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HORATIO SE\M0UR DEAD.
PANNING AWAY 4UIETLY AT UTICA
AI TICK A 1IRIEF ILLIESS.
An Interesting Sketch of Ills Long and
Eventful Politieal Career,
Tho death of Horatio Seymour, so closely
following that of General Hancock, brought
to an earthly close within loss than a week the
lives of two Democratic candidates for Presi¬
dent. Ex-Governor Seymour died at Utica,
N. Y., on the 12th, at the residence of his
sister, Mrs. Roscoe Conkling. He died after
a brief illness, tho cause of his death
being cerebral effusion, the usual process oi
death in old age. Those present when he
passed away were: Mrs. Seymour and her
sister, Mrs. Nelson, of New Brunswick, N-
J.; the ex-governor’s brother, John P. Sey¬
mour, of Utica; his sisters, Mrs. Liuoklaen
and Mrs. Conkling; Dr. W, E. Ford and
Judge Bulger.
The tcjtnr.lsjf of Governor Seymour’s phy-
ideal ailments dates from a sunstroke which
befell him in the summer of 1876, while he
was industriously at work on tho roads of his
town as pathmaster, an office which he
was wont to say ho had asked for.
He exerted himself beyond his
strength, in extreme heat, and the
with consequence pain in was the head a severe and attack irregularity of vertigo,
some
of the heart. It left him weak, and always
afterward his walking was less easy, and on
occasions he was unsteady while standing on
his feet. Ho accepted the stroke as a warn¬
ing, and he never felt that he completely re¬
covered from it. At the time of his death his
wife was also very sick.
Governor Seymour’s Career.
Horatio Seymour was in his seventy -sixth
year, and for the last thirty years of h is life
has been ____
as been one one of of the the most most wii widely known of
the Democrats of the country, scarcely a
national convention having been held dur¬
ing that time in which his name was not
mentioned as a ixissible candidate for the
presidency. daga He was torn in Pompey, O non-
— 0 ------ county, j, N. ... Y., May 31, 1810. His ...sfather, fat
Henry Seymour, was one of tho leading men
of the little village, and took an active part
in the politics of the State. When Horatio
was about nine years old his parents removed
to Utica. The boy was sent to the academies
of Oxford and Geneva. New York. When
in his fifteenth year his father,
hoping to benefit his health, sent him to a
military he gained school health at Middletown, Conn. Hera
and improved rapidly. and strength, studied hard,
After leaving the
school he studied law in Utica, and in
1823 he was admitted to the bar. At about
the same time he was married to Miss
Mary Bleecker, of Albany, Mis a young lady of
many accomplishments. father dying he
never entered actively upon the practice of
his profession, his time being fully occupied
in the management of his own large estate
and that of his wife.
Governor William L. Marcy in 1833, ap-
pointed Mr. Seymour on his military
Staff, a position which he held for six
years. In 18U he was elected to the
assembly as a Democrat. The assembly
of 1842, in which he took his seat,
included such men as Michael Hoffman,
John A. i>ix, Samlfoi'd F-. 1 'hm-rh and Cab in
T. Hubbard among its leaders, but
Horatio Seymour took a position in the
front rank from the first, surprising even his
friends by the proficiency which he displayed
in the science of legislation. Returning
to Utica after the session he
was elected mayor of that city. Tho
following for the winter he was again nominated
anil made assembly, and was the re-elected house in 1844,
session of 1 k speaker 45. An exciting of session for of the the
legislature followed, in which the bill for a
constitutional convention was passed, and the
the Democracy State was disrupted from one end of
to the other.
For the next five years Horatio Seymour
remained quietly at his homo in Utiea,
taking however, no active part in politics. In 1850,
when his party was in u liope-
less minority, he was induced to accept
the Democratic nomination for governor,
anil after a very vigorous campaign was
defeated by Washington Hunt, the Whig
JsndMate, 1852, however, by the he scant again majority against of the 262! In
ran same
opponent and Tompkins, the Free Soil candi¬
date. and this time he was successful, being
elected by a plurality of 22,506. He entered
upon*his first term as governor during one of
the most exciting periods in the history of New
York. The advocates of temperance had gained
a and strong hold in the minds of the voters,
prohibitory were clamoring law loudly for a stringent
modeled on that which had
recently Been passed in Maine. The legisla¬
ture of 1854 passed such a law, and Governor
Seymour that promptly vetoed it on the ground
it was unconstitutional. His action Cost
him his seat. He was renominated in the
faff of 1854, and ran against a Prohibitionist,
a The Know-Nothing, Prohibitionist, and a Free Soil candidate.
elected by plurality Myron 309 H. Clark, was
a of votes, and Gov-
ernor Events Seymour again retired to private life.
were fast moving onward to the
tered great crash foreign of 1861. mission Mr. after Seymour the election was of- of
a
retirement Buchanan, but declined it, and remained in
until the fall of 1862, when the
term of Edwin D. Morgan, the Republican
war governor of New York, was
about to close. Horatio Seymour was
made tho Democratic nominee for
governor, and General James S. Wadsworth
was his Republican opponent. Seymour mad*
a personal canvass of the State. Most of the
to prominent the Democratic orators had gone over
dearly Republicans, all the burdeu and of he the was campaign forced to take his
on
own shoulders. The fight was a close and
"bitter one, but Horatio Seymour won
it by a majority of 10,752. In his
inaugural address, January 1, 1863, he
announced ing his intention of stand¬
Sustain firmly the by the government declared in its effort “under to
circumstances Union, and the division that
no can of the
Union be conceded.” He forwarded troops
to Washington as fast as tho President called
[for fficiitions them, and of New undertook York to with garrison State theforti- militia.
