Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1887 — Page 7

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The public debt was inereaeed $1,400,950 during November. Something like cholera has broken •at in Youngstown, Ohio. Hyde Park; with 0,000 population, has been annexed to Chicago., Algerou S. Snlliv&n, the well-known New York lawyer, died Monday. (harp, the New York boodler, was released on $40,000 bail, Thursday. The surplus in the United States treasury is increasing at the rate oi $1,000,000 a day. The Chicago printers’ strike for nine hours a day and no reduction in pay has fai'ed. Governor Ames’s plurality for governor in Massachusetts was 17,60*. Thereat of the Republican ticket averaged 24,000. The Republicans claim that the Democratic majority of 1,600 in Virginia was worsen up by doctoring the returns and that the Republican majority in 6,462. Daniel Leady, Democratic inspector •f elections at Albany, N. Y., has been arrested, charged with perjury and fraud in the senatorial contest in the recent •lection. Mr. S. Tyler, while drunk at Webberville, Mich., fatally injured one of a party of boys. He was jailed and afterward set fire to the buiding, perishing in the flames.« In a battle between revenue officers and moon-shiners on Band mountain, near Chattanooga, Friday, one of the latter was mortally wounded. Their still was destroyed. James Yancy, of Scott connty, Arkansas, ran away with his employer’s wife to Indian Territory. The couple were •vertaken by the irate husband and a fight took place, in which both men were mortally wounded. The amount of land restored to the public domain through the orders revoking the imdemnity withdrawals, is stated by the commissioner of the general land office to be 21,123,6000.

The Wbitely, Fassler & Kelly receivership, at Springfield, 0., ended Friday, creditors having accepted 50 cents on the dollar. The corporation will be reorganized as the Whitely Reaper company and start the works January 1. The Stobridge Lithograph works, at dinunnati, was destroyed by fire early Thursday morning. The loss exceeds $960,000. The business of this firm wsb probably the largest of any similar concern in the United States. Jumping-dog, the Indian who fired the Cheyenne agency, a few days ago, was captured Thursday night. Friday morning he attacked his guards, and stabbed two of them to death with a pair of shears, and then committed suicide. Some time ago a movement was set en foot at’Macon, Ga., to raise by popular subscription a Jeff Davis fund. The project was heartily approved by the press and the people, and bade fair to be a great success, but it has fallen tiirough. The project was abandoned at the earnest request of Mrs. Davis. In drilling a gas well near St. Mary’s, 0., at the depth of 885 feet an immense gravel bed and flow of water was struck. The water was forced out of an eightI inch pipe, 125 feet in the air, together f with a large quantity of gravel and cobble-stone, some of them weighing t three pounds. Alexander Taylor, a driver of one of the New York mail wagons, was arrested Thursday for wholesale robbery of the mails. In one batch he secured drafts for $2,011, S6OO and $125, respectively. One letter contained thirteen drafts from a down-town bank. He cofessed his guilt and was held for examination. He had been in this country only six weeks, and had been driving the wagon three weeks. The official returns of the late New York election, completed Tuesday, show the following results for Secretary of State: Frederick Cook, (Democrat), 469,888; Frederick D. Grant, (Republican), 452,811; Henry George, (United Labor), 70,055; Dewitt C. Huntington, i (Prohibitionist), 41,850; Edward Hall, [ (Labor), 7,622; Thomas K. Beecher, I (Greenback), 958; Preston, 1,017; blank, /scratchingand defective, 1,179. Whole f number of votes, 1,045.872. Cook’s plurality, 17,077. POKhION. By shocks of earthquake which occurred at Bisigorano, Italy, Saturday, twenty persons were killed and a large number injured more or less severely. The mill-owners of Northampton, whose employes are on strike, have declared a lockout. This action renders 15,000 workers without means of obtaining employment until the masters shall see fit to resume. J

PRESIDENT GREVY RESIGNS.

