Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1891 — Page 6

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Germ ant bw a larger population than France, and Is rapidly increasing its lead in this respect. It has also a far smaller national debt, and its tax burdens are lighter. Yet France. a» baa just been shown, can float a loan touch more readily than its great riva. and on much more lavorable terms This is one of the reasons why Ger n*any. despite its great military resources and prestige, is not at all anxious for another conflict with its old enemy. ■ :> * Ths decision us an iowa court that it is no forgery to sign another man’t hams to a railroad mileage book if likely to make those volumes more marketable than they have been. The railroads of the West can get around the decision, however, if they will adopt the sensible provision in force on some of the Eastern roads. Th e Boston & Maine road, for example sells mileage books good in the hands of the holder until the contents have „R been taken up. whether it is one year or ten. The holder, moreover, can take his family with him and pay their fares with the same book. In a word, mileage on this line means simply doing business at wholesale instead of retail and making such reduction iu price as wholesalers do in other branches of business. The new order of the War depart* rnent, promulgated by the President, limiting the punishment of soldiers so» offenses committed in time of peace. i> a wise one. No one who has evei dealt with children, with dogs or with liorseß can have failed to notice tha' the lees punishment is given the less is necessary, so long as a reasonably rational course of treatment is adopted. It is easy to reason with a child,ahorse or a deg, unless the human or the dumb animal be a fool, and kindness and firmness do more than all possible discipline. So it must be with the soldiers and, when they find that there is a disposition to regard them as human beings rather than as machines «ind as accountable not only in response to punishment hut to kindness, there will be sower desertions and less dissipation among them. It is not often - grat a man has the moral stamina to be much better than his fellows think him to be. It is quite probable that a number of high minded women in Philadelphia who had the modesty and hardihood to protest against the exhibition of certain nude pictures in the recast Academy exhibition, will be called uncompromising prudes. It was not a question of the nude in art, buta question as to the interests of in (giving the objeotionable pictures a place in the exhibition. All persons conversant with art realize the necessity and value es the nude in art, under cdrt&in circumstances. The euthuslns “"fedrfendersdTthis exhibition take the board ground that European i leas are the best, and that the committee in the present instance were justified by precedent in their selections, Ken yon Cox, who was one the artists aimed at, says that the objectionable pictures "when exhibited in New Yerk, evoked no murmur of disapprobation jfrom critic or publio. I must perforoe conclude that something is wrong with isither New Yerk or Philadelphia. Is New York given over to unelsanness or is it perchance Philadelphia that is pven over to Philistinism?’' Dornicks of ridicule cannot shake the stand the Quaker City has taken in this matter. A rxw weeks since a report was sent out from Washington to the effect that one of the Sioux visiting that city. Hollow Horn Boar, had asked the Ini dia.n Commissioner for a special interview, in which he declared his opposition to having the Indians put under oontrol of the War Department because of tiie immoralities of the soldiersThe report seems to have caused much indignation among the officers in the Indian country, consequently, when Hollow Horn Bear got back to the agency several of the officers asked him about these reports, interpreting one of them, Indian Agent Wright belog present The Sioux denied making such a statement, and read from a paper in the Sioux language what he said to the Indian Commissioner, which _ was nothing of the nature attributed to him. In reply to questions Hollow Horn Bekr said that he had neithe r seen nor beard of soldiers making mock marriages with squaws since the troops were there last fall; that Indian women were not permitted to ran around th* samps by the officers, and that he had seen nothing of the kind sinoe he was a young man, although he had been wSSb the troops most the time.

