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; Published Every Thursday at QATON, OHIO, U G. GOULD, - ' VBRSI8 09 SUBSCRIPTION! In Advance - - . SI. SO. ' . SSssTnBsUBBasnasBBB JOB PRINTING of all descriptions fui alshed to order, and guaranteed to prove satisf aotory as to quality. Sis L. G. GOULD, Publisher. Dented to the Intereete-of the Democratic Party and tht Cofaction of Local and General Metre. TERMS, $1.60 Per Annum, In Adrance. VOL. XX-NO. 9. EATON. Opip. THURSDAY. JANUARY 13, 1887. WHOLE NUMBER 1028. RATES OF ADVERTISING. (MOB. tw. I 1m. I tsn. tra. Urn, Jlncb... Inches. O0!t t 00 S 4 001 I Inches.. in I 091 SO 400 (00 10 00 4 90 0) 11 to t 00 11 00 IS 00 Inches. . M column. i go 4 0); TOO too uoo aoool M column. J column. 10 QUI a Qui i IB iu w ui ai aui aao ssoo asao Business Nrdi of Ave 11m. or ha 4S psr anwsm. Local aotlia. M cenu per Una men Insertion. Binpla announcements of marriages and aeaths. and anarch and beaevilent society notice. Inserted Irs. Any addition u obltanry notion, will b barges ars cnua per Una. Favors rront be band.l la M early as Tuesday mornlDK hi Injure Invert on the nun. week, Couv manlcatlwis npoa subJee-A of general at local tatarna snsuUcUiia. -. uoo am Soo 8 4ooo not W .tMOf General News Summary. Interesting Home and Foreign News. CONGRESSIONAL. ; i. . r V Berate, Jan. 4. Immediately after the read ing of the Journal Mr. McuGllom, of Illinois, look the floor and announced the death of his coueagne, Senator Logan, and mored that ont of respeot to the memory of the deceased Sena tor the Senate adjourn. The motion wan agreed to and the Senate adjourned. . House The Speaker laid before the House a communication from H01L.A. 8. Hewitt, an nouncing that he had forwarded to the Ooremor of New York his resignation as Congressional representative, to take e fleet on January 1, 1867. Beaolutlons offered by Mr. Thomas, of Illinois, reciting that the House had heard with sorrow the announcement of Senator Logan', death, ' were adopted, and, as a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased, the House adjourned. . Smatb, Jan. 8. Mr. Mitchell, of Pennsyl vania, reported a bill granting a pension of 2,000 a year to Mrs. Logan, and asked thot it be con sidered Immediately. Under objection of Mr. Coke, of Texas, the bill went over. -' A resolution by Mr. Manderson was adopted, asking the Sec retary of the Interior for information as to school lands confirmed to the State of Nebraska, and in the meantime requesting suspension of publlo entries on such lands. The conference report on the Inter-State Commerce bill was taken up and Ur. Piatt, of Connecticut, addressed the Senate in opposition to the report. Before the . conclusion of his remarks the Senate went into secret session and soon adjourned. House In committee of the Whole the House considered the Indian Appropriation bilL The bill gave rise to no opposition In any of iu features, and the oommittee having risen It was passed without discussion ot division. It ap propriates 15,155,000. The Military Academy Appropriation bill was then taken op and passed within a quarter of an hour. The Speaker laid before the House a communication from James W. Re id resigning hi seat as Congressman from the Fifth North Carolina district. The House then went into Committee of the Whole on the bill tor the consolidation of certain bu reaus of the Navy Department, but without no tion, the committee rose and the House ad journed.." ' - Senate, Jan. 8. The bill giving a pension of 8,000 a year to the widow of Senator Logan was taken up and passed without division. Mr. Vest introduced a bill increasing the pension of Mrs. Apollina Blair, widow of Francis P. Blair, from 50 a month to $8,000 per year, and at bis request the bill was immediately considered and passed. A bill was passed to carry into effect the treaty with China for the suppression of the opium traffic. Consideration of the Inter-State Com merce bill was resumed and Mr. Piatt continued his argument until adjournment. House.' In Oommittee of the Whole the House resumed consideration of the bill for the Improvement of the Erie and Oswego canals, bnt without reaching a vote, at the expiration of the morning hour the .House took up and passed the Pension Appropriation Mil. (It ap propriates S76JM7.500, being only 15,000 below the estimates, which were reduced from the rent of offices for pension agenoies.) The House then went into Oommittee of the Whole on the Naval Reorganization bill. Messrs. Sayres, of Texas, and McAdoo, of New Jersey, advocated the bill, and Mr. Bou telle, of Maine, opposed it. Pending further debate the oommittee rose and the House adjourned. . Sbkatc. Jan. 7. Numerous petitions were presented for and against the Inter-State Com merce bin. A resolution was passed directing the Secretary of the Senate to pay the Arthur, Logan and Pike funeral expenses. The calen dar was then taken up, and the following bills, passed: 'To settle claims ot States for ex penses incurred in the defense of the United States, and of foreign steamship companies for taxes illegally exacted; appropriating 130.000, for the widow and daughter of Ersldne S. Allin, the Inventor of the Springneld breech-loading rifle musket, in compensation for the use of the invention by the . Government ; House Dill pro Tiding for a school of Instruction for cavalry and tight artillery nt Fort Biley, Kan., and for the completion and construction of quarters for the army at certain posts. After an executive session the Senate adjourned until the 10th. : House. The House passsd the Senate bill amending the act providing for the sale of the Sae and Fox and Iowa Indian reservations in Kansas and Nebraska. (The amendment pro Tides for the allotment of lands in severalty to minors and orphans.) In Committee of the Whole the House considered bills on the private calendar. After a short session the committee me, and half a dozen private bills were passed. At li e evening session forty-two pension bills were passed, luoluding one granting HO a month to the widow of General Durbln Ward. WASHINGTON. The Government bas purchased the Sioux Indians reserve in Montana Territory for tl,QS0,(XXX, The tract comprises 1,500,000 acres. The President on -the 4th commuted to five years' Imprisonment the death sentence of John W. Parrott, ot Arkansas, convicted of murder and sentenced-to be hanged Jan uary H. ( ' , - S- : : The President on the 5th sent to the Sen ate the nomination of Rhydon M. Call to be Attorney for - the Northern district of TlOrida, and James Spencer, of Whitehall, IT. Yn to be Associate Justioe