Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1891 — Page 2

■the repubucan. throw E. Marshall. Publisher. RENSSELAER. - INDIANA

Since 1879 a man of Napoleon, 0., has lived peacefully with three wives at one and the same time. A man who can do that evidently has little to fear from the courts. A Cincinnati man who recently married his aunt has been sent to the penitentiary for three years. Other matrimonial freaks who desire to become their own uncle in this manner should remember that West Virginia is the only State which now tolerates such a performance. •SSEESSaSSKSEHSSeS’ - It isn’t so’very'strange that an old lady of Salina, Kao. , began her prayer with: “O, Lord, thou hast probably read in the morning papers how thy day was desecrated yesterday.” The papers out there lie so much about their circulation, any old lady is justified in believing they go everywhere.

An English naturalist has made the important discovery that our esteemed contemporary, the.bedbug, was common as long ago as 120 years before the Christian era. As science throws more and more light upon jthe past, we begin to get a glimmering understanding of why a Christian era was absolutely necessary to mankind.

, An old oan non whic h was used by the citizens of San Domingo 380 years ago to keep Don Diego Colon, ■the son of Columbus, then appointed Governor, from arrogating to himself too much authority, is now on Sts way to Chicago. It was discovered by F. A. Ober, special commissioner to the West Indies. Another relic has been found in the marsh on the border of Lake Champlain at Dresden, N. ¥., in the shape of a presumably British cannon dated 1734. This will likely find its way to the collection being made for the World's Fair.

The Supreme Court of Minnesota has decided that contracts for a future delivery of grain “not intended to represent actual transactions, but merely to pay and receive the difference between the agreed price and the market price at a future day, are in the nature of wagers on the future prioe of the commodity, and are therefore void. ” This is good sense and it ought to be good law. Gamblers in the necessaries of life are even less entitled to the protection of law than are gamblers with chips representing money. History tells of the inventor, or at least of an early maker of the sword, but historians seem to have taken no trouble to embalm the memory of the one who invented the plow, and though farming is so many thousand years old, there is yet no one living who can tell theproducing capacity of an acre of ground. What we need is industrial schools of a higher order. Every farmer should be a chemist and a broadly intelligent man. His wife should be no less a cultured woman. We ought to be able to turn out finished workmen in all lines, instead of importing them, especially in agriculture. —■_—-g

The people of England are quite eure that the people of America, who constitute the majority of those who habitually use what Is called English, do not, as a matter of fact, speak English. There is some truth in the assertion, but there is just as much in the assertion that the people of England do not speak English. While the dialects of the people in the several states of the Union differ—in some cases very markedly—there are no more marked differences between them than there are between the dialects spoken in the east and west ends of London respectively.

Generations succeeded one another through countless ages before mankind began to read the story of creation as recorded on the rocks. Not until the dawning of our own century was the tremendous potency of steam comprehended. Within our own generation electricity has been harnessed for the of man. The earth and the fullness thereof is man's, and it is for man to make the most of it The father he pushes investigation the more he will learn It is conceivable that centuries hence man, having steadily progressed in the knowledge of physical environment, will read the history of out own day and describe it as an age oi ag-. •-•-. w ■ v ’

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Augustin Daly, of New York, is to build k new theater in London. The National Union Company is dotting Kentucky with Alliance co-operative stares. - < A freight train went through a burning trestle near Birmingham, Ala., killing two of the trainmen. Oklahomaites have endorsed Non. John I. Dilie, recently of Indiana, for Governor to succeed Steele. The Missouri J Labor Federation will unite with the farmers to secure control of the Legislature this winter. The religious organizations of Louisiana are waging a bitter warfare against the lottery amendment to the State Constitution. . The cabinet makers’ strike in Chicago, which has been in existence since the Ist of September, involving about nine hundred men, has ended in a victory foi the employers. TheChilian situation is such a« to warrant some uneasiness. Indications are that this government will demand immediate and full reparation for tho Valparaisoaffray. Lieutenant Russell, who was sent by the (J. S. Government to explore the region sbout Mt. St. Elias, has arrived safely at Vancouier, B. C„ on his return trip. Mt St. Elias is between 18,000 and 19,000 feet high.

