Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1889 — Page 7

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. The price,of tea is to be increased. Pittsburg was visited by a SIOO,COO fire on the 27th. Two thousand emigrants landed at Castle Garden Monday. A burglar was killed at Napersville.lll., Thursday, by a policeman. Rev. Sam Small has concluded to run for Congress next year in the Fifth Georgia District. Deputy U. S. marshal Russell Weirman was killed in Knott county, Ky., Friday, by moonshiners. ' Henry T. Helmbold, the patent medicine man, is mentally deranged, the result of excessive drinking. , ? The net earnings of the American Bell Telephone Company for 1888, show an increase over 1887 of $203,608. Mr. Theodore Steinway, of the firm of Steinway & Son, piano makers, of New York, died Tuesday at Brunswick. Margaret Kinlein and her three children lost their lives by the burning of their house at Milwaukee, Monday. Stanley Matthews, late Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court was buried at Cincinnati Tuesday. Alfred Fenton, of Winchester, Ohio, is an eater of some capacity. He experiences no ill effects from eating three dozen boiled eggs.

The railroad ticket office of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Road at Wyoming, Ohio, was burglarized Sunday night and S4OO in money taken. At Avondale, Ala., an eight-year-old boy found a small dynamite cartridge. He struck it with a hammer, and the explosion killed him and disfigured his sister for life. Postmaster General Wanamaker delivered a temperance address at Philadelphia Sunday, in which he strongly urged his hearers to vote for the prohibition amendment. The great strike of weavers at Fall River, Mass., begun some weeks ago and involving probably 10,000 workmen has been ended, the strikers accepting the terms of the operators, Six hundred carpenters and 200 painters at Buffalo, 1,200 carpenters at St. Louis, and 150 carpenters and 180 painters in New York went on a strike. Monday, all for higher wages. * "Fire Friday night destroyed the large building occupied by S. A. Maxwell & Co., trail paper dealers, at Chicago, a loss to the building and contents of over a Quarter of a million dollars.

Joseph Sheffski threw a dynamite cartridge in the streets, at Buffalo, to show some curious friends “how thev worked.” The street was torn up, buildings damaged and Joseph placed in the cooler. H. Sullivan Moore has been given a life sentence for killing his room-mate, Hon. James Hunt, of the Georgia Legislature. Moore was thrown in a friendly scuffle, but he became angry and fatally cut Hunt. George Abrams, a seventeen-year-old employe‘of the Michigan Buggy Company at Kalamazoo, Mich., was caught by a belt and carried over a pulley. His head was torn from his body, causing instant death. Three men accused of cattle stealing were captured by vigilantes in Western Nebraska and turned over to a band of Indians, who subjected the poor victims to the most horrible tortures and finally burned them to death over a slow fire, The Central warehouse at the coriier of Rush and North Water Street Chicago, was destroyed by fire on the 26th, causing a loss of $1,500,000. The contents of .the building were mostly tea in bond, with a few thousand packages of coffee. Ms. John Fox, of Cincinnati, and Mrs. George Middlecoff and Mr. George Fox, of Paxton, 111., will each receive $267,000 through the death of their sister, Mrs. B. F. Marsh, at Cincinnati, a few days ago. She died intestate, leaving a fortune of SBOO,OOO. George Kennan, the well known traveler, whose articles in the Century on the Siberian exile system have given him world wide fame, is about to deliver a series of lectures on Siberia, beginning at Rochester, N. Y., and extending the tour to the leading cities of the country.