of the Su preme Court of Dakota. William Thomson, United States Consul at Southampton, died on the 5th from bronchitis. Thomas C. Manning, of Louisiana, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary .to Mexico; Hugh A. Densmore, of Arkan sas, Minister Resident and Consul-General . to Ccrea ; - Robert E. Culbretn, of California, Consul at Apia; and Thomas O. Bashaw, of Missouri, Attorney for the Eastern district of Missouri, were among the nominations sent to the Senate on the 0th by the Presl ' dent, r - -. ' ; Superintendent Jameson, of the railway r mail service, Is informed that fourteen let ter punches and a truck load of papers were -destroyed In the recent railroad accident at Tiffin, a;, also that 1,300 letters and eighty sacks of paper mail met a similar fate in the Springfield, Mass., railroad disaster. - The Secretary of the Treasury has ap pointed Herbert F. Beecher to be a special agent or tne Treasury. Belts son of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, and was formerly lauector 01 customs at Port Townsend, W.T. - - - . Prank B. McDonald, son of ex-Senator McDonald, died at Washington on the 6th of heart disease. He had been for some years a clerk in the Treasury Department. ' The remains were taken to Indiana for burial. THE EAST. a . 13. - The probate court at Farmington, Me., has sustained the Belcher will, which be queaths a large sum to Bates' college and mantes President Cheney the executor.. At Concord, N. H., on the Gth two ten- year-old boys named James Brooks and John Knox, ran into a wagon and the boys were so teriously injured that they are not expected to live. Seventy-five glass manufacturers, repre senting all sections of the country, met in Pittsburgh on the 5th and formed the Amer ican association of flint and lime glass man ufaoturers. There was no discussion upon prices or wages. - The convention of Monongahela, Ypuga iogheny and Kanawha river coal miners . in session at Pittsburgh on the 5th per . fected the organization of their new sub district of the Knights of Labor. The new district will have a membership of nearly 12,000, and in the future, in making any de mands, the miners of the three rivers, as well as those of the coke region, will work . In unison. Mrs. Sarah A. Kelly, better known as the "Bard of Shanty Hill," at Bcranton, Pa., who bas gained national fame through her eccentricities, was admitted to the Lacka wanna hospital on the 0th. She is said to be suffering from a complication of diseases, ami can not recover. . Governor Bodwell, of Maine, was inaugur- . . a ted on the 6th. In his address he recom- men as a simple remedy for the fishery J troult.es the levying of such increased du ties on what fish Canada sends to the Unitod States as would partially, if not wholly, exclude Canadian fishermen from our market. Counsel on both sides in the threatened con lest over the will of the late Samuel J, Tiliien assert their complete ignorance of any attempt or intention to settle the dis ' xnite bv a compromise. The officials of the Coal Miners' National Federation have issued a circular addressed to the miners throughout the country, re questing the attendance at the national con vention of miners and operators at Colum bus, O., February 8, of all who are favorable to the arbitration plan of settling wages differences. George W. Childs, proprietor of the Phil adelphia Ledger, was rendered unconscious by a fall upon an icy sidewalk on the 6th. No bones were broken, however, and he has recovered from everything except the shock ofthefalL Kreamer's commercial building, the finest business block in Lock Haven, Pa., was burned on the 6th. Loss on building and contents, $75,000; insurance, $36,000. The failure of E. Duncan Sniffen, exten sive advertising agent at New York City, was announced on the 6th. Liabilities, 1100,000. William P. Pearson, who pleaded guilty to the embezzlement of about 130,000 from the American Baptist Publication Society at Philadelphia, was on the 6th sentenced to two years and six months imprisonment in the Eastern penitentiary. Pearson was formerly cashier and chief bookkeeper of the society. A joint convention of the Connecticut Legislature was held on the 6th to elect State officers, owing to the failure of the popular vote to elect. The result of the balloting was the election of all the Repub lican candidates as follows: Governor, P. C. Lounsbury; Lieutenant Governor, James L. Howard; Secretary of State, L. M. Hubbard; Treasurer, Alexander Warner; Comptroller, Thomas Clark. The most important agricultural meeting of the season wiU be the eighth national convention of the American Agricultural and Dairy Association, which has been called in New York City, February 8 and 9. Dairying and dairy legislation will receive attention from - able speakers. Addresses are promised from Joseph H. Reall, presi dent of thq American Agricultural and Dairy Association; Lieutenant Governor Ed. F. Jones, of Binghamton, N. Y.; Hon. John B. Webber, . M. C, of New York; Herr Adolph Wohlis, of Stock holm. The following papers will be con tributed and will add to the interest of the meeting: "The Dairy Interests of the United States," G. B. Chapin, Boston, Mass. ; "The Benefits of Bee Keeping to the Agriculturist," O. B. Mason,' Aubnrndale, O. ; "The History of Dairying in the United States," W. 8. TruesdeO, St Louis, Ma ; "Transportation of Dairy Products from the United States to England," M. R. Wait, Canton, N. Y. ; "Feeding of Cattle," James O. Adams, Concord, N. H., Secretary of State Board ot Agrioulture; "Prosperous Agriculture the Pitch of Our National Har mony," James Hewes, Baltimore Md. Business failures during the' seven, days ended January 8 number for - the United States 271, for Canada 28; total 299, against 273 the previous week. The increase arises in the South where the failures are ex ceptionally numerous, though not important. Henry Morris, of WoodbndKs, N. J., sec retary and treasurer of the New York Tex tile Filtering Company, has disappeared with funds of the company amounting to about $70,000. The concern is owned mostly by the Morris family, and the father and the younger brother of the defaulter are financially ruined. - The executive committee of the united Labor party of Philadelphia have refused to nominate a candidate for Mayor, declar ing that such nomination should be made in open convention of the party. The Rhode Island Horseshoe Company's extensive works at Valley Falls, R. I., were destroyed by fire on the 7th. Loss $330,000; insurance $160,000. - Two misers, Joseph Perry, aged seventy- three, and Robert