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MM • i * , « ' * - - , v v • lfdSSUBT, - n.TTBftlS JAMES H. MASK, 81 jean old, and Judge Lawrenson, 84, are the patriarchs of the PoBtal Department at Washing­ ton. They were both appointed In 1831 fcf President An(|bw Jackson. QUEER VICTORIA'S jubilee is also that «bf telegraphy, the first patent for an electric telegraph having been issued June 27, 1887,--a week before the Queen's accession--to Cook and Wheat- atone. British electricians propose to /celebrate with an exhibition illustrating the development of telegraphy and tel- -enhonv. 5T-- MB. AURKD SOLLY, who lias recently acquired such sadden prominence in the railroad world, wrote a volume of poems in his youih. A correspondent wrote the fact to his paper, with this startling result: "Mr. Sully is a widower who aometimes flirts with the muse." The types brought it out in this way: "Mr. Sullv is a widower who sometimes flirts tilth the nurse." DOM PEDBO, the Emperor at Brazil, ham been elected as associate member of the Liverpool Astronomical Society. He in an onthusiasfic amateur astrono­ mer, and when the great comet of 1882 was blazing in the morning sky he used to tumble out of bed at 4 o'clock in the morning and ply the telescope and spec­ troscope upon the comet, and measure the length of its tail, until the rising •on blotted it out of sight. "WILLIAM SMITH, Governor of Virginia more than forty years ago and again in 1863, is said to be dying. He is gen­ erally known as "Extra Billy Smith," a nickname he obtained from a demand lie made on the government for extra compensation for carrying mails from Washington to Millegeville, Ga. He is now ninety years of age, and has passed a life of great political activity. He was noted for his bravery during tile late civil war. MB. GARRETT'S willingness to dispose of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is reported as resulting largely from the terrible accident near Tiffin, O. It is said by one who pretends to know that Mr. Garrett had no thought of parting with the road before the accident, and that he hu always felt a personal re sponsibiwy for the disaster at Tiffin, It has cased him many sleepless nights and giv^Pkim a distaste for furtiuy: eantrol of the Baltimore & Ohio.' , ! A GEORGIA Justice before whom'Was recently brought suit for possession of * negro baby tried to imitate Solomon, and proposed-to divide the child be­ tween the claimants. To his astonish­ ment both parties yelled out: "Boss, don't kill him! You may have him!" There is a time, apparently, when judi­ cial decisions lose all the dignified effect of "precedents" and take on the weak ignominy of "chestnuts," and this is what happened to Solomon's judg ments. • A HEGRO woman in southwestern Texas who had been treated by a vou- doo doctor for a slight ailment drove him out of the house one day and called in a regular physician. The latter left a prescription and told his patient that she would soon be well. But she grew worse instead of better, and on the afternoon of the following day died in delirium. The physician cannot account for her sudden death, and the colored people believe that she was driven in­ sane by the voudoo ddctor out of re­ venge. PRINCE BISMARCK said in his inter­ view with M. de Lesseps, as an illus­ tration of the fickleness of popular favor: "I was speaking to you just now of iny popularity. This is almost as awkward as antipathy. This pave­ ment of Berlin, which formerly I could not tread without the people I met spit­ ting as I passed to show their disgust for me, is now so crowded with friends when I set foot out of doors that I am reduced to showing myself as little as possible. The day may come when there will again be spitting on my path." WHENEVER a wild, uncontrollable de­ sire to go out West and spread all over the country comes over you, young man, go seat yourself calmly by your register, base-burner, or kitchen stove, as the case may be, and ponder well whether the comforts and luxurios of living in Northern Montana on corn- bread and bacon, working sixteen hours a day during the summer, and burrow­ ing into your homes under the snow in winter, be not rather dearly purchased at the exceptional privilege of being able to by coal for #60 a ton. . A GERMAN chemist has invented a new kind of anesthetic bullet, which he urges will, if brought ioto general use, diminish the horrors of war. The bullet is of a brittle substance, break­ ing directly when it comes in contact with the objects which it is aimed. It contains a powerful anaesthetic, produc­ ing instantaneously complete insensi­ bility, lasting for twelve hours, which, except that the action of the heart con­ tinues, is not to be distinguished from death. While in this condition, the German chemist points out, the bodies may be packed in wagons and carried off as prisoners. E. STO&E WIGGINS comes to the sur­ face again, having, as he says, "come to the moon's rescue and to intercede for the other planets" against the attacks of Prof. Proctor. Wiggins says that, "planets are always increasing in size, mainly on account of matter floating in space falling upon their surface. Then the largest planets, and not the smallest, are the oldest. Oar earth once traveled in an orbit much nearer the sun than now, and will in time become as large and of the great samrians of the Oolitic age indicate that the earth at that time was nearer the sttn, which increased almost to a crushing decree the weight of objects on our planet's surface." NOT long ago the first prize at the Paris Conservatory of Music was won by a girl named Renie, who is ten years old, and was so small that the pedals of the piano had to be raised in order that she might be able to reach them. Juliette Bone is the name