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m Nt NMuhst. i i . . I ' M • Ml TT.T.TVnTR SSOXAB BXAXD, aged 84 year*, who . near San Jacinto, Jennings County, , is said to be the oldest native-born now living in the State, He i|wro in Clark County in 1804, and bgh Bland is not at all chU.lIike. §j' EXAMINATION of yellow-fever germs Uprill lie a >rominent study of medieal indents this fall, as some {ihysicians in ffijjyfcsopville are preparing specimens ito send to various medical colleges in • !he North. It will be fortunate if a remedy or a preventive is discovered. BISHOP MERRILL at the Detroit Con­ tinence : "Yon young men are forbid­ den the use of tobacco. The old men irho acquired the habit in youth have to be permitted to continue. We can't put them out of the church for that alone. But the young men, we insist, must not put this Btumbling block in their way." THE "silent Yon Moltke" isn't at all silent at home. He is, on the con­ trary, a charming, lively, and amiable companion. He is very fond of the wife of his nephew, who presides over his household, and of her children. He loves whist and roses, and of these flow­ ers he cultivates a great variety. ACCORDING to a curious old marriage custom, still prevalent in Brittany, the bridegroom, immediately after the priest ( has wedded the couple, strikes his wife in the face, saying, "This is how you will fare if you make me angry," and then, kissing her, he says, "And this is how you will fare if you treat me well." REPORTS made at the recent Interna­ tional Conference of the Young Men's Christian Association at Stockholm show that there are now 3,104 branches of the organization, a gain of nearly 1,000 since the last conference. The association's property in this country has increased from about $3,000,000 in 1884 to nearly $7,000,000 in 1887. ONE of the successful farmers of Iredeil County, North Carolina, Col. Julian Allen, is aa Russian' nobleman. His true name is Julian Alenski, and he was exiled from Russia in 1849 because of his political principles. He was a colonel in the Federal army, and in 1876 he settled in Iredell County, where he has a splendid home and farm. GEN. EDWARD MCCOOK,. who was Territorial Governor of Colorado in ex­ citing times, often appears on the streets of Denver, having landed interests there as well as in New York and San Fran­ cisco. The General is well preserved. His hair is like the wing of the raven, long, glossy, and black. His fierce mustache curls as belligerently as of old, and, all in all, time has dealt with him lightly. A CITIZEN of West Springfield, Mass., was considerably surprised at receiving a letter directed in a woman's hand and containing a withered flower. His heart ceased throbbing when he read that the writer, who signed herself "A Christian Endeavor," was ono of a party who stole some flowers from the grounds near his house, and wished to do her part in making restitution, and hoped her companions would do the same. JOSEPH THOMPSON, the plucky Afri­ can explorer, is only 27 years old. He is of medium height, but is robust and wiry. He comes from Dumfries. He accompanied the late Iveith Johnston in an expedition to the Kilmandjaro Mountains as the geologist. He en­ countered many dangers, and more than once gave up all hopes of ever returning alive; but he succeeded, and received the gold medal of the Royal Geograph­ ical Society on his return. JAMES JAMES, a negro of Santa Rosa, Mexico, is said to be the oldest man living. It is claimed that he was born near Dorchester, S. C., in 1752. He was with his master in the Revolution­ ary War, was 40 years old when Wash­ ington was elected President, went to Texas when 101 years old, moved into Mexico live years later, and now at the ripe age of 138 lives in a little hut, to which ho is confined by rheumatism, and is supported by contributions from the citizens of Santa Rosa. SPEAKING of the reigning family of Austria, a recent writer says: "Em­ press Elizabeth, who was 50 last Christ­ mas, has long been recowned as a hunt­ ress, and, although at present in bad health, has not yet retired from the field, in which both her hunting and skillful equestrianism have been greatly admired. She has followed the chase on every chosen ground in Ireland, Scotland, England, France, Germany, Italy, and at home, and makes pets of the equine and canine races- wherever met. • SEALS&XS when worn by the seals themselves are very different in appear­ ance from those which have been fabri­ cated into ladies' cloaks. The fur is not visible, but it is concealed by a coat of stiff over-hair, dull, gray-brown, and grizzled. The over-hair has to be re­ moved by a long, laborious process, and this work, according to the thorough­ ness with which it is done, largely de­ termines the value of the skin. Skins from two to four years old weigh from 5$ to 12 pounds. THE owner of George Washington's coach, which is now in New York, is obliged to guard it vigilantly to prevent it from being cut to pieces and carried t&hft araabeo- irishable are hn innumerable Ixxfy servants. » AM Englishman recently sued the manager of Covent Garden Theater, London, for $5 damages for refusing to allow him to take the seat for which he had purchased a ticket. He was re­ fused admission to the seat because he had an umbrella with him and would not give it up at the clcak - room, where there would have been a charge of six­ pence for the caring of it. There was a placard in the building announcing that cloaks and umbrellas would not be al­ lowed in the stalls, and the court de­ cided therefore that the theater man­ ager was justified in his action. A MAX in Dever, Col., named Lyon, got an idea some years ago that it would be a fine thing to collect all the odd-shaped pens he could find. So he started in, and to-day he has a lot com­ prising over seven hundred different varieties. About twelve different metals are represented in