Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1891 — Page 2

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DcßXXG^the -K-eek ending April 4, thirty companies, with a total capital of $23,078,00(1, have been organised in the South. This includes $15,000,000 for soap-works through the South. $1,580,000 for cotton-seed oil refineries. Texas has $2,800,000, Alabama SIOO,OOO, Georgia $2,000,000, wad Tennessee $500,000.

Owing to a disagreement the Yale base ball team will not play the Harvard team this year. This is a worse calamity’ than the failure of the crops in South Dakota and Kansas. The peoDle are admonished to bear the affliction with fortitude, for the assurance is given that next year we will have a presidential election and the year following a world's fair.

The great danger of the United’ States from the present large foreign immigration lies in the fact that the mass of the immigrants come from the most ignorant and superstitious elements of other lands. The Italian nation is noted in its better element for refined culture and respect for the ties that hold society together. Among the Polish Jews there are worthy people. _ Hut the trouble is that the immigration to the United States includes a very large proportion of the worst elements of these and other races —elements that European countries are | . very glad to get rid of—and that the j kings, who abhor our institutions, sinister pleasure in seeing dumped on oi.r shores. Self protection, the first instinct in individuals and nations, dictates that something must be done to restrict the admission to this republic of elements not only undesirable, but dangerous, and of no appreciable value in adding to the material or intellectual wealth or millitary strength of the United States. '

The impetus given to tunnel making by the great railroad, subway recently completed beneath the St. Clair River, between Port Huron in Michigan and Sarnia in Canada, is seen in the of work on another enterprise of this sort under the Detroit River, between Detroit and Windsor. The new tunnel is to be very muehjlonger than the one at Port Huron, its covered portion, or the tunnel proper, measuring 8,433 feet, besides 3,600 more in the open cuts at the approaches. Its diameter adds to its impressiveness as a giant among tunnels. The Port Huron tunnel has 21:feet diameter outside; the proposed new English tunnel to be carried under the Thames at

Blackwall, has 23 feet inside and 27 outside; but the big bore under the Detroit River is to 1 measure 27 feet inside and nearly 32 outside, and to have plenty of room for a double track railroad. Advances made in the manufacture of metallic tunnels and in the facilities for excavation have excited increased interest in this form of engineering of late years, and for a time the bridging of im_ portant rivers will be likely to find more strenuous competition than hitherto in plans for burrowing under them,

An association called the Prophecy Investigation Society held a meeting at the end of last month at the Mansion House, or official residence of the Lord Mayor of London. It seems that it was formed forty or fifty years ago for the study of prophecy. Of course, the prophecy of the second coming of Jesus most engages the thoughts.of the members, and the preponderance of opinion at the last meeting was in favor of the theory that He would appear before the millenium. That is the prevailing view among our own students of prophecy, as was indicated at the Millenial Conference at Brooklyn last year. The opposing view that the second coming will follow the millenium was rejected by speakers at the London meeting as an invention of’ the human mind, and palpably erroneous, on the ground that the conversion of the world to Christianity seems impossible without the return of Jesus. As one of them said, there are only 410 millions of nominal Christians in the world out of a population of 1,400 millions. More than that, heathen-

ism is factually attempting to propagate itself in Christendom, and Mohammedanism is advancing more rapidly than Christianity. There is a Buddhist temple #ith a full complement of imported priests established in Paris, and there are three Mohammedan temples in England, where the Islam propaganda is earnestly carried oa.

