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J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. •fcHENKY. ILLINOIS two WIVES TOO MANY GOOD CAUSE FOR THE SUICIDE OF A KENTUCKY MAN. Why the Women Doctors Resigned-- Strtnge Disappearance of a Chicago Girl--Pittsburg Wants Lake Com­ munication--Czar Objects tp Terms. 'U He Dodged His Troubles. Frederick Weimer, a well-t0'-d6 farmer bear "Versailles, Ivy., wont-to Louisville to sell seventeen hogsheads of tobacco. When he arrived he had $701) in cash and his tobacco netted him the same amount. He was afraid to. go to bed with so much money about him, ai\d remained in a saloon all night. He told those in the saloon about losing his wife lately, said he was lonesome, and would give $50 for a wife. Two hackroen--Win, Wclper and Martin Cranes-have lately been dis­ puting the affections- of Effie Gannon. They agreed to waive all claim and give her to Wgimer for the $30. The girl con­ sented to the marriage. Weimer and his bride misfjed the train for Versailles and . employed the two luiekmen' to take them .to their destination. •« Netfjt morning W ei- tner's body was found - near Versailles.. The coroner's jury returned a verdict of suicide. The- testimony shows tl/e sni*- cide had a Wife, and three grown daugh­ ters living in Ripley, (>..• a wife in Brack­ en County, and the Louisville girl to •Whom he was married. 'Weimer was a total abstainer prior to his Louisville trip. Too Many Prunes. Dr. Persis White and Dr. C. R. Schef- fer, the two most capable women physi­ cians in the staff, luwe resigned their connection with the Chicago Hospital for Women and Children because th" food of the institution is not adequate, either in quantity, quality or variety, and because prunes formed a prominent article of diet three times a day. This much is not stat­ ed in the dignified letters which the doe- tors sent to Mrs. Dr. Root, chief of the board, but the truth is concealed behind the candid statement that they could not longer remain with the management and allow to go unheeded treatment which was not in keeping with their own sense of propriety or the ethics of the profes­ sion. 9epth of eighteen inches. Reports from neighboring towns say several bridges havfe been washed away. . l^lje schooner Josiah R. Smith of Bath, from Baltimore tg-dioston, was run into and sunk three inl|wj\ west of Gay Head light by the barge raine Star in tow of the fattier Orion. Capt. Freeman and ,crew of seven men were saved. Gov.,Werts, at Jersey City, N. J«y says he has received a request for troops to suppress the labor troubles at the Staten Island terra-cotta factory at Spa Spring?,' near Woodbridge, Middlesex County. The men who are on strike demand their pay. WT. Jennings Demorest, one of the founders of the Prohibition party and the principal rival of General John Bid- well, of California, for the Prohibition nomination for President of the United States in 1802, died in New York Tues­ day, after a week's illness. WESTERN. The Czar Protests. The St Petersburg Novoe Yremya says if Great Britain has approved the terri­ torial demands of Japan in regard to Manchuria and Corea. Russia .willTon- sider itself relieved of the obligations of common action and will oppose. Japan on land and on the sea. The Berlin corre- mdent of the London Standard tele- iphs: "I learn the Government x-egards Japan's demands as highly detrimental |to the commercial interests of Europe in China. Germany is willing to co-operate with the other poweife in protesting against them, but she -will not take the initiative." Condition of the Crops. The Cincinnati Price Current summar­ izes the crop conditions for the past week as follows: "The past was a favorable week for wheat and other crops.. The growth is not advancing rapidly. . The tenor of wheat crop returns has been well maintained, except in Kansas. Spring seeding is progressing favorably for both wheat and oats. Some areas are still needing moisture. The week's packing of hogs amounted to 105,000, against 230.OO0 for the corresponding week a year ago." Survey for a Canal. The preliminary survey of th& ship canal to connect Pittsburg with Lake Erie has progressed, so far that the en­ gineers in charge of the work are free to state that they have found the proposed canal perfectly feasible and that an abundant supply of water can be secured. The: survey^will not be completed before June 1, however. According' to the en­ gineers, the most available • route is through the Mahoning valley to Leavitts- burg, and thence to the lake. Is She in the Lake? Bessie Chesborough, a 10-year-old girl of Chicago, has been missing a week, and it is feared she has committed suicide. Her mother is entertaining no other the­ ory, and believes the girl has drowned her­ self in the lake. Detectives have been at work on the case, but no clew has been found that would indicate what has be­ come of the young woman. Two failures to pass an examination in stenography are thought to have crazed the girl. The Tike's Peak cog railway has been reopened for the-season. Pour persons were killed outright aud a fifth fatally injured in a wreck on thi^Bel- laire, Zanesville and Cincinnati Narrow Gauge Road, at