the collection. Then there are a number of wooden pens and lots of odd quills. The collection em­ braces specimens from England, Ireland, Scotland, Germany, and other European countries, besides America and Canada. There are pens pointed fine enough to make lines of microscopic delicacy and others intended for men who use the first personal pronoun a great deal in their correspondence. Some are in shape like shovels,* others resemble a section of stovepipe and jpther||pj j|pli- cate and dimiutive. r, , "IT was my good forttme ^J^ffPresi­ dent of England," says a writer in the Globe-Democrat of St. Louis, "to form the acquaintance of the master of nov­ elists, Charles Dickens. I picked him up from the street just as he had been knocked down by one cab and was in danger of being run over by another. He was at that time, as he always was, a reporter. That night I tramped with him through the worst slums of London. He told me his business, and in some way we became friends, and often after that I accompanied him on his night walks. Many characters that I saw on these excursions have peered at me since then from the pages of his novels. One thing ilial impressed me about Dickens was that be never took note3. I never saw him with a pencil in his hand, nor did he seem to be paying any attention whatever to what was going on around him; yet in the newspaper articles that make up the complete volumo of 'Sketches by Boz,' I recognize that every scene, sound, or incident of the trip had been indelibly impressed upon his wonderful mind." - '• POOR'S "Manual of Railrcaf#%M that last year was <* prosperous one for the railways of the country. During the year 13,081 miles of new track were laid, making a total mileage Dec. 31 last of 149,913 miles. The total assets of all the. railway companies foot up $9,199,954,515 and their liabilities $8,- 896,431,215. These companies employ 900,000 men, each of whom represents about five persons, or 4,500,000 in all, while those employed in building new roads and the workers in the rail mills, locomotive and car works, and other manufactories which are closelv con­ nected with railroads number 380,000, representing about 2,000,000 souls, so th'#t there is a grand aggregate of 6,500,- 000, or a ninth of the population of the United States, who are H directly inter­ ested in the railways--a greater number than is employed in any other special interest except agriculture. The gross earnings of the roads in 1887 were $940,- 150,702, or $111,210,000 more than in 1884}. The net earnings rose to $334,- 989,119, a gain of $34,380,000. The in­ crease in liabilities was $520,000,000. The following statistics give an idea of the amount of business done: 1837. 1886. Passengers carried.... '462,225,513 383,384,973 Passengers--mileage.. 10,570,308,740 9,650,696,249 Tons moved...... 552,074,752 482,245,254 Tons one mile........ 60,061,069,993 52,802,70,529 KABXIN0S. Passenger ..$ 240,542,876 $ 221,929,857 Freight 6M,ti6tf,-223 550,359,054 Others 54,17G,0>5 59,903,0:38 Total S Operating expenses... 931.H86.I54 $ 822,191,949 600,219,478 524,880,334 Net earnings $ 831,135,676 » £97,311,615 Increase in mileage was 9.7 per cent; in liabilities 6.2; in gross earnings 13; in net earnings 11; and in operating expenses 13. The average charge per ton per mile was 1.06 cents, while in 1886 it was al»out 1.04, showing that the roads had slightly advanced their rates. On the other hand the average paid by each passenger in 1887 was a little less than 54 cents, while in 1886 it was 58 cents, showing a slight reduction of fares. The dividends paid last year amounted to $91,573,458, or about 2i per cent on the total capital stock. The disbursements for interest were $2C3,- 790,OOO. . ' Dinner Tables, Old and ' The old English dinner table was a massive thing and was heavily loaded for dinner. There were huge joints, enormous game pies and the carcasses of poultry. It was considered the cor­ rect thing for the hostess to carve and to press the guests to gluttonv and the host to pass the bottle severaf times too often. With such display of food there was little room for floral decorations. In the course of time the vegetables were banished from the table and handed by the attendants. Then the made dishes were all dubbed entrees and were cleared off the table and brought in by the attendants, piping hot. Finallv the meats were taken off, and at last the guests were permitted to eat or not to eat, without any influence on the part of the host or hostess, while at the same time the praising of the vi­ ands which used to be the practice, no losger became proper. The appearance of the table, as well as the conduct at the table, has changed. The tabje is not so massive and the floral decorations away by zealous relic hunters. It has are frequently of the most elaborate and already been mutilated to some extent by these persistent despoilers. It is only by the utmost watchfulness, too, that the tomb and grounds at Mount Ternon are protected against irreverent lianas, and yrob^bly the orjly ?••••" ' -1 '*"£ * ~ . ... costly description. People who cannot spend much money on floral decorations, yet devote time and taste to them, n«ing such as may be picked wild, ferns, ber­ ries, etc., besides such cultivated ones as may be obtained.--Good House- i t e & W Q * s . ( . , * • < 4U. HOW KG. MMOD11T BUYS BOOKS. 8)M Wants Owgitui nntl Vol- ttnm UmOm to fit Uot Shelve*. [Boston Herald.