Price, aged sixty-five, were found starved in their miserable abode in a tenement : on Locust street. Philadelphia, on the 7th. They had occu pied the premises nearly forty years, were very eccentrio and believed to be worth $250,000. WEST AND SOUTH. W. W. Watkins, a seventeen-year-old boy employed as collector by -Jacob Poake, a Cincinnati printer, was on the 4th charged by his employer with embezzlement. The boy acknowledged the crime and asked that his father be sent for to make it good. While waiting for the father to come, young Watkins swallowed prussio acid and died in a few minutes. In the Criminal Court at St. Louis, on the 4th the grand. Jury 'returned true bills against Frederick Wittrock, Thomas Weaver and William M. Haight, charged with robbing the Adams express. The prisoners were brought in and pleaded guilty to the indictment. The, judge sen tenced Wittrock and Haight to seven years in the penitentiary the extreme penalty and Weaver was given five years. All the collieries in the Wilkesbarre (Pa.) region shipping coal over- the New Jersey Central railroad were idle on the 4th, on account of the strike of the dock hands at Port Johnson and Elizabethport. The clos ing of the mines has thrown over 8,009 per sons out of work. The Inter-collegiate Prohibition conven tion adjourned at Cleveland, O., on the 4th, after a two days' session. The following were elected officers: Rev. Herrick John son, D. D., of McCormick Theological Sem inary, Chicago, president; Julius H. Seelye, D. D., LL. D., president of Amherst Col lege, Massachusetts, first vice president; R. L. Abernethy, president of Rutherford College, North Carolina, second vice presi dent; W. T. Mills, of Wooster, secretary; G. E. Rowe, of Madison University, Wis consin, treasurer; Advisory Committee Rev. Joseph Cook, Dr. McCosh, Dr. Bascom, Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage, J. S. Hopkins, Prof. George .M. Forbes and Miss Frances Willard. A committee was appointed to draft an address to the young men of the schools and colleges of the country. At Montpelier, Ind., the family of John Wooster, consisting of five persons, were poisoned a few days ago by eating biscuit in which had been used an inferior quality of baking powder. At last accounts two of the children wore dying and the remainder of the family were in a precarious condition. The St. Louis grand jury bas found an indictment against Dan Moriarty, charging him with being an accessory after the fact to the Jim Cummings express robbery. A construction train on the Alabama tc Great Southern road was wrecked on the 5th, and Engineer Lewis and Fireman Fowler were killed. The engine struck a cow, left the rails and went down an em bankment. Dr. J. N. Doyle, of Linton, Tenn., was arrested at Nashville on the 5th for the murder of Joseph Dentsch at Effiugham, DX, twenty years ago. Doyle was placed under arrest when the crime was com mitted, but escaped from jail and went to Linton, where he has been practicing as a physician ever since. Secretary Lamar was quietly married at Macon, Ga., on the 5th to Mrs. William S. Holt, of that city. At the annual meeting of the Female Be nevolent Society at Columbus, O., on the 5th, William G. Deshler, a millionaire bank er of that city, presented the society with a check for $100,000. Snow fell at Montgomery, Ala., after midnight on the 5th to a depth of three inches. This is the second snow this win ter, something almost unknown before. On the 5th the port of ' Baltimore, Md., was virtually closed by ice, which extended down the river and into Chesapeake Bay, a distance of forty miles. The Michigan Legislature convened on the 5th. Charles J. Monroe was elected President pro. tern, of the Senate and D. P. Markey Speaker of the House, both Repub licans. Slight shocks of earthquake were felt at Paige and Bastrop, Tex., on the 5th, caus ing considerable fright but no damage. Victor Tarie, one of Napoleon's ,l01d Guards," died at San Antonio, Tex-, on the 5th, aged ninety-five years. He had been a resident of Medina County, that State, tor many years. Prof. Joseph Tosso, a weU known violin ist, and author of the popular quaint melo dy, "The Arkansaw Traveler," died at his home in Covington, Ky., on the 6th. The Chicago HaiUeay Age of the 7th pub lishes statistics showing that during the past year not less than forty-five railways with 7,687 miles of main line, representing a bonded debt of 8170,140,503 and capital stock of $203,969,200, making a total of nearly $374,110,000, have been sold under foreclosure and transferred to new owner ship. At St. Louis on the 6th Judge Treat sen tenced Joseph H. White, of Waco, Texas, who has been in jail since August, 1885, ot a charge preferred by the United States Government of counterfeiting Brazilian treasury notes, to three years in the peni tentiary. In his annual message Governor Oglesby, of Illinois, devotes much space to the labor troubles and speaks of the necessity which compelled the sending of State troops to Lemont, East St. Louis and the packing house district near Chicago. The foundry department of E. P. Auis & Co's machine works at Milwaukee, Wis., burned on the 6th, entailing a loss of $350,- 000. An important suit affecting the legality of railroad aid bonds has just been instituted at Morrillton, Ark. This class of bonds aggregates about one and a quarter million dollars and are nearly all held In New York City. A concurrent resolution providing for the submission of the question of the prohibi tion of the sale of intoxicating beverages to a popular vote was introduced in both branches of the Missouri Legislature on the 6th. At Jackson Tenn., on the 7th Scott Pick- ler, aged, twelve, and Chester Dodd, aged ten, sons' of prominent citizens, quarreled over some trivial matter. Pickler went home, procured a gun and shot Dodd, kill ing him instantly. Thomas Stevens, who started from San Francisco, April 18, 1884, on a bicycle tour of the globe, arrived in that city on the 7th from Japan on the steamer City of Pekin. Rev. J. J. Glossbrenner, bishop emeritus of the United Brethren Church, died on the 7th at Churchville, Va., aged seventy-four years. He was one of the best known cler gymen of his denomination in the country. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. A desperate' fight took place near Nuevo Laredo, Mex., on the 4th between the Guardas Rurales and about fifty smugglers from the American side, conveying about (20,000 worth of goods into the interior. The finale was ten dead smugglers and three guards, with the goods in the hands of the authorities. An explosion in a coal pit at Mons, Bel gium, caused the death of thirty-seven per sons. - Advices from Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic, under date of December 10, state that cholera in its most malignant form was raging there and the number of deaths daily were frightful. The dead were re moved to the outskirts of the city, piled up like cross ties and burned. A fire caused by the lights on a Christ mas tree broke out in the Odescalchi palace at Rome a few days ago. All the jewels belonging to the Princesses, all the valua ble missals and pictures, including a small Raphael, and the whole of the splendid col lection of ancient furniture on the second floor were burned. The loss is $1,000,000; uninsured. Wheat ol excellent quality and superior weight has been exported for the first time by Russia from the Caucasus. Large car goes of this wheat have been sent to Odessa across the Black Sea from the ports of Foti and Batoum, destined for the Adriatic and the English Channel. Germany has arranged for the sale to the Turkish Government of 400,000 Mauser riflos, which have been superseded in the German army by repeating rifles. The census of France for 1886 shows a total population of 38,218,963; against 87,672, 048 in 1881. The population of Paris has in creased only 75,000 against 280,000 recorded in 1881. The wheat harvest in Victoria, Australia, is 12,000,000 bushels, an average of twelve bushels per acre. The exportable excess is 150,000 tons, or 60,000 tons over that of the preceding year. An epidemio of typhoid fever is raging at Clermont-Ferrand, France. Eighteen hun dred persons out of a population of 40,000 have been attacked. It is supposed that the epidemic was started by impure water. The new flouring mill at Carberry, on the Canadian Pacific railway, one hundred miles west of Winnipeg, Man., was wrecked on the 7th by an explosion caused by the ignition of flour dust. Loss $35,000. At Montreal, Can., on the 6th Chief Jus tice Dorion rendered a decision on the ap plication for a writ of habeas corpus in the 3. F. Hoke extradition case, sustaining the decision of the judge who committed Hoke for extradition. LATER NEWS. TBS SinkingFund Commissioners of Ohio are in New York to refund the canal bonds, amounting to $2,240,000. Charles Peexts, aged fifty-five, was found murdered in his cabin, where he lived alone, near Flat Woods, Meigs Coun ty, O. A blast of 44,500 pounds of powder, dis tributed in five chambers, each fifty feet apart and fifty feet back from the face ot a stone quarry, at Easton, Pa., was fired Saturday. The whole hillside, 15Q feet high, was blown out, and about 200,000 tons of stone loosened. A bat hunt at Mt. Vernon, O., resulted in 2,743 rat tails and 2,489 nice tails. Speaker Carlisle says he is not a candi date for U. Is. senator, but would accept. Form hundred and fifty commercial trav elers of Indiana banqueted at Terre Haute. Hcmpbret Moore, a Baltlmorean, who died a few days ago,-eft $35,000 to build and support an institution for debating so cieties of Baltimore. A company has been organized to supply light, heat and motive power for New York City. The annual meeting of county commis sioners will be held in Columbus on the 11th, 12th and 13th. Charters have been filed for thirteen proposed railroads to Gridiron, Western Kansas, the project being backed by the Union Pacific "Grand Sehttnel," a stallion valued at $25,000, died at Kalamazoo, Mich., of blood poisoning. The withdrawal of the French company from the Atlantic cable pool threatens te dious litigation. Mart Habxan, an abandoned woman, died in the hospital at Louisville, after fasting forty-two. Lindset B. McKjnlet was sent to the penitentiary for life by the Circuit Court of Evansville, Ind., tor killing John Mar tin. Colonel Bebkt thinks the Kentucky Legislature will appropriate $50,000 for the Newport Barracks, and that a new loca tion will be secured. Surgeon General Hamilton will recom mend a quarantine hospital at Key West, Fla., as a safeguard against the introduc tion of cholera. John Oncrx, of Harrisburg, drank quart of whisky at a wedding and died the next night from the effects of it. The German ship Elizabeth waa wrecked fourteen miles south of Cape Henry, on the Virginia coast, and twenty lives lost, in cluding five of the life-saving crew. Dick Hurley, sworn in as a Deputy Treasurer of Hamilton County, Saturday morning, shot and killed Con Keating in Main street,'Cinclnnati, saloon, Saturday a slit, the murder growing out of a dis- J i uta oer a dog. STILL QUARRELING. The Republican of New York and Mr. The Republican of New York and Mr. Blaine Cutting One Another's Throats. , A recent int&giew with Senator Mil ler has stirred up a hornets' nest in the Republican ranks, and in tho judgment of many of the Herkimer statesman's friends he has seriously impaired his chances for a re-election. In the inter view in question Mr. Miller took oc casion to defend his mistakes as a party leader. He declared that he was not responsible for the Republican re verses in this State since his elevation to the Senate five years ago. His ad vice had been disregarded. He charged the defeat of Mr. Blaine in 1884 to the National Republican Committee. It refused to accept' the advice of the State Committee last year, which, he says, was controlled by his friends, and took the counsel of Thomas C Piatt. - The interview bas brought forth a good deal of . vigorous denunciation from the members of the National Com mittee, in particular from B. F. Jones, of Pittsburgh, the chairman of the com mittee, and from Stephen B. Elkins, who was the committee's executive of ficer. Mr. Elkins, in conversation with a friend, said: ''Warner Miller is the last man to impute, the defeat of Blaine to the National Committee, and you may put it down for a fact that the in fluence of that committee will be used against Miller in the coming Senatorial contest. We have direct proof that previous to the National convention of 1884 Miller worked secretly to prevent Blaine's nomination, with the idea of bringing himself forward as a compro mise candidate. Then, after Blaine was nominated. Miller and his friends made no special effort to carry New York. "The organization of the State Com mittee here was the most serious prob lem that ' confronted Mr. Blaine's friends immediately after the Chicago convention. The National Committee and the New York State Committee were called together on the same day at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. In the State Committee there were three fac tions about equal in strength the half breeds, who