Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1887 — Page 7

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The W. C. T. U. will ob*erv* Not. 12 and IS an m day of prayer, all over the world. More freight thievea—employee—have been arrested on the New York division •f the Pennsylvania raiboad. The Pullman Company, of Chicago, has ordered a reduction of ten per cent in tnmmerV w may result. V ■ .( Seven hundred Catholics of Kalamasoo, Mich , made a pilgrimage to Notre Dame University Wednesday to see the sights. Prof. 0. 8. Fowler,the noted phrenologist and lecturer, died at his residence near Sharon Station, Conn., Thursday morning. ’’ Ferry and Boulanger, who have for a week or two talked bravely of having a duel, have agreed to settle the difficulty by arbitration. Mrs. Herbert, a patient at Sc. Joseph’s hospital, Joliet, 111., has been asleep for 222 days—the most remarkable case of the kind on record. Charles S. McCauber, the man who nominated Cleveland for sheriff of Erie county, died in Washington, Tuesday, a disappointed office seeker. The New York socialists held astormy meeting at Cooper Union, Monday night, and strongly denounced Henry George and his United Labor party. It is said that President Cleveland will go through from Washington to Cleveland without a stop.other than the regular train schedules provide for. Louis Debeik, a post trader at the navy yard in Boston, has fallen heir to a fortune of $2,500,000, from a grand aunt who died in Java, leaving an estat valued at $28,000,000. Collector SaltonstaU, of Boston, Mon-

day declined to give to a committee of the Democratic State Central committee the reasons why so many Republicans are retained in office. The steamer Seabird, which left Port Townsend a year ago for the north, was taken by the Indians, who burned the vessel and killed the entire crew, ashort distance above Seymour narrows; The Newport express train, leaving New Haven, Conn., at 4p. m. Tuesday for New York, struck a carriage at Fivemite river containing a man, two ladies and a boy,.all of whom were killed. Richard Bean, of Boston, a herdic driver, and his brother, John, also a hackman, and a sister, have been notified that they are joint heirs to a fortune of $10,000,000 left by Thomas Bean, who recently died at Bonham, Tex. H. S. Ives makes a statement showing the liabilities of H. S. Ives A Co., to be $16,479,723 and asserts fully $5,000,000 more. He expects, he says, to have $5,000,000 remaining after all liabilities have been satisfied. I’reeident Cleveland and most of his Cabinet will go to Philadelphia on the 17th of next month to attend the centennial constitutional celebration there. Mrs. Cleveland will probably accompany the President. President Edgerton,of the civil service commission, says that the civil service reform leagues are made up of a lot of irresponsible individuals, handed to gether for the avowed purpose of annoying the adrainistra ion. Commander-in Chief Fairchild states that the opposition to the Grand Army of the Renublic, which has recently sprung up, has only had a tendency to solidify it, and that the organization is growing rapidly all over the country. Adaline Hardy, the pretty daughter of Dexter Hardy, of Lakeview,a Chicago suburb, has been abducted and probably murdered by Charles P. Pither, out of revenge for his bettkyal to the authorities three yea: ago as a deserter from the United States army. livery employe of the shoe factories •f New York will probably be locked out before the end of this week. The trouble is between Hanan A Son and D. A. 91 K. of L. The boot and shoe manufacturers association threaten the lockout uuless the K. of L. come to terms.

In an interview Mr. Bayard Monday among other things he said that removals were not made in the State Department unless for cause, and where men were found doing their duties properly, they were left alone. This was considered the best plan to run the deparment on. Joseph H. Ramey, the well-known •olored ex-Congressman, died at his residence in Georgetown, 8. C., last Monday. Mr. nainey was ’one of the most intelligent representatives of the eolored race in the south. He was a barber by trade. He was elected to Congress in J 870, and again in 1872, but was defeate..in 1874 by John S. Bichardson. On the Baltimore & Ohio train, which left Chicago the other day, a farmer named Newman Whittaker was married to Mrs. Nancy Russel by Elder Jchapod 8. Jones, all of Wolf Lake, Ind. A license was obtained at Albion, Noble county, and the parties were married at noon between Albion and Avilla on the train, in the presence of a car-load of passengers and twelve friends, who made up the bridal party. Congratulations and kisses were abundant and the bride’s cake was passed to the party and passengers. Three hundred men engaged in a riot at Glen Lyon, near ’ Nanticoke, Pa., Sunday. All nationalities were represented in the affray. The riot was