} • The Shoddy family purchase books because "it is the thing to do." Mr. Shoddy accosts the salesman with: "I want some books." f ^Well, sir; what books?" "O, I dunno. Give me some hand- iBome ones. I don't care what they cost, that's a tine lot over there; let's have a dozen of 'em." Mrs. Shoddy's requirements are more exacting. With her it is "a matter of size" above all things. Her bookshelves are only seven inches apart and immov­ able. She must have "something that tits." She buys many books, but she never buys one that is more than seven inches tall; she has no use for a volume that exceeds that measurement. Her shelves contain half a dozen sets each of Browning, Tennyson, Scott, all put there to "fill up," and to impress her literary friends. It has never occurred to her to change her bookcases for oth­ ers having adjustable shelves, or if the thought has come to her, she feels that it is not worth putting into execution; therefore, though she has books in plenty, they are all of a size and the assortment is limited. The Ornate familv buy books for the splendor thereof, the poets, philoso­ phers, wits, novelists of the ages have no charms for them if not decked out in brilliant leather or cloth of gold. The paper must be the heaviest, the type clearest, the illustrations abundant, the ornamentation exceeding that of the golden filigree work of Zamara. Ex­ pense is the only consideration, and the greater the expense the quicker will the Ornate family buy. If they ever look between the covers of their many vol­ umes nobody has yet caught them in the act. They are the targets for the pub­ lisher who is getting out an edition de luxe. They never buy a book if it is cheap. Literature is for them a thing with a name, and nothing more. They are of no assistance to authors; the har­ vests they leave are gleaned by the publishers alone. Bare books delight them not, however expensive, unless it can be said of them: " Solomon, in all his glory, was not arrayed like one of these." They are in high feather holiday time, for costly volumes then abound. Igno­ rant of chapter and verse, the Ornate family seek only the tomes that come in gorgeous dress. It is one of the most difficult under­ takings to attempt to convince the ig­ norant buyer that there is any virtue in the "gilt top" of a book. He will have it gilded top, bottom, and front, or not at all. He regards a gilt top as an im­ position, a sham, a sly design for cheat­ ing his purse. "You must think me a greeny," he says, "if you suppose I'm to be taken in by that sort of a thing. A little gilding won't deceive me, sir. I don't buy a book for that." Nor f 3r rough and uncut edges in the English style can others be induced to part with their dollars. "Those jagged and uneven things" betray to them a book half made. They want their "money's worth. 'Some there are who deem wide margins ja waste of space and good paper, while others will have nothing else. A Woman Dentiot. It is said that the most successful dentist in London at present -is a Ger­ man Baroness, who is the cleverest tooth extractor is England. That is her branch of the business, and a "dental surgeon" she calls herself, the other dentists sending their patients to her when extreme measures have to be taken. The female dentist is just be­ ginning to appear over the professional horizon in this citv, and I believe on the whole she is a success. A man I know lives in a boarding-house and tells me that a lone, unprotected female who sat opposite him at table greatly aroused his curiosity as to her occupation. She always started off bright and early after breakfast and never appeared until late dinner, but she never dropped the smallest hint of hoAv she occupied the loug hours between the two meals; she seemed to be successful at whatever she did, for she was always well dressed and seemed to have no anxieties of M sordid kind. He noted many times how large and powerful her hands and wrists were and puzzled himself greatly as to how she used them. She was always thoroughly up with all the news and gossip of the day, and was ready to talk with the utmost freedom on any such general topics, but the moment matters became in the smallest degree personal she promtly retired into her shell and Eulled her shell in after her. Finally e happened in rather an out of the way part of the town to see her name in gilt letters on the edge of the window, as the doctors put up theirs, only after it it bore the letters D. D. S., and then he knew now to account for her powerful wrists and her reticence. He enlarged on the German Baroness at dinner that night, and she looked up quickly, laughed, and owned up. She confessed that her father had been a dentist, and from her childhood she had maintained the greatest interest in the subject, so that her father taught her'all he knew. After his death she went to Paris to study and now has been two years working on such teeth in Gotham as are presented for her inspection. She said: "In the old heroic days of dentistry, when main force was used and anguish was the natural concomitant, women had neither the braun nor the nerve for the work, but since the introduction of all sorts of machine apparatus milder methods and cocaiue have so ameliorated •he profession it is one women are em­ inently capable of filling, as well as the teeth. There are four or 'five female dentists in New York and most of them are doing a good business. A great many women prefer to come to us, and we are, I believe, peculiarly successful with children, b^fiause we understand better how to manage them. I love my profession and take the greatest pride and pleasure in it, and, more than that, I am malting money in it."