Bloomington Telephone, Volume 8, Number 19, Bloomington, Monroe County, 6 September 1884 — Page 2

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THE NEWS CONDENSED.

the east. Bom citizen of Trenton, N. J., who favor cremation, have purchased a potterykiln at Pennington, and will transform it into an oven tor banting bodies The Ber. John W. Stmub, of the Bloomfield Catholic Church, Pittsburg, while crazed with disease, committed suicide by shooting himself with a- revolver. Or the Charter Oak track at Hartford, while the pacers Princess and George G. were being exercised in different directions for the 2:17 race, both drivers pulled the same way. The annotate went into the air and fell flat George G died almost instantly, and was buried in view of the assemblage. Princess received fatal injuries. The horses were valued an $5,000 each This year's hop crop in this country is estimated to be about one-fourth short of the average. The business portion of the village of Adams, Jefferson County, N. Y., was burned, involving a loos of $200,000. Hog cholera has appeared at Shoemakersville Pa. Many swine are dying A sailor found unconscious in a street in New York, died at the Marine Hospital of yellow fever. The Bord of Aldermen at-New York, at a secret meeting, passed the ordinance giving a company the right to lay a surface railway on Broadway over the Mayor's veto. ....The postoffice at Williamsport, Pa., was robbed of $3,500 of stamps.

Michael Gbxffxk, of Des Moines, Iowa, who was fined $100 and costs, to be committed to jail until paid, was brought into court on a writ of habeas corpus, claiming that the Justice could not imprison beyond thirty days, and that he had no jurisdiction. Judge Given decided that the Justice had jurisdiction, and that the cost! were no part of the penalty. An appeal will be had to the Supreme Court. Cap. Patios, the Oklahoma adventurer, and seven of his associates were arrested at Bock Falls, Indian Territory, a few days ago by a United States officer. They were taken to Fort Scott, Kas., where they will probably be tried by court martial for disobeying the instructions of the military authorities. . . .A coachman at Minneapolis, named Peter Johnson, after taking a lady to visit a friend, walked out on the lawn and shot MmMtf through the heart. Teh head of cattle were killed at Elmhurst, ID., under the instructions of the State Veterinarian, Dr. Pftaren. The post-mortem examination showed that the disease was pleuro-pneumonia of the most virulent type. ...The Second National Bank at Xenia, Ohio, has closed its doors. The cashier, Mr. J. Ankeny, engsged in grain transactions with a friend named Smart, and induced the bank to make large advances to his friend. Both lost Mbs. Cbowdhkb and Mrs. Connackhad a dispute about some work at OTallon, near Belleville, UL Mrs. Crowdher struck Mrs. Cormack with a steel file, indicting a fatal wound. The murderess then retired to her home, where she committed suicide by cutting her throat. . . .The savings bank of Adrian, Mick, with $80,000 due to depositors, has suspended payment A jttbt in the Cook County Probate Court at Chicago, after listening to the medical and other testimony produced regarding Mr. Wilbur F. Storey, proprietor of the Chicago Times, pronounced that gentleman insane. The court appointed Mr. Austin L. Patterson, the present business manager of the Times, conservator of Mr. Storey's property. A EATTiROin car attached to a circus train caught fire near Greeley, Colo. Seventy-five men were sleeping in the car at the time. Ten men perished and several others were badly scorched. A dispatch from Denver gives the following particulars of the accident: "At 11 o'clock last night the tain belonging to the Anglo-American circus, Mr. Orton proprietor, left Fort Collins for Golden via the Greeley, Salt Lake and Pacific Bead. Forty minutes later, when near Greeley, the sleeping-car, in which seventy-five men, employed as roustabouts in the circus, were asleep, caught lire and was wholly consumed. Ten men perished and two more were seriously and five slightly burned. The fire to; communicated from an open torch with which the car was lighted to a quantity of gasoline which was being carried m the

crop will yield about 1,000,000 bushels. Corn has suffered from .drouth, and is about 79 per cent, of an average crop. Reports of the corn crop in Illinois, fiays a Chicago paper, are not quite as enooiunging as previous reports. There is little cfe&nge to note in Iowa reports. The prospects are very good. In Wisconsin Nebraska, and Kansas an immense yield is promised.

