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mmm 3:5 m «SSV k5f. 5> * *• Ml. FREllHfiHUYSEM DEM. body who OOB use it for his proached every has been ap friend OTI tin It® as ap- r who at his a" shall fee selected CAUGHT IN A TEAK I. VM SUKC. Ifftrnt PsMlrtt. F MCHENKT, ILIilNOia ap Miss DBMSX M. ALKOTT, the author­ ess, has arcmsed the wrath of all New England searchers after the unknow­ able, unutterable, and unintelligible by declaring that so-called mind-cure, of which she gave faithful trial for a fall month, is an unmitigated and unadul­ terated huitbug. CORPORAL TANNER said in a recent speech that when he was sick in hos­ pital near Alexandria, a woman with a bundle on her arm came up to the bed where he was lying unable to move, and treated liim, not to • dolicacy that lie was anticipating, but to a tract on the evils of dancing. The cordial had lost both legs. "PRAT, what do ladies think ABONT besides dress and parties ?"' said a fine- looking army officer who had been do­ it g guard duty in Washington for the past seventeen years. The remark- was addressed to the assembly, but it was taken up by Miss Cleveland. "They can think of the heroic deeds of our modern nrrny officers," she said, smil­ ing pleasantly. The officer subsided. THROUGH consolidations and combi­ nations the match supply of the Pacific coast is now in the hands of a mo­ nopoly, a by no means hai'd fact, for matches are now sold by the Califor­ nia company at 25 cents a gross, which . is lower than they can be bought in Sweden, formerly the cheapest match market in the world. The Pacific coast prices are one-third less than those of eastern makers, as match­ wood is cheaper and the other material can all be obtained at the same rate at which it is purchased in the Atlantic States, while labor is no higher. THE news of Gen. Gordon's death at the hands of the Mehdi's troops h«s called forth deep and sincere regret among the Mohammedans at Mecca. He was the only Christian for whom, in return for his kindness toward the Soudan population, prayers were of­ fered once a year during the great pil­ grimage week. The Medhi has thus lost his hold somewhat on the sympa­ thies of the Meoca population, and is much less popular than he was, as let­ ters srom Khartoum prove. They say that he quietly looked on while many Mohammedans were massacred for hav­ ing faithfully adhered to the Khedive. QUEEN VICTORIA fulfills the biblical description of taking up her bed and walking when she changes her resi­ dence. It appears the Queen always sleeps in a wooden bed of a particular shape and made up in a special way, and whenever her majesty goes to a strange place a bed and its furniture are dispatched fiom Windsor for her use. 1?wo were sent off a couple of weeks since from the workshop of the castle, the one for the Queen's cabin in the steam yacht Victoria and Albert, and the other has gone to Aix-les BainB. There is already one of the Queen's beds at Damstadt. It was sent out when she went there last year. MRS. CUSTER has sen^ to the soldiers' festival at Bostoncfhe Hag of truce sent by General Lee to General Grant at Appomatox. CoL Sims, of Long- street's staff, who carried the flag to the Federal lines, in a letter to Mrs. Custer, wrote: "On the morning of the surrender I rode into the Federal lines, bearing a message from Gen. Gordon to Gen. Sheridan. I used a white tow­ el which I had in my possession. Ow­ ing to the scarcity of such luxuries, I bad paid for it $40 in Confederate money, though I had little idea at the time that it would eventually serve the purpose it did. I was met by a Lieu­ tenant Colcnel of the cavalry, who took me to Gen. Custer." v IT is said that a winter in Washing- ion makes a person dissatisfied with •the society of every other city in the country, since in them the clubs are in possession of young insurance agents, stock brokers, and business men. As the Atlanta Constitution puts it: "Old men are rated stupid; literary and Intellectual men are put down as nui­ sances. In general society it is worse. Men and women over 30 are left in the corners. The young dancing dndes and the budding debutantes run every­ thing. But in Washington the literary people, statesmen, travelers and scien­ tists are strong enough to give tone to society. Ton meet them everywhere. It is refreshing to find one city in the land where men of brains and position cannot be driven to the wall by long- legged dudes and young girls jnst from the dancing-schools. * THE Chicago News tells this story «f a boy and a pin: A large man stood in front of a high fence on Chicago street. There was a hole in the fence also, and two boys stood on the oppo­ site side from the man. They had a stick, and fastened to the stick was a pin. It was very simple^ The stick was pushed through the hole and the man jumped in agony. The pin had penetrated deeply. The boys laughed and the man heard them. Thirty sec­ onds later they were crying and the im­ pression of a man's hand was on their faces. To-day, the big man, who gave the name of John Hughes, stood before Justice Kersten. "We was only in inn," said one of the small boys. "It was only a joke, and he jumped over the fence and assaulted us." "A big man like dat ought ter take a joke," broke in the second prosecutor. "The prisoner is dismissed," said the Court, after he had listened to the facts. "The assault was first made by the boys With the pin." ISAAC W. ENGLAND, business manager of the New York Sun, who died re­ cently in New York, was one of the J>est exampleŝ of suooess von from w 4"' . •„v' « and Beverage*. About thirty years ago he migfct barre been seen, a . slight, pnle young man, with long, curling, reddish hair, idling about the farm of Ephraim Pearce, an Englishman from Bath. En­ gland, who had settled in St. Clair County, Michigan. The two had come from the old country about the same