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The Charleston has given up the pursuit of the I lata. * There were 2.563 immigrants landed in New York Monday. The cutters Rush and Bear have been ordered to Behring Sea. Margaret Mulhaney, who weighed 650 pounds, died at New York on the 25th. John T. Farris, who recently died in New York, willed 5250.000 to charitable i purposes, • A chapel car,' to be attached to railroad trains, with two missionaries aboard, was dedicated by the Baptists at Cincinnati. Congressman Houck, of Tennessee, died on the 25th. He took a strong solution of arsenic by mistake apd died soon afterward. V

Mrs. Estella Austin, known alb over the country as “Barmim’s strong woman,” died at Worcester, Mass., on the 29th, aged forty-five. Railroad men say tbatlhe Canadian Pacific is taking passengers, first-class, from New York to St. Paul, via the West Shore and the “Soo" lines, for $1.07. The city treasurer of Philadelphia, is charged with misappropriating $90,000 of city funds, ne is also accused of having TTSwtS.vnyoiX) of the State funds. Cornelius A. King, the New York agent for Hinchcliffc Bros., the Paterson brewers, has disappeared, and is alleged to be a defaulter to the amount of $20,000.

There were 254 business failures in the Uuited States during the past week, as compared with 237 the previous week and 232 during the corresponding week of 1890. * General Gordon lias issued an address to the South calling for subscriptions for the erection of a monument to Jefferson Davis at Atlanta,

The Florida Legislature on the 20th reelected Senator Call. The contest-forthe-position has been very bitter and a long one, lasting several months. Miss Lucy McKeegan, of St. Louis,died Tuesday from Typhoid fever and want of medical attendance, her parents having resorted to the Christian science treatment to restore her to health. Gen. 15.15. figgleston died at WicBTEaT Kan., oh the 28th. Gen. Eggleston had a brilliant war record and has held many places of trust and honor, atone time being Governor of Mississippi. Belle Britton, a concert hall actress’ who married Viscount Dinlo, a scapegrace, has become a countess by the death of her husband's father. His family are not at all pleased in the,matter. The control of the Salt Lake Herald, the leading organ of the Mormon church, has passed into Gentile hands, and the paper will be made strongly Democratic, advocating the admission of Utah as a State.

Eigbty-seven students left cthe classroom at Wyoming Seminary owing to a difficulty in the culinary department. The faculty ate strawberry short-cake, while the students had to content themselves with plain berries—hence the result. A crank at Seneca. Mo., purchased a flouring mill, closed its doors and constructed a catapault. Ho then made large numbers of big clay balls with which he -bombarded the town. The catapault would throw one of these balls a mile. The crank is now in jail. Henry L. Strahn, of South Carolina, the colored messenger in the Treasury Department who was connected with Green B. Baum, Jr., in securing appointments and promotions in the Pension Office for pecuniary considerations, has resigned on the request of Secretary Foster, to take effect June I.] A bloody riot occurred at Mahoney City, Pa,, on the 28th between canvassers of Wallace’s circus and a large crowd of men and boys. The battle was a severe one, and seven men, two fatally, were injured The showmen in this instance were not the aggressors, the trouble arising from the efforts of a gang of boys to force their way into the show. Information has been received at army headquarters from military sources at Ft. Bayard, N. M., to the effect that rumors of Indian hostilities are again rife in that quarter. It is reported that a man named Whittam was kfiled on Blue river, In Arizona, and that a family was killed on Eagle creek. A man named Campbell was killed on the Monagala mountains. Troops have left for the scene of the atrocities. The appointment of Rev. Dr. Briggs as one of the faculty of Princeton College has been emphatically (410 to 53) disapproved by the Presbyterian General AssemblyDr. Briggs was accused of heresy and found guilty before a committee of the New York Presbyterian Assembly. He appealed to the General Assembly and his case has beendiscussed with great vigor. The result is a vindication of the orthodoxy of the church. The U. S. Supreme Court handed down a decision Monday relating to the original package law. In effect the decision declares that the original package law passed by the last Congress i 9 valid and constitutional, and that it went Into effect in all the States where prohibitory saws prevailed without re-enactment by the States of the laws by which they forbade the sale of intoxicating liq, uors within their boundaries, whether imported from other States or not.

