Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1889 — Page 7

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC.

There were six cases of suicide at Cleveland, 0., within a week. A blinding snow storm prevailed in parts of Wisconsin Wednesday night President Barnard, of Columbia College, is dead. He had been ill for some time past Bugs and the fly are playing havoc with the wheat and tobacco plants in Kentucky. * The Standard Oil Company has acquired 10,000 acres of oil lands around, lama, Ohio. A motor train was -thrown from the track at St. Paul, and seven people ware severely injured. Lysander Bandall committed suicide at Bangor, Me., by strangulation. He left a note stating “rum did_it.” A chair and other articles brought over in the Mayflower were lost in the burning of a farm house 150 years old at -Maspeth, L. I. Twenty-four railroad laborers, engaged in laying a side track at Lancaster, Ohio, were arrested and locked up for Sabbath-breaking. Hon. John C. New, Consul General to London, was dined by Geo. R. Gibson at New York, Sunday night. There were several well-known people present. Near Chicago, Vincent -P. Smith, whose little daughter was ill with scarlet fever, declined the services of physicians, but called in a faith cure doctor. The child died. Patrick Carroll, a shoemaker, aged twenty-six years, jumped from the Brooklyn bridge. He was picked up by a tug and sent to the hospital. He will likely An application by Anthony Comstock for membership in the U. S Grant Post, G. A. R., of Brooklyn, was rejected, Wednesday night, thirty-seven black balls being cast exagnuations covering eight days, a jury was secured. Tuesday afternoon, at Jacksonville, Mich., to try R. Irving Latimer, charged with the murder of his mother. The carpenters’ strike at St. Louis came to an abrupt termination, Sunday, noon the basis that all carpenters may go to work at 35 cents per hour, eight hours work for a dayCharles 11. Luscomb, President of the League of American Wheelmen, has designated Hagerstown, Md., as the J lace for holding the annual meet, and uly 2, 3ami4 the dates. _ The County Court at Parkersburg, W. Va.. has decided to grant no liquor licenses in that county for the year commencing May 1. This action will result in the closing of about sixty saloons; Eleven elevators at St. Louis propose forming a trust. The size of the syndicate which will manage - the elevators will naturally be large, for the original value of the property is about $4,000,000. Mrs. Kinnehan, the Rockford, 111., woman who recently joined the Beekamites, a sect which worships Rev. G. J. Schweinferth as Christ, pleaded not guilty Saturday to a charge of blasphemy. She refused to be sworn. Marat Halstead’s condition is so much improved that his sons, who were called to Cincinnati from the East, have returned. As soon as he is able to travel, Mr. Halstead will probably take an outing in some healthful locality. Charles F. Hartshorn, of Taunton, Mass., has sent to the Secretary of the Treasury $2,000 conscience money. This amount was due the Government in .1863, under an old tax law, but nad ’been overlooked in some manner. Editor Webber, of the Republican Daily Leaflet, attempted to shoot General Powell Clayton in a Little Rock saloon. Political differences are said to b« at the bottom of the trouble. Both Webber and Clayton were arrested. Frederick Ebersold, at one time chief of po'ice of Chicago, has been appointed by Mayor Cregier to be inspector of police, vice John Bonfield, who was suspended some weeks since by Mayor Roche, and afterward resigned. Charles E. Woodruff, of New Britain, Conn., has confessed to having forged papers to the amount of $40,000 on various State banks. He tried to do business without capital, and resorted to crime to secure the necessary money. At the sale of the library and prints of Robert Lennox Kennedy at auction in New York, Thursday night, the first folio of Shakespeare’s comedies, histories and tragedies brought $1,400. A commission dealer was the purchaser. There are only two other copies of the race folio in existence. Uriah Logan Reavis, a noted character of St. Louis, died in that city on the 24th inst. from the effects of a surgical operation. Mr, Reavis was well known throughout the country as the leading advocate of the removal of the National Capital to St. Louis, on which subject he had written several books. Two young girls, Katie Hilty and Mary Ritzier, were attacked by a man named Calvin Ferguson in the woods near Bluffton, O. Ferguses knocked Miss Ritzier insensible with a club and then attempted an assault on Miss Hilty. The latter’s screams brought aid, and Ferguson was arrested and locked up. F. A.’Vanhusen, a wholesale tobacco dealer at Denver, Col., says that he was knocked down and robbed of $1,560 on the street at 1 o’clock, Thursday night. He had drawn the money from the bank to express it to Albquerque, but express rates were found to be too high to suit him and he remained over to get a draft. Uiaaaldojn that a wonwn in annoinl ed a notary public, but now Columbus, Ind., has been brought into renown by a boom in female notaries. All in one day Willamette Mench, Minnie Young, Minnie Mobley and Anna Gilgour have received commissions as notaries public for the town of by the authoritive pen of Governor Hovey. Lester H. Thompson, ex-Senior Vice Commander es the New York Department,*G. A. R., died at Denver, Col., Friday, aged forty-eight years.. He served in the Fifth and Seventh United States Infantry, and since the war has been an ardent and prominent worker in Eastern Grand Army circles, lie will he buried at Canandaigua, N. Y., Tuesday. At Chelsea park, k summer t-esort across the Kansas line, opposite Kamas City, Sunday afternoon, » bridge across an artificial lake gave way and precipitated about seventy-five persons into

