Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1889 — Page 7

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. A cyclone swept Largo. Dak., Monday. Six men were drowned by the capsizing of & boat near 8. Johns, N. 8., Sunday. Contractor Jr B. McCormick, of Tacoma, W. T., has disappeared with $50,000 belonging to friends. A mad dog in Kanawha county, W. Va., bit seventeen dogs, a cow and a horse before it was killed. Irving Latimer has been sentenced to life imprisonment in the Michigan prison for the murder of his mother. At Chicago, Patrick Ford, aged sixty, shot and killed his wife, aged twentythree, and then fatally shot himself. One thousand pounds of opium, valued, including duty, at $16,000, were seized at Ban Francisco on the 10th inst. A collision of the Valley road at Cleveland, 0., Wednesday, caused the death of two persons and seriously injured'several others. A number of passenger conductors on the “Nickel Plate,” west division, were summarily discharged Monday. They run between Chicago and Bellevue, O. At Albany, Ga., William Gilmer, a popular young man, shot and killed his wife and then blew his own brains-wit. , The tragedy is said to have originated in Mrs: Gilmer’s mother’s interference with the young couple. George Carter, who robbed Farmer Coffman of $6,000 near Washington C. H., 0., a few days ago, has been identified as the man who recently robbed Vincent Richardson, a fanner near Jacksonville, 111., of $7,000. A special Paris cable gave an interesting comparison between American and foreign productions, drawing the conclusion that America excels in articles of utility, while the older nations -beiroff thrpalmrm decoration.The Johns Hopkins Hospital at Baltimore, which has been in course of construction ten years and cost of $2,0C0,000, provided by the will of the late Johns Hopkins, also founder of Johns Hopkins University, was formally opened Tuesday morning. Three unknown men entered McGovern's Hotel at Lake City, Mich., late Sunday night, and offered a $lO bill in payment for cigars. McQovern opened the safe for change, when the men sprang upon and overpowered him. They took $1,306 from the safe and escaDed. Gen, Wm. S. Harney, the oldest officer on the retired list of the army, died at St. Louis Thursday. He was born in 1798, appointed a second Lieutenant in 1818, and in 1858 rose to-Brigadier General. He was retired in 1863, serving with distinction up to that time in the rebellion. Reports from all sections in southern Arkansas are to the effect that the farmers are considerably alarmed by the ravages of cut-worms. In many places in Drew, Bradley and Desha counties, farmers have planted cotton as many as three times and each time the plant has been destroyed by the worms. Merchants are apprehensive and business 1b paralyzed. In October, 1887, Morris Amerman, a farmer, of Niles, N. Y., came to Auburn, and after disposing of produce proceeded to get intoxicated. In driving home hiß horses ran away and be was killed. His widow brought suit under the civil damage act against H. B. Perry, owner of the building in which the saloon is located where Amerman bought his whisky, forss,o()o damages. Thursday morniug the j ary brought in a verdict in favor of the widow for $1,500. The steamship City of Paris, of the Inman line, which arrived at Sandy Hook at 11:15 o’clock, Wednesday, has broken all records from ‘Queenstown. Her corrected time is five days twentythree hours and seven minutes. The best previous time on record, which was made by the Etruria, was six days, one hour and fifty-nine minuteß. It is the first voyage across the Atlanticmade in less than six days, and there were mhny men in maritime eircles who prophesied that the trip would never be made in less than that time. Major J. W. Wham, paymaster in the United States army, with Clerk Gibson and an escort of eleven soldiers, were on the way Saturday afternoon from Wilcox. Arizona, to pay the post at Fort Thomas, and when in a narrow gorge, a few miles north of Cedar Springs, thev were attacked by a party of ambushed men. A constant fire was kept up for nearly half an hour, when eight of the escort were wounded, five dangerously. The robbera succeeded iu securing $29,000, and escaped into the mountains. Major Wham was uninjured, and Gibbon’s clothing was only torn by shot. A shocking accident occurred about 6:30 o’clock, Wednesday evening, at Kalamazoo, Mich. A street car containing seven ladies and two gentlemen, were crossing the track; when a switch engine dashed down upon it from the east, at a high rate of speed, and the driver being unable to get the car out of the way, the helpless passengers were hurled to a terrible death. It was but the work of a moment and the fearful catastrophe was over; the street car was carried almost to Academy street, the Eieces flying in all directions, and the uman freight being mangled in a horrible manner. Six of the ladies were killed. Twenty-five acres of ground, closely built up with small dwelling-houses, were swept by fire in the suburban village of Moreland, 111., Wednesday night, and seventy families are rendered homeless. The fire started in the Presbyterian Church, a medium-sized frame structure, and burned furiously. The flames soon spread to surrounding dwellings, one after another, and before they could be checked a terrible conflagration was spreading terror on all sides. The lack of water supply, aided by the heavy gale, placed the fire beyond the control of firemen, police -and citizens, who made every effort to check its course without avail. It is believed that the fire originated from stumps of cigarettes thrown into a pew in the church by soine boys who gained admittance throngh an open window. foreign. The Nihilists are active, and the Czar is greatly alarmed. The report of the capture of Khartoum proves to be untrue. ,The London police raided the gam-

