Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1879 — Page 2

The Rensselaer Union. M•I t ' BCKMELAER, . INDIANA.

General News Summary.

F*w*i Washington Sbo’x Surma* iMaed a clrcuUr, on the 9Bth, requesting holder*of csllod-honds which ■MfltniUWore-the *m of July to send them toM*Ptp*|)WM>t for payment during the month of June. Jr thU way the holder* of neh bond* win receive phyment for them, Wtthhrtetuat to maturity, before the bonds W«*. AH United flute* bond, forwarded for redemption, should be addressed to the “Lain DleVdou, Secretary’* Office." end all registered bond* should be assign**! to “The Seotetarj of the .Treasury —for redemption.” Tn* Ways and Means. Committee of the National House' hare reported a resoluUon for theufltouniment of OtMferesa on June 10. TM Chief of the Bureau of Statistic*, in ttie tenth monthly statement of the current flscsl year of tm porta and export* of the United gtiha says the excess of exports over Imports of merchandise was, for the ten months endbijt April SO, of (his year, (041,*443,623; da.TWS, f227',*4£,<187. POr the twelve months •ndta**prit|o,.lß7fi,i $272,815,719; do., 1878, f221A80,01A A WxsunhßTOjt telegram of the 28th says that President did uo* advise the sending of boat*d°wa the Mississippi to bring north the colored refugees said to be awaiting transporUtkn, as had bten'stetod. A Wusisston dispatch of the 28th says it was positively and authoritatively denied that the Preaidant had decided to disapprove the ffodinga of the Court of Inquiry in the FitsJohn Porter case. Oil the 39th, the President vetoed the act making appropriations for the Legislative. Executive and Judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 90, 1880. Hoy. E. C. Ixgebsoll, ex-Member of Congress froth Illinois, and brother and lawpartner of OL Robert Ingersnll, died at bis residence in Washington, on the morning of the 31st nit., of heart disease. Taut coinage of the United States Mint during the month of May footed up 1,795,090 pieces, valued at $2,094,508.

A dispatch from Washington on the 31st nil'announces that the last of the ten-dollar refunding certificates had been delivered to the Treasnrerand would be distributed, on the 3L among the Postmasters who bad filed the necessary bonds and become depositaries. This t lxes all forms of subscription to the 4-per-eent. bonds, and no one need hereafter apply at the Treasury Department for them. At Washington, on the Slst ult., the Democrats of both houses of Congress met in joint caucus and, alter full discussion, decided to pass, at the preaent session the Army and Legislative bills divested of their political sections, which would be passed and presented to the Executive as Independent measures. It was resolved also that the Army Appropriation bill should provide that , troops should not be transported into any State for election purposes, and that the Legislative Appropriation bill should contain bo appropriation to pay Deputy Marshals and Supervisors appointed to set In elections. Tb£ construction of these bills was committed to ar Sub-Committee consisting of Senators Thqrman, Baton, Vance and Bailey, and Rcpresefi'tativcs Ewing and Reagan. The follofftAg tea statement of the United States currency outstanding, on the Slst nit.: Old dbmsbd notes, 861,530; legal-tender notes, all ibsnes, 3346,661,016; one-year notes of 1863, (49,285; two-year notes of 1863, $14,350; two-year coupon notes of 1863, $23,750; com pound Interest notes, $261,660; fractional currency, all issues, $15,874,781. Total, $362.986,322. _ The East. The United Btates District Attorney for the Southern District of New York has filed a bill of discovery lb the ctse of the United States against Samuel J. Tilden, to recover for an alleged nonpayment of income tax. Richard's cotton storage warehouse, in. New Yqrk City, was burned by an incendiary fire on the night of the 26th. Loss on building and contents, $330,000. A call has been issued for a meeting of the Maine Republican State Convention, at Bangor, on the 28th of June. The Globe Mutual Life Insurance Company, of New York, closed its doors, on the 27th., Ox the 27th, Henry Ackley, an inmat* of the PnUadelplria House of Refuge, twelve years old, was locked up in a dark cell as a punishment for some trifling offense. He became crazed with flight and killed himself. Ox the afternoon of the 28th, the fifty-fifth anniversary of the American Baptist Publication Society was held at Saratoga, N. Y. The total receipts of the Bociety for the year were stated to he (335,413, and the total issues since 1824 footed up 107,300,000 books, tracts and periodicals. During the passage of the schooner Mary A. Witham from Miragoane to New York, re cently, three seamen died of yellow fever. Cardinal kcCix»SKET and the Catholic prelates who recently assembled in New York City to aasi t in the dedication of SL Patrick’s Cathedra] have issued an address to CatlMics, calling upon them to contribute to a fund for the payment of the debts of Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati. It is stated that New York bankers donated the sum of SIOO,OOO as a starter. Miss Delia Wheeleb, only sister of VicePresident Wheelqr, died at Malone, N. Y., on the evening of the 28th. She was sixty-five years old. Funeral services 1 were held over the remains of William Loyd Garrison in Roxbyry, Mass., on the 23th. Eloquent eulogies were > prono meed by Wendell Phillips, Rev. Samuel Johnson. ; Theodore D. Weld and Lucy Stone Blackwell, after which the deceased was accompanied by a large number of people to the Forest Hill Cemetery. A dispatch from Island Pond, Vt, on the 30th nit., says there had so far been eleven deaths of the children who drank from a poisoned brook in that vicinity, a few days before. Of these, five were the children of John Aldrich—his entire family. Edward Moore lost two; Fred Simpson, one; L. Wilson, one; John Cole, one, and Mr. Park, one. Others could not live. Twenty-seven children were poisoned by drinking from the brook. Potato tops, poisoned by Paris-green, which were throw into the stream, were regarded as the cauaa of the poisoning, rather than the carcasses of dead animals. Terrible distress prevailed Id the town, and Work was suspended. The farmer who allowed the carcasses to be thrown in the water would be arrested. v Thb Women’s Home Mission Society of the West, at their session at Saratoga, N, Y., on the 3Dth tilt., adopted resolutions instructing the Executive Board, whenever the new organization authorized by the American Baptist Home Mission Society should be properly formed, to transfer the works, assets and papers to such and also instructing such,Board & affectionately invite their auxiliaries and branches to transfer their relations totke Society in New York. In the meantime a foil set of officers were chosen to keep up the old organization until they see fit to dissolve. Mrs. J. N. Crouse, of Chicago, was elected President. -v, Thb following were the dosing quotations for produce in New York, on May 3Dt: Na 2 Chicago Spring Wheat, [email protected], No. 2 Milwaukee, tU.3® 1.06. Oats Westlarn Mixed, 86# 35)4c-. Coro, Western J^usd,

