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Attempt to Establish a Repub
lican Government in Dom
Pedro's Domain, -m
LONDON, Special.—A private
riV:S
cipher cable
Jspatch from Rio Janeiro states that a
Solution lias broken out there. Tliedis
.totch gives no particulars. Otfcs?£Uj»tches
Irom Kio Janeiro assert that a movement in
fiivor of a Republican form of government
i4«v '.has recently been strongly fomented, and is
sole cause of the rising. Up to the pres
ent hour, however, there is little informa
tion of a tangible character. Theannounce
.... incut,
is made that the Brazilian ministers
ha\e tendered their resignations, and that
(v the situation is controlled by the armv.
S t-s.fi THE REPORTS CONFIRMED.
Later dispatches from Rio Janeiro fully
vyij' jconfirm the previous reports. The revolu
tion aims at the overthrow of the govern
or ,iiuent and the proclamation of the republic.
~v' ^The army supports' the movement. A pro
visional government has been established,
{^including Senors Da Fonseca and Bcnjan
111111 Constant. Among the dispatchcs re
t" ten ed, but not yet officially confirmed, is
Efisione stating that Baron Ladario, the tninis
~ut- tcr of manno, lias been killed,
MINISTERIAL TROUBLE.
WASHINGTON, Special.—The Brazilian min
ister said this evening that he had received
110 information from his government with
regard to the reported revolution in Brazil.
eft Brazil in July last he had
heard considerable about the great strength
•ofthe Republican party there, but in his
:opinion
its strength was greatly overrated
tin this country. At the last election, which
was perfectly free and open, only a few Re
publicans were returned. While it was pos
»»ble that great changes had taken place in
j^fho affairs 111 Brazil in the last three or four
months, he did not think it probable that
the situation had taken the turn indicated
by the cablegrams. There might, he
thought, have been some ministerial trouble
wh* bad given rise to the reports of a rcv
V- olution.
MINISTER OF MARINE KILLED.
A dispatch was received at the state de
partment from Consul General Dockery, at
Rio De Janeiro, announcing the outbreak
,. of a revolution against the Brazilian gov
ernment, and that the minister of marine
had been killed. The report that Baron
Ladario, the minister of the navy, had
been killed, was shown to the Brazilian
minister at midnight. He was surprised at
the intelligence, and upon being asked if
there were any reasons why Minister La
dario should have been an especial object
of attack 011 the part of the revolutionists,
said that he was utterly unable to ac
count for it, and could not believe the
reports of the revolution were true. He
added: "The Republican party, to which
the revolt is ascribed, could not have
grown so large as to bring about a revolu
tion. At the last election not a single
member of that party was chosen 011 the
first ballot, and on the second ballot
only two or .three were elected from
a single province. That election was
entirely free and open there was no
interference on the part of the government,
no dismissals, no attempts to coerce the
voter.-'. A revolution could not have oc
curred in so free a country as Brazil with
out some premonitions. The last steamer
brought me papers, and there is nothiugin
them which gives any intimation of what
is reported to have occurred. There is 110
reason why a revolution should have taken
place. Brazil
IS A FREE COUNTRY-
and there is a perfect guarantee of the rights
of everybody in their persons and property.
Our press is as free as any press in the
world. There has been not a single word
of complaint against the new government
which 1ms come into power—a govern
ment that was to make the most
liberal reforms' if there were any
reforms yet needed in Brazil. A revolution
of the character of a republican revolution
in a country like Brazil must have some
cause, and we know of none. A revolution
against a despotic government might be. ex
pected, but one against a government as
free as ours is absurd, so absurd that we
can not believe it. It seems to us as im
possible as a revolution in this country."
The minister scid thnt Baron Ladario is a
gentleman of intelligence and ability. Ilis
name is Jose Da Costa Aycvedo. lie is
quite well known in the United States, and
has served in our navy. He began his naval
career as an officer in the United States
navy about thirty years ago, it being
the custom of Brazil to send her
young men to the gvernments of the
United Stutes and Kurope to lit them for
service in the navy of their own govern
ment. He returned'to Brazil and followed
his career with great success, his intelligence
and energy securing him high rank in the
Brazilian navy and resulting, not long ago,
in his selection as a member of the cabinet.
He came to the United States during the
centennial exposition of 1S7C, and was in
command of the Brazilian corvette Nichthe
roy. His is about lifty-two or fifty-four
years of age.
NEW YORK SURPRISED.
NEW YORK, Special.—Dispatches telling
of a revolution in Brazil were received just
after the coffee exchange had closed for the
day. The reports came like a clap of thun
•i: der to coffee dealers throughout the city
who were made acquainted with
them to-night, and are likely to
•ii cause serious trouble 011 the exchange if
confirmed. While the dealers generally
spoke in a hopeful strain, they exhibited
.: signs of uneasiness. "This is the first inti
mation we have had of any trouble of any
kind in Brazil for a year," said J. J. O'Don
oliue to-night. "We received information
v, about a year ago in our correspondence
gjfr from Brazil of a rumored uprising of the
.slaves in various parts of that
country, but nothing more was ever
heard of it, and since then th
news from Rio de Janeiro has been of a
b.' most cheerful character. Money on the
'Brazilian exchange has been at par for more
V. than a year, something that had hardly
been known in the history of the country
for years past. The coffee exehange closed
to-day with coffee strong, at 15.46c bid only
a few moments before the dispatches were
received. The new coffee crop in
Brazil is almost ready to be har
vested, and the supply on the
market here is consequently limited. If a
revolution has broken out and the ports of
Rio Janeiro and Santos are blockaded, 75
per cent of the coffee supply of this country
will be cut off. This will be productive of
.S very serious consequences throughout the
country. When a confirmation of the re
port is received at the exehange to-morrow
from London, there is likely to be an un-
Vlieard-ofscene on the floor. William H.