bling clubs Sunday. Several English, French and Belgium noblemen were arrested. _ ■ ■ ; The Edinburgh Municipal Council, by a vote of twenty three to fifteen, has confirmed the resolution granting the freedom of the city to Mr. Parnell. The flags on the foreign consul atee audthc pqblic bul'ldiilifk' at Guayinas. Mexico, were unfurled April 30, in honor of the centennial of Washington’s inaugnration. i . Emperor William, Tuesdav, boarded the yacht Irene at Kiel, and from her deqk iuspected the fleet in that harbor. Sixteen mufi-of-war comprised the fleet and made a magnificent exhibition of naval excellence. In the opening the war vessels and the entire town were brilliantly illuminated in honor of the Kaiser. A hand of Kurds recently attacked a wedding party in the Monch district, robbing the guests and indecently assaulting the bride. After gorging themselves with the wedding feast they killed the bride and boiled her body in the kettle in which the wedding meal had been cooked. It is stated that immediately after the Catholic congresses have finished their work the Vatican will ask the European governments, more especially those of Catholic countries, to consider the appeals made by the congresses for Ihe restoration of the temporal power of the Holv See.

BALLOT-BOX THIEVES.

Arrest of a Large Number of Persons Who Were Concerned in the Plnmmerrille Outrage. The federal authorities think now that the theft of the Plummerville, Ark., ballot-box on the night of Nov. 6, is at last cleared up. It will be remembered that while the judges were counting the vote that night five masked men entered the room, and presenting their pistols, demanded the box and ballots. Oi course they got them, but for months it was impossible to get a clew as to the perpetrators of the outrage. Two weeks ago last Sunday a young man named Warren Taylor was arrested oil a charge of interfering with election officers at Plummerville. He got scared and went before the grand jury, and there gave evidence which has led to clearing up the mystery. He testified that he was in a crowd of young men who went from Morrilton, the county seat, to Plummerville that night, as they understood it, to preserve peace, as trouble was expected. When the crowd arrived at Plummerville they were halted on the outskirts, and five men rode into town. Presently they returned and reported “everything all quiet,” and the crowd returned. On the way to Morrilton the five men give it out that the Plummerville ballot-box was in the crowd. The box was taken into Wells’ store at Morrilton and burned. This confession of Taylor’s was the means of having a large number of witnesses from Conway county summoned before the grand jury. Thursday, just before the grand jury adjourned, two indictments were returned, and Friday it proved that these indictments were for the Plummerville ballot-box theft. The men indicted are: O. T. Bentley Walter P. Wells and Charles Ward, charged with unlawfully seizing and carrying away the ballot box and poll hooks, and the following persons are charged with conspiracy in the stealing of the box: Charles C. Reid, Ben T. White, Thomas C. Hervey, William Palmer, Warren Taylor, Ferd Lee Gunter, William L. Woods, John C. Heard and Thad. R. Wells. Reid is the young lawyer of Morrilton who has just been released after conviction in the federal court on the charge of interfering with election judges. Young Wells is the son of one of the most prominent merchants of Morrilton. 0. T. Bentley is a deputy sheriff of Conway county under Sheriff Shelby. Deputy Marshal Faulklnburg went to Morrilton, Thursday, and arrested all these men not previously in custody and brought them to Plummerville Thursday evening. They were taken befoie a commissioner and released on bonds in sums ranging from SI,OOO to $2,000 each. Their examination will take place at an early date. They can not he tried nntil the next term of court, as the appropriation for the trial of criminal cases has been exhausted. These men are all prominent young men, and their arrest has produced a great sensation.