The Lower House of, r the Tennessee Legislature, Friday, passed a Senate bill creating a Confederate Soldier’s Home at the Hermitage, near Nashville. The bill was so amended that indigent Mexican veterans and White Union Soldiers of the,Civil War will also be provided hoihes there. - When John Henevan refused to discontinue his attentions to Miss Mary Yanchiz, of Wilkesbarre, Pa,, her two brothers tied a rope around his neck and dragged him through the streets 1 until he was nearly dead. Henevan has given up his sweetheart, but the two brothers have been placed in jail. Thomas K eogan, an Irish resident of Juniata Township, near Holidaysburg, Pa., was buried Thursday at the advanced age of one hundred and eight years, ue carried a pike in the Irish rebellion of 1798, and came to this country seven-ty-five years ago. His first vote was for Andrew Jackson and his last for Grover Cleveland. Edward Fletcher, of Kankakee, 111., found favor in the eyes Of Mrs. W. M. Rice, of Toronto, and Mt. Rice sued Mr. Fletcher for $20,000 for the loss of his wife’s affections. In consequence of the row Mr. Fletcher was discharged by the railroad company for which he worked, and he now sues Mr. Rice for $21,000 for the loss of his situation. The scnooner Adventure, which sailed from Seattle, Wash. T., last Marsh, on a trailing expedition to Alaska, )has arrived at Port Etches, Alaska, in charge of her sailors minus a captain. The sailors report that J. C. Reed, one of the owners, who acted as captain, was knocked overboard by a boom last September and drownea, as none of the sailors knew any thing about navigation, they have been drifting aimlessly around since that time until a few days ago when they ran ashore near Port Htches. Four Americans from El Paso shot and killed two Mexican' policemen, Thursday night, in Paso de Norte. The Americans were raising considerable disturbance by shooting off their pistols and overturning apple-stands, when the police attempted to arrest them. One of the Americans opened fire on the police, and killed one of them instantly. A second shot brought down the second policeman, fatally wounded. <The

American crowd then ran for the river, closely punned by Mexican soldien Three of them jumped into the Rio Grande and swam across, while the fourth crossed on the bridge and was fired at three times by the Mexican guard. Fully 20 1 Mexicans came over to El Paso to demand the arrest of the guilty parties.

FOREIGN.

The French Ministry have decided to arrest and prosecute Boulanger for plotting against the State. John Bright cannot be buried in Westminister Abbey because he was never baptised in the established church. A private letter from Henry M. Stanley has been received in London dated September 4. He was in good health and spirits and left Emin well. The session of thejHouse of Commons, Friday night, was devoted to eulogies on the late John Bright. Mr. Gladstone made a touching and appropriate address. A steamship from Rio Janeiro, reports that yellow fever is raging at Santosthirty deaths occurring daily. Yellow fever and small pox were also raging with great fury a* R.d Janeiro with an equal number of deaths daily. Thirteen tenants have been evicted from their holdings at Olongerey. After the tenants had been driven from the houses, twelve of the buildings were set on fire by the agent and emergency men. The best house was not destroyed, being spared for use as quarters for the police. 4

The steamer Ocotlan foundered on Lake Chapala, near Guadalajara, Mexico. A large excursion party was on board at the time. Fifty bodies have been recovered from the wreck. Efforts are being made to raise the steamer, when it is expected additional bodies will be secured. W. Harvey, bookkeeper for J. W. Lyon, of Guelph, Ontario, was arrested Tuesday for embezzling $14,000 from his employer. He was released on bail. He then went to his home and inurdered his wife and two daughters by shooting, and fled. Harvey was arrested later at Toronto. He is probably insane. It is said that the Russian detectives have learned of a gigantic conspiracy of Nihilists, spreading through all parts of Russia. The plots include a new and formidable serieb of attempts upon the life of the Czar.. Numerous arrests are said to have been made in Moscow, Kief, Odessa and southern Russia in consequence of the unearthing of the conspiracy. During the heavy fog Saturday morning, on the English Channel, an Ostend packet was run down by the Belgain mail steamer Princess Henrietta. The former was crushed, and to add to the horror of the situation her boilers burst, shattering her to pieces and sinking her. The Captain, First Mate, Chief Engineer and twelve of her crew were drowned and the Anglo Continental mails weje lost. Prince Jerome Bonaparte, who was among the passengers, was rescued.

The anti-foreign feeling prevails in China continues virulent. At Chefoo, the Europeans feared an attack from mutinous troops. It was reported that the Chinese troops were meeting at the fort and that the mutineers proposed marching against the custom house and other places. As no man-of-war was there, intense excitement prevailed. No attack was made, however. A missionary from Chi Hai Yu states that the Chinese in that city have posted placards outside various foreign residences notifying the tenants that they intend to massacre all Christians before long. The rebels are supposed to number 2,500. On Feb. 22, 500 soldiers were sent to intercept them, but could find no indications of the enemy, who are supposed to have gone inland.

BASE BALL.

