Bloomington Courier, Volume 7, Number 31, Bloomington, Monroe County, 4 June 1881 — Page 2

BLQQMINGTON COURIER.

H. J. KELXUS; PUBLISHER.

toLOOMlNQTOST,

INDIANA.

THE NEWS.

Home Items The Duke of Sutherland was on 'Change at Chicago, Saturday. CoMMopoKB Nutt, - the famous dwarf,!died Wednesday morning. Citizens of Hudson, Wis., burned the house of ? dl-fame ke pt by Mrs. Cooper, in that town. Citizens of Columbus. Ohio, are taking steps to enforce the Sunday laws by closing saloons. The Boston City Dads have voted $15,000 to aid in celebrating the Glorious Fourth of July. Bishop Bowman has been assigned to the presidency of the M. E. Missions in China and Japan. - One man and three boys were pilloried and publicly whipped at New Castle, Del., Saturday. : A meeting of Chicago Jews will be held to devise means for the 'relief of their co-religionists in Kussia. During the working hours of one day 37,467 vehicles passed over the Clark stieet bridge in Chicago. Notice has been given to applicants that there will be no change in the office of Commissioner of Pensions. Counterfeit twenty-dollar silver certificates are in circulation, but they are poorly executed and easily detected. The Ohio Democratic State Executive Committee has decided to hold a 8 tate Convention at Columbus, July 13. Secretary Windom will probably issue a new 5 per cent bond in exchange for those sent in too late for continuance. Aio hope of the recovery of Mrs, Abraham Lincoln has been abandoned. Her mind is reported to be much impaired. An effort is being made to connect the name of Secretary Blaine with the Star route ring. It is believed to he unjustifiable. ... ,, The sales of the revised New Testament in New York Oiy, exceeded 909,000 copies the first day it was put upon the market.

In consequence of the scarcity of

wild pigeons the tournament of the Louisville Sportsmen's Association has been postponed. Max Strskosch. the well-known impressario and operatic manager, has again failed. The amount of his liabilities is not stated. The Michigan lawmakers have passed an act prohibiting raiirt ad companies carry ing inflammable oils and fluids on passenger trains. ,, Coi Thomas A. Scott, ex-President of the PennsylvaniaBailroadompanv. ma on last Friday night, aged a few months over fifty-six years. Ic Jb. Warren, a weU-knowa citizen of Louisville, has given $40,000 to the Broadway Tabernacle Presbvterian

Church, to clear off a debt. Jefferson Davis, ex-President of the Confederate States, visited Chicago on Saturday. He had visited it previously when it was a small French village. The physician who attended the late

vujuiuuure' x u n, me ceieorated dwarf, in New York, refused to sign thf ffoAth HTtftf KoAanoa tkaVA -r?ac

a dispute about his bill. General Williamson has tendered his resignation as Commissioner of the General Land (Mice. He takes charge of the land bureau of the Atlantic and . Pacific Railway Company. Judge Henry B. McClure, a prominent lawyer of Jacksonville, 111., dropped dead in the depot at Chicago, Saturday morning, while on his way to Lansing; heart disease. c Philadelphia's gas works trustees are to be prosecuted by the city. It is alleged that they have allowed some $10,000,000 to deviate from the receipts - to their own private bank accounts.. Mountain Home, Ark.,-was the scene of a roboery by a party of moun ted men, who, -after plundering the principal store and securing several thousand dollars in cash. fired the building. ... u

vwuunus. nuu james j? eaaiy, orocners and young men; were- arrested Friday morning at East Saginaw, Mich.,

charged with complicity in the Donnelly family murder, near Locan. Ont.

in February, 1880.

, , One of the latest developements of

the star route frauds was a contract let to John Cross, a friend of Dorsey's, to carry the mail between Ozark and Eureka Springs, Ark., eighty miles, six times a week for $14,090, which was

uuwjequenuy let ior $4,bU0. TlV ' riTTTT i . , .3 7 1 A

... , VVU,1J' siuuicu over n a whole day last week before he could decide whether he had given a certain check for five millions or ten millions. He finally concluded, by reference to a memorandum, that it wa ten. - Mr; Robert P. Porter, Chief of the Wealth, Debt, and Taxation Deoartment ' of the United States Census, states that the net debt of all the cities and towns of the United States with a Tutrvnln Ia v awa-m V ERA -I 1 1 nin

A terrible catastrophe occurred last evening at St. Joe, Mo. In a cellar beneath a soloon, frequented by colored men, 100 barrels of Dan fdrth's fluid ignited, and wrecked, the building, in which a large number of persons were assembled. Five dead bodies have so far been recovered. - Estimates by the Postoffice Department show that the letters mailed in 1880 equaled an average of twenty-one to each man, woman and child in the United States. The number of newspapers mailed was 812,032,000. Thk probabilities are that the arrivals of immigrants at New York during the month of May wiJl-exceed the enormous number of 70,060, a number beyond ail piecedent, and exceeding by several thousands the arrivals of the entire year 1877. The New York and Illinois Legislatures have passed bills to suppress the oleomargarine and butterine impositions. Strong measures will be required in the near future to stop the adulteration of a great many articles of food, which are now pois ming the people.' ; . A San Francisco dispatch says fires in the grain fields began Sunday, and one near Merced destroyed several hundred acres. Another in San Joaquin county, near Oakdaie, burned oyer the county rive miles square, principally wheat fields. Four houses were destroved The fire started from

a lighted cigar thrown from. a railroad

At the recent ami ual meeting of the American Missionary Association in Boston, a very satisfactory exhibit of evangelizing and educational work among the colored people in the Southern States was made by the Secretary. During the nineteen years of its existence the Association has sent 5,836 teachers and missionaries into the Southern field, at an average expenpture of 5200,000 a year. It .has established no le3s than fHty-one schools for higher education, six having collegiate and three theological courses. During the same period seventy-five churches had also been established. In all respects the work of the association has been highly successful. A Washington special says : Saturday the National bank circulation touched high-water mark. Over $362,900,000 in circulation is credited to the banks by the Comptroller of Currency. At no time in their history have the national banks had in circulation so many notes. The reason given, of course, is that in the present prosperous condition of business more money is wanted than at any time since the war.

