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tftBiSQBtnElty railroad peal. i grs(toa\-‘-tiu»s.d of course according to the
A GUltAT MOSUMKNT.
lt Kenllj Amount,... a Poo! for the Benefit condition .fl'tbe markot-but the decline ! BnvelUn * of the Slot
of .lie Bond*. was due ‘altogether to his transactions. |
the New York Times. ! Dividends o{ 7 per cent, were paid in 1886, ,
**A special dispatch from Savannah a few but the rate has been successively reduc.d
.lavs sco points to the consummation Of an to® and 4 per cent, the last, declared in
exceedingly important deal in Southern June and not yet paid, being 1 per cent
railway affairs. It announced that what quarterly. „
‘radically amounts to a pool—though the Nobody can question Mr. Gould’s right unveiled in Vienna',
interested people fight shv of that ugly to sell anything he owns, but it appears
ae of Miuiii
Theresa In Vienna.
From the American Architect.
No work oi our time, probably, has been
planned with more regard to plastic and
and architectural greatness than the Maria
Theresa monument, which has just been
Tin* ’-•" Vices ad-
Fice of the foremost native architects,
jOicttsttn t i ... . i . . • /v * i • * TU-C f/ » tore most notivt*
word—is about to be formed by the leading there has been a systematic effort during sculptors, critics and historians were made
> ... 1......U_ flu. nnrinil m ivliiplt tlingp hr pr uiprp irmnn * . . ,
railroad companies of the South, whe'eby tlie period in which these sales were going
competition will be held within bounds, on to give the smaller stockholders and
rates will he maintained, and mutually others the impression that the stock was
beneficial plans be put in operation in an excellent purchase, and that the deprts*
many directions. I sion in it was due simply to the tactics of
Three important roads reported to be the bears of Wall street. Letters have
■1 ieal |y for this closer arrangement are '>een written to people in various parts of
the* Georgia Central, the Atlantic Coa-t the country stating that the dividends
Line and the whole Plant svstem, and the w> uld be maintained, that the price of the
far-reaching group of the Richmond Ter- stock was ridicuouslv low, and that any-
niinal company. No contract has yet been body would make money by buying at cur-
sealed however, delay in tuc final consum- rent quotations. These assurances have
mation of the scheme being due largely to been reiterated from time to time, all the
the extra persuasion expended in efforts to ! wa y down from 119 to 63£ in the . price,
induce the Louisville and Nashville and and from 7 per cent to 4 per cent in the
one or t»o lesser systems to come into the dividend. Furthermore, special investiga-
happv family. There is excellent reason tiong have been made by Gould’s
to expert that these efforts will be crowned lieutenants as to the financial standing
ultimately w ; l | l success, though, for the of the smaller stockholders and
Louisville has quite as much at stake as other persons likely to buy th,
lias anv one of the others. stock. There are many reasons for the
There may be some issues raised when opinion so frequently expressed by the
the pool once gets to work which can be outside speculators that Gould has a sys-
troublesome. Stockholders have every- tem of espionage by which he follows the
thing to gain from the proposed unific’a- movements of people likely to be of use to
tion of policy, but the public may find him. All the time Gou d was selling his
grounds for grumbling with freight rates stock investors in this city and elsewhere
held stiff at highei figures. The meddle- were carefully nursed with reports calcu-
some railway commissioner scheme has not fated to inspire confidence in Missouri Pa-
hitherto got a very firm grip in the West- cific, and the purchasers found out when
ern States except in one or two notable it was too late that th£y had been buying
ca ,es but if vested with new power, the his stock. It is sai l that one ' liicagoan
railroads should suddenly become dictato- who bought some Missouri Pacific and then
rial and oppressive, the Iowa example let it go at a lower price sent a bill to Mr.
would doubtless be quickly copied in Geor- Gould for he amount of the loss—It pro-
gia Alabama and Tennessee with avidity, ceeding which must have struck him as
for’the business man of Dixie is far from decidedly amusing. There are a good
lei hargic when his dollars are concerned in many speculators in Chicago who are
these latter days. {sore over the losses they have
it will not be needed, however, for the incurred in baying .this stock. They are
railroad to go to experimenting to find not enti'led to any special sympathy, as
•‘whatever the traffic will bear.” Without they may be presumed to know what spec-
marking up rates, there are lots of oppor- 1 ulation is when they go into it, bnt bona
tunities for profit to be opened through the fide investors who have seen their fortunes
pool proposed by way of econ mies, the ; whittled down through the misrepresenta-
lopping otf of exira irdinary expenses re-1 tions as to the condition and prospects of
suiting from the present fierce competition, j the property ought to have some way oi
Take the city of Atlanta as an instance. | redress, and they will find one if they can.
