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ILLINOIS STATE NEWS OCCURRENCES DURING THE PAST WEEK. Masonic-Charity at Peoria Inausnra- ted Under Auspicious Circumstances --Tazewell County Wife ""Murderer the Subject of a Successful Hangi ng, Masonic Charity Under Way at Peoria. President^5eo?ge~Hojviso'n, of the Ma­ sonic and Eastern Star^^Home Board, which is to erect a Masonic orphans' and widows' home near Prospect Heights, a few miles from Peoria, this year, was re­ cently in conference with the local "com­ mittee. The board has been given a tract of land yn the brow of Prospect Heights, but Mr. Howison wanted to fix on the exact location, so that it could fit in with the plans for the promised boulevard in connection with the Peoria park system. After a conference with the park board it was agreed that the home will front on the boulevard. The building will be 105x plan of. the Masonic OrpliHns ami Widows'" Home, Peoria, 111. 54 feet, two stories, with a very high base­ ment, and built of brick and stone. The building will consist of a central building with two wings. Construction will be begun as soon as the weather will permit, and the ceremony of corner stone laying will be deferred until St. John's day. .Tune 24. Soldiers' Widows' Home Opened. The Soldiers' Widows' Home of Illi­ nois. which is located on the banks of the Kankakee river at Wilmington, Will County, was formally opened the other day. This home, which is the only one of its kind, in Illinois, was purchased last December for $5,000, and it consists, of seventeen acres of ground and a two-story brick house, with eighteen rooms. Steps were taken several days ago to purchase and maintain such a home by the State, and -at the last ses­ sion of the Legisla­ ture. Senator Mun- roe succeeded in hav­ ing $20,000 appropri­ ated to purchase and maintain the home for two years. The site is one of the finest to be had in Illinois. Twenty-six applicants were re­ ceived. and tiieve is room for several more. Addresses were made by Mrs. Floni Jamison Miller, of Montieello, SenatorN George II. Muuroe of Joliet, Hon. A. B. Hallock of Peoton \ W. II. Steen of Braidwood, Rev. C. \V. Ayling of Lexington, 111., department chaplain of the G. A. It. of Illinois; Mrs. Emma Wallace and Mrs. E. Warren Da­ vidson of Chicago. Music was furnished -by rhe-AVihiiHigtmt--quartet, f APT. STEWART. SOI.DIERS AND WIDOWS' HOME, WELLING­ TON, ILL. was served by the ladies of Wilmington. The officers of the Women's State Relief Corps and many prominent people of Illinois were present. The Board of Trus­ tees are: Captain M. ,\. Stewart, presi­ dent. Wilmington; Mrs. Flora Jamison Miller: secretary, Montieello; Mrs. C. Por­ ter Johnson, treasurer, Chicago; Mrs. >1. A. Bunn, Sumner; Captain William M. Ward, Chicago. Albert Wallace Pays Penalty. Albert Wallace, the murderer of his sister. Mrs. Belle Bowlby, expiated his crime upon the gallows at Pekin Friday morning. The execution was a most suc­ cessful one. The murderer's neck was broken by the fall and he died with hardly a struggle. He made no statement and went to his death without making a con­ fession. His brute nerve did not desert him and he mounted the scaffold without a tremor. The crime for which Albert Wallace paid the penalty with his life was one of the most brutal in the annals of the county. It was a coolly planned and de­ liberately executed murder, and that only one life was taken was not the fault of Wallace, it being his evident intention to kill not only his sister, but his brother- in-law and every member of that house­ hold of six persons. The bloody deed was committed on the night of Feb. 19, 189.'). The motive can only be found in the en­ mity which Wallace bore the family on account, of his sister having been willed all their father's property. State News in Brief. Fifteen recent converts to the Baptist Church at Sparland were baptized in the Illinois river Sunday morning at Lacon. lee floated all about the candidates for religion, and after the immersion they were driven "in open carriages two miles. At Macomb, Judge Scofield set aside the verdict in the case of C. E. Farley, the Chicago detective, found guilty of kid­ naping and extorting confessions and fined $1,000. The judge continued the case un­ der the old bonds. Farley was charged with extorting confessions regarding the burning of the Fulton County court house. Saturday forenoon Mrs. Charles Davis, of Lakefork, playfully snapped a revolver at her 4-year-old son. To her horror it proved to be loaded Tho ball entered the brain above the eye Diil Taylor, Robert Taylor and wife and -another son and dalightfei- of Dill Taylor, living near Craig, were poisoned from drinking coffee. Dill Taylor is dead and the others are expected to die at any time. Two younger children drank milk instead of coffee and are not ill. The coffee grounds were thrown into the slop and seven hogs died from eating it. Where the poison came from is a mystery. Burglars entered the Virginia postoffice early Saturday morning. They blew open the safe and secured $30 in money, $45 in stamps, all the mail pouch