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^ejister.
CARN ESVILLE, GA.
Divided Responsibility.
There are three brother* in the Pat¬
rick family—one of the sisters is thfe wife
of Editor Medill. of the Chicago Tri¬
bune —Abraham. James, an ex-Common
Picas Judge, and Audrew, a banker.
Abraham (of New Philadelphia, Ohio),
•who read law here, tells this story him¬
self:
When the three brothers were boy*
their father purchased a litter of young
pigs of a particular breed quite uncom¬
mon in those day*. I Hiring their in¬
fancy he watched those yig* Vare with a very
jealous eye. and would missed hts
supper at any ran* rather than . to hare ,
seen the porkers go to their nests hun
gry. and said: One day he toot Abraham aside
“Mr son. I aza called mr on bust
ness and «s to he mwe a week. I
want tfipTwt too to look after the pig* and see
Ih»t -.
AL r. a* tadter. Abraham.
Said: Gotng to gentleman
aat gotaa; out of Mara for a week,
James, an i w : e I ok gma too feed
and water Shone pigs, she same as I
hare done."
•TLi fit them «t reraoeal atten
lion." J “
sa i lines.
ax.-ie . ,o a.*:.. ? ! Wde. .*'■*?*■ I charge
. .
you w't.i tiie • gs. ibet fan to feed
them a: least tare* toaws a day while I
am -You away.’’
may dec.:-, 1 , on me. father: I
shall see that the fugs do not suffer,”
said Andrew ~
Having delivered his command*, the
old gentleman climbed into his carriage
nmi ”
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later , he -
. return.-.,. W aen ae entered the
house be met Abraham.
'•Did you feed the pigs?” ^ he asked.
•*No, James did,” said Abraham.
Meeting 1 James he asked: “How are
the pigs? ’
“I don’t know.” replied James: “An
drew took care of them.”
“Well, Hunting up Andrew, he exclaimed:
Andrew, have the pigs prosper¬
ed under your care?”
“I haven’t seen the pigs,” said An¬
drew; “the other boys looked after
them.”
The old gentleman, with a horrible
suspicion There, under his hat, rushed to tlie
pen. iu death's cold embrace,
lay the young porkers stiff and stark.
A few minutes later three young men
were shed, being and it reasoned with in tlie wood¬
is altogether likely that
fore they the experienced a change of heart be¬
old gentleman' and his cowhide
left them.— Cleveland. Leader
Invited Out,
A Hendersonville (N. C.) correspon¬
dent of the Galveston News writes:
Court has beou iu session hero the last
two weeks, and I have several times
dropped ed in the in old to North see how justice is dispens¬
State. I am struck
with the difference apparent in the
court here from that in our own state.
ward The Judgo insignia wears no oilice, gown and or any out¬
of app ears
only as a common citizen, seated
•ho tiimfbeing sit in on tlie huddle bench. The law¬ him,
yers a sort of before
gathered table instead around one common in large
of being strung out an
orderly group inside bohiud a lino of small
tables just the bar, as with us.
They witnesses, retain and their do seats while examining
not stand up even
when addressing “democratic"’ tlie Judge. They
seem to he very in dress
and manners too. 1 observed one on a
bar hot in day long sauntering; linou about within the
a d us tor. I saw also
some one come into the court-room and
beckon to him, the lawyor who was
conducting tlie defense in a case while
the solicitor was examining a witness
on the stand; and telling the solicitor
that he would bo back in a few mo¬
ments, ho walkod out with his friend,
and the whole court stopped short,
without explanation or apology, and
■waited some live or ten minutes until
lie returned. The jury also exhibited
the same “free and easy” appearance,
some ing sitting if with coats off, aud all look¬
place as nft’air. court And was this a mighty easy-going common¬
man
i:cr seemed to pervade the wltole court.
I do not say that in the trial of offend¬
ers or the enforcement of the law they
are any less thorough and efficient hero
than in South Carolina. But the absence
of much of that dignity and propriety
which characterize tho court in our
state is very apparent, and one familiar
with the customs in South Carolina can
ference. hardly fail to be impressed with the dif¬
Soniething to Talk Of.
One day last fall a farmer entered
the office of a Chicago capitalist and
asked for an interview, and when this
had been granted he spread out a
country map on the table, and said:
“I’ve got an enterprise hero to roll
millions of wealth into our pockets.”
“Well?”
“See here. Hero, at this poiut, Coon
Creek and ’Possum River are only five
miles apart.”
“1 see.”