-^-Brooklyn Eagle. „ • How Mike Took a Clas? Meeting for a Ward Gathering. The old style of Methodist class meet­ ings has not exactly gone into "innocu­ ous desuetude" in Texas, but it is not as prevalent as it was in "olden times." Then you would find one goingon every Sunday morning; and ever}' school house and church in each small town, city, hamlet, or neighborhood, had its class meeting, or "experience meetin'," as they were more frequently called. And the habit of getting together and telling each other of their shortcomings, and of their trials and temptations and general moral life had a good effect and seemed to make every one better, and encourage them, and show them that there were others that sympathized with them in every trial and rejoiced with them in triumph. One morning, not far from where stands the flourishing in ttPfttl* shed- _ to th# experience of a kit of the faithful. Ofoourse was .astonished, and listened in silent wonder, till a young brother got up who was rather bashful, and began: "I have married me a wile, brethren, and--" "The divil ye have!" said Mike, which caused a momentary titter; but the young brother recovered and continued: "I've married me a wife, and I am glad to say she is a daughter of the Lord." Mike could stand Ho more. He shouted: "Arrah! sit down, ye galoot! Sure, ye'll never see your father-in-law." Amid a roar Mike was put out. He took it for a political meeting. --The Colonel. Heroes for Ladles. There is no "lady's horse" really, as any good horse is as much suited to a skilled lady rider as to a man. Still, it is thought by an English writer upon horsemanship, "a horse exceeding fifteen hands, two inches in height," ought not to be selected. The reason certain horses are set apart for ladies is because ladies do not usually enjoy one that trots, though some English ladies do, and in England ladies ride horses that leap fences and ditches, as they must to take part in fox hunting. A horse that is ridden often or always bv a lady is commonly despised by an expert gen­ tleman rider, on account of its easv- gaitedness. What is curious is that horses so used do not last so long as those ridden by gentlemen, "the differ­ ence being accounted for by the con­ stant use of the off leg in the canter." Give a lady, then, a rather small horse. If she becomes a trained rider her voice and hand will be as effective with the animal as a man's. Some horses who will not stand a man's handling at all are at once obedient to feminine con­ trol. It is something of an art tAmount and dismount a horse on the part of a woman. I don't know how common horse-blocks are in England, but mount­ ing from and dismounting to the ground are there the usual way. But the wo­ man, to do this, needs a groom. As a groom simply holds the horse and a gen­ tleman assists the lady in rising and coming down, there is more security, and the feat is more easily done. The good rider only attains success, as in dancing, by considerable practice, joined to natural aptitude. She must sit erect and perfectly square to the front, looking forward directly between the horse's ears. When seated, "let the body accommodate itself with an easy pliancy to the movements of the horse." Any moving forward or leaning sideways reduces her power over the horse and destroys the gracefulness of the excer- cise. A fair equestrienne is certainly one of the pretty sights. A man on a horse somehow never looks quite right to me. He reminds me of the centaur. A woman or a girl, if a skillful rider, never looks otherwise than attractive. The English author whom we have quoted says: "Many a fair girl lias captivated more hearts in a beautifully fitting habit thau when she was arrayed for the most distinguished occasion. And how many instances have we not on record of brilliant marriages and princely dowers being won by their faultless symmetry and a graceful bear­ ing so frequently displayed within it!" -- II 'ash in {/ton Sta r. The "Nigger" Who W«ke4if» There were lots *of negroes on the boat as passengers, and one afternoon, as the boat left Baton Bouge, a little crowd of us on the promenade deck got to discussing the colored man. The Colonel, who was from Wisconsin, claimed that the reason that the white man did not get along better with the negro was because he did not study his ph vsiognomv. "You just set 'em all down as lazy, trifling, and dishonest," he said to the Major, who was from South Carolina, "and the good suffer with the bad." "Do you Inslieve there is such a thing as an honest nigger in Louisiana ?" asked the Major. "Of course I do!" "Could you pick oneontin that crowd down there?" "Certainly I could." "Well, go ahead for the cigtn. Jnat pick your man, hand him a piece Of money, and tell him to walk to the stern post and back and return it." "Say, Major, there's thirty negroes down there I'd trust with my wallet." "Very well. We'll go down and you pick out one." The Colonel passed a dozen before he came to a middle-aged man asleep on a sack of cottonseed meal. He studied the fellow's face for a long minute and then shook him awake. "What's de row?" demanded the ne­ gro. "I am going to trust you," replied the Colonel. "I have been looking you over, and I know you to be an honest man." "Iar'dat." "Here's a $20 gold piece. Take it to the stern of the boat, make a wish for one particular thing and bring it back." The negro seized it and started off, and he had no sooner reached the stem than we heard a great yelling up stairs, followed by the bells to stop the boat. WTe ran up, and there was the Colonel's honest negro between us and the shore, striking out like a whale, and his mouth out of shape with the gold piece stuffed into it. While we were still looking he reached the bank, crawled upon the levee, and then turned and shouted: "I just dun wished I was ashore, an' yere I am! Good-bve, white folks!' Still," said the Major as he turned to sit down, "the Colonel might try a dozen more and find them all honest." But the Colonel went off to his state­ room in a huff.--Detroit Free Press. A Vegetable Barometer. A remarkable little weather-wise plant is now said to be on exhibition at the jubilee flower show just opened in Vienna. According to the account sup­ plied by the proprietor of this natural curiosity, it belongs to the family of the sensitive plants, but is so extremely meteorometric that it not only moves if touched but will close its leaves forty- eight hours in advance of any change in the weather. It seems, however, to be the most catholic of barometer's, for it foretells not only rain and wind storms, and "set fair," but earthquakes and other subterranean movements. In short, the new mimosa is so accom­ plished a vegetable that one learns with some disappointment that it fails to fore­ cast a fall in rents, while its pinnules display not the faintest agitation on the eve of the most warlike Russo-Austrian rumors.