[The troops were actually on the move from
interior when on July 13 the order was
ountennanded at the request of General
That day the terrible draft riots be-
ui- Governor Seymour was at Long
but bo hurried to the city, and on the
issued two proclamations, one calling on
rioters to disperse and the other declaring
city, in a state of iimimsctPm.
divided the city into districts,
under the control of military
were ordered to organize Hu eiti-
and 3,000 stand of arms were issued to
these aud other organizations. The governor
Visited the riotous districts in person, and by
in pei'sua on as well as by the use of force o*deH
addresses quelling the front disturbance. of the City In Hall one ho of said these
in to
the rioters: “I beg you to listen to
friend as and a the friend, f iend for I am families.” your
of your
This form of speech wus often quoted after-
Bril, aud Horatio Seymour was held up as
professing himself a “friend” of the rioters,
Du! he never replied to the attacks or domed
the words. In forty-eight hours the riot was
But down, but many rioters were shot before
was accomplished. presided tile Demo
ernor Seymour 1864, which over nominated
Hmcral Afatii- convention of presidency,
McClellan for the and
ah- ' ver that of 1868, bela in this city, by
whicli Seymour was nominated to contest
(dr the prize against General Grant He hail
|fcally declined to accept the nomination, but
consented, and made a spirited
personal canvass. He was defeated, Grant
Mil Colfax receiving a popular vote, of
8*13,188, Blair. against 2,703,tX)0 for Seymour Grant and 214
The electoral vote gave
Seymour 80—a majority of 134 for
After his defeat Seymour made up
bis mind never to run for office again. Ho
was named in every Democratic national con¬
vention after 1808, but was not again nomi¬
nated. In 1870 the Btate convention nominated
him for governor, but he peremptorily ile
dined, and Governor Robinson was substi¬
tuted for him. He had resided quietly at his
home in Deerfield, occasionally writing arti-.
cles on political subjects and advocating the
policy of free canals and addressing president agricul¬
tural societies. He was for yeans
of the National Dairymen’s association and
of the Prison association of the United
States.
General Hancock’s Funeral.
The dead soldier’s body, which had been
residence lying watched by a guard Island, of honor in trans¬ his
on Governor’s was
ferred to Trinity church, New York, on the
13th. Shortly before 8 o’clock tho lid of the
coffin was closed for the last time and a laurel
wreath brought by Colonel John H. Weeks
from the Philadelphia Division of tho
Military Order of the Loyal Legion, was laid
upon it. The coffin was covered with black
cloth and bore the inscription:
;Major-General Winfield Scott Hancock,:
U. S. A., :
; Born February 14,1824, :
Dial February 9, 1886. :
Six sergeants bearing a black cloth-coverod
bier came into the room, and placing the
coffin upon it, bore the laxly out of the house,
T1 e detachment of troops drawn up outside
then moved down the winding path to the
government steamer Chester A. Arthur. As
the cortege boarded the boat a gun front
Castle William belched forth a report. Min¬
ute guns from the castle were fired until the
procession The reached landed the church. the Barge office,
steamer at
around which there was a dense throng. The
casket was carried ashore and placed in the
inspection room while the procession was
being Jt formed on the street. 10 o’clock when
was twenty minutes to
the word to move was given, and at First that
minute it began to ram heavily.
in then line were two mounted in command policemen; of
ten policemen
n sergeant. Following this conunand, es-
cort was Major Jackson and his
then ten carriages, containing the mourners
and pall-bearers. Behind these was the
hearse, the body guard inarching on either
side of it. Ten carriages followed tho hearse,
jn which were seated military and official
gentlemen. Volunteers brought the procession,
up
They were representatives from the various
G. A. R. posts; members of the Loyal the
Legion, led by General Aspinwall, from
Hancock Legion of Brooklyn; veterans of
the Tenth N. Y. Volunteers; committeemen
from Tammany Superintendent Hall and Murray many prominent had 900
citizens.
policemen on duty. The route of the pro¬
cession, up Whitehall to State, to Broadway
and tne Morgan church, was packed the wi,h people. E.
Rev. Dix, rector, and Rev.
H. C. Goodwin, of Governor's Island, me*
the procession at the door. Promptly at 10
o’clock, the church. hour appointed, First the the procession reverend
entered the came
gentlemen above named, followed by the
casket, borne by eight veterans in blue; the dead. next
the pallbearers, then the friends of
Meanwhile the large organ pealed forth
Chopin's “Funeral Marik.” The casket,
partly covered by the American flag, was de¬
posited outside the chancel rail.
The pall-bearers, consisting of Hon. Tho*.
