Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1878 — Page 2

The Bensselaer Union. j■ ' ‘ KEN«SKLAKR, • * INDIA".'A.

General News Summary.

During Ik week ending on Ute IGUi, Dm Bwtary oI the Treeeoiy purchaaed silver MUn sufficient to run the mints shout five weeks. The priee paid was not sa greet as expected by imlltoo-holders. In ragaid to the sUtemenU, recently pubnaked, thet the Tieesery Department would piece •100,000,000 -per-cent, bonds upon the market, the Secretsrj- of the Treasury announces that, le response to applications, he had asked that terms for placing such bonds be swfaaMtad for his consideration. The offers received, up to the 18th, had not been satisfactory, and the Secretary stated That only 4-per-cent bonds would be told, unleu 4)f -percents could be disposed of at their relative value with 4rpercents, the latter being placed at par. He would, st any time, reeeive bids for cent. bonds ou that basis. Src’t Sherman was before the Finance Committee of the United States Senate, ou the ifitb, and stated that, in his Judgment, It wu unwise and injudicious to repeal the Specie-Resumption set, as resumption could be -brought about by the date fixed in the law rtj.'i,’ y" ' — r" without difficulty. Tn total subscriptions to the 4-per-cent. trovemmeut bonds, up to the 19Ui, amounted to •S,«U£OO. _ TIIK KMT. The Lechmere National Bank of East (Jambri'lge. Mass., wu robbed, on the 16th, of about •90,000 In Government bonds and other securities. The robbery of the institution wu effected by the President of the institution being called to tbe door to See a lady who wanted to transact some business The officer immediately returned to the inside office, hut hesnbaequenttv discovered thatdnrtnghts brief absence the vaults had been robbed of trunks containin’ the amount specified. Ax eleven-year-old boy, named John Foley, died of hydrophobia at his home in Brooklyn, N. Y., a tow nights ago. He was bitten by a dog about six weeks before his death. The National Committee on the Dairy Fair met at Utica, N. Y., on the 20th, and elected Col. R. H. Llttler, of lowa, Secretary. It was decided to bold the fair in New York City, next autumn. The election returns from all the towns in New Hampshire foot np as follows: Prescott (Rep.), 391,377; McKean (Dem.), 37,863; Kendall, 331; Flint, 238; scattering, 89. Prescott's plurality, 1,614; majority, 841. The House stands: Republicans, 205; Democrats, 165. The Pennsylvania State Central Democratic Committee has called a State Convention to meet at Pittsburgh, on tbe 23d of May. The Rhode Island Btate Convention of the new National party, wu held at Providence, on the 30th, William Foster was nominated for Governor; Jason P. Hazard for LieutenantGovernor; Henry Appleton for Secretary of Btate, and Andrew B. Moore for Treasurer. The Rhode Island House of Representatives have defeated tbe proposed Constitutional amendment giving to unmarried women and widows the right to vote on propositions to impose taxes, to appropriate money ai>d for members of <lty Councils, hr a vote of ID to 35Isaac A damn the manufacturer of the print-ing-press bearing his uime, died, at Sandwich, K. H-, on the 20th. He left an estate valued at from 84,000,000 to $6,000,000. A Pbovidexce (R. I.) dispatch of the 21st states that a family named Murray then had four children dying dead of diphtheria and three others were not expected to live during the day. The father, who was almost insane, threatened to shoot the undertaker, and a policeman had been placed in the bouse. The bill granting female suffrage at municipal elections has been defeated in the Massachusetts House of Representatives—the vote being 93 for to 137 against. The Rhode Island State Republics n Convention was held at Providence on the 21st The present State officers were renominated. The Rhode Island State Democratic Convention met at Providence, on the 23d, and nominated J. B. Bamaby for Governor, and Isaac Lawrence for Lieutenant-Governor. Gout closed in New York, on March 22*1. at 1013 - The following were the closing quotations for produce: No. 2 Chicago Spring, Wheat, [email protected]; No. 2 Milwaukee, Oats, Western and State, 30435 ft. Corn, Western Mixed, 46@52c. Pork, Mess, $10.25. Lard, $7.40. Flour, Good to Choice, $5.®5<55.85 ;' Winter Wheat, 15.8X46-50. Cattle, [email protected] for Good to Extra. Sheep, [email protected]. Hogs, $4.25 @4-60. At East Liberty, Pa., on March 23d, Cattle brought: Best, [email protected]; Medium, $4.35(3 4.50; Common, $3.50(44.26. Hogs sold— Torkers, $4.00(34.15; Philadelphia*, $4.35@ 4 50. Sheep brought [email protected] according to quality. At Baltimore, Md., on March 22d. Cattle t-i ought: Best, [email protected]; Medium, •3.37HV44.00. Hogs sold at $5.25(35.87f0r Good. Sh*rp were quoted at $4.00(36.25 for Good. ___! -- WEST AND SOUTH, The heaviest snow-storm experienced since .ie settlement of the Black Hills by white men, occurred in that section recently, extending over a period of five days. The snow was over four feet deep on a level at Deadwood on the 12th, and mail and telegraphic communication with the States was interrupted. Folk tramps were burned in a car ou the Iron Mountain Railroad, at Piedmont, Mo., on the 18th. They were stealing a ride in a cattle car. OuvnA Willard, editor-in-chief of theChicago Evening Pott, died a few days ago, aged forty-three years. Ox the 18th, the Louisiana State Supreme Court rendered its decision in the appealed case of Gen. Anderson of the State Returning Board. It reverses the opinion of the court below, which found him guilty of fraud and perjury, and orders his immediate release from custody. Ox the 17th, at Kalamazoo, Mich., Dr. E. H. Van Duesen, late Superintendent of tip? Michigan State Insane Asylum, was mulcted in the sum of $6,000 as damages for malpractice and false imprisonment, Mrs. Nancy Newcomer of Chicago being the complainant. Tau United States Secret Service force arrested fOULr operatorsTn counterfeit coin, named Quigg, Lee, Hoofer and Hartman, at Chicago, on the evening of the 19th. A large quantity of metal, dies and finished coin was secured. The general meeting of the American Social Science Association will be held this year in Cincinnati, Ohio, beginning May 18 and ending May 24. Tun lowa Republican Blate ConvenUon ls ib be held at Des Moines, on Wednesday, June 18. The Wisconsin Legislature adjourned, on the Slat, after a session of seventy-one days. An extra session will be hdd in June to act upon the report of the Commissioners appointed to revise the Statutes >rThe Arkansas State Centra] Committee have fixed Upon Little Bock as the place, and July 4 as the time, for holding the next Dem- j aptotic State Nominating Convention. Ati't-Gex. Ogden, of Louisiana, ha* asked tor*, rehearing lu the Anderson case, J A Naw Orijuxs Grand Jury, to whom was fefafttQ the charge* contained (n ej-Gov.

