WARREN SHEAF.
A. DEWEY, Publisher.
WARREN, MINNESOTA.
BBTUBNED Floridians are sorry they did
not stay longer in the land of sunshine,
flowers, strawberries, green peas, bananas
and alligators.
TAX-PAYERS associations are popular in
eastern cities and towns. In many cases
local expenses have been cut down ten,
twenty and thirty per cent, without im
pairing in the least the efficiency of muni
cipal organizations.
THE reports of cattle losses during the
last winter are now said to be great exag
gerations,especially those which referred to
the Yellowstone and other sections of Mon
tana, which will not aggregate over ten per
cent. Further south the percentage of
losses is much larger, but not so great as
expected.
THE reports of cattle losses daring the
last winter are now said to be great exag
gerations,especially those which referred to
the Yellowstone and othersections of Mon
tana, which will not aggregate over ten per
cent. Further south the percentage of.
losses is much larger, but not 10 great as
expected.
EIGHT writers on the Chicago Times are
now using type-writing machines, which
are said to excel in speed the greatest rapidity
the most expert hand can acquire with pen
or pencil the work being uniform and per
fectly legible, thereby saving the time of
compositors and proof readers. This is not
a new invention, though the machines have
not yet come into general use among
lawyers, preachers and others, whose hand
writing is, in some cases, as difficult to read
as are the Egyptian heiroglyphics.
CO-OPERATIVE insurance, outside of
secret societies, has become a craze in some
portions of Pennsylvania, and it is said the
Insuring of infants and aged people has led
to suspicions of murder in some cases, and
that the death rate is increasing to an alarm
ing extent throughout the entire specula
tive insurance section. At Fottsville a
prominent lawyer expressed the belief that
the prevailing craze would cause the mur
der of more persons than the Mollie Ma
goires.
The re-union of the Army of the Ten
nessee at Cincinnati, wss pleasant in some
respects, but somewhat marred by Gen.
Sherman's attempt to fight the battle of
Shiloh over again. A great deal of bad
feeling was shown oa all sides. "Old
Teoumeeh," always co abative, is growing
more irrascible then ever, and pronounces
all men liars who venture to differ from him
im regard to that famous engagement. But
still, he is a grand old soldier, and it will
take something more than co-temporary
criticism to impeair the effulgent glory of
his millitary exploits.
A column in the San Francisco Bulletin
is ocoupied by an answer te the question
asked by a citizen: "What are the best
country newspapers. The answer covers a
multitude of requisites, which may be con
densed into general statements that tho
best are those which gives the most local
information that its ligitimate field is
the country in which it is published that is
ought to be so edited that from it an ac
curate history of the country where it is
published could be made up without look
ing to other sources. The country paper
has other important functions but the chief
are enumerated.
A MEASURE known as the "Stubbs bill''
which is now a law in Ohio, inflicts a fine
of not more than $50 for selling or barter
ing intoxicating liqnors on Sunday, except
upon the written perscription of a practicing
physician beer having been legally decided
as not intoxicating Germans and others
will be able to secure their beer, and it
seems probable that will not be interfered
with provided its sale is not connected with
noisy demonstrations and music also is not
prohibited. All kinds of theatrical per
formances, and all kinds of games are pro
hibited on Sunday, also the sale of liquors
in connection with shows, performances, 01
exhibitions at any time, under a penalty not
exceeding $100 and imprisonment. The
act is especially aimed at Sunday theaters
and other entertainments in the larger
towns and cities.
A STATISTICAL statement of the churches
of New York shows that the value of
church property in that city amounts to
nearly $40,000,000 thereare 400,000 Catho
lics and the number of priests attached to
the churches is about 200. The number of
communicants in the Episcopal church is
about 70,000. The Methodists, who rank
third in numercial importance, number
about 45,000 communicants. This number
does not include the African Methodists,
who number about 1,400. The Baptist
churches have a membership of 10,000.
The aggregate Hebrew congregations num
ber 12,500 out of a population of about
100,000. The Reformed Dutch churches
have a membership of 8,500, of which the
Collegiate Dutch churchwhich consists
of several smaller churches, as in the case
of Trinitycontains 2,094. The Lutheran
congregations do not exceed 3,000 and the
Congregationalists have a membership of
about 2,31)0. From 30,000 to 40,000 mem
bers are divided among the Universalis^
Unitarian and miscellaneous denominations.
The barge rate for wheat from St. Louis
to New Orleans is three cents per bushel,
and to Liverpool it is said to be less than
by rail from Chicago to New York.
