Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1887 — Page 6

She JSqmWuau. Guo. E. Mamhall, Publisher. ' RENSSELAER, - INDIANA

The tests to be made'by the Internal Revenue Bureau of the various kinds of beer made in this country, are for the purpose of determining whether or ndt the government is being cheated in its revenue. Commissioner Miller notices that the receipts from the whisky tax have decreased several million dollars, and that those from beer have increased. He argues that it'takes so much alcohol to make a man drunk, and that His necessary to drink more beer or •ther liquid containing a smaller percentage of alcohol, than whisky, to produoeagiven effect The increased consumption ot beer and the decreased Consumption of whisky leads him to the conclusion that there is either less drunkenness now, or that there is more alcohol in the beer than there used to he. The testa will decide the latter point, and by inference, the format;also* They will also disclose to the public the ingredients which enter into the iquit! known as beer, the composition of which is a matter of much importance to its consumers.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Rain has done much good everywhere. ,T“ T~ War is being made upon saloons at Angola. Randolph county will have an avenage of six month’s school. Elkhart maintains an annual lecture course, of which it is justly proud. Switzerland county sent thirteen convicts to the penitentiary South during September. The Salvation Army proeession at Ladoga, last Wednesday—night, Jtaa. stoned by the citizens all along the line. The State printing has been awarded to VV. B. Burford and A. R. Baker, the lowest bidders. Both are at Indianapolis. Ten counties in the State estimate the yield of corn at 21 bushels per acre; yield of oats, 32f bushels; potatoes, 19 bushels, with S p/ir cent, of old corn on hand. The Randolph county board of education has resolved upon measures to have representative work of the schools of the county exhibited at the next county institute, and also at the county fair. At least 150 of the teachers of the county will take up the reading circle work. Alexander McPheetere, one of the richest men in Vigo county, was fleeced out of $2,0 .0 by a sharp who professed to be a son of W. R. McKeen, president of tbe Vandalia road, and said he had drawn 14.000 in a lottery and needed $2,000 to collect it, but didn’t want his father to know it. The first case under the new slock law was tried by ’Squire Cumberland, at Crawfordsville, last Saturday Charles Sheon, a road supervisor, was arrested on complaint for not taking up estray cattle after having been notified of the act that the cattle were running at large. He was fined $1 and costs added. Shortly after the war a wagon Toaded with barreled cement was upset on the levee, at Jeffersonville, and a greater portion of the load rolled into the river. Thursday, while a number of men were . at work repairing the wharf logs, the contents of one barrel was found lying in the water." The coupe rage had long since rotted away, but the cement had remained together and had Iteeome as hard as stone. Tfie Soldiers’ Monument Commission have made their first quarterly report to tbe Governor. It shows that $141.75 have been expended on salaries and office expprises, and giyfes a detailed account of tue operation of the board. in arranging for the com petition.. The expenees of the commission at present are being paid from $2,500 which the G. A. R. monumental commission donated, as there are at present no available funds ! in the State Treasury from which to 'j draw. Representatives of the State board of agriculture and the treasurer of the I Sate fair wbre in session Monday closing ! their balances. Tne gate receipts this I "-year show a total of $22,011.70 against! $19,565 45 in ISSG, and $18,515 SJ in I 18S5. The coupon tickets sold by railroads are yet to be reported, anti so are i a number of receipts from other sources, swelling the grand aggregate possibly $5,000 in access of what Is given as gate j receipts. In a financial sense the State fair was a success. The hog cholera, which appeared in i the north part of Wabash county three j weeks ago has since been* spreading | rapidly, and it is now apparent that m two weeks there will be no more hogs! in that section. The finest and healthiest animals are attacked. The first symptoms is either a drow3v condition or bleeding at the nose, then the animals become dumb. They remain sick several days and never recover. Nothing has been found to stay the ravages of j the malady. In one neighborhood fullv 400 animals have died, valued at $7 to $8 each. Fanners are much discouraged. ’• « Another Death for Ireland. At a national land leagne meeting ‘at Dublin, Wednesday, the Lord Mayorannounced the death in prison of Thomas Larkins Woodford, “who, with the men butchered at Mitchelstown, died for [ Ireland.” I

THE GRACE OF GOD.

