St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 16, Number 26, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 3 January 1891 — Page 2

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA. NUGGETS OF GOLD FROM EVERY QUARTER OF THE GLOBE. Tho Latest Intelligence Received by Wire from Distant Lands and at Home—The Cream of the News Gathered from AU Qua: tors of the World. THEY MAY TAKE OUR PORK. Italy Likely to Remove the Vexations Restrictions. The Italian Government several years ago prohibited the importation of American pork and lard, and soon after extended the prohibition to all countries. It has just taken a step, however, which, ft is believed, will result in the removal of the restriction against the United States. The Minister of the Interior has issued a decree reciting that Germany is taking every safeguard to insure tho health of its home products. A certificate frenn^a health officer is. J,p accon - inspection laws or Germany are now more rigid than those existing in tho United States, it is believed that Italy, whose trade relations with the United States have been rapidly growing until now thej’ have reached figures exceeded only by three nations, wi” ’ - willing to remove tho embargo upon American pork and lard upon similar assurances from the United States of thorough inspection. It is known that the Government is highly pleased with the increasing trade with‘the United Stat rs, which has been less affected by the now tariff than that of the other nations. It is believed that the matt r has been taken up by Secretary Blaine and that negotiations are pending. The agents of a number of American sh’ppers are now in Italy. They say t’.at the removal of the restriction ag&inst the United States would provo'of the greatest benefit and that they are satisfied a large market is awaiting such action. : THEY HAVE SOFT JOBS. Retired Army Officers Who Draw Two Sa’aries The right of a retired officer of the army todioid a position undi the civil Government and to draw pay for both ; positions comes up again incidentally in I connection with the case of Col. A. .1. Smith, who was recently restoced'to the army and retired by a special act of Congress, and who has continued t i perform tho duties of disbursing agent for the engineer department of the army. In the latter capacity he had paid himself mileage at the rate aDowed engineer officers The Second Controller has just decided that he is entitled only to act tai traveling expenses as allowed all other civilian employees, and in a lengthy review Qf tho officer’s status throws out a pretty broad hint that he is illegally drawing a double salary from the government. It has long been a question whether an officer could draw two salaries frointeTt^gywm^^S^flhent, but inasmuch as the ft? have decided that the only specific law on the subject is the one that prohibits retired officers from holding positions in diplomatic service the accounting officers have not undertaken to stop the pay of those retired officers who till civil offices outside of the State Department, but an opportunity Is rarely lost of questioning the propriety of appointing retired officers to civil positions. Gen. XV. S. Rosecrans draws pay as a Brigadier General on the retired list and as Registrar of the Treasury. It is the best piece of luck “Old Rosy” has had for many years. Texts Town: E< Kbits': Qvi-aTIn 1 . The officials of the Southern Pacific declare that when tho Commissioners of Fort Bend County, Texas, quarantined against Houston on account of smallpox, the railroad authorities v re not notified. Passengers report lively times at Richmond. Stafford, Rosenburg, and other stations in that section. Those who wished to get off were met by armed men, who compelled them t) remain on the train. The maiis were delivered. Selah Chamb rlain D al. Selah Chamberlain, one of Cleveland's oldest citizens, died a few nights ago, of liver complaint and old age. He was born in Brattleboro, Vl, May 4, 1812. and was of English parentage. He buik the Rutland and Burlington Railway, tho Lake Shore and Tuscarawas Valley, and was connected with various other railway enterprises. He was very wealthy. Not Realy for a R?imi of Priicx M. de Freycinet, addressing the electors of the Department of the Seine in France, in his canvass for election to the Senate, enunciated his views as a progressive Republic in and asked a renewal of the mandate for the completion of the national defenses, because, he said, the time had not arrived when a reign of peace could be established. Now Railroad ! n N< b a ska It is rumored that the Kansas City and Omaha, a part of the St Joseph and Grand Island, which belongs to the Union Pacific system, will build from McCool .Junction, Neb., to Lincoln and from McCool Junction to Kearney. This will shorten the main line of the Union Pacific west by several miles an I may in time carry the overland trains. Arrested the Conn y T”-asurer. James C. Gillespie, Treasurer of Boone County, Mo., has been arrested for embezzlement. He was given a proliminary hearing and was held in §5,000 bonds. Warrants have been issued for County Judges XV. F. Roberts and W. F. Angel, charging them w'. n making and collecting from the county illegal charges for milcage to the amount of $l5O. Didn't Btrhr His XV f's Hon t. Having been advised that he cannot bring an action for libel with hopes oi success. Capt. O’Shea, of Parnell divorce case fame, has published a letter to disprove tho truth of Timothy Healy’s taunt that he bartered his wife’s houoi to gain a seat in Parliament. Failure of a N-bra ka I ank Tin: City National Bank of Hastings, Neb., has been forced to the. wall, ami the authorities at Washington have been not.ifnm to send on a receiver.