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NEWS SUMMARY.
RAILROADS.
be Winona and St Petei is free of snow at
last
The contract for grading twenty-five miles
of the Wisconsin 4 Michigan road, from Fort
Howard north, has been let to Bossiter, La
Crosse.
By recent changes, in the Northern Pacific,
Mr. P. Martin becomes auditor, Mr. G. G.
San iorn local treasurer at St. Paul, and Col
Newport land commissioner.
President Stephen, of the Canadian Pacific
railway, who has just returned from England,
is confident that another year will see the tide
of emmigration to the northwest largely in
creased.
The directors of the Northern Pacific have
decided to place the price of all the agricultur
al lands of the company from Duluth to Bis
marck at the uniform rate of $4 per acre, pay
able in preferred stock, with a rebate of 25
ner cent per acre upon the total acreage brok
en within two yearsof purchase. This discount
applies to all land broken thus if a party turns
over his entire farm, he is entitled to receive
back one quarter of the amount ,Jie paid the
company for. The directors decided at the
same meeting to continue selling agricultural
lands west of the Missouri river at the standard
price of $2.50per acre, the same as govern-,
ment rates.
WEEKLY RECORD OF CRIME.
D. McCartney, jr., a druggist of Pittsburg,
was fatally stabbed by one Charles Dagleish,
who is under arrest.
Louis Whitaker (colored) charged with the
murder of M. C. Jenkins (white) was taken
from jail by masked men at Gadsden, Fla., and
George Efferts and Peter New, indicted for
arson in setting the fire which burned the bus
iness portion of Carroll, Iowa, last September,
have been acquitted.
A report is current here of a bloody fight
among Indians in the Indian Territory, and the
full blood Indians are said to have driven the
half-breeds across the Red River into Denison,
Texas.
A band of armed men rode up to the house
of a man named Melaurens, at Erie, Texas, and
deliberately murdered him, his wife, and a
young man living with them, named Leas. No
cause is given for the horrible act, and the
perpetrators of it are unknown. Plunder evi
dently was not the object, as nothing in the
house was disturbed.
In the trial at Boston of Mrs. Sarah E.Howe,
the "president of the ladies' deposit," which
resulted in a verdict of guilty, about twenty
women were on hand to testify for the de
fendant, but the court ruled out all testimony
touching the question of intent and of good
faith kept with the depositors The judge's
charge was very severe on Mrs. Howe.
FIRES AND OTHER CASUALTIES.
Thordo mill and lumber yard at Fife Lake,
Mich., was burned Sunday. Loss $10,000
no insurance.
John Kirchen, a Bweep, was caught in the
machinery at Kern'sflouringWorks, Milwaukee,
and was horribly mutilated. He died in a few
minutes. He was thirty-three years old, and
leaves a family.
Thomas Radford, aged twetn-two, of Milton
Junction, Wisconsin, was instantly killed on
the St. Paul road near this city. He was stand
ing on a car of a construction tram, and was
crushed to death by being dashed against the
timbers of a bridge.
Jerry Hartnett of Waterloo, Iowa, a conduct
or in charge of an accommodation tram going
east on the Illinois Central railway, was run
over and killed between Manchester andMa
sonville. He was seen a few minutes before
the accident, fixing the bell cord on some flat
cars and shortly after his body was seen lying
on the track.
Five men were drowned at Beloit, Wisconsin,
while attempting to save the dam of Arnold &
Kimball's strawband mill. Al Gnfiin leaves a
wife and one child, Wm. Comstock leaves a
wife and one child, Dan Anderkirk leaves a
wife and two children, and AlBucklen leaves a
wife. Jamas Anderkirk, another of the drowned
men, was single and the twin brother of
Dan.
CURRENT EVENTS.
John G. Balfrey, at one time editor ot the
North American Review, died in Boston aged
eighty-five.
Harwood, the Minneapolis swindler, is living
with his family at Daytona, on the Halifax liv
er, Florida, and has bought land and gone to
raising orauges.
The Indiana coffin works at Indianapolis
were burned on Sunday last. The total loss is
estimated at $25,000 insurance, $20,000.
The fire was of incendiary origin.
The Milwaukee chamber of commerce com
mittee that 'was appointed to investigate the
charges of bribery against Patrick Mailer, a
grain inspector, reported that he had been
found guilty, and expelled him from the asso
ciation.
Whitelaw Ried, editor of the New York Tri
bune and Miss Elizabeth Mills, daughter ofMr.