time, and England, working hard in the East at the trade of book-biading, managed to get away occasionally to the Michigan backwoods to find rest and recreation in the company of his old friend. They would compare pro­ gress and make plans together, then England would go back to New York and Pearce would go on with his plow­ ing. Pearce was the richer of the two then, and bad apparently the better prospect. He is still a prosperous farmer, worth, perhaps, $10,000, while England's estate would probably make such a sum seem trifling. The farm life proved at least less wearing th^n that of the pul^ishcr. x MR. CONANT, the editor of Harper's Weekly has not appeared, writes Gath, and they believe in the establishment that be had a sudden softening of the bruin, and when in that irresponsible position destroyed himself, probably by drowning. They think that when the weather clears up his body will be found somewhere in the waters of New , York. These cases of sudden softening of the brain are seldona in the press, and every newspaperman or writer pushing his mind too hard is liable at some sudden moment to fina\the mind departed like the frost from soh^e cranium of snow, which suddenly tutfis to water and evaporates. I was ibid by a hotel keeper that Mrs. Burnetvfrho wrote a number of novels, has been lately ailing from having pushed her nervous struc­ ture too much. I know of two newspa­ per men in New York State, both of ap­ parently fine health, who lost their brains by a sort of softening, and they have been unable to work one day Bince. One of them wa9 sitting at his desk when, in the twinkle of an eye, the mental thing flew cut of his head like the strings in a piano. , ?" "'.'jr ^ -- . •' H % r t THE Tennessee Legislature has passed over the Governor's veto the bill repealing the Railroad Commission act of 1883 l»v a vote of twenty-two to ten in the Senate and fifty-eight to I thirty-six in the House. The Tennes­ see Commissioners tfere enjoined about a year since by the United States Court from enforcing their schedules and rates upon certain roads in the State, and the law has been pratic&lly inoperative since. The matter assumed a political aspect, and at the election last fall the people refused to vote for the Democratic candidates for , Com­ missioners, and elected the Republican Commissioners, who had pledged them­ selves not to serve if elected The rest of the Democratic ticket was elected. This was construed as a desire on the part of the people fcr the repeal of the act, and a bill was introduced in the Senate in February repealing it. The press of the State has been generally in favor of the repeal and against any Railroad Commission law at all. The enjoined Commissioners have been en­ titled to their salaries from the £»tate, although performing no service. Population of China. The vexed question of the extent of the population of China seems to have been pretty definitly settled by Sir Richard Temple, the eminent English geographer and scholar, in a lecture re­ cently delivered by him before the Statistical Society of London, The number last published by the Govern­ ment was about 350,000,000, but the in­ accuracy of its census is shown by the constant variance in its reports, its previous census being no less than 463,- 000,000. In determining his /Results Sir Richard Temple applies th^ census methods used in India, which liave been very accurate, and which he justifies because the area of the two countries is just about the same, India and China proper having each about 1,500,000 square miles, while both countries are under similar physical, technical, climatic, and geographical conditions and there is the same tendency to mul­ tiply in each. The entire Chinese Empire contains nearly 4.500,000 square miles, of which China proper (that is, excluding the central plateau, which is comparatively barren and very sparsely populated) has one-third, supporting an immense population. The average of | opulation in India is 184 to the square mile, the area being 1,377,450 square miles and the population 253,941,309. Applying this average to China proper, the pop­ ulation would be 282,191,600. The most densely populated jot the eighteen provinces is that of the Pechili, which contains the two great eities of Pekin and Tien-Tsin, and which has 18,- 200,000 souls. Estimating the popu­ lation of the central plateau at 15,000,- 000, and adding it to the 282,000,000 of China proper, the leoturer set down the entire population at 297,000,000. In round numbers, therefore, the Celes­ tials probably number about 300,000,- 000, or 50,000,000 less than the Chinese officials claim. A specially interesting feature of these statistics is their cor­ rection of certain impressions which have always been held regarding the vastness of the Chinese Empire. It has always been accepted without ques­ tion that China was the largest empire in the world BO far as population is concerned, whereas, if these estimates are in any way correct, the population of that empire very little exceeds that of the British Empire, though far greater than that of France and her colonies; while the equally prevalent impression that the Buddhists far out­ number the Christian populat on of the world is equally incorrect, the dispar­ ity being very considerably reduced. As a matter of interest in this connec­ tion, it may be stated that the British Empire numbers roundly about 250,- 000,000, of which 214,050.577 belong to her colonies, while France, with her colonies, can muster only 43,562,493, of which 5,890,445 belong to her colonies. How much she will add to this number after she gets through with her present war with the 300,000,000 Celestials re-' mains to be seen. A REBTACBANT proprietor told one of his waiters he would make a good clairvoyants "Because," he explained, "ygu know more when you are asleep than when you are awake." The