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THE death, a few weeks ago, of his last descendant lias removed the difli- culties which had been placed for so long in the/awaysjf st ran pen seeing the house wliere Goethe passed such a large portion of LisNlife ind d^d so much of his work. * . PITTSBURGH builders liuvcjnst com­ pleted a steel Mern-wbeel steamboat intended for navigating tlio Aguan river in Honduras. The trait is 110 feet long, find draws but eighteen inches of water. She will fill an im­ portant.place in developing what is believed- to be an exceedingly fertile tegion. "/• THI largest gun in the world for throwing dynamite projectiles has just been completed in a Jersy City ma­ chine-shop. The barrel of the pun is Sixty leet long, with a bore of eight inches, nnd is bra*s-i!ned throughout. With its penderons frame and carriages the great weapon weighs ferty-three tons. Compressed air is to be u«ed instead of gunpowder, and the projec­ tile contains 180 pounds of dynamite. "" "" ' 0 MB. HENEY STEVKNS has published in London a monograph to explain the falling off in the ouior beauty of modern English books. Only ten classes arc indicted by Mr. Stevens, of whom "one, several, or all may justly be accuscd if not convicted as partici­ pants in tho decadence of book-making, in England." They are the author, publisher, and printer, the reader, oompositor, and pressman; the paper- maker, ink-maker, and book-binder-- and the consumer. DR. TTI;OITSKI, as a result of a num­ ber of observations, states that in every case, varying according to the condi­ tion of the individual, there is an ex- hiliration of the pulse rate and a slight elevation of the temperature from smoking. If the average temperature of non-smokers were represented by 1,000 that of moderate smokers would be 1,008, while the heart in the former «ase was making 1.000 pulsations, in the latter it would beat 1,180 times-- hence the harm of tobacco smoking. RIOHTEII said no man can either live piously or die religiously without a wife. Mallierbe said the two most beautiful things on earth are women and roses. Saville considered there was more strength in women's looks than in any laws. Victor Hugo didn't believe that women detested serpents so much from fear, but more through professional jealousy. Boucicault wished Adam had died with all his ribs in his body. The only thing that con­ soled lady Blessington for being a woman was that she could not be made to marry one. had to be sent to the West Indies. The citizens of New Orleans were very indignont with their health officers for allowing the btnff to be brought into pert, and it was feared that it would produce dbeoie. 1 IT is told by the Boston Ifacoril that Lord Tennyson and his family, includ­ ing his little grand-danghter, were dining at Osborne by invitation of the Queen. During the meal the bread plate ran low, and the Queen took the last piece. Thereupon the little Ten­ nyson girl, who had been taught that it was bad manners to take the last piece on the plate, pointed her finger at the Queen and maid scornfully: "Pigffy, piggy, pig!" The guests ex­ pected that nothing but decapitation was in store far the cliild; but the Queen came nobly to the rescue. "You are t|iiito right, my dear," said she; "nobody but the Queen should take the last piece on the plate." GEOBGE ALFRED Towxsnrsrb lately met a Southern man of "wide acquain­ tance and great frankness," who informed him that the South would never develop ipto a rich oountry, be­ cause the soil is too poor to be worth manuring, and instanced the white clay soil of South Carolina as an ex­ ample. The editor of the Charleston Netvs and Courier, having read this slur upon his na ive State, comes back at the author and the author's inter­ viewer with the assertion that there is no clay soil in South Carolina,, save the bed of kaolin, which deposit is shipped to the IJjTo^jth every day in large quantities, where it is sold by the pcund to take the place of sugar in certain food preparations, and which is, therefore, observes the Courier, with some asperity, probably not less valuable, in the long run, than other soils sold by the acre. As the matter now stands, honors may be considered ! easy between "Oath" and the Southern editor. _ ON the ground that the work was "unwomanly" and degrading, the Penn­ sylvania Legislature lately passed a law prohibitirg women from working in the coke ovens and mines. Instead of receiving the thanks of the ladies interested in the advancement of their sex, as they perhaps expected, the leg­ islators are being hauled over the coals for meddling with the rights and privi­ leges of women. Investigation into the natter shows that of the few women hitherto engaged in these laborious occupations, nearly all were widows who must do something for the snpport of their families, or were the wives of men who were too ill or feeble to do the work themselves. The champions of tho class thus discriminated against do not recommend miuing and coke shoveling as suitable or desirable em­ ployments for women, bnt contend that they should have the right to earn an honest living in this way when no other alternative is presented to them but idleness or beggary. If they are to be debarred from earning their bread by the only means open to them simply because the work in question is regarded as out of their proper field, then, insist their champions, tho men who are tres­ passing on feminine prerogatives by selling tapes and corsets, and by cook­ ing and dressmaking, should be pro­ hibited from so doing. As it is, no man is prevented from earning his liv­ ing at anything for which he is capable and can secure, and no gocd reason presents itself to the believers in equal fights why women should be deified the same privilege. IN Maine, according to the Boston Globe, to give the sign of distress to any member in good standing, pound three times on the outer gate, give two hard kicks and one soft one on the in­ ner door, give the password, "Ruther­ ford B. Hayes," turn to the left through A dark passage, turn the thumb-screw «f a mysterious gas fixture ninety de­ grees to the right holding the goblet <of the encampment under the gas fix­ ture; then reverse the thumb-screw, shut your eyes, insult your digester, leave 25 cents near the gas fixture, and liunt