Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1888 — Page 3

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. M< C. Butler has been re-elected U. S. Senator for South Carolina. Miss Mamie Hayden, a Louisville ■hop girl, has fallen heir to SSO 00'. At Toddtown, Pa., John Furgason sbot.and killed his wife and then himself. Three men Jost their lives,in a burnins' factory at Providence, R. 1., on the 13th. Deputy Marshal Govdson, of Knoxville, Tenn., was murdered by moonshiners. Several Fairmount, 111,, youths, aged from 9to 16 years, are implicated in local robberies. Diptheria m its most malignant form is raging in Berks and Lancaster counties, Pennsylvania. S; A water pipe in Cleveland, 0., burst, on the 12th, and $50,00' damage was done to adjacent property. Miss Bynum and a lady friend at Knoxville, Tenn., were run over_by a train on the 12th, and killed. Thirty-five divorce cases six of wh ch were tried—were disposed of in an hour by a Chicago judge. Duluth, Minn., is having a great real estate boom. There werb 800 transfers last week, aggregating $1,000,000. Over 16.0 0 Boston women voted last week on the school question. Not one Catholic was elected to the Board. A boilor of a cotton gin in Montgomery, Ala., exploded Thursday. Three men were killed and several injured. The report that Mrs. Folsom, mother of Mrs. Cleveland, was to marry Consul Merritt, is indignantly denied. Whi'e Cap operations near Toledo, 0., are becoming troublesome, and the authorities are taking steps to suppress them. The House o' the Georgia Legislature has appropriated SSO ,00" for common schools and the bill will go through the Senate.

Ale render Davis, at one time a millionaire mine owner of California, died in New York on the 17th, in abject povefty. Jersey City physicians are much exercised over the case of Julia Cisco,a negro woman, whose skin is turning white, the result of disease. A. T. Secore, Treasurer of the American District Telegraph Co., at Philadelphia, has been arrested for embezzling $17,000 of the Lyman Presler, a fratricide, was shot near Tushebomma, D. T., on the 14th, in execution of a judicial decision. He met his fate stoically. Detectives Friday captured a gang of counterfeiters in Mercer county, Pennsylvania, with a bushel of counterfeit money in their possesion. Miss Ida Newman, a prominent young lady of Providence, R. L, has been expelled by the City ’ Missionary Society for marrying a Chinaman. , Out of ninetv-nine indictments by the United States grand jury for Northern lowa, seven y-four are lor selling liquor without Government license. The steamer Jasper, from Workington bound to Glasgow, has foundered off the Wigtown coast. Her crew, numbering eleven persons, were drowned. Kilrain has accepted the challenge of John L. Sullivan to fight to a .finish f r slo,ooo a tide. The tight is to come off within six months or not at all. The residence of John R. King at Cookville, Texas, was burned on the morning of the 12th, and King, his wife and children were burned to death.

A verdict for $15,00 > was given by a Chicago jury, on the 13th, —to Fran k Wilcox, for the loss ofta leg through the carelessness of a stree car company. E. L Harper, Vice President of the Fidelity Bank of Cincinnati, has become so insane in the Ohio penitentiary that he has been removed to the asylum. At the auction sale of thoroughbreds at Lexington, Ky., Tuesday, fifty-four head brought $72,150. The Melbourne stables; thirty-eight head, brought $61,320. Colonel James F. Casey, General Grant’s brother-in-law, was stricken with paralysis at Georgetown, D. C., Saturday night, and is not expected to live. ' " G. B, A. Bush, confidential clerk of Isaac Blabkvelt, a carriage' manufacturer of Paterson, N. J., was arrested on the 12th, for robbing his emplover of $1,5000. The official plurality for Cleveland in West Virginia is 1.873 in a total vote of 159,188 Cleveland’s vote was 79,664; Harrison’s 77,791; Streeter’s, 1,064, and Fisk’s, 669. A scaffold upon which five men were working at Steven’s Point. Wis., on the 14th, fell. Four of the men were instantly killed and the fifth was seriously injured. < The Governor of Illinois has pardoned W.Hiaru Tbomas, convicted of murder in 1881, and sentenced to seventeen years’ imprisonment. A dying convict, named James Young; confessed that he committed the murder.

