Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1887 — Page 6

*ght ikpublican. Geo. E. Marshall, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - INDIANA

“Yovnw Robert Garrett, the little railroad “magnate’' has gone to Mexico to spend the winter. His,last words on boarding the train were: “Don’t allow Jay Gould to capture Maryland while I’m away.” This was a very sinister cut from little Robert. But what would .Jay Gould want with Maryland? He captured the best part of it when he gobbled the B. A 0., railroad, and Jay only handles preferred collateral. So far as this country is concerned it eould, possibly get along without either Mr. Garrett, Mr. Gould, or the State of Maryland. By the way, some of Mr. Garrett’s biographers are trying to make it appear that that gentleman has become a monomaniac on. telegraphy,if not entirely irresponsible and “loony” on other subjects. It is expected that before long a practical test of one of the numerous harnesses for the control of Niagara’s Dower, brought into existence under the stimulus of a SIOO,OOO prise, will receive a practical test which will demonstrate its use or prove it a failure, and give something further on to base arguments that Niagara contains no great shakes of available power. An endless ehain, with feathering buckets, was an invention of a Buffalo man. The rights for Erie and Niagara counties he sold for $65,000. He says tie has a contract for that amount. A stock company with $1,000,OtO capital is to be formed if the coming test proves successful. George W. Smith has obtained backing to the amount of SIO,OOO, which is the amount a 1,000horse power machine will cost, and received the necessary permission of the Secretary of War to place the machinery in the river. Mechanical drawings are now being made and it is expected that the machine will be tested this fall.

SOMEWHAT STRANGE.

A Belmont County (Ohio) farmer rejoices in a heterogeneous collection of freaks, consisting of a pig whose feet are split so as to give it the appearance of having toes. another wkhi three ears, a cat with one ear growing wrong side out And a boy with three thumbs. Mrs. Charlotte Tubbs, of Caroline county, Md., recently gave birth to four babies, all of whom are alive. The addition to her family makes her the mother of nine children, all of whom were born within five years. Among the older children are two pairs of twins. A gentleman hunting for land in Dakota came across a boarded up claim shanty, with half a dozen boards across the door, upon which were the following touching inscriptions: “Four miles from a nayber. Sixty miles from a postoffis. Twenty-five miles from a raleroad. A hundred and atety from timber. 250 feet from water. God bless our home. We have gone east to spend the win’er with my wife’s folks.” Some wicked young Boston men met in their club-house the other evening to play poker, and one of their number suggested that the winnings be given to a man who recently had been arrested in the North End, for stealing cabbages for his starving family. This was agreed to, nd at the close of the game the winne ook a carriage, liunted up the cabbage thief’s home and made his family happy with a very respectable sum of money. A funny fellow who owns a didaonm has been creating amusement for himself And wrath in the breasts of his victims by cutting various legends into the plate glass fronts of stores at Battle • Creek. Among his favorite inscriptions are: “Saloon,” in bold characters, for drug stores; “Undertaker two doors west,” for doctor’s offices; “Poker room upstairs.’’for saloon windows; “We are all liars,” for clothing stores, and “Come early and avoid the rush,’’ for banks. An observant Pittsburger savs: “If you want to tell a woman’s temper- , watch her eyelids. You can read -a man the same way, but not so readily. A woman with a fiery temper will move her eyelids with a snap, and that snap betrays her. Another who is easygoing and hard to arouse moves her eyelids languidly. One with a quick brain and temperjurious when aroused, just winks steadily, but neither quickly nor slowly un'il engaged ia interesting conversati-m.” A “bearded pebble,” as he calls it, is in possession of a Norwich (Conn.) man. It came fromOrab Ledge, m-ar Nan tucket, is about as large as a hen’s egg, and on Its smooth surface is a mass of filaments that resemble nothing so much as hair. The stone has been out of water for nearly two years, and yet the hairs, hich are over an inch long, look Vigo-ous and life like. It is Bud that a M vvuchusetts collector has one of these stones that has been out of the waUr ter <orty ye .rs, in which time - the hairs have doubled in lengh: J _ y- ar ir two ago there-wr-re s-arted two or papers in English, in India to«.p Christianity, an.! tfc.-y ifav< cease are -dv, Wh - n - pita uluccs— —-rrtf — e luc lion is tinrahed, and net' a mornrrt tioner.