Wells’ letter of the 16th ult., against the parlies concerned In the prosecution of the late Returning Board, reported, on the 23d, that none of them were sustained. Tna boiler In Wm. Hally taw-mill near Richmond, Va., exploded, on thX 2sd, killing five persona, and more or ieas seriously Injuring five others. Disrarcnss from Tuxas, received In 8L Louis on the 23d, say the Commission appointed by President Hayes and Gov. llubbanl to Investigate the San Eliza rto and El Pam difficulties of a saw months ago had adjourned. They advise the stationing of 200 Federal soldiers at El Paso. The result *f the Commission is said to hare prodtft-ed great dissatisfaction In Texas. Maj. Jones, who represented Texas In the Commission,, will make a minority report, which, it is expected, will recommend aggressive action and the punishment of alleged Mexican Insolence. IX Chicago, on March 23*1, Spring Wheat No. 2 closed at sl.oAftl.ofiX cash. Cash corn closed at 414« c for No. 2. Cash oats No. 2 sold at 24c; and 369»c seller May. Rye No. 2, ,5.5 c. Barley Mo. 2 45><®40c. Cash Mess Pork closed at $9.30. Lard, •7.l‘Jlf. Beeves—Extra, brought $5.00(35.25; Choice, $4.50(44.75; Good, $4.00(34 40; Medium Grades, $8.65(33.90; Butchers' Btbck, 2.50(43.50; Stock (attic, etc., $8.00(43.60. Hogs—Good to Choice, $3.05(43.90. SheepPoor to Choice., $3.50(45.25.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. According to a Constantinople dispatch of the 18th, tn the event of war between Russia and England, Turkey would be entirely neutral. Ox the evening of the 18th, O’Donovan Rossa, the Fenian, lectured at Toronto, Can. During the delivery of the lecture ah Orange mob attacked and gusted tbe buildit.g, and subsequently the hotel where he was stopping, leaving only the bare walls standing. About 150 persons were injured. Jr dor Leonard, who was lately reported to have been sent to Cuba to investigate certain alleged eases of kidnaping, died at A losnos telegram of the 19th says .it had been officially stated that Scrvia would not recognize the Russo-Turkish peace conditions until they had been passed upon by the European Congress. The state of siege continued, and Yranja had been reoecuptcd. The February dividend of the Turkish guaranteed loan, amounting to about $400,000, was paid by the British Government. The obstructions in the* Danube have been removed and navigation resumed.

A movement to erect Albania into a Principality, under the protection of Italy, was recently brought to light at Bcrat. The ringleaders were arrested. A Vienna dispatch of the 20th says Gen. Tcherkosky, late Provisional Governor of Bulgaria, had committed suicide, because lie had been threatened with removal. At London, on the 20th, the Earl of Roseberry was married to Miss Hannah (le Rothschild. The fair bride brought her husband the comfortable dowry of between $15,000,000 and $20,000,000. A Rome (Italy) telegram of the 20th says the proclamation of the Catholic Hierarchy in Scotland would be made at the next Consistory. * The official text of the treaty between Turkey and Russia was published on the 20th. It is substantially as heretofore published. It was believed in London, on the same day, that Great Britain would resist with all the means at her disposal the-absorption of territory in Asia Minor bv Russia. According to an Athens (Greece) telegram of the 20th, Hobart Pasha having agreed not, to bombard Thessalian villages, the insurgent leaders had consented to negotiate with him fora settlement of tlieir difficulties. It was reported he had offered autonomy to Thessaly md Epirus. - ■ According to Hungarian papers of the 21st, Count-Andrassy, the Austrian Premier, had, on the preceding day, absolutely declined to enter into an alliance with"Great' Britain against Russia. It was reported that Sir 11. U. Elliot, the British Ambassador, had thereupon declared that England would not participate in the Congress. It was believed in Pestb that an Austro-Russian alliance had been formed.

A redout was received in London, on tiie 22d, to the effect that a revolution had brokeu out in Roumania and that Prince Charles had been compelled to flee the country. A dispatch, received on the morning of the 23*1, stated that Roumania had refused to accept Independence at the hands of Russia, or permit the passage of Russian troops over her territory during tile occupation of Bulgaria. An Athens dispatch of the 22d says the ne-gotiations-between Hobart Pasha and the Greek insurgents had come to naught, becaUfe TBe fofnier had declined foiecbgnize the Provisional Government of the Thessalians. According to St. Petersburg specials of the 23d, no matter how willing Russia might be to withdraw her troops from Turkey, it could not be done so long as the British fleet remained in Turkish waters. The tone of the Russian press was exceedingly belligerent. It was reported that Russia had demanded that the British fleet quit the Sea of Marmora at once, claiming that its preseuce there was a violation of European International law and a defiance of the provisions of established treaties.