“A canal cut across this neck connects
the two. I’ve been over tho ground,
and a canal ten feet deep and fifty feet
wide can be dug for $250,000; and wo
can “On charge wnat?" such toll as we se lit.”
.
“On all vessels passing through.”
has “Just so. My" friend, Coon Creek
’Possum an average Crook depth about of two feet and
fifteen inches.
Just think of some plan to get your
ships un to the canal”
The farmer slowly rolled up his map,
“Darn my buttons,” he muttered;
“but I hadn't thought of the ships. 1
guess I’U give up the canal and go to
poring for salt.”— Wall Street Newt.
St Louis intends to make the news-
GEN. I0GAN DEAD.
The End Cornea with Startling Sud¬
denness to His Many
Friends.
His Devoted Wife’* Name the East
Syllable Uttered by the Fa¬
mous Old Soldier.
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Washington. Dec. 27.—Senator
Logan died before at his o'clock home here a few
minutes 3 yesterday af
ternoon. surrounded by {lie members
ol his family and a great number of
his political associates. Although tlie
Senator laid been sick for some time ,
bis condition tor the past day or
two was known to be critical, death
‘ was not looked for so soon. Every
body stitution hoped be that would with be able his robust con
to recover.
His case was regarded as hopeful by
his physicians up to Friday night, but
then it became rapidly. apparent that lie was
sinking very affected From that time
on rheumatic fever his brain
aml Drought on frequent periods of
stupor and unconsciousness. Satur
&
evening that Dr. Hamilton, one of his
attending residence physicians, remained Early at his
over night. in the
night family, he together grew weaker, with and his entire
General Beale
and Congressmen Symes and llall. re¬
mained bv his bedside all night. At
intervals during the night-the Senator
"f conscious and seemed to rally,
About midnight, during a conscious
moment, liis wife leaned over him and
spoke to him. lie murmured “Mary,”
alK i tfiis was the last word that passed
his lips, although he seemed to recog
nize some of those about his bedside
as late as 5 o’clock in the morning. lie
before sank gradually, tlie and at three minutes
3 in afternoon died without
a Tlie struggle. deathbed
dramatic. General scene Phil was Sheridan painful and
stood
at the foot of tlie bed, with his hands
clasped nd sorrowfully behind him, looking sternly
OB upon the face of his
O Id comrade. Back of him was Gen¬
eral Bealq, Grant’s most intimate
friend. Mrs. Logan knelt at her hus¬
band’s side, her face white and as near
as hair. possible By her to tlie side color of her her two snowy- chil¬
were
dren—Manning, boy, of a Spanish splendid, swarthy
a pure appearance,
and Mrs. Tucker, las sister, a slim,
who dark-eyed watched brunette, tearless and pale,
alternately her mother
and her dying father. Major Tucker,
her husband, stood at the General’s
head. About the room were other
groups from tlie callers below, who had
tiptoed tially darkened. up to tlie room, which was par 1
It was feared that th O
General’s death would he painful. His
ing heavy made breathing and occasional chok¬
every one fear a death from
suffocation. At ten minutes after 3,
amid the sound of weeping, the deep,
sonorous voice of Dr. Newman was
heard in prayer. As the deep voice of
the pastor resounded through the
denly room General Logan died, Sud
bis painful came
in great pants. Then
James, tlie colored servant, wished to
lift him up. As lie did so there was a
choking effort rattle to clear in the throat and a
cumulation strong it from tlie ac¬
of mucus, hut the effort
was a failure. There was a stoppage
of the breath, the eyes half opened,
their pupils enlarged to the full size of
the ball, and then tiie General fell
back lifeless. Dr. Newman said sol¬
emnly: “He is gone.”
Mrs. Logan became wild with grief.
She fell upon the bed with her arm
about her husband’s body, crying, sob¬
bing, ling! wailing, Oh. darling!” calling out: “Oh, dar¬
Her abandon¬
ment to grief was even more sorro w
ful than the sight of the General’s
death. Mrs. Logan remained in this
prostrate condition so long that it was
felt necessary to call her to herself.
With great difficulty she was torn
away from tlie bed. It was plain that
Mrs. Logan was in an exalted mood
from tlie intense excitement and great
strain. Finally, when she was per¬
suaded to leave the room, she turned
and said, with determination: “You
find must promise that whatever you may
necessary to do that you shall not
cut my poor darling’s body. It was
his wish, and it is miue that it shall
not he done.” Of course Mrs. Logan’s
wishes in this matter would have
been law. hut it was not the intention
of the physician to hold a post-mortem.
