Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1887 — Page 2

The Republican. RENSSELAER.INDIANA. O. E MABSHALL. - • Pubuswkr.

WORDS BY WIRE.

The Lat'-st News by Telegraph from All Parts of the World. Political Gossip, Railroad Notes Per* tonal Mention, and Occurrences of Lesser Note., LATEST DISPATCHES. DECORATION DAY. It I« Generally Observed Throughout flic Country. '‘Memorial, pay” was very generally observed throughout the country. In Chicago there was an imposing procession, in which about fifteen thousand persons participated. The graves of the Union dead in the several cemeteries were decorated with appropriate ceremonies. At Washington, New York, and other important cities imposing demonstrations were held. At various points in the South the graves of both Union and Confederate soldiers were covered with flowers. A New Aork dispatch says: Early in the day Mrs. Grant stood at the tomb of the hero of Appominattox and, entering, placed her personal token of flowers ujkiu the steel casket within. Though the narrow space was filled with foliage hers was the only offerir* of blooming flow ers. Then Mrs. Grant went away to her hottie, net to be present when the public should come to the services there. The arch of the tomb was covered with white immortelles and purple with these words : "In war a foe. in peace a friend.” From a cross above the arch dei>ended a Grand Army badge of purple and blue immortelles, three feet in length, sent from Chicago. There were offerings from the Viceroy of China, through his Minister here, from the Loyal I egi<n, end many others. Twenty thousand people were there when the services began. The feature of the day in Washington was the special service at the tomb or Gen. John A. Logan in Rock Creek Cemetery. Mrs. Logan, supported by the members of her family, sat under the shallow of the tomb while the Generals eulogies were being pronounced. At Snringfield, 111., Abraham Lincoln’s tomb was beautifully decorated with flowers.

CLEVELAND IN LUCK.

Good Strings of Fish Caught—Trolling for •• Speckled Beauties." President Cleveland rose Monday morning (says a dispatch from Prospect House) and after breakfast went with Col. Lamont and Dr. Rosman down the lake to trull for trout. The President caught one fine large trout More were caught RBSpbthers of the party. After dinner the President and Mrs. Cleveland, Colonel and Mts. Lamont. Dr. and Mrs. Rosman, and Mr. Riddle, of Saranac Inn, drove in buckboards seventeen miles to the Roy Brook House to try brook-trout fishing. The trotyl preserve was opened early to give the President a chance to try the fishing before the fish had seen a fly. Just before sunset the President cast the flies, and when he came in to supper proudly exhibited a catch of handsome speckled trout. The President and Mrs. Cleveland are in excellent health.

SHAKEN AND SHATTERED.

A Cyclone Followed by an Earthquake Shakes Up the Town of Nogales. A NogAJJas (A. T-> dispatch says: There was a pretty severe shock of earthquake here Monday afternoon, which in its severity created much excitement, though no damage was done. Ten minutes afterward there was another shock, but it was very light. In the evening a terrible dry cyclone visited Nogales. It came from the mountains on the east side of the town and swept away a great many Mexican huts and unroofed several more substantial buildings. No one injured. Funeral of the Theater Fire Victims. The services over the remains of the victims recovered from the ruins of the Opera Comique were held in the cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris, on Monday. The editice was tilled with an immense throng, including many distinguished pet sons. Many in the crowd wept audibly. Two hundred thousand persons lined the route to the cemetery. The procession was half a mile long. MM. Goblet and Berthelot delivered orations at the graves. ■- France. The French Cabinet question is still in somewhat of a muddle, says a Paris dispatch. Gen. Saussier has been obliged to surrender the War portfolio and Heredia has retused to Accept the post of Minister of Public Works. President Grevy, so it is said, will close the session of the Chamber of Deputies June 15 in order to avoid the certain defeat of the new Ministry on any important issue. Tariff Reduction; It is ntated that laecretary Fairchild; with the approbation of the President and Cabinet, is engineering a scheme toward securing a reduction of the tariff. The bill is to be made an administration issue in the House, upon which the Democratic party will stand in the next campaign. Three Drunken Miners Drowned. A skiff containing three coal miners named David Jones, David Reese, and lUvid Llewellyn, capsized in the Monopgahela. JKiver: at _ Monongahela... City r F a. and the men were drowned. They were' drunk. It is thought they upset the skiff in trying to boil it. :_TheAJeadlyßotler. Thp.ee persons were killed and about a dozen injured by the explosion of a boiler in a Huntington. West Virginia, elevator. A similar accident at Cortland. New York, caused the loss of thiee lives and serious injury to several persons. Electric Sparks. - William Kissane, the California notoriety, has been found on his ranch, near Sonoma, where papers in the Chemical Bank suit were served upon him. His neighbors are said to be indignant at the mile boat-race at Pullman. 111., between Hanlan and Gaudaur. the latter won. The official time: was 19:30. The race vm rowed almost from the start in a driving rain. The aggregate subscription to the fund for the benefit of Mrs. Logan is $63,000, of which $50,000 has been Invested in government 4 per cents... . The Presbyterian Assembly adjourned its session at Omaha, on Monday to meet in Philadelphia the third Thursday in May of next year.

