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CURRENT TOPICS.
The latest Ice cream U made of con
denseil milk.
Ih ref. sets of twins attend & Vienna
(Ga.) school.
The cuirass is to be übolished in ths
German army.
The pipe line from Lima, 0., to Chicago
will cost 13,600,0 X).
Wichita, Kan., has turned its opera
house into a market house.
The new Kinpress of Germany has a per
sonal income, of <IBO,OOO a year.
Queen Victoria’s home while in Itn)-'
was once the home of Boccaccio.
The highest recorded prica for a Stradi
varius violin,is said to be SB,OOO.
Confectioners say tho Enstov trade
grows more considerable yearly.
Miss Bayard, of Baltimore, a niece of
Secretary Bayard, is six foet tall.
There is agitation in New England for
separate sleeping-cars for women.
The late Judge Waite was made Chief
Justice by President Grant in 1874.
Mrs. General Tom Thumb is about to
start a place of amusement at Bt. Joseph,
Mo.
It will be fifty years next Fourth of
July sinco lovva was organized as a Terri
tory.
A young society lady of Boston dropped
in a ball-room just after finishing a
waltz.
A man and his daughter have been
united at Chicago after lifty years’ sepa
ration.
That big storm in the East costjho
railroads and telegraph lines fully SB
-
Statistics show a striking decrease in
the number of marriages in Europe and
America.
The Australian savages arc passing out
of existence faster than any other aborig
inal race.
“1 feel easier. 1 think I will go to
sleep,” were the last words of Chief Jus
tice AVaite.
March has been the most disastrous
month the railroad companies havo ever
experienced.
There are said to be several Gypsies in
New Yoik City who are worth upward of
SIOO,OOO apiece.
Look out for counterfeit $5 silver certifi
cates. They are said to be circulating
very extensively.
Only twelve Indians ore left of the tribe
of 1,000 who inhabited the Yosemite Val
ley a few years ago.
The English call an elevator a “lift,’’and
the French call it a “help,’’while the Scotch
refer to it as a “drop.”
United States Minister Phelus VV iu
sail for America early in April ou two
months’ leave of absence.
A steadily-growing opposition to the
study of German in the public schools is
manifesting itself in Chicago.
Tun cents an aero was all a farm of
acres brought recently in Greene County,
Ala., when sold under mortgage.
Senator Reagan, of Texas, is one of th«
champion officeholders, having drawn •
salary from the public purse since 1838.
Three boys at Portland, Mo., stole 721
pocket knives from the various hard
ware stores before they fell under sus
picion.
A petrified snake ten feet long, with
horns, has been dug up at Granada, Col.
It will be sent to the Smithsonian Institute
at Washington.
The French and English military author
tics have determined to prohibit all tele
graphic correspondence from the lleld dur
ing the next campaigns.
E. Rasuue is the name of the latest cow
boy evangelist, and notwithstanding his
name, no one has yet been able to wipe him
out in a theological argument.
Since the convention of the Irish Na
tional League of America a year and a
half ago, Father O’Reilly, the National
Treasurer, has forwarded to Ireland over
$120,000.
Portland, Ore., is to import a choice
selection of European singing birds to en
liven their streets and gardens with their
notes.- The expense is to be borne by sub
scription.
Mr. Wm. Massey, of Philadelphia, has
donated to the trustees of the city house
of refuge SIOO,OOO to be used in purchasing
a farm near the city and erecting proper
buildings.
The polar bear at Madison Square Gar
den, New York, had his chiws cut the
other day. It took twenty-four men with
ropes to hold him while tiio operation was
performed.
Madame Patti contributed $4,000 to the
hospital for children in Lisbon, and in ro
turn received from the Queen of Portugal
a full-length portrait, accompanied by an
autograph note.
While a St. Louis family were at sup
per, two thieves entered the house by a
rear door and carried off the stove, which
had a lire in it, and a week’s hunt failed to
recover the property.