rnoMli the TurmollH of a •overnment Crisis, Great excitment has prevailed in Paris for many days on account of ther demand for the resignation of President Grevy. The resignation was to have been handed in-fThursday.but the President hesitated until the deputies by a vote oi 581 to 8 declared that nothing less would suffice. Some of the deputies were infavor of impeaching him, and this coarse would undoubtedly have been taken had he made it necessary. Grpat crowds surged on the streets Thursday, Friday and Saturday,

shouting and threatening, and the troops were in constant readiness to suppress outbreaks of the commune or others. The text of M. Grevy’s resignation is as follows: So long a* I had only to eentend with the difficulties that have accumulated In my path, the attacks of the press, the abstention of the men whom the public vol <e called to my side and the increasing possibility to form a ministry, t struggled on sad remained where duty bade me but at the moment when public opinion. better informed, marked a change which gave me hope of forming a government the senate and chamber of deputies voted a sesolntion which, under the form of an adjournment to a fixed hour to await the President's promised message, is tanamount to summoning the President to resign. It wonld be my duty and right to resist, but, under the circumstances in which we are placed, a conflict between the executive and parliament might entail consequences which restrain me. Wisdom and patriotism eommand me to yield. The Congress of Senators and Deputies to elect a successor to President Grevv met at Versailles at 2 o’clock, Saturday. The balloting opened at 2:15. The result on the first Ballot wss: M. Sadi-Camnt, 303; M. Ferry, 212; Gen. Saussier, 140; M. De Freycinet, 76; Gen. Appert, 72; M. Brisson, 26; other candidates, 26. On the second ballot M. Sadi-Carnot was elected President of the Republic. He is 50 years old. The election gives general satisfaction. He was formally installed into office, Sunday.

THE FIFTIETH CONGRESS.

The **nat* of the Fiftieth •ongrees •! the United States waa willed to order at 12 o'eloek, noon, Monday, Dec, 5,1887, by- the president of that body, Mr. rngalla, after prayer by Rev. J. ®. Buttler. The oath administered to all the Senators-elect except Mr. Faulkner, of West Virginia. No objection whatever was offeied to the swear ng in of Jadge Turple, of Indiana. Whan the time aame the silence was profound. - Mrs. Cleveland sat in the gallery, and smiled delightedly as Judge Turpie took the oath and tamed to his seat. All the paper* in his ease were referred to the committee on privileges and elections. In the swearing in of senatorselect, Senator Hoar made objection to the administration of the oath to Mr. Faulkner, of West Virginia, until certain questions to wjicta his credentials gave rise, could be passed upon by the oommittee on privilege* and elections. Memorials were presented (1) prohibiting the sale, ete,, of aleoholic liquors, and (2) respecting the seat of Senator Turple.

The elerk of the House celled that body to or der promptly at noon. The vote for epeaker wa* Carlisle 103, Reed liß, C. N. Brumm 2. .Mr. Carlisle made a speech of thanks for the honor conferred on him, in which he directed attention to the important labors which would devolve upon the present congress, and dealt with much stress of the imperative necessity of such a moderate and reasonable reduction of the tariff as would guarantee the laboring peop e against the effects of financial depression and at the same time not deprive them of any part of .the just rewards of their toil. The work of organizing the house was then proceeded with. Speaker—John B. Carlisle, of Ky. Clerk—J. B. Clark, Mo. Sergeant-at-arms—J. P. Leedom, •hie. Doorkeeper—B. Hunt, Miss. Postmaster—Lyeurgus Dalton, Did. Chaplain—Rev. W. H. Milburne. The Republicans cast their compliment vote as follows: Speaker, T. B. Reed, Me.; Clerk, E. McPherson, Penn.; Seageanti-at-arms, -Daniel Shepherd,-111,-r-Doorkeeper, W. P. Hitch, of Ohio; Postmaster, Thos. Ureen, of Dakota; Chaplain, F. W. Thomas, of Ind.

THE PROHIBITIONISTS.

ThetrNext National Convention'Will be' Held at Indianapolis In June, 1883. The National Committee of the Prohibition party which met at Chicago, Wednesday, elected Samuel Dickey, of Michigan, to succeed the late John B. Finch as chairman. John Ratliff is the member for Indiana. After a brisk contest it was decided to hold the National Convention at Indianapolis the first Wednesday in June, 1888. St. Louis, Washington, Minneapolis and Denver were all canditates for the location. During the proceedings the following was presented: To Rev. Dr. Jutkins, Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Prohibition Party: At the late convention of the National Women’* Christian Temperance Union, held jn Nashville, Tenn., the following resolution was unanimously passed by 847 members. We respectfully call your attention to it and urge its eonsideration at this conference. Frances E. Willard, President. Caroline B. Buell, Cor. Sec’y N. W. C. T. V: Resolved. That with a* deep sense of the significance of *uch action, we, the women representatives of thirty-seven States and five Territories, do most solemnly urge upon all political parties and partisan papers, the duty of avoiding, In the pending presidential campaign, the personal villification and abuse that characterized the last, and we caH upon them to consider-the fact that the women of the north and south have cla ped hands in concord and oo*operation,wbieh is the most practical proof that war issue* aredead and that the land should have rest from reviving them for campaign purposes. We protest as women against this outrage upon the growing spirit of fraternity, and Teiterate the cry of the great general, "Let us have peace. ’ ’ 'This resolution was adopted unanimously by a rising vote. It goes pext to the National Republican Oommittee.

