St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 14, Number 41, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 6 April 1889 — Page 1

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fi GREAT TREASURE. The Strang Myslerj SuiToui’dinir Its Disappearauce. A STORY OF EXTRAORDINARY INTEREST. — • DY FRANK BARRETT. - — CHAPTER 111.

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keen animal pleasure of satisfying the eraving of hunger. Sir Edmund sat at the table with us, directing tiie servants, who surely had never before Waited upon such strange company. Ono could see that it was a real delight to this large-hearted man to seo us eat and drink. Miss Lascelles herself waited upon Van Hoeck, attending to his wants with feminine tact and delicacy; his affliction appealed to her womanly sympathy. She was a tall ami graceful girl, with her father's fair complexion, bright, mirthful eyes, that added to the happy expression of her face, and beautiful, soft brown hair, that took golden lights and chestnut shadows in its undulation. She looked you in the face with a fearlessness only possible

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to those who are perfectly healthy and perfectly honest. To the charm of physical beauty was added a faultless manner—the complete sell-command and unfailing grace inseparable from a lady of birth and education. She was as courteous to us, who must have seemed the veriest outcasts of society, as though we were her equal. A true lady can never be ungracious. Her presence had an indescribable effect upon my senses—the effect of fine music after discord. I was conscious of a return from savagery to civilization. But it was not until my gross appetite was satisfied that I became susceptible to the new delight. The baronet spoke not one word about the diamond during dinner, but when it was ull over he said: "Well, now we will go back to the library, and you shall come with us, Edith, if our cigars will not be disagreeable to you, for We have a marvelous matter to talk about.” In the library, Miss Lascelles seated herself beside her father, while we three men sat facing them on the other side of a small round table, on which I placed the diamond. At a little distance from us there was a lion skin on the floor, and on this the Kid threw herself, and as she lay there looking toward us, with her chin resting in the palms of her hands and her elbows planted in the fur, we saw scarcely anything of her but her great, lustrous eyes, because of the shadow thrown by the lamp-shade. “Now, let us understand the position of things to begin with,” said Sir Edmund, taking a cigar, after handing the box to us. "This will explain a good deal," said I, Putting in his hand the copy of our agreement. f) f ‘ Z Z/// V'C ilu Miluu^uJ HfU/ ft tfj. f. z 4« ^vt •»/< 4 4^,4^ n A i J 0 fl V f i r*--b**r* r ^( a^^.cc^ A if!, i.'^a fit*. Jld iJLtazy He held it so that his daughter might read t with him, and having come to the end, laid: “May I ask which is the Judge?" “That's me," said Brace, with some pride •““appinted by the Long Pike Vigilance committee in '56." “You are an American?” “Located ms such for twenty years; born In Cornwall." "And Jan Van Hoeck?" “That's ►rnel,” responded the Judge, inHeating Van Hoeck; "and darkness fell upon

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’em,” he added, explanaLvely. During a short space of his eventful career Brace hail earned a precarious existence as a traveling preacher. "Then you are Bernard Thorne,” the baronet said to me. “and Lola is " “The Kid,” said Brace; “her mother was a greaser—a Mexican," he explained to Miss ; Lascelles. The dinner had warmed his spir- ' its and loosened his tongue, and he continued: "We were drawed together at Cape Town by an adveriisement in the paper. Our afflicted brother wanted to stake his little pile upon a mining venture. He hod studied the thing scicntittc’Hy; he had laid I out a kinder chart in his head, pricked down where the great finds hed been made, sorter I reasoned out the cause thereof, end sot his ■ mind firm as a big find was to be made in a I certain spot, known only unto himself. We I conversed, and he perceived without much difficulty as he hed found the right sorter partner in mo. end he kinder left it with mo to find a third party to jinn in the venture. I spotted out Gentleman Thorne hero among a dozen. I liked the shape of his chest ami ' shoulders; 1 liked the look of his face; I see that, though he was outer luck, he was a gentleman, every inch of him; and 1 tell you, miss,” he said, addressing Miss Las- ; cedes, “that though I ain't no gontleYnan myself. 1 back blood and breedin’ ag’in all I creation. A man like Gentleman Thorne, who has been kep’ clean in his infancy, fed , wholesome, train d up in a public school, I and been learnt to respect hisself and God Almighty, has better temper, more endurI ance, more pluck and iigbtin’power to over- | come and win, than a dozen of the muckers that bounce about bein'workin'men.” He ; paused a moment to let his words make due impression, and then continued: “Gentleman Thorne had no experience, but ho hud a hunderdpound to put inter ther concern, and that fetched Israel jest as much us his looks fetched me. IsraM had three hunderd. i I hed nothing in the shape of dollars, but I I threw in the Kid, which, being a female, was I culc’lated to be useful tinier us in the nat'ral : order of things. What wo hed we lumpt in, and by written agreement, drawed up mu- ( timl, we undertook to play it out to the bot- । tom dollar and the n'int of starvation. We worked, sir, through thick and t hin, through ; the measliest streak of luck mortal man ■ ever st ruek. “I-rael was first to funk it. ‘My calo'la- ' tions are wrong; it’s a hopeless venture, let us chuck it,’he says; to which Gentle- , man Thorne replies: ‘No, he says, ‘we’ll ‘ stick to our colors and fight it out,' says he; end he did his level best to cheer us on. You