Some sections (parts of New England, lor instance) have fewer notes than are needed,

but it is expected that national bank circulation, which is steadily issuing every day, will increase for some time to come. It may

reach 375,000,000.

Foreign. Floods and frost have made havoc ot the harvest prospects in France. Over two million copies of the revised New Testament have been sold in London. English gram crops do not stand well for harvest. So says the Mark Lane Express. France proposes to abolish the paper tax which yielos the revenue about $700,000 per annum, . The Anglo-French Union Bank, limited, having sixteen branches and 12,000,000 francs capital, has suspended. Prince Bismarck thinks he can run the German Empire very nicely, with or without the assistance-of the Reichstag. ... Holland proposes to lieen se liquor saloons in proportion to population, and to imprison persons found drunk in public. Thirty-nine negroes have been sentenced to death for rebellion against the government of the Banish West Indian island, The Nihilists are accused of being the leaders of the Jewish persecution. The imperial government being probably the accusers. ; -

Prince Leopold, the youngest son of

Queen Victoria, has been created Duke of Albany. This entitles him to a seat in the House of Lords. Further particulars of the electric railway of Siemens and Halske, the inventors, tried in the suburb of Berlin , state it to be a success; Fenton, vice president of the Clonmore branch of the Land League, and O'Bonnell. secretary, have been arrested at Cahir under the coercion act. The editor of the Frankfurter Zeitung has been sentenced to one month's imprisonment for speaking disrespectfully of Prince Bismarck. A Fjrench paper, published at Vienna, asserts that the Princess Stephanie, recently wedded by Prince Rudolph of Austria, is his own aunt Treble is brewing for San Domingo, Haytiens and Dominicans, well armed, are the host iles. and the periodic San Domingo revolution the object. The Grand Trunk Railroad Company will give their machinists at Montreal an advance in wages of 15 per centL The men have agreed to return t work. Temperance people in England hav i induced the government to withdraw

the proposition for licensing the sale of

LULUjLivz&iiug liquors m railway uarriages. s. Brennan. Secretary of the Dublin Land League, is one of the more important arrests under the coercion act. He is charged with inciting to acts of violence. Catholie, Episcopalian, and Lutheran churches celebrated the feast of the ascent ion of our Lord. It was also appropriately observed by the Knights Templar. " Another .conspirators' den, containing a large store of arms and dynamite, has been discovered near Warsaw, Poland. The occupants had previously deserted the house. The Czar has given his sanction to a

project for lowering the rental of lands, and for compelling some of the nobles to sell portions of their estates to the emancipated serfs. Judging from the accounts given by

some of those who survived the Vic

toria, the behaviour of rough characters on board had much lo do with

causing the disaster.

King Charles, the new King of the new Kingdom of Roumania, was crowned at Bucharest with a crown of steel cast from the guns captured at the battle of Plevna. Manchester is determined that the French 3haU have English prints and calicoes. If the tariff is made prohibitive they propose to establish another Manchester at Rouen. Colonel Suter, the Englishman captured by Greek brigands near Satonica, some six- weeks ago, whose ransome was forwarded by the British Ambassador, has been liberated. Goschen, British ambassador at Constantinople, has forwarded the ransom demanded by the bandit captors of Sutar, and it is expected that the latter will be released in a few days. Brigandage is flourishing in Southeastern Europe. A noted bandit chief, Niko, has, from his cave near Vodina, Roumelia, captured a rich land owner and wants $30,000 for his ransom. .... The Russian Jews are opposed to the action of the London Jews in their favor. They believe that whatever in the way of reform is to be accomplished aril! be done without foreign interference. , Mr. G. II. Heap, United States Consul General at Constantinople, has reported to the government the continued prevalence and extension of the plague in spite of the most vigorous efforts to confine it. Venezula, the land of earthquakes terrestrial and political has one of the latter Kind on hand just now. The

government, up to the time of the. departure of the mail, had uot been able to quell the insurrection. " The Land League is attempting to "boycott1' lawyers, auctioneers, and

others who act against tenants. n

the meantime, the government has is

sued stringent orders to the constabulary to enforce the laws. ,

The passage in Archbishop Croke's

speech at Ballingarry, in which he said

he had done somethings for the people, and was ready to do and dare more, has attracted attention at Rome,

and the archbishop has been commu-

pjcate! wth pn the subject,

The Portugese Government has made primary education compulsory for children between seven and1 twelve years of age living within a radius of two miles from any government school, exempting the very poor. The Governor -General of Oharkoff has issued a proclamation against the Jewish persecution, threatening to bring the military to punish lh rioters. One hundred peasants concerned in disturbances on Prince GortschakofFs estate have been arrested. Funerals of the victims of the London, Ont., calamity lasted all day and

all night. There were not hearses nor coffins enough to meet the emergency, and vehicles of all kinds were used to convey the deai to the cemeteries. The tide of cm "oration from t he

