Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1894 — Page 2

THE REPUBLICAN. Gxors E. Marshall, Editor. RENSSELAER - INDIANA

r “Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established. Turn not to the right hand nor to the left; remove thy foot from evil.” The Rev. Dr. Paxton, the most distinguished Presbyterian divine of New York, has resigned his pastorate under the most mysterious circumstances and is now living in retirement. Dr. Paxton had the Goulds, Vanderbilts and other mill- • ionaires among his parishioners and it was said that he preached to more dollars than any clergyman in the world. There is evidently a case of “scan, mag." bidden away that may yet be brought to light. People who were so fortunate as to ride on the Christopher Columbus while at the Fair last summer will be especially interested with the information that the whaleback ships are to be given a trial on the Pacific as sea-going vessels. One whaleback of 5,000 tons with accommodations lor 200 passengers is now building and contracts for two others have been let. They will run between Portland, Ore., and San Francisco. The boats will all be of the same general design as the Christopher Columbus.

The inauguration of John P. Hopkins. as Mayor of Chicago, on the evening of Dec. 27, was attended with considerable ceremony, and the occasion was made memorable on account of the number of floral tributes, sent to the council chamber by Mr. Hopkins’ friends. Mr. Hopkins’ competitor was Geo. B. Swift, and the defeated candidate’s name served as a “point” to the scriptural quotation set in a magnificent floral design contributed by Mrs. Washington Hesing: “The .Race is Not Always to the Swift.”

Spain will “hold up” the little kingdom of Morocco to the extent of $12,000,000 for indemnity on account of the troubles atMelila, and reports indicate that the Sultan of that country has “got the rocks” to meet the demand. The Spanish treasury is said to be depleted to an alarming extent, and this indemnity will be in the nature of a windfall for the Dukes and Hidalgos who have diverted the resources of the country into their own pockets. The Duke Of Veragua does not seem to be “in it,” which is a pity. By the way, j we have not heard from Veragua | and Eulalia this year.

Aluminum, though valuable, has proved a most refractory metal for artisans to deal with. It can not be welded, and until recently efforts to solder it have proven failures. A French metallurgist, residing in New York, announces that he has how perfected a process for soldering the new. metal. He. will: impart? the secret to anybody for SSO, but will not patent his ideas. He states that his previous experience, with' Amercan patent laws has proven disastrous;andtliinks that inventors have no adequate protection from the infringements of piratical thieves who are determined to profit by the work of other mens’ brains. _ Emil Frey, the recently elected President of the Swiss Republic, has had a remarkably varied career. Although a native Swiss, and of a distinguished family, he enlisted in an Illinois regiment while visiting in this country in 1861, and served throughout the war, rising from the ranks to be a Captain. He was captured at Gettysburg and was confined for a long timo in Libby and Salisbury prisons. At one time he was under sentence of death, as a hostage, in retaliation for a confederate officer also sentenced, but who was not executed. He was brevetted Major for gallant services. This» rank served as a stepping stone to the grade of Colonel-Brigadier in the Swiss army, which he joined on his return to his native country. Subsequently he served his country as Speaker of the National Council, Chief of the Military Department, •first Swiss Minister Plenipotentiary at Washington, and as Vice President. Sergeant Frey, of .the Twen j ty-Fourth Illinois Volunteers, is now President of the Swiss Confederation. One thousand girls and boys of tender age are employed in the cigar and tobacco factories in Chicago. TheMisastrous effect of the labor upon the health of these immature Workers has aroused the sympathy of reformers and steps to correct the evil as far as possible are to be taken, principally in the direction of shorter hOUTS for the over-worked operators.

Many of the children have been - ruined for life by nicotine poisoning contracted while working at - this trade. The evil effects of the nicotine are not confined to the body but often wreck the minds of the children thus chielly exposed to its deadly influence. Medical authorities agree that children are far more susceptible than adults to the deleterious influence of this poison, and while adults may apparently remain unharmed by the use of tobacco, the same habit in children is murderous or suicidal, as the case may be the result of parental coercion or willful subjection to its baneful power. At a banquet at the Lexington Hotel, Chicago, on . the, evening o 1 Dec. 30, given by the “Two Million Club,” figures were produced showing that the population of the great western metropolis •> has actually reached that phenomenal and has started in upon the third million. Even if the plan for a “Greater New York” now being urged upon the contiguous cities on the shores of New York bay, is carried to a successful issue, Chicago in the near future will forge to the head of the procession, and within a deca'de will be the largest, wickedest most conceited city of the Western hemisphere. The atrocities, suffering, destitution and crime we read of as prevalent by the lake shore are but trivial incidents in her daily life. The prosperity of the metropolis of the Union is as well assured as is the progress of the American people, ol whom it is the offspring and result as is the blooming rose the culmination arid the flower of the fruitful earth and brambled bush and brier.

