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The Week.
Kr-lt;n.
lii-;pt h'.- tro:u E-iyyt -h tli.it i'm-j
VViW'y J"ii;:!ly hi full :v. rt.h .t Kh ir
VHini. h ;?: ti so arrive :tn-J r
lu'v. Gffi IJ.-.nlon ly tk f UU 5n-t.
AnothiT ilju.iinit'' -i :irf hu.s iir-l in
KuIiilpI t'.iis tisnM ti Vi'.ia.!-, it War
mln.-Vr, in Wilt.-Liir-'. wLtn.- tli' t' mi hall
AVi.s pirti;i!!' k-l I'.v i.n lusion
.VolH!y hurt, :i- u-u.il
TUo e::Uiqu;tke s!;rx k.-. In j:il.i o'titiu
lie, aixl to t!i'ir Ji.wr oy.-ln1 w f uM'!
Tb? A-ont on Vct;i!csJ;iy, ty a vote of
W nin, p,i.ti tin KJmun-Js Mil to put
Gn. (iraat on the rvtirtnl li.-t ot tkc army
with tli full nnk ih! p:iy of (n'm-nl. Tin
bill b Mjn'cttvl to !.. tl." l."U-.-, tU'"i';i
iM.it without oh'trj (pp'wtioii.
TLp r.ciig-.in iuUT-Ut t ouiiiii rt'f MU,
which p.i-vHil the houx.l.i.-t wook, Iih.Um-d
;n'uJrd in the m'tute t y iul'titut'm; for
it the Culloni bill, wh'u:h U r ully but n
tvtksio of tap question As the houiw will
U'-ver agree to the w:ii.it' aaieudniout. tbo
whule bu;t!rjP(v will probibly met-t i'-lt';ith
In a conference cornmi'b-n.
Thorf wsqtiito a "bl'.xily shirt" brt-ec i:i
tht bcruAi' ou Mominy, stirn-d upbyH;iw
li'y's n-oluti.iu asking f.-r ropy of Don
Sl.erui m'i remit k-tter t tli N-crvtiry of
Wr cont.'iininj; proofs that .Uff D.-ivis wn
ed Davis ugainst the charge, whi li gave j C-)k. I.-iwrence uid O'Neil, as com iu 1.4
IngalLs, Haw ley, Ac , a much coveted oj sioners to sjs-rxi the money voted by the
)ortuniry to wave the V'loody shirt an-1 ven eople to couiplete the new -late hou.se.
tlhtte their uIovtly " The debate came to - Asthe fact Uiat the people ratified the ap-
ao ibrupt lose by the tlem'M'rats withdraw
iii their exposition to the res. -lution
The Heuaepln (uwil men are jubilant
over getting the committee having i barge
of the Hlver and Harbor Bill to insert au
appropriation of f 'XK'.OOO to begin work on
their ditch It is said they expert to get
Umj appropriation through by a combination
with th- supporters of the Delaware and
Chesapeake canal an I Galveston Harbor
appropriation.
M ii-'ll,iin-oas.
The lU-publii an papers are engug'd in a
ridiculous effort to prove that St. John, the
Prohibition candidate for President, tried
to .sell out to tha Republicans for $'2.),bo).
The charge i.s baed on a statement of one
Clark vm, member of the Pepublican N.-i
tional Committee for Iowa, thst one Leg
ut, of 8t Louis, who claimed to be St.
JohnVajrer.it, b-ul nude him such an offer.
St John himself denies that Legate or any
man was his agent with js.wer to sell hi in
out and denounces the whole story as false.
The only comment it sue.-sts is, if the re.
publicans Cou Id have eot St John off b-r
$"J3,0o0 they were fools f.,r not iloiru; it.
They had plenty of money, and Lis with
drawal from the contest would have given
the' elec tors to I'.laine The only expl.ina
tion of their failure to on.-utninate s.
tempting a bargain is that St Jobncouldn't
be bought It will take a !vd deal m..ie
than unsuportod assertions of an ex stir
route contr-w'tcr t remove the belief that,
inasmuch as the libdne agents didn't buy
him. St. John m not for sale This proof
of his Innocence amounts indeed to a dem
oti-tratioii
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Two notable failures were aiilioi;tL ed ill
Thursday's dispute he-that of tl'.e great
"Wall street banking house of Jthn J Cisco,
with liabilities j laced at f 5,(100,0. X), simJ
that of the great manufacturing ;ir:n of
Oliver IJroth-rsvV Phillips in Pittburj. with
fYOOO.OOO liabilities. Iu both
ances are given that the assets are si.il -h ut
to cover all liabilities
.