.HEN Va n I Hoeck recovered, and the baronetheard of our long f.<st, he took us ~t pace into the diningroom,and iiad us serve d with the best he could give. It was a repast to recompense u s for our long pr i v a t i o n s, and for a time we famished wretches forgot our treasure in the

should have hoered him there a-whistlin' like a blackbud, singin’ songs, drawin' us out of ourselves, and makiu' a pleasant joke out of our bad luck. Ast the Kid down there who was her best friend in that trouble. She'll tell you it was Gentleman Thorne, not her father. She had a bit of a fever—it was him made up a bed fur her. built a screen to keep the sun off. walked fifteen mile in the night tu get things from the store, set up night after night to give her water, end used for to sing out about the sleepin’ beauty and Cineralla, while he was pegg.n’ away at the durned stones. I will allow, miss, 1 were ashamed to let him see I was losin’ heart, and when I felt like blasphemin’ at things in gen’al, I used to take a short walk and let oil all my swearin’ where he couldn’t hear i me. Well, it did look as es we had hooked on tothe everlastin’fish-kittle. Then Israel I funked it a second time. 'We hev still a few pounds left,’ he says to Gentlemen Thorne, •let’s throw up the cards,’ which they might hev done without going from our written word, they two formin' a majority. But Gentleman Thorne wouldn’t agree to it. It wouldn’t be fair to the Judge, he said, and then he promised that if w*' failed in the end he’d stick by Israel, and keep him like his own flesh and blood until he found the means of keeping hisself, which was more than I'd hev promised him, I will allow. Well, we played on till the last cent was spent in stores, and the storeshad got down : to half a tin of beef, and a screw of shag, . and .then I lighted on a two-carat stone. The very next day Gentleman Thorne found , the Great Hesper. We couldn’t allow it was ■ real, yet we sorter thought it was. Anyhow, wo didn’t sleep till we got to Natal and had it tested. We sold the littler stone, and scraped enough together to pay our passage to Southampton by the next boat. In committee we agreed to go to a bank and raise money on the diamond as soon’s we landed, but no one wouldn’t take us n, end if the police hadn’t put us on this track I’m durnod if I know what partic’ler ’ole we should hev been stickin’ in at the present moment." During this recital, which I have abbreviated considerably, Van Hoeck, who despised the Judge and abominated all he said, sat with his eyes closely shut, his * nostrils pinched, and his black brows creased together, so that they almost met. Miss Lascelles listened with intense interest, her pretty lips just parted, and I thought she looked more kindly upon me for the glowing eulogium—of which I have omitted a great part-paid to me by Brace. The Kid changed her position, seeming to catch some of her father's enthusiasm, and sit' ing upon her heels with her hands clasped before her, turned her flashing eyes sometimes upon mo, but more often upon Mi-s Lascelles, as if to watch the effect of P this narrative. "Ono thing is obvious,” said Sir Edmund cheerfully; "you won’t want to leave me to--1 night.” "Neery one on us, sir, you betl” replied the Judge, while Van Hoeck and I expressed the same sentiments in other words. • The baronet spoke in a low tone, to his 3 daughter, wno rose and left the room. “The next thing to cons.dor is," he then said, "how can I be of service to you in this a affair. To purchase your treasure is of course altogether out of tlm question. But I should like to buy a small—a very, very - small- share in it, paying down a. certain n sum tor your present convenience, and tak-

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ing it bar whim the diamond is ultimately disposed of, with a reasonable percentage upon the outlay. I make this suggestion as a matter of business, that you may feel yourselves free from any restraint in accepting my offer.” It took us but a few moments to agree to this proposal. "In that case," he proceeded, “I should wish to have a voice i i the management of this business, and the lirst suggestion I should make is. that t he finest artist in work of this kind be engaged to cut the diamond under this roof, and that during the operation you should take up your residence here. This precaution is necessary for the safekeeping of the treasure, and for our own common security." This arrangement was too obviously advantageous to us to require argument; we consulted together, and quickly agreed to accept the condition. Sir Edmund read the agreement through again, and then said: “We must consult a lawyer with regard to a legal form of agreement. Here there is a kind of tontine arrangement by which one would receive an enormous advantage by the death of his partners. It is an uncomfortable clause, and 1 do not see the necessity for its existence, now that the circumstances which called for its being made are changed. A lawyer may provide for our security without exposing us to ugly possibil- । ities. That, however, can all be settled later on. There is no hurry. It will be time enough to make the legal arrangement when we have ascertained the value of the property to tie arranged, and that wo can not know before the stone is cut. We will question the best firms in London with regard to a lapidary, and take our time. Meanwhile, I will supply you with what money you want upon your I O U, and the diamond shall remain in your keeping. Talk it over among yourselves at your leisure, and any modification you may think advisable I have no doub t I shall be able to accept." Miss Lascelles returned to the room and spoke to her father. Then she went to Lola, i who had curled herself up cm the skin, and I knelt beside her. The girl was not asleep; j she started up into a sitting attitude as Miss Lascelles approached, and thing off the j hand that was laid tenderly on her arm. “You don't dislike me, Lola?" the young lady asked, smiling. “Yes, I do," the girl replied, savagely. “But 1 want to bo your friend." "We shan't never lie friends." I lost Miss Lascelles’ response, for a ser-

