St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 16, Number 42, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 25 April 1891 — Page 2

WALKERTON INDEPENDENT. WALKERTON, . - - INDIANA. DOINGS OF THE DAY. SUMMARY OF LATE NEWS BY WIRE Eventful Happenings in Every u Hemisphere—Eires, Accidents. C Politics, lieligion, Commerce anti v Sandwiched with Minor Affairs. WRECKED A RAILROAD. Twenty-five Miles of the Kentucky Union Destroyed by Unpaid Employes. The volcano of discontent and angry protestations of the Kentucky Union em-

ployes who have been unable to get their pay, which gradually has been increasing in volume and force, has burst its bounds. Tired of waiting for their money to be paid them, having lost faith in the oft-repeated promises made by the officials of the road, and having heard that a decision fatal to their interests had been rendered, a number of the employes committed an act of destruction that will cripple the road moije seriously than over without bettering their cases n the least. Unpaid employes nd mountaineers in Breathitt •unty, Ky., who have never kn paid for their timber wrecked the ro »d in Breathitt County for a ' ° . twent y-i lies. Bridges were — Wil b« c . ul ”erts destroyed. The week "’ and th « SAo 000 he damage will amount ——» who <■( J A local employe said . ai d djymmitted the crime were YYaro^jWsperate. Many of their 4’i^^Ktuallv suffering for food AR From another source it jthai every employe on the I A ll^lat the least provocation to • wrecking it. ABOU IE OF NEGROES. 3 in Ternessee Kill Six and Wound Ten

I Twenty-five miles from Rockwood, Tenn., a party of native mountaineers rode into a tan-bark camp situated in the Cumberland Mountains, and without warning shot and killed six negroes and wounded ten. The mountaineers, it is said, had been discharged for incompetency ana took this method of vengeance. Two of the wounded negroes reached Rockwood, and took the train for Chattanooga, where they live. The trainmen report them having boarded the train, but they cannot be found in that city, probably alighting in some of the suburbs. The men who spoke to them state they asserted that the shooting crowd numbered twenty or thirty, and used rifles. DIED IN EACH OTHER’S ARMS. Tragic Suicide of an Unknown Couple in a New York Hotel. At New York a young couple registered at the Grand Union hotel as P. Behrand and wife, and were assigned a large room on the third floor. They were found dead in the room from gas asphyxiation, locked in each other’s arms. They had employed the familiar method of inhaling gas through rubber tubes held in the mouth. On the woman’s breast was a ’arge and beautiful bouquet, evidently purchased for the occasion of death. MICHIGAN CONGRESSMAN DEAD M ■ b urna H. Ford, from the Fifth Dlstrich a Vic ini ot Apoplexy. Congressman Melbourne 11. Ford, of the Fifth District of Michigan, died at his home in Grand Rapids, Mich., of apoplexy, which resulted from the grip. Mr. Ford was elected by the Democrats to the Fiftieth Congress, defeated for the Fifty-first, and re-eiected last fall. He was born in Michigan in 1849. He attained an enviable prominence in the Fiftieth Congress. He leaves a wife and three children. Killed Iftr Sleeping Child. Mrs. Murphy, wife of Dr. George Murphy, of Leo, Ind., shot and instantly killed her five-year-old child while she lay asleep. The mother who was violently insane, then turned her attention to other members of the family, and would have killed them also if she had not been overpowered and disarmed. She became calm and talked freely about the deed, and said she knew she had killed her child and intended to kill the rest of the family. She expressed no regret at the horrible crime. She gave no other reason than that they would be better off. She said if she had gotten held of some prussic acid al! would have been dead. Mrs. Murphy had a similar attack of insanity a year ago. and at that time carried one of the children to the home of a relative, saying the doctor had threatened its life. tn ci Ie of a Mis Neap. Youngstown, Ohio, John Kast, a miser, was found hanging in his house. He had been dead two or three days. In an old sachel were found papers and notes representing large amounts in , banks It is understood he willed his property to the Lutheran infirmary at Richmond. Ind. The Hast Hung F t . \ G XNG of men employed on the < ana- , dian Pacific, near Kootenai, Manitoba, came back to work thinking that all blasts ha 1 been discharged. Another explosion followed and the men were buried beneath a mass of ro"ks. Their names have not been ascertained. Wcmm F< ul y Murdered. At New York the body of an unknown woman, w ; th her throat cut from ear to ear, was found lying on the sidewalk. The identity of the woman is unknown. The police have under arrest a man named Baltimore. Tw> Yon ’£ Ladies Dw ei! Near Nevada, Mo., two young ladies, daughter.- of Ri hard Kauffman, a prominent farmer, and a married lady whose name. < ould not be learned, were drowned in the O>agc River while out boat r ding. There were two men in the boat w.th them, but they could not save the ladies. Pa rm Assassinated At New Haven, Conn., Michael Demio, an Italian, was murdered. Angelo Petrillo, a brother-in-law. is under arrest.

