St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 16, Number 38, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 28 March 1891 — Page 2

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. WALKERTON, - - - INDIANA. DISPUTED OVER MAFIA. A NEW YORK EX-GOVERNOR , HAS PASSED AWAY. 3©®*. Sioux Indians Will Not Enlist in tlie Infantry—Two Hundred Persons Tied Together and Shot—A Scientific Ohio Phy-sician-Killed His Father. FOUGHT OVER THE LYNCHING One Newspaper Man Kilis Another in a Quar* rel Ov-r the N xv 0 lears Affair At Vicksburg, Miss., Ernest Hardenstein, manager of a weekly publication named Business, was shot and instantly killed by John G. Cashinent, proprietor of the Evening Post. The trouble grew out of a dispute over the lynching of the Italians at New Orleans. Hardenstein made comments on Oashment's editorial treatment of the matter. Cashinent —. —oiUtod iMaidenstein a liar, and Hardenstein assaulted Cashment. Cashinent pulled his revolver and shot twice. One bullet went through Hardenstoin’s heart, the other flew wide Hardenstein was 30 years old, and had at different times been connected with all the leading papers of the South. Cashment is one of the best known news, aper men in the South. LUCIUS ROBINSON DEAD. New York’j V tera i Ex-Gov raor Passes Away at E'mha Ex- Gov. Lucies Robinson died at Elmira, N. Y. For several days it had been seen that the ex-Governor’s great age rendered it almost impossible that he should survive the attack of pneumonia from which lie had been suffering. Lucius Robinson was born in Windham, Greene County, N. Y., Nov. 4, 1810. He was educated at the academy at Delhi, and in 1832 was admitted to the bar. He became District Attorney and was appointed .Master in Chancery in 1843 and reappointed two years later. When the Republican party was formed he left the Democratic organization. He was elected Comptroller in 1873 by the Democrats. He was elected Governor in 1875, but failed of le-elec-tion when renominated in 1879. INDIANS WILL NOT ENLIST. S cretary Proctor’s Little Plan Found to Be Impracticable. Private advices from Pine Ridge indicate that the War Department is likely to fail in its intentions to enlist 2,000 Indians in the army. The, experiment has already been tried under special instructions given General Miles and has not proved successful. It was the intention to recruit two companies of the First Infantry with the young bucks of the Sioux tribe before the departure of that regiment for its regular station in California, but after a month's canvassing the regiment has finally departed without its Indians. They objected to going so far away from their nat ve soil. They want to be cavalrymen if they enlist at all, but it has been demonstrated that few it any will be willing to enlist in either arm unless they are sure of a station near their tribes. Mistake in His Figures At Findlay, Ohio, Dr B. M. Pahl, a prominent German phy.-n 'an, committed suicide by taking fifty-Ught morphia pills. On the wall ot his office where he was found dead was a calculation in which he had figured out how Jong it would take him to die. From this it was gathered that he took the morphia at 7 o’clock and expected to be dead at 10 o’clock. He seemed to have made a mistake in his figures, as he was found dead at 8:45. Mafia LTdrrs at Npw York. Detectives of the New York central office have succeeded in locating the whereabouts of the leaders of the .Mafia of New Orleans, who arrived in that city. The names of these men are Luigi Contenaria and Antonio Maleschi. They are being shadowed by Byrnes' men, who have orders to arrest them at the first sign of any attempt to incite their countrymen. Two Victims B h -ad'd A petective recently from British Columbia says that he got on the track of two cases in which Chinese criminals had been tried under the Chinese code and secretly beheaded. He is of the opinion that many Chinamen are thus dealt with on the Pacific coast, of whose cases the local police never hear. Dependent Over His Wis’s Death. M. W. Mooreiiousf, of Greenfield Hill, Conn., committed suicide by shooting himself. He took to bed with him a double barreled shotgun. He sat up in .Lal, pressed the triggers with his toes and both barrels were dis-barged into his breast. Despondency over the recent death of his wife was the cause. Slaughter' d ih • P-’soiers Dispatches from Chili, received via Buenos Ayres, say there has bceti severe fighting near Valparaiso recently, and that 200 of the instil gents were taken prisoners, tied together and shot - .th cannon and musketry by the government troops. Shot Pead by His Son William M. Moore, a wealthy farmer and stock-breeder living near New Vienna, Ohio, was shot and killed by his s m Oscar, who claims that he acted in se’.fdefense. The son has been arrested. Dr. Howard Crosby 111 Dm Howard Crosby is dangerously ill at his home in New York. He fell a victim to la grippe, and pne anonia is feared. Will Go to China. Ex-Senator Blair ha< accepted the Chinese mission, and has arranged to sail from San Francisco to the flowery kingdom on May 1. He has already received his instructions from the Secretary of State. lisane from Hunger. S. M. Garrette, an attorney of Kansas City, Kan., was found in his office a raving maniac. Hunger drove him mad. He had no money, and was too proud to beg. . ......