The Chicagos and “All America” base ball clubs, which have been on a tour arpand the world, embarked at Queenstown, Ireland, on the 28th for America. The trip has been a remarkable one. The party consisted of the Chicago team, including Mr. Spalding and the wives of several of the players, John M. Ward and Crane, of the New Yorks, Brown'of Boston, Healey of Indianapolis, Carroll of Pittsburg, Fogerty and Wood of Philadelnhia, and others. They sailed from San Francisco and made their first stop at the Sandwich Islands, where they played before King Kalakua and a large congregation of natives, and in return were banqueted by the King. They plaved several games in Australia to very large crowds and here they were also banqueted by the dignitaries of the towns and colonies. They halted long enough at Colombo, Ceylon, to play a game before a motley crowd of Arabs. Thev next visited Cario and Alexandria, Egypt, and played a game in the shadow of the great pyramids and the Sphynx. They then visited Italy and played several games, going thence to Madrid, Monte Carlo ana Paris. They crossed the channel and played a number of games in England ana Scotland and closed the tour with two games in Ireland. The Prince of Wales was an interested spectator of the first game in London ana afterward gave the players a reception. In every land they visited the games were attended by the potentates and the aristocacy, as well as common people, who for the first time witnessed with great interest, and frequently with great enthusiasm, an exhibition of the great American sport. The games as a rule were well played, the majority of which were won by the All Americas. On their arrival in New York the clubs will be given a reception by admirers of the sport and the personal friends’pL the players. They will then makipCtouhof the States playing in all the lefidihg b&eball cities. ' y ' Manager Bancroft, of the Indianapolis club, is confident thfcclab will give the best of them a this He is giving the team five hours practice a day and hopes to bring the club up to a high degree of efficiency. The exhibition games Will begiq) next week and a large attendance is already assured. Captain 'Glasscock claims that if .Whitney is secured Indianapolis Will be as strong in the pitching department as any club in the League, and Paul Hines adds that the Hoosier team is a stronger club than the one that won the championship for Providence in 1884. Paul was a member of the famous Grays, and ought to know as to the respectative • merits of the two teams.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

' i Bedford Catholics will erect a church. The Jeffersonville ear works employ 1,600 men. A pressed brick concern is a new Seymour enterprise. ' • The fruit buds of Huntington were injured by a freeze. \ Sheriff Squires captured John Steele, a horse thief, at Wabash, Friday. Wn. Wallace has succeeded Aquilla Jones, sr., p postmaster at Indianapolis. Mrs. John Sessler, of Laporte, dropped dead Monday while preparing the family breakfast South Wayne has seceded from Fort Wayne proper, having voted for a seperate town corporation. In a popular election the Martinville Republicans have named W. H. Dryden as their choice for Postmaster. The Elkhart Military Company has changed its name from “Koontz Guards” to the “Elkhart Light Guards.” Francis Murphy’s temperance meetings at Indianapolis, last week, resulted in securing 1,2U0 signatures to pledges. Samuel Swicker, of Vincennes, was crushed to death by an Ohio and Mississippi railway train at Washington, Monday. Eli Ballinger, a farmer near Huntington, was struck by a fragment of a board thrown off by a buzz saw, Monday, and fatally injured. Knight Brothers, of Elkhart, who have had great success in peppermint culture, will erect a sugar factory and go into the beet raising industry. McGarvey & Bros, have entered into a contract to rebuild the Greensburg Court House, work to commence next week and to be finished this year. Robert Slocum, of Boone county, a Democrat, still maintains a pole 150 feet in hight in his dooryard, with Cleveland and Thurman banners flying therefrom. John Darsey, the Chicago & Atlantic railroad engineer whose alleged carelessness resulted in a fatal accident at Kouts. Ind., will be tried for manslaughter. ’ Governor Hovey has pardoned Marion A. Hardy, of Evansville, who has been serving a seventeen year sentence for highway robbery. It is shown that he was innocent. The Evansville Democracy have nominated Nicholas M. Goodlet for Mayor, while the Republicans have chosen Hon. John H. Dannattell, the present incumbent. Samuel A. To well, the present Chief Fire Engineer of Anderson, during the war, while leading his company in the charge at Altoona Pass, was shot nine times through the leg. There are signs of a decided revolt against “ring rule” in Huntington, the citizens realizing that the needs of the town are more important than possible political advantages. Joel Briggs and John O. Kain, of Warren county, fearful that they have been inocculated with virus by a hog afflicted with hydrophobia, have applied the Terre Haute mad-stone.