brought about through a Methodist minister. At Glen Lyon it has been customary oh Sunday to pay bills, make collections, and transact all such business of this kind. The minister had frequently preached against such desecration of the Sabbath. On last Sunday he organised a number of the church members into a posse for the purpose of suppressing it. The result was a general riot in which almost hundreds were more or less hurt’ on both aides. FOKBIGM. The Char does not regard Prince Ferdinand’s election to the Bulgarian throne legal. 2 Seventeen persons were accidently drowned in the Thames, at London, Sunday. Germany has instructed her consul at Sophia to break off relations with the -Bulgarian government. Mr. Gladstone is jubilant over the reaent elections, and feels sure that full justice will be done to Ireland before long. v The marriage of the Emperor of China has been postponed for two years on account of his ill health and monetary stringency. A telegram from Merv says that the Ameer of Afghanistan’s life is despaired of. One of his feet has been amputated, owing to gangrene, and it is feared that the shock will result in his death. A fight took place between Chinese and Japanese fishermen on the Corean coast, and the Coreans undertook to settle the trouble. A battle ensued, in which the Coreans were finally successful after much slaughter. The Freeman’s Journal asserts that the'proclamation by the government has given the National league new life. The accessions to the league during the last few days have been numerous. A hundred English and Scotch members of the house of commons will be nominated for membership next Tuesday, together with a large body of private citizens.

KILLED HIS MOTHER.

Tragic a»d Accidaatt In Grant County, Ind. Frank Lightfeat Mistake* Hi* Mother for a Rargler and Fire* with Fatal Aim— She Rxonorate* Her Son Before Dying. About midnight Friday night Mrs. Newton Lightfoot, was shot and killed by her son, Frank Lightfoot, under the most tragic and deplorable circumstances. The scene of this sad occurrence was the south limits of Grant county, eighteen miles southeast of Marion. When Newton Lightfoot left home Friday morning to be gone over night, he requested his son Frank, who lives on an adjoining farm, to come over and spend the night at his house. Frank came and brought a pistol. When the family retired theirprotector gave warning that if any of them arose during the night they should first call him, as he did not propose taking chances on suspicious visitors. About midnight Mrs. Lightfoot heard a commotion among the stock at the barn and went to investigate. She had not given the stipulated notice and as she returned her son was awakened by her footsteps. As she entered he fired, and she fell in the doorway weltering in her blood. The dying woman vowed that it was her own fault and thai her son was not to be blamed. It was found that the bullet had entered her right side. Death resulted in twenty minutes. The deceased w r as about sixty years old, the mother of a largp fomily, and a most excellent women. Her unwittingslayer is not censured, butthe unfortunate affair is widely and deeply deplored. The family is one of high standing and of considerable wealth.

Burned at Sea. The steamer “York City” burned off Queenstown Friday morning, and reported the burning of the steamer ‘‘City of Montreal” at sea. The burned vessel sailed from Ney? York Aug. fl for Liverpool. The burning of the steamer occurred on the 11th inst.,five days after she left New York. She carried 420 passengers all of whom, with the exception of thirteen persons—six passengers and seven of the crew were saved. A boat containing the thirteen mentioned, has not been heard from and is supposed to have been lost. The steamer was one of the largest and best of the Inman line. She was 482 feet long and 4* feet width of beam, and a gross tonnage of 4,486. She was finely finished and furnished. Cleveland’* St. Louis Visit. President and Mrs. Cleveland and accompanying party will arrive at St Louis, Saturday evening, October 1, but the President will see no one that evening except a reception committee that will meet him at the depot. The party will remain in St. Louis over the 2d, 3d and 4th, attending the fair on Monday, the 3d, and the Veiled Prophet’s ball on the night of the 4th, and will leave at midnight for Chicago. — r--. r 1 —' ‘ ’ . •«—r Protecting the Alaska Fur Company. The fisheries department, of Canada, received infermatien Tuesday of the seizure of more Canadian sealing vessels in the North Pacific ocean by United States cruisers. It is learned that the commanders of the United States cruisers that are in the Alaska service have been ordered to seize all sealing vessels found in Behring sea unless they are the property of the Alaska fur company.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Spiceland has found gas in large quantities. Anderson now has five gas wells, with* a combined daily output of 41,000,000 feet. . It is expected that about 2,000 Indiana soldiers will go to the St. Louis G. A. R. National Encampment. Reny Alienbush, a single man, met with a horrible death near Madison, Tuesday, by being cut in two by a circular saw. j There were four conversions, and 138 kegs of beer sold, Sunday, at the camp meeting at Mott’3 Station, on the Air Line road, hear New Albany. Henry Brown, 13 years old, while walking on the top of a fence at Jeffersonville, Sunday, fell and was pierced through the abdomen by a picket. He will probably die. Rev. Aaron Wood, D. D., the oldest Methodist minister in Indiana, died Saturday morning, at his home in Yountsville, four miles southwest of Crawfordsville, after a long and painful illness from Bright’s disease. The large frame building at Rochester known as the City hotel, owned bv Idward Chinn, burned to the ground at 3 o’clock Thursday morning. There was no insurance. Loss $2,500. Supposed to be the work of an incendiary. Great exaitement prevails at Misnawaka over the sudden disappearance of John Snyder, a prominent business man and dealer in agricultural implements. A shortage of $2,000 in his accounts with F. Sieberling & Co., of Ohio, has been discovered.