Soldier Statesman Chosen His Own SacMMor la the United States Senate. [From the Chicago Tribune.] The re-election of John A. Logan to the United States Senate jnst as soon as the Republicans secured a majority of votes on the joint ballot was an event equally honorable to the successful can­ didate and to the Republican members of the Illinois Legislature. On Gen. Logan's part it was a glorious victory, earned by a straightforward, manly, and stubborn fight; on the part of the Republican members it was an evidence that neither corruption nor intrigue could impair the loyalty of any man who had been elected as a Republican. The contest thus closed is one of the most remarkable in political records. When the Legislature met the two par­ ties were equally divided on joint bal­ lot. Gen. Logan was the choice of the Republican caucus, but personal enmity deprived him of two votes to which he was entitled. Col. Morrison was the nominee of the Democratic caucus, but was likewise unable to com­ mand the full vote of his party. Neither Candidate, however, could have been elected as the Legislature was origin­ ally constituted even if he had received all the votes of his party. ThereVas a dead-lock which notlnng short of treach­ ery and bribery could apparently brtak. The interests of the rival candidates were watched with the utmost vigi­ lance, and both Democrats and Repub­ licans alternately refrained from voting and thus broke a quorum whenever the other side acquired a temporary^ advantage. Then death came ift as a factor in the fight. First, the Republicans lost a member--Represen­ tative Logan of the Nineteenth Dis­ trict. But the Democrats could not; summon a quorum in the joint assem­ bly, and there was still no election. A Republican successor to Representative Logan was elected and the tie restored. Then the Democrats lost Senator Bridges of the Thirty-seventh District, but a Democratic successor was chosen to fill the vacancy caused by his death, and the status remained the same. The turning point came when Representa­ tive Shaw, Democrat, from the Thirty- fourth District, died. Here was an op­ portunity for the Republicans to secure a majority, and, tl ough the district in which the vacancy occurred was Demo­ cratic by nearly 2,000 majority, the Logan managers captured it and elected Weaver, a pronounced Logan man. After Weaver was elected there was a Democratic scheme to keep him out of his seat by obstructive tactics, but it was abandoned. Then before Weaver was admitted, Col. Morrison, the regu­ lar Democratic nominee, was with­ drawn, and other candidates were tried in the hope that somebody with a "boodle" could purchase a couple of Republican votes. This scheme failed likewise. The election of Gen. Logan will be received with acclaim all over the State, in which even a large number of Dem­ ocrats will join. There has been a gen­ eral feeling from the beginning of the contest tlfat Gen. Logan was entitled to the election. He came out of the Presidential campaign with great personal credit. The State voted for him for Vice President by a large majority. The Legislature was a tie through accident and local dissensions. Had Logan been a candidate for the Senate instead of the Vice Presidency he would undoubt­ edly have carried the Legislature and been elected immediately. U nder these circumstances it has been conceded all along that a Republican ought to be elected, and that,,Logan had higher claims to the pla^e than any one else. He has scored liisVictory without the use of money, without\tlie influence ef patronage, and without descending to any unfair or improper methods. In returning to the Senate under these conditions he will take a higher stand before the country than ever before, and will add notably to the strength and influence of the Republicans under a Democratic administration. Gen. Logan'a Address to the Illinois Leg­ islature. Gentlemen of tne Senate and House of Repre­ sentative* of the State of Illinois: J congratulate you on having: brought to a conclusion this most remarkable contest, which has been going- on for nearly four months. I have no words in which to ex­ press my gratitude to the representatives of this great. Stateof Illinois for the compliment they have paid me to-day. Having been elected for the third time to represent this great State in the Senate of the United States, 1 hope I have so acted and deported myself In the position before as to bring no discredit upon myself, my party, £tate, and countrs-, and my past history is the only guar­ antee I can give for my future course. From the deepest recess of my bosom I again thank you for the honor you have conferred upon me. There is no position on earth which could lie more gratifying than to represent this great State. In thiscontest, Mr. Speaki r and gentlemen, which has been an uuusuaily close and heated one, I am proud to stato that nothing has transpired to mar the friendly relations ex.sting between myself and my worthy opponent. For thirty years this gentleman and myself have been friends, and I trust we shall always continue Bucti. |Loud cheers.] I believe there never has been a contest between two per­ sons waged more earnestly for their par­ ties than this and the mutual relations re­ main so pleasant. 1 respect Mr. Morrison politically and socially, and I am proud to say we are friends and sincerely hope we may ever be friends. [Cheers. 