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Kp PROMINENT MEN AND WOMEN.
| r Qitocn Victoria is to bo presented with
Rf- a dress of block fiilk pillow liico by the
Bj ' ladios of tho Maltese nobility.
J = . Tho Rev. Hugh G. Pentecost , of Now-
| 'ark , N. J. , who went from u printing of-
I ' - ' fico into tho pulpit , imd afterward bo-
fl f' -camo n socialistic labor agitator , is about
fl ; to return to the cose.
Sir Morell Mackenzie is to bo ono of
I , / the lecturers at tho EdinburgPhilosoph-
V . "ical institution during tho winter if ho
H .survives the. duel ho Jsn'fc going to fight
| - ( /with Professor Bergnmn.
f\ J Colonel J. W. Bennett , owner of tho
! jQentloraon's Driving park at Philadel-
_ , , jphia , has added $25,000 to his former
i 'gifts ' of SHO.OOO to tho Methodist Epis-
H | _ copal oi-phunago at that place.
fl * : "When General Grant was in Japan ,
Hi Prince Kung , the premier , endeavoring
H to compliment him by assuring him that
H' ' ho was bom to command , said : "Sire ,
fl • bravo gonerulo , you vos made to order. "
fl . ' H. Eider Haggard is ono of tho few
H | . ' fortunnto novelists who no doubt havo
H , to depend upon their books for support.
H IIo married a Norfolk ( England ) lieir-
B ess , who is owner of Ditchingham
m * . Manor , on the edgo of tho Bath Hills.
m J Rev. Dr. Joseph Parker , of London ,
H ( rsccms to bo growing more and more
fl\ \ bilious. "Alway i allowing for excop-
B ' ' 'tions , " he snys , 'the pulpit is the paid
H ' -slave of respectable .society. " Of course
l he regards his own pulpit the chief cx-
t -ccption. "Society" does not patronizo
HIK
K * Mrs. Kate TJpson Clark , whoso namo
H j 'is now seen so frequently in current lit-
H j -ernture , is a witty little woman of 35 or
H with husband three * and do-
, so , a , bo3s , -
H A -mestic tastes. Her favorite eostumo is
H % the Mother Hubbard , and she thinks it
H' J • combines all tho virtues that resthotic
H i . and li3Tgionic reformers are looking for.
B ) J ( H. Grafton Dolaney is tho wealthiest
H'Y \ young nian and considered the best
Hf C "catch" in Washington. He is about
B ( 1 ' 30 , and his annual income from an Eng-
B § } ish estate is between $80,000 and $90 , -
H P -000. He is said to mako good use of his
Hu J ! $1,500 n week , unostentatiously playing
H ) the part of good Samaritan to a host of
H' ' t\ \ less fortunate relatives.
H II \ Mrs. Cleveland has a now high hat
H. ! ' . -which she wears whon driving. It is a
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- V 'brown ' felt , .derby in shape , and is
H \ 'trimmed with folds of a soft brown mn-
H [ ! 'toriul and three upright brown quill
H | J -feathers. Tho effect of so stiff a head
Hj dressing upon the pretty mistress of tho
Hl | -white house is Frenehy , and not so be-
i coming as something softer in outline
Hi , would be.
Hl / Governor Hill closed a speecli at Og-
H ) i 'deusbnrg , N. Y. , with these words :
j } They tell yon there is dissension in the
H | I party when tho fact is tho party in tho
HJ > -state was never more united than at
f present. Thejr tell j'ou that Governor
m I Hill's friends are "knifing" President
1 | Cleveland , and that President Cleve-
B land's friends are knifing Governor Hill.
B It is all bosh. Friends of the state ad-
B ministration are friends of the national
B ' -administration. Democrats , all , let us
fl set aside tho feeling , and march like the
B Macedonian followers , shoulder to
H | shoulder , to the polls , and again we will
B i place tho Empire state in the demoeratio
B ' -column for Cleveland and Thurman.
fl > Superintendent Bancroft's Report
E Washington dispatch : Superintendent
B ' Bancroft of the railway mail service , in
H iis annual roport shows that on June 30 ,
H - 18SS , tho railway mail service 'was in
H -operation upon 143,713 miles of railroad.
H . Clerks were emplo .yed in the distrfbu-
B iion of mail on 120,310 miles. There
H Trero in operation forty-one inland
H -steamboat lines ; aggregating 5,972 miles ,
H t -on which postal clerks were employed ,
H while in the performance of their duties
B ' postal clerks handled 122,031,104 miles ,
H i an on steamboat 1,707,0-10 miles. They
H > * distributed 0,528,772,000 pieces of ordi-
H U nary mail , and receipted for , recorded ,
H ( protected and properly distributed 10 , -
H " 001,059 registered packages and cases ,
H 4xnd 1,103,083 through registered pouches
H tind inner registered sacks during the
B i - jreor. The casualties during the jear
Hk -were more numerous than for any pre-
Ktf -ceding 3ear , there having been 248 acci-
Hfi -dents to tmins upon which postal clerks
HL ) -were employed. In these wrecks four
Hl' clerkswere killed
- -were , sixty-thvo * seriously
BV * * 'and four cliirhtlv iirin ) d.
B- The Canadian Pacific Monopoly.
B "Winnipeg ( Man. ) dispatch : The local
B government here recently granted to a
B local railroad company right of way.
B ' The proposed ronte of this new road
B. -crosses the line of the Canadian Pacific
HL -sir miles west of Winnipeg. The Cana-
B -dian Pacific company disputed tho right
H io cross their tracks and blocked the
B { proposed intersection by side-tracking
B - locomotive at the disputed point. _ The
B -Canadian Pacific also secured an iujunc-
B lion restraining the new company from
Bj prosecuting its work pending an appeal
B "to the privy council. Public feeling in
B the matter ia very bitter against the
HK Canadian Pacific , and yesterday some
Hl -400 citizens proceeded to the disputed
Hl point with the intention of forcing a
1 -crossing , notwithstanding the order of
H | the court. The Canadian Pacific were
B notified and by the use of a special train
B" % - managed to get 200 or 300 armed work-
B men to the scene , to protect their prop-
D -orty. The citizens were overawed by
B 'this display force and withdrew bo-
H fore any collision took place. It is
B feared that another demonstration
H -asramst the Canadian Pacific will be
B made to-morrow and that serious results
B -will follow
B A Report on Labor Matters.