EVENTS OF THE WEEK. EASTERN OCCURRENCES. Rev. James Y. Ashton, who was for years the chaplain and moral instructor in the Eastern Pennsylvania penitentiary, has submitted a long statement to the legislative investigating committee in which he charges Warden Cassidy and the keepers of that institution with tho practice of horrible brutality. Specific details are given in the statement. The grand jury at New Brunswick, N. J. .found an indictment against James Lynch, a chronic wife beater. Lynch had followed his wife to the court room, waited till she came from tho grand jury room, and struck her in front of tho court house. Then he went home and hanged himself, and was dead before the indictment was found. Gas escaping from a room at the United States Hotel, in New York City, alarmed the night clerk and the door was broken in. Ex-State Senator John Birdsall, who had occupied the room.

was found dead on the bed. He had not removed his clothes. The condition of the body indicated that the man had been dead for some time. At New York, when the Steamship Eider swung out from her pier in Hoboken several of her crew were swabbing up big pools of blood in the steerage. Philip Ohnacker had killed Mrs. Catherine Barth and then sent a bullet crashing through his own weak brain. Two children are left in Germany to mourn the death of the woman. She has a husband there, too, but it is not likely that he will shed tears over her taking off, because she left him and the children to come here with Ohnecker. Tho suicide was a soldier stationed at Mines, and yielding to the persistent pleading of the woman came with her to this country, where they lived as man and wife. They lived on a farm near New York, and the woman, tiring of her lover, neglected him in many ways, and finally announced her intention of returning home. Ohnacker followed her to the steamer. “You shall not leave here. ” he said to her, “unless we go vgethcr. ” “But you have no passage ticket,” she said io him. “This will pass us,” he replied, and drawing a 42-caliber revolver he enacted the double tragedy.

Hardly had the soldiers left the region of Scottdale, Pa . before the fears of the citizens were realized, and gangs of cokers again turned loose their lawless passions of hate and v enge. Throughout the region the arth fairly trembled with a succession of shocks following the explosion of dynamite bombs. At Leisenring No. 3 of the Fricke works, a crowd of strikers gathered on the hill, and at one time thirty bombs were exploded simultaneously, tearing groat holes in the earth, breaking windows in many houses, and frightening people for miles around by the terrific roar. No one was injured, however, and but little actual damage was done, the strikers contenting themselves with this portentous warning to the workers below Samuel Clark, of Brooklyn, N. Y , shot his wife and then himself, fatally. They have been married six years and have three children. One of Mrs Clark’s brothers said that his brother-in-law and sister had often quarreled even before their marriage. It has always, he said, been expected by the family that sooner or later something terrible would occur. WESTERN HAPPENINGS. The post mortem on the body of Mrs. Dolle, the old woman who was found murdered under a trap-doop in her store, at San Francisco, showed that the woman’s neck was broken in three places and the skull badly battered by some heavy instrument. Advices from Burlington. lowa, an' to the effect that Manager Charles White, of the Duncan Hotel, whose death was credited to paralysis, died from the effects of morphine taken intentionally. White was in debt and also suffered from poor health The Grand Trunk ferryboat Huron has been stuck in the ice in the lake with two train loads of western-bound passengers. A tug boat managed to get close enough to her to deliver food to the half-famished victims. The movement of cattle from Texas into the Indian Territory is tremendous. The Santa Fe ha dozen or more extra engines hauling trains of cattle. Advices from Kansas say that the new secret order known as “The Knights of Reciprocity” is rapidly gaining a strong foothold throughout the West. It has over 100 lodges in Kansas and a | nucleus of strong State organizations ■ has been created in Illinois, Michigan. Wisconsin. Minnesota, Missouri, Colorado and Idaho. Members of the organization. which has grips, signs and passwords, are required to pledge themselves to support the perpetuity of the | Union, to favor liberal pensions to soldiers and sailors, to maintain the doctrine of protection of American industries, while, at the same time, countenancing