America has, during the past few years,
imported nearly 3,000,000 bushels of pota
toes a year, at a tax of fifteen cents »
bushel. In 1883 Scotland did not export
any potatoes to America, nor Ireland iu
1883.
A petrified loaf of bread was recently
dug up at Acmetonia Station, near Pitta
burgh, being found at a depth of twelve
feet beneath the aurface of the earth
and beneath an ancient fore#t of locust
trees.
Some of the shepherds in the mountains
of Bulgaria lead an out-door life, tending
to their Hocks for ten or fifteen years,
without knowing what it is to sleep in a
house to tiirioy any of the comforts 0/
civilization.
The figure fiend taking the English
royal family together finds that the pres
ent sovereign, Queen Victoria, with hei
numerous progeny has cost the Brit sh na
tion £85,000,(XX),.0r in the neighborhood oi
*175,003,003.
TnE London Time* says that bare knuckle
prize lighting is a thing of disgust unh
Englishmen, and that the last ring has
been pitched in that eouutry. The French,
too, will take the strictest measures topre-
Tout another mil*.
FIFTIETH CONOIIESS.
First Session.
Washington, March2B*.—Senate.—The Pen
ate met and proceeded in a body to the House
to take part in the funeral services of the late
Chief-Justice AVaite. After returning, an ad
journment. was taken until to-morrow.
House.—The House also adjourned imme
diately after the Mineral ceremonies.
AVashington, March 2k.—Senate.— A motion
to adjourn over Good Friday was adopted. Pe
titions and memorials were pesented and refer
red. Bills were reported for the erection of
public building at New London, Ct., Lansing,
Mich., and Norfolk, Vr, A bill to establish
courts for Indians was Introduced, A large
number of petitions against Sunday trains, Sun
nay drills, etc., were referred to Mr. Blair's
committee. Mr. Berry addressed the Senate
on the President’s message, after which the
Senate proceeded to the consideration of the
bills on the calendar, sixty-one of which were
passed. At sp. m. the Senate adjourned.
House.—After the preliminary momhi" bnsi
ness an adverse report from the Post-office
Committee on a resolution calling upotf the
Postmaster-General for certain information in
regard to American firms mailing seeds fr'om
Canada to the United States, precipitated a
lively debate. The resolution was laid on the
table-ryeas 125, nays 122. The District of Co
lumbia appropriation bill was reported, and
the House took up the Indian appropriation
bill, and at 5:15 p. m. adjourned.
Washington, March 30. Senate—Not in ses
sion.
House. —Senate amendments were non-con*
ourred in to the House bill authorizing the
President to arrange a commercial conference
with Mexico. South and Central America and
Brazil. A joint resolution was passed appro
priating $515,000 to enable tho Uuiled States to
participate in the International Exhibition at,
Barcelona. Spain, in April, 1888 The bills to
pension the widows of Generals Logan and
Blair at $2,030 per annum were then taken up
and passed after consideration, by a vote of 154
yeas to 91 nays. At sp. m. a recess was taken
until 7:30 p. m., the evening seision being for
the consideration of private pension bill’s.
Washington, March 31.—Sen ate.-memor
ial from the Icelandic Educational Society, of
AVinnepeg, Canada, praying for an appropria
tion for an examination of the records of the
A atican and other libraries, and for a public
recognition of Leif Erickson as the first dis
coverer of America, was offered hut declined on
the ground that petitions from foreigners must
he transmitted through the President.. An ap
propriation of $20,000 was voted for the
expenses of State committees. Bills
were introduced and referred. The
House joint resolution accepting the
invitation to the Paris International Exposi
tion was passed with amendments increasing
the appropriation from $200,000 to $300,000. Bills
on the calendar were passed making appro
priations for public buildings at St. Albans, Vb,
$60,000; Los Angeles, *300,000; Buffalo, N. Y„
2>0.030; Bay City. Mich., *:iU,OJO; and Lowell,
Mass.. JSSMiIOO »*
Washington in 1889 of the centennial of the
constitution of the United States. Several
bills were reported, and after a brief executive
session the Senate, at 5:35 p. m. adjourned.