A New York customhouse officer recent y tried to wind up two music boxcs condgned to a firm of customhouse brokers. They would not wind, and an exainination lisclosed they were stuffed with jewelry ind silk. At the meeting of the trades and labor assembly at Chicago a committee was ap pointed to co-operate with other organized labor bodies to circulate petitions and igitatefer the release of Oscar Necbe, the Anarchist. A dispatch from Amesbury, Mass., says :here is no truth in the report that the ?oet Whittier is seriously 111, Judge Cate, irith whom Mr. Whittier lives, says that Sis health is as good as usual. Mr. Whittier called on several of his neighbors Satirday. '

Sylvester Frank Wilson, of New York, .he projector of female baseball teamsvho was eon vl cted of abducting fifteen* tear-old Lifebie Sutherland from her home n Binghamton, was sentenced to five rears in State prison and to pay a fine of 1,000 “or stand a day committed for each foliar until the last dollar is paid.” There are some peculiar consequences i the recent earthquake in central and orthern California. The flow of artesian nd gas wells has been increased, hot wa:r springs have become ice-cold and cold ■ ater springs are now warm. Tho earth s cracked and seamed in various places •nd from these openings water is gushing orth, o' all degrees*©! temperature. Eugeno F. Garcia, paying teller of tho ouisiana National Bank at New Orleans, s declared a defaulter in the sum $190,000- ■ knowledge of Garcia's shortage began to !evelop on tho 7th inst., and on the 17th le made a statement to the board of directors to the effect that he could only account for tho Shortage by errors in paying checks during the past fifteen years. Over ten thousand women attempted to register as voters at the approaching Chicago election, andof that number several hundred succeeded In getting their names on tho lists. Tho women who were reused will seek redress in the courts, and the election , commissioners promise to Make trouble for tho registration officers who accepted tho seven hundred female lames.

An exhaustive article from the pen of Professor Koch treats of tlie origin, prepara ticn and application of tuberculine. In :t the Professor declares that by chemical experiments ho has succeeded in purifying Ms lymph of all inflammatory matter. He will add that the effect of an application of pure lymph differs but little from the affects of an application of crude lymph. Only, he says, tho amount of the dose determines the effect. Ten thousand farmers tookpartinthe parade at Salina. Kan., Oct. 22. Buggies and wagons of all kinds were in line. The procession passed through the city to the fair grounds, where, after dinner, the multitude listened to a s[>eecb by Jerry Simpson. Of all the prominent Alliance men in the big parade Jerry was the favorite, and his name was conspicuous on the banners. One of them read: “For President of the United States, Jeremiah Simpson.” An old woman was seated in a wagon immediately behind, busily knitting, and on one of the streamers floated this legend: “Jerry shall have socks this winter.” About fifteen years ago Thomas A, Cook, who resides at Mount Carmel, Ky.married a Miss Procter, his cousin. The union was a happy one, and several children camo to bless their home. Six months ago Mrs. Cook died. Her mother, whose busband had died a year ago, had alwaysmade her home with the Cook family, and she and her son-in-law had always been more or less sweet to each other. In less than a montb.after tlie death of his wife Cook began paying court to his mother-in-law. He proposed, was accepted, and in order to add romance to their marriage they eloped and came to New Albany on the[2oth, and were united in marriage by Rev. T. N, Wilson, leaving immediately after the ceremony for their Kentucky homo. Cook is just forty years of age. and bis bride is sixty-one.

FOREIGN.

Measures have been adopted for the suppressiou of vice in Berlin. Reports continue to come in of terrible suffering in famine-stricken Regions of Russia. The volcano on the island of Pantcllaria is twenty-eight hundred feet long and is Justvisible above the surface of theses The eruption continues, though with less violence. ' Influenza is raging in Galicia, the infec • tio.-. having been brought from Russia, hour thousand cases are reported from Danbci t> ’Jone. The disease is spreading in Franc*. Palenzuela, the notorious Cuban bandit was overtaken in the woods near Colon, »n tae 21st, by soldiers and shot to death. Io made a desperate fight and killed

