Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1889 — Page 2

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Ex-Sin a tob Platt makes a strong point against the civil citing the fact that it ha- certainly not provided us with any better officers than we had before it was enacted. If it has not improved the service, then it has unquestionably failed to accomplish the purpose for which it was intended, and its opponents have a right to ssy that the country would have done just as well without it Compared with the duration of life of the ordinary European nation, the United Stqtes is young. Nevertheless, the only great European Powers whose Governments have maintained esietonce longer than ours without revolution < >r reorganization of some sort are Great. Britain and Russia. Every other big nation on the eastern side of the Atlantic has changed its Governmental systemby agencies more or less cataclysmic since the April day a hundred years ago When the American Republic was ushered into being. The lawyer in politics displaced the minister in politics, at the opening of the revolution, just a century ago. The parsons ruled the country lor over l®o years, and made, on the whole, and excellent job of it. The lawyers, beginning with Hamilton and Jefferson, have done quite as well in most respects, and, in some, better. Washington was not a lawyer, but he invariably put the highest offices in the hands rof lawyers. It looks now as if the next century would be controlled by experts—that is, by scientists and investigators—call them professors if you prefer. Our economical and social organizations, sanitary matters Mid affairs pertaining to health and wealth are steadily calling to men of this class. MRt C art er, Minister to the Ha waiian Islands, urges that the time has come to abolish the Washington principles of letting other nations alone and comp elling them to let us alone, and to mi x freely in the affairs of the foreign world. But Mr. Carter forgets that our prosperity under this regime ha s really done more to influence the governmentsand peoples of the earth than if we had sent armies and navies to interfere in every quarrel and to dictate lines of policy for every nation. An opposite policy would have involved us in constant war, depressed our industries, and left us less influential for good than the small States of Europe, if it did not dissolve us altogether. The permanent policy for a Republic is a mind-your-own-business policy. Hon. William E, Chandler, from present indications, will not have the walk-over for the re-election to the Senate which both his friends and his foes expected a few months ago. A new and formidable opponent to him has just arisen. This is Jacob H. Gallinger. There are 188 Republican votes in the Joint caucus of the New Hampshire Legislature, and the Gallinger men claim to be reasonably certain of controlling 106 of them at least The Chandler men, on the other hand, do not appear to doubt the success of their favorite; but they have lost the jaunty air of confidence which they exhibited up to within two or three weeks past The chances are, though, that Chandler will “pull through,” but by a small majority. Next month the election takes place. The possible mischief of hasty legislation aiming at reform is illustrated by a story that comes from Connecticut. An industrious, sober fellow lost his position at Arlington and wandered to town to find work. Without success, after three weeks of searching, he begged at a farm house for a cup of coffee. The farmer’s wife not only refused him. but caused his arrest By the btate law he was sentenced to a month's imprisonment and S3O fine. He escaped from jail and went to his wife and children, who were subsisting on charity. The State reclaimed him to serve out his sentence, and he must do it The suppression of tramps is a needful business of legislation, but the enforcement of a good law requires the use of common sense and charity. Minister Romero is correct in his opinion that the annexation of Mexico to the United States would not be to the advantage of either country at present Mexico is, compared with the territory which came under the Government by the purchases from France, Spain and Russia, quite thickly settled, and it has race characteristics and civilisation very different from our own. The United States would find it very difficult to assimilate its big neighbor on the southwest Even Canada, most of whose inhabitants speak our language and have a social fabric bearing some slight resemblance to ours, would not be a particularly welcome acquisition to us. The diverse, heterogeneous and, in some respects, antagonistic elements composing a portion of our present population offer problems complex and delicate enough to test the ability and patience of our statesmen, without reaching out for any new problems to

INDIANAT SATE NEWS.