Crossman, of Crossman Bros., said:
vif. "If the report is true coffee
is likely to advance to hitherto unheard fig
ures, and when quiet is again restored in
Brazil the enormous shipments are likely
to cause a panic." The blockading of
Brazilian ports attending a revolution in
that country will result in the cutting off
wMi of more than three-fourths of the entire In
dia rubber supply of this country and com
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pel tlie shutting down of nearly all the im-
nionne robber goods manufacturing con
cerns in the United States, as the supply on
hand at present is not sufficient to last two
weeks.
^SERIOUS FOR AMERICAi? 5&l|g|!||
In speaking of tlie possible cohseqiichccs
of the revolution upon American trade,
one of the best known merchants in the
city, who imports largely from Brazil, said
last evening that they might bo
serious. "The trade in coffee, sugar —A- ..
and India mbber," he
Saiii
the principal interests affected. The total
cofi'oe
to the United States is
60,000,000 bags ot which JJ3,000.000 conies
from Brazil. It is easy to see, without ex
tended comment, what effect the cutting off
of such an amount of coffee would have. I
do not think that there is more than a three
months' supply in the United States at
present. With regard to rubber it might be
fiVe'i in??e ®®*10u.s' Thirteen-fifteenuis of
nie totai ifnpcrtation of rubber comes from
Brazil. There is at present not more than
enough here to last one month, so that
should the revolution last longer than tlfat
time the effect would be serious, iudeed, to
tiiose industries depending upon the rubber
supply. With sugar it is, of course, not so
bad, as wo import only one-tenth of our
supply from Brazil. Still, the absence of
tlmt amount would influence pricey
throughout the country."
INTERESTING OPINIONS.
MaJ. Gen. Schofield Proposes a Nev
Plan for Promotions.
The annual report of Maj. Gen. Schofield,
commanding the army, to the secretary of
war, was madepublicyesterday. He pays es
pecial attention to the desertion question.
He says:
"The causes of discontent which lead to
desertion have been sought tor diligently
for years, and many of tliem have been re
moved. One of these is the naturally dis
contented disposition of the men who are
led by tliat feeling alone to seek change
from the monotony of bread winning in
than civilians must work, they make an
other change. It is the ordinary labor and
routine of military duties which in
spire them with discontent. The
causes of desertion cannot be re
moved. The troops cannot be kept
constantly in active military campaign, nor
can they be exempted from the monotony
of routine duties and labor. The govern
ment cannot employ hired laborers to do
the work which the troops have time to do
for themselves. It does not seem necessary
that men be required in time of peace, to
bind themselves absolutely to serve five
years. A sutlicieiit remedy may, perhaps,
be found in the ease of all worthy men
who find, after a few months trial, that they
have mistaken their calling, by a more lib
eral exercise of the power *to discharge
soldiers upon their own application than
has ever heretofore prevailed. Great care
in the recruiting sierviee, to prevent the en
listment of men of bad character and hab
its, may be found practicable. Measures
having these ends in view have already
been instituted. Also greater, care in
the treatment of recruits by officers
anil non-commissioned officers. The rec
ords of desertion from different organiza
tions leave no room for doubt of the fact
that the character of the commanding
officer has much to do with the extent of
the evil. After all possible had been done
to remove reasonable excuses for desertion,
it still remains true that the means now
provided for the arrest and punishment of
deserters are wholly inadequate. Only one
in five is ever captured. This is not suf
ficient to deter men from committing
crijue. The remedy is to authorize civil
officers to arrest deserters and increase the
reward so as to compensate them for their
service. There is 110 need to increase the
penalty for desertion, but to make some
penalty at least probable, which it is not
now.
Gen. Schofield recommends that the pres
ent five regiments of artillery be organized
into seven regiments. The organization to
remain the same, except that there shall be
who are not now above the low
LAST OF AN EI
Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil
Deposed and a Repub
'r lie Formed.
"win be Princess Isabella, said to be
but one first lieutenant to a battery. He as great a degree of liberty as enjoyed by
also recommends that the enlisted strength the citizens of any republic, with the
of .the army be increased to 30,000, which possible exception of the citizens of the
would supply the force necessary for the I United States, and certainly more
proposed reorganization of the artillery than the citizens of the nominal
and the infantry as well as. giving more republic of France ever dreamed
margin for recruits under instruction. He °1- Scarcely more than a year ago the
wants ti»e infantry regiment to consist of daughter pf the .venerable Dom Pedro, em
three battalions, aggregating twelve com- I l'W'or of Brazil, acting as regent in the ab
panies, as in the cavalry. He suggests that sence of her father, who was at the time
hereafter promotions, from the grade, of critically ill in Europe, signed a decree
second lieutenants to that of colonel, I emancipating the slaves throughout the
in the cases of all officers empire in advance of the time when
est grade, should be made according to !a
The plans of the engineer department will
necessities of this work. The war garrisons
DISCOVESED A JOKER.