several of his pursuers before he was shot, The State of Sonora, Mexico, is excited because the Ysiqul Indians, along tho Yaqul river, have declared war on tho government and have entered upon a campaign which promises to be bloody and troublesome. The Mexican government is concentrating troops as rapidly as possible. One of the Pope’s cardinals at Rome, in an interview, says that affairs in the church have so changed since the Pantheon disorders of October 2 that should the Pope not yield to the desires of official Italy he may be killed or driven from Rome. The interview is in many respects remarkable, being strikingly significant as an expression of the Vatican’s views as tothegrave character of an impending crisis which would mark a most important epoch in Papal history. □ Advices just received from Meiringen, in the Canton of Berne Switzerland, ate to the effect that the town has been almos 1 wiped out of existence by fire. The con flagration was fanned by a high wind, and the flames swept away street after street with frightful rapidity, The appliances of the corporation for extinguishing fires proved to be of no use whatever. The railway station, the postoffice, the telegraph offices and nearly all the business places and residences were destroyed, and in the briefest space of time. The Victoria Hotel and Wildermann's Hotel are tho only two structures to mark the situation of this once prosperous country resort of 3,000 inhabitants, and they were only spared owing to their isolation frourothei buildings.

POOR OLD IRELAND.

William O'Ericn Jeered arid Insulted While Visiting Kilkenny. JHie Sinister Cry of “Jlurdcrer” Drown the Cheers of His Friends—Michael Davltt Nominated. A cablegram from Dublin on the 21st at Kilkenny yesterday to attend the county convention. He, was met at the railway station by a great crowd of people, who, upon seeing him emerge from the waiting room, greeted him with mingled cheers and hisses. A strong police escort was .drawn up in front of the station, and as soon as Mr. O’Brien had taken his place in the carriage which the committee had provided for his use the officers formed in a square about it and the progress to tho town hall began. As policemen and carriage moved slowly along the enthusiastic cheers of Mr. O’Brien’s admirers were met and sometimes drowned by the ugly hissings and derisive jeers of those in the crowd who insisted on looking upon the occupant oi the carriage as one of the enemies of the dead Parnell. Presently tho sinister cry of “murderer” was heard, and until the arrival of the procession at its destination this epithet fairly divided tho honors of the occasion with both applause and hisses.

Immediately upon Mr. O’Brien’s arrival at. tho Town Hall tho convention organized by electing that gentleman as its presiding officer. Routine business was promptly dispatched, and then Mr. Michael Davitt was selected to contest tlie seat for North Kilkenny, made vacant by the death of Sir John Pope Hennessy. Whilo the convention was in session numerous rows were taking place, and tho streets were filled with fighting mobs. So savage made byAhe"psrtisans upon their opponents that the police were repeatedly compelled to separate ithe fighting men in order to prevent outright murder, In one or two instances the officers found it necessary to charge the crowds in force.

Both factions are said to be alarmed by the evidence of government gains, not only in the north, but also in the south of Ireland. Tenants everywhere are hurrying to take advantage of the land purchase act, and the remarkable spectacle ha been witnessed in Tipperary of tenants who recently regarded the eonstabularly as their bitterest enemies, actually subscribing forpflzes to be offered at the constabulary’s athletic games. For theseand other reasons both the Parnellito and McCarthyite leaders begin to fear that the prize may slip away while they are quarreling over it.

SORROW AND JOY.

A Long Island Woman Nearly Buries the Wrong Man. She Mourns Over the Supposed Body of Her Husband—That Gentleman Appeared In the Flesh. Charles Brown and wife live in Long Island City. Charles is an engineer. Yesterday morning he went to work as usual. A few hours later his wife was told that, the body of a drowned man resembling her husband had been found in Newton ereek, near Hunter’s Point. She went to where the body lay, and identified it as her husband. When she recovered from the shock she ordered the body earned to her home. Crepe was hung upon the door. At 7 o’clock in the evening, when Mrs. Brown was weeping over the body of her husband, a step was heard, the door opened apd a man walked In. He saw the darkened room and wondered what had happened. “What does this mean?” he cried. Mrs. Brown rushed from the ■ chamber. As soon as she saw who the in-! trader was she fell fainting into his arms ‘ with a cry of “Thank God; my husband.” ■ When she recovered there was joy in the I Brown household despite the fact that the corpse of an unknown man lay dressed fo l i the grave in the front parlor. Mr. Brown looked at the corpse and was surprised to see what a strong the body bore to himself. Commander-in-chief Palmer, of the G ; A. R., gives notice that after the election i he will issue an order prohibiting the G. i A. R. men from marching in procession* where confederate flags-are carried. A new saloon at Marion is called tho “Blazing Stump.” There is something in a name. I

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

A large acreage of wheat was sown In Delaware county. Rollo, a yearling, paced a mile in 2:15 at Independence on the 20th. The fcurth-class postmasters of Hamil' ton coupty are clamoring for more pay. Hunters should go to English, where it is laid squirrels abound in great numbers. A defective gas-burner at aTerre Haute Ind., hotel caused the death of two women. Several of the township schools in Clinton county are closed because of diphtheria.

