St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 17, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 14 November 1891 — Page 2

walkertomndependent. WALKERTON, ... INDIANA DOINGS OF THE DAY. SUMMARY OF LATE NEWS BY WIRE Eventful Happenings in Every Known Hemisphere—Fires, Accidents, Crimes, Politics, Religion, Commerce and Crops, Sandwiched with Minor Affairs. Artificial Moisture. Mr. John T. Ellis, who is in immediate charge of the Government rainmaking experiments in Texas, in the absence of General Dyrenforth, gives full and authentic details of the bombardment of San Diego, which closes the experimenting for the present season. He states that the success on the occasion mentioned was the most complete yet achieved, and to himself and all others present, including Lieut. Dyer, of the army, was conclusive proof that rain in useful quantities can » .Im produced artificially and at a trifling cost compared with the resulting benefits. Mount Hecla Awakening. Two more earthquake shocks have occurred in the island of Pontellana. They were very severe, wrecking four dwellings and injuring many people. Advices from Iceland are to the effect that Mount Hecla has decreased in activity since the present outbreak in Italy. During the eruption in Pontellana 500 convicts escaped from a castle where they were confi ed and began a series of high-handed outrages. This only was needed to complete the panic into wh ch the unfortunate inhabitants already had been thrown, as they were unable te escape from the island. Floods Growing Worse. The floods continue to formidably increase along the Thames and in Lincolnshire, Somersetshire and the midland counties. The. town of Eton and a number of the streets of Windsor are so flooded as to be impassable for pedestrians. Peop'e are being conveyed from house to house in flat-bottomed boats. Dispatches from the south of France represent the floods as growing rapidly worse, while the rainfall is constantly and generally increasing. Reds Active in Italy. A dispatch from Rome says: Serious rioting took place at San Michele, Province of Modena, between a body of socialists and a number of workingmen. Two of th? combatants were killed and eight others were seriously injured, while a large number received slight wounds. The rioters were charged and dispersed by the police, who arrested most of the leaders. Not a Mafia Outrage. William W. Jacques, who, together ■with his daughter, was assaulted by a Florence (Italy) mob last May, and whose case has been under investigation by the State Department, has received a a letter from Acting Secretary Wharton whi h says there is no evidence whatever that the assault was committed because of nationality. Davitt Will Be a Candidate. The Dublin National Press (McC rthyite) says it is authorized to state that if Michael Davitt is unable to accept the offers made to him to stand for the parliamentary seat for Kilkenny recently held by the late Sir John I’ope Hennessy, he will become a candi iate for some other constituency at the approaching general election. French Are Great Smokers. Government statistics show that French smokers consumed in 1890 2,000.000 francs’ worth of foreign cigars, 2,600,000 francs' worth of cigarettes, 29,000,000 worth of snuff, and 91,000,000 worth of pipe tobacco. There is an in-crea-e of 700,000 francs in the expenditure for ladies’ cigarettes. There is one anti-tobacco society in France. Perished in Flames. Alpheus Hunt, an elderly man, was burned to death at his home in Taunton, Mass. His son was awakened by the smell of smoke and the cracking of fire. He rushed down stairs and found the house ablaze and his father dead, the lower part of his body being burned. The house was partially destroyed. Prominent lowa Man Gone. At Keokuk, lowa, J. M. Sh dley, an old resident, died suddenly. He was at one time a member of the dry goods firm of Cox & Shelly, the pioneer house of the State He was a Democrat in politics and served in both houses of tho Legislature and was several times Democratic candidate for Congress. He Drank from the Wrong Bottle. Busse, a farmer living two and onehalf miles oast of East Grand Forks, Minn., was found dead in His biißgy. i Busse had provided himself with a bottle of horse medicine and a bottle of whisky, and by mistake had drank from the wrong bottle. Fire in an Orphanage. The orphanage at Junowitz, Bohemia. caught fire and was totally de- j stroyed. Owing to the panic which prevailed the children were rescued with great difficulty. Thirty of the inmates were more or less injured by the flames and smoke. Chili Must Answer. Minister Egan lias demanded of the Chilian Junta an- explanation of the recent murder of the United States steamer Baltimore, and reparation for the in juries inflicted. Made an Inebriate of Her Husband. At Youngstown, Ohio, two saloonists, Joseph Brown and Thomas Kelly, were sued by Mrs. Electra Stevens for 85,060. She alleges that they maliciously made an inebriate of her husband, and he is now physically incapacitated from earning a living. Went to the Bottom. The steamers Boston ..nd Charlwood were in collision in the English Channel, resulting in the loss of nineteen lives. The Charlwood went to the Bottom.