1 As to the other gen^loraah who was my opponent for a time, I can say nothing against him, nor would 1 want to. Mr. Tree and myself lived neighbors for many years in Chicago, and I have always had the highest respect for him. He made as good a contest, coming late into the field, being a little short of votes, as he could make. For him I have nothing but re­ spect. In conclusion, gentlemen, I desire to say that, no matter what may have occurred dur­ ing this contest, it has been carried on in a spirit of fairness. No such contest has ever been known in this country before, and it has appeared strange to me that there has been so little excitement and bitterness ex­ hibited. It is remarkable, I say, In a contest which has lasted so long and been so close, that there is so little bitterness of feeling displayed; and I desire to say that In repre­ senting the people of the State of Illinois in the United States Senate I shall ever try to do that which seems to me to be my duty, representing my party and my constituents fairly and honestly. [Cheers.] I leave here having no bitter feeling toward any one who may have opposed me. I re­ spect a man who will stand by his creeds and his friends, and I expect no more from others than is accorded to me. If I go to Washington I do not go there with any Are burning in my bosom or a feeling of an­ tagonism toward any party or the present administration. I shall endeavor to repre­ sent you fairly and stand by you, all of which I believe is right Gentlemen, again I thank you. 1 tender to you my most pro­ found thanks. I have not before, nor can I, repay you for the manner you have stood by me iu this Legislature and State. I shall ever remember it, and endeavor to prove worthy of the trust you have this day con­ fided me. Thank ng you again, I hope you will learn in the future that the wrong man has not been elected. [Applause and cheers.] MR. HENDRICKS lias made the Vice Presidency a mere commission-shop for soliciting patronage. He has patrolled the Government departments at Wash­ ington constantly since the new ad­ ministration came into power, filing applications for office and begging ap­ pointments for the balance of Demo­ cratic Hoosierdom. "I have a friend out in Indiana," is said to be his uni­ form phraseology in importuning every- as secretary, dork, or attendant of the Legation. He has made himself a nuisance and a scandal, and has brought the Vice Presidency into disrepute. He had better follow the example sefrt by President Wheeler in his time, and by Mr. Arthur untilahe became Presi­ dent, He should go a-fishiug.--JSp- change. WHY DEMOCRATS GROWL. Duped by the Senators and Representatives of Their Own I**rty. [Washington special.] There is a very angry crowd among the applicants for appointment to the diplomatic and consular service, and especially from those hailing from Southern States. These anxious and ambitious gentlemen have been here for several weeks at large expense, and, so far as they can ascertain, are as far from the goal of their ambition as upon the first day of their arrival in Wash­ ington. The hesitation and procrasti­ nation of Mr. Ravard have received the daily objurgat:ons of these impatient gentleman, who naturally attribute their failure to receive appointments to the head of the State Department. In­ deed, the responsibility for delay has been charged to the Secretary by the Senators and Representatives who have been professedly pushing the claims of their respective constituents. It would seem, however, that in very many cases the Secretary of State is not the real offender, but that the applicants are being trifled with by Senators, and members. Instead of urging the ap­ pointment of the gentlemen alluded to, Senators and Representatives are daily importuning the Secretary of State and the President to appoint their own rela­ tives to good places in the foreign serv­ ice, and in oeveral instances they are known to have been successful. ' Thus Senator Vest managed to have his son sent to Europe Senator Cock- rell has had his brother-in-law, E. It. Ewing, made Consul General to the City of Mexico. Senator Butler, of South Carolina, has a son in the cou- sular service, appointed by President Arthur, and who he is striving to have promoted. His brother-in-law has been appointed Charge d'Affaires to Para­ guay and Uruguay. The same Senator has just had his law partner, Mr. Yon- mans, made United States Attorney for South Carolina. Senator Blackburn succeeded in having his brother ap­ pointed Collector of Internal Revenue, but, unfortunately for his brother, his appointment was subsequently can­ celed. Other Senators and Represent­ atives now here are pushing the claims of relatives for appointment to the neg­ lect of those constituents who are rely­ ing upon their intervention for execu­ tive recognition. Of course, the wants and desires'of the constituents are made subordinate to those of the family rela­ tion, and the revelation of this fact is causing howls of indignation and elicit­ ing vows of vengeance from those who feel that they are being duped to fur­ ther the preferment of the.relatives of Congressmmen.or those of their wives, who have few qualifications and no claims for the places for which they have been appointed or are being urged. WIDENINTT THE BREACH. The Prpnident'i Work In Sowing Dliwnilou in thu Democratic Kanks. [Washington special to Indianapolis Journal.] During the past week the Presiden' has antagonized two-thirds of the dele­ gations and individuals that have called upon him. First, he started out by re­ calling the appointment of the brother of Senator lilackburn as Internal Revenue Collector in Kentucky, be­ cause, when a boy, he wrote a letter of the Jesse James blood-and-thunder or­ der, and by revokiug this appointment he not only made an enemy of Senator Blackburn, but very naturally created dissatisfaction all over the Soutji. By the appointment of Mr. Ivuhn to be Appraiser of Customs at Indianapolis the President dissatisfied a number of his party friends in Indiana. Then fol­ lowed his bad move in Iowa, whereby, in selecting a Marshal for tho South j em district of that State without con­ sulting the delegation in Congress, he has called forth vigorous protests from Messrs. Murphy, Fredericks, and Weaver. George V. N. Lothrop, ap­ pointed Minister to