Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1891 — Page 2

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Cuba is preparing: (or a fine display at the World’s Fair. She will also hare thirty representatires. ' - ■ Asr=±==!=£r~ " New York is to have an equestrian statue to Gen. Sherman—as soon as the people of the rest of the country furnish the money. A company has been organized in Baltimore for the purpose of carrying en a general shipping and commission business with Brazil under the reel* procity treaty. The official census figures show that the increase of white population in the country during the last ten years has been 24 per cent., while that of the oolored population has been only 18 per cent. The Indian appropriation bill this year calls for $16,000,000. These figures are worth studying as an illustra. lion of the liberal manner in which the Government deals with a class of people who spend all their thne in avoiding the obligation of self-support is one of the fundamental principles of citllizatioD. ; ~~"1~ _ SacRETART P BOCTOE intends to enlist 8,000 Sioux Indians in the United States army, 1,000 as scouts and the remainder as private soldiers. This will absorb all the active young Indiana, and the Secretary thinks it will practically wive the Indian question go fares the Sioux are concerned. All accounts agree that the Indians make splendid BOldiers, and the service will tend to civilize them, j

J A new company has been ineorpor. ated under the laws of Illinois with its headquarters in Bloomington. Its name is the National Protective Asso. elation and it is on the mutual plan Any person may became a member by paying $lO. Monthly assessments of $1.26 are made. The $1 goes into a ••protective fund” and all other moneys go for salaries. The certificates of membership are numbered consecutively in the order in which they are received. When the • ‘protective fund” amounts to |I.OOO this sum is paid to the person holding certificate No. 1, and as often as the money in the fund amounts te SI,OOO the money redeems the certificate of the lowest number remaining unpaid. A person may hold any number of certificates and it is understood that the organizers bav e each pre-empted a goodly number. The officers and directors are men of neither prominence nor wealth and Bloomington mathematicians are flgurj log upon the problem of how any one except the organizers can get anything out of the fund in an ordinary life time-

The Supremo Court of Missouri has j UB t a decision of considerable political interest. Patrlok O’Malley and J. J. O’Neill were candidates last (all for the Democratic nomination for Congress from the Eighth districtBoth claimed that they had been nominated at the nominating primary. O’Malley’s claim was evidently not regarded as well founded, for the Secretary of State denied his application for a certificate of nomination under the State election law. Meanwhile the State Democratic Central Committee determined to settle the dispute. They directed that another primary should be held, both contestants agreeing v° enbmit to its decision. O'Neill got the nomination and was electod. O’Malley forgot his promise, and applied to the Supreme Court for a writ of per emptory mandamus to compel the Secrotary of State to give him a certificate of nomination. His chief ground was 4frnt the Democratic Central Com. xnittee had no authority to interfere in the affair. The court has denied the writ, and holds that as a State Central Committee is accepted as the executive machinery of a political party, its de„ cision must be regarded as conclusive Both parties to the contest, having agreed to accept the decision of ths Democratic Central Committee, are estopped from appealing to the courts •gainst that decision. So it appears that a State Committee has a certain power of compelling discipline In the party which it represents. ________ ■ Prof. Boys, In a communication to the Royal Society, England, oa measurements of the heat of the moon and stars by means of his radiomicrometer, gives an account of a test with a candle at 250.7 yards distance, which gave a deflection of 88 mm. In other words. thU instrument would /shop the heat of a candle at 1.71 c»U«s dU. ftaaoc.