About two weeks ago Senator Logan
was first confined to his home with
rheumatism, by rheumatic and, later on, this was
his brain. Tlie fever fever, made affecting terrible
Inroads upon the patient, and early
last week lie was so reduced in flesh
that his friends would hardly have
recognized him. Ilis suffering up to
within a day or two was intense. Sen¬
ator rheumatic Logiui complained of agonizing
seat iu the Senate pains while first he occupied his
tlie two or three
days which of this session. Ilis disease,
at first was acute inflammatory
rheumatism, was not considered dan¬
gerous until rheumatic fever set in.
Then his pulse ran so high and the
fever became so intense at times that
tie sank into stupors.
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The death chamber is at the south
east corner of the second floor ot Cain
met place, the quaint and oozy home
1 com torts have been so often
mantle over the hCIsldA borne. CSuv
riages came rolling up the heights in
uninterrupted succession. Within an
hour after the sad news bad become
wives, known, prominent men, lower with apart¬ their
ments were of the crowding the conversing in
residence
hushed tones of the traits of the dead,
the grief brought upon a loving family
and The loss the country had suffered
in the latest addition to the remark¬
able necrology of 1886.
tive Gen. Logan’s system was very sensi¬
to weather changes of a particular
kind, and he has often been heard to
remark, in a half jocular way, that he
believed he could accurately foretell
the coming of a snowstorm. The
seeds of his disorder were sown during
the war, his first attack of rheumatism
of having followed immediately the end
blinding a twenty-four hours’ march Ilis through at¬
a snowstorm. last
tack, too, resulted from brief expos¬
ure to tlie snowstorm of a fortnight
ago.
decision Washington, that lias D. been C., Dec. reached 29.—The in
re¬
gard to Gen. Logan’s burial is practi¬
cally this: After the funeral next
Eridav, in Washington tlie remains are to be interred
decision a cemetery, of to await a
as to the place final burial.
One proposition made at Chicago is to
cede the southern end ot the lake front
for tlie grave; another is to erect a
monument at the head of Grand boule¬
vard and change the name of tlie
thoroughfare made at to Logan. New Tne York, casket of
was Spanish red Oneida, covered with
broadcloth. cedar, and
remains Washington, of D. Logan C., Dec. 31.—The taken
Gen. were
from Calumet place to tlie rotunda of
tlie Capitol yesterday afternoon, and
were laid under tlie dome of tiie great
connecting structure lying tlie legislative across the chamber pathway at
either end of the Capitol. After the
family farewell and look friends had face taken dead tlieir
at the of the
the coffin lid was closed.
Veteran comrades lifted the casket
tenderly followed bore it to tlie hearse, and
it. trudging silently and sad¬
ly through tlie snow to the Capitol.
After tiie casket was placed in tlie
great circular chamber, and the doors
were of opened, had hundreds of people
some whom been waiting shiver¬
ing outside began for hours—were there and
at once to file slowly past the
had Long before this shivering crowd
arrived, gained and admittance fresh accessions
so an almost steady
stream continued to file by tlie bier up
to 9 P. M. After that hour straggling
knots of people, came along, and at
midnight tlie faithful Grand Army
guard Probably were left alone with tlie dead.
viewed 15,000 people were in line and
the renwiins during the after¬
noon Tlie and Capitol night. draped
is in an appro¬
priate manner, hotii exterior and in¬
terior. The half-columns which sur¬
round the rotunda are draped with
black, and a line of the same material
runs round on a line witli their capi¬
tals. Tlie bier is the same on winch
have rested the remains of Tbad Stev¬
ens, President Gartield and other illus¬
trious statesmen.
The remains of the dead statesman
were removed to tlie Senate chamber
at noon to-day. Tlie funeral services
were conducted by Rev. Dr. Newman,
Chaplain ltev. Dr. B Tiffany. 111 ler, Bishop Powler, and
Senator Sherman
presided reserved and on the Senate floor places
were lor the members of tlie
Senate and the House, President and
Cabinet, Supreme Court, Diploma- ic
Corps, Masonic Grand Army, Loyal Legion,
Mexican organizations. War Army Veterans, of Ten¬
nessee, etc.
The Senate galleries were occupied by
the families ot the above’mentioned
and invited guests.
At tlie conclusion of tlie ceremonies
the body was borne from the Senate
chamber and escorted to itoek Creek
Cemetery. Sheridan’s The procession, under Gen.