Jcs.-e Streitt, the “Sleeping Boy” ofScymour, is giving another exhibition of his powers tn that line. Marshal Johnson, pf Clarksville, who disappeared some time ago, is said to have been located in Chicago. Burglars robbed Cliff Morgan’s store at Bobb’s Station, carting away several hundred dollars’ worth of goods. George F. Bott, editor of the Tell City "Journal, is suing the railroad company for injuries sustained in a recent wreck. Mrs. Charles A. Miller, of Crawfordsville took first premium on applique lace at the SL Louis fair. There were eight hundred entries In this class. Joel Newsom has been postmaster at Azalia, Bartholomew county, for thirtytwo years, having been appointed by Buchanan in 1859, and serving ever since without a break. There are women in Anderson who fight with “knocks.” the Elwood marshal is occasionally arrested, and Madison county lias a locality called the Garden of Eden where all is discord. Kid Lloyd,of Brazil, champion featherweight pugilist of Indiana, has gone to Streator, 111., for training under “Billy” Myer to meet Lafferty, the Chicago featherweight,Tn about four weeks. Faggot parties are the latest social craze at Valparaiso. The party gathers around an old fashioned fire-place, into which in turn faggots are east, tho contributor reciting a harrowing tale whilo the same is burning.

Five-year-old May Cheney, of Hobart is credited with writing a letter to President Harrison and thus securing a pension for her old father. Will this be the origin of the employment of a new class of pension attorneys? Among the singularities of the season at English are plums of good size and almost ripe, and of second growth, besides “June apples” full grown, but not quite ripe Preston Arwick found the first named on his farm, and the second were, exhibited Mary Carvqr. William Barnes, of Hazelwood, committed suicide on the 25th. He was a highly respected farmer, and married, having several children. He fell in love with his wife’s hired girl, and attempted to hug and kiss her, but she repulsed him. lie then took up his shot gun and blew out. his brains. Since Jackson county ceased paying bounties for fox scalps, these pests have become very numerous and bold, extending their raids into the towns. On the 22d a blonde reynard, forty-two inches from tip to tip, was killed while robbing a roost within the city limits of Seymour. The fruit crop of Crawford county is immense. The shipment of apples from English during the week ending on the 22d was seventy-four car loads. Twentythree car loads were shipped in one day, and this town is but little, if any, ahead of other towns near-by.-—Potatoes will be equally plentiful.

An Alexandria physician was called to attend a young woman said to have pneupionia. On examination he , found a rib fractured and the young woman blushing, ly admitted that her sweet heart had given her a tight squeeze at the gate a few nights prior and she felt something crack but didn’t know what it was. — Patents were issued Tuesday to Indiana Inventors as follows: P. J. Bobo, Decatur chromatic printing device; C. M. Dyer, Cloverdale, rail supports; Elicabeth Gilmore, Greencastle, curtain dryer; H. H. Hillis, Greencastle, brick kiln-; C. L. Holden, Indianapolis, gas burner; J. Milton and N. H. Long, Muncie, saw handle. Tuesday evening, near Connersville, Fayette county, James Powell, an employe of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Indianapolis railway, fell from a bridge on which he was working and received fatal injuries. Ho foil a distance of thirty feet* crushing in his shoulder and hip and sustaining serious internal injuries. His family reside at Maple Grove, near Connersville.