Chris* Paid the Ransom Through Death on the. ('mss. The World f onlrt Hare Treated H>n» •*«*•- ter if It H.*<l «Jhn«e»>, bat It i* Not. Too Lnte Tottr Bow Down pml Oonfe»r. Rev. Dr. Tahnage preached at Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday. Text, 11. Gyinthians, viii., 9 He said: That all the worlds which on a cold winter’s hiitht make the heavens oiie, great glitter are ■ inhabitaniless is an absurdity. Philosophers tell us that many of these worlds.are too hot or too cold, or too rarefied of atmosphere for residence. But, if not fit for Imman abode, they may he fit for beings differ ent from and superior to ourseLves—\Ve are told that the world of Jupiter is changing, until it is almost fit or? crea tnres like the human race, and that Mars would do for the human family with a little change in the structure of our respiratory-osgans. But that t here isa great world swung somewhere, vast beyond imagination, and that it is the headquarters of the universe, and the metropolis of immensity, and has a population in numbers vast beyond all statistics, and appointments of splendor beyond the capacity of canvas, or poem ®r angel to describe, is as certain as that the Bible is authentic. Perhaps some of the astronomers with their bigtrleseopes have aheady caught a glimpse of it, not knowing what it is. We spell it with six letters, and pronousce it heaven. That is where Prince Jesus lived nineteen centuries ago. He was the. King’s son. It was the old homes ead of eternity, and all its castles were as old as God. Not a frost had ever chilled, the air. Not a tear had eVer rolled down theoheek of one of its inhabitants. There had never been in it a headache, or a sideache, or a heartache. There had not been a funeral in the memory of the oldest inhabitant:"* There had never in all the land been woven a black veil: for there had never been anything to mourn over. The passage of millions of years had not wrinkled or Crippled or bedimmed any of its citizens. ■Ai-i-the people ■there-were-ia—a—si-ate-ed-eternal adolescence. What floral and pomonie richness! Gardens of perpetual itiooui and orchards in unending fruitage. Had fame spirit from —another world entered and asked, w hat is sin? w hat is bereavement? what is Sorrow? what is death? the brightest of the intelligences would have failed to give a definition, though to study the question there were silence in heaven for half an hour. The Prince of whom I speak had tTontirs.emotUTnents, acclamations such as no other Prince celestial qr terrestrial, ever enjoyed. As He passed the street the inhabitants took off from their brows garlands of white lilies and thre w th e ne4»--th«-way*» Ho noTer-entered” any of the temples without all the worshippers rising up and bowing in obeisance. In all the processions or the high days he was the one who evoked the. loudest welcome. Sometimes on foot, walking in loving talk with the humblest of the land, hut at other times He took chariot, and among the twenty thousand that David spoke of His was the swiftest'and most flaming; or. as when John described Him. He took white palfrey, with what prance of foot ami arch of neck and roll of mane And gleam of eye is only dimly suggested in the Apocalypse. He was nor like other Princes, waiting for the Father to die and then take the throne. When a few years ago an artist in Germany made a picture for the Royal Gallery represent ing Emperor William on the throne,and the Crown Prince as having one foot on the step of the throne,Emperor William ordered the picture changed, and said: “Let the Prince keep his feet off the throne till I leave it.”