fair and equitable reciprocity between all nations on the American continent, and are also required to advocate and work in favor of a free ballot and an honest count. Lodges of the order will shortly bo established elsewhere throughout the country. An artillery company for service । against Italy has been formed in High- I land Falls, N. Y. One hundred and , twelve men Have already joined. An-| drew Monroe, has been made captain, j and one of the lieutenants is the well- | known hotel man and supervisor, Louis j F. Goodsell. They expect to have 200 j members, and will offer their services to the Secretary of War. When the body of William .lones, which was buried at Corunna, Ind., two years ago, was disinterred the other day it was found to bo petrified, every feature being preserved, even to the hair. George and Fred Dinawas were hanged at Tahlequah, Indian Territory, for the murder, last September, of Wash Leo, a Cherokee. Havenstine, the, Custer County, Nebraska, murderer who was to have been hanged at Broken Bow, was respited for ! thirty days by Gov. Boyd in order to give a commission time to decide on the condemned man’s sanity. A FKHiHTFi L wreck occurred on the Lake Shore Railroad at Kipton Station, about forty miles west of Cleveland, Ohio, in which six postal clerks and two engineers were killed. The fast mail, | No. 14, bound east, collided witli No. 21,

the Toledo express, just as tho latter train was about to pull on the siding to let tho fast mail pass. The fast mail was running at full speed, and tho force of the collision was so great that both THE CRASH AT THE SIDING. engines, throe mail ears, and one baggage car wore completely wrecked. None of the passenger cars left tho track, and none of the passengers received serious injuries. At Sioux Falls, S. D. Mrs. Frank Hyde administered morphine to her two young children and then committed suicide. She left a note for her husband stating that insanity was hereditary in her family, and she thought it better to end the lives of all. SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. The Todd mills and elevator at Dallas, Tex., were destroyed by fire. The mill and machinery were valued at §80,000; insured for 50,000. Twenty car-loads of flour, owned by Armstrong & Co., were! consumed: insured. The Texas an<J Pacific and Santa Fo Railroad Companieß suffered considerable loss in ears antfl trestle work. Many telegraph pole™ were burned and the wires are down.J The aggregate loss will reach §200,000.? A spark from an engine caused the con-1 flagratiou. | Near Belton, Texas, a heavy storin’ filled the creeks and rivers. The trestle' over Bird's Creek was washed away, and an engine and ten ears of freight were thrown into the stream. Engineer Grubb, Fireman Paul, and a head brakeman, name unknown, were instantly killed. Tho other trainmen escaped by jumping into the water. Joe Bradbury committed suicide at Watson, Ark., because a widow named M inters refused to marry him Just before ho died he confessed .that, about twelve year< ago. when he was a boy of twelve years, he killed his stepfather, John Posh, at his homo near Watson, by knocking him in the head with a club, and threw the body into Red Fork Bayou, where it was afterward found. His only reason for killing Posh was that ho did not like to work and Posh made him do so. A wreck occurred on the Asheville & Spartanburg Railroad by tho collision of a freight train and a material train near Landrum, S. The firemen and a negro on the material tram were killed. Both engineers ami eighteen of the hands were injured, many of them fatally. The collision was the result of the freight conductor's disobedieu' o of orders. William Green, a negro, was hanged at New Orleans for the brutal murder of Joseph Proper on Jan. G, 1890. Green did not deny the crime, but held that it was done in self-defense. At Linden, Ky., at tho wedding of a popular young couple, sixty people were poisoned by arsenic in the well wa*er.' B. F. Guthrie, a prominent man, and several others can imh v servant is suspected. Five men, four Americans and one Italian, were drowned near Addison, W. Ya. None of the victims are known by name. FOREIGN GOSSIP. In Loudon, apprehension of a serious epidemic of influenza is caused by the fact that the disease has reappeared in the north of England, where it was first discovered in issp. Besides prevailing । in Sheffield in an epidemic form, tho dis-i ease exists throughout the whole of Yorkshire. At Hull the death rate has doubled during the last two weeks, and the significant increase is attributed to the presence there of influenza. In Driffield district, near