a trestle five miles west of Sumniertiehl.O., Friday. " Four tramps were killed,, jtwcNf^ally and six badly hurt by the derailing of an Alton freight train near East Alton. Owing to the terrific snowstorm which prevailed .in the _2yieinity of Cheyenne,, Wyo, in eastern Colorado. Kansas and Nebraska, trains were stalled on all the railway lines east of Denver, and hun­ dreds of men find several snow plows are now engaged in clearing the tracks? of drifting snow'and Sand. In some locali- tiea telegraph wires are down. A train on the Kansas Pacific was lai.d up at Cheyenne, and a snow plow was sent out ahead to clear .the track. The east-bound Rock Island is stalled at Goodland. Kan. At Cheyenne the.storm is severe and. traf­ fic is shut "down on the, Northern. The storm is working south. On the .Tules- burg line sand has drifted to sycli an ex­ tent that gangs of men'Va1#een§?iged in shoveling, it from the tracks. President Joseph B. Greenhut of the "whisky trust" is charged with diverting $225,000 from the company's treasury into his own pockets. This accusation was made in a bill filed Tuesday in the United States Circuit Court at Chicago. The object of the suits is,to compel Presi­ dent Greenhut and other defendants to turn over $200,000 which, it is alleged, they obtained at the cost of the company in the deal for the purchase of three dis­ tilleries in 1802. It is charged in the bill that the Nebraska distillery in Nebraska City, the Centra! distillery in St. Louis and the Star aIrn Crescent~~disffllery in Pekin, 111., were bought for $1,685,000. while the cost of these properties was charged on the company's books at '$Ln: 984.407. It is alleged that President- Greenhut appropriated to his. own use $225,000 of the difference between the actual cost and the amount charged to the company, and that $65,000 went into the pockets of Samuel Woollier. _ Mayor Swift, of Chicago, swung his ax Tuesday with a vigor that broke the rec­ ord. He harvested the heads of 1,000 place-holders, .blocked several salary-grab­ bing schemes born in the death throes of the defunct administration, and generally served notice that laws were made to be obeyed. He had not been in the Mayor's chair over an hour when lie sent a can­ non ball, so to speak, through the Build­ ing Department that knocked the pins from under a lot of inspectors. By the time another hour rolled around resigna­ tions commenced to pile up on the new Mayor't^desk. He called for the resigna­ tion of A. W. Cooke of the Bureau of Sewers and placed Engineer Lowe in charge. Acting Commissioner of Public Works Moody was directed to drop three- fourths of the men on the bridge repair gang, which meant that eighty or ninety men had to let go soft places! This was followed by an order to cut the water pipe extension force one-half, and from 500 to 1.000 heads dropped in the basket. All engineers employed within the last two weeks were ordered discharged. The sewer repair gang was just about oblit­ erated. BREVITIES, The Republicans have elected eleven of the thirteen members of the board of trustees of Saratoga. N. Y.. and the new members announce that they intend to crush out gambling. SOUTHERN. William-Shipp murdered Samuel Brown at Lexington, Ivy. Shipp was enamored of Brown's wife. The national reunion of the survivors of the Army of the Tennessee, the Ohio and Mississippi opened Friday on the bat­ tle field of Shiloh. Illinois, Iowa, Indiana and other Northern States were repre­ sented by delegations officially appointed by the respective Governors, and so were Tennessee, Mississippi, Kentucky aud other Southern States. A reduction in wages of miners through­ out the Flat Top, \V. Ya., district has beeu made, and the men are very unset­ tled. It is known that organizers for the Miners' Union have been at work in the Flat Top and Norfolk and Western re­ gions for some time, getting the men in shape for a general strike. The union, which failed in the Kanawha and New River strike a year ago, promises support to the Flat Top miners. If the strike takes place about 10,000 men will be af­ fected. The City National Bank of Fort Worth, are the greatest changes inade by the de­ cision. . Siftcfe the delivery of the income tax de­ cision "attorneys and others interested in overthrowing the tax have been taking /steps to. test various parts of the Faw in further proceedings. Attacks will bo made,both on those portions that were sus­ tained by a tie vote and on some fre^h, poiltts, not passed upon in the particular cases decided. Attorney J. M. Wilson, who represented jfohja G, Moore in th<? Court ot Appeals in the decent cases, said that further proceedings will be taken immediately. "Several parts of the law will be attacked," said he, "the principal one being the exemption from taxation of incomes under $4,000. This will be at­ tacked an linjust discrimination. I cannot say just yet who the complainants or what tire titles of, the suits will be, but they will be instituted very soon, proba­ bly within a very few days, and be push­ ed as rapidly as possible." „ FOREIGN. -- - > An uprising is reported among the In­ dians of Cojutepeque, Salvador. Christiania advices say the estimates which are to be submitted to the storthing have been published and cause much com-: nient. They give fresh impetus to the wild rumors of an impending war be­ tween Norway and Sweden. The esti­ mates far exceed any previous sunie re- quired^; vThe.