Already enthroned was the heavenly Prince, side by side with the Father. What a circle of dominion! What myriads of admirers! What an uuend inground of glories! All the towers chimed the Prince’s praises. Of all the inhabitants, from the center of the citv on over the hills and clear down to the beach, agatnsr which 1 1 i s bee :urmrTmmensity rolls its billows, the Prince was _the ac snow led cell favorite, ho wonder my text says that “He was rich.'’ iSet all the diamonds of the earth in., one scepter, build all the palaces of the earth in one Alhambra, gather all the pearls of the sea in one diadem, put all the values of the earth into one coin, the aggregate i would not express his affluence. Yes, i Paul was rigid. Solomon had in . gold i 680,000 000 nounds sterling and in silver 1,029,000,377 pounds sterling. But a [-greater man than Solomon is here.. X ( »l '■ [ the millionaire, but the quadrillion-i i sire. of Ijeayen. To describe ; j his celestial surroundings the ! | Bible uses SIT dolors, gathering them in I i rainbow over throne and setting them! ias agate in the temple window, and; : hoisting twelve of them into a wall i | from striped jasper at the base to! transparent amethyst in the capstone,! ! while between are green of emerald!: and snow of pearl, and bitterns sapphire! land yellow of topaz, gray of carysoprasr.s. and flame of jacinth. All the loveliness of landscape in foliage, and river, and rill, and all enehantmefit I [ aqu marine, the sea of glass mingled I with lire as when the sun sinks in ihe'l Mediterranean. Ail the thrill of music, I instruments land vocal, harps, trumpets! I I doxelogies. There stood the Pnnce, surrounded by those who had under their wings the velocity of mill fops of miles in a second, rich in love, rich in adoration. nch|ingower. ric:: in worship, rich in holiness, rich in God. But one dat there was a big, disaster in a department of God's universe. A race fallen! -A world in ' rnins! —Qu r planet the scene of .catastrophe! a globe swinging out into darkness, -with mountains, and seas, an islands, an awful centifugal of sin seeming to. overpower the beautiful centripetal of ri«hteousness, and from it a groan reached heaven. Such a sound as had never been heard there. Plenty of sweet j sounds, but never an outcry of distress, j bran echo of agony. At that oue groan the Prince rose from the blissful drcnmjacence, and l started tor the onter gate* and descended into the night of this world. Out of a bright hariibr into what rough sea! “Stay with us,” ! cried angel after angel, and potentate! after potentate. “No,” said the Prince, 1 “I can not stay; I must 4** off for that wreck of a world. I must stop that groan. I must hush that distress. I must tat horn that wav, l must redeem those nations. Farewell, thrones and temples, companions cherubic,-seraphic, archangelid Excuse this absence, for I •r yrvif' 3 ’'" ~ t •' -

will #ome back again, carrying on my 'shoulder a ransomed world. Till this is done I choose earthly scoff to heaven- ■ lv acclamation, and a cattle pen to a King’s palace; frigid zone of earth to atmosphere of celestial radiance. I have no time to loose; for hark ye to the groan that grows mightier while I wait. Farewell! Farewell!” “Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that,, though He was rich, yet for your ■Bakes He became poor.” ‘ Was there ever a contrast so overpowering as that between the noonday of Christ’s celestial departure and " the midnight of his earthly arrival? Sure, enough, the angels were out that night in the skv, and an especial meteor acted as escort, but that was from other worlds, and not from tniß world. The earth made no demonstration of welcome. If one of the great princes of this world steps out at a depot cheers resound, and the bands play, and the flags Wave. But for the arrival of this missionary Prince of the Bkies not a torch flared, not a trumpet blew, not a plume fluttered. All the music and pump was overhead. Our world opened for Him nothing better than a barn door. To know how poor he was,

ask the camel drivers, ask the shepherds, a°k Mary, ask the three wiso men of the slßl, who afterward came there, Voting Caspar, and tn'ddle-aged Balthasar and old Melchior. To know how poor he was examine all the record a of real estate in all that Oriental country, and see what vineyard, or what house, or what field He owned Not one. Of what mortgage was He the mortgagee? Of what tenement was He the landlord? Who ever paid him rent. Not owning the boat on which He railed, nor the beast on which He rode, nor the pillow on which He slept. He had so little estate that in order to pay His tax He had to perform a miracle, putting the amount in a fish’s mouth and having it hauled ashore. And after His death the world rushed in t® take an inventory of Ilia goods, and the entire aggregate was the garments He had worn, sleeping in them by night an travelling in them by day, bearing on them dust of the highway and the saturation of the sea. Paul in my text did not go far from hitting the mark, did'he, when he said of the missionary Prince: “For your sakes He became poor!” The world could have treated Him better if it had chosen. It had all the means for making His earthly condition comfortable. Only a few years before, when Pciiupey, the General, arrived at Brindisi, lie was greeted with srshes and a costly cojutun which celebrated the twelve million people whom he had killed or conquered, and he vas allowed to wear his triumphal robe in the. Senate. The world had applause for imperial butchers, hut buffeting for the Prince-of Peace. Plenty of golden chalices for the favored to drink out of, btu our Prince must put His lips to the bucket of the well by the roadside after. He had begged for a "drink. Poor? Bor-ri in another man’s barn and eating, at another man’s table, and cruising the lake in another man’s fishing smack, and buried in another man’s mausoleum Four inspired authors wrote of His biography and innumerable lives of Christ have been published, but He gomposed Hia autobiography in a most compressed way; He said: “I have trodden the wine press alone.” Poor in the estimation of nearly all the prosperous classes. They called Him Sabbath breaksr, wine bibber, traitor, blasphemer, and ransacked the dictionary of opprobrium from lid to lid to express their detestation. I can think now of only two well-to-do men who espoused His cause, Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea. His friends for the most part were p-ople who, in taat climate were ophthalmy or inflammation of the eyeball sweeps ever and anon as a scourge, had become blind, sick ptople who were anxious to eet. well, and troubled people, in whose family there was some one dead or d-ving.