B Washington dispatch : The annual
B ; rreport of tho commissioner of labor ,
H ] 'Col. Carroll D. Wright , has been issued.
Kr' It is devoted mainly to statistics in re-
B" oai"d to the social , sanitary and eco-
HH | uomic affairs of women employed in
Bc -shops and factories. These statistics
BtM - -were collected by women. Over 17,000
Br women were interviewed and the results
Ks are being tabulated. The force of spe-
Hl < cialists in the department are engaged
B in collecting the statistics in regard to
B marriage and divorce in this country .
B Colonel Wright expects to havo this
B work completed and ready for traus-
B .mission to congress eary in January.
| B The special agents engaged in this work
HB -have obtained the figures from 2,700
HI -courts , and tho period of investigation
HB -extends from 1SG6 to 1SS8. Tho net
HB .number of marriages will be giveu for
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HB ' * itlie Same perio 'd , so that the ratio of
| flj imarriages to divorces can be secu.
IH A Bad Old Man in Limbo.
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K Baltimore dispatch : Samuel G Hop-
H | kins , an aged man who claims to be a
H' Philadelphian , was this afternoon com-
H' -mitted for the action of tho United
H , > States graudiury , charged with passing
H -counterfeit money. When arrested
H some S40 in notes aves found on his per-
H : son , Hopkins , as shown by the evi-
HB -dence , would cut from a $2 bill tho
Hfl rfiguro " 2 , " and paste it over the
H -figure one on a $1 bill , and then ,
H "it 3 is supposed , would supply the
H hole in the $2 bill with a figure " 5"
BH from a S5 bill. As these bills have each
H/i / -two of these figures on them the pris-
k | " oner could mako one note donble itself.
By He is said to have passed this money
H -apon several persons.
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A Syiiojttta of Vrocrrdlugn in the Senate and
llounn of UrjtteHtutlve $ ,
Sijnate. In tho senate on tho 20th ,
only seven sonatora had tho benefit of
tho final prayerof tho chaplain , namely :
The presiding officer , ( Ingalls ) , and
Messrs. Allison , Cookrell , Mitchell , Pad
dock , Saulsbnry and Teller. During
and immediately after tho reading of tho
journal tho senate was reinforced by the
presenoo of Messrs. Blackburn , Reagan
and Sawyor. Tho last bill of the ses-
nion to bo introduced was ono by Mr.
Mitchell proposing an amendment to tho
constitution providing for tho election
of United States sonatora by the people.
About twenty-five minutes of 1 o'clock
Mr. Allison , of tho committee to wait on
tho president , reported that tho commit
tee had performed that duty and had
been informed that ho "had no further
communications to offer. " A resolution
tendering tho thanks of tho senate to
M . Jngalls "for tho uniformly able ,
courteous and impartial manner in which
ho had presided , " was offered by Mr.
Saulsbnry and adopted unanimously. At
five minutes before 1 o'clock a message
from tho president announced his ap
proval of sundry senate bills and joint
resolutions. Mr. Ingalls then mado a
short speech , thanking tho senators for
the resolution of thanks adopted and
also for their courtesy and kindness , af
ter which tho senate adjoined sino dio.
House. In tho honso on tho 20th , af
ter somo unimportant business had been
transacted , the speaker nppuin d
Messrs. McMillan of'Tennessee , Cle
ments of Georgia , and Eyan of Kansas ,
as a committee on tho part of tho house
to wait upon tho president and inform
him that congress was ready to adjourn
if ho had no furthot * communication to
mako. A recess was then taken until
12:30. : After recess Mr. McMillan , chair
man of the committee appointed to wait
upon the president , reported that duty
had been performed and that ho had no
further communication to mako to con
gress. A further recess was then taken
until 12:53. _ After the second recess tho
house unanimously adopted the follow
ing resolution : "That tho thanks of this
jouso are horebjT tendered to Hon. John
M. Carlisle , speaker , for the courtesy ,
ubility and fairness with which he has
presided over the deliberations of tho
first session of tho fiftieth congress. "
Speaker Carlisle having resumed tho
chair , tho house adopted a resolution
tendering the thanks of tho house to its
officers for the courteous manner in
which they discharged their duties. As
the clock pointed out the hour of 1 , tho
speaker said : "The hour of 1 o'clock
having arrived , I now declare tho honso
adjourned sino die. " The announce
ment was received with applause , and
the correspondents in the press gallery
evidenced their thankfulness by chant
ing the doxology.
MISCELLANECUS NEWS AND NOTES.
H. W. Oliver , sr. , father of H. W.
Oliver , jr. , the iron king of Pittsburg ,
an old and prominent citizen , died last
week of pneumonia. Deceased was 85
years old. •
Burglars blew open a safe in Sedgwick
& Smith's rag store at Sioux City aud
secured § 200. Tho safe was completely
wrecked but the clerk who slept up
stairs did not hear airy noise. A number
of burglaries have occurred during the
past week. *
Ira Haywood , treasurer of Huron
county , Michigan " , has been missing
since October 5th. His books have been
overhauled and there appears to be a
shortage of § 2,000 , Haywood had been
dissipating for some time , and his friends
think he is demented. The county is
amply secured.
W. H. English , a trusted employe ol
the St. Louis steel range company , is
under arrest for tho embezzlement of
$000. English , who had access to the
mail , opened letters containing money
and checks from customers , appropri
ating the funds and forwarding the re
ceipts.