Russia, at the re­ quest of Don M. Dickinson, of Detroit, was not pleasing to the Michigan Dem­ ocratic Congressmen. They thought that the President should give their re­ quests some attention, and that, as Mr. Dickinson represents nobody but him­ self--as they express it--his recom­ mendation certainly should not count for more than that of the Congressional delegation. They do not object to Lothrop per se, but the reason that they are not satisfied with his appoint­ ment is that it lessens the number of appointments left for them. On the whole, the week has produced more than a usual amouht of dissatisfaction, and it begins to look as though the man of destiny is destined to make enemies of at least three-fourths of the Demo­ cratic party. iro USE FOR CIVIL SERVICE* President Arthurs Secretary ef SHrrendera at Last, After a Lang Straggle. A Brief Biographical Sketch of the 1MB- < j tmguished Hew Jenfljf -l"i Statesman. Ctovdud Preparing for • Very OMNTKI Chanae in nil the OSuii. [Special to Chicago Tribune.] There is no question that the Admin­ istration is preparing for a very general change in the offices throughout the country in all branches of the publio service at the beginning of the new fiscal year. The officeseekers have all been given to understand that that is the policy of the President. The letter of Postmaster General Vilas relative to fourth-class offices is but one indication of the decision of the Administration that it will no longer be possible to strictly adhere to the professed theories of civil service reform, and that the aid of Congressmen and of the political machine is desired and will be sought. Combinations among the politicians are already forming in the various States to control all patronage, based upon what they are now advised is to be a new departure of the Administra­ tion. The President will probably se­ lect a few men in each State whose ad­ vice will be accepted as to the appoint­ ments. The men who, it is said, are to i control the New York patronage are ' Secretaries Manning and Whitney, and Assistant Secretary Fairchild. POSTMASTER PALMER, of Chicago, an exemplary official, has been turned out to make room for S. Corning Judd, a man spoken of bv the Chicago News as "a Democrat the thick-and-thin old school, and a rank Copperhead during the war." Palmer's offense was "offen­ sive partisanship," a characteristic for which .1 udd is noted. Great is civil- service reform. Let us have a lot more of tw%ddle from the mugwumps.--In­ dianapolis Journal. * " Another prominent figure in American politics, and one of the most distinguished of New Jersey's citizens, has passed away-- ex-Secretary of State Frederick T. 1 reling- hnysen. After nearly two months of in­ tense suffering, he died at his home in N ewark, surrounded by the members of his family. For twenty-four hours before his death Mr. I relitiphnvsen did not move or show any signs of consciousness. When he was taken sick several weeks ago there was a partial congestion of the brain, although the primary cause lay in the liver and the mu­ cus membrane of the stomach, from which ho had suffered before he pave up the cares of office at Washington. He fell iutoa stunor, from which he never entirely recovered. When his system recovered from the shock of the stupor, his pnlse and temperature became normal again, and there was no fever except on one Occasion, when his pnlse rose to 102, but was afterward re­ duced. The pnlse and temperature in­ creased. and his enfeebled constitution was unable to bear the strain of the exhaustion. Upon receipt in Washington of intelli­ gence of the death of ex-Secretary Freling­ huysen. Secretary Bayard telegraphed Mrs. Frelinghuysen as follows: "President and his Cabinet have just heard wilh deep sensibility of the death of your honored husband. Accept from each and all of us expressions of siagage sympathy and condolence." Imprisons a Number Girls in a Building bit Cincinnati. The Frightened Victims to the Ground or Are cated. Frederick T. Frelinghuysen was a mem­ ber of a distinguished American tamilv. His grandfather, Frederick Frelinghuysen, was a delegate from New Jersey in the Con­ tinental Congress in 1775, 1778, 1779, and 1782, and afterward a United States»Sena- tor from New Jeisey, serving from Dec. 2, to 170i>, when he resigned. Theodore Frelinghuysen, a son of this man. was also i United States Senator from New Jersev, serving from March 4, 182i>, until March 3, l&W. His career in the Senate showed such ability that he was nominated for Vice President by the \Vh;gs in 184i. He was, however, defeated, receiving 1,291,643 votes, to l.My.OW given for Dallas, Demo­ crat, and <5(5,304 votes for Morris, Free-' Soiler. He died in 1862. At the time he was President of Kutgers College--a position which he had held since 1850. He was also Chancellor of the Uni­ versity of theCity of New York from 1838 to 184'J. Frederick T. Frelinghuysen was born at Millstone, N. J., Aug. 4, 1817. He was a nephew and the adopted son of Theodore Frelinghuysen, He received an education in the classics, graduating at Rutgers College in 1836. In 183'.) he was admitted to the bar, having studied law for three years previously. He began tho practice of law at Newark, N. J., and soon obtained a large practice. For many years he was one of the leading lawyers of the State. In 18B1 he was appointed Attorney General of New Jersey, and was reappoint­ ed in 18tJ6. He did not serve out his term, resigning the office on being appointed United States Senator Nov. 12, the mime year, to till a vacancy caused by the death of William Wright. He was subsequently elected to till the unexpired term which extended from Dec. 3, 1866, to March 3, 1869. The follow­ ing year--1870--he was elected a United .States Senator for a full term, lasting from March 4, 1871, to March 3, 1877. During this term he was Chairman of the