Pennsylvania command, marched up
avenue, Fifteenth street,
and out Vermont and Rhode Island
avenues to the Seventh street road, and’
then past the Soldiers’ Home to Rock
Creek Cemetery. Tlie procession was
led by Gen. Sheridan and staff, follow¬
ed by and a cortege civic made up of many mili¬
tary organizations and citi¬
zens. Army of Representatives tlie Republic, of the Grand
of the Army of
the Tennessee, Loyal Legion men and
Mexican Veterans were in tlie ranks
in great numbers.
GENERAL NEWS.
Trains are again crossing the Mis¬
souri river at Sioux City 011 ihe ice.
About 20 per cent of the stock of the
Mexican Central road is now held in
Europe.
Baron von Oppelseir, the Austrian
astronomer, of expired in Vienna at the
age 45.
The people of Greenfield, Ind., have
made up a purse of $1,800 with which
to drill for gas.
train By tlie derailing of a Fort Wayne
near Darlington, Pa., six persons
were painfully injured.
The wife of Rev. Benjamin Staun¬
ton, ot Brooklyn, has been granted a
separation for cruelty and adultery.
A son of ex-President Hayes was
married Newark, Thursdayjto O., niece Miss of Judge Sherman, L. B. of
a
Otis, of Chicago.
The will of John Q. A. Williams, on
being to contain probated in Boston, was found
Harvard college. a bequest of $400,000 for
On account of peculiar legislation in
Georgia, last winter, dealers in fertiliz¬
ers propose to supply farmers in that
state only for cash.
On entering his seventy-eighth year,
Mr. Gladstone was deluged with
presents and congratulatory telegrams
from all parts of the world.
The internal revenue collector at
Atlanta has seized ten packages of
bogus article by butter Chicago shipped firm. as the genuine
a
The insolvency is reported of Jacob
and Castelberg. Charles a jeweler in Baltimore,
capitalist Winchester, the noted
of Ashburham, Mass.
A special grand jury at Columbus,
O., found a true bill against five citi¬
zens election for held altering fifteen tally-sheets months at the
ago.
Rev. Clayton Kelso, Preshyterian,
45 years of age, and in good "circum¬
with stances, halter hanged at himself Macon, Missouri. from a fence
a
The Chicago council has set apart a
space about 320 feet square, at the
south end of the lake front, as a burial
place for General and Mrs. Logan.
Mr. Marratta, the United States
marshal for Dakota, has announced
that he intends to resign soon. He
expects to be appointed territorial
auditor,
The police of Milwaukee have sent
two armed detectives to the mining
regions air of 1 Wisconsin, to rescue a girl
“ , " r 10 * «
Sff'SgKgt recent strike.
The chancellorship of the British
exchequer Michael Hicks-Beach, has been accepted to fill the by Sir
resignation of vacancy Lord
created by the
Randolph Churchill.
At the election in the province of
Ontario Tuesday all the cabinet min¬
isters were re-elected to Parliament by
large majorities. The labor party fell
to pieces at the polls.
Citizens of Deti oit and Grand
Rapids, representing railroad and
steamboat interests, have subscribed
$100,000 for a hotel at Mackinac island,
to be opened next July.
A contractor is looking Duluth over the
territory lying between interest of and
Port Arthur in the Ameri
P lor Krain traffic!* 611 * 1 “ b "“ d *
raUwav /
A „ farm of 'f lift}-eight acres __ near
Bloomington, Illinois, seed millionaire, belonging to
Ilirarn Sibley, the lias
been attached on a suit for security by
a citizen of Massachusetts.
Since the census of 1880 the southern
states have added 565.2 )0 tons to 1 heir
annual capacity for iron manufacture.
Six blast-furnaces ate now being built
in Alabama and two in lennessee.
Ex-Governor Robinson, of Massa
cliusetis, will not permit his name to
be used in connection with the Senator
ial election. Ex-Governor Long of is the
candidate of the ioes Senator
Dawes.
Vienna cablegrams thousand represent Russian that
three hundred
troops have been ordered to mass in
Kieff, and that notices of billet were
served on the occupants of ten thou
sand houses.
W. T. Ilornaday, of the national
museum at Washington, who Montana, lias been
collecting the visible specimens supply in of bitffalo re- at
ports the Yellowstone divide and
sixty hundred in lexas.
one m
Charles Robinson, Kansas, formerly the free
state governor of having been
appointed tional Indian superintendent sebooi Lawrence, of tlie na
at was
given a dinner by 150 of the most
piominent men ot his state.