F. Bayard, Gen. Alfred H. Terry, Gen. Win.
T. Sherman, Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, Gen.
William B. Franklin, Gen. N. A. Miles,
Gen. John Newton, Gen. James B.
Fry, Gen. F. A. Walker, Gen. Wil¬
cox, Gen. Wm. F. Smith, Col. W. P.
Wilson, Colonel Finlay Anderson, Majbr W.
D. W. Miller and Mr. B. M. Hartshorne oc¬
cupied the first pews to the left of the center
aisle. In the third pews, on the right, wert
Lieutenant Griffin and Mrs. Griffin, the neics
of Mrs. Hancock, with the general's grandson.
Other friends occupied pews in the rear.
Among the prominent persons in the church
were Secretary of War Endicott, Colonel P.
J. Yorke, Mayor Grace and the special At
dermanic .committee, Senator Evarts, John
Jacob Astor, General others. Aspinwall, There George alsn W.
Childs and many were
delegations from the various military and
civic societies and the commercial bodies.
There were many floral tributes from sol¬
dier and civilian friends.
After the singing by the choir, the Rev.
Mr. Goodwin read the fifteenth chapter of
the first Epistle to the Corinthians. the choif Then
followed the hymn 501, after which
surrounded the casket, and Rev Mr. Good¬
win read the burial service.
After another hymn by the choir, Rev. Dr.
Dix, standing at tqe foot of the coffin,recited
the Lord’s Prayer, and concluded the service
at 10.45. Then the eight soldiers carried the
remains from the church, followed by the
bearers, mourners and escort, in the same
order in which they had entered, the bell
meynwhile The tolling a solemn requiem.
remains were then conveyed to the
Four Pennsylvania handsomely-draped railroad depot at Jersey coaches City.
containing the body guard passenger of honor, pall¬
bearers and mourners, formed the funeral
train which started out for Norristown,
Penn.
Norristown was reached at 2:45. All busi¬
ness had been suspended in tho town and the
crowd which surrounded the station filled
side. the neighboring Again streets guard for of blocks on every
the honor lifted the
remains of their old commander and de¬
posited waiting. the casket in the hearse which was in
The funeral procession was immediately
formed. The carriages containing the pall¬
bearers, preceded by the carriage of Mr. B. E.
Chain, a prominent citizen of Norristown, led
the way. The hearse followed, and then came
the town council, the Hancock Veterans of
Philadelphia, which and the Masonic organizations
of the dead general was a member
After these came a tody of citizens and cler¬
gymen of tiie town. The church hells tolled
aiid cannon thundered during tho entire
march.
The Montgomery cfemetery, as the Norris¬
town burial ground is called, is situated about
a mile and a half from the village. There
the Loyal Legion formed a hollow square
around the tomb, and tho pall bearers took
their places in the middle in two ranks with
uncovered heads, while the casket passed
through family. into the plain vault of the Hancock
On a mound near by stood Light Battery F
of the Fifth artillery with four guns As the
body was placed in its compartment followed the ar¬
tillery ley saluted, which was by a vol¬
from the muskets of the soldiers.
John B. Gough,
DEATH OF TIIE CELEBRATED TEM.
PEUANCE LECTURER
John B. Gough, the noted temperance advo-
cate, who was strick«**>aith apoplexy in a Phil¬
adelphia church, on {tite 15th, while delivering
a lecture, lingered until the 18th, when he
passed away in presence of his wife and two
nieces. The body was for sent interment. to his late home
at Worcester, Mass.,
John B. Gough was bom in Sandgate,
Kent, England,of very poor parents, in 1817.
He came to America when twelve years old,
and it was not until 1842 that ho began his
work as a temperance advocate. In the in¬
terim he had worked ns a bookbinder for $2.‘25
per week in New York; had sung and acted
in low theatres there and in Boston ; had
seen his mother buried in the Potter’s field
in New York, and had fallen into the He depths
of intemperance and degradation. was
induced to sign the pledge at a temperance
meeting in Worcester, Mass., in 1842. He first
spoke drew as a reformed him large drunkard. His speeches he
soon lectured successfully audiences, and York
in Boston, New
and Philadelphia. and In 1853 he went to Eng-
land, three again in 1857 and 1878, staying
once years and making I.‘.’60 speeches
in all. He has delivered nearly 10,600 ad-
dresses and traveled hundreds of thousands of
miles in the cause of temperance, and spoken
before more persons than any one man now
living.
ELLAVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2*5, 1886.
PRESIDENT AND SENATE,
roll VIA I. NTATKMENT OF THE MA¬
JORITY OF THE COMMIT! EE.
Tlic Judiciary Assert.n* the .Senate's ltl«lit
to Semi to the President for Papers.
!"'onator Edmunds on the 18th made a re.
port to the United States Senate from the
judiciary committee on tho letter of the at¬
torney-general declining to transmit to the
Senate copies of official records anil papers
concerning the administration of the offleo
of district attorney for the Southern district
of Alabama from January 1,1885, to .January
25, 1886. The report recites the suspension
on July 17, 1885, by order of tho
President, of George M. Durkin from the
office of district attorney of that district, the
designation on the same day of John D. Bur
nett to perform the duties of the suspended
officer, and the nomination to the Senate
on December 14, 1885, of the same John D.