EASTERN OCCURRENCES. At Monongahela City, Pa., the influx of Huns and negroes from the ' c ath and East continues steadily, and the miners are thoroughly alarmed over the prospect. A riot is feared when they are placed n the pits. Isaac William Lore, formerly a broker, met with a horrible death at the Bloomingdale (N. Y.) Asylum. It is alleged that Mr. Lore, during the temporary absence of his attendant, plunged into a bath tub filled with boiling water and received injuria; which caused his death. In the Probate Court hi Salem, Mass , the will of Mrs. Hopkins-Searles, which has become famous because of its bequests and because of its litigation, was sustained. The finding of the court created quite a stir, in the midst of which the contestants announced their intention to appeal. At Passaic, N. J., tho warehouse of the Speer New Jersey Wine Company caught fire, and in less than two hours the whole place was a mass of ruin . Tho loss will reach SIOO,OOO, partly insured. The office and plant of the Passaic Item, which were located in the building, were also destroyed. Prominent busines men of Portland, Augusta, Bangor and Lewiston, Me., have organized a corporation known as the New England Transportat'ou Company, tho object of which is to provfdo transportation to Chicago during tho Fair, which shall Include sleeping catservice, board in Chicago and accident insurance. St. Mary’s Orphan Asylum. New - Brunswick, N. J., has been closed. Fif- i teen months ago tho seven year itch i broke out in the institution, soon after j tho reception of some children from Trenton. Physh lans were unable to treat the malady successfully and about thirty children were sent away. Those who remained were seized with the malady and left for hosp’tals until tho last one was attacked a few days ago, when the institution was dosed. The Sutterville division of the Sons of Temperance, Sutterville, Pa., has ex- I polled Rev. Alexander Laird and John McElroy L r drinking a glass of new cider, while five others areon the list for similar punishment at the next meeting. Mr. Laird has been espeeia’iy zea ous In denunciation of the liquor traffic, and that he should be dismissed for drinking a glass of apple juice fresh from the press has so unsettled lemperante matters in the litt'e town that over half of the nu mbers of the order have dropped out in tho last two weeks. Hexry Levy, a salesman for Herman Landsberg and William Reichert, tobacco dealers of New York, has been arrested, charged with misappropriating SI,OOO which he collected. Levy admits taking money, but says he sent it a’l to his parents, who were old, feeble, and In danger of losing their home under mortgage. Mr. Joseph said that Levy had admitted taking 53,29(», but it might be. more. Ho had been selling goods for them on commission for the last two years, and also actol as collector of tho accounts whore he. had sold goods, and as such had effected all of Mr Landberg’s book accounts. Levy threatened to commit suicide. He was taken to jail in default of 81,500 ba’l. WESTERN HAPPENINGS. At Omaha tho verdict of tho coroner's jury in tho case of the negro. Smith, taken from the jail and hanged by a mob, was rendered, and is that Smith was "frightened to death by unknown persons. ” Frank Clandis. a man with a record of having stolen more horses than any other man in tho wext, was arrested after a desperate resistance at Mound City, Mo. bv Deputy Sheriff Brown and Sheriff Win. Gleason of McPherson i County. Kun. A box of fine cosmetics, such a- are used by actresses in their "make up,” was received at the Appraiser’s warehouse in Chicago for Sarah Bernhardt. I The fair Sarah s now in Cincinnati, but j the cosmetics will be held to await hetorder. The box came from Paris. The birth of a little girl to Mix \. N. | Fase, of Kansas City, Kan, brings out i a peculiar fact. The muther i< 1? years ■| old. Her mother, I 'Mrs. M Spangler, is at the house, a grandmother at 33, a id I Mrs. G. M. Redman, of St Louis, is also i there. She is the child's great-grand 1 mother, aged 52 years. Garza, the Mexican insurgent, who tried to make the State of Durango free and led its people to a bloody tight, is thought to be in jail at the little town of Marysville, Nodaway County. Mo. What Garza is in jail at Marysville for cannot be learned. It is said that he was arrested on sonic small charge committed about three weeks ago Dr. Franklin