The Country on TuesbiV ev.-niiii was
stunned by the announcement of the -iid-den
death at Mankato, an out of the wuv
railway station up in Minnesota, of Schuy
Jer Colfax, ex vice pr-shli-ut f the IVited
States. He appears to have been on bis
way to a jxiint west of there on a lecturing
four, and was waiting at Mankato (on the
Omaha it St. Paul road) for a train to n.ke
him westward He had walked aU.ut
three quarters of a mile to reach the . station
and, on arriving seemed very much out of
breath. He asked the way to the gmtle
men'a waiting room, and being shown iu
sat dowo. The neit thing noticed of him
was a pitc hing forward. Several jiersous
ran to hh assistance, but Le emitted only a
few groans and expired ! A coroner's jury
called soon afterwarda pronouncc-d it a case
uf sudden death fnm heart disease. His
rlend$ were at once telegraphed to, and
of course bis remtilns are taken euro of,
The news of bin death wiw recehed at
Washington ut about 2 o'ekx k, nd beln
announerd in the senate wid bouse, botli
hou.-o.sut once adjournod. Sebuyler Col
fax ai born in New York city in
and moved with bis parents to Indiana in
1 v, H. lit; .-tu lioil law, and in IM-l becam.-c-.lit.-r
of the .St. Joteph Yall?u :yi!T. In
151 he wr. 'ent to cinin". In lH(i:i hi
w is el. ctetl speaker of the Iiou-e, ami in
MW he was elected vice prcMilent of the
I'nitet! States on the tit kct wiM; 1 1, nerai
(irant Alon' in 17: 1 bis name b.-e mo
mixed up with the Credit Mobilicr M an !
aN in such a way that, though Involving no
jMMti'.e ruilt on Ids part, was sufficient to
diMi t him wi'Ji politic", and Muce tb.-u
be had mainly m-cupied himself in atteml
in,' to hi- private i.ffair- and occasionally
ileliveiiiif: lectures, bis fa'.wite w iieing
on Lincoln
Hon . W. O'JiiuiN. the celebrated
i l imiu.d lawyer of Chiciieo, was taken s'n k
very .suddenly on Monday afternoon in that
city with a bowel complaint iind died on
Tuesday morning Mr. O'iirien had come
totbi- country from Ireland when a Uy
Hid con.inenced life a.s a porter and boot
black at a hotel In Peoria. His intelli
gence, however, which was o much above
his station, attracted the attention of C. C.
i)t nny, wlio indue t-i hi:'.i to enter bis ollice
and Mud.v law. Ho was admitted to the
!.ar after le.-ss than three years' study, and
hisf ner'y and push, with his great speak
ing talent, n;t only ciM-edily gave liim a
large practice but bronght him in demand
all over tlie slate as a political speaker. lie
was elected iu the Illinois legislature in!
i'A. and thmi -h wrveral tunes a candidate
for rongresf, the iarge adverse Itepublicun
majority in this district alwnys Insured his
tlefeat Mr. ( 'Brlen was a man of great
fon-e of character and of such ability as
to place 1dm at the he:id of his prufeNsh.n
in this state as a criminal lawyer- After a
successful practice for some years ut Peo
ria, the field of his pn.fe.sxjonal call le
came so enlarged that he found it neeesnary
to move to Chicago, where Ids career was
one of on.-tant ac tivity and sU'Xeis. He
mu't have been less than fifty years old,
and die thus at the erdth of his rivmhood
and intellectual vigor.
ILLINOIS LLGI8LATURE.
The senate, though fully organized and
reudy to pnee.l to business, is appareutiy
so taken up w ith the muddle in the house
that it oijy holds form;d ses.-ion.s of a few
minutes e. !i day and then adjourns. ov.
Hamilton sent in a long list of apjioiiit
ments on Tuesilay, mo.st of which were
mail"' months ago and would therefore
hae been confirmed without question;
but it was discovered that the H-t included
pn-pri atioii b-r the stite hous cannot bo
otticially known until the legislature has
canvassed the vote, simultaneously with
which c anv.4ss Gov. Hamilton goes out of
office, it is held that his appointment ol
th" commissioners Is altogether ''too pre
ious," and that law as well uu decency re
quired That be should leave the appoint
ment to his successor, Gov. Ojdesby.
