Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1890 — Page 2

sbe fj^puMicau, 6so. E. Mabshall, Publisher. RENSSELAER. -w INDIANA

.From the foundation of the world mankind, in one form of exertion or another, has sought to acquire the art of creating something from nothing. ; There is a Latin name for every >ird, beast, reptile and insect, except -he polly-wog. For some, reason they lidn’t get hold of him, or it was deeded that he was Latin enough without anything extra.

? Ip it be true as reported that President Harrison over in Virginia mistook a pig for a raccoon and shot it, Jbe still has a valid excuse for the mistake. Virginia pigs are the only kind that can climb trees. * 11 * 11 ' A century of life is so rarely attuned that some skeptics have denied that there is any authentic record ol age so advanced. Without taking this extreme ground it may be safely said jthat there are fewer genuine cases jthan reported. r! It has been found in Ohio that as Insane asylums multiply in number insanity becomes more prevalent. Raise a big poor fund and paupers will become more numerous, but it is queer that people should go crazy in order to fill up asylums.

1 Trusts contain in themselves the elements of their own destruction. They were organized to suspend the law of competetion and grind the faces es the poor. As their stocks dwindle and collapse on the market the public will shed no tears. Mr. Edward Bellamy wishes to reform society so as to make women independent of men for their means oi support. The title husbands of American heiresses will not object provided he does not disturb the dependence of husbands on the fortunes of their rich wives.

Mr. Gladstone speaks frequently in the open air with bis hat on, but seldom or never feels any bad effects. He attribtites this immunity from cold to the fact that while on his farm at Hawarden be has been accustomed to chop and do other out-door work bareheaded. It is estimated that Americaus have sunk $80,000,000 in Mexico in the last two “years in mining and farming speoulations, but you have only to form -a company, put out a circular 'about a rich old hole in the ground dug by the Aztecs, and there will be plenty to subscribe. Under the blue laws of Connecticut, had a boy “plunked” an aged citizen with a snowball, or had John Henry advised an elder of the church to come off the perch, the results would have been so terrifying as to have been vividly remembered every hour in the day for a lifetime. Unless you are learned iu the science of political economy you will probably rate it a human thwarting ol the purposes of a bountiful Providence that many a poor wretch should be pinched with hunger in a country where some of the farming states are burning corn for fuel.

The Washington woman who defends decollette dresses err the ground that they cost less than high-necked garments takes rather a short-sighted view of the matter. Decollette dresses come lower, to be sure, but the womam who defends them forgets that in the long run they involve extra expense for porous plasters. The sphere of woman continues to enlarge. The latest evidence to this effect comes from Connecticut where a young woman has just been given a license as a dispensing druggist. It deserves to be added that she not only got her license, but she passed the! best examination that has yet been had before the examining board. Browning died and Tennyson will pass away just in “the nick of time’’ to get in the corner with Shakespeare and the other famous bards. A London item says : Robert Browning is likely to be the last of the English men of letters (save Tennyson) who will find a grave in Westminster Abbey. The interment of any more bodies there is opposed on sanitary grounds. It is the positive but not altogethei disinterested opinion of physicians and undertakers that people are nevei buried alive, except during epidemics, when burials are necessarily performed with great haste. The change o! position in the coffin which a deac body sometimes makes after burial is attributed to the generation within it of gases which by greatly bloating it sometimes turn it entirely over. There is always great room foi eloquence upon a subject containing sc many qualities of greatness as does the history of New England. But it would be far more satisfactory, and far more valuable, if some of this oratory could be turned to a careful consideration o; he problems of the present and th< future, rather than give it entirely u praise of the great deeds of men wh< have long since passed over to thi majority.'

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

DOMESTIC. The census Will begin June 1. _ Denver saloont must close on Sunday. Peach trees are in bloom at Dover, Dela ware. _ „ Local option was defeated at Lynchburg Va., Tuesday. Sullivan and Jackson will fight in California for f 15,000. There is a deadlock in the lowa House of Representatives. A land sale of 14,258 acres has just been consummated in Michigan. - -Large numbers of NortlrCafolina negroes are moving in wagons to Oklahoma. Ex-Governor Poster was nominated for Senator by the Ohio Republican caucus. The Australian election law has been introduced in the Maryland Legislature. The New York Legislature proposes to erect a $200,000 monument at Gettysburg. Senator Allison was Thursday unani' mously nominated by the lowa Republican caucus. Six murderers were legally hanged at Ft. Smith, Arkansas, Thursday. They were Indians. S. E. Olsen & Co., of Minneapolis, were Thursday night robbed of $2,000 in furs and •ewelry.