-sum of 4,000,000 kroner is to.be devoted to the construction of iron clads. In addition, large credits will be asked for the purchase of munitions of war and for the completion of the forts of Tonsburg harbor. The United States ship Marblehead, now at Gibraltar, has been cabled by Secretary Herbert to proceed with dis­ patch to Beyroot, Syria- The Command­ er-in-chief of the European station was instructed to order the vessels of his com­ mand to visit also Alexandretta sfnd Adana to confer with the United States consuls..and. resident American citizens, and if it is found that there are f^Sod grounds for the' apprehensions expressed in these quarters concerning a probable, massacre of Christians to intimate to the responsible authorities that this Govern­ ment will afford full protection to Ameri­ can citizens living peaceably in that part of the world under its treaty guaranties. It is stated on reliable authority that Japan lias proposed the following condi­ tions for the conclusion of peace: The' independence of Corea; the cession of Southern Manchuria, including Port Ar­ thur; the cession of the Island of For­ mosa; the opening of Chinese ports and rivers to commerce; the payment of an indemnity of 400,000,000 yen; and the occupation of a number of strategic points until the indemnity shall have been paid. The London Times says it considers Japan is justified in imposing these condi­ tions, and adds that the British^ cannot object to the occupation of the LiaVTun< penansnla. The wound in the face of Li 'Hung Chang, the Chinese peace envoy, has now completely healed. Liu Ching Fung, son of Li Hung Cliang, has been appointed a Chinese peace plenipotentiary to assist Li Hung Chang. Japan has formally accepted him as an envov. IN GENERAL John M. Thurston, solicitor ceneral of ' Tpxas> failed t0 °l)pn its doors Friday. t* • r* i _ "Tho cncnontsirin " M r.Po r. the Union Pacific and Senator-elect fr<>m Nebraska, announces that he will resign his position with the railway before lie takes his seat in Congress. Four inmates of the New York State Asylum for Insane Criminals at Mattea- wan, including Oliver Curtiss Perry, of Syracuse, the train robber, r.ade their es­ cape from the institution. j Officers at Romney, Wv Ya., spirited away D. S. Shawn to the penitentiary to save him from a mob that was preparing to lynch him. Shawn had had his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment. During a dense fog a train on the Buf­ falo, -Rochester -and Pittsburg road rah into a washout near Sykes, Pa., wreck­ ing the engine and eighteen cars. Engi­ neer Taylor, Fireman Shea and Conduc­ tor Bruce lost their lives. Patrick Benson, an Oakland, Cal., at­ torney, has received information that he has fallen heir to an estate of $875,000 in Scotland. , The Indianapolis colony formed to emi­ grate to Guatemala has been abandoned, United States Minister Young having re­ ported that the Country holds but poor inducements for settlers. Society women at Fort Smith, Ark., have been indicted for playing progressive euchre for prizes, r Senator Hill says that upon the reas- eembling of Congress he will introduce a bill to repeal the income tax law. The suspension," said President MeCar thy, "was caused by the difficulty in mak­ ing collections and rumors detjinu'nta.L.t.Q.. the bank which were circulated in the city." Deposit^ amount to $487,000; bills rediscounted, $4!*),00(5; assets, $3o,600 above liabilities to depositors. The bank held $110,000 of city funds, $118,000 of Tarrant County funds, and the deposits of the Endowment Rank, Knights of Pythias. In the big sham battle at the City of Mexico, Maj. Yillareal was knocked from his hprse by a collision with an artillery wagon, badly hurt, though believed not fatally. One mule was killed at the same -tini-ef Two cavalry soldiers ' foil! with tlieiri horses lamed. Various accidents of a similar nature were recorded during the charge by the cavalry on the Plain of Peralville. Some of the infantry privates succumbed to the heat and were borne from the field for medical treatment. Dur­ ing one of the cavalry charges tw6' riders were knocked from their horses and tram­ pled to death, and several privates pre­ sented themselves to the Chiefs with wounds in their bodies. Lieut. Charl,es (i. Dwyer, military attache of the Ameri-' can Legation, who served on the Presi­ dent s staff, was sunstruck and borne from the field. Considering that the bat­ tle was the finest military spectacle ever seen in Mexico, the number of serious ac­ cidents was small. United States secret service operatives in Chicago and Washington have unearth­ ed probably the most unique and at the same time important swindle ever perpe­ trated upon any government. Its magni­ tude, after two days' investigation, can only be guessed at, but it is believed thou­ sands of dollars have been secured by a gang of skillful counterfeiters, who have reproduced with wonderful skill and ac­ curacy the pink two-cent stamps of com­ merce. As a result the entire issue must be recalled and retired. Whether the counterfeiters have accomplices in dis­ honest postmasters or whether they are in league with some one nearer the throne is not known. But this much is certain: Uncle Sam has been carrying millions of letters from which he received not one cent of revenue. It is thought the coun­ try is flooded from New York to San Francisco with these spurious stamps. Governor John P. Altgeld has paid his respects to Chauncey- M. Depew. The occasion for the bitter criticism was the speech recently delivered by Mr. Depew at the Auditorium in Chicago, When he to?