Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1888 — Page 2

The -Republican. Gbo. E. Mamhaix, Publisher. RENSSELAER. - INDIANA

A rxcknt writer baa a good word, am tinstone, tossy for taxes. “That word tax has brought over the ocean an oldworld sentiment with it which most be got rid of. In this country it means privilege, and oar privileges are nseas jied by our taxes—so that a tax taxes no man. It stands for a right to good roads, good bridges, postoffices, good schools, and other good things. Every man gets back the full worth of his taxes and a great deal more, unless he cheats himself.’* This is true, so far as it goes; but one-half our taxes are paid to support paupers, poor bouses and prisons, that would not exist but for whisky. The worst tax a man has to pay are those he assesses on himself, in the way of intemperance, and shiftlessness and extravagance. Such taxes bring ns no compensation. Comukndablb etforls are being put forth by the Hydrographic Bureau to collect information about those curious phenomena, waterspouts. All masters of vessels plying on the North Atlantic are requested to make careful observations when one of these objects shows itself. Waterspouts are believed to be modified forms of whirlwinds or tornadoes, a rotary motion of the air lifting the water from the ocean’s surface, while the moisture in the atmosphere is condensed and descends to meet the rising column. A large number of waterspouts have been reported of late. On January 22 three sere visible at once from the deck of one steamer, and six were observed in half an hour. A hugh waterspout, computed to be a mile in diameter, was seen on January 28. If a vessel should encounter such a monster the results would be disastrous. The data now being collected may enable sailing masters to recognize., the condi tions leading to these formations, and so be a means of Securing increased safety at sea.

THE CIVIL SERVICE.

W D. Foullce's Testimony Before a Senate Investigating Committee. Senator Hale’s .special committee, which will conduct an investigation into abuses of the civil service reform law, had its first sitting Wednesday, and the cases in Indiana were laid bare by Hon. William Dudley Foulke, of Richmond, President of the Indiana Civil Service Reform Association. His testimony was the result of investigations made by the State society and affidavits secured, and related chiefly to the demoralisation of the postal service and the removals for partisan purposes only, in the Indianapolis postoffice, and of the presi dential postmasters in the State. The witness called upon the President and found that he knew of these removals. The President said it was impossible to let the parties know the chaiges made against them. They were doing the best they could. The President expressed the hope that the association would go slow, as he had great difficulty in bringing some of his party up to the idea of civil service reform, and that Indiana was a pretty bad State. They had not, to wit ness’s knowledge, oeen an v change in the condition of affairs nfnce he laid these matters before the President. He expressed the hope that the committee would visit Indiana, and that it would allow the association to know sufficiently in advance to be prepared with the witnesses and the facts. The things he had stated with regard to the poet office could be brought outin the form of legal evidence. The Chairman—What is your view of the‘bperßjoh of the civil service reform in Indiana? ; ' • • Answer—Weil, we have not had any cavil service reform in Indiana. *' Riot at Leavenworth. A riot was precipitated at North Leavenworth, Kansas, Sunday evening, by an affray between James King (white), cableman in the Leavenworth! Coal Mine, aud Harrison Young, al notorious colored ward politician, Sam Hedspath and Ben Easton, also colored. A year ago Hedpath had beaten King, and when they met,'the negroes promptly attacked* him. He shot and killed Young, mortally wounded Hedspath. and hit Eiston in the thigh. A mob of colored miners started in pursuit of King, and in the effort to arrest him Policeman Stout shot him in the breast, making a serious wound. Under the impression that King was dead, and cowed by a company of cavalry from the fort, the negroes retired to their homes. ; ' In the Mazy. Young Mr. Wabash (to Miss Waldo, of Boston, at a dancing party)—Will you favor me with two or three rounds, Miss Waldc? Miss Waldo, (an admirer of John L , of course)—Certainly, Mr. Wabash,with pleasure. Or, if you like, we will continue it to a finish. Some Trut h in It. Texas Siftings. ‘ Tommy—Bay, mamma, why don’t you have some color in yonr cheeks nowadays?" Mother—l have loaned it to your father to paint his nose 1 with. ■’—l'?'