Indiana White Caps have appeared at Agra, Kansas. Several outrages are reported. Two or three families from Southern Indiana removed to Agra about three months ago. Soon after i .the notices began to appear. John R. Reynolds, of Dayton, 0., has received from the United States Government $72,000 for cotton and other property destroyed and confiscated by the Union army during the war. It is said to be the largest private claim ever allowed.

The American Federation of Labor was in session at St. Louis, on the 13th. It passed a resolution endorsing the eight hour movement, and asked for legislation preventing the importation of foreign or alien labor by contract, and the employment of child labor. Robert W. Page, an employe of an Atlanta, Ga., slaughter house, while tinder the influence of liquor on the 14th fell into a large kettle of hoVwater in which hogs were. scalded. He had b6en in the kettle over an hour when found and was boiled almost to a jelly. The body of little Irene Hawes was found in a lake near Birmingham, Ala., about thirty <eet from the point where her mother’s body was found nearly a week ago. A heavy piece of iron was found on the child’s breast -v Hawes, the supposed murderer, refuses to talk. Fear of mob violence has spbeided. The Boston municipal elect.on, Tuesday was hotly contested. It resulted in

" I 'i I' 1 1 81. nyi > ' WJ" o' i -I. J ' T-T ’j a victory for the Republicans, who opposed a further representation of Catholics on the School Board, by a decisive majority. Hart (Republican) is elected Mayor by 1,6 0. The license vote of the city was: Yes, 34,471; ho, 16,905 —a majority of 17,566 in favor of license, as compared with 8.483 last year. The little town of Milbury, Mass., has become locally famous as the residence of Mrs. Anne DeGroote, who has just given birth to four girl babies at a single confinement. All are living and range from five pounds to eight ounces in weight. The smallest will probably die. A. S. Mock, of Toledo, 0., while in Wabash the other day, wash mistaken for General Harrison, and quite an ovation was tendered him before the mistake was discovered. Isaac Freeze, of Lagro township, made'A speech telling what the boys had done to insure his election. ; Twenty-four suits have been commenced in the District Court of Davenport, la., against the Rock Island Road, by Attornry General Baker, in the name of th* State of lowa, on account of extortionate freight charges. Suits of a similar character are to be instituted by the jobbers of several other cities against other roads.

A. C. Owen, aged seventy-nine, an old and highly respected citizen of Mason, City, la., is out with a challange to any man of seventy-nine in the Unite" States to run him a forty or eighty-rod race, and at the end of the race jump and strike his heels together three times. He will wager from 4500 to $lO,000 on the result. A committee representing the Grand Army posts of Kings county, New York, called upon General Harrison Monday and presented to him a petition signed by the Commander, of all the G. A. R. posts of Kings county, asking him to reviewthe parade of G. A. R. veter ans on Memorial Day next May, and accompany the procession to the tomb of General Grant at Riverside.

Pretty Boy, a Sioux Indian at the Fort Peck agency, Montana, who for upward of a week has been loaded down with whisky, attacked his squaw and was about to scalp her when interfered with by other Indians. He then procured a Winchester, and blew his squaw’s brains out. An attempt to capture him resulted in the death of three of the pursuing Indians. He found capture inevitable and placing the muzzle of the gun to his heart, shot himself through. Hon. Chafles Francis Adams made a speech before the Commercial Club, of Boston, Saturday evening, on the InterState Commerce act, in which he took the ground that the act was doing exactly the opposite of what its framers intended it to do. He thought that if it remained in force a few yearslonger the short railroads would be forced out of existence or be merged into the larger ones, and that instead of many competing lines, the management would be reduced to the few, and those would control systems embracing 20, ojo miles each. ” FOREIGN. Bismarck has neuralgia. It is officially stated that the Pope does not intend io leave Rome, nor has he thought of taking such a step. The premature explosion of blasting powder at Toronto. Ont., on the 13th, instantly killed Thos. W. Beggs. Advices from South Africa says that the King of Swaziland recently caused the massacre of his premier and six chiefs and the people who were supposed to be concerned in a plot to dethrone him in favor of his brother.

It is asserted that an American syndicate, with a capital of $50,1'10,00 , has been f.rmed to construct a railway Iff Siberia, and that several former and present American Diplomatic and Consular Agents are interested in the undertaking.