--London Standard. LET boys be instructed in all the de­ signs of nature and they will be im­ proved in morals, and learn to love ani­ mals instead of throwing stones at them. THE GREEN DIAMOND. JOHN TO BE KEPT OCT. or TH1C BASK-BAU. CHAM. PIONtlHIP 8KASOX. W'mm York ami at tool* the A mured X>NCM mm* A--octatl-- Winners--The World's ChamptoaslUp S*rtos and th* Australian Tour. [CHICAGO COBRE8PONDWICK.] . The championship races--League and Association--are practically ended, so far as the pennant-winners of these organiza­ tions are concerned. New York will stand as the League winners and St. Louis as the Association winners of 1888. Nothing short of the disbandment of both teams can now very well change this order of things. The work of arranging for the world's championship series between these two teams--an institution that now seems to have become a fixture in Amerio&n base­ ball events--lias already begun, and will probably have been completed within the next few days. Following the world's series, interest will with little doubt center in the coming trip of the Chicago and All-American teams to Australia. At no time in the history of the national game has so bold a venture been taken in its interests, and all preparations which have been made for the coming tour, even to the most minute detail, are in keeping with the magnitude of the undertaking. The "window lithographs" are handsome in design and execution. The posters are also unique in design and striking in ap­ pearance. In addition to these forms of announcement, Mr. Spalding has in prep­ aration an A B C treating upon base-ball, 10,000 of which will be for­ warded to Honolulu, Auckland, Sydney, Melbourne, and to all points where the team will play. The book contains a sim­ ple description of the game as it is played m America. It precedes the players, so that Australians not now familiar with the game may understand its cardinal points when the teams arrive. The first and only game the teams will play in Chicago before their departure takes place Oct. 20. - The League season in this city closed last week. To say that it has been a suc­ cessful one financially would be putting it mildly, for if it has not been the best in that respect it ranks among the leading ones. The total attendance at the sixty- ranc EXCLV8IOX BILL BKCOSOC* WW--THE MESSAGE, President Cleveland'a Message Glrtaf His Reasons for Approving th* Mmnrs--The Admission of Chinamen Kn BMK M Wl Cmntry Recommended. "{Washington dispatch.] The President's message announcing his approval of the Chinese exclusion bill was sent to Congress Oct. 1. and was referred to the respective Committees on Foreign Rela­ tions of the two houses. The President begins by reciting that the fact that both countries have for ety me time been convinced of the failure of blending the social habits and race idiosyncrasies of the laboring classes of China Tpith those of the United States, and that the treaty of 1880, allowing the United States to regulate, limit, or suspend the coming of Chinese laborers, and the act of Congress of 1862 suspending such immigration for ten years, have both been defeated in their object by the parties who were trading in Chinese la­ bor. Those parties, by false pretense and perjury, successfully evaded the terms of both treaty and statute, contrary to the ex­ pressed will of both Governments. The actual condition of public sentiment and the status of affairs in the United States having been fully made known to the Gov­ ernment of China, that Government in August, 1886, notified our Minis­ ter at Pekin that China, of her own accord, proposed to establish a system strictly and absolutely prohibiting her laborers, under heavy penalties, from coming to the United States, and likewise prohibiting the return to the United States of any Chinese laborer who had at any time gone back to China, "in order [in the words of the communication] that the Chinese laborers may be gradually reduced in number and causes of danger averted and lives preserved." This proposal was ingrafted into the treaty which was approved by the representatives of tho two Governments on March 12 last. The treaty was confirmed by the Senate on May 7. with two amendments, which were approved by the Chinese Minister, as they did not alter the torms of the treaty. The message then refers to the act to pro­ hibit the coming of Chinese laborers to the United States, which was signed Sept. 13. "in tho confident anticipation of an e'arly exchange of ratifications of the treaty." and continues: "No information of any definite action upon the treaty by the Chinese government was received until the 21st ult., the day tho ... bill which I have just approved wad pre- eight games plaved since the opening of sont°d to me. when a telegram from our it.. • a « « . .. . . . _ V mi af/kW n f t/V fka lal.WK M.