D. Clark, a well-known specialist of Chicago, committed suicide by asphyxiation. The deceased was one of the o’d residents of Chicago, having been there over a quarter of a century, and was in the neighborhood of 60 years of age. He is reputed to have b*en quite wea thy. He was quite a fancier off horses and owned a fine stable of trotters. He leaves a daughter and three sons. The Day ton (Ohio) Natural Cas Company notified patrons to be prej ared to have gas shut off Dec. 1. This action is not brought about by scarcity of gas but because citizens ins'st that tho com I any shall continue to furnish gas at contract prices of 10 cents par 1,000 < übic feet, which contract has yet । eighteen year- to run. Tho companj demands an advance to 25 cents, and has instituted a game of freeze-out. Much lit igati n will be the immediate result. Andrew AA yman, his mother-in law, Mary Fountaine; his wife an I two sisters, a'l of Jefferson, S D , went to the Corn Palace at Sioux City, and while in the city AA v man became intoxicated, and cn the way home urged his horses into a run. The wagon was overturned, and Mary 1 ountainc was instantlykilled, while al the rest sustained injuries not nec ssarily fatal. Wyman was arrested, awaiting the verdict of the coroner's ju y The transfer of May White, the Muni th, Mich., sleeping school teacher, to her home in Meadville, has had no ap parent effect upon her condition. Sho j has now been in a trance like state for j 130 days, and has wasted away to a skel- | eton. Miss White is 19 years of age, ; and win n awake weighed HO pounds । *nd had excellent health The long i Zleep came upon her without warning. ! Liquid nourishment is administered, but

of late she does not seem to have ♦!« ' power to assimilate it ave tho On tho big Mayville (N. D) f j owned by tho Grandin brothers fm.r men were killed outright and two nth i ers so seriously hurt that they di ed within an hour afterward ' were killed by the explosion of ’th« toi or, duo to the fact, it is clni. > i that the engineer had allowed the water ■ to run down too low. The machine had ‘ been standing still about two hours while some re; airs wore being m ad o i and tho explosion followed within two ' minutes after tho engine started and । the pump began pouring cold water inin 1 the boiler. Two of the killed were blown nearly to pieces. Two otheis were seriously injured, but will recover At Sioux Falls, S. D, the United States Grand Jury presented an indict-j ment against eleven officers of -the ■ Louisiana Lottery Company located at ' Now Orleans. Among the o flu ers in-' dieted aie Gen Beauregard, Paul Con- ' rad, the President of the company, and Joseph 11. Horner, Secretary. ' The remaining eight are directors. The In- i dictmont carries with it in each case eighteen counts, which means that there i aro eighteen indictments against .pgd 1 of tho e'even officers. The several v® l- ' ■ rants were mailed tc tho United ! Marshal in Louisiana, who wlliJmC'*’ - the arrests and at once bring l ho ! ants to Sioux Falls, to make thofiW^ (l , on tho specific charßO that tlio^X tranmnltt. ’fry advert , through the mall. SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. A conviction for a murder comniiti ted twenty-two years ago occurred in the Criminal District Court in New Orleans. '1 he accu ed is William Redo-I toux, an aged and feeble negro, and the crime for which ho will spend tho reI maindt-r of his life in tho penitentiary was the killing of Henry Porter at Gentilly Road. August 9, 1869. A curious phase of tho caso is that all the testimony for the pn secution was given bv , negro witnesses, while a number of white [ orsons gave evidence that placed the identity of the prisoner entirely in doubt The jury was white. A train of thirteen cars loaded with coal was wrecked on the Columbus and Western Railroad near Good water. Ala. Astho train rounded a curve within a few yards of Hatchett Creek, tho engineer saw Hm trestle approa h to the bridge on fire It was too lat' to stop, and ho j pulled tho throttle wide open in an at tempt to cress by -heer force of speed The engine and two cars got across ' safely, but tho third car went down nearly fifty foot, an I the others fol- | lowed. Conductor Rice and Flagman I < rawfi rd were killol and their b J o; burned with the cur. The orange crop of Louisiana, which is rapidly approaching ripening, is fm- । menso; in fact, one