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ST. PAUL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 1878.
Quash the Faris sham.
The .people's money triumphant.
Windom against the people. Mark it
down.
LET those who wish to go to Parispay
their own expenses.
Mr.Windorn is a bloated bondholder with a
Washington palace.
Score one for Stanley Mathews. Mathews
onght to be a Democrat.
The sum total ot the tax on manufactured
tobacco a year is only $40,000.000. Quite
enough for one item.
S. S. Cox, calls what the senate bill styles
the "French World's Fair," a "sham exposi-
tion." Query: Is it "French World's" or
"World's French?"
John Q. Smith, ex-Indian Commissioner
and unconfirmed Consul General at Montreal,
has been whitewashed by Tecumseh Sher
man. The Sherman family is a little too
numerous.
Georgo B. Herendeen, a scout who accom
panied Gen. Custer to his last battle-field,
publishes in the JN~. Y. Herald a long ac
count of the march and battle, reflecting very
severely on Major Keno.
SIXTY thousand people followed the re
mains of Charles McCarthy, the Fenian
prisoner, who died in Dublin a few days ago,
to the cemetery. The procession was the
largest seen there since the burial of Daniel
O'Connell.
A bill to pay about 140 surviving Mexican
veterans the three months' extra pay voted
them by Congress in 1848, passed the House
unanimously. It appears that these 140 sol
diers failed to apply within the time limited
by the law of 1848, and that the money,
$40,000, has remained in the Treasury ever
since.
A CHANCE FOR ECONOMY.
Tile Committee on Retrenchment has held
several meetings at the rooms of the Cham
ber of Commerce during the past week to
consider wherein there can be a more econ
omical administration of affairs in this city
and county. As the proceedings of the
meetings have been private we cannot state
what plans have been proposed, but there
are one or two points which it
would bo well for the committee to
consider, if they have not already done so.
For instance, as at presented regulated
the Clerk of the District Court receives
three dollars per diem for each Judge who is
holding a session of court. If Judges Wil
kin, Simons and Brill each have* a term of
court at the same time the Clerk receives
nine dollars per ds.y. This whole per diem
could be cut off with advantage to the pub
lic, and at the same time without injury to
the Clerk. He has at the same
time his legitimate fees for the sum
moning and swearing jurors and
witnesses, which fees are largely increased
when there arc three sessions of court at
the same time, and it is a manifest injustice
to the public to add the per diem to the fees.
The unearthing of this little woodchuck will
save the tax-payers of Ramsey county from
ten to fifteen hundred dollars per annum.
The expense of criminal business is alto
gether too large, and there is an opportunity
for reform in that quarter. Instead of giv
ing the Clerk and Sheriff fees for every
juror or witness sworn or summoned in
criminal case3, an allowance of one hundred
dollars to each, for each term of court,
mipht br made which would make a fair
compensation for the work to be peformed.
With four terms of court per annum this
would make an allowance of four hundred
dollars each to the Clerk and Sheriff for
oriminal business.
The amount saved in this way
would be still larger than the
sum lopped off in the clerk's per
diem., and we commend these points to the
Retrenchment Committee. These are times
when money is not made by positive increase,
but by decrease of expenses.
HEAVEN AND BELLBOTH OR NEI-
THER.
Beecher says, the word eternal is "nebul-
ous."' We do not quote him as authority,
because he has the misfortune, not only to
differ from all the writers of the Bible, but
from all expounders of law, moral and civil,
in their construction of the seventh com
mandment. His saying is apropos, however,
to the hell discussion sprung up in so many
pulpits. Webster defines "nebulous" cloudy,
hazy. Is there anything hazy about
the generally accepted doctrine of
the existence of a hell? As to
authority, is there not the same authority for
a hell as for heaven? If eternal is "nebu
lous" when applied to hell, how is it when
applied to heaven?