DEFENSE OF YOUNG MEN

They Should Rejoice Before the Days of Sin Draw Near, Ami Beware of the Tempter Who Would Lead Tnelr Feet AMiny-Let Bight be i Your Ouide l.’htoa Brighter Day. Rev. Dr. Talmage preached pt Brooklyn Tabernacle last SundayV'/SubjecT, "Defense of Young Text, 11. Kings, vi.,17. He said; Many young men, standing among the most tremendous realities, have their eyes half shut or entirely closed May God grant that my sermon may open wide your eyes to your safety, your opportunity and your des'inyf A mighty defense for a young man is a goo<J home. Some of my hirers look back with tender satisfaction to their early home. It may have been rude and rustic, hidden among the hills, and architect or upholsterer never planned or adorned it. But all the fresco on princely walhrnever looked so enticing to you as those, rough hewn rafters. You can think of no park or arbor of trees planted on fashionable countryseat so attractive as the plain brook that ran in front of the old farm house and sang under the weeping willows. No barred gateway adorned with stattie of bronze, and swung open by obsequious porter in full dress, has halt the glory of the swing gate. Many of you have a second dwelling place, your adopted home, that also is sacred forever. There you built the first family altar. There your children were born. All those trees you planted. That room is solemn, because once in it, over the hot pillow, flappped the wing of death. tJndei that roof you expect,wiien your work is done, to lie down. L and die. You try with many words to tell the excellency the place, but you fail. There is only one word in the language that can describe yonr meaning. It is home.

Now, I deciare it, that young man is comparatively safe who goes out into the world with a charm like, this upon him. The memory of parental solicitude, watching, planning and praying, will be to him a shield and a shelter. I never knew a man faithful both to his early and adopted home, who at the same time was given over to any gross fo~m of dissipation or wickedness. He who seeks his enjoyment from outside association, rather than from the more quiet and unpresuming pleasures of which 1 have spoken, may be suspected to be on the broad road to ruin. Absalom despised his father’s house, and you know his history of sin and his death of shame. If you seem unnecessarily isolated from your kindred and former associates, is there not some room that you’’ can call your own? into it gather books and pictures and a harp. Have a portrait over the mantel. Make ungodly mirth stand back from the threshold. Consecrate yme spot with the knee of pt»Ver, By the memory of other days, a ' father's counsel and a mother’s love and a sister’s confidence, call it home. Another defense for a young man is industrious habit. Many voting men,in starting upon life in this age, expect to make their way through the world by the use of their wits rather than by the toil of their hands. A child now goes to the. city, and fails twice before, he is as old as his father was when he first sa w the spires of the great town. Sitting in some office, rented at a thousand dollars a year, he is waiting for the bank to declare its dividend, or goes into the market expecting before night to be made rich by the rushing up of the stocks. But luck seemed so dull he resolved on some other track Perhaps he borrowed from his employer’s money-drawer,and forgets to put itback, or for merely the purpose of improving his penmanship makes a copv-plate of a ' merchant’s signature. Never mind, all is right in trade. In .some dark night I there may come in his dreams a vision of Blackwell’s Island, or bi Sing Sing, but it soon vanishes. In a short time he will be ready to retire from the busy world, and amid his flocks and . herds • culture the domestic virttfes. Tbffn those young men who were once his school-mates, and knew no better than to engage in honest work, will come with their ox-teams to draw his logs, and with their bard hands help, heave up his castle. This is no fancy picture. It isever-day life, I should pot wonder if there were some rotten beams in that beautiful palace. I should not wonder if dire sickness should smite through the young man. or if God should pont into his cup of life's draught that would tbrill him with unbearable agony. 11 should not wonder if his children should - become to him a living curse, making i his home a pest and a disgrace. I should not wonder he goes to a miserable g ave and beyond it into the gnashing of teeth. The way of the ungodly shall perish. My young friends, there is no way to genuine success except through toil, either of the head or hand. Do not get the fatal idea that you are a genius, and that, therefore, there is no need of close apr’hcatiom titudes fail. The great curse of this age. is the geniuses, men with enormous i self-conceit and egotism, and nothing ' else. I had rather be an ox than an i eagle; plain and plodding ami useful ' rather than high-flying ard good lor) nothing but. to pick out the exes of ea r - j easses. Extraordinary capacity- without : use is extraordinary ’’a; hire. There is ! no hope for that person who begins life ; I resolved to live by his wits, for the probability js he has not ay y. It. was j ; not safe for Adam, even in hie unfallen ■ state to have nothing to. d and, there-; fore. God commanded rnmTcrbe'a fitiiier ' and horticulturist. He waS to dress the : garden and keep it, and ha! he and his wneobeyed the Divine injunction and been at work, they would not have beep, sauntering under t trees and Hungering after .that fruit which destroyed them and their posterity; proof positive for all ages tocome that ’those who do not attend to their business are i sure to get into mischief. I do not | know that the prodigal in Scripture would ever have been reclaimed had he not given up his idle habits and gone to feeding swine for a living. The devil i does not often attack the man who is ! busy with the pen. and the book, and 1 trowel, ami the saw, and the hammer. IHe is afraid of those weapons. But woe l to the man whom th.sro.iring lion meets i with his hands in his pockets Do. notcemand that your toil always be elegant, | and cleanly and refined. * Thera is acertain amount of drudgery throughwhich we all must pa-s, whatever be our occupa ion. You know how men>re yenteneed,- a orraain number ~at ' years to nrisom-and hfter thev have • suffered and worked out the time, then 1 they are allowed to go iree. And bo it