If he had a purse at all it was empty, or we would have heard what was done yith the contents at the post-mortem. Poor? The pigeon in the dove eote, the rabbit in its burrow, the silk wornojin its cocoon, the bee in its hive, is better provided for, better off, better sheltered. Aye, the brute creation has a home on earth, which Christ has not: ~ ~ : But the Crown Prince of all heavenly dominion lias less than the raven, less than the chamois, for He"w*s homeless Aye, in the history of the universe there is no other instance of such coming down. Who can count the miles from the top of the throne to the bottom of the cross? Cle'opatra, giving a banquet to Antony, took a pearl worth a hundred thousand dollars and dissolved it in vinegar and swallowed it. But when our Prince, according to the evangelist, in His last hours t ook the vinegar, in'it had been dissolved all the pearls of His heavenly royalty. Down until there was no other depth for Uiin to touch, troubled until there was no other harassment to suffer, jjoor until there was no other pauueriuii to torture. Billions of dollars spent in wars to destroy men, who wifi furnish the statistics of the value of that precious blood that , was shed to save tost “Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though life was rich, yet for your sakes Ho became poor.”

One of John Banyan’s great boots is entitled “Abounding Grace. “It is alt of grace that lam saved” has been on tlie lips of huudreds of dying Christians. The-boy Sammy was right when, being examined for admission into church membership, he was asked: “Whose worn was your salvation?” and he answered: “Part mine aud part God’s.” The examiner asked: “What part, did you do, Sammy?” and the was: “1 opposed God all I could, and: He did the rest!” Oh, the height of it, the depth of.it, the length o f it, the breadth of it —the grace of God! Yes. yes; for your sakes! It was not on a pleasure excursion that. He came, forvt was all pain. It was not,' an astronomical exploration, for He knew thisjworld as well before He alighted as afterward. It was not because He was compelled to come, for He volunteered It was not because it was easy, for lie knew that it would be thorn, and spike, and hunger, and thirst, and vociferation of angry mobs. For vour sakes. Wipe away vour tears. To forgive your wrongdoing, to companionship vour loneliness, to soothe your sorrows, to sit up with you by the new-made grave, to bind-up your wounds in the uelv battle with the world and bring you home at last, kindiing up the mists that fail on vour dying vision with the sunlight of a glorious morn. For your sakes! I will ehaDge thatT —Paul will not care, and Gimat will not eare if I changjFit, for I must get into the blessedness of the text mv6elf, and so I sav: “For our »

sakes!” For we all have oilr temptations and bereavements and conflicts. Bor onr sakes! We who deserve for our sins to be expatriated into a world as much poorerthan thlsas this earth was poorer than heaven. F'or our sakes! But what a fruitful .coming down Jto take us gloriously up! Fur uur sakes! Oh* the personality of this religion! Not an abstraction; not an arch under which' we walk to behold elaborate masonry; not an ice castle like that which Empress Elizabeth of Russia over a hundred years ago"ordered constructed, winter, with its trowel of crystal cementing the hug * blocks that likd been* quarried from the frozen rivers of the NtOrth, but a father’s house with a wide hearth crackling a hearty welcome. A religion of warmth and inspiration and light and cheer—something we can take into our hearts and homes, and business recreations and joys and Borrows. Not an unmanageable, gift like the galley presented to Ptolemh. which ’ required four thousand men to row, and its draught of water was so great that it could not come near the shore, hat something you can run up any stream of annoyance, however shallow:- Eu richmeiit now, enrichment forever!