A game of ball was in progress at Springfield Ohio, Sunday, when two ladies with male escorts parsed. Taking in the situation at a glance,one of the girls quietly left her companion’s side and walking to where the batsman stood waiting a ball, knelt on the ground and offered a fervent prayer to Heaven that the hearts of the Sabbath desecrators might be touched, Then she arose, and approaching the captains of the two clnbs, in kindest tones reminded them that they were no}, keeping God's day and asked them toceaseplaying. The captains, deeply affected by her remarks, feelingly replied that her wishes should be respected, and they were. Announcement was made that Representative Jerry Simpson, of Kansas, will go into Ohio soon to stump the State for Governor Campbell, or any other man i minuted by the Democrats against Major McKinley for Governor, and that many other Alliance and independent

' workers will take the forum in opposition to the author obthe present tariff law. It is expected that some very advanced steps jvilljfee Recommended to Congress for the checking of immigration when the commission of which ex-Congressman Grosvenoris chalirman has made its tour of Europe and reported upon the necessities in the way of remodeling our immigration laws. He said Wednesday that the inflow of promiscuous foreigners must stop, and that it was working hardships upon our labor, since the bulk of the immigrants were laborers. Tim.second member of the commission is a brother to General Master Workman I’owderly, ol the Knights of Labor, who. is in favor of very stringent laws against immigration.

FOREIGN.

Fifteen thousand London carpenters have been locked out. Baron Hirsch will buy five million acres in Uruguay as a site for the proposed Jewish colony. In London, Lord Romilly and two servants were smothered to death in a fire in the former's residence. A conflict between British and Portugese colonists, in which seven Portugese were killed, took place in South Africa. The British loss is unknown.

The queen has decided that the duke of Fife’s daughter (the recently born granddaughter of the prince of "Wales) is to have only the rank and title to which she is entitled as the daughter of a duke. The queen came to this decision in spite of th fact that the legal advisers of the crown concurred in the opinion that the prince of Wales’grand-daughter should rank as a princess of the blood royal. The queen's decision, however, is final. To celebrate the visit of the Czarewitch to Siberia, an imperial decree has been issued authorizing the Siberian governors to remit two-thirds of the sentences and otherwise to ameliorate the condition o, worthy convicts. Mr. William Harry Smith, the first lord of the treasury, has introduced in the House of Commons a bill prepared by the government ng British subjects from catching seals in the Behring sea for a certain period. The duration of the time during which seals can not be captured is not, however, given in the hill.

The Good Templars’ Grand Lodge, at Edinburg, has elected the Canadian Mohawk Indian, Oronhyatekha, chief of the order, and Wavrinsky, a member of the Swedish Parliament, to second place. •Miss Schreiner, of Africa, has been elected to an office in the Grand Lodge, and Mrs. Brookbank, of Indiana, and Parker have been re-elected to their respective offices. An extraordinary case of juvenile precocity incrimeis reported from Oynne, France. The criminal, a boy only twelve years old, named Maroe, has confeesd that he enticed a child of only four years into the woods under pretense of gathering flowers for him, and there, pretending to show him a fish in the river, pushed him in and stoned him each time he came to the surface and attempted to climb up the bank untfi his exhausted victim was drowned. - ‘

CHANGED PLACES.

A Counterfeiter Turns into an Evangelist. While the Evangelist Turns Counterfeiter —Justifies His Condufct in an Ingenious Maifiner. Capt. Porter, of the U. S. secret service, returned to Chicago on the 29th from southern Illinois, where, within the past week, he has put behind the bars the preacher counterfeiters, George-Vancil and Jeremiah Holmes.

He tells a queer story of mutual conversion, in which a counterfeiter became a preachor and a preacher a counterfeiter. Jerry Holmes was a counterfeiter and general outcast In Duquoin, 111. The Rev. George Vancil was a Baptist minister. He undertook to convert Holmes to Christianity, after everybody had given him up as incorrigible. Ths men met one night under the stars and Vancil preached a sermon to Holmes with such good effect that he professed repentance. He fell on the ground, and with his hands toward heaven declared he would forever renounce his ways, and he afterward said that he had been converted like Paul, on his way to Damascus, The conversion of the hardened sinner was heralded throughout Polk county as miracle, and the people marveled greatly at the strangeness of it. Holmes turned preacher and became the pastor of a Canqpbellite congregation in the country near Duquoin. At was not long after this that Holmes gave Vancil some counterfeit money and Vancil passed it. Later on Holmes gave him some more and he passed that upon some members of a traveling circus. This the Rev. Mr. Vancil confessed, but declared that he took the money and continued the acquaintance of Holmes for tho purpose of learning his secrets and exposing the gang of which Holmes was the leader.

