Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1889 — Page 6

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

John L. Sullivan is on a big spree at Belfast, N. Y. A cyclone struck Ligonier, Sunday, doing considerable damage.'' A tank and pipe line company has been organised at Terre Haute. Francis Murphy has closed remarkably successful met t ngs at Columbus, i Forty-four alleged Chicago capittHsts were entertained by KokomO Saturday. Since Oast March three wolves and twenty foxes have been killed in Porter county. Emory Stone, a despondent farmer of Allen county, drowned himself in a well last week. Richard Roselle, a young man of Anderson, is insane on the subject of inventions. It is claimed that the Farmers’ MutuaV Benefit Association is doing great damage to the merchants of Mt. Vernon. Samuel Taten, of Jefferson county, is another who has been arrested for complicity in the ten-dollar counterfeit conspiracy. Bond, $5,000. Charles Blink, of Fort Wayne, has been indicted and arrested by a U nited States marshal for voting while under sentence of disfranchisement." Sunday, the two Ft. Wayne breweries gave a picnic for the alleged benefit of the Johnstown-sufferera. Wholesale arrests will follow, as beer was dispensed freely. Lewis Battorff. of Charlestown township, Cl irk county, who was swindled out of $2,000 by two sharpers recently, thinks Tennyson, who was lynched at Corydon, was one of the pair, . Dora Geffin.who has been personating mermaid in Glradv’s New York Museum for three years, was married at Fort Wayne last week to W. M. Gurney, another museum freak, whose home is at Terre Haute. Odd Fellows’* decoration day was observed at many points in the State. Rev. DeWoolpert delivered the address at Hartford City, Grand Secretary B. F. Foster at Walton and W. H. Leedy, Grand Warden, at Sullivan. •The election of Miss Anna V. La Rose as Superintendent of the Logansport city schools is regarded in Cass county as a radical departure in the management of school affairs. She is said to be fully competent for the place. While laborers were digging a trench in the streets of Fort Wayne they uncovered the skeleton of an Indian chief, and lying near were the remains of ah iron tomahawk, the barrel of a rifle, an iron pot, and other aborigine treasures. Morton Howell, of Shelby county, loaded down with counterfeit ten dollar bills, was captured on the train Tues day afternoon just as he was alleged to be going hence. He was arrested and placed under six-thousand-dollar bonds. Wm. Rvan, aged 68, a prominent farmer of Morgan county, was shot in the head and back Saturday and killed by some unknown person. He lives in a tough neighborhood, and has always aidedin bringing the law to bear on acts of lawlessness. Rev. Z. T. Sweeney, of Columbus, recently appointed consul general to Constantinople, is exceedingly popular, and is receiving hearty congratulations from his neighbors. He has been pastor of the Christian church at Columbus for several years. The sale of shorthorn cattle, under the auspices of the Bartholomew County Shorthorn Association, was largely attended. Tne stock all brought g®od prices, the aggregate amount paid for thirtj-six head b»inj; nearly $2,000. A few of the cattle brought as high as $l3O. At New Carlisle, last Friday, J. B. McComber, the recently discharged station agent of the Lake Shore road, addressed the farmers of St. Joseph county, saying he had been discharged because he declined to steal as much of their grain by false weights as the company’s officers required should be taken. Colonel I. B. McDonald, of Columbia City, and Mias Bechtel, daughter of a wealthy farmer in Whttley county, went to Chicago last Sunday, accompanied by the pastor of the Second Baptist Church, of Columbia City, and were united in marriage. Colonel McDonald is a veteran of two wars, and his bride is many years his junior. Patents were issued to Indiana inventors T-esday as follows: Willard Bell, Greencastle, sad iron; John W. Biackledge, Indianapolis, show-case. Chester W. Clark and T. D. Keasey, Mishawaka, bushing for pulleys; William Conwell, Neff, hoof-parer and trimmer; Geo. W. Gilbert, Kendallville, soda-water apparatus; Ed ward L. Hilderbrand, H. Rostand C. L. Davis,Sullivan, draft-spring; Joseph D. Norris, LaPorte, cutter-bar guide for harvesters. A final settlement Of the B.F.Shuttuck estate has bten made at Brazil. In 1871 Neal McDougal and Isaac M. Compton were named as executors, the trust to continue until the child was of age. The estate was then valued at SIO,OOO. In 1881 McDougal moved away, leaving Compton in charge, and he died three J ears later, and was succeeded by 8. M. IcGregor. The latter has now made an accounting of the trust, turning over to the heirs SIOO,OOO personal property and $40,000 in real estate. —Indianapolis Some days ago Gearge Cicil, of Delaware county, was found in possession of a seine which he used for seining purposes, and the case was tried before ’Squire Eiler. The point was raised that the law under which the defendant was prosecuted conflicted with section 16, article 4, of the constitution, which provides that everv act shall embraces but one subject, the ’Squire held the point good and discharged the defendant. Sheriffs of counties, under the new Jaw, are required to provide a proper femal<, attendant when conveying female insane persons to the hospitals. Another important change is that it is made the duty of the Trustees of the hospitals to make inquiry as to the value of the estate of every patient now in and hereafter admitted co the hospitals, and if their estates are competent to nMMBt the exp«n*6S of the care of the patient at the hospital, it is maae the duty of the Board of Trustees to see that the money is collected and paid into the general fund of the State Treasury. This may have the effect of decreasing the number of insane in the hospitals. An insignificant stream known as