keys and oth­ er valuables. Cairo detectives arrested Alex. Hugler, Sandy Broom, Charles Townsend and James Simmons, all colored, on many charges of burglary and highway robbery. The gang had a shanty just north of town, which was filled with the results of various robberies. For the past three months holdups have been of nightly, oc­ currence. The men arrested have all been identified by several of the victims of the lioldnps and some of the plunder was tound m the house occupied by them. While felling a tree near Milton George Richards was struck by a limb and in stautiy killed. Whit Perry's general store at Belle Plnine was entered by burglars, who pried open the safe, securing $400 in cash and notes. , Illinois authorities have offered a re­ ward of $200 for the arrest of William Yergen, who escaped from the jail at Car- linvillei after attempting to kill Barney Bradak. Ulyron Jordan, of Mokena, who was stabbed four years ago and has since been in an insane asylum from the effects, sub­ mitted to an operation in Joliet, surgeons removing a knife blade one and one-half inches long fjom his SRull. v • Christ Ivuehn, an inoffensive old man, found Tom Hatzenbuehlc^r-lyiug in the road near Sentehler. He was intoxicated. Ivuehn tried to get the drunken man home, whereupon the latter attacked him with a knife, cutting his throat in a frightful manner. Ivuehn is still alive, but little hope for his recovery is entertained. Hat- zenbuehler is in jail. A long list of misdeeds lately perpetrat­ ed in the vicinity of Alton by tramps cul­ minated "Tuesday afternoon in the arrest of Frank St. Clair and George Lochinger, under a charge made by the. coroner's jury of having murdered Peter Digriau, of St. Louis, Dignan and a, companion wfent to Alton Monday to look for work and at a late hour the former was found horribly mangled by a freight train on the levee. It was thought to have been ah'accident until the jury investigations proved that he had been murdered for money and the body thus mutilated'to* avoid suspicion. , William Grass died at the-Shelby Coun­ ty poor house Tuesday, .where he had been aiv inmate of the insane department •for- twelve years. Grass, with his .broth­ er Philip. Joseph Meyers and "Hubbard Holder, were convicted * of the murder April 12. 1808. of Plassiba Calhoun, a guard on the Illinois Central lands south of Paua. Meyers was hanged July 29, 1870. Holder's death sentence was com­ muted to life imprisonment, he dying at Joliet after serving three years. Philip and William Grass were given life terms at Joliet, where Philip died. William, who was becoming insane, was transfer­ red to the county poorhouse, where he died. Francis Murphy, the noted temperance orator,, and his brother, have been en­ gaged by the Rockford Civic Federation to conduct a campaign of a week against the saloons in Rockford. The municipal election takes place April 21 this year and the no-license people assert that the Inspect of carrying tho city has not been so bright in years. Many license. people also agree' to this proposition, complica­ tions in the aldernianic fight in several of the wards having arisen which may cause, a tie in the Council, and in this event Mayor Brown, who has always been a no-license advocate, would vote in favor of closing the saloons for the coining year. The revenue derived by the city from this source is now $30,000 a year. Mrs. Sophia Klamfoth. of Evanston, is 102 years old. and her birthday was cele­ brated the other day by a family gather­ ing at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John Alirnes, at Lee street and Wesley avenue, Evanston. Mrs. Alirnes is 72 years old, and her husband 71. Mrs. Klamfoth spryly walked about the housfc, using only a cane. She sayAjdiaJ»Lsu4wveF used spectacles and is in good health. Mrs. Ivlamfoth has three children--Mrs. Alirnes and Chris and Charles Ivlamfoth. She has forty-two great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandcliildren. She was born in Germany in 1794, and came to this country forty-four years ago, living in New Orleans ten years. The Klamfoth family then removed to Nlles Center and lived there twenty-four years, after which they came to Evanston. The Peoria fire bell was clanging al­ most incessantly between midnight and 2 o'clock Wednesday morning. Five alarms were turned in. The fires were all of mysterious origin, and it is supposed that some one starting from Apple street walk­ ed up the railroad tracks, leaving a trail of fire behind him. The first fire was in the Hutchinson cooperate works, the largest plant of the kind in the city. The tire started near the engine room and had secured considerable headway when dis­ covered. The rear portion of the building was badly damaged. The watchman says he was all through that portion of the building only a short time before the fire and everything was then safe and secure. The engines had scarcely returned to their quarters when two alarms called them to the Manhattan distillery, where an im­ mense hay stack was in flames and threat­ ening destruction to the distillery and the other immense stacks. The hay