An unusual amount of sickness is prevailing among horses in and around Indianapolis, and many animals have died within the last few days. The liv-ery-stable proprietors especially are suffering heavy losses. The illness seems to be colic or some disease with similar symptoms. . A peculiar disease has attacked many horses in Blackford and Wells counties, and it has proved fatal in many cases. A. G. Hart, a stock dealer, lost a valuable roadster, Tuesday, and two cases occurred on Wednesday. The disease seems to be an aggravated form of colic, and death results in a.few minutes. Dell M. Astry, a machinist of Fort Wayne, a passenger on the excursion train to Rome City, when pasting over the St. Mary’s river bridge stood on the platform and stretched out his head to signal a friend, when he was struck by the bridge and knocked from the train into the river below. He will die. Ben Wells, one of the heretofore most prominent farmers in Randolph county, financially, has disappeared, leaving everybody of whom he could borrow, from a dollar up to hundreds, and in some instances even thousands of dollars, in the lurch. It is currently ruJlttjMtli ttiaLMi. WeHB lbßlTieavllyihifiiiA late Chicago wheat disaster. Thirty-one Sioux Indians have just arrived at White’s Manual Labor Institute at Wabash, where they will be educated. Of the number seventeen are girls and fourteen boys. None of them can speak English. There are now eighty-four students at the school. The government pays $125 a year for the education of these children. The first Methodist church of Valparaiso was dedicated Sunday. It is in the form of a Roman cross, 104 by 640 feet, and of brick. There are three memorial windows of stained glass and a very fine pipe ergan. The lighting is by gas and the heating from furnaces. The edifice cost about $24,000, which sum is almost provided for. This society was organhed in 1840. The church seats 1,650.

State Auditor Carr is having trouble with the mutual assessment insurance companies of northern Indiana, several of which he has persistently refused to give official recognition. The lastast applicant for a charter is the Standard Life Association, of Fort Wayne. An itemized statement accompanying the report to the State Auditor shows that 815 T was paid to the beneficiaries of a policy for $2,000, and SSO on another for fl ,000. Of 830 outoLandin i policies, 72J are ca persons over fifty-five years of age. A telegram to the Indianapolis News, of Monday, says the “White Caps” of Crawford county have now undertaken to regulate love affairs as well as provide punishment for the other short-comings man is heir to; Mw. Jennie Dougherty, a grass widow and school teacher, has been warned to cease wooing one William Morgan, some years her j unior. She claims to have had no matrimonial intentions so far as the young man was concerned, but simply regarded him as a “pet,” he being an especially apt scholar. Anbury Neal, a burly fellow, who has been stopping at the Shelby county poor farm, made a deadly assault on John Clark, superintendent of the place, witharasor. Clark grabbed the man, and in the struggle was severely cut on the hands. His life was in great danger and he was afraid to let go of his assailant. At this juncture his wife, Mrs. Fannie Clark, struck Neal a terrific blow across the forehead with a large .poker, which brought film to the floor. He is now in jail. The county in Indiana having the smallest number of pensioners is Union, which is represented on the rolls by only ’fifty-seven, who receive $895 per month. Marion, the most populous •ounty, has 1,481 pensioners, drawing a