Hence all the Governor's appointments
were referred and norm of them have yet
been coufirmed.
The house did no other business on Prl
day of last week than the administration
of the oath of office to the members, enter
tain a resolution In reference to the death
of Judge Gillespie, aud then adjourn over
to fi oYIcck on Monday, wliich of roui-se
meant Tuesday morning.
After meeting ou Tuesday morning the
fir. t motion submitted was by Varnell, a
friend of Haines, to adopt the rules of the
last house Fuller trep ) raised the point
of order that the hoiis was. not vet organ
ized I Liine-t, (speaker pro tein.) overruled
the jst.iiit and put Varuell'.- motion, whic h
w as voted d.twu. 1 H to I t l.tnegitr (dem )
n W moved to pr.H-eed to the election of a
speaker Haines (maintaining that the
in use having transacted other business
and adjourned after his flection as speaker
.ro t'lti. he thereby became permanent
speaker) refu.-ed to entertain Linegai's
motion I.inegar put tlie motion himM-lf
and announced it carried, but after two or
three hours of wrangling, the house, with
out attenu-ting to ;ct on Llnegar's mt-tion,
adjourned
On Wedne.su iy, when the journal was
read, it was f. ;:nd that no notice had been
taken of Linegar's motion, and be moved
to nuiend the joiirn-d so as to show that
motion aud its adoption Over this the
day was a(rain spent without accomplishing
anything. Thursday w;is iu like manner
spent in wrangling over ixiints of order,
ami the indications are that yesienbv was
-pent in the sane way.
Tlie irreat point in the case and source
of all the trouble is, that Haines. haiug
been ebsrNsi sjaker pro tein., with a clerk
pro tern , maintains that the next and only
business of the house Wa-s to proceed to
the election of a permanent speaker and
clerk, but having emitted that duty, and
proceeded to transact cither business and
adjourned over to Tuesday, he (Haines)
became permanent sieaker and could not
no'-v le removed except by impeachment;
and entertaining that view be had gone be
fore a notary and had himself sworn iu as
speaker, as the clerk had also teen sworn
in
Ainl ptepstcrous as the cLiiin of Haines
is, the houseods itself helpless to n.t
him, for it can only tie done by electing
another speaker, and as each party lousbut
7rt votes and it will require 77 votes to
elect a speaker, neither party can agree to
give the other party that vote, and Haiues'
vote ulone can end tl.e muddle Nibeie
mains on the top of the heap, and from
preaent appearances the only outcome can
be, either the acknowledgment of Haines
is speaker U the breaking up of the legis
la! lire from inability to organise.
VANDEE3ILT AND THE QRAST8.
Vaatlerbilt, iu 1 is treatment of the dr oit
family, has sinovn that even a "grasping
millionaire" can ilw a generous act witli
delicacy ami grace. Haung, at (Seneral
Cninl's urgent refpiest, obtained a judir
merit against bim for the .fdoO.OOO loaned
him, and on an execution issued having
lei"d upon all of (irant's pro;iert,
"n al, personal and mixed," when the s.de
come off Vanderbilt bid it all in h:m-f'!,
and then, in a felicifiously worded ! 't- r.
turned the whole over to M-. irant, to be
ludd by her as her sep.ai.it.- property ;.m!
es'ate, " w itii the oniv c -U'litlon tha, on
(i.-n. (irant's deatli. "! . tier if she wi-h.'d
it, "the swortls, coinmlsMons, medals
from the I'nitetl States, htates, cities
;;l!s
ami
foreign L'overnment. and all urthle.s
histoiieid value and interest, sliall 1 pre
sented to the government at Washington,
where they will remain as perpetual me
morials of his fame and of the his!" ry o!
bis time."