FORTY-FIFTH OONGAkSXA bill was introduced and referred in the House for the establishment of a mint at Indianapolis... The bill making available for the payment of certain Southern auUbellum mail contractors the sum of $375,000 already appropriated was further considered in Committee of the Whole, and it having been demonstrated that snch mail contractors had been paid, or payment had been provided for by the Confederate Congress and Postmaster-General, a motion was agreed to to strike out the enacting clause of the bill, and this action of the committee was concurred in by the House, without division. Bills were passed in the Senate, on the 18th—House bill appropriating $275,000 for fortifications and other works of defense, and for tbe armament thereof, for the fiscal year 1 ending June 30, 1879; Senate bill to prohibit Members of Congress from becoming sureties on certain bonds. .Among the bills introduced was one' making appropriations for detecting trespassing ou public lands, for bringing into market public lands in certain States, and for other purposes .. An adverse report was made from the Judiciary Committee on the bill providing that any woman who shall have been a member of the bar of the highest court of any State or Territory, or of the District of Columbia, for a period of three y ears, may be admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of the United States—the ground of the adverse report being that there was no obstacle in the present law to the admission of women to practice in the United States Courts, the court* nmkmg tbeir own rules touching the admission of attorneys, and the proponed act would discriminate in favor of women, by compelling the court to admit thgm when it was not bound to admit me n. Bills were introduced in the Houm—granting pensions to soldiers who enlisted out of prisons; for the payment of certain Southern mail-contractors, providing that no claims shal be paid which have previously been paid by tbe Uonf«terate Government; establishing a mint k2“*C T !, l i. e - Kv.; repealing the law appropriating sOTs.ooofor tie payment of certain Southern mail-eontrartora; to grant to the State of Ohio unsold public lands remaining in the State: granting alternate sections of land to the State S*.M umssippi to aid in tbe construction of the ShipJbland. Ripley A Kentucky Railroad: for the appointment of a Commission to ascertain on what terms a treaty of commerce with Mexico can be arranged: for the erection of a monument over the grave of Thomas Jefferson. In the Senate,- on \he 19th, the House bill to authorize the granting of an American register to a foreign-built ship, for the purpose of the Woodruff Scientific Expedition Around the World was paaeed without amendment... A heated debate occurred on the unfetion of *pwopnating money to enable the Secretary of the Interior to carry out the prosecution of timber thieves. A Conference Committee was ordered on the Ben*te amend mentis to tiie Military Academy Appropriation bill. reports were made on the matter of .th* chatg** •gainst Poorkeaper Folk, the former declaring

Mr. IVlk to be unfit for the position, and recommending a resolution declaring the office vacant, and the latter declaring that no corruption . haring tarn proven, or even charg*-*! against Mr. Pulk, it would be a grievous wrong to adopt the majority resolution. - Bills were passed - fixing thecomm* rotation of Juror* in united BtAtr* C/Ourtn, n*durinf it from thro© to two dollnr*: fixing the fee* of Clerks of said Court*; firing the compensation of United States Marshals and Deputies, limiting that of the former to $6,060. Chief De|>utirsto $2.5' <i, and other Deputies live dollars per dav; Senate hill appointing (len. Sherman R -gent of thr Smithsonian Institution, in plane of Geo. Bancroft, resigned A bill was introduced to authorize the coinage of gold and silver on the same terms .. .The General Deficiency bill isl.3H6.4061 was considered in Committee of the Whole. Bills were introduced in the Senate, on the 30th—for the protection of homestead settlers on public lands; to repeal the Pre-emption laws and provide for the nalu of timhfer on the public landa....The bill making appropriations for detecting trespasses on public lands in certain State*, and for other purpose*, wn* further considered, the pending question being on an amendment by Mr. Beck forbidding any charge for wood or timtier cut on public lands in the Territories for the rise of actual settlers, and not for export, and providing that, in the event of timber being exported from the Territory where it grew, it should be liable to seizure by United States authorities, wherever found.

In the House, a bill was reported from the Printing Committee regarding the ad verti*ing of mail lettings, providing that notices shall he published in one or more papers in each State interested that the proposals for mail lettings will be received at a certain date, and that all information pertaining thereto can be obtained on application to the Second-Assistant Postmaster-General. An amendment was offered and adopted providing that no sul>-letting of contract* should be permitted, and whenever any sub-letting did occur the contract should be cansidered as terminated, and the bill, as amended, was passed. .The Deficiency Appropriation bill was considered and amended in Committee of the Whole, reported to tbe House and passed. In the Senate, on the 21st, the President’s anawef to a resolution of Mr. Blaine, adopted on the 14th, regarding the Fishery Commission. and award was received, containing the correspondence with Great Britain relative to the selection of Delfosse, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from Belgium, ns third Commissioner under the twenty-third article of the Treaty of Washington on the question of the fisheries .. The Dill to employ temporary Treasury clerks and to bring into market public lands, ere, was further delisted. Jn the House, a bill was reported, ordered printed and recommitted to establish a Postal Savings Depository as a branch of the Postoffice Department, and to aid in refunding the interest-bearing indebtedness of the United States.... A Conference Committee was appointed on the Military Deficiency bill. . .The Naval Appropriation bill < $>14,048,681 -iH.GOO.OOO less thnn last year, including deficiencies, nnd $2,600,(ti1l leas than the estimates for the next fiscal year; was reported as unanimously agreed to by the Committee on Appropriations, and. after being considered in Committee of the Whole, wbh IKisscd without amendment. .After the transaction of some other business in the Senate on the 22d, the House bill authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to employ temporary clerks, and making appropriations for the same and for detec ting trespasses on the public lands, and for bringing into market the public lands in certain Stab's, and for other purposes, was taken up, amended and passed, one of the amendments forbidding any charge for wood or timber cut on unsurveyed public lands in the Territories for the use of actual settlers, and not for export, and providing that in tbe eyent of timber being exported from the Territory where it grew, it should tie liable to seizure by the United States authorities wherever found. . . Adjourned to the 25th. ... A bill .was reported front the Committee on Coinage, in the House, to amend the laws on the subject of coinage, to iierfect h double metallic standard, to provide for issuing gold and silver bnilion certificates,and to retire certain silver coins now in use.... Bills were introduced and referred—providing that iiersons intending in good faith to make actual entry and settlement under Homestead acts shall receive, through the Secretary of the Interior, free transportation for themselves, families, farming utensils and personal effects to their new homes, and nisii seeds for two years’ cultivation: to provide for a more economical survey of public lands: to reorganize a system of suiierintendence of railways. .. AJaree number of private bills (principally pensions) were passed .. Adjourned to the 25th.