were controlled by Miller and his mends, and the Arthur and the Piatt stalwarts. The Piatt men had earnestly supported Blaine's nomina tion, and they were unqualified in favor of his election., .The Arthur men were disgruntled and sore. Mr. Miller in duced his half-breed friends to place the organization of, the State Commit tee in the hands of men who had ben bitterly opposed-to Blaine's nomina tion. We thought then that Miller's action was prompted by his opposition to ex-benator i ljttt. The Utica convention of 1884 was largely against General Arthur and could have been controlled for Blaine by any sort of skillful management. Mr. Miller refused -to consult with the leaders of the Republican party there, and so dallied with his negotiations with the Edmunds men that he was beaten. - The National Committee took the ground that its duty was to consult with -all leading -Republicans. Piatt, Cornell, and other men of their follow ing were constantly in consultation with Mr. Jones and his committee. Miller demanded that the committee take no advice but his. They did not regard that as a wise policy and Miller sulked in his tent. Chairman Jones has a right to feel indignant when charged with infidelity by a man in Miller's position. No man ever worked harder or more faithfully in any cause than Jones did for Blaine. He worked like a hero, and if he had received the vast co-operation of all Mr. Blaine's supposed friends in New York Blaine would have been elected in spite of Uurcbard. Mr. Elkins and other prominent Re publicans allege that Miller schemed in an underhanded way for the nomi nation at Chicago and was deeply mortified at the miscarriage of - his plans. His recent attack on the Na tional Committee is said to have been actuated by the direct refusal of the committee to help him in his Sena torial contest, Chicago News. AN ABUSED MAN. The Republicans Now Admit That Secretary Bayard Is No Hot-Headed Blunderer, But a Wise Statesman. a a While the Blaine organs, inspired by the arch-disturber' himself, were abus ing Secretary Bayard for what they termed his cowardly policy in relation to the seizures of American fishing ves sels by the Canadian authorities, he was pushing forward with skill, judg ment and vigor the American side of the question, and manifesting a spirit and determination worthy of the great country he represents. Blaine, Frye and other demagogues accused him of truckling to England and sacrificing the rights of our fishermen by not pro-. voking a rupture with the British Gov ernment. Mr. Bayard remained silent under this fire, quietly attending to his duty in a far more practical and vigor ous manner than his detractors recom mended. When the proper time came he laid the matter before Congress and cov ered his detractors with shame and con fusion. There was an instantaneous reaction in his favor, even on the part of those who most violently abused him, and it is now universally acknowl edged that the course of the State De partment all through " this fishery dis pute has been eminently wise and pat riotic. ven the New York Tribune, which most fiercely assailed Mr. Bay ard, is forced to acknowledge: "The State Department has argued various phases of the fisheries question with lucidity and logical acumen during the year. It has had a strong case, and with the powerful aid of Mr. Phelps has forcibly presented it" This is a change of heart from an unexpected quarter and shows that truth must prevail even where falsehood is most cultivated. But the Tribune might spare its ad vice to tne Administration in urging commercial retaliation against Cana dian vessels in American ports. It criticises the Administration for pre ferring diplomatic method to aggres sive action. Fortunately for the country, the Administration does not propose to use such an estrone policy, unless as a last resort, and selects the safer and more satisfactory method of conciliatory argument The State De partment does not intend to submit to the Canadian Government's arbitrary interpretation of the treaty of 1818, the only agreement on which the question can be discussed. The only treaty that had brought peace and prosperity to her fishermen was- deliberately abrogated by the Republicans, and when Mr. Bayard en deavored to serve the interests of Amer ican fishermen, by making an arrange ment with the British Government, by which the fishermen should have the spring and summer fishing and enjoy privileges and opportunities without expense, he received only abuse for it The Republicans refused to entertain his project for a joint com mission to settle the points in dispute and Mr. Bayard could only fall back on this treaty of 1818. The beneficent treaty effected by Hon. Wm. L. Marcy, in 1854, brought about a peaceful set tlement of difficulties similar to those which now confront Mr. Bayard. The Republicans . chose to abrogate this treaty in order to place a grievous bur den on the shoulders ot the incom ing Administration. Mr. Bayard is making a bold stand for the interests of our fishermen,, but a great deal depends upon Congress. If that body refuse to consent to a commission to get at the damage incurred and open the way to remove all difficulties, it is not Mr. Bayard s fault He has proved himself one of the ablest statesmen that ever guided the affairs of the department and he disregards attacks and slander, his whole mind being absorbed in the faithful fulfillment of Albany Argus. HAS HE FORGOTTEN? What Will Kill All of Mr. Evart's Presiidential Aspirations. A dinner consisting in part of Boston brown bread, Boston baked beans and Boston crackers was lately eaten in St Louis by the members of the New En gland Society of that town. This some what .arid diet it appears from the published' reports, was relieved and be dewed by the eloquence of Senator Evarts, and by copious draughts of crab-apple cider. The occasion was also enlivened by the nomination .of Mr. Evarts for President of the United States. Mr. James Richardson, of St Louis, introduced the New York Sen ator as a statesman who had "filled the highest office in the land but one. The people of the United States," added Mr. Richardson, "are waiting his will and pleasure to adorn and exalt the Executive chair. There was a good deal of applause and considerable laughter when the waggish gentleman reversed the general understanding of Mr. Evarts' position in regard to the Executive chair, namely, that it is ho who is waiting the will and pleasure of the people of the United States before seating himself therein. ... Mr. Evarts, however, seems to have taken the nomination ' in earnest He proceeded to develop his theories of popular government and made an tin- mistable bid for the Western vote. His remarks were excellent, and there is only one passage in the printed report of bis speech which we do not quite un derstand. He intends to run for Presi dent, we infer, on a platform declaring the inviolability of American suffrage. Every man is free and equal. Every citizen has an equal voice in the Na tion's councils. "What an upheaval of society there would be," exclaimed Mr. Evarts, "if any man lawfully a cit izen by the laws and constitution of the country should be prevented from voting or told that his vote when re ceived would not be counted. Has Mr. Evarts already forgotten how -he happened to occupy "the -highest "office in the land but oneP" Has he .