James Kenmore, an orphan lad sent
west by a charitable society of New
York, Peotone, hanged himself in a barn near
Ill., when because he was not re
membered the farmer's Christ
mas tree was tilled with presents. 1
Ine Pennsylvania , • committee ... on
lunacy ing reports sanity of to John the governor M. Wilson, sustain
the who
confessed to the Chicago police tlie
murder and mutilation of a butcher
named Stahl, in Montgomery county,
T!,e receipts of. live s.ocK at th. |
Chicago yaids are just now so light as
to occasion great surprise and cause a
marked advance in prices. The best
cattle choicest Tuesday hogs' brought and $5@5.39, the
^ $4.70, prune " sheep 1
jq
The commissioners and warden of
Joliet prison, in their biennial report
to the governor, have fully set forth
their views on the question of convict
labor under the present system. All
the expenses of the penitentiary have
been met by its earnings.
Tlie citizens of Houston, Texas,
have under consideration the plan of
applying repeal of the to the legislature charter, for escap*e the
the payment of city bonds for to
issued $1,500,000
•but little twenty benefit years ago, from which
lias been derived.
The Illinois Central company will
during extension the from coming Chicago year complete Free its
to port,
notwithstanding The Minnesota rumors and to Northwest¬ the con¬
trary.
ern road between those points is to be
finished by the end of January, unless
tlie weather interferes too strongly.
About midnight John burned on Tuesday just outside the
steamer Sir
tiie harbor of St. John, New Bruns¬
wick. Five of tiie crew received fatal
affected injuries; by the huddling remainder together were seriously in the
snow on the rocks at Black point. The
vessel and cargo were valued at $70,
000 .
The federal court of Indianapolis re¬
fused to quash tiie indictments for
bribery of voters found against the
sheriff and auditor elect of Orange
county, Indiana. It also declined to
release Perkins, tlie recalcitrant wit¬
ness, on a writ of hrbeas corpus, whose
case will now be brought before Judge
Gresham on appeal.
A band of safe-blowers is causing
the greatest alarm in eastern Ohio.
Tlie fruitless attempt on the treasury
of Medina followed county Dy the was, destruction on Monday of
evening safe at Western Star and the robbery
a
of the postofhee at that place. There
are five masked men in tiie gang, and
a reward of $1,590 is offered for their
capture.
Fred Wit!rock told liis mother that
he perpetrated the express-robbery being sold to
save her home from on a
mortgage. Wittrock’s wife will soon
be released from the custody of the
detectives in Chicago, and will not be
prosecuted. Oscar Cook is said to
ham, nave implicated hue the Pinkertons Messenger have Fothering- not
substantiated tlie charge. yet
The purchasing committee of the
Wabash Wager Swayne company, Thursday through informed General
Judge Gresham that the Federal Cir¬
cuit court at St. Louis had arranged to
accept $1,000,000 iu casti, with security
for a like amount within Sixty days,
and turn over the entire system.
Judge Gresham replied that he saw no
reason to change his recent order, and
he take therefore possession instructed of the Judge property Cooley at
to
the end of December.
Fred Wittrock, the Louis express-robber, Pinker¬
has been taken to St. by
ton’s men. It appears that, on learn¬
ing by the papers of her son’s crime,
Mrs. Wittrock wrote from Leaven¬
worth to the Pinkerton agency that
she had important information to give.
When the officers arrived at her house
containing she handed $22,000 over an in express package her
Oscar Cook aud money, given to keep
by for Fred. It is said three that others $45,000 of the
stolen money has been recovered.
At Gtestem, during Prince Bismarck’s
late visit, his famous dog Reichshund,
which nearly killed Prince Gortschakoff
at killed the the Berlin dog Congress, of Gastein attacked house# older. and
a
Bismarck, who witnessed the scene,
not only punished called his dog severely, but
after a few days apologized on for the owner the o'
the dead dog, sav¬
agery of Retehskund, at the same time
promising place of a the new slain and hound. better specimen
in
Stephen Morse of East Woodstock,
Cbnn., drinks his cider out of a 300
rear-old jug that came over in the May
Bower. end was at that time loaded
with juioe. something stronger than apple*
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WASHINGTON NEWS.
The river and harbor bill, as prepared by
the House committee, appropriates $7,500,
000 .
Senator Sewell will probably be made
chairman of the Senate committee on mili¬
tary affairs, of which Gen. Logan was the
head for many years.
Under peremptory orders by special
vigents fences of tiie last general week removed land office, from illegal 274,
were
000 acres of the public domain in the Den¬
ver district.
The Secretary of the Treasury has called
1 $10,000,000 Holders in of 3 per these cent securities bonds for February ha>e
. can
them redeemed at once, with interest to the
date of presentation.