Six children in Noah Duckworth’s fam’ ily, near Needham Station, were ill with diphtheria at the same time. The neighbors shunned the place, and when one of the children died the father and grandfather were compelled to attend to the ! burial alone. Mrs. Duckworth is completely prostrated by grief and exhaustion and will scarcely recover. On the night of July 2, Albert Reynolds, one of the proprietors of the Anderson pa•per mills, while walking along the Bee Line right-of-way stepped into a hole breaking the tendons and ligaments ol one leg. Ho has not rbeovered from the injury and is compelled to - keep his leg cn ■ cased in iron braces. He has brought suit against the rail company for slo,ooodamages. The wine crop of Crawford county, so far reportedj fnc’udes: John Soxstadder, of Leavenworth, about 15,000 gallons; ! Patrick McDermott «fc Son, of West Fark, I about the same; Peter Hilgert, of MarenI go, 10,000 gallons; John Vonmeter, of Marengo, about 8,50) gallons, and Francis I Wiseman, of West Fork, 7,480 gallonsThe wine is not only greater in quantity, but of a better quality than usual. Dr. John W. Riley, of Sardinia, purchased what is known as the Ciendenning 1 property, near (hat village, and npondak- ■ iug possession he discovered a skeleton ! wrapped in a sheet, and hanging to the ; rafters in an attic. John Ciendenning- : who died fifteen years ago. left $40,000 to a I son and daughter, and tho homestead fel] ,to the first named. The son squandered I tho estate . and drifted into uangerous I ways. Some time before this, McKinney, a stock trader, well known in Brown. Bartholomew and adjoining counties, also dis-

appeared, and now the gossips, are trying to connect the two and say the stock trader was murdered by Clendenning. The monthly crop bulletin issued by the Agricultural Department says concerning Indiana crops: “Both wheat and corn are excellent crops. Corn has exceeded all expectations owing to the rain about the middle of August, which virtually saved the crop, and the fine weather that followed that date. It has been many years since there were large crops of both wheat and corn of such fine quality during the same season.” FAKMEBB’ STATE ALLIANCE.

The Fanrars’ State Alliance was in session at Indianapolis Oct 21,22 and 23. The officers elected and committees appointed were as follows: President Thomas W. Force, West Shoals. Vice Presidentn-Mrs. Lou Snyder, Summit. State Secretary—W. W. Prlgg, New Casle. State Lecturer—B. F. Ham, Michigantown. • State Chaplain—J. W. Nolan,Rensselaer. State Treasurer—Mrs. Sadie Brannenburg, Alexandria. Executive Committee Eli Hodson, chairman,. Mechanicsburg; James Welsh, Rensselaer; Calvin Husselman, Auburn. State Organizer—Thos. 8. East. Anderson. Judiciary Committee—S. B. Hazen, Winamac; A. B. Clinton, Foresman; J. W. Apple, Oaklanddn. The following committees have been appointed; On Resolutions—J. B. Freeman, of Guy; B. F. Wilmore, of Winchester; L. W. Hubr bell, of Francisville. On State Organ—A. M. Legg, of Windfall; W. M. Orr, Cicero; >J. H. Lovett, Frankfort; J. W. McGrew, Pimento; H. Lewis, Winfield; M. J. Brown, Anderson; J. A. McFarlaud, Foresman. On Fraternal Organization—W. T. Osman, of Greenburg; Nannie Helms, of Guy; Lon Snyder, of Mount Summit; Ella Fentrass, of Kennard, and John! Ryerson, of Clayton. On State Business Agency—Richard Pence, of Frankfort; Smith Hanell, of Holton; J. W. Appel, of Oaklandon. Aaren Davis, of Lett’s Corner; Frazer Thomas, of Delphi; G. J. Smith, of Pierceton, and Gus L E. Lewark, of Center. On Co-operative Manufacturing—Jesse Greene, of North Madison; D. L. Thomas, of Rushville, and Jasper Goshart, of Warsaw.. . “ On Credentials—Sylvester Cirters, of Shoals; Henry I. Adams, of Rensselaer, and Newton Sears, of Bryantsville. On Revision of Constitution and By, laws—M. E., Hughes, of Monticello; John G. Payne, of Straughn’s, and R. F. Seals, of Kentland.