CURRENT EVENTS.

EAST. A political friend of Dr. McGlynn is credited with saying to a New York -re- z porter: “Dr. McGlynn positively will not go to Rome. He lass made engagements to lecture for thirty-five days of the forty allotted to him in which he must be in Rome. He has all along maintained that he never would go to Rome in disgrace, and he won’t. If it was made possible for him to go as an American citizen, anxious to lay before the Popo the doctrine that the land belongs to the whole people, you could not hold him in. He’d be buying his passage ticket, with his trunks ready packed, and off in the next steamship. In any other wav his journey would be suicide.” ' While the fast train west on the Pennsylvania Railroad was nearing Horse Shoe Bend, on Friday night, the wheel of a car on a freight train going east burst, and the train crashed into two passenger coaches, killing instantly four men and injuring many others. The accident was the worst that has happened for years on the Pennsylvania Road. The killed are as follows: Dal Graham, son of ex-Speaker Graham. Allegheny, Pit.; J. H. Stauffer, of Lewisville, Ohio; Wymer Snyder, a onelegged man, of Shamokin, Pa.; John Dorris, a newsboy, of East Liberty, Pa.; Frank McCue, of New York. A fire in the Belt Line stables at New York Friday morning was not controlled until all the bams and a number of tenements had been destroyed. Thirteen hundred horses perished, and an aged woman died from fright and shock. The loss is placed at $1,325,000, the insurance not exceeding $500,000. A dispatch from Prospect Park, N. Y., says that President Cleveland’s fishing excursion in the Adirondacks has thus far been unsuccessful, so far as catches are concerned. Sunday the Chief Executive strolled about the hotel and chatted with the guests. The ladies Of the Presidential party went to the chapel near the Prospect House, and, in the absence of a clergyman, held a singing service for an hour. The accident on the Pennsylvania Road near Horseshoe Bend, proves to have beenmore serious than at first reported. Eight persons were killed and eieht injured, some of them dangerously. The accident was caused by the bursting of a car-wheel, and seems to have been unavoidable.

WEST.

The statue of General James B. Steedman, presented to the city of Toledo, Ohio, by Colonel William J. Findlay, was unveiled Thursday in the presence of a great multitude. General J. C. Smith, Lieutenant Governor of Illinois, delivered the oration, and a - poem by Mrs. Kate Brownlee Sherwood was read by Mrs. Bebecca Steedman McCann, a niece of Gen. Steedman. Miss Lillie Field was found in a hog-pen near Fergus Falls, Minn., disemboweled,’ with her - throat ent. A -Scandinavian hired man named Nels Olson Holung is supposed to be the murderer, as the girl was left alone with him early in the morning, and he is missing. ■» A PeKIMHI.) dispatch states that David fiurns, a well-to-do farmer residing near Green Valley, was fleeced outof $1,500 by three sharpers, who registered by the names of C. N. Gault, B. E. Jones, and J. B. Brown. They offered him a large price for his farm, and then roped him in on the lottery scheme. Burns drove to the Delavan bank and decreased his account $1,500. He still holds the lottery ticket, but Gault, Jones, and Brown, and the money have flown. A Fremont (Ohio) special says that two bunko men made a rieh haul from a wealthy farmer named King. King was invited by one of the men. who introduced himself as the sou of a prominent banker of Fremont, to go to a house where there was a private drawing. Kmg drew $2,000 and procured $2,000 of his own money to double the amount. The second time he lost, and a dispute followed. The bunko man who v anted King to have his moneystarted with King for the city for an officer. He told King to wait at one place until he returned. King waited, but the man has not yet returned A B. T. Richardson, editor of the ATortksEoT aml “kiTled 0. B. Willard, editor of the 77»i Trouble had been ' brewing for some time. It originated over personalities, which grew more abusive from week to week in each paper. Richardson was arrested. Great excitement prevailed, and there was considerable talk of lynching, but as Richardson has quite a political'following it is quite likely that he will be protected from violence.