Mrs. Cleveland announces that with the
new year would come a change inthemat
ter ot ' White House receptions, which will
SSKiSSaS* ,
President Cleveland is still confined to
his room, and sutlers intensely. Assistant
the Surgeon O’Reilly, of the army, admits but that
ailment may prove serious, he
hopes days. that his patient will be out in a few
A letter recently received from the wife
e W who^s°Lendinc
Hunreme > § Cou ^ “caiKomia rt the whiter
oulhe on account of his
health, that says that the justice is better and
lie has gained some flesh.
The board of United States engineers ap
pointed testimony by the the war subject department to take
bridge on the Mississippi of building a
across river at St
Sy e^enlng an^wefe^uLni^no^f m
their opinion that the city needed a bridge,
but reserved their decision as to whether it
should be a high or low one.
Towns that want the free-delivery service
for their postoffice and think that they are
entitled to it under the new law granting it
t0 places of ten thousand inhabitants or
pomp^y The posroffic? make department apJlSonfortheslrvtee*
applications for the can act only on
service,
(fen. Miles called at the war department
with Thursday Secretary and Endicott had an extended The interview
Washington in the evening for generafieft York,
New
to remain a day or two before proceeding
1 A Z l ’ ,-III'r* \«'i ec *!
the removn c‘al. nf mL h u Accompany
per Angeles, husband Miles will
west.
It is the intention of the Secretary of the
Navy by to appoint at the Washington navy
yard Feb. 1 a superintendent of the new
publicity gun manufactory at the yard, and lie desires
yfj.' to I)e be given to the fact, and appll-
1 * an - 15 >
stating making application. the qualifications of the person
The matter of salary
has been left open to secure the services of
a proper person.
The total number of pension certificates
issued during the fiscal year 1886 was 81,427
against 74.701 tlie previous year. Since
original pensions, 13,914 JT,Sff«WS increases,
were
duplicates, 2,713 were reissues, 922 restorations. 358
the supplemental 1,024 accrued, 7,842 July were under
act of 4, 1880, and
sn ‘ a11 numbers under various other special
acts and orders.
As an evidence of the carelessness of the
dead-letter public in addressing office letters, Thursday officials of the
on exhibited a
list of sixty-four letters addressed to Pitts¬
burg, ed O., all but nine of which were intend¬
for and were subsequently delivered to
parties these letters at Pittsburg, Pa. business Nearly firms, all of
were to and
many of the envelopes bore business cards.
Another common error in addressing let¬
ters is said to be tlie substitution of Chica¬
go, N. Y.. for Chicago, Ill.
The civil-service commission lias under
consideration the testimony taken by Com¬
missioner Ooerly relative to the workings
of the yivil-service law and rules in the
New York custom-house and his recom¬ tiie
mendation for the improvement of
service, if the commission should decide
to adopt .Mr. Oberly’s proposition to allow
the collector to select trom the whole num¬
ber of eligible employes it is probable that
commission’s a prefatory declaration intention will be made of the
to assuniecontrolof
promotions in tlie customs service.
Mrs. Emmons, the eccentric wife of Prof.
Emmons, a government geologist, whose
doings iiave been chronicled in the papers,
was here Thursday, having arrived on a
morning train from New York. She went
to her former residence, and, packing up
her personal effects, sent them to N ew
York. She had a small reticule full of
money, which she frequently displayed.
This was her only unusual performance
during termination the day. She announced Europe her de¬
to return to soon.
Mrs. A Washington Logan from 1 arty Unicago who accompanied October
last
states that Mrs. Logan at that time ob¬
served to her that she now made it a rule
to accompany the General wherever he
went, and never left him alone. “We are
growing both feel old,” should said always Mrs. Logan, be together “and for we
we
the brief space left us on earth, and God
alono knows how soon we may be com¬
pelled impression to part.” This statement the lady, to made whose a
mind great it has since constantly upon recurred.
There is already a good deal of gossip as
to Senator Logan’s Townsheud, probable of Illinois, successor. said:
Congressman “There will quite number of candi¬
be a
dates for the Senatorsliip. The two most
prominent candidates will be Governor
Oglesby and Charles B. Farwell, of Chica¬
go. But I do not believe that either of
them will be elected. I think there will be
enougli candidates in the background who
control the scattering vote sufficiently to
prevent the choice of either of the two I
nave named. Among those now in the
background who will be brought forward
are Colonel Clark E. Carr, Representatives
Paysoti and Cannon, Jehu Baker, who de¬
feated Mr. Morrison, and others, The
contest will doubtless be a prolonged one.”
springer's territorial rill.