Robert Martindale & Co., of Indianapolis. have issued a calendar for 1894 that is of decidedly unique historical interest. Portraits of all the Governors of Indiana except one are reproduced,* with the dates of their services to the State as chief executive. Beginning with William Henry Harrison (Territorial) who served from 1801 to 1812, there fol- 1 lowed Thomas Posey (Territorial) 1812 to 1816; Jonathan Jennings,lßl6 to 1822: William Hendricks (m, portrarit) 1822 to 1825; James B. Ray, acting, from February 12 to December 11, 1825. and Governor from 1825 to 1831; Noah Noble, 1831 to 1837; David Wallace, 1837 to 1840; Samuel Bigger, 1840 to 1843; James Whitcomb, 1843 to ’IB4B, Joseph A. Wright,’lß49 to 1847; Ashbel P. Willard. 1857 to 1860; Abram A. Hammond, acting, 1860 to 1861; Henry S. Lane, January 14 to January 16, 1861; Oliver P, Morton, acting, 1861 to 1865 and Governor, 1865 to 1867; Conrad Baker, acting, 1867 to 1869 and Governor, 1869 to 1873; Thomas A. Hendricks, 1873 to 1877; James D. Williams, 1877 to 1880; Isaac P. Gray, acting, 1880 to 1881; Albert G. Porter, 1881 to 1885; Isaac P. Gray, 1885 to 1889; Alvin P. Hovey, 1889 to 1891; Ira J. Chase, acting, from Nov. 24, 1891 to Jan. 9, 1893; Claude Matthews, Jan. 9, 1893 to date.

And the Next Day Was a Cold One.

Chicago Tribune“If I want to get off at Seventysecond street,” said the man with the b’own valise, “can I go on this train?” B “You can, sir,” answered the jaunty brakeman. Half an hour later the train whizzed by Seventy-second street at a thirty mile gait. » “I thought you told me you stopped at this station!” exclaimed the man with the brown valise sharply. "Oh, no!” answered the jaunty brakeman pleasantly. You asked me if you could go on this train. Anybody can go on this train. Auburn Pa-a-a-rk!” This was why the jaunty brakeman got a letter next day from the superintendent of the road expressing regret that the company would be compelled to get along without his services from that time forth. The man with the brown valise happened to be the president of the road.

Another Fatal Hand.

Truth. CoL Blood—What’s that hand on the wall? Dick Carder—Oh, that’s a hand Cherokee Charley held against the Coroner. Col. Gore —What did the Coroner hold? Dick Carder (sententiously)—An inquest.

A Nursery Tale.

Puck. The Governess—There was once a poor widow who had three sons, and the youngest left home to seek his fortune. Little Miss Uptodate—Which girl did he ask first?

Daring Familiarity.

Puck. Star Boarder—Here is another fly that has met a watery grave. Landlady—Where is it. Star Boarder—ln this pitcher ol milk. )

A Kentucky Experiment.

Kentucky will try the experiment of permitting of a jury i in civil cases (nine jurors) to render a verdict. c .■ 1 1

“WHERE’S MOTHER?”

An Emotional Discourse By Dr. Talmage. ■ - Tribute to Old Fashioned Mothers Who Wait 'at Heaven's Falnce Windows for Their Loved Ones. Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at the Brooklyn last Sunday, Text: Judges, v. 28—; The mother of Sisera looked out a window.” He said: Spikedoto the ground of Jael's tent lay the dead of the Canaanitish host. Gen. Sisera. not Ear from the river Kishon, which was only a dry bed of pebbles when Bah “sti ne. we, crossed i t, but the gullies and ravines which ran into it indicated the possibility of great freshets like the one at the time of the text. Gen. Sisera had gone<»ut with 900 iron chariots, but he was defeated, and . haridt wheels interlocked with the wheels of other chariots, he could not retreat fast enough, and so he leaped to the ground and ran till, exhausted, he went into Jael’s tent for safety. She had just been churning, and when he asked for water shegave him buttermilk, which if) the east is considered a most refreshing drink. Very tired and supposing he was -saf-e. he -went to sleep upon the floor r but .Tael, who had resolved upon his death, took a tent pin, long and round and sharp, in one hand and a hammer in >her other hand, and putting the sharp end of the tent pin to the forehead of Sisera with her other hand she lifted the hammer and brought it down on the head of the pin with a stout stroke, when Sisera struggled to rise, and she struck