Tlie railroads entering there have fought j The stock showed considerable strength in
so hard to gain advantages one over an-1 the bull market of yesterday, but it has
other that to day they deliver free at lie I 'oat its prestige as an investment security.
Atlanta merchant’s store all freight con-1 I* "red to be said that Missouri Pacific
signed to him without any extra charge j was one property that Mr. Gould would
above the rate in force; when following never wreck. He had too much pride in
the ordinary rule they dumped the freight. tt. Opinion on that subject seems to be
at their depots and let the merchant do his
use of. Zauibuscli, the sculptor who came
off successful in the competition, had to
remodel his sketch three times; to consult
with Semper, and after Semper’s death,
witli Hasenatier, in respect to its architect
ural features and their relations with the
style of the edifices in the neighborhood;
hiB _ excellency Von Arneih was
appointed to furnish historical and an
tiquarian data, while the details of casting
the bronze and of chiselling and oxidizing
parts of the ornamental reliefs were pre
pared for and carried out with nnexampled
carefulness. What either South German
art of industry can do lias been accom
plished. The monument is not only the
ideal embodiment of a past historic period,
it is, at the same time, an example of
ASSASSINATION PAYS IUTAl t.I'll
colonization without her borders or by ’
novel and eager enterprise within. At the , rroo „
same time it is of course desirable that
multiplication should ho combined with
providence—that the incre.ve of numbera
should not proceed from the lowest and
most reckless classes alone. Now, in com
paring the natality or rate of increase of
different provinces in France, it seems that
the increase is rapid in two main quarters
—first (as with ourselves) among the de
graded inhabitants of the poorer quarters
of great cities, and secondly, in those prov
inces where Catholicism is still a dominant
power. Between Catholic Brittany and
tree-thinking Normandy the contrast is
striking, and the more so inasmuch as the
Joint H. Surratt Peti
tions for 9100,000 Indemnity.
Special to life New York World.
Washington, July 9.—Representative
Lawler, of Illinois, to-day introduced a
remarkable petition from John George
Ryan, of Chicago, praying to be indemni
fied in the sum of $100,000 for false ar
rest, long imprisonment,danger to life and
injury to health while resting under the
suspicion of being John I I. Surratt, one of
the assassins of 1‘reBidect Lincoln. Ryan
tells the story of his remarkable adven
tures as follows
“ I was a Confederate soldier, and hav-
seems all in favor of the Normal popula-1 »i 865 > 1 wa “ arrested order ° f Gen -
births in BritUnvarethirty-three for each balla . and ^ C °, ld ; whleh ia “«■ ,a ™ r of <”
t onlv"ni d neUen PO ' P Now 0n iii A^educa^ed dow " “> the "° ur cell. fflSE ,ureB Rnd loW " ed The A<fvance
y mn . eteen * | : Ht sii ly after I was visited by Gen. Borton, who
own carting, ns he does in most other
places of the country—in all other cases
where the competitions of rival roads have
not led to waste of railroad funds.
Another rire opportunity for economy
m Southern railway management exists in
the extravagant system of “soliciting”
business in v.*gue on all the larger roads.
Scores of men on big salaries are at work
in all the lending towns of the South seek
ing to gain business for the various rival
roads. Whenever one line comes into
competition with another there each has
its scouting “solicitors” at work continu
ally. The solicitor averages from $3,000
to $4,000 a year for his salary, and so reck
less is this policy that Beeks to win an
other road’s customer that each solicitor
has an extra account on which he is au
thorized to draw from $1,000 to $3,000
more per year. This “extra” allowance
means cigars, wine, good fellowship for the
shipper, who has to he baited.
And these are but minor avenues where
savings can be made by the railroads if a
real pool is organized, one that means bus-
iaess, one that will be lived up In. The
great benefit for the new plan will be in
heading off aud prohibiting the senseless
and defenseless building of branch lines
and extensions by roada, careless of public
interests, and seeking only to harm com
petitors. What would not such a policy
have saved in the Weal?
John H. Inman, president of the Rich
mond Terminal system, and an influential
director in the 1 ouisville and Nashville
and other lending Southern railroads, is
derated to this unification scheme. In
deed, much of the progress that has so far
been made toward its accomplishment has
followed the earnest efforts he has made.
At a cool-headed business man lie detects
the manifold advantages offered, and he
understands, too, the drawbacks of tlie
limping policy now in vogue with its jeal
ousies and fights In every direction. With
such a champion to press for the reforms
it is easy to predict a success that will
make every interested stockholder happy.
The plan ia not a-new one. Long ago
one of the moat thoughtful men in Wall
street addressed a tetter to the managers of
important Southern roads urging the need
for just such a scheme as ia now, in pros
pect. The probability of a general agree
ment, with the almost fixed certainty of the
adoption of the plan, is new, hov ever.
changing.