Commit­ tee on Agriculture and a member of the Judiciary Committee, of the Committee on Finance, and the Committee on Foreign Relations. The last few months of his term were closely occupied by him with labors regarding the disputed Presidential election of 1876. He was a member of the Electoral Commission, and made n fine ar­ gument before the commission in favor of the Hayes electors from South Carolina, Florida, Louisiana and Oregon. Early in the life of the Republican party Mr. Fre­ linghuysen joined its ranks, and as its representative was elected to the high offices mentioned. During his term as Senator he was offered the position of Minister to England by President Grant, but declined the office. THE EDITOR WIS ID. And ti e Man Who Called Returned to His Frlendx anil Reported tlukt He Had Been Kicked by a Mule. [Cincinnati dispatch.] The Evening 1'oal, of this city, printed a local article on spiritualists yesterday in which it enumerated Frank Foster as a prominent spiritualist, and it mentioned incidentally thpt he was the Frank Foster that figured in the celebrated Hal Young divorce case as the man whom Hal Young, the defendant, sought to prove improperly intimate with Mrs. Young. At the time of the trial Foster attempted to cowhide Young on Fourth street. This publication opened the old sore, and Foster called early this morning at the editorial-room of the Post, which was full of editors. He struok at the managing editor, who dodged the blow. Then there was tumult in that room. The telegraph editor landed his fist in Fos­ ter's left eye, closing it Jnst then the river editor knocked Foster on the table, smashing a student lamp with his head. At that moment the business manager came rushing up-stairs, and, presenting a pistol to Foster's head, ordered him to hold up both hands "Quick!" "Quick!" Foster obeyed, meekly exclaiming, " For God's sake don't murder me. This is the hottest hornet's nest I ever got into." This caused a laugh, and Foster having satisfied every­ body that he had no pistol about him, was allowed to go. He went to a drug store and washed his face and got it patched up, say- iug that he had been kicked by a mule. Must Not Dabble in Polities. I Washington telegram.] Commodore Trnxton, Commandant of the Norfolk Navy Yard, has directed the foreman of shipsmiths and tho foreman of laborers at the yard to deny over their sig­ natures a statement that they were mem­ bers of a recent Democratic city conven­ tion at Noifolk or be discharged. The Commodore has prohibited political dis­ cussions in the yard, and says that any em­ ploye who takes a conspicuous part in poli­ tics will lose his position. MRS. SOCTHWORTH is 61 years old and has written seventy-one novels. She ia now glider contract to write only for Robert Bonner, from whom she is to receive $8,000 per annum. AN autograph letter of Gen. Geoige Washington was sold in Nsnr York for $76. i < Cincinnati Was, the other the scene of "a shocking fife disaster, by which six­ teen or seventeen human lives were sacri­ ficed. Eighteen girls, mostly the support or help of their families, lunched merrily at noon in the large front room on the fifth floor of the Sullivan printing works, No. 19 Sixth street. Two hours later most of them were dead. Ten of them were suffo­ cated by the smoke, their bodies shriveled and scorched by the heat of a fire that cut off retreat with scarcely a warning. It would be hard to censtruct a more perfect death-trap. It was on the top floor, with three windows in front and one in the rear, where an ell of the building gave room. It was entered from a nar­ row stairway in the rear, which wound around the elevator, well fenced-in with wooden lattice-work. The second floor held the heavy presses. A boy brought up a gallon can filled with benzine to clean the type forms. Nobody knows the cause, but something caused the benzine to explode near the press next the elevator wall. The burning fluid spread to the ink-well of the press and to a drying-rack filled with freshly printed sheets next the elevator. Sullivan, the proprietor, saw it. He caught a lot of heavy brown sheets of paper to smother it out. In an instant all the room saw it was useless. "My God," said Sul­ livan, "tell the girls up-stairs." His brother flew up the stairs to the bindery. The flames were there as quickly as he, climbing up the lattice-work of the elevator like a flash. The girls were terrified out of their senses. Tne flames cut off their only means of escape. They rushed to the front windows. The flames reached forward and caught at them. Five of them leaped from the windows and were crushed to death, or died within a few minutes. A great crowd had gathered and looked on with groans and cries of horror or warning, but were powerless to help. One or two brave men tried to catch the girls as they fell, but were only hurt themselves. The men from the next building had caught up a long rope kept for such uses, and going on the roof held it over a win­ dow. John Sullivan saw it, and helped first one and another to catch it, and they were safely lowered. By that time the rest were quiet and crouching in the corners or on the floors, rapidly suffocating. Sulli­ van caught the rope, but had barely started downward when the flames reached out and burned the rope off, and he fell, never breathing afterward. Before this, how­ ever, another printer, who came up with Sullivan, had remembered the skylight near the front and above the side of the room. Below it ran a binder's bench piled high with stock. Mounting this, he threw open the skylight, and easily climbed out on the roof. Several others--both boys and giils--followed, but Sullivan and the rest were too excited to notice this means of escape, by which every one might easily have been saved, since on the roof they could have walked a square in any direc­ tion away from the fire and