is with all-of tie. God passed on us the sentence: “By the sweat of thy brow sihalt thou eat bread/’ We must endure ourdime drudgery, and then, After a while, we will be allowed to go into comparative libeity. We must be willing to endure the sente nee. We all know where drudgery ig connected with one tieginning of any trade or profession, but this does not continue all our lives, if it be the student’s, or the merchant’s, or the mechanic's life. 'I knuU you have at the beginning many a hard time, but after awhile these things will) become easy. You tyill be year own master. God’s sentence will lie satisfied. You I will be discharged from prison. Again, profound respect for the Sabbath will be to the young man a powerful preservative agai nst evil. God has bust into the toil and fatigue of life a recreative day, when the soul is especially to be fed. It is no new-fangled notion of a w ihi brained reformer,but an institution established at the beginning. God haA made natural and moral laws so harmonious that the body, as well as the soul, demands this institution. Our bodies are seven-day clocks, that must bewoundup as often as that, or they will run down. Failure must come sooner or later to the man who breaks the Sabbath. Inspiration has called it the Lord’s Day, and he who devotesit to the world is guilty of robbery. God will not let the sin go unpunished, either in this world or the world to Some.

Again, a noble ideal and confident exI pedal ion of approximating to it will in- ) faliibly advance. The artist completes ;in his mind the great thought that he j wishes to transfer to the canvass or the marble before he takes up the crayon or the chisel. The architect plans out the entire structure before he orders the workmen to begin, and though there may for a long while seem to be nothing but blundering and rudeness he has in his mind every Byzantine capital. The poet arranges the entire plot before he begins to chime the first canto of tingling rhythms. And yet, stranger to us, there are men who attempt to build their character without knowing whether in the end it shall be a rude traitor’s den, or a St. Mark s of Venice. Men who begin to write the intricate poem of their lives without knowing whether it shall be a Homer’s Odyssey or a rhymester's; botch. Nine hundred and ninetynine men out of a thousand are living without any great life-plot. Booted and spurred, and plumed, and urging their swift courser in the hottest haste. Every day’s dmy ought only to be the following up of the main plan of existence, Let then be consistent. If they prefer misdeeds to correct courses of action, then let them draw out the design of knavery and cruelty and plunder. Let every day’s falsehood and wrong doing be added as coloring to the picture. Let bloody deeds red stripe the canvass, and the clouds of a wrathful God hang down heavily over the canvass, ready to break out in clamfrous tempest. Let the waters be chafed, a frost tangle, and green with immeasuraole depths. Tnen take a torch of burning pitch and scorch into the frame of the picture the right name for it—namely, “The Soul’s Suicide.” If one entering upon sinful direc tions would only in his mind or on paper draw out in awful reality this dreadful future, he would recoil from it and spy: “Am I a Dante, that by my own life I should write another Infer no?” But if you are resolved to live a life such as God and good men will approve, do not let it be a vague dream, an indefinite determination, but in your mind or upon paper sketch it in all its minutlee. You can not know the changes to which you may be subject, but you may know what always will be right and what always will be wrong. There are magnificent possibilities before each of you young men of the stout heart and the buoyant step and the bounding spirit. I would., marshal you for grand achievement. God now provides for you the fleet and the armor ami the fortifications. Who is on the Lord’s side? Be not, my hearer, dismayed at any time by what seems immense odds against you. Is fortune, is want of Education, are men, are devils against you, though the multitudes of earth and hell confront you, stand up to the charge. With a million against you the match is just even. Nay, you have a decided advantage. If God be for us, who can be against us? Thus protected, you need not spend much time in answering your assailants.