The Inter Stste Law.

Tae first annual report of the inter stale commerce commission has been laid before the secretary of the interior. Reviewing railway operations during the period which has elapsed since the act took eflet, the commission feels warranted in saying that while less has been done in the direction of bringing the freight traffic into conformity with the general rule prescribed by the fourth section than some persons, perhaps, expected, there has, nevertheless, been a gratifying advance in that direction, and there is every reason to believe that this will continue. In Regard to the sleeping car companies, live Btock car companies and oil companies which transport in tank cars, the commission say they are as much subject to the temptation to ’discriminate as the railroads are, and the fact is laid before Congress for snch action as it may choose to take in the premises. ..

Three million women work for their money in this country. The other millions make the men work for if. Messenger Boys Diary—“ Monday, hired; .Tuesday, tired; Wednesday, fired."

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

A seven-foot vein of lead was struck at Royal Center, Casa county, Tuesday afternoon, at a depth of 160 feet. John Owen Bnvder, the man who has been walking for the past two years, died Sunday at 10 o’clock, at Blackford connty. General Manson, collector of internal revenue for the Terre Haute district,has removed Peer Ofroerer, gauger under him, because Gfroerer is an anarchist. A farmer named Irby Tuesday shot and killed two colored men who attacked him on his farm, in Marlboro county, while he was endeavoring to drive them off his posted lands. * The four-year old son of Dr. Meek, of Jonesboro, had accumulated a quarterpound of chewing gum in his stomach, and the trouble caused thereby came near proving fatal, the physicians failing to discover the cause of the disturbance. Nature relieved the little sufferer, who is now in a fair way to recover. The Commissioners of (cott county have Ijeen arrested for employing Chas L. Jewett to foreclose school fund mortgages and paying him $450 for his services. The statute requires the prosecuting attorney to do this, and makes it unlawful for the board of commissioners to employ any person to perform a duty required of an officer. The Paines ville, 0., Shearer company has co ltiacted with the Marion Board of Trade for certain stipulations to es tablish their factory at Marion. It is the largest factory of the kind in the world, and makes about 65 per cent, of all the shearers that are used throughout the entire country. Employment will be given to about seventy men. A curious suit for divorce has been filed in the Clark circuit court. In September, 1886, John Garner, sixty-four years Old, widower and well connected, married Jennie Phillips, aged seventeen. It appears that he induced the child to marry him by promising her a new silk dress and parasol and to allow her to go to the matinee every Saturday. Her wishes failed of fulfillment and Bhe prays for a release. An exploeion of natural gas occurred at Farmland, Friday, totally destroying a $20,000 building, and seriously if not latatly injuring two men. The men had entered the building, which was vacant, for the purpose of preparing it for occupancy, and one of them struck a match, when the explosion occurred. The building was being piped for the purpose of burning the gas, and defective plumbing allowed the gas to escape. Edward Akers, pf Indianapolis, who joined with the infamous Meikel in criminally assaulting the step-daughter of the latter, who is only aged eight years, was anainged Friday on a plea of guilty, and sentenced to sixteen years to the prison, north, the same punishment which had previously been administered to Meikel. The defendent received the sentence without showing that he was affected, but on return to jail he told the deputy that he was rightly punished for having trained with such a crowd, and that he would endeavor to serve out his time and yet make a man out of himself.