Chai les Anderson, of Evansville, while unloading a circular saw, struck one of the teeth against his knee. Inflammation followed and he has undergone amputation at the hip-joint Benjamin Ensley, of Fiat Rock, is in possession of a powder horn carried during the Revolutionary War, and which was carved by Solomon Purdy at Bedford, Mass., in March, 1782. A cow afflicted with hydrophobia was killed, Monday, in Terre Haute, and there is considerable alarm because infants in several families have been fed from the milk of the afflicted animal. Mrs. H. C. Davis, of Columbus, was stricken with nervous prostration, Monday, due to fright from a visit by a burly tramp, and she was found; in an unconscious condition, with recovery doubtful. Elkhart proposes to place stringent restrictions upon the Bell Telephone Company if it attempts toagaia operate in that city. Under the old law Elkhart repealed the Bell franchise and cut down its poles and wires. William Shumate, aged seventy, and DoraEglin. aged nineteen, the latter blind, eloped from the Bartholomew County Asylum, Wednesday night, but were re-eapturea Thursday,at the Western Hotel, Columbus. Alfred Major, of Shelbyville, a prominent lawyer, and the wealthiest man in Shelby county, died,Monday, of typhoid fever, aged sixty-one. He settled in Shelbyville in 1846, and studied law under Vice President Hendricks. The case testing the responsibility of natural gas companies was tried Thursday, at Anderson, and judgment was given plaintiff for SSOO. Plaintiff’s house caught fire from excessive pressure on gas mains. An appeal will be taken.

Dr. Allen Furnas, the well known horticulturist of Hendricks county, who has taken the lead for years in advancing fruits in this State, has sold his celebrated nursery and orchards in Hendricks county, and will remove to California. z ■ William Dwyre, of Greensburg, attempted to jest with George Power about a girl of ill-repute, and Power thrust a knife into his breast, the blade penetrating his lung and causing dangerous injury. The assailant, who is only seventeen years old, was arrested for attempted murder. The much talked of fight between Ike Weir, the “Belfast Spider,” and Frank Murphy for the light weight championship, took place at Kouts, sixty-eight rounds were fought with no aecisive result, although both men were badly punished, when a postponement for several days was ordered. A constitutional defect has been discovered in the saloon high license bill passed by tne recent Legislature. Its unconstitutionality lies in the fact of its naming the section of the statute to be amended without Betting forth the section in full. This is a clear violation of section 117 of the constitution. There is great demand for Indiana stone,nrare particularly from the quarries in the Southern part of the State, and the Monon railway is hauling fifty car loads daily, principally to Chicago and the Northwest, some of it going as far as Omaha. The company expects to load one hundred cars daily when the season fullyopens. Mondav, at Minshall, while the Parke County Coal Company was prospecting for coal the drill struck gas at a depth

of 150 feet, which threw water and stones fifty feet into the air. The company owns several mines, but this is the first time gas has ever been found in that vicinity, and the company will investigate to determine, whether it is marsh or fuel gas. Never in the history ot Southern Indiana has farming been so far advanced at this season of the year as now. As a rule, the oats are sown and in manv cases up and looking well. Wheat, also, has a healthy look, with every promise of an abundant crop, and there is also a great prospect for peaches and other fruits.

As a result of the hydrophobia panic in the neighborhood of French Lick, twenty-five dogs were shot in one day. Citizens are still going apned for fear of meeting a mad animal, and horses, cows and hogs are frequently giving evidence of having contracted the rabies. One ram whicn was affected finally succeeded in butting out his own brains. South Kokomo two years ago had a scattering population of 150 people. The next enumeration will show over 1,500, with over ten-fold advance in value of lots. There are now nine manufacturing establishments in South Kokomo, employing 1,000 men, where two years ago there were none, and in other ways the growth has been marvelous. Patents were Tuesday issued to Indiana inventors as follows*. Stephen J. Austin, Terre Haute, car jxle box; Eugene Bretney, Indianapolis, dust collector; Henry C. Davis, Terre Haute, hydrocarbon vaporizer; C. N, Leonard. Indianapolis, combined desk and type writer cabinet; Joseph B. Oakey, Indianapolis, combined harrow and pulveriser, Henry C. Shanahan, Mishawaka, corn planter. '