Burnett to the said office, which nomina¬
tion was in due course referred to
the committee on the judiciary, The
report then declares that it has been the uni¬
form practice of the judiciary committee,
since the passage of the tenure of office act,
to call upon the heads of departments for afi
“papers and information” in the possession
of the department touching the conduct and
administration of the officer proposed to be
removed and the character and conduct of
the person proposed to be appointed. In no
instance until this time has the committee
met with any delay or denial in respect to
furnishing such papers and information, with
a single exception, and in which exception
the delay and suggested denial lasted only for
two or three days.
In the particular the case under consideration,
the report the says, committee addressed u
note to asking attorney-general for the in the same form
and same papers and infor¬
mation that it had been accustomed
to do. The attorney-general not com¬
plying with the request, the committee, on
January 25, 1886, reported to the Sen¬
ate a resolution, which was adopted
the next day, directing that officer to trans¬
mit to the Senate the documents and papers
asked for. To this resolution the attorney-
general replied on February 1, saying that he
had lieen directed by the President to say
that the papers and documents not already
transmitted to the Senate “having exclusive
reference to the suspension by the Presi¬
dent of George of M. Durkin, the late
incumbent the office of district
attorney of the United States for the South¬
ern district of Alabama, it is not considered
that the public interest will be promoted by
a compliance with said resolution. ” This let¬
ter, the report says, “assumes, that the at¬
torney-general is give the servant of the Presi¬
dent, anil is to or withhold copies of
documents in his office according to the will
of the executive, and not otherwise.” The
report adds:
“Your committee is unable to discover,
either in the original act of 1189 creating the
office of attorney-general, or in the act of
1870 creating the department of justice, any
provision which makes the attorney-general
of the United States in any sense the servant
of or controlled by the executive in the per¬
formance of the duties imputed to him, by
law or the nature of his office. It is true
that in the creation of the depart¬
ments of state, of war, and of the
navy it was provided in substance
that these secretaries should perform
such duties as should from time to time be
enjoined conduct upon them by the President, and
should the business of their depart¬
ment in such manner as the President should
direct; but the committee does not think it
important to the main question under con¬
sideration that such direction is not to be
found in tho statute creating the department
of justice, for it is thought it must
be obvious that the authority
intrusted by the statute in these eases to the
President to direct and control the perform¬
ance of duties was only a superintending
authority to the regulate the performance of the
duties that ‘law’ require, and not tore-
quire the performance of duties that the laws
hail not devolved upon the heads of depart¬
ments, and not to dispense with or forbid the
performance of such duties according as it
might suit tho discretion or the fancy of the
executive.”
The re;>ort then discusses the question
whether it is within the constitutional power
of either house of Congress to have access to
the official papers and documents in the va¬
rious point public it offices “that created by themselves. On
this says from the verv nature
of the powers intrusted by the constitution to
the two houses of Congress it is a necessary
incident that either House must have at all
times the right to know all that officially ex¬
ists or takes place in any of the departments
of the government,” and they have the
power “to obtain in one form or another,
complete information as to every paper and
transaction in any of the executive depart¬
ments, even though such papers might relate
to what is ordinarily an executive function,
if that function infringed upon any duty or
function of the representative bodies.”
A table is submitted showing that out oi
about 1,485 nominations sent to the Senate
up to January take 5, 643 were nominations of
persons to the places of officers suspended
and proposed to be removed.
The committee in conclusion report for
consideration and adoption the following res-*
olutions:
Resolved , That the Senate hereby expresses
its condemnation of the refusal of the attor¬
ney-general, the Senate under whatever influence, to
send to copies of papers called for
by its resolution of the 25th of January, and
set forth in the reports of the committee on
duty (he judiciary, and subversive as in of violation the fundamental of his official prin¬
ciples of the government and of a good ad-
ministration thereof.
Resolved, That it is under those circum¬
stances the duty of the Senate to refuse its
advice and consent to proposed removals of
officers, the documents and pa))ers in refer¬
ence to the supposed official or personal mis¬
conduct of whom are withheld by the execu¬
tive or any head of a department when
deemed necessary by the Senate and called
for in considering the matter.
Resolved, That the provision of section
1,754 of the revised statutes declaring:
military “That persons naval honorably discharged from of the
or service by reason disa¬
curred bility resulting in the line from of duty, wounds shall or be sickness preferred in¬
for apimintments found to civil offices, provided
they are to possess the business capaci¬
ty necessary for the proper discharge of
the duties of that office” ought
to be faithfully and fully put in
execution, and that to remove or pro-
jKise to remove any such soldier whose faith¬
fulness, competency and give and character are above
reproach, rendered to such nlace service, to is another violation who
has not a
of gratitude the spirit the of people the law and of the practical of the
and government
United States owe to the defender of con¬
stitutional liberty and the integrity of the
government.
