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My mm VOL. XXI. BOLIVAR, TENNESSEE, FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1886. NO. 41. v rOPICS OF THE DAY. ricvva from Everywhere PERSONAL AND POI.ITICAI Thk President and his bride are enjoy ag themselves quietly at Deer Park. The wspaper corresponden ts hare taken pos ession of the ladies' waiting-room at the tation, but And little to draw from except heir Imaginations. The stay of the bride .nd groom may extend throughout anoth r week. Os the evening: of the 3d, Goverror Pat Ison of Pennsylvania gave a Btate din ler to the Supreme Court of the State, kmong those present besides the justices f the Supreme Court, were Speaker Car isle and General Simon Cameron. On the 8d General Anson G. McCook was tiarried at the residence of his brother, Jeneral JohnQ. McCook, In New York. The bride was Miss Kittie McCook, of IteubenTille, O., a distant relative of the rroom. One of the President's last official acts revious to bis marriage was the pardon -ng of B. F. Bigelow, the defaulting teller if the National 'Dank of the Republic of Washington. Three years ago Mr. Bige ow was sentenced to five years' imprison nent. Dckk Karl" of Bavaria, famous shroughout Germany as an oculist, has ecently been ministering to the poor of rteran, steadfastly refusing to receive pay !or his services, and, as a rule, confining lis practice to those who are unable to ay. He departed on the 3d, and was followed to the railway station by crowds. Vlany people knelt in the streets and of 'ered prayers in his behalf. Govkbnor Bate of Tennessee commuted to life imprisonment the sentence of Allen Herbert, who was to have been hung at Nashville on the 4th. The Maxwell murder case in St. Louis was given the jury at 10 p. m. on the 4th, nd up to midnight, when they were locked up for the night, had not agreed on 1 verdict, though how they stood it was impossible to ascertain. William Emmett, the well-known the atrical manager, died at Chicago on the Ith. Frederick Nocrse, treasurer of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company, who has been missing several months, has turned up all right. The Pall Mall Gazette says of Blaine's correction of his recent speech, that it is quite in accordance with his character to hurl insults and then retract them. Ex-President Arthur sent congratu lations to President Cleveland on bis mar riage, and received a lox from the White House containing wedding cake on the 1th. Secretary Bayard, on the 4th, received a telegram from Consul-Genernl Thelan at llaliiav, as follows: "American mer chant vessels can purchase fresh fish of all kinds." Secretary Mannino has tendered his resignation, but at the urgent request of the President has accepted a leave of ab sence until October, his resignation mean time not being acted upon. A coroner's jury In New York, on the ith, rendered a verdict to the effect that Frank R. Reed, of Minneapolis, the Yale College divinity student whose body was recently found floating in Gouveneur Slip, came to his death from a pistol-shot wound caused by some unknown person. Ahorse became frightened at a loco motive near Frnnkfort, Ky., on the 4th, and dragged Mrs. Win. Hammond, who was trying to hold him, down an embank ment into the Kentucky river. Edward Grant, of Frankfort, jumped from the en gine and succeeded in swimming out with the lady, who it is feared is fatally in jured. John Kelly was buried from St. Fa-t rick's Cathedral, New York on the 6th. General Samuel I). Sturois, of the United States army, goes on the retired list on J uue 11. On Whitsunday the Tope will confer on Queen Christina of Spain the decoration of the Golden Rpse. Fieiden, Fisher, Engel, Lingg, Spies and Schwab, of the Chicago anarchists, were arraigned in court on the 6th and pleaded not guilty to the charge of mur der. Hon. Dohman B. Eaton has written nn open letter to Samuel J. Randall on the Civil-Service rule--. The London Xrica says Mr. Blaine be longs to a far from admirable class of American cil izms, an I that his advice is not required in the management of En gland's affairs. Fourteen reporters are shadowing the President and bride at Deer Park. The indications are that Congress will adjourn about the second Monday in July. Mr. Chamberlain, in an interview on the 5th, said that the defeat of the Home Rule bill in tho House of Commons is cer tain. Rev. Henry Ward Bkechkr's sermon on the 5th was on the street car strike and the tyranny of lat or unions. Rev. T. DeWitt Talmaok preached on the (ith on the wrongs inflicted on society by monopoly and labor organizations. President Cleveland anl bride at tnded church on the morning of the Gth, and spent the afternoon gathering wild flowers. It is reported that Representative W. L. Scott, of Pennsylvania, has been of fered the secretaryship of the Treasury, and that be has the matter under consid eration. Mr. Morrison intends to call up the TarilT bill in the House shortly, but the motion will probably fail, as the Randall Democrats .and th Republicans have de cided to vote against consideration. Jcdok Hallett announced in court at Denver, Col., on the 5th, that unless an appropriation was soon made he would dischargo United States Courts' juries, as tho funds are exhausted. Samcel Wallace, cashier of the Ex rhange Bank of Spencer, Ind., is short in his account with the hank about six thou sand dollars. Complaint against him and his bondsmen for that amount has been filed by the lank in the Owen Circuit Court. -Mr. ArnrsTiN Daly's American dram atic company has achieved a most pro nounced success in London, securing the attention of fashionable society most thoroughly. Peorle have been turned away every nt.uht since the opening, and the principal actors ore overwhelmed with social courtesies. CRIMES AXU CASCAL.TIES, On the 2d the children of a Springfield (Mass.) widow named Richards, attempted to light the lire with kerosene. The can exploded, firing their clothes. A son and daughter, a ;ed respectively niue and ten years, were burned to death. OxtbeSJ Henry Durham, aged eigh teen, fatally shot Mrs. Waite near Owego, N. Y., and then killed himself. On the 3d the store of Joseph Salliotte, at Eoorse, near Detroit, Mich., V as wrecked by an explosion, and several persons were seriously injured. On the ni ht of the 2d the business por tion of the iliiiv e of Salem, la., was burned. The estimated los was iWtyW, with $u;,oo. Insurance. Ernest S. Bennett, who, lor a dozen years previous to 1884 was the trusted bookkeeper of Wads worth & Co., of Daven port, la., was sentenced on the 3d to two years and five months in the Anamosa penitentiary for forgery. On the 2d Frederick Reader, agei sixty five years, the Schenectady (N. Y.) agent of a Chicago dressed beef dealer, took strychnine enough to kill ten men. He suffered great agony for several hours, when he shot himself in the breast. He can not recover. On the 2d a Baltimore & Ohio local freight engine, wnile standing on the track In the yard at Bellaire, O., exploded the boiler with terrific force, killing En gineer Johnston, Fireman John Vander voort and Matt Hammond, another en gineer, all of Newark.O. Two of the bodies were -blown a distance of one hundred yards. Wes Honesty and Tabley Banks were hanged at Winchester, Va., and Jim Bax ter at Lebanon, Tenn., on the 4th. M. H. Hancock has been