of an 8-year- old artist who won the first piano prize in a competition at Namur, Bel­ gium. In several German cities Joseph Hoffmann, of Warsaw, has given a very successful series of concerts; he is nine years old and has performed several strong compositions of his own in his concerts. Henry Yarteau, of Rheims, not yet eleven years old, has been mak­ ing a brilliant concert tour along ~t&e Rhine. The Hagel sisters have given concerts in the German cities of Bamberg, Erfurth, and Nordhausen. The youngest of these sisters, six years old, plays the violin; the second, seven years old, is a performer of talent cm the 'cello; and the oldest, eight years old. plays the piano. A GOOD story is told of a Washington hostess at a recent fashionable lun­ cheon. She ordered to be placed among the table decorations a set of salts of exceedingly handsome and novel design which, coming from a very dear friend, were among the most highly prized of her wedding gifts. One of the servants placed the name cards against them. One of the guests after admiring the salts and supposing from the card resting against it that it was intended as a favor, took it up and put it in her pocket, and most of the other guests, one by one, followed her ex­ ample, while the dismayed hostess, utterly unable to understand the mean­ ing of such proceedings, looked on in speechless surprise. When the guests departed she counted her treasures and found she had but two left. The next day came the explanation. A polite note was received from a lady who had been present, saying she had neglected to take her favor, mentioning it, and asking the hostess to Irinrllj srnnd it It was sent. . ' »ad NO Equilibrium* *. . In 1881, in Sagadahoc County Ctfttffj/ held in the City of Bath, Me., a case for assault and batte.ry came up for trial; Mrs. O. vs. Mr. O.; Judge G. for plaintiff and Lawyer L. for defendant. Mr. O., by the way, kept a grocery store in a small country town, also the postoffice in his dining-room / and sit- ting-room. /•' Mrs. O. had testified that Mr. O. had pushed her with such violence that she fell from a platform to the ground, and injured he side in consequence of the fall, etc. y When Mr. O. came npon the stand, he swore that Mrs. O. first pushed him. As Judge G. arose to begin the cross- examination of the defendant, Mr. O. braced up with an evident determina­ tion that the lawyer should not "brow­ beat" him. <j. Judge G.--Mr. O., what is your busi­ ness or profession? Mr. O.--I am a merchant, sir, and a Government officer, sir. Judge G.--What office do, you hold under the Government? Mr. O.--I am the postmaster in my own town, sir. Judge G.--Did I understand you to say that you pushed Mrs. O. down ? Mr. O. --No, sir. I said that I pushed her, and she fell down. But she first pushed me. Judge G.--How hard did she push you? Mr. O.--Sl\e pushed me as hard as I pushed her, sir* Judge G.--Did you lose your equili­ brium when she pushed you ? Mr. O.--No, 6ir, I did not lose my equilibrium. I had no equilibrium to lose, for I never had any, sir (very emphatic); and I don't think that yoo as a lawyer have any right to ask me any such questions, sir. Judge G. simply replied: "O, I beg pardon! I was not aware that you hadn't any equilibrium."--Harper's. The Book-Keeper Swore. The head of a firm, whose office is within six blocks of the Treasury build­ ing, is a very good and pious man, and the head book-keeper, who is «called Sam for short, is also a church member. One day Sam and the chief were in the office alone, and Sam was wrestling with an account which persisted in not coming out as he wanted it to. Finally he became so provoked that he slapped the ledger shut and vindictively mut­ tered: "D ntbe thing." The chief was so shocked at first as to be speech­ less, and he gazed at Sam in horror. Then he spoke. "Samuel," he sard, slowly and firmly, "shut the office door and lock it." Samuel obeyed, and returned to his desk, wondering what was going to happen. "Samuel," continued the chief, "let us pray." Then the door was opened and busi­ ness was again resumed!--Washington Critic. THE LITTLE FOLKS. £ . ' p, ChHdwn'» Curftiv., 4 \ Jfcirbt times the clock has stroohi •ato'a 1,*HrK I,W>1' out o'erhead •^"..Across th" air lhnro coning -v - , ,4 ^ A K'Hiiiil of troad; t |n Pity nixl village ami town ,lUo cliildlen ore going to 1MM* ^ '* With footsteps swift or slow, „ •' W thfuce* Brave or bright, . "ifi'lPy tw,>a n,ul threes they go, , 'i"1 s t ^ ro)>t.,| ju gown* of white; : And each with a backward glaaSa, > Calls cheerily out, "Good uigMI* WHEN Senator Ingall s first went to Kansas, says the • Albany Evening Journal, he paid no attention to the girls of the frontier, and the pretty maidens of the West cast their eyes at him in vain. He met, however, at a reception, the daughter of a New York merchant. Her name was Miss Anna Cheeseborough, and she was very fair to look upon. He talked to her and found her conversation as bright as her eyes. Shortly after this one of his friends was married and Ingalls was asked to be his best man. To his de­ light he found that Miss Anna Cheese- borough was one of the bridesmaids. After this the courting went on rapidly, and his marriage was the result. The Mrs. Ingalls of to-day is the Miss Anna Cheeseborough of the past She is one of the brightest women of Washington society. She has had a large family, but the cares of maternity do not weigh upon her, and she enters as fully into Senator Ingalls' political career as though she had no domestic matters to bother her. •fo r darker grows the shy, . , ? Ihe stu.ru their watches kt i VTlien next the clock shall s ; With hollow voice ami deep, - lu city and village and town t. , The children will bo ituleep. ret E. Johnson, iu H'tile .licdmL ' v* ' ' AGenttamaa. No