>k occasion to find fault not only with the Mayor of Chicago, but with Governor Altgeld as well. The Governor was ask­ ed if he had read the speech. "No, I have not," he replied. "Some years ago I listened to Mr. Depew for two hours. So long as the Lord insisted on limiting human life to about three score and ten years, two hours is all the time that the average man can afford to spend on De­ pew. He is the most conspicuous product of the doctrine 'do evil that good may come of it' that this country has ever seen. He first attracted attention many- years ago as a lobbyist at Albany, where he for a long time was engaged in the highly honorable business of putting met­ aphorical collars on the New York legis­ lators, so that to the public they appeared to belong to the Vanderbilts aud the New York Central Railroad. A train of slime and corruption was stretched across the State from New York city by way of Al­ bany to Buffalo, and from there it spread, over the whole country, corrupting public officers, polluting legislative halls and even filling courts of justice with its odor. This was the beginning of that flood of corruption which is to-day washing the .foundations from under our whole gov­ ernmental fabric." REUNION AT SHILOH. • ... ffi- .' -' v .•••', • ' U GREAT GATHERING OF VETER­ ANS ON THE HISTORIC FIELD. Fnmons Battle Ground Now Tnrin<i Into a Fine Park--Some Account of a Memorable and Bloody Conflict- Gen. Johnston's Death. • deliberate and emphatic tone, "Yes, and I fear seriously." These were his last words. ( . „ "All next"day the roll of artillery and in­ fantry was heard all along the'lines, and every foot of groundwas.heing contested, as the Confederates were being pressed back from the battlefield. The losses had been fearful on both . sides. The Con- - - S.tory of the Fifeht. The recent reunion of the survivors ojf the battle of Sliiloli, or Pittsburg Land­ ing, on .that historic field, was the largest gathering of veterans held in the South since the wpr. The reunion was under the auspices of the Shiloh Battlefield As­ sociation, which was organized three years ag6 to purchase and turn into a park the •historic ground where the great conflict took place. Col. E. T. Lee* of Montieello, 111., is founder of the asso­ ciation aud lias worked most successfully in its behnlf. ' The recent gathering was for the purpose of marking the positions of the various'COmiH'ands durffi'g the fight. The account of the battle of Shiloh is one of the most exciting pages of the civil Var. It was not intended to fight a battle there, but CoL Albert Sidney Johnston determined to surprise the Federal troops, encamped on the spot, and so precipitated the struggle.-- Gen. Grant was eating breakfast at Savannah^seven miles away, in the Chc-rry mansion, when he heard the first cannon That opened the battle. Mrs. W. H. Cherry was in the act of handing him a cup of coffee at the time. He imme­ diately arose, saying; "We must go to the GENERAL JAMES R. CnALMEES. federates were driven from every position until they reached the old Shiloh Church where t.ho battle had commenced on Sun­ day morning. They still held till ridge which had been changed and, recharged ' time and time again. Gen. Grant came lip and, j seeing the situation, he selected w 3W w GRAVE THE DRUMMER u. zxMt BOY OF SHILOH. front,"the ball has opened." Gen. John­ ston had" made his order of .battle, and had formed his army in three long parallel lines. The Confederate army moved forward in solid column under the personal com­ mand of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, striking Gen. Sherman's division at the Shiloh Church. He struck Sherman like a cyclone, rushing his line of battle right on to the batteries and throwing many of the new troops who ha'd never been in battle into great confusion, capturing sev­ eral pieces of artillery and the camps of the Union army, with all their provisions. The tide of battle rolled on. striking Pren­ tiss and McClernand and driving them back to the line of battle formed by Gen. Hurlbut at Peach Orchard and Hornets' Nest. About 10 n. in. there was a con­ centration of the Union forces under the direction of Gen. Grant, who arrived on the battlefield about 0 a. m.. and the fur­ ther progress of the Coufederates was stopped. Death of Gen. Johnson. A terrible struggle took place, later on the crest of a hill at the Hornets' Nest. ;'or five hours brigade after brigade was in vain led against the Union forces sta- . EASTERN. A count of the money in the Boston sub-treasury shows a difference of 20 