him again, and he struggled to rise, and the third time she struck him, and the commander-in-chief of the Canaanitish host lay dead. Meanwhile in the distance Sisera’s mother sits amid surroundings of wealth and pomp and scenes palatial waiting for his return. Every mother cxpects her son to be victori- ' ous, and this mother looked out of the window expecting to see him ' drive up in his chariot, followed by i wagons loaded with embroideries and . also by;regiments of men vanquished ' and enslaved. I see her now sitting by the window in high expectation. She watches the farthest turn of the road. She looks for the flying dust of the swift hoofs. The first flash »f the bit of the horse's bridle she wid catch. The ladies of the court are stand- | ing around, and she tells them of j , what they shall have when her son | comes up—chains of gold and carca- ; nets of beauty, and dresses of such j wondrous fabric and splendor as the ; Bible only hints at. but leaves us to ' injagine-. “He ought to be here by i this time, ’ says his mother, “That ■ battle is surely’ over. I hope that | freshet of the river Kishpn has not I impeded him. I hope those strange j appearances we saw last night in the sky were not ominous when .the stars seethed to fight in t heir courses. No. ' no! He is so brave in battle I know he has won the day. He will soon be here.” But alas for the disappointed ; mother! She will not see the glit- ; tering headgear of the horses at full . gallop bringing her son home from I victorious battle. As a solitary mes- j senger arriving in hot haste rides u ) | to the window at which the mother of Sisera sits he cries, “Your armies are defeated and your son is dead!” There is a scene of anguish and horror from which we turn away. Now you see the full meaning of my short text, “The mother of Sissera looked out at a window.” Well, my friends, we are all out in the bat tie of life. It is raging now, and the i most of us have a mother waiting ; and watching for news of our victory | or defeat. If she be not sitting at I the window of earth, she is sitting at a window of heaven, and she is going to hear all about it. “Where’s mother?” is the i question most freauently asked in many households. It is asked by the husband as well as the child coming in at nightfall. “Where’s mother?” j It is asked bv the - little oßes when i they get hurt and come in crying with pain. "Where’s mother?” It ; is asked by those who have seen some : grand sight or heard some good ; news or received some beaiPtiful gift. “Where’s mother?"

She sometimes feels wearied by the question, for they all ask it and keep ■ asking it all the time. She is not only the first to hear every case of perplexity, but she is the judge in every court of domestic appeal. That is what puts tho premature wrinkles on so many maternal foreheads. You see it is a question that keeps on for all the years of childhood. It comes from the nursery, and from the evening stand where the boys and girls are learning their school lessons, and from the starting out in the morning, when the tippet, or hat or slate or book or overshoe is lost, until at night, all out of breath, the youngsters come in and shout until you can hear them from cellar to garret and from front door to the back fence of the back yard, “Where’s mother?” If that question were put to most of us this morning, we would have to say, if we spoke truthfully, like Sisera’s mother, she is at the palace window. She has become a queen unto God forever, and she is pulling back the rich folds of the king’s upholstery to look down at us. Those old fashioned mothqrs—if 'any persons eyer fitted appropriately into a good, easy, comfortable heaven they were the folks, and they ■got there, and they rested. They wear no spectacles, for they have

their third sight—as they lived long enough on earth to get their second sight —and they do not have to pant for breath after going up the emerald stairs of the eternal palaee, : at whosejvindow they now sit waiting for the news from the battle? put if any one keeps on asking the question, “Where’s mother?” I answer she is,in your present character. The probability is that your physical features suggest her. If there be seven children in a household at least six of them look like their mother, and the older you get the more you will look like her. But 1 speak now especially of your character and not of your looks. This is easily explained. During the first ten years of ycur life you were most all the time 'with her, and your father you saw only mornings and nights. There are no years in my life so important forimpression as the first ten. Then and there is the impression made for virtue or vice. for truth or falsehood, for bravery or cowardice, for religion or skepti-