SOUTH.

, The Board of Regents of the Grant Memorial University of Athens, Tenn., have conferred the degree of LL. D. on George W. Childs, A GUARD quelled a mutiny in a Kentucky convict camp by tiring a load of buckshot at the mutineers. One was shot dead, another fatally and a third dangerously wounded. The convicts had previously fatally assaulted their overseer. By the explosion of a boiler in a Natchez, Miss.,: cotton factory live persons were instantly killed and a" large number wounded, several of whom will die.

WASHINGTON.

Anactual count of all the money in the United States Treasury incident to the transfer of that office from Mr. Jordan to Mr. Hyatt, and which will occupy two months, was commenced last week. The paradeft)f the various military organizations in camp at Washington was an unqualified success. The President reviewedthe troops from a stand in front of the White House, A coupleof Southern because they were asked to march behind a colored company. '~P Assistant Secretary Maynaßd, of the United States' -Treasury Department, • has decided that the law allowing Indian effects to pass and repass the boundary 1 nes does not give the Indians the privilege of importing ordinary merchandise, cattle, -horses, -etc;-, for sale, without payment of the legal taxes. —The President has gone to the Adirondacks on a fishing expedition. Hcia accompanied by Mrs. Cleveland and Ccvlouel and ifra. Lamont It is said that the party will be the guests of Gov. Hill at Albany on their return trip. L. W. Reid, of Virginia, has been appointed Assistant Register of the Treasury. ... .A Treasure order has been issued for the admission, free of duty, of articles imported for the Industrial Exposition to be held at Minneapolis. i The total collections of internal revenue during the first ten months of the fiscal yew ending June 30 wer? $95..253j(M>6 t be-

ing $50,650 less than the collections during the corresponding period of the previous fiscal year. The receipts were as follows: From ? spirits, 1886, $56,859,322; 1887, $52,978,240; decrease, $3,881,082; tobacco, 1886, $22749,508; 1887, $24,327,1*07; increase, sl,577,199; fermented liquors, 1886, $15,52<1,160; 1887, $17,148,348; increase, $1,628,188;olebmargariue, 1887, $579,492; banks and bankers, 1887, $4,288; miscellaneous, 1886. $174,425; 1887, $215,690; increase. $11,265. The aggregate receipts for April. 1887, were $525,138 greater than the leceipts during the same month of 1886, the inciease being mainly on tobacco end fermented liquors.

POLITICS.

George William Curtis, in an address upon the political situation before the Commonwealth Club, of New Y’ork, said that “the President, amid incalculable difficulties, had been endeavoring to carry out his conviction upon the subject of civilservice reform,” but that he "hnd met with enormous obstructions, and the most enormous was the Democratic party itself.” He predicted that the result of the election next year “would depend more upon the candidates than upon the party that nominated them.’’ The President has appointed Henry F; Downing, of New York, to be United States Consul at St. Paul de Loanda, Portugal, and Edward J., Hill, of- Noith Carolina, to be United States Consul at Montevideo. Mr. Asbury (colored) has just been elected Commonwealth's Attorney at Norfolk, Va.—-the tir-t time in the history of the State that a negro has been elected to the position.

RAILWAYS.

The Chicago extension of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad is expected to be completed between the first and middle of next September, says a Chicago telegram. At present the work of grading all along the line from Kansas City, Mo., to Fort Madison is being pushed with great energy. Track-laying from Kansas City will be commenced about July 1. The road is being constructed with little consideration for local traffic, but as directly us possible on an air The Indianapolis, Decatur and Springfield Railroad was sold under foreclosure at New Y'ork for $700,('00. It is probable that an arrangement will be made for the operation of the road jointly with the Peoria, Decatur and Evansville.