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Tho Canadian Pacific seeks a direct entrance into Chicago. I Eight lives wore lost in a wreck off Norfolk. 'Va. on the -7th. Leslie Ellis drank a quart of whisky in Bangor, Me., and died. Tlyee lives were lost in a hotel fire at -Glean. O. Y. on the 27th. At Pittsburg 500 roughs mobhgd a Chinese funeral and robbed the grave. . Banker Kean. of Ctiicago, has beenindicted by the grand jury for fraud. The most severe storm of the winter raged at Osborn, Kan., on the 25th, The Arkansas Legislature has made Robert E. Lee's birthday a legal holiday. William Pierce of Marshall, Mo. was found guilty of rape and sentenced to be hanged. A Mexico, Mo., man died recently of hydrophobia, twenty years after the bite was inflicted. The erection of building for tin plate works that will employ 2,000 men have been begun in St. Louis. Dr. E. D. Lyon, of Chicago, desired to travel alone and his wife shot at-him to teach him better manners. 7 James Watt, the dissipated son of a California millionaire, died in a ten-cent. lodging- in New York city. The New Orleans grand jury will return a number of indictments against persons who bribed the Mafia jury. It Is reported that the political differences between Mahono and Langs tone, in Virginia have been settled. The official statement of T. Schwartz & Co., failing bankers, of Louisville, are as follows: Assets, $51*553; liabilities, $802,863. The Kentucky constitutional convention recognizes tho Deity and has resolved to add the words “and invoking His blessing.” ■ - ' John Gail Hamilton Allen, who has been suspected of being the murder of Uuttidger, was arrested at East Wakefield, jg H., on the 25th. The students of the Michigan Military Academy are undergoing a season of severe discipline ou account of recent mutinous tendem-irs. The Wisconsin Senate passed a bill requiring telephone companies to pay an Sienna! license fee of -3*^'per cent, on their gross earnings. ■The report of the pork -puckers operations in Cincinnati for the winter season of 1890-1891 was 301,051, an increase of 29,531 over the nreeeeding year. S. N. Lockhill, who committed suicide at Bordenlawn, N. Y., on the 20th, de- j frauded I. O. Q. F. lodges of $3,-too, and other parties of much more. Stanley’s agent cancelled his lecture date at San Antonio because the people were so bitter against him for deserting from tho confederate army. Ihe treasurer of the Sherman statue fund at New York was instructed to announce 1 uesday t hat $44,780, or enough to complete the statue, lias been received. Capt. W. Dowell, a well-to-do farmer and treasurer of the Alliance of Arkansas was bunekoed out of $3,000 on the 20th, by three sharpers by the same old card game Mr. Deery, of Dubuque, la., has a rare art treasure in the form of an oil painting. It was found recently in the ruined palac e of the bishops at the Spanish mission, near Santa Fe. Tom Hurley, colored, brutally murdered J. A. Burke, a telegraph operator at Cumberland Gap, Tena., and was soon after lynched by the people. There is a great deal of distress among cattle, slump and other live stock in New Mexico. The weather has been cold and she ground is covered with snow so that the sheep can not eat. The 2.000 coal miners employed in the Laurel Jelico districts are to strike May 1- ! They ask pay on coal before it is screened - and eight hours per day. The operators i have agreed not to allow the demand. The Maine Honso of Repifmontat.lvo*. "has passed a blil providing for SOOO fine or two years’ imprisonment for preventing byintimidation or force any person from en- ! tering or remaining in any man’s employ. ; Much damage hasbccndone-8.1 lOar j Moines by high waters. Bridges have j been swept away, and much valuable j property is threatened with destruction. j The river, which is already very high, is 1 still rising. A dispatch from Little Rock says the bill to pension disabled confederate sold iers and their indigent widows, and to ap propriate »10,000 for a soldiers’ home at Little Rock, has passed both houses of the Arkansas Legislature. The Tennessee Senate has rejected the bill appropriating $250,000 for a State exhibit at the World’s fair. The House, however, passed a bill allowing count authorities to appropriate money for ex hibits at the fair. In a three mile race M. Jacobs, of San Francisco, an amateur, broke the world’s record by skating three miles on an eightlap track in nine minutes, thirty-five and & two-fifth seconds. Tiie record for thre. miles has been held by Skinner, whose best time was 9:41. Senator Edmunds, who has arrlvedat Washington, declines to say whether there is any truth in the report of his intended resignation from the Senate, but intimates hat Senators are not ia the habit of resigning. . . "i' The Michigan Senate has adopted a resolution ordering a full investigation Into the allegations of Senator Wilcox that he was approached with a bribe by Gen. O. Owen, editor of the Shiawassee American* Resolutions have also been adopted by the House calling for an investigation into the charges of attempted bribery, reflecting upon members of the Senate and into the charges against Representative Fried, lander. Congressman Jerry Simpson, of Kansas, arrived at Boston to-day. He said the Farmers’ Alliance smote Senator Ingalls more in kindness than in wrath, and he believed him all right nfrw, and that he could hereafter be relied upon to further the interests of the people. He believed the Farmers’ Alliance wonld carry twelve, at least, of the Southern States in 1892, and it was almost certain they would have a presidential candidate in the field at that time. His views on the temperance ques-