The following resolutions Were discussed and adopted: The Indiana State Farmers Alliance and Industrial Union, in annual session, demands an immediate chrystalization into law of the principles hereinafter enunciated, they being Imperatively essential to the maintenance and perpetuity of our government as was designed by our fathers in the Declaration of Independence; that instead of a government by monopolies and for monopolies, it is a government by the people and for the people. Let us have peace, union, fraternity, friendship and love of country, that will bind us together as one people in name and fact. Therefore, we denounce every attempt to stir up sectional strife as an effort to conceal monstrous crifiaes against the people. To this end we heartily indorse the demands of the platforms' as adopted at St. Louis, in 1889, and at Ocala, Fla., In 1801, by industrial organizations there represented, part of Which my be summarized as follows: That the right to make and issue money is a sovereign power to be maintained by the people for the common benefß. The delegation of these rights to corporations is a surrender of the central attribute ol i the sovereigenty of the government, void of constitutional sanction, and conferring I upon a subordinate and Irresponsible powan absolute control over the industries and commerce of the Nation. Hence we demand the abolition of the national bank issues of currency and as a substitute thereof demand the issue of legal tender treasury notes in sufficient volume to transact the business of the country on a cash basis without damage or special advantage to any class or classing, ahd such notes to fee legal tender for all debts public and private, and when demanded by the people shall be loaned to them at not more than 2 per cent, per annum on noft-perlshable products, as indicated bv the sub-treasury plan, and upon lands, with a proper limitation upon security and amount of money. i We demand a suppression of free railroad passes or other gifts to public officials. We denounce our late State Legislature for ignoring the demands of confederated organized labor, and we utter our condem-: nation of the extravagance of onr National Congress compelling a refunding of the national indebtedness. We demand equal and fair distribution of the necessary business of taxation on all forms of wealth to be listed at actual value less actual indebtedness. There were a number of prohibition speeches mafie,’and the liquor traffic received as much condemnation, amid great applause, as at a prohibition meeting. It i.s apparent, however, that no expression destined for public-use was made.

THE MARKETS.

INDIANAPOLIS, Oat. 27, 1311. “ “ | Wheat. | Corn. Oats. It ye. Indianapolis..;2 r’d 94 Iw 57 2wßo ,i Chicago. 3 r’d #5 53 28 Cincinnati.... 2 r’d 97 58 81 90 St. Louis 2 r’d 93 50 27 ® New York.... 2 r’d 103 63 . 35% 99 Baltimore.... 102 66 36 9(5% Philadelphia. 2 r’d 102 66 80% Toledo 98 58 ?9% 452 Detroit. f wh 94% 55 29 Minneapolis. ■ tyw CATTLE. Fancy, 1,450 to 1,050 fts $5 30@5 65 Good, 1,300 to 1,450 lbs 4 Good to choice shippers 4 Fair to medium shippers.. 3 Common 5hipper5........"...... 2 75(4)3 20 Stockers, common to good 2 25jg3 00 Good to choice heifers. 2 65&3 0(1 Fair tomedium heifers 2 25M3 00 Common, thin heifers 1 65«2 10 Good to choice cows 2 65@3 00 Fair to medium cows. 2 00(42 40 Veals, common to choice 3 OO.'«05 OQ Bulls, common to choice• 1 50@2 75 Milkers, medium to g00d25 00(8)35 00 Milkers, common to fair.......>2 00@20 00 bosh. Heavy packing and shippers....l4 25@4 55 Mixed * 20(gi4 4) Best common 1ight....4 20(3'4 4o Heavy roughs T.. 3 i SHEEP. Good tochoice./..54 00@4 2j Fair to medium 3 60(8)1 8| Common to medium 3 00(43 5i Lambs, good to choice— 4 (Xkws 0i Lambs, common to medium 3 50,44 2.1 B acks, $ head 2 50@3 5Q miscellaneous. i Eggs, 18c; butter, creamery, 22@34c 1 dairy, 20c; good country 12c; feathers, 35c; beeswax, 35@i0c; wool 30@3?c unwashed 22c; hens, .'Jc; turkeys 1c clover seed $5®4.50. , <- I

SORROW AND JOY.