“Honest-Money League” Platform.

To the People of the United States: Pursuant to a call, a meeting of citizens of the Northwest in fjvvor of an honest-money standard was held in the City of Chicago to-day (March 14), and the following declaration was unanimously adopted as a platform of principles : Opposition to ail paper inflation and consequent depreciation, fn favor of coin and paper of equal value and equal purchasing power, and convertible into each other at the will of the bolder. In this connection the meeting directed the publication of the following statement, to which we invite your attention: 1. The industrial interest of the country, and, consequently, the welfare and happiness of the people, require stability in the standard of value and uniformity in the circulating mediums of exchange. 2. The experience of all civilized nnd commercial Nations proves that gold and silver possess stability of value in a greater degree thnn any other commodities, and are, therefore, the l>est stall lard of value, and, in connection with iNipcr representations convertible into them on demands the only Base and uniform circulating mediums. 3. It is the duty of the Government to establish and maintain a sound and uniform currency system; the -establishment and maintenance of’ such a system was one of the ends contemplated by the founders of our Government in framing the Constitution, and to secure the ad vantages of such a system requires only a firm adherence to the principles ana spirit of the Constitution. 4. The Constitution contemplates only the use of the precious metals as a standard of value. These principles were strictly observed by the Government until a great National emergency compelled a temporary departure from them. That departure was solemnly and repeatedly declared to be only temporary, and only justifiable on the ground of extreme necessity in a time of National peril, and the most positive assurances have Veen given by the Legislative and Executive Departments of Government that when the exigency of the war should pass away the Government would, as soon as practicable, return to the Constitutional and stable metallic standard and measnre of-TOiae. — —- 5. The emergency that made it necessary for the Government to force upon the people an irredeemable paper currency having iwssed away, to now perpetuate that system as a permanent financial policy would be a violation of the spirit of the Constitution, and of the spirit of the laws and pledges under which our war currency was issued; and. as the experience of the world has proved, would necessarily be followed by still further depression, to the great injury of all legitimate business, and ada to the Ruffering of the laboring cl loses, upo > wiiom the evils of the depreciatoa currency inevitabW falls most hevv■ly. 6. National honor, and both National and individual prosperity, demand a return to the standard of value recognized in tbe Constitution, nnd, with our present pager currency almost at jxir witb coin, to delay such return and authorize new issue of irredeemable paper would only add to further depreciation, till, as in all past experiments of the kind, the paper would become worthless, leaving ns without any reliable circulating medium, and entailing destruction UJI all KidjMSiy, and misery and poverty on the InasKes pT the people. 7. We have now an abundance of. money to supply aU the want* of trade; our paper currency i-rapidly approaching the uniformity and stn coin standards, and, if left free force of natural*laws! go into circulation Hnd general confidence and pr. sperity will he re stored to the country. 8. We invite all our fellow-citizens who concur in these views of the nature of money and me dium of exchange, and the functions offftic Gov eminent in relation thereto, to unite with us in an effort to maintain the honor and welfare o cur common country, and in n protest agalns: the adoption of an irredeemable paper moqev policy, which would certainly s oner or later be followed by all the fluctuation und depreciation ending only, in ultimate repudiation and gene.a ..fimagiaJLnila. —The eossips of the Baptist Church in the little Village of Hamilton Square, N. Y., are loaded to the muzzle with scandal. The other Sunday, while the pastor, the Rev. W. "W. Case, was preaching an earnest discourse, a married lady arose excitedly in a pew in front of him, and shouted, “You’re a liar! Better practici' wtiatyou preach.*’ There was intense excitement and the woman was denounced by the good people of the fioek. A meeting was held, and the decision reached that she must not be permitted to enter the church at the next service. On Sundaj’ she attempted to force her way in, but the door was blocked by a Constable who threatened to send her to Jail. Her husband finally took; her home and peace was restored. ' Spring bonnets will be trimmed profusely Kith Roman pe*rW«Mtd»,--Av Y. Graphic. _

Sec'y Sherman's Financial Views.