up the nearest cemetery, so that you will not haVe to be carried very far. A CONTRIBUTOR to Nature says that during a reoenl stay in Suffolk he found a belief prevalent that swallows lay in necessary stores for their autumn migration by packing small flies under the feathers beneath the wings. His informant told him that he had shot a swallow onCe to ascertain whether this Has the case, and that he had, as he expected, found many small flies be^j^ f^er take his seat neath the down. Knowing how liable Swallows are to parasitic invasions, he asked what kind the flies were, and was told "Little gnats and such like." He asks: "Is this opinion to be found elsewhere, and is there any ground for it?" "A SUBSCRIPTION list," says the Lon­ don Academy, "is being formed in England with a view to present^g a free-will offering to the American poet, Walt Whitman. The poet is in his 67th year, and has--since his enforced retirement, some years ago, from offi­ cial work in Washington, owing to an attack of paralysis--maintained him­ self precariously by the sale of his works in poetry and prose, and by oc­ casional contributions to magazines. Mr. W. M. Rossetti, 5 Endsleigli Gar­ dens, Euston Square, acts as treasurer, aud Mr. Herbert H. Gilchrist, 12 Well Road, Hampstead, as honorary secre­ tary for this scheme." ICE is sometimes very heating. When the Dutch embassador told the King «f Siam that in Holland the water, at a certain season of the year, congealed into a solid mass that could be broken into bits and handled like rocks, the King flew into a passion, called him an international liar, and banished him . from the kingdom. In New Orleans sixty years ago, when tho first cargo of '-ice arrived in mid-summer, an excited mob drove away the men who attempted 'to store the ice in a building. The -building was demolished, and the ioe eternal. A Dnde In a Strest-Car. "California men are not so accommo­ dating to the ladies as they used to be," said an old car conductor. "Most of 'em will keep their seats and let the women stand; but, of course, when a pretty girl comes in there is a rush to see who'll make room for her." "Do you find the old men more gal­ lant that the young?" inquired the re­ porter. "All the time," said the conductor. "Why, bless you, the market-basket woman has no sort of a chance with the dudes, but the old fellows will hop up and give her a seat just as readily as if she was young and good-looking. The dude? look out of the window when a lady comes in, and I suppose many of 'em would sooner stand than be smirked and grinned at by the mon­ key hanging on the strap, who thinks he has a right to recognition because he has given 'em his place. I saw one of these fellows nicely fixed off last trip. A mighty pretty young lady came in with a nurse, and the nurse was holding a baby. The car was full, and/a dude hopped up when he saw -tfatf^sweet face of the young mother, Well, sir, he was grinning and smiling at her all the time, and she looked mad and indig­ nant, for whatever way she turned that chump's eyes followed her. At last she stopped the car and got off. The dude squatted down and was about to give her a parting mash through the win­ dow, when he saw a handkerchief on the floor. He picked it up quick as lightning and skipped out after her. Why, I laughed fit to split, and so did all the passengers." "Where did the laugh come in? It i was politeness ou his~part to restore to her her property." ^ _____ "Well. I guess you wouldn't carefor the politeness part of it if you was him, and know what you was fisting. 'Twas a sort of handkerchief, to be sure, but it belonged to the baby--Oh yes, there was no mistake about that; it was the baby's, and the dude knew it, too, be­ fore he had touched the ground. He dropped it, sir, as if was a red-hot iron, and was about to come back in the car when he saw us all laughing, and then he shot into the plaza as if the cops were after him. And the nurse most let the baby fall, she was so tickled. I never see a dude so flabbergasted. Durned if I wouldn't have carried them all to the end of the road and back again free, just ior the joy they gave me. Fare, sir," and the conductor passed off a bad quarter on an old gen­ tlemen who was trying to get an inch to windward of a stout lady with ̂ a package of dry goods.--San Francis­ co Alta. A BIRD, upon the wing may «>furry a seed that shall add a new species to the vegetable family of a continent; and just so a word, a thought, from a living- soul, may have rv suits immeasurable, GRANT'S TABLET WRITING. Copies of Some of the Tablets the General Wrote HIB At- w ' Hiding Physician*, . How the Distinguished Patient Watched the Progress of His Was Ling, F a t a l M a l a d y . . i f f h" ---- -- ii'f- Hope Alternated with Fear, anct How at Last He Give IJp the Un- * equal Struggle. Dr. Douglas was a worshiper of the tiuie he iret tho General during the war of the rebellion, when the loctor was con­ nected with the sanitary service, until he stood bjr the bedside or the dead. Hetclieved In Gen. .Grant as a man of destiny. When he went upon the steamer lying before Fort DonelSQH,-on wlrich Gen. (ir. iTt sat. and looked at the commander for the first time. Dr. Douglas was impressed by two thlngrs: the reticence and the alertness of the Federal officer. At that time he made up his mind that Gen. Grant was to be a great man in the history of American people. Subsequent events, as all know, prove how close and intelligent an analysis of character Dr. Douglas had made. From tho time that the General's voice be- iran to fail, late in June, up to within a tlav or two of bis death, he communicated with Dr. Douglas very ireefy" by written tablets. The Doctor has nearly 20i) of these which he has preserved, aud w hich he proposes to hare lithographed so that be can present the orig- luais to the family. Shortly after Gen. Grant began to find It difficult to talk, not from the use of cocaine as had been supposed, but from the manner in which the cancer affected the vocal cords, he wrote as follows the 2.-th of June to Dr. Douglas; f 1 ehail have to oe careful about my wri'insr. I gee every person I give a piece of paper to puts it in his pocket. l?orae day they will be coming up against my English. It was Gen. Grant's style to read up books concerning the history of the war and the records of the rebellion very closely and carefully, and then to sit down and write for hours at a stretch on his memoirs. The 28d of June, at 5:30 p. m., ho Wrote the following page: I said I had been adding to mv book and to my cottin. 