EVENTS OF THE WEEK. EASTERN OCCURRENCES. The Elizabethport (N. J.) steam cordage works were destroyed by fire. The loss is $753,000. A vast quantity of binding twine was destroyed. Lawrence Barrett, the tragedian, died at the Windsor Hotel, in New York City. The demise was due to heart failure. The actor was unconscious but a short time before lie died. His wife and Dr. Chambers, of New York, were with Mr. Barrett when he breathed his last. His last sickness dated from but two days before his death, when he was obliged to leave the theater where he was engaged. It was said at that time that he was merely suffering from a severe cold, and would be out In a few days, and the same report was made the following day. Even a few hours before the end the reports from the sick chamber were very favorable. LawLAWRENCE BA 11R ETT. fence Barrett was born in Paterson, N. J., ' on April 4, 1838. His father was an Irishman and his mother a frugal American. His mother did her best to gain for her children a good education. Barrett was sickly and feeble. His health improved after his family removed to Detroit, while ! he was quite young. But the family was poor and ho had to seek employment while still a boy. He accordingly became callboy at the leading theater of the city, and from that humble calling rose t > be probably the greatest tragedian of his day. At Pittsburgh, a terrific explosion occurred in a puddling furnace in the Crescent Steel Works, by which three men were probably fatally injured and six others received serious burns and bruises. The explosion wa- caused by the men pulling the hot slag from the furnace and allowing it to fall into a pool of water lying upon the floor. The entire front of the puddling furnace was blowm out, and several tons of hot iron, slag, bricks, etc., were hurled all over the mill, in which nearly live hundred men were at work at the time. The Rev. Frederic Uptoh, the oldest Methodist clergyman in America, died at Fairhaven, Mass. At Philadelphia, William Dougherty was found dead in the cellar of the residence of Rev. Dr. George Dana Boardmans, where he had applied for food. He was very wet from the fierce rainstorm when he came to the door, and the servant invited him to come inside. The heater in the cellar was out c-f and Mrs. Boardmans asked him to step into the cellar and try to fix it up. As the stranger did not put in an appearance, a servant was sent to seo what had become of him. The man whom she sought was dead. At the stationhouse the dead man was recognized as William Dougherty, brother of the wellknown silver-tongued orator. George W. Moss, to be hanged at Wilkesbarre. Pa., asked to be allowed to erect the gallows himself. Sheriff Robinson went to the jail and read the death warrant. “There is only one request I have to make,” said Moss, “and that is that you allow me to erect the gallows. You know 1 am a goo 1 mechanic, and I will make a good job of it. ” Sheriff Robinson refused his request. James F. Lanagan was arrested at Bridgeport, Conn , for an assault on Mrs. Julia Campion, a wealthy woman of Fairfield. Mrs. Campion will die from her injuries, and an attempt was made to lynch Lanagan. A special dispatch sent out at a late hour savs: A fire that started, no one knows bow. In the sub-basement of the mansard-roof brick and iron building on the siutheast corner of Bleecker and Green streets. New York City, utterly ruined It. and spreading to two buildings east of it, destroyed them, us well as another in the rear that r.m from Green to Mercer street. It will be classed among the largest fires ever known tn the city. o»er 82.C00.000 worth of value Wb J* j DESTRUCTIVE WORK OF TOK FLAMES, toile I skyward in smoke and flume in less than five hours. The building in which the fire originull, started was owned by the Mandel Uns., real estate men of Chicago, and was occupied by Alfred Benjamin & Co., probably the largest manufacturers of fine ready-ma'le men’s clothing in tffe country. It was u stock com; any, composed of Isaiah .Pscfa. A. Hoclistadcr, Eugene Benjamin. David 11 idistader, and specials Jesse and Samuel Rosenthal. The grip is epidemic in an acute form at Pittsburg; 1,0)0 cases have been reported. The Keystone Bank of Philadelphia lias closed its doors. The capital of the institution is 8500,00 The do ing was sudden and quiet.. There were but f« w in the building at. the time and hardly any one in the street The nows ouickly spread, however, tut the intellig ice did