Secretary-of-thc-Trejuury Sherman recently had a consultation with the Finance Committee of the United States Senate, in which he took occasion to give his views at considerable length upon what lie believed to be the proper course to be pursuod in regard to financial allairs, and especially the duty of Congress in respect to specie resumption. Mr. Sherman prefaced his remark* by tbe statement that the Treasury held in gold and •liver, freo from all liabilities, the sum of $71,775,860.56, and added: We nave in process of preparation for resumption reduced the volume of United States notes. The amount was $382,000,000 at tbe time of the passage of the Resumption act, anil the amount now is $848,618,024. Again, the amount of outstanding bank uotos has been reduced. On Dec. 81, 1875, the amount was $346,479,756; on Dec. 3L 1877, $321,672,505, and on Feb. 28, 1878, the amount of bank-notes outstanding was $821,989,991. But the amount of bank-notes of banks in existence not in process of liquidation was $299,540,475, and the difference between these two sums Is the amount of the uotes of banks in process of liquidation, although the notes are In circulation, yet an equal amount of greenbacks are In tiie treasury as a special deposit to redeem them. If you count the whole greenbacks as outstanding there would be $299,000,000 of National Bank notes. Then ltmust be remembered that the United States notes have been In circulation since 1862 and the bank-notes since 1864, and that large sums are lost or destroyed. He estimated that the aggregate of banknotes and greenbacks and fractional-currency outstanding at that time, deducting for those lost or destroyed and those held for outstanding bank-notes of banks In process of liquidation, was about $643,000,000. He said, speaking of preparations for resumption, “we have already practically abolished the premlnm on fold. We have reduced the amount of United tates notes and the amount of National Bank notes outstanding. We have paid off, practically, the fractional-currency, and now we have a very remarkable circumstance In our favor. The balance of trade is in oltr favor to the amount of $160,000,000 a year, bringing silver and gold and bonds back to us. In the last three years the balance of trade In onr favor has been $414,034,606.” To a number of questions asked, Sec’y Sherman replied: “Wc have got both gold and silver from England, but we must do it, as Lincoln said, unbeknownst to them, it must come by the natural currents of trade. To attempt to bring by any artificial movement a large sum of gold to this country would create alarm. All last summer and fall the accumulation waajfrom $5,000,000 to $8,000,000 each month. Some of that came from our own mines, and some of it from abroad, but. we accumulated It without any possible injury to anybody. Now, I do express my opinion officially and personally, that for the reasons I have given we can resume on the Ist of January next, under the basis of the existing law.” The Secretary stated that the passage of the Silver bill had not created all the bad results he had anticipated, although it bad stopped refunding operations, and also stopped the accumulation of coin. Another bad effect was that it had caused the return of bonds held in Europe. Referring to its undoubted good effects, Mr. Sherman said: “In the first place, tbe Silver bill satisfied a strong public demand for a bi-metallic money, and that demand is no doubt largely sectional. No doubt there Is a difference of opinion between the West and South and East ou this subject, hut the delire for the remonetization of silver was almost universal. In a Government like ours it is always good to obey tbe popular current, and that has been done, I think, by tbe passage of the Silver bill. Resumption can be maintained more easily upon a double standard than upon a single standard. The bulky character of silver would prevent payments in it, while gold, being more portable, would be more freely demanded, and I think resumption can be maintained with a less amount oi stiver than of gold alone. I think it can be main-

tained better upon a bi-metallic or alternative standard than upon a single, and with less accumulation of gold. In this way the remonetization of silver would rather aid resumption. The bonds that have been returned from Europe have been readily absortied —remarkably so. Tiie recent returns in New York show that the amount of bonds absorbed in this country is at least a million and a quarter a day. This shows the confidence of the people in our securities and their rapid absorptleft will tend to eheek the European scare. The demand for bonds extends to the West and to the banks. I have no doubt we can sell the 4% per cents., and I think within a month we can sell all we want of 4-per-cent-, bonds to carry out the Resumption law, for I would not accumulate more than $5,000,000 a month, and that largely In sliver and gold bullion. There is no special necessity to force the bond market in order to maintain resumption. We now have from $71,000,000 to $90,000,OPO on hand, and every one can measure how much more will be necessary to maintain resumption. If the sale of bonds was ever so free, I would not accumulate more than $5,000,000 a month of both metals, and all sales beyond that should be applied for refunding 6-per-cent, bonds.” Upon being asked what could be done to aid him in specie resumption, Sherman said: “ I am very willing to answer that, although I think it is a legislative question. I think that you can aid resumption very much if yon will allow me to receive United State notes in payment of bonds. If I could sell 4-per-cent, bonds for currency and then re-issue the currency in purchase nf 6-per-cent, bonds it would be an aid to resumption. All I would have to do would be to pay the difference between greenbacks and gold, but that would only be paying ,1 per cent, premium. I have a right to call bonds, and I could URe currency in their payment by giving 101 for the bonds in currency, the difference between currency and gold at the present time. I think another aid to resumption is also very desirable. If yon could-make it clear by a legislative enactment that the Secretary has power to reissue United States notes after the first of January to the amount of $300,000,000, it would relieve the people and relieve the whole country from the fear which they have that the greenback currency is to be entirely destroyed. If we are to attempt on the first of January to pav off all these greenbacks as presented and to destroy them, I have .my doubts of our ability. I think the law is perfectly clear now as to the power to reissue up to $300,000,000 of currency. Another thing I would recommend: I would, on the Ist of October next, receive United Btatcs notes in payment for duties, and yet provide for interest on the bonds in coin. In other words, I would assume, on the Ist of October next, that our notes were as good as gold and silver, and would receive them as such.” He said he did not believe that specie payments could be maintained without power to reissue United States notes.

