Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1895 — Page 7

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

The Standard Telephone Com pany has been organ ized a t New Y orkwi th a paid - up capital of $160,000,000. The suit of Oscar ’■Wilde against the Marquis of Queensbury for slander began ■ at ijundon; tysatiwaf. It is uhdfirstood at, Washington that -Great-Britain will refuse to arbitrate the Venezuelan boundary dispute. The sugar trust issued a circular to the sugar brokers of New York, asking them not to handle any foreign sugar. M-. Stone, a veterari editor, iden- . tided with numerous journals in New York, died in that city, April 2. The sixty-fifth annual conference o the Mormon Church convened in the Tabernaeic at Salt Lake City. April 5. —-Harry Comstock, an o ted tr aveler an d lecturer, committed suicide at Fulton, N. Y.„ Friday, by taking carbolic acid. Mrs. Paran Stevens, one of the- most prominent society leaders of New York, died of pneumonia in that city, April 3. A tornado that swept across Boone Bounty, Kentucky, did great damage to - property and injured a number of -perlons. Western cattie raisers are organizing to fight the dressed beef combine. The price »f beef is reported to be advancing rapidly In various cities , The Hon. Robert P. Porter, cx-snperin- -■ teiidch t of - the census and formerly editor of the New York Press, has purchased the Cleveland World.

The golden jubilee of the Methodise Episcopal Church, South, will be held in Louisville, May 1, and extensive preparations are being made for the event. Ex-Senator Ransom, the now minister to Mexico, arrived in the City of Mexico. Wednesday night. lie will b» officially received by President Diaz next week. .Rev. William HCleveland, brother of President Cleland, pastor of a Presbyterian church at Chaumont, near Watertewn. N. Y.. has been requested to resign. 4t-is-re-perted-that politics is the cause of the trouble. The. Rev. Charles Rowland Hill, the sidy son and heir of the late Viscount Hill, who died in London, England, a few lays ago, is a resident of Tonka, Kan., md is an Episcopal clergyman connected with Grace Cathedral, • W. P. Fuller & Co., of San Francisco, who have for years controlled the Pacific toast petroleum trade, have formed a tombination with the Standard Oil Company. and petroleum had advanced two tents a gallon on the coast. An explosion in a ship chandler’s store it New Orleans, Thursday night, demolished several buildings and resulted in the death of fifteen or more persons. A Itock of power was kept in the ship thandler’s store, but it is not known how it was ignited. Walter W. Overly, who at one time was t prominent society young man in Kansas City, and who married a daughter of an ifficial of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy road, has been sentenced to two fears’ imprisonment at San Antonio, Tex., for forgery. General Mahone has executed a deed of trust to Edmund Waddell, of Richmond, Va..-conveying his residence and houselold goods (n Petersburg, and other real (state, to secure holders of notes amounting toj $80,050. Ills daughter, Otelia B. Mahone. holds S66,(XX) of these notes. The train..robbers who were surrounded by a posse near Hennessey, O. T., Friday, made their escape that night, and, going to a preacher’s house, robbed him of valuables and two horses and escaped. The preacher pursued and was later found on the prairie riddled with bullets. On the historic site of the old capitol of Seorgia, at Atlanta, Venable Bro's., the treat granite firm that owns Stone nountain, will erect within the five nonths intervening before the opening of Iho exposition a magnificent granite hotel ten stories high and fire-proof. It will be operated by the Lelands. A great Cuban mass meeting was held it Jacksonville, Fla., Thursday night, in behalf of the Cuban cause. Resident Cu-