same car, causing an explosion. . . . . EvansviBe, Ind.. was visited by a terrific

wind, rain, and hail storm, lasting over an

The steamer Suverthorne, with

team up, had her chimneys blown over

board. The Josah Thrbop was badly wrecked. Many houses were demolished, and roofs and chimneys blown off. The steamer Belmont was lost in the hurricane below EvansviUe, and ten or fifteen persons were drowned. Among the lost are Capt. John Smith, E. C. Boach and spn, Miss Laura Lyon and sister, Sallie Bryant and mother, and others unknown. The beat was valued at $15,000. Thb Chicago Tribune prints extensive reports of the condition of the corn crop in Indiana, Kansas, Nebraska, and Missouri The reports indicate a magnificent corn crop for 1884. The reports arc especially gratifying from Kansac and Nebraska, where the acreage in corn has been largely increased, while the prospects are of the brightest According to the returns, fog but early frosts can interfere with a bountiful harvest .... The Governor of Montana sent a special agent to investigate the reports of starvation, among the Piegans. It was found ttetinabandof 2,000 the deaths for lack of food averaged one per day. The Governor has urVed the Secretary of the Interior to issue fuU rations to the sufferers until Congress can take action. Smncnro miners at Snake Hollow, Ohio, commenced a riot at 2 o'clock on Sunday morning, Aug. 81, by firing several hundred shots at the guards. William Hare was killed and two others received serious wounds. A hopper worth $4,000 was burned, and the telegraph wires were cut In response to a call by tne Sheriff, Gov. Hoadqr ordered the jniUtia companies at Lancaster and NeV Lexington to be in readiness to march. Ohio's wheat crop of this year will yield 43,982,969 bushels, of excellent quality. Ihis is the largest crop of the State, except that of 1880, when the yield was 48,540,000 bushels. The oat crop will produce 23,893,663 bushels, or about 1.2 bushels to the acre. The barley

. MIE SOUTH. The City Marshal of Sharpsburg, Ky., killed Dr. Daniel Henry for resisting arrest A Deputy Sheriff at Hot Springs was compelled to shoot a horse-thief whom he was conveying to the State Penitentiary, and the Coroner's jury indorsed the act A Louisville policeman fatally wounded a notorious footpad named John Lynch, who was caught in the act of robbing a citizen. Samuel Bowman attempted to beat his wife at Knoxville, Ky., with a broomstick because his breakfast was not ready in time? She seized a knife and stabbed him seven times, inllictiug fatal wounds. Bebky Johnson (colored) for the murder of his wife was hanged at Shreveport, La. Schip Holly, a negro who murdered Luther Seely, a young white man, in January, was hanged at Tuscola, Ala. The local military were at the jail. Josh Berry man (colored) was hanged at Natchitoches, La., for the murder of Scott Carter (colored). Willie Williams, alias French, was hanged at Franklin, La., for the murder of William Burgess Feb. 3. As the black cap was drawn Williams shouted: wO, God! save me! O, God! save me!n The four villains who last May wrecked an Illinois Central train at Duck Hill, Miss. , have been captured by Pinkerton detectives. The motive was revenge on the engineer, who was killed by the plot. The offenders are in jail.

Connecticut, has written to the Chairman of the State Democratic Committee declining to be a candidate for re-election.

wASHiivcnroar The Treasury Department has issued orders to Collectors of Customs that hereafter when a vessel carrying rags arrives at any port it shall be the duty of the importer to produce positive evidence that the cargo is from a non-infected port, and is free from the germ of disease. The difficulty of producing such evidence virtually prevents the introduction of rags. . . .John B. Dawson, a clerk in the Pension Bureau at Washington, died last week. He weighed 438 pounds, and his body had to be placed in a grape arbor until a coffin could be made. The experiment of illuminating Pennsylvania avenue with electric light has not proved entirely satisfactory. The middle of the street is brilliantly lighted. The sidewalks are left in almost total darkness.

POLITICAL.