BEAUTIFUL FLOW.

Good for Lessons on God’s Providential Care. Fiowsrs Appropriate at thsAlttr and at the Grave-Reltgtoue . Symbolirm—Kmblerua of tho'Reiurrection of ChrUt. Rev Dr. Talmage preached at the Brooklyn Tabernacle, Easter Sunday. Text, Luke xii., 28: “If then, God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field and to morrow is cast into the oven, how much more will He clothe you.” Hesaid: The lily is the queen of Bible flowers. The rose may have disputed her throne in modern times, and won it; but the rose originally five petals. It was under the long-continued and intense gaze of the world that the rote blush ed into its present beauty. In the Bible train cassia and hyssop and frankincense and myrrh and spikenard and camphire and the -rose follow the 1 ly. Fourteen times in the Bibl iis the lily mentioned; only twice the rose. The rose may now have wider empire, but the lily reigned in the time of Eether, in the time of Solomon, in the time of Christ. Cwsar had bis throne on the hills. The lily had her throne in the valley. In the greatest sermon that was ever preached there was onl v one flower.and that a lly. The Bedford dreamer, John Bnnyan, entered the House of the Interpreter and was shown a cluster of flowers, and was told to “consider the blies.”

We may study or reject other sciences at our option. It is so with astronomy; it is so with chemistry; it is so with jurisprudence; it is so with physiology; it is so with geology; but the science of botany Christ commands us to study. He says; “Consider the lilies.” Measure them from root to tip of petal. Inhale their breath. Notice the gracefulness of their poise. Hear the whisper of the white lips of the Eastern and of the red I ps of the American lily. Belonging to this royal family of lilies is the bly of the Nile, the Japan l ly, the Lady Washington of the Sierras, the Golden Band lily, the giant 1 ly of Nepaul, the Turk’s Cap lily, the African lily from the Cape of Good Hope. All these lilies have the royal blood in.their veins. But I take the lilies of my text this morning as typical of all flowers, and this Eas’er day. garlanded with all this opulence of floral beauty, seems to address us, saying. “Consider the lilies, ccmider the tzalias, consider the fuchsias, consider thegoraniums, consider the ivies, consider the hyacinths, consider the

heliotropes, consider the olein.lers.” With differential jyid grateful an i intelligf nt "nd worshipful souls, consider them. Not with insipid sentimentalism or with sophomoric vaporing, but for grand and practical and everyday and, if need be, homely utes, consider them. The flowers are the angels of the grais. They all have voices. When the clouds speak, they thunder; when the whirlwinds speak, they scream; when the cataracts speak, they roar; but when the flowers speak they always whisper, I stand here to interpret their message. What have you to Say, O y-e angels of the grass, to this worshipful multitude? > This morning I mean to discuss what flowers are good for. That is -mv sut* ject What are flowers good for? 1, I remrk. in the first place, they are good for lesson? of God’s providential care. That was Christ’s first thought. All these flowers seem to address us, tc-day Baying; ‘‘God will give you apparel md food. We have no wheel with which to spin, no loom with which to weave, no sickle with which to harvest, ni well-sweep with which to draw water. But God slakes our thirst with the dew, and God feeds us with the bread of the sunshins. md Gcd appareled us with more than Solomonic regality. We are prophetesses of adequate wardrobe. If God so clothed us, the grass of the field, will He not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? \ Men and worn*n of worldly anxieties take this message home with you. How long has God taken care of you? Quarter of the journey of life? half the journey of life? three-quarters of the journey of life? Can you not trust Him the rest of the way? God does not promise you anything like that which the Roman Emperor had on his at vast expense —five hundred nightingale tongues—but He has promised to take care of you. He has promised you tbe necessities, not. the luxuries—bread,-aet eake-.- Jf God so luxuriantly clothes the grass of the fields, will He not provide for von, hie living rnj. immortal childien?' Ho will. 2. If you insist on asking me the question: What are flowers good for? 1 respond; they are good for the bridal day. The bride must have them on her brow, and she must have them in her hand. The marriage altar must be covered with them. A wedding without flowers wonld be as inappropriate as a wedding without music. At such a time they are for corgratnlation and prophecies of good. B<> much of the pathway of life is covered up with thorns we ought to cover the beginning with orange blossoms. -