bans and Americans took part. Resolnlions were passed asking the Florida Legislature to endorse the rebel cause, and arging the Federal Government to recognize the Cuban patriots as belligerents. Newton Walters, ago nineteen, killed two brothers, George and James Cox, while duck hunting, near Galena. Kas. He then attempted to assault Miss Dollie Box, who was ..alone at home. The girl rave the alarm and Walters fled. One of the Cox boys was found in the woods with t bullet holo in his head. The .other is ■opposed to have been thrown into the river. A generous offer of Marshall Field to the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union is announced. Mr. Field promises 125,030 with the proviso that 1275,000 may be raised by Jan. 1,1896. It is intended that this total sum bo applied on tho debt iverhanging tho Woman’s Temple at Chicago. The building of the Woman’s Temple is tlie greatest financial enterprise in which a coterie of women have engaged. A Rock Island train was “held up” near Dover, Ok. T., Thursday night, by five mounted men. The passengers gave up their money and valuables on demand. It Is supposed but 1300 in cash was secured. Later a posse organized by U. S. Marshal Madson overtook the gang, and in tho fight that ensued “Rattlesnake Bill,” a notorious outlaw, was shot and killed. Tho others escaped. 2The charge of drunkenness, made by Rev. Mr. Lansing, of Boston, at the New England Conference at Salem, Mass., xgainst President Cleveland, last week, lias aroused great indignation among (hading men of all parties, especially in Uew York city. The World, Monday, jrjnted Interviews with Chauncey Depew. Frederick Coudett, Rev. Mr. Vibbert, of Trinity Chapel, and others, all .of whom iharacterlzed the statement of Mr. Lansing as “untrue, ridiculous and contemptible.” William L. Wilson took the oath of office as Postmaster-General at Washington, WednesdayiApMl 3. Chief Justice Fuller officiating, and entered upon tho active discharge of his duties, April 4. The change was made sooner than had been expected, on account of Mr. Bissell's private business. Mr. Bissell left tor New York. April 4. The Chicago Post prints a sensational story regarding tho disappearance of a >500,000 Democratic campaign fund, The Post states that the managers of tho recent campaign, in which the Democratic nominee, Winter, was defeated charge his

defeat tp a lack of necessary funds and a Iso c h arge that an enormous su m has “been appropriated by five or six men high 4mthe Democratic political circles of the city. the Posit says, was raised by assessmen t of ctiy H»n employes and otliers and amounted to about $500,000. The State Democratic central committee of. Illinois has issued a-call fora State convention at Springfield,/'June 4, to conSider the currency q uest ion and decide or the policy of the party for the campaign of 1896. Hon. Elias J. Hale, of Fo.xcroft, Me., committed suicide by shooting last week. He was .Judge of the Probate Court and town trustee. An investigation has resulted in disclosures which show him to be a defaulter to the extent of $75,000. Judge llale was universally respected, lie was not under bond and the various funds suffering have no recourse, his property, of which there is but little, beingin his wife’s name. Alfred Jonasson, the sailor who has been working on a flying machine at New York, for some .time, tested his contriy, ance, April 3. The powerful electric battery was started, and With a powerful rush the fore and aft propellers revolved at the rate of 300 revolutions a minute. Before Jonasson could mount iiis flying hobby there was a terrible crash and a shower of splintered woodwork, for the whole apparatus had burst. The sailor will again go before the mast to earn more money to invest in his pet project. „The amounts of gold, silver and platinum produced in Russia during the yeat 185)3 are—shown in a report to the State Department by Consul-General John Karel, at St. Petersburg. The entire production of gold in 1896 was 2,732 poods, o| about thirty-six pounds each. Out of the 2.253 gold mines in the Ural belonging tn private persons, 806 were worked. Thirteen others belonging to the government were leased. Gold to the value of $23,643,000 was coined by the St. Petersburg minte About 11,003 pounds of platinum were produced, an increase of about nine per cent, over 1892, The price fluctuated between $l6O and SIBO a pound. The total weight of silver products during the year ivas about thirteen tons. „ 1A new resort for consumptives has been discovered in theOrango Free State. South Africa. United States Consular Agent Landgraf in a report to the State department toils of the beneficial result experienced by persons who have tried it, and adds: “No country on earth can rank with the Orange Free State as a health resort, Mr. Paterson had been all over the world and nowhere else found any relief. I could give numbers of similar cases, and that so few people have come here it due to the fact that the Orange Free State is so little known and in most parts of the world believed to be a desert, inhabited by-brutal natives and wild beasts. The country is pretty well populated and cub tivated.—Living is rather expensive and persons coming here should command from SSO to S6O per month.