Hoit=e.—A bill was reported limiting to seven
years the time in which actions maybe brought
by the United States on the bonds of public
officers. In the consideration morning hour
discussion was resumed on the Union Paciflo
railroad funding bill, after which the bill went
on the calendar and the House took up bills
from the Committee on Private Land Claims.
The hill to establish a U. S. Land Court, and to
provide for the judicial settlement of private
claims in Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado,
was considered without final action.
Washington. Aprils.— Senate— The House
bill giving a pension of JS.OOf) to the widow of
General Logan was passed, although n similar
one in terms had been passed by the Senate be
fore. a bill was passed appropriating $150,000
for the purchase of quarters for the Signal Office
at Washington. The House bill to-authorize
the construction of a bridge across the Missis
sippi ri.er at Memphis was considered and
passed with amendments. The bond purchase
bill was taken up, but no vote was reached. Af
ter an executive session the Senate, at 4:f5, ad
journed. ,
House.— The Mills tariff bill was reported
and referred. Notice was given that it would
be called up Tuesday, April 17. Under the call
of States bills were introduced. A motion to
suspend the rules and pass Crain's joint resolu
tion, proposing a constitutional amendment
changing the time for the annual meeting foi
Congress, was defeated —nays 81. yeas 154 not
the necessary two-thirds. A resolution from
the Committee on Rules was reported arrang
ing an order of business, was considered and
finally adopted. At 5:45 p. m. the House ad
journed.
Washington, April 3.— Senate— l’ctitions
and memorials were presented. Mr. Riddle
berger’s resolution to consider the fisheries
treaty in open session was taken up, and an ex
ecutive session was ordered to cut him off. Af
ter the doors were opened, Palmer's motion to
recommit the bond purchase bill was lost—yeas
20, nays 31. Further consideration of amend
ments was continued until 5 p. m., when the
Senate adjourned.
House.—Five thousand additional copies ol
the tariff bill and reports were ordered printed.
The direct tax bill was called up. Mr. Fonin
opposed its consideration with the pension ap
propriation bill, which was defeated—yeas 05,
nays 144. In committee of the whole the direct
tax bill was considered until 5 o'clock, when a
recess was taken. The night session was for
the consideration of bills from the Committee
on Military Affairs.
It is again stated that Miss Follows,
daughter of Colonel Fellows, of Washing
ton, was married on the 24tli iust., toChas
ka, the Sioux Indian. Chaska is not a full
blood, and not worthless, as reported. Ho
is now known as Mr. Campbell.
The Queen has presented to Mr. Cham
berlain her photograph, with her auto
graph, in recognition of his services in con
nection with the fisheries settlement.
A riot occurred in the limestone quar
ries at Carbon, Pa. The employes, mainly
Italians, were notified of a reduction in
wages. Several shots wore exchanged
with a posse, and an Italian named Angelo
Nocoro received a bullet wound in the
knee.
1 v « . u 1 a A Aa, a
nuoc.
Justice Harlan has been assigned to the
Fourth Judicial Circuit to fill the vacancy
created by the death of Chief Justice Waite.
At Paterson, N. J., Ernest Ui'balin, a
German silk weaver, shot and killed his
son-in-law, Caspar Spuria.
The money in the Sub-Treasury in New
York aggregates $158,575,643.85. It was
counted in just one mouth.
The authorities of Wichita, Kas., are
ridding the town of tramps by shipping
them west in freight cars labeled ' Perish
able.” Fre.gbt is paid for fifty miles.
TRENTON, DADE COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, APRIL t>. 1888.
FOUR MEN CREMATED.
They Meet a Terrible Death in a Mississippi
•Jail—Set on Fire by One of the Number.