was all baled, and it was a hard fight the firemen had. They had just got the better of this fire when a few blocks away from them, at the cooperage works of Madigan, Walsh & Co. flames were seen tp burst, and two more alarms came in rapid suc­ cession. The fire here had a big start be­ fore discovery, and the forces had to be divided. The cooperage works were prac­ tically destroyed. A few years ago this was a favorite section for incendiaries, and tires were of almost nightly occur­ rence there. Thousands of dollars' worth of property were annually burned up in this way. Detective McCarthy, of Chicago, went on the invitation of Chief Bargren, of Rockford, to inspect the four prisoners in jail suspected of robbing State's Attorney Josl.vn. of Elgin, W, Clendennin, of Au­ rora, and F. H. Marsh, of Rockford, of $200 at the Nelson Hotel. When the de­ tective saw the men, who up to that time had refused to give their names, there was a mutual recognition and the prisoners weakened. The officer identified them as .Tames Fernell, a notorious crook: Ed Gibbs, with many aliases, who has served in jails all over the country, and Joe Burke and James Burke, two well-known Chicago pickpockets, who have only been out of the bridewell two weeks. The pictures of all four can be found in any rogue's gallery, and the records of the men and general circumstances make it more than likely that a case will be found against them. The Rev. F. A. Johnson, of Marquette, Mich., lias been called to the pulpit of Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Rockford. Prof. C. A. Wendell, who has been in charge, is to return to Augustana Col­ lege. After a legal fight of nearly four years between the city of Cairo and the Illinois Central Railroad Company, in which it was sought to compel the railroad to run all trains into totvn instead of connecting by a "bobtail" at Bridge Junction, the Central has finally capitulated, and on Sunday commenced running, all passenger trains into the city. The case of William Bolin, of Arthur, who was accidentally shot by his brother \ through the base of the brain, is .attract­ ing much attention among the" medical profession there. He is living with a part of his brain oozing out. The doctors now claim there is a fair chance for his ulti­ mate recovery. A curfew knell will again be sounded in Lincoln, and any children fo.und running at large after 9 p. m. will be taken in hand by the night police. The "kid whistle" vyill be blown at »:30 as a warning. When used before it proved effectual for a time, as there, was always a general scamper when it sounded of any who were outside the parental roof; OUR LiURGEft EXPORTS ANALYSIS OF DEMOCRATIC FOR­ EIGN TRADE STATEMENTS. No Gain to American Labor Through Greater Values--Increased Profits Only of American Oil Trust--Why Omit Reference to Flour Shipments? Labor Has Suffered. s - Free-traders have been very joyful over an increase in our exports of American manufactured goods. As long as this is not brought about by the sacrifice of our home market it is, indeed, an encouraging sign. Last year, 1895, we sold in foreign countries $23,- 351, S02 more of our manufactures than in 1894. This includes an increase ol' $14,249,971 in our exports of mineral oil, refined or manufactured, leaving only $9,101,831 of increase for all other manufactures exported. But the larger value Qf our mineral oil exports has been of no value to American labor because it represented shipments of 42,114,075 gallons less oil in 1895 than in 1894. The refining -or man ufactur- iug of 42,000,000 gallons less oil for ex­ port has deprived labor of'work- The increase in valiie merely represents an .increase in the profits of the oil com­ bine, which advanced the price of oil so sharply last year. It did no good to American labor. Our labor suffered through having less . oil to refine or manufacture, and our labor also suf­ fered through having to pay more money for oil when earning lower wages. Excepting the oil exports, we have $9,101,831 ftorth more of American manufactures shipped abroad last year thau in 1894. Against this we must set the increase in our imports of for­ eign manufactures, thus leaving the following exhibit: Exports of manufactures; Tatal increase, 1S95 over 1894 $23,351,802 Mineral oil, refined or manu­ factured, decrease in quan­ tity, gals .'.42,114,075 Increase in value *. 14,249,971 $9,101,831 92,013,090 United States, the most common prod­ ucts of our farms, were of the value of $107,342,522. During the last year of ,the McKinley law the imports of the same farm products were of the value of $51,414,844. So under the Wilson law the imports of agricultural prod­ ucts, which we produced-in the great­ est abundance.were doubled in amount as compare^ with the amount imported under the McKinley law.