tion were quaintly summarized in the remark that, “The Alliance thinks that it is not a question whether a man goes home drunk or not, but whether lie has any home to go to. The Alliance wants to first look after a man’s-physical welfare, before li undertakes his moral regeneration.” :TbO«teamer which w eat ashore a mile below Chipamicomico life-saving station on the North Carolina coast on the night of the 20th, is the British steams’mp • Straitfisrty, hound from Santiago de Cuba to Baltimore. Out of a crew of 'twenty.. six. nineteen were lost, including all the officers except tho second mate. Tinsteamer will be a total loss. The steamship Straitliarly was a British vessel of 1.236 tons. She was commanded by Captain Wynm_ShsJ£ft Baltimore Febuary* 25ToFHavanria7wbere she arrived March 7. She proceeded from Ilavanna on the 13tR'for Santiago Pe Cuba, where she arrivedoa the 16th. ,She was on her homeward trip from Santiago to Baltimore when she went on the North Carolina coast with such fatal result. The War Department is taking advantage of the cessation of hostilities among the Indians of Dakota and has of late been engaged in gathering some authentic in formation as to the probabilities of an* other outbreak this spring. Careful investigallons have been made by the bffteers of the army serving as agents at the Pine Ridge and Rosebud agencies and tha reports are not altogether reassuring. In officers assert that them need or need not be trouble, just as tha Government desires. An outbreak can be prevented, or, on the other hand, very little will fan the slumbering feelings oLtha. aborigines into a fierce flame. That is to say, the whole case rests upon the care exercised in the distribution of the appropriations. If the Indians get prompt ly all that is due thorn and there is not too much haggling, the.ro will bo peace. But the moment the Government attempts to Dakota tribes the hitherto friendly Indians, who do not feel very complacent over the late trip to Washington, will, it is predicted, surelyrevolt. These Indians are at present in the majority in the two Dakotas, as most of tin' hostile chiefs have Been taken bv an Indian show for a European trip, and the remaining hostiles are thus short of ieaders. They realize perfectly, well that the chiefs are not held- as hostages, but have gone as a matter of enterprise, and so .they would not necessarily be deterred from an outbreak through fear of retaliation on their fellows. These absent chiefs, however, are perhaps the worst fighters of the nation. Among them is Lean Bear, who has the reputation of being one of the most dangerous Indians in America, a well as one of the most atrocious. Has absence and that of his comrades from the ranks of.the hostiles would be a great gain to the government. Within a few days the Secretary of Agriculture will promulgate the regulations which are to govern the shipment of dressed meats to European ports under the new meat inspection taw. Secretary Rusk refuses to give out for publication the details of the instructions to agents of the department who will be charged with the duty of making the inspections, but he said all meats destined for Germans especially will be subjected to a microscopic test such as the German government requires. When the United States takes such'precautions as this to insure the healthfulness of her meat products it will scarcely do for any foreign government to refuse to lift the embargo on account of any alleged fear of impurity. Should Germany continue to refuse admission to American dressed beef and pork after the Inspection laws have been thus fully enforced it will place that country in the attitude of enmity toward the food products of the United States. Secretary Rusk has already demonstrated what course he will advise in such a contingency, and It, is understood that in the correspondence between Secretary Blaine and Minister Phelps tho department ad ..yflwd J4r.--Bhelps that the tests were to bo made, and intimated to him that unless they wore looked upon as satisfactory to the imperial government the United States will regard tho continc ued refusal of Germany as prompted by unfriendliness on the: part of Germany and in that contingeneylhe President will feel called upon to impose .discriminating duties upon all German products. FOREIGN. San Domingo is moving for reciprocity. Maurice Healv denounced Mr. Parnell at Sligo as a coward, libertine and liar. , Fugitives from Chili state that a veritable reigu of terror prevails in Valparaiso. □ It is claimed that, Parnell could not, elec a candidate to Parliament from any dis trict in Ireland. The exchange of compliments between he Parnellites and McCarthyites is fast becoming, unfit for publication. At a charity ball at Belfast, Ireland, a madman tired a shotgun among the dancers, kitting one gif!. Sunday the 29th was the liveliest day oi the campaign in Sligo, Ireland, and the time was chiefly occupied by tights between the factions. , Duriftg the performance of “La Mage” In Paris, on the 19th, the opera house was connected with London by telephone, and the music was distinctly heard in the latter city. , ■ i, r . It is becoming apparent that the lon£ threatened war iu Europe is not rnanj ' months distant. The English ministry i seriously embarrassed in this respect b> the Newfoundland troubles. The statement that the Portugese authorities in South Africa had declared a state of siege to exist ,iq Manicalaud is Is not credited. On the other hand it Is; semi-oifically announced that the Portugese government desires to maintain the modus vivendi, and to in no way interface with the rights of the British South African Company or with British subjects, esidingin Manicaland. A Singular case before the English privy council relates to thf, immense estate o the late Rajah of Andel in India, who lef all his property to the support and main tenance of his Tamil jr idol. From this the two wives, who thought they ought to be the idols, appealed. The Rajah had, It appears, no children. Decision has beet, curved.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Martinsville has a kintevgarten.'s Seymour claims of 6,846. Pittsburg will probably see a big building trade* lockout May I. - -Two negro fire bugs were lynched aT Russellville, Ala., on the 29th. Herbert Bruce, of Columbus, is thirteen years old, but weighs 216 pounds. : ’4 - . F. A. Hetche, of Hobart, was instantly killed in a clay pit, by the bank caving in on him. ” The Salvation army held services at Columbus, Sunday, to the operimiouthed wonder of the natives. A party of young men on a spree weninto a Shelby county church and "drove out the congregation. Charles Cotton, an inmate of the Richfc mond Insane hospital, choked to death while eating his food Sunday night. The fruit crop of northern Indiana, which had looked very promising, has been damaged to the extent of many thousand of dollars. Peter Endris, a Floyd county farmer lost sp,ooo in the Schwartz bank failure at Louisville. His loss caused him great anxiety, which resulted in a stroke of paralysis, and there is little hone, of his re. George Arnold, living near Daqville, had an exciting experience with a mad-dog He was viciously attacked, and, after a terrible struggle with the rabid dog, succeeding in choking it and escaping with but slight scratches. The Governor Friday received froin the Treasury Department at Washington, D. C., draft for $769,144,03, the amount due Indiana on account of tho refunding of the direct war tax. He turned it over to Treasurer Gall. Wm. Benbow, of Anderson, while hunting, shot a vicious dog belonging to Wm. Cain. The latter, revenged the killing with his shot gun, the contents of his gun striking Benbow in the face and breast, and i blinding him in one eye. □A. J. Clay pool sued the Arch Hamilton estate for SSOO fees for legal work. The jury on the 27th at Muncie, decided that Claypool had been paid for all work done, but had not accounted for s2oocollected by him which he must make good. Charies Maddox was recently awarded a verdict of $9,000 against the-Evansvtlle & Richmond Ry. for the loss of a leg. He ha been unable to collect- it, aud has applied to the court at Bedford for the appointment of a receiver for the road. A strange' coincident occurred in the death of two brothers, John and Dahie French, farmers of Vigo county. Danict died suddenly one night-, and while eating breakfast, the next morning, John fell ran his chair and expired instamtly. Patents were issued to Hoosicr inventor* on the 24th, as follows: L. W. Clayton, Indianapolis, J. B. Cleaveland, Indianapolis, wire stretcher; C. Comstock Indianapolis, jump-seat for vehicles; F. H. Loveless, Lafayette, parcel strap. At Ft. Wayne, Thursday, tramps robbed Frank Suckeo, Wm. Brennan and John Brennan, the latter sixteen years old, of $9, and then compelled the boys to accom£ pany them. The case was reported to the police, but so far no clew to the tramps or tho whereabouts of the boy has been found.