Warsaw has beautiful parks. Winchester is using electric light. Convicts at the Prison South numbered 658 last week. - [ Daniel Winslow, a resident of Grant county for 60 years, is dead. Columbus is “wide open” of Sundays, and saloon brawls are a result The corner stone of a $40,000 Catholic ehurch will be laid at Tipton, Jnne 16. Alexander Hockaday, of Harrison county, claims to be one hundred and seven’years old. Coil, son of Fred McEyer, of Greensburg, ran a wirfe nail in his foot and died of lock jaw. The May Musical festival at Indianapolis, on the 27th, 28th and 29th, gives every promise of complete success. Nine horses dropped dead in the southern part of Vigo county one day last week while in harness, and the farmers report some unknown malady prevailing. -——-j Captain John Field, of Jeffersonville,took off his clothes to wade while fishing, and the garments uyOre chewed up by calves, including SSO in paper money and $1 in silver. Clark county grand jury men propose to indict people who treat newly married folks, in that county, to a charivari witlipan pounding and bell ringing accompaniments. L I '■ C"'-’ Alexander Monroe.livfng near Middietown, was accidentally killed Thursday, while handling a revolver, the ball entering his neck. He was about fifty years of age, and unmarried. Thomas W. Swanagan, a farmer of Daviess county, aged sixty years, is being sued by Miss Marian Elizabeth Milholland, of Washington, for breach of promise to marry. She asks $2,000. David Burnie, of Fort Wavne, found Samuel Brewley in his wife’s chamber Saturday flight and opened fire upon him, two shots taking effect, inflicting a fatal wound. Burnie surrendered himself to the uolice. Among the street cleaning gang working on the streets of Jeffersonville is a large negro woman, who is said to make the dust fly as dexterously as her white companions. She is a widow, and has several small children to support. John Howell, a noted horse-thief, sixty-one years old, was released from the northern prison Thursday, but was immediately arrested for another offense, anri wiil likely spend the remainder, of his days in prison. Walter C. Hammond, convict in the Prison North, Jis in a dying condition, and the Governor refuses to pardon him because he finds that his record has been bad from his youth up. At the age of sixteen he assisted in a train robbery. Goshen is exercised over the fact that Harry A. Butterfield and Anna J. Beck, society people, were married one year ago, and so carefully guarded was the secret that it was not known until this week, when it was made public by the principals. Mrs. Olive Olds, near Deedsvilie, while riding with her sons, was thrown out in a runaway accident and her knee so badly crushed that amputation followed. The lady failed to rally fro n the shock and her death occurred the present week. == William Minor, of Burney, placed a dynamite blast in a well which he was digging, but it failed to explode. He then lowered himself into the well, and began re-tamping with a crowbar. The jar exploded the dynamite and he was terribly injured. A goat belonging to Daniel Weaver, of Shipskewana, ate two twenty-dollar bills and two promissory notes calling for an equal amount, belonging to his owner. The animal was killed and dissected, but not enough of the money was recovered for redemption purposes. Arthur Beeler; aged nineteen, of Union Mills, was found lying in the woods Monday, with a gun clasped in his arms, he having committed suicide by blowing out his brains. The youngster had been disappointed in love, having been jilted by a girl with whom be was keeping company, ' The Cleveland, Columbus. Cincinnati A Indianapolis (Bee Line), the Cincin-' nati, Indianapolis, St. Louis & Chicago, and the Indianapolis & St. Louis railways were consolidated, Wednes'fov, by a vote of the stockholders. The r?ads will probably not be operated under one management until about the middle of July. George Howery, a wealthy farmer living in the northern part of Shelbv county, was arrested at home, Thursday, by the sheriff of Rush county, charged with being one of ths three’ men who passed about S3OO of counterfeit fives and tens in Rushville, Tuesday. Considerable counterfeit money was found in his possession. Dr. L. B. Staley, of Knox county, was riding, Thursday morning, when his horse stumbled, fell and threw the Doctor off and broke his arm. Dr. Staley is phenomenally unfortunate. Within two years he has broken his right arm twice, his left arm twice, and had each of his legs broken, and at another time broke his collar bone. His injuries Snerally result from the handling of itious horses.