Pony creek, across the border of Huntington county, and in Chester township Wabash county, was raised to such an extent by a cloud-burst, during a heavy storm, last Sunday afternoon, that it flooded its banks, washing out road Culverts, fences, etc. A farmer named John Maple was driving to his home, near Pleasant View, LaGro township, from Liberty Mills, with his wife, three children and a servant gifl. In crossing one of the culverts it gave way, and alt, with the vehicle, were swept down the stream. Mrs. Maple and two of the children were drowned. Maple managed tp save his life and tliatof one of tLe children, and the girl was also rescued. The bodies of Mrs. Maple and the children drowned had not been recovered up to 9 o’clock Tuesday morning.

SAMOA AND THE TARIFF.

The Treaty of Berlin and Some of Its Pro- • • visions. A Washington special says: The American Commissieners do hot appear to have won every point in the conference at Berlin. By our treaty with Samoa, all cargoes of American vessels are exempted from either import or export duty at Samoan ports. But it will not be so under the new treaty. A tariff schedule is appended to the treaty, by which Germany, England and the United States hold themselves to be bound. The same tariff is to apply to the imports from all three countries and no change is to be made in it without the consent of the three powers, and not at all within tne five years after' date of singing. The tariff schedule agreed upon is understood to be of German construction and to be practically identical with the schedule proposed by the German Minister at the fruitless 1887 conference held in this city. The tariff is not by any means a heavy one; in fact it is so light as, according to German opinion, to leave Samoa practically a free trade country. It is intended that most of the revenues for the maintenance of the government in Samoa are to be derived from a poll tax and various taxes on land and property. High duties are also to be placed on firearms and intoxicating liquors. All the parties to the treaty might have been willing to have refrained from embodying any schedule of import duties in the treaty and to have left with the Government of Samoa the full right and power to levy whatever duties it chose; but then there would have been the d anger; -each Government concerned would have tried to negotiate a separate treaty with Samoa and would have endeavored to obtain advantage over the other in the matter of tariff and trade relations that would not have been consistent with the principle of equal treatment to three treaty powers—the principle which has all along been kept in eight. It has been with reluctance that Germany has adhered to the principle, but she been compelled to. In the matter of tariff and trade, our negotiations with Samoa have followed pretty closely the line of our negotiations some years ago with Japan. Our first treaty with Japan was made in 1854; our first and only one with Samoa in 1878. The latter provided that American export should be addmitted to Samoa free of duty; the former stipulated a schedule, which was to be applied to all goods imported into Japan from the United States. Our treaty with Japan was amended in 1857, 1858 and 1864. Shortly thereafter tne interests of France. England avd Holland began to clash with those of the United States and of each other and their Governments coming together entered into a joint treaty with Japan, just as Germany, England and the United States are now o’oing with Samoa. The tariff schedule embodied in that joint treaty of 8866 is still in force, although it is highly unsa‘isfactory to Japan and disadvantageeus to the* United States.