South of Ireland is steadily decreasing. There was a decrease of 46 per cent, in April, com pared with the corresponding week last year. The returns from the present month so far show a decrease of 25 per cent. The Russian government is commencing to revenge- the atrocities perpetrated on the Jews. Since the loth inst. over 1,200 persons have been arrested in tlje Kief! district. A number of prominent Israelites had an audience with the Czar at Gatchina. The Swedish government, alarmed by the large emigration from that country, proposes to stop it by legislation. It is said that whole counties in Sweden are stripped of able-bodied inhabitan is. At a meeting of the Irish Patriotic party in London, it was resolved to evoke the sympathy of the Euglish public for the fanners and peasantry suffering from evictions, by a series of demonstrations, one of which will be held in Hyde Park, The Russian revolutionists are out in another manifesto which sounds like the cry for help of a crushed peo pie. They ask that the Cac shall listen to his people rather than to his present counselors, and remove the evils from which thev suffer. The demand is surely a reasonable one. That the House of Commons is strongly in favor of the Irish laud bill was shown bv the vote on Lord E Icho's motion of objection thereto. It was rejected by 352 to 176, the result of the vote being received with loud cheers by the Conservatives and anti-Home-rule Liberals. Russian social and political affairs have had their due effect upon trade. Imports of cotton , material have diminished from S to 40 per cent. The cloth and iron trade are paralyzed, and Anglo-Russian merchants, tired of waiting for better times, are preparing to leave with their capital for England. A distinguished deputation of leading London Israelites called upon Earl Granville and Sir Charles Dilke, with reference to the persecution of the Russian Jews. Earl Granville said that for foreign nations were sensitive of interference, and it was inexpedient, therefore, to make any official repre sentation. Judging from the Russian dispatches that empire is thoroughly saturated with the spirit of revolution. Whenever the army and the police "catch on" the empire will be sunk in a deluge of blood. From the exiled Grand Duke to the scullion in the imperial kitchen, in the navy, and in the colleges, Nihilism has taken deep root. A terrible catastrophe, involving the loss of 175 lives, occurred to the steamer Victoria at London, Ontario. On her return from Springbank, with a party of over 600 excursionists, the steamer struck the Cove Railway bridge, and collapsed, throwing the whole party into the river. Members of several hundred families were on board, and intense excitement prevailed at the scene of the dossier,

THE STATE. 1

Gold is said to have been found in Scott county, near the Jefferson county line. The Jefferson vi lie prison authorities have abolished whipping as a prison punishment. The Hessian fly is said to be devastating the growing wheat in the southern portion of the State. The City Council of Lafayette i3 moving towards the establishment of market houses in that city. A snake, said to be nineteen feet long, was seen on the farm of Hon. J. W, Sansberry near Anderson. Thomas Miles, an Oakdale black smith, while intoxicated was run over

by the cars and -fatally injured North Vernoh'. s. R. Jv.. Wilson, of Rushville, training a $3,000 trotter a few

near

was days

ago, when it reared up, f6ll buck and

broke its neck.

South Bend will, prebap.?, be lighted with the Langley electric light the inven tion of Prof. Langley. c f Michigan University. It has been discovered that the fly has attacked the wheat in Knox county, aud farmers offer their eu tire crop for the cost of seed. . Thomas Ha:-tic, who killed James Bernet at Markland. Jelierson county, several months ago, has been aequited ou the ground of self defence. Friday afternoon the five-year-old son of Wro. Pitts, living south of Knightstown, was burned to death in a straw pile set on fire by some children. Mrs. Eleanor Sper,ee, of Marion, aged seventy-nine years, was adjuudg insane by judge Slack, of the ciicu t court. She is an old resident, and is estimated to be worth $100,000. Hughes and Ward, the Hoosier temperance team, have just closed a series of meetings at Teoumseb, Mich., at which about two thousand persons signed the pledge. Rev. Dr. Bartlett, of Indianapolis, will, duriug the summer mouths, preach from the stage ot the "Zoo" variety theater at that place, on Sunday even ius. A sixteen year old boy set lire to the Opera House at FortWajne. A saloon keeper whose business was injured by a rival in the Opera House paid him 10, for the arson. George Starbuck, of Barnesville, C, while en route to Knightstowu, last

Thursday , was robbed atColumbbs, O,, of nearly $6,000 in money and notes.

Tne daily express over the Jefferson

road from Jefferson to North Vernon runs the whole wy at a little less than a mile a inioute? and over a portion of the route at even a greater rate of speed. A prisoner named Josephs, who was serving out a life sentence in the southern Indiana state prison, attempted to escape. Joseph McCrea, one of the guards, shol "him, killing him instantly. Tto two-year-old daughter of Fred

erick Kahle, of Scott township, Vu nderburg county, fell into a kettle of boiling water Friday afternoon and was so badly scalded that she died the same night. ... ' IDavid Wallace, of Rochester, was sentenced the other day by Judge Grssham, of the U. S. Court at Indianapolis, to pay a line of $100 and the costs, for writing obscene matter upon a postal card. :

Committee of the

rrieulture decided at ig, after comparing vheat crop of Indiana,

The Executi State Board of a recent mo3

notes, that iht

this year, would not be one-half that of average years. Two small boys of near Worth higton were out in the woods. One or them suggested that the other eat soikeuard as a remedy for his cough. The boy ate what proved to be wild turnip, and was dead in live hours. Frank McDonald and Naomi Moore, the former fifteen and latter fourteen years of age were married at Shelbyvi lie nearly two years ago. The children have got. tired of matrimony and