41#44c. Pork, Mesa, *9.05#10.10. Laid, Flour, Good to Choice, $4.00 #450; White Wheat Extra, $4.56(45.25. Cattle. $7.75#0.80 for Good to Extra. Sheep (clipped), $8.00#5 3& Hogs, $3.70# 890. At East Liberty, Pa., ou May 81st, Cattle brought: Beat, $& 10«5.75; Medium, $4.00# 5.00 ; Common, $3 70#4.25 Hog* sold— Yorkers, $3.50#365; Philadelphia, $3.05# A 75. Sheep brought s3.7s#4.2U—according to quality. At Baltimore, Md., on May 29th, Cattle brought; Best, $3.0033.50; Medium $A50#4.25. Hogs sold at $4,501*5.87)4 sots Good. Sheep were quoted at (3.50# 4.50 fdr Good.

West an<l Sooth. Jrixjß Baxter, United States Judge of tlic Sixth Judicial Circuit, has recently decided that the acta of the Ix-gtslsture of Tennesaee repealing the charter of the City of Memphia and creating the taxing district of Memphla are unconstitutional and void.' Ox the rooming of. the 38th, a band of masked men entered the Jail at Bakersfield, Cal., overpowered the Jailer, and took Thomas and William Y oakum, two brothers charged with murder, and hung them to the gratings of their cells. The announcement was made, ou the 27tli, that the National Agricultural Congress would meet, next fall, lit the City of Madison, Wls. The Congress was appointed to be held at Atlanta, Ga., but fears of yellow fever have Induced the change to Wisconsin. Tub Ohio Kcpubllcan State Convention was held In Cincinnatian the 28th, and tlic follow - (agnominations were made: Coventor,Charles Foster; Lieutenant-Governor, Gen. A. Hlckenloper; Supreme Judge, W. W. Johnson; Attorney-General, George K. Nash; Auditor, John F. Oglebee; Treasurer, Joseph Turney; Member of Board of Public Works, James Fullington. The resolutions condemn, very emphatically,’the course of those now controlling both branches of Congress; felicitate the party on the success which has followed the financial efforts of the Administration, andthsnk and -honor the President and the liepubllcan members of Congress for the stand they have taken against the carrying out of the design &or the Democratic majority In the National Legislature, etc., etc. Tlie Greenback State Convention of lowa met at DesMolnes, on the 38th. John Porter was elected President. There were two elements In the Convention, one favoring the

payment of bonds in legal tender notes, and the other in favor of such payment being made in the lawful money of the Government, gold, silver or legal-tender notes. Tlic latter party prevailed, whereupon the WapeHo County delegation withdrew from the Convention. The resolutions adopted declare that (.be Government shall issue all money, whether gold, silver or paper, all to be a legal tender for tbe payment of all debts, public or private, and that the Government bonds be paid in the legal-tender money of the country as soon as possible; that the National Ranks must be abolished, and legal-tender greenbacks be substituted for their circulation; demand the unlimited coinage of the silver dollar; Indorse the Arrears-of-Pensions act; condemn “the violence of party spirit in the legislative halls of Congress, which seeks to revive the dead issues of the past, while conspiring against and deliberately refusing to provide measures oFrellef adequate to the necessities of the present;” denounce all interference, either by threats, by bands of armed men, or by troops at the polls, or by frand or bribery, with the right of all qualified electors to vote according to their ednscientious convictions; demand that all official fees and salaries shall be from 25 to 50 per cent.; the use of all just and legal means for the suppression of ihe evils of intemperance; favor the repeal of the Railroad Commissioners law and the adoption of suitable legislative action to restrain and equalize freight; etc.* etc. Nominations were made as follows: For Governor, Daniel Campbell, of Clark County; Lieu-tenant-Governor, M. 11. Moore, of Dubuque; Supreme Judge, M. H. Jones, of Dav.s; Superintendent of Public Instruction, J. A. Nash, of Polk County. Ox the morning of the 29tli, the Washington House in Hagerstown, Md., was burned to the ground. Many of the guests managed to escape by sliding down the pillars of the porch, but eight persons were burned to death, and thirty-five were more or less injured. A RAin was recently made by members of the Bhcep-Eaters Tribe of Indians upon the settlements located on the South Fork of the Salmon River, in Oregon, in which two men. named nugh Johnson and Paseall Dawson, were killed. A cyclone swept over portions o$ Holt and Nodaway Counties In Missouri, near Barnard and Bolckow, twenty-five miles north of St. Joseph, on the evening erf the 29th ult. The storm moved at a velocity of sixty miles an hour, demolishing houses, uprooting trees and destroying property of every description. Tne direction of the cyclone was northeast and southwest, and when several miles east of Barnard it suddenly disappeared. Its track, covering territory half a mile wide, was a scene of desolation. A number of casualties are reported. The Illinois House of Representatives, on the 30th ult., voted down the “ Hinds Temperance bill”—that allowing women to vote on the License question—by a vote of 52 ayes to 56 noes. j, Decoration Dat (Friday, 30th ult.) was very generally and. appropriately observed throughout the entire West and East and in many portions of the South. The exercises mainly consisted, as usual, of processions, addresses and the strewing of flowers on the graves of the patriotic dead. All the bnsiness houses on the west side of Main, street, in the Town of Silver Reef, in Utah, and some twenty residences, were burned, on the morning of the 31st ult. The seventy-five hour walk, at Chicago, for the O’Leary belt and the championship, was brought to a successful close, on the evening of the 31st ult. The score of the lour leading men at the close was: Parry, 263 miles; Dobler, 263; Banks, 254; Sherry, 243. On (he Slst ult., by a majority vote, the Tennessee Supreme Court decided that the act of the Tennessee Legislature repealing the charter of the City of Memphis was Constitutional and valid, thus deciding directly contrary to the conclusion of the Judge of the United States Court, a few days before. A salute of 100 guns was fired from the Bluffs, in Memphis, when the decision wa6 announced. A terrific tornado passed over portions of Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri, ou the nighY of the 30th ult. Its course was markyd by death and desolation. Building; and everything that lay In its path were leveled and scattered like chaff. Up to the evening of the 31st ult, reports bad b»en received that more than fifty persons had been killed. Both houses of the Illinois Legislature adjourned Hue die on the 31st ult. The Legislature of Michigan formally closed its sessions on the Slst ult, although no business had been transacted for several days before, and most of the members had gone borne. ", lx Chicago, on May 31st, Spring Wheat No. 2 closed at $1.0101.01)4 cash; sl.ol@ 1.01)4 for June; 98)4@96J4c for July. Cash Corn closed at 35)4c for Na 2; 35)4c for June; 36%c for July. Cash Oats No. 3 sold at 29c,' and' 29c seller Juue. Rye No. 2, 52#52)4c. Barley No. 2, 65@67c for cash. Cash Mess Pork closed at $9.70 @9.63)4. Lard closed at [email protected])4- Becvev —Extra brought [email protected]; Choice, (4.70 Stock Cattle, etc., [email protected]. Hoga—Good to Choice, [email protected]. Sheep—Poor to Choice, $2.5005.00.