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Foar lives were lost by the burning otjg. New York tenement. , M t Frank L Frame, father of the wlldjpest style of actinp, is dead. ’. Gen. Palmer f a,vs be will not c * n> ’ didate for Vice President. / A fire at BleeUer end Greene streets, New York, did $2,000,000 damage. On* hundred and twenty-toe peers and ilo bishop own English g^m.ils. Vicar General Rhode Island orders Catholics e Parnell. vng is announced for April 2, at CoopefYn stituta, New York city. J t y j: , Ingallasays the alliance ia the coming political force and that [sectionalism as a n issue is dead. , By an explosion in the Crescent stee l works, Pittsburg, one man was killed atad The bark Imperator was lost on the Cape islands and twelve of her crewdjfowned. Bayard eaya the United States are not liable for the murder of the New Orleans Italians. It is charged that Thomas Taggert, a prohibition candidate for Congress in lowa was killed by the liquor men. . —— A warrant has been issued on the United States Treasury for $2,123,830.86, in favor of tne State of New York, as her share of the direct tax. All the yardmen nnd firemen on every road entering Atlanta, except tho Western & Atlantic and Georgia roads, are out on 6trlke for higher wages. The Congregational ministers of Chicago have issued an appeal to their churches and to the benevolent public on behalf of the sufferers by the drought in Nebraska and the Dakotas. . „ William H. Herndon, Abraham Lincoln's jaw partner and author of a “Life of Lincoln," died at his residence in ’Springfield of la grippe, aged 72. His youngest son, William, died six hours before from the same diseaso. W. S. Paruerson. of New Orleans, who was the leader of the mob which lynched the Italians lh that city last week, is to appear in a new role shortly. He has accepted a telegraphic order of $250 to prepare a signed article on lynching for a New York publication. Dr. J. C. Burrell, of Westminster Church, Minneapolis, has accepted the call of the Collegiate Reformed Church, New York city. Dr. Burrell, it is understood will receive SIO,OOO a year, and in case o« disability $5,000 a year for the rest of his life, and when he diet $5,000 a year to his wife, if she survives him. The joint committee of the twobranches of the Gaitfornift Legislature have beganan investigation of recent charges of bribery in connection with the senatorial contest. A number of witnesses were examined, including M. M.’Estee, ono of the senatorial candidates. He said he did not know of any of the candidates using money improperly in this canvass. A special from Pine Bluffs, Ark., tells Of the killing of George Sims, near that place. Sims was a desperate character and recently was accused of some depredationsWhen the officers advanced upon nim tears rcathim, he shouted that he would not be taken alive. One of deputies, believe iugSin.s was in the act of firing, shot him r.nd he fell dead on the spot. The westbound train on the Norfolk & Western road struck Lulu and Lelia Copperage, ftve.mi’es from Roanoke, Va., in. atantly killing Leila, aged nineteen, and injuring Lulu, aged seventeen, so that she died, on the Kith. The gtris ware walking on the track and the train dashed around i a sharp curve, and was on them before they could escape. Their parents were walking along a road near the track and witnessed the accident. The executive organization of the Flarms era' Alliance is now directed To Ohio. ; President Polk on the ifcth telegraphed to know at what central point ho can organ- • iso tho Ohio Allianuu wHh system. havihg j regard in the selection of the place the contiguity of the Alliance strength. On : the 10th of April he visits Ohio in his official capacity to reduca to a system the organization. The growth of the orderin Ohio has been unprecedented. Dispatches from Texas say .that owing! to the ere vasses caused by the floods, the Southern Pacific has been compelled to abandon two passenger and nine fre gh l trains. Tho Texas Transportation Com-1 pony's road to Clinton, eight miles from Houston, is being gotten in readiness, and the Morgan steamers will take all through California freight around by way of tho Gulf to Clinton from New Orleans, and thecce bj rail. Business by the regular route will not be resumed for three months. Gowan, the Salvation Army man,who is one of the contestants in tho New York walking match, was suddenly seized with a fit of insanity. While he was goings around the track lie uttered a wild shriek, sprang over the rail and made a dash for the street, He was soon captured and taken back to the garden. He was placed n his tent. Ills twicer left him fora moment, having, as ho thought, left him sleeping. Returning once more to the tent to look after his man he cautiously opened the door only to receive a blow in the face which knocked h+ra down. The man is being carefully watched now. A special from Craddock Pa., says: The West End cf Braddock is under a reign of terror. August Coulson.a Swede, came here on the Kth from the East to go to work at the Carrie blast furnaces. He was met at Copeland station at 10 o'clock by his brother-in-law, John Martin, and on their way toward Ranking station, with two valises thrown over their shoulders were thought to be men coming to go to ue rk in the wire mill, where a strike was iu progress. They were set upon by a crowd and unmercifully beaten with stones and ciubs. Martin is under care. Oouisou. being a stranger, got tost in his flight, and has not yet turned up. ' — t » 1 » ,J 7* . ***..— ' — I"" ! La grippe is raging in Chicago. Dun & Co. report bright business pjospcct?:' . | shortage of Arkansas’ treasurer Js $ 6 7 4b.53. A mob broke^u p a meeting of Italians iu Trey. N. Y. t Sunday, Secretary of Agriculture Rusk is usable