Whoever, yet, has been able to grasp the
idea of the infinite? Study Victor Cousin,
dive into the mysteries of mental philoso
phy, unravel the problems of psycology,
ponder the pages of Sir William Ham
ilton, withdraw into inner con
sciousness, and there seek
the secrets of immortality, and, after all,
these ideas of the GBEAT FIHST CAUSE, of the
INFINITE, startle the human mind into amaze
of bewilderment. Then religion comes in
with faith, and faith is the substance of
things hoped for, and the evidence of things
not seen, and not known. Faith is the an
chor of religion. Without it, what would
religion be? It is to the Christians
solace in sorrow, companion in se
olusion. resource in difficulty, sustaining
friend at all times. It supplies with enjoy
ment in the present, and is the purveyor of
promise in the future.
But has either heaven or hell any locality?
Who ever located either? Science has made
the scrutiny of the starry firmament a rap
ture, and led imagination to believe many of
those distant orbs other revolving worlds, to
beguile bereavement with the hope
that in some of these we may
yet meet the lost and loved
of by gone days, and renew associations
which have only slumbered for a season to
be there revived and enjoyed forever.
Is this imagination or real? What mat
ters? Where after all is heaven? The question
returns to perplex to mystify. And, yet who
would surrender the hope of Mrs Hemans.
The blue deep glorious heavens! I lift mine eye,
And bless Thee, O my God That I have met
And owned thine image in the majesty
Of their calm^temple still That never yet
There hath thy face been shrouded from my
sight
By noontide blaze, or sweeping storm of night
I bless Thee, O my God!
And to pursue these non-committal sug
gestions, Milton has always been considered
high authority on hell. Turn we to Milton:
Hail horrors! hail!
Infernal world! And thou profoundest hell,
Receive thy new possessor one who brings
A mind not to be changed by place or time,
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
The italics are ours. This, if orthodox
would seem to settle the locality of both
heaven and hell. As to the duration of each
the Bible was once considered pretty good
authority, and it says, St. Matthew, chapter
25, verse 49
'And these shall go away into everlasting
punishment: but the righteous into life eter-
nal."
And as the moral, we conclude with the
advice of the poet:
"The clear cold question chills to frozen doubt,
Tired of beliefs we dread to live without
O then, if reason waver at thy side,
Let humbler Memory be thy gentle guide,
Go to thy birth-place, and if faith was there.
Repeat thy father's creed, thy mother's prayer.
REFORM NATIONAL, STATE, COUNTY,
AND MUNICIPAL.
The cardinal idea of Democratic govern
ment is simplicity and economy. The theory
interposes few agents between the original
of all power, the people, and the machinery
of the government. The practice has become
entirely the reverse. The United States is
the most governed country on earth, with
more elections, greater expense, a
larger number of office-holders, in
numerable offices, federal, state, county,
city, and township. It is absolutely fear
ful to contemplate. All these things are ex
pensive, cost money and require taxes to
pay. The trappings of a city would support
a royal commonwealth.
Just consider, that it requires $1,138,511
to run the State government of Minnesota,
for one yearabout $2 a head, for every
man, woman and child in the State. Add to
this, all the county, city and township in
debtedness, and consider the taxation
necessary to pay. Minnesota is not an
isolated case. The same is true, in a greater
or less degree, in every State in the Union.
The same is true of the National Govern
ment supreme over all. Thinking over these
things, is it any wonder that labor is op
pressed and depressed? Taking into the
subject, the Republican political financial
system of contraction, of legislation in the
interests alone of money, is it any wonder
that thousands of laborers have broken out
in despair, and demanded relief and reform?
And yet, on every recurring election, Pres
idential, State, city or county, or one or all,
the cry is reform. Every politician, every
candidate for office bellows forth
"Me miserable! Which way shall I fly
Infinite -wrath and infinite despair?
Which way I fly, Reformmyself Reform!"