MR. CLEVELAND’S LETTER.

Accepting Membership in the M.ryland Tariff Reform Club. Ex-President Cleveland hag written the following letter to the secretary of the Maryland tariff reform club of Baltitimore under date of June 11: Your letter informing me of my election as an honorary member of the Maryland tariff reform club, is received. I accept the courtesy thus tend ered me with thanks. The object and purposes of the club as set forth in the declaration accompanying "your letter have my hearty sympathy and support, and I believe their accomplishment absolutely essential to the greatest prosperity of our people and the highest development of our country. You must, however, permit me to say that so far as parties are concerned my hope and reliance for a better condition of things is upon the democratic party organization, which, In my opinion, cannot be true to its conditions and anqent creed without a hearty and sincere espousal of the cause to which your club is devoted.

Uhandler Nominated.

A dispatch from Concord, N. H., on the 13th, says: W. E. Chandler was made the Republican caucus nominee for United States Senator to-night. Previous to the balloting, Mr. Suiloway, of Manchester, said that he bad heard reports that persons.in the interest of Chandler had been ottering $550 for one vote and $1,200 for two votes. Mr. Varney, of Dover, said a gentlemen had called at bis house last Sunday and told him that a person bad been offered theee juma. Senator Corning, of Concord, said he was authorized by Mr. Chandler to deny these charges. These speeches created intense excitement. After the vote had been annonneed Mr. Chandler appeared in the caucus and addressed it briefly, accepting the nomination. He pledged his sacred honor that he had aone nothing undignified, unworthy or dishonest in the conduction of his canvass; had spent no inoney er promised no money for votes.

BASE BALL.

THZ LZAOnZ. THZ ASSOCIATION. Won. Lost Woo. Lost Boston.. V 9 9t Lou's. I 14 Cleveland 26 15 Athletic.... 2f 14 Phtladelohia.. 24 15 Brooklyn. ._. vG 16 New York 21 17 Cincinnati _... 22 22 Pittsburg 15 S 3 Baltimore. ,23 21 Chlosgo 18 22 Kansas City.... 21 U Wsshiuztoh ..- 9 23 Columbui 17 24 Indianapolis... 12 25 Lotiisvffle 8 4C

INDIANA JUSTICE.

A Mob at Corydon Quietly Hangs Two Alleged Marde ere. Devin and Tennyson, the alleged murderers of J. D. Lemay and wife were banged by a mob at Corydon, Ind-, at 2:30 Thursday rroming. They were hung from the bridge west of town. They refused to say a word, or make any confession. The membera imob were not disguised. They got into the jail by cutting down two iron doors. The captain gave orders that they were not to be cut down until 9 o’clock Thursday morning and the mob then dispersed. The mob was a most quiet and orderly one, numbering about two hundred men. They covered the sherifl with Winchesters and revolvers and forced him to give up the keys. Devin and Tennyson were remarkably cool and collected and toox their impending fate stoically. At the bridge they were given an opportunity for prayerj which they declined. They made no explanation of their crime. Last Friday night the two men who were lynched stopped at the residence of James D. Lemay, a wealthy farmer who resides near Corydon. They were well dressed, apparently about twentyfive years of age and represented themselves to Farmer Lemay as stock buyers. Mr. Lemay had his wife nrepared supper for them, and wDile they were eating he armed himself with a revolver, having had bis suspicions aroused by their actions. After they had finished their supper they and Mr. Lemay’s family sat d • wn on a porch and engaged in conversation until about 8 o’clock, when the strangers suddenly arose, with drawn revolvers, and ordered the membera of the familv into the house, remai kingthat they meant buri ners. Mr. Lemay and his wife went into one room and were followed by one of the strangers and his niece, Miss Lucy Lemay, and a young farm hand went into-an-other room and were locked in by the other stranger, who followed them. Mr. Lemay drew his revolver, and the stranger who confronted him began firing, emptying his pistol, a five-shot Colt’s revolver. All of the shots took effect, two of them penetrating Mr. Lemay’s bowels, the other penetrating his hands and arms. The other stranger fired one shot which passed through the young lady’s right breast and lodged in her left breast. Mr. Lemay,although badly wounded, opened fire on the men and put them to flight. An alarm was given, and a number of neighbors soon arrived, some of them starting in pursuit of the strangers, while others went to Corydon for medical assistance. The two would-be murderers escaped, but were finally captured at New Albany and taken to the Harrison county jail at Corydon.