The postoffice inspector who was sent
to South Omaha to look into the condi
tion of that cit3r reports in favor of the
the e&tablishing of a free delivery
there. He finds , however , that there
are several requirements of the depart
ment not fulfilled. There aie not
enough sidewalks , the houses ai-e not
numbered , and the streets are not prop
erly named. He says that this will be
dona at once.
A sensation has been created atKnox-
ville , Tenn. , by the announcement that
J. A. Swan , late treasurer of Knox-
ville county , was short about $25,000
upon the final settlement with his suc
cessor. He is now somewhere in West
Virginia. Since Swan's departure an
examination of tho books made it ap
pear that he had received cprtain rail
road taxes that he had failed to turn
over.
It is learned that Thomas Axwortlry ,
the defaulting city treasurer of Cleve
land , on the daj * before his flight visited
all the banks in that city , save two with
which his bondsmen are connected , and
purchased bills of exchange on Drexel ,
Morgan & Co. of Ktjw York , amounting
to a sum slightly in excess of S100,000 ,
giving his personal checks in payment.
Drexel , Morgan & Co. have a number of
branch offices in Europe and the simplest
logic leads to the conclusion that Mr.
Axworthy converted his Cleveland paper
into foreign bills of exchange at the New
York office before he went to Montreal.
The chief of the bureau of statistics'
statement for tho current fiscal year re
ports that the exports for the twelve
months ended September 30 , 18S8 , were
§ 079,089,003 , as against $712,204,531 in
1887. The value of imports for nine
months ended September 30 was § 544 , -
507,90S , and in 18S7$5,358,344G04. The
same bureau reports the total number of
immigrants arrived at ports of the
United States from the principal foreign
countries , except from the Dominion of
Canada and Mexico , during the nine
months ended September 30 , 18S8 , was
432,802 , as against 411,232 during the
same period last year.
Baldwin's Leap from a Balloon.
Loudon dispatch : A World cablo
says : Baldwin bid farewell to the Brit
ish public yesterday without breaking
his neck in tho presence of 10,000 peo
ple. His balloon darted upward with
immense ; velocity. After a lapse of
about a minute it was a mile from earth.
Still it continued to go upwards for
nearly a minute longer , until tho adven
turer suspended from itappeared to the
naked eye but a tiny object. He seemed
to be disengaging some cords with ono
leg. Then he dropped. There was a
moment of breathless suspense. Bald
win was seen descending earthward with
tho parachute flapping above him , but
after falling rapidly a considerable dis
tance the huge umbrella gradually ex
panded and the aeronaut struck ground
safely. An aneroid barometer which
he carried with him had registered a
height of 9,100 feet He was nine and a
quarter minutes descending. Person
ally Baldwin has not made mnch money
by his perilous performances. He will
go to the south of France next week un
der better contracts. He will come
here in the spring. '
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THE LOG CABIN AND THE BANDANA.
TaiIov liny at XmUanupolt * mul Democrat It
Day at Cincinnati.
IiABOK DAT AT INDIANAPOLIS.
Indianapolis put on a holiday appear *
ance on tho 25th in honor of tho ropub
lican workingmon's demonstration. The
demonstration in somo of its features
waB tho most notablo in thecampaign ,
though not the largest. The manage
ment of the affair was entirely in the
hands of labor representatives , ohief of
whom were Charles H. Litchman , ex-
secretary general of the Knights of La
bor ; Robert D. Layton , of Pittsburg ;
Eccles Bobinson , master workman ol
tho brass workers' assembly of Pitts
burg , assisted by John R. Bankin , Mar
shal C. Woods , and other prominent la
bor leaders. At the evening meeting
General Harrison made a brief speech ,
saying :
I have seen dni'ing this busy summer
many earnest and demonstrative assem
blages of my follow citizens. I have
listened to many addresses full of the
kindest expressions toward me , person
ally , but among them all none have been
more grateful to mo , none have moro
deeply touched mo than this great as
semblage of workingmon of Indiana and
theso kind words which havo been ad
dressed to mo in j'our behalf. [ Great
cheering.J There aro reasons why this
should bo so , that will readily occur to
your minds , and to somo of which Mr.
McDaniols lias alluded. Early in this
campaign certain people , claiming to
speak for laboring men , but really in
the employ of tho democratic cam
paign managers , promulgated through
the newspapers , and by campaign pub
lications that were not given open en
dorsement of tho democratic campaign
managers , but were paid for by their
funds , and circulated under their aus
pices , a number ot false and scandalous
stories relating to my attitude toward
organized labor. Tho purpose of all
these stories was to poison the minds of
working men against the candidate of
the party that stands in this campaign
for the principle of protection to Ameri
can labor. I have only once iu all tho
addresses I have made to my fellow cit
izens , alluded to theso matters and scan
dalous stories. But now , in tho pres
ence of this great gathering of working-
men , I do pronounce them to be utterly
false. [ Tumultuous cheering , waving
of flags and banners , continued for sev
eral minutes. ] The story that I ever
said § 1 a day was enough for a working-
man , with all its accompaniments and
appendages , is not a perversion of any
thing I ever said. It is a false creation.
[ Enthusiastic cheering. ] I will not fol
low in detail this long catalogue of cam
paign slanders , but will only add that it
is equally false that anywhere , or at any
time , I ever spoke disparagingly of my
fellow citizen of Irish nativity or de
scent. Many of them aro now enrolling
themselves on the side of the protection
of American labor. This created tho
necessity of the stoiy. [ Cheers. ] I
want to say again that those who pitch
the campaign upon so Iowa level greatly
under-estimato the intelligence , sense
of decency and love of fair play of the
American people. [ Prolonged cheer
ing. ] I said to one of tho first delega
tions that visited me that this was
a contest of great principles ; that
it would be fought out upon the high
planes of truth , and not in the swamps
of slander and defarmation. Those who
will encamp their army in the swamp
will abandon victory to the army that is
oii the heights. Tho republican party
stands to-da- bulwark of defense of
the wage-earners of this country against
the competition which may reduce
American wages even below the standard
they falsely impute to my suggestion.