, EVENTS OF THE WEEK. eastern occurrences. A meeting of the manufacturers and , Jpbbers of the plate-g'ass trade, will be held in Pittsburg in the near future. At the recent New York meeting it was decided to advance prices 30 per cent, but since then Western men have made a stand for 5 per cent, advance. The avowed intention of the fraternal combine is to keep plate-glass prices at the highest figure possible and at the same time keep it low enough to shut out all importations. William Strong, of Pittsburg, aged 22, was arrested on the charge of robbing his former employers, Scheutte & Co., of SI,OOO. When arrested young Strong was a leading character in a’Santa Claus entertainment at the Bingham and Thirteenth Streets M. E. Church. A sensational scene followed, as Air. Strong was prominent in church work. Gen. Charles S. Taylor of Mount Holly, N. Y., committed suicide by drowning himself in a creek at the same spot where his brother drowned himself a few years age. At Mifflington, Pa., Christmas, Oscar Conrad, a boy who was among the spectators at a shooting match, was killed JpTTne accidental discharge of a gun. WESTERN HAPPENINGS. e n Portland, Oregon, on a charge of forgery. He is accused of forging a will in Lancaster, England, recently, under tho name of George Brooks, and by it came into possession of a considerable sum of money. He afterward came to America. McDonald makes a general and specific denial of tho charge. He says he has not been in England for six years. A daring and successful robbery occurred in the northern part of Fostoria, Ohio, about dusk one night recently. As Frank Myers, agent for the Perkins Windmill Conti any^M ishawaka. I ml., was coming to town from his home, three miles in the country, he was stopped by three men. One of them stepped up to him, saying: “Wo were just looking for you; consider yourself under arrest.” At tho same instant two revolvers were stuck in his face. One of the felI lows pulled out a pair of steel handcuffs ; and fastened them around his wrists. The fellows then began going through his pockets. Attempting to resist he was struck below the eye and knocked senso’eis. The thieves secured $1,300 in currency, a gold watch, a revolver, ami some notes. i When Myers regained consciousness ; he was lying on the railroad track. Myers hastened up-town ami had the handcuffs sawed off. Ono of the fellows had on a blue coat and brass buttons. It is supposed the work was done by parties who know that Myers frequently had large sun's of money on his person. There is no clew thus far to the robbers. SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. The vicinit yof Monroe, Walton County, Ga , was visited by a destructive cyclone. The storm cleared a space of several miles long and 100 yards wide, blowing down houses and killing several people, .Jack Henderson and his wife were buried beneath tho ruin* of theif homo. lii-mU rson iwis kiii.-.L wwq hisCJJtfe w»*-not uadly hurf> ~ Pat Fahey and Cornelians Sullivan, railroad section men at Lexington, Ky., quarreled over the Parnell situation. Fahey struck Sullivan witli an ax-handle, when the latter cut Fahey’s throat and stabbed him to the heart with a knife. Fahey died instantly and Sullivan fled. Fairfield, Freestone County, Texas, is stricken with a deadly and mysterious disease, and the Governor has been appealed to by telegraph for medical aid. The sickness broke out suddenly, and out of thirteen ease's eleven deaths have occurred. It bailies medical skill, and kills the victim in a few hours. State Health Officer Rutherford was instructed to go there at once and investigate the disease. FOREIGN GOSSIP. Parnell has received a terrible facer in Kilkenny. Aside from Davitt and Healy, even th© most sanguine of his opponents did not dream such a majority would be piled up against him. The actual figures are: Hennessy, 2,527; Scully, 1,365; giving a majority against Parnell’s figurehead of 1,161. Yet Parnell vows this is not a fair test case, and that he will 'fight in turn every one of the eighty-five Home-Rule seats in Parliament. No doubt he will if his strength holds out, but he looked as he stood bareheaded in the street addressing an unruly mob just after the poll was declared, as though another campaign as exciting as this one would carry him to the grave. The doctors who have been closely associated with Parnell for the last three weeks