FOREIGN.

The Spanish troops in Cuba a.** being mobilized at Santiago de Cuba, Prince Bismarck received on his birthday 8,390 telegrams, ’ifith a total of 277,697 words, in addition to 50,000 letters and 115,000 postal cards. Gen. Mjrtinez Campos, with a couple of, million dollars in cash and a lot of Spanish troops is now on the ocean en route to Cuba to put down the alleged rebellion. the first timc in the history of the Mexican Republic, the national budgel for the fiscal year, beginning July 1, next, does not show a deficit. The budget committee has presented its report before Congress, and reports an excess over expenditures of SIOO,OOO. The libel suit ot Oscar Wilde vs. the Marquis of Queensberry, at London, came to an end, Friday, the plaintiff withdrawing. The jury, under instructions of the judge, returned a verdict of “not guilty,” , Which was coupled with the statemeni that the charges of Queensberry against Wilde of immoral and obscene conduct .with men were true in fact. It was announced that Wilde, who is a poet of world-wide reputation, would be prosecuted. The case has attracted great attention, the evidence being unprintable because of its obscenity.

THE DOUBLE STANDARD.

Balfbur, the English Stateama Favors It. At tho annual meeting of the Bimettallic League, at the Mansion House, London, April 3, the Rt. Hon. A. J. Balfour. conservative loader in the House of Commons, made a strong speech in favor of the double standard. He said that tho belief in bimetallism was growing not only In London and elsewhere in Great Britain, but throughout tho civilized world. One great change was noticeable —it was seldom now asserted that bimetallism was intrinsically impossible; Formerly a bimetallist was regarded a; a dangerous faddist. Economists, who placed value on tho lessons of experience, had before them the irrefutable fact that while tho Latin nations maintained the bimetallic system tho par of exchange of gold and silver was preserved for the whole world despite wars, industrial revolutions and discoveries of the preciou; metals. Some persons admitted that monometallism in a large portion of the world had depreciated prices and put a bound on imports. Thus,for instance, Great Britain brought from India and other countries wheat at a price below its legitimate value, and these persons declared that this was an advantage to the consumer; and therefore benefited the mass of th< community. Mr. Balfour declared, however, that he was convinced that nobodj in the city was so foolish as to suppose that the interests of Great Britain were benefited generally by an unlimited fall it prices, and that no large body of city men was so unscrupulous as to desire that the debts owed them by foreign nations should be artificially augmented by a change-ir the value»of the currency in whichrthcj were paid. If Britons turned to the world at largt they would find the case much stronger, To consider home interests alone in framing a currency while Great Britain wat connected with foreign countries by ever, commercial tie, was a violation of the common sense of every practical business man. When the country depended for it; very bread on foreign natlons.and if it wen cutoff, ctinld not live a day and would have ruin staring it in the face, it was the height of folly to attempt isolation respecting the currency medium. He did not believe that the common sense of ths nation would long tolerate such a state of things, in view of what was proceeding in America. Germany and France, and eves In Great Britain, he was convinced, that men of all classes would soon combine U end the reproach to our civilization-