supply the demands of farmers for 'seeds. Pension agents are now allowed a fee of bat $2 to secure a pension: Theodore Thomas will probably be musical director of the world's fair. Alfred King, first Mayor of Erie, Pa., and Recently chief of police, is dead. Two revenue agents were killed by moonshiners near Greensboro, N. C., on the 21st. Three cases of consumption cured by Koch’s method are reported from San Antonio, Tex. Mrs. Harris Herbert was Paul by an icicle which dropped front the roof of the Chamber of Commerce, r Five thousand Italians held a mass meeting at New York on the 20th and denounced the New Orleans massacre. The Kansas Alliance leaders have issued a manifesto laying the blame for failure of Americans are purchasing large herds of American cattle to send to England In an endeavor to finally introduce American cattle. A bill in the Minnesota Legislature provides for a State board that will’ have supervision of all agricultural societies in that State. The Wisconsin Senate passed a bill requiring telephone companies to pay an annual license fee of 2% per cent, on their gross earnings. The Treasury department notifies liquor dealers that the $25 collected, by the U. Sgovernment is a tax, not the payment for a license. Chas. M. Felton, Republican, was elected U. S. Senator by the California Legislature Friday, to succeed the late Senator Hearst, Democrat. The Louisiana Lottery Company will test the constitutionality of the anti-lot-tery law. and curry the matter to the United States Supreme Court. Chicago Democrats split in the city convention. One wing nominated Cregitr present incumbent, for Mayor, while the other chose ex-MayorCurter Harrison. Thp upper house of the Texas Legisla ture has- passed a bill regulating the of express enmpa n i rsn/nri ing such companies to the control of the railroad commission. Governor Hogg, of Texas, vetoed the bill accepting the sugar bounty in the McKinley bilk He says the sovereign State of Texas cannot afford to recognize the right of federal supervision. Lawrence Barrett, the renowned tragedian, died at New Y'ork on the 20th, of pneumonia and a eomplicatipn of diseases. He was one of America’s most distinguished exponents of Shakespeare. The Board of Trade of Hastings, Neb., has adopted resolutions tendering to W. A. Parkerson and the many thousands of other citizens of New Orleans, its approval of the action taken by them in lynching the Mafia criminals. The Hatfield-McCoy feud isended, peace being brought about by the marriage of a Hatfield to a McCoy. This feud began in 1373 over a sow and pigs, and more than 100 persons have lost their lives in the vendetta that has raged since. It ts charged that, t tin State of Pennsylvania has been robbed of $1,085,000 by the management of soldiers’ orphans’ schools and eight men are named as having accumulated fortunes from such stealings, ranging from $60,000 to $300,000. The Congressional apportionment bill 1 has passed both Houses of the New-Tersey Legislature. It gives the State eight Congressman, an increase of one. The lines i are arranged so that six out of the eight will be Democratic. [ M, J. Jacobs living.near Waterloo,lowa, has received a telegram stating that his twelve-year-old son, who was visiting in Nebraska, had been captured by a band of Indians. A party of men started in pursuit. and as they approached the red skins the latter split the boy open, scalped him and then escaped. The.-hoy dead when the men reached him. Hon. Sudson Lamoure, chairman of the State Republican committee of South Dakota, asserts that there is a gigantic conspiracy to turn Nbrih Dakota over to the Democrats. Mr. Lamoure says the enterprise has financial backing in the whisky rings of St. Paul and Chicago and the liquor element of North Dakota. He further says the fund was used to some extent in an effort to defeat Republican candidates. The conspiracy was entered into by the national Democratic committee with meinbersmf the Democratic State commitee and certain Republican candidates.. Tile news that the President has