D. O. Mills, formerly of San Francisco, were
married at the residence of the bride's father
on Fifth avenue, opposite the academy of mu
sic, New York.
Glasgow papers state that Catherine Marshall,
aged seventy-four, the wife of a railway labor
er, has not taken food since the beginning of
the present year. Shetakes a little water daily,
but scarcely ever sleeps. She is greatly emaci
ated, but her pulse is perfectly natural.
The record of failures for last weekthrough
out the United States and Canada, as reported
to Bradstreet's, again shows a decrease, the
number being only 91 as against 106 for the
previous week. This is the lowest number re
ported for many months, and affords a striking
contrast to the number recorded for the week
ending March 18, when they reached the high
figure of 150. A majority of failures were of
small concerns, many of which had been an
ticipated for some tune, and of course do not
affect the general trade of the country, which
is in sound condition.
Gov. Long, of Massachusetts, has replied to
the protest of Wendell Phillips against the exe
cution of Sterns K. Abbott. The governor
claims for himself the same humanity as Phil
lips on the subject of capital punishment and
had recommended the council to commute the
sentence. He says: ''With the council opposed
I have no more power in the casethan youhave
either to pardon or commute. I cannot with
hold oi refuse to sign a death warrant because
the warrant under the present law is issued by
the court at the time of sentence." Regarding
Phillip's insinuations as to the motive on the
governor's part, the latter asks for a statement
of it and says he (Phillips) does not really be
lieve there is one. It was cowardly to make an
insinuation without deliberation.
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.
Secretary Lincoln has telegraphed Lieut
Gen. Sheridan, of Chicago, requesting his
presence in Washington on department busi
ness.
A dispatch announces the death of Gen.
McAuliffe, of Washington, at Newark, Ohio.
He died in the, railroad depot while waiting for
a train.
President Garfield has appointed John K.
Bois of Hudson Micb., and Wm. McMichael of
Philadelphia members of the board of Indian
commissioners
The commissioner of internal revenue de
cides that the money in custody of the govern
ment, and belonging to a citizen, is not subject
to levy and attachment under the proceedings
instituted in a State courtby creditors.
Some friends of Brady and others accused of
connection with the star route scandal, declar
ed to-day that the accused are going to fight
that Brady will show he sent money to carry
Indiana for Garfield last year at the latter's re
quest, and tbat money was raised from mail
contractors, and the president knew it
A short time before the Indiana election
Brady the
Starhroute
to Garfield to
rascal, wrote a letter
general effect that ilong Garfiel
would give Brady written authority he would
secure subscriptions of $20,000 from mail
contractors with whom he was thrown in con
tact Gen. Garfield showed this letter to a few
confidential friends. They wanted the money
bad enough, but not on the terms proposed.
Garfield wrote to Brady to this effect, or at
least declining to write the letter suggested.
The German barque Tiger, spoken some
time ago, 124 out from Liverpool, with a crew
ina starving condition, and supplied withstores
by the steamer Nebo, has arrived within the
capes, but has not came uptoBaltimore. Col
lector Thomas has asked Secretary Windom to
send a revenue cutterin search of the David
Stewart and bark Hottenbarn, both from Rio
Janeiro, and long over-due. The vessels were
spoken off the coast a month ago and have not
been heard of since.
The pestoffice star-route scandal is all the
talk of the town. The result promises to be as
astonishing in its details as the exposure of the
whisky ring by Secretary Bristow. One of
the agents of the ring in Washington, when
somewhat in liquor, boasted not'long ago that
he had received $20,000 for persuading Gen.
Brady to sign a certain contract The depart
ment will make public its list of ninety-three
routes on which the pay was increasedbyBrady
from $727,119 to $2,802,214. This in
formation will be followed by the result of the
investigation which has been made in the de
partment since Mr. James became postmaster
general.
The secretary of the interior and the com
missioner of the general land office have de
cided that the circular of the Freedman's Asso
ciation of St. Louis, offering 160 acres of land
in the Okolona Indian Territory, cannot be car
ried out. The commissioner says: "The pres
ent attempt to make use of colored people of
the country,by deluding them withficticiousas
surances that new and congenial homes can be
provided for them within this territory, de
serves especial reprobation, smce the only ef
fect must be to involve innocent people in
criminal conspiracy, and to subject them to
disappointment, hardship and suffering."
FOREIGN FLASHES.
Sir Stafford Northcote will take Disraeli's
place as leader of the Conservatives.