--Hon. John Sherman. , How Immigrants Arrive. I have talked to hundreds of people from Ireland, fr6m Scotland, from Den­ mark, from Germany, from the moun­ tains of Norway and Sweden, and they all tell me that-a day's work in the United States goes further than any­ where else in the world toward putting a roof over the head of a family, paint on a cottage, music in the parlor, news­ papers oh the stand, carpets on the floor, dishes on the table, something to eat in the dishes, and the divine light of love and joy in the sweet faces of wife and children. , They have come into my office again and again, husband and wife together, speaking in broken English the lan­ guage of the thriftiest countries in Europe, to ask my help and advice in mailing a little American money to the old world for father or mother or broth­ er or sister or sweetheart, living' in lands where, the labor of a lifetime is not enough, after paying daily ex­ penses, to pay their-'passage upon an ocean steamer. J have seen their tears falling upon the paper as they wrote out their message of hope and courage from the only country on earth where life is lifted above the level of hopeless drudgery for the poor.--Hon. .1. 1'. T)ol- liver, M. C., of Iowa. IN THE CASE OF WAR. I89^f " c<>ieni?5 ^ I89S Sooifyllicn Dollars $001,616,638- Increase in all other manu­ factured exports Increase in all manufactured imports -^^-rTT-I-rTTTVTTT Net loss to the United . States $S3,511,259 If it is advantageous to us to increase our exports by $9,101,831, it must be correspondingly more advantageous to the foregn countries that increased their exports by $92,013,090. Deduct­ ing our small gain from their greater gain leaves a net loss of $83,511,2^9^t<f' our manufacturers through the capture/ of our markets by foreigners, over and above the amount of their markets that we captured. It should be noted that our manufac­ tured exports do not include such a product, .as flour, which is--certainly equally as much a "manufacture" as oil. In 1894 we exported flour worth $58,924,706, but in 1895 only $50,292,- 880, a decrease of $S,631,820. Had this manufactured product been included in the Democratic treasury statement our total excess of exports last year would have dwindled down to $470,011. as compared with increased imports of manufactures worth $92,613,090. It is just as well to be more thoroughly ex­ planatory than the free-traders are --ISO 1S0- 100 IfitlitoirflallafS [^$676,312,<Ml -6S0 '600 ITfitlioifflollars 650-- S50- 500Tllilfioti Oollars Senator Thurston for Americana. There are thousands who insist that the tariff question has been perman­ ently settled; that the Wilson bill will be permitted to stand; but the Repub­ lican party has never consented to the settlement of any great question until it has been settled right. The Republi­ can party will never consent to the set­ tlement of the tariff question until ev­ ery American factory is reopened; until every American water wheel is once more turning; until every American spindle is again set to singing the song of American prosperity; until every American man can find re-employment at a decent wage; until every American product can be sold in the American market for a decent price; until every American home is once more filled with the comforts of life; until every fire is relighted on the blackened hearth­ stones of our people; until every Amer­ ican woman is once more decently clad; until the tears of hunger are wiped from the eyes of every American child; until the old tin dinner pail is taken down from the shelf and proud­ ly borne to daily labor by every Amer­ ican workingman, in whose sturdy hand it remains the badge of America's truest nobility.--Hon. John M. Thurs­ ton. Losses in Live Stock Since '92. Animals. Per head. Total loss. Sheep $0 80 $50,953,535 Swine 0 25 54,501,670 Milch cows *1 15 *12,577,413 Oxen and other cattle *0 70 61,820,739 Horses 32 94 507,453,450 Mules 30 26 71,677,613 Net annual loss $733,829,594 * Increase. This exhibit of the losses in the an­ nual value of live stock on our farms is startling. Live stock that was worth nearly two and a half billions of dol­ lars on January 1, 1892, in the good times of McKinley and protection, was worth $733,829,594 less money to the farmers exactly four years later, after three years' experience with a Demo­ cratic administration. Every farmer in every section of the country, while studying the low value of his live stock, should determine to restore the policy of protection and prosperity for the American farmer by voting for protec­ tion candidates for Congress and the i Republican candidate for the office of President. Freight Rates on Wool. The advantages which the Australian wool growers have over those of cue Pacific States and Territories in the one matter of freight rates places L-ie hitter at the mercy of the former in the markets of Boston and other East­ ern cities. Wool is shipped from Au­ stralasia to Boston, including freight, commissions, and all other charges of handling and transportation, for 1 cent per pound, while freight rates alone from most of the shipping depots west of the Rocky Mountains range from 1.3 to 2.5 cents per pound, but this does not include the cost of transportation and charges connected therewith in getting wool from the sheep ranches to the railroad and water depots, to say nothing of commissions which in­ variably attach to the shipper l>ofore his product reaches the manufacturer. --Hon. John II. Mitchell, U. S. S., of Oregon. , r\J Labor and Capital. Thousands of workingmen find them­ selves without employment or deprived of a full day's wages; capital lies idle, consumption of all commodities dimin­ ishes by reason of a shrinkage of pur­ chasing power, and the country is in danger of another business crisis.