Tbedr.mts, however, though j"'"T, are
proud, and cannot accept charity even f'"-m
a millionaire. So they at once wrote to
Vanderbilt that they must decline bis g.-ti
emus offer, except .so nun h of it as relates
r, except so nun h of it as relates
st to Mrs. Grant In regard to art!
to the government of the 1' rated
Cen. Grant's death, in hh h. the
to the trus
cles to go
states on en
(ieneral s.-iys, Mr. Vanderbilt had only an
ticipated the disjxisitioii he ilieu tirant;
himself bad contemplated making of the
.vtides. amleroiH, however, was tena
cious in his fo-nerous j.urj-o-e, and write
back tJ the Grants that, duly appreciating
their scrujiles in taking back the tin rt
gages, he would liiniself sell the pr-aji'-rty
they cover and Invest the proceeds in a
permanent fund, the interest upon which
should be annually paid to Mrs. Grant dur
ing her life, with power to make whatever
disposition she pleased of it in her will
Hut the Grants are stubborn, and ngiin
Mr. Vatulerbilt's generous purpose, r,.
which he had given so much thought ami
upon which he had apparently set his
heait, is respectfully declined -T'pon
mature rellection," says Mrs. Grant's hst
note in the correspondence, "I cannot, I J
will not, accept your munificence in ,ry
form."
line ttie action ot tno t.rants in the ,
c i.se, ou w liose part such scrupulousness in
re.nrd to receiving git"!?, in view of their jfr increased w,ies wer not at once ac
pat record in that respect, cau hardly have (:ed,M to, they u-ut proceeded to ".sm.-wh
failed to fill Vanderbilt with profound sur I, niims" They broke up plow,, tut the
nrli tr ntii. l..,.vt ",n r.i,.,l lil p.-.rfrt-
poncb-nce withtiiem on the subject without
heartfelt respect for Mr. Vanderbilt'. mag
riaiiimous regard of the .situation and sensi
tiveness of those whom he would relieve
by a noble generosity.
A ROW AMONG THE DYNAMITERS
There wns a very exciting scene in aud
around around O'Donovan Rossa's office at
12 Chambers street, N'ew York City, last
.Saturday, In connection with an apparent
attempt on tlie part of one noted Fenian,
or dynamiter, to wreak vengeance on an
other for " peaching," or betraying the
secrets of the order. For years past Capt.
Thomaa P. Phelan, whose present home is
at Kausjis City, Mo., had been recognized
as among tlie most active and trusted of
tlie dynamite corps of the " Irish patriots."
He wis one ot the originators of the .skir
mish fund and was for a long time suspect
ed of being the famous "number one"
mentioned by the informer Carey in his
evidence in reference to the Pho-nix Park
assassination. He has been a Nationalist
all bis life and has always been mixed up
prominently with all kinds of Irish revolu
tionary movements
A couple of weeks ago, to tie- astonish
ment of the O'Uojs-sa "patriots" in New
York, an interview appeared iu the K:in
9 is City Jvhnml between a rejs.rter of that
paper and Capt. Phelan in which the lat
ter "gave away " the secret- of a number
of the most noted and misi hi- us move
ments and escapades of the dynamiters..
For instance, he irave an account . f the at
t-mpt to blow up the steaiue' tueeu at
l.iverpocl dock a year ago, am! also tlie at
tempt to blow up the Caledonian railway
station at Glasgow, and mentioned the
names of the men engaged til these and
other like schemes. The rev.-iations were
such as n. doubt, put in danger a number
of the followers of O'Donovan Ilossa and
were calculated greatly to interfere with
their plnttings for the future.
Such manifest treachc rv on the part of a
sworn memlier and leader of the order
could not be pas.sed over When the Kan
sci.s City psper containing the interview
rcachtfd New York, Capt Phelan w.is at
once summoned, by on official of the order
named Kearney, to appear at Lis oilice in
New York, and Phelan dared not disobey j ,)Ut it is n,Vert3ie?Ics.- a f tct that he has
the order He arrived in New York on !Pn , this week .a great many Ottawa girls
Saturday, and calling on Kearney at his Lutt,,r ridin without a masculine arm to
office was at once taken by him to th of prl)H-t them. This is exactly as it should
th e of O'Donovan lev-sa Th.-re he waslno, w Flr vo,ln? m,,n aru puis to pair
htrdly seated when he was savagely at-j0jj aud go iu separate cutters is like the
tacked with an ugly knife by a man named L1-V (t- n-1lniot wjtj, Hamiet left out.