Bradlaugh has presented himself on several
occasions at the bar of the house of commons
to be sworn in, but was denied the privilege
and forcibly ejected.
A special from St Petersburg declares that
the Aidtschikoff and Winter palaces are being
surrounded with defenses similar to those used
to defend ironclads against torpedo explosions.
Toronto dispatch McKee Rankin and Man
ager Shepard of the Grand opera house had a
lively fist fight in the latter's office. Shepard
getting caught in a chair, he demanded to have
the fight out in the room. Rankin declined and
Shepard had him arrested, but he was soon re
leased. Playing a pirated copy of the Danites
is said to be Shepard's offence.
A St Petersburg telegramsays, the grain crop
of the old Caucasus is almost certain to prove a
failure that locusts have begun to appear in
incredible numbers in all districts upon the
Caspian sea that no such visitation has been
known before, and that in one district thirty
tons of locusts eggs were destroyed. The
government also points out thati the event of
the grain crop failing (and Tiflis merchants in
dorse the same view), the United States will
have to supply the corn.
CONGRESSIONAL.
TUESDAY, AMHIi 27.
The Senate assembled after an adjournment
of several days. On motion of Senator Ed
munds the committee on judiciary had leave to
sit duringthe recess of the senate, if that ever
should occur, topursue Some investigations up
on the subject of bankruptcy.
A motion fo recess and kindred motions
were voted down. Lamar, who was paired
with a republican voted by mistake to go into
executive session,and the motion was carried.
There was something of a sensation, but La
mar corrected himself, the deadlock continued
as before, and the Senate adjourned
WEDNESDAY, APBHj 27.
Mr. Morgan introduced a resolution setting
rth the importance of a ship canal across the
isthmus.
After two or three ineffectual roll calls, Mr.
Harris moved that the senate go into executive
session, stating that there were 300 nomina
tions en the table awaiting action. LoBt23
to 23.
At 2 o'clock, after voting down several dila
tory motions, adjourned
The republican senators held a caucus butno
decision was reached in regard to the condition
of things. Probably a meeting will be held
witlrn the next few days, but there is little or
no doubt it will result in some arrangement for
holding several executive sessions soon after
wards TheNewYork nominations and similar
subjects of controversy didnot enter into dis
cussion.
THUB8DAY, APBXL 28.
Senator Butler, of South Carolina, made a
long speech answer to Senator Burnside, in
which he recapitulated, under seventeen heads,
evidences of a bargain between the republicans
and Senator Mahone.
The speech ended, Burnside and Hale en
gaged Butler. Mr. Burnside reasserted that
all charges that there wasany corruption onhis
side of the chamber was false.
The senate adjourned until Monday, at which
time it is supposed some measures will be
adopted towards a partial break of the dead
lock, so as to admit of confirmation of appoint
ments.
Terrible Disaster at Elgin, Illinois.
On Thursday last, a disaster occurred at El
gin, 111, by which several persons lost their
lives. Owing to the carrying away of a bridge
there had been no means of crossing the river
except by the watch factory bridge, half a mile
south of the business part of the city, until
Wednesday afternoon, when a scow 16x15 feet,
was launched, to answer for a ferryboat It
was built by direction of the city authorities,
and manned by Pat Sullivan and Thos. Mur
phy. It was a weak affair, and was condemned
by many before it made its first trip. It was
run by a cable the ordinary way that small
ferry boats are. Thursday morning it left the
west bank of the river with twenty-five ot
more persons on board, and when about halt
way over the boat dipped water. The passen
gers became frightened and rushed to the op
posite side, when it immediately filled with
water and sunk. When the ferry sank the
crowd of thirty men, boys and girls were seen
struggling in the mad torrent, their cries rend
ing the air for blocks away.dozens of small row
boats were sent eut, mainly in this manner
some of the passengers were saved.
The following, however, are known to be
lost:
Guy Carlisle, aged sixteen, sonof Supervisor
Jas A. Carlisle.
Geo. Taylor, aged sixteen, son of JamesTay
lor, shoe merchant
Francis Creighton, eleven years old.
Thos. Murphy, aged thirty-six, married.
John Corbin, aged thirty-five, lately from
lake county leaves a wife and two children.
Elmer Foster aged fourteen.
JohnThroop. The tone of the radical journals begins to be
outspoken against a monument to Beaconsfield
in Westminister.
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MINNESOTA NEWS.
Minnesota News by Telegraph and Mail.
W. E. Hawkins, republican, was re-elected
Mayor of Red Wing without opposition.