William Robert Burnie, aged thirtyfive, and Maggie May Islett, a school girl, of Fort Wayne, were married, Thursday, by the pastor of the First Baptist Church, a false affidavit having been made relative to the age of the girl, who is only fourteen, by which to obtain a license. Thparents promptly repudiated the alliance, and are moving to set it aside. The groom has been twice married, and he has a divorced wife living in Fort Wayne. A Monroe county patriot, anxious to serve his county, has written to Governor Hovey, saying: “As My friends air askeing me to takee the Place and serve as Notary Republic and I have promised if you will give me the apointment and as I worked hard for your election now will you be a frien to your friend and give me the apoin tment.” Twentv-one names are signed to this remarkable letter, all in the same handwriting and evidently forgeries, indorsing the applicant—-Indianapolis News. Alonzo C. Stewart, of Dunkirk, and other jovial companions, believing that Charles Culver, a night watchman, was cowardly, feigned a row in a saloon and called in the officer. Stewart was chosen to do the scaring, and when Culver was requested to arrest him as the guilty party, Stewart jerked loose and grabbed a chair, and while simulating great anger acted as if he intended to strike. He was met with a whack over the head with a mace, which felled him, and Friday he died from the effects of the blow. Culver stands charged with murder.

Almost a sensation was caused by the announcement, Saturday, that the law “passed by the recent Legislature” authorizing a loan of $1,400,000 is probably unconstitutional by reason of the explicit wording of that section of the constitution authorizing the contracting of loans. It provides that loans can only be contracted “to meet deficits, pay interest on State debt, repel invasion, suppress insurrection and provide for the public defense.” The act authorizing the loan stated, it is claimed, can hardly come under any of these requirements, and the opinions of attorneys who have examined the law is unfavorable to it. It is understood the capitalists who stood toady to provide the money are unwilling to do so under the circumstances. However, the State officers express the opinion that the law will stand, and Treasurer Lemcke has gone to New York with the object of closing up the loan. Judge Woods, of the United States Court, spent Thursday hearing arguments upon motions to quash indictments against persons for alleged violation of the election laws. During the day he passed upon twenty, and found sixteen of them invalid. The four that were not quashed were only sustained in part. The majority of the counts were found to be irregular, but enough remain to warrant a hearing of the cases. Similar motions are pending in regard to other cases, and it is not improbable that many of them may be found bad. The indictments quashed were against the following persons. Morton O. Fusselman, Isaac N. Hanack, John Butler, Herbert H. White, John Bird, Samuel B. Ensminger, Lafayette Moore, Amos Price, William Beakely, Ira Thompson, Ollie Huffman, William) Payton, William W. Macy, Albert B. Marsh, James M. Fletcher and Omer Meyers. Indictments against the following were quashed only as to certain counts. Lewis A. Lucas, Jesse N. Talbott, Robert Brock, Charles McKenzie and Geo. Barley.

THE HOSPITAL BOARD.

The Circuit Cewrt Sustain* the The argument on demurrer inthe case of the State on relation of Joseph L. Carson vs. Governor Hovey, to compel the Governor to issue a commission to Carson as a member of the new Board of Trustees of the Insane Hospital was heard by Judge Howland, at Indianapolis, Monday. He sustained the demurrer, thus holding in favor of the new Boards and against the Governor. By agreement no mandate was issued and the case appealedatoncetothe Supreme Court If the Supreme Court should sustain Judge Howland, the Governor will be left without legal standing in his position that the power of filling offices created by the Legislature is vested in the Governor.

A Borrowing Family.

Texas Siftings. Little girl—Mrs. Brown, my mother sent me to ask you if you would lend her a dozen eggs. She wants to set a hen on them. Mrs. Brown—l didn’t know your mother kept any hens. She hasn’t got any hen yet, but Mrs. Smith has promised to lend ma ope as soon as she has the eggs for the hen to seton. '

A VERY BOLD BANK ROBBERY.

4 ■ A JBank President Compelled to Issue His , Check For 921,000, Clot It Cashed end Turn the Money Over to the Thief. The boldest and most succekful bank robbery every reported in the West was perpetrated upon the First National bank of Denver, Col., at 2 o’clock Friday afternoon. The robbers succeeded in getting away with $21,000.