cism. > Before one decade has passed you can decide whether that boy shall be a Shylock or a George Peabody. Boys and girls are generally echoes of fathers and mothers. W hat an incoherent thing for a mother out of temper to punish a child for getting mad, or for a father who smokes to shut his boy up in a dark closet because he has found him with an old stump of a cigar in his mouth, or for that mother tn rebuke, her daughter for staring at herself too much in the looking glass when the mother has her own mirrors so arranged as to repeat her from all sides. The great English poet’s loose moral character was decided before he left the nursery, and his schoolmaster in the school room overheard this conversation: “Byron, your mother is a fool,” and he answered,-VI-know it.” The most impressive thing at the inauguration of James A. Garfield as President of the United States was that after h£ had taken the oath of office he turned round, and in the presence of the Supreme Court and the Senate of the United States kissed his old mother. Ts I had time to take statistics out of this'audience and I could ask what proportion of you who are Christians owe your salvation under God to maternal fidelity, I think about three-fourths of you would spring to your feet. “Ha! ha!” said the soldiers of the regiment to Charlie, one of their comrades. “What has made the -change in you? You used to like sin as well as any of us.” Pulling from his pocket his mother’s letter, in which, after telling of sonrecomforts she had sent him, she concluded, “We are praying for you, Charlie, that you may be a Christian,” he said, “Boys, that’s the sentence.” The trouble with Sisera’s mother was that while sitting at the window of my text watching for news of her son from the battlefield.she had the two bad qualities of being dissolute and being too fond of personal adornment. The bible account says: “Her wise ladies answered her yea. She returned answer to herself: 'Have they not sped? Have they not divided" the prey—to every man a damsel or t wo, to Sisera a prey of divers colors of needlewoak, of divers colors of needlework on both sides?’ ” And I am not surprised to find that Sisera fought on the wrong side, when his mother at the window of my text, in that awful exigency, had her chief thought on dry goods achievement and social display. God only knows how many homes have been made shipwreck on the wardrobe. And that mother who sits at the window watching for vain glorious triumph of millinery and fine colors and domestic pageantry will after awhile hear as bad news from her children out in 'the battle of life as Sisera’s mother heard from the struggle at Esdraelon. But if you still press the question, “Where’s mother?” I will tell you where she is not, though once she was there. Some of you started with her likeness in your face and her principles in your soul. But you have cast her out. That was an awful thing to do, but you have done it. That hard, grinding, dissipated look you never got from her. If you had see anyone strike her, you would have struck him down without much care whether the blow was just sufficient or fatal; but, my boy, you have struck her down —struck her ■ innocence from your face and struck her principles from your soul. “But,” says some one, “are you not mistaken about my glorified i mother hearing of my evildoings ' since she went away ” Says some ; one else, “Are you not mistaken ■ about my glorified mother hearing ' of my self-sacrifice and moral bravery and struggle to do right?” No! Heaven and earth are in cloose communication. There are trains run ning every five minutes —trains of immortals ascending and descending —spirits going from earth to heaven to live there. Spirits descending from heaven to earth to minister and help. They ,hear from us many times a day. Do they hear good news or bad news from this battle —this Se- : dan, this Thermopylae, this Austeri litz, in which everyone of us isfight- ' ing on the right side or the wrong side? There is one thought that is almost too tender for utterance. I almost I (ear to start it lest I nave not conI trol of my emotion to conclude it. ' As when we were children we so i often came in from play, or from a i hurt, or from some childish injustice i practiced upon us, and as soon as the door was opened we cried, “Where’s mother?” and she said, “Here I am,” and we buried our weeping faces in her lap. So, after .1 r

awhile, when we get through with the pleasures and hurts of this life, we will, by the pardoning mercy of Christ, enter the heavenly home, and among the first questions, not the first, but among the first, will be the old question that we used to ask, the question that is being asked in thousands of places at this very mo- . ment —the question-; I Where's mother?” And it. will not take very long for us to find her or for her to find us, for she will have been watching at the window for our coming, and with the other children of our household on earth we will again gather round her. and she will say, "Well, how did you get through the battle of life? I have often heard from others about you. but now I want to heur it from your own souls. Tell me all about it. children.” And then we will tell her of all our earthly experience- -the holidays, the marriages, the birth hours, the burials, the heartbreaks, the losses, the gains? the victories, the defeats —and she will say: “Never mind. It is all over now. I see one of you has a crown, which was given you at the gate as you came through. Now cast it at the feet of the Christ who saved you and saved me and saved us all. Thank God we are never to part, and for all the ages of eternity you will never again have to ask, “Where's mother?”