say that if for no other reasons his health necessitates a year’s absence from Parliamentary duties or political strife. Parnell is afraid to take it for fear the Tories will spring a general election on him during his absence, as they did the last time he was in America. In consequence of the report of Senor Monel, President of the Spanish Tariff Commission, in which ho protests against a decrease of duties, tho Government has resolved to inaugurate a policy of pro- j teetion before the general election. The latest report of the Agricultural Bank of Kiew gives a good idea of the indebtedness of Russian landed proprietors. In Volhynia alone thirty-one manors, with an aggregate of 100,003 acres, are about to coni" under the hammer. In the Department of Kiew the number of manors to be sold is eighteen and the total acreage 80,000. In all European Russia 0,000 land-owners are now bankrupt, and their properties are. to be sold at auction within a few months. The verdict rendori d at tho Coroner's inquests at London in the case of Miss Worthington, who was killed, in tho Broadstone Railway collision, brings charges of manslaughter against the engineer and fireman of the, detached I locomotive with which the express coll tided. FRESH AND NEWSY. s The Bur nos American Republics i at Washington lias received information of the organization of a curious corporation in Brazil under tho name of , the “Coinpania Nova Era Rural de 'I Brazil.” with a capital of $25,000,000, a ' large portion of which has been fur--11 j nished by bankers and merchants of Europe. and the remainder

by local Investors. The object • of this corporation is to establish twenty agricultural settlements upon the public lands of Brazil, which are given free of cost by tho Government. Rail(l way lines will be constructed for placing o these settlements in coifMnElication with t each other and the markets/ The enter- ■- prise will also carry on inim’ihg operations t and tho manufacture of sjjgar, bricks, a tiles, lime and other a)tieN|^ for export e■ as well as for local con»um|>tion. This - company proposes to select Several thouo sand families in Europaj^nsisting of 3 skilled farmers and uT^inics, and 1 .transport them free of Bl^lo Brazil, where houses will be prepafet! for their I occupancy and tools an® implements , furnished for their use. Taese colonists P will be divided into villages and seatterr ed over tho estate as t * nucleus for ’ other emigrants, who v tm brought there later. The Fedc,„, and several ' State Governments of Brazil have of- , sered a guaranty of 5 per cent, interest on one-third of the capital invested in this enterprise. Ihe Bureau of the American Republics'at Washington lias received a dispatch from the Argentine Republic gning a brief summary of the commerce of that country .for the vear last. £. notwithstanding nation, tho imports for f amounted to 6175,955^ Lt bo exports to $159,627 ^oht crop for the year has buu enoiirf*>«s, will probably bo the largestg ver grown In the country. During thi year 289,0)0 immigrants landed at Bu^hos Ayres, of which number 109,(09 had tlieir passage paid by the Government. The population In Bueno’ Ayres is reported to havo । increased between 30,000 and 40,000 dur- , ing the past year, 126 new streets are be Ing laid out, and between 8,000 and 9,000 new buildings erected. Ain. Leech, Director of tho Mint, was asked what the Tri asury Department would do with all tho silver in case tho financial bill, as outlined by the Senate caucus committee, should become a law. His reply was: “We would immediately have to look around for places in which to store the silver dollars coined under the bill. Even now we are somewhat cramped as to room. Wo would be compelled to ask an appropriation, and a good-Mzed one, too, to bo used in building storehouses in which to put the silver dollars. R G. Dux & Co.’s woolly review of trade says: Business has progressed as well as could be expected in a week broken by ih" Christinas holiday and a great snow-storm. The holiday trade was nmiarkahly heavy In New York and at nearly al! other point's good, which Is by no means evidence that tho tightness of .no money market springs from any general emburr i*-mn>t of business or industry. The volume of payments through banks continues larger, though but alsmt 3 per cent, larger, than ' a year ago. Railroad earnings thus far reported for December