INTERSTATE COMMERCE.

A petition was received Thursday by the Interstate Commission from the East Tennessee Farmers’ Association complaining that the agricultural interests of East Tennessee are persistently discriminated against by the railroad companies, and praying for a fair trial of the interstate law for a period of time sufficient to determine whether or not its enforcement will prove beneficial or detrimental to the business interests at large. Alexander McCloud, General Freight Agent of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad Company, made an argument before the Interstate Commission in support of the petition of that company' to be relieved from the operation of the long and short haul clause. He said the road had been forced by the law to relinquish its grain trade for the reason that the short trunk lines crossing the road fixed the rates so low that they could not be met if local rates were to be reduced in proportion. The suspension would work no discrimination or injury to anyone or the rates established by the hunk lines, and the only .question was whether his road should be allowed to do part of the business at these rates or should be excluded from it. Mr. Green, representing the Michigan Central, gave notice that he had filed a complaint against the Chicago and Grand Trunk charging it with selling thousnnd-mile tickets to commercial travelers for S2O, while the general public is required to pay for the' same tickets $25, in violation of the interstate commerce law. As an order has already been made for the appearance of the company complained against, Mr. Green deferred his argument until it should be represented. F. B. Stahlman, Third Vice President of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, appeared before the Interstate Commerce Commission Friday; to answer statements made by Commissioners Fink . and feauit, of the Queen and Crescent Route. He said that if there was any exception anywhere on this continent that called for relief under the fourth section, the whole Southern system of railroads was that exception. By an elaborate statement of rates Mr. Stahlman sought to remove what he called a mistaken impression, to the effect that Southern firihoads had deliberately gone to wolk to build up Alabama interests at the expense of other sections of the country. The rates were fair and equitable, and the® people were satisfied with them. He was not aware of any necessity for relief in the matter of pig-iron rates at points on his own line, but he did desire relief on through traffic to New York. The Chairman suggested that such an order would be futile unless other connecting lines joined. Mr. Stahlmin replied that the Lake Erie and Western was So situated that it could unite with his road on a $4 rate to New York without violating the law.

GENERAL.

' De Lessees is .’in? fresh trouble. A Panama dispatch says that water has been struck in one of the largest, longest, and deepest cuts, far above the line of. the canal work, and has washed from the side of the mountains into the. cuts and filled them up. Norman J. Colman, the Commissioner of Agriculture, has issued a notice quarantining Cook County, 111., under the provisions of the United States Animal Industry t ill, and forbidding the transportation of anycattle from.the camit.Y.. cofdanee with ct-rtam-. specified "require ments. The Commissioner states that quarantine, has also been ordered ,of Westchester, New York. Richmond, Kings, Queensland Suffolk Counties, in New York, and Baltimore, Howard, Carroll, "and Prince George's Counties, in Alaryland. Pleuro-pneumonta is said •) prevail to a somewhat alarming extent in Scotland among neat cattle. Imports for the present have been prohibited by the Treasury Department. R. G. Di n A Co. in their weekly trade review report a general improvement in crop prospects throughout the country. The financial future is affected by the large receipts of tie Treasury. Foreign commerce does not improve, the imports for April exceeding the exports by nearly $16,000,000. The decline in exports is attributed rather to the prevailing speculations than to the interstate commerce act. Railroad earnings are large and encouraging. Trade in most lines of merchandise is active. The business failures during the week in the United States and Canada numbered 175, against 18t» for the corre- ! spending week of last year.

The General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church of North America assembled at Philadelphia Friday, with 3,000 delegates, representing more than 100,000 communicants, in attendance. The Presbyterian General Assembly at Omaha on Friday appointed a committee to confer with a similar committee, already appointed by the Southern Assembly at St. Loftis, upon the subject of the proposed reunion between the Northern and Southern churches. - It is rumored nt the Citv of Mexico that the contract for operating the mint in that city is to be transferred Jto an English syndicate for $l,5(X),000, including the purchase of machinery, etc. At Minneapolis George A. Pillsbury, the “flour king,” was chosen President of the American Baptist Publication Society. ....The Grand Lodge of Good Templars, in session at Saratoga, declared itself unequivocally in favor of absolute prohibition of the liquor traffic.