What is, the result? Hayes, President de
facto promised reform. Now President
nearly a year, where is the reform? The
whole powers of the administration
are being exerted to crush
the people by withdrawing the currency and
contracting in the intesefets of bondholders
and capitalists. The eighty thousand polit
ical drones in office, who have run the gov
ernment for ten years, rewarded for unscru
pulous political partizanship, are retained,
and the brains, the healthy muscle, the in
tegrity and skill of the country ignored from
the Supreme Bench to the village post
master,
It was the expense of elections, the want of
representation, the oppression of the labor
ing classes, that poured the volcanic lava of
Canning's eloquence over the throne, evoked
the fiery appeals of Brougham, and bent big
knes in supplication to the proud nobility
of England, caused the walls of Westminster
Hall to tremble, and shook the foundations
of Great Britain as if by an earthquake. The
Reform bill finally triumphed. Ssf
The events of last' summer are solemn
warnings. A whole people can not be re
pressed, and the next outbreak may result
in revolution spreading darkness and despair
over the land.
NEW OBLjt&Ns was the scene of a conflict
of authority yesterday which had a smack of
the former times under Grant's regime. The
Sheriff undertook to arrest Wells'and Ander
son, two of the precious rascals composing
the Returning Board of 1876, but was pre
vented from doing so by the United States
Marshal. After considerable controversy a
truce was called and telegrams sent to Wash
ington for instructions. Hayes continued
the policy which has marked his administra
tion, of deserting his friends, and the Attor
ney-General telegraphed New Orleans to allow
the Sheriff to proceed. Though the decision
was eminently right, it is pitiable to see the
man who profits by the gigantic crime of the
Louisiana Returning Board, deliver the cor
rupt tools who placed him in the White
House, over to justice while he enjoys the
emoluments. In the meantime, J. Madison
Wells has disappeared and may escape the
punishment which he deserves, by flight.
The least Hayes can do is to divide his stolen
salary with the original scoundrels who stole
the Presidency and allow them to flee the
country which they have betrayed and dis
graced.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
LOCAL.
Every night but one during the week the
Opera House has been* occupiedTuesday
by the Musical Society's concert, and the
other four nights by Miss Rose Wood and
Mr. Morrison's excellent company. She
played on Saturday evening as Camille, and
well may the press call it "her great charac-
ter," for a finer piece of acting is seldom
seen on the boards than this. The death
scene in the last act was painfully intense
and realistic, and held the audience under a
spell from which it did not recover for some
time after the curtain dropped, when with
immense applause Miss Wood and Mr. Mor
rison were called out and received an ovation.
Mr. Morrison was excellent. Miss Wood su
perb. Mr. St. Clair and J. E. Irving were
most creditable as Count DeVarvifie and
Gaston. The other members of this com
pany made an efficient support. They de
serve success wherever they travel.
To-morrow the Wallack Combination, with
Miss Charlotte Thompson, so universally
acknowledged one of the finest delineators of
character on the American stage, takes pos
session of the opera house for three evenings
and a matinee. To-morrow will be present
ed Jane Eyre, in which grand type of true
womanhood it is conceded that Miss Thomp
son has no rival.
Miss Multon will replace "Jane Eyre" on
Tuesday, which will again be presented at
the matinee on Wednesday. Probably on
Wednesday evening Miss Thompson will
play "Camille."
Thursday the Hyers Sisters will open at
the Opera House for three nights and a mati
nee, so that the house will be open every
night during the week.
On Monday the Wood-Morrison combina
tion will play at Hastings Tuesday at Still
water Wednesday at Minneapolis, for four
nights Red Wing on the 4th proximo, and
Winona the 5th.
Tickets for reserved seats for the Hyers
Sisters entertainment will be sold at the
Opera House box office to-morrow, at 9
o'clock.
ELSEWHERE.
The Lingards are graveling in Indiana.
Lawrence Barrett is playing in Virginia.
Alice Oates and troupe are at Galveston,
Texas.
Sothern is dividing his time between Bal
timore and Washington.
The veterans in comedy, Charles Mathews
and John Buckstone, are retiring from the
English stage.
New York theatres are reversing the Euro
pean plan of commencing the evening per
formance with a farce.
The author of "Pippins," Mr. J. C. Good
win, has "explained" in reference to the
charges of plagerism made by the press.
They are going to dramatize the Tweed
revelations. An opera has already been
composed about him. called William Tell.
Pauline Lucca sang twelve times in Mad
rid for sixty thousand francs. She is now to
sing at Nice six times for twenty-one thou
sand francs.