Representative Springer says he intends his bill
to do all he can to Montana, pass this session
to enable Dakota, New Mexico,
and Washington Territories to enter the
anion ot States, and he thinks he may suc¬
ceed. • It will not probably be possible to
get the committee to report upon the bill,
but he will try to get it in as a substitute
consideration. when some other The Territory will bill is up tlie for
bill not admit
Territories, but would enable them to elect
delegates next fall to draft constitutions to
be submitted to tlie people at the time of
the presidential election, and would let
them all into the union the year following.
He thinks the idea of admitting all at once
would prevent opposition on party grounds,
as they will be equally divided as to poli¬
tics, and the fact presidential of tbeir not election having 1888 any
voice in tlie ot
will silence some opposition also. He says
it is certainly time that some move should
be made toward the admission of these
Territories.
A FAVORED COMMITTEE.
The whip-hand over all other committees
of the House, except the committee iu
charge of revenue and appropriation agriculture. bills,
is held by the committee on
The enterprising chairman of that commit¬
tee obtained from the House in May last a
special order giving to agriculture business presented right
by of the committee everything of except tne bflls
way over ior
raising Tne extraordinary revenue and effect general of appropriations. the wording of
the order was not time, generally bat appreciated inconvenience by
members at the its
in practical operation is likely to be felt
many times before the close ol tlie session
uuiess the committee on agriculture should
decide to be very moderate iu claiming its
rights. The committee lias ou hand a
Dumber would of important matters, which, the it
pressed, session that is occupy devoted the remainder to appropriation of
not pieuro-pneu
bills. Among them are the
mouia bill and bilis for the establishment
ot agricultural witli the experiment agricultural stations colleges in con¬ of
nection
the several states, aud to matte the depart¬
ment ot Several agriculture other an committees executive depart¬
ment nave
- “..tan of them are fiwuter-
StaiSKT,"a!?|S„ iSg&s gj*
saa »a floui
ever, for a tsdkx majority of the S, 10 »
ttss ssa^a t,rS
~k sMssrsaa :
jontyto put suppose4110 themselves be on demanded record q'J
fanners 8 by
THE APPROPR r ATION BILLS.
any failure upon the part of the Hoii'm, revem.^
pass a bill to curtail the surplus S®
of the government His prompt
passed upon the by sundry tlie House civil before bill enabled the it to?!
the pension bill recess i.lf om a
the adjournment. was reported fiisr
The DisirictofColmbhi
bill is ready lo be reported in a day or
after Congress meets again. Under hi!
direction tlie clerk of the committee wort
ed all day Christinas, as well as on ever,
print other of day the since, legislative in order bill to have tlie £1 hi
action of the committee, and ready t'lis tor
be reported to the House before Jan. bill w i
be passed by the House 15 liiii
can in four or
days. The only other bills which must h.1
reported by the appropriations committal
are the general deficiency bill, which rune
necessarily be the last, and the fortific
tions bill. For reasons sufficient to them I
selves committee Mr. liandail have and confidence the majority of nre«! tb!
no 111 the
ent chief of ordnance, Gen. S. V. BenwJ
who directs the expenditures for armament
and fortifications, and it is safe to assmn
that present so positions long as he and large they retain the! I
no appropriation
will be made for seacoast fortifications and
heavy modern armament for them,
fortification appropriation bill was passed
by House Congress at tlie last session because the
conferrees were opposed to giving
expended as large a under sum as the the direction Senate wished to be I
of the chief
of ordnance, and the Senate would not'
agree to the restrictions which the House 1
wished to make upon the expenditures of'
the sum appropriated. A similar disagree¬
ment between the two houses is not uo.'
likely at the present session.
COLMAN'S COMPLAINT. ~
Coiman has sent to Chair
man Hatch of the House agriculture con
inittee a reply to the resolution of Repre
seutati ve Swinburne criticising the report
of the commissioner in relation to pleuro¬
pneumonia among cattle. The commis¬
relation sioner, after justifying his statements iu
to the existence of the disease at
tlie present time, speaks of the difficulties
of the inspection of affected herds, and
says:
Tlie publication of the existence of
pleuro-pneumonia 111 herds without the
pressing adoption of prompt measures for sup¬
it causes so much damage to the
owners that in many cases they not only
refuse to give information but they will
subsequent prevent the examination of the auimals at
visits. The only way to learn
tlie fate of the animals in such herds is to
tain place it a watch 011 the premises and main¬
day and night. For 460 infected
herds this would require at ieast 900 men
a force which it was clearly impossible for
penditure the department should to employ, even if the ex¬
be considered a judicious:
have amt necessary been able one. to In obtain fact, we would not!
accurate data
even in this way because many affected:
animals—probably slaughtered the greater before part of natural! them
are or sold the
termination of tlie disease. * * * The:
only penalties 111 the national law are for!
driving or transporting affected cattle from
one state or territory into another, and if!
tlie penalty clause is construed strictly, as!