HBTAPYSICIAN ever felt the defi- and travel as far from the solar orb as I ciency or language so much as the grate- Jqpitcr. The huge solid bones of the I fuL--Colton. stopped at a «-ossing, and a news-boy jumped on the platform. "Have a Times, Enquirer, Press?" Til take a Times," said one of a group of schoolgirls. "O Jenny!" said another. "From such a little monster!" An old gentleman who was reading glanced up from his pamphlet. The news-boy was a dwarf, and a hunch­ back. His face, which was bent back on his shoulders, twitched suddenly at the girl's words, but he did not look toward her, <ts he stood waiting for liis money. The old gentleman's grave look of rebuke angered the girl. "It makes me sick!" she said, with a look of disgust. "The conductor ought not to allow him to come on board." The boy turned and looked at her steadily. Everybodv on the car ex­ pected a torrent of vile abuse, but he said, gently,-- "If the Beast was not here, the peo­ ple on the car would not appreciate the Beauty at her real value, and then bow­ ing to her, he went out, amid the smiles of all the passengers. The old gentleman--who was a well- known physician, Dr. Avery--followed him, but he was already out of sight. "Who is that boy?" he asked the con ductor. "His name's Will, and his route is on this street. I don't know anything more." "He has an educated voice, and he showed good breeding and sense just now." "No doubt. The other news-boys call him 'Gentleman Bill.' Everybody likes him. We conductors give him the freedom of the cars on this street." A few days afterwards, Dr. Avery was on a oar late in the evening when Willie came, carrying a large bundle of papers. He sold none, and turned to go out, looking discouraged and anxious. Dr. Avery stopped him, drew out a paper, and handing him a piece of sil­ ver, said, "Never mind the change." "No, thank you," said the boy, amil ing, <as he gave it to him. "Why not, young independence?" "I don't need alms, sir. I really get On very well. And if I did"-- "You would not take it?" "It would be the hardest thing I ever had to do. Good-evening, sir!" and touching his cap, the little hunchback swung himself off the car. Dr. Avery after that often met the boy, who puzaled and interested him. There was nothing morbid in him; he was always ready with a laugh or a merry answer. His voice was controlled and gentle, and there was a fine cour­ tesy, a tact, a delicate feeling, in all his words that we do not find sometimes in those who call themselves gentlemen. In spite of the boy's wretched clothes and patched shoes, Dr. Avery found himself talking to him as to an equal, and always thought of him as his little friend. Late one nighty when it was storming heavily, he met him, trudging down Chestnut Street. "You have a hard life, my boy," he said, kindly. "Not so hard as you think, sir," he said, cheerfully. "I am never sick an hour. Then I do a better business than other boys because of--this," glancing down at his deformed body. "Oh!" The Doctor was confused for a minute. "Have you any plans, Willy ? Do you ever look forward?" "Yes. Oh, I have it all planned out! If I could save enough to start a street- stall of books and papers, then after a year or two I would be able to open a shop, and then a big store. Some men who began that way in Philadelphia have become publishers, and live in beautiful houses of their own." . "Hillo! Do you care for fine houses?" "Not for myself, sir." He became suddenly silent, and at the corner of the next street said, "Good-night!" and ran away. A moment later, Dr. Avery heard cries and sqouts in the direction which Willy had taken; but such things are common in a great city. He hurried home. The next morning, looking over the paper, he read: "A little hunchback newsboy, known as 'Gentleman Will,' was knocked down by a runaway horse last nignt. Dr. Johns pronounced the injuries mortal. The lad was taken to the Peun Hospi­ tal." Dr. Avery was soon beside the cot on which the misshapen little body was laid. Willy looked up, trying to smile. "It is not so bad as they say, is it? 1 can't die now! I have too much to do." "What have you to do, my boy? Let me be your friend; let me help you, if I can." "I thought you would come, maybe. I haven't anybody to come. The boys are good friends, but they couldn't do anything now." - "I have come, you see. Tell me what I can do, my boy." The lad waited until the nurse had passed his cot, and then whispered : "It's Letty, sir. She is my sister. I have her out with a farmer's wife near Media. She goes to school there. It takes all I can make to pay her board and buy her clothes. I like to see her look nice." His mind began to wander, and he began to mutter at intervals. "If could start the stall--the shop--a carriage for Letty." The Doctor was forced to leave him. When he came back in the afternoon, he was rational, and when the Doctor wished to go for his sister, said: "No, don't bring Letty here. She mustn't know how poer I am. When I go out on Sundays to see her I have my good suit on. She calls me a 'swell.' Yes, she does," laughing, but with tears in his eyes. "I went once with some papers to a Quaker boarding- school for girl* near town, sir. They were such lovely young ladies, I always thought I'd send Letty there when I could get the money. But now-- " Dr. Avery found out his story by de­ grees. He and Letty were tbe children of a planter near Savannah. Their mother/Was in Philadelphia during the war. Her husband was killed, her u.. '? stares/tand property wwee gone. She struggled for years, teaching and sew ing, to support them, and at last died, leaving Willy in charge of his little sister. ; "And your name ?" t "My father was Charles Gilbert." 