The Hyer's Sisters are meeting with the
most flattering and lucrative success in drift
ing hitherward. Their receipts are much
over $2,000 a week.
Another American lady. Miss Harriet
Hope-Glen, of Chicago, has made a successful
debut in Europe, and is spoken of as a con
tralto of the first order.
The "Frog Chorus" is spoken of as the
funniest serio-comic quartette of the hour.
It is sung in frog costume, with a frog pond
on the stage, into which the froggie vocalists
can take a header.
A grand combination of the Marie Roze
Kellogg-Cary opera company will appear at
'McVieker's, Chicago, for two weeks, com
mencing Feb. 6. It is rumored that they will
pay St. Paul a visit.
Joaquin Miller's play of "The Danites" is
the sole property of Mr. and Mrs. McKee
Rankin, who state that they will certainly
protect it against piracy, and prevent it from
being produced without their consent.
"Niaforlica, or in the Halls of Montezu-
ma," is announced as one of the latest nov
elties in preparation for production. It is
mentioned as apiece in which extravaganza,
music, spectacular effects and many other
attractive features are combined.
Mme. Roze says. "I have a theory that
pne who possesses a musical voice
can conquer the difficulties of any lan
guage, and it is to that fact that I attribute
the ease with which artists are enabled to
learn foreign tongues soi much easier than
ordinary people.**.
Miss Rosena Miller, an American lady,
was lauded to the skies by Treviglio on the
occasion of her debut. It was a real tri
umph for the distinguished Rosena Miller,
as well as for the American nation, which
boasts in her one of its finest poetess', to
whom a well-known litterateur has given the
title of the "American Sappho," sure she
wil,l become one of the most illustrious Ital
ian-American ornaments of our age."
Mme. Marie Roze, who lately made her
debut at Philadelphia, has set the musical
ritics of that city fairly wild with delight.
The papers speak of her as an actress of the
highest order, with a voice wonderful in
compass, volume, culture and sweetness of
tone. The press of Philadelphia fully en
dorses the Dublin paper which said of this new
claimant for American favor, that "she is
gifted with an organ of surpassing loveli
ness. Its soft luxurious sweetness seems to
glide into the ear, inspiring a sense of per
fect delight. Those lovely tones have been
trained to express every phase of emotion,
and it is astonishing how they can interpret
the fiery breath of passion as tljroughly as
they can thrill with the tenderness of love."'
NATIONAL WIND.
Gab Day in. the House of Representatives
Wade DollarsFour L'rr Cent. Loan,
Etc.
House.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.To-day's session
having been for debate only, as in committee
of the whole, the speaker appointed Mr.
Mayham chairman for the day. Mr. Dur
ham then made a speech in favor of the re
monetization of silver and repeal of the re
sumption act. In the course of the speech
of Durham he said he would vote for the
Mathews silver resolution and for any bill
which would propose a reduction of the tar
iff. He would also lend his aid iu repealing
the bankrupt laws.
Mr. Bright also spoke in favor of the re
monetization of silver, and called attention
to the fact that he was the first person who,
in 1875, had brought the question before
Congress.
Mr. Deering favored a return to the double
standard of value.
Mr. Humphrey spoke in the same strain,
and denied there was a particle of the spirit
of repudiation in the West.
Mr. Tipton said the people were demand
ing the immediate passage of the remoneti
zation bill and the repeal of the resumption
act. If that were not done they would not
be satisfied with the passage of those bills,
but would also demand the repeal of the
note banking law.
Adjourned.
iseellu eo us.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.Over a million
dollars have been sent east the present month
for domestic circulation. The profit on ship
ping trade dollars to the Eastern States is 3
per cent. Secretary Sherman has the matter
under consideration, and it is probable that
the trade dollar coinage will for a time be
wholly suspended, or the Philadelphia mint
be opened for the same coinage in order to
place Eastern holders of bullion upon an
equality with the Pacific coast.