The Johnstown Flood Commission reports the distribution of $1,500,000, witfi $200,000 still on hand. The Little Wabash River at Carmi, Ills., has been on a flood, and 300 families were compelled to leave their homes. The Keatuoky State Senate passed the bill prohibiting the sale of cigarettes to boys under eighteen years of age. There is talk of a new company, backed by English capital and supported by Pennsylvania producers, to fight Standard oil. Frederick Baldwin and his cousin, Mrs. Pettiperre, of Connecticut, claim to be heirs to a $4,000,000 estate in San Franjisco. A fire caused $1,000,000 damage at Balti more Monday night by the destruction of an elevator and two vessels. Three lives were lost. Hon. John Lawrence died at Newark, Ohio, Thursday. This is the second death in the Ohio Legislature since the opening of the session. A new four-hundred room hotel will be erected at a cost of $1,000,000, in Chicago, at the oomer of Dearborn, Quincy and Jackson streets. Many farms in southern Illinois nro al

most submerged with water. Thousands of bushels of corn in that part of the State remain ungathered. The Supreme Court of South Carolina has granted a new trial to Father Boyle, the Catholic priest convicted of rape and sentenced to be hanged. James M. Fortner, defaulting treasurer of Riley county, Kansas, and the woman in the case were arrested at Memphis Wednesday. He is short $40,000. A tornado Sunday night struck the east side of the eity oi Clinton, Ky., demolishing fifty-five houses and killing eleven people and wounding fifty-three. Lyman Abbott was Friday installed as pastor of Plymouth (Beecher’s) church. This is the second installation that ever took place in that famous church. John L. Moore, conductor on a Chicago street oar, was fatally shot by George Jordan, a negro, because he gave him twenty-five one cent pieces in change. John Marshall Stone was inaugurated Governor of Mississippi. He urged a conthe convict contract labor system. Billy Murphy, Australia’s feather-weight champion, Monday night at San Francisco, knocked out Ike Weir, the Belfast Spider, in fourteen rounds. The stakes were $2,500 a side.

The Maryland Senate and House met in joint session at Annapolis Tuesday and reelected Ephraim K. Wilson (Dem.) United States Senator for the term of six years, beginning March 4,1891. The Ohio Wool Growers’ Association met at Columbus Tuesday and adopted resolutions demanding protection for the wool industry, and issued an address to the people of the United States. Henry Hinton, ex-Judge and ex-confi-dential manager of the late Alexander T. Stewart, is going to surrender $5,000,000 to the contesting heirs in order to stop all further legal proceedings. Employes in the Havernill (Mass.) shoe factories insisted on deciding methods and prices of work under threat of striking. The employers would not have it, and the nine great shoe shops shut down. Three thousand men are out. The California Fruit Union adopted a memorial to Congress Friday requesting that the duty on prunes be increased from 1 cent to 3 cents per pound, and that the present duty on raisins, nuts and olives be not reduced. The Farmers’ Alliance of lowa, Thursday, adopted resolutions endorsing Hon. William Larrablee for United States Senator as against Senator Aliison. It is intimated that Allison will have some trouble in securing re-election. The first bill passed by the legislature of South Dakota—to provide for refunding the indebtedness of the state—was signed by the Governor Wednesday afternoon, both Houses adjourning for five minutes to celebrate the event, loud cheering and exchange of congratulations being followed by a fervent prayer by the chaplain.