One Clause of the Act Admittihg the
New States Saic to Repeal the
Pre-emption Law.
BisMABcit, X. D., Special Telegram,
—The point was informally raised to
day by F. M. Dudley, of the legal depart
ment of the Northern Pacific railway, in
the United States land office, that the pre
emption law had been repealed by the act
of congress providing for the admission of
the new states. Section 17 of that act dis
tinctly says that the act
is "hereby repealed
as to the states provided for by this act." It
looks as if it was intended to repeal section
8 of the act of Sept. 4,1841, as to the dona
tion of500,000 acres of public land to the
new states for public improvements, but
the text includes not only the repeal of that
section but the whole law. There is no
room left for legal construction and it is
possible that some enemy of the pre-emp
tion law drew that part of the admission
act with the full meaning and force of his
words in mind. This point has not been
raised before and it comes in the nature of
the discovery of a "jolly joker." The land
department has not dropped onto it yet and
that department may treat it as
A WESTERN BUGABOO,
but it is certain the commissioner will he
called upon to give his opinion, and, if ad
verse to the theory that the law is repealed,
the secretary will be appealed to, and if he
rt kt 1!
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sustains the commissioner the question will
be carricd into the courts. This is the most
interesting bit of public land legislation in
recent years and is altogether a remarkably
neat way of getting rid of a law that some
people think has outlived its useftdness.
The repeal referred to also decides a very
large number of cases where the Northern
Pacific Railroad company is a party. If
the law is repealed all pre-emption filings
where final proof has not been made arc
defeated. A pre-emption filing does not se
cure a vested right, and congress can re
peal, as in this case, without any proviso
specncally providing for the protection of
settlers and their improvements. This
necessarily involves the rights of every
pre-emptor who has not proved up in the
four states. In the absence of any adverse
right it is probable the land department
would construe the law as permitting the
settler to make proof anyhow.
the Cause of the
Revolution.
LONDON, Special.—A Brazilian cabine
has been organized as follows:
President, without portfolio, Dodoro Da
Fonseca.
Minister of the interior, Aristide Loba.
Minister of Foreign affairs, Equintin
Bocayura.
Minister of Finance, Dr. Barboza.
Minister of justice, Campos Salles.
Minister of War—Benjamin Constant.
inre
t,ltT
Marine—Admiral Vander-
Minister of
holtz.
Minister of Agriculture—Dcmitris Ribero.
Senor Secayura is a journalist. Senor
Barboza was a member of the chamber of
deputies. Senor Constant is a journalist
and a professor in the polytechnic
school. Gen. da Fonseca held com
mand of the province of Minas
Geraes. He was recently punished for in
subordination. The chamber of deputies
has disolved, and the council of state has
been abolished. I'ublic opinion appears to
be in favor of a peaceful trial of the new
form of gouernment. Everything is quiet.
The imperial ministers have been
PLACED UNDER ARREST
and are kept in close confinement. The
provisional government has guaranteed
of Rio de Janeiro. All business in the city is
suspended, but there is 110 danger to life or
property. A dispatch received to-day states
that the ministes of marine was not killed,
as reported yesterday, but that he was shot
and seriously wounded by rebels. An
other dispatch says that the question
as to the nature of the future
government will be submitted to a
plebiscite. The new Brazilian government
lias issued a manifesto announcing that the
monarchy has been abolished. Various
provinces have sent assurances of sup
port to the new regime, 'flic former prime
minister has been arrested, The emperor
will be treated with the greatest considera
tion.
TO IMPRISON THE EMPEROR.
LISBON, Special.—The Commercie Do
Portugal publishes a dispatch dated at Rio
Janeiro 4:50 p. in. Friday, stating that Se
nor Constant Bocaquava and Gen. Fonseca
virtually constitute the government of Brazil
Fonseca being the actual leader. At the time
of writing the despatch troops had started
for the palace, outside the city, to make
prisoners of the emperor and his family.
The populace arc dazed at the uprising and
revolt of the army, .but cling to the hope
that enough troo]s remain loyal to the em
peror to put down the rebellion and crush
the rebels.
CAUSED BY A WOMAN.
LONDON, Special.—The news received here
of the revolution in Rio de Janeiro, as the
result of a desire on the part of the populace
for she establishment of a republic on the
ruins of the empire, created a feeling of pro
found surprise, but aroused no excitement.