HAD APENCHANT FOR WIDOWS.

A Claim Arr*st**<l on a Charge of o Securing Illegal Pension*. A bold and successful case of fraud in drawing pensions has been brought to light by the United States authorities. General Black,Commissionerof Pensions at Washington, has been engaged for several months in examining the rolls of pension agencies, and in his investigation he discovered that there were a grets number of widowed pensioners residing in Toronto, Canada. The number was so large as to excite hiseuepicion and he sent for the papers in the claims. He subsequently learned that James H* McGindley, alias J. H. Martin, alias H. B. Mason, wa3 the attorney in all these cases. The former residence of these widowed pensioners had been Quincy, 111., hut for some unaccountable reason "they had all moved to Canada. When General" Black made these discoveries the matter was placed in the hands erf a special examiner. It Is Claimed that theexamination resulted in finding that fraudulent vouchers had been made out- by McGindley, who has succeeded, it is alleged, in cheating the government out of over $15,000 by his slick echem4ng. Mt-GintHey hasuYsided-m-Oieveland,-0.. for some time, and wa3 arrested there, Monday. McGindley had a hearing before United States feommissioner Williams, Monday afternoon, and was bound over to the United States District Court. Eighteen years ago this man -was arrested in Macon City, Mo., on a similar charge, but he was not convicted. He was next heard from in New Orleans, and the United States Pension Examiners were after him there. It was reported, however, that he had died erf yellow fever. He did not contradict the report, and tbe government detective went back to Washington firmly believing the man was dead. McGindley has made a full confession, ad nutting that he was the man tbs officers were after, and that he has been carrying on a fraudulent pension business for nearly twenty years, securing many thousands of dollars.

THE CASE OF WM. KISSANE.

Judge Sawyer Rule* t'uat Under tli» Statute of Limitation Kiasana Woes Acquit. Bv a ruling of "Judge Sawyer, of the United Sta'es Circuit Court, at San Francisco, Momhtv, the ease—against Win, Kissane, which achieved such wide notority owing to the career of Kissane, at the East, was practically ruled out Of court under the statute of limitations. Judge Sawyer sustained the demurrer interposed by Kissane to the suit commenced by the C-hemietd National Bank, of New York, whiclr in effect dismissed t-hi*.suit or any others that may be commenced against Kissan«, known in California as Wm. K. ■Rogers. Tho progress of the' venture of the bank has been closely watched. Judgment was asked for $4,250 and inlerestat 7 per cent, from Aug. 30, 1854, amounting to about $14,000. The officers of the bank claimed to have lost that sum through the swindle conduct ed hv Kissane, Lyman Cole and Andrew Finley. The wanderings of Rogers in Niearauga and this State were set forth, and the bank asked that Rogers be restrained from setting up the statute of limitations to prevent the progress of 7 the suit. Judge Sawyer, in rendering his decision, reviewed the circumstances I of the case, and in a few words announced that the bill of demurrer was sustained. The complaint he defeated insufficient and stale, and no reasonable cause existed for granting the' restraining order. He said that after being discharged, Kissane was at. all times liable to suit until the operation of the statute of limitations. The bank neglected to commence an action. The plea of the I plaintiffs to the effeqt that the statute j should not apply; because Rissane’s j whereabouts were unknown, was dis- j regarded. Judge Sawyer said that even j if Kissane did disguise himself and as-j suiue an allias, it did not disbar him i front having the full benefit of the statute. '■ ■■ ■ — London Wm’s n C.itholic L >nl M-iyor. London has elected Palydore Keeper, alderman for Farriugton-without, Lord Mayor. He is a Roman Catholic, proprietor of the Royal hotel, Biidgestreet,! Blacklriars. and a Belgian. He is the" first Catholic elected Lord Mayor since the reformation.

THE G. A. R. ENCAMPMENT.