arrested at Austin, Tex., charged with the murder of his wife on Christmas eve last. A robbery of $10,000 has been worked on the United States Express Company between Van Wert and Cincinnati, O. Advices from the City of Mexico say: In a raid of Apaches near Magdalena ten persons have been killed, one of whom is George Sheppard, an American. Mrs. S. J. Johnson suicided at Cedar Rapids, la., on the night of the 3d by drowning. Her husband was foreman of the Gazette office. Domestic difficulty is assigned as the cause. Soon after the dinner hour on the 4th, John O'Brien, a three-year convict in the Joliet (111.) penitentiary from Decatur, made an attack upon Asa R. Parks, an other convict, with an iron shovel, killing him. No known cause for the affray. Fred Balcom, of Binghampton, N. Y., was arrested by Federal authorities at In dianapolis, Ind., on the 4th, for receiving a letter under an assumed name in answer to an advertisement for a young lady sec retary to an ice company forming at Den ver, Col. A deposit of ten dollars was demanded of applicants. News was received on the 4th of the destruction by fire of the Shell Lake Lum ber Company's mill at Shell Lake, Wis., involving a loss of about fifty thousand dollars. Insurance small. Two hundred men are thrown out of employment. A verdict of guilty was rendered by the jury in the Maxwell case at St. Louis on the 5th. Orangemen on the 6th attacked the fu neral procession of young Curran,who was drowned at Belfast during the recent Orange-Catholic riot, and a general fight en sued, in which one man was stabbed and several others were badly cut. John Hitz, late president, and Charles E. Prentiss, late cashier of the German American National Bank of Washington, convicted of making false entries in the books of the bank, wore sentenced on the 6th to five years' imprisonment each. Fire destroyed the works of the Penn sylvania Bolt and Nut Company at Lebanon, Pa., on the 6th. The ship Chioua, Iving at the foot of Kent street, Green Point, L. I., loaded with 60,000 cases of kerosene oil, took fire on the night of the6th. She was towed into the stream and proved a total loss, esti mated at about one hundred and sixty thousand dollars. MISCELLANEOUS. Two Canadian cruisers have been sent to Newfoundland to watch American fish ermen, and see that the poor natives do not acquire any Yankee lucro by selling bait or supplies. Yellow fever is said to be epidemic on the Isthmus of Panama. The Ottawa (Ont.) Free Press claims to have been informed by the Master of an Orange lodge in the Western Ontario dis trict that over thirty thousand stand of fire-arms have been sent to Ulster by anti-Homo-Rule sympathizers. An address expressing confidence in Gladstone's Irisl policy has been signed by one hundred non-conformist ministers of Derby and Nottingham. A St. Louis correspondent of the Lon don Times says the statement that twenty or even ten million Americans are ready to back the Irish in the Home-Rule fight is a slander upon the American people. Halifax (N. S.) advices of the 3d stated that forty thousand British trcops had been ordered to rendezvous there. Why they are no 'del there is unknown. Dublin police suprised two parties of unarmed Orangemen which were drilling near Armagh and Portadown on the 3d. The Orangemen made no attempt to con ceal their actions, which they believed to be lawful. The police took the names of all who were engaged in drilling. A number of ladies have been arrested at Laconia, N. H., charged with stealing Memorial Day oHerings-from the Union cemetery. Other arrests will follow. The strike of the journeymen bakers at Buffalo, N. Y., still continues, but fears of a famine have been dispelled by the action of the bosses, who have united and are baking bread in one or two of the largest bakeries. Two thousand women ami children oc cupied the Rock Island tracks at Cum mins' nail mill, near Chicago, on the 4th, and refused to get out of the way of the engine, thus preventing the moving of cars loaded by non-union men. The International Copyright bill was read n third time in the British House of Commons on the 4th. AT the meeting of the Nationol Stove makers' Association at Cleveland, O., on the 4th, the prices of stoves wore advanc ed feven and a half per cetit. When the convention adjourned the members were immediately called to order and formed th-) Stove Founders' National Defense As sociation. At Venice on the 4th, there were re ported twenty-two new crises of cholera and twenty-one deaths. Two cases were reported at Florence. Resolutions favoring homo rule for Scotland were adopted by the Highland Reform League at Glasgow on the 4th. The business failures occurring through out the country during the seven days ended the 4th, numbered for the United States 100 and for Canada 2!, or a total of 1K, as compared with a total of 1S1 the preceding like period. More than one-half of the casualties are reporte I from the Western and Pacific States. The attorneys in the Fan-Electric case ot Columbus, O., have decided to ask Ju.lge Jacksnn to hear their case this term, and have sent for Joseph E. McDon ald and other counsel. The court will in sist on the case coming up in the regular order. The total imports of dry goods at New York during the past week were valued at $l,2S7,0o4. and the amount thrown on the market at $l,2:,&4i The Secretary of the Navy says that the vessels of the North Atlantic squadron have be?n undrorde:s for several days to prepare for sea. They will go easterly as usual, and report for rders at Portland, Me. They will visit the fisheries under instructions from the Department, and it is hoped w ill help to allay, rather than in crease, the existing antagonisms. Statistic show an increase of exports of textile fabrics, hardware and ma chinery from Utrmaay. ITew York, Brooklyn and Jersey"City street cars were tied up again on the 5th. The Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers held their annual re union at Beaver, Pa., on the 5th. The London Standard, while hoping that the fishery dispute will be amicably settled, says England is bound to show firmness in supporting the rights of the Canadians. The first consular dinner ever hjeld in London was given at the St. George Club on the night of the 5th. The chairman of the committee of the French Chamber of Deputies on the ex pulsion of the Princes is opposed to their expulsion. A number of political meetings were held throughout London on the 6th, and the result shows that there is little hope that the Home-Rule bill will pass. The total imports of merchandise at the port of New York during the week ended the 5th were valued at $.",1"G,115. The House of Commons, in committee, on the 6th, agreed, by a vote of 115 to 100, to an amendment of the Sunday-Sale-of-Liquors bill providing for the closing of public houses on Sunday throughout En gland except in London and its suburbs. CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. In the Senate on the 1st a bill was Intro duced prohibiting Congressmen acting as attorneys for railroads. The bill extending the Elght-llonr law to letter-can iers was passed, and the bill forfeiting lands granted the Northern l'acitle radroad was taken up. After some debate this measure was crowd ed aside by the Bankruptcy bill, but w ithout much progress being made It went over. The bill iorljiding aliens