For many years the empire of Brazil has
been regarded as existing under the most
liberal of nil the monarchical governments
of the earth, and as according to its subjects
would become free by the operation of
law
seniority of commission in the arm of the "Uliis act, while it was hailed with joy by
service to which the officer belongs, and masses, was execrated by the upper
not, as now, in part by regiments. He fur- classes as an attempt 011 the part of Princess
thcrsuggestcd that hereafter officers be com- Isabel I to win popular favor ut. their
missioned in the
arm of the service to which expense and even at the expense of
they belong, and not in particular rcgi- her father, in whose ostensible inter
ments, so that they may be assigned to reg-
l!st
iments and transferred from one to another decree failed to modify the detestation in
by the president, as the interests of theserv- which the heirs to the throne were held by
ice may require. lie recommends that the
pay of non-coimnissioncd officers of in
antry, cavalry and artillery he made the
same as that now established forlikegrades
in the engineers. Referring to the work of
the board of ordnance and fortification, he
says:
fixing thetimefortheir manumission,
she was acting. The operation of the
I the people, and it certainly did not en
hance the respect felt by the powerful
classes for Dom Pedro, since tlicy openly
declared their belief that the emperor
should have remained at home and
providcfill the land defences necessary for mercy of an intriguing woman, who had
the security of the grcat maritime ports of nothing to distinguinh herself but well
tlie country. Provisions should be made earned national hatred. The
for the necessary garrisons at the principal ,,,lt ,,(
seaports. A table is given showing the
GUARDED THE INTERESTS OF HIS PKOPLK:
instead of going abroad, even in quest of
improved health, and leaving them at the
(jt'o:ib
compli-
the di-
out 01
Ylo]:lhon of thu
of our seacoast defenses would be about 85,- faith with the slave-holding class,
000 artillerymen and 1,805 guns of modern involved in the emancipation of the slaves
construction. It is now practicable to sta- in advance of the time fi$cd by law, were
',art 'I1 antry of the undoubtedly the beginnings which culmi
country at some of the most important
strategic points in the Eastern states, says
the general, and he recommends the estab
lishment of one regiment at Plattsburgli,
N. Y., and asks for ail appropriation fof
barracks.
governments
nated in the present uprising, whatever may
be its immediate cause, and the dread of
the succession of Princess Isabella to the
throne which chills the hearts of
the lower classes is not unlikely
another factor in the popular en
deavor to add one more to the list
of South American republics. Xo monarch
was ever more beloved by his people than
is Dom Pedro, but the very spirit of de
mocracy which lie has evinced in his every
day life and contact with his sub
jects has unqucstioably given them
a taste for more license and a
closer participation in public affairs
than is contemplated by or is possible under
any form of monarchy. Everybody here is
anxiously awaiting the arrival of a reliable
and comprehensible account of the revolu
tion and eagerly discussing the meager re
ports received meanwlii lc. General sympa
thy with Dom Pedro is expressed, but no
body believes his restoration to the throne
possible. Although not a wealthy man
as compared with many of the rulers and
ex-sovereigns of Europe, he has a fortune
sufficient to enable him to pass the remain
der of his days in comfort on the continent,
and his early departure for the continent is
looked for. Financial confidence in Bra
zilian securities seems not to have been
much shaken by the turn affairs have
taken in the South American empire, and
the failing off in prices was much les3 than
might have been expects.
FRIENDS OF THE EMPEROR.
WASHINGTON, Special.—"The important
question in this revolution," said Senor Da
Costa, of the Brazilian legation, to a reporter
to-day, "is where the navy stands. It
is a most unfortunate thing that this should
have happened when the men who are the
controlling power in the navy are here at
Washington attending the marine confer
ence. One man-of-war could have put
down any rebellion that could arise. If
Capt. Da Gaina or Capt. Maurity were in
Brazil either could put down the revolu
tion in one hour. They are both
friends of the government and per
sonal friends of the emperor. It
is most unfortunate that these two
strongest men in the navy should be away
from home at this time. But there has
been no possible reason to expect such a
thing to happen. I am at a loss to under
stand it." Front gentlemen intimately
acquainted with Brazilian politics it is
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f,
learned that the fcrce ln Kio is &botit 6,009.
There are not more than 10,000 in addition,
and they are scattered all over the empire.
Gen. Fonseca, who is
AT THE HEAD OF THE REVOLUTION,
was accused of insubordination last July,
and the minister of war proposed to have
him court-martialed,- but the emperor for
bade it. If the whole force in Rio arc
•of one mind things can be carried/
with a high hand. The parliament is
to meet next Wednesday, and many of
the senators and deputies are already in the
city. If they agree to recognize the new
government, Dom Pedro's abdication may
be looked for. If tlicy do not, they will
have to go to jail. As the revolutionists
control the cable, definite news may
not bo received for several days.
The revolution comes as a great surprise.
No financial troubles exist. The August
elections were peaceful. The Liberal cab
inent proposes popular measures and the
emperor is universally liked. The coup de
main may affect the status of the Brazilian
delegates to the Pan-American congress.
REVOLUTIONISTS CONTROL THE CABLE.
Late to-night the Brazilian minister had
received 110 cablegrams about the revolu«
tion in Brazil. The state department had
no news to communicate. From the
fact that cablegrams were being
received by business men, the
Brazilian minister concluded that the revo
lutionists had possession of .the cable and
Would permit 110 cablegrams to be sent to
him. When shown the list of the new cab
inet he said it was composed of able men,
but they were not all known as republic
ans when he left Brazil, and he could not
a or he ha
some of then
1.
LATER
LONDON, Special.—The Brazilian legation
here has received 110 official advices from
Rio Janeiro. A dispatch from Rio Janeiro
says Dom Pedro has departed from Brazil.