--New York Press. What Europe Gained. Value for year ending June 30, 1894 Dec. 31. 1895. With United Last McKinley First Gor- States. year. man year. Purchases .. ..$700,870,822 $634,503,492 Sales 295,077,865 431,514,024 Balance .. .$405,792,957 $202,9S9,40S Europe's increased sales.. . .$136,436,159 Europe's decreased purchases 66,367,330 Europe's total gain in one year , $202,803,489 "If we do not buy, we cannot sell." lEIow about this? « Senator Sherman Sound. During, the first year of the Wilson law the agricultural imports, all of Which are such as are produced in the Just the Difference. A Democratic tariff encourages the foreign shop and discourages the do­ mestic shop. A Democratic revenue tariff builds up the foreign factory and dismantles the American factory. But the Republican party is for the Anier?, ican workingman.--Hon. Win. McKin­ ley. Great Opportunity. One disadvantage of too "goody" books for children is that even the en­ thusiastic reader is prone to mistake the moral. Mrs. Stanley, the mother of Dean Stanley, wrote a friend, while Arthur was a very little boy, that lie was reading Miss Edgeworth's "Frank," with the greatest eagerness. Yet his moral deductions therefrom did not seem to be altogether sound. One day, as his mother was dressing, she heard him playing with the other children in the passage outside. Sud­ denly there came a great crash, which turned out to be from Arthur's running very fast, not stopping himself in time, and falling against a window so as to break three panes. He was not hurt, but one of the children began remon­ strating "with him on the crime of breaking windows, to which he answer­ ed, with great composure: "Yes, but you know Frank's mother said she would rather have all the win­ dows in the house broken than that Frank should tell a lie. So now I can go and tell mamma, and then I shall be like Frank!" When the children entered the room after dinner, according to custom, Ar­ thur came first, his cheeks bright red and his manner full of excitement. "Mamma," he cried, as soon as the door opened, "I have broken three panes of glass in the passage window, and I tell you now 'cause I was afraid I'd forget!" His mother says it was very evident that he gloried in the opportunity for dramatic confession, but nevertheless, she owns, it is always something of an effort to "tell," and one need not regret that the humiliation has some natural reward. TROOPS AVAILABLE IN • r VARIOUS STATES. THE Investigation of the Organized Militia <ff the United States Shows There Are 0,467,694 Soldiers Available When Needed. Uncle Sam Counts Warriors. According to a report on the organized militia of the United States, which has just Jbeen prepared by the. War Depart­ ment, the United States, in case of need, can put 9,467,694 men in the field. Copies of the publication are as scarce as the pro­ verbial hen's teeth. The public printer has furnished the War Department with only half a dozen copies, and these have been given to the President, the Secretary of War, the Assistant Secretary of War and the general commanding the army. At the close of the year 1895 every State and territory, with the exception of Indian territory and Alaska, had an or­ ganized national guard. ' The total force of the militia number 115,669, of which 102,604 composed the infantry arm, 5,215 the cavalry, 5,267 the artillery, 649 special corps and 1,443 generals and staff officers. In nm&y of the States last year camps were held, and the attendance upon these, occasions ranged from 55 per cent in Mis­ sissippi to 95 per cent in Vermont. The total appropriation allowed'tlie' militia by the Government amounted to $400,000, while the. States during, the saiAe period spent $2,834,974 ,On these organizations. It Ms estimated that mobilization of the militia cmild be effected in the different States and territories in from three hours in the District of Columbia to seventy- two hours in Oregon, other State organ­ izations assembling between these two pe­ riods. New York is far in the lead in the num­ ber of men enlisted in the national guard, its strength amounting to 12,901 officers and enlisted men. Pennsylvania is sec­ ond, with 8,482;<M3hio third, with 6.493; Illinois, 6,226; South Carolina, 5.711; Massachusetts, 5,344; California, 4,364; Georgia, 4,355; New Jersey, 3,938; Alaba­ ma, 3,120; Indiana, 3,026; Virginia, 3,006; Texas, 3,000; Michigan, 2,875; Connecti­ cut, 2,740; Wisconsin, 2,640; Iowa, 2,398; Missouri, 2,107.; Minnesota, 2,027: Mary­ land, 1,S85; Louisiana, 1,S83; Kansas, 1,- S15; Mississippi, 1,695; Oregon, 1,530; District of Columbia, 1,471; Kentucky, 1,469; North Carolina, 1,403; Tennessee, 1,389; New Hampshire, 1,380; Maine, ~1t33< ; Washington, 1,184; Nebraska, J,- 137; Florida, 1.0S8; Utah, 1,003; Rhode Island, 979; Arkansas, 974; West Vir­ ginia,, 845; Colorado, 833; Vermont, 800; South Dakota, 798; Idaho, 535; North Da­ kota, 525; Montana, 510; Arizona, 500; New Mexico, 470; Wyoming, 450; Nevada, 439; Delaware, 427, and Oklahoma, 153. It is estimated in this publication that in case of necessity, Illinois could place 852,625 in the field; Pennsylvania comes next with 771,874, and Ohio third with 650,000; New York, 560,000; Indiana, 481,192; Kentucky, 361,137; Missouri, 350,000; Massachusetts, 339,391; Wiscon­ sin, 306,343; Texas, 300,000; Virginia, 295,440; New Jersey, 284,887; Georgia, 264,071; Michigan, 2(50,000; Iowa, 245,- 899; North Carolina, 240,000; Mississippi, -22S.7P0; Mnrylind. 