At Cutler, at an early hour. Sunday morning, a tremendous explosion occurred in Stevenson brothers’ saloon. Giant powder in oys'er cans had been placed under the building and over the eans were piled heavy stones. Great pieces of granite were sent crashing through the building, tearing window frames from the walls. The saloon floor was completely uplifted. The sides of t' e building were forced out four feet at the bottom and sleepers two by ten were twisted and torn t»> splinters like pin- shingles. The large stove was forced through the ceiling/and not a bottle on the show bar was left unsmastie . Baint Meinrad is to be rebuilt. The monks of t he Order of St. Benedict, with characteristic energy, are already making preparations on a large scale for rebuilding the cloister recently burned. The abbey will be moved about threequarters of a mile, and rebuilt upon the top of Mount Nebo, a much higher elevation than the other site. Teams and men are now busy grading a road to the top of the hill, which is naturally bo steep an ascent that without grading a team could not get up it, and large quantities of materials are baing got in readiness for work early next spring. It will be a grander building than the burned one. Among the estimates of the Secretary of the Treasury for appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30,1889, and sent to Congress Tuesday, are the followng for Indiana: For Jeffersonville military depot, purchase of land opposite the depot for building officers’ quarters thereon, $15,000; for improving the Obi river at the Indiana chute of the falls, $30,000; for improving the Wabash river in Indiana and Illinois, and continuing the improvement above Vincennes, $10,000; below Vincennes, $100,000; improving White river In Indiana, completing the improvement, $17,500; improving the Calumet river, in Illinois and Indiana, $100,000; custom-house employes at Evansville, $3,120. The annual report of the Board of Trustees of the Indiana Reform School was made to the Governor, Thursday, ft was largely devoted to a discussion of The work of the institution and the condition of its inmates. The report commends the new law, which prevents boys from being sent there, unless on

account of the com mission ofeomecrime, or absolute incorrigibility. The practice of commuting sentences of boys from the ages of Bixteen to twenty-five from the State Prison to the Reformatory is also commended. There have been twenty-nine puch commutations and only two of the prisoners have shown themselves to be unworthy of the clemency. The Boat'd expresses the belief that the institution could not very well be run on civil service principles, as the teachers and officers must be fitted by nature for their work. The theory of reformation, held by them, is that the appearance of prison life should be avoided aei much as possible, and that the boys should be educated into a higher state of existence. The annual cost for k -eping each boy, the report says, is $l2O, one-half of which is paid by his county. During the past year 215 boj s have been received in the institution, and 267 released on tickets-of-leave. There are at present 430 inmates, and the cost of maintenance to the Srate has beeD $60,000 for the year. Superintendent Chariton in his report says that the institution is greatly in need of two hundred more acres of land for farming purposes, as this kind of work has been found to be the best for the boys. A detailed account of the occupations and amusements of the boys is given, and the report of the physician shows that there has been only one death during the year.

Poetmaster General Vilas's Report.

The annual report of Postmaster General Yilas says the service will soon become self-sustaining. In view of this he recommends: A regrading of salaries and re-classiucation of offices; that postoffices should be built by the Government; that the free-deliverv system be extended to every city and town; that the special delivery be maintained, although it has not increased in business the past year; that civil service rales and regulations be applied to clerks in the service, and they assured of a tenure during good behavior; that the Government should own the postal cars; that a fourth assistant postmaster general be provided; and that, in case it is decided to establish a postal telegraph system, wise provisions he made for a safe and satisfactory establishment of the requisite force of employes without dangerous increase of federal power.

A Standard Oil Scheme.

A gigantic scheme of the Standard Oil company, involving millions of dollars, has just been unearthed. It is nothing more nor less than a grand trunk pipe line from Chicago to New York by way of the,,Qhio and Pennsylvania oil fields. The pipe line, when completed, will be nearly 1,000 miles long and will cost at least $8,000,000. It will connect the Ohio and the Pennsylvania fields and oil can be piped eastward and westward as desired. The Standard company has already commenced to lease the right of way through Ohio and Indiana. Thousands of acres of the best oil lands have been secured and the intention is to develop and test all the country between Chicago and Lima, O. The step was made necessary by the high railroad rates.

The Interior Department,

Secretary Lamar’s report begins with a statement concernihg the public lands, in which it is stated that the quantity of land restored to the public domain since March 4, 1886,18 81.824,482 acres were disposed of, the total receipts of the land department being $12,250,000. The total number of entries and filings made during the year was 248,178, covering 88 387,939 acres. A considerabe increase in population in the Territories is noted, being estimated as follows: Arizona 20,0: 0 New Mexico ..HO,OOO Dakota 6'VOO Utah 19, 00 Idaho 97,2 0 Washington 118.:-91 Montana... 180,006 Wyoming 86 000 A aska has a population of 5,800 whites, 5,800 civilized natives, and 26,000 natives nokciviliaed.

Five Men Killed.