seven feet es water. Most of them scrambled oat or Were assisted to the shore more frightened than hurt, but fifteen were injured, four of them At a dinner recently given in honor of newly appointed Federal officers at New York, {Colonel * Joel B. Erhardt, Collector of Port, said: “General Sherman asked me the other day to do him a favor, and I said I wbhld, He asked me to wash the outside of the custom house,and I replied that I would wash the inside as well. I intend to conscientiously observe all laws, especially the civil service act.” At the conference of the National Reform Association, now in session at: Pittsburg, a resolution was adopted requesting President Harrison to mention Christ in State papers, especially Thanksgiving proclamations. The conference is attended by over one hundred prominent ministers and others from all parts of the United States, and, as stated in the call, is for consultations on the Christian principles of civiLguvernm ent.

FOREIGN. The Czar will not visit the Paris exposition. The American Samoan commissioners arrived at Berlin Friday. Henry Rochefort’s son has committed suicide at Bona, Algeria. The King of Holland will resume the reins of government on May 3. Khartoum has been captured, it is rumored, by Abron Gherna Iza,and the Maldi has fled. ; • The Queen of Wurtemburg narrowly escaped death Sunday by her horses taking fright. One of the horses was killed. Letters received at Brussels, from the Congo, report all well at Stanley Falls. Four hundred troops had been sent to the Aruwhimi. A despatch from Auckland says that the United States steamer Nipsic was again disabled-while being lowed in in Apia harbor. The treasure which was on board the ship Trenton when she was wrecked, during the recent Hurricane at Apia, has been recovered. The damage to private property, and the loss to the car company, owing to the strike of the Vienna car men amounts to 100,000 florins. It is reported that at the time of General Boulanger’s flight from Paris, six boxes, weighing 550 pounds, filled with geld and silver plate and jewels, arrived in Brussels for him. It is expected that the Spanish government will soon sell at auction $40,000,000 worth of state woodland, in order to cover the financial deficiency, to build railroads, canals and highways, and to establish rural loan banks. The Paris Temps says that societies have been formed, entitled “Union des Deux Mondes,” to manifest bonds i f sympathy between America and Fiance and to seek an amendir gos the American copyright laws. They will organize a fete for July 4, and will give a concert and other entertainments. The Shah of Persia is due in St. Petersburg in the latter part of May, and must, of course, be welcomed personally by the Czar, The exact day of his arrival has not been named, but it is unlikely that he will be punctilous with the Weffern unbelievers, and it may suit his pleasure and dignity to be a few weeks late. The Samoan commissioners had a conference with the Bismarcks. The American members are much pleased with their reception. Mr, Bates made an explanation of his Century article, which was satisfactory. Prince Bismarck expressed the hope of an early settlement of the questions at issue, and indications point to such a result.

Will Try to Unite.

The conference of ministers of the Anglican, Presbyterian and Methodist churches, which was in sessional Toronto, Canada, on the 24th and 25th instant, to consider the question of organic unity of all Protestant bodies, has closed. The sessions were of the most interesting character, the representatives of the churches'declaring that they would result in great good to the whole Christian church. The utmost harmony prevailed, although doctrines were discussed upon which all were not in unison. The subjects before the conference were: “Organic Union,” “The Amount nf Unity in Doctrine,” “Worship and Modes of Action between the Three Bodies,” “The Holy Scriptures,” “The Creeds,” and “The Historic Episcopate.” A resolution was adopted recommending to the several churches the appointment of delegates to another conference to be held next year.