out of the remotest danger. Meantime an alarm had brought the firemen. So well did they work that within five minutes they were able to enter the building and go to the fifth floor. Here the bodies of ten girls were found distorted in death. Some were shriveled by the heat till their skin peeled off. It was an awful tragedy, consummated within a very short time. Not over twenty minutes had elapsed since the explosion of the benzine. Tho news seemed to permeate the city as by an electric shock. The street was packed with silent, sympathetic crowds. People sought for their dead children with blanched faces and a voiceless agony that was pitiful and met instant sympathy from thousands. The dead were borne out by the firemen and laid out for recognition for the few minutes before being removed to the morgue. An eye­ witness says: "A loud scream attracted my attention, and, looking, I saw an awful sight. Black smoke was pouring from the roof and fifth-floor windows, which were crowded with women and men. They were screaming and throwing them­ selves forward and backward from the windows. I Raw seven girls and two men fall in a heap and lie motionless and bleed­ ing. Cries of ' Stop jumping, for God's sake,' arose from the multitude, which gathered in an instant, as they spied a rope thrown from the roof and dangling within reach of those iu the window. A girl grasped it and climbed down nearly to the ground, and fell. A man--he was a hero, too --reached for it, but cries that it would not bear the weight of two checked him. The smoke was too much for him, and, sooner than jeopardize the girl, he leaped from the windo, and we picked him up <1 terribly broken. The flames followed them so closely that several were on fire ae they jumped from the window. The scene was" the most horrible I ever saw.' Th* ' crowd cheered every time a victim made leap." The scenes at Habig's undertaking es­ tablishment, where the bodies were taken and where friends and relatives came to identify them, were of the most painful character. In one case a policeman of Cov­ ington, Ky., identified his sisters Lizzie and Dollie Handel, who were twins. Mrs. Meier found the body of her daughter, and had to be led away from the terrible sight. Mrs. Leabau had the awful experience of finding her three daughters among the dead. The fatal list, as now made up. is : Anna Bell, aged 40; Dollie and Lizzie Handel, twin sisters, 20 years; Fannie Jones, 22 years; Delia, Katie, and Mary Leaban, sis­ ters, aged 23,14, and 16, respectively; Katie Lowry, 20 years; Lizzie Meier, 16 years; Annie Mclntyre, 20 years; Fannie Norton, 34 years; Katie and Mary Putnam, sisters, 22 and 19, respectively; John Sullivan. 22 years; Lillie Wynn, 20 years. The injured are: Will Bishop, printer, 23.years, crushed and burned, will probably die; Josie Hawks, broken leg; Emma Pinchback, un­ conscious, will probably die; Nannie Shep­ herd, head badly cut. SWIFT JUSTICE. An Ohio Murderer Taken from <VaS and Hanged bjr a Mob of Infuriated Citi­ zen*. ' The mining town of New Straitsville, Ohio, was last week the scene of a horrible double tragedy and lynching. Albert Guess, a conditionally pardoned ex-convict, got into a difficulty with the City Marshal of, the town, the trouble ending in Guess shooting the officer three times, inflicting a mortal wound. During the firing by the ex-convict a boy about 10 years of age Was shot in the abdomen, also fatally. Guess was afterward captured and taken to jail. About 10 o'c ock at night a baud of nearly 200 armed and masked men went to the jail and demanded the prisoner.. The officer refused to deliver the keys of tho prison, but some of the mob took them from him by force and went into the cell where Guess was confined. He fought like a savage when confronted by the angry crowd, but he was soon overpowored, and, at the head of the party, led to the outskirts of the town. Here a rope was thrown across a limo and the prisoner placed on the top of a barrel, with the rope about his neck. He was given five minutes to pray, which time he improved. Immediately afterward the barrel was kicked out from under him, and he was left d ingling in the air. His con­ tortions were terrible, and before they ceased his body was riddled with bullets at the hands of the mob. After the hangiug the crowd went back to town, scattered even more rapidly than they gathered, and the body of Guess was left dangling at the end of the rope. THE longest legitimate word in the En,- , g'ish language is dinproportionableness. ' !3l; OXLY half wben that body net onifcr itth loot. tempi WM mads to tuMSSfc^MtoeML roll craestioB Main shape of a resolution totwdWtt br au l«r, providing for the parnMM aoa as pace. A half hawrwa discaaitOB of the reeolulteu. intredaoed a bill to niHi the aaorimpB ' ef 8 to 7 per cent, and on JudrmentB, overdue notes, ete.,f per Instead of A. IbiMll,oiwiwt«f miBtk«L was by unanimous consent read a fin* ttpe and ordered to a second readiu. AloMwmntcto was bad over the report of tne Gonnlii on Appropriations favorably m«Bi bill appropriating fi s?,«oo to rebuild the ern Normal School at Carbondale. Ana was made to have the bill again referred. time to tbe Committee on Education, btit a half hour's discussion a comprantee finally effected by tbe bill being recommitted the Appropriation Committee. Several tuttm- portant hills were advanced on the calendar. Twenty-live members of the Hoase and five> Senators answered to their names when the; joint assembly convened at neon. On the ballot for t'nited States Senator Tree received it votes; Prickett2; Logan. 2; Belter. 