-forgotten two very ingenious speeches which he delivered on Febru ary 5 and February 15, 1877, before i body known to history as the Electoral Commission, in which he told certain citizens of Louisiana and Florida that their votes, although received, ought not to be counted? T". Sun. NEWSPAPER ITEMS. Jim Cummings is not the first man who has come to grief through writing letters. Chicago News. Mr. Blaine seemed fated to have a Rev. Burchard. He spoke to the Congregational Club meeting of minis ters at Boston. Among the other speakers was Rev. Dr. Herman Lin- coin, 01 in ewton. Dr. Lincoln, by an historical allusion, recalled the episode at President Arthur s funeral, and wound up his discourse by saying: "There is still enough energy here to sweep heresy from the face of the earth, though the Boston of the Col linses and the O'Briens is not the Bos ton of the Winthrops and the Pil grims." Commenting upon this the Boston Transcript says: 'It is some what remarkable that the 'heresy' which Dr. Lincoln thinks sustains the Collinses and the O'Briens here is just that sentiment upon which Mr. Blaine and his friends rely to make him Presi dent two years hence. . And to speak slightingly of it anywhere was a capi tal blunder on Dr. Lincoln's part But what can you expect when intelligent men are so beguiled as are Mr. Blaine's devotees? The developments of the Senato rial struggle prove nothing if not that the Republican party is given over loot and "moneybags. ' William M. Evarts is in the United States Senate, but his seat there was obtained by the lavish use of money in the hands of unscrupulous agents and go-betweens of corporations. It was openly charged and never contradicted that although Levi P. Morton's canvass wa3 then very-expensive, twice as much was paid by the backers of Evarts tvho wanted to have him where he could them the most good. His circulated lithographs, which were sent out by rich corporation to groom him as dark horse, told at once what interests were behind him. These interests could not be made secure by a man Levi P. Morton s ability, but with Ev arts in the senate tne only remaining branch of the Federal Government that could be relied "upon to thwart the wishes of the people in regardto cor porate interests, they would -e safe. Albany Argus. MR. AND MRS. BOWSER. How Meek Mrs. B. Triumphed Over Her Ambitions and Learned Lord. to vr n . . Mn ..u 1- iui . uuni so a gins, mail Ml uicaa I out in spots." The other evening, after he had lighted a cigar and got his feet braced on the mantel, he suddenly ob served: 'Mrs. Bowser, has it never occurred to you to call me Judge?" "Never!" I promptly replied, for he had complained of the biscuit at supper. "Nor Colonelr" "No!" "While I could probably have gone to the Supreme Bench, or been com missioned Colonel," he softly con tinued, "I did not care for the honor. I am not one, Mrs. Bowser, to clutch at titles in order to lift myself up, but I didn't know but it might please yon to be known as Mrs. Judge Bowser." "I don't want tho title." . "Very well, Mrs. Bowser. If yon have no care for social distinction I'm sure I haven't If your ambition is to plank yourself in the house with that wall-eyed baby and pay no attention to the demands of society I might as well join another lodge." I felt a bit conscience-stricken over the way I had acted, and after awhile I went out and told the cook to call him Judge when she came in with the last scuttle of coal. When she came she managed to bump him to give her an excuse for saying: "Excuse me, Con stableexcuse me!" There was a solemn silence fof five minutes after she left the room. Then Mr. Bowser observed: ' 'Perhaps, on the whole, Mrs. Bow ser, it would be as well not to attempt to call me by any title. Hired help is so stupid, you know." On a late occasion, as our fireside was scene of peace and happiness, Mr. Bowser softly remarked: Mrs. Bowser, whenever it comes handy you'd better throw out hints to your lady friends that you were edu cated abroad. "Why?" "Well, it will increase their respect for you." But I was educated in the little red school hiuse at Perryville, yon know. and have never been out of the State." "Don't talk so loud, as Jane may be listening! I told a friend only tho other day that I was educated abroad, and had been through all the art gal leries of Europe." 'What place did you say you studied at?" "Zanzibar." "Why, my dear, that's in Africa!" "It is! Now that shows what you know! Zanzibar is in Germany. Mrs. Bowser, I don't want to crow over you on the subject of education, bnt when you display such lamentable ignorance of geography I have to feel glad that my school days were not wasted." "I say it's in Africa!" "Mrs. Bowser!" "And I'll prove it by my atlas!" "If you do I'll give you fifty dollars in cash!" I got out the atlas, and there, over on the east coast of the Dark Continent was Zanzibar, as every school-child knows. ril take that fifty," I quietly re marked. 'No, you won't! Some fool of a map- maker has gone and got drunk and mixed things up, and I'm not going to pay for it When I know that Zanzi bar is in Germany I know it just as well as the atlas or anybody else." 