\t HHM <%# the season in May has been nearly 300,000, or an average of over 4,500 to each game. Including the games played abroad, the Chicago Club has during the season ap- Eeared before audiences aggregating over alf a million people. The club's share of the receipts aggregates between $140,- 000 and $150,000, and the net ptofits for the season are not far from $75,000. Chicago people generally are satisfied with the playing that has been done on the home giounds. They have been treated to the best of ball, for some of the finest games ever played were contested on the Chicago grounds this summer. Consider- ing the material in tho team Chicago could not have expected to do better than it did. It is likely- that changes will be made in the Chicago club for next Beason. The team has too many players. Of the catch­ ers, Farrell or Darling will probably be sold. The former is not of the kind Chi­ cago likes, and the latter, though a No. 1 man, would do better work with other teams. There has been some talk of Flint going to Washington. Of the pitchers, Tener, Dwyer, and Krock will be with the club next season. Of Gum- bert's staying there is doubt, as the colt has exhibited several iustnnces of "rat­ tle." Baldwiu will probably play under "Hustling" Horace Phillips from now on. He has always desired to be with the taam of his native city, and as Anson thinks well of his other pitching timber, he will let him go. The "stonewall infield" will remain the Bame as now until accident, age, or death necessitates a change. Of the outfielders, Pettit and Sullivan will go, if any. Anson says neither of them will leave his team unless a good round sum is handed him in return. The work of Duffy has so far surpassed Anson's ex­ pectations that he can safely let Pettit go. Van Haltren's work in left field has also been good. Van Haltren does not believe his pitching days are over, and may try to get with a clnb where he will be allowed to twirl. DIAMOND DUST. Cantpau leads the Detroit clab in base- stealing. Over 5,000 errors have been charged to league players this season. An average of fifty to each. "Deacon" White has bought a house in Detroit, aud will spend the remainder of his days in that city. President Spalding has not been as suc­ cessful as he supposed he would be in securing the players he desired to secure for the Australian trip. He has, however, succeeded in getting together two fairly good teams. The usual autumnal grand rush for "pheuomenal" young ball-players will soon be in progress. Kansas City has Deen given a perpetual franchise in the American Association, and the two clubs then are to be consol­ idated. The fonr best pitchers in the Interna­ tional Association and their records for the season are: Barr, Rochester, won 32, lost 12; Woods, Hamilton, won 32, lost 12; Murphy, Syracuse, won 35, lost 14; Atkis- son, Toronto, won 32, lost 12. There seems to be a general feeling in American Association cities that it would be a good thing for the association if Yon der Ahe could be eliminated. He is beyond doubt an undesirable qnantity, but he has the bulge on the other fel!ows whether he deserves it or not. This is what that competent expert Bush- onghas to say of the science of catching: "I have learned that in receiving a right- handed pitcher I get all the balls on my left hand. With a left-handed pitcher it is just the reverse, and I get all the balls on mv light. As we catch more right- handed pitchers than left-handers, our catchers' left hands are generally pretty well battered out of shape. For throwing to bases a left-handed pitcher is the best, and we are able to get the ball down to second much quicker than with a right- handed pitcher. When a runner is on first and abont to start to steal second, the pitcher should send a straight, speedy ball over the ptate, so that the catcher can get it down ahead of the runner. How Sublime the Contemplation. A Chicago clergyman taking a ram­ ble on the lake shore with his son came suddenly upon two young women bath­ ing. The preacher placed his big body, as he thought, in a line to eclipse the view of the girls, and called the young­ ster's attention to two schooners in the distance, under full sail, thusly: "Yonder is the most beautiful sight on which the eye can rest." "Yes, father, I can see them both," replied the young scamp, covering his right eye with his hand, for he had been taught that such a sight would cause instant blindness, yet deter­ mined to risk one eye at all hazards. "How sublime the contemplation!" "Yes. both contemplations are vexy sublime." "Did you ever see anything like it before ?" "Never did; that takes the cake." "See, they are standing in shore." "Yes, I see; will they come on •here?" "No, of course not." - "I don't see why, for they are both looking at me as they stand there fac­ ing the shore." -"You villain! How dare you! Come Minister at Pekin to the Secretary of State announced the refusal of tho Chinese gov­ ernment to exchange ratifications of the treaty unless further discussion should bo had with a view to shorten the period stipu­ lated in the treaty for the exclusion of Chi­ nese laborers, and to change the conditions agreed on which should entitle any Chinese laborer who might go back to China to re­ turn again to the United States. "By a note from the charge d*affaires ad interim of China to the Secretary of State, received on the evening of the 25th ult. (a copy of which is herewith transmitted, to­ gether with the reply thereto), a third umendment is proposed whereby the cer­ tificate, under which any departing Chinese laborer alleging the possession of property in the United States would be enabled to return to this country, should be granted by the Chinese consul instead of the United States collector as had been provided in the treaty. "The obvious and necessary effect of this last proposition would bo practically to place the execution of the treaty beyond the control of the United States." The message says that the provisions of the treaty which China desires to modify were settled agreeably to the request of the Chinese plenipotentiary or originated with the Chinese Government itself. The Presi­ dent continues: "The admitted and paramount right and duty of every Government to exclude from its borders all elements of foreign popula­ tion which for any reason retard its pros­ perity or are detrimental to the moral and physical health of its people must be regard­ ed lis a recognized canon of international law and intercourse. China herself has not descended from this dootrine. but has, by the expressions to which I have referred, led us confidently to rely upon such action on her part in co-operation with us as