1 Dr. Avery drew his breath quickly. "I knew Charles Gilbert in Savannah long ago. No wonder your voice seemed familiar, and that I was drawn to you so strongly. But you are my friend for your own sake, my boy.• That evening Dr. Avery sent a long dispatch to a lawyer in Savannah, where he had once lived and still had business interests. He took two of the principal surgeons in the city to examine Willy. When they had gone out for consul­ tation, the boy lay, holding his .hand, watching the door, breathing quick and hard. "Do you want to live, Willy? You have had a hard life, my child." "Oh, no, no! I did not think it hard! I have so much to do for Letty !* "Had you never any plans for your­ self?" The boy turned his gray eyes thought­ fully on him. They filled with slow tears. "I used to think--if I could be a scholar--a gentleman like my father-- but--" "If you do not live, my boy," said his friend, trying to reconcile him to death, "God will take care of yon. This poor body will not be against you any longer." "It is not against me here!" said Willy, vehemently. "It is not me. Everybody knows that. If God will only give me the chance to do some­ thing in the world, the body won't stand in the way." He muttered after a while again, "it is not me." Dr. Avery was called out to hear the verdict of the surgeons. When he came back Willy gave one look at him and sank back, covering his face. "There is still a chance, my boy, though but a slight one. I think it beet to tell you the exact truth. Morning will deeide. Would it comfort you to have Letty with you? I have brought her to town." "Yes! yes! It doesnt matter, now that she knows that I am a poor little newsboy." Letty was a sturdy, red-cheeked little woman, whose every word showed a heart full of love and a head full of good sense. She petted and soothed Willy, while he clung to her, and then said cheerily: "Now, dear, you must go to sleep. You are not going to die. The doctors don't know how strong you are. The nurse says I may sit here and hold your hand, and in the morning give you your breakfast" For days the boy lingered between life and death. One morning, after the doctors had made their examina­ tion, his old friend came to him and, taking his hand, solemnly said: "Willy, God has given you the dhance you asked for to do something in the world. You will live." When he was able to be removed, Dr. Avery took the children to his own home. He laid before Willie a state­ ment of his father's affairs that he had received from Savannah, which showed that enough could be rescued from the wreck of his estate to yield a small in­ come for the children. It proved to be enough to educate Letty at the Quaker school to which Willie dreamed of sending her, and to give him a thorough training in college and the law-schools. They both always "came home," as they had learned to call Dr. Avery's, in the vacations. When WUIiq came back at the end of his' MOM, with the highest record of his class, he said to his old friend: "All that I am or may be in life, I owe to you." "No, my boy. I never should have noticed you more than any other of the hundreds of newsboys but for the honor, self-control and good-breeding that you showed. A true gentleman will be a gentleman in any and all cir­ cumstances in life. God help you to keep yourself separate, and above all the hard circumstances." Willie's eyes grew dim. "If my friends and God can see the man in­ side of the 'little monster,' I am satis­ fied," he said. His dream in life does not seem un­ likely to be realized. It is character that wins and tells.--Youth's Com­ panion. The Effect of Despotism on Russian Lit* erature. In other lands the national energy is absorbed and scattered in a thousand necessities and opportunities that lead men into various fields of action and ad­ venture which here are closed by a rigid despotism. In the rest of Europe the trifling novel of mere amusement has sufficient reason for existing, but in Russia life is too serious; entertaining fiction has to be imported along with champagne, and silks, and ribbons, and the native who writes speaks for the whole compressed anguish of a people in chains. Mere entertainment would be a degrading aim for a Russian novel­ ist--that is, the luxury of case and se­ curity, and not even the masters in that country know either of these. All writing is under the control of a vig­ ilant censorship; students are forbid­ den access to what are regarded as dan­ gerous books; yet the novel, by confin­ ing itself to the representation of famil­ iar or possible facts, manages to elude repression. Even the sharpest-eyed censor does net read what is written between the lines; but it is this part, {jrinted as it were in invisible ink, that lelps to-fill out the terrible picture of despair that almost every Russian novel contains. Not merely, then, are the literary hobgoblins dead; they have never lived long; their shoulders were too weak to bear the burden of express­ ing real suffering and hopeless misery. Their absence is certainly a natural re­ sult of the condition of affairs; for just as cruelty begets deceit, so the despot­ ism of tnat unhappy land has taught men to attack the abuse of power by portraying its results without uttering an aggressive word of abuse or criti­ cism. Indeed, as a valuable means of drill in the technicalities of literature, des­ potism has never received, from writers upon education, half the praise that it deserves. The writer is sure to be careful in his phraseology when a rash word may mean life-long exile; and one of the results of the terrors of the Rus­ sian penal code was that novelists learned compression and vigor, as well as all the possibilities of seriousness. We find this forcible reserve even dur­ ing the brief flowering-time-of romanti­ cism, which is yet enriched by precise and vivid realism.