acquiring title to land passed; also the supplemental Chinese Immigration bill. The Chinese Indemnity hill then came up, but without action the Senate adjourned In the House, among the bills reported from committees and placed on calendar was one perfecting the land grant ol the New Orleans, Jiaton Houge Jb Yieksburg Kailroad. -The Oleomargarine bill was then taken up in committee of the whole. Alter the rejection ot a number ot amendments, and much talk, the House ad journed. In the Senate on the 2d, after some mlnoi routine business, the Northern Pacific Land Forfeiture bill was taken up, but was In formally laid aside to allow Mr. Brown to make a speech on the Bankruptcy bill. Tne Forfeiture bill was auain taken up and debated until two o'clock, when tiie bill taxing rhilroad lands crowded it aside. After some debate the Senate ad journed In the House the District Ap propriation bill was repotted and a new conference committee was nppointed. The Oleomargarine bill was taken up in commit tee of the whole and discussed during the rest of the' day. It was then reDorted to the House. In the Senate on the 3d several presdential messages vetoing private pension bills were laid before the Senate.- A petition from Gloucester, Mass., urging retaliation on Canada was presented and referred after some debate. The Northern l'acitle f orfeiture- bill was postponed, and the Chinese Indemnity bill was taken up. After some argument this measure was laid a- de und the bill taxing railroad land grants was taken up and alter considerable dei'mte was passed. To avoid delay the House billon same subject was called up, and the senate bill made an amendment to it. Then a con ference committee wa-i appointed. This avoids sending the Senate bill to the II use as an original proposition. A conference re- fort on the Post-office bill was reeoivd and aid over. The Chinese Indemnity bill was again called up and debated during the re mainder of tiie session In the House, after some routine matter and re ports had been disposed of, consideration of the Oleomargarine bill was resumed, Mr. Hatch taking the lioor. After the ndoption of some amendments and rejection of others the bill passed, fixing the tax at live cents a pound. In the (senate on the 4th the Chinese In demnity bill was taken up.Dut was laid aside to allow the Diplomatic an 1 Consular bill to be discussed. At two o'clock; this matter went over and the Indemnity bill again cauie up, and, a:ter debate, pissed. Then the Consular an 1 Diplo matic bill was taken up and disc-ussed unt I adjournment... ...1m the House a communi cation from the Secretary of War recom mend ng the expenditure of $u,uoj on big guns was laid belore the House. The civil -service committee report recom mending the dismissal of Assistant Door keeper Wade was debated, resulting in the adoption of a resolution condemning his conduct, but not distn ssing him. Tne Legis lative, Kxecutive and Judicial Appropriation bill was taken up and debated the remainder of the day'ssesMon Is the Senate on the 5th a resolution wns adopted, after some debate, calling on the Secretary of the Interior for Information as to the authority for the Issuance of the recent order of the Commissioner of the tieneral Land Olllce suspending the receipt of applications for publio lands under the pre-emption, timber-culture anil desert-land acts. The Oleomar garine bill was received from the House and was laid upon the table. After the passage of 220 piivate bills the Senate adjourned .. . In the House the Senate bill for the erection of a public build ing at .anesvilie,0.,and was passed, the ap propriation being reduced to $10 i,00u; also, tenate bill appropriating $100,000 for a publics building at Sioux City, la. The House then considered the Pacific Kailroad Kxtensiou bill, but without reaching a vote the House adjourned. CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. Datton and Arthur Williams, the first cenvicted of murder aad the other of rape, from which the victim (Med, were hanged at Orlando, Pla., on the 5th. The total imports of merchandise at the port of New York during the week ending on the 5th were valued at l5,138,115. The public debt ws reduced during the mouth of May by $8,KS,S6.9I, and it now foots up a total, ls the cash in the treas ury, of $1,01S,19.-,2S0.74. Archibald Strauss was shot dead by Mrs. Stephenson, at Litchfield, 111., on the Bth. Secretary Manning is at Hot Springs, Ark., seeking health. Charbonk prevails to an alarming ex tent among the mules in some portions of Arkansas. The works of the Pennsylvania Bolt and Nut Company, the large of their kind in the country, were destroyed by fire on the nth. The loss is about $150,000. At tke meeting of the National Stove Makers' Association on the 4th the price of stoves were advanced 7X per cent. Jt-SHPH HtJNOLT, the wealthiest stock aiser in Shelby county, Mo., was murder ed on tiie 4th. His body was found with two great gashes in the throat and three pistol shot wounds in the side. IV if. E. Marshall's famous colossal portrait head of the Christ was seriously damaged by f moke and water at a fire in New York on the 5th. It was valued at f-JO.000. The Pope, on Whit Sunday, will confer on Queen Christina of Spain the decoration of the Golden Rose. The statistics of Germany show an in crease in exports of textile fabrics, hard ware aud machinery. John Hitz, late president, and Charles E. Prentiss, late cashier of the German American Hank of Washington, were on the 5th sentenced to five years' imprison ment each. M. Maret, Sr., has been elected chair man of the committee of the French cham ber of deputies to consider the expulsion of the princes. He is opposed to expulsion tn any shape. In the Brit ish Parliament on the 7th the vote on the Home Rule Bill stoid 311 for and 341 against th measure. Th issue of standard silver dollars from the mints during tV.e week ending cn the 7th wa 446,055. Eight persons wer burned to death iu" Chicago on the 7th. All the railroads in Mississippi have re duced the passenger rates from 4 to 8 cents per mile, in accordance with instructions fiom the Stute Railroad Commission, to take etfect immediately. INDIAN MATTERS. Report of the Committee Investigating Af fairs In the Indian Territory. Washington, June J. The report of the Committee on Indian Affairs on Us In vestigation of the conditions of the Indians In the Indian Territory and other reserva tions was submitted to the Senate yester day. Touching the claims of the Creetcs and Seuiinoies in Oklahoma, and a pre tense of a right f entry iipcn these lands by bands of colonists, the committee unite in the conclusion that the United States have no right to dispose of the ownership of the soil in that ceded tract without further agreement with these tribes, ex cept for the purpose of settling friend ly Indians upon these lands, and the duty of preventing any intrusion upon those lands which is a distinct treaty obligation is only increased by the trust accepted to set tle friendly Indians there. Regarding the leases of lands for grazing purposes made by various tribes, the report says that the decision of the President that all such leases were of no effect in law, has left the subject to depend on a question of law rather than that ot fact as to which the committee is not required to express its views. The live civil ized