Flowers are appropriate on such occasions, for in ninety-nine out of a hundred cases it is the verv best thing that could have happened. The world may criticise and pronounce it. an inaptitude, and may lift its eyebrows in surprise and think it might suggest something better; but the God who sees the twenty, forty, fifty years of' wedded life before they have begun arranged all for the best. Fo that flowers, in almost all cases, are appropriate for the marriage day. The divergences of disposition will become correspondences, recklessness will become prudence, ..frivolity will be turned into practicality. Ah! my friends let not the prophecies of the flowers on your wedding-day be lake prophecies.' Be blind to each other’s faults. Make the most of each other’s excellences. Above all do not both get mad at cnce! Remember the vows, the ring on the third finger of the left hand and the benediction of the calls lilies. 3. If you insist on asking me the question: What are flowers gOod.for? 1 answer: Taey are good to honor and comfort the obsequies. The worst gash ever made into* the side of our poor earth is the gash of the grave. It is so deep, it is so cruel, >t is so incurable that it needs something to cover it up. Flowers for the casket, flowers for the hearse, flowers for the cemetery. <

What a contrast between a grave in a country church-yard. with the fence broken down, and the tombstone aslant, and the neighboring cattle orowalng amid the muUe’ n-vtaiK and the On ma thistles, and a June mom ng in Greenwood, the wave ot roseate bloom rolling Ito the top of the moun ts, and then ; breaking into foaming crests of white . flowers all around the pillows of dust. I It is the differ* nee between sleep* ng on--j der rags and sleeping under an embrniu- | ered blanket. Wewrnt Oil Mortal ty ' with his chisel to go through ail the I grave-yards of Christendom, and, while he carries a chisel in one hand, we wfih Old Mortality to have some flower-seeds in the palm of the other band.

“Ohl” you sav, “tbe dead don’t know; it makes no difference to them.” I think ( you are mistaken. There are not so many steamers and rail trains coming tp ’ any living city as there are convoys coming from Heaven to earth; and if ■there ba instantaneous and constant ' communication between this world and ■ the better wo»Id do yon not suppose your departed friends know what vou do with their bodies? Wnv has God planted “gcl ien rod”end wild flowers in the forestand on the prairie where no huma n eye ever sees them? He planted them there for invisible intellig* nces to look at and admire and wh*n invisible intelligences come to look at tbe wild flowers of the woods and the tall-, lands will they not make excurpicn and see tbe flpwers which you helve planted in affectionate remembrance of them? It was left for modern times to spell respect for the departed and comfort for the living in letters of floral gospel. Pillow of flowers, meaning rest for the pilgrim who has got to the en 1 of his jouiney; anchor of flowers, suggesting the Christian hope which we have as an anchor to the soul, sure and steadfast; cross of flowers, suggesting the tree on which our sins were slain. If I had my way, I would cover up all the dreamless sleepers, whether in golden-handled casket or pine box, whether a king’s mausoleum or potter’s field, with radiant end aromatic aboreccence. The Bible says, in the midst of the garden there was a sepulcher. I wish that every sepulcher might be in the midst of a garden.