also" show a gain of about 4 per cent. over those of the same week last year. Foreign trade is heavy In spite of causes which were expect tsi to Insure a tnaterlul decrease. Tho uncertainty in regard to nwnet ary’legislation ami its possible efleejs is still tho great obstacle, but even this aas less disturbing Influence than it hud a Week or two ago, ns the pn<spect of unwise action seems more remote, and the money markets have generally grown easier duHfR the last week, not only al the East but at some of the Western and Southern centers. , The monetary shuuyon^tfM^rs W<ir* iH'camo TMBHk 1,-- ■ cnanweeks of December <xport. w A’ork have been “ per cent, greaterthi^Kast year, which would Indicate heavier eVnirts than In any previous month, while CTI" Increase in imports has been but 2 percent. These facts point to an execs, of exports as large as the 837,000,006 of last l»ecemcer. In November the,exce-s of exports over im- i ports was more than $23,000,000. 1 A DAY IN CONGRESS. Mr. Sheiiman, from the Committee,on Finance, reported to the Senate, on the 23d, the bill to provide against the contraction of the currency and for other purposes (the caucus bill), and it was read twice and placed on the calendar. The bill was .reported with an amendment striking out the provision for the replacement of the deficiency in national bank-note circulation by the issue of treasury notes, and inserting a provision for the issue of $200,000,006 of two per cent, bonds to b,e redeemable at pleasure after ten years The election bill was then taken up and Mr. Call addressed the Senate in opposition to it. Mr. Call spoke f >ur hours, and was followed in opposition to the bill by Mr. McPherson. After he had spoken a few minutes Mr. Aldrich asked Mr. McPherson to yield the floor, and the request having been complied with, he ga’ve notice of his intention to move an amendment to tho rules, providing, during the present session, for the closing of debate on any bill under consideration. The proposed amendment having been read, Mr. Aidrich asked that it be printed and laid over. Nothing of importance was done in the House. MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime 83.25 5.53 Hogs—Shipping Grades EDO © 375 Sheep.. 3eOJ @5.50 AVheat—No. 2 Red & .92 Corn—No. 2 Oats—No. 2 .40 "<gi Al Rye No. 2 .65 @ .67 Butter—Choice Creamery 20 & .29 Cheese—Fall Cream, flats .io 1 / Eggs—Fresh 2! & .23 Potatoes—estern, par bu 85 & .90 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3-5° Hogs—Choice Light ^OO o Sheep—Common to Prime :;' 94 jj i .. Wheat—No. 2 Red JISO @ .50'2 Corn—No. 1 White lls .« 2 Oats—No, 2 White If sr. I.OVIS. 1.00 @ 5.25 GATTI.k 1.00 & 3.75 I Hoon @ 95 Oats—No. 2 ^4l & .42 Barley—Nebraska .7a & -el CINCINNAIT. _ , Cattle 3.(0 @ 4.50 H >gs 8.09 & 3.50 Sheep 3.09 5-25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 98'2 .99'4 Corn—No. 2 52 & Oats —No. 2 Mixed 45}^ 15 .46^ MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring 85 & .87 Corn—No. 3 48 © .49 i Oats—No. 2 White 42 & .43 i Rye—No. 1 55 @ .67 I Barley—No. 2 65 & • ( ’ s ^ • DETROIT. . I Cattle 300 @ SCO ’ I Hogs 3 ,00 @ 3.5 J : I Sheep 3.59 4.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red '93 @ .99 ' ■ Corn—No. 2 Yellow '52 © 43 ; Oats—No. 2 White 451-43) .46 . TOLEDO. , Wheat 95 @ .96 1 Corn—Cash '52 @ .5216 Oats—No. 2 White '45’4 & .4616 BUFFALO. Cattle—Good to Prime 4,0)1 @ 5.01 Hogs—Medium and Heavy 3^50 @3.75 Wheat—No. 1 Hard j.oa & I.OSkJ Corn—No. 2 57'63 .5816 S EAST LIBERTY. ' Cattle—Common to Prime 3.50 @ 4.75 Hogs—Light 3.25 3.75 S Sheep—Medium to Good. \ @5.25 r Lambs 490 @ 6.09 1 NEW YORK. 3 Cattle g^Q @ 5.00 j, Hogs 3'2.5 @ 3.75 5heep.......... 4oq @5.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red Uns @1.07 S Corn—No. 2 7./.^' f,2 @• G 3 r Oats —Mixed Western 4? &