tribes, the committee says, are conspicuously lri advance of all other North American Indians in every respect and the wild tribes can be brought up to the same standard by the influences of educa tion and civilization. The committee gives a brief sketch of the form o government of the various tribes from the Pottawato mies to the Cherokees, and of the latter, says it is modeled on the plan of the State governments and has developed into a high type of republican government, and that it is difficult, after a searching inves tigation, to point out any serious defects in the constitution or statutes. In some respects several of the State constitutions could be amended to advantage by append ing some of the provisions of the Cherokee constitution. "Four of these five commonwealths," the committee says, "are well prepared to take their places among the States of the Union. If they were all united under one constitution they could be admitted into the Union as a Stale without any danger of disturbing the harmony of the great sister hood of American States or of derogating from the honor or welfare of the Federal Government The time is near at hand when their interests and ours will require that this further step must be taken and our policy in dealing with this people should now be carefully adapted to this result They have advanced nearly as far as they can go without a helping hand from the United States. Their relations to the general Government should be such as to sustain and encourage their noble efforts to accomplish their great task. At present our plan of dealing with them, which was joper and useful while they were building np, is repressive and in jurious to them. We can not afford to check their progress or to permit our people to go in upon them and supplant them in the control of their own government The best interests of the five civilized tribes and the welfare of the United Slates require that they should bo brought directly within the just and pro tecting influences of the political and ju dicial powers of the United States as far as may be consistent with the welfare and right of local government guaranteed to them. Their governments should be recog nized as being in every way lawful as far as they do not violate the constitution of the United States and should continue un der their own control." WOMAN'S WAY. How the Wives of Strikers Prevented th Moving of Trains. Chicago, June 5. There was a report yesterday morning at Cummins that the Rock Island road would move four cars loaded with the nails made by tne new men at the Cummins nail works. As several of the strikers had been enjoined from inter fering in any way with the working of the mills, the removal of these cars was pre vented in a peculiar way. Ten o'clock was the hour when the engines were expected from South Chicago, and before that hour women and children to the number of 200. the wives and families of former employe's assembled with sticks in their hands around the terminus of the railroad tracks and op posite the entrance of the - nail . works. Female spies were sent down the track towards South Chicaso to apprise the party of the engines' approach. While ttrese were keeping guard a contin gent was dispatched to the residence of Tom Hetliel, a non-union man, who was moving to Coiehour for safety. Mrs. Bethel was alone, superintending the packing ot the household goods, when she was startled by the beating of tin pans and the wildest hoots and yells imnginab'e. Several win dows were broken by bowlders, and she was berated roundly by the women and children until the police dispersed tiie party. They returned to the depot, and at the same time one of the pickets came running breathless ly aiong the track, waving her shawl and shouting: "To the cars I" This was the sisrnal of the approach of the engine. Then there was a rush to where the loaded cars were standing. Mothers with infants in arms and dragging youngsters by the hand hurried a'ong. Ail ages were represented. The mothers grouped their little ones along the track some distance ahead of the first freight car and packed them according to age alone the rails, the youngest toward the approaching engines, the mothers and grown-up daughters taking position in the rear. The engine steamed up slowly a short distance, but, seeing the living obsta cle on the track, reversed and returned to South Chicago. Then the Amazons dis persed, and on their return jeered and abused the representatives of the company at the gate calling them the most oppro brious names. The infliction of violence was only prevented by the presence of the police. At two o'clock, when the engines appeared again, fully 2,000 women and children were thronging the tracks and apparently as determined as be fore to hold them. Captain Hunt with sixty policemen from Hyde Park had re ported in the meantime and attempted to clear the tracks, but could do it only with great difficulty. The women, feeling sure they would not be clubbed, refused to move, or moved very slowly w hen told to do so and closed up again on the tracks unless absolutely held back by the officers Late in tiie afternoon they were stdl thronging about the cars and the engines were unable to get by them withoutki!ling them. A Needless Killing. Fayftte, Mo., June 4. A young man named Chas. Watson, residing near Harris burg, Boone County, Mo., who had been at tending the meeting of the United Work men to-day was shot through the head and killed at one p. m. by Louis Manpin. who had been deputized by Marshal Crump to assist in the .arrest of Watson for disturbing the peace. W atson and other friends had mounted their horses and were leaving the town when Manpin reached Watson with a drawn pistol and command ed him to halt Watson spurred horse and attempted to pass when Munpin fired. Wat Son fell from his horse ami expired almost instantly. . An Informer's Ill-I.uck. Cairo, III., June 5. Harry Armstrong, Implicated in the latest frauds at Metropo lis, and who escaped from custody there a few days ago and was arrested at Dongola last night and passed through here to-day In charge of the sheriff of Massac Countyl cn route lo Metropolis it is said, ujon the assurance of officials at Metropolis that he would not he prosecuted if he turned State's evidence, he was induced to give the whole scheme away, which resulted in the arrest of the wtng-doers, and he re gards his arrest as an exhibition of bud faith. The prisoner says he feg'jp btire of acquittal. MANNING RESIGNS. The Secretary Tenders His Resignation, Kot the President Withholds the Accept ance. Washington, June 5. Secretary Man ning's letter of resignation, dated May 20, and the President's reply, under date of June 1, were made public yesterday after noon. The Secretary says his reasons for this decision are both public and personal the full recovery of his health, and it was not befitting that a department of govern ment so difficult and important as the treasury portfolio should be administered by a convalescent The President in reply earnestly requested the Secretary to accept a leave of absence until October next and asked that the final conclusion upon the ac ceptance of his resignation might be de tained until the effects of continued rest and freedom from official cares upon his condition might be tested. Mr. Manning's letter is as follows: Washington, May 