cents between the cash and the books in favor of the sub-treasurer. The amount on hand is $12,10J,143.24. Florence Lillian Wickes, youngest daughter of Vice-President Wickes of the Pullman Palace Car Company of Chicago, made her first appearance on the stage Saturday with the Wilson Barrett company at Memphis. Qwidg to the he&vy rains the Tunago- _ want is out of its banks and the lower part of Bradford, Pa., is flooded to a WASHINGTON. It is said Secretary Gresham has left Washington for a short vacation for his health. At his hotel all that was sajd was he was not in. It is thought lie left for the-West, Comptroller Bowles of the treasury, in a l<5ng opinion, holds th^it Messrs. Spring- ,er and Kilgore, the new judges of the Indian territory, must wait for their sal­ aries until their nominations are confirm­ ed by the Senate. ^--* The Supreme Court has decided the in­ come tax case. While the decision 1 of the lower-court is upheld as a whole, a)l tocomgrderived from rents are exempted nSflfeppEation by the Federal Govern- municipal funds. These ->*3 imHi * MARKET REPORTS. Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $.'5.75 to $0.50; hogs, shipping grades, $« to $5.50; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $5; wheat. No. 2 red, 54c to 55c; corn, No. 2, 45c to 40c; oats, No. 2, 29c to :50c; rye. No. 2, 5Ge to 58c; butter, choice creamery, 20c to 2QV£c; eggs, fresh, lie to 12c; potatoes, car lots, per bushel, 75c to 00c; broom corn, per H), common growth to fine brush, 4c to tO^e. . Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3 to $0.25; hogs, choice light, $3 to $5; sheep, common to prime, $2 to $4.75; wheat. No.,2 red, 55c to 55',^c; corn, No. 1 white, 4Gc to 4(')Vjc; oats, No. 2 white, 33c to 34c. St. Louis--Cattle, $3 to $0.50; Iioks, $4 to $5.25; wheat. No. 2 red, 54c to 55c; corn. No. 2, 43c to 44c; oats, No. 2, 30c to 31c; rye. No'. 2. 57c to 58c. *"- Cincinnati--Cal tie. $3.50 to $0.25; hogs, • $3 to $5.r>0^i|lieep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat. N<>. 2,--OOc to 00i/,c; corn, No. 2 mixed, ' 47c to 471/ac; oats. No. 2 mixed, 32c to 33c; >rye, No. 2. 00c to 02c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $0.25.; hogs $4 to $5; sheep, $2- to $4.75; wheat, No 1 white, 00c to OOi/yt'.; corn, No. 2 yellow 40c to 47c; oats, No. 2 white, 35c to 35V&C Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 red, 57c to 57c corn, No. 2 yellow, -40c to 4(p/jc; oats No. 2 white, 33c to 33%c; rye, No. 2, 54c to 50c. Buffalo--Cattle, $2.50 to $0.50; hogs. $3 to $5.75; sheep, $3 to $5.50; wheat No. 2 red, 00c to OOMjc; corn, No. 2 yel low. ^10c to 50c; oats, No. 2 white, 35c to 30e. MiUvaukeer--^Wheat, No. 2 spring, 59c to 00c; corn, No. 3, 48c to 49c; oats No. 2 white, 32c to 33c; barley, No. 2, 52c to 53c; rye, No. 1, 50c to 57c; pork, mess, $11.50 to $12. New York--Cattle, $3 to $0.50; hogs $4 to $5.75; sheep, $3 to $5.25; wheat, No. '2 red, 02c to 015c; corn, No. 2, 51c to 52c; oats, white Western, 37c to 41c; butter, creamery, 14c to 22c; eggs, West- ern, 12c to 13c. ' GENERAL, DOX CARI.OS BUELI,. Veatche's brigade of Gen. Hurlbut's.jdivis- ion, with other regiments, and formed them in line for the final charge. "Well do we remember," writes Col. Lee, "when they took off their hats and gave three cheers for the Union and the old flag. Then sweeping up the slope and over the ridge ,they disappeared down the decline, carrying everything before them and driving the Confederate army from the field. Cheer after chefcr went up as the last shot died away in the distance and Shiloh was won." Gen. Beauregard, in his report made after the battle, places the Confederate loss at 10,099. From later facts derived froni the regimental, brigade and division commanders, it has been ascertained to have been much larger. Gen. Grant plac­ ed the Union loss at 13,047, which in the judgment of many is far below the actual loss. There are buried in the National Ceme­ tery at Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., almost 4,000 Union dead, besides the great num­ ber that were taken north by their friends and buried in the cemeteries at home or who died at the various hospitals and were buried in the National cemeteries in thfe North. The correct figures will show a loss of killed and wounded and died of wounds of not less than 30,000. TWO FATAL WRECKS. Four Persons Killed by an Accident, at Summerfield, Ohio. Four persons were killed outright and a fifth fatally injured in a wreck on the Bellaire, Zanesville and Cincinnati nar­ row gauge at a trestle five miles west of Summerfield, Ohio. A coach jumped the track as the train was approaching the trestle, which is situated on a curve, The coach ran on the ties half way across, and then the engine also left the rails, car­ rying down five bents of the trestle to th& ravine fifty feet beldw. A fearful wreck occurred at Wood river bridge, on the Chicago and Alton cut-off. about half a mile north of Alton, 111. A long, heavy freight train was coining down the grade when the middle of the train bulged out, and fifteen cars wera P BLOW TO TAX LAW: SUPREME COURT MANGLES THE INCOME STATUTE. Rente and Bond Interest Declared to Be Exempt--Business