Hog cholera has made its anpearance among the porkers owned by Michael Sbannahan, a well known farmer at Lincolnville, Wabash county. Up to this time seventy-five animals have died. The cholera has not yet appeared among the hogs in the neigh'borhood.and every effort will be made to prevent it from spreading. Marion Douglass, recently arrested as a horsethief, in Southern Indiana, has served fourteen years out of seventeen in prison for horse-stealing, and three cases are now hanging over him. He haa made numerous escapee from the authorities, and is said to be an exceedingly dangerous criminal, bv reason of hia shrewdness. It is further said o him, that in hia,criminal career he haa Stolen fallen five hundred horses. Cyrus Seldomridge, of Muncie, who has been nearly blind for several years, received word Friday from the Pension Office that hia pension had beerwncreaaed from $2 to $72 per month. aSd that an arrearage amounting to $7,250 would be ©aid him on June 4. This generous recognition, coming even at this late day, and after years of patient waiting, ia a godfiend to Mr. Seldomridge and family, who have struggled for years to make an honorable and respectable firing. At Marion, Wednesday morning,

Charles Hope shot his daughter-in-law, Mrs. John Hupe, inflicting probably fatal injuries. The two families lived in the same house and had been having considerable trouble. The injured woman was in the act of feeding some chickens , when the old man blazed away with a shot gun. Not less than a hundred shot took effect in her head, shoulders/ back and neck, Her assailant and his wife were arrested and imprisoned. The prisoner is seventy-two years of age. Incendiarism is besoming rife, throughout the State, scarcely a day passing twit that losses are reported from the destruction of barns and more valuable property, and aa a rule the mischief is directly traceable to tramps. In many counties they fire the premises in retaliation for fancied ill-treat-ment, and the temper in many communities is rapidly rising to fever heat in conseouence. and the argument, is frequently made that a few “hanging bees” will be necessary to rid the earth of the unwholsome presence of these vagrants. Of the Indiana wheat -nrobabilitieß, according to State Agricultural Secretary Heron’s information, the acreage of 2,710,000 acres will yield an average of about fourteen and one-half bushels per acre, or a total of 39,295,000 bushels. Last year there was an acreage of 2,774,000 and a total yield of 28,879,000. This estimate places the- average yield ip 1889 far ahead of that of 1888.’ Comparing the condition of growing wheat in various winter-wheat producing •States, Indiana will probably rank above Ohio, Kentucky ana Missouri, and below Michigan, Illinois and Kansas. The “Indiana May Musical Festival” to be given at Indianapolis May 27, 28, and 29 is an event of unusual interest to lovers of music. There will be a chorus of 600 voices which have been trained carefully for months by Prof. Karl Baros, and a large orchestra composed of members of the Theodore Thomas and Boston Symphony Orchestras, and local musician’s. ’Many eminent soloists have also been engaged, foremost among whom are Miss Emma Juch, Signor Jules Perotti, and Herr Emil Fischer,and others of almost equal note. Indiana talent will be represented by Miss Margaret Reid Kackly and Miss Hortense Pierse. Altogether a series of as fine musical entertainments as were ever given in the West is promisee. Patents were granted, Tuesday, to the following named Indiana inventors: Francis M. Abbott, Jeffersonville, veloci pederChas. R. guide for band saws; Wm. N. Darnall, Worthington, shingle machine, John W. Ferrinburg, Hege. churn; Wm. C. Hoffman, Albany, washii g machine. W. D. Johnson, Seymour, wooden dish; Orian S. Meeks, Evansville, and J. O. Brown, Eureka, plow; Wm. H. O’Beirne, Ft. Wayne, insulation tubular iron posts; Newton Rogers and J. A. Whardy, Terre Haute, dynamo speeder for gas engines, carburetor for gas engiireßj governor for gas engines, gas engines, igniter for gas engines; Wm. H. Shank, Huntington, forge tuyere, Edward Warren, Ligonier, thill for vehicles; Jonah C. Wright, Cochran, vertically movable kitchen safe. Daniel L. Harding, the new Mayor of Fort Wayne, was inducted into office Tuesday night, and he created a profound sensation by demanding a reorganization of the police force and police practices, and the enforcement of the law with reference to the liquor traffic. Fort Wayne is noted for its “liberality,” the saloons never closing save from Saturday midnight until Sunday noon. It is claimed that Harding, who is the first Republican Mayor Fort Wayne lias had for many years, was elected by Democratic vote, largely aided by the saloon element, and that he was understood as pledged not to interfere with this liberality. His temperance policy, however, will be thwarted by the political complexion of the Police Board, of which he is a member. Henry Colerick has been re-elected Oily Attorney, and Charles S. Brackinridge has been chosen City Civil Engineer. Sunday, for the first time in twentyfive years, every saloon, drug store and cigar stand in Ft. Wayne was closed, front and back. The liquor-dealers’ Association, at a meeting held Sunday afternoon.decided to observe the Mayor’s order, and Sunday have their committee patrolling the streets for the purpose of filing affidavits against all persons found following their usual vocation. They propose bringing action against the street-car company, milk men, butchers, newsdealers, newspapers, livery men, etc. Mayor Harding publicly stated that all ’ such cases brought before him wouldbe dismissed without trial, thus openly committing himself to a war on the saloons and gamblers alone. The Occidental, one of the oldest gambling houses in the State closed up its business on Friday night, the firm dissolved and the saloon is offered for sale. The Mayor included in his manifesto to all public places within two miles of the city limits, thus practically closing the.Tivoli garden and the Centhvres brewery, the two most popular Sunday resorts in the vicinity.