ordered Minister Phelps to notify the German empire that America proposes to retaliate for the exclusion of American pork from Germany has caused widespread consternation in Germany. The German manufacturers have not noticed any serious diminution of exports to America Ondej tho McKinley bill, and an embargo on that trade* which of. late years has become very important, would be a staggering blow to German industry. The German authorities pretend not to believe that such instructions have been sent, but according to the latest Berlin advices they, too, are in a state of mind. The prohibition of American pork has been enforced by the German authorities with exaggerated severity. Theircustom house Officers have watched for it with lynx eyes, and when any was seized have drenched it with kerosene and burned it up, not even allowing it to be sold for the benefit of the customs, apparently for fear that the people would finddfit that it was good to eat. The order of the American President, if actually sent, places the imperial government in a dilemma between the agricultural classes, In whose interests the prohibition has been maintained, and the industrial classes, who want to keep on making American goods. For some unknown reason remarkably activity is shown at the government cartridge factory at Quebeek. Tin? factory is running full time and orders have been received from Ottawa for an immediate establishment of a factory to manufacture largo Martini-Henry ammunition. These rush oaders for war-like material, without known cause, excite comment in military circles. Philadelphia twins celebrated theif seventy-filth birthday last Sunday.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Cass county has fifty miles of toll roads. Portland has decided to have waterworks. Brown county is again hopeful of its gold field. A street rail way company has been organized at Seymour. The State law abolishing natural gas flambeaux has left Marion in darkness. Gov. Hovey has decided to appoint4»Y» eral women as World Fair Commissioners Rev. Hayden Rayburn, aged seventynine-, of Kokomo, has married 994 cquplesThe Martinsville revivals have closed with 666 additions to the churches of that ci*y. 5 Sixteen uew Rebekah lodges L, O. O. F have been instituted in this State since Nov. 22d. The two-year old daughter of John Stuppy of Cardonis fell in a well and was drowned. A great religious revival has closed at Orleans, in which 109 persons united with the Methodist Church. New lodges I. O. O. F. have been instituted at Spades, Ripley county, and Ship s sliewana, Lagratge county. 1 ig The seven year old daughter of August Treszkef, of South Bend, burned.tq death while the parents were absent. The Appellgate Court has been organized with James H. Black as Chief Justice. H will occupy rooms in the State House. Reports of an excellent prospect for a good prop come from the peach growing regions in the southern part of the State Captain John W. McQuiddy, one of the best known Odd Fellows in the United States, and Grand Instructor of| Indiana died at Indianapolis on the 16th. Alexander Green was sentenced at Connersville to one year in the penitentiary for telling the combination of a safe and receiving a share of the stolen money. A*. W.. Smith, president of the State Board of Agriculture of Kansas, is engaged in preparing a call for an agricultural convention to take necessary steps for making a display at the World’s Fair. Muuciwciatms ihe most youthful taxpayer in thoStata In the person of masterFred Heath Bowman, agod 5 years, whe is the owner of city lots and looks after th payment of taxes in person. George Osborne, of Fairland, has taken the contract for building the orphans’ home at Shelby ville at SB,OOO, and Capt. E. W. Winans has been appointed superintendent of construction. Work Will begin at once. Perry county is the banner county of State, so far as crimes and misdemeanor are concerned. There is not a single pris oner confined in the county jail, aud, come to think of it, neither is there a jail in which to confine one.