Men Must Pay =• --So Must Employes, While Big Trust Companies Escape. & . - SlIILOII SPRING NO. 2. This is one of the Shiloh Springs near where the battle opened and where wounded from both armies gathered in large numbers for watex. tioned here. When Gen. Johnston came up and saw the situation, he said: "They are offering stubborn resistance here. I shall have to put the bayonet t6 them." He sent Gov, Harris, of his staff, to lead the Forty-fifth Tennessee Regiment. Gen. Johnston rode out in front and slowly down the line. His hat was off. His presence was inspiring as he sat on his. thoroughbred bay. His voice was per­ suasive. His words were few. He said, "Men. they are stubborn. We must use the bayonet." When he reached the cen­ ter of the line he turned and said: "I will lead you," and moved toward the Federal lines. With a mighty shout the line moved forward with a charge. A sheet of flame ami a mighty uproar burst from the Fed­ eral stronghold. The Confederate line withered, but there was not an instant's pause. The crest was gained, and Gen. Johnston had his horse shot in four places. His clothing was pierced with bullets and his boot soles cut by minie balls. The Federal soldiers kept up a continuous fire as they fell back on their reserves and de­ livered volley after volley as they sud­ denly retired. - • A minie ball from one of these did its , fatal woffc.v Jhe sat there after his wound, Gov. Harris returned and finding - him very pale afeked him, "General, are [you woundedV" He answered in a very piled on top of each other. Four men were killed outright and two fatally in­ jured. None of them were known, but are supposed.u.to be tramps who wert stealing a ride. The wreck was caused by the train being too heavily loaded be­ hind. and when the brakes were put on the front cars the weight behind was thrown on to a flat car in the middle of the train, crushing it to atoms and wrecking the other cars. s Vast Changes Decreed. A special dispatch from Washington says that the United States Supreme Court in the income tax case has reversed the decision of the lower court. . The income tax law as a whole is upheld, but only by a divided court. Two important portions of the law, however, have been decided to be unconstitutional, and they are so serious as to affect materially not only the revenues of the Govtrnment, but the estimation inf.which the income tax will be held by the people. Under the de­ cision, as reported^,, ani^mtomes derived from rents are "exempted from taxation by the Federal Government and all^in- comes derived frojn .State and municipal bonds are similarly exempted. In other respects the income tax stands as it was passed last August, but .the result of the consultations.in the Supreme Court shows very conclusively that the law can easily be picked to pieces, provided suits are brought to contest each particular point as it comes up. \ , • It is a curious fact, but none the less true.-that the law which was passed at the dictation .of the Populists has been distorted by the decision of the United States Supreme Court in such a way that it will absolutely protect the class of capi­ talists most offensive to the Populistic. element. Tlie landlords of the country will pay no income tax. The pwners of bonds of almost any kind, either Federal, State, county or municipal, will also be free, while the business man, the manu­ facturer and the salaried employe will, for the present at least, be compelled to contribute to the treasury of the United States Government 2 per cent, of all in­ comes in excess of $4,000 per annum. The decision of the Supreme Court is a matter of deep annoyance. Collection of the tax lias begun; the Government budget was made out with regard to the $30,000,000 or $40,000,000 expected to be derived from this source. The exemption of great fortunes and great estates, the sweeping away of a large part of the ex­ pected revenues, is bound to create a situ­ ation in the treasury that will be embar­ rassing. to say the least.-' Furt.h'er cause for dissatisfaction will be given to persons who think they see a menace to the rights of the people in the frequent interference of Federal courts in legislative concerns. It is said that one learned justice even attempted to "legislate" building associa­ tions into the act. The first meeting of the Supreme Court was held March 10, two days after the conclusion of the argument, but no de­ cision was reached, and it was not until March 30 that they succeeded in agreeing upon the outlines of a decision covering the opinion of the lower court. The court was evenly divided. Justice Jack­ son was too ill to take part. Chief Jus­ tice Fuller and Justices Field, Gray and Brewer were opposed to the law. Justices Harlan, Brown, Shiras and White voted to sustain the law. MORE STAMPS ARE SOLD. Postoflice Officials Assert that Times Are Improving. The auditor's division of the Post Office Department has just completed the settle­ ment of accounts of post offices for the last quarter of the calendar year, 1S94, and the figures, as compared with those of the same quarter, of 1803, are viewed with much satisfaction by the officials, says a Washington dispatch. The volume