He sailed direct for Lisbon. Before his de
parture he was formally notified of his
deposition. At the same time he was in
formed that the civil list would be contin
ued. The province of l'ahia opposes the
republic, but most of the other provinces
have signified their adherence to the new
regime. Doctor Barboza, the new minister
of finance, announces that, all contracts en
tered into by the imperial government will
be maintained. The city is quiet. The
overthrow of the monarchy has temporarily
paralyzed business. On the exchanges
nothing is doing. Viscount
Ouro
Proto, ex-
minister of the interior, and Senor May
unck, a banker, have been arrested. The
revolutionary commission has been sworn
in before the chamhcr of the municipality.
The republic is a certainty, and great cn
th usiuhin prevails. The corvette Bartliol
omcs Diaz has been ordered from Lisbon to
Brazil. A dispatch from Rio Janeiro to the
Commercio do Porto of Oporto says that
the former prime minister of Brazil has
been ordered to leave the country, and that
he will sail immediately on board the Ra«
lilia.
REPUBLICANS WERE CONFIDENT.
The Paris correspondent of the Daily
News says the Republican council at Rio
Janeiro decidcd a few months ago that the
anniversary of the French Revolution was
the most propitious occasion on which to
proclaim the republic by the leaders. The
party wus so confident of success tliut they
ordered a number of Republican flags to be
made in this city. In the new ilag the im
perial crown is replaced by a Phrygian cap.
It is reported that Dom Pedro recently ex
pressed to his prime minister the opinion
that the government had not much longer
to live. Among the causes that led to the
revolution were, the tyrannical measures
to which the government resorted in
order to secure the return of
its supporters at the last elections, when
many electors were arrested and impris
oned. The Brazilian minister at Paris ex
presses surprise that several stanch mon
archists, whom he thought incapable ot
treason, arc reported among the ringleaders
of the Brazilian revolution. lie said that
the Republicans are only a small minority
that the emperor is universally beloved
that Gen. Da Konsica has much prestige
and is popular with the army, and that
Senor Constant is not important as a poli
tician. The minister's son scouts the idea
that slavery had anything to do witJi the
movement. The Republicans, he said,
supported the emancipation of the slaves.
A revolution had been foreseen, but was
not expected to take place until after thy
death of the emperor.
WAY EXTEND TO POI!Ti:c,AL.
BRUSSELS, Special.—The Lisbon corre
spondent of the Independence Bclgue tele
graphs that in Portuguese official circles
the overthrow of the empire in Brazil is re
garded as final. The royal family of Por
tugal feel a special sympathy with the de
posed imperial family of Brazil, not alone
011 account of family relationship, but be
cause similar events are not regarded us im
possible in Portugal.
AN Orr'OKTTNITY FOR BLAINE.
BERLIN, Special.—Commenting upon the
chaos likely to result in Rio Juniero, the
Cologne Gazette says: "Mr. Blaine will
hardly resist the temptation to bring Amer
ican influence to bear upon the destinies
the South."
of
TO PRISON FOR LIF'
no
Reimund Holzhay will Hold
More Stage Coaches.
BESSEMER, Mich., Special Telegram,
—Ilolzhay is convicted and every one is
satisfied, although 110 doubt many would
wish to see him dangling at the end of a
rope. The daring highwayman has received
a fair trial and will get his just deserts.
The court to-day received the verdict of the
jury and sentenced "Black Bart" for life. The
charge of the court was brief and to the
point. The jury was instructed to give the
prisoner the benefit of every reasonable
doubt, not only as to whether he fired the
shot that killed Fleisclibein, but as to
whether he was sane at the time he com
mitted the deed, if he did so commit it.
"The prisoner is considered innocent,"
said his honor, "until the peo
ple have proven him guilty and
if there is a doubt in your mind as to
whether the people have so proven him, it
is your duty to say 'not guilty.'" Tlie jnry
retired, and for one hour the largeaudiencc
was held in suspense. So great was the
anxiety to hear the verdict that not a per
son left the room, and when the jury an
nounced that a verdict had been agreed
upon and filed back into the room every
eye was upon them and
EVERY EAR STRAINED
to catch the result of their deliberations.
To the question of the clerk, the foreman oi
the jury replied: "Our verdict is guilty of
murder in the first degree." The audience
could scarcely repress a cry of delight, and
some of the more enthusiastic ones actually
began clapping their hands, but were im
mediately called to order. "The prisoner
will stand up," said the judge. "Mr.
Holzhay," said his honor, "this jury have
found you guilty of murder in the first de
gree, and I believe their verdict to be a just
one. Have you anything to say why the
sentence of this court should not bo passed
upon you?" Holzhay, without a tremor
replied: "No sir." "The law," said his
honor, "leaves me 110 discretion in the matter
and I therefore sentence you to solitary con
finement and hard labor in the branch
state's prison at Marquette for the balance
of your natural life." Holzhay listened to
the sentence without displaying any signs
of weakening, in lact seemed to take it as a
matter of course. He w&s taken to Mar
inette to-night. -.1
AN OLD MAN'S LETTER.
It Was Promptly Answered by Prsrident
Lincoln.
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Another Instance of the ^d-ileartediiew
of Honest Old Abe—Ho Telegraphs an Or
der for tha Discharge of a Sick Soldier Boy.