30. My Dear Sir: I hava decided to place In your hands my lesijirna tion of the office which you did me the honor to ask me to accept fifteen months hko. My reasons for this decision are both public and personal. Since the partial recovery of my health has permitted me to reflect upon the demands of the public service to which I had given perhaps too freely all my strength, and upon the conditions of resuming my labors at your side, I have not for a moment ques t'oned what must be iny present Uutv. The full recovery of my health is pronounced to be an affair of weeks, and a longer period of rest, especially during' the hot months, is prescribed, or at least advieed as prudent regimen thereafter. Compliance with this advice would not be practicable were 1 to resume now the general direction of the Treasury Department, even if abating something of the energy which it seemed needful to expend in the first year of my work. Supervision-at a distance would be more a hindrance than a help to the act ing Secretary. But it is not berittingr that a department of the Government so difficult and so important should be administered by a convalescent, studious of parrying -its daily exactions, nor that the watchful con trol of its enormous influence orthedirection of its fiscal policles.'even under your wise leed. shcuid be attempted by any one con cerned about husbanding his strength. The reforms in our fiscal policy which you have maintained, and which have been framed and commended to the wisdom of the loiris lative branch, are reforms necessary to our safety, binding m honor, and obligatory in the traditions of the Democracy, set down with promises in our statute l ook. Our present tariff laws are n' needless oppression instead of an easy burdeu. Our currency is a chaos into which we pour from forced purchases of one of the precious metals, a mechanical increment under a coinage law so ill judged and untimely that it hinders the opening of our mints to the natural and unlimited co nage of both metals and the free expansion of our gold and s.lver coin alony with the jrrowinif needs of a mighty people. All our needful customs revenue mijrht be colleeted by strictly rev enue duties upon a few store articles instead of by extravagant or prohibitory duties upon more than four thousand articles. The mere machinery of administration by its own mass and complexity breaks down and crushes out the enterprise t nssuines to protect. A better currency than elsewhere ex:sts might be had br a few laws of repealing Rod em powering legislation followed by two or three years of capable administration of tho treas ury aryl joined with the present sagacious conduct of our foreign policy by the 'tate Department. Under the operation of the currency laws and tariff laws now in force, wh ch you and the Forty-ninth Congress were elected by the people to refeal and reform, the burdened industriesof our country aro plunging heav ily along B miry road toward foreseen dan ger. We talk of arbitrating our respective !.hare of disaster. Instead of knocking off our self-imposed fetters and releasing a gen eral prosperity. This Is not, in my deliber ate judgment, a t me when the President can delay to provide or afford to dispense with an actual, as well as a titular, head of the Treasury Department. The fiscal policy of the Federal Government in respect to a debt so large, taxation so pervasive, and a currency which is universal, can not fail of being a chief factor in national and Indi vidual well-being. Your own duty to which yon have addressed yourself with suchflear and unflinching purposes, the duty of Con gress iu the premises, and the laws which may yet be enacted for the guidance of the Treasury Department will require that you be assisted in their administration by an offi cer capable of full efficiency and unwearied circumspection. Permit me, therefore, without hesitation, to accept my temporary disability as a sum mons to stand aside and make way for one immediately capable of fullllling every re quirement of the public service. Very re spectfullv yours, Daniel Manning. To the President. THE PRESIDENT'S KEPLY. To this the President replied as follows: Executive Mansion, Washington, June 1. My Dear Mr. Matining: I have rece.ved your letter in which your resignation is ten dered as Secretary of the Treasury. Ths sentiments therein contained are entirely in keeping w.th the devotion to pubiiedutv and the loyalty to the interests of the Govern ment which have characterized your rela tions to the present administration. I am not surprised, though much impressed, with the concern which you evince for the correc tion of the abuses and the inauguration ol the reforms to which in your letter you allude and which have been so often top c? of our anxious consultations. 1 have hoped that the day was at hand when the party to which we belong, influenced largely by faith and confidence in you and in the wisdom ol your views, would be u.ckened in the sense of responsibility and led to more harmonious action upon the important questions with Which you have had to deal. In considering your proposod resignation. I should bo strouglv inclined by my persona regard and friendship and by the state ot your services to the country to beg you to at once and entirely abandon your .iic-l-natioil tv relinquish your part of an arduous duty Hut I am convinced that I should not do this, and that in all I suggest and ask I should have much at heart your welfare and safety. You have placed your resignation in my hands. My responsibility here begina, and 1 know that the responsibility will lie met ana the wishes of the people of the land fullj answered when I ask you to postpone for a while any insistance upon the acceptance ot your resignation, anil that your final con elusion thereon may be delayed until the ef fects Of continued freedom from official car upon your condition may be belter tested. I therefore earnestly request you to accept a leave of absence until t he first day of Octo ber next, when, if you desire it, the question of your resignation may be resumed with, perhaps, bet ter means of judging ail the fact! and probabilities which should be considered in tts determination. Hoping that you will consent to th s s"iig gestion and trusting that your encouraging progress toward restoration to heullh niaj continue, I am faithfully your fr.cnd, Grovkr Cleveland.' fort. Daniel Manning, Srcrrtury of t .c Treat ury. Secretary Manning has accepted the President's suggestion, and will allow his resignation to lie over until his leave of ab sence shrill have expired. Assistant Secre tary Fairclwld has been requested to con tinue to act as Secretary until that time, and has consented to do so. Secretary and Mrs. Manning, accompanied by Mr. Josept W. Miller, Commissioner of Internal Keve nue, and Mrs, Miller will leave Washington this afternoon for Hot Springs, Va. Given to the Jnry. St. IjOCIs, June 5. When the criminal court jesterday niornine continued th hearing of the case of the State vs. Hugt M. Brooks, alias W. II. Lt Maxwell, John I Martin, counsel for the defense, continued his plea for the prisoner. He wasfollowee by Mr. Glover, who made the closing ad dress for the prosecution, closing at 9:3( o'clock -last night. A few iniimte later the jury retired. There was a gen ?ra! expression of relief that the great cau had been