of th * largest ever raised. Some of th * trees are so laden I with < ranges that tho branches hav< to I be supported with props t>prevent t»ejr breaking. The crop will be picked/by j the end of October and is now about [sst any danger of damage. The orang* farms are valued at -1,500 or more mt acre, > ielding -150 to $250 In orangs Thore is little or no en'tivation. Wh ‘l crop is so’d on the tr<j>. to be gath.re d ; -by the purchaser and freowHilyAhc ; sale Ismail-- -in Uiebud. ' Th * L *ui-Wta»_ j orange, across between the sw. tT^oT^ i tho sour orange, has suffered in comm|ri- i 1 son with tin* California and Florida iw»*l net. larg ly because was ronfplt I handled in the nicking, but the troijde has now been thoroughly rem died ami It is growing in favor again. w j FOREIGN GOSSIP. Fire has de-tro)ed the town of D da. Russia. Th-* Government offices and over io > other building- w- re consumed. A dispatch from I riuhton says: Mrs. Fame 1 <l* e< not -* ep any, and is -t I! . unable to take any food It is bom feared that her mind ma; give way Her situation is most critical. A I’HY-utxx of Berlin writes ’hat tw- nt •-t « o different -pecie- of bar ter a ‘ find a lodgment in the human month. Kissing he pronounv-s to lea habit ot untold danger and one which should be abandoned. Tin Kolahut secret society has caused the walls of W'O Chang, a large city in I the province of Hoo Fee. on the Yang 1 ts.* Kiang, to be placar k* I w ith posters announcing that a I missionaries will shortly be exterminated. ’ S nioi - riots an* reported at Tchorni- ' goff, Russia It is -aid thirty Jews ■ were killed, wlii e 59u suffered either in > person or In prop Tty. The p >pular 1 elicf is that the Jew- are responsib’e for the prevalence of tiie famine The Jews are usually large buyers of grain, but this yt ar they- refrained, ow ing to the per ecut ion of which they had been the victim-. ' A St. Pe i eksbi iu. correspondent says that the approa h of f:e-t has e;used a renewal of the cries of distress The Novosti estimates that twenty millions of people are without food. Statistics prove conclusively that* in i many places speculators get extortionaw prices. Corn merchants and villr®® ko ilaks. or t — .? • r, are charged with ' spon-ibilitv for the extortion I r is reported that tin* Chines * eminent, in view ot the threatening dition of its foreign re ation-. especially with Russia, is anxious to procure ifnglish officers of experience for subordinate commands. This, it is believed, will bo difficult, in consequence of the bad treatment accorded to (.'apt. Lang who, after building up the navy to con--1 siderable efficiency, was driven into resigning. The Chinese Government then dec.ared that it would never again intrust real authority to any foreigner - and it is hard to find competent foreign naval officers willing to serve under the . Chinese. । France lias officially decided to , capitulate to the purity of the American ; hog. The French Senate decided to , impose a duty of 25 francs per 100 kilos • on salted meats of ail k'nds. The : Chamber of Deputies agreed to that i । liaurc. Should the French Cabinet feel I , disused n may declare the embargo ; raised immediate’y, or it can wait until - the new tariff bill shall have finally 3 ; \ ^ ,O ( ch J ,rse d ‘ albl 'res is inclined ;to the belief that the Cabinet will take , action immediately. Germany's schedule is 81.75 per 220 pounds; the French . schedule Is about 84.50. , | The arming of the Berlin, Ger., police ' i "Hh carbines, which virtually converts r them into a r gu’ar soldiery, is due to the great apprehension felt by the au- * thorit:es that the winter will be attended

JerK bv*™"" a,nGn ß th e Poor, and i is thro T 4U ? nt disturbances. Berlin is thronged with strangers seekIng employment. Th so i nc ”ude Krge : numbers ot Russians and Polish Jews I tho fa^r r an<i de ? id ^ ly su P er i° r class to , t io la ter, and a so Germans and others I Thtir d ‘p the h ^ ira KSI ! rhero is not work enough for the । re- dent popu ation, and numbers of the I »«‘wcoin<*rs. are going about the streets 1 b i^ I j’’ ? 