Mr. Pugh, of Alabama, from the minority
of the committee, said:
“I desire to state that the minority knew
nothing of the contents of the report until
read to the committee this morning. The nii-
nority desire to prepare a report in which
they will present their views, and to enable
them to do so which they have until Monday the
week within to prepare
report; and it understood that
the majority; report Bu d the resolutions ae-
companving it will nc* be called up for con-
sideration until we get leave to file the
minority report. The time given us to do sc
is T®»oiisiileration notto extend beyond next Monday week.”
of the report was post-
poS^^Pl of Wffcommittee order that might the Democratic have an opportunity members
to prepare a mihority report.
THE NEWS.
Interesting Happenings from all Points
KANTKKN AND MIIMM.K STATUS.
The losses by freshets in Eastern Con¬
necticut will exceed $1,000,000. Nearly the eu-
tire eastern end of the State was inundated.
Around Boston 10,000 people were rendered
temporarily ward of $3,000,000. homeless, and the losses are up¬
A strike for increased wages, begun by
the operatives of the Amoskeag mill*, Man¬
chester, N. H., on the 15th, threw more than
5,000 people out of employment.
John B. Gouoh, the well known temper-
ance lecturer, was stricken with apoplexy in
lecture. Philadelphia on the 15th while delivering a
The subscriptions for tho benefit of
General Hanoix-k’s widow up to late date
bad reached about $30,000.
At the National Agricultural and Dairy
delegates convention, held in Nsw Various York,more than bear¬ fifty
were present. papers
ing on and agricultural and dairy matters were
read, the a committje was Congress appointed to urge
passage of a bill by appropriat¬
ing $15,000 to each State for experiment
stations.
Ex-Governor Horatio Seymour's fu¬
neral at Utica was atteuded by Governor
Hill, Lieutenant-Governor Jones, a delega¬
tion from the New York legislature, liumer-
ous State offiriaks, and many others, Froin
the Trinity Episcopal church, in which the
exercises were held, the body was conveyed
to Forest Hill cemetery. Memorial exercises
were also held in the Utica Opera house,
Mayor Kinney presiding. Governor Hill
and others eulogized the deceased.
A Chinaman was found in a Water bury
(Conn.) laundry suffering from leprosy.
SOUTH AND WEST.
A fire at Flagstaff, Arizona, has laid Die
entire business portion of the town in ruins.
One man perished in the flames. Aggregate
losses, $100,000.
Timothy Whelan, aged twenty-three
years, struck his father on the head with an
ax at San He Francisco, Cal., killing him in¬
stantly. then stabbed himself, probably
fatally.
Four small children were trying to build a
fire on Tangier island in Chesa)>eake bay w hen
a can of kerosene exploded, and two of the
little ones were burned to death and the
other two fatally injured.
A passenger coaeli attached to a train on
the Ohio Central railroad jumped the track
at Ten Mile Trestle, W. Va., and plunged
into the Kanawha river. Several persons
were killed and half a dozen more seriously
injured.
The counties lying along the Tombigbee
river in Alabama have been visited by an
earthquake. Chimneys were thrown down,
crockery smashed, anil families camped out
all night, afraid to re-enter their houses.
The great McCormick Reaper works,
SKrS'yjKJS’’ caused by threatened strike the
was employment a non-union against
of men.
Reports received indicate that the loss of
cattle in Western Kansas and Eastern Col-
orado by the terribly cold weather will
amount to 25,000 head.
The body of a clergyman named Jesse B.
Brady was found floating with the ice
in the Mississippi, near St. Louis. From
papers found in his possession it was clear
that the deceased had committed suicide.
WASHINGTON.
The House silver committee, by a vote of
seven Bland's to five, determined to report adversely
Mr. hill for the free and unlimited
coinage of silver. A proposition bill to report
favorably Mr. Waite’s for the immediate
suspension of silver coinage was also lost by a
tie vote—six to six—one member being ab-
sent.
The House ways ami means committee has
adopted a joint resolution directing the sec¬
retary of the treasury to apply the surplus
above interest-bearing $100,000,000 to the debt. liquidation of the
public
The committee on invalid pensions agreed
to limitation report favorably within the bills which repealing the
of time militiamen
can complete and present their claims, deaf- and
increasing the rate of pension for total
ness of both ears from $14 to $20 a month.
The President has sent the following nomi-
nations of postmasters to the Senate: Chas.
A. White, at Gardiner, Me.; George O.Guill,
at Bellows Falls, Vt.; Dennis I). Dinan, at
Westborough, Shelburne Falls, Muss.: Mass.; Joseph William H. Wilder, at
J.
Bowdoin, at Gnffi!i%"; J. W. Renfroc, at
Atlanta, Ga.; Thomas J. Francisco, at Cuy¬
ahoga Ohio; Falls, Ohio; George Moore, at Steuben¬
ville, Ind.; Nathaniel S. Bates, at Rensse-
laer, Josmih Edelbrock, A. T. Bitters, atSt. Cloud, at Rochester, Iml.;
Minn.; Janies
J. Russell, at Muscatine, Iowa; Frank B.
Smith, at Wichita, Kan.; Samuel E. Rigg,
at Beatrice, Neb.
Numerous inquiries are being made on be¬
half of loyal citizens whose slaves were en¬
listed into the service of the United States
during the late war as to their right
to compensation for such slaves. General
Butler has declared that these claims are pel'
fectly legal. be There is a the fund of $9,000,000
said to available for payment of such
claims.