The State Teachers Institutie began at Wi
nona on 1 uesday last. From 175 to 200 were
in attendance.
Plans have been perfected and funds guar
anteed for the erection of anew hotel at White
Bear Lake, near St Paul
Thomas Brooks, formerly register of deeds
of Olmsted county, has been appointed to a
clerkship in the treasury departmentunder Mo\
Windom.
Fairbault Democrat: Hon. R. A Mott has
been in very poor health since the adjournment
of the legislature, being entirely unable to at
tend to business. A short time since he was
taken with vertigo, in his office, and those pres
ent were greatly alarmed at his condition.
Hon. S. P. Stewart, the member from North
field, has also been quite sick.
Morris Tribune: A suit has been commenced
by Messrs Brown & Chew, the attorneys of Mr,
H. D. Wheeler, against the St Paul, Minneapo
lis & Manitoba railroad company lor $5,000
damages. It will beremembered that a young
son of Mr. Wheeler's was killed last fall an
accident on the Morris, & Browns Valley
branch, caused by the engine and several
cars leaving the track.
A stranger, apparently a German, about 35
years old, died very suddenly at the Lake house
in Sleepy Eye,Brown county,Saturday evening,
from the effects of a prolonged spree. From a
letter found on his personhis name is supposed
to be F. Seager, of New Lisbon, Wis., and that
he has a wife at that place. He represented
himself to belong to the I. O. O. F., to be a
butcher by trade, and that he was on his way to
Dakota to take up land
The second hospital for the insane, in Roch
ester, is constantly undergoing enlargement
and improvement Mr. H. Horton has just
completed the plans and drawings for a new
engine house, the contract of which will be let
soon, so that work on it may be commenced
within a couple of months and completed this
season. This new structure is to be located
100 feet in the rear of the present engine
house, which it is to supersede It is for the
accomodation of the engine and a set of Fer
meriick boilers of 300 horse power.
Supreme Court Decesion on Mechanic's Liens.
The Supreme court of Minnesota, by Justice
Clark, has rendered a decesion, the syllabus of
which follows: A mechanic's lien for labor per
formed and materials furnished and used for
the repairing of a building is notterminatedby
the destruction of the building by fire after the
performance and furnishing of such labor and
materials, but before the account provided for
by section 7, chapter 90, general statutes of
1878? is filed for record: but may, notwith
standing the destruction of the building, be
enforced against the land on which it was
situated.
Personal Paragranns.
August Belmont has twenty-five racers to
come on the turf this year.
Erastus Wimen, of New York, will pre
sent Toronto, Can., with two baths, which
are to be built upon piers and to cost be
tween $5,000 and $6,000.
General John Boss, of the English army,
was made a E. C. B. three or four weeks
ago, and a few days later obtained a divorce
from his wife on account of her desertion
and misconduct while he was in Afghanis
tan.
Disraeli has prepared hismemairs, which
he means tointrust to his former secretary,
Lord Bawton, not to be published until ten
years after his death, when the pungent
criticism made on his contemporaries will
strike less keenly on their descendants.
Mrs. Martha Stanton, widow of Dr. Ben
jamin Stanton, and an aunt of the late Sec
retary Edwin M. Stanton, celebrated her
eighty-seventh birthday at her home in
Salem, Ohio, on the evening of the 18th
inst.
Christine Nilson says of Emma Abbott:
"She deserves all the success she has, and
it is a satisfaction tome to remember that
she followed my advice in her musical
studies. She showed pluck and persever
ance where another girl would have given
up in dispair."
Bernhardt appeared in Newark, N. J.,
Thursday night. ooms had been engaged
for her in the best hotel in the city. When
she saw them she was so displeased that
she returned to her palace-car and there
passed the night.
During the connection of Kev. Stephen
H. Tyng, Jr., with the Church of the Holy
Trinity, New York City, he raised over
$1,500,000 for church work, one-third of
which is invested in real estate belonging
to his church.
A rich and eccentric old Eentuckian nam
ed Lewis Hamilton, who was killed by a
fall from his horse the other day, is said to
have left five children, bearing the surpris
ing names of Avenue Belle, a young girl of
eighteen China Figure, another daughter
of fourteen London Judge, a son, aged
twenty-one Hebrew Fashion, a daughter,
aged eleven, and Southern Soil, a lad of
eight years.
Mrs. Hughes, the mother of Thomas
Hughes, though more than 83 years old,
means to cross the ocean and spend the re
mainder of her days in her sons colony of
Rugby in Tennessee. She will bring over
her furniture, pictures and books, and ex
pects to arrive in this country in May. Be
fore going south she will make a stay at the
house of Geo. W. Childs, at Philadelphia,
and a special car will convey her thence by
easy stages to her destiny.