There are two very plain facts that I
have often stated , and others more forci-
bby than I , that seems to mo should be
conclusive with the wage-earners of
America. The polic3r of the democratic
part3 * the revision of our tariff laws , as
indicated by the democratic part3r , a
revenue only tariff , or progressive free
trade means a vast and sudden increase
of importations. Is there a man here so
dull as not to know that this means
diminished work in our American shops ?
If some say that labor is not fully em
ployed now , do you hope it will bo more
fully employed when 3rou havo transfer
red one-third of the work done in our
shops to foreign work shops ? If somo
one tells me that labor is not sufficiently
rewarded here , does he hope to have its
rewards increased by striking down our
protective duties and compelling our
workmen to compete with the underpaid
labor of Europe ? [ Cheers. ] I conclude
by saying that lesss work and lower
wages are an inevitable result of tho
triumph of tho principles advocated by
the democratic party.
And now , j'on will excuse further
speech from me. There are hf re several
distinguished advocates of republican
principles , 3'ou will be permitted to hear
now. I understand that the Hon. Henry
W. Blair , thesenator from the state of
New Hampshire , who has been so long
at the head of the committee on educa
tion and labor in the United States sen
ate , is to-night iu the hall. You will
also be permitted to listen to the Hon.
William McKinlej * , jr. , of Ohio.
[ Cheers. ] Now , will j'ou allow me
again to thank you , out of a full heart ,
for this cordial tender of 3'our confi
dence and respect. I felt that in return
I could not omit to say what I have
said , not because you needed to be as
sured of my friendliness , but in recog
nition of the confidence that falsehood
and slander could not shake. I have
not thought it in good taste to make
man3' personal references to it in my
public addresses. If any one thinks it
necessary that a comparison should bo
instituted between the candidates of tho
two great parties as to their friendliness
to the reforms demanded by organized
labor , I must leave others to make it.
[ Great cheering. ]
DEMOCRATIC DAY AT CINCINNATI.
Democratic day at the exposition at
Cincinnati on the 25th was a success.
The weather was fine and the crowds
large. A great many visitors called dur
ing the da3 and were received in Judge
Thurman's parlor. The exposition build
ings were crowded and Music hall was
filled with upwards of 8,000 people ,
when Judge Thurman was introduced.
He was enthusiastically cheered. He
said in substance :
Gentlemen : Wo aro in the midst of
an extraordinaiy campaign the most
extraordinary campaign that T have ever
gone through , as many as 1 have taken
part in during 1113' life. We are in a
campaign in which our adversaries have
the boldness , the audacit3 , to tell tho
people that the way to make people rich
ib to make them pay more taxes than
their government wants. [ Applause. ]
That the way to benefit a man is to tax
him from the crown of his head to the
soles of his feet , on ever3thing ho wears ,
clothing , household utensils , imple
ments of his trade , and everything
which is necessary to his existence and
comfort as an American citizen ; and
that is called protection to the laboring
men , as if you could protect the labor
ing man by robbing him of his earnings
and verifying the old saying of "Bob
bing Peter to pay Paul. " This is a de
ception and a delusion.
Here followed a lengthy analysis of
the relation of labor to capital , and the
relation of both to the country , in which
the speaker said there could not be a
single dollar added to the wealth of the
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Judge Thurman was then intorrnptod
bj * applause , whon he produced his ban
dana. "You cheor that old bandana , "
said ho , "but I would liko to know how
in tho world I would over have gotton
that bandana for you to cheor if it had
not been for labor. Labor mado it ; my
labor enabled mo to obtain money
enough to buy it , and your labor will
make you wealthy enough to livo in
( peace , in qniet and in comfort , if you
will only understand which is your best
. interests. "
Ho then went on to Raj * that tho an
nual production of wealth in this world
is divided into throe or four parts. Ono
port of it goes to the capitalists who f nr-
nisli tho money , lends his 11101103' ? nt * } t
interest , and nobody begrudges him his
interest if ho only charges reasonable
interest. Anothor part of it goes to the
manufacturer , tho man who carries on
business , and ho makes his profit as a
recompense for his labor and his work
and his skill , and nobody objects to his
having a reasonable compensation. Tho
remaining part goes to the laborer to
\y.\y \ for his wages , and if ho gets fair
wages , honest wages , then ho does not
complain ; but if ho does not get his fair
share ; if ho is oppressed ; if he is tram
pled down under foot ; if his labor is ex
acted from him without duo compensa
tion , then ho is a defrauded man , and ho
ought to complain. Some German in tho
audience , handing the speaker an old
horse shoe , said : "I picked it up during
the time tho procession was. That
means victory. It isahorso shoe. "
Judge Thurman I thank you , sir. I
will take it homo with mo. I will nail
it on my door and keep tho republican
witches that preach protection to the
poor man from entering my household.
[ Great cheering. ]
A voice "Nail it to the white house
door. " [ Laughter. ]
Judge Thurman continued : What
gave 3'ou tho right to vote ? Democratic
principles. It is all in ono sentence ,
written by tho hand of tho father of
American democracy , Thomas Jefferson ,
and found in that immortal document ,
the declaration of independence. That
sentenco is : "All men are created free
and equal. " That is the foundation
stono of democracy. Democracy sprang
from that sentiment. That sentiment
has done all for the human race that has
been done in the way of ameliorating
their condition from the day that the
sentence was written down to this day.