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Shelbyville dogs are being poisoned by wholesale. The Findlay Rolli ng Mill, of Mu n cle, Is hopelessly involved financially. A census of Washington, just completed; shows a-population of -over 10,6t©. ~ - 6Jacob Cline, a pioneer of Hamilton county, is deact at Arcadia, aged eighty years. A Rushville dentist announces that he has taken the gold cure and is now ready tor business. —The American starch works at Columbus were entirely destroyed by fire, Saturday. Loss, 1300.000. The bondsmen in the Armstrong defaulting case have settled with Tipton county for >21,600. About >44.000 was'em ‘ ■ betzled. —■.- ; .. r Fred Niejnan, one of the oldest citizens of Franklin county, was killed by a train while walking on the railway track, near Batesville. The Rev. Milton Mahln, of Tipton, has been superannuated by the North Indiana M. E. Conference, lifter a continuous service of fifty years. 4 Mrs. J. D. Brown, of Crawfordsville, has a valuable relic in the shape of an autograph letter from Gen. Washington, dated 31st March, 1778. Mrs. Eliza Henderson, seventy-eight years old, of Johnson county, has gone insane over the hallucination that she is the victim of sorcery. -* A, L. Carpenter, of Danville, Jbas been arrested, by the .sheriff, charged with counterfeiting silv.er coin. It is alleged that he was betrayed by his three daughters. A tree sixty feet high s ' grows out of the eoffln of a man named Cobb, at Nashville, Brown county. Cobb was buried seventy years ago in a hollowed log of poplar, which sprouted and grew into a tree. . A petition is circulating at Marion, asking the City Council to erect monuments in memoriam of David Branson and wife, the founders of the city, whose gravesjire unmarked. Branson and wife located there in 1826. The annual camp meeting of the Indiana Association of Spiritualistswill meet July 18, at Anderson. The convention will continue four weeks. The Association’s park is called Chesterfield, and it is pleasantly situated. The two-year-old son of E. F. Hollowell, of Marion, died unattended by a physician. The father is a Christian scientist, who relied on silent prayer for a cure. One year ago Mr. Hollowell’s wife died under similar circumstances. Elbert Russell, a graduate of the class of’94, will be placed in charge of the biblical department of Earlham College, made vacant by the resignation of Dr. Dougan Clark, who was forced to retire because of his submission to baptism. Dr, Earl Silver, z Harry Ashley and Harry Hopping, of Lebanon, venders of patent medicines, were arrested at Clarksburg and ’Squire Power, at Greensburg, fined two of them 119,75 each on a charge of raffling tea sets and silver tpoons. - Miss Belle Prince, of Howard county, has brought spit against David L. Duke, of Duke Bros. & Co., of Kokomo, claiming >IO,OOO for breach of promise. The defendant is a bachelor and a man of affairs. According to the complaint, the courtship dates back to 1881. Harry Fahrenhelm, a house painter, of La Porte, was killed, Sunday morning, by jne blow of his father-in-law’s fist. Fahrenheim abused his wife, being a drunken character. Mr. Ott, his wife’s father, ex pecting an attack from Fahrenheim, who was intoxicated and armed with a hammer, struck him one blow on the head. Fahrenhelm diedTn an hour. ■ The well on the public square at Bloomington has suddenly developed into an oil producer. The oil has the appearance of ' refined oil and people are carrying away the fluid in all kinds of vessels as it is jumped out. The source es the oil supply is a mystery as the well is but thirty five feet deep. Dr, George W. Cassel, who owns an eighty-acre farm in Nottingham townihip. Wells county, has drawn >B2O royalty from,the Ohio Oil Company as one-sixth the value of the petroleum produced on bis farm during the month of March There are a hundred other Wells county farmers whose monthly incomes from oil range from >2OO to >SOO. Rev. J. McNellie, of the Scottsburg Christian church,has brought suit against leveral leaders of the society for damages. alleging that defendants entered an order, prohibiting him from preaching in the church building, on the records that was not passed by the church board. The minister has also received “white cap” letters of a threatening nature which he believes to have been seat by the same leaders of his chnrch, 1 The citizens of Rochester have raised the necessary funds to endow the Normal university for that place, for which they have long been working. Plans and ipecifications for the institution have been prepared, and work on the buildings will commence in May. The plans are nade for structures which will atcommolate 500 students, and an ample fund is provided through the sale of real estate ionated to the university to equip the ichoo), which it is hoped to open this fall. Mrs. Henry Burgess, of Hebron, has been bedfast for the past eight weeks and for the past forty-five days has not taken t morsel for nourishment. During this time she has drank only one thimbleful )f water. How she keeps alive is a mystery. It has baffled all the doctors who have diagnosed her case. Before she was lick she weighed abbut 180 pounds, and luring the eight weeks of sickness she has 'alien off until she weighs only fifty pounds, J The campaign to bemadeby the Good Citizenship League, of Indianapolis, befan at New Castle, April 7, The speeches ire to be made by S. E. Nicholson, author >( the Nicholson bill. Other meetings will be held as fallows: Greenwood, April i; I<ranklin, April 9; Edinburg, Atfril 10: Columbus, April 11; Seymour, April 12; Scottsburg. April 14; Jeffersonville, April 15; New Albany, April 16; Charlestown, April 17; Lexington, April 18; Buttervllle, April 19; Osgood, April 20; Lawrenceburg, April 22; Greensburg, April 23; Shelby rille, April 24; Muncie, April 27. 28 and 29 Prof. Krelbel, who was behind the enterprise to secure a great endowment for North Manchester’s College, has left North Manchester for Warsaw, wherhe will take an inferior position in a country Ichool. Negotiations are now in progress