FOREIGN.

The Polish members of the Austrian Reichsrath have received three hundred telegrams imploring them to make an effort i to persuade the Government to protest ' against the Russian decree which forbids I foreigners from acquiring lauded property jin Russian Poland. ..’.The Belgian strikers are becoming more desperate, and have attacked the troops who were guarding the mines and- tried to use dynamite on the property of non-strikers Over 200 lives were lost by the Theater Comique fire in Paris... .M. Rouvier has undertaken the task of forming the French Cabinet. The number of lives lost by the burning of the Opera Comique greatly exceeds the previous estimates. M. Reveillon, in the Chamber of Deputies Thursday afternoon, estimated that at least two hundred persons were killed and burned. A dispatch from Paris says: Inquiries for 15(5 persons who are supposed to have perished in the flames have been made by relatives and friends. The firemen have been working all day recovering bodies from the ruins. One group of twenty bodies was found in a terribly mutilated condition. The remains are principally those of ballet-girls, choristers, and machinists. Five of the bodies are those of elderly ladies, and one of them is that of a child. The remains of three men and two women were found in the stage-box. where the victims had taken refuge from the flames. It has been estimated that many bodies lie buried in the debris in the upper galleries, whence escape was exceedingly difficult. Lying together at the bottom of the staircase leading to the second story were found the bodies of eighteen ladies, all in full dress, These ladies' all had escorts to the theater, but no remains of men were found anywhere near where the women were burned to death. Sixty bodies were found floating in the cellar, which is flooded with water to the depth of five feet. The remains were terribly charred, and were only recognizable by means of trinkets. The walls of the theater began falling this evening, and the search for bodies hnd to be abandoned for the day. The library attached to the theater was entirely destroyed, with all its contents, including many valuable scores. Six thousand costumes were burned in the wardrobe. The theater was insured for 1,000.000 francs.

The Paris theater known as the. Opera Conrique was destroyed by fire Wednesday evening, and nineteen lives w-ere lost. Forty-three received injuries more or less severe. A dispatch from Paris says: The iron curtain was lowered in front of the stage, and this prevented the fire spreading immediately to the auditorium and allowed the audience time to escape. Most of the casualties are due to nervousness. Many persona who were unable to trust themselves to walk the narrow ledge of the cornices around the building jumped, off in terror. One woman coolly walked all arouna the cornice, w hile the flames were bursting above, until she reached the fireescape. Tho victims are almost all singers. A new Ministry has finally been formed for France without General Boulanger. M. Bouvier is Premier and Minister of Finance; General Saussier succeeds Boulanger in the War Office, and the other portfolios are taken by Flourens, Spaller, Fallieres, Jaures, Develle. Etienne, Cochery, and Berthelot. The Cabinet is composed of moderate Republicans, and is said to have assurances of support from the party of the Right. It is a safe prediction that the days of the new Government will be few and full of trouble. A mining horror of frightful dimensions is reported from Blantyre, eight miles from Glasgow, Scotland. An explosion of gas in the Ucfbton coal pit filled the mouth of the shaft with debris, imprisoning about one hundred and fifty colliers. Forty-five men at work in the “upper seam” were taken out, one of whom died immediately after reaching the surface. It is believed that seventy or more miners have perished. The official press at St. Petersburg warns Turkey that her opposition to programme in Bulgaria will sooner or later result Seriously for her... .The socialists of Belgium are improving the opportunity-of-fered by the great labor strikes th indulge in public demonstrations. The situation throughout the kingdom appears to bekverycritical, and it will probably require a liberal expenditure of cold lead before peace and order are restored.

MARKET REPORTS

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LEGGETTS LIFE.