10 ^ arin colonies are thronged j with destitute perso s, sent there by 1 £ . aU i 7'‘u*’ and yet ,horo s oems to . bo lo diminuJo i of pauperism. The indignation of the pro’ates । against the circular order of M. Fal- . lieres, French Minister of Public Wor- । ship, forbidding them to indulge for the present in pilgrimages to Rome, threat j ‘•ntirely undo the work of reconciliation between the church and the , lepublic which has been carried Oil HllCi ccssfully for several months past The prelates all stand by the Archbishop of ' Ai\ in his letter repeating the com- ; maud as unjustifi» b, ° interference with his lights as » prelate and as a citizen of ' France. «»“ d should legal action I e taken afra ,,,st they will espouse his cause I to a man. The Government, on the other hand, is not all sure of its posit on, and M. Fallieres has I eon called to account, it is said, by President Carnot. GENERAL NOTES. The number of immigrants arrived in ‘ , the United States during the month of i So; t imber was 52,706, as compared with I 45.478 for the corresponding month last I y< ar. A mirage in the Caribbean Sea was the cau«« of the total loss of the new Ameri an brigantine Steadfast. She : was wrecked several weeks ago, but tho ; I crew only recently reached । hi adclphia. Ar Fergus Falls. Minn., Adelbert Goheen was hanged. Gohe n only iwonty-ono years old. Last Mar h lie । murdered Resetta Brav, a dissolute woman Goheen < harged his brother 1 Anderson with the crime up to the very I last Tne execution of the ten negr es which was to have taken place at Coi lumbia, S.C.. has been postponed, owing to the grantingof a stay, [tending an ap j peal to the Supreme Court. The total resu ts of the recent elections in Chili show that the different parties combined under the name of Liberals have elected fifty-five deputies, ' while theConservaties, or ; lerieal . have i elected th rty-xeveu. (hie dictatorial ' deputy has also Ie -n e’eeted The hi ta ' is charged with having exercised the | grossest intimidation and terrorism to ’ deter the former Balmace lists from takl ing part in the ejections A iei.egrxm has been received at the Navy Pepartment from ( aptain Schley, ' commander of the United States steamship Baltimore, at Valparaiso, Chiii, । giving additional detai s of the affray : between American and ( lulian sailors, i in which one of the so mer was killed. ' The cablegram corroborates the facts । already published and as-erts that the fight was caused by the < hilians, who. he say-, made an atta k on the sailors without pro* ovation The boatswain's ’ mate who was killed was dragged from ■ a street car by tho mob, whi' h numi bored about one himdrod and fifty, and he died in the arms of a fellow-sailor. A baiti.e took place between a band of ! au«i a forvo us Canadian T mounted poltc.*. The fight took [ lace just across the h.tornat onal boundary Uno. not over fifty miles from Assina- ■ bolno, Mont. The Blood Indians who : are old time enemies of the police, made i a raid on a band of horses belonging io the latter a few days ago, and ran off with nearly all of them. Ten of tho I police started in pur-uit, and. coming I ujion them suddenly both - des comi tneneed firing The first !re killed one ’ policeman and two Ind tins, ami several u. r * wounded on b >th sue - ['he m u - wa* brought in by a Blackfoot who witnessed tin* fight. Iho fight was still in [irogrc-s when he est R G. Di x A Co.’- week y review of trade -ays: । General business is remarkably active and increasing m volume nt tin* West, im- : pros ing at tho S*utb, and distinctly less ' dull than it wa- a week ago at Eastern cities. Collections are Improving In nearly all directions. Th* money mark- । ets are nowhere stringent, at nearly all ■ hni» rtant jsdnts being quite easy, though with a notlm able improvement in the demand. Ihe-e -izn- plainly promise a str. n ; trade for the f ill ami winter, unle-s । disturbances which cmimt now lie foreseen should interrupt. The business fallj ures occurring tliroughout the countiy during tin* lu-t seven days numl er for the United state- 207. and f r Canada 42. or a total of 24 '. as c nnpared with a total ot 2.‘>l> la-t week, and 270 ti* week previou- to the last. lor the e ,rreI spending week of last year the tiirures were 225, representing 233 failures in the United States and 22 in the Jknnlnlon ot Canada. MAKKET KEPOKTS. CHICAGO. Cattle— Common to Prime ^.50 ^5 650 Hoi. Shipping Grades 4.00 @4. >D Sheep —Eair to Choice a UJ 5 2Z Wheat—No. 2 Red 94 « .'Ui । Cohn —No. 2 .5 > a Oats— No. 2 3 > ' .31 Rye —No. 2 sh v 1 - .su 1 Butteb —Choice Creamery 31 @ .32 ' Chee-e l ull Cream, flats L .. .t. .ll’- 4 Eggs— Fresh 18 .TJ I Potatoes —New, per Lu 25 .a* INDIA X U'lU.iS. ( <-ATi ; v Sl.immJri 3.2.