Within a short time the Star of Bethle hem will be visible, making its seventh appearance since the birth of Christ. It oomea once in 315 years, and is of wondrous brilliance for three weeks, then it wanes and disappears after seventeen months. It yrill be a sixth star added to the five fixed stars in constellation Gas- > siopeia while it remains in sight. Mrs. Calvin S. Brice, whose husband was nominated for the United State Senate by the Ohio Democracy, was formerly .Miss Olivia Meßly, a teacher in the Terre . Haute public schools. In the class exercises of ’O7, the first class to be graduated from j the Terre Hants high ocfaool, Miss Meilly contributed a poem, “The Weavers of LHe," which was highly commended. It is ■ said that no-teacher ever went from the >pnbhc schools of that city mere warmly cherished ia memory than she. v Blast furnace No. 4, In operation at the 1 invis Steel Onaapaay’s vmrhaat

Chicago, exploded Friday afternoon, resulting in the death of one and the serious injury of four others. Edward Johnson, fifty years old, was terribly burned externally and badly injured injured internally. He was placed in a petrol wagon, but died while on the pray to his home. John Johnson, Frank Brtnk, Joseph Leonard and Joseph Christian were badly burned about the head and body. Many others were scalded by the molten metal, but their injuries are not serious. The accident was caused by water coining into contact with the hot iron. Dispatches from different points in Kan sas rerort a blizzard in that State. At Wichita ten inches of snow fell, and for a hundred miles west the storm raged With fury, and the whole country is covered with snow to the d epth of a foot or more. Railroad trains are laid up at several places, and traffic is practically suspended. Intense suffering is reported in the dssti tute districts in several Of the western counties. There are forty or more cars with provisions at the town of Liberal, en route to the suffers, but that is fifty to seventy miles away from the starving people, and no one is willing to take the chances of freezing by hauling the freight in wagons. The temperature is not very low, but the mercury is falling and severe cold is apprehended.

Bishop Turner favors negro emigration IHe says: The white people brought us hero against our will. Now they ought to provide for us to leave if we desire. Besides we must work oiir destiny anyhow, and if a portion of us think we can do it better elsewhere, let the nation help us to try it. If the bill meant compulsory ex patriatoin I would fight to the death, but as it is voluntary upon the part of the negro let it pass as soon as possible. The negro at best is but a scullion here, and he can be no less in Africa. lam tired of negro problems, lynch laws, mob rule and a continual fuss, and a million other negroes are tired of it. We want peace at some period in our existence, and if we cannot have it'here where we were born and reared, let that portion of us who chose to try another section of the world have a little help. The Naval Board "of Policy, appointed to formulate a plan for the building of a navy commensurate with the dignity and power of the nation, in their report to the Secretary of the Navy, will recommend the construction of ninety-two vessels of different types and sizes; these will be built, according to the plan of the board, in fourteen years, and will cost, together with their maintenance during the fourteen years, $280,000,000. They say that the cost of maintenance of a ileet of vessels such as they propose would bo only one-quarter that of keeping up the same number of old style vessels. The scheme of the board comprises thei following vessels, the estimated cost of which, with armament complete, is appended: Ten battle ships of 5,000 tons, $5,000,000 each; eight of 8,000 tons, $5,000,000 each ; twelve of 7,000 tons, $4,500,000 each; five of 0,000 tons, $3,600,000 each; ten rams of 3,500t0n5, $1,800,000 each; nine armored cruisers of 6,500 tons, to make nineteen knots an hour, $3,600,000 each; four protected cruisers of 7,400 tons, tomake twenty-two knots an hour, $3,500, 000 each; nine protected cruisers of 5,404' tons, to make twenty knots an hour, $2,800,000 each; two protected cruisers of 4,000 tons, to make nineteen knots an hour $2,050,000 each; five special cruisers of 1,200 tons, to make eignteen knots an hour, $500,000 each; fifteen torpedo cruisers of 900 tons, to make twenty-two knots as. hour, $500,000 each; three artificers’ ship*, $2,000,000 each. The eight ships which Secretary Tracy recommends in his repor shall be begun at once are not the eight proposed by the hoard, but eight of the first ten.

INFLUENZA NOTES. The grip is abating in New York. Influenza is spreading in Mexiee. It is said in Cnicag j Tuesday that 30,97 T school children have la grippe. Peter Henderson, the famous seedsman, died at New York Friday of grip. Thomas C. Ashton, Senator in the Okie* Legislature, died at Columbus, Friday, of pneumonia superinduced by la grippe. This is the third death in-tbat-body since its convening. FOREIGN. It is rumored that the Czar is losing hi mind. Lord Napier, baron of Magdala, died of influenza Thursday. The Jews are proposing to erect a magnificent synagogue at Rome. The funeral of the Socialistediter Weddrt at Hamburg, Tuesday, was attended bj 01,000 persons. It is declared in Berlin that Edward Schnitzer (Emin; has left big stores of ivory in care of reliable ohieis. ArtoSa Brotuers, foreign bankers, with houses in London, Paris and .Madrid, have been declared bankrupts. Tneir liabilities are £400,000.