THE STATE CAPITAL.

The Attorney General, in answer to a question fiom the Warden of a Southam Prison, gives the opinion thaUthe eight-hour law does not apply to the work of the convicts. Neither does it apply to the guards, as they are listed as officers, not laborers. The News of Wednesday says it has authority for asserting that W’llliam T. Leonard, who was foreman of the jury when Mr. Bailey was U, S. Attorney, signed as many as sixty-three indictments in the Deputv Prosecutor’s room, while the rules of the court require that they shall be signed in the Grand Jury room in the presence of the jury and by their direction. “I didn’t know whether these indictments were correct or not,” Mr. Leonard says. “I was always called into Mr. Bailey’s room in a hurry, and I signed indictments without comparing them with the Prosecutor’s minutes. I signed indictments in many instances without calling the attention of the jury to the evidence on which they were based or even knowing myself whether the indictments were correct or not. “It appears that indictments were returned in many instances by the jury when the jury had no knowledge as to whether they were justified by the evidence. The methods employed "bring all the work of the jury into discredit. The usual course is for the foreman to present the evidence in a case, ask the jury’s opinion, and if directed by them, to sign the indictment in their presence. In lieu of this the substitute method was for Mr. Leonard to go into Bailey’s room, sign a bundle of papers, and report to the jury that be had signed a score or more of indictments. He says that in many cases he could not tell anything of the character of the evidence on which indictments were based. The Sentinel says “all this is ‘slush’ ” and without foundation of fact. It says “the custom adopted in the investigation of election cases was the same precisely which has always been pursued in grand jury work even down to last Tuesday’s adjournment of the present grand jury.” Congressman Springer of Illinois was in the city Monday. He is of the opinion that this city needsan appropriation of$l,000,00i) fora public building and believes it could be secured if proper effort is made. Treasurer Lemcke has succeeded in placing with New York investors $1,850,000 of the loan bonds for refunding those of the school fund. He says tbis was done at an average premium of $1.82. He hop-s to place the balance of the $3,905,000 in a few days.

THE JOHNSTOWN DISASTER.

Johnstown and vicinity were placed under military rule, Wednesday. For the first time since the calamity the people are commencing to talk of their financial losses, and this seems to worry them as much as anything else, and to saytiiata Vast number of the former merchants are disheartened is putting it mildly. On all sides you will hear these merchants exclaim, “It is no use,we will never recover from this; we have lost everything.” The Pitsburg wholesale merchants are trying to comfort them, and are offering all the old merchants some very elegant inducements to start up again. A circular has been received by these men from several Pittsburg merchants offering them all the credit they want. A few more bodies were recovered. Bradstreet's give an estimate of losses at $44,250,000. Fourteen bodies were recovered, Sunday. Major Phillips succeded in floating off six acres of massed debris down the Oonemaugb. Lumber is arriving and rough houses are going up. The health conditions are fairly good.

THE ILLINOIS CHRIST.