“It makes no difference where this lands jne,” said Vancil, after he had been landed In a cell, “because I have been serving God and my country at one time. Serving God in preaching His word, and my country in taking this money from those ners that I might finally bring them to justice,’* The Rev. Jerry Holmes, who made the coin, and who was captured a week ago, held religious services in jail last Siinday, and had all his fellow prisoners shouting for glory. He preached a regular fire and brimstone sermon, He was still poffiessed of the true spirit, he said, and glad that he had confessed his sins, as they vere great weight on his mind.

Mountain Railway.

The mountain railway to the sammit of Mount Pil&tus has been successfully inaugurated, having an Incline twice that of the Righi line, namely 48 In 100. The ascent of 8,000 feet is accomplished ia 1 hour and 40 minute*

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Fire bugs are at work at Martinsville. Jeffersonville’s jail has sixteen prisoners. Pike county wheat and fruit prospects are excellent. Cholera is ravaging Jackson township, Hamilton county. I Blight in wheat is reported from Bartholomew county. Clark county has 11,193 school children, against 13,132 last year. Excellent quality of limestone has been found near Petersburg. Ten thousand gallons of strawberries are shipped daily from New Albany. Mary Watkins and daughter, of Paolt, have been notified by white caps to getreligion. George Blessing, of Bartholomew county. clipped 160 pounds of wool from twelve sheep.

A Democrat will succeed to the superintendency of the Fayette county schools for the first time. Elwood is in the swim for a number of valuable factories, foremost among which is one for building and silvering plateglasss mirrors. Hundreds of chicken 9 are reported to have been killed by the recent hail-storm in Delaware county. . . A sneak-thief plundered the cash-draw-erof Bash & Co., at Ft. Wayne, during the noon- hour, securing S4OO in cash and notes. Walter Gould, aged sixteen, of Peru, convicted of criminally assaultiug Leona Thayer, his cousin, has been sentenced to one year's imprisonment. There is a broad spreading elm at Corydon, under the branches of which it is claimed a session of the Indiana territorial legislature was ondf held. , Michael McCarty, of Crawfordsville,was fined 520 and costs for giving beer to a boy. The lad, while intoxicated, fell from a train and was badly injured. John Davidson shot George Becker through the brain at Terre Haute on the 27th, with a pistol that he “didn’t know was loaded.” Both were boys aged sixteen. While Martin Spillman and wife were driving across the railroad track near Greensburg on the 27th, they were struck by the east-bound train on the Big Four road and both were fatally injured. J. H. Boehm, one of the jurors in the Elliott murder case, at Columbus, was fined $25 and discharged fr im the jury for writing on a box in the jury room the words: •‘Hang, Bill Elliott, until you are dead, dead, dead!” During the prevalence of a thunder storm at Wabash, lightning struck the residence of Rev. L. L. Carpenter, tearing off the plastering and knocking over furniture. A ball of fire fell to the floor and exploded with a tremendous report. Two children were injured. Two men entered the American express office at Carroll, la., on the night of the lath, bound and gagged an employe named Matthews, robbed the money-box of 53,000 and then escaped. The only description which Matthews is able to give is that one of the men is tall and the other short. James Jarrett, one of the most prominent farmers of northeast Georgia, was poisoned by his pretty sixteen-year-old laughter because he whipped herforSteal‘ng away to a neighboring meadow and 'oing to walk with Robert Mcßea, a suitor, whom her father opposed. The next lay the girl put rat poison in her father’s soup-plate. Near Terhune, unknown parties tied two heavy fence posts in the form of a tripod and placed them on the Monon crack. The obstruction was seen by a passenger train engineer, but he was powerless to stop until after the pilot and headlight of his engine had been carried iway. Trains are frequently stoned in that vicinity. The Anderson butter-dish factory was lestroyed by fire Monday. Three bunired girls ancLone hundred men are out of employment in consequence. The loss will reach $30,000. The fire originated in the lecSfid story, and a number of the women employed on that floor had narrow escapes. It la said tfaafr a cargo of one hundred thousand pounds of opium, brought from China on the yacht Halcyon, has been smuggled into this country. The opium was transferred from the yacht to a small steamer, which in turn loaded the drug on a lumber schooner in Puget Sound. The iuty on opium is sl2 a pound. Two months ago night operator Hubert xt Anoka, received a white cap warning to lecamp, and the following night a bottle was hurled through hjs window, narrowly missing his head. He called the detective of the road to his assistance, and last week James Bolen was arrested. He confessed that he was one of the white caps figuring in the case. The Kokomo authorities have concluded to press the cases against the American Straw Board Company because of the acids drained into Wildcat creek. Farmers complain that the hair Is eaten off the fetlocks of cattle which stand in the water and that they will not drink from the creek; further, that the fish are poisoned for miles below. It is said here that ex-Congressman Owen, with ex-Treasurer Huston, of Indiana, is about to embark in the business of fruit-raising in Central America. He and Mr. Huston have secured some large land concessions in Colombia, and intend raising bananas and other tropical fruits there. This business, however, will not take either of them away from home, but will be conducted through resident agents and overseers. Patents were to-day issued for Hoosler Inventors as follows: A. Annes and W. M. Ring, Liberty, thill coupling; A. J. Bobbs, Marion, suspenders; E. Boud, Anderson, house-door letter-box; E. Bretney, Indianapolis, water purifier; W. F. Cornelius, Indianapolis, seat for bicycles; N. Harris, hub uox attachment; W. H. Johnson and T. Kruse, Indianapolis, urinal; A. Mendenhall, Unionport, tricycle; S. P. Stoddard, Brookville, picture frame; A. L. Teetor, Brookville, bicycle; C. F. Webster, Shelby vllle, counting machine, i Fifteen hundred miners in the Terre Haute bituminous field were granted their