total of $10,005.74 each month or $192,008 yearly. Vigo stands second, having 676 persons who draw $7,474 50 per mcnth or $89,504 annally. Green county gets $78,180 per year, Jackson $74,540, Tippecanoe $80,199 and other counties more or less, according to population. ; ' ——- A double fatality occured at 8 o’clock Monday morning on the farm of Arthur Norton, four miles north of Mirion. A well which Christopher Sisson, the.tenant, was putting down, was thirty-three feet deep. Monday morning when Reece Hullinger, Sisson’s brother in-law, and hired hand resumed work, Hullinger bored an auger down into the clay and when he withdrew it there was the sound of escaping gas. He was rapidly becoming asphyxiated, and called for help, but was uncons ions when the bucket was lowered.' The bucket was drawn up, and despite the entreaties of his wife, Sisson got in and was left down. Before the bucket reached the bottom Sission fell out and in a few minutes was dead. The bodies were recovered two hours later. The following patents were issued to Indianians Tuesday: Donaldson, John E , Montezuma, roofing tile and weatherboarding; Hammond, Isaac W., Hammon.!, tongue support: Harland, Joel W., Frankfort, gate; Hornaday, Thos. 8., Indianapolis, assignor to Yale A Town Manufacturing Company, Stanford, Conn.; electric lock; Macomber, Horatio N., Walkerton, wire-twisting device; Morgan, Bennett W., and J. A. Anderson, Terre Haute, means for strenthening glass w indows; Philion, George, assignor to Dodge Manufacturing Com-

pany, Mishawaka, manufacture of wooden pulleys; Sanders, John P., Bartholomew county, shock fodder loading and unloading machine; Stewart, Joseph, assignor of one-third to J. Israel, Liberty, hand rake; Wintrode, Charles E., Huntington, adjustable wire-twisting wrench; also tension device for use in constructing wire and picket fences. A most cruel affair has just developed at Smiley, a small, station in Allen county. John Waterside, a Frenchman, engaged himself in marriage to Mary Burgman. Bhe wished to postpone the marriage until after the birth of an illegitimate chi d, but he insisted upon an immediate marriage, which took place about ten months ago. The child was born about four months afterward, and Waterside has always had antipathy toward it. He had been heard to say by the neighbors he “would get rid of the brat,” and that he “had almost finished the brat, and would do it yet.” The township authorities, hearing the child was sick, employed two dpctore to attend to it. They found one teg broken and one arm broken in two places below the elbow. The arm had commenced to mortify, and immediate annotation of both arm and leg was necessary. The child was injured early in August and has remained without medical attention until now. Waterside is now’ in jail awaiting the result of the •hild’s injuries. In the Floyd Circuit Court, Tuesday afternson, Sarah Ellen Mclntosh, of Salem, wife of Andrew J. Mclntosh, and the first child of the late Washington C. DePauw, who was virtually disinherited by his will, brought suit to set aside the will. Mrs. Mclntosh strongly resembles her late father, being of the same physical build and the same facial expression. She is a lady in culture as well as by instinct, and is greatly devoted to and much loved by her many friends. The will of her father cut her off with two very poor, badly worn-out farms in Washington county, a possible contingency in some bequests made for charitable or religious, purposes, upon which annuites are to be paid if the legacies be accepted upon the provisions of the will. The filing of this suit, says a New Albany dispatch,has been expected for some time, and it is only truth to say that the public sympathy is almost universal with Mrs. Mclntosh in her effort to set aside the will. She is Mr. DePauw’s first-born child. Her mother was a daughter of the late Major Malott, of Salem, in his life a leading business mm of that town, and also county cte'k of Washington county. It was under Major Malott that Mr. DePauw obtained bis first employment, and became deputy county clerk.

Jnterestiag Fo«tofll*e Utatiitiaa. The annual report of the First Assist-anvPostmaster-general, now being prepared, will contain the following statement of changes in the postoffices during the last fiscal year, ended June 80: Number of offices established, 8,048: number of offices discontinued, 1,800; appointments on resignations and commisaons expired, 5,8f13; appointments on removals and suspension, 2,584; appointments on changes of names and sites, 482; appointments on deaths of postmasters. 580. The total number of appointments of postmasters of all grades during the year 1817 was 18,070. Ths number for the year -1885 was 9,547, and and for the year 1886, 22,747, making a total for the three years of 45,878. The total number of postoffices of all grades in operation on July 1, 1887, was 36,157. _ Stanley Again Report** Dead. A dispatch from Zanzibar vragreceived at Paris Wednesday Vhich said that explorer Henry M. Stanley had been massacred bv natives after having been deserted by his saeort. For what is considered good reasons the reportis generally disrendited.