4. If you insist on asking me the question: What are flowers good for? I answer, for religious symbolism. Have you ever studied Scriptural flora? The Bible is an arbetum, it is a divine conservatory, it is an herbarium of exquisite beauty. If you want to illustrate the brevity Of the brightest human life, you will quote from Job: “A man com-,, eth forth as a flower and is cut down.” Or you will quote from the Psalmist: “As the flower of the field, bo he perishetb; the wind passeth ever it and it is gone ” Or you will quote from Isaiah: “All flesh is grass, and the good linens thereof is as the flower of the field.” Or you will quote from James the Apostle: “As the flower of the grass, so he passeth away.” What graphic Bible eymbolism! All Cte cut flowers ol this Easter day will soon be dead, whatever care you take of them. Though morning and night you baptize them in the name of the shower, the baptism will not be to them a saving ordinance. They have been fatally wounded with the knife that cut them. They are bleeding their life away; they are dying now. The fragrinca in the air is their departing and ascending.spiritr. Oh! yes, flowers are almost human. Bo’.anists tell us that flowers breathe, they take nourishment, they eat and diink. They are sensitive. They have their likes and. dislixes. They sleep, they wake. They live in families. They have their ancestors and their descendants, their birth, their burial, their cradle, and their grave. The zephyr rocks the one and the storm digs the trench for the other.

The cowslip must leave Its gold, the lily must leave its silver, the rose must leave its diamond neck lice of morning dew. Dust to dust. 8o we come up, we prosper, we spread abroad, we die as tjbe flower! Flowers also afford mighty symbolism cf Christ, who compared Himself to the andient queen, the lily, and themoderti queen, the rose, when He said: ”1 am the rose of Sharon and the l lv of the valleys.” Redolent like the one, humble like the other; like both, appropriate for the sad who want sympathizers and for the rej’oicing who want banqueters. Hovering over the marriage ceremony like a wedding bell, or folded like a chaplet on the pubs less heart of the dead. Oh, Christ! let the per fa me of Thy TTffßie be"wafted all arounT the "earth—lily and rose, lily and rose—until the wilderness crimson into a garden, and the round earth turn into one great bud of immortol beauty —hid -agahret—thewarm heart of God. .Snatch down from the world’s banners «agle and lion, and put on I ly and rose, 1 lv and rose. But, my friends, flowers have no grander use than when on Easter morning we celebrate the reanimation of Christ from the catacombs. All the flowers of tc-day tpell resurrection. There is not a nook or corner in all the building but is touched with the incense. The women carried spices to the tomb of Christ, and they dropped spices all around about the tomb, and from those spices have grown a/1 the flowers of Easter morn. The two white-robed angels that hurled the stone away from the doer of the tomb huilsd it with such violence down the hill that it crashed in the door of the world's smulcher, and millions of the stark aud dead shall come forte. 1

Ob, how long it seems for some of you. Wahing—waiting for the resurrection. How long! hPMlflUgtH. make for your broken hearts tc-day a cocl, soft bandage of Easter l.liea, Last night we had come in the mails a beautiful Easter card, on the top of it a representation of tl a flower called the “trumpet creeper,” and under it the inscription: “The trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised.” I comfort you this day with the thought of resurrection. Beholl the a-changel hovering. He takes the trumoet. points it this way, puts its lips to hisl : p’, and then blows one long, loud terrific, thunderous, roverberating and'resurrectionary blast’ Look! Look! They raise! The deadL the dead! Some cbming ferth from the family .vault; some from the city cemetry; some from the country graveyard. Here a spirit is joined to body, and there another snirit is joihed to another body, and millions of departed spirits are assorting the bodies ml then reclithing themselves in forms now radiant for a-cension. The earth begins to burn—the bonfire of a great victory. All ready now for the procession of reconstructed humanity! Upward and away! Christ bads

and all the Christian dead fellow, battalion after batta Lon. nation after ra-ion. Up, up! On,'on! Fowar i. ye i auks of God Almighty! Lift up vour heads, ye evcr'a<ting gates, and let the conquerors come in! Resurrection! Resurrection! And sc I twist ill the fes’al flowers of this church with »li the festal; flowers of chapthaud<a hedr»hof all Christendom into one grea chain, and with that eta n I bind the Eister morning of 1888 with toe «being Eaoter of the wool l’s history —Riturrectionl Mar the God of peace that brought a rain from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd -of the sheep, through the blood of the everlisting converant, make you nerfect in every good work to do His will.