Curious Things of Life.

A St. Joseph, Mo., lad rides a pony that weighs only 130 pounds. “A superior house parlor maid can teach elementary music,” and “a plain cook, under 25, who knows shorthand,” were advertised for in a recent issue of an English paper. Out in a backwoods town in Indiana the sheriff left the court room for dinner, forgetting all about hia prisoner, who afterward ieisarely walked off and has not since been captured. Buris, used in making veneers with remarkable eccentricities oi grain, are excresencee that grow upon various trees, such as the rosewood, oak and ash. They weigh from 1,000 to 6,000 pounds, and the largest and best come from Persia and Circassia, and cost in the rough from 15 to 40 cents a pound. In a new book upon “Americanisms” some of the less familiar are: Bibbiblee for drinkables, bohn for a crib or translation, balditude lor a state of baldness; to deacon, or to place fine fruit at the top; parquet, or the pit of a theater from its mosaic floor; piraaro for pisraL skullduggery, wire pulling; trampooa, to wander aimlessly; and daisy, for anything first rate.

THE STATE CAPITAL.

Professor John Collett made formal demand on Professor S. 8. Gorby for the State Geologist’s office, Tuesday morning, As wasexpected.thelatter refused to surrender the office. Then the two rivals sat down and had a long friendly chat about, geelogy. Professor Collett will probably begin legal proceedings within a day or two, for the purpose of having the entire question set at rest. The St#te Board of Education adjourned, Thursday, after several days’ work. The text book law was not brought up at this meeting, as nothing connected with it can be done furtl er until the 28th inst., when bids from publishers will be opened. Fourteen applicants for State license were examined, and nine the requisite grade to receive it They are W. S. Almond, Alpheus K. Baldwin, Mary Best, Emma R. Chandler, Conrad W. Conway, Thomas L. Harris, Francis L. Harris. Eva Malone and John R. Sherrick. Of forty-one applicants for eight-yea r licenses, twenty were successful. There names are Margaret A. Arnold, Fred. M. DoWey, Charles A. Dugan, Alired W. Duncan, Tilla G. Ewing, John Havey, William B. Jackways, Titus E. Kinsey, Mattie E. Lowe, Watson Nicholson, Ryland Ratliff, Charles W. Sehleppy, Clara Weir, Horace G. Woody, Josephine Fielding, Theodore Huntington, Harvey Lucys, Florence Markley. Thomas M. Merica and Bertha E. Sweeney. Professor John Collett, appointed State Geologist by Governor Hovey, Thursday afternoon instituted quo war ranto proceedings in the Marion Circuit Court against 8. S. Gorby, elected!© the same position by the Legislature. The case will be gotten into the Supreme Court and settled as soon as possible, Assessor Thomas Quill and Deputy Assessor Tyler, of this township, were indicted by the Grand Jury, Thursday, for obtaining money under false pretenses. It is charged that thev kept several “dummies” on the pay roll, the salaries of whom they divided among themselves. The State Treasurer is preparing to advertise for bids for the school fund loan authorized by the Fifty-sixth General Assembly. There is no question of the jconstitutionality of this act. The loan is. so big that it throws the troublesome one which the German Savings Bank, of New York, has been dallying with into the shade. The advertisement will call for bids for a loan, all to be taken at once, of $3,9.5,000. Bids will be opened July 1. The Supreme Court Saturday decided the case of Alvin P. Hovey, Governor vs. The State ex rel John W. Riley. The case is the one in which Riley, elected a trustee of the Blind Institute by the Legislature, brought suit in