--Thomas Sergeant Perry, in Scribner'tt Magazine. TRUTH is coy and retiring; and to be fairly won must be ardently wooed; but, though shrinking from the gaze of the world, she rarely flies from her sin­ cere and devoted worshipers. PBKJUDICE is charity's greatesfios. N mm An lows Murderer "^"Ipjpob with Military ft* cisioa. John H. MeKesris Taken firm fto Jail a»4 Mmgtfpjpp ta a Tm. fComing (low*) telegram.] John McKenzie, the mntdertr of John H. Biggs, was taken from the jail Sunday morning by a party of masked men and hanged to a tree in front of the jail. About 2:20 a. m. about twenty-five armed and masked horsemen and a wagon loaded with men and a battering-ram appeared in front of the jail, moving with 8t|iot military dis­ cipline under orders from % bold and skill- fnl leader. When awakened by them Jailor Pumroy found he had been locked in his room by the hasp and staple on the iron door. He fired three guns of alarm from the Win­ dows, and McKenzie's voice was Heard in an unnatural, terrifying ay. Shots through his window quieted him. Mount­ ed pickets were placed about the blook, designated by numbers and with soldier­ like demeanor. Approaching citizens were quietly arrested, but permitted to observe the proceedings under guard. The thun­ der of the battering ram and the splintering of the doors gave way to the rattling of the ram on the iron doors. Then the jailer was overpowered. The keys were found, and the work of unlocking proceeded as if by men familiar with the details. McKenzie was heard to exclaim: "If there are any old soldiers among yon let them step for­ ward first." He was tied, and a rope thrown about bis neck. His intense nerve and £rit did not forsake him. He talked with the mob as they took him down-stairs and across the street to a maple tree, asked them to give his watch to his wife, protested he had killed no other man than Kiggs, and did not intend to kill him. To one wakened from peaceful slumbers to look out npon stern men dragging forth a fellow-man, even though a murderer, to see him lifted into the air, held while struggling, and guarded until the strangulation was com-eete, was indeed horrifying. Before dis-mding the leader addressed the mob in a low voice, saying: "GENTM?MEN: The work of this night must remain forever a secret. Let every participant and every observer take warning from the man hanging to this tree. The fate of any man who divulges the name of any participant will be as bis fate." All departed except half a dozen hone- men. who kept guard for half an hour, fired two shots, and rode rap dly away to the northward. The identity of no participant was discovered, as they were completely masked and disguised their voioes. The Coroner's verdict was: "John H. McKenzie came to his death by strangulation at the hands of infuriated persons to us unknown, caused as we veri­ ly believe by the tardiness of our courts of justice." While little regret is heard, th's verdict does not voice universal public sentiment, for .there had been no legal de'ay in his case. Ha was indicted and arraigned last week, three weeks after the commission of the crime, and his trial set for the May term of court. The lynching was doubt­ less incited largely by the long time occu­ pied in the trial, rehearing, etc., of Per* rtgo, who killed Hidinger in thiB countv four years ago and who is not yet sentenced. TI»» Murder for Which MoKrad* WM Lynchad. Biggs and McKenzie were neighboring farmers, and lived near Eureka, a boat eight miles from Corning. McKenzie had leased about twelve acres of corn land last year from Kiggs from a field of, perhaps, thirty acres, Riggs farming the remainder. McKenzie did not utilize the stalks for fodder until after March 1 of this year, when crop leases expire uuder the Iowa law* and on his then attempting to turn cattle in the fodder Biggs objected because there was no division fence, and the cattle would over­ run his fields. Biggs had sought legal counsel, and in accordance with it he locked the gate to the field with a padlock Ihe morning of March 5. Soon after Mc­ Kenzie arrived with bis cattle. Having been informed by his hired man the gate was locked, he was on horseback, armed with a revolver. To Biggs he said: "I'll give you just three minutes to open that Sate." There were no witnesses, but from [cKenzie's own version Biggs started to­ ward the gat3 when McKenzie fired, not to hit, but to scare him, as he says. Biggs stopped and faced McKenzie, who imme­ diately shot at him. the ball penetrating below the eye and killing him. McKenzie came to Corning and gave himself up as coolly as though he had killed Q . B. J. HALL. A Portrait and Sketch of the New Commis­ sioner of Patent*. Hon. Benton J. Hall, of Burlington, Iowa, who has been appointed Commis­ sioner of Patents, in place of Col. M. V. Montgomery, resigned, will assume the duties of tbe office May 1. Mr. Hall was born at Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio, Jan. 13, 1835. He wns educated at Knox College, Illinois, and at Miami University, Ohio. In June, 1855, he was graduated from the last-named institution. Beturn- ing to Burlington, he read law in his fath­ er's otfice, and was admitted to . the bar after two years. Since 1857 he has been in practice at Bnrlington, of which place he is a distinguished citizen. The new Commissioner of Patents be­ gan a career of public service with mem­ bership in tbe lower house of the Gen­ eral Assembly of the State of Iowa for the term of 1872-'73. Beginning in January, 1882, he was a State Senator for four years. He was elected to the Forty-ninth Congress on tbe Democratic ticket, and served his term as a member of the House of Repre­ sentatives at Washington. Ex-Gov. John H. Gear was his suocessful opponent