A Black-Listing Case Decided.

The Supreme Court of Texas, Friday, reversed the decision of the lower court in the case of Richmond, a railroad conductor who sued the Missouri Pacific for damages for publishing him on the black list as a conductor discharged for carelessness. The Supreme Court holds that the case was not actionable for libel, for absence of express malice in the publication, and that a communication in reference to matter in which the person at interest is privileged if made to another for protecting that interest, and that a communication in tbe discharge of a duty, and looking to the prevention of wrong toward another on the public, is so privileged, when made in good faith. The judgement is reversed.

Guthrie’s “City Dads.

The latest from Oklahoma is that Col. D. P, Dyer, of Kansas City, a Republican in politics, and formerly an Indian agent under President Arthur, has been elected mayor of Guthrie. One es his first acts was to give the gamblers twenty-four hours to leave, and the next train north took away a good many of them. Two big wall tents have been erected and are called ihe city buildings. Police Judge E. M. Clark, of Kansas, holds his court there, and the city council and other city officers inhabit them. Several good buildings have been put up and improvements of all kinds are in rapid progress W. V. Heraneourt. special aitiat for Harper’s Weekly, dropped dead, in front of his tent in Guthrie> Sunday morning. The remain? have been sent to his horns in Dubuque, lowa.

THROUGH A CENTURY.

OUR GROWTH AS A NATION HAS BEEN MARVELOUS. ' ’ ' The God of Elisha ia on the Side of Our Institutions—Christian Religion All that is Needed to Purify Our Politics. Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday. Text II Kings vL, 17. He said: You will notice that the Divine equipage is always represented as a chariot of fire. Ezekiel and Isaiah and Jqhn; when they come to describe the Divine equipage, always represent it as a wheeled, u harnessed, an upholstered conflagration. It is not a chariot like Kings and conquerors of earth mount, but an organized and compressed fire. That means purity, chastisement, deliverance through burning escapes. Chariot of rescue? Yes but chariot of fire. All our National disenthraliments have been through scorching agonies and red disasters. Through tribulation nations rise, Chariots of rescue, but chariots of fire. But how do I know that this Divine equipage is on the side of our institutions? I know it by the history of the last one hundred and eight years. The American revolution started from the pen of John Hancock in Independence Hall in 1776. The Colonies without ships, without ammunition, without guns, without trained warriors, without money, without prestige. On the other side the mightiest nation of the earth, the largest armies, and the grandest navies, and the most distinguished commanders, and resources inexhaustible, and nearly all nations ready to back them up in the fight Nothing as against immensity. The cause of the American Colonies, which started at zero, dropped still lower through the quarreling of the GeneralSj and througn the jealousies aT small successes, and through the winters, which surpassed all predecessors in depth of snow and horrors of congealment. Elisha surrounded by the whole Assyrian army did not seem to be worse off than did the thirteen Colonies encomp>ssed and overshadowed by foreign assault What decided the contest in our favor? The upper forces, the uper armies. The Green and White Mountains of New England, the Highlands along the Hudson, the mountains of Virginia, all the Appalachian ranges were full of reinforcements which the young man Washington saw by faith;' and his men endured the frozen feet, and the gangrened wounds, and the exhausting hunger, and the long march because “the lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw; ana, behold, the mountains were full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha;” Washington himself was a miracle. What Joshua was in sacred history the first American President was in secular history. A thousand other men excelled him in different things, but he excelled them all in roundness and completeness of character. The world never saw his like, and probably never will see his like again, because there probably never will be another such exigency. He was let down a Divine interposition. He was from God direct. I do not know how any man can read the history of those times without admitting that the contest was decided by the upper forces. Then in 1861, when ( our civil war opened, many at the North and at the South pronounced it National suicide. It was not courage against cowardice, it was not wealth against poverty, it was not large States against small States. It was heroism against heroism, it was the resources of many generations agaipst the resources of generations, it was the prayer of the North against the prayer of the South, it was one-half of the Nation in armed wrath meeting the other half of the Nation in armed indignation. What could come but extermination? At the opening of the war the Com-mander-in-Chief of the United States forces was a man who had been great in battle, but old age had come with many infirmities, and he had a right to quietude. He could not mount a horse, and he rode on the battle field in a carriage, asking the driver not to jolt it too much. During the most of'the fqur years of the contest, on the Southern side was a man in mid life, who had ip his veins the blood of many generation! of warriors, himself one of the heroes of Cherubusco and Cerro Gordp, Contreras and Chapultepec. As the years passed on and the scroll of carnage unrolled there came out from both sides a heroism and a strength and a determination that the world had never seen marshaled. And what but extermination should come when Philip Sheridan and Stonewall Jackson met, and Nathaniel Lyon and Sidney Johnson rode in from North and South, and Grant and Lee, the two thunderbolts of battle, clashed? Yet we are a Nation, and yet we are at peace. Earthly courage did not decide the conflict. The upper forces of the text. They tell us there was a battle fought above the clouds on Lookout Mountain; but there was something higher than that Again, the horses and chariots of God came to the rescue of this Nation in 1875, at the close of a Presidential election famous for devilish ferocity. A darker cloud yet settled down upon this Nation. The result of the election was in dispute, and revolution, not between two or three sections, but revolution in every town and village and city of the United States seemed imminent The prospect was that New York would throttle New York, and New Orleans would grip New Orleans, and Boston. Boston, and Savannah, Savannah, and Washington, Washington. Some said Mr. Tilden was elected: others said Mr. Hayes was elected; and Low near we came to universal massacre some of us guessed, but God only knew. I ascribe our escape not to the honesty and righteousness of infuriated politicians, but I ascribe it to the forces of the text. Chariots of mercy rolled in, and, though the wheels were not heard and the flash was not seen, yet all through the mountains of the North and South and the East and West, though the hoots did not clatter, the cavalry of God galloped by. I tell you, God is a friend of this Nation. In the awful excitement at the massacre of Lincoln, when there was a prospect that greater slaughter, would open upon this Nation, God hushed the tempest.. In the awful excitement at the time of Garfield's assassination