New Woman** Organimtion. The delegates to the Woman’s Internatioral Conned organized a National Council of Women with the following officers: President, Fiaocis Willird, "■""'l.. ..J 9 I linoir; /Vice President, Susan B. Anthony, New York; Corresponding Secretary, May Wright Sew a'l, Indians; Recording Secretary, Mary E. Eastman, Massachusetts; Treasurer, M. Louise Thoma?, NewTorE - S'" The preamble to the constitution is as folows. We, women ot the United States, sincerely believing that the best good of our homesand na‘ion will be advanced by our own greater unity of thought, sympathy and purpose, and that an oiganized movement of women will best conserve the highest good of the family end State, do hereby band ourselves together in a ccn federation of workers committed to the overthrow of ill forms of ignorance and injustice, and to the application of the golden rule to society, custom and law. A permanent organization for an inter naticn al council of women was si so agreed upon, sni the constitution of the National Council was adopted for the international organization,witl such changes as were necessary to adaj t it to its broader ecope.

Kxilro<id Wrick. A Toledo, Wabash A Western freight train ran into the rear sleeper of the Michigan Central night express, at Bumsides, Mich., early Wednesday morning, while under fall headway. The sleeper was derailed and almost entirely demolished. The express train was crossing the tracks of the Wabash A Western when the freight train, under a full head of steam, broke through the gates and crashed into it. The engine struck the sleeper directly in the middle, nearly cut it in two, tore it from its couplings and threw it from the track. The engine was derailed. Three or four cars telescoped and piled upon it. * Meanwhile, the passengers who were buried in the the wreck of the sleepers were shouting for help. The train men procured lanterns and dragged from the wreck a dozen passengers, five of them severely injured and the others badly shaken up. None were fatally hurt. All the eight passengers wounded otherwise were put upon tbe express train, which proceeded within an hour after the accident.

Senator logall’e Interpr< tation. Senator Ingalls has written to Railroad Commissioner Greene, of Kansas, the following letter, putting a new construction on the attack made on G enerals Hancock and McClellan in his recentspeech: The Democracy and their allies have grossly misrepresented me and endeavored to break the force of my arra’gament by pi-rional assaults, and by distortion of my larg iage. Every man of intelligence knows that my allusions to Hancock and McClellan were not as soldiers, but. as Democratic candidates for the presidency. As such they were allies of the Confederacy, as Grover Cleveland is, and as' every Democrat must be who aspires to that o'ffice, because he must be elected by the 153 votes of the Solid South, which is as

Tnacn'Kh Tggfesaive ahd potential force in politics as it was in 1860. Unless the Republican party has the courage and intelligancfl, paign upon the platform of equal and exact justice to all under the law, they will fail as they deserve to fail. Chief Justice Waite’s Funeral. The funeral services over the remains of the late Chief Justice Waite were held in the House of Representatives at noon, Wednesday. Members of the Senate and House, Diplomatic Corps, President and Cabinet were in waiting at the'east front of the Capitol to receive the cortege, and upon its arrival they moved in procession to the House, where seats had been arranged. The President of the Senate and Speaker of the House occupied the Speaker’s desk. The services were conducted by Bishop Paret, of the Episcopal Church, and were very impressive. After the services were over the rennins were escorted to the depot, where, at 2 p. m., they were placed on a special train for Toledo. They were accompanied by representatives of the Supreme Court, members of Congress, and friends of the family. The train arrived at Toledo at 10 o’clock, Thursday, and the funeral sei vices there were held at 3 p. ip. Mrs. Waite arrived from California at 10 o’clock p. m., Wednesday night.

EXCHANGE SIFTINGS.

Stable values —prices on horses. The meed of praise-honeyed words. Goodall's'bun: Beef canning is a putup job. -y _ If the color of your cat does nitsnit you, die it. Make your bar guns before you show your purse. in the crisis of a divorca suit a woman is apt to be unmanned.