THE TEXAS BOEDER.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26The Texas border
troubles occupy the attention of the House
commission on foreign affairs and military
affairs to-day. Major Price 8th cavalry, tes
tified before the former, and J. G. Tueher,
who was before the foreign affairs commis
sion yesterday, testified at great length be
fore the commission on military affairs, a
large part of his examination was directed to
show the lawless condition of society in the
Rio Gande counties of Texas, and that the
people in the border town of Mexico are
kept in a good deal of alarm by the swagger
ing officers of the Texas State troops and
U. S. subaltern officers indulging in wild
threats of invasion and conquest. Mr
Tueher acknowledged furnishing arms and
ammunition to Diaz when he was preparing
his revolutionary movement. He admitted
the payment of certain sums of money to
Ford on behalf of the Mexican government.
Ford has been before the committee on for
eign affairs. He is familiarly known on the
border as "Old Rip." He had held public
meetings and declared h9 was authorized to
raise a regiment of State troops.
FOTJB FEB CENT. LOAN.
Up to date the popular subscription to the
4 per cent, loan of which the department has
been advised, amount to two million and
twenty-five thousand dollars.
FRA UD EXPOSE D.
The Colorado Stone Man a (lir/antie Hum
bug.
[New York Special, (Jan. 24th) Chicago Tri
bune.
The scientists who have expressed a belief
in the "Colorado stone man" will probably
regret their haste. A correspondent, writing
from Elkland, Tioga county, Pa., charges
that he has discovered substantial proof that
the "Colorado Giant" was made there by
George Hull, who
MADE THE "CARDIFF GIANT."
This information was obtained from E. J.
Cox, a justice of the peace, to whom Hull is
said to have explained the modus operandi
of his working. Hull molded and baked his
giant, expending, it is thought, $10,000 or
$12,000 on it, which exhausted his means.
Then he visited Barnum, and shortly after
wards, the object was shipped to Colorado
Springs, where it was "planted." Cox was
invited to see the figure Feb. 1, 1877, and, in
his description, says:
"The giant was lying upon a board sup
ported by a saw-horse. A derrick-like struc
ture stood over the kiln, and had been used
to take the giant out. Barrels of plaster of
paris, ground bone, ground stone, clay, and
other materials, were in the corners, and
there were many plaster mouldings lying
about on shelves.
Hull was in ecstacies. Said he 'Don't
tell roe that the people won't be fooled by
this."1
"Hull called my attention to the four in
ches of tail which adorned the extremity of
the figure's backbone, and struck a match so
that I could see it plainly. Said he
"Cox, look at that tail. Take hold of it!"
Then rising (for we were stooping), he ex
claimed 'That tail alone is worthy mil-
lion.'
"I called hi3 attention to the fact that the
man was not perfect. He struck matches to
show me the differences in the toes. He
said it
WOULD NOT DO TO HAVE THE MAN PERFECT,
that there was nothing perfect about it. It
had been made so as to have it not like any
thing ever discovered of the human or brute
creation. The arms, he said, were made dis
proportionately long, so as to make it appear
something between a man and an ape.
He explained how he had used 250 gross
of steel needles, which had been fastened in
lead, a dozen or so at a time, and with these
he had gone over the entire surface of the
figure before it was baked, producing that
goose-skin appearance which has puzzled
scientific men.
'Suppose,* said I, Some scientist pro
poses to go into him, what are vou going to
do?'
'Oh said Hull. 'I've got that fixed." and
he pointed to two places where he said the
scientists could have a foot of surface to
work on where they would be sure to strike
bone. "If they want to go in anywhere else,'
said he, 'we shan't let them.'
"The first idea was to bury the figure in
Connecticut, but to this Barnum objected,
and Colorado was decided upon.
ALL THE ABBANGEMENTS FOB DISCOVERY
were most carefully made, and the humbug
was carried out with great success." Cox
now peaches because he claims Hull has mis
used him.
Don't forget the great sale of Dry Goods by
the assignee of Scbafer & Korfhage.
LEGAL TENDEKS.
VIE US OF SECRETARY SHERMAN.
Given a Convenient Opportunity, Ex
plains the Contradictions of His Views
in Reference to their Value in Redemption
of the Bonded DebtDepreciated by the
Wrongful Act of the Government, They
Become the Cause of Financial Evil, and
will so Remain Until the Wro ng is Reme-
diedThe Resumption Act a Move in the
Right Direction.