I defy any man living to point out to
mo ono single amelioration of tho
condition of the human race in
Christendom , one single improve
ment of tho condition of the laboring
men , that has not been tho result of
democratic principles. Wli3r , some one
may sa3' , here Avere tho southern states
that were democratic , and the3' had ne
gro slavery. Yes , but that sentence of
Thomas Jefferson all men are created
free and equal sprouted up and grew
up. and in the end mado slavery impos
sible in aii3' part of tho territoiy of the
United States. [ More applause. ] Our
republican friends say to the colored
man that tlmv set him free. TI1C3' set
him free ? They would havo been in
slavery for ten centuries to come if they
depended on them to set them free.
Thoso words from Thomas Jefferson's
mouth and from his pen are the words
that set them free in the end. It took
time to do it , but in the end it did do it ,
and therefore I say it againand I say it
without fear of successful contradiction
that no improvement in the rights or in
the condition of the laboring men in
Christendom has ever been produced
except by tho influence of democratic
DrinciDles. "
He Died of a Broken Heart.
Chicago dispatch : A sensational inci
dent happened to-da3'at the funeral ser
vices of C. S. Sqnires , who was assistant
postmaster at Chicago for nineteen
years. After having worked his way up
from an errand boy in tho postal ser
vice , Mr. Squires was reduced to a clerk
ship and subsequentlj1suspended. . His
" riends claim that he died of a broken
heart. The funeral will take place with
high Masonic honors in the Emanuel
Baptist church , one of the most promi
nent congregations in the city. The
church was crowded to overflowing.
Dr. Lorimer pronounced the eulogy ,
and his eloquence had already greatly
wrought tho audience , when he said :
"I see in the dead before me the arraign
ment of the civil service. I think as he
lies there he declares the failure of the
S3'stem. Our ideal is still beyond our
intellect , nor will justice and purity pre
vail in the civil service until preferment
shall he given upon a scale of talents
and fitness. " There was a moment of si
lence , and then the big church rang
with an unrestrainable outburst of ap
plause. Knights templar in regalia and
plain business men alike excitedly
shouted their approval , notwithstanding
tho sacred surroundings and the pres
ence of the dead. Dr. Lorimer besought
order , saj'ing : "Not here , not here , "
but adding : "Had this loved and lova
ble man his just deserts he would still be
actively among us , or we would have
been mourning for the dead postmaster
of Chicago , and not a clerk of the regis
try department. " So intense was the ag- .
itation of the audience it was with diffi
culty that the church could be cleared.
Fraudulent Insurance Companies.
Lincoln ( Neb. ) dispatch : There is a
class of fraudulent insurance companies
located in Chicago and at other points
outside of Nebraska , which make a
practice of sending out circulars to
farmers in this state soliciting insurance
patronage. These companies , or al
leged companies , have no authorit3' un
der the law to do business in Nebraska ,
and all the money they collect for this
bogus insurance is just so much stolen
from our people. A few daj's ago ono
S. N. Pethick , of Silver Creek , wrote
State Auditor Babcock to inquire if the
Cleveland & Co. insurance company of
Chicago , had an3' authority to business
in Nebraska. This alleged Cleveland &
Co. had sent Pethick a policy to fill out
and return. Pethick tore up the policj .
Soon he got a letter asking why he did
not return the policj * . Ho replied that
he had destro3ed it. In answer he got
a threatening letter , sa3'ing that Cleve
land < fc Co. did not care what he had
done with the policy , but that "all we
want is for you to pay that premium ,
and at once , or you will find v'onrself
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with a suit on your hands. " "Pethick
wrote to the auditor to find out whether
he could be sued for the premium or not.
The auditor replied that as Cleveland &
Co. 's insurance compaii3' has no legal
existence in Nebraska that the concern
doubtless fraudulent.
The Atlantic Monthly for Novem
ber furnishes an interesting table ol
contents , as the following topics dis
cussed will show : "Passe Rose , " "J
November Chronicle , " "The Fifth Sym
phony , " "The After Suppers of the
King , " "Studies of Factory Life , " "Tli
Eve of Independence , " "A Lover's
Conscience , " "Economy in College
Work , " "Dante and Beatrice , " etc. , etc.
The yearly subscription is $4.00 and
single numbers 35 cents. Houghton ,
Miin & Co. , New York and Boston.
Judge Brittain A. Hill , one of the
oldest and most promicsnt citizens of
St. Lonis , died on the 22d , aged seventy-
two. He was a personal friend of Pres
ident Lincoln during the war. He was
author of a number of works on political
economy.
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1'actn of the Famatin ICjihoile JCxplalned In a
ttilitiii/tim Dlnpatcti.
Washington dispatch : Tho excite
ment in government circles , growing
. out of tho Lord Wost-Murchinson cor
respondence is still unabated. Tho
facts of tho now famous opisodo nro as
follows : i
Mr. Murchinaon , a resident of Los
Angeles , Cal. , claiming to bo an Amer
ican citizen of British extraction , somo
days ago wrote a letter to Lord Sack-
villo West , British minister to tho Uni
ted States , asking for advico as to how
he , a native of England , should vote in
the coming presidential election. To
this tho British minister replied in a pri
vate letter advising Murchinson to cast
his vote for President Cleveland. Lord
West's letter was given publicity iu tho
newspapers and much comment gener
al I3' unfavorable to tho letter was cre
ated.
Secretary Bayard returned to Wash
ington to-night and made tho following
statement to a representative of tho as
sociated press touching tho matter :
"Yes , I havo read both letters. I
havo not seen tho British minister sinco
ho went to Europe last spring until ho
called 011 1110 this morning at the depart
ment of state. "
"Lord Sackville has no other or better
means of knowledge of the intentions of
the president than aii3T ono of tho 05 , -
000,000 of American people. His per
sonal opinion is worth no more than that
of aii3' one of them on the ground of
knowledge , and much less on the ground
of interest in tho subject.
While there must be concensus of
opinion as to tho iinpropriet3' of the ex
pression of individual views l > 3 * aii3' ono
holding the position of foreign envoy it
is still to be hoped wo will bo able to
settle the issues involved in the pending
canvass without tho importation of for
eign interference or intermeddling in
our domestic affairs.