> 5.7. Z • Hogs Choice I.iglit... 3,a0 4. j Sheep— Common to Prime 3.00 4.25 ; Wheat— No. 2 Red ‘.KJ’s® I Corn —No. 1 White 55*^@ .563$ I Oats— No. 2 White 30 ifj> .32 hT. LOUIS. Cattle. 3.50 @ 5.C0 : Hogs 3.50 4,50 I Wheat— No. 2 Red 92 & .94 Corn— No. 2 51 & .52 i Oats —No. 2 .27^@ .23's Rye— No. 2 82 .81 ' CINCINNATI. I Cattle 3.50 @ 4.25 Hogs 400 (it 4.75 i Sheep 3.00 & 475 Wheat— No. 2 Red 95 .95 J Corn —No. 2 59 .61 | Oats —No. 2 Mixed 31 @ .32 DETROIT. Catile 3.C0 iff 5.25 1 Hogs 3.00 @ 4.25 I Sheep 3.00 <<i 4.50 Wheat— No. 2 Red 97 ^l. ,93 Corn —No. 2 Yellow- 51 ,s(> Oats— No. 2 White 3216 TOLEDO. * " Wheat — New 97 @ ,yg Corn— No. 2 Yellow ^57 ’571.. . Oats— No. 2 White 23 .30 ' -8ye.... as @ ’39 BUFFALO. I Beef Cattle 4.03 @ 7.00 I Live Hogs 4^ 5 qj I Wheat— No. 2 Red ’.’’’ ‘<9 i’ ( n Cohn— No. 2 @ 61 MILWAUKEE. Wheat— No. 2 Spring 90 @ .92 Corn —No. 3 55 55 Oats —No. 2 White 3295@ 33V, Rye— No. 1 33 *@ ^9 “ Barley, No. 2 6C @ .61 Bonk—Mess 11.00 <a 11.50 NEW YORK. Cattle 3.50 @ 5.25 Hogs 4.00 @ 5,0 y Sheep 3.59 5.09 Wheat— No. 2 Red i.;3 & 1.06 Corn— No. 2 65 & .67 Oats— Mixed Western 36 (g< .39 Butter— Creamery 20 @ .33 Pork— New Mess 10.75 ©11.25

IT LOOKS LIKE WAR. THE VALPARAISO OUTRAGE MAY CAUSE TROUBLE. Uncle Sain Indignant—Officials Say It Was an Insult to the Flag—Demand Made for Redress—Naval'Authorities Say that the Situation Is Very Serious. Chilian Hatred. Further persistent inquiry of the officers of the government in regard to the Valparaiso incident shows conclusively that the administration does not regard it as a simple street row for which the Chilian government can not be held accountable, but as an insult to the honor and flag of the United States, calling for the most vigorous diplomatic treatment Ihe official report of the occurrence, made by Capt. Schley, of the Baltimore, after a careful inve tigation of all the surrounding circumstances, shows clearly not only that the assault upon the American sailors was cowardly and unprovoked, but that it was inspired purely by hatred for the uniform they- wore and the country it represented; or, in other woids, that it was notan attack on them as individuals, but as representatives of tho United States The report, also indicates that the local police. Instead of protecting the 1 Americans from the violence of thq mob, in several instances assisted in the onslaught. This, the report says, is dembnstrated by the fact that several of the sailors were wounded by bayonets such as are usually carried by the Chilian police. The outrage is not regarded by Presicent Harrison as the work of an unruly mob. The wounds on the dead men were made by bayonets, and therefore I ; the so diers and police of Chili were th* I , butchers. Moreover, the unanimity of ; the attack shows that it was premeditated Tin* assaulted men were riding peacefully in a street ear, when suddenly they were knocked down, dragged from the car, shot and stabbed. Then, not daring 10 face the Ameri;ans, even though the latter were unarmed, the savages shot and bayonetted them in the back. The a tion of the Chi ian Government in the present difficulty with the United | States was similar 11 the* position of ■ Paraguay in 1557. when that country was brought to terms by the vigorous ! action of President Buchanan. The I Government of Paraguay had. upon friv- i 0 0 s and ev< n insulting pretexts, re- । fus il to ratify the treaty of friendship, I commerce and navigation concluded with it March 4, lss;t, as amend'd by the United states Senate. It had seized and appropriated the property of American citizens residing in Paraguay, in a violent and arbitrary manner, and finally on Feb. 1, 1855, by order of President Lopez, it had tired upon the United States ship Water Witch, under Command r T homas J. l ace, of tin* navy, and killed the sailor at the h<* m. while the vessel was peacefully employed in surveying the Parana Biver. to ascertain its titn ss for steam navigatio n The honor as well as the Interests of this country demanded satisfaction. The President brought the subject to the notice of Congress i:i his first annual message. Dee. s. 1.