1 presume every strain on the mind or body is one more nail in the coltin. Tho 27th of June, at 1U a. m., the General wrote: I don't talk because my mouth is easy, and 1 want to keep It ao as long as possible. If I should get up now, I would i robauly go to work preparing something for reading up. Xhe same day he wrote a tablet saying that he had still been at work, despite what he bad said in the morning. He wrote at 4 q'clock in the afternoon: I wrote four pages; I tore it off, and have it; I must read up before I can write properly. Gen. Grant, during his eariy days u|>on the mountain, as well as during his illness in New York, was always interested in conver­ sation. June-'!', in the morning, Dr. Douglas happened to allude to the coming Fourth of July celebration at Woodstot k,by Mr. llowen, of the imtcixmlfnt. Gon. Grant wrote as follows upon the pad: I have attended one of those reunions of Bowen's at Woodstock. They are immense af- lairs. WATOHINCS HIS SYMPTOMS. Most of the tablets--all of them, with a few exceptions, in fact--refer to the symp­ toms of the disease that was eating into his vitals. Uy following the tablets from the time the. General at rived at Mount Mac- Gregor until the closing of his life, one ol>- tains a very lair idea of the insidious, de ceptive course of the deadly cancer. The i^th of June, at 3 p. m., it was raining, but the General wrote the following tablet: I have had a very reatful dav. I hope, how­ ever, we will have a pleasant day outside to­ morrow. Within an hour he began to experience a change, for at 4 o'clock he wrote: This is always the trouble. No matter how well 1 get along the balance of the tweaty-fonr hours, when the middle ot the afternoon comes I begin to teel stuffy, stopped up, and generally uncomfortable. The 30th of June the General wrote the following: The atmosphere here enables me to live in comparative comfort while 1 am being treated, or while nature is taking its .course with my disease. 1 have no idea that I s'hould have been able to come here now it 1 had remained in the city. It is doubtful whether I would have been alive. Now, I would be much better able to move back than 1 was to come up at the time I did. IT. S. GUANT. The General objected to stimulants. The 1st of July hecxpressed tho wish to haveth& wine discontinued, and wrote as follows: I have not taken any wine in six dava. £ofar as I have tried, I don't think alcoholic drinks agree with me. They seem to heat me up, aud have no other effect. The 2d of July at 3 p. m. the General wrote this interesting tablet: 1 have had 110 rest since you left he: e. Think I feel more like work than any time since I have been here. 1 will try to rest a little, how­ ever. I have worked and feel a little weak from It, but 1 cannot sleep. From 7 this morniug I have dozed off a few times, but nut half an hour in the nugreaats. 1 have been writing upon my views of sor.-.e of our Generals and of the character of Lincoln and Stanton. 1 don't {ilace Stanton as high as some people do. Mr. jiucoln cannot be exalted too highly. One of the peculiarities of cancer patients is that they have periods of great despon­ dency. Gen. Grant had these periods, and July 3 he wrote as follows: There are times when I could not recover if left to myself. What is to be my fate to-nignt. Doctor? VN ill I have to lie awake, mabiutr it a study how to get a breath? It Is about as much as I could stand to go through another nicht. It will l e seen from this tablet how much Gen. Grant suffered and how agonizing was the pain he endured at times. His anxiety not to be left alone was the very reason why Dr. Douglas remained by him so faithfully and so constantly. To indicate how hope un<| fear alternated with Gen. Grant I append tvro tablets. July 4 at T p. m. he wrote: I have been fretting along very well to-day. There is a giOninK weakness, however. July 5 at 10:;;(| a. in. he wrote: 1 think I am not so weak as' 1 was at this time yesterday. July 6, at 11 o'clock at night, ha wrote this questiou to the Doctor: Is the hotel pretty full now? The following were written July 7. At 11 o'clock in the morning the General wrote: 1 had a pleasan^uornin^. At 1 :iiU in the ttl-Pfrnoon the Doctor re­ marked that bis patient's voice was better, and the latter wroto: Yes, my voice has broken above a whisper two or three times this morning. At 7:3U p. m. he wrote: 1 have had an easy day. a At 11 p. m. he wr te to the Doctor about the use of cocaine, and said: I mav have to use cocaine. If I do I will take the liberty ot waking vou up to administer it. The thougiitfuineas of the General in ex­ pressing himself in making his wants known is disclosed by this last tablet. He was very anxious at all times not to disturb the phyr slcian more than was necessary: At 4 o'clock in the morning of the 8th of July the General wrote what for him was a long tablet, in which he spoke of the use of medicines in h:s disease and his familiarity with his own treatment, alluding to tht^hSB he had sometimes of getting up hiin^cif and applying cocaine, takingjj gargic atid clean­ ing out his mouth whpam* needed relief. In this tablet he sald/fnat if he kept on taking medicine and treating himself he would be come quite a specialist in the treatment o- diseases. He aflded that. whenJi£_Wos edu- eaied for the Ufe of a soldier ho had no idea that ho" wolifd live to see the rank of a sol­ dier raised two trades higher and have him­ self occupy both of these exalted positions: that he was never much of a politician and yet had been two times President; that he had never been much of a book reader, and yet he found himself the author of a book that was almost already in print. He closed with a facetious remark that if he ever got well perhaps he would be van authority on medicinc. July at 11 o'clock in the morning, the General wrote: I feel pretty well, bnt get sleepy sitting in :he air. I took a half an hour's nap. l>o you want me to go in the house? 