"The American people will bo prompt
to resent and repel as impertinent 11113'
such attempts , but the3r will easil } * rec
ognize the political pitfall arranged 1 > 3'
the California letter with its object so
plainby stamped upon its face and an-
drcsscd to the British minister into
which he has so surprisingly stumbled.
Such petty schemes to break tho fall of
the despairing politicians will be held in
proper estimation by popular intelli
gence. "
Minister West was shown the inter
view with Secretaiy Bayard this eve
ning , and asked what ho had to nay
about it. ITe said : "Nothing. I don't
care to criticise it. Tho letter sent from
California was undoubtedly written for
the purpose of entrapping me. In a few
da\\s I expect to be in a position to make
public the manner in which tho affair
was planned and the itloiitity of tho per
sons concerning it. The efforts which
are being directed to the discovery of
the tricksters Avere instigated by me ,
and 1 think I shall succeed in making
eveiything plain. "
"At yonr interview with Secretary
Bnj-ard this morning , did 3-011 discuss
this matter ? " asked the reporter.
"Oh , yes , " replied Lord Sackville ;
"naturall3r enough , we alluded to tho
matter , but not at any length. " _
"Did Secretaiy Bayard intimate to
3011 this morning the publication of his
views as official ? "
"I do not know , said the diplomat ,
"that ho has mado public aii3 official
utterances ; but , " ho continued , with
suggestive emphasis , "I understand that
this published statement which 3-011
have shown me has met with the ap
proval of others as prominent politically
or more so than the secretar3' of state. "
This was understood to mean that tho
president had sanctioned the secretary's
action.
"This matter has anno3red you some
what ? "
"Yes , " said the minister. "It has an-
no3red me. but only to a trifling extent.
I havo nothing to be sony for , however ,
except that I was trapped. This affair
reveals to me a phase in the wa3s of the
American politician wa3s that in this
instance are distasteful to me. In other
American Ava3's I delight , but I would
like to be excused from having anything
to do with politics in the United State's. "
The cabinet meeting to-da3' was a long
one , lasting until nearly 3 o'clock. The
British minister's letter was the chief
topio under consideration.
Decision in the Iowa Distillery Case.
Washington dispatch : The supreme
court to-day rendered a decision in the
celebrated case of. John S. Kidd , ! plain tin
in error , vs. S. C. Pierson and S. J.
Loughran. Kidd was an Iowa distiller ,
who claimed that under the state prohi
bition law the state officers could not
prevent the manufacture of intoxicating
liquor for export to another state. He
sought to restrain the state officers from
closing up his distilleiy. He claimed
that he was licensed by the board of su
pervisors of Polk county to sell liquor
for mechanical , medical , culinary and
sacramental purposes. During the pe
riod of the alleged violations of the law
his business in the sale of liquor for
other purposes without the state , he
claimed came under the head of the in
terstate commerce , controllable only by
congress and the state law if it was
sought to prevent that commerce came
in conflict with the constitution of the
United States. He also claimed that the
statute legalized the manufacture of al
cohol for certain purposes , and thns rec
ognized the fact that it was a legitimate
article of commerce and not per se a
nuisance.
Judge Lamar read the opinion of tho
court which was * long and comprehen
sive. He said that it was of the genius
and character for the whole government
that its action should'apply to those ex
ternal things which affected more than
one of the states , but not to those things
which were completely within a state.
The manufacture of liquor within the
stateof Iowa was no less a business
within that stato because the manufac
turer intended exporting it. It was
clearly within tho power of the state to
regulate the manufacture of liquor with
in its limits whether for domestic or for
foreign consumption. The petition said
the court made a graver error in sa3ing
that the statute authorized the manufac
ture of alcohol. The law contained a
sweeping prohibition , nnd all that saved
it from complete abolition was the ex
ceptions in favor of alcohol used for
mechanical , medicinal , culina * nnd
sacramental purposes. The decision of
the supreme court of Iowa is affirmed.
A Disastrous Land Slide.
Bome dispatch : Of the 400 persons
known to have been on board the train
buried in the land slide near Laterza ,
150 dead and wounded have been identi
fied. A large number of others taken
out are ns yet unknown. Scores were
taken out to-day and the soldiers and
laborers are exerting themselves to the
utmost to recover the bodies still buried.
Their work is very much retarded by the
extreme cold and snow. Among tho
killed is an entire theatrical troupe , not
one of its members surviving. Several
headless and armless bodies have been
found in the river near by. A young
mother crazed by the shock and the loss
of her children clasped their dead bodies
to her breast aud refused to release them.
A 3'oung priest who was buried two
hours wns taken out without injury but
his hair had turned white. A family of
Bix persons were taken out together.
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AND HIS NAME IS WILLIAM H0LC0M3. '
Kimball General Manager and Holcomi
Chief Kxcctttlve Officer of the Union
l'aclftc.
Boston dispatch : At tho Union Pacific
directors' meeting to-da3' , Wm. H. Hoi-
comb was chosen director , yico Colgate ,
resignod. Subsequently Holcomi ) wai
chosen vico-president , to succeed the
late Thomas J. Potter as tho chief oxeo-
utivo officer of the Union Pacific systom ,
resident at Omaha. T. L. Kimball wai
appointed gonoral managor , and O. S ,
Miller assistant general managor. The
presidont stated that no changes in the
organization of the Union Pacific wore
contemplated. Mr. Dickinson will con
tinue as general superintendent ; J. A.
Monroo ns gonoral freight agent , and J.
S. Tobbits ns gonoral passenger agent.
No chango in tho organization of the
St. Joseph & Grand Island was contem
plated , or of tho various Utah roads. No
appointment of general mannger of the
Oregon Ruilwaj' and Navigation com-
panj' would bo mado at present ; tho du
ties of tho offico would bo performed by
Mr. ifolconib until other arrangement *
wore made.