' not arouse much excitement. The recent run on the bank had not been forgojton, and it was recalled at once and discussed in all its b arings. The city has a large deposit always in the bank. । ft has now about $400,C00. | Two lives were lost and twenty-two families made homeless by a fire in New I York, which gutted the six-story double tenement at No. 215 East Twenty-ninth street. The dead are Peter Cryan, aged I 50, and his sister, Mary Cryan, aged 55 i — WESTERN HAPPENINGS. Joseph Perrien, a wealthy Detroit miller, was enticed from homo under ' pretense of being wanted at tne house I ot a friend, and, while in the cab that was sent for him, was blindfolded and hurried away to a strange house and held for a $30,000 ransom. His captors became alarmed, and set him free without obtaining the money. At Cleveland, Ohio, Edward Stein was attacked by three big mastiffs, the dogs violently chewing the flesh from the upper portion of his body and arms. Ift he recovers he will be crippled for life. All the mines belonging to the Anaconda Company at Butte, Mont., shut down, owing to a proposed advance in/i rates on ore by the Montana Union Rati way Company. The smelters wHL-J shut down soon. Three thousand mt3r& will then be out of employment. r The Coroner, in hfs verdict on t persons killed in the railroad wreck-x>n the Panhandle Road at Hagerstown, Ind., says that the train was run at unsafe rate of speed at. curves and therefore holds the road responsible for the deaths caused. It is learned tha> a fifteen-inch vein of sand near Boston, Mo., lias been discovered which is rich with gold. The Episcopal court which heard the 1 charge of heresy against the Rev. How- j ard Macqueary, of Canton, Ohio, found j him guilty as charged by a vote of 3 to 2. i I he verdiet means that Mncqiieary will leave the church. 'Die Rev. Howard Macqueary is pastor of an Episc >pul church at Canton. The caii'c of his arraignment for heresy was a book which he wrote, hi which he denied the immaculate conception and ! REV. T. HOXAHD MACQI EART. the physical resurrection of Christ- H« held, in brief, that God’s spirit entered’^ Christ and made Him a perfect m.-m. arid'S Uwit W hTiRi from thu dead It was a J spiritual resuijectlou. —a Hon of the body. . ... . -h? Ar Indianapolis, the suit of John Grr sell against Noel Bros, to collect wage ( for overtime from May, 1890, to March 'i 12. 1891, was decided in favor of the j plaintiff. The suit was brought to tost the law which provides that eight hours j shall constitute a day's work unless there I is an agreement to the contrary. Grissellf!. was employed by the day and worked I eleven hours. He sued to recover wages for 720 hours and judgment was rendered* in his favor. The case will go to the । Supreme Court, as it is the first ever: tried under the law. At Fidlay. Ohio, the Standard Oil j Company has cut the price of fuel oil to ; > cents a barrel, delivered anywhere, j This is tlie same price they pay for it at I the wells. The attack is leveled at the Manhattan Company, which is backed by all the other independent companies, and tlie struggle between the rivals bids fair to be a long and hard one. SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. Mits. Thoma- Williams, living near Bradyette, Tenn., lias given birth to fivq children in a year, twins at one time and triplets at another The triplets have just arrived and are al! girls, weighing six pounds each. Work on the Whitehouse crcvasseJiaj been abandoned at New Orleans, and all the country about the city is gradually going under water. Tlie Southern and Texas Pacific Roads will transfer their freight and passengers to tlie other side® of the river at a point seventeen miles above the city. Tlie tracks of both’ roads are submerged The banking house of