Kich.ard Short, w ho dealt him ro less than j 1;,ys 0 t), thU matter and don't let the
nine ghastly wounds. an,l iu retun receiveii ; , out a(,.p su.j vou mHV yet call
one pistol shot from Phelan iu the thigh. 1 jwn upiin r,ur devoted heads the benedle
Supiiosiiig he had killed his man Miort!ti,ins 0, i1(Mvvri for t1(, suggestion,
made off, but was .sow, afterwards arrested'
andtj.ken to th- bout, while Phelan j',,,.,,, v-ter IVrbus. on his return from
was came mt;,M iiamr-.-rs treet Mospt
cai
There seeius to be no room to doubt that
murdered f-.r his a!b-e,l 1-etrayal of Uie
secrets of bis order, though O'Donov.Hn
H.issa stoutly denies all knowlele of his
...
having been summoned there for that or
any other purpose. Phelan. however.
though badly is riot fatally wounded, and
I" .
will recover, when he nro-nU... to mit- it
hot for his would lie munleretss.
TlIK l)KATIt ok Myka Clakk Oaines Is
announced. She. had beeoniB famous In
connection with the great lawsuit she hud
b s-n prosecuting for over thirty yean, as
widow of Gen. (l.unes, to establish her title
to a large portion of the 1 md ii,n wliich
the i - it v of New Orleans Is built She is
said to have spent two millions in the lit x -m'ii
n, ! oli the property In dispute in
worth not less than t- n millii ns And the
poor woman dies wlo-n she t- -if-p aretit'y on
the ove of a( blevlng the gre.t triumph to
whioh ?be bad devot'-d her life's be-t eivr
gies, a. liu-il a. t;i -n n her ca-e was to have
been bad in tin- I'. S Supreme Court at the
next session, and from farmer d-. isions hy
that tribunal there was s arcely a doubt but
she would secure a favorable Verdict The
l as.! w il! now be pu-l.ed by
her t!
,t-
Mrs Cb.ri.-!n. is.w'.i,-"- l.obuad killed Mr
Giines's only son ;r a quarrel at Washing
ton a few years iigo The tci.-rd of the
Case, w hich fo!'!1
tilt-
largest bc-ok eve:
fered iu the Supreme Court, is mere in
weight than the 'st-i'in:-'-t man can lift, aud
the object of a good d"'i!.of curi'issty
Tin. Ku ;st Stkamudat.
New Jersey) Tin- v has 1 t -oiv.;
the archives of 'Jiat sf;
-1 iie Trent.
-n delving a:u
.! iu the inter.
;'s up the i.M't
e-t of historic
truth and di
tl. it lioher! 1-V:!' n Was not the inventor
of the steam! at, an 1 that the rirt st,...u.
ii iiit was launched on the Delawve river,
n-ar 1 ronton, in 1 7-7, twenty ye.irs ;.et-.-re
KoU-rt Fult-n's Earner Cl-rmont appcr
e J on the Huds.,u, whi- h w in 17 John
Fitch the inventor and ran thesVuim
Ixiiit The N'ew J.-r.s.-y legislature, on
March 'i, 17o, reiadved a p.-ti'ioo pte"-nt.
e! bv Fitch s.-'.;ii;4 forth his in .eutioti aid
asAing tor a t ;ii
grant hint em our
lilt -e to mvo.
iiT'-menr An
'.iea!' &nd
act in ic
, cord nice with the petition ww psed
J tew days later, twenty one yea:s before
I Fulton's boat was launched Fitch then
organised his company and coa-truoted his
steam V-o.t! It 'cade four miles au hour.
The legMatur-1 then gave him the sole
right of s'oa:!i navigation, and when Fit 2i
died in Kentucky in 1 7!S, the Jersey tegis.
In -ire asstgne-l his right to his heir
La mo: Kior. -Ou Tuesxlay about COO
hands (chiefly Poles-) employed in the
grinding nxmi of the Oliver Chilled Pl-
works a! South IJend, Ind , bivomlng dis
)kti,tied w ith a reduction of XVi per cent
iu tlltir w,,.,, oj.jvd worn, "and then
1 arming thcni.selvt
with clubs, sticks, &c
jiromded t.) the other numsaudcompee
men to quit worn
As their demmJ
lire hose, broke windows, deMrojed mold-
ing llasks, &e., until finally a company of
the 0 A. R Was t illed out and restored
order. The strikers remain threatening,
say they evpect help from Chicago, Ac.
and that the end is tot yet
Tin; C'vki.onk Fikm for a to alrea
dy broke loose. He parsed a!ut fifteen
miles north of Montgomery, Ala , on Mon
pay, leaving a clean track through the tira
ber half a mile w ide and not less than sixty
in length. Many hcuas barns, Ac, were
demolished m his course, though a-s tar on
heard troto but three lives wf.r b-st
The Oossiper.