MOKBELL TO SHEBMAN.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 26,Senator Morrell
has addressed communication to Secy. Sher
man, saying a brief and unimportant letter
of yours in 1868, to Dr. Mann, has been pa
raded in the Senate in such a manner as
does you gross injustice. Whatever may
have been your opinion as to technical rights
of the governments, you always held it was
its first and paramount duty to make United
States notes equal in value to coin.
SHEBMAN'S BKPLI.
Secretary Sherman replies at some length,
saying he has not time to condense, he says.
I never changed my opinion as to the tech
nical legal right to redeem the principal of
the 5-20 bonds in legal tenders, hut have
always insisted we could not avail ourselves
of this legal right until we complied with the
LEGAL AND MOKAL OBLIGATIONS.
imposed by the legal tender act not to re
deem it in coin on demand, or to rest our
right to convert it into an interest bearing
government bond. The grounds of this
opinion are very fully stated ia a speech I
made February 27. 1868, referred to in the
letter to Dr. Mann, and in the report on the
funding bill made by me from the commit
tee on finance December 17,1867. My posi
tion was that while the legal tender act made
United States notes a legal tender for all
de'-ts, public and private, except for custom
duties and interest on the public debt, yet we
could not
HONESTLY COMPEL PUBLIC CREDITOK.S
to receive United States notes in payment of
bonds until we made good the pledge of the
public faith to pay the notes in coin from
the first issues of legal tender notef, which I
heartily supported and voted for. I ha\e
sought to make it good, support, maintain
and advance its -value. It was. an ORrne.-t
effort to
EESTOBE TO THK GIIFENIJAC
the right to be converted on demand of the
holder into 5 per cent, bonds, and as soon as
practicable into coin, that I made tbe speech
referred to. resisting alike the demand of
those who wished to exclude United States
notes from the operation ot the pending law,
and the large class of persons who
wished to cheapen, degrade and ultimately
to repudiate them. In all my official con
nection with legislation as to legal tender
notes. I have
BUT ONE ACT To KhGIUIT,
and to apologize for, and that is my acquies
cence in the act of March 3,1*6:5. which, un
der the pressure of the war and to promote
the sale of bonds, took away from the hold
ers of those notes the right "to convert them
into interest-bearing securities. This right
might properly have been suspended during
the war, but repeal was fatal to the act, and
the source and cause of all the financial evils
we have suffered and from which we cannot
recover until we
BESTOBE THAT BIGHT
jpr redeem on demand our notes in coin. No
discrimination should be made against a
note holder until we are ready to pay him in
coin. He should be allowed, at his option,
to convert his money into bonds at par. Un
til then our notes are depreciated by our
wrongful act, and we have no right to take
advantage of our own money by forcing on
bondholders notes we refuse" to receive.
This is the precise principle embodied in the
act to
STBENGTHEN TOE PUBLIC CBEDIT
Approved March 18,186!). This act is a
settled law, and he would assume a grave
responsibility who would seek to evade its
terms, weaken its authority, or change its
provisions. It has entered into every con
tract made since that time. It cannot bo re
voked without public dishonor. So far as
the bondholder is concerned it is
AN EXECUTED LAW.
and 700 million dollars of bonds have been
redeemed in coin under it, and the civilized
world regards all the remainder as covered
by its sanction, and in their faith in it our
securities have become second only in the
markets of the world. This law is "not quite
yet executed so far as the note-holder is con
cerned. His note is not yet quite as good as
coin. Congress has debated ever since its
passage the best mode to make it good. The
Senate in 1870 provided in the third section
of the refunding act that the notes might be
converted into 4 per cent, bonds, but the
House would not concur. If this had been
done the notes would now be at par in coin.
THE BESUMPTION ACT.
if undisturbed, putting in execution the
promise made in 1862. and so often repeated,
is about to be fulfilled. Agitatien on collat
eral questions may delay it. but the obliga
tion of the public faith written on the face
of every United States note. saciedly
pledged by the act to strengthen the public
credit, will give us neither peace nor assured
prosperity: until it is fulfilled. Public opin
ion may vibrate, and men and partie. may
array themselves against the fulfillment" of
those public promises, but in time they will
be fulfilled, and I think the soonei the bet
ter.