vant entered the room and Sir Edmund addre sod us: "Your rooms are ready,” he said; "Johnson will show you to them if you feel you would like to turn in." The prospect of sleeping once more in a good bed brought us to our feet at once. Miss Lascelles, undaunted I y the first rebuff, had got Lola’s hand in hers, and was talking in a low. endearing tone to her. The Kid snatched her hand away, started to her feet, and camo to my side, seeing we were about to go. "A little cuss," said the Judge; “you must excuse her, miss. Her mother was a greaser, and she's never had any kindness shown her, except by Gentleman Thorne. A lick with the strap is what she understands best. No, miss,” ho added, when Miss Lascelles offered to take Lola to her room; "leave her to me. There ain’t nothing but disap- ! pintment and vexation of spirit to be got ■ outer the ongrateful little varmint." The room given to the Kid was the prettiest imaginable, with hangings of wiiite lace over blue silk, and everywhere the eye was pleased with some pretty evidence of care and taste. The bed was suggestive of coziness and fresh virgin purit yat the same . time. I might have taxed my ingenuity in 1 vain to have invented such a room in the ; stories I have told to Lola. We left the j Kid there, leaning against the bureau, her I unfathomable eyes looking around her in i sullen curiosity. In the morning the room was found I empty, the bed untouched, the floor cov- I ered with shreds of the clothing Miss Las- ! eelles hail laid out for Lola's use, which, I undoubtedly, the little savage had torn up. Poor little Lola! She and I had always been the best of friends, except when a question of cooking or .ashing occurred to , trouble us. She would yield to my persua- | sion when nothing else would bend her stubborn spirits. She feared my silent reproach more than the scathing sarcasm Van Hoeck treated her with, or the heavy hand of her father. She respected no one but me, probably because I alone respected | her feelings. Had I foreseen that night the course sho was about to take, I might, with a little patient persudsion, have brought her to reason. My spirit is weighed down with regret. when I think how perhaps a dozen words from me at that time would have turned aside the fearful consequences of that act—an act so slight, yet followed by terror upon terror, by crime upon crime. [TO BE CONTINUED.] A Bitter Experience. Wife (to husband) —“What makes you look so stupiil?” [Husband makes no reply.] Wife—“l asked what made you look so stupid ?” 1 Husband "I have just passed through a bitter experience.” | Wife “Not financial trouble, I hope ?” Husband “Worse than that. I have jnst read a collec ion of ‘anecdotes’in an Hastem maga.ino.”—. li'knnsam Traveler.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. SERIOUS SUBJECTS CAREFULLY AND ABLY CONSIDERED. A Scholarly Exposition of the Lenon —Thoughts Worthy of Culm Reflection—Half an Hour’# Study of the Scripturox—Time Well Spent. The lesson for Sunday, April 7, may be found in Mark xi. I—ll. INTRODUCTORY. The whole choir of gospel voices sounds for us here. Our Saviour’s passion is drawing nigh. The cross is just beyond the city gates yonder. Even John, whose voice now for some time wo have not heard In this sacred recital, speaks again. There is agnilicance in the attention given to the details of this incident. John tells us the moaning of it all. (12; 16): Theso things understood not his disciples at the first; but, whan Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things unto him." It was a distinct Messianic event, such as cast its shadows far before unto the days of prophecy. WHAT THE LESSON SAYS. They came nigh. In the lesson of March 24 Christ was passing out of Jericho on his way to the city of sacrifice (seventeen miles). Now. having passed the night previous at Bethany with Lazarus and Mary and Martha (John 12: 1 sq.). he at last reaches his gracious destination. Unto Jerusalem. Tisohendorf omits Bethphage, but not Bethany. The original, in keeping with tiie pregnant Greek construction uses the preposition into. “Into Jerusalem uni into Bethany," having reference doubtless to the purpose held in mind on tiie way. Mount of Olives. Commanding a full view of the city. Ttco of his disciples. Probably Peter and John, subsequently sent to prepare the passover. (Luke 22: 8.) Co gour way. Having reference to a quiet withdrawal (uphago).