Foreign Intelligence. Gen. Bin Garnet Woinelev wh, on the aOlh, appointed Commander-In-Chief of the Hrit sli fares* In South Alclca, relieving Lord CbelmafonL 7*" Katherine Cm Rcntix was hung In the Jail, at Taunton, Kng., on the 26th, for the murder of her husband, at Chard, some months ago. • Tiie British steamer Ara was recently sunk in a collision off the coast of ludta. Seventy lives were lost y 41 Notice was given In the British House of Commons, on the night of the 36th, that Yakoob Khan, the Ameer of Afghanistan, and the British representative had each signed a detlnitive treaty of peace. It was stated that every political and commercial advantage sought for by the British had been secured. A telegram was received- from Siberia at St Petersburg, on the 26th, announcing the arrival at Bchrlag’s Straits of the Vega, with Prof. Nordensjold, of the Swedish Exploring Expedition, on board. INTEL!JOBXCB was received in St. Petersburg, on Ihc Stith, that the Nihilists had lately set fire to a village In the District of Ufa. Over 180 bouses were burned. A London telegram of the 27th says the Arbitrator, to whom was referred the question of the reduction of the wages of the South Yorkshire coalminers, had decided against any reduction whatever. A Naples (Italy) dispatch of the 27tli announces a violent eruption from Mount Etna. AteoHOlKi) to a Simla dispatch of the 27th, the late treaty with Yakoob Khan provides that India shall pay that potentate a yearly subsidy of six lacs of rupees.. Delioeokois, tuc Greek Minister of Finance, died, at Athens, on the 27th. According to a Pliilippopolls dispatch of the 2S»th, Aleko Pasha, the .newly-appointed Governor of Eastern Itumelia, had that day entered upon his duties In that city. In obedience to the express command of the Sultan, he wore the red fez, the symbol of Turkish authority, much to the disgust of the Panslavlst inhabitants of the city. Two extensive conflagrations have recently occurred at Moscow, presumably the work of the Nihilists. The successful horse In the Derby races, on the 28th, was Lord Norrey’s S r Bevys. Lorillard’s Uncas, the American horse, was withdrawn before the start. A Pahis dispatch of the 29th announces the death, from yellow fever, of M. Roche Monart, the French Minister to Hayti, after an Illness of two hours. Ills Private Secretary and the First Secretary of Legation had also died from the same disease, and the Second Secretary of Legation was sick. At Purls, on the 29th, the Ship-Canal Congress adopted, by a vote of 98 to 8, the Panama and Lemon Bay route across the Isthmus of Darien. The Congress immediately thereafter dissolved. Accokiiixo to Messina (Italy) telegrams of the 29th, the eruption from Mount Etna had increased greatly in volume, and a huge stream of lava was pouring down the western slope, threatening several villages with destruction, and causing great alarm among the inhabitants. Mefsina itself had suffered from showers of cinders. The British troops In Afghanistan have been ordered hack to the newly-established frontier lines. Tiie American horse Parole won another victory over the Epsom course, in England, on the 30th ult., winning the gold cup and any quantity of side bets. According to Cape Town (South Africa) dispatches, received on the 30th ult., a large force of dissatisfied Zulus, leaving the country to surrender to the British, had been intercepted a few' days before by the army loyal to King Cetewayo, and after a desperate engagement in which many on both sides were killed* overwhelmed and driven back; A train on the Madrid <& Saragossa Railway was captured by Spanish brigands, on the 20th ult., and robbed of 18,000. Lacoste, a Frenchman naturalized la the United States some years ago, has been expelled from France for renouncing his nationality without performing his military duty. United States Minister Norris endeavored to avert the enforcement of the oider, but was able to accomplish nothing^ According to a Rome (Italy) dispatch of the 30th ult., the Pope had prepared an encyclical protesting against the bill passed by the Italian Parliament reqalring the civil marriage to precede the religious ceremony. On the 31st ult., William Henry Purchard, of the engineering firm of Clark ifc Pureliard, of London, failed for $4,500,000. The Governor General of St. Petersburg Las ordered that no more poisons he sold in that citv. ” ip The overflow of lava from Mount Etna lias destroyed the Village of AWOT77 Prtnce issued a notetothe authorities of the Cities of Hamburg and Bremen, on the 31st ult., Inviting them to surrender their privileges as free ports.