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—Six persons were poisoned in Fond du Lac, Wis., recently, from eating Sauer kraut. —A Mr. Robert, of Dougherty. Ga., lit his pipe in liis carriage, the. other day, and shortly after found the vehicle on tire. The whole concern was burned except the man, the iron and the running gear—An Ithaca (N. Y.) lady boarded a Cornell student—a Brazilian —until his board bill amounted to over S9OO, The student then left suddenly for his distant home, and the lady expected never to get the money due from him. Recently, however, she received a draft from the student’s wealthy father for the full amount. y T ~KL . Pliilaf!e.lphla,Robert McAdams, twelve years old, and Charies* Patton, of the same age, quarreled over the possession of a stick of candy. Patton threatened to shoot McAdams if he did not divide with him. As the latter still refnaed. Patton drew a pistol and shot McAdams through the head, killing him almost instantly. !!; ; —“ A Kiss in the Dark” was played recently by amateurs in Mount Sterling, Ky., up to the point where the young man kisses the pretty girl. Then it was turned into a tragedy. Tne girl’s real lover, jealous of her stage lover, and thinking that the kissing was too much relished, shot the offender on the spot. The wound was trifling, but it brought the performance to a Close. —A tramp entered Muscoda, Wis., requested the Marshal to arrest him, take him to the calaboose and give T fL q. Jhzv lltil.l oOlliulniHg m njtii wl “-htj wuura steal. The Marshal told him to steal,

then; whereupon the tramp went to a store where a rack stood at a front door, loaded with dry goods, and made off with the rack, goods and all, and got away without being arrested. —The wildest excitement prevails among some of the citizens oi Trigg County, Ky., ovor the apprehension of the immediate coming of the day of final judgment. Many of them nave abandoned all business, have turnd their stock loose to range through me woods, and cutting themselves loose from the contemplation of all earthly affairs, they go from house to house singing and praying for the eventful day. —A three-ton iron roller lay at the top of a high hill in Eureka, Cal. A bov called -his comrades’ attention to the chance for fun in seeing it go down the long and heavy grade. They started it with considerable difficulty, and at the very outset it ran over a pile of slates and school-books, crushing them to bits. Gaining speed as it whirled along, it soon overtook and flattened a dog. Next, it smashed a wagon, from which a man jumped just in time to save his life; anti then, quitting the road, it crashed through a Chinaman’s shanty, and buried itself in a ravine. 1 ~. ~ -

Col. Slewther’s Funeral.

“800-00-00-oom! BOOM!” I knew Col. Slewther’s laboratory would go up some day, and it did. He was always fooling in there with some kind of explosive compound, trying to work out new fulminating powders, extra-strong varieties of nitroglycerine, and so forth. And so nobody m the neighborhood was much surprised on that Saturday morning when the explosion occurred, and the shed was blown into ten million pieces. The, painful thing about it none of the fragments es Col. Slewther could be found. His widow had not even a shred of "Mm to weep over; and there seemed to be no chance for a funeral. However, on Sunday morning, Mrs. Slewther’s hired girl picked up a freshlooking bone in the front yard, and she suggested to her mistress that it might possibly be a portion of the late Colonel’s framework. The widow took kindly to the idea. Her aunt and her clergyman asserted that it bore a very suspicious resemblance to a roast-beef bone, but Mrs. Slewther was obstinate. She sent for Toombs, the undertaker, and made all the arrangements for a funeral, the bone to represent the lamented Colonel. Mrs. Slewther cried all the way to the cemetery and all the way back. On the following day the hired girl came in with another bone, evidently a piece of the leg-bone, which she said had fallen in the back yard. Upon examining it, Mrs. Slewther declared she recognized it as a bit of the Colonel, although her aunt and the minister both urged that it might possibly have come from the butcher’s. And so Mr. Toombs was sent for hurriedly, and arrangements were made for further obsequies. They 3ay that the anguish of Mrs. Slewther, in the carriage, as they went to and from the burying-ground, was simply agonizing. It was only by strenuous exertion and-continued use of the smell-ing-salts that her aunt kept her from going into convulsions. But when she got home she became calmer, and her aunt felt that she was more resigned. That was on Friday. On the next Monday, washday, the hired girl came in with still another bone which she

saW had just fallen on the roof of the smoke-house. Mrs. Slewther’s aunt scoffed at the idea that it had belonged to the Colonel; she said it had evidently come out of a piece of corned beef. But Mrs. Slewther said something whispered to her heart that this was an atom of the Colonel, and she thought it safe always to trust the instincts of affection. So Toombs was summoned, and he rang the front door-bell with a chuckle. It seemed to him likely that Col. Slewther’s funeral would afford him a permanent income. Perhaps he might pass it on to his children. The ceremony was not so heart-rend-ing as those that preceded it. Mrs. Slewther sat back in the carriage and cried, and her aunt had the cork out of the smelling-bottle, but the widow had only a few hysterical symptoms. On the way home a man sat ona fence as the procession passed, with Ins hat over his eyes. He said to a person standing near him: “Whose funeral is that?” “A man named Slewther. Blown up. This is the third funeral. They find a bit of him every day.” That night Mrs. Slewther was awakened by the noise of a terrific rumpus in the back yard. She flew to the window and threw up the sash. She herd a familiar voice saying: “Take that, and that, and that, you old coffin-hammering slouch! I’ll teach yoirto come around here palming off your cow-bones as the remains of a decent man! Take that and that, you funeral outcast!” Mrs. Slewther put on her wrapper and rushed down stairs. “Is that you, Wilberforce, darling?” she asked, almost in a shriek. “Certainly it is,” said the Colonel. “You see I’m not dead at all. I was called away unexpectedly to Baltimore the very day the explosion occurred, and I forgot to telegraph to you. Here I am, safe and well.” “And who is that other man?” “That? Why, that’s Toombs. Toombs, the undertaker. He’s been tossing bones over in the yard for two weeks past, and bribing the servant-girl to take them to you. I watched for him to-night, and caught him putting the jaw-bone of a sheep on the crotch of the apple tree, and so I thumped him!” < - - - I will draw a veil over the scene that followed when the happy pair entered the house and rejoiced over each other. Toombs’ bills are unpaid, and' he thinks maybe he had better not sue for them. —Max Adder, in N. Y. Weekly.