A Wonderful American Newspaper.
From the Cork (Ireland) Constituttion.
The Pall Mall Gazette, though it some
times goes wrong when its intellectual
vision ia obscured by current politics, par
ticularly of the -Home-Rule type, has the
reputation of being a well-conduct, d, able
paper. Its criticisms on matters non
political are fair, independent and ring
with no uncertain sound. Years ago, a
great literary man, who also is now no
more, spoke of it as written by gentlemen
It still retains something of this high
class tone. It was therefore with no little
satisfaction the following short item was
read in the Gazette by sdme of us who
take pleasure in reading the
very, versatile instructive pages of
the’New York World. Praise from such
quarter is praise indeed. “The Sunday
paper in New York is one of the marvels
of ti e age. Londoners have no conception
of what a real newspaper is. We should
say the World is easily first among its
competitors, as it is not only full of mat
ters that are interesting, but is also pro
fusely illustrated by live drawings.” The
notice does but tlie simplest justice to the
World. A copy bearing date May 27 now
lies on the table, through the courtesy of
its Queenstown corresjiondent—a wonder
ful production, a vaal improvement upon
the' newspaper Cowper described
“This folio of four pages, ha|i-
py work, which not even the critics
criticise." What a contrast the New York
World spreads over thirty-four fnll-sizcil
pages, including illustrations! It com
prises articles on topics of passing note,
critiques on the literary question! and
productions which agitate or, engage the
public mind, serials of the highest class,
splendidly illustrated, the daily news from
all pnrts of the world by wire and cable,
and columns upon columns of advertise
ments, the study of which would give an
education in itself. In, fact the World
contains a magazine ol literary feasts for
all sorts of jioople, and, in the language
of the chairman, all at the ridiculously
low price o; 4 cents.
TUB MISSOURI PACIFIC.
The Cincinnati Centennial.
From the New York Tribune.
The display of manufactures and pro
duct* »t Cincinnati will be an imposing
one. It should be to to represent to any
adequate extent the marvellous grow |
the States that were carved out in ;
n New Y’ork, who says i..,, r , a l v seems at times as if we were
July, 1880, Mr. Gould held • . ,] angl . r „ot realizing how wonderful
of the capital stock out of a 1 ,. “ „( country had been.
Uoulil Has Recently 8a1<l 91,000,000 of the
Stock.
From the Chicago Tribune.
It has been stated in the newspapers
several times lately that Jay Gould, cither
on account of hia health or for some finan
cial reason, has sold a large quantity of
the stock of the Missouri Pacific Railroad
Company. Dispatches hsve been received
at Chicago in the last two da»s that he has
told for his Jwn account $9,000,000 of the
stock and for the account of the company
W,000,000, • according to his own admis
sions, and that he still holds $10,000,000.
There is a letter in town dated April 1,
J 888 , from one of the moat responsible
brokers i " ‘
that in
$19,000,000
total Ot $30,000,000 leaving only $11,000,000 j
m tlie hands of other persons, but that at 1
toe time the letter was written' he. had
$13,000,000, leaving $32,000,000 to the rest
<4 the stockholders, the capital stock hav
ing been increased meanwhile to $45,000,-
9[i0. Whatever the exact figures may be,
there is no doubt that Jay Gould has
marketed a Urge quantity of this stock
'(itbin the last • fejr months. The fact is
ngnificant, ifoee it has always been under-
riopd lbat thu was hU favorite railroad
security. He has been supposed to sustain
alb^st the tame relation to thia property
that Commodore Vanderbilt did to New
York Central. There are few instances in
•he world of one person or one
family having so great a stake
“* one property. And he
has held not only the stock bnt the bonds,
ft will be remembered that not many
succession from the Northwest territory.
When we consider, not only, the growth in
population and material riches, but tlie
diffusion of education and tlie high stand
ard of intelligence that prevail, it is seen
to be a wonder without parallel in the his
tory of the world. When this century
opened Cincinnati was a village of log
houses, having a jiopulation of less than a
thousand souls, and the Northwest territory
was for the most part a wilderness swarm
ing with savages, and only penetrated here
and there by adventurous trader* and zeal
ous priest*. To-day it ia an empire, with
10,000,000 of inhabitants, and growing
every hour. Americans are not commonly
supposed to be lacking in self-appreciation
modern efficiency in metal working and
artistic creation.’
The planfor the memorial dates fifteen
years back, to 1873. Professor Zambusch,
with his advisers and assistants, worked
twelve yeais in carrying it out, tlie chisell-
ers and smiths one year and a half—a short
enough period lor such great results.