God put his hand on the neck ■of the cyclone. , Tojprpve that God is on the ride of thia Nation, I argue from the last eight or nine great National narvesta, and from, the National health Of the last quarter of a century—epidemics very exceptional—and from tbe great revivals of religion, and from the spreading of the Church of God, and from-the continent blossoming with tmylnms and refQrmatory institutions, and from an edenization which promises that his whole land is to be a paradise where God shall walk in the cool of the day. In other sermons I showed you what was the evil that threatened to upset and demolish American institutions. lam encouraged more than I can tell you as I see the regiments wheeling down the sky, and my jeremiads turn into doxologies, and that which Was the Good Friday of the Nation’s crucifixion becomes the Easter morn of its resurrection. Of course. God works through human instrumentalities and this National. betterment is to come among other'things through a scrutinized bal-lot-box. By the law of registration it is almost impossible now to have illegal voting. There was a time—you and I remember it very well—when droves of vagabonds wandered up and down on election day and from poll to poll, and voted here and voted there, amj voted everywhere, and there was no challenge; or, if there were, it amounted to nothing, because nothing could so suddenly be proved upon, the vagabonds. Now, in every well organized neighborhood, every voter is watched with severest scrutiny. I must tell the registrar my name, and how old I am, and how long I have, resided in the State, and how long I have resided in the ward, or the township, and if I misrepresented fifty witnesses will rise and shut me out from the ballot-box. Is not that a great advance? And then notice the law that prohibits a man voting if he has bet on the election. A step further needs to be taken, and that man forbidden a vote who has offered or taken a bribe, whethcash paid down, the suspicious cases obliged to put their hand on the Bible and swear their vote in if they vote at all. So through the sacred chest Nation’s suffrage redemption will come. God also will save this Nation through an aroused moral sentiment. There has never been so mueh discussion of morals and immorals. Men, whether or not they aknowledge what is right, have to think what is right. We have men who have had their hands in the public Treasury the most of their lifetime, stealing all they could lay their hands on, discoursing eloquently about dishonesty in public servants, and men with two or three families of their own, preaching eloquently about the Seventh Commandment. The question of sobriety and drunkenness is thrust in the face of this Nation as never before, and to take part in our political contests. The question of national sobriety in going to be respectfully and deferentially heard at the bar of every Legislature and every House of Representatives and every United States Senate, and an omnipotent voice will ring down the sky and across this land and back again, saying to these rising tides of drunkenness which threaten to whelm home and Ghurch and Nation. “Thus far shall thou come, but’ no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.” I have not in my mind a shadow of disheartenment as large as the shadow of a housefly’s wing. My faith is in the upper forces, the upper armies of the text. God is not dead. The chariots are not unwheeled. If you would only pray more and wash your eyes in the cool, bright water fresh from the well of Christian reform it would be said of you as of this ont of the text, “The Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and, behold, the mountain was full es horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.” You will take without my saying it that my only faith is in Christianity and in the upper forces suggested in the text. Political parties come and go,and they may be right and they may be wrong; but God lives and I think He has ordained this Nation for a career of prosperity that no demagogism will be able to halt. I expect to live to see a political party which will haveaplatform of two planks—the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount. When that party is formed it will syreep across this land like a tornado, I was going to say, but when I think it is not to be devastation but resuscitation. I change the figure and say, such a party as that will sweep across this land like Spice gales from heaven. Have you any doubt about the need of the Christian religion to purify and make decent American politics? At every yearly or quadrennial election we have in this country great manufactories, manufactories of lies, and they are run day and night, and they turn out half a dozen a day all equipped and ready for full sailing. Large lies and small lies. Lies private and lies public and lies prurient. Lies cut bias and lies cut diagonal. Long limbed lies and lies with double back action. Lies complimentary and lies defamatory. Lies that some people believe, and lies that nobody believes. Lies with humps like camels and scales like crocodiles and neck as long as storks and feet as swift as an antelope’s and stings like adders. Lies raw and scalloped and panned and stewed. Crawling lies and jumping lies and soaring lies. Lies with attachment screws and rufflers and braiders and ready wound bobbins. Lies by Christian people who never lie except during elections, and lies by people who always lie. but beat themselves in a Presidential campaign. I confess I am ashamed to have a foreigner visit this country in such times. I should think he would stand dazed; bis band on his pocket-book, and dare not to out nights. What irttt the hundreds of thousands of foreigners who come her to live think of us? What a disgust they must have for the land of their adoption! The only good thing about it is, many of them can not understand the English language. But I suppose the German and Italian and Swedish and French papers translate it all and peddle out the infernal stuff to their subscribers. Nothing but Christianity will ever stop such a flood of indecency. The Christian religion will speak after a while. The billingagate and low rcandal through which we wade every year or every four years, must be rebuked by that religiofi which speaks from its two great mouqteins; from the one inouni tain intoning the cemmaud. “Thou i shalt n-«t bear false witness against thy neighbor,” and from the other mount making the plea for kindness and love and blessing rather than cursing. Yes, we are going to have a national religion.