TERRIFIC WIND STORM

Rages Along the Atlantic Coast, Doing a Vast Amount of Damage. A terrific •wind storm, followed by a heavy rain, visited Southern New York, eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Connecticut and Massachusetts late Friday afternoon. Many buildings were wrecked and telegraph wires blown down. At Fair Haven, Conn., men were buried in the wreckage of a new house, while twenty-three working outside were hurled through the air with fatal results to some and severe injury to all. At Point of Rocks, Md", twenty-five men who were working on the trestle over the riveT were swept off into the water sixty feet below, and at Palmyra, Pa., many houses are in rains, and the inmates homeless, if alive. At Williamsport, Pa., Barnum’s show was stampeded. Three cages of animals were overturned, an antelope was killed and the trumpeting of elephants caught under falling canvas caused intense fright and confusion. Many of the performers, men and women, were shockingly hart. Ther6 are many stories of barns wrecked by lightning and numheni of animals killed. Several churches in the trail of the storm have been ruined. In New York the wind played havoc with signs, and on the crowded streets there was a panic among the pedestrians, many of whom were severely injured. Woman Sum-age In the Woolly Veit The woman suffragists are making a hot and Vigorous campaign throughout Wyoming Territory for the purpose of having a clause inserted in the new State Constitution by the Constitutional Convention favoring ballot by the women. Noted speakers are stamping the Territory to this end, bat thus far the primaries have gone against this idea. The Constitutional Convention meets in Olympia, July 4.

THE POISONED DINNER.

SIT APPEAL TO CHRISTIANS XO BE MORE ENERGETIC. “O Thou Man of God, There Is Death i.,in the Pot"»Jin and Tomptattoa Everywhere. Rev. Dr. Talmage preached last Sunday at the Brooklyn Tabernacle. Subject: “A Poisoned Dinner.” Text: II Kings, iv., 40: “So they poured out for the men to eat And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O thou man of God, there is death in the pot And they could not eat thereof’ Elisha had gone down to lecture to the students in the theological seminary at Gilgal. He found the students very hungry, as students are apt to be. It is very seldom the world makes large provision for those who give themselves to intellectual toil. In order that these students may be prepared to hear what Elisha says, he first feeds their hunger, lie anew very well it is useless to talk, to preach, to lecture with hungry men. So Elisha, recognizing this commonsense principle, which every Christian ought to recognize, sends servants out to get food for these hungry students. They pick up Borne good, healthful herbs, but they happen to pick up some coloquintida, a bitter, poisonous, deathful herb. They bring all these herbs and put them into the boiling pot; they stir them tip, and then a portion of this food is brought to the students and their professors. Seated at the table, one' of the hungry students begins immediately to eat, and he happens to get hold of some of the coloquintida. He knew it by thß taste. He cries out: “Poison, poison! Oh. thou man of God, there is death in the pot!” Consternation is thrown over the whole group. What a fortunate thing it was that this jtudenirso early found the coloquintida m the mixture at the table! You will by reference find this story precisely as 1 have mentioned it. Well, in our day there are great caldrons of sin and death. Coloquintida of mighty temptation & pressed into it. Some dip it out, _and taste, and reject it and live. Others dip it out, taste it, keep on and die. And it is the business of every minister of religion and every man who wishes well to the human race, and who wants to keep the woild back from its follies and sufferings, to-cry out: “Beware! poison, poison! Look out for this caldron! Stand back! Beware!” Some time ago, you will remember, I persuaded you of tub importance o( being charitable in judgment of others. At the same time Xjjaifi to you briefly what this morning r'vnsh to say with great emphasis, that while we symoathize with the sinner we must denounce sin, that while we pity the unfortunate we must be vehement against transgression. Sin is a jagged thing that needs to be roughly handled. You have no right to garland it with fine phrases or lustrous rhetoric.