The monument consists of the colossal
portrait figure of the Empress on a colossal
pedestal 100 feet high, and of a base of pro-
uortionate dimensions. Both are adorned
with accessory figures. The cornice of tlie
pedestal is surmounted by four allegorical
figures, and its four sides with portrait
groups aud reliefs in bronze; the base by
single stai ding statues below and in front
of the reliefs, and equestrian statues at tlie
corners. The base that would show in
plan an almost ’rococo manifoldncss of
curve in circumference, is oblong in sec
tion. in the first model the lines were
simpler. Semper criticised them as being
too stern to harmonize with the style of
the museums, and described the pedestals
as standing “like a square tower with au
open doorway in the middle of each wall
out of which figures emerge?’ I quote the
criticism because it conveys a plain, if
somewhat rough, idea of the skeleton of
the monument. In its finished condition,
the expanse of base rises from steps in con
cave lines to the bronze equestrian statues.
Tte pedestal is decorated with a pair of
green serpentine pillars at tlie corners,
and the “doorways” are set in rich frames
that, besides the figures, are filled out with
perspective backgrounds in bronze relief.
The market was flooded with prints of
the statue of Maria Theresa before the
statue was unveiled. It was known to bo
seated figure, and the patriotic Viennese
did not fail to call the attention of Berlin
the fact that she Bits on her chair, not
helplessly in it, like the two Humboldt
statues in Unter der Linden. She is rep
resented as having laid the scepter and
the Pragmatic Sanction in her left hand
and arm for the nonce, to extend the right
to the people. The statue shows her as
she was in the early fullness of mature
beauty and kindly majesty. It is moro
pleasant to look at than the run of similar
effigies, besides being superior in artistic
life and movement. She surmounts tho
great monument, not only physically by
position, hut with an essential architectur
al solidity that is admirable. The alle.
S arical figures could he removed, the
orieinen prance off and the groups walk
away, but without tlie Queen the monu
ment as such could not exist. She thus
not only gratifies the taste; the statue ful
fills the highest architectural dimandi
which we can make.
In respect to plastic excellence, the
ideal figure* aye ths bret. Two, tbol**6D[f
p - ■iiiing '•'t.aiifa-tiii- - ' ami "Wisdom,”
are genuine masterpieces, not only tho
best Zambuscli has created, but as good os
good as any other times have seen The
first embodies less the persistent, obstinate
side of steadfastness than the watchful and
self-reliant. It the Empress had defended
the province of Silesia against Frederick
the Great with auccess, and observed
further aggressive movements of the cn
einy, the figure would represent tho epi
Bode. It is r powerful female in helm and
cairats, aeated, the body bent to one
aide, the right hand on the drapery
of her lap, holding a sword, the left resting
upon a low shield at her aide. “Wisdom”
holds the mirror of conscience. Like
“Steadfastness,” and the two other figures,
“Mercy” and “Justice,” the embodiment
is that of maturity and power; the eye is
sharp and observant, the head slightly
bent in calm reflection; the flow of line is
highly pleasing. But in “Steadfastness,”
the contours, betides befog of sober beamy
in themselves, add to the ornamentation
of the monument by an exquiaite assimi
lation in their lower part to the repose of
the base, and above to the life and action
of the sovereign statue.
Native critics find that the horsemen
are somewhat too far out from the pedes
tal. A detail, which the Vienese are too
used to the sumptuous and Baroque to ob
serve, ia the dressing of the lower third of
the pillar* by bronze liurcl wreaths that
mount up apirally. ■That the effect of the
monument should be made luxurious by
the ensigns, drapery and paraphernalia of
war gnil sovereignty is fitting; the period
was one oftrar, and Maria Theresa and
her court devoted to pomp. This spiral
dressing to the pillars, however, is a touch
in decoration too much. It is not mature
exuberance. It is wilful fantasy, and
should least of ail have found a place on
the supports of the chair of ttate.
I orNTKSH V. Kbockow.
there are the wish for new objects of affec
tion and the satisfaction with the lot upon , , u..i
which the children will enter,on the other
side, besides the obvious economical rea-1 ? as toId that 1 was not ,n CUBtod y- About
never did.
"A friend with wiiom I was able to
siue. besides the obvious economical rea- » , . . ,
sons, there are the decline in the value set 5 ’ i K w “ 8 ‘
upon existence and the doubt whether it is | place( j - n 0
no cpn«itiv$» na 1 F 4awu a close carriage, handcuffed to
ourselv«s into a world whih to each fresh ™' e ‘^h e gua rd s, d riven to the Mississippi
son couldj “every bit of it, including
higher duties on medicines, food, clothing
at d fuel, and a free dram and a free
chew."