1 am as bright an 1 well now, tor the time at least, as I ever will be. Soon alter this 1 e wrote: 1 believe I will go in after all. The visit of the Mexican editors, July 8, tired him very much, and at 7 p. m. be wrote: I must avoid such afternoons as this. All that fatigued me very much. I will take dinner and get to bed while you are at dinner. Cocaine aBorded him much relief. July 9 he wrote: I got a very considerable amount of rest.. That last coca ne did me a power of good. The water I wanted very much, and it gave me an easy relief, with free breath and brief rest. The same day. at 1 o'clock in the after­ noon : I have been sitting up ever since about 9 o'clock. T ntil just now I lave not t eea drowsy all that time I feel ve' y much better than for some time. I walked about this morning w.th >?ase and pleasure. At a p. m.: I have rested finely and slept a little since yon were here. Now is the time, however, when my month begins to fill up, and I don't fed quite as pleasant, it had commenced just at* you came in a few minutes. Half an hour later: For about three times after 1 had used the cocaine, to-day, I would He back in the de­ lightful absence from pain, and even slept some. At 11 o'clock, the last tablet of the day: i The 10th of July, one day less than a forti5 *Uht before Gen. Grant died, he wrote: I hav - had a very fine rest to-dav, without so Ibm h sleep as to interfere with a good night's "rest iroin now on. I may not get it, bnt 1 hope I will. Myswallowing is growing mo:e diffi­ cult "Buck" has brought up the last of the first .volume in print. In two weeks if they work Jiard they cau have the second volume' copied ready to go to tho printer. I will then feel that my w ork is done. Alas: before th? two weeks had expired the old soldier's work was done. About this time Gen. Grant began- to ex­ perience greater difficulty in swa'lowlng. The 10th of July, at 11:50 a. m.. he wrote: I t-hall have to rcduce my food > ery materially in order to be able to do anvthing iriuch louger. It is (,uite hard to swallow anything after the first half tumbler. the s.une day, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, he wrote as iollows: Doctor. I am glad to see you. I didn't know that you had come in. I dou't see how I am to avoid .the use of cocaina It would relieve me very much. As early as 7:45 o'clock, the morning of July II, Gen. Grant was writing to the Doc­ tor: 1 woke up feeling perfectly fresh, as if I had had a irood night's natural sleeo. Mv breath is less obstructed than usual at the same time of the day, and th • head less filled up. In fact, my brea-.his not obstructed in t!;e least. 1 have used no co ainc during the night, nor do I re­ quire any yet. It was a peculiarity of Gen. Grant always to be conside; ate of those about him. This is made dear by the following tablet, which he wrote at 1 o'clock in the morning the 12th of | July: Not sleeping does not d!«tnrb me. because I have had so mucii sleep; and then I have been comparatively tree from pain. I know a siek person cannut feei just as he would like to all the time, Lut I think it my duty to let the phy­ sician know from time to time just my feelings, as it may benefit some other fellow-sufferer hereafter. J,-- •> t >n this same night the General's niirso, Hcnr . gave Dr. Douglas a tablet which di­ rected him to wake the l octor, and advise with him whether anything should be done. The tablet adds: I feel very well, but have nearly a constant hieeoiu h. Whether this indicates anything or not 1 do not know, but it is inconvenient. The patient may not have known that this symptom signified the commencement of his last decline. Gen. Grant wrote at all houisof the day and night, l or instance, at 4 o'clock tho morning of July 12: 1 notice that your little girls and Julia (his craiid iaughterl get along very happily together with their swing, lawn-tennis, aud nice shade. They scein very haj-py. Atxiut the same hour he wrote: , I have not slept probably two hours since 4 o'clook veste day. Lying down as 1 do all the time 1 get all thi.- sleep in the aggregate that ia necessary. For the last twenty-four hours I have suffer­ ed less pain on the whole than usu il. I have telt more pain than is r. al because 1 have not been able to go out. Just now I feel <iuite strong, waiting until I get drowsy. 1 would probably feel weak if I had to make anv trreat exertion. It is a question of avoiding nervous­ ness and restlesness. 1 hese 1 have been free from. The trouble lias been more from pain and tho accumulation of mucus in the mouth and throat. Atsoc ock on the morning of the samo dav he wrote: My not eating so much has helved me very much. As you say, the difficulty about arti -il­ lation comes from the soro upon inside of the cheek. THE LAST PKHIOU OF IIKI'UESSIOX. July lti Gen. Grant wrote a tablet which ] has been in part publ shed heretofore, in i which ho said: I I feel sore at the prospect, of living throuch TARIFF SEDUCTION. the snmmer and fall in the condition 1 am in. 1 don't think I can, but 1 may.' Except ihat I don't gather strength, I feel t,nite as well as 1 have been heretolore, but 1 am satistied tht; I am losing st.engtli. I feel it more in the in­ ability to move about than in any other way, or rather in the laik of desire to try to move. About Juiy lti a weakness of the stomach was indicated, and the iMh he wrote: If 1 could recover the tone of my stomach I think 1 would pick up. At tbi> time a looseness of the bowels be­ came apparent. At 10 o'clock in the morn­ iug he wroto: I have been very wide awake, but compara­ tively free from pain. I was just about getting up to walk about the room. Did any on.* go for you? I didn t send. At 10 o'clock at night he wrote the iollow- ing: Not feeling sleepy. Have been thinking of the propriety ot taking food. If I <ouId re- i cover the tone of my stomach I would like It. The lwth the General te.t wery tired, and at 2 o'clock in the morning begun to be leUless.