-57. In this he informed Congress that he would make a demand for r, dress on the Governiueut of Paraguay in a firm out <O.l- , I’lHatoFy manner, tint at tliv same timo observed that "this will the more probably be granted if the Executive shall have authority to use other means in the event of refusal. This is accordingly recommended. ” Congress responded favorably to this re commendation. On the rd of June, 1- s. Congre-s passed a Joint resolution authoriz ng the President “to adopt such measures ami use such force as, in his judgment, may be necessary and advisable in the event of a refusal of just satisfaction by the Governmentof Paraguay in connection with the attack on the United State' steamer Water Wit *h, and with other matters referred to in th? anneal message,.” Congress also made an appropriation to defray the expenses of a commissioner to Paraguay, should he le’ in it proper to ap[> iiiit one. “for the ailjU'tment of difficulties” with that republic. Paraguay Is sit uated far in the interior of South America, and its capi a’, the city of Asuncion, on the left bank of the Kiv r I’arazuay, is more than a thousa id miles from the n outh of the l.a Plate. Protect! d by his remo e and seluded position. President Lopez but litt’e apprehended that a navy frem a far dista t country could ascend the La Plate, the l’ara a and the Paraguay and reach the capital This was doubtless I In- reason why h had ventured to place us at defiance. Under these circum--1 stances President Buchanan deem d it advisable to send w th Jam s R Eowli g, our Commissioner to I a’aguay, a • 1 aval force suffic ent to exac: justice should negotiation fail. This consisted of nineteen armed vessels, great aid small, carrying 200 guns and 2,500 sailors and marines, all under the c. mm.ind of Comtnod ire Shubriek Soon after the arrival of the expedition at Montevideo, Commissioner Bowling and Commodore Shubriek proceeded to ascend the rivers to Asuncion in the steamer Fulton, accompanied by the Mater Witch. Meanwhile tin.* remaining vessels rendezvoused in the Parana, near Rosario, a position from which they could act promptly in case of need. The commissioner arrived at Asuncion on Jan. 25. 185'9, and left it Feb. 10. Within this brief period he had ably and successfully accomplished all the objects of his mission. In addition to ample apologies, he obtained from President Lopez the payment of 810,(00 for the family of Seaman Chaney, who had been killed in the attack upon the Water Witch, and also concluded satisfactory treaties of indemnity and of navigation and < ommcrce with the Paraguayan government The mad King of Ba; aria somet’mes smokes as many as 100 cigarettes a day. For each cigarette he uses an entire box of matches, touching off the others to see them burn after he uses one to secure a light. Jesse D. Giiant, the youngest son of General Grant, who has I een living on a large fruit ranch and farm in California. has accepted the management of a group of silver mines in Mexico. Caterpillars from ten t > twelve ; inches long are said to b * not uncommon in Austra ia, whi’e species which vary in ength from six t > eight inches are I stated to be numcrou-. In the <‘,000.000 letters that reached the dead letter office last year there was money amounting to §28,612 and checks Mid notes of the va'ue )f §1,471,871. i

CURRENT COMMENT. Dr. Briggs’ Case. There is every prospect of a very Interesting and edifying time at tne trial. —Brooklyn Times. ' It is apparent a large number of clergymen stand about where the accused dots. —New York Herald. The sentiment of this age does not favor the persecution of any one for his honest opinions —Lafayeite Journal. So Dr. Briggs is to be tried for heresy after all. The old spirit of the inquisition has not wholly died out yet.—Boston Record. The worst thing that the judges have found against Dr. Briggs seems to be that he dared to speak his mind freely. ■ —Boston News. The Briggs case is up again and we shad soon know whether the eminent professor is bigger than the creed of his church. —Minneapolis Tribune. Prom nent I'resbyt 'rian ministers assert that the action now taken will cause a strife in the denomination which will imperil its very existence.—Albany Times. 1 he point of chief interest in tho case is that not only Dr Brigg, but the doctrines of the confession of faith are nkely to be on trial. — Minneapolis Taking it altogether the present crisis . Is tho Ptriojt aM in America hashad to face lor mOTSThan half a century, or since the division of 1837. —Philadelphia Telegraph. The New York Presbyterians are trying I r. Briggs for heresy because his views do not coincide with theirs. A little more Christian charity and a little ■ less prating about orthodoxy would im- ' prove a great many people—Memphis Avalanche. Aggressive Russia. Russia wi 1 hesitate to strike where an English army is going to defend.