HORRIBLE MINE DISASTER

"■' - I A Terliic Explosion Causes tho Death of About Forty Miners at Rich HUI, Mo.— Graphic Description of the Calamity by the The most horrible mine disaster that has ever occurred in tbe west happened at noon, Thursday, in Keith A Perry’s No. 6 mine, at Rich Hill, Mo., and as a result, a large number of men were entombed and thousands ot dollars’ worth of property destroyed.- Just at the dinner hour, when the men were ascending, eight at a time in the cage, a terrible gas explosion occurred, filling every entry with a flame of fire which shot out of the shaft a distance of 140 feet, and causing death on every hand. Twenty bodies have been taken out, and at least fifteen more are expected to have met a'similar fate. The superintendent of the mines was taken out badly injured, but will survive. The work of removing the debris proceeded with all speed possible, but it required several hours to clear the shafts. A reporter called at the residence of the superintendent at 11 o’clock and found him propped in a chair with his face and hands bandaged and scarcely able to talk, but he made following statement

“At just seven minutes after noon it was telephoned that an explosion had occurred at No. 6, which is four miles northeast of town. I went out as soon as possible and found the’south cage on which the men always ascend stuck in the shaft about half way from the bottom with eight men on it. I went down on a'tub lowered with ropes and found them all badly burned and in a frenzy; in fact they were crazy, some sbouting and others singing, I found it impossible to have this cage hoisted as the timbers were all blown out of position. We finally managed to be hoisted by means of ropes and pulliee, in a fainting condition, and it was then ascertained that the north cage could be worked by clearing some timbers which had been driven through from the south shaft. This was done by sawing them short off. I then called for volunteers to go down with me to see if any of the pocr fellows at the bottom could be got out. Robert Bick, George Henry, Charles Smallwood and Mat Dulehand responded. When we reached the bottom I looked through into the entry and saw a light, and I asked who was there, and a voice responded “Gray,’ and I told him to put out his light. I then asked him to crawl to me, but he was so exhausted that he co uld not do so, but I reached through the small aperture and dragged him on to the cage. Just as this was done a wind rushed with ihe velocity of a cyclone up the entry, putting out all our lights but one. This was followed by two loud reports and a seething flame of fire, whi ch came with deafening roar, completely enveloping us for a length of time which seemed like an age and shot out the mouth of the tank 240 feet above our heads and we were all horribly burned and thought our time had come. The flame receded as suddenly as it had come and we had to abandon the attempt to save the others. I yelled to the men omthe top to hoist aw r ay, but it was some time before they got the signal or understood my meaning. The moments thus spent were a living death I thought they could not hear me and concluded we would have to crawl through into the south shaft and undertake to climb out that way. I was just in tbe act of doing so, when I felt the cage move and we ascended about thirty feet, when the cage began desending. 1 tboughtthe machinerYbrokfcnand..that we were falling to an awful and certain death. The wail that went up from those men were heartendering and I > &hal?nffsvW“foFgetThe knowledge ’ that at the top were their wives extending their arms readv to clasp and shield them from further danger was maddening and enough to destroy reason. All at once, however, the cage came to a audden stop and again began responding to the pressure of rapes and pullys and we were soon at the top.” It is probable that all who were in the mine at the time of the first explosion are dead. The bravery of Supt. Sweeney almost cost him his life and is applauded by everybody. About eighty five miners were employed in this mine, but the majority of them were out. They are mostly negroes who came from Springfield, 111, when the mine was opened less than a year ago. Rich Hill it located in Bates county about 100 miles south of Kansas City, on the Missouri Pacific road. It is the center of the coal bear ing district.

The Strike Extended.