Theodore! Schwartz A Co., at Louisville, Ky., un- h expectedly went to pieces, the failure in- j! eluding a'so the well-known tobacco i» firm of that name. The bank was one J of the oldest in the State, having been 1 in existence for nearly a century. I •Icimi: .la< k-on c reated a sensation in 1 the Circuit Court at Louisville, Ky., by U taking to task tlie petit jurors. He said y that tlie way criminals were acquitted, i who according to law were clearly guilty, j was a disgrace to the disj cnsation of '' justice, and brings the courts and of- H licials into bad repute. “Such laxness,” he added, “is what 1 ads to the taking o? i the law into their own hands by indig- i nant citizens, of which wo have had a [. recent example. ” At New Orleans the Grand Jury is n still in session, and it isnot known when ' it. will report. A morning paper, in ai’ x'ouble-leaded editorial, advises the jury j tie return no indictment aga'nst pers ns I concerned in tlie uprising because it was a people's movement. At Milledgeville, Ga., Joseph Tucker | was shot and killed by Myrick Ennis, his 1 brother-in-law. Both are well-known i ciizens, but they have been on un- ' friendly terms for more than a year. ! They met while hunting and had some words which resulted m the shooting. ' The Coroner’s jury de-ided that the ' shunting was justifiable. 1 THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston died at his residence on Connecticut avenue at ! Washington. The General had been ! suffering for the last three weeks with j an affection of the heart, aggravated by I a cold he caught soon after Gen. Sherman’s funeral in New York. His phy- I sician had teen trying to keep his I I

strength up for some days, but his advanced age gave little hope for his recovery from the beginning of his illness. General Johnston was the last, save General Beauregard, of the six full Generals of the Confederacy. He was born at Cherry Grove, Va., in 1807, and was graduated from West Point in 1829 i i the same class with Gen. Robert E. Lee. Gen. Johnston after the war became successively President of a , railroad company in Arkansas, of an express company in Virginia, and an insurance agent in Georgia. He was elected to Congress from the Richmond district in 1877, and next saw public life as Commissioner of Railroads, which * office ho held under Cleveland’s admin- । istration. In person Gen. Johnston was ' a man of slender build, of not more than medium height, and with a kindly, pleasant face. He was unobtrusive in manner, and invariably courteous to all persons with whom he was brought in contact. The occupants of tlie White House had a genuine scare. They were startled by a crash of glass in the red parlor on the south front of tlie building. Tlie President touched an electric button and a second later al! the special officers on duty at the Executive Mansion were at his service. When tlie gas was turned lon a half-naked mnn wu- found erouchpntr under a sofa, with nothing on but । Ijuusers and undershirt and with an g«i^y-looking knife in his hand. He ■fought like a tiger and it requiredsev--eral officers to subdue him. When taken to the police station the man gave his name as Harry Martin and said lie was a step-son of Senator Vance. It is supposed that he was suffering from delirium tremens FOREIGN GOSSIP. A dispatch from Berlin says that serious reports are current there about tlie mental condition of the Emp ‘ror. As it would be a criminal offense to say anything openly on the subject, the expressions of opinion are ambiguous or their meaning is conveyed by wink- and silence. Certain it i-, however, that tlie Emperor’s mental peculiarities are tlie subject of the avest apprehensions, and that lie is being ol s rved witli anxiety by his own servants and witli watchful curiosity by tlie repre-entatives of foreign stat s. The steaii er Mariposa, from Sydney and Honolulu, brings news that Hawaii’s volcano is again wry active Several cones have sunk from seventy-tive to one hundred feet, and some have disappeared altogether. There have been many earthquake shocks, but no damage other than the shaking down of several