J. C. Amstutz, a wealthy farmer of Allen county, paid S3OO for ac. o. d. package said to contain six gold watches, to a Fort Wayne agent. The package contained nothing but waste paper and a bottle of patent medicine, Samuel Peters, of Roann, conductor on the Baltimore & Ohio road, is lying dangerously ill of trichinae. He attributes his disease to eating half-cooked pork at railway lunch counters- His limbs are terribly swollen, and he suffers acutely. - Clark county has a musical prodigy in the form of Wm. Nqfery. He perfectly imitates the playing of a distant brass band, French horn or harp or other musical instruments, without mechanical assistance; sounds being like those transmit 8 ted through a phonograph. Patents were granted on the 17th to the followingHoosler inventors: G. J. Cline Goshen, sickle grinder; H. M. Crider Knightstown, cue tip fastener; W. Crighton, Fort Wayne, center seat and by-pass valve; F. L. Jones, Columbia City, nut lock; N. Rice, Newmarket, fence; C, Shifferly, Fort Wayne, bake-pan; C. H. 1 Van Epps, Scott, fence-wrench; M. Vanover, Terre Haute, sliding gate.

Francis Murphy’s recent great work at "NewUSSWeTs Dearing TruJL The saloon men make no secret that their business i practically ruined, and one of them closed out entirely. On Saturday the proprietors of the New Bundy House followed suit, in so far as the bar was concerned, Surrendering the license and placarding that hereafter no more liquors would be sold in the hotel. On Tuesday morning when a Vandala freight train reached Crawfordsville th engineer discovered that the fireman, Joh Elliott, Of Terre Haute, was missing. Th engineer returned and found the fireman lying in the gutter about a mile from town, Elliott, while shaking down the oinders. was thrown from the engine and so badly Injured that it is hardly possible that he will recover. It was bis first trip as a fire, man. Governor Hovey on the 18th announced the World’s Fair Commissioner appoint* ments. The appointees are as follows: State at Large—-John L. Campbell,Craw fordsville; Mrs. May Wright Sewall, Indianapolis. First District—Robert Mitchell, Princeton ; Philip Frey, Evansville. Second —Joseph L. Wilson,Washington; Royal E, Purcell, Vincennes.

Third—Jasper Packard, New Albany: Mrs. S. S. Harrell, Brookville. Fourth—Sidney Conger, Shelbyville; Cortez Ewing, Jr„ Greensbnrg. Fifth—John Wotrell, Clayton; Mra. FE. Worley, Ellettsville. . Sixth—J. M. Weacott, Richmond; Thos Hant, Muacie. Seventh John B. Conner, Indianapolis; Edward Hawkins, Indianapolis. Eighth—Daniel H. Davis, Brazil; Join Lee, Crawfordjville: Nirth—D. J. Mendenhall, Westfield! Charles B Stuart, Lafayette. Tenth—Mrs. E. P. Hammond, RensseN aer; W. N. Hailmaa, Laporte. Eleventh— Ctem Studebaker, South Bend;"B. F. Louthain, Logan sport. Twelfth —James B. White, Ft. Wayne? Fred J. Hayden, Ft. Wayne. Secretary Metcalf, of the State Board of Health, is of the opinion that the Legislature failed to make any change in the law regulating the practice of medicine, although it attempted to do so.- One section of the new law was amended so as t 0 provide that a physician who takes out license in one county is entitled to practice in any county in the State, but there was a failure to amend another section in

the bill relating to the same requirement, and Dr. Metcalf does nob believe the amendment sought was gained, “U ~ Men who were drilling a well at the Atlas works at Indianapolis on the 16th, struck natural gas at a depth of about nine hundred feet. The flow from a one-inch pipe gives a blaze several feet high. The well, however, is not a gusher. It was put down for water and a good supply of fine soft water was discovered. By means of a small pipe for gas, inside a large pipe for water, the company will probably utilize both products of the well. About twentyfive gallons of oil were pumped out ol the hole.

Valpraiso will build a memorial hall. Dunkirk has an epidemic of the grip. LaPorte has organized a driving dub. Mrs. Jacob Blake, of Anderson,was found dead in bed. —.- - Foot-pads are robbing street car drivers at Anderson. .... Over three hundred people in Edinburg have the grip. -—----= New Albany claims one of the be9tpublic libraries in Indiana. Five hundred cases of la grippe are reportedatAndersotk T] An 150 barrel oil well was developed on the 21st near Montpelier. Barn-burners are operating in Steele township, Daviess county. Herbert Bruce, of Columbus, is thirteen old, but weighs 216 pounds. George E. Toner, of Edihburg, has a hen that has laid an egg which measures 6Ky9>j inches. ___ Parke county has engaged in a movement looking to the location of manufactories in that county. Randolph county has the only ex-Con„ gressman, .in the person of Gen. Tom Browne, who voluntarily-returned to private life. It is estimated that 25,000 car loads of stone will be shipped from the quarries of Lawrence and Monroe counties during the year 1891. While boring for oil in what is known as Guarantee well No. 6, at Terra Haute, a vein of valuable coal was struckat adepth of 175 feet. The charges of forgery brought against Hon. A. N. Grant, of Kokomo, have been completely disproven in court, and Mr. Grant completely vindicated. Complaint is made that $200,000 of the public funds of Jeffersonvillo were expended between the year 1870 and 18§3, and there is no record of the disbursement. The “regulars” and “liberals” of the United Brethren church at Daleville are still contending for supremacy. The liberals have invoked the aid of the courts. Howard Dayton Stinson, employed in the Church Aill coal mine, near Centre Point, was instantly killed by a premature blast. He was aged thirty-five and leaves a family.