Thursday morning, immediately after the opening of the bank, a well-dressed man, walked into the bank and asked Assistant Cashier Ross Lewin where he could see Mr. Moffatt, president of the bank. Mr. Lewin informed him that he could see Mr. Moffatt, at the president’s office in the Cheesman block. Nothing more was seen or heard of the stranger until Friday about 10 o’clock, when he entered the office and asked to see Mr. Moffatt on important business. He statea that he had discovered a conspiracy whereby the First national bank

was to be robbed of a large amount of money. Mr. Moffatt told the man that he was very busy at that moment, but he would be pleased to meet him at his private office in the bank at 1 o’clock. With this the man left the building. k In a few minutes after the hopr ap pointed he called at the bank and was shown into the president’s office. While remaining standing, he inquired if the cashier was in and was told that he was at lunch. He then asked for a blank check for the purpose of showing how .the robbery was to be perpetrated. The check was handed him. He laid it upon the desk in front of Mr. Moffatt and said: ‘1 will have to do this myself,’ and, pulling a large revolver from his coat, placed it at Mr. Moffatt’s head, and in a decidedly earnest, but unexcited manner, said: ‘I want $21,000 and am going to have it. I have considered this matter—the chance I am running and the consequences if I fail and am arrested. I am penniless and a desperate man, and have been driven, during the past s week, to that point where I have considered suicide as the only means of escape from the poverty and misery in which I exist. You have millions. I am determined to have what I have asked for. If Fou make a noise, call a man or ring a jell I will blow your brains out and then blow up the building and myself with this bottle of glycerine (which he at that moment pulled out of his pocket). Now, take your choice. Moffatt started to argue with the

man, but was stopped with the information that it was useless, and he had but two minutes in which to fill out the check before him for $21,000, if he desired to live. Moffatt, seeing no other alternative, filled out the check and was then ordered to take it to the paying teller and get it cashed. Mr. Moffatt left his office and, with the man behind him with the revolver partially concealed under his overcoat and with the muzzle almost against Moffatt’s back, marched behind the counter ana up to Paying Teller Keeley with the request that the Check be immediatelv cashed. They then remarched into Moffatt’s office without attracting the^attention of the fifteen or twenty clerks who were within two feet of where they passed. After they had remained in the private office three or four minutes, the robber informed Mr. Moffatt that they were wasting time and that he had bettor step to the door and motion his teller to come to him, which be did. Moffatt instructed him to bring the monev into his office and,'as the teller turned to go away, thezrobber told him he wanted twenty one-theusand-ddllar bills and SI,OOO in gold. The money was brought in and handed to the gentleman, and, waiting until the teller had reached bis desk, he backed out to the front door, making Mr. Moffatt remain standing in his door until he had reached the curbstone. He then raised his hat and walked around the corner and has not yet been heard of. The bottle supposed to contain deadly nitro-glycerine, with which the daring robber frightened President Moffatt, of the Denver bank, making him had over $21,000, has been found, and proves to have contained only castor oil. The robber has not been captured.

OBITUARY.

JOHN BRIGHT. The death of John Bright occurred inLondon on the morning of March 27th, after an illness extending nearly two years. He was bom in Lancashire, November 1811, of Quaker parents. In 1802 his father set up a hand loom in the neighborhood of Rochdale, thus laying the foundation of the cotton spinning industry which the sons developed. John’s earnestness, common-sense estimate of every question and his marked faculty for impressing the common people with homely argnmentA'have been widely attributed to his Quaker training and. simplicity of early manners. He was in pari educated at Ackworth, a well known Friends’ school, and latter went to school at York and Newton.' In February, 1827, when a little more than fifteen years old, he entered his father’s business, but was already so much interested in public affairs that, in 1830, he began to speak at temperance meetings near Rochdale. He took a warm interest in the movement in 1835 for national education and was brought in contact with Richard Cobden, of whom he was a faithful ally on the subject of free trade. In 1841, Bright entered the struggle against the corn laws, which first brought him prominently before the public. He attacked the problem on moral rather than on political grounds. In 1843 he was nominated for Parliament as representative of Durham, and though at first defeated he was elected at a second contest after hist opponent had been unseated for bribery. He made his first speech in Parliament in support of a motion concerning the customs revenues, and was largely instrumental in securing the abolition of the corn laws. He opposed the measure fixing a days work at 10 hours, though his own workman forwarded a petition favoring it The other important subjects upon which he worked at that time were various proposals for the relief of Ireland and the search for a supply of cotton outside of America. Mr. Bright shared with Cobden the abhorrence of war which led to the peace congress of that time. When England drifted into war with Russia, Bright opposed the government and his own constituents, and in 1855 he made some memorable speeches against the continuance of the war. In 18561 he retired from Parliament, but was returned by Birmingham in