The' mightiest of all defense for a young man is the possession of thorough religipus principle Nothing can take the place of it. He may have manners that would put to shame the gracefulness and courtesy of a Lord Chesterfield. Foreign languages may drop from his tongue. . He may’ be able to discuss literatures and laws and .foreign customs. He may wield a pen of Unequalled polish and power. His quickness and tact mav_gnalify him for trie highest salary of the counting-house. He may be as sharp as Herod and as strong as Samson, with as fine locks as those which hung Absalom, still he is not safe from contamination. The more elegant his manner, and the more fascinating his (tress, the more peril. Satan does not care much for the allegienee of a coward and illiterate being. He can not bring him into efficient service. But he loves to storm that castle of character which has in it the most spoils and treasures. It was not some crazy craft, creeping along the coast with a vaiuless cargo, that the pirate attacked, butthe ship, f ull- winged and flagged, plying‘between great ports, carrying its millions of specie. The more your natural and acquired accom pHshmente the more nee l ot the religion of Jesus. That does not cut in upon Ot hack up any smoothness of disposition or behavior. It gives symmetry. It arrests that in the. soul which ought to be arrested and propels that which ought to be propelled. It fills up the gulleys. It elevates and transforms. To beauty it gives more beauty, to tact more tact, to enthusiasm ol nature more enthusi’ asm. When the Holy Spirit impresses the image of God on the heart He does not spoil the canvass. If in all the multitudes of young men upon whom,religion has acted you could find one nature that had been the least damaged I would yield this proposition. You may now have enough strength of character po. repej □kt to gross wickedness, which assail you, butfdonor know in what strait you may be thrust at some future time. Noting sport of. the grace of the cross may then be able to deliver you from Ute lions You are not meeker than Moses, nor than David, nor more patient than Jobfand you ought not to cotei.teryourself invulnerable. (You may have some weak, point of character. that you have never discovered, and in !

some hour when you assaulted the Philistines wilLbe U pon thee, Samson. Trust not in your good habits, or your early training, dr yotir pride ( of character. Nothing short of the arm of A), mighty Grod will be sufficient to uphold you 1. p Many years ago I atood on the anni I versary platform with a minister of J GhriSt who made this remarkable statement: “Thirty years ago two young men ) startediout in the eveningjo attend Park Theater, New York, where a play was to be acted in which the cause of religion was to he placed in a ridiculous and hypocritical light. They came to the steps. . The consciences of both smote them. One started to go home, but returned again to the door, and yet had not courage to enter, and finally departed. But the other young man entered the pit of the theater. It was the turning point in the history of those two young men. The man who entered was caught in the whirl of temptation. He sank deeper and deeper in infamy. H was lost. That other young man was saved, and he now stands before you to bless God for that twenty years he has been permitted to preach the Gospel.” “§Hoice, O, young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheerthebin days of thy youth; but know thou that for all these things Gbd will bring thee into judgment.” ,

FARM NOTES.