There are two kinds of national religion. One ia supported by the State, and is a matter of human politics, and it has great patronage, and under it men wffl, struggle for prominence without reference to qualifications, and its Archbishop is supported by a salary of $75,000 a year, and there are great cathedrals, withall the machinery of music and canonicals, and room for a thousand people, yet an audience of fifty people, or twq ntv people, or ten, or two. We want 6o such religion as that, no such natior.il religion, but we want this kind of national religion—the vast majority ofthe people converted and evangelized, and then they will manage the secular as well as the religious. - Ah! it will not be long before it will not make any difference to you or to me what becomes ot this continent, so far as earthly comfort is concerned. All we Will want of it will be seven by three, and that will take in the largest, and there will be room and to spare. That is aU of this country we will need very seon-rthe youngest of us. But we have an anxiety about the welfare and the happiness of the generations that are coming on, audit will be a grand thing if, when the archangel’s trumpet sounds, we find that our sepulcher, like the one Joseph of Arimathea, provided for Christ, is in the midst of a garden. One of the seven wonders of the world was the white marble watch tower of Pharos of Egypt. Sostratus, the architect and sculptor, after building that watch tower; cut his name on it Then he covered it with plastering, and to please tbe King, he put the monarch’s name on the outside of the plastering; and the storms beat and the seas dashed in their fury, and they washed off the plastering, and they, washed it out, and they washed it down, but the name of Sostratus was deem cut in the imperishable rock. \So across the face of this natmn there have been a great many? names written, across our finances/ across our religions, names worthy of remembrance, names written on the architecture of asylums, and our homes ot mercy, but God is the architect of this continent, and He was the sculptor of all its grandeurs, and long after, through the Mask of the ages and the tempest of centuries, all other names shall be obliterated, the divine signature and divine name will be brighter and brighter as the millehiums go by, and the world shall see that the God who made this continent has redeemed it by His grace from all its sorrows and from all its crimes. Have you faith in such a thing as that? After all the chariots have been unwheeled, and after aft the war chargers have been crippled, the chariots which Elisha saw on the morning of his peril will roll on in triumph, followed by the armies of heaven on white horses. God could do it without us, but He will not. The weakest of us, the faintest of us, the smallest brained of us, shall have a part in the triumph. Wo mav not have our name, "like the name o's Sostratus,cut in imperishable rock and conspicuous for centuries, but we shall be remembered in a better place than that, even in the heart of Him who came to redeem ns and redeem the world, and our names will be seen close to the signature of His wound, for as to day He throws out His arms toward us, He fays; “Behold, I have graven thee on the palms of My hand,” By the mightiest of all agencies, the potency of prayer, I beg you to seek our national welfare. Some time ago there were four million six hundred thousand letters in the Dead Letter Postoflice at Washington—letters that lost their way—but not one prayer ever directed to the heart cf God miscarried. The way is all clear for the ascent of your supplications heavenwaid in behalf of this nation. Before the postal communication was so easy, and long ago, on a rock one hundred feet high, on the coast of England, there was a barrel fastened to a post, and in great letters on the side of the rock, so it could be seen far out at sea, were the words, “Post office;” and when ships came by a boat put out to take and fetch letters. And so sacred were those deposits of affection in that barrel that no lock was ever put upon that barrel, although it contained messages for America and Europe, and Asia, and Africa, and all the islands of the sea. Many a stormtossed sailor, homesick, got message of kindness by that rock, and many a homestead heard good news from a boy long gone. Would that all the heights ot our national prosperity were in interchange of sympathies—prayers going up meeting blessings coming down, postal celestial,, not by a storm struck rock on a wintry coast, but by tbe Rock of Ages.