The locomotive of a freight trail, on the Philadelphia & Reading railroad exploded Saturday morning near East Mahoney Junction, Pa." Alexander Walker, the engineer, was instantly killed and the firemen and two brake* men so severely injured died while being taken home. The victims all lived atTamaqua.

Mrs. Beecher.

y: Mra. Henry Ward Beecher is occasioning some anxiety toher friends, ,as she has been to her children, since the death of her husband. Though offered a home in the family of Colonel Beecher, her eldest son, she has preferred to occupy a suite of apartments in Water View flats, on Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, where she lives with a housekeeper. Lately she has expressed a desire to occupy the parlors of Plymouth Church and to make her home there, but' atrthe suggestion of her sons this request has been denied her by the trustees, and it is alleged that the denial has caused strained relations to exist between some of the leading people of the church and Mrs. Beecher. ’ • To those who are familiar with all the facts this episode is regarded as one of infirmitioß nf ftdyfiPCOCi 8W find BR having no other significance. Tonker’s Gasetle: When a musician goes fishing dcei he castanet in the hope of catching a bassoon? :

WASHINGTON.

“Edmunds called, on me last week,” remarked Secretary Lamar, Friday. “I suppose he will object to my confirmation, if I am nominated for the vacancy on the Supreme Court bench. When Edmunds cads on anybody under similar circumstances you may depend npon it that he means to object to his nomination in thq Senate. I know him of old.” Comptroller Trenholm recommends a reduction of the bank deposit to secure circulation. A friend of Mr. Randall is responsible for the report that that gentleman will not abate in his opposition to tariff reduction, and will fight any measure of the kind with all his strength. Mr. Randall and Mr. Carlisle have had several interviews recently, but both are Implacably wedded to their theories, and unwilling to harmonise their differences. Representatives of the American Tobacco Manufacturers’ Association state that they have not the slightest doubt of the repeal at this session of Congress of the tobacco tax. Circulars addressed to 170 members of the House brought out 120 replies favorable to such an amendment of the internal revenue laws as should make tobacco free. The producers of leaf tobacco in all parts of the fcountry, especially in the South ,are emphatic in their desire for this repeal, not so much oq acoount of the burden of the tax as of the conditions, forms and licenses to which they are subjected. An overwhelming mass of petitions for repeal have been received from the retail dealers in tobacco, of whom there are 430,000 in this country. The tobaceo men are scrupulously anxious to divorce their proposition from that which asks for the abolition of the tax on whisky. They do not believe that the country desires this, and prefer to have their proposed repeal considered separately and on its own merits. The Congressional delegations from Virginia, North Carolina, Mississippi, Wisconsin, Connecticut and Ohio are almost' solidly pledged to vole for free tobacco. A large portion of the New York delegation signify the same intention. The manufacturers say that the reduction will not affect prices to the consumer materially, although manufacturers and wholesalers will not enjoy any addition to their profits on that account. The manufecturer will, in the first instance, receive a demand from his laborers—that their wages be increased at least one-half of the tax. On the other hand, the wholesalers and the jobb'rs will make a demand for Their proportion of the tax, and, finally, the nearly 500,000 retail dealers will demand a reduction of prices. There will be some reduction upon smoking,chewing and plug tobacco, but upon cigars it is not apparent that there can be any. It would be difficulto divide up the tax in sqch a way as would make prices at all lower to buyers. The people who buy three cigars for a quarter, or six for fifty cents, would hardly know that there was a reduction of a third of a cent on a cigar, even if it could be made, bat the effect of the repeal would be altogether to the advantage ot the workmen in the factories and the retail dealers all over the country. The Secretary of the Treasury Monday transmitted to Congress the estimates of appropriations required for the fiscal year ending Jane 30, 1889. The total amount estimated required for all expenses of the government is $326,530,793, which is $1,344,999 more than the snm called for in the estimate submitted last year, and $16,890,406 more than the of appropriations for the present fiscal year. The estimates for 1889, are made up of the following items: Legislative, $3,272,111; executive, $lB,852,785; judicial, $422,200; foreign inter course, $1,947,»65; military, $25,692,574; naval, $21,248,032; Indian affairs,ss,4Bß, * 697; pensions, $76,312,400; public works, $30,081 984; postal service, $1,493,409, miscellaneous, $55,087,806; permanent annual appropriations, $115,640,798. Aere is an excess over last year in the estimates for the executive, judicial, foreign intercourse, naval establishment, pensions, public works and miscellany, and a decrease in the estimates for the legislative, military establishment, Indian aflairs, postal service, and in the permanent annual appropriations.