On the night of the 26th inst., there was hung to the fiag-staff on the court house at Grcensburg an effigy, with a black flag above and below. On the flags were words oflivarniHg, - while attached to the effigy were several lines of a malicious nature written in red ink. The matter is causing much comment. Reports from Greene county say that never before, in the history- of -the connty! were there such flattering prospects for a good wheat crop as at the present time; and never was there a better show for al; kinds of fruit. Buds are beginning to show their color already. Jeffersonville is becoming tho center o* m>t only the Wtiottefl Huir"Bat- also it" steel hull boat industry, thus putting In. diana again to the front. Capt. Sol How. ard has on the stocks a steel hull ferry so New Orleans and Sweeney Bros, arebu id. ing a steel hull packet steamer for the upper Ohio. Fifteen steamers, aggregating 15,000 tons burthen, are now under con' struction. Superintendent Kennedy, of the pulp works at Muncie, has been arrested on three indictments, charging him with violating that section of the statutes which provides that eight hours shall constitute a day’s work, and making it a misdemeanor for the management of any factory to compel men to work more than that length of time for a day’s wages. The State claims that at tho pulp-mill they work one gang of men thirteen and a half, hours, .and another ten and a half hours paying them by the day. . A. Listruberger, a manufacturer of chilled plows at South Bend, sailed for England recently to look after the trade for his firm in Great Britain. “You might think it odd,’’.said he just before sailing, ‘that we can sell goods in England, the country of all others where the fanners boast of their splendid plowings, but we began selling there what are known as chilled plows before tho English ever tried to mako them, and arc getting 20 per cent, more for our plows there than we can get at retail in this country.” A year ago on the 19th of last October the east-bound express on the Wabash railroad was thrown from the track and badly wrecked, at Kellers, Wabash eonnty, a switch having been thrown by a lgd named Willie Marquis, who was put off the train and thus sought revenge. The engineer and firemen were badly hurt, but their injuries were not considered dangerous. The engineer recovered, but the fireman, Charles Dickson, of Andrews, whose spine was hurt, grew worse, and after lingering over a year died on the 29th. Young Marquis was tried for train wrecking in March, 1890, and sentenced to one year in the Wabash county jail. He was released only last week, his term having expired. Frank T. Hendryx, of Goshen, jointly •indicted with Mrs. Edmund Calkins for the murder of her aged husband, has been brought to trial at Goshen, and the case presents some peculiar complications, a. tho defendant has failed to-praeure ItiSST