205.816: Arkansas, 205,000, and the remainder of the States below 200,000 each. In about two-thirds of the States, the publication says, the militia is armed with the Springfield rifle and carbine of various patterns. A number of the artillery mili­ tia regiments are provided with Catling guns and 3.2-inch breech-loading rilles, but a large proportion of the artillery arm­ ament consists of 12-pounder Napoleons, 3-inch muzzle-loading rifles, Parrot rilles and other obsolete ordnance. The aggregate of small arms ammuni­ tion held in reserve in addition to that in the hands of the troops is not far from 3,000,000 rounds. States having Catling gun batteries keep on hand a limited sup­ ply of ammunition for these guns. The supply for field guns is very limited, and the quality by no means the best. fffrr rrrr IN THE DEEP SEA. Stevenson Tells of the Forms of .Life Fouhd There. A further installment of letters writ­ ten from Samoa by Robert Louis Ste­ venson to his ward are pi»nted in St Nicholas: Following is an extract from one:: ' I read, the other day something that I thought would interest so great a sea bather as yourself. You know that the fishes that we see, and catch, go only a certain way down into-tbe sea. Below a certain depth there is no life at all. The water is as empty as the air is above a certain height. Even the shells of dead fishes that come down there are crushed into nothing by the huge weight of the water. Lower still, in the places where the sea is profoundly deep, it appears that' life begins again. People fish up in dredging buckets loose rags and tatters of creatures that hang together all right down* there with the great weight holding them in one, but .tome all to pieces as they are hauled up. Just what they look like, just what they do or feed upon, we shall never find outT Only that we have some.flinisy fellow- creatures down in the very bottom of the deep seas, and cannot get them up except in tatters. It must be pretty dark where they live, and there are no plants or weeds, find no fish come down there, or drown­ ed sailors either, from the upper parts, because these a re .all mashed to pieces !>y the great weight long before they pot so far, or else come to a place where perhaps they float. But I dare say a rannon sometimes comes careering sol­ emnly down, and circling about like a dead leaf or thistledown; and then the ragged fellows go and play about the cannon and tell themselves all kinds of stories about the fish higher up aud their iron houses, and perhaps go inside and sleep, and perhaps dream of it all like their betters. Of course you know a cannon down there would be quite light. Even in Shallow water, where men go down with a diving dress, they grow so light that they have to hang weights about their necks, and have their boots loaded with twenty pounds of lead--as I know to my sorrow. And with all this, and the helmet, which is heavy enough of it­ self to anyone up here in the thin air, they are carried about like gossamers, and have to take every kind of care not to be upset and stood upon their'heads. I went down once in the dress, and speak from experience. But if we could get down for a moment near where the fishes are, we should be in a tight place. Suppose the water not to crush us (which It would), we should pitch about in every kind of direction; every step we took would carry us as far as if we had seven-league boots; and we should keep flying head over heels, and top over bottom, like the liveliest clowns in the world. MILITIA ON GUARD. KENTUCKY'S CAPITOL SUR­ ROUNDED BY SOLDIERS. Martial Law Declared in the Capital City of Kentucky--JRiyt Alarm la Sounded by the Ringing; of Bells- Excitement Runs High. AVithin a week or two work will be be­ gun upon the monument which is to mark the birthplace of George Washington at Wakefield, Westmoreland County, Va. Mrs. Abigail Ivnapp Ilolnian, the wife of ex-Representative William S. Hohnan, of Indiana, died suddenly. Mr. Ilolman was with her at the time. The remains were taken to Aurora, Ind., for interment The bill introduced by Mr. Brossius, of Pennsylvania, to authorize the establish- ment^of national banks in small cities was ordered to be favorably reported by the House Committee on Banking and Currency. The Secretary of the Interior Wednes­ day made a requisition on the treasury for $10,190,000 for pension payments, as follows: Buffalo, $1,665,000; Chicago, $2,375,000; Concord, $700,000; Des Moines, $1,950,000; Milwaukee, $1,750,- 000; Pittsburg, $1,550,000; Washington, $100,000; Indianapolis, $100,000. The Nicaraguan canal bill was agreed upon by the sub-committee which has been at work on it for several weeks. The bill provides for the reorganization of the Maritime Canal Company, the payment of all its debts, the selection of a bdard of fifteen directors, ten of them named by the United States, three by the canal company and one each by Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Will Take Caro of Our Own. -He that hath not a smiling face should not open a shop.