Mr. liolcomb is at present general
manager of tho Oregon Bailway and
Navigation compnirj" , to which position
ho was appointed on tho recommenda
tion of the late Thomas J. Potter. IIo
had previously been connected with tho
Chicago , Burlington ifcQuimsyroad , and
later with tho Chicago , Burlington &
Northern.
The question of advancing 11101103' on
the part of tho Union Pacific to meet the
coupons of tho Denver. South Park fc
Pacific firsts , maturing Novomber 1 , was
considered aud without final action re
ferred to the executive committee with
fullpowors. Tho question of paying n
divided was not raised , nor was there
aii3r discussion as to the resumption ot
dividends b3r tho compnuy , either now
or hereafter. Tho mattor was in no way
alluded to. Tho company now has no
floating debt for which provision in cash
has not been mado. A fund of § 3,000 , -
000 has also been provided to pa3' for a
large amount of new equipment recently
ordered , only a portion of which has as
3efc been dolivered.
Tho compaii3' has no work of con
struction now going on. Tho extension
of the Salina , Lincoln & Western road
to Coll > 3' , about 175 miles , was com
pleted on tho 20th inst. The money
needed to pa3' for this work has been
provided. During tho past four years
between Juno 30 , 1884 , and Juno 80 ,
1888 , the surplus incomo of tho 83'stem ,
to the .unt of S13,500,000 has been
put into property. About 85,000 tons
of steel havo also , during the period
named , been put into the tracks of tho
system , in place of iron. A table show
ing tho condition of the funded and
floating debt of the compan3' , its milo-
age and debt per mile , accompanies this
statement. From this statement it ap
pears that tho entire funded and float
ing debt has been reduced sinco Juno
30 , 1884 , from $155,44GG0G to § 148,020 , -
159 , including all accrued interest to
the government , and that in this same
time tho mileage has been increased
from 4,419 to 4,704. Tho debt per mile
stands at $31,191 , as against $35,170.
There has been a slight increase in the
debt since December , 1887. The in
crease amounts to $12,450,937.
The result of the financial operation
of the whole Union Pacific system for
the twelve months ending June 30 , 1888 :
Gross earnings of the entire K3'stem ,
$29,029,453 ; surplus earnings , $11,159-
830 ; total income , $12,259,482 ; total ex
penses , $7,507,103 ; surplus less United
States requirements ( approximate ) , $3 , -
535.579.
A TERHIBLE TALE OF WOE.
How Money Sharks are Robbing a Dahola
Colony of Poliett Jews.
Mr. J. Harpmau , BajT2 5 Minneapolia
dispatch , who has returned from a visit
to Bamse3' county , Dakota , 8.133 of the
Polish-Jew sufferers there : Tho settle
ment is located about eighteen miles
from Devil's Land , and comprises sev
enty families , numbering 238 souls.
T't ' " f > aniA here two j'ears ago last
spring . v > m Chicago , St. Paul and other
places , with some household truck and
from $1,800 to $2,500 in money , farming
implements , etc. Thejr procured land ,
built their modest houses and went to
work with a will to clear the land and
become independent farmers. Those
without money mortgaged their land
and borrowed enough to pay the govern
ment price , about $230 , and expected to
live on the balance of their loans until
the first crop could be harvested. They
raised a fair crop the first 3'ear , and the
prospects were so bright that they mort
gaged their lands and other property to
purchase stock and farm machinery.
The second year they planted a
much larger acreage. The notes
and mortgages signed by them
in many instances bore interest at a
rate of 2 per cent per month on chattels
and 12 per cent on real estate , besides
5 per cent on the loans which they were
to pay the loan sharks who loaned them
the mone3 and charged the extravagant
interest. About the middle of August
iV their expectations were ruined in
out „ nc. A severe frost came and ru
ined their entire crop of wheat , leaving
them 011I3' about as maii3' potatoes as
they used for planting , and barely
enough oats to winter their bteck.
Trouble and suffering began at once.
Merchants who heretofore had been
anxious to supply all their wants re
fused to cred < t them an3 * more. Seeing
that the3 * could not expect pament for
what had been furnished already , nearly
every creditor became alarmed and fore'
closed at once. The situation became
so bad that the sheriff refused to inflict
further suffering on the people by
taking their property. He found the
people without fuel or bread , the3' using
the droppings of cattle for fnel to cook
such few articles as they could get , and
set bread , if they could get any , to bake
in this fire. Their children wero naked ,
without shoes or stockings , men and
women in rags and without footwear.
We found ever3'thing as the sheriff
stated. To the tearful appeals of these
people we said that we should not let
them starve nor freeze , and they took
fresh hopes , showering many blessings
upon ns. For the present , their most
pressing needs aro bread and fuel ,
and these articles must bo
had at once , for every day is a day of
suffering and privation. We visited
twenty houses , and found all. with two
exceptions , without a stick of wood or
any other material for fire. On Satur
day ice ffas three-fourths of an inch
thick , and we found numerous little
children with bare feet and legs. The
The minister's wife we found living iu a
hut , the floor consisting of the bare
ground , no fire , nor aii3-thing to make
one with one little girl , blue with c < dd ,
and the other in her crib , huddled up ,
trying to keep warm. Their furniture
was in keeping with the rest , and their
entire supply of food consisted of a dry
crust of bread kind ' sent b3 * a neighbor
from his * . Another
scant3 supply. wo
man was found the same morning with
two little girls with bare limbs and feet
trying to keep warm on the sunny side
of the house. Somi creditor had taken
her cow and left her to starve with her
little ones.
J. D. McCann , recently killed on
the Union Pacifio , had been in the em
ploy of the company twenty-two years.