The Rochester Herald is another paper
of independent procivilities which fias
manliness enough to protesi. against some
of the tendencies and practices of tlie Re
publicans for their childish attempt to
nioniipnlize the American flag as an emblem
in '.his campaign, and it commends the
President for his recent action in behalf
of the extension of the scope of reform in
the civil services.
Most of the religirus and temperance
journals which have affiliated with the Re
publican in times past are now out in
open rebellion aginst it on account of the
free whisky pronouncement. The Chris
tian Union, after a long and dispassion
ate statement of the case, says that it "has
no wish to conceal” its present preference,
which is “in lavor of ei bnomical expendi-
WISCONSIN AS A DOUIITFUU STATJS.
consisting of Capt.
Smith, of the United States artillery, and
five men. Up to this time I had not been
Ex-Congressman tYlunns Hopeful of Demo-1 able to find out the cause of my arrest,
crntlc Success. though I had made every effort to obtain
From the New York Commercial Advertiser. | the information. All ray efforts were met
make further efforts
calls the free whisky plank “a blunder
which amounts to a crime,” and denounces
the cowardly and wicked” attitude of the
Chicago convention on the question of the
"protection” of the “home sgainst the
saloon.” The voice ridicules the straddle
of the Independent, and says that while
“some of the anti-saloon Republican lead
ers may find the free-whisky plank big
enough for them to swim on, it will never
carry the thousands of Republicans who
are temerance men.”
Other protests in the same line are find
ing utterance in the Omaha Bee, Chicago
Tribune and other papers in the North
west, while the Republicans of Minnesota
in congressional convention assembled
have redudiated the Chicago platform.
Wasiiinoton, July 7.—Ex-Congressman by warnings not to m
John Winans, of Wisconsin, who is talked I under severest penalties,
of as the proeable Democratic candidate I wnn so heavily menacled and strong-
for governor, is in Washington on his way l v guarded that I attracted the attention of
hack from Baltimore, where he has been I vast crows of people at Cairo, where the
attending the convention of Democratic I newspHpers styled me the ‘mysterious
clubs, lie is confident that there is a good j prisoner.’ The Harrisburg Telegraph the
ciiuuce for Cleveland oiiu Thurman to j ffay I arrived in that city, published a
carry Wisconsin. Said he this morning: I long article about my capture, concluding
“We shall make a very strong effort to I with the statement that I ,was none other
carry the Htate this fall for Cleveland, I than John H. Surratt, and was on my way
Thurman «nd tariff reform. The effort is to Washington to be hanged. The sear-
already under way. Our Democratic clubs I geant of my guard gave me a copy of the
are strongly organized and numerous. We | paper containing the startling declaration
•hall push them in every direction and I and I have it now in my possession. This
shall make the first strong and united ef-1 statement was the first information I had
fort to carry the State since the Tilden I received as to the cause of my arrest and
and Hendricks campaign of 18*6. The I the reason for my heavy irons and strong
Republicans have been growing weaker guard. On my way to Washington I was
and weaker there for years, and their I constantly surrounded at stopping places
a _».!»— J_ lk. t..:a will k« t). n I . a a . ° * .
present attitude on the tariff will be the I by great crowds of people, wno cursed me
last straw.. Our people, irrespective of and used vulgar language ami threatened
rid have been at-
guard. I continually
protested that I was not John II. Surrat,
but a Confederate soldier.
ty, are tired of being mercilessly taxed my life. My life won
tin* benefit ol a privileged class of tempted but for my guar
manufacturers.
“The changes are coming already. Nu
merotis life-long Republicans, of whom 11 “At Washington 1 was placed in the old
have personal, knowledge, are coming into Capitol prison in a solitary cell, befog al-
the Democratic party -and avowing their | lowed no communication with the outside
purpose to support the Democratic ticket, j world. For trying to send a note to Sir
We have a majority of about 18,000 to Frederiok Bruce, the British minister, ask-
overcome in a total vote of some 400,000.1 fog him to make my strange and danger-
This means a chango of less than 10,000.1 ous situation known to President Johnson,
To Es**cm people sceusinmed. to slow 11«« shockingly abused and placed in a
lolitical changes, suqh a possibility may small dungcun called a sweat-box, which
ook extreme; but in the West party lines I was inhaled by vermin. While in it I
sit more loosely than in the East. was bitten by a rat ujion the left hand. In
“We have for tlie last ttn ycars all over I this terrible dungeon I remained, during
the West been cutting a wide swathe in the hot days of August, exposed to the
Republican majorities,.bringing them down most intense hent, to the steam from the
toward the turning point, which I firmly I cook-house and tlie stench of the closets,
believe we now have reached. An active, I While in the sweat-box, my mother visited
earnest, sincere and honest campaign wilt I the prison in search of lier son, hut was
do tlie business, and the political complex-1 persuaded to return home toChicago upon
ion of tho Northwest will be changed. being told that I would be released if in
“Congressman Henry Smith, elected as I custody.