Hull, the entire population is more or less affected with the disease, and a genera! suspension of labor has been made necessary. The mortality in the district has been heavy. At Birmingham, while the. outbreak is of a milder description and less widely spread, numbers of persons are suffering from the malady. A girl named Schmicdel at Dippoldiswalde. in Saxony, went suddenly insane on the subject of religion and insisted on starving herself for her sins. She went without food for five days, when, she being too week to resist, f nd was administered forcibly. She is f ».jwever, bent on self-destruction. A cokkespondent at Constantinople calls attention to the fact that the Turks have almost entirely neglected the Black Sea approaches to Constantinople and that, on the other hand, the straits of the Dardanelles are being steadily forth fied with heavy guns which would boos | use against any power but Russia. The 1 correspondent adds that the autumn of ’ the year will see concentrated on Russia's southwest frontier a Russian army sufficiently powerful to meet anyewntuality which may possible startle Europe । front its present pacific slumbei. 4’iik Hritisli bark strathornc, ( aptain ■ Urquhart, from Losbos de Afura to Hampton Roads for orders, stranded south of Cape Henry. The crew was rescued by tho life saving corps. An order has just been received by the Tappan Sea Company, Piermont-on-the-Hudson, to make four gunboats for the Venezuelan Government, one to be 75 feet long and 14 feet beam, and the otliers GN feet long and 12 feet beam. A Hamberg dispatch says that Prince Bismarck received with equanimity the result of the voting at Giestemunde, and was rather gratified at not being defeated in view of the active opposition i of the government and socialists. I FRESH AND NEWSY. Dispatches received from Chili state ' | that a desperate battle, resulting in a j | victory for the Chilian insurgent forces, j has been fought at Copiapo (or San I Francisco de Silva as it is also known), j the capital of the province of Atacama. on the River Copiapo, thirjty miles from the sea. Only I meager details of the battle are given ! lin the dispatches mentioned, which i I say that the insurgents, after a long I

and determined struggle, defeated with heavy loss a force of 3,000 of President Ilahnaceda’s troops. The dispatches add that the insurgent army is increasing steadily in strength, and that it intends shortly to inarch upon the capital, Santiago de Chili, as well as upon Valparaiso; the principal port of Chili. Copiapo, where the battle has just been fought, is an important mining and mercantile center, from which much silver and copper ores are shipped to Europe and elsewhere. The steamer Oregon, which arrived from Liverpool at Portland, Me., had fifteen passengers ohly, having landed nearly live hundred immigrants at Halifax, most of them coming to the United States by rail. They stopped at Halifax to avoid the now immigration law, which makes necessary an examination on landing and a capita tax of 50 cents. The North German Lloyd steamer Fulda, which arrived in New York from Bremen, via Southampton, had a case of sinaH-pox among her passengers. She was detained at quarantine. The patient is a woman in the steerage. Tho health officers are aboard vaccinating the steerage passengers, of whom there Ure 921. The cabin passengers will be allowed to land. The ship will bo fumigated before she is allowed to come to her dock. Lieutenant Robert E. Pearv, of tho United States navy, is in New York Lakiug arrangements for his exploring kip to tho arctic regions. He proposes ito start late next month. The party (Vin number six persons and is to bo sent Mlt by the Academy of Natural Sciences ■rhe explorers will start from St John’s > l »d land at Whale Sound on the west of Greenland, between latitude 77 Khd 78 degrees. During the year the lAinturesome voyagers will make trips BLorth to the Humboldt glacier, but next Uspring they will push on for the north ■ pole and they hope to get nearer this [fascinating spot than man has ever been. (Lieutenant Peary's plan is to scale tho glaciers near the coast to a high latitude and thus find hard, snowy plains, and at tho same time be able to take observations of tho short* formation. It is stated that the Manitoba Railroad Company will apply to the Supreme Court for a rehearing on certain points in the suit to decide title to Minnesota lands valued at §5,000,000, which was decided in tho United States Supreme C ourt in favor of the Northern Pacifica month ago. The Manitoba Company claims that serious mistakes were made in regard to the fads