Conghessionaij nominations: J. C. Fitzgerald, Republican, Fifth Michigan District; L L. Struble, Republican, Eleventh Iowa; W. J. Stone, Democrat, Twelfth Missouri; Isaac Stephenson, Republican, Ninth Wisconsin; Thomas Bhoddes, Prohibitionist Twentieth Ohio; H. G. Thayer (for long term), John W. Reynolds (for short term), Republicans, Thirteenth Indiana; N. B. Eldredge, Greenbacker, Second Michigan; E. Barksdale, Seventh, and O.R. Singleton, Democrats, Fifth Mississippi; W. C. Oates, Democrat, Third Alabama; Joseph A Scrauton, Republican, Twelfth Pennsylvania. Pbof. Kirk, Superintendent of Schools of Woodford County, was nominated for Congress by the Democra ts of the North Illinois District. Judge W. H. McHenry was nominated by the Greenbackers and Democrats in the Seventh Iowa District (Kasson's) for the long term. E. R. Kreidler was named for the short term, to nil the vacancy caused by Kasson's resignation. Congressman Yaple was renominated by the Democrats and Greenbackers of the Fourth Michigan District The Republicans nominated ex-Congressman Julius C. Burrows in the same district. B. F. Hall, of Burlington, was nominated by the Democrats of the First Iowa District and W. H. Neece was nominated by the Democrats of the Eleventh Illinois District Edwin D. Bailey, Secretary of the National Committee of the Ammerican party, announces that Senator S. C. Pomeroy, nominated for President will withdraw in favor of St John. . . .The Illinois Greenback Convention, at Bloomington, nominated Jesse Harper, of Danville, for Governor, and adopted a resolution authorizing the State Central Committee of the party to fuse with any of the old parties which would give them seven Presidential electors....

The Greenbackers and Anti-Monopolists of Wisconsin met in convention at Milwaukee, nominated W. L. Utley for Governor, and placed a full electoral ticket in the field. . . . The Michigan Prohibitionists, in session at Detroit nominated David Preston, a wealthy Detroit banker, for Governor. , Thb Republicans of the First North Carolina District have nominated J. B. Respess for Congress. Richard Bishop was nominated by the Democrats of the Fifth Illinois District; E. H. Braddus was named by the Prohibitionists of the Eleventh Illinois District; and James Keigwin was placed in the field by the Republicans of the Third TnrKftfin, District Thb Iowa Greenback State Convention was held at Des Moines, sixty-six counties being represented by 310 delegates, and performed one-half of the proposed fusion act mapped out in advance by the Democratic and Greenback State Central Committees. The following Presidential electors were nominated: At large, Daniel Campbell; First District A S. Hunter; Fifth District, George Carter; Seventh District, H. 8. Wilcox; Ninth District J. P. Halton, leaving the Eighth to be filled. The remainder, seven in number, they left for the Democrats to nominate when they meet in State convention. Judge E. L. Burton, a Democrat, was nominated for Supreme Judge; George Dorr, of Union County, for State Treasurer; and James Dooley, of Keokuk, for Secretary of State. The last two are Greenbackers. A lengthy platform was adopted. . . . .The Kansas Greenbackers met in convention at Topeka, and nominated the following ticket: Governor, H. L. Phillips; Lieutenant Governor, John W. Breidenthal; Chief Justice, H. P. Vrooman; Associate, J. D. McBryan; Treasurer, H. F. Hef el bourn; Auditor, W. T. Wakefield; Attorney General, H. L. Brush, Secretary of State, J. C. Hibbard; Superintendent of Public Instruction, Miss Fannie Randolph. Electors and a State Central Committee were also chosen Gbobob Fobd, of South Bend, was nominated for Congress by the Democrats of the Thirteenth Indiana District Congressman Harry Libbey has been renominated by the Republicans of the Second Virginia District Duff Green was nominated by the Republicans of the Eighth Virginia District R. P. A Morris was nominated by the Republicans of the Sixth Virginia District and R. M. Mayo by the Republicans of the First Virginia p.istrict, .. .Gov. Waller, of