The Wild Ride of a Lawyer to Save the Neck of His Client. He Beaches the Hallows Just as the Sheriff Is About to Cut the ‘ , Rope[Savannah (Ga.) special.] The following are the exciting details of the saving of Leggett’s life, for his death has not yet compassed, though his neck has been in the hangman’s noose. William Clifton, his faithful attorney, received on Wednesday night—or rather Thursday morning—telegrams from Governor Gordon infoiming him of Leggett’s respite for thirty days. 'These he started with for Tatu.dl County on Thursday afternoon. It was generally understood throughout the county that the execution would take place in the forenoon of the next day. The sun was not two hours high when people began arriving in the town, some on foot, others on horseback, and many in the cracker carts. The scaffold had been erected in a field a quarter of a mile from the village. Thither the crowd moved, and steadily grew in numbers. Leggett was given breakfast at 7 o’clock, and shortly afterward a minister of the gospel was admitted to his cell. The condemned man talked of the murder of his wife, said that he was sorry for it, and expressed a Jjope for forgiveness. He had not received any intimation that a reprieve would be granted in his case, and he went about preparing to pay the penalty of his crime. At 10:30 he was handcuffed, and, surrounded by Deputy Sheriffs, was driven to the scaffold. Fully 1,500 people had collected there, and an immense crowd followed Leggett and his guards from the town. Dozens of men and boys had climbed up into the trees to get a better view. Hundreds more swarmed over the carts, standing up on the wheels, seats, anywhere and everywhere that a foothold offered. THE BLACK CAP. The jesting lulted as the. prisoner ascended the scaffold, but still a low buzz of excited comment arose from the throng. After a few minutes of prayer and a short confession from the murderer the sheriff slipped the noose over Leggett’s heady carefully tightened the rope around his neck, and adjusted the knot. Then the black cap was put on and pnlled down over the prisoner’s face. He had walked up on the gallows with a firm step, and showed little sign of nervousness in his voice as he sang and prayed. He did not falter when placed on the fatal trap, and held his hands quietly behind bis back to have them tied together. His ankles were next bound tightly with a stout rope. Mr. Clifton was in his bed in Savannah when he received a telegram from Governor Gordon granting a respite. When the attorney left the train at Johnston’s station, on the Savannah. Florida and Western Railway, he had forty-five miles to drive through a country not noted for its good roads. The breaking of a trace or an axle or anything happening to either of the horses, or any one of a hundred accidents, w’as liable to delay him and prevent his reaching Riediville before the trap was sprung. While Leggett was watching through his cell window the first gleams of dawn his faithful lawyer was urging a swift pair of horses across the country at a gait that covered them with foam. The hours sped by with equal rapidity to the prisoner and to the man who was hastening to save his life.

in time. The Sheriff had just turned to step down off the scaffold, preparatory to cutting the rope which held the trap in the floor, when Mr. Clifton pushed his way into the crowd and shouted: _ _ “Mr. Sheriff, I have here a message from Gov. Gordon, directed to you.” “Come this way and let me see it immediately,” answered back the Sheriff. For a moment not a whisper was uttered. Every one held bis bieath. The crowd divided and made way for the to pass to the foot of the gallows. The Sheriff glanced hastily at the telegram, and dropped the hatchet which he held in his hand. “Go up on the scaffold, Clifton, and read to us!” cried a thousand voices. Tatnall is the attorney’s native county. Everybody down there knows him, and there was not a man in the crowd who did not recognize his tall, broad form as he elbowed his way to the Sheriff. Many a time in his life had the lawyer heard the cry, “Take the stage,” but never before under such circumstances. MR. CLIFTON EXPLAINS. Taking ex-Senator Mattox by- the arm, Mr. Clifton stepped briskly upon the platform, and without waiting for Leggett- to -be unbound read the dispatch from Governor Gordon granting a respite for thirty days. “Ttiis is authentic,” the speaker added, and he read another telegram- addressed to himself, to the effect that a reprieve had been granted. He then read a third dispatch, inquiring if the first and second had been received. The telegrams had a magical effect upon the crowd. They yelled and shouted for Gordon and Clifton find pressed up close to the scaffold to congratulate him. Leggett stood at first as though paralyzed, being unable to .believe what his ears heard. Then when it dawned upon him that he was not to die, he made frantic efforts to be released. The cap and noose were quickly removed, and he fell down on his .knees and poured out thanks to God and his attorney. His bonds were cut and he was led away, declaring that he loved his lawyer more than any one in the world. The scene was one not witnessed twice in a lifetime, except in the last act of some dramas on the. mimic strage where ‘ a courier rushes bn breathless froin the wings and hands the heavy man in the play a pardon for the hero. The crowd was disappointed, but it seemed perfectly well satisfied that the affair had takep the turn it did. Mr. Clifton Was a sort of hero, and in less than an hour petitions wire being signed asking the Governor to commute Leggett’s sentence to imprisonment

Labor and Industrial Notes.