that would materially a'tor the decision. The Western Base bail Association ^opened the season with games at Lincoln, Omaha and Denver, wet grounds preventing a game at Kansas City. Results: Minneapolis G, Lincoln 5; Milwaukee 13, Omaha G; Denver G, Sioux City 3. Business failures for tho week number 251, compared with 243 last week, and 214 in the corresponding week of 1890. It is said that, the British Government has called Venezuela to account for tho murder of a British subject named William Campbell by the Venezuelan police. The killing appears to be the outgrowth of the old border dispute bet ween Gr< at Britain and Venezuela. R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade says: With better weather there is visible Improvement in trade and collections, and, while it is yet but slight, the outlook for the future is generally regarded as encourdaglng. Crop prospects continue excellent, *a^ere ift-hwa monetary nressma o^.^xjnts wßMrsome stringency has existed, find in the chief industries some improvement in the demand appears. Meanwhile the volume of trade continues nearly as large in the aggregate value as it was a year ago. Some decrease in quantities of important products being balanced by an advance in tho level of prices, which was nearly 15 per cent, higher than a year ago. April 1, and is still more than 13 per cent, higher. Little Rock, Ark., suffered another terrible loss by fire. The last lire originated in tho largo dry goods establishment of Gus Blass A Co., occupying the old Grand opera House Block, which was burned to the ground about three years ago and rebuilt within the last eighteen months, were also destroyed. The tire was discovered at 11:30 and burned with such rapidity that by 12 o'clock not a waL remained standing. Blass has an insurance of §200,000. The total loss will not. fall below §500,000. At New York a building owned by the Brush estate, at Grand street and Bowery, was damaged to the amount of .^70,000. At Springfield, Mo,, the Springfield Car and Foundry Works burned. The loss j< -so,oo •; insured. At Easton. Md.. W. D. Hubbard's fruit and vegetable canning establishment was destroyed by lire Loss, §25,000: insurance, §IO.OOO. JlAlilvE* REPORTS. CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime $3,2.5 & 6.75 Hoss—Shipping Grades 3.00 td 5.50 Sheep 3.00 o <5.00 Wheat—Ko. 2 Red 1.12 c 1.13 Corn—No. 2 75 .75 Oats—No. 51 56 <g) ,57 Rye—No. 2 91 .93 Butter—Choice Creamery 23 gi .26 Cheesi—Full Cream, flats UW .12U Eggs—Fresh 12 .13 Potatoes—Western, per bu .... 1.10 1.20 INDIANAPOLIS. (Cattle —Shipping .3,50 Rous-Choice Light 8.00 t «. 5.50 Sheep— Common to Prime 3.00 ct 5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red i.tw 1.07 No. 1 VVl.it Oath No. 2 White 56 ® .53 ST. LOUIS. JAITLE 4.00 U Sous 4.00 <2 5.50 Vhkat —No. 2 Red 1.09 (ft 1.11 John—No. ^0 ® e4 pats—No. 2 *>s .5b i Barley—lowa 82 .81 CINCINNATI. Catted 3.00 j. 50 I Hogs 3-00 i' 5.u0 । SHEEP 4.(0 L" 7.00 Wheat —No. 2 Red 110 IL Corn—No. t" .< < Oats—No. 2 Mixed & - oJ DETROIT. Cattle 3.00 @ 5.00 JTdgs 3.00 (f.< d.auD Wheat—No. 2 Red I.W UL 2 Corn —No. 2 Yellow ’.7 2 Oats—No. 2 W hite - b() 4J —4 TOLEDO. Wheat MJ @ Corn—Cash ® •(' Oats-No. 1 White 7 .38 Clover Seed - , 4 ’ la ® 4 '~’ EAST LIBERTY. I Cattle—Common to Primo.... 4-00 c- 6.25 1 Hoas-Light 3-^ I Sheep—Medium 5 ->° B.OJ I,AUKS 4..10 ci b.<a M MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring 1.09 ® 1.10 Corn—No. J, ® •“* I Oats—No. 2 White 59 ® .60 ! Rye-No. 93 @ ,9a Barley No. 2 66 c' .68 Poke—Mess 12. to @l3/0 NEW YORK. Cattle 4.00 u' 6.50 Hogs ^5 6.00 SHI.EP 500 I" 7 -°° WH E *T-No.2Red 1.22 @1.24 Cohn—No. 2 83 (« .So I Oats—Mixed Western 60 .63 : Butter- Creamery 21 .'27 • Eggs—Western 14 @ .15 I Fork—Mess 13.75 @14.50

COMMERCIAL CONGRESS. DELEGATES FROM TWENTYFOUR STATES MEET. Their Object Is to Consider Means of I’romoting Business Interests or Their States—Leiter from President Harrison. Iho first Western States Commercial Convention convened at the Coates Opera House, in this city, says a Kansas City, Mo., dispatch, with delegations present from twenty-four states and territories. The convention was called to order by State Senator Kelly, of Kansas. He introduced Rev. Dr. Hayes, who offered a prayer. Tho convention then proceeded to temporary organization. On motion of Governor Francis, of Missouri, Senator Kelly was» chosen temporary chairman. In a long speech of acceptance he explained tho object of tho congress to bo tho consideration of various questions of peculiar interest to tho West and South. Mr. Kelly laid all tho blamo of agricultural depression upon a too small circulating medium. As a relief ho suggested tho recoinage of silver; tho raising of silver money to the standard of gold. Tho Hon. John W. Springer, of Illinois, was elected Temporary Secretary. Tho Chairman then presented Gov. Francis, of Missouri, who welcomed tho delegates on behalf of tho State. Ho said that tho congress marked a new era in agricultural, commercial and financial history. In tho early history of tho country such dissension and dissatisfacJAV 11 tVB ‘ rxo ' w exAtuta revolution. Ino pcopl® of tilio West wore now crying