—A well-known note shaver of Providence, R. 1., was informed the other day thata ceTtam'Ttirlroad com-' puny, in consideration of the low price of silver, was selling quarter dollars at twelve and thirteen cents apiece. He at once rushed off to the company’s office and was told that the report was true, and that they would be glad to dispose of quarters at that rate in quantities of S6O and SI,OOO. So he telegraphed to Boston for SI,OOO and put in SSO of his own, intent upon a grand speculation. Suddenly it flashed across his mind that twelve and thirteen make twenty-five. A Colorado man who was caught in a snow-slide and carried a mile and a half likens the sensation to a man being shot from aeannon along with a barrel of flour. . : _ The Turkish wav is the sure Afty. Put a man in a bag sud tie the mouth and hn tam*t help hnt drown if heaved into the water, —Detroit Free Press. t

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. —Bonds irredeemable—Vaga-bonds. —When the little eirl is three, / Half her woman s height ehe U be. —Mutton-leg sleeves are again in fashiod. —Perfuming the hair ‘is a new wrinkle. f-A mathematical paradox —One stew is two. —Uneasy lies the head that wears a wig. —Utica Observer. —New foliage for hats is made of robber without wire stems. —The place for a hair-line railroad— Through the Indian Territory. —Pennsylvania has another miracle —A tramp sawed two cords of wood. —Foor murdered Hnlrirrmn Pnaha—alack! Like the heroic Falutafl -drowned in rack. —Orapkir.. —The Chinaman’s weak spot is white sugar. He’ll pass over jewelry to steal cut-loaf. —lvory and felt gray are new shades for dress goods, ribbons and hats for the coming season. —Novelists arc in some respects the most remarkable of animals; tneir tales come out of their heads. —ls Virginia is the “ Mother oi Statesmen, it’s in order to suggest that Pennsylvania’s the “ Pa.” —A New York State father who reported that his daughter was a liar has had to pay 9100 damages for slander. —“ He who reels and staggers most In the journey of life takes the straightest cut to the devil.”— O. D. Prentice. —On farm, pr in palace, “latest style” is of far less consequence than personal neatness.— Detroit Free Press. —February 22 was observed in honor of the grand old original paragrapher, who could not tell a lie.— Rome Sentinel.

—“ Men should not think too much of themselves, and yet a man should be careful not to forget himself.”— Prenttce. —A coquette is a rosebush from which each young bean plucks a leaf, and the thorns are left for the husband. —Next to English sparrows there if nothing that increases faster than potato bugs, unless it is the interest on an unpaid note. —The latest is the “ White Ribbon” movement, formed to discourage the use of tobacco. Its motto is “ Dare to Be Decent” —Men are frequently like tea—the real strength and goodness are not properl y drawn out until they have been in hot water. —A movement is making in Washington Territory to bring anew before Congress the proposition to make that Territory a State. —“ What’s the matter with your eye. Tommy?” "O, its only been going through an operation at tile hand's of a knockulist, that’s all.”

—When a wealthy Jap breaks up housekeeping he ships his kitchen furniture to America to be sold as “ rare curiosities from Japan.” —The frequency of collisions on the Hudson River Railroad, of late, reminds the New York Sun that Commo—lt is estimated that every man who lives to be sixty years old has spent seven months of his life buttoning his shirt-collar. —Detroit Free Press. —A member of the Society for the Prevention cf Cruelty to Animals caused the imprisonment of a cow which had been licking her calf.—Exchange. —Judge Martin, of Brown County, Wis., decided, recently, that tax-payers are incompetent and ineligible to act as jurors in a suit brought against the city for damages. .\,. v y —lt is no joke for the doctors, even if other folks smile over the assertion that enforced frugality and economy has benefited the healths of thousands. —Detroit Press. —A pedestrian named Davis is at Des Moines, lowa, trying to arrange for a walk across the Continent, from San Francisco to New York, in eighty days. This would be an average of over forty miles per day. —ln the lobby of an inn at the head of Loch Suinart the following inscription was painted on the wall, in conspicuous letters: “ No person will get credit for whisky in this house but those that pay money down.” —When a woman, whose husband receives only sls per week, insists on-Qfr eupying a fashionable suite of rooms, and*sleeps in six-button kid gloves to keep her hands white, she illustrates some of the inconsistencies of life.

—The Presbytery of St. Louis has had a very serious discussion on the qualifications needed for the ministry. It began in the session last fall and has just closed. It seems a Mr. A. B. Martin, formerly of New York, applied for license to preach. He had had some experience in New York City and in other places in missionary work, but “ has no college nor much academic training of any hind. Nor has he made any systematic _ study of theology in private or in any of the seminaries. Ho is, however, apt to teach all he knows and apt to learn what he may not happen to know.” He has also a good and populai address, and has endeared himself to the people among whom he has lately labored. The candidate had been laboring in a district of country “noted for its many failures to support a live ohurch of any kind, ana Mr. Martin’s success in that place was the chief argument for granting him license.” Moved by this the Presbytery licensed him, but it was with “ some fears of opening a door that would not be easily shut.”

Normal Schools.

The first Normal School was founded in 1681 by the Abbe de la Salle, Canon of the cathedral at Reims, and, sixteen years later, a teachers’ class was opened in connection with an orphan school at Halle, the pupil-teachers receiving two years’ training under the head-master, August Hermann Francke, under whom the system developed surprisingly, and soon received the invaluable support of Frederick the Great. Other Normal Schools were opened in Hanover, Austria, Switzerland* France, Holland, Belgium and. about forty years ago, in Great Britain, whence they have extended into nearly every civilized country. The aims of the schools are well expressed in the following extract of the Prussian law: “The directors of teachers’ seminaries shall rather seek to conduct the pupil-teachers by their own experience to simple and clear !>rinciples, than to give them theories qr their guidance; and, with this end in view, primary schools shall be joined to all teachers’ seminaries where the pupil-teachers may be,practiced in the art, of teaching.” There are now about 850 Normal Schools in Europe, the latter having 104.