Many stories have been told of the
great-hearted nes8 of Lincoln, and the
prompt attention he always pave to
the pleading of those in trouble. No
cares of state so engrossed his thoughts
that he had no time to listen to an
appeal from even the most humble.
The pardon of the soldier boy found
Bleeping at his picket post and con
demned to death is by no means the
most touching of the published ac
counts of his deeds of mercy. Nor
have a tenth of the stories ever been
printed which are passed about in
ijuiot eountry neighborhoods of his
kind acts to some afflicted family rep
resented there.
A Minnesota father who sent five
Bons to the front—all the boys he-had
—had good cause to speak in tender
est tones of the goodness of Uncle Abe.
After the last of the boys had joined
the army, the government, in its srreat
anxiety for the condition of the treasury,
ordered the sale of all public lands
which had been entered in certain dis
tricts. The farm of Farmer Stevens
came under the order. The old man
was loft alone to' caro for the crops and
the live stock, with the wives and the
babies of two of his sons under his
roof and mainly dependent upon hiin
for support.
To raise the money called for in the
payment for his land in addition to his
other burdens was a seeming impossi
bility. Ono of his soldier boys had
been brought from the front and was
lying in a hospital hopelessly ill with
a lingering disease contracted in the
field. The mother believed she could
cure him if she but had him at homo.
Her skill in the use( of herbs and the
many cures of the old New England
grandmothers was proverbial. And as
a nurse many neighbors could testify
that she had no oqual for miles around.
How she longed to sit beside the bed
of her suffering, curly-haired boy. And
how many and many times she said:
"Pa, can't you think of some way to
get Eddie home? I know I could soon
make him well, and he would be such
a help to you in raising the money to
take to the land office."
An accident had crippled the anxious
farmer's left hand so as to make it
almost an impossibility for him to even
"do the chores" of the farm.
"Dorothy," said he ono day, "I've
made up my mind to write Uncle Abe
a letter and tell him just how it is. I
wouldn't be a bit surprised if he'd do
something."
"Now pa," replied she, don't go oif
into any such nonsense. How do you
suppose the president can And time for
such small matters?"
But ho wrote the letter, in a trem
bling hand, but with such caro in every
stroke of the pen that it could almost
read upside down.
"I do believe Uncle Henry has gone
clean daft," said one of the gossips of
the neighborhood as she spread the
story of the old man's presumptuous
communication to the chief executive
of the nation.
'He must think the president can
look after every individual soldier of
the whole million," said another.
Ibis was late in 180-1, when every
thing looked so dark for the Union
canusoe. Drafts had been ordered, re
verse had followed reverse until, a
strong peace party had grown up among
the most loyal supporters of the Union.
It is now known that the president was
at that time beseiged by some of his
most confidential advisers to bring the
appaling flow of blood to an end by a
peace on almost any terms.
The tremendous strain brought upon
him by the terrible responsibilities of
the hour wore telling upon the rujrged
features of the president, and no ono
could look into his eyes without a feel
ing thnt a change must come soon.
Within ten days from the mailing of
Farmer Stevens' letter came an en
velope bearing on its upper left hand
corner, in modest type, the words
"Executive Mansion." Tearing open
the wrapper with shaking liauu the
old man read the contents at a glance.
"Mother! mother! Dorothy!" he
cried, "Ho'll do it! He'll do it! Didn't
I say he was the biggest hearted man
in the world?"
Handing the letter to the poor old
mother whose eyes were swollen with
her frequent weeping for her sick boy,
she read:
EXECUTIVE MANSION. I
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 11,18M.
HENRI- STEVENS:
DKAK SIR.—Make affidavit to the state
ments contained in your letter of the 3d.
Yours,
A. LINCOLN.
"Help me hitch up Bally, mother,
I'm going down to 'Squire Way's right
now and fix it up. We'll have him
home. Didn't I tell you?"
And the affidavit was sent by the first
mail, but Abraham Lincoln did not use
the creeping mail train to order the
honorable discharge of Private Edwin
Stevens. The order was sent by tele
graph, and it was not another ten days,
until the curly haired soldier boy was
put in bed under his father's roof, and
his white haired mother nursed him
day und night with such skill that the
frosty mornings of October's last days
saw him assisting in the "chores"
about the farm.
And v/hen the last day of grace at
the land office came around Farmer
Stevens was there with a roil of crisp
new greenbacks to save his homestead
from the grasping speculator's
clutches.
That mother's "Eddie"1 is now a
prosperous business man in one of the
Dakotas, and it would take more than
a thousand in greenbacks or gold to
buy Abraham Lincoln's autograph let
ter. The above account of the affair is
given by M. H. Stevens, of Kansas
City.
luminou Faint
Until now tbo commercial manu
facture of luminous paint has been con
fined to Enskacftw'nere a single factory 1
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turns out small supply at a price of
about $3 a pound. This enormous cost
seems to have prevented the use of the
paint except as a curiosity, but a firm
in Austria, bos found means to produce
it and place it on the market at 50c a
pound, or aboutone-sixth of the English
price. Even atoOc a pound a substance
composed of roasted oyster shells and
sulphur might, one would suppose, be
manufactured at a good profit, but at
that price it is likely to come into ex
tensive use. Wherever it can absorb
light during the day, it will give it
forth at night, and it is said that a
railway car in England, which has had
its ceiling painted with it, was so bril
liantly illuminated that one could see
to fead a newspaper in it during the
darkest night, without other light.