The Khedive gave a banquet last nigbt in honor of Henry M. fcjiuuley. The Khedive’s ministers and a umuber of n». tives were the only guests. Heury M. Stauiey and Uis party did x not stop over at Sue/,, as it was reported they would, but proceeded for Cairo where they arrived Tuesday morning. They wort greet* d upou taeir arrival there by General Sir Frauuis D. Grenfel, commander of the Egyptian troops, and Sir Evelyn Baring, the British Consul-General. The New York Suns say: “Look outfor new kind of coffee that is not coL fee. Some clever Frenchman at tn* Island -of lleuniou have discovered that the fruit of the wild orange that grows there has the aroma of ttve coffee bery. As n costs less to raise the wild orange than regular coffee naturally the planters are substituting the former for the latter, ond the government, even, has ordered that the great part of the highlands on the island be reserved for* the cultivation of the now bogus coffee. One bright gleam on the coffee horizon is in the fact ti al the new berry will bo so cheap that It will, if its culture succeeds, drive out chicory, and as au adulterant it is sa*d to be much leas vue than that staple coffee oheapeuer."

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The Jeffersonville car works are prosper ous. ' A Grand Army Post has been organized atFairland. Crab ajtple trees are blooming in Law rence county. Farmers in the vicinity of Michigan City are being roused to the necessity of good roods. An immense concourse of people attend ed the funeral of Hon. William Fleming at Ft Wayne Friday,. The use of the new school books has already resulted in a saving to Daviess county of a fraction over $2,600. According to the Anderson Bulletin, la grippe has developed in nine out of every ten families in that city, andit is estimated that fully two thousand residents are affected thereby. A mild type of la grippe is prevailing in Washington, and the local health board reports that 4,000 people or more are affected. Not one case in ten, however, is requiring the services of a physician. The Midland Railway is known as the “Blindfold Route,’’ and the Anderson Bulletin says that name originated in its early days, when they blindfolded passengers in Boone county to get them on th

cars. Lee Wah Sing, a Chinaman of Logans port, Is anxious to visit his old home in China, but the State Department has notified him that under existing treaties he will not be permitted to return if he once absents himself. Aquilla Robertson, of Deputy, was born in this State in 1804, lived on the same farm seven-five years, voted sixty-two years in the same precinct and warmed at the same fireplace fifty-five years, and he has been married sixt.y-three years. Thp Fulkerson gas well in Blackford county, which came in this week, is claimed to be the largest “gusher” in the state, the output being estimated at 12,000, 000 gallons daily. It belongs to the Salemonie Gas Company, of Ft. Wayne. The Crawfordsville Star offered a prize for the prettiest girl in Montgomery County, and the photographs were submitted to Horace McVicker, of Chicago, who decided that Miss Katie Allen, of Crawfordsville, had the handsomest face. She was awarded the prize. The first two barracks of the Sol diers’ Home, at Marion, will be ready for occupancy by the 25th inst., and, by crowding somewhat, accommodations will be pro vided for 150 occupants each. The remaining barracks will be finished by May 1 and then shelter will be given to 900 vet erans. Previous to the present cold snap thousands of grasshoppers made their appearance in the Southwestern part of Daviess county and began feeding upon the grow ing wheat. The appearance was specially singular, as grasshoppers in great numbers are comparatively unknown to the farmers of that section. - • The Indiana Miners’ Convention,while in session at Terre Haute, elected, President John Kaee, of Coal Bluff; Vice-President,' John Donkerty, of Dugger; Secretary and Treasurer, Harvey St. John, of Clinton; Auditor, Arthur Davidson, of Dugger; Executive Committee, K. P. Hanna, Car bon; William Winterbottom, of Washington, and Frank Lockard, of Ayreshire. The flood in White River covered the low lands near Hazelton, and the only re fuge for different kinds of game was the embankment of the Evansville & Terre Haute Railway. Myriads of quail, wild turkeys, squirrels, foxes, etc., clustered on this point, whore they were slain by the thousands. A large catamount was also killed, but not until the animal had throttled a number of dogs, and made a most