Congressional Proceedings. In the Senate, on the 26th, the bill to provide for an exchange of subsidiary coins for lawful money, and making snch coins a legal tender in sums not exceeding twenty dollars, was debated, as were also the bills relative to the transportation of animals, and authorizing the employment of the militia and land and naval forces in certain cases, and to repeal the Election 1aw8... .The President pro tern, announced his signature to the Legislative ApproS nation bill, the House having agreed to the enate amendments thereto, and the Speaker having signed the same. The House was not in session. In the Senate, on the 27th, the bill relative to the transportation of animals was taken up and debated, and, on motion of Mr. Edmunds, the subject was then postponed until the first Mondav in December next. In the House, the bill relative to the removal of cases from State to Federal Courts came up, the pending motion being to second the previous question, but the Republicans resorted to the, policy of refusing to vote, and thus consumed the morning hour, the bill going over without action.... '1 he Senate bill to prevent the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases into the United States was considered and passed, without amendment. The bill to make subsidiary coin exchangeable for lawful money was taken np in the Senate, on the 28th, and amended so as to make such coin legal tender in snms not exceeding ten (instead of twenty) dollars. Other amendments were also agreed to, an 4 the bill as ameqded eras passed.... The bill providing that the principal officers of the Executive Departments of the Oovemment may occupv seats on the floors of the Senate and House was, on motion of Mr. Pendleton, referred to acommitteeof ten, to be appointed by the Chair... .'A bill was 'introduced in relation to the election of Senators from the State of New Hampshire. In the House, the bill relative to the removal of causes from State to Federal Courtrf came up aa regular business of the morning hour, but the Republicans refused to vote, thus leaving the House without a quorum, and the hour was used up without any advance being made in the bill. ... A bill was introduced and referred to convert the gold in the Treasury into silver, and to authorize the issuing of certificates therefor.... A bill relating to the issue of bonds by the District of Columbia Commissioners was passed, the amount being limited to (1,200,000. In the Senate, on the 29th, the McDonald bill to authorise the pee of military forces in certain cases was taken up, and Mr. Wallace moved to strike out the fifth section andgnbV stitute what were known as the political clauses of the Legislative bilL Mr. Wallace then spoke in favor of the bill, and during the discussion a spicy personal debate occurred between Messrs. Blaine and Hill...,The President pro ttm. announced the following as the select committee on the bill providing that the principal Executive officers of the Government may occupy seats 6n the floors of the Senate and House: Messrs. Pendleton, yoorhees, Bayard, Butler. Farley, Conkling, Allison. Blaine, Ingalls and Platt.,..Adjourned to Jhne 2. In the House, a resolution was reported from Abe-Ways and.-Means Committee for the .final adjournment of Congress bn the 10th of Jane. -. . fTbc message df the President, vetoing the Legislative Appropriation bill, was .received, read and referred. , Jhe vote on the passage of the bill over thereto resulted in 112 yeas to 91

nays, leaa than the net saury two-thirds in (he affirmative, i Thu wee a strict party rate, only four Green backer* voting - two affirmatively, and two negatively... The Senate amendments to the Buhaidiarv Coinage bill (the principal one being that limiting the legal.tender quality of ■ubetdiary coin to ten dollar* instead of twenty dollar*) were concurred in.... Adjourned to June 2. ■ •

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. ' —The «• go-as-you-please” is the favorite plan for the small boy who goes on an errand. —The Warren (Ark.) Whetrlonc has a picture of a revolver at the head of its editorial columns. ,<■ —A maple tree in foil loaf, standing in the raiast of a huge snow-bank, was one of the sights at Montgomery, Vt, recently., —Archery is to be fashionable among the ladies, and very properly; every young lady should know how to manage her beau. —Woman—the morning star of our yputh, the day star of our manhood, the evening star of our age. Heaven bless our stars?— Eric Herald. —More than 400 yards in length of cliff at Convillo, near Havre, recently fell suddenly into the sea, with a report like three successive thunder-claps. —Eve was the first, and we reckon the only, woman who did not gather up her dress in both hands and yell at the sight of & snake. - -Ottawa (Kan.) Republican. v*. —Scientists say the sun wtKoease to shine 17,000,000 of years henfilw and by that time Edison’s electric CTgbt will be in complete working order.— Norristown Herald. —“Do you call that a veal cutlet, waiter?” said a customer. “ Why, it is an insult to every true calf in the country.” “ I didn’t mean to insult you, sir,” said the, waiter. —Time—12 o’clock. She—“ George, are you to exhibit in the dog show?” He —“No; why?” She —“Oh, noticing, only you are fluch a remarkable fine • setter.” Exit young man. —An African lion-hunter contributes the following: How to catch lions.— The desert is composed of sand and lions. Take a sieve and sift the desert. The lions will remain. These you place in a bag which you carry for the purpose. —ln a certain Massachusetts normal school, which Causeur declines to name, the word “ eucharist” was given out not long ago to be spelled and defined. More than three-fourths of the gir—beg pardon—yoimg ladies—wrote “ euchreist, a person who plays euchre .” —Boston Transcript. —Some people take life hard, while others take it easily. If a man groans over his w.ork and grumbles until he is completely soured, he actually doubles the amount of labor necessary to finish his task. If, on the other hand, he laughs at toil, the toil itself seems to wear a smile, and helps to finish itself up by the middle of the afternoon.— N. Y. Herald. —The country will breathe easier when it knows that the peach crop is all right, up to date. A Philadelphia reporter has been over in Jersey, where the peaches grow, and he reports that an abundant crop may be expected. If this delicate fruit will now escape the terrible frosts and snow storms of June, July and August peaches will be cheap and plentiful.— Detroit Free Press.