Helena, Auk.. April 3 —lt was reported
on tho streets to-day by reliable parties,
who just arrived from Friars Point, Miss.,
that a fearful quadruple tragedy was en
acted at that place late last night. AVm.
Gray, a whito man and noted desperado,
from C'qalioma County, was convicted sev
eral weeks ago at Friars Point of arson,
and was sentenced to imprisonment for
ten years in the Mississippi penitentiary,
and was being detained in tho jail there
until the special agent of the prison
could convey him and three olber felons
to Jackson, Miss, Last night the jailer,
named Cooper, who lived some distance
from tho jail, ascertained that tho jail-was
on fire and hastened to tho scene with as
much assistance as lie could summon, and
attempted to extinguish tho flames that
had well nigh enveloped the jail. They
tried to force the doors of the celis
with slecfge hammers and chisels in
order to rescue tho prisoners, who
were gradually succumbing to the smoko
that was rapidly suffocating them. The
prisoners, with blanched faces, wero
standing in the corridors beseeching,
praying and exhorting the spectators to
release them from their horrible situa
tion, but all efforts wore in vain. Then
when Ihey saw that there was no hope
■they requested that a minister bo sent
for to pray for them before they wero
cremated. ’The minis'er arrived, and with
some of those present joined in and prayed
for the poor fellows until the jail fell
in and completely covered up the four ill
fated men in its ruins. Before Gray suc
cumbed ho acknowledged that he set lire
to the jail purposely with tho intention of
escaping, and that he was innocent of tho
charge on which he was convicted. It is
thought by many that Gray was demented
and that one of his manias was tho burn
ing of houses.
REV. WARREN’S CASE.
Seriously Claimed that the Contract Labor
Law is Violated.
New York, April 3.— The question as to
whether the agreement under which Rev.
E. Walpole Warren came to this country
from England violates the law prohibiting
the importation of contract labor will
probably be determined this month, as the
case is set for hearing before Judge Wal
lace, in the United States circuit court, on
the 11th inst. The issue was raised by
the Scottish-American Society and the
wardens and vestrymen of Holy Trinity
Protestant Episcopal Church are made co
defend— —
t hot minister came here under a writ
ten contract, and if it is decided that be
came in violation of the law the church
will be called upon to pay a fine of SI,OOO.
This is a test case brought for the purpose
of securing a construction of the law pro
hibiting the importation of laborers under
contract, which it is claimed, applies to
all classes of labor, whether manual or
mental.
A Dastardly Murdar.
Marquette, Mich., April 3. —Mrs. Peter
Burke, a respected widow, was shot and
instantly killed by Patrick AVadc, of Wau
decah. Wade was infatuated Avith the
woman, who was to have bpen married to
a Norway man next week. Hearing of
this, Wade went to Norway, procured an
interview with Mrs. Burke, and immedi
ately shot her dead. He was arrested and
a strong guard placed about the jail, but
if he is not lynched it will be surprising,
as public sentiment is at fever heat.
A Novel Scene.
New York, April 3.—The Brighton Beach
Hotel, Coney Island, 400 feet long, 200 foet
wide, estimated weight 5,000 tons, was
safely moved back from its exposed posi
tion on the beach to a point three hundred
feet inland. Trucks resting on rails sup
ported the building, and six locomotives,
attached by the ropes totho underpinning,
furnished the motive power. Not a par
ticle of damage was done to the building.
A Mad Mother's Terrible Act.
New York, April 3.— Mrs. Tillio Sipp,
aged thirty-live years, while in a fit of in
sanity, this morning, threw her twelve
year-oid son George out of the window of
the fourth story of the house, No. 109 East
One Hundred and Twenty-second street.
She jumped after the child. Mother and
son were botli seriously injured and will
probably die.
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'Still They Come.