The best way to kill willows is to peel them three or feet from the ground to the earth, severing the bark from the tree, which should be done the latter part of the Spring, leaving the trees to stand, which die and make excellent ) stove-wood. j There are immense forests of Ifemlock in Oregon and Washington Territory, but the bark is said to be nearly destitute of tannin, and therefore useless for maufacturing leather. The mos lannin is found in the hemlocK of Maine, and the further west the trees gro w the less tannin is to be found. A large crop of chinch bugs was raised on the lowa agricultural farm this season. The number found on one square inch of soil sewn to Hungarian grass was found by actual count to be 3,023. Who said agricultural colleges are of no value to farmers, and that the professors in them do not earn their salaries? '■ Where the weeds have been mowed and become dry it would be best to burn the field where they fell rather than to do so in heaps, if they had seeded before being mowed, as burning them in that manner will destroy a large number of seeds which would be shaken out on the ground if the weeds should be heaped in piles. A farmer in the south of England recently fell down a precipice, a distance over sixty feet, and was dashed to pieces by coming in contact with the rocks. His collie, . dog went to the body and barked till 1•h id called the neighbors. He piloted them down to the place where his master lay, followed the body home, and kept watch over it till it was placed in the grave. Dorset sheep have been recommended for raisingin the Southern States, principally for the reason that they breed twice a year. In the east of England the lambs dropped in the fall are sold at high prices during the midwinter holidays, and are a source of great profit to the farmers. Obviously there would be no profit in fall lambs when winters are as cold as they~are~i’n - the” Northern States;

The Russian mulberry must have the credit of being really by far the haridest of the mulberries, ft is but little injured by our severest winters. Its fruit does not amount to ui'.;.-., but it makes a pretty small tree, and if silk cultureever gets a foothold in America, it will extend the possibility of producing that commodity some two, hundred miles further-north than heretofore. Very elastic caoutchouc tubing /gradually loses some of its elasticity. Later, the tubes break on stretching, even if previously laid in warm water, aiiif finally they crack if pressed between the fingers. This change is put down to a very slow formation of sulphuric acid by the action of moist air on the sulphur contained in the caduthbuc. By fre queni; washing with, slightly alkaline waler the action of the acid is prevented In his annual message the Governor

of Wyoming notes the decadence of the cattle business ss compared with former years, and says that the hard winters and s arcity of food are bringing about the result of confining the cattle more to one locality, where they can be sheltered and fed in the winter. The cattle in this way becoming partially domesticate d, will, he thinks, increase in numbers, and the time is near at hand whefl ■there will be more cattle’to the square mile m Wyoming than ever before. The potato bug made two simultaneous appearances in Germany this year one in Saxony and one in Hanover. The German government at once had men at work, who carefully picked all the bugs and larvae off the plants. The stems of the vines were then cut off,and placed in baskets flined with sacking, which were thoroughly soaked in benzine oil, and buried deep in the ground. After this the ground was plowedbwelve of fourteen inches deep, and well harr o wed. an it the surface pi eked o verier any insects that might bepn.it. Finaßy the land was well saturated with benzine oil. In one case eight acres and Jn another three quarters of an acre hiyl to be treated in this way. J Even reckotiitigmiakes la-itin:' friends and the way to make reckonings is to make them often.

CURRENT POLITICS.

The Tariff Issue— Baltimore's Ilnndj. age.-Suggestive Figure's Hom the Soui h-Etc., Eflc. I ,—.— .~ * ■'——- ' 1 Gen, Henry K, Jackson made a ' ing and grandiloqnent speech at Macon, fin which he pictured the proc<-osiun of i he future which should glorify the cause of human liberty and progress, and said: “In that triumphal procession Abraham Lincoln shall not move as the rightful President, but Jefferson Davis the so-called ‘traitor,’ leader of the socalled ‘lost’ cau»e.” Another speaker, Gen. Clement A. Evans, referred to Jeff Davis as the “grand old man,”, and said: “Rightly is he reckoned tfie sublimest of living men. No monarch on earth has such heartfelt tributes paid him by his people as you give this day. No other living man could be accorded such demonstrations without exciting suspicion. But he receives them as the outpouring of the popular heart to a loved man who Was the only President of the Confederacy, a President once, now and forever.” We should like to say something on this text, but it would be waving the bloody shirt. —Indianapolis Journal.