The switchmen on the C., M. & St. P., struck on the 30th, because they were required to handle “Q” cars. New men are arriving from tueEastto take positions vacated by strikers. The engineers, switchmen, brakemen, and many conductors on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul R. R. quit work, Saturday. ~~ ■ The strike includes the employes of all the divisions centering in Chicago both freight and passenger. The men are incensed over the action of the company in employing new engineers, and firemen and conductors who have acted as engineers, to take their, places. Many meh regard Thursday’s strike as a trivial affair, pud expected thatthe company would gracefully concede and

make a binding promise not tp receive “Q” cars. Instead, the company accepted tbe situation and commenced filling the places of the strikers at once. This is tbe real cause of a strike that promises to be a loug and desperate one. It was expected by tbe officialsof the company that a committee would be appointed,at Friday night’s meeting and a conference held at which a satisfactory settlement could be reached. * A tacit agreement of this kind was made Friday afternoon, and the officers cf the road met at Division Superintendent Collins’s office to await the result of ihe meeting. These gent’emen waited and waited, but the committee never came. In the excitement of the occasion the committee was overlooked by tbe strikers. Business on the road is at a standstill.

THE NEW CHINESE TREATY.

‘ Its Term, and Provisions—The Letter! ot ! . Trausmlg.ion— The Indemnity. i The new Chinese treaty and tbe letters of President Cleveland and Secretary [ Bayard accompanying it to tho Senate I were printed Wednesday. The Presii dent, in his latter, recommends that the treaty be approved by the Senate and . also uigis tbat the full text be made public. Secretary Bayard,in his letter of transmission to the President, rays the , treaty provides for the absolute prohibition ot Chinese laborers coming intn the United Slates for twenty years, and provides also for its renewal thereafter unless notice shall be given ol a contrary determination. The treaty, he says, forbids the incoming of Chinese laborers from any quarter whatsoever, with the exception of any laborer who has a law* ful wife, child or parent here or property of the value of 11,000 or debts to that amount due him. These exceptions are just, says the Secretary, will be few in number and easily regulated. Such right of return is for a limited period and certificates are invalidated by fraud. The United States has sole power to check abuses iu any way it may see fit. Article lof the treaty provides that the treaty shall remain in force twenty years, prohibiting, except under certain conditions, the coming of Chinese laborers to this country. Article II provides for the exceptions which permit of the return of a Chinese laborer who has a wife, child, parent, property valued at 51,000, or debts of a Ilze amount due him. On leaving the said Chinaman shall give a full description of that which he leaves behind, in return receiving a certificate allowing him to return within one year, which period may be extended in case of sickness or other disability, the latter facts to be substantiated by proper authorities.in China. Article 111 continues the exceptions of the present treaty in relation to officials, teachers, students, etc., from China, and permits Chinese laborers to pass through America in transit from one country to another. Article IV secures the full protection of U. 8. laws over Chinese residents in this country the same as over citizens of the most favored nation and all rights except that of becoming naturalized citizens. ■ Article V, while denying the liability of the United States for inj aries and losses sueffred by Chinese in certain remote quarters of this country, agrees to pay $276,816,75, which the Chinese gavrenment shall accept as full indemnity.:— — Article VI provides that unless notice shall be given six months before the expiration of tbe treaty by either government its provisions shall be in force for another like period of twenty years.

Gould and Bennett. In answer to Jama Gordon Bennett's reply to his recent charge that ae desired to use his official connection with telegraph companies to advance the interests of the Herald, at the expense of competitors, Jay Gould has written an open letter, reiterating the charges. He further says: ‘‘As the Hera 11 says Mr. Bennett would not sit at the sime board with me, it seems proper for me to state the objections I might have to such an association with the editor and proprietor of the Herall. Let me see: I have known you over thirty years, and during that time your life has been but a succession of debauches and scandals, so that your name is associated on every tongue as “Bennett the libertine," and however gentlemen might meet you at clubs or hotels, not a gentleman in New York, as you well know, would alliw you to cross the thresh-holl of his residence, where virtue and family honor are held sacred. Yonr very touch in the social circle is contamination.” >

Prohibition in Missouri. Owing to the political excitement in Missouri over the approaching National Democratic Convention, the Prohibition leaders have decided to take a rest and no more elections will be held for two months. Eighty-two counties and twenty towns of more than 2,500 inhabitants have voted. Forty-nine counties have voted “wet” and thirtythree “dry.”

Posted.

Mrs. Klubmaun—Going away? You do not know how loasesome it is here evenings. Mr. Klubmann— do; that’s the reason I’m going out.