Won't nlay" any longer. Frank lias

gono to Kansas,

Mrs. Mary Itonan, aged 55, while

driving a horse across the New Albany road, about a mile north of lafayette, was caught by a train and instantly killed. Her own son was fireman of the locomotive, and was nearly wild with grief. The Howard are now employing 800 men in their shipyards in Jefferson vllle. They will launch three boats next week, and then they will put up the frame-work of two immense stearn ers for to an eh or 1 in e of S t. Lou is. Thursday morning at Hartford City, while attempting to eject a family named Snider, Sheriff' Taxon and deputy Gettya were both scalded by Mrs, Snider with boiling lye. Gettys is seriously injured, his "nose, one eye, side of his neck and face being badly scalded. The annual reunion of the State fireman's associations of northern Indiana was held at Goshen recently, nearly all the towns being represented by companies. There were 600 fireman in line. Three bands made the" music. Oliver Truax who acted as marshal! and street commissioner of the village of Hope, Bartholomew county has been in dieted by the grand jury for embezling abou t 200 of thejfunds of the town, and having failed to secure bail, was commited to jail. A monstrosity in the shape of two pigs grown together was brought to Terre Haute by James Williams, of Aboite. The sides of the pigs were grown the entire length. They were of the Essex breed, having two heads two tails and eight legs. Considerable indignation is caused in Washington tbwnship.'Graut county, over the depredations that are being committed on the farms of A. G. Wells and others, in the shape of cutting down fruit trees, breaking iii windows, tearing down fences, etc. They offer 12d reward for the detection of the scoundrels. Rev. D. 13. Hudson , editor ' of the Ave Marie magazine at Notre Dame, is the fortunate owner of a photograph of a picture that has history. It is a photograph of the only sketch made of the Emperor Napoleon I, and was secrelty drawn by the attendant physician immediately after the great .General's death, and by him presented to a family who idolized the dead Emperor. Pete McCrea, a deaf and dumb man, while drunk went to the Ray House, Shelby viile, at 11 o'clock Thursday night and attempted to clean them out, and was only kept from doing so by the combined forces' of four or five men. J. H. Blankney, of Col ambus, struck him several severe blows over the head. It took three men to take him to jail. Duriug all the time his screams were terrible to hear. At the bottom of of a smooth hole, six inches in diameter and sixteen feet deep through the solid rock of a quarry near Hope, Bartholomew county, were found the semi-petrified remains o. a reptile which in life had been fourteeu feet in length, with a large, head, the mouth having twelve teeth, with four large tusks three and a half inches in length. Certain citizens of Jefferson county are somewhat excited over the discov

ery of gold in Scott, the adjoining

county. Mr. Isaac Mace, who resides Saluda township, that county, has been for years of the opinion that gold could he found in that section, and has.cou-

equentty been searching for ic. , .. A

short time ago his labors was rewarded by finding some of the precious metal. After going through the hands of the assayer it has been decided to be pure, and Mr. Mace has now two" nuggets, one valued at 11.60 and the pother at S2 80. The gold was found near the Jefferson county hue, in Scott county. Samuel Cunningham, an old and well-known citizen of Crawford county, and a popular river pilou, was sent to the Asylum for the Insane at Indianapolis, ten or twelve" daj's ago,

from his home at Leavenworth, under the supposition of insanity. Twenty years ago he was bitten by a rabid dog. The wound healed, but the vims remained in his system. He died at the asylum, Monday evening, his symptoms being precisely those of hydro phobia. A singular story comes from Jackson township. Decatur county, of a bechelor who bought a neighbor's boxom wife of her impecunious, husband for 100, with the understanding that the latter was to retain charge of the two children. He then sold his farm and "we're west," and it is reported that the woman, in the same case disappeared. Great preparations are making in Lafayette for the grand prize drill and tournament of, division U. R. No"!, Knights of Pythias, June 22i and iJ3d. The invitatiou curd and programmes are out, gorgeous in style and execution. The drill prizes are 1st, $800 :

2d, $200; SSJ, $150; 4th, $100. Band

prizes: . jsr., fciuuj-jsu, &v aii . inese

contests are to oe at the fair grounds on . Thursday, June 24. Receptions, parades, etc , the day before. The affair is to be one of the greatest en tor

ments of the season. Lafayette will

spread herself. -

A fearful domestic tragedy occur ed

in Hovey Creek Township Vigo Couiir

ty, Thursday morning. Alexander

McVhaters killed his wile , and sister-

in-law, Ella Bloxm.shot at his mother-

in law and then Killed himself. Dom

estic troubles and disipatson was the cause. MePhelers had been married to his wife about three years Thov had a child t wo months old and the couple had frequently quarreled. The wife had applied for a divorce Both families were prominent and highly respectable and the owners of fine farms. The murders an djsuicide is supposed co have been partially deraiagcd. Last Saturday evening, just after dark, white the two daughters of Woo a 8. Temdle? who lives five miles northeast of Greenfield, aged respectively fourteen &n eleven years' and namea

the highway to their home' they were pursued by two men and would oer tainly have -been ..caught bad it not been for a faithful dog who heard their screams and immediately ran from homo to the protection of the girls. The men were in the act of catching the girls when the dog arrived on the ground. It immediately attacked them, when they stopped and retreated, the

dog then went to the girh and accompanied tnem home. The Rev. Mr. Busk irk, a Method ids pastor at Suil ivau , Ind. , recent ly got married, Mrs. Jones, who had been converted in one of his revival meetings, took to weeping immediately on hearing of the union. The husband wondered why she felt aggrieved, and in his search for the cause, found in her trunk a boundle of love letters from the clergyman. One of diese made the matter clear. Buskiik, and Mrs. Jones had agreed to marry as soon as Jones should die, which he was expected soon to do. Other letters contained the most ardent protestations of love . and some execrable verses. Jones has brought a sub for damages, and Buskirk has been arraigned also by his church. Mr. Adam Earl and his sjn-in-kw, Mr. Stuart, of Lafayette, ai e em nark

ing in the breeding of fine j;toek on a very broad plan and in some directions quite new to this country. To begin with, they have wintered over 1,200 head of all sorts a pretty laige amount for this state. They have naw a shorthorn thoroughbred herd of seventy-five head, a herd of fifty imported thoroughbred Herefords, selected personally, by them in Europe and Canada, bebeskies some of the finest, imported Jerseys, By agents 7'aunacking the state,' these gentlemen have selected and purchased over 300 highbred shorthorn grade cows, all of deep red color, for breeding to the thoroughbred Herefords. By this cross a flue half 'breed Hereford of red color and the distinctive white face will, be obtained. The object is to supply Texas and Colorado with bulls to improve the native stack of the western plains. The demand for auch animals iu the west far exceeds the supply and prices paid are highly remunerative to breeders. The hali-breed heifers being crossed with thoroughbreds will produce (hreefourths Herefords, and hy continuing the system a great herd of nearly pure Herefords will in due course be obtained.