New York, April 3.—Captain Moore, of
the Landing Bureau of Castle Garden, re
ports that 28,945 steerage passengers ar
rived at this port during March, as against
31,100 for the samo time last year. The to
tal for the first throe months of the year
shows an increase of 5,003 over the same
period for last year.
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Here’s Anolhcr.
New York, April 3.—The contractors of
Brooklyn arc to form a “Combine” for mu
tual protection, or, in other words, a trust.
Several meetings have been held and one
hundred contractors have signified their
willingness to join. A public meeting will
be held on Thursday.
Strong Vitality.
Lima, 0., April 8.-Patrick Hughes, who
was stabbed to death in the riot here on
Monday night, was made the subject of a
post-mortem examination. His heart was
cut completely in two, after which ho
lived ten minutes.
Two Hangings Set for May 8.
Harrisburg, Pa., April 3. Governor
Beaver to-day respited Vincent, the Italian
murderer, of Philadelphia, untii May 8,
and fixed the same date for the execution
of Robt. G. Hall, the murderer of Lillian
Rivers.
A Pennsylvania Gibb »t.
Wilkksbarke. Pa., April 3. —The sen
tence of death was executed this morning
upon Adam Volkuvitch, who brutally mur
dered Stanislaus Bioski qear this city on
the 14th of August last.
NO LAND FOR ALIENS.
Tho Bill to Provent Absentee Land
lordism. i
Preserve the Lands of the United States to
its Citizens—Preserve Homes for tho
Poor of the Country, anil There
by Unlarge ttie Number
of Patriots.
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AA'ashington, April 2.—The attempt to
prohibit aliens from owning lands in tho
United States has boon under considera
tion of the House. Committee or the Revis
ion of tho Laws for some time. They have
agreed not to apply its provisions until
after the approval of the act, and to ex
empt tho Legation residences in AVashing
ton from its operations. Tho committee
ascertained that certain noblemen in
Europe- principally Englishmen have
acquired and now own iu the aggregate
about twenty - one million acres of
land in this country. The committee
believe that this alien non - resident
ownership will, in tho course of time, lead
to a system of landlordism incompatible
wich the best interests and free institu
tions of the United States. Tho founda
tion for such a system is being laid broad
ly In the AVestern States and Territories.
A considerable number of tho immigrants
annually arriving in this country are to be
come tenants and herdsmen on the vast
possessions of these foreign lords under
contract made and entered into before they
sail for our shores. The avarice and enter
prise of European capitalists have caused
them to invest many millions in Ameri
can railroads aq,d land bonds, covering
perhaps 100,000,OX) acres, the greater part
of which under foreclosure sales will
most likely, before many years, become
the property of those foreign bondholders
in addition to their pi-esent princely pos
sessions. The bill declares all foreign
born persons who have not been natural
ized incapable of taking the title to lands
anywhere within the United States,
except a lease-hold for not exceeding
live years, and it has no retroactive, but
a prospective operation. It places all per
sons alien to our Government under the
disability to tako real estate or immova
bles which the civil law imposed. By law
deeds of conveyance of immovable prop
erty wore void, on account of the absolute
incapacity of tho grantee, if an alien, to
take or hold the land. The bill proposes,
as a part of the foreign policy of this coun
try, to operate only prospectively, and
therefore not harshly, to prevent abso
tions, so long as they adhere to or refcafn
their allegiance to other powers, from ac
quiring the ownership of American soil
within the jurisdiction of the United
States. AYith the natural increase of pop
ulation and the live hundred thousand for
eigners who Hock to our shores annually,
and by competition are reducing the wages
oflabor, making the battle of life harder
to win, iiow, a few years hence, to provido
homes for our poor people is a problem for
the American to solve. Tho
multiplication of the owners of tho soil is
a corresponding enlargement of the num
ber of patriots, aud every land owner in
this country should owe allegiance to tho
United States.
A Devilish Attempt.