expiated her crime. MARY ELEANOR WHEELED IS HANGED AT LONDON. Made a Confession nt Last—The Murderess of Mrs. Hogg and Her Habe Acknowledges the Justice of Her Sentence. The report cabled from London that Mary Eleanor Wheeler, alias Mrs. Pearcey, had been rescued from the gallows and condemned to prison for life was somewhat premature. The woman was hanged on tho 23d of December. A cablegram from London says: Notwithstanding the report of the noted alienist, Dr. Forbes Winslow, to the effect that the woman was subject to epilopt fits I w > f / <l-I^l It MARY ELEANOR wnEEIJn. and might, have killed Mrs. Hogg while in that condition, Home Secretary Matthews decided not to interfere witli the course of justice on the ground that the crime bore conclusive evidence of deliberation as to tho death of the, child at least and also of premeditation. During the last few days Mrs. Poarccy has been mmdi broken down. Instead of maintaining the calm front which sho showed at her trial, she frequently threw herself 0:1 tho bed and sobbed convu'sively. But she made no confession until this morning. Her mother saw her for the last time last night. During the night Mrs. Pearcey was quiet and resigned. Sho g<>t up early this morning and prayed for some hours. TotheChaplaln she acknowionged that tho sentence was just, at the same time asserting that much of the evidence was false. Sho never mentioned Hogg, and gave tho impression that she alone was guilty of tho murders. passed off without incident, u Siuhappy woman dying almost instan' B Iho r >io was committed in October. Mrs. I'llw y and Frank Hogg had been friend'^ Before Hogg s marriage, and w<to ‘^B''fe after it. Mrs. Pearcey being s;r^rtod by a gentleman of means named Crichton. Mrs. Pearcey was madly in love with Hogg, ami maintained an appear.nice t >f friendship with Mrs. Hogg, who knew nothing of tho intimacy. Mrs. Pearcey invited Mrs. Hogg to visit her one afternoon and bring tho baby, Umn eighteen months old. Ac1 confcs‘words. What folk by i some blood stains in the kitchen and tho. ' finding of tho bodies of Mrs. llogg and 1 child. After braining Mrs. Hogg with a 1 poker and cutting her throat, Mrs. ( Pearcoy probably suffocated tho child. Then, under cover of darkness, sho conveyed the liwly of Mrs. Hogg a! out a mile in the baby carriage and left It on the roadside. The body of the child sho । i.eposiled fn a field. Tim police suspect- | ed her from her actions win n she went I witli Clara Hogg, the murdered woman’s sister-in-law, to identify the body of Mrs. Hogg. Search of her house revealed tho evidence of murder. The husband. Frank Hogg, was for some time under surveillance, and narrowly escaped ivnehing. The authorities became satisfied, however, that ho was ignorant of the murder. He is said to have become insane since the trial. Fruit of the Shears. Alen of great capacity sometimes have very little capacity for making a living. —Tertis Si/ti/iys. When you give, give freely. Still, there’s no harm if the jumping-jack you give your boy lias a string -to it.—lndiiuiapolis Journal. Maddox—l understand your wife always has the last word. Gazzam —All a mistake, I a-sure you. She gives it to me. — Harper's Bazar. Ethel—Don't you remember, Maud, when I first came out Maud (interrupting)—Yes, dear, I was but a child then.— Bostonian. “What have you been doing for tho last year?” asked one seedy-looking man as lie stopped another on the street. “Time.’’was the laconic reply.—li'ashiiif/ton Post. When it is remembered that the Apostle Peter and ofimrs wore fishermen, it looks a lUt Ie odd, in the light of modern angling, that they were chosen to preach the truth. — Philadelphia, Times. “Is that the General's daughter?” “His daughter? Why, what's the matter with you? ■ He's too old to have a ( daughter as young as that.” “Well, then, it must be his wife.”— Fliccjcnde Blatter. He —“I’d like to see you women struggling around a bargain counter just once, for tho fun of the thing.” She—- “ And I'd like to see you men struggling around a free lunch counter.” — New York Herald. Jagway—l don't see how a man can get along on only two suits a year. Travers —Easy enough. For instance, I begin with my winter suit the Ist of January and wear it until the middle of March. Then I put on my spring suit ( and wear it until tho Ist of June. Jag- ( way—Then what do you do? Travers—I keep right o:i wearing it. — Haipcr's ‘ Bazar. Benevolent person (to old tramp)— You ought to be ashamed of yourself to ‘ be begging at your age. Tramp (indig- ; nan tly)—How in thunder can I begat j auv other age now, I'd like to know. ; G mme a nickel. — IVashhujtou Star. “I am perfectly delighted with my ] dwelling at present. I have a dining- 1 room a reception-room, a working-room, • a smoking-room, and a sleeping-room, ] and lust think how convenient—all in one. ’>^Flte<icndc Blatter. A towel folded, dipped in hot water, J wrung out rapidly and applied to tho stomach acts like magic in cases of colic.