——lnto the village. ' That suburb of the ancient city, called Bethphage, which they had to pass through or pass by, en route from Bethany to Jerusalent. As soon as ge he entered in. Or just as ye enter. The allusion is to place rather than time. Sever man sat. More act urately, no man has get sat: house, serviceable for sacred purposes. (Num. I'J: 2.) Loose him. Matthew sjieaks also of the mother of the colt brought along, thus adding to the formal sacredness of the scene. WHAT THE LESSON TEACHES. They came nigh to Jerusalem. They were never very far away from that city of holy immolation. Ever was Calvary's hill-top close at hand. Never did the turrets of that sacred city, sacredest of all for that which was to occur without the gates, fade wholly from our Saviour's view. His divine head felt, no doubt, the prick of tiie thorn even by the peaceful shores of far Galilee, and 1 on distant Hermon's height he spoke with Moses and Elias "of his decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem." Long before, yea, from the very outset of his theanthropic career may we not say ?- from the very foundation of the world, he had steadfastly "sethis face to g.■ to Jerusalem." Assocmus g> be entered into it. More closely rendered it is inst as ye enter in. This is the divine exactness. Nono but a God could afford to be precise on such u point. The gospel writers arc ver y detlnhu in their narration here. They were impressed with the divinity displayed. There was Christout there by the wayside, fhere were no walls, gates, trees, hills to shut away his open vision. "Go into yonder village." he says, and confidently as if,he himself had placed it there—and had ho not? - he says. "Just at the entrance ye will find r eolt tied." A magician cleverly guv deg would have left himself some loop-hole of escape from possible failure by giving larger latitude and scope to his directions. SomeWhore along about 1900, the calculator tells us, the world is to come to an end. Ho may be right; ho may not. God only knows. Savs tiie Master calmly, "Just there at the entrance you shall timl." It s God who is speaking. It ent their way and found. They just went and found. That is the simple word of the original. Suppose wo do as well. Obedience finds. We do not rend of their pausing on tiie edge of the village under some fig-tree to wait and wonder how it could be, or under some juniper to wholly doubt and despond. No, they went right along in the oath marked out, and us they went forward they found it just as he said it would be. Why not trust God's word? Wiiy not believe his promises? For example, lie tells us to go, preach, and ho will be with us. Hus any true missionary of the cross ever found that promise to fail? He tells us to open our mouths for Christian testimony and ho will fill them. Has any sincere witness ever failed at this point? Has God not made even our stammering ami our tears to testify’ graciously for him? He points to his book and he says knock for comfort and it shall be opened unto you, opened for comfort. He points the sinner to himself and he says, "Come and find!” Have you found him ? Well, have you come? lU/iaf do ge loosing the eolt't It was just as he said, and so they are not startled; they have their answer ready. Brother, the Master has anticipated the world's hostility and tho world's challenge. He has armored us and weaponed us beforehand. There in his word is our full and adequate equipment. "Os whom shall Ibo afraid?” Daniel Sloan down there at the Chicago A. M. C. A. rooms has sent out a handy little leaflet. Have you seen it, used it?—"The Worker’s Guide.” “I never did anything bad." (Ans.) Rom. 3: 12. “I am good enough." Nah. 1: 14. “I am better than others.” Luke 18: 11. "I’m too great a sinner.” 1 Tim. 1:15. And so on, seventy or more times over. For every query’ or cavil there is a word of Scripture. Try it and see. Even as Jesus had commanded. Let us hold fast to the word just as it is written i for us. They said just as Jesus said. Is | there any bettor way? Here in our handy Bible are a number of red-letter texts, ilI lustrated so that they strike the eye as soon ' as you turn the leaf. They are Christ’s own : words. Somehow, though, all is truth, the I sentences from our Saviour’s own lips seem ■ doubly freighted. We call it Christ in the j Inquiry-room. And we like to have the ! seeker and the sorrower speak right with Christ regarding doubts and distresses. I Here on our study table is a book called "What Jesus Says,” nearly three hundred | pages of the wonderful words of life arrangi ed for the use of pastors and workers. : There on our book-shelves is “The Words ! of Jesus,” Christ s sayings arranged for the ; responsive service of public worship. There I also is “Christ’s Chi stianity.” a system of divinity in the great Teacher's own words. Friend, have you ever taken the pains to note how much "Jesus said?” And he said nothing in vain. Hosanna in the highest. Garments and palm branches. Hymns and hosannas, homage of hand and heart! Let every Sabbath be a day of the gates, a welcoming,triumphing time for him who cometh, ever cometh, in the name of the Lord! And let every hymn take hold upon heaven. "Hosanna In tiie highest!” It never came to us before as it did at our last reading of Revelation vili. Listen: "And another angel came and stood over the altar, having a golden censer, and there was given unto him much incense, that he should add it (Revision) unto the prayers of all the saints." Ange! voices mingle with ours, heaven's supplications and praistjs augment earth’s pious । cries, "Hosanna in the highest." Next Lesson—" The Rejected Son.” Mark 12: 1-12. ____________ And This Isn’t Leap Year, Either. He—Do you like pop corn, Sue? She - Yes; I just dote on it.” He I wish you’d dote on me, Sue. ghe—But you’re not a bit like pop corn!— Yankee Blade. Husband —Wife, Dr. Smith, the chiropodist, will dine with us to-day. "Wise —All right; I’ll order corned beef. Die on the left side, says a health journal. If it had been a law journal it would have said “Lie on both sides.”