.... wr-4. Wonderful Increase In Membership of the Organization, flit Commander-In-Chief* Addreit*—The Kemtan Committee** Report. • . The National Encampment G. A. R. metal exposition hall St. Louis Wednesday. Commander-ip-Chief Fairchild’s address wasvery lengthy. The statistical report shows that the total number of members borne on the rolls'of the order at this last National Encampment was 326,499. The number reportjed June 30,1887, was 372,67. In 1880 t life re were 60,631 members. In the last five quarters there liave been mustered in to the Grand Army 72 355. There were reported June 30, 1887, in good standing 336,762, suspended 25,220; by delinquent reports 10,892; total at last returns borne upon the rolls, 372,67 4. An increase in membership that must be gratifying to all members. The amount reported expended in charity" March, 1886, to March, 1887, inclusivfe |is $253 934 43. This money was disbursed to 27,607 comrades and their families, and 8,999 others were assisted, giving 28,606 individuals who had received benefits during the year. 3,406 members had died during the year, i Gen. Fairchild concluded with the following: “With the people of the South we only seek to continue the friendly rivalry long ago entered upon in the effort to make onr beloved land great and prosperous and its people dilligent, happy and virtuous. We will rival them in exalting all that pertains to and honors this great Union and in condemning everything that tends to foster a hos tile sentiment thereto. We will rival them in earnest endeavors to inculcate in the minds of all the citizens of this country and especially of our children a beartteTt love for the United States of America, to the end that present and coming generations shall in every part of the land believe in and “maintain true allegience thereto, based upon a paramount respect for and fidelity to its constitution and laws,” which will lead them to “discountenance whatever tends to weaken loyalty, incite insurrection and treason, or in any manner impair the efficiency and permanency of ourfree institutions,” and will impel them to “encourage the spread of universal liberty, equal rights and justice to ail, men;” and to defend these sentiments, which are quoted from the fundamental law of our order, with their lives if need be, and to the further end that they shall so revere the emblems of the Union that under no circumstances can be coupled with them in the same honorable terms the symbols of a sentiment which is antagonistic to its perpetuity.” The committee on pensions submitted their report Thursday. Ttiey relate their efforts to procure liberal legislation from Congress and the fate of the dependent pension bill. The committee wereat Washington during the debates in Congress over the bill. It was far from what they wanted, but it at least would have removed 12,000 veterans from pauper houses. They call attention to the Mexican pension bill, far more liberal than the one far pensioning the soldiers against tbe rebellion. This bill met the approval of the President and they were fairly stunned when from the same hand came a veto of the measure of like the Veterans of the war against treason. They appealed to tho Grand Army.of i.he Republic, and the response came from 800.000 members in no uncertain tones.' The committee therefore prepared a new pension bill. This bill makes provision for pensions to all veterans who are or ntav hereafter become unable to earn their own livelihood; for direct, continuanee of pensions for widows in their own right; for an increase of the present pittance to minor children and for fathers or mothers from any date of dependence. Such a law would at once remove fully 12,000 voter-

! ans from the public almshouse* where | they now rest, making them pensioners i instead of paupers, provide pensions for fully as many more, now dependent upon-private charity, and put into the general pension laws, for the first time, the recognition of the principle, that pensions may be granted to,Burvivorsof the la:e war without absolute., proof of disability arising from the service, proof almost impossible to procure after the lapse of more than twenty years. The hill is similar in general principle to that vetoed, but the objectionable pauper clause is omitted, making this a disability and not a dependent,bill. The result of submitting tins bill to the comrades of the Grand Aamy ot the Republic, shows that whatever legislation some of the romntr’es desire, they are practically unanimous for everyhing contained in this bill. Whateverelse may be desirable, the committee knows from the experience of five years that any additional legislation is only to be secured inch by inch, after most persistent effort. Your committee therefore recommend the continuance oi earnest effort in favor of the followdngr The bill prepared by this committee, granting pensions to all veterans now disabled or in need; to mothers and fathers from date of dependence; continuance of pensions to widows in their own right, and increase for minIwchMren; all of the recommendationr for increase and equalization of pensions