Charles W. Pool bought a ticket atShelby ville, which the railway agent neglected to stamp, and the conductor ejected Pool from the train. Pool is now suing for SIO,OOO damages. The editor of the Mexico ner&ld is being boycotted because he wrote up a strike inaugurated by a pretty church organist, who had been reprimanded by the preacher for flirting. Clalrk Albertson.and Anna Crone, living near Martinsville, were married last week. The bride is thirty-eight years old and weighs 250 pounds; the groom is nineteen and weighs 110 pounds. John A. Long, residing near Linden, accused of wheat stealing and other offenses, stood trial at Crawfordsville, and he has been sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. His two sons arc similarly accused. The war upon self-binders continues in Daviess county, and the vandals, in trying to wipe out these 'labor saving machines have burned twenty-three barns within the past eighteen months, and eightyseven horses have been cremated, besides other live stock. Property valued in excess of $50,000 has been destroyed, and the Washington Gazette says with reference thereto.; “The record is without a parallel in the history of Indiana, and perhaps there is not a county in the United States where the spirit of organized incendiarism is so manifested as in Daviess county. No farmer goes to bed at night with the least assurance that his barn arid farm machinery will escape the flames. He is so fearful of results that his stock is often barred out of the bams lest they be im_ prisoned in a roaring, crackling furnace before the sun ushers in another day.’> The Gazette suggests that a subscription be taken up, and that a regularly organized corps of detectives be employed toruh down the perpetrators of this villainy.

THE MARKETS.

Indianapolis, March 22,1891. OItAIN. i Wheat Corn. I Oats, j Bye i I Indianapolis,- 2 r’d 1 011 w 91>i 2n 61 “y- S r’d 97 2yesß>, Chleaso 2 r’U 102 60 6S I 1 1 00 ! Cincinnati—.. 2 r’d 102 62 63 I t 92 Stlionls. 2 r’d 1 CU 63 60 New York 2 r’d 111 70 68 i 1 80 Baltimore-... | 107 63 69 Philadelphia. 2 r’d 1 11 71 66 Clover i l Becd Toledo 1 02 62 63 4 65 Detroit 1 wh 1 02 61 62 Minneapolis : 99 Louisville —...i m. ........... ' 1 I Liva STOCK Gattlx— Expor i grade 5......... s4.B' (3 6.1; j uood to cuoice snippers 4. Common to medium snippers.... 3.00yj4.ig btocsers, 500 to sou B>. ’.... 2.:0ia,.>.j Good to cuoice ueifers.. . t2c®3. 5 Common to medium heifers 2. ten . u Good to choice cows 2o <pyvi, Fair to medium cows oi.a2.ij/ Hoes— Heavy 3.6 @3 Lignt—... —— * B*4 .(<58.70 hliAod - 3.50vg3.:0 Heavy rougns 2. 5*33. u Shkkp-^oo®' 6o ch0ice..,,....., . (Hg <T - Fair to medium .03.5 MISCELLANEOUS. Eggsl c.Butter, Creamery; ,<s22; Dairy Is, Good Country lie. Feathers, 3 c. Bees pfax. IaiSJO; Wool 30<gtf5, Unwashed J j Foultry, Hens o. Turkeys 0o toms 8 Clover seed 4.50 3 4.75.

OPPOSED TO THE FARMERS.