I believe is the rule in such cases, there is'
nothing of to prevent the removal of that parti
an infected herd which has not yet
shown symptoms of tlie disease from any
state into any other state.
He continues:'
To quarantine a herd in any State, with-:
out evil, adopting summary means of destroying,
the is simply to set in motion the
quarantine States, which machinery of the intolerable neighboring!
dens places such practically' bur-:
ruin upon the traffic cattle shipments as losses to greater
and cause
than those we are attempting to prevent.
Tlie commissioner thinks it is wasteful
to attempt to eradicate tlie disease in,
States where inoculation is practiced and!
where inoculated animals are afterward al-i
lowed to mingle witli the cattle of other!
which herds. In closing lie pleads for legislation! extir¬
will enable his department to
pate the disease uiitrainmeied by State
authorities.
FOREIGN NEWS.
in Lord the British Hartington cabinet. has declined a position:
Tory The probable overthrow ot the Dominion, general'
administration at the coming
election is indicated.
'The Rt.-Hon, William Henry Smith, Sec-,
retary Churchill's of War, is to leader take of Lord the Conserva¬ Randolph
tives in place British as House of Commons.!
the
Hattington, Joseph Chamberlain, and
George Conservative J. Goschen have decided to support
tlie government.
Tiie removal ot the snow which fell in,
the late storm in Germany has revealed am
appalling loss of life. Many travelers
were overtaken by tiie storm. Fifty bodies
have been found in Saxony, thirty ini
Thuringia, and forty 111 Southern Germany, life
it is estimated that the total loss of
will be nearly 200.
It is rumored at Vienna that Russia and
Turkey have agreed to send a joint ulti¬
matum to Bulgaria ordering the govern-;
_________tlieir ment to comply with demands uuden
pain of the occupation received of Rouinelia.
Nothing definite has been from:
the Prince of Mingrelia. .Odessa tele¬
grams, however, report that intimate
friends of the prince have received more
hopeful news, presumably from the prince
himself.
The Paris correspondent of the London
Times affirms that he lias information from
an undoubted source that Russia and Ger¬
many signed a direct alliance correspondent, a fortnight
ago. “ihe Czar,” adds tlie this by the
“was decided in taking course Russia by
attitude- manifested towards
Count Kalnokv, Austro-Hungarian Minister,
of Foreign Affairs, and by the expectation Min¬
tliatM. Floquet would be made Prime
ister of France, This shows,” concludes
the correspondent, “that the reported alli¬
ance between Russia and France was out
a chimera.” Diplomats con¬ j
A Paris dispatch says:
sider the statements made Boulanger by the had govern* uot.j
ment organs that Gen. supplementary)
as repotted, reduced ills 510,j
military coupled estimates from $60,000,000 Journal’s to official,
000,OX), his with the of the’generals
list of reappointments
iu command of the French fortresses, an¬
other evidence that war is not remom
Muek curiosity is expressed ns to what
Germany will think of Gen. Boulanger s,
decree making these appointments and be*
stowing upon Gen. Thibaudin, commander:
of the Paris garrison, the new title of
perior Commander of ihe National hh
fense. In consequence of the canards
fished about the Czar, which have ca a
great annoyances in St. Petersburg
Fiourens, Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1
move in the Chamber of Deputies tnj t a
clause be added to the French press 1 JV9.
providing for the punishment of I
offenses on complaint of the ambass A
trom ihe aggrieved government..
Lord Bacon, generally regarded profound?
the keenest observer and
thinker who has appeared on this p’
et, wrote much on longevity. His ‘
of short life are quick growth, fair,
skin, soft, line hair, early small corpulc
large head, short neck, nr
fat ear, brittle, separated teeth,
of his signs of long life are freckled slow gre) \
hard coarse hair, the rough, forehead, firm t
with deep furrows lying in high, wide nostr
veins
large mouth,* hard gristly ear, strop «urh
contiguous teeth. He adds that
gray hair is not significant, some of th*
longest livers having turned gray ut
•any life.