Thb Treasurer of the United States has forwided to the Governor of Louisiana free-school bonds of that State to the nmour t of $21,000, which were captured at Baton Rouge by Gen. Sheridan. Lieut Greely received and accepted an invitation from Capt. Bedford Pirn to be present at the meeting of the British Association at Montreal. M, do Le&seps the French engineer, in a letter from the French Geographical Society, congratulates Lieut Greely on his success, and expresses sympathy at the loss of his comrades. Commanded Cbeyne, of the British navy, has sent a congratulatory dispatch direct to Greely. S. W. Tallmadge, the crop statisticiaL of Milwaukee, has issued his final estimate of the wheat crop of the United States foi 1884, as follows: Winter wheat, 380,000,000 bushels; spring wheat, 150,000,000, or 130,000,000 bushels more than the crop of 1883 Cacereo, the Peruvian rebel chief, with his followers, entered Lima and occupied the cathedral and one of the public buildings, from which they opened fire on the inhabitants indiscriminately, killing 150 people. The Canada Pacific Road has laid its racks to a point seven miles west of the Rocky Mountains, and hopes to reach the highest point of the Selkirk range this season. The California Board of Equalization reports the Central Pacific Road at $24.00ij,000 and the Southern Pacific at $17,000,000.... It is now understood that Capt Howgate, of the Signal-Service Department, accused of malfeasance, and for whose apprehension a reward has been offered, is sojourning in the Bermudas. In the race for the championship in the National League base-ball contest, the Providence has won 64 games, Boh ton 58, Buffalo and New York 50 each, Chicago 41, Cleveland 31, Philadelphia , 27, and Detroit 19. In the American Association games, the Metroplitan has won 56 games, Columbus 53, Louisville 51, Cincinnati 50, St Louis 48, Baltimore 44, Athletic 43, and Brooklyn 32. In ihe Union' League games, St Louis has won 53, Boston 34, Pittsburgh 31, Baltimore and Cincinnati 30 each, and Washington 23.

FOREIGN.

The Parisian journals of all shades of opinion angrily resent the strictures of the London press on Admiral Courbet's conduct at Foo Chow, and remind them that they approved of Admiral Seymour's shelling Alexandria after the Egyptians had shown the white flag. Paul de Cassagnac advocates a withdrawal from any and every alliance with England and the adoption of friendly relations with Germany. . . , Paris dispatches state that after Admiral Courbet has destroyed the forts on the Nin River, between the arsenal and the river's mouth, he will join Admiral Lespes before Ke Lung, and arrange for the occupation of that place. . . . An earthquake shock lasting thirty seconds was felt in the Island of Jersey, in the English Channel. There was no damage. The British Government has decide to increase the Khartoum expedition to 7,000 men. Seven hundred Royal Scots will be sent from the West Indies, the remainder from Gibraltar, Malta, and Cyprus. Gen. Wolseley proposes to reach Dongola by Nov. 7, as he has but six cataracts to pass. Alderman Denison, of Toronto, will command the Canadian voyageurs. It is reported that Germany and France have entered into a secret alliance. The terms are understood to be that Germany will let France have her own way in China, and that France will not put any obstacle in the way of Germany if the latter nation should think proper to annex a portion of Holland. Both nations agree to help each other in pushing their colonial designs. The report of the alliance causes uneasiness in England.... Reports come from Sontay that a Chinese army 80,000 strong annihilated the French in Tonquin. It is send-officially announced from Paris that Admiral Courbet will hold the island of Formosa until China pays the indemnity demanded, . . .Gen. Wolseley has been appointed to the command of the expedition for the relief of Khartoum. The appointment was considered necessary owing to the report of Gen. Stephenson that the plan of campaign thus far pursued would end in disaster. . . . Richard Tweed, eldest son of the late William M. Tweed, of New York, died in a Paris mad-house. It is understood he left litde or no property. A private letter to a gentleman in Des Moines from Ireland states that the crops in that country are the most promising since 1879, but that thousands of acres are lying in waste for want of labor to cultivate them The courts in Paris have imposed long terms of imprisonment and heavy fines upon the officers of the wrecked Bank of Lyons aud Loire. A DISPATCH from Foo-Chow states that the French iron-clads resumed the attacks on the forts on the Min River, between its mouth and the arsenal, at an early hour on the morning of Aug. 28. The forts at the Kinpai Pass offered a determined xesistance, but the superiority of the French gunners soon began to tell on the works. Gun after gun was dislodged, until finally the Chinese became demoralized at the sight of the destruction going on and fled from the fortresses, leaving everything behind them. Admiral Courbet then directed his attack on the forts higher up thTiver and made short work of them, as the garrisons had become panic-stricken at tho sight and fire of the fleet, and hastily abandoned the defeases, leaving the French masters of the whole line of fortifications en the Min River up to the arsenal. When the French had descended the river after the attack upon the forts the Chinese looted and burned the foreign quarter.It now appears that there was no foundation for the report of the defeat of the French forces in Tonquin. Gen. Millet, the French commander in that province, he s telegraphed to Paris that he awaits the advance of the Celestials with impatience. ... .A corps of veteran soldiers is being organized in Germany for service abroad, Tiis is in accordance with the policy of Bismarck's colonial extension. . . . A movement has been inaugura ted in Spain in favor of the restoration of the temporal power of tho Pope Frauds amounting to 80,000 have been discovered in the Egyptian Ministry of Finance. Foreign officials of high stand ng are implicated. .... A steamer from Marseilles, with two cholera cases on board, arrived off Cardiff, Wales. It was quarantined Judge Taft, the American Minister to Russia, has arrived at St Petersburg. He succeeds the late Judge Hunt. Admieai Courbet officially reports the complete success of the operations against the forts along the Min River. The French loss, he nays, was ten killed, thirteen seri