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iimericau nvurew uungregauoU) nan an interview with, the Secretary of State on the subject of Jewish prosecution in Kussia. The Secretary of State informed Mr. Wolfe that instructions in the matter, so far as regarded American subjects, were being prepared for transmission. Ex speaker Randall has gone to Albany to advi.se the .Democrats in re gard to the Conkiing contest there. He received numerous telegrams from New York Democrats on the subject of the Democratic policy, and finally concluded to go on the ground himself. He avors getting one Democratic Senator if that can be accomplished, and, next to that of preventing an election by this Legislature. If, how? ever, an. election is forced, Randall prefers trending Conkling back to any other Republican. , It it comes to a choice of Republicans, the Democrats will no doubt support Conkling. This is urged by every Democratic Senator, aud Representative who has been asked for his opinion, and several Democratic Senators have gone to New York to press this policy on their party. Everything is quiet concerning the Senatorial question. The stalwarts will not talk on the subject, and the Administration men are more confident than ever that Conkling will not be elected.

WASHINGTON.

Washington, My 25. S!cr?tary Blaine's friends say.iha his mission to New York is in no way connected with the Senatorial struggle. Oaeof the mosc trusted friends assures your correspondent to-day that the Secretary had no intention of trying to influence votes against Conkling. Mr. Blaine is expected home to-night. Assistant Secretary of Treasury Uiton defends Mr. Pitner, the Custodian of the Treasury department, from the charge of wrong-doing in the purchase of supplies for the department, and says his innocence will be established and bis vindication from the charge:; be made complete. That there ha been soxne looseness i- admitted, but any. fraud or misappropriation is emphatically denied. The present system of mailing purchase was established under the late Secretary Shermau, and had his mil approval. It is announced authoritatively that Secretary Windom does not intend t allow an increase in the amount of standard dollars coined. Senator Ben Harrison left for home fco-dav. Intimations are thrown' out that within a short time an exposure involving the integrity of one of the highest officers of the House of Representative is to he made. It is openly asserted that this officer ha lost at the gaming table several thousand dollars left to his care for safe keeping by members of Congress. Efforts have been made to keep the affair quiet, but this now seems impossible. Over 200 promotions were made in the Pension Bureau to-day. In q urns at the State Department are told that Blaine has gone to New York to get his teeth fixed. A number of Senators called upon the Pi esident yesterday. The object was to remonstrate with him on account of

Blaine's interference in the New j York matter, and also to. eive him I

some good counsel in a general way. I: has developed that Garfield listens to no one but A 1 ministration people. Slips from Garfield papers are Cud on his desk each morning, and are the only views he reads. His immediate iriends vie with each other in giving a roseate color to all reports and in keeping from him the great dissatisfaction of the country with his course, and he thus manages to live in an atmosphere of serenity in the midst of storms. The Senators mentioned took upon themselves the task to dispel the illusion, but whether they have been successful or not remains to be seen.

Washington, May 26, In diplomatic circles the opinion is entertained that Secretary Blaine's protest against the decisions of Count Lewenbaupt, the referee of the Spanish American Claims Commission in the Buzz! case, but foreshadows a purpose on the part of the Secretary to withdraw all cases from before the commission and to ancpend the (unctions of that body. It is thought, that Secretary Blaine will prefer to mako the pending claims, aggregating some $20,030,000, a political question, to hi pressed upon the Spanish government direct, rather than submit them to i

commission for settlement. Another conference of Virginia Readjusters was held here last night. The main trouble is that the Keadjusters cannot get any promise from the .Administration of Federal patronage for. we m the campaign. President Garfield and Secretary Blaine have both expressed themselves, in favor of the maintenance, of the regular Republican organization in Vir

ginia, senator aianone cajieu on voionel Ingersoll this mnrril.tg t get his influence with the Ad minis? rati on in favor of a union of K( publicans and JR-jadj asters, but the trouble seems to he as stated bv the . Republi

cans, that, the Readjusters want to control the Federal patronag- and lo fill the State ticket with men of that party. Some of the Democratic Readjusters, it is said, are opposed to supporting a mixed State ticket, and they want the Republicans to vote .for "a .Readjuster tieket. ' Besides there are numerous leading Republicans of Virginia who upnose coalition, and warn the Admistni'lion that if. it is made, it will disrupt the Republican party of that State for good. The total internal revenue receipts for May to date are $12, 874, 158. The total for the fiscal yeai to dste is $121,559,818. Commissioner llaum is continent his estimates will be i cached. There is now outstanding a.bout $120,000,000 coupon 5's, of which $15,000,000 have been received for exchange. It is expected that fully $100,000,000 will be received before the expiration of time allowed for exchange. The balance wall be paid from reserved funds. gimon WQlfe, member of the Uufon

Washington, May 27.

A number of Republican Senators

and Representatives, who went to New

York when the Senate adjourned, have

returned here. Ail'cf them took an in

terest in the Senatorial contest in New

York, and some of them were consulted by leading Republicans of that State! having in view some settlement

of a Senatorial fight that will prevent

auv serious division, in the Republican

ranks. The proposition, or plan, urged

by many in relation to a postponement of the Senatorial election, is substan

tially as follows; That the present Leg-

isiature. oeiag two-uurus .nepuuiican,

must elect Senators some time,

but that the election can be had at a sneciai session next winter, after the

nresent bitter feelinsrs shall cool: that

both wings of the party say they are

willing to obey the majority opinion of

the Republican parly., m 3xev.. York,

Let tlte Legislature take a recess until

next December. Between now and then the Republicans of every county will meet in convention and nominate candidates for Legislative and local

otlices. I'hat these conventions can, bv resolutions, express their wishes

and sentiments as h the choice of Senators, and thus the Legislature at its atii ;urneu session will have the dis-

tineiivewill .of the tarty to guide it. Tnis plan would maM-sure of two Re-

onblican Senators by. the present Leg

islature, and tiie Republican Senators,

who know much of party aztairs in

New York, think it will he adopted, as

the best way out of the trouble. Fislitins; for u C'ancus, Etc. Albany, N. Y., May 27.