Senator Palmer, of Michigan, will introduce, at the first opportunity, a bill to restrict immigration into the United States. The bill will make it necessary for prospective immigrants to secure certificate) from the United States Consul of the district from which they came as to their good character. The inten tion is to prevent the influx of nibilkts, anarchists, socialists,, etc., which seems imminent from anarchists threats that their great coup made during the elections next fall. Nominations by the President. The President, Tuesday, sent the fol* lowing nominations to the Senate: Indus Q. C. Lamar, Mississippi, to be»Arso date Justice of the Supreme Court of the Halted States. Wm. F. Vilas, of Wisconsin, to be Secretary ol the Interior. Don M. Dickimon, of Michigan, to be Postmaster General. Charles 8. Fairchild, oi New Tort, to be Secretary of the Treasury. : “ " Geo. L. Rives, of New York, to be Assistant Bccretary of State. ~~ ■ Isaac C. Maynard, of New York, to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. • Sigourney Butler, of Massachusetts, to ond Comptroller of the Treasury. James W. Hyatt, of Connecticut, to be Treasurer es the United States.

GRAM ARMY BOYS.

Ohio has over *OO subordinate relicorps. Jeff Davis wm wounded at Buena Vista in saving Bragg's Battery from capture. ' Baird Post, Pataskala, Ohio, though only a month old. has a membership «f 108. • Indiana has seventy-seven camps of Sons of Veterans, with a membership of 1,651. « The number of men in the Soldiers' Home at Chelsea, Mass., is 132; in tfc* hospital, 45. General Bragg’s headquarters in the battle of Missionary Ridge recently sol® for $21,484. Tyler County, West Virginia, has lit pensioners; Wood County, in the saa« State, has 416. It id rumored that General N.P.Banka will soon be commandant of the Soldiers' Home at Togus, Me. Mrs. Jeff Davis has a fine picture of John Brown, of Harper’s Ferry fame, in her photograph album. There are over 40,000 pensioners in Ohio, receiving annually nearly $1,225,000, or a trifle over S3O each. Commander-in-Chief John P. Rea was a fellow student with Governor Foraksr t the Ohio Wesleyan University. The second annual meeting of ths National Association of Naval Veterans will be held in Philadelphia next January. Lieutenant Zdinski, the inventor of the famous dynamite gun, is a member of Lafayette Post, No. 140, New Yorik City. A monument erected at West Chester, Pa ,in memory of the departed heroes of the Ninety-seventh Pennsylvania,was unveiled Oct. 29. General Alferd Pleasanton, of cavalry fame, has been mentioned as likely to be the new commandant of the Soldiers' Home at Hampton, Va. The Fifteenth Massachusetts Infantry had from first to last over 1,700 members. Its actual losses exceeded thoss of any other of the Massachusetts regiments. Emma Stark Hampton, National President of the Woman’s Corp, is a lined descendant of General John and “Moilie” Stark, and is a native of Monro* County, N. Y. The Twelfth Indiana Battery has not had a reunion since the war. A meeting will be held at the Bates House, Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 20, to arrange for a general reunion in 1888. The • Veteran’s Home at Waupaca, Wis., established by the Grand Army, is now ready for the reception of dependent veterans, their wives or widows. The State gives $3 per week for the maintenance of each inmate. In ail the changes coming to this Republic Bince June 4, 1777, there is one thing that has undergone no material change, and that is our flag. The addition of the stars tell of progress and prosperity, and the freedom of the States forming the Union of States none can sever.

He Talked Business.

San Francisco Argonaut. They tell a curious story of old Christopher Meyer. Many years ago he was a workman in a factory where rubbarshoes were made. He received the fabulous sum of $125 a day. At night ha worked out the details of an invention for economizing the number of men employed in the factory. One day he finished his machine, carried it to the shop and showed his boss how well it would do the work of a dozen or twenty men. The boss was thunderstruck, but before he'cou’d examine the invention Meyer seized a hammer and knocked its delicate machinery into chaos. “But I want that,” protested the boat “I known you do,” answered the workman, quietly. “Come and see me to-morrow noon,” continued the head oi the firm, pompously, “and w« will make some arrangemants—” “If you want to talk business with me,” remarked the workman, coolly, “you can come to my lodging at sevea o’clock to night. Better not be late.” The millionaire was there at seven. Meyer was taken into the firm, and in a short time was at the head of the business.

THE MARKETS.

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