1 ■ i ■ v p. | ■ ■ • . ■ . i ■ for disabilities, made in his /recent report by Pension Commissioner Black; a pension of twelve dollars per 'month to all widows of honorably discharged soldiers and sailors of the late war; increased pension’s for tbe severer disabilities, substantially as presented in the bill prepared by the United States Maimed Veterans League; pensions for the survivors of rebel prisons, substantially as presented in the bill of tha national association of prisoners of war; incresed pensions for loss of hearing or, eye-sight; a re-enactment of the arrears law, and an equitable equalization of bounties; the same pension for th® widow of the representative volunteer soldier of the Union a-my—John A. Logan—as is paid to the widows of those typical regulars, Thomas, the Rock of Chicksmauga, and Hancock, always “the superb.” The committee on the annual address of the Commander-ia-Chief endorses the address and congratulates Com-mander-in-Ghief Fairchild and the Grand Army of the Republic upon his administration of the past year, stating that all of the official acts and every sentiment contained in the address meets the approval of the committee, and they believe with the approval of the comrades. To the discharge of the delicate and assiduous duties of the high office, so deservedly bestowed by the twentieth National encampment, comrade Fairchild brought rare tact and talent. He has fearlessly and faithfully discharged every duty, always having in view ttie best interests of the Grand Army of the Republic. The National Encampment, G. A. R., Friday afternoon, elected officers for the ensuing year. For Commander in Chief General 11. W. Slocum, General J. P. Kt-a, General I). P. Anthony7“and General D. P. Grier were nominated. Slocum received 153, Anthony received 66 Grier reor-ired 48 and Jtea_294. The Commander in Chief ig a resident of Minneapolis. Nelson Cole, of Missouri, was fdected Senior Vice Commander The Junior Vice Commander was John C. Ltnahan, of New Hampshire. Gen. Lawrence Donahue was elected Surgeon General. Rev. Edward Anderson vas elected Chaplain in Chief. Irvin Robbins represents Indiana in the council of administration. The committee on the I.ogan monument reported, recommending that a fund bo provided for the •erection of an equestrian statue at Washington. Governor Alger subscribed SI,OOO, and George G. Lemon subscribed SI,OOO.

EVICTIONS IN IOWA.

The Outrnge* in Ireland Om Our Western Prairies By Aliens. The general land offiee is in receipt of information that a British syndicate, which is said to have purchased a large tract of land in lowa from the McGregor Western railroad company, is mercilessly evicting settlers, the title to the land being in dispute in the state courts. A settler writes: “Women over sixty years old, sick in bed, have been taken by six men and carried into the driving storm. Delicate women have had their hands tied with cord 3 till their flesh was bruised and then dragged, shrieking, from their homes, Children have been born prematurely at sight of the band of evictors. Strong men have been run down by rn Qians on horseback and then handcuffed' and dragged from their little posessions. I might go on and multiply instances where the sheriff, with a writ of ejectment in one hand and a British contract in the other, gave these poor people their choice between these two evils which they would take.” Affidavits of the cruelties practiced are being collected, says this writer, for use at Washington next winter, and will be read in both HouS< s of Congress. They are-ex pec led to create a sensation when tin: people £u,ily to.realize what the native American pioneers are suffering at the hands of the new invaders.’

A NEW DEPARTURE.

Eleotion of a Catholic IVicgt, an Principalof a Public School* At an eleijjion for principal of the thirty-third school, at Pittsburg, Pa.,. Monday night, Rev. Father McTighe,a Roman Catholic priest, was chosen. The election ha's caused considerable discussion in religious circles, as it is believed to be the first time on lecord that a Catholic priest has ever been called upon to filtH-similar position in the public schools. The reason that the Catholic clergyman applied for the principalship was, as he claims, because there are over four hundred Catholic children in that ward, and only thirty or forty Protestant children. The Catholic people will not send their children to the public schools on account of tber.e being no religion taught there, and Father McTighe claims that when they pay most of the school taxes in the ward they should have some of the benefits.

Epidemic of Drnnkeunegs at Washingtou,An epidemic of drunkenness would seem to have prevailed in the army and navy during the summer, affecting even the Military academy at West Point and the civil bureaus of both departments. . .•

Over 300 Drowned.

Word was received at London, Thursday.of a Chinese transport in the Pescodores Islands. Art English captain, all tbe officersando-ver 306 soldiers were drowned.