of business transacted by the postal ser­ vice has long been considered a reliable index of the condition of trade and com­ merce of the country. When the recent panic began to affect the business inter­ ests of the country that fact was at once shown in reduced receipts at the post of­ fices. Now Tliat the figures show an in­ crease the officials feel justified in argu­ ing that the bottom has been touched and that the country is on the upward grade. The sale of stamps for the quarter was $10,405,571. This is said to be the largest sum received from that source within the same period in the history of the pos­ tal service. The receipts for the last quarter of 1803 were $18,199,729. The following table shows the total receipts at eighteen of the principal post offices in the country for the last quarter of 1804 and 1803, respectively. In every case an increase, varying from about 2 to 10 per cent., is shown, Charleston having the smallest and Indianapolis the largest rate of increase: 1894. Atlanta $ 00,180 Baltimore .. . 1. . 222,081 Boston 700.254 Buffalo 177,1 IS Charleston Chicago Cincinnati Denver Indianapolis .... Milwaukee New Orleans . .. New York ...... Philadelphia .... Pittsburg Portland, Ore.. . San Francisco.. . St. Louis Washington, D. O 21,187 1.225.805 200,420 75,797 01.702 •• 125,775 108,292 1,880.759 734.052 175,090 41,288 208.447 402.212 134,331 1S93. 53,130 204.47-1 078.503 158,072 20,895 1,200,798 251.353 70,340 70.109 115,431 102,147 1,854,012 711,575 150.943 40,104 204,880 257.91)5 127.824 FREE PEWS Maj. Moses Austin Bryan, who died recently at Brenham, Texas, at the age of 77, was a veteran of the'Texns warrtf independence, awl--was-present at the meeting between (Jen. Houston and Santa Anna after the capture of the Mexican General at-the battle of San Jacinto. This European interference in Central and South American affairs is becoming a nuisance. It's time for Uiicle Sam to stop all debate and convince the lesser powers that they can't play in his back yard. Miss Adele M. Fielde would have only as many Chinamen come here as there are Americans going to China. A Fajjure, Because We "Smile and Arc Villains Still." It was a painful confession of the fail- ure of the free-pew system that was llitiue on Sunday in Brooklyn by the rector of St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church. After a free-pew experiment of nine years Rev; Dr. Parker admitted that he had gained a larger knowledge than he ever before possessed of the sinfulness, or we mav say the wickedness, if not even the viciousness, of some of the people who are church-goers. He declared that some of the men who occupied the free pews had no regard whatever for the moral obliga­ tions involved and seemed to him but as religious vagabonds, lie told of men who would drop a cent in the box, and of others ftvho would break their -promises, and of/more who seemed to be destitute of shame. One man, for example, who had hired a pew in another place of worship, cleared $250 a year by sub-letting it to And the Lone Limb la Mot the QritLir Reason for a Government lie ward * Either. * (I rom Journal, Lewiston. Me.) * Samuel R. Jordan has just given th© Journal an account of his life, which in view of his extremelyiiard lot for the past few years will be read with interest. "I am 48 years old and have always lived in New Portland. I enlisted in the army in 1802 as a private in Company A, Twenty-eighth Maine Volunteers. My army experience injured my health to ;ome extent, although I worked at black- smithing some part 6f the tiine, when sud­ denly, several years ago. I was pros­ trated with what able physicians pro­ nounced Locomotor Ataxia. At first I could get around somewhat yet the dis- ease progressed quite rapidly until I had hardly any feeling.jn my legs and feet, they felt like sticks of vtr6od and I grew so much worpe that I could not move for three years without help, as my neighbors and friends could testify. I employed several physicians in my vicinity, and elsewhere, and they all told me that med­ icines would not help me, that they could do nothing to effect a cure and that in time I should become entirely helpless. I became discouraged. I was a great care to my wife and friends. Shortly after I met an old army comrade, Mr. All. Par- . iin, a resident of Madison, Maine, and he incidental^ mentioned how he had tried Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for a severe case of rheumatism and a spinal and malarial trouble, that he had suffered with conse­ quent of his army life, and had been greatly benefited by their use. By his earnest recommendation I was induced to try the pil|s. After taking them for a time I began to feel prickly sensations in my legs and a return of strength so I could move them, a little. After a fesv weeks I began to feel a marked improve­ ment in my condition. I soon was ena­ bled to walk around a little with the help of crutches. After taking for some timo 1 can now walk without crutches, my general health is much improved and I have regained my old-time vigor. I can walk about and enjoy life once more, for which I feel very thankful, and this happy result is due to the use of Dr. Will­ iams' Pink Pills." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale Peo­ ple are not a patent medicine in the sense that name implies. They were first com­ pounded as a prescription and used as such in general practice by an eminent physician. So groat was their efficacy that it was deemed wise to place them within the reach of ag. They are now manufactured by the Dr. Williams' Medi­ cine Company, Schenectady, N. Y., and are f?old in boxes (never in loose form by the dozen or hundred, and the public are cautioned against numerous imitations sold in this shape) at 50 cents a box, or isix-boxes for $2.50, and may be had of all druggists or direct by mail from Dr. Williams' Medicine Company. A WAR ECHO. EVERY HONORABLE VETERAN DESERVES HI# PENSION. The shippers of Southerg California are doing a fine business now ii\ selling carloads of "Florida oranges." another party, while ,he himself took a seat in Dr. Parker's free-pew church. It was a melancholy sermon of Dr. Parker in which he announced the froe- pew failure. He spoke of another church in Brooklyn which had tested the- free- pew theory with the ro&Ut that the deficit in its treasury had to be made up by the rich members. St. George's Church, in New York, is still experimenting with the system; but he said that the shortage there was to „bc made up by the many millionaires who belong to it. He did not know of a single case in which it had been successful. After appealing to his listen­ ers to "pay up this time," lie made a startling remark: "I notice,'* he said; "that some of you smile, which reminds me that some can smile and smile aud be villains still." Dickering for a Rate. A gentleman connected with the Perth and Inverness Railway states that when that line was first opened Bome of the natives, wholly unaccus­ tomed to fixed prices, endeavored to deal with the ticket clerk as they would with a shopkeeper. "What is the price to Kingussie?" asked a countryman. "Two-and-eiglitpQnce," said the ticket clerk, brusquely. > "Two-and-eightpence?" Hecli! NeV- er! I'll give you 2 shillings." "There is no reduction. The fare is two-and-eightpence." "Make it two-and-twopence, and it's a bargain." "I tell you the fare is two-and-eight­ pence." "It's only a matter of thirty mile." "It doesn't matter what it is. That Is the fare." "I'll give you two-and-threepence." "It won't do." "Two-and-fourpence. then."" "No, nor two-and-tivepence." At two-and-sixpence he made a dead stand, and finding the clerk inexorable, he went away and waited until the tiext train, when he came back with his offer of the two-and-sixpence, in hopes of finding the clerk more accom­ modating. GERM THEORY OF DISEASE The Position It Occupies and Atten­ tion It Is Receiving from Scientific Men. The germ theory of the origin of disease is a subject which is at pres­ ent attracting the attention of scien­ tific men in all parts of the world. The chief importance of the germ the­ ory, however, is not that it shows the origin of disease but that it points out the best means to be employed to ef­ fect a cure. The germs of disease, from whatever source they come, are lodged and developed in the blood. The blood, of course, by circulating to every part of the body, is spre to scatter dis­ ease throughout the system whenever it is impure, the weakest and most sus­ ceptible parts being the first to suffer. It is because of scrofulous taints in the blood, for instance, that the skin be­ comes covered with eruptions. It is lactic acid in the blood which causes rheumatism, and it. is because the blood does not suppiy proper nourish- metit to the nerves that people suffer with nervousness. The cure for all these diseases, and of many others, can only be effected by purifying the blood, and absolutely destroying all germs of disease. No intelligent per­ son can doubt that Hood's Sarsaparilla has actually and permanently cured many thousands of cases of scrofuia, rheumatism, nervousness, 'dyspepsia and other troubles, and, as its proprie­ tors claim. It is all because this medi­ cine purifies the blood. As a matter of fact. Hood's Sarsaparilla is the only reliable blood purifier that is before the public to-day, and persons afflicted with impure blood or any of the great variety of ailments which it causes, will be most certain to find relief and cure in Hood's Sarsaparilla because it possesses this peculiar power to puri­ fy, .enrich and vitalize the blood, and destroy the germs of disease. New Styles in Beards. A new fashion in beards has been introduced by the Russian gilded youth in St. IVten-bur.v The beards are cut in eccentric style--heart-shaped, scal­ loped, saw-edged, and so on, according to the wearer's faucy. 'lickled by Royalty. Like her sister republic across the Atlantic, democratic France is only too please^ to have royalty as her guest. French journals, are recounting with pride that the Riviera has never had so many royal guests as this season. .4n Emperor, two empresses, four queens, three kings aud twenty-three royal and Imperial highnesses make-up the list. Listen not to a tale-bearer or slan­ derer, for h& tells tli^e nothing out of good will; but as he diacovereth of the secrets of others, so he will of rhine in turn.