for relief, but tho manner of relief was sought, not by arms, but by this deliberative congress. Different causes were assigned for the depression of Western interests. Let tho cause bo what it may, tho effect was the same. There was deep-rooted dissatisfaction, and there was unanimous desire that the evil of depression bo abolished, and that Western interests be stimulated. Heretofore Federal legislation has boon in tho interosts.of tho East. Congress lias been favorablo to the creditor class, and the West was a heavy debtor. It was necessary now for tho West to stand together, and there were many things that tho West desired, tho advocacy of which should bo unanimous, earnest

and continued. The West wanted freer trade with Mexico, Canada and South America and all the countries of the world. The West wanted the Mississippi connected with the great lakes. It wanted improved railways, so that one could step on a vestibule, train at Kansas City and step off it at Buenos Ayres. It wanted a fuller volume of currency. These, were things that w.ould relieve the distressing condition of affairs, and these were things on which the West must act together. L. D. Wight Thatcher welcomed the delegation on behalf of the State of Kansas. An adjournment was then taken until 2 o’clock in the afternoon. Upon reassembling letters of regret were read from those who had been given special invitations to attend the congress. Among the number was one from President Harrison, in which he regretted his Inability to bo present in response to the Invitation extended him. He also said: A public discussion of the conditions affecting agricultural aud business prosperity cannot but be helpful, if it is conducted on broad lines and is hospitable to differences of opinion. The extraordinary development of production of agriculture which has taken place in a recent period in this country, by reason of tne rapid enlargement of the area of tillage under the favoring hind laws of the United States, very naturally has called attention to the value and, Indeed, the necessity of larger markets. I am one ot those who believe that a home market Is necessarily the best market for the producers, as it measurably anticipates him, in proportion to its nearness, from the exactions of the transportation companies. If the farmer could deliver his surplus produce to the consumer out of his lartn wagon, his independence ana bis profits would be larger and surer. It seems to me quite possible to attain a largely increased market, for our staple farm products without impairing tee homo market by opening tne manufacturing trades to a competition in which foreign producers paying a lower scale of wages would have the advantage. A jiolice that would reduce the number of our peopls engaged in mechanical pursuits or diminisn their ability to purchase food products by reducing wages can not be helpful to those now engaged in agriculture. The farmers insist that the prices of farm products have been too low—below the point of fair living aud fair profits. 1 think ho, too, but I venture to remind them that the plea they make involves the concession that things may be too chean. A coat may be too cheap as well as corn. The farmer who claims agood living and profits for his work should concede the same to every other man and women who toils. 1 look with great confidence to the completion of reciprocal arrangements, especially with the Central aud South American States, as furnishing new and large markets for meats, breadstuffs, and an important line of manufocture 1 products. Your deliberations will probaldy also embrace the consideration of the question of t he volume and character of our currency. It Mill not bo possible, and would not bo appropriate for me in this letter to enter upon any elaborate discuss!: n of these questions. One or two things 1 will say, and first, I believe that every person who thoughtfully considers the question will agree with me upon a proposition which is at the base of all consideration of the currency question: namely, that any dollar, paper or coin, that is issued