stone w alls. The I’arnellito organ, I'nlful Ireland, saxs edit >rially: ‘•lreland ha- had enough of episcopal domination Oxer and over again the bishops have become like wax in the hands of tlie English politicians, and, xvarned by the failures of the past, the Irish people will no longer submit b indly to priestly guidance, ” FRESH AND NEWSY. ^£2MMAndkr-in-Ciuef Veasey has Hsßued orders for the observance of the silver anniversary of tlie organization of FT*»rH»ftl Army otr the iUipubikv Wkx-'-ecuei xRY Bay ard has expressed (Lie opinion that the I’nited States is not • liable for indemnity or reparation in tlie Cn-e of the Italians lynched at New Orj leans. Word Is received from Victoria. Ont., i of the discovery of six new cases of lep- ' rosy right in tlie heart of the city, xvhich the Chinamen were endeavoring to conceal. It appears that it became necesrsary for the municipal authorities to i driven large number of Chinamen outof : tbeir hove’s, which xvere erected on ■ ground required for the building of a : market hall. The stampede disclosed j the fact that six Chinese lepers in the worst stages of the disease had been ■dwelling xvith their countrymen in the ;va uted hovds. Two of them xvere subsequently found, but four of them are still in hiding, and their friends refuse to disclose their p ine of refuge. The latest Tasc It capture ha- turned out like all the rest —the Aberdeen (S. 1).) Taseott is not Tascott at all, but a plain n>an named Barnes xvho runs a barber shop up in the blizzard belt. The business failures for the week number 275. compared with 273 last week. The Missouri Senate took up tlie World's Fair appropriation and passed it. The committee reported in favor of an amendment reducing tlie amount of the appropriation from 8150,000 to SIOO,000. The amendment was defeated. MARKET REPORTS. ' CHICAGO. I Cattle—Common to Prime..... 53.25 6.00 B Hoos—Bhipinng Grades 3.00 4.25 I Sheep 3.00 <■’ 6.00 F Wheat—No. 2 Red I.' 1 1.02 Icons— No. 2 (2 its .62’0 it O.i i s—No. 2 51 st, .52 " It MB—No. 2 IM & .91 । Rui riin—Choice Creamery 26 (it .30 LCRKEsa—Full Cream, flats lO’oiii .11'^ I Eggs—Fresh 19 ct -21 I Potatoes— Western, per bu .... 1.00 e 1.10 INDIANAPOLIS. | cattle—Shipping 3.53 @ 5.00 T Hogs—Choice Light 3.00 @ 4.00 ■* Sheep—Common to Prime 3.00 st 5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red I.K) si 1-01 Cohn—No. 1 White 59 @ .6) A Oats—No. 2 White 52 (<J .53 I ST. LOUIS. 1 Cattle 4.C0 fit. 5 5) 1 Hogs 3. 0 @4.25 i Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.01 si 1.02 I Cobn—No. 2 ',sg Si ^59 ( Oats—No. 2 51 @ .52 i Barley—Minnesota 74 m 75 CINCINNATI. :• Cattle 3.00 @5.00 : Hogs 3.00 @ 4.25 !' Sheep 3.00 @ 6.00 , Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.02 @1.02'6 II Corn—No. 2 5.3 @ .63 ' I, Oats —No 2. Mixed 53’„@ 5D4 DETROIT. * ' " i; Cattle 3.00 @4.75 I'yc-GS 3.00 @ 4.03 11 bHEEP 3.00 4.75 'Wheat—No. 2 Bed 1.03 @l.Ol 1 Cohn—No. 2 Yellow 62 @ 6°'^ | Oats-No. 2 White @ ’55 ” TOLEDO. ".Wheat 1.02 @ 1.04 , Corn—Cash c.o @ , e4 i Oats—No. 2 White 53 @ .54 Cloveb Seed 4.30 @ 449 I EAST LIBERTY. I Cattle—Common to Prime.... 4.00 @ 575 Hogs—Light 3.25 4^50 ; Shefp—Medium to Good 4.0 ) s' 6.25 [Lambs s o j @ 955 1 MILWAUKEE. I XV heat—No. 2 Spring 9.5 st 97 Cohn-No. 3 Go @ ‘.61 Oats— No. 2 White Si'/.®, 52tz RrE-No. 1 90^ Barley—No. 2 93 ( j Poiik—Mess 11.03 @11.50 I NEW YORK, i Cattle 4.09 c,. GO ! He as 3.25 @ 4.03 | Sheep 5.93 e< ; 9.59 । Wheat—No. 2 Red 114 @ 1 16 I Corn—No. 2 73 @ [74 I Oats—No. 2 White 53 (ty .53 I Butter—Creamery 21 @ .31 I Eggs—Western .19 @ .21 I Poita—New Mess 12.00 @12.50

