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JOHN It. HANCOCK, Publisher. 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. - ♦ ♦- ■■ ■— '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. ♦— 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. 4 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. • •*- ♦ 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 VOL. V.-NO. fi. 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.