—■ Rochester Herald. Another printing pr. ss hasbren s iz d at Kieff, Russia Th* printing press is jan inf-rnal machine in the ey's of tyrants the world over.—St. Paul Pioneer 1 Press. The Chinese are commanding Russia to keep off “the roof of the world,” ' otherwise an altitudinous tract known as Pam -er in Central Asia.—Grand i Rapids Telegram-Herald. The Russian Foreign Minister is In j Italy on a mission to promote ^eacc. j Famine's grip on the bear’s vitals must be strong when it thus forgets its instincts.—Montreal Gazette. The chief objection neighboring nations ha e to htting Russia get up. on “the roof of the world” is that they can't tell on which side she proposes to* slide down. —Philadelphia Inquirer. Russia now wants to take Pameer, “the roof of the world.” Now let the modern despotism walk around and try to take the United States of America, I roof of nineteenth century liberty.— । Baltimore Herald. In 1876 Russia d dared war against I Turkey b-cause the Turks were perse- ' curing and massacring their Christian subjects. If any nation were looking I for a good excuse to make war on Russia the present persecution of the Jews might furnish it. —Buffalo Express. The Chilian Row. It looks a little as though the American eagle should show his claws at Vai- [ paraiso.—Toledo Blade. If it is found that the United S'ates ; sailors were attacked wantonly and without provocation our Government should insist upon ample reparation for the affront from the junta —New York ’ Press. We should demand redress for any outrage upon our seamen, tut we should ’ discipline our naval officers if during the. Chilian war they took any other than a strictly neutral position.—Milwaukee Wisconsin. It is of importance that (hili ana the j United States come to an amicable and honest understanding. Whatever cause of irritation Chili may have that is not in itself frivolous or unreasonable should ■ be removed.—Washington Post The Chilians should have some of the 1 i conceit taken out of them. It would not be a bad idea to put their army on board some of the American vessels, bring it up here, and let it see what kind of a country this is.—Louisville Courier- • Journal, i Sam Small. ; ' Sam Small, professional revivalist, is : i under arrest fdr obtaining money under false pretenses in a real estate deal. * i But for his pretense of preaching the gospel he draws wages unquestioned.—• i I New York World. ' If Rev. Sam Small is a perfectly hon- ‘ est man, he is continually in hard luck. 1 There was a misunderstanding as to his use of certain funds connected with the 1 j university at Ogden, which caused 'his retirement therefrom, and now he is accused of obtaining §I,OOO unjler false | pretenses. It looks very much as if Mr, j Small had mistaken his vocation. —New 1 Haven Register. I “Rev. ” Sam Small’s real-estate trans- । actions are likely to dim the brilliancy of his fame as a gospel headlight A man who has brains enough to clear SSOO on a §I,OOO deal ought to have untold possibilities before him. but Small made* a fatal mistake in neglecting to cover up certain peculiarities of the deal for 1 which he is now under arrest —St Paul Dispatch The American Hog. The western farmer is in luck this year. The cereal crops are big and the demand for his hogs grows greater every day —Philadelphia Call. The American heg is rooting about i Europe with all the disregard for boundary limits characteristic of the animal.— : Terre Haute Express. Italy has done a wiss and courteous ; thing in repealing the restriction in her । laws on the importation of American pork. — Washington Star. The American hog is to be admitted to Italy. M< re markets are being opened f r barrels of flour and pounds of pork ail the time —Philadelphia Call. The American hog seems to be insert1 ing his nose into foreign lands in dead ea nest He can now get into Italy, : when he is dead and salted. —Ba timoro ’ World. The American hog has free access to j Italy. This is only fair play, for the' ; kind of beast that made the trouble at New Orleans has long been freely admitted to this country when he could no longer live in peace at home. —Kansas • ■ City Journal.