desperate fight for life. Hon. William Fleming, president of the First National bank of Fort Wayne, and ex State Treasurer, died, Monday after noon, of acute asthma. He had been a sufferer from that disease for several years, and two weeks ago started with his wife for Mexico, in search of health. At St. Louis, however, he became so much worse that he had to return home. The unfavorable weather helped to aggravate his case, and be sank rapidly, breathing his ast at 3:30 Monday afternoon. The Lagrange Standard insists that the distribution of the school fund is going to be a live question in the next Legislature. Under the present system many cities and towns draw more than they are entitled to, and the Standard quotes Fort Wayne as having 11,60 b school children enumerated, while but 4,000 are enrolled in the pub lie schools. The Standard proposes to have the money distributed in proportion to the school attendance, and not according to the enumeration. Patents were issued to Indianians, Tuesday, as follows: A. Beecher, Mishawaka, revolving tur ret bolt threading machine; C. Bollinger, South Whitley, rotary grain meter; Geo. Kline, Goshen, wire-fence machine; John Cosgrove, Oxford, thill Coupling; S. Monroe and C. E. Yeagor, Kinzle, car counpling; C. Nolland,' Crawfordsville, incrustation preventative; M. Smith, London, liniment; L. Westbrook, Reynolds, mop and wringer; F. Wilkining, Elkhart, lamp-supporting device; D. L. Windell Corydon, rock drill. The Indiana Cane Growers Association, organized eight years ago, has demonstrated that Indiana can be made one of the greatest cane growing states in the Union In central Indiana but few farmers grow mors oane than will furnish sufficient sor ghum for home consumption, but in the southern counties large areas of land have recently been, given up to the growing business. Quite a number of extensive sorghum factories have boen established in the state during the last year. Some new inventions in sorghum making machinery, among them, the self-skimming evaporator, have tended to make the business more lucrative. The best mode of growing and handling cane, the best way of marketing syrup, best varities of canes, the future of sorghum, and the effects of chemicals on sorghqm sirup, were some of the subjects discussed at the annual meeting of the Cane Growers’ Association which was held at Indianapolis Tuesday and Wednesday, The Indiana Democratic Editorial As. sociation held its annual meeting at Indi

anapolis on the 16th. Resolutions were adopted congratulating on their election. Senator Brice of Ohio, Govenor Campbell of Ohio and Govenor Boice of lowa. The action of Senator Voorhees and Congressman Bynum undemanding that Congress investigate District Attorney Chambers, was also adopted, as was one lmaenting the death of Hon. William Flemming of Ft. Wayne.|There was transacted considerable routine business and the following officials elected: President, B. F. Louthan, Logansport Pnaros; Vice President, F. A. AraoldGreencastle Star Press; Corresponding Secretary, Dr. M. C. Bonham,- Richmond Democrat; Recording Secretary, A. A. Sparks, §alem Democrat; Executive Co m mittee, Lee Holtman, Brazil Democrat; S. E. Moms, Indianapolis Sentinel; J. O' Henderson. Kokomo Dispatch; H. O. Teudium,lndianapolis German Telegraph, and Reuben Dailey, Jeffersonville News. The State Poultry Association at Indinapolis Friday elected the following officers: President—Major Griffin, Mauzy. Vice-presidents—William Tobin, Indianopolis; Daniel Christian, Roanoke; R. Twells, Montmorenci; I. N. Barker,Thorntown ; Mrs. W, P. Binford, Westland; W. J. Owsley, DarliDgton; Henry Allen, Bloomingdale, and B. N. Pierce, Indian apolis.

Recording Secretary—E. A. Pierce, InIndianapolis. Corresponding Secretary—R. W. Crockett, Delphi. Treasurer—D. H. Jenkins, Indianapolis^ Executive Committee—John Emrich, Indianapolis; B. T. Pace, Salem, and Ben S. Myers, CrOwfordsville. The Jersey Cattle Breeders Association also elected officers on that date: President—D. H. Jenkins, Indianapolis. Vice-president—Dr. D. W. Voyles,Crandall. Secretary—W. C. Smock, Indianapolis. Treasurer—H. H. Wheatcraft, Greenwood. Executive Committee—Mrs. Kate M. Busick, Wabash; E. J. Howland, Indianapolis, and Mrs. George Jackson, Beech Grove. THE STATE’S HEALTH. Secy. Metcalf of the state board of health Monday submitted to the governor a large portion of his annual report. It is a very comprehensive document, containing many interesting points. It shows that during the last year there have been 14,625 deaths. The report says that the state and local boards of health have worked harmoniously to prevent disease, and improve the hygienic condition of the state. Much had been done by a strict observance of the sanitary laws in a number of localities.