in the campaign of last fall, when Mr. Hall was a candidate for re-election to Congress. MARY Queen of Scots was forty-five years of age when executed in Fother- in gay Castle. Queed Elizabeth, who signed her death warrant, was at that time (1587) fifty-four years old. THE London Stone tavern Is a houao near the famous London Stone in Lon­ don. It was here that the celebrated Robin Hood Society originated. Thm Poor Xapw StiH at tMm Kerejr oT KM •. Democrats--Yotw* Couatad a* Heat MttlMParpowgrtha Bourbon. ' ^ . [Pittsburg cor. Chicago Tribune.] Senator Sherman in the course of an in­ terview here was asked what he thought of the Southern people, and said: "Well, in order to work for their own good, the colored vote ought to be recognized. There is no disputing it, the great mass of the ne­ gro vote of the South is eitker not counted or counted to suit the tastes of the Demo­ cratic bosses. Yon may think that where the negroes predominate they would force their lights; but, strange as "it may seem, such plaees are the most tyrannical sections in the eonntry. The talk that the nesrro votes voluntarily for the Democracy is bun­ combe; the negro vote is naturally solidly Republican." "How were you struck by the Birming­ ham incident?" "Forcibly, indeed, you may say, but not injuriously. When Proprietor Cowan, of the hotel, refused to admit a committee of colored men who called, he was guilty of a bigotry which is not shared by tbe more refined white people of the South. The committee consisted of two clergymen, two barristers and a real-estoto agent, all intel­ ligent men. As an instance of the fact that Cowan's conduct was not approved by the better element of whites, I will cite you the conduct of Governor Aiken. He was convening with me when a co ored dele­ gation called to pay me their respects, and he turned, greeted them cordially, and warmly shook their hands." "What are the prospects of the Be public­ an party in the South?" "The party is growing just as fast as the South grows. You will find that the growth of the country, the development of its resources, must go hand in hand with the increase of our party. I find that the free-trade policy of the Democratic party is weakening it. The whites are joining the Republicans, rapidly recognizing the Republicans as the champions of the tariff issue. The Southern people are as anx­ ious to subserve their interests as we ara to subserve ours, and they are not slow in falling to the fact in manufacturing dis­ tricts that the defeat of the free-trade par­ ty is their salvation." He thought, from extended observation, that the business boom in the South has come to stay. After the Texas Bulldozers. The first returns from the recent Con­ gressional inquiry into the charges of in­ timidation in the Texas elections have begun to come in, and they are not very favorable to the Democratic party. The United States Grand Juiy has indicted Judge Kirk and several other citizens of Washington County, Texas, on the charge of intimidating voters, and they are bound over for trial. The fact that a jury in the State of Texas has found three bulldozers deserving of trial, with reasonable ground to expect them guilty, is pretty good proof of their subsequent conviction. The in­ vestigation before the Senate Committee showed a condition of things that reflects shame upon American institutions and dis­ grace npon the Democratic party that is responsible for it. It was brought"out then that armed men stood about the polls fright­ ening voters away. That in some instances they forcibly stopped the balloting and closed the election long before the time re­ quired by law. That they used intimida­ tion, supported by violence, to compel men to vote the Democratic ticket, or refrain from voting at all. These facts were brought out in the preliminary examina­ tion, and yet the Democrats in the Senate stoutly insisted, when an investigation was proposed, that there was no occasion for it, and that the charges wore manufactured for the purpose of making political capital for the Bepublican party. The Grand Jury iu Tesas evidently doesn't take that view of it, and there is good ground for believing that the iury that has finally to pass upon the charges will not consider ttaem untrue or trifling. And vet with this indisputable evidence of forcible interference by the Democratic party with the right of citizens to vote, with plenty of proof that the Dem ocratic party of the South is a constant conspiracy against tbe honesty of elections, and for the forcible and fraudulent usurpa­ tion of the right of suffrage, sentimental­ ists like Grady gush about a "new South," and denounce any reference to these crimes against society and government as waving the bloody shirt, and an attempt to perpet­ uate sectional animosity and strife. If the Democratic party wants a clean bill of health in the South, let it repudiate and suppress the crimes against the ballot that are committed in its name. Nothing will do more to create public belief that there really is a new South, where justice and respect for law go hand in hand with the genius of enterprise and progress, than the assurance that in all its borders the right of every man to cast his vote and have it fairly counted is sacedly preserved and enforced, whether he be rich or poor, black or white. When that assurance can be' truthfully given tner<3 will be some occasion to acknowledge the existence of a new South, but not till then.--Moines Reg­ ister. • VALLANDIGHAM A REPUBLICAK. He Is to Formally. Announce HI* With­ drawal front the Democracy. iColimibus (O.) special. 