A REM ARK ALLESENTEtICE. A Judge Who Took 1 ellglit in Pronoune- I ing Death on a rrtsoner. One of the most eccentric, and, at the same time, one of the ablest judges that ever sat upon the far Western bench was Kirby Benedict, who, for thirteen years, was a Justice of the Supreme Court of New Mexico, having been first appointed in 1853 bv President Pierce and reappointed by President Buchanan, and appointed Chief Justice of the Court by 1 leudent Lincoln. He was a man of great ability and learning, strong in his prejudices, violent in hL passions, and relentless in his convictions. There are many anecdotes told of Judge Benedict. But the crowning act of his judicial career was tlie sentence of death passed by him upon a prisoner convicted of murder, xxhita sent vice was as follows: “Jose Maria Martin, stand up. ,/ose Maria Martin, you have been indicted, tried, and convicted by a jury of vonr countrymen of the crime of murder, and the Court is now about to pass upon you the dread sentence of the iaw. As a usual thing, Jose Maria Martin, it is a painful duty for the judge of a court of justice to pronounce upon a human being tlie sentence of death. There is Hometliithorrible about it, and tlie miud of the Court naturally revolts from the performance of such a duty. Happily, however, your case is relieved of all such unpleasantness, and the Court takes positive delight in sentencing you to death. “You are a young man, Jose Maria Martin, apparently of good physical constitution and robust health. Ordinarily you might have looked forward to ma years of life, and the Court has no J jubt you have, and have expected to die at a green old age; but you are about to be cut oil’ as tlie consequence of your own act. Jose Maria Martin, it is now the spring time; in a little while the grass will be springing ud in these beautiful valleys, and on these broad mesas and mountain sides flowers will be bloomuig, birds singing above your lowly head.

“The sentence of the Court is that you be taken from this place to the county jail; that you there be kept safely and securely confined in tlie custody of the Sheriff until the day appointed for your execution. Be careful Mr. Sheriff, that he have no chance to escape, and that you have him at the a"poiuted place at the appointed time; ti it you be so kept, Jose Maria Martin, until—Mr. Clerk, on what day of the month does Friday, about txvo weeks from this time come?” “March 22d, . Your Honor.” “Very xvell—until Friday, the 22d dax - of March, xvlieu you will be taken Irom your place of confinement to some safe and convenient spot within the county (that is in your discretion, Mr. Sheriff; you are only confined to the limits of the county), and that you there be hanged by the neck until you are dead, and— the Court was about to add, Jose Maria Martin, ‘may God have mercy on your soul,’ but the Court will not assume the responsibility of asking an all-wise Providence to do that which a jury of y<ww fnnmtrt hno vnfn.nit In do '»'Ln liofd couldn’t have mercy on your soul. However, if you have any religious belief, or are connected xvith any religious organization, it might be xvell enough for you to send for your priest or your minister and get from him —ivell, such consolation as you can; but the Court advises you to place no reliance upon anything of that kind. Mr. Sheriff, remove the prisoner.”— Santa Fe letter, in Pittsburgh Leader. A Leper ' illa^e in (oliiiiihku \ strange community is that of Agua di Dios, the leper village in Columbia, as described by rur Consul at Bogota. Situated at about 1,300 feet above the sea level, with a dry, sandy soil, and a temperature of 82 degrees to 85 degrees Fahrenheit, this spot lias been cho- en for the lazaretto by the Government on account of its ancient reputation for the cure of leprosy. Some 250 sufferers form this terrible visitation dwell here, and from about one-third of the population; but the most remarkable fact regarding the settlement is that lepers and healthy persons are desscribed as living on terms of perfect in- ; timacy, there being no specific leper i quarters, though every house in the ■ village stands apart in a garden. Mr. Wheeler states that there is no case on record of the dbease having been contracted by contagion. Even xvhere lepers have married healthy persons, the husband or wife has never been known to fake it from the other. On the other hand, the mournful fact is admitted that children born of such unions are generally atllicfed. The >:<! <«•! With a String to IT. T^ you drop a nickel xvith a string attacn J, keeping the end of the string in your hand, have you really dropped the coin ? An lowa judge