The secretary dwells at length upon the existence of the microbes and disease germs that lurk in the air, causing sickness wherever they go. These same germs, however, gain access to the human system through the means of water and food, and therefore it is necessary to be extremely careful. Filth, of course, breeds and nour ishes them; As to the spread of a disease, it depends largely upon the number of parasites in the air, and the susceptibiliiy of those who are so unfortunate as to receive them into the system. The report states that diphtheria has caused more deaths in indiana than smallpox and cholera combined. To prevent the spread of diphthe ria and scarlatina is of the greatest importance to the sanitarian, as they are very tenacious. Oftimes disinfectants were found to be unavailing, and school children who are in any way affected should be kept isolated until the disease, whatever it may be, develops. Great attention should be given to the measles and whooping cough, both of which were very fatal among children. The report says that as there is no probability that the proposed isolation hospitals will be established in the near future, other means should be devised afor preventing the spread of communicable dis eases. The sick should be separated from the well, and, during sickness, before and after, disinfectants used with a liberal hand. The Secretary, in conclusion, urges The holding of sanitary conventions from time to time in order that new thoughts and ideas in connection with sanitary affairs may be brought to light. . During the year there were 600 deaths from cholera infantum ; croup, 182; diphtheria, 374; Dysentery, 202; malarial fever, 114; scarlet fever, 126; typhoid fever, 808; typhoid malaria, 71.

BRICE IS MADE SENATOR.

Exciting Scenes in the Ohio Legislature Tuesday. Calvin S. Brice was Tuesday noon elected to the United States Senate from Ohio, receiving a majority of the votes in either branch of the Legislature, Shaw of the Lima district, nominated Brice; Gaumer, of Zanesville, seconded the nomination. Schneider, of Cincinnati, nominated Murat Halstead for the Republican minority. It was received with cheers, hisses and laughier. The presiding officer gave notice that a repitition of the disorder would lead to a clearance of the lobby. Massie, of Cbillicothe, nominated ex-Governorn Foster. The vote in the Senate was: Halstead 1, Foster 14, and Brice 19. In the House a call was demanded to bring in members. Brown (Democrat) of Hancock, who is sick, was carried to the hall in a chair. The only other Democrats absent were Troeger of Holmes, and Lawler of Franklin, who is ill. Willis and Blair, Republicans, were absent Hunt of Sandusky presented the name of Calvin 3. Brice, which was seconded by Belleville of Montgomery. Representative Bramau named Charles Foster, which was seconded by Representative Layman. On the rollcall the vote of Counts for Brice was received with cheers as was also that of Munson, two of the members who were credited with being bolters. Smith, the third caucus bolter, voted for L. T. Neal His vote was received With a subdued murmur. Pennell, a strong Brioe man and worker, voted for Foster by mistake, and before he could make the correction the House was in an uproar with threats that the hall would have to be cleared unless order was maintained. The vote in the House stood: Brice 57, Foster 52, and Neal 1. Brioe was declared the oboice of the House, having received a majority of the votes. The result was canvassed by the Senate and House iu joint session Wednesday. The joint result of the two braaebes is: Briee 78, Foster 40, Halstead 1, and Neal 1.