WILL LOSE IIIS HEAD. EYRAUD, THE STRANGLER. TO BE GUILLOTINED. He and HR Accomplice, Mlle. Gabrielle llonipard, 1 ound Guilty of Strangling M. Goufle—Eyraud Will Have His Head (hopped Off, and Gabrielle Will Labor Im inly Years in I'ri son. (Paris cablegram.) The trial of Michael Eyraud and Gabrielle Bompard for the murder of Notary Gouffe was concluded this evening. Eyraud was convicted and condemned .to death. GabrleHe Bompard was also convicted, but was not condemned to the guillotine. Sho was sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment at hard labor. The proceedings were opened by the public prosecutor, who summed up the case on behal. of the Government. He began by promising to confine himself to the murder and robbery of M. Gouffe. He begged the jury to follow him closely and dismiss from their minds all the evidence that bad been presented regarding hypnotism. He said ho would make every effort to uphold justice against theories or suggestions, which he declared constituted a menace to society. Regarding Mole. Bompaid, the Public Prosecutor said that the woman’s intellect was not weak, but It was depraved. Both prisoners were equally guilty. The evidence showed that everything in the room In which tho crime was committed had been prepared for the hanging of Gouffe, apd it was Idle to assert the contrary. The A’—''* *’■ X -■ nave ueen 1mI ossib.o unless the man had been taken unawares. It was the jury's duty to Reject the story of the woman, who was as culpable as her c< mpanlon, who frankly avowed his guilt. It was tho woman's girdle that strangled the victim to death; it was tho woman who delivered Gouffe into the hands df her lover, who w aited for a favorable moment to draw tho cor’d with which Gouffe wai strangled. When the public prosecutor had concluded M. Decori addressed the court in behalf of Eyraud. M. Decori admitted that his task was a difficult one. The hour, he said, seemed about to strike, not for justice but to sound the triumph of tho huntsmen who had secured their prey. The clamorous crowd appeared sure of their quarry, but he hoi ed that the jury would not allow themselves to be influenced by this clamor. Eyraud, he continued, had been an industrious man, but had become weak in the hands of a woman. The evil influence of Mlle. Bompard had made him a mere puppet. Proc, eding. M. Dccorl contended that Bompard and not Epraud conceived the crime for which they w.ere now being tried. The criminal intention of both, ho said, was not to murder M. Gouffe, but to extort money from him. This had led rapidly to the graver crime. Upon the conclusion of tho counsel’s address the jury retired to consider their verdict. After an absence of an hour and fifty ' minutes they returned and announced the result of their deliberations. The verdtet was that both prisoners were guilty, but extenuating circumstances were found in the case of the woman. No protest against the verdict was made by either the prisoners or their counsel, and after a short deliberation on the part of the Judges, , sentence was pronounced. The court condemned Eyraud to die by the guillotine, and sentenced Gabrielle to twenty years’ imprisonment at hard labor. Tho woman upon bearing her sentence apapeared to be utterly overcome? and fell back Into the arms of her doctor. Eyraud sho-wed not tlio slightest sign of emotion. While bplng conducted to his cell Eyraud incessantly muttered: ‘•Condemned to death at last, but 1 expected It.” Eyraud refused to taste his dinner. Ho expressed the hope to bls keepers that he would be granted a reprieve. Mlle, Bompard is al-v Hopeful that Ker sentence will"‘^o reduced, bho showed/*' loss of appetite a nmal was bri^sht her. notlsm, agr(-S^Bl^P^FT>r- UiOiuu-^ 1 m^^4dicullug the thW^fes of the Nancy school regarding MlleT Bompard's crlmThality. He sees nothing the crime that places the woman outside the category of a vulgar criminal. He doubts the possibility of infNiencing a hypnotized person to commit a crime under a suspension of the will, and thinks it imiMissibie to suggest successfully any but tho simplest action. Dr. Brouardel instanced e:tses of the moral conscience surviving under hypnotism. At Salpctriere two women who bad been mesmerized were ordered to undress. One obeyed, but the other, restrained by an obvious feeling of modesty, iefused to obey and went into a nervous fit. Eyraud and Gabrielle Bompard murdered Gouffe in the room of the woman at No. 3 Rue Tronson Ducoudray. They put tho body of tlieir victim in a trunk and set off with it for Lyons, where It was subsequently found in a ditch. An inquest wis held, but the mhn was not identified. He was quietly buried in a c nnmon grave hi which other remains were depi Sited at the same time. The official who was responsible luckily tied a bit of string around Gouffe's feet, and when an exhumation w as ordered the body was identified by this means. Meanwhile