would enforce the exclusion of Chinese laborers from our oountry. "This co-operation has not. however, been accorded us. Thus from the unexpeoted and disappointing refusal of the Chinese Government to confirm the acts of its au­ thorized agent and to carry into effect an international agreement, the main feature of which was voluntarily presented by that Government for our acceptance, and which had been the subject of long and careful deliberation, an emergency has arisen in which the Government of the United States is called upon to act in self-defense by the exercise of its legislative powers. I cannot but regard the expressed demand on the part of China for a re-examination and re­ newed discussion of the topics so com­ pletely covered by mutual treaty stipula­ tions as indefinite postponement and prac­ tical abandonment of the objects we have in view to which tho Government of China may justly be considered as pledged. "The facts and circumstances which I have narrated lead me, in the performance of what seems to me to be my official duty, to join the Congress in dealing legislatively with the question of tho exclusion of Chinese laborers, in lieu of further attempts to adjust it by international agreement." In conclusion the President recommends that provision be made by which such Chinese laborers as are now actually on their return to the United States, and have certificates legally obtained, shall be per­ mitted to land. He also reeommends the appropriation of the amount named in the rejected treaty ($276,619.75) to indemnify certain Chinese subjects for damages suf­ fered through violence in the remote and comparatively unsettled portions of our country. ON THE PACIFIC COAST. Discussing the Effect of the New St*tote-- Demonstrations of Approval. [San Francisco special.] The bulletin boards announcing that the President had signed the Chinese exclusion bill were surrounded by large crowds dis­ cussing the situation, and the news was re­ ceived with considerable excitement in the Chinese quarter. Tho principal subject of discussion was as to the effect of the bill upon tho several thousand Chinamen who have been landed by Federal courts on writs of habeas corpus aud release'd on bail, and the 2,000 more Chinese who are now on their way to this port. Collector Hager said that he doubted whether the bill would be any more effect­ ive than the restriction act, as the courts could continue to land the Chinese on writs j of habeas corpus and admit thepi to bail. Once in the country they could forfeit their bail and remain here in spite of the law. The collector intimated that he would not allow any of the returning Chinamen to land except by order of thoecourts. In the opinion of District Attorney Carew the bill does not affect the 5.000 Chinese now out on bail, but he believed the hun­ dreds now on their way would not be al­ lowed to land. He did not think any writs of habeas corpus would be issued except possibly to test the law. A prominent lawyer who handles Chinese cases in tho Federal courts almost e xchisi ve- ly gave it a& his opinion that writs of habeas corpus would still have to be issued to Chkieso demanding ttiem. as It was a con­ stitutional right, and that bail also woUld have to be issued as heretofore. He also thought that Chinamen holding certificates could not be prevented from landing, as the United States Supreme Court had decided on several occasions that Congress could not s.nnul axisting contracts suOh as these certificates were. The passage and approval of the bill were celebrated by demonstrations in Uua eity and other places. HFBINRTI A*TFIKF MMNRG THAT ; UWY OCCl'KKXU Ail InterestlBjr Snmmary of the Warm Iw ' M portent Mnp tff Par Neighbor*--We*. U Aitt 'aiK) PsrtW•--Crimen. "n~--iltl lftj \ "~i and General Xew» Note*. v THE SAFIHeS. BANK I»AWt The nimols Saving * Bank lrw, juHt de­ cided to be unconstitutional by the Stab Supreme Couiti Chie* Justice Craig rag- dering tb opinion, was jxtss nl by tliai Legislature at its last'Sessioa. Governor Oglesby was of the opinion that it WMR ' . unconstitutional and declined to sign itp The bill pasted the Legislature and b#» came a law without his signature. It w4H|' £ never, however, submitted to a vote of ttwi • < people. A certain clause in the Constiftt- \A * tion seemed to make this submission to * >-f vote necessary, and so much doubt exis^ ed on this account in the minds of banketi • /'• and others as to the legality of the lav. that an agreed case was prepared anifll * submitted to the Supreme Court. Chief . Justice Craig in his opinion makes, amoi^ . others, the following points: * % Declining to discuss the question whether til* act was calculated to advance the prosperity Of the people of the State, he passes at once to th* question of constitutionality. He quotes -Nee. S, . Art. It, of the Constitut on. which says dis­ tinctly that no act of the General Assembly au­ thorizing OT creating corporations or association* with banking powers, waether of issue, tiepo*ity or discount, shall go into effect unless fcnbuiittea to the people at the general election next sue- ceeiling its passage and approved by a majority m of tho votes, and says thftt aa the act in qn T^Wepsople It is ITO- hi!>ited by the Constitution it it is one autnov- tion was not submitted izing or creating corporations of banking powers either of issue, deposit, or discoaafe. Whether or not the defendant corporation, "The Society for savings," is a savings batik is not the question, the question at issue 1 whether the act under which it oonfere upon it banking powers at issue, i or discount. Tho dec.aration of Bsc. the act, to the effect that no corporation organ­ ized under it shall bod enittl a bank Or company with banking powers, does not affect the powen* conferred, nor does it 1 m it the authority of tte corporation. The Constitution of 1848 ptovMsa that no act authorising corporations with I vCSi ing powers shall NO into effect unless ratified t̂y present Constitution is more speoiDc i--" "--' a vote of the people, and the provision of I ers a esuMr le dccisiap LowenttNil, on in tk» A Crooked Cashier. ' " The Union Savings Bank at Fall River, tfass., is closed, owing to the criminal oper­ ations of Cashier cnupin. whose dMlclt amounts to $100,000. He lent money freely on wildcat Securities, and permitted cus­ tomers to overdraw their accounts, cover­ ing up his deficiencies by manipulatiei} of the books. : <? Deserted bjr a Xsfis. Hattle Flack. 