1 A political sensation has been caused here by the announcement that Chief Clerk CharlesN. Vallandigham of the Sen­ ate, who officiated in the same capacity in the Democratic body before the four Ham­ ilton County frauds were unseated last spring, would address the Garfield Club of this city formally announcing his with­ drawal from the Democratic party. Mr. Vallandigham played a conspicuous part in the excting scenes of a year ago, but was repudiated by the Democratic Senators Just before the flight to Kentucky because te refused to steal tbe journal of tbe Sen­ ate. He will give his reasons for leaving tbe party and expose the plaus of the Democratic majority during those troublous times. He will speak in an interesting way about the mysterious disappearance of the Senate journal and why he prepared a new one. All these and many other things in connection with the Senate troubles of last winter will make the groundwork of his address. This announcement will un­ doubtedly call down another storm of wrath upon the head of Mr. Vallandigham, but in controversion of this he will say that he has suffered enough from unjust criti­ cism and proposes to right himself. General Black's Appointees. The political statistician of the New York Tribune has been analyzing General Black's distribution of patronage, and he finds that the -General is taking good care of his Congressional district primarily, and of the State of Illinois secondarily. In less than two years he has made forty ap- {>ointmenls and fourteen promotions of II- inois people in his bureau. He lives in the Fifteenth Congressional District, which is represented by a Bepublican. That dis­ trict has received eleven of the forty ap­ pointments and two of the fourteen promo­ tions. and is represented in the salary list by the pretty sum of $22,430, as compared with $55,900 for the remaining nineteen Congressional districts. The ten Demo­ cratic districts have received twenty-three appointments and promotions, with salaries amounting to $30,400, about one-third go­ ing to the two districts represented by Springer and Townshend, who are stanch friends of Black, and only one appoint­ ment at $1,500 a year to Col. Morrison's district. Col. Morrison evidently is not a Black man. The nine Bepublican dis­ tricts aside from the Fifteenth, in which Black lives, have received eighteen ap­ pointments and promoiions with salaries amounting to $21,400 per year. Out of one hundred men appointed by him as special examiners, fifteen, or more than one-seventb, are from Illinois, while the remainder are distributed among the other thirty-seven States, and of the fifteen Illi­ nois appointments five are credited to the distriat i*-: wWei* - •Vosaaissioswr fiiaek lives, v " 1 • • •• *" " •'< profriattBC t&,6Q0 fM _ _ „ _ fealMIng at tbs F--Ma-mindsJ TsUllsIl at, 14m- •ota; by Senator Hill, aivtef the Baflmtf iSl Wambowe Conoduioiiin ,spwa* te^nMsUe » MBHT Coxttes, providing FJKfcASM ^ Uslmiont of an Institution tor tke Mta* at i sago was passed by a *«•»<>* St yeas *0 IS aay«. A bill was favMfSWywpqtteits^e Haass i •iding that tsnyewns' insanity shallbeaai ttonal Rfoond lor dfvmee. lb. ~ amendment to the praetiee act was i provides that thefillnsaf atari fa nam ttrn decision af ajastie* of the v th* higher court furisafettoo, neaes th* transcript be Sled or not. A L tag th* killing of quail and praKfe * tha period of five years was passso. Sekatob Fuhk's bill amending tha aMprfafls law by providing that haraaftar liiarrtags« W- tween parents and ehfkUen, iasliiOm parmta and grandchild mi of every dagiae, between brothers and •tatm of the half as will as the whole blood, between nnclee and nieess. atmts and nephews, and lutween eOSataS of the first degree, ara deaiassd to ha inoestaotM and void, and that section shall extand to illegitimate as watt as legitimate children and relations, nassefl tha Senate on tha 1st inst. SenatorBaeonof Willcailed np the bill on teeond reading pro­ viding for the »«mi-monthly payment of em­ ploye*. and 8enator Hadley offered an iwind ment striking out the words "Kercaattle, wa­ ned, street railway, telephone, telegraph, manlcipal corporation, and every incorporated express company and water company," aad making It apply only to persons, Unas, or cor­ porations engaged in or " v yeisw! sss ••••» W or quarrying. The amendaaeat also si ont the words "employing more than ton sons? It was claim edthat the amend] Honse of BeprsaontatiVes Mr. Mesalek dnced a bill to prevent railroad companies fxms constraetlag lines of road akmg highways er al­ leys unless the consent of throe ftwrths at tt» property holders in first obtained. Hr. Browws, of L* Salle, brought in a bill to prevent cities from running sewage Into clear streams of water or canals, therebv poiluttir saefc streams, and making such action on the part of City Councils a capital offntse In ease death results from use of water so polluted. Mr. Kretxingsr offend a hill eompMlInc all rail­ road companies to file with the Railroad ami Warohouse Commissioners lists and placee of all trass bridges on their respecUte lfnea, tbe amount of strain they will bear, and tbe length of time used, Mr, Cartiss presented a lout resolution requesting the Governor to appoint a commission, consisting of nine members, whoae duty it shall be to revise the school laws of tbe State. Both houses adjourned to the 5th of April. THXBF was a genuine sensation in tha Honaa of Representatives on the 7th inst. Mr. Menrltl asked unanimous consent to have his anti-an­ archist bill taken up, and made a speech in which he used strong language against anar­ chism and troason generally. Mr. Dixon, La­ bor member from Chicago, followed Mr. Meirttt, and was frequently interrupted by tbe latter. Dixen finally lost his patience andwCs temper, and pointing his finger at Mr. Herritt, exclaimed: "If tins law had been In force twenty-five years ago tbe man who introduced the bill would have besa banged (or