Osman Digna, in his letter to General Grenfelt, says Emin Bey and Henry M. Stanley, surrendered to the Mahdi’s forces October 10, at Lado, having been betrayed by Emin’s own people. As authentication of this statement, Osman inclosed a letter from the Khedive of Egypt to Emin Bey, which was given to Stanley when he was in Cairo.

AN ELEPHANT EXECUTED.

Big “CbliX” Strangledi to Death byTwo of HU B .■* thren. The winter quarters of Forepaugh’s circus at Philadelphia were the scene Sunday afternoon of an execution not ordered by the court. Chief, the big elephant, was condemned to die. He had become entirely unmanageable and it was difficult to keep the great, strong brute chained up. He tried to kill nis keeper Saturday and it was decreed that he should be destroyed. Sunday afternoon the noose was placed arbnnd his neck. It was made in the middle of a piece of rope half an inch thick and ten yards long. It was a tick-; lish thing to get the noose on the elephant’s neck, but it was finally pulled over his trunk and placed close behind his ears. Then Basil and Bispaarck, two powerful elephants, were attached to the ends of the rope. At young Adam Forepaugh’s command the two elephant executioners were prodded and the line was drawn tight around Chief’s throat. Another signal was given and the elephants applied all their power. Chief tottered and fell and was dead in twenty seconds. Chief was an Asiatic elephant, ten arid a half feet high, and weighed 10,000 pounds.

RIDDLEBERGER AND INGALLS.

President-protem Ingalls laid before the Senate on the 17th the resolution of Mr. Riddleberger, proposing reorganization of the Senate after January 1, and the author spoke in support of it. He said its object was to put some other than the Senator from Kansas in the chair, asserting that he had been the chief figure in the most disorderly scenes he could recollect of occurring on the Senate floor. He said a change was necessary in order that the faith of the Republican party pledged to a consideration of the British extradition treaty in open session might be kept. At the conclusion of his remarks, Mr. Riddleberger asked leave to withdraw the resolution, of Tennessee, who moved to lay it on the; table, and called for the yeas and nays, j after paying a high tribute to Mi. In-| gall’s impartiality and ability. Finally the Senator from Virginia was permitted to withdraw his resolution, ana the incident closed. •

MORE RACE TROUBLES.

An Uprising of Negroes at Wahalak, ; ■ Mississippi. A Terrible Fight In Which Many Men Are Ktile<<—Troopa and Armed Citunng to' the Rescue- LQyfl'vUng Particulars. A special from Columbus, Miss., received Monday evening, says: “Reports reached here this morning of a riot between whites and negroes at Wahalab, Miss., a station on the Mobile & Ohio railroad, of about two hundred inhabitants, that surpasses in horror anything that has happened in this State for years, and recalls most forcibly the remembrance of the bloody riots of 1875. Tne particulars gathered from the most reliable sources are as follows: Yesterday evening, two boys, one white and the other a negro, gotTnto a fight. Mr. Tom Nicholson, the father of the white boy, attempted to separate them, when Maurice, the father of the negro, jumped on him and beat him up most terribly. Mr. Nicholson swore out a warrant against Maurice, which was placed in the hands of the constable. The constable,after searching for Maurice, found him, with quite a crowd of other negroes, barricaded in a hon e. They refused to pay any attention to tae officer, or his warrant, »nd defied the law and the authorities, saying Maurice should not be arrested. Not satisfied with defying the law, they attacked the officer and beat him until he was more dead than alive, before they would allow him to go. He returned to town and summoned a posse of twelve white men, who proceeded at once to the point where the negroes were fortified to demand the surrended of Maurice. The negroes, however, had abandoned their house and were secreted in the woods near by, and as the constable and his posse neared the house they were fired upon from ambush. Constable T. L. Cobb and four of his posse fell dead at thejfirst volley, and there was only one man among the twelve vho • scaped entirely whole, some being seriously wounded. The whites, seeing that they were only a handful compared to the large crowd of negroos who were opposed to them and who numbered several hundred, retreated, leaving their dead on the field, followed by the jeers and shouts of the black murderers, who were armed to the teeth, and had used double-barreled shotguns with such deadly effect on the officers of the law. Upon the return of the remnant of the posse to the town the scene was of the wildest excitement. The situation was telegraphed to the neighboring towns and preparations were at once made to attack the negroes as soon as reinforcements arrived. The news of the slaughter caused intense excitement wherever it was made known, and offers of assistance came from all quarters. A special train was made up at Meridian with about seventy-five determined men aboard, and left for. the scene of conflicu The number Was im creased at every station along the road. No engine could be had north of Wahalak to take a special train, but preparations were made at all points to go on the, evening train. Telegrams were sent from various points, and preparations are being made at almost every place along the line »o send squads of armed men to the rescue. The negroes have not been idle. Reports from the country where they are congregating state that their number is being constantly increased by reinforcements, and that they are fully armed and determined to fight to the end.