CLEVELAND, O., ROBBED,

Thiaa MUfioa DoltM Paid 6at Without! the Approval of tho-Gewncil. A Cleveland, 0., morning paper pub-' Habefi, Tuesday, a statement by an expert, bookkeeper, showing irregularities in the •id accounts of the city of Cleveland aggregating about $3,000,000. Nearly all of this money was paid out by the city with-, out the approval of the Council, although the laws of the State of Ohio distinctly require that every claim be included in the regular claims ordinance. The publics tion creates a great sensation. Nearly c year ago the Gity Council authorized the' Board of Revision to examine the books relating to the city’s financial history. It was necessary in the prosecution of the work to look over the books in the Cityj Treasurer’s office, sttid the disclosures' made were startling in the extreme. These were hinted at in the report of the experts to the Board of Revision. When thelat-i ter made their report to the Board of Councilmen, however, slight if anyreference was made to. them. The experts signed the report to the Board of Council men under protest, and only after it had 1 been represented to them that these irregularities had been investigated before. Monday night Julius Lembeck, one of 1 the experts, sent the Council a communL-' cation asking that his name be stricken 1 from the record, saying that he had been! induced to sign the same by misrepresen- ’ tactions; that the former investigation was 1 not complete; that glaring irregularities had occurred, and that if given access to the books again he would make full exposure free of cost to the city. Mr. Lembeck’s communication was referred back to him with the insinuation attached to it that the matter had better be allowed to rest. After the Counci 1 adjourned ex-Pres dent Lembeck gave the press a complete statement of the irregularities occuring ' during the period named. It showed that $3,000,000 had been paid out without the; approval of the Council and in a most peculiar manner. The entries upon the 1 books were all made in a misleading and uncertain way. The most startling feature' of the report, however, is a table showing! that $1,000;000 or $2,000,000 were paid out and asserted to have been paid out without vny entry in any book to show to whom the money was paid or for what purpos&j 1 public meeting will probably be called! to take action if the Council ignores the ! startling disclosures contained in the re-' port.

REVOLT IN BRAZIL.

One Hundred Soldiers Killed at Bio de Janerio—Ringleaders Shot. Captain Grimes, of the steamer Herschel, • from Rio de Janeiro, which arrived at New'. York Jan. 15, gives news of an encounter’ Between soldiers in that city. It seems! ‘hat on Deo. 18 it was discovered that a! j»rt of the army, about two hundred men! in number, was opposed to the republic! and strongly favored the monarchy. Thai provisional government sent a company of artillery to arrest the insurrectionists.! They opened fire on the soldiers, and it : was reported that over one hundred of* them were killed. One of the correspondents of Mr. C. R.l Flint writes from Rio de Janeiro under! date of Dec. 23,1889: “The outlook here! just now is not reassuring. Last evening; parts of two regiments of artillery mqtin-! ied, tore up the republican flag, and hoisted the-old imperial flag; and it required all the other regiments, cavalry, infantry and irtillery to subdue them. They fought at the Sao Christovao artillery quartel till after 12 o’clock, and one hundred of the rebels were killed and wounded before tho rest surrendered. “To-day twenty-one of the ring leader's were shot. None of the commissioned! officers were in the mutiny, but all the) non-commissioned officers were. The! trouble was owing to the dissatisfaction j of the soldiers with their pay. The! police are paid two milreis a day," and the ooldiers claim that they were promised) the same. It is said a number of the oldj Conservatives and Liberals have been) ampering with the soldiers, and were at the bottom of the row.”

A FATAL INITIATION.

»«a Ih of a Clergyman While Taking a Muionlo Degree. A funeral party passed through Cincinnati on the way to Hannibal, Mo., Tuesday, bearing the body of the Rev. J. W. Johnson, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church, south, of Huntington, W. Va. The deceased was passing through tho ceremony of initiation into the Royal Arch chapter of Masonry, on Friday night last, at Huntington, when an accident happened which cost him his life. He was about to be lowered into a thirteen-feet deep vault, symbolical of the search in the ruins of the temple, when the rope upon which his weight was suspended suddenly unvound from the tackle and he fell to the floor below. Ho was extricated by means of a ladder, and no outward mark of injury could be found. He had struck on his left hip, and suffered intense agony. He was conscious, aud absolved the brethren from all blame. He died on Sunday morning. Another candidate had just pussed safely through the same ordeal. Mr. Johnson’! Juneral services of Sunday night were attended by an immense throng. A sad feature was that he was to be married Feb. 1 o a young lady in Catlettsburg. He had seen in Huntington one year, having corns from Hannibal, Mo., whore his relatives ■ive. No attempt to conceal the nature o) the accident was made. —————— A Charleston, S. C., special says: J crate of strawberries was shipped hence t< New York Monday night They wen jrown in a field in the suburbs, and in ths open air. Should the warm weather con '•inue a week or more the annual straw >crry crop will be ready for marketing The strawberry reason here opens gener ally about March or April. But the, frufc is now ripening rapidly, and the entin srop, which aggregates about a millfoi quarts, will be harvested before the Ist o March, unless a blisxard comas along. *