the Clarion Circuit Court to compel the Governor to issue to him a aommission. Judge Howland of the Circuit Court decided in favor of the plaintiff and the Governor appealed to the Supreme Court That tribunal, as will be seen, affirmed the decision of the lower, court The opinion was written Jjy Chief Justice Elliott, and is concurred in by Judge Mitchell and Olds but not by Judges Coffey and Berkshire. The opinion declares that all of the governing officers of all of the Benevolent institutions of the State may be appointed by the Legislature. It is said that, by practical expontion. growing out of the tong continued practice, the Constitution has been so construed as to vest in the Legislature the power to appoint this class of officers. Many authorities are cited to show the eflect of practical exposition, and it is said: “Practical exposition establishes a principle. Particular instances fall within general rules, and practical exposition establishes general rules for the government of particular instances. The science of jurisprudence is not made ub or particular instances, nor can it be so constructed, for, if it be a science at all, it must be composed of principles. To us it is clear that what we have here to do is to find what principle has been established and under that jprineiple bring the particular instance. The eflect of the long continued practice is to establish the principle that the Legislature has power to appoint the governing officers of all the benevolent institutions, or, at its option, authorize their appointment. It is narrowing the effect of this practical exposition much beyond what reason and authority gratify to hold that it applies to some of the institutions and not to the others. We can not believe that the general assembly may rightfully appoint the Tiustees of the Hospital for the Insane and yet have no authority to appoint those of the institution for the education of the deaf and dumb.” It is also said in the opinion: “The office is a peculiar one and one which it is evident the Constitution did not intend should be filled by the electors of the Btate at a general election. It is, as it seems to us, an office whicn may properly be regarded as within tLacontroi of the General Assmbly, the control belonging to that body as an incident of the right to establish and maintain benevolent institutions. Officers of the class under immediate mention are not such as every elector may justly claim a right to hold solely on the ground that he is a voter and all voters are entitled to hold office, but they are offices which the Legislature may restrict to competent persons bv prescribing what shall be the qualifications of those who enter them. It is within the authority of the Legislature to require that the officers of this class shall be selected from different political parties, or that they shall be persons of peculiar skill and experience. It may, indeed, provide for the appointment of women to this class of offices, as has been done in some instances. If we are wrong in affirming that in this class of offices the Legislature may prescribe particular aualifleations, then the practice of all le departments has been in many instances a persistent violation of the Constitution.” * Judges Coffey and Berkshire stated that they did not concur in this opinion, but wrote no dissenting one. The points wherein they differed from the majority concurring are not knowh therefore. The dispute between Professor Collett and Professor Gorby in re. lation to the office of Chief of the Department of Geology is in no wise affected by this decision, as it is entirely distinct asto the prinnple involved.

WASHINGTON NOTES.