--Chinese. Senator Davis--You fellows can scram­ ble for the eastern half, but we'll take care of this half.--Cincinnati Post. Sparks from' the Wires. The Solar iron works of William Clark's Sons, of Pittsburg, Pa., have been closed on executions aggregating $629,425. The tug Mascot, which left Baltimore last November, has been lost with its crew of eight men, all residents of Bal­ timore. The Angora cotton and woolen ihiils of Robett Callahan, Philadelphia, have been seized on execution. Liabilities, §450,000; assets, $550,000. Bildad's SleiKh-llide. „ There once lived in Vermont a young man who was not much more than half- witted, but who, like many other peo­ ple who are lacking in intelligence, al­ ways wanted to do just as other and more gifted people do. In the town where he ran his ambitious career, "Bildad's sleigli-ride" is still a synonym for an enterprise that depends largely on the resources of others. One winter when the sleighing was good, and all the young swains of the town were taking their young lady friends to ride, Bildad was impressed with the desirability of organizing an expedition of this sort on his own ac­ count. But he had no "rig," and no money to hire one with. Nevertheless he came one afternoon to a worthy young lady of his neighbor­ hood and asked her to go sleigh-riding that evening. "But, Bildad," she said, "you haven't got any horse." "John Miles, he's promised to lend me his'n." "Why, John hasn't got any harness." "Pete Corliss' goin' to let me take his'n." "What are you going to do for a sleigh V" "Mrs. Beals, she said I could take her'n." "You can't go sleighing without a string of bells." "Nathan Page's goin' to let me take his string." "You've got to have a buffalo robe." "John Currier, he said he'd jest as lives I'd have his old one; and by gorry, I c'n cut a whip myself!" The young lady said that under the circumstances she guessed he would have to borrow some other girl. Never­ theless, he persisted in his search for a partner until he actually found one, and went on the sleigh-ride in fine style. Some years after this occurrence Bil­ dad came late to an engagement to do a job of work, and was asked the rea­ son for his tardiness. "Huh!" he answered, with a smirk, "I've been gettin' merried this morn- in* !"• ' "Married! you, Bildad! Why ,you can't support yourself!" "Well." said Bildad, "I c'n purty near support myself, and I think she ought to help some!" Mystery of a Shoe Store. A Boston man tells of a servant girl in his family who recently purchased a pair of rubbers at a bid department store, and, having taken them home, was astonished to find in the toe a pay envelope contaia^ng $7. The name was traced to an East Boston corporation, but they said the man had not worked for them for eight years. How did the money get into the rubbers? My friend had an ingenious theory that the wife of the laborer purchased the pair of rubbers and tucked the envelope into the toe for safekeeping. Afterward she must have concluded that the rub­ bers did not fit, and forgetting all about the pay envelope returned them to the store, where by some chance or other they remained unsold for eight years. This is certainly a clever ex­ planation and for,want of a better I will accept it. The laborer, by the way, cannot be found. "I can overlook his past," sighed the grieved and mortified young woman, after a careful inspection (of the ring she had just received from her lover, "but I am bitterly disappointed with his present." The diamond was paste. --Chicago Tribune. •. - To Protect Leeistatorii In Frankfort, Ky., the riot bell rang from the fire engine houses at 11 o'clock Sunday night, and at the same moment Gov. Bradley order­ ed out the militia. Ten minutes later the McCreary guard, fifty strong, Capt. Noel Gaines, were in possession of the State House, and martial law was pro­ claimed. Until that time Gov. Bradley had persistently re­ fused to call out the GOV. BKADLKY. militia, though urged to do, so by the citizens irrespective of party. The Blackburn leaders, he was in­ formed, had been preparing all duy to take forcible possession of the - State House. Threats were made that the Senate would arrest the Governor for nsupati'pn. of au­ thority in giving-the instructions he gate,//§/{,» ,iv to. the sheriff WlMm Franklin County tp ' iL^wSl*illll• "clear the corridors and cloak-rooms. A11 trains brought: re-enforcements for the men bent on mis­ chief. It was only SENATOR WALTOX. at