The Couklingites are still fighting strenuously lor a ciueus and declare emphatically that the fate of the party

in this State rests noon such action.

To f'o into an election for Senators

without first holding a caucus, they sav, reduces the pattv to a mob with

no head, no tail, no organization. It

will treak it up hopelessly, and necesi-

taUi a re organization t'heir argu

ment is that the Republican party of this States owes all it is to the machinery it has now in existence, and to break it is to turn the State over to the Democracy, and for many years to come. The usual recess tilt Monday night will be taken by-the Legislature, and the Couklingites hope, in the interval to effect the object they have in view by securing the requisite number of signers to the call for a caucus. Owing to the abser.ee by sickness of Mr. Carpenter, from Dutchess county, there are only 105 Republican legislators. These are said to be divided 47 for Conkling and 47 against him, leaving 11 doubtful. A majority of 105 is 53, and the Couklingites need six more to make that majority. It is said they will get these and call a caucus for Monday night. Then, if the Administratiot lists will not go to into caucus, they will have to take , the responsibility of turning against the party of tht State, and the Couklingites will have to devote themselves to breaking the dead-lock, flow th:s is to be done, it as too soon how to indicate. . , Several petitions were presented in the Senate from various towns and

counties against the re-election of

Conkling and Piatt. Mr. Mills pre

sented a petition from citizens of

Oneida county asking for the re-el ccUou ol the ex-Senators; also a petition f orn the same county calling upou the

Legislature to sustain the Administration. . The latest count shows that of the 105 Republicans in the Legislature the Couklingites have 55 and the an lis 50. This gives the Couklingites a right to call aeaueus, or would give them that right if they had fifty-five signatures to" their call, but they have not the signatures. They count several birds in the bush, as do their opponents, owing to the refusal of some members to sign either paper. Conkliug and Arthur will leave the city to-day for New York, where conferences will be continued. Their friends insist that everything will be settled before Monday next. There is evidently a better feeling among the stalwarts this morning than yesterday, while the antis are by no means despondent. The usual resolution for recess to Monday evening was offered in the Assembly, but at the request of Speaker Sharpe was laid over, as he said there ought to be some consultation before action., At 11 0 the resolution was called up again; Mr, Raines suggested that it would be batter to adjourn; to Tuesday morning. Speaker Sharpe said that that would n quire a concurrent resolution, and the Senate had already objected to such resolution. The resolution to adjourn to Monday wa adopted. It is understood the Bouse wilt then meet and immediately adjourn till next morning. Ln the Assembly a concurrent reso

lution was offered that the Legislature adjourn sine die June 2, and was laid over under the rules. liotestiajr Against Caucus. Albany, N. Y., May 25.

The following letter was sent to Speaker Sharpe thisi morning: . State f New York, Senate Chamber, Albany, May 25. Hoi. George rt. Sharpe, Uhah'inan of the Assembly Caucus Committee: DSAttSru: The Sonata' Caucus Committee have the ouastiou of ijie calling ol a caucus

ior mat earnest uenuerai iou wuicu ine gravity of the situation deihauds. The United States Senators from this State have resign ed and thrust upon Muj Hepublicun members of ttiis legislature the alternative of su pporUug or antagou Issiitg the national Administration. This issim involves too integrity of the warty. The resignation of our Senators has left the: S enate of the United States in control of tlie' I emocratlc majority. The Kepuhiican party oX the State cannot submit, its relations to the party in the nation to the decision ojf the majority of the leg islative caucus. No member oiighttobe excused by caucus action from individual responsibility, hut ia Joint convention of Uus Ley.isiatuVe.and in ti e solemu exercise ot iii?-duties as a le islacr, each man should cast his vote ticcoidiug t o his conscience and the wish of his cousth uents. We do not, therefore, deem it wtef. to unite in a call for a joint caucus. We remain, dear sir. yow truly, 1). II. McCarthy,B ioua k H. Fous ,i'B. V'hilv I tlo not fully concur in the above, I deem It unwise and Inexpedient at t ie present time to join in or ra jommend a citl for a caucus. Y W. .Bockveix. Jloth sections deoljare themselves lirm in their convt3lioi!ii. This morning

l:h an

hand, Carpenter and other stalwarts

claim that. Conkling has made several

voles since his arrival here" and ?will triumph. ' ; 3 -

The refusal of the senate caucus

committee to unite in a call for a caucus was not unexpected. The paper

circulated yesterday for the signatures of the Republican members, calling a

caucus.. was ..sun. m ..circulation this

morning. The stalwarts say it will

contain the names of a majority of Republican members. At noon the stalwarts reported they had fiifty signa

tures to their call for a caucus, iurcy-

four is a majority of the Republican members of the Legislature. Mr.. Rohertson says, in an interview with the National Associated Press

agent, that neither. Mr. UonKling nor Piatt can be returned ; that he has for

ty-live members pledged to refuse to

en ter the caucus, and . expects to have

ntf;y oy night, when he will he prepared to give the list. Cenkling denies thfs statement, and allows but thirty seven pledged. ... He says he does not want Democratic votes. Ho relies entirely on Republican support. He is confident of suctjess, Robertson's policy is thus outlined : 1. He will endeavor to secure a majority of the Republicans to absent themselves from the caucus. , The stalwarts say this is impossible, as they have already secured sufficient .votes to. control the caucus. 2. Robertson, if unable to control the caucus will endeavor to prevent any Republican caucus by compelling the-Senate Committee to refuse to confer with the House Committee. The stalwarts will checkmate this by calling, a caucus on petition signed by a majority of the Republican members of the Legislature. S. Rob

ertson, if defeated in the t.vo other

places, will unite with the Democrats

to force a final adjournment of the Iiijgislafcure. The stalwarts will checkmate by inducing the Governor to call

an extra session after the November el ec ti on an d before the new Legisla

ture meets, on the ground that this Legislature only has the power to elect a United States Senator. The stal

warts claim thas the half-beeds will

weaken and fall into line as before,

when the hnal test comes.