The House committee on coinage, weights
and measures, by a vote of seven to six, has
laid on the table the bill providing for a sus¬
pension of the coinage of silver.
resolved At a caucus of Republican the Senators it was
not to confirm President’s nomi-
nations unless, when asked Nominations for, reasons for
suspensions be rejected are given. are to
when papers are refused.
The President has sent to the Senate the
following additional nominations: Pendle-
stantinople; ex-8enah>r James B. Groome, of
Maryland, I. Freeman to be collector of customs at Balti¬
more; naval officer Rasin, of Marlyand, to lie
at Baltimore. Frank I. Phelps,
of Crosse, Wisconsin, Wis.; to be surveyorof customs at l a
Alfred B. Jcdd, of Wisconsin,
to be pension agent at Milwaukee, Wis.;
William M. Campbell, of Minnesota, to be
United States marshal for the District of
Minnesota.
The sub-committee of the House commit¬
tee on postoffices, having charge of the postal
telegraph to the full question, committee agreeilto all report propositions adversely for
on
the building or purchase of telegraph linos
by the government.
The eighteenth annua! national con¬
vention of the National Woman’s Suffrage
association began in Washington on the 17th.
Seventeen States and Territories wore repre¬
sented.
The Senate has confirmed the nomination
of George for N. Stearns to bo \ nited States at¬
torney the district of Massachusetts.
FOREIGN.
Two Americans have been expelled from
Holstein, Prussia, for “having mads them¬
selves troublesome to the authorities.”
The Dublin corporation has adopted reso¬
lutions demanding home rule for Ireland,
and expr ssing reliance on Mr. Gladstone’s
ability to obtain it.
A revolution is in progress in Uruguay.
In Ireland 359 Presbyterian congregations,
numbering altogether denouncing 328,109 persons, project imve of
adopted establishing resolutions in the
home rule tho country.
The great Ursuline convent at Laeken, two
miles fiom Brussels. Belgium, has lieen de¬ 105
stroyed who by fire, scholars but the thirty lodgers nuns and all
girls saved. were and were
M. Simon Look, a banker of Soleure,
Switzerland, has failed, with liabilities of
$400,000. Hundreds of small depositors v.
ruined by the failure. Lock was arrested on
a charge of fraud.
The Talking Oak*
I bended low to the talking oak,
When tho moon was overcast.
The dark, green wood was filled with gloom,
The screech-owl shrieked the note of doom,
And the sable bat flew past.
Damp was the wind in the night-fnll chill
As a shroud for tho dead at sou.
And the grass-grown earth on which I trod
Was the clammy mould of a grave's fresh sod
At the foot of the aneient tree.
1 spnko thy name in a trembling roioe,
And what said the talking tree T
“She lovee but thee, she loves thee well,
She lovee but thee, though she iney not tell.”
Tims spake the oak to me.
1 bended low to the talking oak,
The moon rode a cloudless sky,
With soft and questioning voioe I spake,
Ami asked the oak for love’s dear sake,
11 her love would be for aye ?
“I tell to thee, that she told me,
She loves thee well, she loves bat thee,”
And thus spake the anoient tree.
Soft blew the wind as a maiden’s ugh,
Or as words of love confessed.
And the grass-grown earth was a noble hod,
While tho waving branohes overhead,
Told of peaceful, dreamy rest.
Again thy name in a trembling voioe
I spake to the talking tree,
“She loves but thee, she loves tbee well,
She loves but thee, though she may not te 11.’
Thus spake the oak to me.
— 1. B. Dorman in Detroit t'rte Press.
SHADOWED.
Soon after Maxamilian had estab¬
lished himself in Mexico 1 landed In
New York direct from Paris. I had
been in France nine years, but was
American born and American in all
things. I may have had a “Frenchy”
look. Indeed I may have looked like a
French agent or diplomat. At least,
Uncle Sam seemed to think so. He
got it into his head that 1 had arrived
iti New York to “sound” the North in
regard to French occupation of Mexi¬
co, and he determined to watch me.
I had no suspicion that such was the
; case, and had planned to enjoy myself
! in the big city for a couple of W6ek9.
I Two days altar m, arrival, as 1 sat in
, the office of the Astor House, reading
a newpaper, I had the feeling that
someone was looking at me. * lOU
j have probably had the same feeling,
| and have raised your eyes to find some
stranger looking you over. As I low-
ered my paper I discovered a spare,
consumptive-looking man of 40 sizing
me up. He dropped his eyes when I
raised mine, and had scarcely taken in
his “points” when 1 felt a hatred for
, him. . It than aversion . it ..
was more
Wilg positive 1 hatred. He seemed snak-
j ish to me, and rather than endure his
presence I arose and passed out on the
street.
My first call wa3 at the general de¬
i of the postoffice. When
livery window
! I had given my name three letters
were passed , out to me. T I Stood . , for , a „
momen t looking at the chiography and
postmarks, , and , as , L turned , , away I r
bombed against the fellow I had left
i ... Q lh 0 office. ... TT He had , . .__, been looking . .__
over * mv ' shoulder*
"Ah, beg pardon! . . he said ... in thin,
a
P 1 ^ 11 * VOice ’ hfl m0V6d aside f0r
me.