Eyraud and Gabrielle wan.lered about together for a time; then Eyraud went to America. Gabrielle confessed and was imprisoned. lor a long time Eyraud eluded justice, until lie was run to earth at Havana, whence he was brought to Faris. Eyraud, previous to the trial, confessed that he was the murderer of M. Gouffe. and that all that Gabrielle had said was true. When first brought before M. Doppfer, the examining magistrate, the criminal refused to admit that lie had done more than dispose of the body after the Sheriff’s officer had been murdered by another man. But the very improbable, not to say impossible, character of his assertions being pointed out to him by M. Doppfer, Eyraud at length exciaimed: “Well, yes;i it was I who killed G< uffe. If I commenct d by declaring my innocence it was to save| the honor of my family. I wanted to ptevent the crime of the husband and father sullving the innocence of my wife and daughter. I wanted to prevent people pointing at my daughter and calling her a murderer's child.” Eyraud then wept and am eared to bo o\ ercomo. He. however, soon recovered his self-possession, and, hi reply to a question from M. Doppfer, lie added: “I know very well it is useless for me to attempt to deceive you. Now I am in your hands I prefer to tell you all ab ut it to-morrow or the next day, wh'en I have had a little rest and feci stronger. ” After apa use, during which silence was preserved, Eyraud added, in a firm and calm tone: “All Gabrielle Bompard has said is true. It was I who lured Gouffe to Rue Tronson Ducoudray. It was I who killed him, and it was Gabrielle who helped me to put his body in the trunk. Now do not insist on my giving you at present any further particulars; I am really too unwell.” After signing his confession Eyraud was led back to his cell whence he emerged for his trial. Wickmtre —There never were so many chances as now to get a good income out of a small fortune. Yabsley—XX hat I d like is to get a good fortune out of a small income.— lndianapolis Journal. “I TELL you tho poor have no chance.” “That's particularly true in regard to ; poetry. I know some cd tors who re.ect poems for no other reason than that they , are poor. ” — Brooklyn Life. De Fer “I 'feel like a now man this . morning.” XX’aite (anxiously)—“Ah! Do y.on feel anything like the kind of a man that would be apt to pay a debt of $5?” He paid it.— Manhedtan. “Your number,” said the XX arden to the prisoner, “is 306.” “That s grathy- , ing,” said the unfortunate; “I'm in the i 400 at 1 asL New York Herald.

TO BE GOULD'S SLAVES. the alternative, government OWNERSHIP. Attorney-General I.eose oPNebraska in a igorous Keport Declares That Unie<s the Government Assumes Absolute Con. rol of AH Kuilroads and Operates them * I ill Soon Be Delivered Over, Bound I Hund and Foot, to the Bailway Magnate/* [Lincoln, Neb., dispatch. I In his report to tho Governor, g^ing - 1 for Jmlk tt f th ° conduct of htSoffid teoV 1 Vri y ° arS ' Attor »ey General L( eso has added some fuel to tlio excitemuddl^r 111 ^ 0 ' 11 ^ f lhe I^os^PoHtical trans mr! H tk ' S handling tho transportation question without gloves. r£nroaV« OCa T ing G ? vernrae nt control of railroads. In speaking of the Boatd of transportation and its work he says: 15 of live state officers, including the Attorney General, and has power to appoint three secretaries, who are presumed to do the work. The subject of transportation is one of the most Imnortant with which tho people of this State have to deal, I have given it. as much attention as my other official duties would permit, and I am free to say that the present system is a complete failure. lam thoroughly convinced that the only true solution of the railroad problem must be worked out tnrougn u railroad commission, but any system, such us ours, that requires three men to do the work ami muKo all reports, only to bo signed by certain whojiave not had a chance to examine into tho subject matter, Is to my'uiind very unsatisfactory. It seems to me that 11 the railroad companies could be made to understand that it was for their interest to lighten the burdeus of the people, and that tho prosperity of the people was the prosperity of these corporations, this would be a step in the right direction.. But they do not seem to look at It in that light and take a directly opposite view. I can only«account for this L -ry, on one hypothesis, and that is that the' managers of these Western lines must make us large a per cent, as possible so as to satisfy the Eastern stockholders. The State officer who endeavors to bring these corporations to a i account for open and notorious violations, of our fundamental law is at once branfled as a demagogue or an office-seeker. The subsidized press is turned lo< se on Idm, and the officers in charge cf-the load will write letters, or have others do so, concerning hiiS, and publish them in all the papers througbQut the State