SIL YER REMONETIZA TfOX.
The -Merchants Exchange of 'ash\ille
Tenii., Declares for It.
NASHVILLE, Tenn.. Ja 26.At a full
meeting of the Merchant's Exchange this
morning, the following was unanimously
adopted.
WHEBEAS. Through the established relations
of values existing for years past between gold
and silver, the people have acquired lights
that should be scrupulously guarded, and any
abridgement or impairment inflexible resisted
justly leaving the lesults to thoi-e who have
wrongfully been aggressors in the movement
to destroy the usefulness of silver as a stable,
and reliable currency: therefore.
Resolved.Vfe respectfully but earnest!} urge on
Congress the repeal of tbe act prohibiting the
coinage of silver dollars of the standard value,
and to piovide for the same ireedom of coin
age of silver as now accorded to gold, and by
appropriate action to publish to the world a
determination to retain silver as a legal ^tender
and measure of value.
The resolutions were prefaced by a lengthy
memorial to Congress presenting the de
pressing effect upon commerce of the de
monetization of silver.
A resolution was also adopted, calling a
general meeting of citizens on the same
sbbject in this city next Saturday.
The Weather.
Indications for the upper Mississippi val
ley partly cloudy weather and rain areas.
variable winds, mostly colder northeast to
northwest, and falling followed by rising
barometer. For lower Missouri valley. cold
er clear or partly cloudy weather, preceded
iu Missouri by rain, northwest winds and
rising barometer.
GLOBELETS.
The number of clergymen in the Episcopal
Church in the United States, is 3,272.
The cigar makers have petitioned Congress
to change the manner of stamping cigar boxes,
and Congress is disposed to grant the petition.
The cost of a student at Harvard, varies
from $471. a session to $2,500, President Eliot
averages^the cost from $615 to $830. Few
spend over 81,500.
Some one has sent a box, by express, to the
Rev. J. J. Emmegabowh (Johnson White
Earth. Minn., with $23 express charges, which
he is unable to pay, so says the Church Jour,xti.
An old lady, sleeping during divine servie*:
in a church, let fall a Bible with clasps to it,
and the noise partly awakening her, she ex
claimed aloud: "What*, you've broke another
jug, have you?"
The Baptists iu this country and Canada
have a membership of a little over 2.000.000.
They are third on the list of Protest ant de
nominations, the Methodists and Presbyterian*
outnumberng them.
There was a net increase of the national debt
last year of nearly $25,000,000. The statement
does not agree with the' deceptive statement*
sent out by the Treasury Department monthh
but it is true nevertheless.
Tne firm of Soullard & Co., in New ioik,
manufacturers of tobacco, employ 2,500 men.
and have a capacity for 60,000 pounds a day,
and average 50,000 orders daily. They oppose
the reduction of the tax. or course, to abut out,
competition.
The descriptions ot hell are quite contradic
tor} even among the preachers. Whether it is
hot or cold, here or hereafter, endless or tem
porary, literal or figurative, mental or physical,
aie questions concerning which there seems to
be bewildering uncertainty and confli t.
.A theological student who was undergoing
examination with a view to licensure,was asked
how he explained "Gideon's fleece." Sorely
confused by the question, he stammered and
I blushed for a while, and finally stumbled on
.the answer, "1 wasn't aware that he had ,iny
fleece."
Tea and coffee are not to be included the
new tariff bill. Enough can be secured -with
out taxing them, Mr. Wood hays. But not on
articles which can so fairly be taxed and which
not being produced in this country, will ield
all that is added to the consumers' burden to
the treasury.
A Congregationalist who lives and worships
near New York was asked Iat,t week how he
liked his pastor. He answered: '.Sunday is
iny day of rest, and 1 like the man because 1
can sit quieth in nv pew and get i first c-Jacs
nap while he is preaching." And jet the pas
tor gives dissatisfaction, and some of the people
are tr iug to get him to go nwaj.