1 counsel, qnd Acting under advice of qat, I side attorneys, resol ntely objects to everything which is being done by the cdnrt. It is alleged that Calkins carried $5,000 life insurance, and one week prior to death he married a widow named Whipple, whoconspired with Hendryx to bring about his death. To this end he was persuaded* to take a boat ride, and while they were out on the St. Joe river Calkins was pushed overboard and drowned. Hendryx has always resolutely denied the crime. Governor Hovey is receiving letters from many persons who believe that they are entitled to some of the $750,000 direct tax money to be refunded to the State by the general government. He eaßs to the fact that many persons who paid money during the war as a revenuq.or ex cise tax are of the opinion that they are therefore entitled to a part of this direct tax to be refunded. This idea, he says, is erroneous. What is now known as the, direct tax was the amount of revenue raised to carry on the war before the passage of a direct tax law, and so when the act was passed the government of the United States credited the State of Indiana with the amount she had previously raised without any compulsion of law. This money was raised by Governor Morton before it was called for, and was derived from general taxation. Therefore no one has any claim on the money which will pass from the national into the State treasury in a few days.

BRUTALLY MURDERED.

About sunrise Thursday morning Solomon Neideff&r, a well to do young fanner living eight miles east of Mitchell, lef ( home to go to a sale sonfe miles away, and before leaving advised his wife to go to tho house of her father, Joshua Lewis, about a quarter of a mile from their home, The husband did not return until nearly dark that evening. Entering the house hi could find no trace of his wife until h f wont into a rear room, where he found het body lying cold and stiff, with two bullel holes, one in the forehead and the othet in the right side. It appears that the murdered woman had made an attempt to Jefend herself. ;as in her right hand sht still clasped a stove-hook, and her left hand was badly powder-burned, as though she had thrown up her hands to protect herself when shot There is not the slightest clew to the brutal assassin, as nc suspicious characters were seen on the roads all day, and the place being so sac from any railroad, a tramp would -have been certain to attract attention, as the country is rather thickly settled there there being several neighbors Within a radius of one-fourth mile. A determined effort is being made to apprehend themurjdcrer, and every man in the neighborhood will be compelled to give a strict account of himself on that day or be regarded with suspicion. There is no possibility of Mrs. Meideffer having committed suicide, as there was no revolver in the house noi ' hepnone found on tremises.