Advices just received from the scene of the trouble state that the negroes have become alarmed at the number of reinforcements the whites have f om airquarters and have retreated to the swamps, where they are fortifying themselves and making every prepration to resist all attacks. They are armed with shotguns, muskets and pistols, and are abundantly supplied with ammunition.. The whites are mostly armed with Winchester rifles, shotguns and side-arms, and are determined to put a stop to all such outbreaks. The present scene of trouble is about five miles from Wahalak, and reports are effect that the whites and blacks are now about equal in numbers, and the whites were about to advance to the swauip. Judging the present by the past, the situation is anything but reassuring. Those who remember the riots of 1875 shudder as they contemplate all the horrors of aracejwar. The military here have made every preparation and are ready to leave at any moment, but up to the present writing have received no orders from the Governor, and Will not go as on organization without orders. Business houses have closed and groups of men are standing around on the streets discussing the situation and awaiting developments. Since the bulletins in front of the Dispatch office have been taken down the negroes have quieted down atid dispersed. The Wahalak affair has nothing Yo do with politics, unless the Republican sucess of the late campaign has made the negroes more" arrogant than usual. The affair is greatly regretted by ail good citizens, who foresee that much bloodshed may be the result*, and while there is no doubt as to who will be the victors when the crisis combs, still it is a most deplorable affair, and one that will have a baneful influence on the South. Rumors are coming in constantly. The latest, upon which too much credence should not be placed, sa s that the whites attacked the blacks in the swamp with fearful results to the latter, the number of killed being placed at" twelve whites and 150 negroes. This rumor ought to be verified before it is believed.

STANLEY CAPTURED.

It Is Now Believed the Great Explorer is In the Hands of the Enemy. It is rumored that Osman Digna, in his letter, expressed a willingness to surrender Emin Pasha and his white companion, provided Egvpt would agree to abandon Suakim. If this proposal is not accepted, it is believed that both captives will be killed. Along with his letter Osman Digna sent several Snider cartridges, which, he alleged,were taken from the white traveler. The Zanzibaris in Stanley’s expedition were armed with Snider rifles, but there were none in the possession of the dervishes. General Grenfell recognized the .letter Whiifch Osman Digna had inclosed as the original one which he had drafted for the Khedive. Thus Stanley’s capture is virtually beyond.a doubt. The Congo State

officers have not been informed of the matter. In the House of Commons, Friday afternoon, Mr. Smith, the government, leader, replying to Mr. Wilfred Lawson, said that so far as was known to the government the letter written by Osman Digna announced the surrender of Emin Pasha and a white traveler. .The government bad no means of knowing whether these allegations were well founded. It is evident from the noncommittal reply Mr. Smith gave the House of Commons, Friday afternoon, to questions regarding the capture of Emin Bey and Henry M. Stanley, that the government are completely non plussed, and have no accurate information in the matter further than is generally conceded that Osmatf Digna holds a trump card against which his opponents are powerless to play, and that the government can only yield on the former’s own terms. It was believed in the lobbies of th- House that England will be forced to treat with the successful commander for the evacuation of Suakim, for the government will not dare to sacrifice the prisoners whom Osman Digna threatens to kill unless the town is abandoned. The queit general assumption that Hem y M. Stanley is a prisoner in the hands of Khalifa Abdullah, the false prophet of the Soudan, has not extended to the officials of the British Imperial East African Company. These gentlemen, including Sir Francis De Winton and William Mackinnon, ex. press their unqualified belief in the explorer’s safety and ultimate return to civilization, and, quite reasonably, base their belief upon the contention that the proofs-of -his capture furnished oy Osman Digna are insufficient, illogical and contradictory. The Oganda missionaries, although’ ample time has elapsed for their doing so, make no mention of the Mahdi’s alleged victory, and the British imperial officials are therefore constrained to believe that no battle between the Mahdi’s forces and those of Stanlev or Emin, or both, has taken place. Osman Digna palpably lies when he pretends that he does not know the name of the white traveler he speaks of, and the placing of the cartridges in evidence is merely effective as weakening his assumption that the unknown white man is Stanley. The last consignment of rifles sent to Stanley consisted wholly of weapons of the Remington pattern, which the Snider cartridges could not be made to fit. Suakim. Dec. 16. -The Knalif’s letter to Osman Digna stated that a steamer expedition to the equator, commanded by Osman Saleh, on arriving at Lado, had Emin Pasha and a white traveler deliverdto them in chains by Emin’s officers and troops. Osman Saleh, in his letter to the Khalif, stated that he reached Lado on Oct. 11, and that the Khedive had sent a white traveler named Stanley with a letter telhng Emin to go with Stanley, and offering the remainder of the force the option of going to Cairo or remaining. They refused to enter the Turkish service, and gladly received 0.-man Saleh. Osmen Saleh foundw large quantity of leathers and ivory. He heard that another traveler bad visited Emin, but had gone, and he wassearching for him.