labor candidate, a conservative, able and I “I soon after contracted a fcvJr which
honest man, will support Cleveland and I caused me to lose my hair. While in the
tariff return. HU personal convictions old Capitol PrUon a man was shot, and
i.-a.i bfaa I-- that ud, bat his oontltouitoj on* of my guards told ns tbs bullet *w
the laborers of Milwaukee, well organized intended for me and was tired by a guard
ar.d almost unanimous, will undoubtedly i who had remarked that ‘if ho got on the
he the same. The union labor and united 1 post where that Surratt was lie would save
labor tickets will.scarcely poll a handful I the government the czpenseof trying him.’
in the State. Wisconsin may as well be 1 had at one time occupied the cel in
Hcnv Chinese History Is Writlt n.
A writer in a recent issue of the North
China Herald, of Shanghai, says that Chi
nese history is compiled by a permanent
commission of accomplished titerary men,
who are always at work upon it. In 1737
an imperial edict stated that history ought
not to he written for tlie Emperor’s nse
only, and remain shut up in gold n caskets
and marble chambers; it ought to be made
accessible to all officials, that they may
know the minds of the emperors and the
laws of the land. From the Chinese
standpoint,history is divided into two parts,
i ns an exact narrative of evi nts, the
other a recorij of what the Fmperorlias
said and done. This divis on originates
two sets of publications; one in which the
officers speak, the other in which the Em
peror is spokesman. In the first, the in
dustry of the bureau of history is run in
the collection of facts, hut there is always
a danger that tlie record may be under a
strong court influence. Historical candor
can scarcely find a place in reference to na
tions or persons who have been in conflict
with the court. With this exception, the
array of facts thuB recorded is most valua
ble. The edicts published in the second
series express the mind of the Emperor.
He is always a man who has the advan
tage of good training, and if hia style is
tolerable and he happens to be fond of
writing his edicts himself they will all be
transmitted to future times in full. The
scribes, who stand writing when hcrprski.
translate hiB spoken words into official
phrases, and liis opinions and decisions
will then pass into official his
tory, partly written by himself and partly
by tlie scribes of the cabinet Besides
ese there are various series of historical
works—the first having been prepared in
the eleventh century—to popularize the
subject and place the chief facts to the
Chinese annals within the reaih of com
mon readers, who have not the opportunity
to study them in full. The last of these
has just been published. It deals with tlie
reign of Kicnlting, from 1736 to 1795, and
is in sixty volumes. Every important
public matter is recorded under the da; cn
which it occurred. The I mperor has, as
usual, the lion’s share of the talking, aud
there is room for him to say a good deal in
120 chapters, some of them very long.
i-lnsKril among the doubtful slates by the
Kopubliciir.s first as last.”
TYnlter Scott’s Mlntnture Waterloo.
Interview In Cbicago Times. July 2.
This reminded Mr. Mills of what ho
-:t» 09099 of tho lawns at Abbottsford. I hi* case Mon the President, and finally
hirh this prisoner had been shot, and was
returned to it while hia blood was still
fresh upon tho walls and floor. August
21st I was removed to Vicksburg, Miss., in
charge of a file of soldiets.”
Ryan here made another effort to 1.V
“ When Scott was gathering material for succeeded. After several months’ delay ft
his life of Napoleon,” said Mr. Mills, “I was ascertained that no offense had been
was told that he visited the field of Water-1 committed by him, and he was released in
loo. He was accompanied by nn engineer I November, 1866. The petition ia accom-
who was with Sir Arthur’Wellesley in panted by copies of letters, receipts, etc.,
that memorable action, which was the substantiating in detail the statements
first chapter in a new history. Scott | made by Ryan.
THE INDEPENDENT NEtVI’Al'KRS.
asked the’ engineer to make him an ac
curate map of the battlefield as it
appeared when the principal forces I Nearly Allot Them Opposln? the Itepubll-
of the allied powers and those of the I can Candidates, a> In t88«.