With all due allowance for the en
thusiasm of early experimenters, there
is no doubt that cars with ceilings so
painted would be pleasant to ride in,
whether one could really see to read in
thein or not and for making keyholes,
stairways and sign-boards luminous,
the paint would have advantages which
have been surprisingly little utilized.
Its application to stairways is a par
ticularly obvious one, and the Austrian
manufacturers furnish a kind of wall
paper on which the paint can be used
to better advantage than on: the bare
plastering. The paper, which is of a
leathery texture, is first treated with
lime-water, and then primed with a
composition furnished by the same
firm. After this is dry, two thin coats
of the luminous paint aro applied, and
the whole may then be varnished.
The Song of the Slot
There's a balm for every sorrow,
There's some joy in. every lot.
When a nickel you can borrow
And drop it in the slot.
When you feel yourself forsaken,
When your friends ycu count as naught,
And you find your gum is taken,
Drop a nickel in the slot.
If your falso friends, friendship feigning,
Depress you with the thought
That you in weight arc gaining,
Drop a nlckol in the slot.
Upon journoying, if the parting
Is with vague misgiving fraught,
Insure your lifo on starting
With a nickel in the slot.
There's no balm for any sorrow,.
No joys can hiddenlurk.
When the nickel that you borrow
Will not make the engine work.
Oriental Compliments.
The most amusing trait in human
nature is the mutual contempt with
which nations regard each other, and
it is a trait which can be traced back
as far as history extends. The Greeks
called the world barbarians the Ro
mans scoffed at the Greeks, and the
Egyptians regarded other people as no
better than slaves.
In our days, the- contempt we ex
hibit for Oriental nations is mild com
pared with their contempt for us. The
Turks aro but little behind the Chi
nese in this respect, their ordinary
designation of a Christian being a
•4dog."
When the first Dutch embassador
was sent to the Porte, ho visited the
Sultan.
"What does tlie dog want?" asked
the Sultan.
This was translated in a speech full
of ornate Oriental compliments, and
the embassador replied in the same
strain.
"Let the dog feed," and when tlie
dog is fed', kick the dog out."
The embassador was delighted with
the Sultan's compliments. The Sultan
felt that he had held his own, and the
treaty was signed the next day.
The Domostic Doctor.
In diphtheria the application ol
common salt to tho tonsils, laid on in a
thick layer, and frequently renewed,
has proved very effective as a remedy.
A teaspoonful of camphor in a wide
mouthed bottle, well covered with
boiling water, produces a warm vapor
which can be inhaled for the relief ol
acute head colds. Ten minutes' use,
three times a day, will suffice.
When the skin is particularly sus
ceptible to the action of the chemical
rays of the sunlight a red veil affords
better protection than a blue one.
Quite possibly a red veil would be a.
protection against freckles.
An English scientist advises that
people caught in a thunder shower
should permit themselves to become
thoroughly drenched with rain. Then
it would be impossible for the lightning
to kill then*. The wet clothing would
offer such ready conduction to the elec
tric fluid that the body beneath would,
be sate.
Dr. Vidal of Paris, finds that the
parasite causing ringworm is aerobic
—an air breather—and that it can be
smothered by covering the part with
vaseline and a film of guttapercha
tissue. One per cent, of iodine in the
vaseline expedites a cure, and epila
tion (pulling out the hair of the part)
is not necessary with this treatment.
One of tho Paris, hospitals has. a
curious case of hysteria in an ap
parently healthy girl of fifteen, whose
particular freak is to go on all-fours,
imitating the mewing of a cat and try
to bite everyone about her.
Dr. Hebra, a specialist and authority
on skin diseases* of Vienna, recom
mends a ten per cent, ointment of
pyrogallic acid tor local application in
cases of barber's itch, and says it
cures in three or four weeks.
Mr. J. B. Wolff writes that "It is
pretty well established that Albinos
from whites are the products of
cousins, particularly Irish cousins.
So far as 1 can trace my data, this
seems to be the case. You might start
the inquiry." Who knows?
Good by, Old Chap.
They had all tho old-time toughs
around Gunnison disposed of two weeks
ago except Pete Baker, and they wera
wondering how they could get rid ol
him, when ho pranoed out on the
street with his gun and yelled for
blood. Forty revolvers cracked al
most in chorus, and when they lifted
Peter up he was a pretty fair coal
screen.—Gunaison Record.
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AgtWimAa
the great
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(Pa.) corrwpondenli o^tfcrfNe..
Timeg, the'eDllspae of tl^?wc
becomes more- frequent,
sive, and more fatal. Aftef all
coal has been removed theirthe
pillars left to support Ijhe roof ar«C
mined away, and this is called, •'frofyr
bing the pillars," aad this is an
tremely hazardous' undertaking, ft .y
is however, done by lihe employed of
tlie coal company, and not by heed
less thieves, as the ph?ase would sugw
There was a great fall of roof In'
one of the principal mines at Arch
bald, in the northern portion of the
Lackawanna valley, recently. The
men had been ''robbing pillars" and
bad made considerable headway.