The industrial developments in Northern Alabama, if writ-teip, down, would read more like a Jules Verne novel than like Advances of wages have been made in quite a number of small shops and factories throughout the State of New York. The Texas State Farmers' Alliance Cotton Congress has just appropriated $500,000 to build a large cotton factory at Waco. The . richest lead discovery of modern times, so goes the story, has been made in Franklin County, Missouri. The solid vein is ei.ht feet high and Six feet broad; In San Antonio. Texas, there are seven assemblies of Knights. In Winnipeg, Man., there are six. and two or three more are forming. In lhe State ot Maryland there are 154 assemblies in good standing. At Bordentown. N. J., one assembly has named itself the Bouaparte. At Denver, Col., the other day 3,000 persons listened to Mr. Powderly, and on the stage were the Governor of the State, the Mayor of the city, and the Catholic Bishop of the dio-

ceee. At Omaha Mr. Powderly declared) that he would never again hold office as General Master Workman. A great many Knights are aspiring to the position at the head of the order, in anticipation of the vacancy to be made. The Missouri of the Lutheran Church warned its members against joining the Knights. The Knights in Tennessee are taking active steps to form a Labor party, and Richard Trevelick has been engaged to stump the State. Jesse Harper and some other Labor leaders have been working Kansas. In Missouri the Labor party is organized in several large towns. In Michigan a large Labor party vote will bo polled at the next election, if activity in organization means anything. Robert Schilling and a score of active leaders are working Wisconsin. In lowa General Weaver has taken the field. A State conyenton will be held in Ohio on July 4 to nominate State officers. Columbus is the point. The Henry George wing of the Labor party will hold a convention in Cincinnati on the same day. South Carolina has 30 mills, 4,600 looms, and 230,000 spindles. The next convention of the Cigarmakers’ International Union will be held at New York. The labor agitations in Great Britain are assuming larger dimensions, particularly in mining, iron-working, and in the engineering trades. The coal miners in Northumberland have been on strike several months for 12J per cent, advance. The equivalent of $150,000 has been expended in benefits upon the membership. Never before has there been so much agitation among British workmen of all crafts with reference to emigration.

POWDERLY TO THE KNIGHTS.

Patriotic and Timely Advice in Regard to Celebrating Inde-, pentlence Day. To the Order wherever found, Greeting: For several years the practice of holding demonstrations and celebrations on the Fourth of July has been dying out. The old and the middle-aged are forgetting that on the fourthi day of July, 1776, a nation was born and a government was inaugurated which differed from the governments and nations of the earth, inasmuch as it was to be a nation and a government to be comj>osed of the whole people, to be'managed and controlled by the whole people ; and the intention was that those who served the people as public officers were to act for the whole people. Even while the Declaration of Independence was being read, the struggle for liberty—for free speech, for a free people and a free country—was going on. and it continued until liberty throughout the length and breadth of the United Colonies was an established fact. For years the citizens of the republic* were accustomed to meet on each succeeding Fourth of July and celebrate tne event which proclaimed a nation born. For years the doings of those who erected the proud structure on which our Government rests were told and. retold in song and story. Each Fourth of July saw the citizens of the republic gathered together under one—and only one—flag, on the village green or the city square, and, amid the booming of cannon and beating of drums, awakened memories of the “days that tried men’s souls.” The speaker of the day told how the power of a king gave way at the command of the people. Or, if no speaker could bo had, one of the celebrants read to the assembled multitude the Declaration of Independence. Old men among us can recall such incidents as these, but they are fast forgetting how it ■was done or what it was for. and the young people are not taught to respect or celebrate the day. Such a condition of affairs is wrong and unpatriotic.' • There is one portion of our country’s population that should never cease to remember that they, above all others should celebrate the fourth day of July and keep alive the memories which it recalls. Those who gain large fortunes, those who acquire large tracts of land in the country, and who own blocks of buildings in our cities,'are not the ones who celebrate, or care to celebrate, that day which gave to the world a nation whoso strength lay in her common people. It belongs, therefore, to the ones who have not gained the most and fared the best under our Government, to the common people, to kindle once more and keep forever alive the memories of the struggle which, dethroned the king in royal robes and entnroned the sovereign in homespun—which discarded and spat upon the scepter of a monarch and honored and exalted the hammer and plowhandle of the man of toil.