'Via this friend of yours ask yon what old master yon preferred?" "Yes, ma'am, and I was posted there, too. You may think I go sloshing a rv nnrl -vet? r"V Vta-ifl. atai e V n anrl m a a vs uaa4 niui nwuu urvv dmmv swas uij tongue hanging out, Mrs. Bowser, but that's where you are dead lame. I told him Longfeller." "Mr. Bowser!" "What now! said Sam Patch you?" Yon don't spose I or Buffalo Bill, do - "But Longfellow was not a painter at all, he was a poet" He drew in his breath until his face was as red as a beet, and he jumped up and down and flourished his arms like a wind-mill, and finally got voice to roar out: "I'll bet you nine hundred thousand million quadrillion dollars to that old back comb in your hair! Mrs. Bowser, such assumption and assurance on your part is unbearable! "Jane may hear yon." "Jane bo hanged, and yon, toot Mrs. Bowser, I demand an apology for this insult!" "Wait till I prove that Longfellow was not an artist, but a poet" "I'll give you a million dollars if you do it" I got down the volume of poems by Longfellow which Mr. Bowser had given me a year before, and then I went to the encyclopedia and made a tight case on him. He was at first inclined to give in, but directly he struck the table such a blow that baby screamed out and then shouted: "I see how it is! You are looking for Longfellow all the time, and I dis tinctly stated that it was 'Longfeller! If the printers have got drunk and left the name out am I to blame?" "Mr. Bowser, I believe I will say I was educated abroad. I will do it to please you." "Oh! you will! Well, you needn't do any thing of the kind! Folks would all know by your freckles that you sat in the sun in some country school foundry! Mrs. Bowser, you've broken up the peace of this fireside by your malicious conduct and you needn't sit up for me to-night I may not come home before to-morrow." Detroit Free Press. Not Very Polite. a of Mrs. Hendricks (the landlady) Can I send you some more soup, Mr. Duiii ley? Mr. Dumley No, thanks. Mrs. Hendricks (engagingly) Don't refuse, Mr. Dnniky, because it isn't ;onsidercd good for.u to be helped twice to soup. Mr. Dumley Oh, etiquette has noth ing to do with it madam; it's the soup. N' Y. Sun. Some men are born mean and some achieve meanness. ' No one has mean ness thrust upon them. Texas Sif tings. MEXICAN BULL-FIGHTS. How the Animals are Prepared for Their Conflict with Human Beings. y , , , , .voiS rVr. r""T: s ing with people of every rank and sta tion in life, from the blanketed peon to the satin-clad senorita. Both the entrance of the music and the entranc of judge are followed by bursts of ap plause, but the populace rend the air with deafening shouts when the bull fighters appear. They consist of a captain, a clown and generally four toreros, two or three picadores and mozos. The "captain'.' and toreros are dressed in bright-colored satins, short jacket and knee-trousers, beautifully and elaborately embroidered in silk and silver, white hose, black slippers and a fancy hat They wear their hair in a knot at the back of the head, and carry in their hand or on their arm a "capa" a kind of cloak or circular, lined with red or other bright . color. The pica dores, mounted on horseback, are dressed in leather, with gay colored jackets, gashes and broad sombreros, and carry a lance with which to stick and worry the bull, and also to keep him from goring their horses. The clown is dressed like any other clow a and the mozos are servants. The men enter the riug and parade around it Then the gate is opened, and in plunges the bull. Before enter ing he has been stuck ami teased and worried until he is in a perfect "whirl wind aud tempest of passion," verita bly a mad bull. A bunch of ribbons attached to a barb with a point like a fish-hook flutters from his shoulder. As he passes through the gate the pica dores prick him with their lances, and, plunging, rearing, snorting, mad as a March hare, he rushes furiously at the first man he sees. This is generally one of the toreros. who opens and dextmusly presents his capa. Hie bull lunges at tins, and tho man springs lightly to one side and es capes unhurt Tho men are active, muscular and graceful. ' The picadores gallop around the ring, pricking with their lances the desperate ' bull, who makes frequent lunges at them, some times goring,' disemboweling or killing the poor, inoffensive horses, and some times upsetting horse and rider aud in juring both. The toreres are quick to the rescue, waving their capas, at which tho bull seldom fails to plunge. At a signal from the judge,the picadores retire from the ring. The next act is putting the banderil- las in the shoulders of the bull. These banderillas arc wooden shafts about a foot long, an iron fish hook at one end, and the other decorated with flowers. flags, etc. One of the toreros takes one in each hand, and, holding them aloft leaping, dancing and shouting, attracts the attention of the toro, who rushes upon him. As the toro (bull) lowers his head the man sticks in the banderil las. dexterously ' leaps to one side and runs for his'lifo. Thus putting hi two at a time, he puts in six. This is a daring and desperate feat and yet men have placed the banderillas with their teeth instead of their hands. After this the infuriated animal rushes at every one. Then comes the captain's work; holding his capa to the bull, he receives his first lnnge from the leftside, spring ing quickly to the right be receives the second. This time standing quiet, cool and steady, ho receives him on his sword, and the bull topples over dead, In the ring at intervals are boards or doors behind which men can retire safely when too closely pursued. Some. llne8 race between toro 1 ",m ",,e"' 'i-ui mimei win. '. 'ilQ race; then the Mexicans are no- lighted with a sickening sight the shedding of a little human gore. Some times the bull catches the man on. his horns and pitches him out of the ring, np among the audience. Sometimes the man is killed. When the toros do not fight they lasso them and drag them from the ring. After the killing of one bull another is admitted. There are generally live or six. When the light is good tho ex cited audience throw hats cigars. handkerchiefs, money, eta, to the vic tors, and applaud vociferously. When it is poor they greet the performers with empty bottles, cushions, chairs ! " .,,h ,ike- nd deafen J"ou with their hisses. Before witnessing a Corida de Toros I was expressing my surprise at peoplo in this enlightened age keeping np such a barbarous sport when a Mexican asked me if 1 bad ever witnessed a com bat between Sullivan and Ryan. It was a just rebuke, and although I could answer no, I hung my American head. I have heard enough of such things. where men beat and bruise each other and call it amusement I think it far ! worse than the Corida de Toros, and at the latter there is no betting. Mexico Cor. N. O. Picayune. The Population of Prussia. Concerning the large and constant increase in the population of Germany in general, and that .of Prussia in par ticular, the Royal Statistical Bureau gives the following figures for 1885 The total population on December 1, 1885, was 28,318,458. The births dur ing the year numbered 1,064,400, the marriages 230,707, and the deaths 716, 859. The natural increase, therefore, was 347,542, and the average number of births per 1,000 of population S7.6, of marriages. 