Tolono, 111, April 2.—A dastardly at
tempt to cremate a whole family was
made at the farm of Mrs. Joseph Me-
Kelvy, about three miles west of Tolono,
at one o’clock this morning. The house
and barn were soaked with kerosene. Tho
barn was fired, and the flames spread al
most instantly over the entire building.
The flash aroused Georgo McKelvy, and ho
rushed out half dressed just as tho villain
applied tho torch and fled. Prompt action
saved the house, but the barn, with four
valuable horses, a lot of implements, a
■wagon, two buggies and one thousand
bushels of corn were in ashes inside of an
hour.
Killed a Hotel Waiter.
Richmond, Va., April 2.— To-night Wil
liam Godsoy, manager of the St. Charles
Hotel, of this city, shot and killed David
Glass, a colored waiter. Gc-dsey had re
proved Glass for some remissness of duty
in the dining-room, when a quarrel en
sued and Godsey attempted to eject Glass.
The latter resisted and struck Godsey
with a chair, whereupon Godsey drew a
pistol qnd fired several shots at Glass with
fatal effect. Godsey surrendered himself
to the police. He claims he acted in self
defense.
Death Penally.
Chicago, April 2. —The jury iu the Zeph
Davis trial returned a verdict of guilty of
murder as charged, and that he should suf
fer the penalty of death. Davis is tho
young negro who killed little Maggie
Gaughan in the boot-heel factory of Greene
Brothers in this city, about a month ago,
because, as ha said, she “sassed” him.
The murder was one of tho most atrocious
ever known in this city.
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Maxwell’s Case.
St. Louis, April 2.— Tho refusal of the
United States Supreme Court to recon
sider its action in the Max well case leaves
the little English cbloroformer with only
one hope-namely, a commutation of sen
tence from Governor Moorehouse. Every
effort will now be made by his attorneys
and friends to influence the Governor to
grant the commutation.
The Public Debt.
Washington, April 2.—There was a de
crease of the public debt during March of
$11580,559; decrease since Juno 39, 1887,
$88,569,581; cash in the treasury available*
for reduction of the debt, April 1, ISSB,
1300,455,354; total debt, less cash in treas
ury, $1,190,868,155.
Immense Ssa! Catch.
St. Johns, N. F., April 2.— lt is reported
that the sealing steamer E igle has taken
10,000 seals and the steamer Esquimaux
15.009. The inhabitants of Horse Island
have taken 18.000, and at Partridge Point
40,000 have been takeu. Tnig is the greatest
catch in year-.
INGALLS’ TRAITORS.
AVhat shall I say. then, of Hancock, the Ticavy
weight tighter,
AVinfleld Scott Hancock, a man idolized by the
army.
He who 6o often had periled his llfo for his
people,
Shedding his blood for his flag and the Union
so freoly,
Giving himself, as some thought, to bis coimtry
so freely?
AVhat was he doing when fighting, or sceaning
ly fighting
Grossly deceiving the rank and the file of tho
army.
Falsely pretending to offer his life for the
Union?
AVhat was he doing at Gettysburg,’ Where he
felt wouadod,
Mangier, and torn by the shut of the foes he
was fighting.
Struck from his horse at the height of so splen
did a triumph?
What was ho doing, I ask you, and what was
he there for?
Fighting for slavery, fighting for Jefferson
Davis,
Killing oft rebels to keep tho rebellion alive,
sir;
Proving, by peril and wounds and his skill as a
soldier.
Only his faith In rebellion and'love of the rob
ots. .
Proof? Do you want it? A\ T hy, proof is both
plain and abundant.
Proof that is clear to the sight of the patriot
Ingalls.
Did not the Democrats give him their best
nomination?
Did not the Solid South vote for him freely and
gladly?
That is enough, sir. Yes, while the Immaculate
Ingalls
Punished jayhawkers In Kansas for robbing of
hen-roosts,
Hancock, the traitor, at Gettysburg wounded,
near dying,
Simply was fighting for Jefferson Davis, his
partner.