A minister from the rountn write* to one of
onr religious papers to saj that hi, wife is in
tears because the condition of the family ex
chequer will not allow a renewal of the sub
scription to the valuable and highly prized pub
lication. Tha publisher propose* to have a
chiomo made representing this lady weeping
herself to death, and to present it a.-, a premium
to new subscribers.
Some enthusiastic Sunday schoolman has in
vented a plan for traiibiemng pictured from
largo sheetB of paper to the blackboard. Thin
will save the poor children much of the bewil
derment which arises from the chalking on the
board of marvelous pictures by nersons who
are not artists. The blackboard is in borne
Sunday schools a means of grace in other-) it is
a very much abused piece of furniture.
Another bogus materializer. Dr. Henry C.
Jordan, said to be, next to the Blisses, the
most successful of spiritual humbugs, was ex
poi-ed in Philadelphia last Monday night. A
stout plumber managed to get near enough to
him to grab him and pull off his wig. when he
was personating a materialized spirit. A younir
woman was saved from insanity by the expos
ure, which was undertaken for her benefit.
A clergyman in Davenport, Iowa, preaches a
sermon to his Sunday school every Sunday
morning. Its regulation length is just rive
minutes, and the children are greatly pleased
with it. And now the older people, having
caught the idea from the children, want him to
cut down the sermons which be delivers to the
congregation to a uniform length of five min
utes. It is thought that if he will adopt these
wishes his church will be the most popular one
town.
An Oneida, N. Y.. street merchant, who take
great pride in keeping his walk well sprinkled
and swept, was standing in his doot when the
rain began to patter last week, when a passing
citizen remarked: '-God is sprinkling your
walk for you to-daj, I see." "'ies, jes, and
He's doing it imelyfinely,'' remarked the mer
chant, and then added, B} the way. that re
minds me that He ib the firbt one oi this street
who has failed to come in and hot row
sprinkler when he has such a job t do."
my
Tho- who saw the accident in which Matliew
Riley was fatally injured by being run against
by one of Wm. II. Vanderbilt'.s fa*t horses, say
Mr. \anderbilt was not to blame. He shouted
when he saw Hi ley in front, pulled his horses
to one side and would have passed without
touching Riley but that the latter, confused by
the sudden alarm, started backwards right in
front of the horses, then close upon him. Mr.
Yanderbilt has manifested the utmost anxietj
about the man's condition, calling daily to in
quire and pnnidmg him with the best medical
attendance.
We have in this neighborhood a gentleman
who has been Kectoi of a chunjh for forty
ears. He ha^ learned to ease himself, and oc
casionally calls in a lay brother to read piajers
for him. A favorite in this work is a joung
man with a good voice, who, it ii said, i- look-
ing toward the sacred calling. Last Sunday a
gentleman arrived late at church and drove his
team under the horse-shed. H" found the
oung candidate sitting on the .-all quietly en
joying a cigar. ''Why. Jim! why are you not
into service?" "'I don't read prayers to-day,"
was the answer. "The old man takes a turn
himself to-day, so I thought 1 would come out
and have a quiet smoke. Ihe fact is. had
rather smoke a good cigar an} tune thai, read
prayers."
In a prominent pew in one oi the distin
guished churches which was recently Kimball
i/ed out of its indebtedness, sat a. well known
citizen who felt averse to giving, and v.ho want
ed to go home when Brother Kimball took the
platform. Indeed, he was about to leave the
pew and the church, but. as he attempted to
ris?, found that his wife, a portly lady, was sit
ting on his coat-tad. Ke .inked h-, to move, so
as to make the way clear tor hi. departure.
That amiable lady remarked, without moving a
hair's breadth, 'T won't. Just stay." He
vainly attempted to go, but soon lealized that,
if he should succeed in getting awaj, it would
be with the loss of part of his coat, as the lady
was firm in her determination not to budge.
"Now," Raid she, "it won't do for you to sub
scribe less than does do you mind?"
He "minded," and the result was a subscrip
tion on hia part of five hundred dollara. Thua
does lovely woman aid the cau of freedom
from ecclesiastical indebtedness.