A (Loins y.-ur.ic lady r.imol llu-sct,
Thought she'll give rohcr sfcstlnc a "tu.ssei "
Hi r . skates proved erratic,
Ikr full was t-uipiiala',
And her life was svetl l-y her hustle.
Tlie best and newsietd number of tiie
La-Salle Time siiitv its pubiii'ation waa that
of last week It would be a w.iirce of sat
isfaction to it- readers, no doubt, w re the
editor t "rest" from his arduous duties
; every alternate week Yet he says loafing
! does not agree with him
I
A number of the members of the r.itid
jury express themselves in favcr of its -ilx-lition
It would be a g'e.it saving of mon
ey to tax payers The grand jury system
is the hist surviving relic of the Spanish
inquisition and its aWdishmen is, appa
rent! , only : qmisttcn of time
Glieddick, ot the ,?; Vv.-., wants to
form a new county out of the western tier
of townships of this county and tiie east
ern tier of townships of P.ureau county'
with La Salle as tlie capita! There is only
one little obstacle in the way of thi.s trans
parent -vhenu-. It would require the con
sent of a majority of tiie people of both
counties, and when that i given, well, the
" Imperial City " will have forgotten that
you ever existed and the fame of your
great deeds will have sunk into oblivion,
so thev will
Whether it is from lack of proper ap
preclusion, or a climatic characteristic, de
! rollout is uot sufficiently informed to aver,
V:w.i-in-tn. was interviewed in this city
yesterday in regard to his resignation as
jvostinaster at I..t Salle, and gave his rea
sons for resj.'T.inii He said 'hat since the
ro,ju(.,ilM1 of ,h(. ;.,j,Hrv f that office he has
L. ,,i.t i:,i tier vivi r w hile before thai
' ' ' '
it was worth t him $2,700. He says there
is r.o foundation for the reports that are
Honing nrund He has simply resigned,
. , v :.:..
Hie. allse ne no .on-er w iniMDf l-'t'"".
Itliathe recominendtsl Daniel Leahy a a
suitable person to succeed him. That was
all there was In the move, so he wid.
We hope that none of our readers w ill
be taken down w ith that style of paralysis
which afflicts some of the subscribers to
the iJi.xou Sun, which has. the following:
"A curious tiling happened to John Waltz,
of Spring Hill, Whiteside comity, the other
day He was attacked by paralysis while
in his store. In a few days he recovered
sufficiently to walk about town. Previous
to the strnke lie had hidtien a large roll of
bank bills. ;nee his misfortune he has
utterly torg-.ttten wl.ete he put the bills,
and a in. st thorough search by ethers has
r.'.-t b"en able to find them I: is quite evi
deut to us now that a number of our sub
scribers who promised to remit have this
form ct paialysis which enables them not
to kn-nv where their money is
ll-.iiiu ' O ibi'-n's residence at IVoin he
was not addicted to the use of liquor He
C" -ntrai'ted consumption from his first wife
an i was a lvi-.j hy his physician to resort
to the iiiu-b rati' Use of stimulaLts and this,
t.-e.-thei wph his family troubles, later on
caused the habit to grow upon him. While
in Peoria, a woman mimed Mrs.' IJobim,
wlns,. hu?band had deserted her, con
c-ived a deep regard for the great lawyer
j It was prim i ally to rid himself of her that
r"m'A"1 to S. but the woman
, " - "-...,
' J? s foot-tepa almost con
' lulm'h' him tUR1 to drink
UrdM- lo thl hKi "& t
woman m:uv ot Lis misfortunes may hi
tijc-j A Lcti'lem.iH wh) had been a
neihfs.r of his for year-, related un Fhkk
Tuadki; scribe tlie following incident:
O'l'rien, in h is younger days, was a very
p.werful :.!id athel. tic man lie was an
a-le; t iu the science cf the " t: j.dy art of
self defeue," and wa.s as ready V Use his
fists f. clinch an argument, as his brilliant
invec'ive. It was during the war and the
two wen- on their way home to dinner
when they were joined by a man named
Snyder The I'ni-iri army had, the day be
fore, met with a seveie defeat and O'P.rien
wa.s expressing him -self in teruis of regret
This Snyder was a blacksmith, a man of
herculean physique and a locul bully, lie
told O'P.rien that it was all very well for
him to express himself in that manner, but
he knew that O'llrien and such ad he
gloried in their heartd at every battle lost by
the boys in blue. The Lawyer acked the
Peoria blacksmith if he meant what he
had s.,ted, the reply being that be meant
every word of it and more too. O'llrien
turtle.! and toufremted bun and quick as
thought struck the bully between the eyes
fellim; him to the ground. And there, on
one of the most public streets, at noon
day, he give the fellow .-uch a pounding
that he begged for mercy arid apologised
fwr wind he sid O'Brien was of a very
generous disposition and his pxket was
always at tlie corumaad of poverty. He
ha.s been frequently seen to empty his
pur-e at the solicitation of some poor per
son a.sking for charity. It Is thought that
the master-piece of his life wa.s his speech
at the wigwam in Peoria during the cam
pciigii. He spoke there for three hours and
a half on the question of tiriff, and the vast
audience, hundreds of them Republicans,
were held spellbound by his mstchlevs el
oquence
l'he New Man on Hi Koumls.