- The Doctor suggested a change of position, and the General wrote: l)o vou not think it advisable for me to rest as a tailor does when he is standing up? With the loss of vitality the malignant pains about the seat of thft disease appeared to diminish, and the General was deceived as lo his condition, for he wrote tho 10th of July: I th'nk I am l etter this evening than for some time back. The sore places in my mouth do not seem to be spreading. On the other hand, I don't see that any of ihemi are part.cu- larlv on the road to recovery. At 0:45 p. in. the same day he wroto: What time have you, Doctor? I have been resting so easily, I would not have been sur- priA-d to hear it was U o'clock. Henry tells me it is only a little after 9. July 20, at 7 a. m., he thought he was bet­ ter, and wrote: My rest for the night was bette." than the av- era«e. 1 »in sati-fied 1 shall have to give up coffee. It is distasteful, too, and harder to take than anytii inn that goes into my mouth. I feel weak aud feverish alter my cotfee fi,r a long time, and have an insatiable desire to drink water. It has been a half-hour since diinkinir coffee, and I have an immoderate desire to drink told water yet. Ato'clock a. m. he had written: In making a summary of the progress of the disease the l »t!i ot Juiy I said that the sores In the mouth were still there. This was hardly correct. The palate is about well ind along the tongue considerably improved. The General s mind did not weaken until almost the last hour. The day before he died he wrote: I don't think 1 slept the last time because of the medicine which put me to sleep the first and stcond times. lie had taken the mcdlciu? but oncc. . Al'tc r this tablet was written several more were handed by hiin to the Doctor, Jiut he very considerately and thoughtfully/turned thorn over to the members of the ftuuily, for he felt that they belonged to them ratter than to him.--Albany Journal*- ( * [Philadelphia telegram;l The Press prints the following Wash­ ington Bpecial regarding a recent tariff deal among the Democrats: "The apparent non-committal atti­ tude on the question of the tariff is the- result of recent conferences in which the more moderate Democrats, includ­ ing the President himself and Secre­ tary Manning, have thrown out the tub which is intended, at least for the pres­ ent, to satisfy the free-trade whale. In the conference which has led to this re­ sult, which took place recently in Washington, Congressman Randall took a leading part, and in many re­ spects his views had much to do in shaping the new Democratic policy. "First of ail it was agreed on all sides that the tariff must be revised. At last, after much discussion, in which the advice of certain well-known protectionists was sought and freely and frarkly given, the moderates agreed to give the immoderates a $10,- 000,000 reduction in customs during the coming session, the moderates, however, to reserve the right of creat­ ing a sort of inner-circle tariff com-, mission to be run during the months preceding the coming session of Con­ gress as a sort of side-show to the Treasury Department. "It must not for a moment be sup- posed that a reduction of $40,000,000, which involves the acceptance and sup­ port on the part of the free traders of a bill prepared entirely by the Kandall wing of the Democratic party, was agreed to without other and still more substantial promises in the immediate future. It lias been practically agreed upon that the Treasury Department, aided and abettt d bv such manufactur­ ers as may be found willing to co-oper­ ate with the Secretary, will present a bill, the; basis of which will be, as I have said, the reduction of $40,000,000, or at least an apparent reduction of that amount. "To this end the Treasury Depart­ ment has employed several" experts, who are now engaged in obtaining opinions of manufacturers throughout the country, and such information as it is enabled to gather in relation to the cost of production at home and in com­ peting Kuropeun countries. All this inforuiatio I will be tabulated and a bill framed after the fashion of that pro­ posed (and finally passed) by Secretary of the Treasury Walker, and which is known as the ' Walker bill of 184(5.' "On paper and viewed as a whole, this is a splendid scheme. The mo­ ment, however, the bill, as proposed by the Secretaiy of the Treasury, comes into the House and is taken up--as it most assuredly will be--line by line, the Democratic party will be in the same condition as it always has been on the tariff question. A struggle over the proposed Treasury bill will, in fact, develop the old struggle again. The least objectionable measure may be passed, but a measure that contem­ plates the reduction of $40,000,000 of customs duties will, in the opinion of some of the leading Republicans here, utterly fail." Grant at Fort Done]ton. The attack on Fort Doneison, which estab­ lished Grant's lame, is said to nave been de- 1 cidcd upon by a simp e circumstance. The ' duy before the attack most of the troop; had inarched a long distance, part of it in a bit­ ter cold night. A council of war was called to determine whether an immediate attack should mcmade or whether the troop* shou a have a day of rest. Grant said nothlntr, but appeared absorbed in thou/ht. Presently, when every one had expressed an opinion, ho said; "There was a deserter came in this morning. Let us sec him and hoar what ho has to say." 'Jhe man was sent for and came in. Grant looked at his l aversack and then asked: "Where are you from?" "tort Done.6011." "Got six days' rations in your haversack, have you not?" "Yes, sir." When warn thfcy utrrVbilTTUty'-.--ure.«terday ng." "The same to all the tro I "Ve?, sir." The soldier was sent out and | Grant said: "Gentlemen, trooi s do not have ] six days'rations served out to them ill a ! fort if they mean to stay there. These men ; mean to retreat, not to tight. We will attack ! at once." i j Ocn. Grant Thoroughly an American. j Gen. Grant was thoroughly and naturallp ' an Amerloan, and now >\e find that the peo» I pie loveJ him lor just that. They might have admired his military genius. They : might have been grateful for his services to ! his country. They might have wondered at ! tho unusual combination of personal traits ; with tho marvelous events of his care?r. j Hut they would never have felt that pecui- ( iar souse of personal nearness to him--that ' rest till satisfaction in the contemplation of I him as a man--had he not been simply and ! unaffectedly an American.--Albany Kxpn»t<. .Popular Opinion. f¥rs fame Is undoubtedly one for ait time. --St. L<iuin Spectator. THE faults of others which be shouldered through lire, fall from him at the grave.-- JVt'10 York Tribune. THE most conspicuous example of the kind of men American commonwealths are ab!o to evolve when there is need.