for the sale of the college building and grounds to the German Baptist Dunkardr, , who are looking about for a college site in Indiana. Prof. Young, of Mt. Morris, Hl., received a proposition from the United-Brethren trustees of the college, but declined it. Mrs. Bickenstein, an old lady, lived alone near Dover, guarded by. her dog, whnh had been her companion for fourteen years. Monday night the dog was heard to howl at intervals, and this com. tinned until the neighbors were attracted. Upon going to the farm they found th<j dead body of the woman on the ground under a shed, where she had fallen faci downward, evidently while milking a cow. Close at hand were a number of cattl i and hogs, herded in a narrow space by the dog, who would 1 not allow thorn to ap» prbaeh the corpse, while the marks o| teeth on the shawl wrapped around tho woman’s shoulder showed that the animal had made efforts arouse his mistress. The dog welcomed the neighbors, seeming to know that their services werj needed. ' • The ladies of the First Presbyteria’j church, of Kokomo, caused a slight com: motion in religious circles by giving a mini strel performance in the opera house Fri; day and Saturday evenings. About thirty of the most prominent Church member) appeared on the stage in burnt cork and gave an excellent entertainment, netting the church a handsome stim. Rev. R. G. Roscamp, the pastor, wTis consulted by the more diffident ladies, who hesitated about applying the cork. He eased thei/ consciences by the jocular remark that some of them appeared on the street daily with powdered faces, and even wore them to church, and he saw no difference from a moral standpoint whether the powdei used was white orblack. Members of the Christian, church at Beach Grove, seven miles north of Uniod City, are in the midst of a curious controversy. One faction is opposed to Sabbath schools and the other is in favor of them. One faction of the chnrch has had part of the_Sabbath for Bible reading and the other a season for Sabbath schools. The pastor. Rev. Mr. Whitt, has favored the school Each faction had a key, and and everything run smoothly until last Sunday. When the pastor went to the church in the evening his key refused to work, and developments proved that the anti-school faction had changed the lock. The reverend gentleman preached that evening from the door step to alarge congregation, although the night was chilly. The quarrel has -grown until the matter has become serious, and some interesting developments are expected. Mrs. Johnson Graves, residing on ths west side of the Wabash fiver, went to Battle Ground. Tuesday,called by the illness of a friend. She started home tn a buggy, in apparent good health. Two miles from Lafayette the vehicle in which she was seated met a team, the wagon ot • which was loaded with hay. Mrs. Graves’ horse turned out. but ran the vehicle so far frbmYhe road as to overturn it. A physician ran to the assistance of Mrs/ Graves, but was horrified to find that she was dead. He gave it as his opinion, however, that she had been dead for fifteen or twenty minutes before the accident, and that she died in her boggy while driving along the highway, and that the horse, unguided by the reins, overturned the vehicle. The dead woman was sixtyeight years old.

HE IS "WILLIN.”