la the first place, I remark that unhappy and undisciplined homes are the caldrons of great iniquity. £aients harsh and cruel on the one or on the other hand loose in their government, wickedly loose in their government, are raising up a generation of vipers. A home where scolding and fretfulnesß are dominant is bluqd relation to the gallows and the penitentiary! Petulance is a serpent that crawls up into the family nursery some times and crushes every thing. Why, there are parents who even make religion disgusting to their children. They scold them /or not loving Christ, They have an exasperating way of doing their duty. The house is full of the war-whoop of contention, and from such a place husband and sons go out to die. Oh, is there a Hagar leading away Ishmael into tne desert to be smitten of the thirst and parched of the same? In the solemn birth hour a voice lell to thee from the throne, saying: “Take this child and nnrse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages.” At even time, when the angclß of God hover over that home, do tiny hear the children lisping the name ot Jesus? Oh traveler for eternity, your little ones gathered under your robes, are you leading them on the right road, or are you taking them out on the dangerous winding bridle-path off which their intx perienced feet may slip, and up which comes the howling of the wolf and the sound of loosened ledge and tumbling avalanche? Blessed is the family altar at which the children kneel. Blessed is the cradle in which the Christian mother rocks the Christian child. Blessed is the song the little ones sine at nightfall when sleep is closing the eyes and loosening the hand from the toy on the pillow. Blessed is that mother whose every heart-throb is a prayer for her children’s welfare. Unhappy and undisciplined hemes are the source of much of the wretchedness and sin of the world. I know there are exceptions to it- sometimes. From a bright and beautiful Christian home a husband or a son will go out to die. Oh, how long you had that boy in your prayers! He does not know how many Bleepless nights you have spent over him. He does not understand how many tears you have shed for his waywardness. Oh. it is hard, after you have toiled for a child, and given him every advantage and every kindness, to have him pay yon back in ingratitude! As one Sabbath morning a father came to the foot of the pulpit as I spepped ont of it, and said: “Oh, my son, my son, my 6on!” There is many a yonng man prond of his mother, who would Strike into the dust any man who would insult her, who is at this moment himself,by his evil doing and his bad habits sharpening a dagger to plunge throngh that mother’s heart A telegram brought him from afar; he went bloated and scarred into the room and stood by the lifeless form of his mother.

Her gray hair; it had turned gray in sorrow. Those eyes had wept floods of tears over his wandering. That still white hand had done him many a kindness and had written many a loving invitation ana good counsel. He bad broken her old heart He came into the room and threw himself on the casket and he sobbed outright: “Mother, mother!” bat those lipi that had kissed him in infancy and uttered so many kind words spake not; they were sealea. Rather than nave such a memory come on my soul I would prefer to have roll over on me the Alp# and the Himalayas. Bat while Sometimes there are sou who tarn out very badly coming from good homes, I want to tellyou for your encouragement it is a great exception.

Yet an unhappy and undisciplined home is the poisonous caldron from which a Taat multitude drink their death. I remark that another caldron of iniquity is an idolent life. All the rail trains down the Hudson River yesterday, all the rail trains on the Pennsylvania route, all the trainer on the tong Island Road, brought to these cities young men to begin commercial life. Some of them are here this morning, I donbt not Do’ yeti know what one of yofir great temptations is going to be? It is the example of indolent people in our cities. They are in all cities. They drees better than some who are industrious. They have access to all places of amusement, plenty of money, and yet idle. They hang around our great hotels —the Fifth Avenue, the Windsor, the Brunswick, the Stuyvesant, the Gilsey House—all our oeautiful hotels, you find them around there any day, men" who do nothing, never earn anything, yet well dressed, having plenty. Why should I work? Why should you work? Why drudge and toil in bank and shop anil office, or on the scaffolding, or by the anvil, when these men get along so well and do not work?

Some of them hang around the City Halls of our great cities, tooth-pick in their mouth, waiting for some crumb to fall from some office-holder’s table. Some of them hang around the City Hall for the city van, bringing criminals from the station houses. They stand there and gloat over it—greatiy enjoying the disgrace and sufferingpof those poor creatures as they get out of the city van and go into the Courts. Where do they get their mono jr.? That is wbat you ask. That is what I ask. -Only four ways oUgetting money—only four: by inheritance, by earning it, by begging it, hv stealing it; and there are a vußt multitude among us who get their living not by inheritance, nor by earning it, nor by begging it. Ido not like to take the Responsibility of saying how they get it! tation. Whv should I toil and wear myself out in the bank, or office, or the store, or the shop, or the factory? These men have nothing to do. They get along a great deal better. And that iB the temptation under which a great many young men fall.' They begin to consort with these men, these idlers, and they go down the same awful steeps. The number of men in onr cities who are trying to get their living by their wits and by sleight of hand is all the time increasing. Horatius of olden times was told that he could have just as much ground as he could plow around with a yoke of oxen in one day. He nooked up the oxen to the plow and he cut a large circle and plowed until be came to the same point where he started, and all that property was his. But I have to tell you to-day that just so much financial, just so much moral, just so much spirituai possessions you will have as you compass with your own industry, and just so much as from the morning of your life to the evening of your life you can plow around with your own hard work. “Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways and be wise.” One of the most awful caldrons of death to-day is an indolent life. Thank God that you have work. Once more I remark: that the dramshop is agreat caldron of iniquityin our time. Anarcharsis said that the wine bore three grapes. The first was Pleasure, the next Drunkenness, and the next Misery. Every saloon above ground or under ground is a fountain of inquity. It may have a license and it may go along quite respectably for a while, hut after a while the cover will fail off and the color of the iniquitv will be be displayed.