--The Critic. THERK ia no stranger life recorded by Plutarch or Gibbon.--WUmingttm (N. C.) Morning Star.. HE lias become the very embodiment of the idea of successful assertion of the na­ tional unity against disunion.--The Katitm. AT the feet of America's freedom lies the clay of America's idol. He was a Ocsar, witliout a vile ambition; hewasa IJonaparte, without a dream of universal empire. --Os/den (Utah) Herald IMormon). Hew Bill to Be Introduced by the Treasury Department--Duties Beduoed $40,000,00k .~"N; KASBY. THE BOOMERS DISPERSE. Oklahoma Home-S«>ekera Have Given Up the Struggle anil Broken Camp, (Washington special.I It is learned that satisfactory evi­ dence has been submitted to the Attor­ ney General of the intention of the Oklahoma boomers to abandon all idea of further attempts to invade Okla­ homa or violate the President's procla­ mation, and have broken camp. This evidence is said to come from the boom­ ers themselves and from Congressmen and others in position to know the facts and vouch for the sincerity and good faith of the statements. The explanation given is that the boomers are satis- tied with the policy of the administra­ tion, which they regard as just, and do not care to resist the Government when it applies the same restrictions to the cattlemen as it does to themselves. They have become convinced that the administration intends to protect the Indians, and they concede that this is right, their claim having been based upon the idea that they had as much right to occupy the lands as the lease­ holders and cattlemen who were per­ mitted to do so. Attorney General Garland is said to be fully satistied with these assurances, and it is under stood that he will at an early day direct the discontinuance of contemplated prose­ cutions against the invaders. - POUXDMAKER A CONVICT. He Is Found Guilty of Making War Against the ()ueen and Sentenced to Three Years In Prison. (Winnipeg (Man.) special.] Poundmaker, Chief of the Indians who fought Col. Otter's flying column at Cut-Knife Creek, and afterward at­ tacked and captured a supply-train of thirty-one wagons in the Eagle Hills, was convicted at liegina of making war against the queen and sentenced to three years in the Penitentiary. The Chief, when he heard the sentence, asked that he be hanged right away rather than be imprisoned. Before sentence was pass­ ed on him he said: "I was good all summer. People told lies. I saved a lot of bloodshed. I can't understand how it is that after saving so many Jives I am brought here. I could have iccrrtin^tke pfairies still if I would." Then waving his hand majestically he said, with a smile: "I am a man. * Do as you like. I am in your power. I gave myself up. You did not catch me." John McCuIlough. fNew York special.] John McCnllough, in the £loomingdale Asylum, is giadually losing all remem­ brance of his old days on the stage. The actor has come to think he owns Blooming- da'e as a gift from fri nils interested in seeing him happy in his old age. He no longer alludes in any way to the 6tage or. as he used to do, to engagements which he must start away to fill. Occasionally he wants all his baggage packed up to go to Chicigo or Cleveland, bat shortly forgets all about it and is not surprised or angered if he finds his orders have not been executed. Sometimes Mc- Cullough, lying in his room, will burst out in recitations of poems or bits of plays in "which he has at different times appeared. But this is the only feature of his present condition to conirect him with his old tri­ umphs. He walks about the grounds with­ out an attendant, but nnder constant sur­ veillance. The physicians do not think that he will live more than a year. IT was Henry Clay who first gave Cin­ cinnati the title " Qneen City of the West." This was in 1828, before Chicago had been discovered. : £*-F&stnia8ter and Bis IViendii ijre " Distressed About the Presi- 5 dent's Vacation. i {From the Tol«do Blade.] X ROADS (WIT® % In the State uv Kentucky), Orgust 4,1885. The noosppaper wich come3 to the Dimocrisy uv the Corners is the un- bilikle t»rd wich cot/hex us with the world. The party has alius taken onfie noosepaper, desirin to bo iatellegent. I reed it to the rest uv em, interspersin the nooze with originel remarks by my­ self. Ther wood be more papers taken by us uns, ef more uvus unscood reed. Igderence is to be depibred, but it hez sum pints in its favor. Possibly ef more uv the Dimocriey uv the Corners cood ried ther wooden't be so many Dimo- crats. Our paper come yesterday, and the fust paragraff which I opened onto wuz to the ert'eck that the President was packiu' his trunk fur a two months' ab­ sence in the mountains uv Noo York. I, wich giv all last summer to the eleokshun uv Grover Cleveland, amsit- tin' in sad drouthinis in Bascom's, de- pendin' for my licker on the chance in- vitashens from good-natured strangers wich are too keerlis to notice the tiger­ like anxiety wich I regard cm, but The President is packin' his trunk! The Post Office at the Corners, wioh blongs to me by common consent, hez been held for yeers by an offensive partizan, one who by his own co ifeshn, wood hev votid the Republikiti tikket, regerly, ef we had permitted him to vote at. all. Grover Cleveland, by one stroke uv his pen cood change ali this, and make the hearts uv those wich I owe happy, but The President has packed his trunk! Bascom turns over the private ledger in wich fur all these veers he hez kept my account and sighs like a f urn is. He is losin money every day, becoz 1 hev not the money to pay fur likker, and he not being able to continner on tick fur- ever, the wheels uv trade is blocked. The removle Uv the nigger Lubbock andiny appointment wood remedy all tbi^l by restorin the equilibrium, but it is not done. The President has packed his trunk! Deekin Pogram hez hed his eagle eye fixed on the Collectersliip uv Kevenoo fur yeers, and hez bin waitin fur it so long that Bascom holds a mortgage on his farm fur all it is wuth. That place is held by a offensive partisan, wich hez votid the Republikin tikkit alluz, hevin gone so far ez to for.se his way to the poles with a loadid revolver, in spite uv our protests. (Bnt his vote wuzn't countid, halleloogy!) The Deekin sits mild-eved and sad, longin