He Lives in a Beautifully-Furnished House, and Possesses a Handsome Bank Account. Rockford, 111., Letter in New York Herald. /< : The home of Christ is a large mansion standing in a spacious inclosure amid a large number of forest.trees, some distance back from the main road, about five miles south of this city. It has spacious barns; carriage buildings, sheds and otner appurtenances of a prosperous country mansion. The members of the community make the breeding of blooded horaea a speclalty. Sehweffifurth has three imported stallions and a large number of brood maree. He also has about eighty head of fine cattle. The house is very roomy, and with its wings easily accommodates a hundred persons. There are usually about fifty females there and a dozen or fifteem men. The male disciples do the heavy work and are drudges. They live on the plainest food and sleep in the attic. -Most of them, having become infatuated with the new religion, count themselves happy to sufier and labor for the cause, and have given up all their earthly possessions to the Christ. Schweinfurth possesses in his own name property which has been given him outright to the amount of $500,000 at the lot Vest calculation. Whenever a member of the “Church Triumphant” is found they set aside a tenth of their earnings as tithes for the Lord, and the Lord deposits it in different banks in his own name. A young male servant ushers callers into the front parlor. Tnis room is commodious and elegantly furnished. The feet sank into a velvet carpet, leopard and wolf skins were spread about, and added to the richness and beauty of the surroundings. The house is furnished in antique oak, and light comes through large plate glass windows surrounded by many hued glass. From the snowy ceiling hang large and glittering chandeliers. The reporter was introduced to richly dressed and quite pretty young ladies, who gave every evidence of refinement and culture. They answered a few immaterial questions politely, but appeared to be reserved, and were evidently relieved when an inner door opened and the “Savior” Schweinfurth appeared. A very bright eye and bright red English-cut whiskers were the first things one noticed and mentally commented on. His natty feet were encased in patent-leather shoe?; a heavy gold fob chain hung from a watch pocket; a very high clerical collar and a brilliant blue and gold tie surrounded his neck. He was dressed in good taste, and there was an air of gentleman ly ease and elagance from the crown of his head to his shiny footgear. When informed that the visitor was in search of information as a representative of the New York Herald, it seemed as if a slight shade passed over his countenance and there was a momentary hesitation before his reply. But it was only transitory, and in a moment he said: “Will you kindly follow me to my study? I have; no objection to answer any reasonable questions you may propound, if of proper character.” He led the way into the hall and thence to the two-story wing and upstairs into a room which bore the appearance of a literary man’s comfortable retreat. It was lined with books in solid walnut cases, tastefully veneered with French varnish and elaborately the visitor to a Sleepy Hollow chair, he followed suit and awaited the interrogatories. The first question would startle an ordinary man, but it did not surprise Rev. Schweinfurth: “Are you Christ?” “I am,” was the reply.* “I am more than Christ. lam the perfect man and also God. I possess the attributes of Jesus the Sinles’, and have His spirit; and, more than that, I am the Almighty Himself.” The appended questions and answers followed: “This, then, is your second advent upon earth?” ./ . '"‘7/--“It is, and I am accomplishing untold good. The time is not far off when I shall make such manifestations of my divinity and power as will startle the world and bring believers to me by thousands and tens of thousands.” “When did you discover first your divine attributes, and that you were the great head of the church?” “In 1883, at the decease of Mrs. Beekman. Three days before her death she had a light from heaven, and transferred her spiritual holiness to me. Before her death outsiders erroneously called her ‘the woman Christ.’ That was not true. She was the spiritual bride of Christ, and her people Were called Beekmanites. After her death, at first I was only sensible that I possessed the attributes of Christ, and had in my own person His spirit coming a second time on earth. The people who believe in this great truth were ‘The Church Triumphant.’ Within the past year there has been still greater knowledge, and I can now declare that I am ood Almighty.My name is ‘I am that .I am.’ ” The quiet and impressive manner which accompanied these words led the reporter to scrutinize the speaker cloeely to detect symptoms of insanity. But there was no wildness in his eyes, no nervousness in his manner. He sat