“Oh,” says some one, “you ought to he easier on such a traffic when it pays such a large revenue to the Government, and helps support your schools and your great institutions of mercy.” And then I think of what William E. Gladstone said—l think it was the first time he was Chancellor of the Exchequer —when aaen engaged in the ruinous traffic came to him and said their business ought to have more consideration, from the fact that it paid such a large revenue to the English Government, Mr. Gladstone said: “Gentlemen, dqn’t worry yourselves about the revenue, give me thirty millions of sober people and we’ll have revenue enough and a surplus.” W e might in this country—this traffic perished—have less revenue; but we would have Inore happy homes, and we would have more peace, and we would have fewer people in the Penitentiary, and there would be tens of thousands of men who are now on the road to hell who would start on the road to heaven.

But the financial ruin is a very small part of it. This iniquity of which I speak takes every thing that is sacred out of the family, every thing that is holy in religion, every thing (hat is infinite in the soul, and tramples it under foot. The marriage day has come. The twain are at the altar. Lights flash. Music sounds. Gay feet go up and down the drawing-room. Did ever a vessel launch on such a bright and beautiful sea? The scene changes. Dingy garret. No fire. On a broken chair a sorrowful wife. Last hope gone. Poor, forsaken, trodden under foot, she knows all the sorrow of being a drunkard’s wife. “Oh,” she say, “he was ths kindest man that ever lived; ne was so noble, he was so good! God never made a grander man than he was. But the drink did it, the drink did it!” Some day she will press her hands against her temples and cry: “Oh, my brain, my brain!” Or she will go out on the abutment of the bridge some moonlight night and look down at the glassy surface and wonder if under that glassy snface there is not some rest for a broken heart Loren so de Medici was very sick, and some of hiß superstitions friends thought it they could dissolve a certain number of pearls in a cup and then if he'wonld drink them it would care him of the disease. So they went around and they gathered up all the beautiful pearls they could find, and they dissolved them in a cup, and the sick man drank them. Ob, it was an expensive draught. But , I tell you of a more expensive draught than that. Drunkenness pats into its cup the pearl of physical health, the pearl of domestic happiness, the pearl of respectability, the pearl of Christian hope, the pearl of an everlasting heaven, and presses it to tbs hot lips. I tell yon the dram shop is the gate of hell. “Ob,” says some man, “I am kind, I am indulgent to my family. lam right in many respecta, I am very generous, and I have too grand and generous a moral nature to be overthrown in that way.” Let me say that the persona

who are in the most peril have the largest hearts, the beat education, the brightest prospects. This sin chooses the ’attest lambs for its sacrifice. The brightest garlands are by this carbnncled band of drunkenness torn of! the brow of the poet and the orator. Charles Lamb, answer? Thomas Hood, answer! Sheridan, the English orator, answer! Edgar-A. Poe, answer! Junius Brutus Bootn, answer! Oh, come and look over into it while I draw off the cover —hangover it and look down into it, and see the seething, boiling, loathsome, smoking, agonizing hell of the drunkard. Young man, be master of your appetites ana passions. There are hundreds—might I not say thousands? —of young men in this house this morning—young men of fair prospects. Put your trust in ihe Lord God and all is well. Bat you will be tempted. Perhaps yon may this moment be addressed on the first Sabbath of your coming to the great city, and I give yon this brotherly counsel. I speak not in a perfunctory way. I speak as an older brother talks to a younger brother. I put my hand on'your shoulder this day and commend you to Jesus Christ, who himself was a young man, and died while yet a young man, and has sympathy for ali young men. Oh,be master by the grace of God, of your appetites and passions! I close with a peroration. Ministers and speakers are very apt to close with a peroration, and they generally roll up some grand imagery to express what they have to say. I close with a peroration mightier than was ever uttered by mere human lips. Two quotations. The first is this: “Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? They that tarry long at the wine: they that go to seek mixed wine. Look not upon ihe wine when it is red, when it moveth itself aright in the cup; for at the last it bitetb like a seipent and stingeth like an adder.” This is the other quotation. Make up vour mind as to which is the more impressive. I think the-last is the mightier “Rejoice, Oh young man, in Thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk thou in the" sight of thine own eyes; hat know thou that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.”