Everything looked all right Satur
day evening when they quit work,
but when they returned to the mine
Monday morning they found that
acres of the roof had fall
en in, and a great field of
rock, from three to nine feet
in thickness, lay on the floor of
the colliery, after having ground
several stout anthracite pillars to
powder The miners congratulated
themselves on the faotthat the great
rock, which must luive weighed mill
ions of tons, had fallen Sunday when
they were absent from the mine..
In cases- of a falling roof the experi
enced miner is forewarned by tho
cracking sounds, often a pistol-shot,
that invariably precede the down
rush of the great mass but an- in
fallible warning of future danger is
said to be the desertion of the mine
by the huge-rats thatnmke theslopcs
their home.
The belief in this particular notion
is quite general throughout the coal
fields, and, repulsive as the great,
fierce mine rat is to the miner, he
likes to see it at ease in' the dismal
depths where death is of such fre
quent occurance. There is good rea
sons for associating the disappear
ance of the rat from -1 colliery with
an impending disaster. The rat is a
sensitive thing it makes-its resting
place in tho nooks and crannies of
the mine, and it feels the first slow
movement of the crumbling rocks as
they begin to squeeze and settle and
shape themselves for the disaster
which culminates in the fall ot roof.
The wary rat is first to feel the com
motion. He is dazed bythegiinding
motion ot the rocks he undoubtedly
thinks they have suddenly become
imbued with life and he flees with his
fellows, panic-stricken, from the place.
The first great fall of the roof that
ever occured in this region was at
Carbondale about thirty- five or forty
years ago. The entire side of the
mountain, fell in and several lives
were lost. Several days before the
disaster the people of the neighbor
hood were astonished to see swarms
of rats leaving the mine. This fact
was recalled after the great disaster
occurred, and the rats were-credited
with extraordinary foresight.
The rats become very bold in the
mines. They will frequently take a
piece of bread or meat from a miner's
hand, and follow him aboutforfood.
A miner, who is not easily frighten
ed, told me the other day that ha has
often been scared by mine rats. On
ono occasion he had a considerable
distance to go, and he had to pass
through a portion of an old working.
There he encountered about a dozen
rats. They were large and fierce,
and were not a bit startled by his
presence. On thecontrary,.they soon
showed that they rather liked his
company. His oil was burning low
in his lamp, and sinelled very strong,
and it was evident that it had a
great attraction for tlie hungry rats,
they followed close at his heels, and
whenever he hastened his speed they
did the same. His only hope was in
keeping the tiny Hume ia his lamp
glowing, and he felt that if it was ex
tinguinhed by any mishap they would
attack liim at once. It was with un
speakable relief that he reached hie
destination before the last faint flick*
er of his lamp died out.
Severe on North Adams.
ANew York astronomer some time
since visited North Adams, Mass.,
for a vacation and to
study the stars,
He slept daytimes and prospected
nights. Some of the citizens became
alarmed, thinking he might be aNew
York burglar. Atlength the select
men of the town determined to inter
view the stranger. The landlord of the
hotel objected, saying that he seem
ed a perfect gentleman, but the
selectmen insisted, and at length he
went to the gentleman's rdom, wak
ed hint up, and told him the select
men insisted on seeing bim. "Show
them up," said the gentleman. The
selectmen came up, and the chair
man! said they wouldi like to know
what he was about aad why he had
come to North Adams. "I have not
the slightest objaetion to telling
you,'' said the gentleman. "The lact
is that I commited an offense in New
York city and was sentenced by the
court to six months in Sing Sing
state prison or two weeks in Kortn
Adams I thought I would take
North Adams,, but, having bees here
a week, have changed ray mind and
concluded to-go-back to New York
to-morrow and tell them I will take
six months: in Sing Sing "'—Our
Dumb Animals.
Lucky Neeley.
Hearing, bliafr $-15,000 lmd leen drawn by
some one this county in tlie-Iast drawing
of The Louisiana State Lottery nnd that
the mon».V'had btten paid anliwas deposited
in the Columbia Banking Co,, a Herald re
porter
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oa Mr. 1 uciusj-Friersan, thecaah-
ier of the aDove nsrued bank, and learned*
tliat T. H. .Neeley, of H) by villa, a villiage
10 or 1'2 mites from here, was the lucky
man.. Mr. Neely held one-twentieth of ticket
No. 83.856, which ili em the flint capital ptixe
of $300,000 in tho drawing cf the Louisiana
State Lottery Compruiv held the 15th of htet
south. The ticket was deponited last seek
Kith the Colnmbia Bnnkitg Co. of thia eity,
who collected the same through their Mew
Orleans corredpovdeut, the Louinaoa Nation
al Bank. We uaderstaad that Mr. Neeley,
who is quite a. young (man, not yet Jtavlair
attained hia majority, ia quite elated over
his Hnecess. He is a sober,' Wlnitriow
young farmer and this wind1al\ ef luck will
give him good wtart in life This is the
first time he ever bought- a ticket, and he
certainly made a goad investment lor an*/
dollar.—Columbia (Tenn.) ttaajd. If
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