by the United States, must be wade and kept in its commercial uses as good us any other dollar. So long as any paper money issued or authorized by the United States Government is accepted in commercial use as the equivalent of the best coined dollar that we issue, and so long as every coined dollar, whether of silver or gold, is assured o’ an equal value in commercial use there need be no rear as to an excess of money. The more such money the better. But on the other hand, when any issue of paper or coined dollars is, in buying or selling, rated at less value than other papers of coined dollars, we have passed the limit of safe experiment, in finance. If we have dollars of different values, only the poorest will circulate. The runner and the laborer who are not fn hourly touch with the ticker or the telegraph will require, above all other classes of our community, a dollar of full value. Fluctuations and depreciations are always at the first cost of these classes of our community. The banker and the speculator anticipate, discount, and often profit by such fluctuations. It is very easy under the Impulse of excitement or the stress of money stringency to fall into the slough of a depreciated or irredeemable currency. It is a very painful and slow business to get out when once in. 1 have always believed, and do now more than ever believe in bimetalism and favor the fullest use of silver in connection with our currency that is I compatible with the maintenance of the parity of the gold and silver dollar in their commercial uses. Nothing, in my judgment, would so much retard the restoration of the free use of silver by the commercial nations of the world as legislation adopted by us that would result in placing this country upon a basis of silver monometalism. The legislation adopted by the first session of the Fifty-first Congress, I was assured by leading advocates of free coinage, representatives of the silver States, would promptly and permanently bring silver to 129 per ounce and keep it there. That anticipation lias not been realized, and for reasons not vet agreed upon, diminished the demaud for silver in China and Incia. Here and There. The organs of smell in the turkey vulture and carrion crow are so delicate that they can scent their food for a distance of forty miles. A Georgia editor has twenty-seven children. He positively refuses to insert an advertisement announcing that a boy or girl is wanted. Two YOUNG men were walking out at Morgantown, W. Va , when one of them slipped and was impaled upon a cane carried by the other and died the next day.

BLAINE’S” REPLY SENT.’ IT SHOULD EFFECTUALLY SETTLE THE TROUBLE. Undo Samuel’s. Secretary of State Puts umbert’H Minister ata Dinad vantage— He Shows that tho Po zersof Home Have Keceded from Their First Demand on 1 ms Country. Mr. Blafho’s reply to Marquis Rudini s note of April 2 has been, transmitted to tho Italian,. Government. It is a dignihcd and yot caustic reply, to a demand with 111 to ° mu ' h br ^vado to bo read with patience in this country. Tho o? a St mmluo i SC r SSCd fr ° m thc stan dpoint . ] P ' indignant at tho gratuitous n .° f a fricndl y nation, manifesting a desrro to bo fair, but exh biting not the slightest inclination to apolog^o j n efl(ict Blaine takeß tho Italian Ministry up, shakos it, atid then with a show of, iron-handed courtesy shoves it out of tho way. Mr. Webster’s correspondence as to tho Spanish riots in New Orleans, which is quoted in the reply, was memorable, bub Mr. Webster , all through his dispatches expressed an honest desire that tho peaceful relations existing between tho United States*and Byain might not be disturbed, '['here is an entire absence of any such wish or expression in tho reply to the Italian Government. The opinion Is universal that the Italian Premier deserved fully the castigation he receives, yet it is doubtful ft any , two- great nations not immediately contemplatint? war ever Veforo enVeroa upon Such lb

fusillade of absurd and unreasonable demands on the one hand and of caustic irony and derisive courtesy on tho other hand, as appear in this correspondence. Imperiali’s opening and curious soft sawder, in addressing the Secretary of State as “Your Excellency” almost overshadows the admission ho immediately afterward makes that Baron*Fava was not recalled, as tho Baron himself gave out originally, but was sfmply absent “on leave.” This gives Blaine a chance to got back at Imperial! and address him as full “charge d’affaires,” instead of being simply tho officer left “in charge of current business” as.was so sedulously stated at the outset of the trouble.