THE DEADLY CYCLONE.

A Kansan Town Almost Wiped Out..-Sev-erul People Kill, d, and Many Injured. The town of Stafford, Kan., was wiped out by~a Ttlesda3r“mfH£r A number of people were killed and about thirty wounded. The wind had been blowing a gale for three days, and developed into a cyclone that swept over the counties of Stafford and Rice in a northeasterly direction. Croys, farmhouses and barns were moved down, and the full extent of the damage is not yet reported. The town of Stafford wag almost entirely destroyed, but fortunately the people saw the cyclone coming, and had time to escape to cellars and places of safety. Three are known to be killed and thirty badly injured. Among the lattar were E. Slade, Mrs. E. Lindsay and daughter, George Davis and two children. William Crawford was instantly killed, and his father, 8. 8. Crawford, fatally injured. Mrs. John Love was blown fifty feet from her house, into a wagon. She was fatally injured. The Eureka school-house was entirely bl&wn away, there being nothing left but a few foundation timbers. A 1 the houses were frame, and were lifted up and distributed over the adjoining fields.

Bald Knobbers Hung.

The three Bald Knobhers, Dave Walker, better known in Christian county as “Bull Creek Dave,” chief of the Bald Knobhers, his son, William Walker and John Matthews, were hanged Friday, at Ozark, Mo., for .the murder of Charles Green and William Edens on March 11th, 1887. At 9:53 the drop fell. John Matthews fell praying. The stretch of the rope let all fall to the ground. The rope broke and William Walter fell loose and groaning. He talked for three minutes, when fie was taken np by the sheriff and deputies on the scaffold. Dave Walker was drawn np and died in abont fifteen minutes. Matthews lived abont thirty minutes, and died with his feet on the gronnd. The scene was horrible in the extreme. Matthews and Dave Walker were ent down at 10:10. The trap was again adjusted, and William Walker lifted helpless and groaning and gurgling and almost insensible, and the rope again adjusted and the trap again sprung. This time the descent he came to a sadden stop with his feet fully thirty inc hes from the ground, and he died without a struggle.

THE SAMOAN CONFERENCE.

The Voeeische Zeitung says that the American commissioners to the Samoan conference are instructed by their government to demarfd the neutrality of the island and the administration of Samoan affairs by Samoans, and to urge the claims of the United States to the right to establish a coaling station at Pago Pago. The demands of the United States, however, are not intended to prevent the other powers from exercising their influence in accordance with their interests. A Berlin correspondent says the Samoan conference has agreed upon the land commisaion question, and its side issqe is also agreed upon—the matter of placing restrictions npon the sale of fire-arms and liquor to the natives. The conference has also decided that the election of a king shall be left to themselves.

Libby Prison is Wrecked.

A dispatch from Maysville, Ky., says that the freight train.-which was transporting the famous Libby Prison from Richmond to Chicago was wrecked seven miles east of there, Monday, by the breaking oi an axle of one of the cars. The remains of the war relic were profusely scattered abont and people flocked to the scene all day to secure old bricks and lumber as momentoes. No one was hurt.

BASE BALL.

Standing of th« league and Association Clubs op to Data. TH* LSAGU*. J THK ASSOCIATIOH Won. Lost. Won. Lost Boston ... * S St Loti's. 18 6 Philadelphia . •« 5 BsUlaore 12 * New York 1 • Athletic™.— 12 8 Chicago R 7 Kansas City.... 12 10 CtawiatKl « 8 Bro<dclyn. —lO ja* r.tubunr R 8 Cincinnati .... 10 12 Indianapolis . 7 9 Colnwhu* ..._ » JS Washington.... 2 10 LonlavUlc 2 19

WASHINGTON NOTES.