FRANCE’S GREATTOWER IT Wil l BE A PRINCIPAL FEATURE . Gl THE PARIS EXPOSITION. Pone Gating the l louds a Distance of Ont Thousand l <-et Built at an Expense of One Million Dollars A Truthtul Picture of the Obelisk. i Baris special telegram. Tho great Eiffel Tower, which will be one of tho principal features of tho Paris exposition, has been officially opened at Paris. Piemior Tirard delivered tho oration. Tho tower cost nearly, if not quite, $1,001),00(1, of which $300,000 was paid by the French Government. The tower stands immediately upon the bank of tho south side of the river, on the Champ do Mars, its base forms a gig intic archway over the main path loading from the bridge into ®r KT I^l I( » M . HIE EIFFEL TOW EH. the central grounds of the exposition. As can be swu from the picture, the tower is I milt entirely of iron girders and pillars, in the simple construction of four great shifts, consisting of four columns e ich, starting fiom tho four corners of the base ami merging into tho single great shaft uhich forms the main part of the tower. 'I hi- shaft ends in the great cupola, or Alpine roceplion-room, which, in turn, is surmounte ! by a still higher lantern or | lookout, whose observation platform will be up.ou the dizzy plane of 1,000 feet. lit re me three galleries circling tho to,nr. Tho hist great gallery, just above i tho archway, stands* Isa foot above tho ; ground, and measures neatly 300 foot each way. Here are placed cases, r<stau- . rants, reading-rooms, smoking and lounging compartments, and all the amusements and comforts of a French resort. Thousands of people at one time can be i made at home in this great im lostire far up in tho cool air without any necessity □f crowding or treading on one another’s loos. It is also proposed to give baud concerts daily at this stage in tho journey heavenward, so that the first gallery will I probably become the greit rendezvous । and promenade, and tho flaneurs and tho hauts gommeux will use it, as they do the boulevards, for their afternoon stroll, even though tboy are us high in tho air as the towers of Notre Dame. The second gallery, still forming part of tho base of the tower, rests lightly upon its iron sup--1 orts at a height of 3bo feet, or about fifteen feet higher than the highest part of Milan Cathedral. Here is a repetition of ihe life upon the tirst gallery below, for a more select few. Fin illy, as tho tower mounts up farther and farther, past the level, first of St. Peter’s, then the Strasbourg Cathedral and the great pyramid, the cathedrals of llouen and Cologne, and, last of all, the great Washington monument, aud then stretches its slender shaft through the remaining hundreds of feet towaril the summit, there is placed at the top, where the cupola begins, a third gallery, 870 feet in the air, small in comparison to tho others, but still more than fifty feet broad each way. Rest aud refreshment will be found here, as well as below. The whole tower weighs about 15,000,000 pounds, or 7,500 tons. This weight is distributed over the foundation soil, it is computed, at a pressure of a little less than five pounds to the square centimeter. Also the wind resistance of the tower is calculated at 650 pounds to the square meter, while the highest wind ever obseived in Paris would not give a half of this pressure. The tower is fitted up on the inside of the shafts with elevators. There are half a dozen connecting the first two galleries with the grounds, and two go to the top, tho extreme height of which is 1,000 feet. Nuggets of News. On account of dullness of trade, the Hinckley Locomotive Works at Boston have shut down. The mills of the Bethlehem (Pa.) Iron Company have resumed work, the puddiets' wagos being reduced from $3.80 to $3.15 a ton. FiKF at Dubuque, lowa, destroyed the Dubuque Mattress Factory, owned by the John D. Bush estate. The loss is estimated at $20,000, with an insurance of SIO,OOO. Lee Brown, a colored boy nt Chillicothe, Mo., was shot and killed by Scot AVhite, who was carelessly handling a pistol supposed to be unloaded. White was arrested. The American Sugar Refinery at San Francisco, Cal., his been purchased by [ tho Eastern Sugar Trust. John Boyle with his wife and six children attempted to ford Grand Creek at Clinton, Mo. In the middle of the stream the wagon was overturned and four of the children were drowned. Boyle saved his wife and two children. The Hon. John Henry Pope, Minister of Railways in the Dominion Government, is dead. A dispatch to the Baltimore American says that, in order to avoid recognition of the contending Republican factions. i President Harrison has offered the posii tion of postmaster at Richmond, Ya., to I the widow of “Stonewall” Jackson.

MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.! THE CONTENDING PARTIES MEET AT THE I'OLLS—TiII; RESULTS. Kansas Women Succeed in Electing Their Ticket at Cottonwood Falls—The Democrats of Chicago Victorious—The Results al Various Points. ILLINOIS. Chicago, April 3—The election in this city passed off <iuietly, though a very largo vote was polled, reaching nearlv 100,000. It was a complete victory lor the Democrats, lie Witte. Cregier (Dem.) was elected over Roche (Rep.) tor Mayur by nearly 12,000. ’llm other Democratic candidates lor city offices were elected by hs-er majorities. 1 he new ( ouncil will be composed of twenty tour Republicans, twenty-two Democrats, and two independents, SmtiNGFiELD, April 3.—Charles E. Hay (Dem.) was ie-eleeted Mayor of this city ove: b. W . Lawrence (Hop.) by about 250 majority. Ihe remainder of the Demoetatie ticket, except one Alderman, was also elected by majorities ranging from 150 to 600 Qcixci, April 3.—The municipal election nassed off quietly. Bishop (Rep.) was elected over Pai khuist (Dem.) by 503 majority. MICHIGAN. Detroit, April 3. The election in this State was for a Justice ( ,f the Supreme Court and two Regents of the State University. Two constitutioi .u amendments w ro also submitted, one inerea-ing the salary of the < iovei n o r from st OUO t■S,oo I. and the ether enabling e< ip- :atb as to c. ntinim their existence without r- organizing at the end il thirty yearinquired. C. B. Gran tRe; w. -. • . 4 Siipreme Justice by a good i.m, ■ T . -l balance of the j;, pufile an !i. k .. - t- ; ed. Both amendments carried. In ‘ r \ women voted for the first tmie an 1 d olio of their candidates. Ml-. 1 ar- . - : r school inspector. ihe \otj । .lied was light. Haginaw ( ity April 3.—Tbeentire In m--I"‘i at ie ticket v, as ■ h cie !in 11. Saginaw -. but by d> •re.is d )Ui tl'iv-. OHIO. < ixi ixxxii. Xpi'dJ Ihe interest in the election hvit' «.. . oe.-a.-ioiivd bv the refvim movement 11 bv lie del Stone to st: letly eiifor e ihe law reguKiiug the sale of beer on Sunday. Ihe contest resulted in the election of a mlxe l tirket. four Republicaiis and four Derm ei ats. Mosby. R< |iul Ie an. lor Mavor. has a plurality of about >OO. iiioiitxi' April 3.- With the exception ot )‘i lie. Judge and I'nldie Prosecutor, the entile Repul bean n v ticket was elected by sm.di | lundtlies. <"it or . Aptil.'i. Tho mmdcipal election l.iouglu out a vet v light vote. There w i- a ri'deal <1 di.-oitisl.i.-tion on both ide-. Bi iiek. Ih uiie rat. Was elected b' about 1.200, and tlm balunee of the. Denn ' inti.- ;i< ket by -muller majorities. Tn 1 ouncil will Le R< publican. KANSAS. 1.. v. i x ion hi. Api il t. The contest hero f"i the May’oraltv lay between D. It. Anthony. Republican, and L. M. Hacker, Deiuoei at. Women of all (Jassos and grades "I o' ic( y wo' ked against Anthony. Susan IL Authony, -i-b r m 11: Republican eandidate, worked heroically for him, and by her as-istanci' and other means he captuied the entile eoloie I vote. Nearly lour thousand Women voted during tlm day. A stylishly dre-sed lady endeavored to vote a colored Woman at the Fourth Ward. She was ut onoa nr rounded by colored ward workers and so badly Irigbtened that she fainted. Hacker w.is elected by from 2,0(D to 5,000 majority. W’k hua. April 3. At the municipal election about eight hundred women voted, the numb' r being composed mostly of the tomporune women and the sporting- class. Two women were <ni ticket- lor the School Board, both being defeated by a large vote. George F. Harris, a wholesale liquor dealer, was el cted Mayor. Two Winds elected liquor men to the ('ouncil. (oi i<iNwdon Falls, April 3.—A ticket eoinpo ed entirely ot ladies Was jdaced in the H( Id by the “bum" element of this town as an insult to those who were leaders in all good works. The better class of citizens at omm voted for them, ami the result wa > that Airs. Minm D. Morgan was eleeled Mayor, and a full Board of Aidermen. composed of tho most prominent hili- • in the city, will aid her in administering the affairs of the town. MISSOURI. bi . Lotus, April 3. The. weather was perfect and a heavy Vido wa- polled. Noonan, iiemoerat, was elected Mayor by probably 2.UUU plnialitv. Kansas I ity. April 3.— The hottest city • •ampaign ever known here closed with the election of the entire Republican city ticket, outside ot Aldermen, with the exception of Treasurer, the Democratic candidate being elected by a large majority. Ti e Council is Repuldiean. OTHER STATES. Little Rock, Ark.. April 3. -The returns liomthe judicial election in this State indicate the election of the Democratic nominees. ’I he vote was very small. In the Little Kock city election the whole Republican licket was elected except Ihe Mayor. Lincoln. Neb., April 3.—The entire Republican city ticket was elected and twothirds of the Councilmen. Platsmouth, Nob., April 3.—Tho city election resulted in a clean sweep for the Democrats. Denver, Col., April 3.-/The entire Republican ticket with Wolfe Londoner at its head for Mayor was elected in this city. Dubuque, low a, April 3,—Stewart, Dom- ( erat, was elected Mayor by 35!) majority over Hayden, Republican. Trie entire Democratic ticket, was elected. I LOKID \ SOLONS. The .