—A train-boy got rather taken in on the Pennsylvania Road the other day. He distributed the usual candy and cake packages through an emigrant train, but when he came back to gather them up again the foreigners had disposed of the goodies and thrown the empty boxes out of the window. They thought it was a free lunch furnished by the conductor, and could not be got to pay for it either. —A kind-hearted listener, knowing that a story-telling friend had an anecdote to relate connected with Samson, was good-naturedly anxious to give him an opportunity of producing it. No opening appearing in the conversation, the injudicious listener at last rushed in boldly with the question, “Was not Samson a very strong man?” “Not so strong as you,” retorted the ungrateful friend, “you’ve dragged him in neck and heels!” —A queer fellow, generally known as Stub Ago, died in Nashua, N. H., the other day, whose greatest weakness was a love for strong drink, and whose peculiarity was to go to the police station ana ask to be locked up whenever he had drank too much. On one occasion his request was not attended to as promptly as he desired, and he said: “ I’m 'not drunk enough to go down, that’s what’s the matter,” and he went out and proceeded to get into proper condition. When the officer found him he had changed his mind, and wouldn’t go until the Soliceman consented to “ knock him own and have a racket, just to show people that he was a hard boy to take.” —lt is curious to notice, says an exchange, how in variably: the names under which the lands of the East have become familiar to the civilized world, are utterly different from those used by the natives themselves’. The mediaeval “Cathay” and the modern “China” are mere corruptions of the Russian “Kitai” and the Hindoo “Cheen,” the native name being Chung-Kwo, or Middle Kingdom. “Afghanistan” is a Persian word, signifying “land of the Afghans,” which has completely superseded the local title of “Wilajit,” (mother-land.) The Empire of Burmab. is called by its own people “Myammah.” Persia is styled “Iran,” and Central Asia “Turan,” by those who inhabit them. Lower Egypt is “Bahiri,” Upper Egypt “Vostani.” The little Principality of Kashgar, formerly called “Alti-Shaar” (six cities), is now “ Djiti-Shaar,” (seven cities.) The Greeks still give their miniature Kingdom its classic name of “Hellas,” and the Turks call themselves “Osmanlis.” —At Franklin Court-House, N. C., a few days ago, a man named Charles Dickinson was shot and killed by Robert Dent The deceased attacked Dent with a horsewhip and proceeded to administer upon his shoulders a severe flogging. Dent warned his antagonist that if he did not cease he would kill him. Dickinson, however, paid no attention to the warning. Dent endeavored to screen himself behind his buggy, but his opponent followed him up. Seeing no escape, Dent drew a revolver and fired upon the attacking party, killing him almost instantly. The accused was at once arrested and, the Supreme Court being in session, tried ana acquitted. The two men had been rivals in a love affair. Dent had b«en received by the lady with more favor than his rival, which so incensed the letter that he determined upon degradeyes. The chances of running a bull out of a ten-acre lot are a toss up* -r

AND 80, WE SAVED TIIE UNION. “Th* foot ia, it waniha D«moai*Uc party that ■Bred th*rUnion."- Senator Heck. “ We Joined the Democrats of the North became we admire their coarse daring the war.”— Senator /Jill. f.O mna in Democratic Conqrutional caucus.] 0 «». Wade Hampton: We fought for the Union in the Booth, And eared its life at the cannon's month; With trumpet and flaw, and htte and sword. We met the invading Yankee horde. And a million of them are camping still In low green tents oh a Southern hill— Eaton 7 1 raised white flags at home, and drfcw A picture of war of the ghastliest hue To keep our fellows from fighting you— And 1 know I did discourage a few— All; And so wo saved the Union! Oen. Hen Hill; 0, we were the genuine Union men. With the rifle pit and the prison pen; We fought the cowards of no account From Massachusetts. Ohio, “Vaiimount.” Our loyal army had to slay traitors that came from up that way— Pendleton: 1 always said the Bopth was brave. And always sang a song when you gave The canting, sniveling Yankee knave A battle yell open grave— All: And so wc saved the Union! Oen. Duller, of South Carolina: We saved the Union—we did, you bet— And we made five thousand millions of debt; Wc never stopped, so great was the gain. To count the cost, in Toes and pain. But we certainly must, while in control. Put the “ rebel dead on the pension-roll, «■ Seymour: When Chase his worthless greenbacks spent, I shouted, “ The money is fraudulent! Those bills will never be worth a cent!" H-ardly ever, you know, I meant— All: And so we saved the Union! Oen. Chalmers : We stormed Fort Pillow. In half an hour After the niggers were in our power More than a hundred dropped and died ? They must have committed suicide, For it ain’t the North and it ain't the West, But the South that treats the niggers the best. F. Wood: Exactly wbat I have always said! A slave is always sure of a bed: You'll give him drink and see that he's fed The same as you would a hog you’d bred— All: And so we saved the Union! Oen. Lamar: The war is over—its strifes and hates; Saulsburu: The Natiorffcows to the sovereign States! Eaton: The Nation’s rights?* Beck: * They have vanished! Eaton : Why, You could put ’em all in a midget's eye And not make him wink! Bayard : It is understood That the army goes without pay or food. Stephens : How differen t this from a former day! Wood : When Fort Lafayette yawned down the bay For the patriot Northern boys in gray— Voorhees: Yes. I bad a pretty loud cal 1 that way! AU: Wc have saved the Confederate Union '

Cause for Alarm.