MOSAICS;

The I3aptlstB. Indianapolis,. May 25.

With to-night's session of the Bap

tist Home Mission Society the anni

versaries, which have been in progress

since last Wednesday, will be brought

to a close. " '

The morning session to-day was oc

cupied with reports from the committees as to the mission among the Mor

mons. IThe report favored church

aud school work being vigorously prosecuted, and authorized the Execu

tive Board to address a memorial to the. President of the United States and Congress, calling ior early measures, and to remove and prohibit the nractice of polygamy and its ac

companying vices wherever practiced.

xne repon; on tae cnurcu euince work indorsed the policy of the Executive Board of gifts tipon certain conditions instetvd of loans to needy churches. Rev. L. C. Barnes gave an address on the importance of church edifices to successful missionary efforts,. and wa3 followed by a general expression of opinion on the same subject. The response of the Presbyterian General .Assembly at Buffalo tt the fraternal greeting was read and greeted with applause. Rev. R. Moxon. of Cleveland, .re

sented a report on the proposed semicentennial, indoising enthusiastically the suggestion of the Executive Board for a grand celebration next year in New .York and Brooklyn, and for the raising at least of $500,000 as a special jubilee home mission fund. ; Hon. George W. Williams (colored), of Ohio, stated, in course of a discussion on New Mexico, that 30,000 colored people of Louisiana and many from the other Southern States were preparing to emigrate to that country during the coming summer. The following officers were elected: President, Hon. J. L. Howard, of Connecticut; Vice Presidents, Hon. J. H. Walker, of Massachusetts and J ohn D. Rockefeller, of Ohio; Treasurer, Joseph B. Hoyt, of Connecticut; Auditors, William. Phelps, of New York, and Joseph Brockway; Corresponding Secretary, Rev. Henry L. Morehouse. D. D., New York ;Beoor4ing Secretary, Rev. D. B. Jutten , New York ; Managers of the Third Class, serving until 3884, John H. Dean, New York; W. A. Caldwell, New York; Rev. E. Lathrop, D. B.L Connecticut; Rev. 13, Hiscox, D. DM New York; Rev. Kjiwin Judson, New Jersey.

Alvord appears stronger than ever in Uh, opposition to Ocnkiing. and says the case of the .Senators is weaker to

day Uiau yesterday, Ou the oUierl

Conflicting ReiortK. New York, May 26. Specials from Albany are of the most conflicting, character, as, for instance, the following: The Commercial says: aThe halfbreeds are despondent, and Woodin is to be put forward to-day to make a speech, in the Senate, in the desperate hope of improving their prospects. The friends of Conkling are thing their work quietly and well. You may discredit all reports a? to the failure of the Rapubhcana to obtaia a sufficient number of signatures to their C3J1 to compel a caucus in spite of the Senate Caucus Gommttee's revolutionary actionThey have already got more than enough signatures, but they desire to leave the half-breeds with only si corporal's gu&rd at their backs." The Exnress correspondent says: "The complexion of ailairs at this writing leads me to think that before Friday morning Conkling will withdraw from the contest upon the plea of a desire to harmonize the differences in the party. The true reason is his strength is rapidly waning." What Bin! no' Wont to New York For. Elmira, May 25. The Advertiser, which has heretofore advocated, is now opposed to the re-election -of Conkiing and Piatt. Vast Tim Ottawa. Out., May 25. Johnny Rain, of this city, ran a mile in 4 minutes aud 28 seconds to-day

the fcistest time on record in America, Sunday-School JPawnle..

New York, May 25. : In Brooklyn, to-day, 8,741 officers aad teachers and 52,000 children took part in the anniversary parade of the Sunday-schools. Cadet Whitaker will, it is said, be exonerated by the court martial now in session, who will reverse the deeis jon of the West Point court of in quiry. ..,

, The New York Telegram publishes the following under date of Paris, May 23d: On the el rongth of a letter from St. Petersburg this morning the Intr&nslgeaiit anuounco$ that at 7 o'clock on the morning or the 16th hist., just ft nr days after the birth of herclUUl, Hesy Hetftnan, whom everybody supposed to ho alive and awaiting the pleasure of Alexander, was hanged In pris

on, it is said she nau oeen tonureu uauy m the most fiondish manner to wring confessions from her. Night after night she was awakened and waracd that her hour vas near. For several 'days in succession she was literally strung tup and out down just in time to prevent expiring. On the morning of the loth the hanging process is said to have lasted too long, and when Hcssy was cut down it was discovered she was atriuiglod to death.' . . .s The Intranslgeant adds that the indignation and excitement at, St. Petersburg aro immense. Troops are forMdden to leave their barracks on any proteose, mid a revolutionary movement seoms tQb? nnticipa-

No man -is wise or safe but he the.t ist -

honest. . " - i t

Marriageable younff men belong to

the surplus population. "!