ously and twenty-eight slightly wounded, i he Admiral commends the gallantry of his jfficers and men. The French missionaries have been offiially expelled from Hong Kong. All of he French residents have left Canton, and :he military commanders have all received irdersto attack all French war ships and Derchant vessels which attempt to enter the eading treaty ports, and those in port have eon ordered to depart at once The iSritish Government has ordered 250,000 tounds of Chicago compressed beef fox he use ol! the troops of the proposed Sou.lan expedition.

ADDITIONAL NEWi. Thb clearing-house exchanges for last week$650,169,105) were $50,082 less than iie preceding week, and when compared vvith the corresponding period in 1883 show x decrease 24.7 per cent. The Hotel Newport at Asbury Park, tf. J., was burned. All the guests. 125 in number, escaped. Some txad to abandon their trunks. . . . Over 20,000 persons participated in the innual labor demonstration in New York, he procession filling Broadway from the City Hall to Union Square. Each body of workmen wore a distinctive badge, and nany of the trades unions illustrated their - ocation by practical work on the wagons. The printers carried a banner urging the boycotting of the New York Tribune. A OAiiij has been issued for a State convention of the People's (Butler's) party for Massachusetts, to be held at Worcester the 24th hist Since Jan. 1 the Lynchburg Tobacco As sociation has sold 20,000,000 pounds of to bacco, and during August the sales reached 1,225,000 pounds. The leaves of the plant are unusually small this year, thus changing the type of Virginia tobacco. China is not yet disposed to submit to French dictation. An order has been issued encouraging the Chinese troops to fight bravely, and warning the local authorities to protect French non-combatants. . . . The German ship Marco Polo, from Bremen for New York, struck a rock off the Scottish coast and was wrecked. Part of her crew were rescued, but in a very exhausted condition. Arkansas voted for State and county officers and members of the Legislature on Monday, Sept 1. The returns indicate the election of Simon P. Hughes, the Democratic candidate for Governor, by a majority of 40,000 or more. The Legislature will be largely Democratic. The constitutional amendment repudiating the disputed State debt is believed to have been carried Notwithstanding a very large vote was polled, the election was a peaceable and quiet one. . . .The National Executive Committee of the National Labor party decided at New York to hold no convention, but issued a "declaration" indorsing the principles of the People's party and its candidate, General Butler. Following is the official statement of the public debt for August: Interest-bearing debtFour and one-half per cents $250,000,000 Four per cents. 737.683,150 Three per cents. 214,671 ,350 Refunding certificates. 271 ,900 Navy pension fund. 14,000,000 Total interest-bearing debt. H.216,526,400 Matured debt $14,188,586 Debt bearing no interest Lepal-tender notes, 846,739.376 Certificates of deposit. 14,420,000 Gold and silver certificates 242,851,841 Fractional currency 6,978,001 Total without interest $610,989,218 Total debt (principal) $1,841,704,203 Total interest 10,351,844 Total cash in Treasury 414,641,952 Debt less cash in Treasury. $1,437,514,094 Decrease during August 8,542,852 Decrease since June 30, 1884 12,536,141 Current liabilitiesInterest due and unpaid $1,686,574 Debt on which interest has ceased. 14,188,685 Interest thereon 322,410 Gold and silver certificates. 242,851,841 United States notes held for redemption certificates. 14,420,000 Casq balance available 141,072,541 Total $4141541952 Available assetsCash in Treasury $414,541,952 Bonds issued to Pacific Railway Companies, interest payable by United StatesPrincipal outstanding. $64,623,512 Interest accrued, not yet paid. 046,235 Interest paid by United States 63,099,504 Interest repaid by companies . By transportation service. $ 18,148,923 By cash payments, 6 per cent, net earnings. 655,198 Balance of interest paid by United . States... 44,295,381

When a womun becomes flurried she feels for a fan; -when a man becomes flurried he feels for a cigar.