DEATHS.

Gen. James A. Ekin, an old soldier well known here, and distinguished for his services in the war and since in the regular army, died at Louisville on the 27th. Rev. Howard Crosby D. D. Jj. L. D. the distinguished divene, died at New York on the 27th. Ho has held many positions ol honor in the Presbyterian-church. He advocated for temperance as distinguished from total abstcnicneo, and took part in ho work of the Society for the prevention of crime, whose chief object is to the distraction'of the saloons. He is the. author of several works on religious topics.

SHE BROKE THE RECORD.

A Handsome English Woman Murries Forty-Threo- Frenchmen, A handsome English woman named Evelyno Neal has been arrested in Paris for marriage frauds. She inveigled fortythree men to marry her by advertising herself as a wealthy widow. Her last victim was a viscount whoalmostruined himself by gambling.

THE MARKETS.

Indianapous, March 30,1891. OUIAN. Wheat. Corn, j Oats. Bye. - - jIndianapolis.. 2 r’d t 01 1 w67till woo : —*• ~ 3 r'u not lyeffi Chicago 2 r’d 1 0J 65 6254 Cincinnati.... 2 r’d 10.»j 69 '57 99 St. Louis 2 r’d 1 New York.... 2r’d 115 78 59 2 93 Baltimore.... * 403 -71 59 80 Philadelphia . 2 r’d 110 78 56 Clover " Seed Toledo HI 71 53 4 55 Detroit. 1 wh 1 *i2 70 54 Minneapolis.. 99 CATTI.E. Fancy export steers.. v Good to choice shippers 4 50@4 8? Fair to medium Mappers 3 80o£4 2( Common shippers 3 Feeders. 900 to 1.100 lbs 3 50((tU 1( Stockers, 500 to 84)0 lbs. 2 75(5.3 2: Heavy export heifers... 4 15(a)4 6( Good to choice huicner heifers. 3 st>-fl 0( Fair fomedimn batcher heifers 3 00i«;3 4( Light, thin heifers 2 00.52 7 ! Heavy export cows 3 75(5>4 2 1 Good to choice butcher cows... 3 00(3)3 5( Fair to medium butcher cows.. 2 40<g'2 3! Common old cows. 1 50C»2 2( Veals, common'to choice 3 00@5 0( Bulls, common to medium..).. 1 Bulls, good to choice 2 75@3 51 Milkers, good to ch0ice..,.,...25 00(535 0( Milkers, common to medium.. .10 00@2Q a HOGS. Heavy packing and shipping.. .$t Mixed Lights.... £ Heavy roughs 3 cx Pig 5........ 3 25(g;4 (X SHEEP. Good to choice sheep and yearlings ..$5 00@5J7! Fair to medium sheep and yearlings f Oo®4 T. Common sheep and yearlings... 3 00(5, ,i 7; Bucks, 13 head 3 00(*5 a miscellaneous. „ Eggs, 15 c; butter, creamery, 20(g22c: dairy, 18c; good country, lie; feathers. 3c: beeswax. 18@20c; wool, 30@35c, unwashed >6c: hens, 6c: turkeys, 9c, toms, 8c; clovej [email protected].

A GRIP ON LA GRIPPE.