Put no faith in the remorse of a WH f

rnaii who talks about it. . v

Means are always in our power; ends very seldom so. Fielding, . Lamentation, without eflort betrays

weakness and wickedness. ; a

Quarrels would be short-lived if the

wrong were only on' one side.1 - - -

The heart has reasons : that pnreas does not understand r-Bossuet. 7 ! ?? ? 4 X To win , work and; waifcMjut vWork a

good deal more than you wait. f

Even the weakest man is strong

enough to enforee his conviction. ? ' ' '

It is more shameful do distust one's . .Jfi friends than to be deceived by them.

vv e must learn io miuso uumiuvjr: n- f I

into irineS) i nai is power, miuei. j Poverty may excuse a shabby coat, . . i but is no excuse for shabby moral.'. ; ' . Beautiful are the admonitions of him ; vhose life accords with his teachings. . Character would be impossible were

there no temptation, Bevi A; P; Fos-

ter, , ;; ' ' i. . The greatest glory is not in never k falling, but in rising every time we fall. .- , ' j. f Never judge by appearances. A seedy coat may cover a heart in full j bloom. s ... ;.. . : ... "v ' " Sow good services; sweet remem " brances will grow from them. Mme de Stael. 5 ... Strengtlii with men is insensibility, greatness es piide, and calmness indifference. -. What prevents us from being natural J? i the desire to appear so. La" Boche -foucauld. .. . Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely,, ap conciliate those you, f cannot conquer, '"'-.If Nothing is ever done-beauMfully I vrhich is done in rivalship, nor nobly vhicji is done in pride. Buskin. ; T The universal heart of a man blesses

flowers. He has .wreathed them arouna the cradle, the marriage altar an4 the; 'tomb. .. . .; : A'.5; t . m How independent of money peace of conscience i?, and how much : happiness can be condensed in the humblest Good temper is like a ounny day j it stieds a brightness over everything: itin the sweetener of toilajadthe soother of disquietude- . . '.' C Those are mock gentlefolk who mask their faults to others and to themselves;

the true know them per feet iy' anckac- -knowledge them. ; V-.r V. 'v?.? II He who is false to present duty bref.ks a thread in the loom, and wiii.. find the flaw when he may have, forgotten the cause. , ..V . . Stories first heard at a mother's kneet ;t are not wholly forgotten ; a little spring , that never quite dries up on your jour- - j ney through scorching years.'-- ,i . ; Sidney Smith ence rebuked a swear- i ing visitor by saying: "Let us as- " J siirnft that everv thine and everybody :

are damned, and proceed with our sub-.

In contem plation, if man begin j with certainties, heshallendin doubts;'; r but if he wilt be content to begin with doubts,. vhe aliiejidCertaiMei Baca a. ' . . , Famiiv life has its charms and its

happy influences; but we must not , ask. of its g-reainess, for it dissipates thought and cools enthusiasm, with- ? ont which a life is never heroic- 3 Poll tn ess is to goodness what words are to thoufirht. It tells not only on

the manners but on the mind and heart; it renders the feelings, the opinions, the words, moderate- and gentle. Joutert. 7 .v,

The hills ot lofty endeavor and high

1 . u w

4

.whiftvpment lie ail around us. and if

we never catch aalimpse of the views

they afford , we need not complian that s it is because of the insuperable Umita- y? m tion of our surroundings. ; ' Action, work or labor-: It is the law & ? imposed upon ail, and from which none escape. Very few know how to act. Happy are they who work. The v- f vulgar laoor. Then, the task finished, . - each one sleeps the same sleepi ' It is not ease but effort not faculty J vfi but difficulty, that makes men. There is no station in life in which dinlculties f ' i ; have not to be eneoun tered:. and over-, i come before any decided measures of aiiccess can be achieved. S. Smiles. ' Our lives are like some complicated 5 . :v machine, working on one side of a wall, and delivering the finished fabric v.-J-on the other. We cannot cross the j;.7 ivirrier and nee the end. The work f -N

i m

our hands.

completion . is

si:

is m

not.

Among the best .f men are diversilies of opinions; ..which are no more, in tr u e reaso n , to breed hat red , than one that loves black should he angry with him that is clothed .in white; for thoughts are M e very ajnarel ot the mind Sir Philip Sidney. 7 " . , A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against and not with the wind; Even a head is better than none. No man ever worked his passage anywhere in -a dead calm. Let no man wax pale, therefore, because of opposilioni-r Johli I have long sought to understand wiiat is meant in society by a friend, and I have made this discovery; a friend is a man who believes that he has the right on ail occasions to tell ; you a truth that wounds you, to give you useless advice, and to borrow your money without returning it t6ou--Pi - ai 4I A AMY!! If-."

Says Emerson : 1 'Society undergoes . r continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is Christianized, it is rich, s : l '7 it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For everything that is given "something: s taken. Society ac? , ?. quires new arts, and loses dd instincts; ; The civilizeti man has built a coach, r but has lost the use of his feet; he has . ;H a line Geneva watch, but oannot teU -s-rf. j. the-hour by the sun." The questional s thereore, whether civilization is m Y beuerit to mankind, appears to comekf v.to this whether what is gained by it; i

is of more value than that wnicn 18J - r lost. - - - :- "-- ;' . . Dn. Hale, a leading Unitarian min J k ister of Boston , claims that the newC .T version of the Jew testament-is umph for Uaitariani3m. He says: $ :v The three proof texts relative to the trin--. ' ity of the Godhead, which people not versed 7 7 r ; In theology have heeii In4 the habit of quo J? v

tin a hi i-aihvay cars and on hotel piaszas.as.

establishing; the three in one, have!

stricken out. Five other texts have been so changed as to sustain the TJnitariah views." These alterations will end forever. the IdoTaitry for the book, which . has been a dead weight cn I'rotestantism for three centnrk4u It is probable, however, that the wish is father to Mr, Hale's thoughts The revisers wouldn't intentionally favor Unitarianisni, and couldn't bo;

so wyfaiki

tionally. -

it

m

The Hon. James F. Wilson, who is .

a candidate for the United States Senate from Iowa, was written to by a farmer for his views on the power of Congress over railroads, and replied as fol- v lows: want the people to understand that 1 believe in the; power of Cot e ress to regulate and con trol io ter

Siate commerce in the fullest extent,, ind' I m in favor of its exerciso. My o wn vi e ws as a citizen and as a public h man are that 0ugress lias fdll pwej over Ute wly.de subject, and ouht ta : &

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