SELLERS RESIGNS.

The Unites State* Dintr ct At'orney Fioris Official Life Undesirable. Mr. E. B. Sellers. U. S. District Attorney for Indiana, surprised everybody on the 12th by tendering his resignation to the President. Some days ago he stated to a reporter that it was his intention to resign, but it was supposed that he had no idea of relinquishing the office before the beginning of the ne • administ' ation. On the 10th he went to Monticello, his old home,and it is his desire to remain there. His experience in the office has been rather trying. His prosecution of the Marion county tally sheet forgeries, which was most vigorous, made him many enemies within his own party of men who were friendly to the men under indictment. The recent investigation of the Grand Jury into election frauds has made more work of the same kind,for him, but toe condi•tkms aresomewhat different. - The” members of the party, • says one in authority, have been vigorously demanding the indictment and punishment of the man they charge with having written the now famous ‘‘blocks of five’ 7 letter, and it is to Mr. Sellers that they look to carry but their wishes. There is no doubt that he has faithfuly endeavored to find sufficient evidence, to warrent the jurv in returning an indictment. The adjournment of the jury without reporting an indictment was something of a disappointment, and has been accepted as evidence that there had been no testimony presented to warrant a criminal prosecution. Another man that contributed to bisection was the election of his law partner to a Judgeship. The business of the firm would be entirely lost should he remain in his present position. It was his judgment that it would be a serious mistake for him to neglect the opportunity merely for the sake of holding the office of District Attorney for a few months, and therefore his resignation was not deferred. It reached Washington on the 12th but the President stated to a representative of the Associated Press that he had not accepted it and did not wish to do so: The Attorney General telegraph d Mr, Sellers that it was the desire of both hi mself and the President that he should withdraw his lesignation. Mr. Sellers gives as the reason for his resignation his pressing private business. He said his action had been determined upon previous to the election and that later ’ developments cut no figure in the case. / The President has nominated Leon A. Bailey as District Attorney for Indiana, to succeed District Attorney Sellers, resigned.

One of the proof readers of the Charleston, 8. C., World is an unmarried woman of refinement, who is glad to support herself in that way. She goes to her work about Bo’clock in the evening, and does not quit the office until 3th e next morning. Then she lights a lantern, and with that in one hand and a loaded revolver in the other she goes home. Speaking of her the Atlanta Constitution says: She has no fears in the heart of Carolina, where woman is next in divinity ro God;” but it looks very much as if she thought that the divinity of woman even in the heart of Carolina wasn’t as good- of a protection as powder andjball. - tpXt, ' I " - ’ . -.. •

WASHINGTON NOTES.