Baltimore’s Bondage. Baltimore American. Fraud is again triumphant in our city. The united and energetic work of ReI publicans and reformers was powerless yesterday against intrenched corruption. The miserable election law which the Democratic managers fling to with the desperation of drowning men, afforded ample opportunities for the repetition of the pernicious practices which have so often made a farce of elections in this city and State, and again defeated tfie will of the people. Repeating in its most aggravated form prevailed in the Democratic strongholds. The result was foreshadowed when it was made manifest that the courts of justice, though they surrendered all their time to the herculean task, were unable to purge the registration lists to any appreciable extent. With honest registration, the suppression of lawlessness and intimidation and a fair count, Mr. Bartlett would undoubtedly have swept the city by 10,000 majority; but the registers and the roughs stood as impregnable barriers between the people and honest efforts for their enfranchisement. The appointment of reputable supervisors and honest judges is a mockery as long as subservient registrars remain to obey the wishes of the managers instead of the laws they are sworn to execute, and thus employ-the tactics of bullying and intimidation so successfully inaugurated in 1875 and practiced since then. Brave men will not always..quietly .submit to the wholesale robbery of their rights as free men, and the bosses are piling up for themselves a debt which will some day or other be paid with compound interest. A mong the tricks resorted to yesterday to defeat the will of the people, the most common and effective was the misspelling of the names of voters or the substitution of initials. Thousands were thus deliberately disfranchised who would have polled plumpers against the foul wrongs which are annually perpetrated on a long suffering people.

Suggestive Figures. Washington Special. The evidence Taken in the contested election case of Smalls, of South Carolina, against Elliot, makes an interesting presentation of the figures for the last Cbngrei-sional elections in.tuaC Si-ale The loiais fur the districts, have heretofore been given, but a comparison of those with the number of colored voters in each district, as shown- by the last census, gives them additional interest and importance. ~ In six of the Congressional districts the Republicans made no nomination,' deeming it useless, to do so under the system of counting them out, although the number of colored voters in each of the districts was three times the Democratic vote by which the Democratic candidates for Congress were elected. ” rhe eubjeci, is best presented in tabular ‘ 7 Col. voters L»i«triei.! 7^Dem. vote. Ren. vote. “iilDisV ~ ’ Fir5t....3,515 None 11,884 S-eoiid.J >.212 ; None .16,288-, Third..... 4.A02 i None 12,>07 Fourth...'. 4.470 I None 16.385 Fifth .1.......4.696 I None 12,669 Sixth 4.411 None 1:1,Ills - Seventh 6,493 6,941 32,863 The Republicans did not venture to run a ticket in any district but the Seventh. This was onh of great extent and most irregular shape, its lines, being so run as to throw as great, a part of the colored vote in the vicinity of Charleston into one district, and so tive the whites a better chance in the ad joining distric’s. The regifltration of this district shows a majority of colored voters of 25,<’00 It had always been a district in which the colored vote waspractically unanimously Republican. The total number of white votes in the district is by the census only 7,695, while the census shows 32,893 colored voters. Qf this latter number at least 30,090 never voted anything but a Republican ticket, in fact, so set are this number in heir Republicanism tba iColonel E liott pleads in his brief, and estHblished by his testimony, that a colored man who vpted the Democratic ticket was in danger of losing his property, his church"privileges, and hi? fkmily and social relations. Yet, in spite of ali the-s?- thinjis. Mr. Smalls, a popu'ar can/b iate. wh > had beem previously four times elected to. Congress,