as calmly and expressed himself as deliberately M any one could utter tU most unquestionable truism. “Can you, then, perform miracles? Can yon vanish from the flesh and be invisible, and pass from one place tb another as a spirit?” “Yes, I have unlimited power. I can come into a room with closed doors and disappear. I can raise the dead, cure disease and do all the miraculous things which I accomplished when I wstson earth before. Ido not practice them often for I wish to convert the world to the truth without depending on supernatural powers, but by the truth itself. One of the ladies you was down stairs was in the last stage of bronchial consumption; physicians had no hope for her. I brought her back from the face of death with my divine power, and without approaching her. Did you ever see a more healthy mortal? physical infirmities are cured by me simply by faith, and I can cure them without even their exercise of faith if I would.” “Do you expect to live on eartn forever?” ‘ I shall be here many years in the present body, and the world will see wonderful sights before I cast off this body. But lam incarnate, and when this goes into the corruption of death my spirit will efiter another body and still live on earth. How or when the present body will die has not yet been revealed of the Father. But in form and substance the identical body I now possess was the one that was crucified on Calvary. Tnere are many things in the gospels that are inaccurate about my crucifixion and my life on earth, and lam now occupied in writing a new and true version of the New Testament that can be accepted as the perfect and inspired word. This in itself, when given to the world, will create a revolution among those who now consider themselves orthodox believers.” “Will you tell me something of your domestic life here?” “ Well, Sir, you can say that we live as a large family. There are several married couples here, but most are unmarried. The evil charge that wepraotice free love shows how little the world knows of the purity and sinlescness of our lives. lam the type of the sinless one, and those who live with me and believe become pure even as I am jnire, and in th»m there can be no guile. * Our marriage ceremony is binding, and there can be no oivorce. As for myself, I never experienced the passions of man, for lam God. I know that I shall be reviled and persecuted, and men will say all manner of evil things against me, but I am holv, and the world will yet know it. The whole world is impanneled as a jury to try us, but those who now persecute us will be utterly destroyed. You and all others will have to come to believe in me before you can be saved.. I might add that our ‘Church of the Redeemer’ will supplant all others on the earth. The so called orthodox churches are the beasts of Daniel, and must be destroyed.” “If you have the same body that was crucified, where are the marks of the nails in your hands?” asked the skeptical scribe. “I d® not claim that the material physique has not changed and put on new flesh, but my features are not changed, and though new material substance has covered the point of the torturing instruments, in a general sense the same body is now before you as arose from the tomb at my resurrection.” “Wjll..yau,.givanxe.a. little biography of your earlier life before you became divine?” “I was born in Marion, 0., in 18? 3, of German parentage. Before I reached the age of twelve my mother used to say that an aged minister told her, ‘Your son is destined to be a Levite. Verily, God has chosen him.’ In earlier days, though thrown in au unwholesome moral atmosphere, by a wonderful working of an internal God-given power of selection I was kept from all those secret vices which infest all grades of society, my idality was strong and I applied this faculty to the betterment Tit overt conduct and private virtues, the elevation of life and being. The ideal person was to me the Son of God and the son of man. I thought constantly, I shall be satisfied when I awake with thy spirit. I always communed with Heaven. I studied for and entered the Methodist ministry. But I was not satisfied. My ministerial associates seemed so secular, so uncelestial, so un-Christ-like that I could not feel of them though among them. I saw through one of the back windows of Methodism a sight of social and religious conditions which compelled me to trace with the slow and steady finger of ckndor across my Methodist hopes the word ‘disappointment.’ I was finally sent to Alpena, Mich. When I entered upon that charge I was in the spirit of becoming more rapidily a citizen of heaven and leas a denizen of earth. t Under the electric light of inspiration I found that the Methodist Church was filled with spiritual wickedness in high places. The abomination that maketh desolate waa found to be standing where it ought not in the church, in all churches. “In December, 1877, I met Dorinda Helen Fletcher Beekman, the bride of Christ. She was my spiritual Mary. She gave to the world its Jesus and its Lord. Of my history Since that time you have been already made acquainted. And now I will have to

be excused, aa I have pressing duties.' I will escort yon through the house before yon go, that yon may see our home. Everything is open, and there U nothing that we fear to cast the sunlight upon.” The Lord then led the visitor hurriedly through the house from cellar to garret. The foriner was well stocked with provender. Hundreds of glass jars of fruit Weie ranged on the shelves, andtnb alter tub of fragrant butter sat in the corners of the spacious underground room. On the first floor were the sleeping partments of the ladies, eiegantly fitted Jtioudwre. Tha second jrtory-of the wing is devoted to Schweinfurth’s suite. They eclipsed the ladies’ rooms in elegant furnishings. There was also a school room on the second floor of the main building, where some thirty pupils are daily taught. The garret, which is commodious and clean, but very plainly furnished, contains a dozen beds.. Here sleep the men whose hard work and substance have gone toward equipping the rest of the house in such princely fashion. Within the last year or two $20,000 has been spent in remodeling and refurnishing the house. Mr. Schweinfurth has complete charge of all the finances, and uses the means at his pleasure, never accounting for anything.’ The growth in membership of tbis remarkable sect has been astonishingly rapid within the last few years. They now have churches at/ Chicago, St. Charles. Minn.; Minneapolis, Paw Paw, Ill.; Louisville, Ky.; Leavenworth and Kansas City. But the central community is this one here. New converts must come here and learn their duties and obligations, and those who are willing to work are assigned fields of labor.