If 1 had hated him for his looks I
.
! should certainly have hated him for
! .. his voice. . It .. did not . strike .... ____ me AS
j
queer that he should have followed
me, but I left the building saying to
myself that I would liketadohima
bad turn.
| j I returned to the office and read my
I letters, and then took a seat in the
I reading room to answer them. They
were letters from relatives, and there
j was no call for extraordinary precau-
tions in answering them. As each
epistle was finished linclosedit,di-
teu .... the envelope , • plain, , . , bold ..
r ® c in a
hand, and laid it aside. When the
three .. were fin 18 . ' . 10 * , 1 and , ready , to . , be
stamped I felt the presence of that
Bnft ke again. As I turned to look be-
hind me he moved away with cat-like
step and disappeared in the office.
“Beg pardou, sir,” observed h gen¬
tleman reading a newspaper at my
right, “but that fellow acted in a queer
manner.”
“How?”
"I believe he took down the address
of your letters. He came in so noise¬
lessly that I never heard him?”
“Do you know him?”
“No.”
I was thoroughly vexed, and at once
proceeded to the office to call the fel¬
low to account. He had disappeared,
I posted my letters and then walked
up Broadway, the sight and scenes of
which soon drove the man from my
thoughts. At the corner of Canal
street a veritable Frenchman accosted
me in his native language and in¬
quired for the office of tho French Con¬
sul. My prompt reply, in good French,
delighted him, and he drew me aside
for a short chat. We asked and an¬
swered various questions, and were on
the point of separating when my new¬
ly-found friend lowered his voice and
sail:
“Thedeuce! l>o they have spies in
this country?”
I wheeled about, and the snake, as I
shall hereafter call him, was only two
feet awny. In my sudden anger I
raised my hand to strike, but a smile
crossed his evil face, he bowed obse¬
quiously, and holding up an unlighted
cigar in his fingers he said:
“I was about to ask the gentleman
for a light.”
“You can’t have it!" I savagely
answered.
“Ah—well—pardon my boldness,”
he said as he turned away to enter
the passing throng.
“That’s a bad man,” said the French¬
man as we looked after him. “He
kept edging up to catcli our conversa¬
tion, and I think he has been set to
watch you.”
I began to think so, too, and I was
boiling with anger. I wanted to be
sure of it, however, before letting my¬
self loose and I determined to keep an
eye open.
After standing on the corner a few
moments I hailed a cab and was driv¬
en to Central Park. As 1 alighted at
Fifty-ninth street I took a careful look
about me, but there was no signs of a
following carriage. Then, on foot, I
proceeded to the Zoological Gardens
and entertained myself there for an
hour or more, Just as I was about
ready to go down town I felt that
presence again. I had learned caution
Without making any abrupt move¬
ment I began a careful survey of the
people around me, and by and by I lo¬
cated my man. He was ten feet away,
placidly puffing at a cigar. He had
pulled a red wig over his closely-crop¬
ped black hair and had changed hats,
but I spotted him in an instant. I
wanted to walk right up and take him
by the throat, but prudence warned
me that such action would lead to my
arrest and perhaps cause me a great
deal of trouble.
As 1 started down town i made up
my mind to do that fellow an evil turn
if he persisted in trailing me. 1 spec¬
ulated for an hour on his motives in
shadowing me, but could arrive at no
satisfactory conclusion. I thought of
going to the police about it, but was
restrained by a natural feeling of ob-
stinancy. I decided to give the fellow
rope and see how the affair would end.
That evening, in tho office of the
Astor House again, I spotted him.
He had removed his wig and now wore
green goggles and walked with a limp.
He took my trail again in the morn¬
ing and shadowed me all day, chang¬
ing his disguise three times. At night
I determined to shake him. I quietly
settled my bill and gave orders about
my baggage, and about 10 o’clock at
night the “spotter” having temporari¬
ly disappeared, I slipped out of the ho¬
tel, and hurried to the ferry and
crossed to Jersey City and took rooms
at a hotel them
1 came down to breakfast next
morning feeling highly pleased over
my little stratagem, but the first man
I saw as I entered the office was my
shadow. He had on a white hat, a
loud suit, and was passing off as a
sport, but I was “on to him” in a min¬
ute. During the day I crossed to New
York, went over to Brooklyn, and
tramped around for miles, but he kept
my trail and was in the hotel office
when I went to bed.
That night I was aroused from sleep
to receive a telegram. It was from a
relative in Chicago, requesting me to
come on at once. I did not start next
morning, but waited for the evening
train. I took the hotel clerk into my
confidence, and arranged to have my
trunks sent to the depot and checked,
and to secure a sleeping car to Buffalo.
1 again started out on a tramp, and
again the snake followed urn 1
dodged here and there in crowds—
changed from one street car line tp
another, crossed the ferries—doubled
on my trail, but he clung to me like a
veritable shadow.