19 year,s old, daughter of a St. Louis commission merchant, who mar­ ried and fled with a mulatto employed on her father's farm, has roturned to her parents' home. The mulatto, who was already mar­ ried. fled from his victim at Mosco*w. Ky.. to reaching, prohibiting as it does an act authoris­ ing corporations with banking powers of either issue, deposit, or discount. The of the court in The People vs. 92 III., 193,, that the prohibition old Constitw ion related only to banks ot is had no bearing upon the ore sent inquiry. After a consideration of the meaning intended by the words "hanking powers* in the Constitu­ tion of 1870 he concludes that they should bs taken as meaning the ordinary powers of dis­ count and deposit. Reviewing at length tte provisions ot the act under which the kxwpaca- tion in question is organized, in order to rtstsc- lnine whether banking powers ot discount ot deposit have been conferred, he says it is plainly disclosed that those who place their funds in the hands of the corporation are depositors, an* that the corporation is dealing wttn the depos­ itors and using their funds as a bank. He thin- fore is of i he opinion th it the act is unconstitu­ tional end affirms the judgment of the Citcun court. It is thus seen that the act is declare^ unconstitutional because of the failnm only to submit it to the people. Befoatit it was submitted to the Legislature, where it was passed by the unanimooa vote of either house, the bill was reviewed! and perfected by at least half a dozen <j|T the ablest lawyers of Chicago and indors­ ed by the Union League Clnb, the ^ qUois Club, the Citizens' Association, many of the workingmen's clubs aud un­ ions. It will be submitted to the peopM for ratification and agun presented to th* Legislature at its next session. --Judge Smith', of the Circuit Court ifc Monticello, heard' Judge Tipton's argt*r ments in the Mounce murder trial, on tk*;- motion for a new trial. Judge Tipton claimed that the instructions to the jury were improper. Judge Smith reviewed the points made by Judge Tipton, andthought the instructions were all that the law i# quired, and in accordance with the law« He overruled 4h* motion and eentenoodt ' * "*$• James Mounce to the penitentiary for 'j|: twelve years for killing Adam Spear. Judge Tipton filed a inotioh for arrest ef i judgment, and was given sixty days to fila - a bill of exceptions. X't --Mrs. Collins, wife of C. C. Collins, a -1 prominent druggist of Aurora, died froan - illness caused by . exposure to a severe '• draught at Kelly Lake while on a pleasure - - ° if ' * ' " ' . - --Compared to last year, the fair a£ % Olney was a most successful one in all v respects. The managers were please$ ' with the financial result, and attribute the ^3 success of the fair largely to the lavorablii weather. Tho total gate receipts wera * , I about $15,000 and the total gross receiptor ;'-vU were about $20,C00. Secretary Id ills i* ^ r ^ happy and well satisfied with tha result.* ^ ̂ "We have bad a lovely week," said h^, i ^ >"5^ "and a good time, and the receipts hav|| ^ more than met our obligations. Southern \ ^ 5 Illinois has stood by the fair in splendid style, and we are pleased to note it. The. • heavy drafts on Olney a year ago hav» ' been returned to them this year, and th# •: ' : i citizens feci more than satisfied with thu „ , ^ result of the fair just closed." ' ^ --Henry Hornick, of Kansas City, wh£t». C "jS* en route for Chicago in charge of a lot sheep, fell from the train on the Chicagp and Alton Road, near Jacksonville, and wa)| ... % cut to pieces. - ^ --William £. Westbrook is to be tried ' 4 again for the murder of William Gross, » , , saloon-keeper at. Blue Mound. He waa tried, convicted, and sentenced to be ^ "<*ff hanged on March 30 at the last January term of court. Judge Smith refused a new ^ trial, but the defendant's attorneys secure*! H a supersedeas, and took the case to th4> s Supreme, Court, which reversed and re-| ^ manded the case. Westbrook is only 23, , \ He got into a quarrel with Gross at Blu^r k >• V^->"} Mound in July, 1887, and in the alterca* " ' ' \ tion Gross was stabbed in the abdomea J ^ ^ with a knife. The prisoner almost crie4 J " for joy on receiving the good .hews:'froea \ <. the Supreme Court. ""'**""4 --The Supreme Court has just rendete£ 5 a decision of vital importance in thi* 4 7 )4 S t a t e . T h e c i t y o f D e c a t u r l e v i e d i t ^ ' J , special assessment against the Illinoiif ' Central Railway to pay for paving a street upon which the Central's right of wa}> abutted. The Central resisted the as>- - ^ sessment, claiming the road by virtue off * «: its charter, which compelled it to pay t per cent, of its gross earnings into th|| State Treasury, was exempt from all tax*.'. ation. The courts have ruled the Central, was bound to pay the ^assessment, an^| now the Supreme Coart affirms this rul^. ; ing. The attorney for the defense will take the case to the Supreme Court of the , United States. ^ --Jared Doolittle, of Bement, a veteran of the civil war, is dead. * *• ^ --F. T. Bertrend, of Bockford, into his $14,000 house the other day, aadf . at night it was discovered that there was ,, iy- leak in the gas-pipe. His son went into , < the zoom with a, lighted lamp and ater-> * rific explosion resulted, by which the key; • • - » " ! * ? * > « - tSSWHK