William H. Augur, a Union soldier, dur
ing the war assisted three sisters who were
in great distress at their ruined home in
Virginia. At the death of the last of them
some years ago, it was provided by will that
the estate should be kept in trust for certain
missing heirs until 1881, and then, if they
were not found, be given to Augur. The
latter, who has returned to his family at
Meriden, Conn., has been informed that
the time has expired, and, as the missing
ones have not turned up, the estate, valued
at $100,000 belongs to him.
When Sophie Pieroffsky was arrested in
the streets of St. Petersburg she assured
the officer with much dignity that he was
grievously mistaken as to her identify, and
at the same time begged him not to involve
a lady in any disgraceful scandal in the
street but to escort her promptly and
quietly to the nearest police station. Li St.
Petersburg the story goes that on the way
to the police office she opened negotiations
with her captor, who demanded fifty ru
bles for her release. The young lady had
unfortunately but thirty in her pocket, and
the officer would not trust her for the rest.
Mrs. Huldah Bryan, an old and esti
mable lady of Washington, Franklin coun
ty, Missouri, died in that place on the 1st
inst. Mrs. Bryan was a great-granddaugh
ter of Daniel Boone, granddaughter of
Boone's son-in-law, Callaway, and daughter
of Callaway's Bon-in-law,Wm. T. Lamme.
She was born in what is now called Warren
county, in the year 1807, v, hen the state was
a wilderness held chiefly by
Indians,dand
th
old pioneer, Boone was recognize as
the sole authority in matters of dispute and
doubt by the few settlers who lived beyond
the influence of the feeble post authorities
at St. Louis. Mrs. Bryan remembered the
old pioneer distinctly, having often met
him at his own house and at her father's,
and she could relate many incidents of
himself and the times in which he lived.
Hawthorne as an Office-Seeker.
F. A. Durivage in Baldwin's Monthly.
Every one knows that the "Scarlet Let-
ter," published by Ticknor Fields a few
years afterward, made Hawthorne. In 1833
I used to meet him at Goodrich's and in the
drawing-room of Park Benjamin, Temple
place, Boston. Hawthorne used to call,
listen, and go away, without saying a word,
but, as Cole said of the stuffed owl, "keep
ing up a confounded thinking." I saw
Hawthorne some years afterward in the
private room of Gen. Peaslee, collector of
the port of Boston. He was then in very
good spirits, and expansive. I congratu
lated him on the recent election of his class
mate and friend, Franklin Pierce, and he
leciprocated by congratulating me on my
appointment as private secretary to the col
lector of Boston.
"I have just been calling on Frank at the
Tremont house," said Hawthorne. "He
took me aside and said. 'What can I do
for you, Nat?' I told him that I had long
wished to see Europe, and so I had deter
mined to ask him for some foreign mission
or chargeship. 'No. no,' said Pierce. That
would be a repetition of Jennifer and Aus
tria. I'll do better for you, Nat.' And so,"
continued Hawtnorne, gratefully and ex
citedly, "although it is now a secret, to
morrow every one will know that the presi
dent gives me the consulate of Liverpool."
Then Hawthorne who, as I said, was in
very expansive vein, repeated the story
Pierce had just told him of Jennifer. It
seems that just after Gen. Taylor's election.
Jennifer met Todd in Baltimore.
"Where are you going, Jennifer?"
"To Washington."
"Everybody is going to Washington and
everybody knows Taylor will give you what
you ask for. Now, the question is, what
will you ask for?"
"You know I have always wanted to go to
Europe. Well, I shall ask for a foreign
mission or chargeship. You see, I can live
on my outfit, and save up all my salary.
(In those days the outfit and salary were
$9,000 each.) I have thought of Russia."
On this, Todd said promptly:
"Don't go there. St. Petersburg is a hor
rid hole, and the dearest in Europe. Your
outfit wouldn't last there a week."
Jennifer thanked him, postedon to Wash
ington and saw Gen. Taylor.
"Well, Jennifer, what can do for you?"
"Give me the chargeship of Austria."
"Consider yourself appointed. I was
afraid you'd say Russia, knowing your
Muscovite proclivities. But I've given that
to Todd!"
Well, Jennifer went to Vienna, lived
snugly on his outfit, saved his salary, and
was happy in the realization of his plans.