WASHINGTON NOTES.

Since March 4 about five hundred changes have been made in tbe personal of the Railway Mail Service. First Assistant Postmaster General Clarkson, in speaking of the matter to-day, said it has been the policy of the department to displace incompetent clerks and to appoint experienced and thoroughly efficient men who left the service during the last administration, wpere such were availabie and desirious of reentering the service. A gentleman, who is very to President Harrison, is responsible for the statement that the Chief Executive has made up his mind that General Rosecrans shall not be disturbed iu his position as Register of thfr Treasury until his term has expired. The President and his party, including several members of the Cabinet, left Washington Sunday for New York in a special train of elegant Pullmans. Mr. Blaine is indisppsed and did not go. Secretary Tracy has decided to build an armored coast-defense vessel. Mrs. Flora E. Haines has been employed during the past year by the Maine Labor Commission to gather statistics concerning women wage-earners. She finds in that State over fifty different employments in which women are engaged, ranging from cotton and other manufactures to the professions. By far the greatest number are employed in manufacturing, there being about 7,000 thus employed, the average weekly salary <s SB, and one maker of portraits in crayon gets sl,6(K’. Qne woman is the proprietor of a prosperous news paper; another owns an ’ extensive orchard; there are a dozen regulailv endoreed physicians in practice, and three ordained ministers, all Uni vtrealists.

DISGUSTED AND ENRAGED.

