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m x <3 a © o n 3$ H =5 r- Pd pd hH 3D A. J. HARP, Publisher. 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.