August 1857. He was conspicuous in his support of the Union during the Rebellion, in 1861-’65. though his own interests (the cotton) suffered largely thereby. His labors in favor of increased franchise were constant and earnest. He retired from Parliament in 1870. In 1873 he was appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, which position he held until 1874. In 1880 he was again honored with this position, but resigned in 1882, when the war was begun with Ejfr pt. He was twice married, his first wife living but two yean. Four sons and three daughters blessed his second marriage. He was a champion of Irish rights in Parliament when it required a man of nerve to be outspoken on the subject He was not identified, however, with the Irish National idea, and of late yean became completely alienated from Irish interests and was one of Gladstone’s most powerful opponents on the hnme rule scheme. He was an orator of extraordinary power, and in the days of his vigor rendered greater service to the Liberal cause than aay other man in England.

APPOINTMENTS.

The President sent the following nominations to the Senate, Saturday: Cassius M. Barnes, ot Arkansas, to be Receiver of Public Moneys at Guthrie, Ind. T. v John I. Dille, of Indiana, to be Register of the Land Office at Guthrie, Ind. T. Chas. E. Monteith, of Idaho, to be agent for the Indians of the Nez Perces Agency in Idaho. Robert Adams, jr., of Pennsylvania, o be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister ’lenipotentiary of the United States to Brazil. Lansing B. Mizner, of California, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Central American Statea Wm. L. Scruggs, of Georgia, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to* 1 Venezuela. Wm. O. Bradley, of Kentucky, to be Minister-Resident and Consul General of the United States to Corea. George Chandler, of Kansas, to be First Assistant Secretary of the Interior. George L. Shoup, of Idaho, to be Governor of Idaho. John T. Abbott, of New Hampshire, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Republic ot Colombia r

Edwin H. Terrell, of Texas, to be Envoy ’ Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Belgium. To be Delegates to the Conference between the United States of America and the Republics of Mexico, Central and South America,Hay ti,San Domingo, and the Empire of Brazil, to be held in Washington in 1889: John B. Henderson, of Missouri; Cornelius N. Bliss, of New York; Wm. Pinkney White, of Maryland; Clement Studebaker, of Indiana; T. Jefferson Coolidge, of Massachusetts, Wm. Henry Trescott, of South Carolina; Andrew Carnegie, of Pennsylvania; Johnß.G, Pitkin, of Louisiana; Morris M. Estee, of California; J. H. Hanson, of Georgia. James N. Huston, of Indiana, to be Treasurer of the United States, Ellis H. Roberts, of New York, to be Assistant Treasurer at New York City. William F. Wharton, of Massachusetts to be Assistant Secretary es State. George H. Shields, of Missouri, to be Assistant Attorney General. L. B. Prince, of Santa Fe, New Mexico, to be Governor of New Mexico. Louis A Walker, of Helena, .Mont., to be Secretary of Montana. And several Indian agents.

THE BIG MISSIONS.

The Psesident sent the following nominations to the Senate, Wednesday: Robert T. Lincoln, of Illinois, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Great Britain. * Murat Halstead, of Ohio, to be Envoy Extraordinary ana Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Germany. Allen Thorndyke Rice, of New York, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Russia. Patrick Egan, of Nebraska, to be Envoy Exiraordinarv and Minister’Plenipotentiary of the United States to Chill Thomas Ryan, of Kansas, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Mexico. John Hicks, of Wisconsin, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Peru. George B. Loring, of Massachusetts, to be Minister Resident and Consul Gen-' eral of the United States to Portugal.

Heroes of Hayti.

New York World. The Haytian soldier is a thing unique in military annals. Conversing the other day with one who has been in camp at St. Mary, he told us he had been in charge of one of the advanced redoubtsand was very often brought into collision with the enemy’s outposts. On inquiring whether accurate aim was taken in firing, he said: “Why, no! if we sighted on anything we would have to put our heads over the barricades, and might get hit”

THE MARKETS.

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