finally submitted and consid erable speculation was indulged iu with r gard to the probable verdict. The President and Ills Uride. Washington, June 5. About a thou sand circulars aniouncing the President marriage were se it out from the Whin House yesterday jy mail, messengers anr LptLerwise. They are exceedingly simple plauVy engraved iu heavy lines on ful sheet of fine note paper. These an nouncements were sent to the member of the Cabinet, the Justices of the Supreux Court, Senators and Representatives ii Congress, the Diplomatic Corps, the Lieu tenant Onera! of the army, the Admiial o the navy, other oflic als in Washington .in friends of the President and Mrs. Clrvc I land in Albany and Buffalo. Dispaiche J from Deer Park state the happy pair or- 1 having a good time tishipz and driving. I TALMAGE'S SERMON. Third Discourse of tho Series On "The Labor Question." Tbe Trials and Tribulation of th Working- Classes Things Which Should Kncourago the Patient Bear ing of Present Ills Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage delivered the third discourse of his series on "The Labor Question" in the Brooklyn Tabernacle, taking for his text: So the carpenter encouraged the gold smith, and be that smootheth with the ham mer him that smote the anvil. Isaiah, xil.,7. He said: You have seen in factories a piece of mechanism passing from hand to hand and from room to room, and one me chanic will smite it, and another will flatten it, and another will chisel it, and another will polish it until the work be done. And so the prophet describes the idols of olden times as being made, part of them by one hand, part of them by another hand. Carpentry comes in, gold beating comes in, smithery comes in, and three or four styles of mechanism are em ployed. "So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the an vil." When they met they talked over their work and they helped each other on with it. It was a very bad kind of busi ness; it was making idols which were an insult to the Lord of Heaven. I have thought if men in bad work can encourage each other, ought not men engaged in honest partisanship and in honest mech anism to speak words of good cheer? I will speak this morning of the general hardships of the working classes. You may not belong to this class, but yon are bound as Christian men and women to know their sorrows and sympathize with them, and as political economists to come to their rescue. There is great danger that the prosperous classes, because of the bad things that have been said by the false friends of la bor, shall conclude that all this labor trouble is a "hujlabaloo" about nothing. Do not go off on that tangent. You would not, neither would I, submit without pro test to the oppressions to which many of our laborers are subjected. You do a great wrong to the laboring classes if you hold them responsible for the work of the scoundrelly Anarchists. You can not hate their deeds more thor oughly than do all the industrial classes. At the head of the chief organ of the Knights of Labor, in big letters, I find the following vigorous disclaimer-: -Lt It be understood by all the world that the Kniarhts of Labor have no affiliation, as sociation, sympathy or respect for the baud of cowardly murderers, cut-throats and robbers known as Anarchists, who sneak through the country like midnight assas sins, stirring np the passions of ignorant foreigners, unfurling the red II as of anarchy and causing riot and bloodshed- 1'arsons, Spies, Fielding, Most and all their followers, sympathizers, aiders and abettors should be summarily dealt with. They ate entitled to no more consideration than wild beasts. The leaders are cowards and their followers are fooia. You may do your duty toward your em ployes, but many do not, and the biggest business firm in America to-day is Grip, Gouge, Grind & Co. Look, for instance, at the woes of the womanly toilers, who have not made any strike and who are dying by the thousands and dying by inches. I read a few lines from the last labor re port, just out, as specimens of what fe male employes endure: Poisoned hands and can not work. Had to sue the man for fifty cents. Another: About four months of the year can, by hard work, earn a little more than three dol lars per week. Another: She now makes wrappers at one dollar par dosen; can make eight wrappers per day. Another: We girls In our establishment have the following lines imposed : For washing your hands, twenty-five cents: eating a piece of bread at your loom, one dollar; also lor sit ting on a stool ; taking a drink of water, and many trifling things too numerous to men tion. Some of the worst villains of our cities are the employers of these women. They beat them down to the last penny and try to cheat them out of that. The woman must deposit a dollar or two before she gets the garments to work on. When the work is done it is sharply inspected, the most insignificant flaw is picked out, and the wages refused, and sometimes tbe dollar deposited not given back. The Women's Protective Union reports a case where one. of the poor souls, finding a place where she could get more wages, re solved to change employer, and went to get her pay for work done. The employer says: "I hear you are going to leave me?" " Yes," she said, "and I have come to get what.you owe me." He made no answer. She said: "Are you not going to pay me?" "Yes," he said, "I will pay you," and he kicked her down stairs. I never swore a word in all my life, but I confess that when I read that I felt a stirring within me that was not all devo tional. By what principle of justice is it that women in many of our cities get only two thirds as much as men, and in many cases only half? Here is the gigantic injustice that for work equally well, if not better done, woman receives far less compensa tion than man. Start with ths National Government. Women clerks In Washing ton get $3)00 for doing that for which men receive $1,800. The wheel of oppression is rolling over the necks of thousands of women whojire at this moment in despair about what they are to do. Many of the largest mercantile establishments of our cities are accessory to these abominations, and from their large establishments there are scores of souls being pitched off into death, and their employers know it. Is there a God? Will there be a judgment? I tell you, if God rises up to redress wom an's wrongs, many of our large establish ments will be swallowed up quicker than a South American earthquake ever took down a city. God will catch these op pressors between the two mill-stones of his wrath, and grind them to powder. Why is it that a female principal in a school gets only $825 for doing work for which a male principal gets $1,650? I bear from all this land the wail of womanhood. Alan has nothing to answer to that wail but flatteries. He says she is an angel. She is not. She knows she is not. She is a human being who gets hungry when she has no food and cold when she has no fire. Give her no more flatteries; give her justice. There are 65,000 sewing girls in New York and Brooklyn. Across the sun light comes their death groan. It is not uoh a cry as comes from those who are suddenly hurled oat of life, but a slow, grinding, horrible wasting away. Gather them before you and look into their faces, pinched, ghastly, hunger-struck I Look at their fingers, needle-pricked