A. Long Island Woman Nearly Buries the Wrong Man. 69te Mourns Over the Supposed Body ol Her Husband—That Gentleman Appeared in the Flesh. Charles Brown and wife live in Long Island City. Charles is an engineer. Yesterday morning ho went to work as usual. A few hours later his -wife was told that the body of a drowned man resembling her husband had been found in Newton creek, near Hunter’s Point. She went to where the body lay, and identified it as he 1 husband. When she recovered from the shock she ordered the body carried toEw < home. Crepe was hung upon the door. At 7 'o’clock in the evening, when Mrs. Brown was weeping over the body of her husband, a step was heard, tho door opened and a man walked in. He saw the darkened room and wondered what had happened. “What does this mean?" h& cried. Mrs. Brown rushed from the chamber. As soon as she saw who the intruder was she fell fainting into his anus with a ery of “Thank God, my husband.” When she recovered there was joy in the Brown household despite the fact that the corpse of an unknown man lay dressed To 1 ’ the grave In the front parlor. Mr. Brown looked at the corpse and was surprised to see what a strong resemblance the body boro to himself.

OTHER NEWS ITEMS.

Taking their cue from the onslaught being made upon the Pension Bureau, and tho changes which have been made in the administrations of it during the past few months and those anticipated, some enthusiastic service-pension advocates in Congress antiounce their intention to make an effort, at the approaching session of Congress, to pass a universal pension bill. They are fortifying■ t hemselves with an argument that is interesting to every reader, be ho friend or foe of the proposition. - It is contended now that It would cost the government less in the long run, and help nearly twice as many deserving claimants to adopt a universal or servic pension law, treat every soldier, his widow or dependent heir alike, and put a stop to pension litigation. To begin with, it is estimated by theCommisslonerof Pensions that the pensions and expenses of running the business will cost the government the, next fiscal year, beginning with July, 1892, about $135,000,000. It costs for pensions alone just now in round figures 8120,000,000 a year. There are about 1,208,707 soldiers of the Union now living. Of these in round figures 550,000 are on th pension rolls already, and the others are going upon the rolls at the rate of some thing like 125,000 a year. Each year there are dropped from the rolls, by death or unnatural causes, about 29,000 names. A* $8 a month a universal pension law would cost the government, it is estimated, in round numbers, SIBO 0)0,000 a year, provided every man who , served lopg enough asked for the pension, but it is not believed -that more than 85 per cent. of those entitled would ask or receive a pension, and therefore the annual payments might be cut down to something like $100,000,000. One of the strongest arguments being used for the service or unt-_ vcrsal pension law is the delays befalling honest claimants and tho expenses attach ed to the pens!on machinery. If there are allowed 125,000 a year tho fees amount tU $250,000 unde) - the law. Most of the claimants pay from four to six times that amount in notary and other ( fees in getting up the testimony. This Would run up tho extraneous expenses to the claimants alone to over $1,000,000 a year, not to speak of the time given by claimants in hunting np testimony. It costs the government for pension examining boards at the various cities over Fl,200,0)0 a year; and for special examiners about $325,000 a year, and for running the various agencies and the Tension Office here probably $3,500,0)0 annually. It will thus be segn that the direct expenses to the claimants and 1 the government for the pension business is something like 4 per cent, of tho payments. It Is said that 15 per cent, of the claimants die before their .pensions are avowed, and 50 per cent, of -the payments ar' avoided by the government by tho delay 8 In reaching and adjusting claims. This, cannot be helped. TUe business is pushed* with all possible vigor, and twice as many claims are allowed every day as were passed upon only five years ago. It is held that under a service or universal bill all claimants would have their cases passed upon within six months at most, and only a little skeleton of the Pension Bureau would be necessary; that 80 per cent, of tho expense in running the business at present would be dispensed with and only a few rooms in the War Department would bo necessary in which to run the entire pension business, as a muster-in or muster-out paper would sufficiently prove or disprove a case. It would all be record testimonyand it is all on file at the War Department. The mere fact that those who are as much entitled to pensions as any one cannot get their dues because their papers cannot be reached, and the honest must suffer with the dishonest claimants proving a telling argument, and also tho statement that after six months there would, be little expense attached to the pension beyond the payments, and so many more wduld receive assistance under a universal bill, cause men in Congress to stop ana think. Whether anything will come Of the movement or not, ills getting much serious agitation among Congressmen sine® the recent visit to Washington of Governor Hovey, of Indiana,ls at the head of the Service Pension Association of the United States. The Governor still thinks his fight for unlwsal pensions will win. Commander-in-chief Palmer, of the G A. R., gives notice that after the election he will issue an order prohibiting the G. A. R. men from marching In procession’ , where confederate flags are carried.