The Senate Thursday confirmed the nomination of Perry Belmont to be Minister to Spain, y . ■ The river and harbor bill -wa’ reported to the House. It provides'for a total appropriation of $1,9 6,860. The House Democratic caucus Thursday night adopted a resolut on favoring the admission of all the Territories. • The House Committee on military affairs has ordered a favorable report on a bill to place General John C. Freemont on the retired list as Major-General. In the House Thursday Mr. Butterworth introduced a joint resolution authorizing the President to negotiate with reference to the union and. assimilation of the Dominion of Canada, or one or more ol its provinces, with the United States. In reporting favorably the bill granting a penson of $3,500 a year to Mrs. General Sheridan, the House Commit* tee on Pensions says: “There has been decided opposition in this committee to these unusually large pensions to widows, but this report is made favorable in this case upon the ground that Congress can not well refuse such actions after giving large pensions toothers who are less meritorious.” z ~ Republican members of the Senate committee on military affairs say it is not%rue, as repor ed, that the half dozen staff appointment s to positions in the army made a week ago will be “held up” and not confirmed. They say the nominations were ail deserved nromoiions, and t at no nominations of good men made by Mr. Cleveland will be “held up,” unless it appears that there is a political deal in them by which the a tion of President Harrison is an icipated. The direct-tax bill passed the House by a vote of 178 to 96. The slight amendment made to the bi 1 will be concurred in by the Senate. It is generally conceded that the measure will be vetoed by the President. The bill lacked fourteen votes to the necessary two-thirds of the House, which vote must be secured if the bill is passed over the President’s veto. It is not believed that 192 votes could be secured, by any hook or crook, to pass the bill over the President’s veto. Arrangements are being made at the White House for the gayest sc cial season ever known at that mansion. The Clevelands are to go out into private life in a swirl of social glamour, beginning with a grand reception to personal and official friends, within a few days after the New Year’s day reception that will so low the state and private dinners and receptions, the like of which has never been seen in this country. Mrs. Clevew nt to Philadelphia on Tuesday for several days of shopping. Bhe“will lay in a large supply of new goods. A huge reception and ball is talked of for President and Mrs. Cleveland by Mr. and Mrs. Whitney and other friends, to take place just before the families of the present Cabinet officers separate. It is stated tha~ the Whitneys will be with the Clevelands if a European trip is taken next year. The investigation into the alleged outrages in Alaska will be begun by the House Committee on the Merchant Marine next week. Those persons making the statements on which the newspaper publications relating to stories of the alleged outrages were based have been summoned to appear. Gov. Swineford, of Alaska, has written to the Committee a letter, in which he says he has lately returned from a protracted trip through the large section of the country dominated by the Alaska Commercial Company, having visited nearly all of the stations of the company on the Aleutian islands, on the Pribyloy island, and on the mainland, and that nearly everywhere Tie found abundant evidence to prove every assertion made by him against the company in his reports to Congress and the Secretary^of the Interior. The committee has suKpcened him to appear before it to give him an opportunity to substantiate hi« charges.

MORTON IN INDIANA.

Vice President-elect Levi P. Morton and wif e arrived at Indianapolis at 6 p. m. on the 12th over the Bee Line railroad. They arrived at Cleveland, 0., early in the morning and left at 10 o’clock. At several points on their route they were seen by numbers of people, whom the Vice President greeted warmly. They were met at the Union Station in Indianapolis by Private Secretary E. W. Halford and Mr. McKee, General ' Harrison’s son-in-la«, and a committee of the Board of l rade. A large?,crowd had gathered at the station, but no demonstration was made. The distinguished visitors were conducted to a carriage in waiting and at once conveyed to Gen. Harrison’s residence. The General met them at the door and warmly greeted them. Soon after the party’dined witl) the family of Mr. Harrison. During the evening many distinguished citizens called and paid their respects. The General and Mr. Morton devoted much of the time of tne evening to social conversation. The visitors were given recet tions of various kinds during their stay in Indiana> olis, including a public reception h” citizens generally. The only public reception given Mr. Morton was on Friday evening at Tomlinson Hall. Jhe hall was tastefully decorated. Mrs. Morton was ill anil could not be present. Mr. Morton was assisted by Mr. and Mrs. Harrison, Governor and Mrs. Gray and many others. Probably between 3,'MiO and 4,000 persons called and paid their respects. Mr. and Mrs Morton left for home at 4 o’clock on Saturday.

CANADIAN ANNEXATION.