On the eve of his departure, he called on
the Countess who was mistress of
ceremonies at court, and expressed to her
his regret that his social position as a
bachelor prevented him from reciprocating
the attentions lavished on him.
I am glad you have spoken of it," said
his friend. "Your country and you will
suffer if you go away without reciprocating.
But never mind. I will see to everything
do all the honors. All you will have to do
will Jse to pay the bills. I will see that you
have them promptly."
The countess, Jennifer's friend, hired a
vacant palace, Italian singers and music,
bought flowers, engaged a French cook, etc.
Every one agreed that so splendid an enter
tainment had never been given in Vienna.
The bills amounted to $9,000. Jennifer
went home penniless, and was glad to take
a subordinate clerkship in the treasury de
partment. Hence Franklin Pierce did not
give Hawthorne a clerkship, but made him
consul at Liverpool (a fortune then) and
hence, in my mind, I never hear the name
of Hawthorne without thinking of Pierce,
Jennifer and Todd. Such is the force of
association.
The Latest Architectural Agonies.
Newport (R. L) Cor., Boston Transcript
Some of the new houses building are
very unique, and, as Newport sets the fash
ion, I may mention some of their peculiar
ities. Low ceilings are now the rage.
Eight feet is the fashionable height for the
first floor, and nine the most allowed. This
is a marked change from the twelve and
fourteen foot ceilings heretofore popular.
Windows are square, with minute panes of
glass, and seem to be thrown at the house
to lodge wherever it happens many open
like casements, and there must
be several sizes of glass in the same
sash. Piazza rails are built high
.ad solid, so that jou reality sit, when
out of doois, in a room without a roof.
Loopholes filled in a square lattice cause
these pia/zas to look very much like for
tresses. The chimneys, built of handsome
brick, are not covered in doois. and the
sides of many a drawing-room are entirely
of brick, with a fire place and wooden
brackets or shelves for bric-a-brac. The
color is rich (red cement is used) and the
effect is good. All the new halls are built
large and square, contain fireplaces, and
are furnished like drawing rooms, which
gives a very hospitable look to a house to
one entering it. Low and rambling is
the present fashion, and there was never
such a strife after oddity in house building.
I think the Casino, which is a veritable bit
of England, and an example of its most
peculiar and effective style of architecture,
set the fashion here for the twenty new
houses which are building.
France's Lost Provinces.
Paris American Register.
The Germanization of Alsace-Lorraine
does not appear to have succeeded to the
satisfaction of the German Provincial au
thorites. Recent decrees aim at suppress
ing the French connection. Of these, two
have been commented upon. The first has
for object to close fifty-four French in
surance offices, whose nnited business is
estimated at nearly 600,000 francs, for the
ben fit of a German insurance company
under Government patronage. The sec
ond decree insists that the discussions in
the Provincial Assemblies shall take place
in German only, the effect of thib measure
being to render two-thirds of the members
incapable of sitting in these Assemblies.
The recent conscription returns also showed
that two-thirds of the young Alsace-Lor
rainers, from whom military service was
due, had left the country.
Anecdotes of Lincoln.
Mr. L. J. Cist has collected for a Cincin
nati paper some interesting anecdotes of
the martyred president. In 1832, when 23
years old, Lincoln was induced by his
friends to run as a Whig candidate for the
legislature, and made his maiden speech,
as follows: "Gentlemen, Fellow-citizens:
I presume you all know who I am. I am
humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been
solicited by many friends to become a can
didate for the legislature. My politics are
short and sweet, like an old woman's dance.
I am in favor of a national bank. I am in
favor of the internal improvement system
and a protective tariff. These are my sen
timents and political principles. If elected,
I will be thankful. If note's all the same."
He was not elected at that time.
There resided in springfield, in 1860, an
Irish laborer, John McCarty by name, a red
hot Democrat. Shortly after the presi
dential election, Mr. Lincoln was walking
past the Public Square, where John was at
work cleaning out the gutter. As the presi
dent-elect drew near. McCarty, pausing in
his work and holding out his hand, said
bluntly: "An' so yer elected president, are
ye? Faith, an' it wasn't by my vote ye wur."
"Well, yes, John," replied Mr. Lincoln,
shaking hands very cordially, "the papers
say I'm elected, but it seems odd I should
be when you went against me." "Well,
Misther Lincoln," said John, dropping his
voice, lest some brother Democrat should
hear him, I'm glad you got it, afthar all
It's mighty little pace I've had wid Biddy
for votin' forninst ye, an' if ye'd been bate
she'd hev druv me from the shanty as
shure's the wurruld." "Give my compli
ments to Biddy, John, and tell her I'll
think seriously of woman's suffrage," said
Mr. Lincoln with a smile as he passed on
to his office.