Karly last Monday, a timid, bashful indi
vidual, aimed with a lead encll over his
left ear, might have been seen going east
on Madison street with an inquisitive ex
pression outlined on his physiogomy He
was the new man on the Fkrk Tiiadkk
an I he had just started out on the road
that would, he hoped, eventually land him
high and dry on the bloated bondholder's
terra firmn. though his exchequer, on thut
particular cold, frosty morning, was about
as near nothing as the thermometer. With
genius and a good appetite to back him he
felt assured of success and he planted his
big boots on the icy pavement w ith a firm
er tread as he thought that after many
years of waiting lie w as, at last, to get the
bulge on fate, standing pat on a royal flush.
He was among a strange people. In a
strauie land and in the faces that peered
blankly into his. as they passed, there was
r.o friendly recognition, and not one of
tliem stopped to sh:.ke him by the hand or
preseut him a bill He was in the verita
ble Fl Dorado of the county to all appear
ances, and in the proud con-ru u-suoss .of
thi.s fact he gave his suspenders an extra
hitch to gird himself for the responsibili
ties of his position. Towards the heel of
the evening he had, by actual count, sul
jected LI7 persons to fiydraulie pressure by
the interviewing pmcess and had only un
earthed seven sickly looking items, and had
been mistaken for Jim Cross by thirteen of
the natives, two of them the oldest citizens.
TLiswas slightly discouraging and he went
into the synagogue of a certain red haired
man whose surname is Mitch and who wor
ships at the shrine of a wooden deity. On
learning that the new man had mingled
much with the people of the tw in cities on
the western edge of the county, the afore
said Mitch inquired if the N. N. was of
Polish or German extraction aud could he
converse in his native tongue. Here again
was his identity mistaken, but later on, as
he was pushing his way northward, he was
consoled by hearing a Columbus street
belle, as she parsed him, ask her compan
ion- " Who is that distinguished looking
gentleman, w ith the tout t.nvntbU a It milt
tiiire Her comrade repneti mat sue
thought he was a sucker of the tirst water,
and after catching this somewhat unparlia
mentary language, the new man softly
quoted for his own benefit the words: "All
Is- not gold that gutters," and he kept on
The animal who has been deprived of
lacteal nourishment before his time is
obliged to learn how to root at an early age,
and this strengthens his staying quulltlot
In tlie four-round contests of life and he is
not so easily knocked out by the John-L.Sullivan
encounters one meets occasionally.