troason against his coon try. The meanest traitor in the world is one who stays at home during a war and stabs hisoountry in tbe back." Dixon further charged that Menitt would long ago have been in his grave If he had not gone down on his knees and bsgged to a woman to spare his life. "It von say that you are a liar." shouted Menitt. "Who ever says that is a liar." "Do you wast the proofs?" asked Mr. Dixon. "Tee," said Mr. Merritt. "Then you shall have thsm " Whereupon Dixon sent a long letter • to has clerk's desk and called for its reeding. Q proved to be a letter from one H. J. Wible, a Knight of Labor of Marlon County, to Repre­ sentative Kohrbach. It charged tnat Mr. Mer­ ritt Was during the war a member of the Knlghta of the Golden Circle and a rebel sympathiser. Merritt promptly denounced Mr. Wible as a lineal descendant of Ananias, and, toning to Mr. Dixon, said: "II tbis is the character of the opposition to be waved br yen • M'M it shows tbe necessity then Is for passing Urn bill." After some more discussion Menitt saM that at the first opportanlty he would get away with Wible. He seemed to think that he would be able to give Mr. Wible, the "razxla- dazsle," whatever that means. The inci­ dent caused no ltttle excitement in tbe House. The bill was finally owlerad engrossed for third reading, after sew eral amendments, offered by the Labor members, had been rejected. Mr. MemtfS* "valued policy bill," requiring Are-insunnae contpanies to pay the face value of polieiea, was passed by ibe Honse. Tbe senate had a busy day, and accomplished considerable work. A bill was introduced by Senator Chap- maA to appropriate •180,000 tor a State Re­ formatory at Jollet, to utilise the labor of convicts, on the plan carried oat at Elmira, New Tors. Senator Hadley' intro­ duced a bilt requiring the Board of By­ road and Warehouse Commissioners to investi­ gate all soetdents upon railroads resulting in losaof life or injury to person. Senator Craw­ ford's bill giving free access to the books in the offloes of Recorders was passed. The bill add- in* an emergen oy clause to the Mil appropri­ ating f50,00b ft r the erection of a monument to John A. Logan and allowing tbe widow to be buried alongside the deceased Senator, was Ssnt to third reudi iK. Senator Leman's bill appro­ priating »l,7»ii.i.3 for furnishing the Appellate Court room in tbe First District of Illinois waa passed, as was also the bill of Fenat r Hlggtas, requiring that in oases of execution, writs of at­ tachment, or distress for rent, the debtor shall within ten days after notice make a schedule of nis property. The bill appropriating W'.OW for ttie University of Illinois was passed. Tbe bill of Senator Curtis# requiring hangings to take Since within the walls of the county jails was efeatr>d. The bill of Senator Aduins passed amending the free school system so mat in cases where a tnwnship is divided oy a loawty lin > or lines appeals may be taken to the Coun­ ty Superintendent of any one of the counties in which the township is partly located, aad nottoe Kiven to tbe supt rintendents of the other coun­ ties, and in case they are unable to agree the County Judge of the county in which the appeal is ponding is to l>u added to the Beard of Ap­ peals to determine the question at issue. . - Burning Shelley's Body. The people from the surronuc trict, says Dowden in his "Life of I ley," Hocked in < rowds to see each a strange spectacle. "The sea, with tj|» Islands of Gorgona, Capraja, and Elba* waa before us; old battlement waiofe- towers stretched along the cossl^ backed by the marble-crested .^pen- nines glistening in the HUB, picturesque from their diversified outlines; and not a human dwelling was in sight," Three white wands stuck in the yellow sands from low-water to high-water mark indicated, but not with precision, the place of burial. An hour of silent toil went past before they had discov­ ered the lime in which the body lay concealed; suddenly a mattock with * dull hollow sound, atruck the skull, causing a general shudder, while tits men drew back. The furnace feeing placed and surrounded by wood, the remains were removed from their shallow resting place.. It waa Bvronfe wish that the skull, which was of UK- usual beauty, should be preserved; bat it almost instantly fell to pieces* Of the volume of Keats' poena "which had been buried with Shelley* body only the binding remained, and this was cast upon the pyre. Although • the fire was greater than that of tie preceding day tbe body was but slowly consumed. Three hours elapsed be­ fore it separated; it then fell across the breast; the heart, which was unusually large, seemed impregnable to the fiitw Trelawney plunged his hand into the flames and snatched this relic from the burning. The day was one of wide autumnal calm and beauty. During the whole funeral oeremoDf a solitary sea-bird, crossing and te* crossing the pile, was the only intradsc that battled the vigilance of the guard. Byron, who could not face the scene, had swum off to the yacht. Leigh Hunt looked on from the carriage Having cooled the furnace in the sea, Trelawney collected the fragments off bones and ashes and deposited them in <he oaken box. A11 being over, Byrtp and Hunt returned to Pisa ia their car­ riage. Shenley and Trelawney, bt'&r* ing the oaken coffer, went on board the ' -Bolivar. The relics of Shelley's hearty given soon after l*y TreJawuev to Huut» were, at Mary Shelley's earnest re­ quest, supported by'the entreaty ot Mrs. Williams, confided to X; arv* hands. After her death, in s copy ol the Pisa edition of "Adnnais," at the page which tells how death is swalloweft. up in immortality, was found under % silken covering the imbrowned asheC, now shrunk and withered, which ah# had secretly treasured. $ V^t*. :