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THE FAMILY PURSt. ill
Why AVmno.i Wro Kntltloil to ttTart 51
or it * Commit * 11 Jtmht. WS
In tho want of propor understand- |
ing Imtwoon a husband nnd his wife 1
concerning uuutinhirs .matters lies f
source of frict on. Whorn tho man- |
ngoniont and labor of n v/lfo count as |
nothing sho ii conscious of lujustlco |
and wrong. "My dear , " said an oml * ' §
uent philanthropist to his wifo ono *
day as ho snddonly burst into tho slt *
ting-room , "I havo boon counting tho t :4 :
windows in our house nnd find thoro jB
nro forty. It just occurs to mo that 9
you havo to keep thoso forty windows
clonn , or superintend tho process , nnd B.
that is not tho beginning of your work. I
AH theso rooms havo to ho swept nnd B
gnruishod , tho carpet mado and B
cloanod , the honso linen prepared and B
kept in order , besides tho cooking to B
I be done , and I took it all as a mattor B'
of course. 1 just hogin to aoo what a B
woman's work is , oven whon sho has fl
holp , which you aro not always uhlo to Hj
procuro. You ought to receive a month- 9
] y stipend ns a housekeeper would. jC
Why havon't you made me seo it bo- M
fore ? I have not been just to you 9
while I have boon guuerous to M
J others. " H
Tho wife , who told till * in after | f
years , sat down with her husband and w
( for tho first timo since hor marringo jjSj
opened her heart freely on tho topio j-
of woman's allowance. She confessed | fl
to having had many a sorrowful hour - fl
at hor position a * n beggar. At tho fl
head of a largo household in a westfl
ern toWn where domestic service was H
both scant and incompetent , sho had H
hardly been trusted with $5 at a timo H
during their united lives. H
"Itobort and I talked it over , " sho fl
said , "and decided that tho woman H
wh o takes caro of any household arfl
ticlo. Iiko a carpet , for instance , from ' fl
the time it is first mado till it is worn H
out has oxpended upon it an amount H
of timo and strength fully equal to tho H
labor that made it , couuting-from tho |
shearing of the wool till it comes from H
the loom. It may bo unskilled work , M
but it is work all tho same. Aud thfs |
is only one small item in her house- jH
kocping labor. Does not she deservo M
some -iynicnt besides hor board and i M
clothing ? j 1 M
' Kobort saw woman's work in a j | M
new light. From that lime until to- lM \
day ho has placed a generous share of A M
his incomo iu my hands , not as a : | B
gift but as a right And ho knows that jl B
I Will 110 moro fritter it away than he ! ' B
wilL If 1 choo.ie to deny myself somo ' B
thing I need and bestow its cost iu ! > B
charity or bin' some hooks I crave , ho B
no more thinks of chiding me than I H
think of chiding him for spending his H
money as ho likes , " says Good-IIousa- " • B
keeping. j fl
Thero aro other Roberts who have H
yet to learn this lesson of justice , and H
they aro found in every walk of life. H
I have known rich men who wero H
ready to buy silks , velvets and dia- H
monds for their wives. S'jnetimo3 far H
beyond what were desired , yet who H
grudgingly doled out tivo dollars at a H
time when appealed to for monuv. j fl
The reason given is that it may bo H
spent foolishly. If anything will pro- H
long babyhood into maturity it is such H
treatment. Against it a woman's na- H
turo rises in a rebellious iudgnation. H
Thoughts of bitterness rankle in tho H
wounded heart , and there are flighty , M
mocking , flippant creatures madu sn M
bv just this want of trust on the part |
of their husbands. The gravest and M
most elusive faults are always found M
among dependent classes. fl
Pearls Found in Kentucky. Hfl
It has recently become known that B
in tho streams of Kentucky are to bo B
found the most valuable pearls in B
America , and of late the7 aro very B
largely in demand. No search has B
ever been made by others than the B
bov.s , who had faint ideas of the valu- 9
able pearls thoy wero finding , but fl
State Geologist John 1L Proctor has H
taken hold of the work and is laboring fl
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to havo tho resource developed for its H
full worth.Yes , " said he , "it is a H
fact that the most useful and most val- H
uable pearls in America are to be found H
right here in the limestone streams , of H
Kentucky. They are of great value to B
jewelers , who can utilize to great ad- B
vantage all the pearls of shape and B
s ' ze the > ' get. They abound in the B
limestone region of Eastern Kentucky fl
and a portion of Western Kentucky. fl
Among tho counties in which they aro M
to be found are Warren. Logan , Chris- M
tian , Todd , Simpson , a portion ol B
Trigg , Crittenden , Livingston , Hardin , B
Hart , Allen and BoyleSomo of the B
pearls are siinpiy beautiful when M
touched up by the jeweler. Hundred * M
of beautiful stones have , no doubt , been M
found by the boy3 along tho banks. H
who , after keeping them a few days as H
a 'pretty thing , ' would throw them H
away , ignorant of what they had H
found. But I am going to bring before H
them the true signiticance of these H
pearls , and more S3'stematic searches H
will be made. " Louisville Courier- H
Journal. H
He Hates No Man. fl
Mr. Whittier is quoted as tinu replv- . H
ing to a southerner who charged hin . H
with be ng an enemy to the south : "I H
was never an 01101113to the south 01 H
the holders of slaves . I inherited from fl
my quaker ancestry hatred of slavery. H
but not of slave-holders. To every calr H
of suffering or distress iu tho south 1 H
have promptly responded to the extent fl
of my ability. I was one of the very H
first to recognize the rare gift of the > B
Carolinian poet Tiuirod , aud I was tho B
intimate friend of the lamented Paul . B
H. Hayne , though both wrote fiery B
lyrics against the north. I am sure no . B
one rejoices more heartily than I do at M
tho prosperity of the southern states. " B
Better Give the Old Ones AnothrH
er Trial.
There should bo a new set of com M
mandments. All the old one3 hava |
been broken. Picayune , M
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