Wc have from tim£ to time attempted to point out the true scope and object of the Democratic plan and the danger of permitting that party to obtain control of the Government. The Journal is not an alarmist without cause, nor desirous of seeing dangers where they do not exist. Neither is it knowingly untruthful or unfair. But believing that the Democratic party as now organized and controlled does represent ideas and principles dangerous to the welfare and perpetuity of the Government, it would be false to the people and to its own convictions of duty if it did not say so and give the reasons for so thinking. It is not a pleasant duty. It is not pleasant to think that any considerable body of Americans, much less a body numerous enough to aspire .to the control of the Government, hold and represent ideas essentially and fundamentally opposed to our Constitution form of Government. It may be that we are entirely mistaken in thinking that the Democracy do hold such ideas, but believing that they do, it is our .duty to say so. It may be that many, or even a majority of, the Democrats do not mean to bo unpatriotic or disloyal, but if the principles of the party are unpatriotic or disloyal, they must be exposed without regard to the feelings of individuals. For these reasons we have felt justified in quoting the expressions of representative Democrats and Democratic papers to show that the dominant sentiment* of the party is hostile to the National Government, to equal rights, and to the cause of liberty and progress. The evidence on this point is abundant and cumulative. Every Democratic speech made in Congress during the present session has breathed the same sentiment. It may have been glossed over with a thousand fine phrases and loud professions of patriotic concern, but underlying all these was the sentiment of determined hostility to equal rights, to fair and free elections, and to the authority of the National Government. In the North these sentiments are put forth as a summary of Democratic faith, not only harmless, but beneficial, reformatory and wholesome. In the South they are supplemented by an outspoken devotion to the principles of “the Lost Cause” which must excite alarm in every loyal American. In addition to the evidences of this fact heretofore cited, we call attention to the following. Representative Tillman, of the Fifth South Carolina District, 'composed of the Counties of Aiken, Barnwell, Beaufort, Colleton and Edgefield, himself electedjby tissueticket frauds, has published a political letter to his constituents, in which he says: v “At the worst, I hope and believe that our political oppr.saion will cease very shortly after the inauguration of the next President. If the President be a Democrat, it is reasonably certain that a majority of both houses of Congress will also be Democrats, or at least Conservatives. If so, the Reconstruction acts will speedily be repealed, which wonld leave suffrage where it Constitutionally belongs, under control of thp States. Then, admitting the cberced amendments of the Constitution to be valid, the States could attach a property qualification to suffrage without violating these amendments, which wonld practically destroy negro suffrage as a disturbing element in the body politic. Again, after tne Democrats get possession of the Executive and Legislative Departments, the present Judges of the Supreme Court may declare the Reconstruction acts, as well as the two fraudulent amendments, unconstitutional, nail and void, or, if they fail to do so, the Court can be reorganized simply by an increase of Judges, even as the Hadioala did on a memorable occasion, and, by making a proper appointment of new Judges, the Constitution of the fathers can be restored.” ' Asa State’s-right Democrat, representing an aristocratic Southern district, Mr. Tillman may fairly be regarded as a representative Southern man, and the foregoing as an expression of the Southern plan as foreshadowed by Southern hopes and wishes. We ask every candid reader to peruflb it again. It is not the expression of a cross-roads politician, a wild enthusiast or ah obscure editor:' • It ft 5 the expression of a Democrat whq,represents in Congress a representative

district of the South. The programme which he foreshadows is put forth in a political address to his constituents, framed with a-view of securing popularity. In it we are told that all the legislation of the war period! Is to be repealed, the Constitutional Amendments nullified, negro suffrage practically abolished, the Supreme Court revolutionized, and “the Constitution of the fathers restored.” This means practically the success of the rebellion. It means that the results of the war are to be reversed, the principles for which the North contended to De eliminated from the Constitution and the laws and practice of the Government, and the principles for which the South contended put in their place. This is in keeping with the whole tendency of latterday Democracy, the success of which moans practically the snccess of the rebellion and the overthrow of the Government. If there is not good ground for apprehension in the possible success of such principles, then the Journal confesses itself an alarmist without cause. —lndianapolis Journal.

The Ohio Nominations and Platform.

At the Ohio State Republican Convention, held in Cincinnati, on the 28th ult.. Hon. Charles Foster, ex-Member of Congress, left out in the cold by the late Ohio gerrymander, was nominated for Governor, and Gen. A. Hiokenloper for Lieutenant-Governor, The following resolutions were adopted: Besotted , That the Republican party of Ohio, reaffirming the cardinal doctrines of ita adopted faith, as heretofore proclaimed, especially pledges itself anew to the maintenance of free suffrage, equal rights, the unity of the Nation, and the supremacy of the National Government in all matters placed by the Constitution under its control. Besotted , That we earnestly appeal to tbe people. in the exercise of their power through the ballot-box,, to arrest the mad career of the party now controlling both branches of Congress, under the domination of a majority of men lately in arms against the Government, and now plotting to regain, through the power of legislation, the cause which they lost m the field, namely, the establishment of State Sovereignty by the overthrow of National supremacy. Resolved. That the Democratic party, having committed itself to an attempt to break up the Government bv refusing to appropriate to their legitimate objects tho public moneys already collected from the people, unless the Executive shall give his official signature to measures which he conscientiously disapproves—measures plainly intended to allow free course to fraud, violence and corruption in the National elections, and to impair the Constitutional supremacy of the Nation—deserves the signal condemnation of every honest and law-abiding citizen. Resolved , That the present extra session of Congress, thus compelled by Democratic conspirators, has been prolonged beyond all possible excuse, not only to the depletion of the Treasury, but also to the grave detriment of every industrial and commercial interest of the country, by the uncalled-for agitation of several questions; by persistent efforts in hostility to the resumption of specie payments, already happily accomplished; by constantly tampering with a currency system unsurpassed in the world; by reopening and stimulating sectional controversy, especially through tho avowed determination to repeal all war legislation, and by seeking to inaugurate a reactionary revolution designed to restore full power to a ’’ solid South’’ in the affairs of the Government. Resolved, That the financial administration of the Government by the llepublican party, in accomplishing the great work of the resumption of specie payments; in restoring our currency to a par value; in greatly reducing the burden of the National debt; in refunding a large proportion of the same at a rate of interest onethird less than the former rate, thereby alone saving to the Treasury $13,000,000 a year, and in enhancing the National credit to a standing never before attained, is a source of just pride to tbe Republicans ot Ohio, and deserves the warm approbation of the American people. Resolved, That this perpetual disturbance of the country in response to the conciliatory measures of the Administration should, by the j udgment of the people, be- thoroughly condemned. r Resolved. That the Democratic Legislature of Ohio, going on from bad to worse, from the ” O’Conner reforms” ot our public institutions, resulting in scandals unnumbered and mischiefs unmeasured, to the outrageous attempts to reverse the will of the people, ns declared by their suffrages, foisting upon them by legislative usurpation defeated candidates for local offices in place of those duly elected by lawful and unquestioned ballots, cast in the interest of honest and decent home government, merits the most indignant rebuke of every intelligent voter of the Btate. Resolved , That the memories of our dead heroes. who gave their lives to save tbe Nation from destruction, protest against the expulsion of their living comrades from public offices to gratify the partisan purposes ot the dominant party in Congress. Resolved, That we send greeting to the President of the United States and our Republican members of Congress, and we Cordially thank and honor them for the firm and patriotic stand they have taken in opposition to the design of the majority of the present Congress, and we hereby pledge them our earnest and undivided support.