This Idea grew upon the new man and as,
it applied to his case, he braced himself
anew and his timidity and bashfulness be
gan to disappear, and the adipose tin8ue on
his cheek to harden and enlarge, but still
the tirgiii whiteness of his note book had
not' been made to bloom and bring forth
the local item ; not much so to speak. Just
then an urchin, too precocious for hisyears,
shouted "rats" from his youthful aesoph
Hgus and the melilluous sound wasburne
to the reporter's cars and he turned into an
alley way. It was an eventful day in the
new man's career and be was footsore and
weary and as much out of sorts as a young
maiden hugging the phantom of a departed
first love to her youthful bosom. Aud then
came night. It usually comes if you wait
for it, and if you don't it will como any
way. That night the new man rolled over
and dreamed that he had been permitted
to view the glorious beauty of the world
beyond this, where there was no sorrow,
misery or pain, and "interviewing" was
unkm w n. The birds sang sweetest music,
on the trees were the richest mid rarest of
fruits, the grass was like velvet silvered
with costly gems, the streams murmured a
soft, low melody as they gently rippled by,
there was no foreman with vigorous lun-T
power shouting for " copy," no office devil
to swear at, no vanity and vexation of spirit,
but over all there was the blissful sweet
uessof rest and joy, peace and sunshine,
with naught to disturb the quiet, holy calm
of tlie scene but tlie rustle of the angels
pinions us they floated by on wings of gold.
This was the reporters' paradise, he was
told, a jKirtion of the celestial kingdom set
apart for their especial use when life's
campaign was ended and their " forms "
hud become decrepit, kntick kneed, wind
broken and their credit so Unpaired that
they could not borrow a dime of their best
friend. All this while he seemed to hear
the sweetest music. And then came tlie
awakening as daylight ushered in the birth
of a new day "and the voice in his dream
ing ear melted away " and the music was
traced to At wood, his room-mate, who had
been snorieg in the clef of G. And the
vision vanished.
Washington .Letter.
i;.-ular Corrc-HponUcnoP.
Washington, Jan. 13, 188-5.
The monotony of the week that has
passed was broken by the celebration of
the battle of New Orleans " Jackson's
day," as it is called. The election of Jack
sou marked the overthrow of a corrupt
party despotism, and it was fitting that the
names of Jackson and Cleveland should be
associated iu celebrating the victory of
New Orleans when the country Is rejoicing
in the overthrow , through Cleveland, of th
gigantic and desjxjtic oligarchy of office
stealers and holders known as the republi
can party. The celebration here wus dem
ocratic, eloquent and successful.
Another event was the advent and depar
ture, all In forty eight hours, of Col. La-
mont, the private secretary of the president
elec t. Col. Lamont came to look for a
home and to scau the field of his future
labor. He had not been in tlie city before,
lie has a wife and children and must have
a house. He did not succeed in getting a
house, but will try again, after the 4th of
March, when a few hundred residences
will doubtless be vacated.
It Is difficult to believe that only si.x
weeks more remain of President Arthur
and a republican administration. Prepnra
tion is sleepless, and expectation is on tip
toe for the 4th of March. It is estimated
that there will be '2o0,000 visitors here at
the inauguration. I can not think that
there will be so many, but the number w ill
doubtless be large. As a usual thing the
interest of the country in Washington mat
ters ceases with tlie adjournment of con
gress, but this year it will grow with the
inauguration of a uew president, a new
jioliey, the appointment of a new cabinet,
and numerous other hanges in all the de
part ments of public service.
It is edifying to see the desperation with
which a large numlierof drones and sine
curists are trying to get themselves con
verted into real little civil service reformers
and democrats. Many of them are shuffling
over with an alacrity that is not graceful.
Congress is at work on the appropriation
bills. The navy bill has been passed by
the house, and the consular anil diplomatic
bill is under discussion. I heard a repub
lican statesman, so called, bewailing the
tact that the trained and improved consular
aud diplomatic personnel which, he said,
had been established in the last eight years
by Hearts and Frelinghuysen, must give
place to democratic bummers and ward
politicians. Well, it w ill be n pity if it is
o, but if this noxious class must have of
fices sill means let's send them to foreign
courts, where they will have nothing to do.
and will therefore be incapable of harm
Modern diplomacy is an anachronism and
a farce. There is not the slightest neces
sity for our sending representatives to for
eign governments, or for foreign govern
ments to send representatives here. We
have no foreign relations. Steam and elec
tricity and the press h ive made the em
bassadorial establishments of contiguous
states useless, then how utterly needless to
keep them up between our country and
trans Atlantic powers. It would be better
to recall our flimsy ships, cruising in for
eign seas, exposing our weakness, and
ei -ting millions annually. It would be
U tter to dismantle our diplomatic estab
.islimeuts in Luropean capitals. The press
with steam and the Atlantic cable will
furnish us prompter and mere accurate in
r.: itii n than an possibly lie obtained by
our bevy representative abroad. We will
know state sec rets as soou as they are
known by kings and their minister, for