has decided in the afiirimative. An ingenious youth in that State tied a thread to a nickel, dropped the nickel ; n a slot machine, got what he wanted, then, withdrawing the nickel by the thread, repeated the operation until he had made a clean sweep of the receptacle’s contents. He xvas arrested on a charge of tin ft, but the judge who tried him held that he had committed neither burglary, larceny nor robbery, nor even obtained pioperty under false pretenses. He had merely done what the inscription on the machine told him to do—dropped a nickel in the slot—and had kept on doing it. Nothing xvas said about leaving the coin where it was dropped. This decision will probably abate a nuisance— Chicago Journal. The greater part of the original forest in Maine has been cut over, but people well acquainted with the subject say there is as much land in trees or in clearings left to grow up to woods as at any time since the State was settled. A Dayton farmer is also quoted as saying that the logs xvhich are cut in York County this winter are better and bigger than those cut txventy-fix'e years ago, and that there is in the county more acres of woodland noxv, mostly small groxvth, than there xvas thirty years ago. The young man was a rough diamond, a recent importation from the rural districts, and when the carver xvas ready to serve him he asked him: “And new, Mr. C , xvhat part xvill you take?” This answer xvas at once forthcoming : “Imparticular,” said Mr. C ; "big piece anywhari”

GEN. JOHNSTON DEAD. ANOTHER CONFEDERATE NOTABLE GONE. Ho Expired at His Washingto > Homo of Heart Failure—Conscious to the Last—A Brief Sketch of His Military and Civil Career. General Joseph E. Johnston died at his residence on Connecticut avenue, Washington. The General had been suffering for three weeks with an affection of the heart, aggravated by a cold he caught soon after General Sherman’s funeral in New York. His physician had been trying to keep his strength up for some days, but his advanced age had given little hops for his recovery from the beginning of his illness. Ihe General did not seem to suffer in the least, and was conscious to the last. At his bedside were ex-Governor Mc Lane, of Maryland, his brother-in law, and the nurse. The immediate can eof his death was heart failure, the result of degeneration of the heart, due in a measure to a cold contracted some weeks ago, but more particularly Guo to extreme old age. At times for about two years General Johnston had shown unmistakable signs of a general breaking down. His mind often became bewildered so that he could not tell where he was or how came there. Some days after the Sherman funeral, the General one night got up out of his be 1 vxhi'e in a state of perspiration, which greatly aggravated the slight cold with which he was then suffering. Th s brought on a severe attack of h;s o.d lit art troub'e, which compk tely 1 rostrated him. His physician, Dr. Lincoln, succeeded, however, with much difficulty, in arresting tlie disease for a time, and for a day or two he seemed to be really improving. One day, however, lie went down stairs without assistance, as lie had done 1 efore. but it proved too much for his strength, and only witli the aid of Gov. McLane could he again reach h's bod, or even ilse from tiie sofa xvhere lie was sitting. From that time he continued to grow worse. Dr. Lincoln found him perfectly comfortable and apparently a little better: while h’s friends and attendants knexv that lie might pass away at any tim •, yet they had no xvarnitig that the end was so near. Gov. McLane entered tlie room, and as he appreached the General’s bedside lie heard an almost inaudible sigh, and the General was dead Gen. Johnston’s nearest living relative is a sister, Mrs. Mitchall, who lives in Washington Tlie funeral services xvere held in Washington, and tlie interment in Greenmount Cemetery, Baltimore General Johnston was the last, save General Beauregard, of the six full Generals of the Confederacy. He was born at Cherry Grove. Y a., in 1807, anil ivas graduated, from Mest Point in 1829, in the same class xvith Gen. Robert E. Lee. He was