-. I ■ demand for last year’s scale on Monday and will go to work. This is TO cents a tor $2:10 for day labor. At the recent conference of State operators and miners the former dfured 67J£ cents and $1.95, anc the conference ended in a disagreement. Since then ■some of the operators in the southefn part of the State agreed to lasi year’s scale and were getting the yearly contracts. This forced the other operators to yield rather than lose their customers.

INDIANA MASONS. The Grand Lodge of Masons met at Indianapolis un the 26th and 27th. The report of the grand officers were made, showing great prosperity of the order in this State. The following officers were elected: Grand Master—N. R. Ruckle, Indianapolis. Deputy Grand Master—Sidney W. Douglas, Evansville. Senior -Grand Warden—Daniel Noyes. LaPorte. Junior Grand Warden—Frank E. Gavin Greensburg. Grand Treasurer—Martin H. Rice, Indianapolis.

Grand Secretary—W. H. Smythe, Indianapolis. Mrs. Elizabeth Tyler, near Kokomo,wa burned to death at an early hour on the - morning of the 24th, by falling into a fireplace in her house. Sliewas seventy year old. Her son, about thirty-five years old was the only other inmate of the house and he was in bed asleep at the time. A neighbor boy called at the house about 6 o'clock and made the discovery of the old lady’s horrible death. They were very poor, and lived' in a dilapidated old log cabin. It is supposed she was building the morning fire, and being old and weak, fell and was unable to save herself. For 102 consecutive nights, up to and including last Sunday night, a man named Spicer has been carrying on a protracted meeting at Mt. Olive Church, in the northern part of Brown county. He has had a full house at each meeting, and has at times excited some of his hearers very much, and some very foolish actions have occurred while his hearers are under “the power.” While in prayer he prostrates himself upon the floor, and has of late divided his sermons between the opposite sexes, first preaching to the males and then to the .females;; Some have grown tired of his manifestations, and talk is loud of the members closing, the church, against him. Many of the young people go for fun, but. there are some thatara hypnotized by him. In his meetings with the male part of the congregation his conduct was such as to arouse a feeling against him to such an extent that some of tho husbands and fathers forbade their wives and daughters from attending the meetngs.