What of the othor? Words fall me to speak of
McClellan,
George B. McClellan, Jeff Davis’ intimate ally.
He, when the great Union army, so nearly
death stricken,
Saddened, disheartened, demoralized, huddled
so loosely,
Was but a mob that was bravo but in lack of
cohesion,
Pulled it together, and made it an army with
banners.
Confident, solid, the army that fought the whole
war through.
Winning at last by the disciplined strength
that he gave it.
Wljatd'.d he do it for? Why did ho organize
victory?
Why did he take the great army to Yorktown
and R climond?
Simply that he, the Confederates’ intimate
ally,
There might deliver that army to Jefferson
Davis.
Such was McClellan, the ally of rebels, the
.. Debtor,
*■ *■* ormtr ami
Still would parade Deiure wcu
a hero.
Proof? Do you need it? The man was a Demo
crat. That is
Plentjjof proof for a patriot hailing from
Kansas,
One whom his party should greet with it 3 best
nomination.
Was not McClcllena candidate, straight Demo
cratic-
Yes, lJr the office filled nobly by Abraham
Lincoln?
That is sufficient; of course he was naught but
a traitor.
—AT. Y. Aim.
POOR SLIPPERY JOHN.
A Hypocrite Cleverly Unmasked by Presi
dent Cleveland.
That aspiring Ohio man, Hon. John
Sherman, is kept busy just now with
explanations and amendments of his
political record. Some time ago Sen
ator Kenna, of West Virginia, had
him on a very hot gridiron. Slippery
John had made a speech assailing the
President’s message and proposing the
abolition of the internal revenue sys
tem as a remedy for tho Treasury sur
plus. Senator Kenna roasted him to a
turn by reproducing a speech of Sher
man’s in which he defended internal
taxes as easy of collection and as least
oppressive of all the levies of the Fed
eral Government. In 1882 this same
John Sherman *opposed the pas
sage of the bill prohibiting the
immigration of the Chinese. So late
as April 6, 1886, he alluded to the
anti-Chinese bill as “the result of
passion and feeling” and declared
that it would disgrace our statute
books and set a bad example in re
spect to other nations. But a change
has come over the spirit of his dream.
Not long ago Slippery John discov
ered that the people of the Pacific
slope disliked his attitude on the Chi
nese question. He beeamo convinced
that as a candidate for President he
would not be able to carry any one of
the Pacific States unless he could dem
onstrate his willingness to go back on
himself. He therefore resorted to the
expedient of inviting the Republican
Congressmen from those States to his
house, and when he got them cor
raled in his parlor he opened up to
them a view of his inner consciousness
on the Chinese question. He told
them that he was ready to go as far as
they desired in putting restrictions
upon Chinese immigration. The Re
publican Congressmen from the Pacific
States being familiar with the sopona
ceous character of John’s political
epidermis, declined to take him at his
word and suggested that he should do
some public act by which they could
explain to their constituents how the
people of the Pacific slope could con
sistently support him for President.
And thereby hangs a very pretty
tale.
The Honorable John Sherman is at
the head of the Foreign Affairs Com
mittee of the Senate, and as such has
open sesame at the office of the Secre
tary of State. Not long after his sud
den conversion to the anti-Chinese
policy he called upon Secretary Bay
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aid and inquired of him whether a
treaty with China for the more rigid
observance of t lie act of Congress pro
hihit.inor Chinese immiirration could
o o
not be secured Secretary Bayard
frankly informed him that the Presi
dent had been engaged upon such a
treaty for months past, and that it was
probable that it would soon be sent to
tho Senate. Having secured this in
formation tho honorable Senator hast
ened to offer in the Senate the follow
ing resolution;
Revolved. That in view of the difficulties and
-embarrassments that have attended the regu
laf ion f>? thfl lryi mioeotion of Ch inpep 1 obqrora
to tho United States under the limitations of
our treaties with China, tho President of the
United States be requested to negotiate a
treaty with the Emperor of China containing a
provision that no Chinese laborer shall enter
the United States.