The Overflow from the Oklahoma "Botna. ■ S aaw or <n® Dispatches of Thursday say: The occupation of the Cherokee strip h—begun along the whole line. A much harder nut to crack than was any of the Oklahoma booms is now presented to the government The CnerOkee strip, which is now in process of being gobbled up, compriseswarly' eight million acres, and it far transcends Oklahoma in beauty and fertility. The excitement in Arkansas City, over the prospective lull seizure of the strip, is intense. The crowds o£ fugitives from the famine and thirst, frost and heat of Guthrie, are swelling as each train oil the all but paralyzed road comes in. The fiercest imprecations are breathed against the government for the outrageously unfair manner in which the country was thrown open. The whole federal machinery, from the President down to the last deputy, is passionately denounced. ~ The Oklahoma excitement is now confined almost wholly to the town site centers. As for the fanners, they have taken possession of their claims and have gone to work. The vast expanse of green sward is now broken in all directions by the ploughmen. Parties who have ridden all over the territory since last Monday, taking in the heart of the country embraced between the four points 81 Guthrie, Kingfisher, Oklahoma City and Ft. Reno, and also the country east of the Atchison road to the lowa reservation and Sac and Fox line and the Canadian river bottoms, report that there is not a single quarter section of any value whatever, that is not now hemesteaded. A great many claims of no value whatever have also been taken. Not one-half of the claims have yet been filed at either of the land offices established nt Guthrie and Lisbon. Homesteaders have preferred to make acttest of the validity of their claims. A number of claims have been deserted in various parts of the territory and wagons can be seen frequently on the back trail. Many of the di'-gruntled threaten to “squat” on the Indian lands surrrounding Oklahoma. Some will fall back on the Cherokee strip, others will go down into the Chickasaw country. That country is being rapidly settled an by farmers who pay *an annual head or lease for the privilege of tilling tbe soil \there. The country is as much superior to Oklahoma as is the Cherokee outiet,-and their is a great deal of conF~ plaint among tbe boomers that the poorest land in tbe Indian Territory should have been the only land open to settlement. A special from Kansas City. Mo., says: “Ihe bulletins in front of the telegraph office at the union depot Thursday morning indicated that all tbe early morning trains from Oklahoma were over tw o hours late. The cause of the delay was apparent when a train of fourteen coaches, crowded with returning boomers, came in. A more disgusted crowd could not be imagined. They were mostly originally from lowa, Nebraska and Illinois. —-Oklahoma soil is thin and poor, they say, and reveala the fact that thereiAalack of essential agricultural qualities. It is now regarded as certain that no crop can be raised this year. The Guthrie Base Ball Club has been organized. The Mayor-elect will play first base and captain tbe team. They have challenged all ether dubs to play for the championship of Oklahoma Territory. There is a scandal at Springfield, HL, .over the assertion that the men who left there for the new territory were all commissioned Deputy Marshals and got choice locations by getting into the c ountry at an early date, borne mem hers of the colony were officers of the Illinois militia and took State tents with them, A report eomes from Oklahoma to the effect that a gang of cowboys undertook to run a colony of old soldiers off their claims, and that a pitched battle occurred, in which six of the settlers were killed and several wounded. The eld soldiers were evidently bad marksmen, as none of the cowboys are reported dead or injured. A water wonts company has already been organized at Guthrie, with Col. Birge, of Chicago, at the head. He says be will have pure water by an improved filtering process. The people are wild with enthusiasm over the report of the appointment of John H. Baker, of Indiana, for the vacancy on the commission to open the Cherokee Stnp. They claim it means a quick opening and the relief of thousands from distress.

BASE BALL

Standing of the League Ax«ocla£k>u Clnbx up to Date. THIS I.IAGCB. TH® ABSCCTATIOX. Won. Lort. +7 Won. LoaL New York. A.. 2 J St Louin .9 i Boston 2 1 Kamum City .. • 4 Fhi.udelphia.. 1 1 Baltimore • 3 Pittaburg 2 2 Athletic.... 7 1 Chicago 2 2 Brooklyn 3 I Indiauapo ix.. 2 3 Cincinnati .. t 9 Wa-hing-0n... 0 2 Loukville 2 S Cleveland 3 2 CohfrnbtM ... 1 I NEXT GANJES AT INPIANAPOUS. April 2t» to May 2 with Chicago. May 3,4, 6 and 7 with Pittaburg. THE MARKETS. Indianapolis, April 30. 1888, GRAIN. Wheat— Corn — No. 2 Redß4 No. 1 White . .. 33 No. 3 Red 82 No. 2 Ye110w..32 Gate, White 29 LIVE STOCK. Gatti.® —Good to ch0ice4.0004.25 Choice heifer5.......3.35®3.f,u Common to medium 2.6,02.75 Good to choice cows 3.1003.2* Hogs—Heavy4.6so4.Bo Light 4.7504.85 M ixetl— 4.fit04.75 Pigs-. 4 2504.45 Fhkkp—Good to choice .. .....—4.2504.C9 Fair to medium 3.5004.16 KUOS. BUTTUt, POULTRY. 2c I Hens per lb;.«e Butter,creamery22c Roosters 4c Fancy country-12c Turkeys-Ih Choice country-lOe MIHCKLLANNOUS. Wool—Fine merino, washed.33o3s " unwashed med2oo23' very coarse—l7olß Hay, timothy-12.25 St 1 gar cored ham 12 Bran —9.50 Bacon clear aides 11 Clovei seeds.2s Feathers, goose 3* Wheat (May) -.87 ' P0rk11.65 Corn “ ...JSlLa'u EBS Oats * —2SIR. w™ . - 5. M