and blood tipped! See that premature stoop in tbe boulders 1 Hear that dry, hacking, mer ciless cough 1 At a large meeting of these women, held in a hall in Philadelphia, grand speeches were delivered, but a needle-woman took the stand, threw aside her faded shawl, and with her shriveled aria hurled a very thunderbolt of eio quenoe, speaking out the horrors of her own experience. Stand at the corner of a street in New York at six or seven o'clock in the morn ing, as the women go to work. Many of them had no breakfast except the crumbs that were left over from the night before, or the crumbs they chew on their way through the street. Here they come! The working girls of New York and Brooklyn. These epgaged in head work, these in flower-making, in millinery, paper-box making; but, most overworked of all and least compensated, the sewing women. Why do they not take the city cars on their way up? They can not afford the five cents. If, concluding to deny her self something else, she gets into the' car, give her a seat. You want to see how Latimer, and Ridley appeared in the fire. Look at that woman and behold a more horrible martyrdom, a hotter fire, a more agonizing death. Ask that woman how much she gets for her work and she will tell you six cents for making coarse shirts and finds her own thread. I speak more fitly of woman's wrongs because she has not been heard in the present agitation. You know more of what men have suffered. I said to a col ored man who, in Missouri last March, came into my room in the morning to build my fire: "Sam, how much wages do you people get around here?" He replied: "Ten dollars a month, sir!" I asked: "Have you a family?" "Yes," said he, "wife and children." Think of it; $120 a year to support a family on. My friends, there is something in this world awfully atwist. When I think of these things I am not bothered as some of my brethren with the abstract questions as to why God let sin come into the world. The only wonder with me is that God don't smash this world up and start another in place of it. One great trial that the working classes feel is physical exhaustion. There are athletes who go out to their work at six or seven o'clock in the morning and come back at night as fresh as when they start ed. They turn their back upon the shut tle or the forge or the rising wall, and they come away elastic and whistling. That is the exception. I have noticed that when the factory bell taps for six o'clock, the hard-working man wearily puts his arm into his coat-sleeve and starts for home. He sits down in the family circle resolved to make himself agreeable, to be the means of culture and education to his children; but in five minutes he is sound asleep. He is fagged out strength of body, mind and soul utterly exhausted. He rises in the morning only half rested from the toil. Indeed he will never have any perfect rest in this world, until he gets into one narrow spot which is the only perfect rest for the human body in this world. I think they call it a grave ! Has toil frosted the color of your cheeks? Has it taken all spontaneity from your laugh ter? Has it subtracted the spring from your step and the luster from your eye, until it has left you only half the man you were when you first put your hand on the hammer and your foot on the wheel? To morrow, in your place of toil, listen, and you will hear a voice above the hiss of the furnace and the groan of the foundry and the clatter of the shuttle a voice not of machinery nor of the task-master, but the voice of an all-sympathetic God, as he says: Come nnto me all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Let all men and women of toft re member that this work will soon be over. Have they not heard that there is a great holiday coming? O! that home, and no long walk to get to it. O! that bread and no sweating toil necessary to earn it. O ! these deep wells of eternal rapture and no heavy buckets to draw up. I wish they would put their head on this pillow stuffed with the down from the wing of all God's promises. There remains a rest for the people of God. I wonder how many tired people there are in the house to-day. A thousand? More than that. Two thousand people who are tired, tired out with their life, tired in hand and foot and back and heart. Ah ! there are more than two thousand people here to-day, supposing all the rest to be in luxury and in ease. Yonder is a woman who has her head down on her hand. What does that mean? Ask her. It has been a tiresome week to her. "Of" she says, "when will I ever get any rest?" May God comfort all who toil with the needle and the sewing-machine, and have compassion on those borne down under the fatigues of life Another great trial is privation of taste and sentiment. There are mechanics who have their beautiful homes, who have their fine wardrobes, who have all the best fruits and meats of the earth brought to their tables. They have their elegant libraries. But they are the exception. A great many of the working people of our country are living in cramped abodes, struggling amid great hardships, living in neighborhoods where they do not want to live, but where they have to live. I do not know of any thing more painful than to have a fine taste for paint ing and sculpture, and music and glorious sunsets, and the expanse of the blue sky, and yet not be able to get the dollar for the oratorio, or to get a picture, or to buy one's way into the country to look at the setting sun and at the bright heavens. While there are men in great affluence, who have around them all kinds of lux uries in art. themselves entirely unable to appreciate these luxuries buying their books by the square foot, their pictures sent to them by some artist who is glad to get the miserable daubs out of the studio there are multitudes of refined, delicate women who are born artists and shall reign in the Kingdom of Heaven as art ists, who are denied every picture and every sweet song and every musical in strument. Oh ! let me cheer such persons by telling them to look up and behold the inheritance that God has reserved for them. The King of Babylon bad a hang ing garden that was famous in all the ages, but you have a hanging garden bet ter than that. All the heavens are yours. They belong to your Father, and what be long to your Father belongs to you. But I hare no time this morning longer to dwell upon the hardships and tbe trials of those who toil with band and foot, for I must go on to offer some grand and glori ous encouragements for such ; and the first encouragement Is, that one of the greatest safeguards against evil is plenty to do. When men sin against 'the law of their country, where do the police detectives go to find them? Not amid the dust of fac tories, not among those who have on their "overalls;" but among those who stand with their bands in their pockets around the doors of saloons and restaurants and tavern. Active employment is one of the greatest sureties for a pure and upright life. There are but very few men with character stalwart enov h to endure con secutive idleness. Bin is an old pirate that bears down on vessels whoso sails are flapping idly in the wind. The arrow of sin has bard work to puncture the leather of an old working apron. Be encouraged by the fact that your shops, your rising walls, your anvils are fortresses in which you may