French met for the last conflict. This I p rom the Baltimore Sun.
was done with what is said to be marvel-1 It is important and interesting to note
ous uccuracy. On his return to Abbots-1., ... . . .
ford Scott had one of the lawns laid out the pwiltion of the indejicndenta at present,
exactly to this plan. Here were hedges I now that the conventions have been held,
representing the English; there were I fhe candidate* named, and the campaign
planta representing the French; over there I n general it mav be said that,
was lllucher, and m other portions were I ... . _ ’. ,
evergreens representing olhcr | with not more than one or two exceptions,
forces which w“ere conspicuous in that red ‘ h * ^"^^MBfofoeTlsSlSl
revelry which caused a cefobrated English- • °PP u * ed the election of Blaine in 1884 are
man *
,mnto aay'whaah# beard oHt/thatilM "oW ranged in op.msitfon H.rrUon-
i,__ i „* •_ „i ,L a l-j I not so much on Account ol Any objection
been burned hack? A little mound represents t h eo.ndid.to™ally«i^an^M
Mount St. Jean. So, here from hi? study, 1
the historian looked out and saw Water-1 ^ P. 1 .* 0 " 1 - F"rthaamore, the rankt of
loo without it. horror. There
evergreens and flower, are kept and chie f among which is the Provi
tended, io thia day, as ScoU loved to see j* urB j. T he Breton Herald is an
Mnft other important independent witness foi
Mills, to have heArd of this before, And 11 ^ i n this campaign it mAiu
am quite sure I never read of it. My I . consistently the same position re-
nKv°/fYr f °v “ “n °.L d TVL fo, Vltl I ganling reform which it has .(way. held,
ploy Mi. Maxwell Scott, who, by the g pj r jt 0 f unpartisan, patriotic devo-
way, la in uoreeasion °{, A f I tzon to the public good is llio animating
jgliter of Sir Walter “ .. V i„. v.. «r„
William II. and Peace,
From the New York Time*.
Tho report that : after a definite settle-,
ment of Ine relations between Russia and
Germany,. Emperor William II. will de
vote himself to trying to secure a mutual
reduction of the military cstablislimcntaof
Europe, is news too good to be believed. It
would lie accounted a bit ol strategy worthy
of a veteran, and a victory of peace not less
renowned than war’s, if the young monarch
purposely sounded his military note at the
start in order, under cover of it, to take up
the project now attributed to him. Bat
his known aptitddes and aspirations as a
soldier forbid uny such ussuimitiou in ad
vance of facts to suppotett. A* constant
friction on the French frontier, the fresh
passport troubles, and the omission of ref
erence to France in all the Emperor’s ut
terance* also show that the peaceful antic
ipations expressed with regsrd to the great
empire on one side of Germany do not in
clude the great republic on the other side.
For this additional reason the rumors of a
partial disarmament policy must be dis
credited fur the present at least. In one
tense Emperor William may have a |>eacc
purpose in view, since the pledge of Russia
sgainst alliance with France by making
concessions to her in Bulgaria would
doubtless be a severe blow to any war
party in France.
married the granddaughter
the pregres:
Fifty-five year* ago, at an election in the
village of Chicago, twenty-eight votes were
cast, and now that city, the eighth wonder
of the world, is claiming something near a
million of inhabitants. It is not forty
years yet since Minnesota.became a terri
tory, though this a foreigner seeing 8t.
Paul and Minneapolis for the first time
would find it hard to believe. Ami it will
not do to disparage there fan's as evidence*
of a merely material prosperity. The foun-
dation.of this growth and well being ia
civil liberty, and every day thll republic
endures and flourishes; it teaches mankind
a new lesson in the wisdom of self-govern
ment.
Lii-h of Population tn Prance,
Fr m the Nineteenth Century.
If all_ European- nations agreed to limit
population—just as if nil nntioon ngresd
to disarm—an epoch of marked material
prosperity would no doubt ensue. At pres
ent, however, there seems no chance what
ever of this, and we are engaged in a gen-
Scott, adopting her name.”
Two to One on Cleveland.
From the New Yovk Sun. ... .
John J. Mahoney, a retired bookmaker,
bet 820,000 to$10,000 yesterday with Frank
months ago he was reputed to have aoid a! T. Hnntooo, of the Hoflman Club, on
[arge block of the bond*. The effect of Cleveland’s re-election. The agreement
his sale* has been plainly sren. In the 1st- j was drawn up and placed in the hands of
•er part of 1880 the atoek was aold a* high j Lucien O. Appleby, of the bookmaking
‘119,
to about
in 1887 it ranged from 112 down ; firm of Appleby & Johnson. It provide*
it85, and this year the price baa! for the putting np of the caab on October
putting np <
been a* low as #31. The value of the' 27, Mahoney’* forfeit io case of failure
' being fixed at $5,000 and Huntoon* at
stock baa therefore been nearly cut in two. being fii
It ia believed that Gould’s sales have been $2,500.