16.4, and of deaths, 25.3. These figures, high as they are, as com pared with those of England and Wales, show a surplus for the last-named country, whose population was 27,499, 041, with 894,270 births. 197.745 mar riages, and 522,750 deaths, making the actual increase per 1,000 in England (am1 Wales) 13.5, as against only 12.3 in Prussia. Paris American Register. Where He Was Great. Miss Duffy I hear that you are en gaged to young Solder, the Plumber. Miss Puffy It is a fact Jane.' "It always struck me that he was a cold, callous creature." . "Well, Jane, I confess that he docs not do very much cooing, but on billing he can not be surpassed." PIUUuMphia Call RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL Bangs are prohibited In the Serai nary of St Agnes, for young ladie. Roman Catholic institution in Brook lyn. N, Y.MaiL - t A young man. has joined the ire bytery of Sacramento who the first one bora in California that has entered the ministry of the Presbyterian ' church. " . Tbi Baptist Wfeldy is authority foa - the statement that recently, in Con necticut, three persons were baptized whose ages were respectively, 92, 98 and 106 years. . Thu English Methodists have pur chased at Epworth, the birthplace ot . John Wesley, a site for a chapel, school and parsonage, as a memorial of him. ' A society recently organized . in young ladies' seminary, not a great way from Boston, had as 1 ts cofistittv tion: "This society is organized for J the purpose of having a good time." In Philadelphia the Anglomania has developed to such proportions that a school bas been started where young ladies can learn the English walk in less than a month- Philadelphia Press. " : A Canadian lady, . who was under - going examination for a teacher's oer " tificate, was asked: "Who surrendered, . and to whom, at the battle of Sedan V She answered, positively: "General Washington to the Duke of Welling - ton." Troy Times. The Waldensian. Synod, after a full ' discussion of the plan of anion between the Waldensian and the tree Charon ox Italy, adopted it warmly after some modification. This will ensure the de sirable concert of effort for the evan gelization of that land of many of its most e vrnest and warm-hearted Chri- tians. A convention of Yonng People's Associations of the churches of New York was held the other afternoon and evening, and a permanent society was ' -organi zed, the object of which is to en- , courage the forming of such aesooia tions and to increase their efficiency. The pi in embraces churches of all de r ri .i i! . nominations, not uAuiuiuiig vuuuuia. N. T. Tribune. A mission Sunday-school, number ing about three hundred, and composed of newsboys, bootblacks and street waifs, assembles on Sunday afternoons in the large hall of the old Board of Trade building, Chicago. It opens with a lunch of sandwiches for the children, and closes with singing and a march -around the hall under the lead of an orchestra. Chicago Journal. - Archbishop Ryan, of Philadelphia has caused mnch commotion among the managers of the Catholic Charity Ball, which for several years has been a bril liant, social and financial success in that city, by calling attention to the fact that the Third Plenary Counoil of . Baltimore, in its decree prohibits all balls for charitable institutions. - He . says that none of the proceeds of the ball can be devoted to charitable ob- . jects. N. Y. Sun. v . - A rich friend of the university at Syracuse, N. Y will shortly build tt ' .t an observatory and furnish a tele scope. A rumor, which is not denied ' by the faculty, is to the effect that an- . other friend of the university is soon to present a very large and valuable library to the institution. The present -building is so fully occupied that a new structure will have to be pnt np to con- . -tain the naw library. Buffalo Express. WIT AND WISDOM. It isn't our needs, generally, that are so expensive. It's our cravings. . A Charleston paper speaks of an opal "as large as a small hen's egg." We should think it would be difficult to set Boston Commercial Bulletin. - That distinguished and excellent judge, Lord Mansfield, once observed i "True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popu larity which follows after." "Which is correct" asked Mrs. Cold tea, 'the biscuit are light' or 'the . biscuits are light?'" "Neither,", re--plied the first floor front " 'the biscuit are heavy is correct" The Rambler. Now is the time to look around for ' last year's snow-shovel. If yon hate any trouble in finding it look in the parlor over the piano. The chances are that your oldest daughter decorated it and hung it up last spring. Eomtr ville Journal. V ; - Mrs. de Hobson (complacently) Yes, Mr. Featherly, that is a portrait of , myself when a little girl. It was painted by a celebrated artist Mr. Featherly (anxious to say the right thing) Er one of the old masters? N. Y. Bun. Extremely ,Thin Party: Just re turned from Florida, old manl Great country to brace a man up! Sained -twenty-five pounds in three -fecks! Stout Party: How'd yon get there by mail?- Puck. A frightened earl: There was once an English earl. Who loved an American gearl; When he found her "estate" Was a house and back-gate, ' It frightened his hair out of oeart. . - . . .v ' Boston Budget. "Yes, the team is quite a good one, Mr. Horsely," he said as he returned the liveryman s brag team, "bnt it has two tlrawbaoks." "Oh, indeed; and may I inquire what they are?'! "The lines." Dallas News. "Do send that organ-grinder away. His music is horrible!" "I don't think; so. I consider it fine music" ''Finer' "Decidedly so. How could it be other wise, when it's ground so much?" Chicago Ledger. A rather elderly maiden had mar ried a gentleman named Young. "Air -low me to congratulate you on the renewal of your youth," said the jester after the ceremony. "Sir," was the frigid and dignified response, "I fail to comprehend your meaning." "Why," said the jester, "don't your know jouT marriage has made yon Young again?" Pittsburgh Dispatch. -. Some people have such a sarplnsv. of wisdom that they are constantly overflowing in streams of counsel to othei-s. It makes no difference whether their counsel is asked or not, or whether it is becoming in them to give or not, they thrust it forward. Their poor victims leel like saying, in the language of Esau to Jacob: "I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast unto thyself." Chicago BtaMatd.