As train time approached I lounged
into the depot, as if to see who was
going out. I bought and read a paper,
and tried to appear cool and careless,
and three minutes before the train left
I made a break for it and entered a
sleeper. As the train pulled out of
the depot I felt certain I had escaped
the snake, but an hour later, as I start¬
ed for the smoker, I encountered him
on the platform of the very car I had
taken a berth in. The rascal could
not get a berth in that car, but he had
secured one in another.
I was b^pK with indignation at
the discove^r. came\>ut ^Ie was smoking, and
and as I he extended his
cigar and said:
“Have a light si
My plan was ta.Tn in an instant.
As I reached for his cigar I gave him
a push and he went head over hells off
the platform, uttering a wild yell as he
vainly clutched at the railing. At
Buffalo I stopped my trunks and
changed my route to Cincinnati, and
was bothered by no more spies. I saw
by the papers that the man had a ter¬
rible fall, a leg being broken and that
he was raving for six weeks. The
idea was that he had fallen off the
train. What sort of a story he told
VOL. 1, NO. 22.
when he got his senses I know not,
but tho government eitlior discovered
that I was harmless, or failed to find
my trail again.— Detroit Free Dress.
What’s In u Name I
There Is a great deal that is funny
in names. Names are sometimes comi¬
cal in themselves, but oftener they
become ridiculous by their association.
Thus, the name Asa Poor might ex¬
cite our pity if we considered what
the name might mean. But to see the
sign “A Poor Shoemaker,” painted
without any punctuation, as one is
said to have been hung out in .New
Orleans, would certainly provoke
mirth.
Announcements of engagements and
marriages may bring names Into
strange connection. A happy fitness
is seen in the union of a Mr. Catt to a
Miss Mew, and of a Mr. Tee to a Miss
Kettle. A famous Irish bull is that
of the orator who, in delivering a
eulogy upon a man of learning, closed
by saying:—
“In fact, gentlemen, he was a great
man, a very great man, gentlemen; he
was the father of chemistry, and bro¬
ther of the Earl of Cork.”
From this it appears that the Earl
of Cork must have been an uncle of
chemistry.
No words are better suited to the
purpose of the punster than are many
of our familiar names, and no words
have oftener) been degraded to his
service. The name of Theodore Hook,
a famous wit of the last generation,
was made the subject of a very clever
pun. A gentleman was asked whether
he knew Ho dr.
“Oh yes,” was the answer, “ Hook
and Eye (I) are old cronies.”
It is related of two gentlemen, one
named Fuller, the other Hawke, both
fond of a joke, that the former asked
the other what was the difference be¬
tween an owl and a hawk. Hawke
replied—“The owl is fuller in the
eyes, fuller in the head, and fuller in
the body; in short, he is Fuller all
over.”
Another old but very good instance
of punning upon a name is told of a
Mr. Gunn, who was called as a wit¬
ness in a judicial court. After his
examination the counsel said to him:
“Mr. Gunn, you can now go off.”
The Judge saw the pun, and either to
avert the effects of the shot, or to im¬
prove on the joke, gravely added,—
“Sir, you are discharged.”— Youth’s
Companion.
California I’earl Fisheries.
The Lower California pearls hold an
enviable position in the pearl marts of
the world. They are not only larger,
but the color is superior to those
found in the Persian Gulf, the Indian
ocean and the waters of Borneo. Contra¬
ry to all other gems, the pearl does not
require polishing or the art of the me¬
chanic to add a lustre to it. It is em¬
inently a jewel. Some of the very
largest pearls that have ever been
discovered have been taken from the
Gulf of California. In the Bay of
Muleje a pearl weighing 100 carats
was taken—it was as large as a small
egg; while pearls weighing from 20 to
40 carats are of frequent occurrence.
And then, again, we have in our
waters the rare black pearl so highly
prized by connoisseurs. I remember
seeing a black pearl which was fished
from out the San Lorenzo Channel,
which weighed 27 carats and was sold
for $0000. Pearls are of different
colors, from the pure white to the
delicate rose-tinted and to the pale
green. It cannot be said which of
these is the most valuable, as prices
depend greatly on the caprices of
fashion. Certainly pearls are prized
by the Mexicans. It is common to see
girls there with strings of pearls
around their necks which would fetch
a large price in London. I myself
know women in La Paz who have
pearls of extraordinary value, and
sometimes they are so poor that they
have not the wherewithal to buy food.
Of course you will say that they
should sell, and undoubtedly they do,
but a sale effected from such a woman
is tantamount to wholesale robbery.
I will give you an instance: There
4 ■*8] was a poor naked diver once who
hed up a pearl which was valued on
the spot at $2000. Well, he got hard
up, as usual, and cheerfully gave away
this gem for the insignificant sum of
$150 .—San Francisco Call.
A C’nre for Snake Bite.
Shaw, writing to the Medical
Times from Water Gap, where poison¬
ous snakes abound, says that during
the past six years, in which he had
followed out a method of cure for
snake bite, he has not lost a case. He
gives sixty minims of aromatic spirits
of ammonia hypodermically and’ ;»n
ounce of whiskey every two hours.' A
arge poultice of bruised raw omofts is
applied to the wound and* renewal
every hour. The whisky and onions
are continued until cure is effec t-!,
which is usually oh the third day.