The Varmint that Causes the Grip Caught at Last Dy. Gentry, of Chicago, Discovers the Mlerobe—You May Recognize Him by His Severe Lines-;lmport&nt to Science. Dr. William M. Gentry, of Chicago,' claims to be the possessor of a microbe oj la grippe, tho first ever captured or heard of. The little wriggler is imprisoned on the glass slides of Dr. Gentry’s big micro* scope, and Friday was carefully inspected by manyw scientific eye. Even since the grip made Its appearance a year ago, the doctor said Friday, he ha been on a still hunt for the microbe, if anj existed. He found that thirty-four yearj ago and again sixteen years ago la grippe was epidemic among human beings, and seven years ago it attacked horses, causing the still remembered “epizootic;” Owing to the recurrence of the disease Dr. Gentry was inclined to believe that the earth at such intervals, passed through a stretch of space impregnated with what astronomers call “star dust.” Four days ago It occurred to him that he might trap some of the' dust, or microbe or whatever; it was. Carefully polishing a blank slide, he took it out doors and passed it through the air. Placing the slide under his microscope, which magnifies 1,170 times, he counted eleven heretofore unidentified microbes in the field of the instrument. The creatures were very lively, and seemed to float or swim upward toward the glass. Before the doctor could secure the microbes they had disappeared. The next day, with the Rev. Dr. Briggs of the Rogers Park Methodist church, Dr. Gentry tried again and found more. Again they escaped, but by using micro-glasse he secured the next lot and had them mounted for tho microscope. His nex step was to secure some mucus from a pa. tient.afflicted with la grippe. A neighbor Mr. W. J. Jefferson, furnished it, and to the delight of Dr. Gentry the same sort o microbes were found in the mucus that had been caught in the air—identical in every respect. . The grip microbes, as described by. Dr Gentry', are generally of a round form varying- occasionally in outline, but always distinctly marked by a series of severe lines surrounding them. Radiating from these lines are other lines, which, in the magnified image, resemble fire, irregular hairs. Dr. Gentry's entire time to-day was occupied in exhibiting the microbes 7 to brother physicians and in beginning e technical account of tho discovery for thebenefit of the profession.

THE NEW ORLEANS MASSACRE.

Louisiana's Governor Writes a Letter on the Execution. Secretary Blaine received a letter from Governor Nicholls, of Louisiana, on the 24th, in regard to the killing of eleven Italians in the jail at New Orleans, of which this is a copy: Sir—At a late hour on tho 15th inst. I received a dispatch from you having reference to the forcible breaking on the 14th of the jail in this city and the killing of eleven persons confined therein under indictment found in the criminal district courts for the parish of New Orleans. You stated to me that it had been represented to the President by the minister of Italy, accredited to the Government of the United States that among the kill .. on , that occasion were three or four subjects of the King of Italy. The teleg ntn disclosed an apprehension on the part of the minister, evidently shared ,by he President, that the disturbance was a 'emtinuous and swelling disturbance which might involve the Italian in New Orleans. „ - I have reason to believe that the hope expressed by tho President that I would co-operate with him tn mufntaliig'the Obligations of the United States toward Italian subjects who might be within the perils of excitement, and that further violence and bloodshed might be prevented was based upon that belief. The President further expressed the hope that all offenders might be promptly brought to justice. On the 10th instant, I telegraphed you that there was no excitement in the city at that time, and that I saw no reason to anticipate further trouble. I also stated that the action taken was directed against particular Individuals and that the race or nationality of the parties did not enter as a factor into the disturbance. A week has passed since the date of my dispatch and the opinion then entertained as to the termination of the trouble has proved to have been well-founded. The men killo as I have stated, were confined In pr smi under indictments found in the crin al district court for parish of New Or ns; tho Sheriff has made his return of the facts to that court; the Judge there' has charged the grand jury, now in sa s on in regard to the matter, and the who subject is, I assure you, now under inv» igation.s by that body. I am satisfied that the most of tho persons killed were American citizens, ut it is probable that two or three were Italian subjects, I have the honor to be, very resp’tly. Francis T. Nicholls, Governor. Governor Nicholls’ letter Is written on official paper, and is dated at the Capital of the State. It is evident, however, that it was written in New Orleans, as itspeaks of the killing having ocqured at the jail in this (that) city. Secretary Blaine has sent a copy of the letter to Baron Fava, the Italian Minister.

TREATED BY PASTEUR’S METHOD.

Dr. Paul Gibier, director of the New York 'P&stour Institute, has just made public the results of inoculation for hydrophobia during the first twelve months of the Institute’s existence, February 18, 1890, to February 18,1891. There were 838 persons treated for dog and cat bites. Among the number there were from Illinois 9, Pennsylvania 3, Missouri [3, Texas 2, Kentucky 2, Ohio 2, Arizona 1, Minnesota 11, lowa i, Nebraska 1, Arkansas l t Louisiana l and Indian Territory L No death caused by hydrophobia has been reported. Indigents have been treated free of charge.