THE MARKET. NEW YORK. Beeves...; $7.oo 7.50 Hogs 6.oo & 7.00 FIXHJR Extra 5.00 6.25 Wheat Xo. 2 Chicago 86 & .87 No. 2 Bod 90 m .92 Corn No. 2 61 .62 Oats White 36 .42 Poke New Mesa 18.25 18.75 CHICAGO. Beeves Choice to Prime Steers. 6.75 7.25 Good Shipping 6.00 5. W Common to Fair 4.00 $ 5.50 Hogs,.; 6.25 & 6.75 Flouk Fancv White Winter Ex 4.25 4.75 Good to Choice Spring. 3.75 fa 4.25 Wheat No. 2 Spring 78 .79 No. 2 Bed Winter 82 & .83 Corn No. 2 52 .53 Oats No. 2 .25 .26 Bye No. 2.... 55 .56 Barley No. 2 62 .63 Butter Choice Creamery,..,., .19 .20 Fine Dairy 15 .17 Cheese Full Cream 09 .10 Skimmed Flat 05 .06 Eggs Fresh 18 & -14 Itatoes New, per bu 40 .45 Poke Mess 27.00 27.50 Lard 07K .07 TOLEDO. Wheat No. 2 Bed 80 .82 Corn No. 2 54 .55 Oats No. 2 25 .27 MILWAUKEE. Wheat No. 2 77 .79 Corn -No. 2 53 .54 Oats No. 2 28 & .sw BAitiiEY No. 2 Spring 54 & .55 Pork Mesa 17.00 17.60 Lard 7.25 & 7.75 ST. LOUIS. Wheat No. 2 81 .82 Cork Mixed 48 & .49 OATS-NO. 2 26 .27 Rye 50 .51 Pore Mess 1M0 l9.oo CINCINNATI. Wheat No. 2 Bed 80 .81 Corn.... Oats Mixed 28 .30 Pork Mess i8 60 $w.oo y,Anr 07ft ,os DETROIT. Frotro 5.50 6.00 Wheat No l White.... 8 & .85 Corn -Mixed .54 & .55 Oats No. 2 Mixad -26 .31 Pork New MesH...... 18.50 19.00 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat No. 2 Red, New 77 .79 Corn Mixed 51 .53 Oats Mixed 24 d .25 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle -Best , 6.25 6.75 Fair 5.75 6.25 Common. 4.25 4.75 Hogs... .' 6-25 & 6.75 Sheep. 3,75 (4.50

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BOOMS OF OTHER DATS, How Daniel Webster Missed the Goal of - His Ambition

Tbore is nothing new under the sun.

The Presidential boonw is only a new

name; the thing existed eren as far back as Monroe's: Administration, when the "era of good feeling," outwardly sd serene; was honey-combed with personal intrigue, jealousy, and backbiting among possible candidates for the succession. Indeed, while nearly the whole Cabinet family of the President whose name is popularly a Bynonym for pea?e and good will were continually dealing one another intimate blows under the fifth rib -as when Clay antagonized J. Q. Adamtf policy at critical moments a most perfect specimen of a modern "boom" was developed by the stolid but crafty Crawford, of Georgia, whose whole talent, like that of so many of our contemporary statesmen, ran to the organizing of his personal following and the picking up of delegates. Again, the same passages in the memoir of Thurlow Weed where it is related how near Daniel Webster came to the Presidency on two occasions. In the spring of 1829 Mr. Weed went to Washington and called Mr. Webster into the cloak-room at the Capitol. "I think I shall be the Whig candidate, Mr. Webster said. Mr. Weed expressed doubt "Who, then, will be ?" asked the Senator. "It lookos to me like Harrison," said Mr. Weed Mr. Webster declared that Harrison stood no chance. "You are miuinformed," he said. "The party will choose a man with a longer civic appearand), who is better adapted to the place." "The question is." said Mr. Weed, "who will poll the most votes?" "Well," said Mr. Webster, "very well ; butt what does this mean? You are going to choose a Scott delegation in New York." That, Mr. Weed explained, was to keep New York away from Mr. Clay. Then he went on : "You do not see me here to argue about that. What I came for and what I want is for you to be willing to accept the support of New York for the VicePresidency in case my prdiction about Gen. Harrison is verified." Mr. Webster would not listen to this, and "Captain" Tyler was ultimately nominated. The memoir says that "two years later, when Gen. Harrison was dead and Mr. Tyler President, Mr. Webster, as Secretary of State under the late Vice President, had abundant leisuue to reflect upon the conversation in the cloakroom at the Capitol." In 1848 Mr. Webster was visited by Mr. Weed at Marshfield and urged to accept the support of New York on a ticket headed by Gen. Taylor. "Well," said Mr. Webster when Mr. Weed appeared at Marshfield, "how do thing look now? I suppose the question fctilL is, Whocan poll the most votes?'" "Yes," said Mr. Weed, "and that man is Gen. Taylor, who will be next Presi