The Italian Government has not suspended diplomatic relations by recalling’ its Minister, though for home effect it has proclaimed that it has done so. The next and even more important point made is the showing from the exact language of Rudini’s original dispatch how widely different his two demands—the one sent out from Rome and the one now answered—were. Incidentally, Mr. Blaine gets in a sarcastic allusion to Baron Fava’s English. His quotation shows that ten years’ residence in Washington has not given the Baron greater .familiarity with the language than he seems to have with the institutions of the country. Noting the different terms employed in the dispute’ which he is answering from those used in the dispatch previously received, he says his department “has no desire to change” the language of the original dispatch of March 24, which was delivered to him in person by Baron Fava, transcribed in English. Then he quotes that dispatch with its assertion of a right “to demand, and obtain the punishment of the murderers and an indemnity for their victims.” Then follows this extraordinary sentence, v which the Secretary of State mercilessly quotes: “I would add that the public opinion in Italy is justly impatient, and if concrete provisions were not at once taken 1 should find myself in the painful necessity of showing openly our dissatisfaction by recalling the Minister of his Majesty from a country where he is unable to obtain justice.” Mr. B aine, of course, cannot resist contrasting the original demand with the subsequent cable dispatch ‘stating that “The government of Italy has asked nothing but the prompt 1 institution of judicial proceedings through the regular channels. ” He does not say that the. Italian government has failed to carry out its threat of recalling the Minister, but he addresses his reply to Imperial! as “charge d’affaires.” showing that he takes cognizance of the fact, and then he proceeds to analyze other portions of the Italian Minister's second 1 dispatch. It seems that the summary as given out from Rome, in violation of all diplo--1 matic usage, was correct in stating that Rudini assumed the Secretary ,of State i had promised indemnity for the families of the victims. Mr. Blaine shows that J he had only recognized the “’principle oi i indemnity” to those who had suffered in • violation of treaty obligations. Finally, ’ he puts it that if any of the persons - killed by the mob in New Orleans were ; really “Italian subjects who were resh, J dent or domiciled in that city, agreeably' s to our treaty with’ Italy and* not in vio- • lation of our immigration laws, and who ' were abiding in the peace of the United j States and obeying the laws-thereof,” i impossible conditions for the Italian ’ Government to show—then, in case the ’ State authorities had failed to propi erly protect them, the “President would 1 under, such circumstance! feel that ' a case^ was established that should i be submitted to e the consideration of Congress.” Only this and nothing more. It is very strongly suspected that the preliminary abstract of the report prepared by United States District Attorney Grant, of New Orleans, will disclose that all the men killed except two or three were naturalized citizens, and that these two or three were Italian bandits who had come hero in violation of our naturalization laws,and for whom the Italian Government has therefore no right of reclamation* This correspondence YviU leave the Rudini ministry in a critical position before its own people, but it is generally conceded bore that the Italian Government has brought th© situation upon itself by bluff and bluster and jingoism. What effect the publication of this correspondence may have upon the critical, threatening attitude of severaK of the European powers to ea,ch other, including those in alliance with Italy, is a fruitful theme for conjecture. The much-talked of letter will nofrghe much comfort in Italy. Life, like war, is a series of mistakes, and he is not the best Christian nor the best general who makes fewest false steps. Poor mediocrity mav secure that; but be is the best who wins the most SDlend^ victories by the retrieval of mistakes. Forget mistakes; organize victory out of mistakes. You must be sure of two things^-you must love your work, and not bo always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin; and the other is, you not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable ter you to be doing something else.