J. S. Clarkson, who is in Chicago, stated positively, Thursday, that ex-President Harrison is a candidate for the Presidency. “General Harrison.” he said, “is not an active candidate, perhaps, but he certainly is a receptive candidate. Indeed, he is, I think, one of the most prominent, if not the most prominent, Presidential candidates now before the public. As ti who will be the party’s, choice in 1896,1 am, of course, unable to say, but it is very certain that Gen. Harrison will accept ths nomination if it is tendered him.” At Wichita, Kan., Sunday, Walter Scot) shot his wife and then himself at ths steps of the Christian Chnrch as Mrs Scott was leaving church services. Both died on the sidewalk in front of the church. Several women fainted in ths congregation which was dispersing, and a scene of great excitement ensued. The new German ironclad hitherto desffrndted by the letter “T” was launched, Wednesday morning, at Kiel. As she wni leaving the ways. Emperor William christened her Aegir. The London Butter Association, a syndicate of merchants interested In the foreign butter trade, has raised a fund of $20,000 for conducting a vigorous campaign against retail dealers who make a business of selling oleomargarine ai pure butter. Li Hung Chang has recovered from th< wound, received March 24, by a fanatical Japanese assassin.

THE MARKETS.

April 9,1395. Indlanapoll*. CHAIN AND DAT. WnttAT—ssc: corn, 46c: oats, 33J4c; rye, 45e; hay, choice timothy, $9.00. I.IVK STOCK. Cattle Shippers, $3.00a5.25: Stockers, $3.00(®3.50; heifers. cows, $1,50(®4.00;bu115,52.25(<44.00; milkers,4l6.o) (<440.00. Hogs— Sheep—s2.oo(<i4.so. POULTRT AND OTHER PRODUCK. (Prices Paid by Shippers.) ( Pour.Tisr Hons, 7c per lb; chickens, 7c: cocks, 3c; turKeys. toms, 4c; hens, per 1b; ducks. 6c per lb; geese, $4.80(<555.40 per doz. for choice. Eggs—Shippers paying 10c. Butter—Choice, io@i2c. HonkY—lßc Feathers—Prime geese, 30@32c per ft; mixed duck, 20c per ft. Beeswax—2()c for yellow; 15c for dark. Wool—Medium unwashed, 12c; Cottswold and coarse combing, 10(<dl2c; tubwasbed. J6(sißc; burry and unmerchantable. 5c loss. Hides—No. 1 G. S. hides, 6c; No. 2 G. hides, 55<c. I Chicago, Wheat—s4%c; corn. 46J4c; oats, 29J£c; pork, 112.47 X; lard, $7.05. New li)r4. Wheat—OOTfjc; corn, 51’4c; oats, 33% •. Baltimore. Wheat—6l'4c; corn, 50%c; oats, 38c. St. IxttlU. Wheat—s4%'c; corn. 42%c; oats, 30%e, pmindelpiii Wheat—6o%c; corn; 50c; oats, 36%c, Minna* poll*. Wheat—No. 1 hard, 60a Detroit. Wheat—sßc; corn, 45%e; oats, 33%c.

THE INCOME TAX.