bide, and from which you may fight against the temptations of your life. Morning, noon and night, Suniays and week-days, thank God for plenty to do. Another encouragement is the fact thai their families are going to hare the very best opportunity for development and use fulness. That may sound strange to you, but the children of fortune are very apt to turn out poorly. In nine cases out of ten the lad finds out if a fortune is coming, by twelve years of age he finds out there is no necessity of toil; and he makes no struggle, and a life without struggle goes into dissipation or into stupidity. There are thousands anX tens of thousandi of men in our great cities who are toiling on, denying themselves all luxuries, year after year toiling and grasping. What for? To get enough to spoil their children. The father was fifty years getting the property together. How long will it take the boys to get rid of that property, not having been brought up in prudent habits? Less than five years to undo all the work of fifty. You see the sons of wealthy par ents going out into the world, inane, nerve less, dyspeptic, or they are incorrigible and reckless; while the son of the porter that kept the gate learns his trade, gets a robust physical constitution, achieves high moral culture, and stands in the front rank of Church and State. Who are the men mightiest in our legislatures, and Con gress, and cabinets? Did they walk up the steep of life in silver slippers? O! no. The mother put him down under the tree in the shade, while she spread the hay. Many of these mighty men ate out of an iron spoon and drank out of the roughest earthen ware their whole life a forced march. They never had any luxuries until, after awhile, God gave them affluence and use fulness and renown as a reward for their persistence. Renierhber, then, that though you may have poor surroundings and small means for the education of your children, they are actually starting under better ad vantages than though you had a fortune to give them. Hardship and privation are not a damage to them, but an advantage. A clipper likes a stiff breeze. The sledge hammer does not hurt the iron that it knocks into shape. Trouble is a hone for sharpening very keen rasors. Akensld rose to his eminent sphere from his father's butcher shop. Robert Burns started as a shepherd. Prideau used to sweep Exeter College. ' Gifford was a shoemaker, and the son of every man of toil may rise to heights of intellectual and moral power, if he will only trust God and keep busy. Again, I offer as encouragement that you have so many opportunities of gain ing information. Plato gave 1,300 for two books. The Countess of Anjou gave 200 sheep for one volume. Jerome ruined him self financially by buying one copy of Origen. Oh, the contrast. Now there are tens of thousands of pens gathering up information. Type-setters are calling for "copy." All our cities quake with the rolling cylinders of the Harpers and the Appletons, and the Lippincots and the Petersons and the Ticknors, and you now buy more than Benjamin Franklin ever knew for fifty cents! A hard-working-man comes along toward bis home, and he looks into the show-window of the book store and sees an elegantly bound volume. He says: - "I wish I had that book; there must be a great deal of information in it." A few months pass along, and though that book which he looked at cost five dollars, it comes now in pamphlet shape and costs him fifty cents. The high wall around about the well of knowledge is be ing broken down, and people come, some with porcelain pitchers and some with pewter mugs, to dip up the living water for their thirsty lips. There aro people who toil from seven o'clock in the morning until six o'clock at night, who know mora about anatomy than the old physiologists, and who know more about astronomy than the old philosophers. If you should take the learned men of two hundred years ago and put them on one bench, and take twenty children from the common schools in Brooklyn, and put them down on the other bench, the children could ex amine the philosophers and the philoso phers could not examine the children,. "Ah," says Isaac Newton, coming up and talking to some intelligent lad of even years: "What Is that?" "O, that is a rail-train." "What is that?" "That is a telegraph." "What is that?" "It is a telephone." "Dear me! 1 think I shall go back to my bed in the dust, for 1 am bewildered and my head turns." Ol rejoice that you have all these oppor tunities of information spread out before you, and that, seated in your chair at home, by the evening light, you can look over all nations and see the descending morn of a universal day. One more encouragement : Your tolls In this world are only intended to be a disci pline by which you shall be prepared for heaven. "Behold I bring you glad tidings of great joy," and tell you that Christ, the carpenter, of Nazareth, Is the work ingman's Christ. You get his love once in your heart, O, workingraan, and you can sing on tbe wall in the midst of the storm, and in the shop amidst the shoving of the plane, and down in the mine amid tbe plunge of the crowbar, and on shipboard while climbing ratlines. If you belong to the Lord Jesus Christ be will count tbe drops of sweat on your Rrow. He knows every ache and pain you have ever suffered In your worldly occu pation. Are you weary! He will giva you rest. Are you sick? He will give you health. Are you cold? He will wrap around you the warm mantle of his eter nal love. And beside that, my friends, you must remember that all of this Is only preparatory a preparatory and introduc tory. I see if great multitude before tbe throne of Ood. Who are they? "O," you say, "those are princes. They must htrt always been in a royal family. Tbey dress like princes; they walk like princes; they are princes. There are none of the common people there none of the people that ever toiled with band and foot." Ah, you are mistaken. Who is that bright spirit before the throne? Why, that was a sewing-girl, who, work as hard as she could, could make but two shillings the day. Who is that other illustrious soul before the throne? Why, that man toiled amid the Egyptian brick kilns. Who is that other illustrious soul before the throne? Why ber drunken father drove her out on a cold winter night and she froze into heaven. What are those kings and queens before the throne? Many ot them went up from Birmingham mills and from Lowell carpet factories. And now I bear a sound like the rust ling of robes, and now I see a taking np of harps as though they were going to strike a thanksgiving anthem, and all the children of the saw, and the disciples of tbe shuttle are iu glorious ar ray, and they lift a song so clear and sweet, I wish you could hear it. It would make the pilgrim's burden very light, and the pilgrim's journey very short. Not one weak voice or hoarse throat in that great assemblage. The accord Is as perfect as though they had been all eterntty practic ing, and I ask them what is the name of that song they sing before tbe throne, and they tell me it is the song of the redeemed working people. And the angel cries out: Who are these so near the liirone? And the answer comes back: "These are they who came out of j;reat tribulation, and bad their robes washed and made white is tbe Uood of the Luub." ii a n i? 4 ! i i S if i i . i I if 1 f