that they can control. I would recommend a law forlJSding a’ railroad corporation from issuing any m ^age bonds or stock until an Item t count of the cash, labor, or property sworn to, has been presented to some <» of the State for examination, and if ft to be a true account of the money, labo' property received, to register and certiA tho same as issued in pursuance of law j us constituting a part of the capital st^ of all roads noW in operation as well those to be formed hereafter. Two years ago jn my biennial report called your excellency's attention to the bilk pending before Congress to extend tho debt\ -• duo to lhe Government from the Union Pa- y ciiic, and whilo my views may not have been couched in the nicest language, your excelloucy criticised the same, and refused to concur therein. The notice given to that part of my repert in your message did, however, attract the attention of Congress as well as tho citizens of this State, and 26,000 people of Nebraska have petitioned > Congress to vote against the bill to extend y the debt duo to tho Government, and praying that the Government might foreclose the lien and put tho Union Pacific on a cash basis. Bytherecenttbange in the ho r a that ho coptrals, tho Atlantic coast. ThisTrW’aetlon is oniy a part played in tho formation of a gigantic railroad trust that is a menace to public rights, and unless something is done, and that, too, Immediatejy, the day is not far distant when the people of this country will be bound hand and foot, and condemned to perpetual bondage to these transportation monopolies. The peonje of this State are cognizant of the above facts, and their appeals year after year for relief have been laughed to 1 scorn, and it now icmains for some stronger M means to lx? adopted, and that Is for tbCM^H Government to assume control of all'th e railroads in America. This is a questioia that takes precedence of the many Impey tant ones that are now agitating the pul mind and the question, we ask ourse'lvd whether or not it’is better for the peopb^^H submit themselves and their business tender mercies of a railioad trust or tcM^^ ■ Government of^our country. The prinj^H object ion made against tho Govcrra>^w*» control and ownership is that contig f will be destroyed :in I that the vast of patronage of the Government ju dangerous to our republican institjSfc^KyWith one man cen’roliing tl^^pSMKk Ad roads of this country, compefi^ion as much destroyed as it is/now beWHK ® Seward and Lincoln, where' the Chicago? Burlington and Quincy owns both tho Unes of road. Competition will'le destroyed in either case, and it resolve s 'ltself down to the cue question, whether or not the profits shall go into the pockets of one man ergo to the Government. If the masses were to determine tuis qucstii n there would be c>ns unanimous voice in favor of Government/ control. The second argument is absurd. There is no corner of thfk Union that is free from railroad influences in political matters. It enters the door of the merchant, the sanctum sanctorum of the press, and the courts of our State and nation, always taking an active part, from the election of a chairman of aboard of village trustees to the election of a rresident of the United States, savagely holding back in its ranks those who would ureak from its corrupting embrace and deteriorating influence. If the Government should take the control, this growing danger to the people's rights would 1 e f never removed. The civil-service rules could be strictly carried out, where removals cannot take without cause, and ability and personal merit alone, and not political influence, would be the test for advancement. The crowned heads of Europe have operated railroads In a very satisfactory manner^ te and can it be said that a government of the people, by and for the people, is so dishon-f e-t and corrupt that we cannot, trust it with the same power? Or must we continue to trust to the Jay Goulds, and Vanderbilts, and Rockefellers? 1 believe in the Government control, and also believe that a commencement should l>e made by foreclosing the lien of tin Government against the Union Pacific and taking possession of the same. Mr. Caminetti. who has been awarded a seat mi t'he next Congress, is of Italian parentage but a native-bom Californian, and he is said to be the first man from California iu either house who was born in thie . State. Francis Moore, a collector of tiquities of the Revolutionary period V Itas secured a portrait of Gen. George • XVashington engaged in smoking a pip^. The photograph of the juvenile George In the act of hacking the cherry tree is still missing. Chauncey M. Depew has had the honor of having a steam tug with the loudest steam whistle iu New York hatV bur named after him. Epitor E. 11. Butler, of Buffalo, who claims that he made and unmade Grover Cleveland, is now booming Gov. David B. Hill for the Presidon :y of the United States.