--peaker id the House l iges a Cliango to the Mode ol National Election. The Florida legislature met in regular session at Tallahassee. Gen. J. B. Wall of Tampa was ehoosen president of the senate and Dr. J. I . Gaskins of Starke speaker of th" house. In taking his seat the latter made abi ief speech, in which ho said: I cannot believe it was ever the intension of Jefferson that any man receiving a majority of tiie votes of tin' whole people should not take tiie position of rresidi iit of the I nited States. Yet tho startling Lu t confronts us that Cleveland received IG.IIUO im.re votes than his opin nont and stili is md President. It is the duty ot the Morida I egi.-latuie toinquire into ami cotri'ci this deli 11 hi f Hie national organism in so tar as it can. Ihe sentiment was greeted by wild apj'biuse, and it is regal dod in Talhdia-seo as tho first State gun tiled in behalf of the popular election of President. HAP WRECK IN MONTANA. Three People Killed and Three iiyured >“ a Helena Train t'olli.sieu. A collision occurred on tho Northern Pacific, near Helena. Montana, by which three people were killed and three wounded. The east bound passencer train leaving Helena ran into a double-header freight train standing on the side track, wrecking three engines and piling them iu a promiscuous mass on the track. Ol the three killed only one has been identified, Oburlio Green, a fireman, whoso home is in Baltimore. Tho injured are Harry ( onger, A. L. North, mail agent, and Joseph Jackson. None of tho injuries tire serious. HUNDREDS LKI I lIDAIELESS, Furious Prairie Fires Sweep Over Dakota and Lay a Town in Ashes. The village of Mount \ ermm, was almost entirely consumed by lire. I.very business house and nearly all the re-idenoes were destroyed, ’The Chicago, Alilwank o and St. Paul depot, together with tour large elevators, is gone. Tho his- will bo neatly $300,600. A hundred families are left homeless anti utterly destitute. Tho destruction was caused by a prairie Uro. 0,1). Towt. a member of the Now York Stock Exchange, lias fail id,

NUMBER 11

FORTUNE’S FAVORITES. PRESIDENT!AU APP<HN ! MENTS THAT HAI E BEEN CONFIRMED. Executive Session of tllo llppe ,. |J(>|lse (>| < ’’"k'c-s Final Disposition o f President Harrison’S Nominations-the Lucky Ones and the Unfortunates, The Senate confirmed the following nominatmns: James ( Churchill, Mi sa ouri, Surveyor of CustomH at the port of St. Louin ; Charts E Monteith, Agent at the Nez Perces Agency Ida. ho; Second Lieutenant William A Mereer’kiK LwoUwnt of tho Eighth ’infantry ’ ' si masters — Chester A. Wilcox ‘ ~ W illiam B. Webster, CuZ J Easton, Warren Mimi ; John H Wainb wi 1 " wrtt’-NXS;^ Gporge Budd, Bozeinau, M.’ T.'mJames M^Moora’ M/r-; JohnD. Hogue, Ta«m^ w£ lAbram W . Lawson, Plattsburg N Y • Havki M Jones, Scranton, Pa. ; John IL KinsG Vrk ihe following nominations were sent in I v President Harrison- Robert Adame J J Pennsylvama, Minister to Brazil - Laneinu B Misener, of California, Minister to the Cemtrai American States; William L. Scrug-’s of Georgia Minister to Venezuela ; William oT Bradley of Kentucky, Minister to Corea; and others of minor importance. The executive session ot tho Senate lasted two hours on the 30th ult., being devoted almost oxclusively, for the time, to the case of Murat Halstead nominated to be Minister to Germany. Senators Sherman. Hawley amt Blair spoke in favor of bis confirmation, the two lust named being listened to with especially closo attention At the close of the remarks a vote was taken on tho motion to reconsider the vote by which tho nomination Lal b.. n rejected The motion was lost by a ' i- 7/ to V ' Me!iti1 ’ 8 - Lvarta, Ingalls, Plumb i lelh i voting with the Democrats in tho n gutive, and Messrs. Blackburn and Call with t: . R-publicans m the affirmative. The Ronub lieu.- mimed explained their votes on roll call saving that they hud no personal feeling in the matter, no antagonism against Mr. Halstead but thought it right to defend the Senate a^am-t such attacks as had been made upon its character by him iu his paper. A number of Senators were paired, among them Mr Cullom against and Mr. Farwell in favor of reconsideration. The Pr„ident sent the following names to the Senate: To be delegates to the conference between tho United States of America and the republics ot Mexico, Central and South America, Hayti, San Domingo and the Empire of Brazil, to be held in Washington in 1889: John B. Henderson, of Missouri; Cornelius N. Bliss, of New York; William Pinckney Whyte, of Maryland; Clement Studeliaker, of Indiana; T. Jefferson Coolidge, of Massachusetts; William Henry Trescott. of South Carolina; Andrew Carnegie, of Pennsylvania; John R. G. Pitkin, of Louisiana; Morris M, Estee, of California; J. H. Hanson, of Georgia. The following nominations wore confirmed: Robert T. Lincoln as Minister to England; John Hicks, to be Minister to Peru; George B. Loring, to be Minister to Portugal; Allan Thorndyke Rice, to be Minister to Russia; Thomas Ryan, to be Minister to Mexico; Patrick Egan, to be Minister to Chili. When the Senate met at 1 p. m. on the Ist inst. Mr. Teller