Two classes, representing diverse feelings and interests, would have the common people forget that we have a country or a flag. The monopolist and the anarchist care nothing for American liberty or institutions. The former, having accumulated an immense fortune, would hail with delight a king and a strong government, and) is hopeful of a change in that direction. The latter has either lost hope in our institutions or else knows nothing about them or their history, and would destroy both the good and the bad in them to make way for the rule of nobody and nothing. Monopoly and anarchy are twin evils. The latter, by attempting to overturn all law and order because some of our laws are not properly adiui)#stered, would give to the former the pretext for the establishment of a strong Government. Monarchy before anarchy I would then be the cry. The watchword .of the people should be :' Neither monopoly nor {inarchy shallrule in this country—both must-go. Man who labor by hand or brain make up two-thirds of our voting population. Two-thirds of the voters can. if tli’ey arc honest, patriotic, and vigilant, vote good men into office, and good men, if properly watched and assisted by the people, will make and enforce good laws. It follows that, if there is anything wrong in the affairs of State or nation, we, the people, are to blame, and vo have no right to grumble or threaten to break up the Government because of our own neglect. What, then, is bur duty? What is the duty of the Knights of Labor in particular? It is to study the principles on which our Government is based and teach others what we have learned. I therefore’recommend that on next Fourth of July the members of the order, where there is an assembly in existence, hold demonstrations and celebrations in honor of the birth of a people’s government. If other societies intend to celebrate, the Knights can join in; if no other society will celebrate, then the Knights should celebrate by ill means. In localities where a puplie demonstration would cause some liberty-hating employer to discharge his workmen, I would advise that no risks be taken. Join in with other citizens in getting up celebrations. Secure aspeaker to deliver a short address. If no speaker can be had, secure a good reader to read the Declaration of American Independence. In the line of march and on your stands and public places use only one flag—the stars and stripes. Snow to the world that no matter where theKnight of Labor citizen was born he respects and hcnbrsThe United States flag: Show to the world that we are determined to find out what is wrong in our system of government, and that we arc equally as determined to right such wrongs as may exist, by peaceful, legitimatemeans. I desire, also, that the question of the restoration of the people's lands to the care of the people be discussed. Pass resolutions declaring that the holding of from fifty to sixty millions of acres of the public domain by aliens is sinful and un-American. Go further, and demand that Pass resolutions declaring tbat every acre of land acquired by fraud, perjury, or chicanery, is an acre stolen, and demand that the thief be required to make restitution to the people. - Pass resolutions never to take your eyes off the land until one good, plain, simple,.honest law shall govern the holding of land, whether the holder be rich or poos, individual or- corporation. Make the land for the people, under the people’s laws, the question of the day. It was not tor air, sunshine or water alone that. ouMathers fought; it was for the land, and we must hold this land fr« e from the shark and speculator, whether native or alien. This is no political question ; it is a national, a patriotic question, and must be understood. Do not fear the taunts or ridicul j of any man or set of men. Let those who feel so disposed call our demonstrations “spread-eagleism" or “ Yankee-Dcodleism,” it they choose. Give them to understand that we are in earnest, and that we prefer spread-eagleism to indifference. Let it be understood that we are determined that the wings of the eagle shall hereafter spread over a nation of free men and women, who own the land we live in; that the wings of the eagle shall no longer spread over a single acre of land owned or ccntrolled by an alien landlord or native rogue. -Do not forget to celebrate in a becoming, dignifled manner the one hnndr* d and eleventh birthdav of American independence, especially a" this year is the centennial anniversary of the formation of life Constitution under Which we now live. T. V. J'owdkhlt. i General Mester Workman.