and waitin, but The President is packin his trunk 1 Issaker Gavitt hez wanted the Cus­ tom House sence he wuz 21 years old. His servis in the Confedrit army attests his Dimocrisy. He hez waited so long that he hez becum almost idiotic thro hope deferred. He is still waitin, but The President is packin' his trunk! Wat rite hez the President to desert his post and go away so fur that we wich want the oftises hev not the meens to pay railrode fare to reech him? Wat rite hez he to leeve Washington afore eggsarainin our papers and makin the changes wich we insist he ought to make? Wat rite hez he to pack his trunk and git out anyhow? Carryin with him a trunk implies a long stay. I don't pack a trunk when I go away. I scorn a trunk. A black carpet-bag stuffed with paper to en- slioor confidence at hotels is all I need. But he, forsooth, must pack his trunk! I am not recklis nor hasty, but I warn President Cleveland that this packin uv trunks won't do. He hez dooties to perform, and the Democrisy insists that he performs em. We don't keer so much about pcilisy; we are willin to swaller any dose which he offers us, but we want the offises. On that question we are iron-clad. And we want em now. He can't sine com mi? h tins in the Adirondax, and afore he gets back I shel hev died uv drouth. He must re­ member that four years hence the De­ mocrisy may pack their trunks. Let him beware. The starved tiger is the most feroshus. PETROLEUM V. NASBY, (Desperate.) INDIANA is said to be the center of the suicide district of this oountry. THE SPOILS SYSTEM. Sweeping Change* In the Internal Revenue Office Have Demoralised the Service. [Washington special to Chicago Tribune.] It is generally conceded at the Treasury Department that the result of the sweeping changes in the force of Internal Revenue Collectors affords a striking argument against the spoils system in its effects upon the public service. All but nineteen Collectors have been displaced, and inexperienced men have been substituted, and the service has consequently suffered. The subordinate officers under the Collect­ ors not being included in the civil- service rules, a clean sweep is reported to have been made in many cases. The results of this substitution of inexpe­ rienced for trained workers has been seriously felt in the department work. In many instances the clerical force has shown its incompetency, and seri­ ous complications have resulted. Cir­ culars of instructions have been issued on matters so trivial that they would seem to be wholly unnecessary if the employes were at all acquainted with their duties. The difficulties arising from changes in the service are still more serious in the apparent develop­ ment of schemes and tricks to defraud the revenue wherever it has been sup­ posed that the inexperience of the new Collector could be taken advantage of. Many of the old devices with which the older Collectors are familiar, and which would not have been attempted while they were in office, have now been revived. Investigations of frauds in measurements, counterfeiting of stamps, and numerous other devices, are in progress almost all over the country, and an increased amount of illicit distilling in the South is con­ ceded. The trained agents who have long been in the service, and who have been promoted from subordinate posi­ tions, are the men who are now dis­ covering these frauds, and they are the men upon whom the Government wholly relies to save the revenue service from disgrace. SOME sensitive reform organs are dis­ pleased because the half-brother of George William Curtis, who was lately dismissed from a position in the New York Custom House, is flippantly al­ luded to by other journals as an offen­ sive mugwump, "when the truth is that he had been physically incapacitated for duty for a year." The explanation hardly mends the matter. It is scarce­ ly becoming in the brother of the apostle of purity in the civil service to draw a salary from the Government which he could not earn. Why did he vot resign, and not wait for removal' A ILLINOIS STATE NEWgL --Conductor John King fell from i grayel tram at Howard, and was killed. --Pr. John Ten Brook, cne of the oldest physicians in the 8t:tle, died at t^aris, fa| Ids 77th TOW. ' •v?w . « •? Jr - l r f --A Chicago reporter went through a pie factory to see how pies were made, and h« is so sick yet that his life is despaired of. --Exchange. --Charles Cooper, formerly of McLesa County, was shot and killed at Hnrrold, D« ^ T., by his brother-in-law, William Toddjj *' v' the dispute originating in family matlera. ^ ? --James Burnett, living near Halisriile, „ .7 while boring for water a day or two ago, * struck a vein^ of natural gas yielding a . , pressure of ttirtv pounds to tho sqnar* inch, which is being utilized for heatinii-; ^5- and lighting purposes. ' / --The Whiteside? County Agricultural J ; Society will hold its thirtieth annual fair. at Sterling, Sept. 8 to 11, inclusive. Th4, -• - society is newly officered, and starts ottl • » this year with renewed energy, and the de*» termination to ho!d one of the best expo* sitions in the Northwest. \ 'T" --Herman Bratchin, aged twentt-oil* ; *• years, was drowned in the } ool at tha swimming school corner of North Clark • 1 and Elm streets, Chicago. He could not ' swim, bnt nevertheless he dived in wheiif the water was twelve feet deep. He waft not noticed or missed until his body discovered at the bottom of the pool one of the swimmers. --"In 1830, while practicing in Madisolft County, Illinois," says a writer in the St. ? Louis Medical Journal, "I was induced ~f by the representations of an old woman, ^ j*><- to make the trial in dysentery and diarrhea,, ' i of tablespoonful doses of pure cider vine)* , ?, gar,, with the addition of sufficient salt to ? | be noticeable; and it acted so clmrmingl|r ^ | that I have never used anything else." ^ ^5 --Mr. Philip D. Armour has returne# * from New York after j urchasing a seat U|, ^ the Stock Exchange there fcr $24,000., „ He gays he took tha step simply as a * matter of economy. He wants to be oil ' > the iuside of the fence, though he nevctr * -•» deals iu stocks that he do.s not own ab^> , solutely. He h is no idea of going out c£ . the packing business or of leaving Chicago, < > ^ --Chicago Journal. --Chicago has been making some dia* ^ | coveries which interest the scientific truths •'•'•j| seeker more than they please the fastidious; It has been demoustrated, for instance* * * 1'Ji that the city's sewage can be carried most > than two miles into the lake and far be* A yond the inlet-pi[;e of the water supply -- V without being seriously affected by contact with the pure water. It has been shownt too, that the water may be perfectly pom to all appearance, while it is o :ly so for m foot or two on th > surface, the lower def>tl|k being thoroughly corrupted with sewage. --When President Cleveland was asked to appoint Judge Tree, of Chicago, to $, foreign mission, he replied: "I'd just ait. leaf as not." This gracious answer to th# < - , application wa§ received with a profound - ' v bow. "In making this appointment, how- " ever," continued the Chief Magistrate, "If ' is not to be considered by any. branches of, , > the Judge's family that they have only to apply for a position to be appointed.* J ' ^ "Certainly knot," was the response. "Then, ^ H I gness, you fcan tell Judge Tree to pact "$j his trunk," said the President "Yon ex* Vi; pected me. of course, to appoint him," ha added. "We knew you wood," was the re* ply. "Well," said the President, "I waf aware that Judge Tree did not pine for th* office; nevertheless, in 6uch a position I; am anxious to see, as our English friend* would say, a good man at the V.m, an& while I'm maple " "Chestnuts!" claimed the delegation in a breath. The^ the President retired to his desk with pleasant smile on his face and the dolega* „ tion departed, well pleased with the 9Ufccesj| P* * of their mission.--Boston Saturday JEven* u ina Gazette. ; . * ^ Illinois' Grant Monument. i . [Springfield telegram.) 'ium* €»*. Palmer. Chairman of the commit^ : tee appointed by the Grant Monument As# T^ sociation, has addressed the following memorial to the citizens of Illinois, re* * ^ questing contributions of funds to the Uli^ f ~ * nois monument to be erected to the memory " f of Gen. Grant at Springfield: 'lothe People of Illinois: * The undersigned committee, representing the v Grant Monument Assoc ation of Illinois, was duty orsanired under the laws of this state f iff ,^| 011 the '2Hd of Julv, 1«S5, for the purpose of se* curinit the erection at the State «spital of a salt- * X- - V rj able monument to the rnemorv of Gen. Grant* - « betr leave to make the following statement td 3 *' i th-.' public: ' ."4 In the judgment of many stood aud patriot!® - i ' t ' citizens, in which this association most heartily^ -f • ; concurs, there is a peculiar propriety and an* •* jj propriatene#s in the erection at Sptinatield, 1>V ^ the people of Illinois, of a monument in memory * *> J of our (ireat soldier and statesman worthy of hist wonderful career as a man and his ureat service^ » v »J n to his country. While it is not ttie eood fortantk ' ̂ of our commonwealth to be become theiesM ' . 4; , ton-place of his mortal remains, yet out . j1 • SjJ appreciation of his greatness as a man and ot - • 1 '"f t his worth to the world is none the le«s ou tha# , ^ account; and we are proud of the fact that „ ^ when General Grant entered ui on his career in the late war he was a citizen of lilt* ••. He received his first commission a4*'%> ;®i nois. He received his first commission &4* '< / - ','j i olonel of a reciment from the Governor of o«ufi< '*"3 State, and he went forth from this city to be* ' j Rnnie the irreatest militarv chieftain of moderns 1 f: i come the irreatest military chieftain of moder: times. Sprinetield is indissolublv connects with tlie names of liincoln and Grant, the twc|. v f *Sj •men upon whom the loyal people of the natioti S relied in the late struggle for national life. jL * < grateful people have erected in this city a mon* ument to the memory of Lincoln worthy t.f hinS-- • ^ name and fame. Is it not. then, most fitting <' \, J that the people of Illinois should unit* ii| • '>v building here a suitable monument in memonf' ' of Grant, that the State may properlv com- " ^ % memorate a t its capital its two greatest- citi ens } j Senator Cullom, tbe Prer.dent o" the Ass cia-« ^5 tlon, lias designated a gentleman in each counV", . »' « tv in the State to take charjj * of the work of ^ raiding funds. There should be no difficulty 0% ', v delay in obtaln ng the necessary amount. A ' systematic plan should be adopted in every v';: county, city, town, and community to give • every i>erson an oov»ortunity to contribute. On* State contains a population of :i,5utv>t)s> of patri- ot:c people. They appreciate the services ren­ dered by Gen. Grant to his country. He i# - - ** placed in history as the greatest soldier of tha century and was the pride of the brave men who followed him during the late war. We es­ pecially appeal to our fellow citizens who were iu the military service of the country and, gloried in the courage, ] atriotism, resolution, and military success of the great leader ot the Union aruiv. to each and all c ontribute some­ thing toward this work < f love. We appeal. also, to the citizens who were not so'diers. but, are to-day en'oying the benefits of Graft's ser­ vices But for the I'uion army which he led on: ? to final victory the country would not be united . and prosperous as I. is to-day. 'lh- smile of y beneficent peace, the evidence of t nift and . ;. coa;fort all over the iand, would not ro-oav be the boast of the ,<m:r can people if th? I'uion ; ha i not been preserved by the valor and patriot-, ;; ism of Grant and his army. , '1 his association has been organized to ia- augurate a labor of love, 'n vhich it is believe t '! the people of Illinois will lesiro to share, swl:i.;:|;j stands prei ared at any time to surrender ita trust. We therefore call on our fellow citi ens, one and all, to contribute somethi g to aid in the CA'Otk n ef the proposed monument. Or-, • vs; gani.T in your respeitive counties, cities, and .. ; towns in your ow-n wav, and let us ali unite in -L rearing such a testimonial to th- memory of our illustiious fellow citizen as shall bear wit- nt ss through all time to our appreciation Ot ,MVi* the value of his life and service to humanity iSSJ •ad world. JOHW M PAIJUSK. IX WlCKKKSiUSf, 1>. T. I.UTI KK. V - :'"S " --A match team at black horses wi* MUl in Belvidere the other day to* tl.WNW A, ,.) * .D-IS •