the last moment,- [Expelled.] when the presence of these ci'owds pre­ saged serious danger, that the Governor yielded to repeated requests of orderly citizens of both parties and called out the militia. Sergeant-nt-arms Somers had sworn in Jack Chinu, Jim Williams, Eph Lillard and other alleged desperate men as his deputies. It was also reported to the Gov- ernoi* by numerous affidavits that armed men had been col­ lect in the capital for two or three days with a view of tak­ ing charge of the joint assembly Mon­ day. A company from Lexington and the Louisville Le­ gion, 300 strong, arrived early Monday morning, Gen. Collier in command. State House Under Guard. Guards surround the State House and permit no one but State officers, Senators, Representatives and others having a con­ stitutional right to pass. Senator Brons- ton came into the Governor's office aud asked why he was debarred from the State House, who was the peace officer of the State, and why the militia had been ordered out. He then told the Governor he could see affida­ vits that would be filed in the Senate Monday.--This evi­ dently referred to an effort to impeach Gov. Rradley by the Senate, which had been threatened all Sunday. Bradley, in an in­ terview, said in ex­ planation of his action that the presiding officers of both housesjhad called upon him for protection and that he had called on the Mayor to give it. He learned after­ ward from the sheriff that the Mayor's police had been insufficient, and had done nothing to remove the disturbing element. "The authorities are powerless, over­ awed or unwilling to act, and unless.I interfere to protect the General Assembly legislative action will be prevented, riot and bloodshed will follow and the security of the lives of citizens and officers of the commonwealth requires action on my part. Under these circumstances," .he said, "I feel that I cannot allow such a state of things to continue, and there­ fore called-out the State guard.' MOSES KATTFMAX. [Unseated.] # SENATOR ,T. C. S. BLACKBURN". TO AWAIT CHRIST'S COMING. A Party of American Relicionists Set Out for the Holy Land. 4 An agriculturist paper has an article on kicking cows. A man who is mean enough to go around kicking cows with­ out just provocation, Isn't too good for biting horses. There left the shores of this country a few days ago seventy-two pilgrims, who will spend the remainder of their days in the Holy Land. The party after reaching Liverpool will journey by water to Joppa and thence to Jerusalem by rail, which place they expect-to reach about the mid­ dle of April. , The colony is composed largely of Chicago people, but there are some among them from various other places. Moved by a sense of duty* tfo sac­ rifice their property, their farms and their business, they will live the remainder of their days surrounded by the scenery that greeted the eyes of the earliest Christians. These people have no creed but the Bible, and interpret that according to their un­ derstanding. They have no occupations in that coun­ try, but trus.t that the Lord somehow will provide for them. They expect to teach the spirit of the Bible, lend a helping hand to those who are in need, relieve the poor, nurse the sick, and do various other things. They are imbued with the idea that startling developments will soon oc­ cur in and about the Holy City. They will encamp, as it were, on the walls of Jerusalem, aud wait for the Saviour and His second coming. The origin of .the movement reaches back more than fifteen years, when Mrs. Anna Spafford. her husband and ten oth­ er adults with a number of children, em­ barked for Jerusalem. Mr. Spafford died there seven years ago from the maladies peculiar to that region. Part of the col­ ony returned to this country two years ago, and Mrs. Spafford followed six months later. Mrs. Spafford is the leader of the present party. & Telegraphic Brevities. Eight hundred painters went out on strike in San Francisco for an increase of 50 cents a day, making their wagea.?3. Before the Reichstag budget committee Admiral Hollman deprecated the reckless agitation for a big navy. Germany, he thought, would never.be strong enough to rival Great Britain or France, but she must be strong enough to command the Baltic in time of war. „ The espionage trial at Leipsic, which has attracted much attention, was ended with the sentencing of Schoren. a Lux- emberger. and the chief defendant, to sev­ en years1 imprisonment. Pfeiffer was sentenced to two years, and Ringbauer to one year's imprisonment. (Margaret Henry was sent to the county jail for three months at Camden, N. J., having been convicted of the charge of being a common scold. Margaret's repu­ tation as a talker was such that the court, decided to make her sentence a severe, one. This conviction was found .under the provisions'of an old law. Gen. Booth of the Salvation army ar­ rived in London unexpectedly. He came overland from, Brindsi in response to ur­ gent appeals from. headquarters for his advice regarding the American situation., The general did not go to headquarters, but was closeted with Bramwell Booth.