Mrs. Harrison’s mail contains, every day, appeals from office seekers, to -use her influence with her husband in favor of the writers. Some of the correspondents request Mrs. Hafrisohto remind the President that their applications remain unanswered; they have heard nothing about them and fear the President haa inadvertently neglected to act upon them. They beg Mrs. Harrison to look around the office for the letters and petitions, and put them where General Harrison will be sure to see them. Some of the letters are from women. One of them recent-' ly wrote that'she was a widow with three . “girl children.” Her—hueband was killed in the war, fighting on the Southern side, and there was an unconscious pathos in the details of a poor widow’s struggle to maintain and bring up in the “fear of the Lord” those three girl children. She wanted a “post office paying only S3OO a year,” and yet “it would be a god send to me.” One man wrote recently eight big letter pages to Mrs. Harrison, because he feared that three epistles of the same length addressed to “your respected husband had failed to meet his eye.” The letter breathed the most devoted piety, truest Republicanism, and the inoat pronounced prohibition sentiments, and ended up with a request for an office of some kind that would make Hie a little easier for a man with only one leg. The clerks who were detailed from the General Land Office to go to Oklahoma to assist the land officials at the Guthrie and Kingfisher land offices, returned to Washington, Tuesday. They state thatat Kingfisher about eight hundred entries had been made up to last Friday, and at Guthrie about one thousand had been made. The total number of quarter sections in the territory open to settlement is 10,000, hence less than oneffifth of thewholelias been filed upon. The force of clerks now employed at the two land offices is believedtobe sufficient to keep up the current work. Many of the settlers, it is said, have gone to their former homes to settle their private affahs, and will return next fall to complete their entries and establish themselves permanently in the new Territory. The scarcity of water has been, to some extent, overcome by digging wells. A new schedule for appointments has just been arranged, which will undoubtedly be more satisfactory to the office seeking masses, as it gives one more day in the week to them. Appointments for the departments will be agreed upon or made as follows: Mondays, Interior Department; Tuesdays, Poetoffice; Wednesdays, Treasury. There are to be few appointments made for the other five departments, and they have not been put on the schedule, and for the filling of emergencies this schedule will not, of course, be deviated from. In some of the departments complaints are heard that the failure to make changes in the principal positions Is" having the eflect of clogging business, as the officers who daily expect to be relieved take no interest in the business, and in many instances refuse to take action. Applications for pensions are beginning to come at the Pension Office from the widows and dependent relatives of officers and men who lost their lives in the recent naval disaster at Samoa. Tne widow of Captain Schoonmaker, of the Vandalia, filed her claim a few days ago, and it has been submitted to the proper division for allowance. Her pension will amount to S3O per month. Thursday, a colored woman, whose son was employed on one of the lost vessels, appeared at the Pension Office and filed her claim for a pension. She will be allowed sl2 per month. Henry W. Rogers, a middle aged man, came here on the 4th of March for a consulate. He was locked up Saturday in the station house as a vagrant. He had nearly S2O in coppers and five-cent pieces in his clothes, the result of his solicitations on the street. He was taken before Judge Miller in the .police court, one day last week, and gave his personal bonds to get out of town. But he-waasure of getting his position in a few days more, and so he stayed. The President, Thursday, made the following no ninations: Solomon Hirsch, of Oregon, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Turkey. Clark E. Carr, of Illinois, Minister Resident and Consul General to Denmark. H. M. Sevarance, of California, Consul General at Honolulu. Thomas H- Sherman, of District of Columbia, to be Consul at Liverpool. It is rumored that Attorney General Miller will be appointed to the supreme court bench to till the vacancy caused by the death of Justice Matthews—that Secretary of the Navy will succeed Miller in the Department of Justice and that First Assistant Postmaster General Clarkson will be made secretary of the navv. The attorney-general has received a report from T. B. Needier, U. S. marshal oflnaian Territory, in regard to the conduct of himself ano deputies at the opening Of Oklahoma Territory on the 22d of April. Mr. Needles denies that he has entered any lands or town lots in Oklahoma, but says that he understands that some of his deputies have. The land office has made a ruling to the effect that if a homesteader has made improvements pn his claim, and has lived on the land himself the prescribed length of time, he has a right to a patent from the government, even if his family did not live with him during the necessarry five years of occupation. Among the nominations made by the President were James M. Townsend (colored), of Richmond, Ind., to be Recorder of the General Land Office and Col. Roberts. Robertson, of Ft. Wayne, to be a member of the Board of Regis tration and Elections in Territory of Senator Gorifaan says that he considers it only proper that the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee should go to Mr. Calvin S. Brise, and he wjd on no account allow his name to be suggested in connection with the office. > •> . . Charles D. Preston, once a delegate in Congress from Oregon, was arrested in Washington in the act of. using the frames of Senator Stewart, of Nevada, and Delegate Smith, of Arizona, on his own private mail. Gen. Felix Agnus, proprietor of the Baltimore American, is talked ot in connection with the Russian mission. The American delegatee to the Samoan conference are said to have carried every point at issue.

INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

The St. Paul car drivers have lost their strike. Two general lecturers of the K. of E. will make a canvass in this State. ~ The Michigan Central road will hereafter run no freight trains on Sunday. August Donath, the veteran labor editor, has retired from the Washington Craftsman. The Nationalist movement is being well received by organized labor in all the large eities. The Patterson bakers are making a hard fight for a reduction of working hours from twelve to ten. The union pressmen at Philadelphia have secured an increase in their scale from sls to $lB per week. The striking ribbon weavers at Paterson, N. J., are paid $9 per week from the strike fund of their union. Chicago carpenters have withdrawn from the K. of L. and joined the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joihers. The recently organized Union of Chinese cigar makers at San Francisco will not be recognized by the International Union. Fifteen thousand men have agreed to parade on July 4 at Chicago, It is expected that 39,000 workers will be in line. The White Manufacturing Company 's mill at Rockville, Conn., has shut down, throwing 400 persons out of employment. A. majority of Southern and Western cities are overrun with idle meehauire attracted by Jalae reports of buildinc booms. The Boot and Shoe-workers International Union, recently organized' by seceders from the Knights oi Labor, is growing rapidly. The Buffalo and Columbus Unions will not be represented at the annual session of the International Typographical Union in Jnne. The Washington Central Labor Union will be represented at the World’s Labor Congress at Paris, by Mr. Waudby, well known union to printers. The American Federation is accumulating an immense assistance fund for use in 1890 in case the demand for eight hours results in a general strfke. “One of the most remarkable features of the labor reform movement in Boston,” says the Labor Leader, “is the spread of socialistic ideas among the clergy.” An effort is being made to graft wliat is left of the Union Labor party onto the Prohibition party. A meeting of the National Committee has been called to consider the matter. According to the Labor Standard, the officials of District Assembly 100 Knights of Labor, are engaged in furnishing non-union weavers to fill the places of the striking union ribbonweavers at Patterson. It is estimated that 66 per cent, of the anthracite coal is wasted before it gets to market Fifty-five per cent, has to be left in the mines for pillars, and 11 per cent, is lost after it gets above ground. The Steubenville and Benwood nailers. operating cold machines, have been dischaiged. Hereafter the picking process will be used, and each nailer wil’ be required to run double the number of machines. This system will be generally adopted, it is thought and many nailers deprived of an opportunity io work at theirtrade; —

How the Hog’s Eyesight Was Saved.

Portland Oregoian. Mr. William Kerns not long since had a visit from a friend from the East, who wished to purchase land and locate somewhere in this State. Mr. Kerne sent his friend out to. look at the Umpqua valley, and he returned with a wonderful tale of the section he visited! Be said that he visited a farmer who had a great drove of begs, all of which had lost their tails. He inquired how this had happened, and the farmer said the caudal appendages had been amputated; and when it was asked why this was done he was told that it was to prevent the animals from becoming blind. This startling announcement led to further inquiry and explanation. The farmer stated that the soil on hie farm was what is known as black mud. It is very rich and also very adhesive, and the pigs in wallowing around get their tails daubed with it. and a clod finally accumulates on each pig’s tail, which grows by accretion and accumulation to an immense size, and becomes bo heavy that it drags back the pig’s skin so far that the nnfortnnate animal is no longer able to shut its eyes, and soon becomes blinded from the glare of the sun. By cutting off the pig's tai this catastrophe is avoided, and the pig soon grows fat.

Healthy Eaters.

Chicago Tribune. “As a member of the committee of arrangements,* said the caller at the hotel, “I want to find out what terms you camgive to delegates to a convention to be held in this city next week. We shall need accommodations for fifty or more persons.” “Our regular rates are $3.50 per day.” responded the landlord, “but for a party of fifty I can, of course, make a considerable By the way, what kind of a gathering is to be?" “It is the regular annual State Con vemtion of the Vegetarian’ Association.” “My terms.” said the landlord emphatically, “will be $6 per day.”