There was a double purpose on the
part of the foxy Senator in offering
this resolution. Ho wished to “ tffako
himself solid ” with tho people of tho
Pacific slope and at the same time to
deprive the Democratic Administra
tion of any credit it might receive for
negotiating the new Chinese treaty.
But the President, in replying to tho
resolution, raised the scalp of the Ohio
fox. He informed the Senate that a
treaty such as the resolution proposed
had been in progress of negotiation
for months, of which fact members of
the Foreign Affairs Committee of the
Senate had been informed by the Secre
tary of State. If an icicle coated with
soft soap could blush John Sherman’s
check would have reddened at this ex
posure of his hypocritical pretense. —•
Harrisburg (Fa.) Patriot.
NOTES AND COMMENTS. v
Senator- Ingalls is the Burchard ol
1888. Chicago Herald.
The bloodv-shirt wavers have
been abruptly admonished that the
spirits of Hancock and McClellan are
still marching on.— St. Louis Post-Dis
patch.
The unmanly and ribald speech
of Mr. Ingalls, which was designed to
stimulate the worst party passions, is
one of the many signs of the deplora
ble decadence of the Republican party
— Harper's Weekly.
Senator Ingalls threatens the
i C u3 U Fco?uY lT ifttftttriWejl letter explaining
real respect for public opinion he will
abandon the idea and cover himsell
with a fig-leaf.— St. Louis Republican.
Six varieties of American birds
have become extinct during the last
ten years.— N. Y. Tribune. The gallu
democraticus, however, has taken a
new lease of life aud is nourishing
and multiplying mightily.— Buffalo
Courier.
Sujnrestions for the distract
on
cd Republicans: For President, J.
Madison Wells, of the Louisiana Re
turning Board; for Vice-President.
It. B. Hayes, of the Fremont Poultry
Farm. Platform: An honest count in
the South. —Boston Olobc.
Where is Governor Foraker, ol
Ohio? He hasn’t indulged in a bitter
denunciation of the South or wrung a
ruby drop out of the bloody shirt for a
couple of moons. We trust the Gov
ernor is in his usual health and that
the political outlook is not so distress
ing as to make him speechless.— N. Y.
Herald.
One thing that tends to reduce
the Republican Presidential booms to
an equality is the pretty well assured
fact that the successful boom will lead
its possessor to disaster and defeat.
The man who gets the Republican nom
ination this year will have something
of an elephant on his hands.— St. Louis
Post-Dispatch.
Nothing that Senator Ingalls
coubt say or do would so much raise
him in the estimation of all fair-mind
ed men of both parties as to admit
that ho was misled in his estimate ol
Hancock and to make a square and
manly apology for unintended injus
tice to one of the truest and noblest of
our dead chieftains. — N. Y. Mail and
Express (Rep .).
Some of the newspapers have
been having a great deal to say about
an alleged unpleasantness between
Secretary Vilas and Senator Voorhcas,
and have represented those distin
guished Democrats in the light oi
enemies. It is evident, however, from
the spirited manner in which Mr.
Voorhees defended the Secretary from
Republican attacks in the Senate the
other day that his relations with Mr.
Vilas are not very badly strained.—
Indianapolis Sentinel.
A mooting of the Loyal Legion,
which is comprised of ex-Union sol
diers and sailors, and numbers among
its members some of the most distin
guished men in both services, was held
the other day, at which Senator In
galls’ name was proposed for member
ship. The friends of General Hancock
w-ere so enraged at the remarks he had
used regarding that hero in his speech
in the Senate that they threatened to
blackball him, and his name was with
drawn. The matter had been kept
very quiet, but among those who know
of it it is regarded as significant, as it
is taken to show that, should Ingalia
be nominated, the soldiers would knife
tho ticket —Washington Dispatch.