A Supreme Court Decision on the T ° TO ( That Portion Affecting Rent*. State, County and Municipal Bond* Declared Void. Tireiong expected decision 81 the United States Supreme Court on the income tax ease was handed down by Chief Justice Fuller, at Washington, Monday. The court knocked put'the law so far as it taxed incomes derived from rents and also from State, county and munlcipal By a tie vote of the court, the law was sustained in other respects. The court’s opinion in Charles Pollock vs. the Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company is as follows: —r-- ■■ . ' ' It is establish’©}*— 1. Thau by the Constitution, Federal taxation is divided into two great classes: Direct taxes£nd duties, imposts and excise. ■ _ -* ■•. ■ . - 2. The imposition of direct taxes is governed by the rule of apportionment among the severaLStates, according to numbers, and the imposition of duties, imposts and excises by the rule of uniformity throughout the United States. 3. That the principle that taxation and representation go together was intended tq.be, and was, preserved in the Constitution by the establishment of the rule of apportionment among the several States, io that such apportionment should be according to numbers in each State. 4. That the States surrendered their power to levy imposts and to regulate commerce to the general Government, and gave the concurrent power to levy direct taxation in reliance on the protection afforded by the rules prescribed, and that the promises of the Constitution cannot be disturbed by legislative action. 5. That these conclusions result from th text of the constitution, and are supported by the historical evidence furnished by the circumstances surrounding the framing and adoption of that instrument, and the views of those who framed and adopted it. 6. That the understanding and expectation at the time of the adoption of the constitution was that direct taxes would not be levied upon the general Government except under the pressure of extraordinary exigency, and such has been the practice down to Aug. 15. 1894. If the power to do so is to be exercised as an orlinaryatid usual means of supply, that fact furnishes an additional reason for circumspection in disposing of the present case. 7. That taxes on real estate belong to the class of direct taxes, and that the taxes on the rent or incomes of real estate, which if the incident of its ownership, belong to the same class. 8. That by no previous decision of this court has this question been adjudicated to the contrary of the conclusions now announced. 9. That so much of the act of August 15, 1894, as attempts to impose a tax upon the rent or income of real estate without apportionment is invalid. The court is further of the opinion that’ the act ot August 15,1894, is invalid so far as it attempts to levy a tax upon the income derived from municipal bonds. “As a municipal corporation is a representative of the State and one of the Instrumentalities of the State government, the property and revenues of municipal corporations are not the subject jf Federal taxation; nor is the incomederived from State, county and municipal lecurities, since taxation on the interest therefrom operates on the power to borrow before it is exercised ana has a sensible influence on the contract, and, therefore. such a tax is a tax on the power of the States and their instrumentalities to borrow money, and consequently repugnant to the constitution. Upon each of the other petitions argued Lt the bar, towit: (1) Whether the void provisions as to the rents and incomes from real estate invalidates the whole let. (2) Whether as to the krcome from personal oroperty as such the adt is unconstitutional as laying dlr.ect taxes. (3) Whether any parts of the tax. if not conlidered as a direct tax, is invalid for want >f uniformity on either of the grounds luggested. “The Justices who heard the arguments ire equally divided, and, therefore, no opinion is expressed. The result is that the decree <>f the Circuit Court is reversed ind the case remanded with directions to inter a decree in favor of complainant in respect only to the voluntary payment, of the tax on its rents and income of the real estate, and that which it holds in trust, and on the income from the municipal bonds owned or so held by it.’It is estimated by officials that the decision 6f the Supreme Court in the income tax will reduce the revenue receipts under the law about 50 per cent

THE GOVERNOR’S APPOINTMENTS.

He Name* the Director* for the Foul Insane Hospital*. Governor Matthews, Friday night, announced his appointments of directors foi the four insane hospitals. They are ai follows: Central Hospital—John Osterman, Inlianapolis; J. L. Carson, Fairland, Shelby :ounty, and D. 11. Davis, Knightsville, Jlajr county. Northern Hospital—Dennis Uhl, Loransport; Jacob J. Todd, Bluffton, and Hie Rev. E. S. Scott, Bass Lake, Starka tounty. Eastern Hospital—Silas D. Hale, Geneva; Adams county; E. G. Hill, Richmond, and W. D. Page, Ft. Wayne. Southern Hospital—William L. Sworm>tedt, Evansville; Samuel B. Boyd, Washington, and William T. Mason, Rockport. The last named for each institution are Republicans. The other two benevolent institutions included in the bill have not been with directors as yet, but lhe appointments will be made shortly, slovernor Matthews is still in correspondence with various persons in regard to these appointments and thoy were not •eady to be given out. The law under vhich these appointments are made was )assed by the recent General Assem)ly and provided that the Governor within thirty days from the adjournment if the Legislature should appoint eightsen men, not more than nine of whom ihould be of any one party, and tfiat imong these eighteen men Rate benevolent institutions should )e apportioned for management. -Not nore than two of the same politcal party should bo given charge if any one board. The Ft. Wayne institution for the feeble-minded and the soliiers’ and sailors' orphans' home are the inly benevolent institutions in the State lot included in the law. When the bill *as first framed it provided that half of .he eighteen men should lie Democrat* ind half Republicans, buttbjs was held (o be unconstitutional by the lawyers In .he Legislature, as it excluded members Irom other parties, and this provision was ihanged. It was argued that the govern>r could appoint nine Democrats and nine Prohibitionists or Populists. In fact, the Executive could have done this under the n.w. but it seems that ho has given the Republican party a fair representation.