appointed second lieutenant of the Fourth Artillery, and first saw actix-e service in the field in 1832. in the Black Haxvk Indian expedition. He was promoted in 1836, and was an aid-de-camp on Gen. Winfield Scott’s staff in. the Seminole war. He participated in all the important battles connected with General Scott’s campaign in Mexico, from the taking of Vera Cruz to the capture of the City of Mexico. He was thrice brevetted for gallantry during this war, and in 1848 was mustered out of the service as a lieulenanl colonel of volunteers. onEvto-too—i-i m. —, reinsiateu uy congress Uitii -ms orlgs inal rank of captain of topographical engineers. He was commissioed quartermaster general of the United States army in June, 1 60, but resigned the following Apiil to ente. - the Confederate service, in xvhich, as a major general of volunteers, he assisted G neral Lee i.i the work of or. anizing the men who xvere pouring into Richmond. Subsequently he was commissioned a brigadier general in the Confederate serx-ice, and. was placed in command at Harper's Ferry. He joined forces xvith Beauregard, and remained in command of the consolidated troops until 1863. At the battle of Seven Pines he was wounded and incapacitated for about six months. His next service was as commander of the Army of the Tennessee. He employed tlie winter of 1863 to reorganize his command, which had become demoralized by the ucfeat at Missionary Ridge. He vas lelieved of this command in July. 1864, by order of the authorities at Richmond, General Hood succeeding him. Early in 1865 General Lee again assigned him to the command from which he had been relieved, and ordered him to drive back Sherman General Johnston urged Lee to abandon Richmond. join forces witli him, and fight Sherman before Grant could come up, but Lee replied that it xvas impossible for him to leave Virginia, as his force was small. General Johnston, dec.ining a decisive engagement, hung on Sherman's flanks, annoying tlie latter an i impeding his march from Atlanta toward Richmond as much as possible. Lee surrendered at Appomattox - , and Johnston obtaining the consent of President Jefferson Davis that the warshould not be further prolonged, entered into negotiations witli Sherman. The first agreement framed xvas disapproved by the Federal Government, and on April 26 a second agreement was concluded. General Johnston, after the war, became successively President of a railroad company in Arkansas, o' an express company in Virginia, and an insurance agent in Georgia. He xvas elect dto Congress from tlie Richmond district in 1877, and next saw public life as Commissioner of Railroads, which office he held under President Cleveland's administration. He had lived in YVashington since he lost his office under' the present administration. Tn person General Johnston was a man pf sjond'l” build, of not more than meiiiu,,, with a kindiy, pleasant face. He was unobtrusive in manner and invaiiably courteous to all persons xvith whom he xvas brought in contact. Seized by tlie Sheriff. The stock of M. H. Dickinson & Co., book dealers and stationers of Kansas City, Mo., the largest concern of the kind west of the Mississippi River, was taken possession of by the sheriff. The assets of the company arc believed to be about $100,009. The liabilities can not be learned, but they are thought to bo comparatively small. Accused of Heresy. Several clergymen of Nexv York, all Episcopalians, have entered a protest against the alleged “heretical” teachings of the two most popular preachers of the town, Dr. Heber Newton and Dr. Rainsford. Tlie attention of Bishop Potter has been cal ed to the matter and. a censure is expected. Declared War on Gamblers. The gambling dens of Omaha, Neb., were raided and more than three hundred prisoners captured. In police circles it is asserted that this is merely the beginning of a regular war to be waged against all gambling houses. Fouml Dead in Bed. Hon. Thomas S. Cobb, of Kalamazoo, Mich., xvas found dead in bed at Rock Lodge, Fla. He was 72 years of age, an ex-State Senator, and a capitalist. Three tilings to do—think, live, and act.