Massachusetts was the first State in the American Union to establish Normal Schools, of which there now are 187, with over 29,000 pupils and over 1,000 instructors, Ohio and Pennsylvania each having twelve schools, whilu New York State has nino, Illinois and Missouri eight each, and Massachusetts seven. The largest number of pupils are in New York, however, where there are 4,158. The necessity of such schools needs no other enforcement than a few statistics relating to education in the United States. Nearly 9,000.000 scholars are enrolled in the public schools. Nearlys,ooo,ooo are in attendance daily, and about 231,000 teachers arc employed, including 188,000 women. The amourft expended annnally upon this vast scheme, which seems almost fabulous, is about $82,000,000, and the imagination is carried away by the tremendous suggest! veness of the figures.— Wm. //. Ritleing, in Harper's Magazine for April.

“Old Residenter.”

You couldn’t call him a sportsman by any strain on your imagination, and yet he was by no means a loafer, though ’he did talk with a drawl which indicated that he didn't regard time as a very valuable commodity. He sat on the fence as the train came up to Siegfried’s Bridge, with the three Easton fancy gunners aboard, whom he was to pilot across the country after quail. His gun, having the lock tied on with a string, reposed across his knees, and his dog, looking like the ghost of starvation, reposeaat his feci. The Easton men came up to him. “ Do you know Abe Hertzog?” “ Y-a-a-s, I know him.” “ Where can we find him?” “ R-i-g-h-t hyar, I guess.” “ Arc you Mr. Hertzog?” “Y-a-a s ! that’s what I’m taxed for, anyway.” “Jimininy!” said cne of the party, sotto voce, “ can this be the man that Cap told us was personally acquainted with every quail-family in Allen Township?” “You fellers want to go artcr some quails, eh?” “That’s what we come for. Do you know anything about them?” “ W-a-a-1, yaas; I can tell one when I see it.”

“ What kind of a gtin have you got thereP” “W-a-a-1, ye see, mister, that gun’s ail old residenter; bin into our family ever since the first old Hertzog moved up hyar. That gun’s a rifle, mister, and she shoots mighty quick. Handle her a little careful, mister,” he continued, as he handed the old tiling over for inspection; “ she has a way of tumbling apart if she’s used rough-like.” The old rifle had a barrel about as long as a fence-rail, with iron enough in it for a young Gatling-gun, aim a bore not larger than a healthy rye straw, while all the stock it had was absorbed in a brass trap-door leading into a cellar smelling of verdigris and filled with grease and little pieces of rags. “ How do you kill anything with this; knock it down?” “W-a-a-1, yes! sometimes.- That's The "way T busted' the stock fhar whar the rawhide bandage air, a-knockin’ a fellow down what made fun of it.” At this point the investigator suddenly lost, interest in the gun, and -the party moved off into the country. As they climbed the fifteenth fence, tlio old man paused on the top rail and waved his hand indefinitely over the fields before them. “Gents, there’s quails all about hyar and over yander—yaas, and thar’s one on ’em now,” he added, as he drew up Old Residenter and knocked it over where it sat. “ What! do you shoot a bird on the ground? Why, old man, that’s infernal potting.” “S’thatso?” inquired the old man, humblyq as he picked up a piece of his gun-stock that had been jarred oft" by the shot. Just then a small covey of the birds took wing, and uie man who scorned pot-hunting blazed away with both barrels of a costly breach-loader and missed. “Whar! wliar do you shoot ’em, mister?” inquired the old man quietly, as he pot hla patch and bullet on the muzzle of his rifle, which ho held between his legs while jrauimed the charge , home, and then as a stray bird flew overhead he raised and dropped it. “Is that ar’ the way you want it done, mister?”

The objector said nothing, and the gunning proceeded; but it soon became evident that the sportsmen were doing the gunning and the old man Was doing the snooting. The lock tumbled off his gun occasionally, and the barrel had a loose habit of parting company with tiie stock; but the old man had a pocket full of strings, and as fast as it gave out he tied it up, and made ready to shoot whenever a bird showed, and he occasionally varied the monotony of the proceedings by coolly blazing into the bushes, whereupon nis mean-looking dog would rush in and drag out a dead rabbit. • The Easton party hunted faithfully, according to their lights, and shot upon the most '• scientific principles; but, somehow, the old man got the game, as the count showed five quail and a pheasant among the three for the day’s work, while Mr. Hertzog toddled along under twenty-two quail and four rabbits; and, as'they sat on the board-pile at the depot bargaining for theold man’s lot, he remarked: • < Ye see, gents, Old Residenter be’ant much of a gun to look at. She ain’t purty nor handsome at all, but I tell you she’s- mighty on the shoot. All you’s gotsfo do is jest to grease the patch right well,, and ram the ball down close, and then, if you pint her at a bird and pull, that bird’s got to stop. Leastwise, I allers find it so. Ye see, gents, where a man has sich an awfully purty gun his ’tention’s kinder taken up admirin’ of it like, an’ the bird goes away after he,.shoots. Leastwise. 1 allara flnd'it so.” Just then the loci dropped off “ Old Residenter” for the eleventh time, and, as the old man wasn’t gioing to shoot any more that day, he put it in his pocket along with his game money, saying: “Thank ye, gents, thankee. Come up soon again, an' I’ll take Old Residenter out any time; we’ll be ipurty sure to get something.” And he meanders off into the Indian summer haze. — f i Easton (Pa.) Free Press.

A lazv boy, near Stanwix, has conquered the kindling-wood question. He just backs his father’s best mule against j the wood-pile and throws the milkingstool at it.— Ponte (N. Y.) Nentinel. Lt is no joke for the doctors, even if other folks smile’ over the assertion that enforced frugality and economy has benefited the healths of thousands, r -Detroit Press,