VANCE’S FAVORITE STORY.

What Happened fn a Town WhereOnly One Man Could Read. Washington Cor. Springfield Republican. Senator Vance has one favorite story. This is it: Along in the forties Asheville, S. C*, was a very small place, out of the path of travel, and the only man who could read was the postmaster, whose name was Brown. The rest of the natives depended upon him for their knowledge of what was going on in the world, and the habitues of the postoffice at last strouck on the brilliant idea of subsribing to a weekly paper in common. So when the paper came Brown would assemble the members of the pool and read it to them, begining religiously with the announcement of rates at the top of the first column of tlie first page and going through to the end. On pleasant days the neighbors didn’t have a great deal of time to devote to literature, and they got in the habit of coming around for their news rations only when the weather was too rainy for outdoor work. At this rate Brown found that he couldn’t keep up very well with the procession of events and he adopted a plan of reading the paper in order, forming a stack, shoving the latest issue underneath and taking them off the top one by one. The stack kept growing on him, and to make matters worse the papers mcreasedin size about that time by a couple of columns on each page. Still the post master kept bravely on, although by the time the Mexican war broke out there was a stack of formidable size to attend to. As the village depended altogether for its information on these occasional readings it so happened that nobody heard anything about the outbreak of the war until about a year after peace had been declared. Then they reached the war layer of the paper, and. as the .news begun to culminate in the readings the excitement grew intense. There was only one thing for them to do as patriotic American citizens, and they promptly did it. They organized a company including every man of fighting age in the town, and started out bravely for the scene of operations with their old flint locks ana badger tails in their hats. They got as far as Salisbury when they found out the real state of things and how badly they had been duped. Then they Returned and made Brown leave • town. This is what Senator Vance really tells as a true story. "

Not Half Dressed.

Chalies —Aren’t you going out to walk with me? Henwy—l cahn’t go until I dress, can I? Chalies —What’s the matter with your present costume? Henwy—l haven’t got my chrysanthemum on. I

Only a Short Time.

Lite. Witherby (savagely)—lsnj't it about time to have those window’s cleaned? Mrs. Witherby—Why, they were cleaned only recently. “How recently?” “Two girls ago.”

Can’t Help Being That Way.

Boston Transcript. Verily, there are more people who find more pleasure in standing tap and growling in a crowded car than they could ever enjoy by going into the next half-empty coach and taking their choice of seats.

Never Had Any Luco[?] at All.

New York World. It seems that “Shee-kaw-gu,” now Chicago, was a trading post in 1690. In those days Nqw Yorkers used io go out there in the most friendly spirit to be butchered by Injuns. t

Only That.

Author—Only pne thing kept my last novel from making a sensation. Friend —What was that? Author —No one read it.

Not Pleasant to R[?]mmber.

Waiter—You forget my service, sir. F Angry Patron—Well, I’m in luck if I can.

A HAWAIIAN MESSAGE.