offered the following resolution: “liesoleed, That’ hereafter all Executive nominations shall be considered in open session of the Senate.” The resolution was referred to the Committee on Rules. The Senate confirmed the following nominations: Louis Wolfley, to bo Governor of Arizona; Charles A. Ashley, to be Agent at the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Agency, Indian Territory; William W. Junkin of lowa, to be Indian Inspector; James E. Kelly, to be Receiver of Public Moneys at Bloomington, Neb.; Louis A. Walker, to be Secretary of Montana; Charles It. A. Scobey, to be Indian Agent at Fort Peck, Montana; James N. Huston of Indiana, to bo Treasurer of tho United States; Ellis H. Roberts of New York, to be Assistant Treasurer at New York City; Edwin H. Terrell of Texas, to bo Minister to Belgium ; John T. Abbott, to be Minister to the United States of Colombia. Among the nominations sent to the Senate by President Harrison were these: William F. Wharton, of Massachusetts, to be Assistant Secretary of State; George IL Shields, of Missouri, to ba Assistant Attorney General; L. Bradford Prince, of Santa Fe, to be Governor of New Mexico. The Senate adjourned sine die on the 2d inst. Tho proceedings were mainly devoted to a discussion of Mr. Sherman’s resolution expressing tho profound sorrow of the Senate at the death of Mr. John Bright. Mr. Sherman suggested that the resolution should be referred to tho Committee on Foreign Relations, as its adoption might establish a precedent that would return to plague the Sena" Mr. Hoar eulogized Mr. Bright as a friend of the United States and induced Mr. Sherintin to withdraw the motion, but Mr. Reagan immediately renewed it, at the same time calling attention to the false step taken by the House soma years ago in jiassing a resolution complimentary to a member of the German Reichstag aud having it returned by Prince Bismarck. The motion was carried. Vice President Morton retired and Mr. Ingalls was elected and sworn in as Vice President pro tempore. The foliovving nominations were confirmed: George H. Shields, of Missouri, to be Assistant Attorney General; Ilrury J. Burshett, to be Marshal of Kentucky; Robert J. Fisher, of Illinois, to be Assistant Commissioner of Patents; Captain George B. White, to be Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks ; L. Bradford Prince, to be Governor of New Mexico; William F. Wharton, of Massachusetts, to be Assistant Secretary of State; Major Charles 0. Byrne, to be Surgeon in the army, with the rank of Lieutenant (qlonel; Captain Curtain Munn, to be Surgeon in the army, with the rank of Major; Second Lieutenant Charles B. Vogdes, to be I-list Lieutenant First Infantry; S. A. Darnell, Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia; John B. Hmiderson, of Missouri; Coraelius N Bliss, of New York; William 1 inekney Why te, of Maryland; Clement Studebaker, of Indiana, T Jefferson Coolidge, of Massachusetts, W illiam H. Trescott, of South Carolina; Amiiew Carnegie, of Pennsylvania; John R. G. 1 HKia, of Louisiana; Morris M. Estee of and J. F. Hansom, of Georgia- lelgates to the Congress of American Nations to be held in Washington, November 1889. naval promotions sent to the Senate by the President were also confirmed. In tho course of the session efforts ^er® made to remove the injunction of sec.ecy fiom tho votes on the motions to confirm the , nom tions of Whitelaw Reid to b- Mini st ei t oil ance, and Os Murat Halstead te be ^imstei to Geimany, but they were unsuccessful. G e iuifiur consideration of the extradition tieaty with Russia was postponed until next ‘ ‘ n; gross. The calendar of nominations was al most entirely cleared. The noniinutions Udw in L Kinshead to bo United ^ates Muiaiiill tho Eastern District of Louisiana and of WiH turn H. Whiteman to be an the United States Court in New the most prominent of those that failed tirmutiou. Aphorisms. He lives long that lives well; ami time misspent is not lived, but lost. Buller. . , „ .i Men are never so ridiculous tor the qualities they have as for those they affect to have. — Charron. W hen wo are young we are slavishly emploved in procuring something tv hereby we may live comiortably vv hen vve grow old; and when we grow old y,e perceive it is too late to live as we proposed— Pope. An oition thinks no face so beautiful as that w hich looks from under a crow n. —Sir Philip Sidney. It mav be remarked, for the comfort of lamest poverty, that avarice reigns most in those who have but few good qualities to commend them. 1 his is a need that Mill grow only m a barren soil. - Hnyhes. r , , He fancies himself enlightened because he sees tin' deficiencies or others, he i- ignorant because he has never ref acted on his own.— Bald ei ■ Getting in Ni<T ShapeBobbv had slipped hack into the dining room and was hurriedly di cussing a second piece of apple pie when his mother came in. , "You said 1 could, ma,” he remarked, in answer to her reproof, "’lou told me I mustn’t go over to W illie afHe s until I was iu apple-pie order, and a boy can’t get in apple-pie order on only one piece.” — Seii' York' Su a. A screeching push cart has a bar-low-tone sound.