Mr. Butierwonh A-tonlshes Everybody by a Resolution to Take the luidat ve. Friends of commercial union between the United States and Canada are very much astonished over the course of Representative Butterworth in introducing in the House a preamble and resolution empowering the President ‘‘to invite negotiations looking to the assimilation and unity of the people of the Dominion of Canada under one government.” There is absolutely no spirit shown in either* branch for anexation. There is a strongs sentiment in favor of commercial union, and Mr. Butterworth has heretofore been looked upon as the champion of this idea because of bis course in speaking for commercial union, not only in this country, but in Canada, and because of his previous

resolutions having that object in view. Those who know Something of the sentiment of the political parties- in • Canada say that Mr. Butterworth could not have more effectually injured the commercial union idea if he bad tried to do so, and that the commercial unionists have been Compelled to answer the claims of the r opponents that commer- . dal union wa a simply a svnonym for annexation. Fortunately, however, for those who favor commercial union the Butterworth resolution is not likely to receive cordial support in Congress. In fact, it is doubtful if it will ever be heard of again, unless Mr. Butterworth ’should introduce it in duplicate in the next House. Regarding Congressman Butterworth’s annexation resolution, Mr. Howell, Canadian Minister of Customs, says, that “it was the greatest rot ever propounded by a man who bad any pretensions to being a statesman. In the first, nlace,” said Mr. Howell, “the people of Canada do not want annexation with the United States, forcible illustration of which we have had in the recent Dominion elections, which were run on either commercial union or unrestricted reciprocity lines—one remove only from annexation, which, in reality, either implies. Do you suppose for one moment the Dominion government dare propose a commission, as suggested by Mr. Butterworth, for consideration of the question. Any member of the Cabinet who ventured to make such a proposition Would be drummed out of the country. An annexation sentiment has no existence in Canada, save among a few hoodlums who are endeavoring to gain notoriety through advocating a movement no ond of any responsibility joins in.”

WATCHING THE FRENCH.

It Thty Seis* the Fan m» Coast Line th® Untied State* Must Step In. A Washington special save: The Panama canal crisis is beine watched with unusual interest by officials of this administration. During the term of President Cleveland he has not been called upon to take notice of what is going on at the isthmus, but he has, nevertheless, not been unmindful of possible contingencies in the progress of the work of building the canal. Mr. Hitt, of Illinois, who was Secretary of Legation at Paris from 1874 to 1881, and was Assistant Secretary of State under Mr. Biaine, said: “Our government will probably not do anything uitil we see what the French government is doing. w hether the interference of the French government is one that has a political side to it and aims to get control of the cost line, or whether it is merely with the business part of the affair, remains to be disclosed. The French government, I do not th ink, can do much without legislative action through the Chambers. There are many reasons why they should want to prevent disorder at home and take some step to keep the company from bankruptcy. But if they should undertake to seize the coast line 1 know what the action of our government ought to be and what it would be if its councils were actuated by a spirit like Mr. Blaine’s. I think all our public men would take the same view on such a question as that.” “Would not our insisting on the Monroe doctrine lead to war with France?” I asked. “It would lead to discussion,” replied Mr. Hitt “The French Constitution is a popular one and not under the control of o< e man. The French consider what should be done for the relief of the people without meddling in any way with the American system of politics, and our representations would undoubtedly be listened to.”

GROVER’S APPOINTMENTS.

The Republican S-na e Propose to Hang. Them Up Awhile. A special from Washington on the 12th, says: The Republican Senators, it is understood, decided nbt to confirm any of the dominations sent in by the President, Tuesday. These include all the appointments made since Congress adjouined in October last. It is possible tbfltth6 army fiomlimtlons may be excepted, but this is not likely. Under the law, such appointees as have not been confirmed by the Senate on March 4th retire, and their offices remain vacant -until the incoming President makes new appointments. The- Senate has practically decided upon this plan sos the reason that it is useless to put any more Democrats in office now, and for the reason further that many of the appointments were made simply as a means of promoting Democrats before they go out of power. Should they be rejected it would be necessary for President Cleveland to make -- other appointments to avoid mixing up matters, therefore as well as to save themselves annoyance, the Senate will simply hang up the nominations now pending and allow the new officials to remain in office until March 3. Only those who were appointed before the Senate convened have taken posses-ion of their offices. The others will be compelled to again try their luck with President Harriaon and the Republican Cabinet. The knowledge of the dicision of the Senate will give, great surprise and disappointment to the army staff appointments.

THE MARKETS.

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