A special dispatch from Bloomington 111., says : A movement is on foot to organ ize a political association, of the rat 1 way employes of this city an 1 vicinity as a branch of the National Railway’ymployes’ Protective Association. .Tnere are nearly if not quite 200 railway employes in and about the city. The manifesto in regard to the organization proposed says: ‘ Unreasonable and hestiie Granger }egsiation in the West has depreciated railtoad securities so that the stockholders, in. stead of receiving dividends on their in, vestments, have been assessed to pay the running expenses of the roads. Cutting down expenses is the war cry all along the iine of every Western road. Reducing the r orce Qf employes and threatening and shortening the hours of labor is the rule in an effort to keep the expenses within the income. •>

FOREIGN.

The Queen of Hawaii has formed a Cabinet. Prince Napoleon died at Rome on the 17th. Argentine’s financial condition is improviug. ——rirr: .7 -1 Germany has raised the embargo on American cattle and will soon admit hogs. ——. ' Maurice Heal.v accepts Parnell’s challenge to resign and contest Cork. The Newfoundland blue book shows that .France and England have agreed to arbitrate the fisheries’ question. Union and non-union shearers araat was in Australia. , The Japanese Presbyterian church has revised the apostles’ creed. _ It i.s announced that France and Russia have entered into an alliance. The coroner's jury exonerated Capt. Me ICeaguo from blame for tho Utopia dts — aster. A, special from Ottawa, Ont., says: It is understood that Sir Charles Tupper. Canadian high commissioner in London: Sir John Thompson. Minister oL Justice-. and Hon. G, K. Foster, Minister of Finance, will leave for Washington in a few days to confer with Mr. Blaine on the question ol closer state relations with the United States. ~ Tho Salatnonie Natural Gas Company. <>{ Fort Wayne, has notified its customers that, an advance of 15 per cent, on schedule rates has been ordered, the excuse being that of a possible exhaustion of supply.

A Legal Anecdote.

The following story was told in this city to-day: ‘“An uptown lawyer went to Poughkeepsie to m<tke a motion in a case before judge B-infiwd. The lawyer who was to appear in opposition to the motion accompanied him. On reaching Poughkeepsie, the lawyer opposed to tho motion stopped in a restaurant, and tho other went on to ask the judge , not to adjourn court until after hearing their arguments. As the lawyer who was to make the motion entered, the court room the judge said: “Goodmorning: what can Ido for you?” “1 have a motion to make,” replied the lawyer, “but my friend who will oppose it stopped to get a lunch.” “Oh. never mind that,” said the judge; “go on and make your motion. I will hear him afterward.” After some demurring th# notion was made. When the lawyei! ihished the judge said: ‘‘-You may gq and inform your friend he need not come. The motion is denied.” —Kingston Freeman.

Business and Sympathy.

P.Ufla’6 Courier. A litographing establishment in Bui* falo recently received from a-Wastern _ customer a circular note announcing the death of the head of the firm. It was givep to a ejerk with instructions to write a letter of condolence in reply, and this is what he supplied: “We are greatly pained to learn of the losb su-tnined bv your firm and extend to you heartiest Sympathy. We notice that the circular you send us announcing Mr. ’s death is litographed by Chicago parties. We regret that you did not see it in your wiy to tet us figure on this job. The next time there is a bereavement ih your house we shall be glad to quote you on litographed circulars, and are confident that we can give you better work at less cost than anybody else in the business. Trusting we may soon have an opportunity of quoting you prices, we remain, with profound sympathy, yours truly.”

The Difference.

Small Biy —“Pa. what is the differ cnee between a pessimist an dan op timist?” Pa—' Well, let mo see if I can illustrate. You know I am often discouraged, and thing! don’t look to me as ii they'd ever go right. Well, at such times I can be said to be a pessimist But years ago when I wps a young man evervthing looked bright and rosy, and I was always hopeful. Then I was an optimist. Now, my son, can you under stand the difference) between a pessimist and an optimist?” Small Boy—“Oh, yes: one is married and the other isn’t” —New York Weekly.

Disgraced Charleston.

Poor old Char’.e3ton! Better hav< been i’istlv punished by utter destruo tion during the Civil war for all her plots against the Union and huraai rights—better hake been swallowed up by the earthquake—batter have disappeared frofn human sight forever, thai' to h .ye reached the- low condition l ol moral sentiment revealed by the easj acquittal of Dr. McDow and by the social honors that greet him on his escapt from human justice—as administered in Charleston!—New York Mail and Express. 4 .