KISCELLASEOUS NOTES. Some of the restaurants in Germany serverfood on paper plates. Nearly one-half of the farms in the United States are mortgaged. Last year the sheep in this country grew 307, of wool. £ Rice was cultivated in India many years before the historical period. Barley is mentioned on some oi the earliest of Egyptian monuments. In civilized countries the average age at which women marry is twen-ty-three and one-half years. The Mayor of Nevada, Mo., this year gives his entire salary ($500) to thh poor. A parrot in Chicago speaks about a dozen words in English, and the same number in German. The ancients knew how to cheat. Loaded dice have been found in the ruins of Herculaneum. Beggars in China are taxed, and certain districts allotted to them in which to make appeals for charity. Over 150,000,000 are spent in maintaining the churches in the United States, and $400,000,000 in running the jails. The average weight of the egg of the ostrich is three pounds. Its contents equal those of about twen-ty-four hen eggs. Rabbits are destructive in Graham county, Kansas, and already the officials have paid SII,OOO bounty for rabbit scalps. The salary list of the Bank of England, including pensions, aggregate £300,000 per annum. There are 1,100 employes in the bank. The accidental dropping of a fare Into the slatted floor of a street-car constitutes the legal payment of the fare, So decides Justice Taintor, of New York. —.— An alarm letter box is a recent invention. When a packet is dropped in it sounds a bell in the house, to inform the listeners that the postman has brought a letter. When dead bodies are entered as cargo on a ship, they are recorded jn the invoices as “statuary,” or “natural history specimens,” to allay the superstitious fears of the crews. ——

A size in a coat or trousers is one incti; in underwear, two inches; in a »ock, an inch; in a collar, half an inch; in shoes, one-sixth of an inch; in gloves, a quarter of an inch; in bats, one-eighth. J Black fabrics are never used to jover coffins in Russia. For a child »r young person a pink shade of sloth is the custom; crimson is the ityle for the coffin of a married woman. and brown for widows. Two pious darkies in Mississippi were engaged in a controversy. One Asserted that the Saviour rode an ass; the other denied the assertion, and was shot- dead for the denial. - Then the shooter was killed while resisting arrest. The Bon Marche, the great dry ?oods store of Paris, employs 4,000 attendants. They are fed on the premises. The kitchen in which their food is prepared is the largest in the world, and gives employment to sixty cooks and 100 assistants. Lace is a fabric that can quietly be made to represent large sums of money. The Astors have been ?redited with owning lace worth f 3,000,000, and the Vanderbilts value their laces at $5,000,000. The Pope is said to be content with only $75,JOO represented in lace, and the Princess of Wales can boast of only the modest sum of $250,000 expended in the dainty meshes. A careful record kept at Yale for eight years shows that nonsmokers ire twenty per cent, taller, twentyfive per cent, heavier, and have sixty per cent, more lung capacity than jmokers. A recent graduating class at Amherst presented a similar difference in favor of nonsmokers, who bad gained in weight twenty-four per cent, over the smokers and in height thirty-seven per cent., and also exceeded them in lung capacity. Live stock is not esteemed by the underwriters as a good risk, because the “moral hazard” is great, and although horses are constantly insured igainst fire and against the accidents common in the course of transportation, the rite for regular horse life insurance is high, often as much as six per cent. It is usual also to limit the risk to not more than two-thirds the .value of the animal. The consequence is that live stock insurance, though often tried, does not greatly flourish. D Fruit growing should not be done jn the poorest land. It will not be tprbfitable to attempt to make a busiae*ss of fruit growing unless the land is in good condition. It has been customary in the past to devote iand for orchards that could not be utilized for cereal crops, but where jther crops will not pay, owing to the condition of the soil, it will not be wise to attempt growing fruit on such lands.

Decline of Anarchism.

Sew York World. Anarchism all over the world seems to be dying a natural death. On Sunday the anniversary of the Paris wnimune was celebrated here and there by Anarchists on a scale which Jerved to show the feebleness of ths cause and to reassure society. This jnce menacing danger has shrunk te juch scanty proportions as to bs hardly worth mentioning except for the purpose of writing an obituary, it was a disease that has run its course, and the patient has recov»red.