THE CHATSWORTH WRECK.

The Coroner'* Jury Gay the Blame on the Seetion Fareman A««l is Jailed—H* Pretests that the Verdiet is Unfair to Him—Berio o* Charges Against the Company—Other Railroad Wreak*. The coroner’s jury in the case of the Chatsworth wreck agreed on a verdict Thursday morning, which boldfl Timothy Coughlin, foreman of section 7, to the grand jury, and negatively exonerates the Toledo, Peoria A Warsaw company. The management is not censured for running a double-header, for a lax system of track inspection, or for anything else. The verdict simply says the failure to patrol the track for six hours before the train came.and the habit of burning grass to the track, is the subject for criticism. The three or four friends of the Toad on the jury had better staying qualities than the two or three of those who wanted to fix a portion of the blame on the management. The verdict in full was as follows: We think, from the evidence, that the bridge was fired from the fires left burning, which had been set as late as 5 o’clock that afternoon by the section men, as close as sixteen feet on both the east and west sides of the bridge. We further find that the foreman of section 7, Timothy Coughlin, disobeyed positive orders from his superior to examine the track and bridges on his section the last thing on Wednesday, and we find that he did not go over the west two and one-half miles at all on Wednesday, and that the said foreman (Coughlin) was guilty of gross and criminal carelessness in leaving fires burning along the track in such a dry section and with such a strong wind blowing. We recommend that he be held for ex amination by the grand jury, and further, it is the opinion of the jury that the leaving of the track without being passed for six hours before the passage of the excursion, and setting of fires by the section men on such a dry and windy day as the 10th of August, 1887, were acts which deserve severe cirticism, Timothy Coughlin, the section foreman, was promptly arrested and taken to Pontiac, the county seat of Livingstone county. He says he cannot give bail and will have to go to jail. He insists that the verdict is unjust; that he went over his entire section as ordered, and that no fires were built as near the bridge as Heald and Taggert testified. The jury made out separate verdicts for each of the victims. Rev. Dr. Adams, of Bloomington, HL, president of the Illinois Wesleyan University, who is familiar with the scene of the Chatsworth disaster, said in an interview, Friday: The dispatches from Chatsworth are strikingly untrue. In the first place the bridge never burned. The only fire there was a slight blaze which had its origin in the fire box of the locomotive. The theories of incendiarism and of the burning grass are all false. Illinois is parched all over, and every blade of grass in the State is as dry as a powder horn and would burn like tinder. Therefore a fire originating in the grass two hours before the train met its doom would have consumed a large portion of the country before the train was due. The double-header was the cause of the accident. Two huge engines drawing sixteen heavily loaded coaches could not be upheld by a bridge of the nature of the one which gave way. The bridge, as stated, is of wood, not quite forty feet in length. It runs over a mere ravine, in the center of which a brook, now quite dry, winds its way. The fact of the matter is, the press dispatches are the laughing stock of all Bloomington, especially as regards the fire. The railroad company has carefully seen that no dispatches were sent out which should throw discredit upon their management, and yet to this very cause was the accident due. No one denies that thieves profited by the accident, but the theory that they fired the bridge is easily refuted. Dr. Adams says that the officials of the company have held back the truth, and thah the railroad company is responsible for the non-discovery of the missing bodies, because they wished to avoid paying damages. The Doctor said that the impression prevailed that the witnesses before the coroner’s jury were bribed.

A Singular Accident. A train on the B. A O. road, wnne entering Washington City, Wednesday morning, met with a peculiar accident. A mile before the “Y” was reached the engineer discovered ibat the air brakes would not work and whistled “down brakes” repeatedly, but for some cause they were not “put down.” The train approached the “Y” with terrific speed, and on reaching the sharp curve at that point the cars left the track and crashed through the two story brick signal tower. The engine was dragged from the track and over-turned, killing the engineer and braking both legs of the fireman. The signal tower was completely demolished and piled promiseususly over and through the wrecked cars, giving the wreck a most confusing appearance. Of the passengers twentythree were badly bruised or had broken lirhbs. The injures to one or two may prove fatal. Attempts were made Wednesday evening to wreck the Ohio A Mississippi east bound passenger train at Bast Bt. Louis. On Thursday an attempt was made to wreck a passenger train on the Galena division of the Northeastern railway. Fortunately coth attempts were frustrated by discovery. The through express on_ihu Ft. Wayne & Chicago railway was wrecked at Bayard, ()., at 3 'o’clock, Wednesday. The rails spread and one car was demolished. There Were few passengers, fortunately. The porter was killed and four passengers were injured.