“Great Cry and Very Little Wool.” Farther Details—lnstruction* to Minister WilUs—President Dole’s Reply to tlie Demand for the Queen’s Restoration. The President, Saturday, sent to Congress all correspondence relative to Hawaiian affairs since his last message, with the following explanatory note: To the Cbngres: I transmit herewith copies of all dispatches from our minister to Hawaii, relating in any way to political affairs in Hawaii, except such as have heretofore been sent to Congress, I also _ send copies of instructions sent on January 12,18D4. being the. only instructions to him that, have not been sent to Congress. In my former messages to Congress I withheld dispatch No. 3. under date of November 16, 18'33. and also dispatch No. TO, under date of October 8, 1833. Inasmuch as the contents of dispatch No. 3 are all referred to in a dispatch of more recent date, and inasmuch as there seems to by no longer reason for witholding it, tlie same is herewith submitted. Dispatch No. 70 is still withheld, for reasons that Seem to be justifiable and proper. « Grover The last instructions forwarded to Minister Willis were dated January 12, and in brief were as follows: To Willis. Minister,-Honolulu: Your dispatches numbered 14 to 18, inclusive, show that you have rightly comprehended the scope of your instructions, and have, as far as was in j-our power, discharged the onerous duty confided in you. The President sincerely regrets that the provisional government- refuses to acquiesce in the conclusion which his sense of right and duty, and .a due regard for our national honor, constrained liini to reach, and to submit, as a measure of justice, to the people of the Hawaiian islands and their deposed sovereign. While it is true that tliy provisional government was created to exist only until the islands were annexed to the United States, and ‘that the Queen finally, but reluctantly, surrendered to an armed force from this government, illegally quartered in Honolulu, and representatives of the provisional government (which realized its impotence and was anxious to get control of the Queen’s means of defense) assured her that if she would surrender her case would be subsequently considered by the United States. The President has never claimed that such action constituted him an arbiter in the technical sense or authorized him to act in that capacity between the provisional government and the Queen. On tlie 18th ultimo the President sent a special message to Congress communicating copies of Mr. Blount’s report and the instructions given to him and to you. Th*. President therein announced that the conditions of restoration suggested by him to the Queen had not proved acceptable to her, and that since the instructions sent to you to insist upon these conditions he had not learned that the Queen was willing to assent to them. The matter now being in the hands of Congress, the President will keep that body fully advised of the situation. You will until further notice consider that your special t instructions upon this subject have been fully compiled with. Gresham, Secretary of State. The, last dispatch received from Minister Wit Its; enclosed with this correspond—cnee, was as follows: Legation of the U. S., Honolulu, I December 23, 1893.12 Midnight, f Sir—President Dole has just delivered in person this hour (midnight) the answer of the provisional government, declining to accept the decision of the President of the United States—a copy of which Is . herewith inclosed. The revenue cutter Corwin is under sailing orders and will leave hero in a few minutes for San Francisco. I will on Tuesday acknowledge the receipt of the answer of the provisional government, notifying it that the President of the United States will be informed thereof and that no further steps will be taken hy me until I shall have heard from him. 1 shall deliver a similar communication totheQuoen, AlbertS. Willis. President Dole’s.reply is of considerable length and reviews the question from an annexation standpoint in the manner so often published. He emphatically states that the project of political union with the United States will continue to be the conspicuous feature of the foreign policy of the provisional government and positively refuses to surrender to the ex-Queen the governmental affairs, as demanded by the President. He states that the government of the United States lias no right to interfere in the affairs of the islenJs, and in conclusion says: I am instructed to inform you, Mr. Minister, that the provisional government of the Hawaiian islands respectfully and unhesitatingly decline to entertain the proposition of the President of the United States that it should surrender its authority to tlie ex-Queen. This answer is made not only upon the grounds hereinbefore set forth, but upon our sense of duty and loyalty to the brave men whoso commissions we hold, who have faithfully stood by us in the hour of trial, and whose vyill is the only earthly authority wo recognize. We cannot betray the sa.cred trust they have placed in our hands—a trust which is the cause of Christian civilization in the interests of the whole of these islands. ' Sanford B. Dole, Minister of the Foreign Office. The City of Peking arrived at San Francisco, U an. 13. bringing Honolulu advices to Jan. 5, which state that the situ- . ation is unchanged and that all is quiet.

A BRIDGE’S BURDEN.

Triple Lynching by a Determined Kansas Mob. A mob of twenty men catered the jail at Russell. Kan., Sunday night, took out J. G. Burton. Wm. Gay and his son, John Gay. and hung the trio to a small railroad bridge. The work was quickly and quietly done and the mob immediately left the scene, going north. The belief Is general that they came from the north part of the county. The crime for which the meu were lynched was the killing or Fred Dinning, in July last, on the Burton place, about twenty miles northwest ot Russell. Inquiries regarding a draft payable to pinning and hfs mysterious disappearance led to an investigation and the arrest of Bur ton, who Implicated tne bthef men Both made a confession, which led to the finding of Dinning’s body burled in i field near the scene of the murder.

JURORS MUST NOT CAST LOTS.

Verdict* Arrived at by Chance Not Legal in Masfiachuactt*. The fnll bench of the Massachusetts Supreme Court has rendered a decision that verdicts arrived at by chance will not stand. The case at the bar was as action brought to recover possession of a horse, and the verdict was obtained for the plaintiff by casting lots. The court granted a motion for a new trial. ri The national Republican committee adopted a resolution favoring Statehood for all the Territory