dent." "Why," said Mr. Webster,

"Taylor is an illiterate frontier Colonel,,

who hasn t voted for forty years !" Mr.

Weed unfolded the object of his visit,

insisting that Gen. Taylor must be

nominated by the Whigs or he would

be taken up and elected by the Demo

crats. Mr. Webster sent for George

Ashman, of Massachusetts, and Senator

Wilson, of New Hampshire, with whom

political prospects were thoroughly canvaused. They listened to Mr. Weed's Arguments, and were disposed to yield to his suggestion, Finally his point was gained, and pleased with his success, he was about to take his departure, when Fletcher Webster reached the Marshfield House. "The cause is making "tremendous progress," he said. Informed of Mr. Weed's mission, he ridiculed it unsparingly. "Enough," said his father; "I shall remain in the field as a candidate for President. I am not a candidate for any other place." The National Convention met in June. Gen. Taylor was nominated. The Vice-Presidency went begging, until a

venturesome delegate nominated Mr?

Fillmore, and he became the candidate. Gen. Taylor was electei He died the 9th of July, 1850. Mr. Fillmore became President, and Mr. Webster accepted the position of Secretary of State in Fillmore's Cabinet Had Mr. Webster allowed the use of his name for the Vice Presidency in either of the above cases he would have reached the goal of hi ambition the Presidency. After occupying the office a part of a term it would probably have been very easy to make him his own successor. Mr. Weed's idea of the importance of the Vice-Presidency, as twice exhibited in endeavoring to obtain Mr. Webster's consents to become a candidate for the second place, has found abundant illustration in the history of the country. Boston IranHwipL The Razor-Back Cactus. The prickly pear bel ongs to the slabsided razor-back breed of cactus. It can be found in Texas on the Bio Grande, where there is a strip of territory sixty miles long and about twenty wi'de on which nothing else grows but prickly pears, and so thick are the clumps that the traveler cannot leave the road which is hedged in by this razor-back cactus. When a Western Texas man, who has seen prickly pears every day of his life, afterwards happens to travel in Europe and is shown, as a great curiosity, one sickly little prickly pear plant in a flower pot, it ftiakes him laugh away down in his boots. In order to flourish luxuriantly, the prickly pear asks for a semi-tropical climate and the poorer the soil, the bigger and higher the plant grows, and the more thorns it has to the square inch. Over in Mexico, where the soil is poorer than an amateur concert, the prickly pear grows six feet high, and the leaves are as big as those of an extension table, while in Texas it only grows of a convenient length to sit down on. There ar&some purposes the prickly pear is good for, and there are others for which it is good for nothing. The fruit, which is about the size and shape of an infant pear, is of a rich purple color. It looks as if it might taste delicious, but a moderately fastidious hog would elevate its nose at it, such a sickening flavor has it got. The prickly pear plant is covered from head to faot with long keen needles of assorted sizes, that for sharpness and