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—Louis Barron, a machinist at Watertown, N. Y., went home from work, the other day, sick, and, falling fainting in the yara, exclaimed to his wife, “I am dying.” Mrs. Barron was so frightened that she died soon afterward. —Miss Virginia Hicks, a young lady of Wyandotte, Indian Territory, was thrown from her saddle by her horse, the other day. She struck on her head, and a high tortoise-shell comb which was in fier hair was driven into the brain, caqsing almost instant death. —Mr. Bradley, a professional baseball player, was struck in the stomach, the other day, during a match by a ball swift from the bat. He picked up the ball, threw it to tho first base, fell and fainted away. The crowd gathered around him and a physician was called. In ten minutes after remedies had been administered he opened his eyes and said. “Is he out?” —L. Longbehm, a German, living on a vegetable ranch about fiYe miles from Antioch, Contra Costa County, Cal., recently; took his little boy and girl, aged respectively six and four years, into the yard, beat them to death with a club and cut their throats. Ho then went to the house and blew his own firains out with a shot-gun. The family had always lived happily together, and the act is attributed to temporary insanity. —Richard Farren, a boy nine years old, came to his death in a singular manner in Everett, Mass., lately. He had been amusing himself by hanging between the stringers of a bridge on the Eastern Railroad, pulling himself up so that his head extended above the rails. While in this position, and watching an approaching train on the in*ward track, a train came up behind on the outward track and severed his head from his body. —A remarkable story comes from the State Prison at Thomaston, Me. Six years ago James A. Lowell, of Lewiston, was convicted for the murder of his wife, Lizzie, a skeleton, supposed to be hers, having been found in the woods. The defense claimed that Mrs Lowell had eloped with a circus man; but this could pot bp broved, and her husband was sentenced to be hanged. This was afterward commuted to life imprisonment, and now David Stevens, who was committed last year for bigamy, claims to have seen Mrs. Lowell in a Western city as late as 1876. He says she was living with one Spaulding, and during a quarrel in a beergaraen the circumstances of her career were —Mr. George C. Gorham, late Seer# tary of the United States Senate, has assumed the management of San Francisco’s new daily newspaper,The Morning Herald. rnr Mr- . \ j! a gardener throws oraugeabinit on tbe side walk, can he be said to be setting out slips P .

CYCLONE.