WASHINGTON NOTES.

President Harrison will probably spend next Sunday at Cape May, and later in the week will move the family to Deer Park, where h e has leased the cottage Of ex-Senator Davis. The house is of wood, and exceedingly unpretentious. It is~fwb~ apd "a "Balfstories in height, and is painted a sage-green tint, with a roof of red shingles. The broad piazza is provided with hammocks, in which the President can rest fully or nap when inclined to do so. The furnishing of the cottage is exceedingly plain, but none the less comfortable. Straw matting and Smyrna rugs cover the floors, and the bedroom suits are of the most rustic pattern. Willow wickers, with bamboo tables, are to add to the convenience of the President’s family. The White House gardener is beautifying the front piazza with running vines. The President’s nearest neighbor will be Stephen B. Elkins, of New York. The American commissioners to the Samoan conference at Berlin have received instructions from Mr. Blaine, in relation to the nrotocol d rawn up by the conference. Mr. Blaine disagrees with several provisions’of the protocol, and also is of the opinion that England and Germany have not gone for enough in respeet to the rights conceded to the United States. Judging from what has passed, and especially in view of the American declarations the commissioners have probably a large amount of work still before them There is a material difference of opinion on various points between the three powers. The Secretary of the Treasury, Wednesday, appointed John Hughson, a skilled laborer in the Treasury Department at a $720 per annum. Hughson was porter of one of the Pullman cars caught in the flood at Johnstown, Pa., and it was main tv through his efforts that Mrs. E. W. Halford and her daughter were enabled to reach a place of safety in the mountains. His appointment is due to the efforts of the Presitlen t'sprivatrßecretaTyr"~““"*'“ The following consuls were appointed, Baturdky: Wakefield Ttrye, of Maine, at Halifax; Joseph A. Leonard, of Minnesota, at Shanghai; Zachary T. Sweeney, of Indiana, at Constantinople; Oliver H. Dockery, of North Carolina, at Rio de Janeiro; Oliver V. H. Simmons, of Colorado, at St. Petersburg; George W Roosevelt, of Pennsylvania, at Brussels; Levi W. Brown, of Ohio, at G lasgow. A very decided effort is to be made in Congress the coming session to extend the interstate commerce law so that it will take in the express companies. While the law has compelled railroads to carry freight for a short distance for as low a rate as it carries it for a longer one over the same route, the express companies are still exempt, and their extortions are sti 11 carried on. Senator Hoar says that the impression that the fortifications at Esquimalt, Vancouver, were a menace to the United States, were unfounded, as the Island has not the natural advantages necessary to make a formidable fortification. He was satisfied that the ties of affection between Canada and the United States are a guarantee of peace.

An Understanding at Last.

San Francisco Examiner. Old Mr. Widower had been sitting silently alone with Miss Autumn for fifteen minutes. Finally he spoke: “Mies Autumn, you are nret —’? ‘Oh, Mr. Widowed” “You are pret— ” “How can you, Mr. Widower?’’ “I started to say that you were pretty-” * Oh, you horrid man, stop!' 1 “Condemn it all, woman,” shouted Mr. Widower, rising and breaking for the door, “I wanted to say that you are pretty near as old as I am. Now, demme, I think you are twice as old.”

Second-Hand Warrantees.

Zed Ampersan (angrily)—Lookee here, Sim. You said that there hone you sold me was warranted sound an’ kind! Sim Simon (innocently)— Yeseiree. He was warranted sound an’ kind by the city fellow I bought him of!