> was counted out, being given only one* ; filth ai the colored vote, and his comI' petitpr was declared elected by a majority of 532. It will b 6 noticed that in ■>i x 'Congrersidnal districts *of South , 4 418 votes io elect .a member ,of the : House of Representatives. I —■ - •' \ ‘ Froticr.iwu Argument in Virginia. ’ Petersburg, Pa , Index-Appeal. Ditu. Nobody need iuiotiiitei.be j urpose and efleet of anti-protection movements, no matter what pretenses it may seek to disguise these. They are manifestly intended, and will just as surely operate, to the importation of foreign products. They work to suppress home developments and independence. They are in the interests of other countries and against those of our own land. They are adverse to that diversity of enterprise and industry i alone can give this wide Republic seli- ! sustaining thrift; and their end is to I degrade and subdue all our meritorious productive energies to the European level, where speculative trade can drive and cheat them at. will. The Tariff IsHue. Congressman William D. Kelly, of Pennsylvania, in a recent interview, said among other things: “It rests with the Democratic majority of the House to take the initiative in this matter. The President, in view of his dpty to offer such suggestions as he may have to Congress,will be the method by which such action by the Fiftieth Congress will be invited. To prepare himself Mr. Cleveland has held a series of conferences wictueiich of the leaders of his party as he cared to talk with. It is said that the result., of these conferences will not only be ‘he embodiment of suggestions in the President’s message to Congress, but the submission of a detailed scheme of revenue revision, “The popular impression appears to be that that wing of the Democratic party that is called protectionist has not been invited to those conferences at Oak View, and that it will not be prepared to indorse the conclusions which President Cleveland has accepted. How this may be I do not know. “I have heard from many sources that though Mr. Carlisle w r ould not permit the question of the repeal of the tobacco taxes to be submitted to the last session, be and his .friends have decided since then not only to permit it to be submitted, but to favor the repeal. I am told, however, that they will not consent to the abolition of any other internal tax. If the repeal of the tobacco tax shall be submitted as a separate proposition, the Republicans will undoubtedly accept it, for that reduction alone would bring thb revenue receipts down about $28,000,000 in one year.

“If, however, the proposition be connected with one to reduce customs duties in the hope of thereby curtailing the amount of current revenue, tie measure will be resisted by the Republicans. The Republican attititude on the question might be thus summed up to its free trade opponents: the object to be attained is a reduction of revenue, and this is the only means of averting a commercial crisis which may be as much greater in its tornado like effects than fhose of 1837 and 1857, as is the magnitude of tne manufacturing, financial and other interests of the country greater. Yet you propose io us to make such changes in our tariff as wRI, by inviting increased importations, emoarrass productive industries, while increasing the daily receipts of f .he.country,in spite of tiie repeal pi the tobacco taxes which vou offer.”

Coldest Temperature Ever Observed.

Lieutenant Beheutzi’s repirt of his mission to the Lena Delta. As we approached Verchoyanek [ Northern Siberia] the cold was almost unbearable, compelling a stop at nearly every inhabited yousta [native only on account, of ourselves, but more owing to the reindeer, which suffered visibly during the low temperatures. Fortunately These inhabited y ourtas ai;e not far apart as one approaches the village. Breathing was at times difficult, and on January 10ih and 11-. h [lßß6] the temperature sank to —66° Celsius, corresponding to 86 80° Fahrenheit below zero. This is the coldest, temperature ever observed, and I afterward had the satisfaction of establishing itjbeyond a doubt by the agreement of the ther mometers at Yerchoyansk, observed by exiles who were furnished with instruments by the Central Meteorological Observatory at Pavlovsk, near St. Petersburg, Yerchoyansk thus maintained its reputation of being the pole of the greatest known cold, although its latitude is only 68° nortn.

Baltimore Flection.

The Baltimore city election was held Wednesday, and resulted in a Demo* cratic victory by a majority of over 4,000, a considerable of a gain over two years ago. The Republicans had expected to make the gains, some going so far as to claim the c}tv.

A Lively Church Row.

Mrs Gault and Mrs. Ma I heney engaged in a row in church at Horseneck, W, Va., Sunday. The minister stopped hia sermon and a general knock down ens led. One lady was s“vere!y slabbed.

A Good Place for Them.

The Mormon brethren have applied to the Porte for peymi-sion to establish ~ a communty in Turkey. It is expected . the request will bt granted.