Portions of Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri Vlaltod by a fearful Tsr-■Ue-Th* Town of Irving Almost Totally Destroyed—Many Lives Lost, and Much Damage Done to Progeny Along tbe Course of tbe Storm. Hr. Louis, May 31. ’ A dispatch from Atchison, Kafi., says: A terrible storm of wind ana rain passed over Northern Kansas end Bout hern Nebraska last evening. It extended through nearly the whole northern tier of counties of this mate, but was most violent between Blue Rapids •nil Centennial Stations on the Central Branch Railroad, about thirty miles apart. The storm moved In a direction a little north of east, and passed Into Nebraska through Richardson County. The Town of Irving, ninety miles west of this place, was nearly destroyed. At that point the storm took on the character of a cyclone, and leveled everything In its path. About forty buildings were destroyed, fifteen persona killed, thirty to forty wouuded. Among the casualties are the following: John Keeloy, wife, fattier and son killed. Mrs. W. J. Williams killed. Mrs. Brlckmaster and five children killed. Jacob Sabens and wife fatally Injured. E. Sheldon, wife and sister dangerously hurt and not eiMfld to live. Sirs. W. t Bates and two badly hurt—one has Blnco died: und Mrs. Noah, Mrs. George Martin, and several others more or less seriously wounded. Amoijg the buildings blown down are churches, one a flue stone building, tho public school, the grain-elevator, railroad depot, Wetnfore Institution, and the residences of John A. Warden, Charles Preston; W. H. balien*, M. L. Leddy, ami Messrs. Armstrong, Tliompsbn, Sheldon, Bates, Williams, rnd others. In tflo neighborhood of Frankfort four or five farm-houses were blown oyer, and In the town several houses were destroyed. There were no casualties at this place, but several persons In tbe country Were severely Injured. At Ceutralia several houses were unroofed, and one house and barn blown down, trees uprooted, fences laid flat, aud great damage done to crops. At Beatty, on tho St. Joseph & Denver Railroad, a number of houses were blown down. At Denison Mills, Neb , on the Atchison & Nebraska Road, a Catholic church was totally demolished, as was also the store of Mead, Riley it Co. One lady was severely Injured. Several rctidences were more or less damaged. A dispatch from Manhattan, Kan., says: A cyclone crossed Big Blue River at Mouth Mill Creek, last uight, and uprooted trees, destroyed grain cribs, fences and crops. The two-story storehouse of Mr. Coudray was unroofed and crushed. Fifteen persons were iu It at the time. Mr. Coudray was somewhat injured, and his sister-in-law, Mrs.Tattlecock, aud child were killed. On Fancy Creek, twelve miles north of Coudray’o, a Methodist church was entirely demolished. Buildings were torn down, cattle aud horses killed, anil other property destroyed, hut no lives lost. Tho Globe-Democrat's special 'from Independence, Mo., says: A cyclone struck the earth four miles from Lee’s Summit, last evening, aud tore a furrow through the country about a hundred yards wide, and ten miles long, leveling everything in Its track, and killing and wounding several people. The direction of tho storm was southwest to northeast. Three miles east of Lee’s Summit the bouse of Mr. Warren was totally destroyed. Two members of the family were killed and others severely wounded. Further on, the house of Alexander Scroggs was unroofed. His wife’s skull was fractured. The houses of Dr. Dunnlngton and Mr. Underwood were destroyed, but their families escaped unharmed. The residence of Mr. llutcbins was torn to pieces, and the family badly hurt. The house of Mr. Harris, near Blue Springs, was demolished. Mr. Harris, his wife ami little girl were killed, and three other children mortally wounded. Mr.—Harris was lifted high up Into the air, carried about 200 feet in the course the storm moved, and then dashed to the earth, while his wife and child were carried about the same distance in an opposite direction. At this point the storm-cloud burst, but came together again almost instantly with a terrific crash, bounded from the earth, came down again near the dwelling of Mr. Gore, which it passed through, leaving Its side walls standing. The funnel-shaped cloud then rose high In the air and disappeared In the northwest. The heaviest rain ever known tn this section accompanied the tornado, actually deluging the country it passed over. The Atchison Champion has a later special from Frankfort giving the following casualties there and In the vicinity:® James DounS and wife, killed; John Howe and boy of thirteen, killed; Mrs. Grooves, killed; Miss Grooves, leg broken; child of Mr. Warefleld, seriously injured; Mrs. Vaughan, badly Injured; John Vaughan, severely injured; Mrs. A. ?S. Fox, right arm broken; Henry Johnson, mortally Injured; Ben Fox, severely injured; Mrs. Henry Johnson, killed; Mr. Bolton, leg broken; Joshua Howe, James Vaughan, Henry Carzear, Robert Laughlin and Miles Kelly hnd family, all badly Injured. At Irving twelve persons were killed outright, and forty-nine wounded, most of tne latter severely. Many of them will die. A committee of the citizens and physicians from tills city arrived there this afternoon, aud medical supplies and clothing have been forwarded from here to provide for the immediate necessities of tbe sufferers. ■' A special dispatch to the Champion from Concordia states that the storm was extremely violent In the vicinity of Delphos, Ottawa County. Fifteen dead bodies were brought in from two square miles of territory. One man from Beloit was taken upin his wagon, thrown to the ground again, and instantly killed. A woman and child were thrown against a wire fence and killed. Five persons were killed in one house near Delphos. The crons have been severely injured along the line of the storm. Reports from Scandla, Republic County, state that the storm was very severe In that section, but no ’-casualties are yet reported. A dispatch from the Associated Press reporter at Kansas, referring to the destruction of the house of Mr. Hairls, near Blue Spring, an account of which was reported from .Independence, says: Mr. Harris, his wife and children were carried up into the atr, clear out of sight, and dropped in different places and directions from the site of the house they occupied, and varying in distauce from 100 to 200 yards. Mrs. Harris and one child were ikilled outright. Mr. Harris died several hours after. One of the other children was found In a pool, flftv yards from the house, with a large bunch of wet straw and grass wrapped so tightly around his head and shoulders that It could only be removed with great difficulty. Tbe child was but slightly Injured, his escape being attributed to tne mysterious bandage around him. St. Loins, June 1. No additional particulars of Friday evening’s cyclone In Marshall County, Kan., was received to-day, but a report comes from Brookville', Kan., at least seventy-five njlles southeast of Irving, tbe town where the most destruction took place, that a most terrific wind-storm passed over the country northwest of there Friday afternoon, doing great damage to farm property and killing several people. A Cyclone also struck the outor edge of Kirksville, Adair County, Mo., Friday evening, demolished about a dozen bouses, and badly damaged several others. Several persons were severely injured, one woman being reported killed. A very high wind also prevailed north and. northeast of Bt. Joseph, Mo. A grain elevator at Hopkins, Mo., was destroyed, severftl small dwellings, barns, etc. blown down, and an elevator on tbe Kansas City, St. Joe & Council Bluffs Railroad destroyed. . . .. Considerable damage was done to other buildings. Trees were uprooted, fences and barns blown down, and crops damaged all along the line of the storm. It is not unlikely that these storms had a common origin out ou the plains la Western Kansas; that some local cause broke the original cloud into fragments; that separate storms were formed from these, one of which traversed the northern tier of counties in Kansas. Another traveled eastward, striking the earth In Jackeop County, Mo., thence moved northeast' to Kirksville and beyond, and the third, and the weakest one „of the three, passing ovor the country In the neighborhood of Bt. Joseph. A heavy rain fell here last night and to-day,; the temperature, js quite cold, requiring fires for comfort. , Heavy rains prevailed all over the centra', southwestern and northwestern parts of this State, doing great benefit to the wheat, coru and other crops. - ► »" —■ The three tallest trees in the world are believed to be a sequoia near Stockton, Cal,; which is, 325 feot high, and two eucalypti in Victoria, Australia, Jstimated to-be 45j5 and 450 feet high respectively. ' w.ban.J«L is shot at, than the crowd.— Derrick. ”