QUEER SCENE IN A COURT ROOM.

Cheering: by the Onlookers and Shouting by the Jury Over the Acquittal of a Girl. At New York, on the 27th, the jury in thet ease of Pasquelina Robertello, the Italian gerl who shot_ her lover to death because he violated her person and then refused to keep his promise of marriage, brought in a verdict 1 of not guilty. Ono of the most affecting and exciting scenes ever witnessed in a New York court room occurred on the announcement of the verdict. When the clerk asked the usual question of the foreman he almost shouted “not guilty,” and. without waiting for a poll of their names, the jury shouted in unison, “Not guilty; not guilty.” The scene which followed beggars description. Men jumped upon the seats, waving hats and handkerchiefs,and yelled and cheered; nor was there much effort made to restrain them.

AN INSANE MOTHER’S CRIME.

She Hangs Herself amlFour Children. Mrs. Christian Pederson, a Danish woman, and Tour children, aged from three to ten, were found hanging in the cellar at their- house, three miles northwest of Harlan, lowa, on the 24th. It is thought they had been hanging since Wednesday nighty the 20th inst. The husband was sent to the insane asylum about a week ago, and this series of murders and suicides show thqt his wife should have accompanied him, as she must have been violently insane,

THE MARKETS.

Indianapolis, June 2,1891. i . GRAIN. Wheat. Corn. Oats. Rye. Indianapolis.. 9 r’d 1 03Wsi 1w 80 3 r’d 93 lye 53 48 Chicago 2 r’d 103 58 Cincinnati.... 2r’d 106 57 49 90 St L0ui5...... 2 r’d 103 55 44 83 Ngw York.... 2 r’d 111 67 51*4 95 Baltimore.... 113 66 56 95 Philadelphia. 3 r’d 110 65 53 Clover Seed. Toledo 103 60 49 425 Detroit lvfhllO 57 48 Minneapolis.. 105

CATTLE. Export steers $5 25§)5 75 Good to choice shippers 4 70te'5 19 Fair to medium shippers 4 00(d4 35 Common shippers.! 3 35(ji3 75 Stockers Z 75@3 45 Good to choice butcher heifers. 3 75®4 25 Fair to medium heifers ........ 3 00ig3 60 Light, thin heifers 2 50(|3 00 Good to choice cows • • 3 50W4 00 Fair to medium cows - 50®3 -5 Common old cows. 1 Veals, common to choice 3 00®5 00 Bulls, common to choice Milkers, good to choice to BOGS. Heavy packing and shipping. ..$4 55@4 60 Mixed packtHg J ff Light.). 4 2°®* Heavy roughs 3 s *X®4 25 SUEEP. Good to choice clipped.. $4 25@4 75 Fair to medium clipped 3 75(g4 to Common cupped - 3 «k§3 50 Bucks, V head 2 o0@! 00 miscellaneous. Eggs, 13 c; butter, creamery, 21@33c; dainr. 20c; good country, 14c; feathers, 35c; beeswax, 18@20c; wool, 30@35c, unwashed 20c- hens, 9c; turkeys, 10c,toms, 8c; clover seed, 4.75&.00

OHIO FARMERS

*S> Hold a Long Meeting and Make Demids. They Refuse, by a Vote of 63 to 64, to Endorse the Action of the Cincinnati ~ ' Convention. . After having discussed a resolution calling for a third party convention, from 4 o’clock in the afternoon until almost 11 at night, the Ol io Farmers’ Union, which met in State convention at Columbus on the 27th, finally defeated the project. The vote by which the • convention refused to indorse the third party movement was 63 yeas to 64 nays. The third party movement was led by President Ellis, of the State Grange; President Likins, of the open Alliance, ex-Alliance Lecturer Miller Purvis and others. Colonel Brigham, General Hurst and many of the best known figures in Ohio farmers’ organizations, vehemently opposed the plan of independent action. The indidations during the entire day had been to the effect that the third party men would meet with very slight although determined opposition. The adjournment was then had. The following demands were made:

First —Equal and fair distribution of tha neceesary burdens of taxation on all forms of wealth, to be listed at actual value, less actual indebtedness. Second—A system of school-books at actual cost of publication. . Third—Suppression of the traffic in intoxicating liquors as a beverage. Fourth—Suppression of free railroad passes, or other gifts, to bribe legislators, judges of courts, county auditors and other public officials. Fifth—That we demand the issue of pot less than SSO per capita of full legal tender money, to consist of gold and silver, on parity with each other, and paper. Sixth—For the carrying out of this dec laration of principles we declare in favor of and recommend to the farmers to see to it that no man be elected as a Representative or Senator from any agricultural district in Ohio who will not stand squarely upon this platform. Seventh—To this end we call upon and Invite all laboring and legitimate business men to co-operate with us.

A REMARKABLE DECISION.

In a Cass That Has Attracted "Widespread Attention. Bishops Hold That the Marriage of the Daughter of Bishop Listlejohn Was “Null and Void.” An extraordinary court has just rendered. at New York, a decision in a case which has attracted widespread social attention. The findings of the court, which was composed of four bishops of the Protestant Episcopal church, will create com - ment among clergymen and more than comment among curious laymen throughout the country.

| A. F, Jenks, corporation counsel of Brooklyn, was married to Maud E. Littlejohn, daughter of the venerable bishop of Long Island,on December 5, 1878. It was a very fashionable wedding, and attended by the most noted society people of this city and Brooklyn. Three years ago the couple separated and Mrs. Jenks went to Rhode Island, and, after obtaining a legal residence, she sued for an absolute divorce on the grounds of abandonment and non- ! support. In April last-she obtained a de- ! cree, resuming her maiden name, and returned to her father’s home at Garden City. A month later Mr. Jenks married the daughter of Deputy Register Barre, of Brooklyn. The granting of the divorce j was a great surprise, and the marriage of ' Jenks gave rise to no end of speculation. The Episcopalian church is opposed to divorces, and Bishop Littlejohn is a stick-: ' ler to this point. Nevertheless he was a | witness for his daughter on the trial of her ! suit. The couple had been married In accordance with church rites, and they were of age, had not been married before, and, 1 of course, never before divorced, were not related, and were married in the presence of witness. Therefore, to settle the talk among church people as to the propriety of his daughter’s action,and holding that in securing the decree she was blameless, Bishop Littlejohn called upon Bishop Williams, of Connecticut; Bishop Scarbrough, of New Jersey; Bishop Starkey, of Newark, and Bishop Potter, of New York, to try to decide whether his daughter had violated any law of the church.

The bishops heard the testimony not heard in the courts. They have just rendered their decision, which is that “the said marriage was null and void, initio, and further that the status of Maud E. Jenks in respect to the law and discipline of this church is the same as though such marriage had not taken place. It is believed that Miss Littlejohn intends to marry again and the action of the bishops leaves her free to act without incurring the church's disapproval.

MORE LAND FOR SETTLEMENT.

One million five hundred thousand acres of land have been purchased from the Indians of the Colville (Wash.) reservation by the Government at $1 per acre, and will be thrown open to settlement. The Indians first select land in severalty. Under the treaty every Indian man, woman and child has a right to select eighty acres in severalty. The Government must erect a blacksmith shop for the nse of the Indians on the reservation. The treaty shall go into effect immediately upon Its approval by Congress. The land ceded will constitute one of the richest and moat attractive portions of the State. It comprises fanning and grazing, has fine streams and mountains of minerals. The territory ceded Is larger 1 than the State of Delaware and more than twice as large as Rhode Island.