President Lincoln once said that the best
story he ever read in the papers about him
self was this: Two Quakeresses were trav
eling on the railroad, and were heard dis
cussing the probable result of the war.
think," said one, "that Jefferson will suc-
ceed." "Why does thee think so?" asked
the other. "Because Jefterson is a praying
man." "And so is Abraham a praying man."
"Yes, but the Lord will think Abraham is
only joking," doubtfully replied the fiist.
After a state election in New York in
which the republican party was defeated,
Mr. Lincoln was asked how he felt after
having heard the news. He replied: "Some
what like the boy in Kentucky who stubbed
his toe while running to see his sweetheait.
He said he was too big to cry and too badh
hurt to laugh."
During the spring of 1864, a friend, in
conversation with Mr. Lincoln about the
approaching presidential election,
said that nothing could defeat him but
Grant's capture of Richmond, followed by
bis nomination and acceptance. "Well"
said the president, "I feel very much like
the man who said he didn't want to die pai
ticularly, but if he had got to die that was
preciselv the disease he would like to die
of."
In the summer of 1862 Gen. McClellan
wrote from the Peninsula a long letter to
the president giving him advice as to the
general politics of the country and how to
carry on the affairs of the Nation. "What
did you reply?" asked some one of Mi.
Lincoln. "Nothing, but it made mo think
of the Irishman whose horse kicked up and
caught his foot in the stirrup 'Ariah''
said he, 'if you are going to get on I will
get off."
Miscellaneous Matter.
A new Haven firm sends thousands of
the red American fox skins, to Russia eveiy
year. These skins, which are ufe the
Muscovite country to line costly garments,
are contributed, to a considerable extent,
by Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire.
That we should send fuis to Russia is as
odd as that we should send wmes to France
and yet both these things are done.
Boston Globe: Jay Gould writes checks
for $2,400,000 on old sciapg of letter-paper,
and the banks pay them but if we should
write a check for $24 on a sheet of vellum
and plaster it all over with revenue stamps
and gilt seals, the man who presented it
would be handed over to the police. There
is something wrong in our civilization.
Where are our bombs?
The number of cigars smoked in Ger
many in a year is estimated at about 6,504-,
000,000, representing a constant and daily
consumption of two cigars per head for
10,000,000 smokers. Besides cigars, the
Germans smoke during the same period
more than 60,000 tons of tobacco which has
undergone more or less preparation, besides
using 8,000 tons of snuff and 700 tons of
tobacco for chewing.
A lady graduate of medicine in Wasliing
ton has been tendered the position of resi
dent physician on one of the largest Indian
reservations in the west. We hope she will
accept and proceed there at once. We
know of no cheaper or more certain method
of satisfactory solving the Indian problem
than by placing all the reservations undei
the medical charge of lady graduates. In
about 10 years a live Indian would be a
genuine curiosity.
London Truth There are many highly
lespectable people who firmly believe that
so long as a man avoids 'games of chance,'
and sticks firmly to whist, he cannot loose
money in the long run, aad their is ananal
ogous delusion that if an owner of race
horses does not bet he can not, with aver
age luck, be largely out of pocket by his
stud."
Henry Ward Beecher's regiment, the
Thirteenth, of Brooklyn, expected to go to
the Yorktown Centennial as the escort of
Governor Cornell out, finding that the
regiment expected the state to pay their
transportation, Cornell informed them that i
he would veto a bill to that effect, and he
finally declined their services altogether.
In Nevada there is a wonderful wood
known as "mountain mahogany." The trees
do not grow large. A tree with a trunk a
foot in diameter is niuch above the average.
When dry the wood is about as hardas box
wood, and being a very fine grain might, no
doubt, be used for the same purpose. It
is of a rich red color and very heavy.
There is now in the vaults of the treasury
department a larger amount of gold than
was ever known to be in one place in tha
history of modern times, and probably
more than could be authenticated as exist
ing a single treasury at any time before
in the world. There is now about $173,-
000,000, of gold coin and bullion, exolusive
of some $55,000,000,' in silver, while the*1
bank of England has only about $75,000,-
000, in gold. What is more singular is,
that it stays in the vaults, no matter what
the demand recently, for as fast as it is
paid out it returns, showing that as long as
confidence is maintained it is not a favorite
currency.
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