tear that the executive is in some misery. I Tc ,^ A ,f gm . ou , protetU
eral scramble’ to overstock our own coun- Can there be joy tn rest? Ia not activity a trnl |_ a-,j ni t the course pursued by the
trie., and thence to overspread the earth. C0>dltto P •*_ perfect hnppino.? There | in * reUlion to M r. Fuller’s nominv
will lore its status; its specific type will
become relatively unimportant; its thought
and literature will lose their power with
mankind. Great and powerful though
France is now, such countries aa Holland
and Belgium are not without their warn
ing for her in the near future. Iu fifty
years, if the present rate* of increase are
maintained, ahe will rank sixth only among
European nation*. In 150 jean she wifi
hare sunk almost beneath consideration in
a world of Russians and Germans, Anglo-
Saxons and Chinese. Without reproducing
the elaborate computation* by which the
relative decline of France hzs been exhib
ited by statisticians, it ia enough to say
that in the present acute phase of national
competition France cannot afford to forego
the motive power of the ver sacrum—of
wearly swarms of young men pressing for-
yaril to develop their country either l-y
Editor Uartrldge Philosophizes,
From the Savannah News. I ,i..„„l, r<u>ltna enmnelted In snnnort the
Editor Richardson "trust* that Governor j u...,.. b t.i;—n #.an,IM*te*. mme* mil ilmnal
cause of independent action by the inde
pendent press, and it i* reflected even in
many Republican papers of the better sort,
such as the 1’hiladclphiaTelegraph, which,
A nation which falls out‘of this scramble V* ^A^e problems that vex the met-I ^ on to be chief justice. On the pension
may gain in comfort for the time, but it *° D , an i'. kinetic: intellect of the uegl j on too j t does full justice to the
■ * - TELKGUAPil’s dist.nguoihed edltor , * ad | President. It de^ribes the .tlack made
which spggeat that in all miose there lurks * ,. b (he K, imb l ican members of the
unhappinem. To his attentiT, ; e»rnomusic i ^, on , itte ‘ , s "feeble to the last
begfos to equal the atillicidic hum <? f le , re e in iu r- ference to the real merit, of
bee*. The cterna waves of the deep .Ur it aimp | T effort to cre-
hi. fancy, and without pleasure In, eye 1 udice against the President with
ook* upon the still pond where the water “'J' • .... .nu
m "T . n i L ,n I regard to a m.ttea in connection with
,rm.ro... .nil hour, | ’ *1 , h ‘
Death of a Very Good Snake.
From the Two Republics.
A family in San Luis Potos possessed a
very fine rattlesnake. They kid captured
it by means of a forked stick when it was
but’a baby, and ancceeded in domesticat
ing it. lit the course of years it grew to
be fourteen feet in length, and became
tame and playful, devershowfogthe slight
est symptom of anger when handled by
the children, but it would not allow it* rat
tles to be touched. It became very much
attached to its master, and would follow
him around like a dog. During the
reveut siutrn iu Sou Lui» null/ of the
houses were struck by lightning. The
bolts were falling fast about the dwelling
which had sheltered the snake from child
hood. Nobly determined to die for its
benafactors, tbc serpent crawled up the
outside walls of the house, and, mounting
fhe roof, it stood, up on its bead in a p
pendicular position for the apace of several
minutes, shaking its rattles violently at
the heavens, like Ajax defying ‘.be light
ning. The electricity attrac'.ed by thia
living lightning tod, reduced, to ashes the
noble animal and alio the. house. There
is no use in letting the American papers
have a monopoly o( th'ese make stories.
ijrovi
Mu, to vuijiiijjr iuetonumy, iui-xnls in
f athering honey where bears would fail.
Vithsuch a nature a placid moment ia a
long apell o' pain, and the briefest rest is
wicked alotb, entailing irrevocable lore.
A Ml-
to the^Irlih Illtliop*.
London, July 12.—A diipatch from Rome
to the Chronicle say* Cardinal Mo an is —i ... .. ... ,
at to go to Ireland bv oMer of the Pope »»7> n 8 ? n ^ nd *7 thal >* made ,, n0 , d,ffe / | *
■rfsh nlahone more com. eoc* whether Mr. Blame conld atoniath
eom-thing more than the special plead
ings oi uneasy partisans to induce peo
ple to thina that their liberties are
in danger through the President's exer
cise of Derogative that the wisest men in all
parties believe ought to he extended rath
er than curtailed.”
The Telegraph does not like the tsste of
iu platform a bit better than it did at first,
pl-te -u)
upon the Irish bishops more
cm to the Yatican.
I the free whisky plank or not—Mr. Harri-
Catloa Eire at Lowell.
Lowell, Mas*., July 13.—A fire occurred
this evening in the a to rehouse ot the Ham
ilton cotton niills. There were l^llO bales
ef raw cotton and 800hales of manufactured
cotton la the storehouse ready for the print
weeks. AU of it was more or leas damaged.
The raw cotton was valued at $60,000. Th t
damage to U wUI probably not exceed $1J .
000. The print cloth was valued at f&t.i/fO.
Its depreciation wUI cover tba damage^ on
the building. The total lea* wiU not txceed
160,000.