meaness may well cause the blush el shame and envy to mantle the cheek of a wasp. Never vprft drn on th prickly pear bush to rest yourself, takeour word for it We tried it once, accidentally; It was many years ago, bat the memory of it haunts us still, when we sit down Texan Siftiitg. Great Salt Lake as a Hummer Besert A narrowguage railway, aimed at Nevada, has got as far as the lake shore, and trains run out and back morning and evening, stopping long enough to give passengers time for a bath. The fare for the round trip (twenty miles each way) is only 50 cents. At the landings, in addition to bathing arrangements, there are dancing pactions, nd excursions often go out in the evening, returning by a special train in the morning. On special occasions, such as Pioneer day, (July 22) when the Mormons celebrate their first entrance to the valley, great crowds, of Saints, with 11 the wives and innumerable little ones, pack the open Coney-Island-like excursion cars, throng at the water-side, and spread their luncheons on the long tabbies under the bough-covered booth which give the only protection against the sun. Unfortunately it is impossible to make trees grow on the borders of the lake the water and soil are too bitterly salt; moreover, there is no fresh-water in the rocky hills that tower straight? up from the beach, and any' irrigation is thus denied the would-be forester. Lack of shade seems to make little difference with the bathers, how ever. They go in under the noonday blaze, and say their bare heads suffer no discomfort, and children and horses rush about apparently as energetic as in October. While the danger of sunstroke somehoT seems very small, the lake is a treacherous water for swimmers. The great destiny of its waters sustain you so that you float easily, but', swimming ahead is very hard work Moreover, fatal consequences are likely to ensue if any of the brine ia swallowed; it not only chokes, but it is described as fairly burning the tissues of the throat and lungs, producing death almost as surely as the breathing of flame. Of course this occurs only in exceptional cases, but some lives are thus destroyed each summer, and many persons suffer extremely from a single accidental swallow. f I think few persons realize how wonderfully, strangely beautiful this inland saline sea is. Under the sunlight its wide surface gives the eye such a mass of brilliant color as is rarely seen in the temperate zone. Over against the horizon it is almost black, then ultramarine, then glowing Prussian bine, or here and there, close by, variegated with patches of green and the soft skyey tone of the turquoise. Gazing straight down off the end of the pier, or from the rough little steamboat, which is now degraded to do duty at its moorings as a restaurant, you learn that the water ia transparent as glass, and the ripple marks on the bluishwhite sand are visible at a great depth. If the lake were in a plain (remembering the total abesence of forest or greensward), doubtless this richness of color would not suffice to produce the effect of beauty, but on every aide stand lofty mountains. They seem to rise from the very margin to their riven, bare, and pinnacle-studded crests, where the snow lies in shaded patches. Some of these ranges are a score of miles beyond the further beach, others close by, a few completely surrounded by the water mere islands; but every group has its own color, from the snuffbrown earthen hue of the nearer slopes to the blue and misty ranges far away. In the noonday blaze of tha vertical sun, or when at dawn its rays glint upon them, their prominences stand out distinctly, and streaks of shadow mark each of the great canons separating neighboring peaks; but at night, or when the sun loses its angle of advantage, these high lights are blotted out in th e uniform immaculate indigo which slowly solidifies heights and depths into a single grand silhouette of the whole Wahsatchl Watching these changing and lovely exhibitions of lavish colors, feeling the. freshening and medical breeze, hearkening to the gentle lapping of the wavelets, one can choose many a poetie name and foreign latitude to fit the scene, and easily forget that he is in Utah, until his eye catches the sage-, brush. Ernest Ingersoll in Harper's Magazine. The Home Angel. A man, says Robert J. Burdette, ia among men all day long, hears polities, club stories, slang of the street, bootblack repartee, and junior clerk smartness, the ways and sayings and doings of men until he wearies of it all, and when he comes home in the evening he wants to see a home angel, with homelight in her face and lovelight in her eyes, deliciously womanly in dress and manner, with a voice as soft as the war of the street is harsh; a voice that is made for coaxing and petting : a face that is dimpled and beautiful browed, so that his heart doth safely trust in her knowing that "she will do him good and not evil all the days of her life," H strength and honor in her clothing." wisdom in her mouth, and ain her tongue the law of kindness," witb the beautiful hands that are stretched

out to the poor and reached forth to the needy; whose works praise her in the gatis, so that her husband, alsov who is known in the gates and eitteth among the elders of the land, he praiseth her, because he knows that he ovm

nine-tenths of his success to such a

wife. "Favor is deceitful and beauty is

vain," nut tne orignter qualities of

womanhood, are fadeless, and ate even

"as the shining light that shineth mar

and more unto the perfect day."

A Rare Dish. "How do you supnose the name rad

ishwas obtained? asked the dude boarder at the table, as he ate one of

those succulent vegetables. "I suppose," replied theflv teleeranh

operator, "that with the man that

named it, as well as with us at this

boarding house, it was a rue dish. Oil City Derrick. Onk of the strongest evidences of a. hereafter is that we can not prove iiu