Ex-Union soldiers are tube protected in federal offices under the present administration, even though they are Democrats, if their records as officers are good. Commissioner of Pensions Shank, at Lima,o., declining to accept his resignation simply be2ause he i* *' Democrat, says'that he [Tanner] doe. not occupy his position for ihe purpose of turning out ex TTnton soldiers because they are Democrats, and that so long as be has his way the boys who helped preserve the Union will be kept in their places, if they are goal officers, regardless of politics. It is understood that this is the outline of the policy which is to be punned in all of the executive departments. Assistant Secretary Bossev, Tuesday, rendered an opinion of great importance, broadening former constructions in “the line 61 duty” cases. In the case Tuesday, Mary E.McNeil applied for a pension as the widow es Alexander McNeil, who, while engaged in a wrestling contest with a comrade in camp, received injuries which-resulted in his aeath. The Pension Office rejected the claim on the ground that McNeil was not in the. line of duty at the time he sustained his injuries, but Mr. Bnssey holds that he was. and lays down the Droad principle that soldiers, while in camp and not disobeying orders or acting in violation of military regulations, are always in the line of duty." Postmaster-general Wanamaker said Thursday afternoon to Congressman Williams, of Ohio: “As far as the Presidential postoffices are concerned, I wish to say that a rale has been made that the present incumbents will be allowed to serve out their four years to date from the time of their appointment.” As many of the presidential appointments were held up by the Senate for a long time, some of them nearly two years, this is a most important ruling. -They will be-permitted to eeive fonr years and no longer, and thoee who think that the department will not take any notice of the time daring which their names were before the Senate are very much mistaken. Secretary Noble Friday received an interesting report from the two inspectors of the General Land Office who have been in Oklahoma since the territory was opened. They give a graphic description of the growth of the towns, tell about barber-shops, bath-houßes, street sprinklers,fire-engines, and operahouses opened, and they say that Guthrie has now a population of 6,000 male citizens, leaving the female population to be estimated. With regard,to the troubles and complaints that have come from these sourees, they Bay: “Public confidence has been restored here by the prompt action of the government.”

A rather sensational report npon the subject of teas sent to the American market has been made to the State Department by Consul Crowell, at Amoy, China. The consul says a large proportion of the Amoy oolong tea is dirty and adulterated. The Amoy commissioner of customs calls it “stuff” which was alone wanted in America. Nearly the whole crop is marketed in the United States. The consul hopes the tea-drinkers of America may he protected against the so-called tea known as Am&y oolong. Most of the oolong goes to New York, and honest inspection there would prevent the importation. President and Mrs, Harrison may possibly spend a portion of the summer in the mountains of West Virginia, on Ihe new West Virginia Central Railway, in whieh Secretary Blaine and other prominent men are interested, at a place called Davis, fifty miles south of Piedmont in the mountains. The altitude is said to be higher than that of Deer Park, Md., .where arrangements to Ease the early portion of the summer ave been completed by the President Among the nominations made by the President, Friday, were Jas. M. Townsend (colored), of Richmond, Ind., to be Recorder of the General Land Office and Col. Robert S. Robertson, of Ft. Wayne, to be a member of the Board of Registration and Elections in Territory of Utah. The President Tuesday evening apfointed Frank W. Palmer of Illinois to e public printer; Theodore Roosevelt of New York and Hugh 8. Thompson of South Carolina to be civil service commit sioners. Chief Justice Fuller has purchased for SIOO,OOO the residence of Judge Andrew Wylie, on Fourteenth street. The President has appointed A. L. Thomas, of Salt Lake, to be Governor of Utah.

The Release of James D. Fish.

An Auburn (N. YJ special of Tuesday, says: James D. Fish, ex-President of the defnnet Marine Bank, who was convicted nearly nine years ago of maladministration of the bank’s finances and sentenced there for ten yean iu State’s prison, will be a free man Saturday morning. The commutation of the sentence of the ex-banker was one of the last executive acts of eXrPresident Cleveland before he left the White Souse. Fish’s sojourn in prison here has certainly lengthened hia years. Whan he came here he was broken down physically and feeling keenly the disgrace of hia position, but hia health haa steadily improved.

THE MARKETS

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