PENDING POLITICS.

The Peunzylvaaia Republicans Endorse Mr. Blaine. The AaH-Poverty People** New York State CauTenUen—The Vnlou Labor Party and Socialists Rejected. - - The Republican State Convention of Pennsylvania met at Harrisburg, Wednesday, August 17, and nominated ■Oapt.William 'B. Hart for Treasurer of State, and Judge Henry W. Williams for Supreme Judge. The platform indorses the State government.; advocates a protective, tariff and restriction of immigration; favors bounties upon exports in American bottoms; declares in favor of a dependent pension bill, arraigns the National administration for general imbecility; advocates primary elections for nominating candidates for Congress and the State Senate, and includes a plank extending the profound sympathy of the Republicans of Pennsylvania to Gladstone and Parnell. The following is the closing portion of the seventh plank in the, platform: "The Republicans of Pennsylvania, the native State of Hon. Jafnes G. Blaine, will view with pleasure his nomination for the Presidency in the campaign of 1888. Accident can not abate the love of a great party nor the admiration of a great people for a statesman true alike to his convictions and to his country.”

The United Labor New York State Convention met at Syracuse Wednesday and Thursday, Aug. 17 and 18. Henry George, Dr. McGlynn, John McMackin and other leaders of the party were on hand. Louis Post was chosen temporary chairman. For the first two hours there was peace. About 3 o’clock skirmishing began and turned into • free-for-all fight that lasted until 5:30. Points of order, amendments and substitutes were rapidly fired at the chairman. Archibald, of Albany, offered a resolution that all resolutions offered to the body be read and referred, without debate, to the committee on platform when that committee is appointed The resolution was carried .despite the points of order and objections. After a recess the committees were announced.

Then what would appear to be the most trivial motion would create the greatest uproar and long debate. Dr. McGlynn and Henry •eorge did not do any talking. Dr. McGlynn seemed amazed at the uproar. Long-haired Socialist Hinton and his wife sat in the seats near the reporters. Hinton was spoiling for a row. The rejection of the eight New York socialistic delegates was the chief cause,of turmoil. A black-haired New York Socialist made a revolutionary speech. He was not recognised by the cnair. John McMackin seems to have made a ruling that will control the United Labor Convention, that none but members of that party without other affiliations shall be recognised, and that the Union Labor party be not recognised or affiliated with Tnis -rule excludes distinctive socialistdelegations, as well as the Union Labor party. Mr. McMackin denounced the Union Labor party as “tramps and pirates,” and this expression created much feeling in Junio’s committee, who retort that New York city delegations in this convention are nearly all members of Tammany Hall and are taking care of the aspirations of candidates for legislative offices. Bitter feeling is manifested between the two parties. The Union Labor party representatives finally gave up hope of recognition or compromise. They sent overtures to which no responses were returned. A large mass meeting was held Wednesday evening, during which Henry George and Dr. McGlynn discussed their peculiar land theories. The United Labor party closed its New York convention, Friday. It was decided not to openly oppose the socialistic organization, but as a compromise a plank was used opposing State and public control of any subject which is not a matter of public concern. A full State tisket was put in nomination, as follows: Secretary of State, Henry George, of New York; Comptroller, Victor A. Walker, of Kings; State Treasurer, B. 11. Cummings, ot Montgomery; Attorney General, Dennis C. Feely, of Monroe; State Engineer and Svrveyor, Sylvanos A. Sweet, of Broome. '

An “Impressive” Duet These modern French duels, in which “shots are exchanged,” nobody hurt, and everybody satisfied, make a man sick to read about them. Boulanger has some style about him when he says he wants to fight until some one is hurt. What would those Frenchmen who interchange shots think of such a meeting as took place between Biddle and Pettis on Bloody Island, a good many years ago? Shotguns were the weapons, two paces the distance, and when the men faced each other their weapons overlapped. Both fell dead on the fire. Amari«a a National Conualtt**. During the constitutional centennia at Philadelphia next month, there will be a convention of the American National Committee, who claim to represent 1,500,000 persons throughout the country interested in reviving what they consider purely American ideas, and, in a modified form the Know-Nothing movement of a generation ago. Mr. Powderly is a leading member of the new party The Volunteer way ahead. That’ ounds like the old war days.