding said: “The case of McCormick is peculiar. He, with Glasscock. Briody, npd another, deserted from the league, and, tempted by offers of increased salaries, they all went into Lucas’ club in the Union Association. The Cleveland Club promptly expelled them for their action. The Union Association went to pieces, and these deserters found themselves blacklisted and thrown out of employment. At the personal solicitation of McCormick (who came to me with tears in his eyes, begging me for God’s sake to put him in a way to earn a living), and at the request of Mr. Lucas, I interested myself to seoure the reinstatement of the deserters. They were reinstated. McCormick went to the Providence team, and his habits were so against him that the Providence management wanted to release him to me for S6OO. I bought his release, but not until I had a talk with him, in which he said he wanted (o come to Chicago, and promised me that we should have nothing to complain of on the score of his hubits. Last year his habits were so notorious that we could not endure them, and hence the discipline against which he rebelled. We did it in his interest as well ns our own. I submit whether I have not been McCormick’s friend, and whether be has not good ground for being grateful to the management of the Chicago Club.” .-2 Scoring. President Young, of the Base-Ball League, has addressed the following letter to the official scorers: To the official scorers at the National League Id reviewing the ijew code with a view to ascertaining if there are any points to which the attention of the official scorers should be drawn, I have come upon tho provision crediting a stolen base to a runner whero tho same is Becured through tho assistance of a misplay other than a battery error—an overthrow or fumble, for example. The philosophy of this credit Is perfectly logical. The runner earns a buse by making a daring attempt to secure it, .and, if successful, even though assisted bv an error, deserves tho point. The credits will, of course, he included in your official returns of stolen bases. Wo now come, however, to the point which I desire to emphasize. This quory has been propounded to me : Suppose a player roaches first on a hit, stools second on a fuutlde of the baseman, and is batted home, is the run earned 7 I answer, no. The reason is obvious, but the point should bo carefully borne in mind in filling out the earned-run blank in yonr score Bheets. Earned runs, it Bhould be rbmombered, are not credited to individuals, nor do • they have any particular bearing upon the status of a eftih in making up the average* which constitute the monthly and annual tec-, ords. They arc important! factors, however In gauging the effectiveness of a pitcher, and H is In this light alone that they should beregarded. It is then mmiifestly unfair to charge a pitcher with a run earned off his delivery when bases scoured by fleldinc errors ar3 essential factors in it. Obviously the pitcher can In no way bo responsible for a muff by the basemen or an overthrow by the catcher. In computing earned runs, therefore, yon will scan your scores carefully and omit tallies In which the stolen base assisted by an error is a necessary element.

Around the liases. Murphy, of the Boston team, is (he youngest catcher in the league, being but 19 years old. The new rules have the effect of keeping the catcher under tbe bat the greater port of the game. The St. Louis team got S3,SUO- for its share of the recent games, and the Chicagos took s4,ttoo for their share. The colored league seems to have come to a sudden halt, The interstate commerce bill made lailway travel too expensive for them. The American Association Captains are; St. Luuib, Comiskey; Brooklyn, Swartwood; Louisville, Heeker; Cincinnati, Fennelly; Athletic, Stovey; Metropolitan, Orr; Baltimore, Greenwood; Cleveland, Snyder. The Captains of the League teams for 1887 are: Chicago. Anson, Detroit. Hanlon; New York, Ward; Philadelphia, Irwin; Boston, rxelly; Washington, Farrell; Pittsburg, Brown; Indianapolis, Glasscock. It might be well to cut this out for reference