1; and Jndd, >. Xo BUSINESS whatever, was transacted In the Legislature on Mar 18, no quorum beinjr present in either house. When the joint assembly OOI* vened five Senators and thirty-six members at the House answered their names. Mr. V'/"';? introduced the following resolution, the COB* \ sideration ot which wa^ postponed for a day I i > htrsolre'l. That, the following be adopted as SV" -* rnie of the joint assembly: During the sesskw£ ' of the joint assembly the Doorkeeper of th<£ .:S House and the Bergeant-at-arms of the flrn>te shall act as Doorkeepers of the joint assembly., ' • » and shall admit no persons except such as ar# admitted to the lioor under the rules of tho - , 'r ' House and Senate. On the ballot tor United ^2*^, States Senator Tree received 7 votes; Morri»on»» £ 1; Black, 1; Kehoe, 1; James, 1; and Young* blood, 1. • THE passage of the House bill relating T* drainage and Senator Gillham's pleuro-pnen* - " monia bill, and the defeat of Senator W hi tins'* ° i bill for the levy of a State tax of 3 per cent, uo ' on the earnings of telegraph c ompanie*, con- . - stitutcd the sum and substance of the Senate's i'% work on May 1st. The House did considerably ' less--In short, did nothing at all except wranglo VC over the interminable ray-ioll question Tha ; ¥1 joint session for the election of a United States -4 Senator assembled at. noon, amid great excite­ ment. When the roll was called it was viv" found that there were no absentees in eithe# , i house. The announcement that -'til membetSr /-I- of the joint assembly were present was re» ceived with cheers. Kepresentative Sitttg wait silent when his named was reached. The rolt* • 6 call was finished, and KM votes had been cask ' for Logan--within one of the number neoee- - ^ sary to elect him. On the call for absentees . v^,'1 Sitt ig voted for John A. Logan, giving him the necessary 103 votes. The Democrats mean- >. M time remained silent. The latter, thinldnKtS divert votes from Logan, then began voting tat C. B. Farwell, giving him 92 ballots. The Re» s publicans remained steadfast, and their oppc^ ii nents changed back, the official result glTm* Gen. Logan io;<; Tree", 96; Msrrison, l; Hoxtfc 1; Black, 2; afid Justice Schoflfld X. Mr. Barry (Dem.i, of Calhoun County, voted for Loga% "5 but changed, under protest, to Tree, on the uf? $ .: * gent request of several Democrats. The Speak* er then declared John A. Logan duly euwMK United States Senator for the ensuing term at six years. The Republicans were jubilant. MIL !$ Fuller, of Boone, moved the appointment of a ' -si committee of three to escort the Senator-eleol * to the Speaker's desk. It met with some ot>po* • » * sition from the Democratic side, hut waa con> / curred in by a viva-voce vote. The Speaker : . appointed Messrs. Fuller and Chapman, of the '* House, and Merritt, of the Senate, as the recep- . 2 tion committee. They repaired to the lobby oa ' 'x> S the Republican side, and alter shaking hands with the new Senator escorted him to the Speak- er's desk. The usual formalities were gone throdgli with, whereupon tbe Speaker, tnrnlnv * : to the members, said: "Mr. President and members of the joint assembly, I now have the : v-iV Eleasure of introducing to \ ou Gen. John A. ogan, who has just been elected United zA States Senator." fCheers.) After the applause had subsided Gen. Logan returned thanks to the assembly in a ten minutes' speech, in the course of which he spoke in high complimentary • ; e terms of his two chief opponents. Col. MorrfaNMI and Judge Tree, and expressed the hope that "in the lutureall contests of a political chai^ acter may be carried on by lolitieal opponents with the same amicable relations that, have es^ " tsted here in this contest. No such conteet his •. been noted in the history of this country for the election of a United States Senator, andMruugs • it is that there has not been more excitement and more bitterness exhibited between theaeop* posing forces than there has been." Hriim- tor Hogan then moved that thS ' joint assembly adjourn sine die. 'Before - that motion is put," said Speaker Haines, low the Chair to return thanks to the membem of the joint assembly, and to acknowledge his gratitude for the kindness exhibited to him o* all occasions, and the cordial aid' extended op. the part of every member in performing whaS has to him been a very arduous daty. The motion to adjourn sine die prevailed unani­ mously, and immediately the Republicans 1 - struck up the chorus of "Marching Through ...^v Georgia," keeping time as they marched dowlfc' TK the stairs to the Capitol front. • ; CONKiDKUA-noNot appropriation bills on thirC : reading occupied the chief attention ot the Sea- < * ate at Its session of May 20. Among those or­ dered engrossed for final passage were tbiir ' Kankakee Asylum bill and the bill appropriat­ ing »T',(i<x) for printing the last volume of tha f eologioal survey of the State. A bill giving to iardin County $H),<ioo with which to rebulMt a Court House, recently destroyed by tire, was ' > debater! at some length and" finally defeat­ ed. Benator Duncan called up the meas­ ure appropriating $31,014) for the relief at Alexander Bruce, who was one of ths con­ tractors for the Copperas Creek dam, and had it advanced to third reading. A Senate bltt regarding the State House went to a third read­ ing. It declares that of the sum ot $531,000 voted by the people at the last general election for the completion of the State House $200,000 shall be available at once, and the remainder |k one year s time. '1 he general appropr ation bill was read a second time and discussed until the hour of adjournment. During the debate Sen^ ators Hereley of Cook, and Rinehart of Eflinf ham engaged in a mud-throwing duel over tha location of the Appellate Court of the First Di$» trict. Hereley said to Rinehart: "You are maV> lng statements which are untrue." l.inehartr- You are a liar of the first water. Hereley--Vat are a gentleman. At a later stage Heretay "took exceptions." as he expressed it, to the personal remarks made by Rinehart, and insisted that "the Senator irons Effingham was no gentle­ man." - In the House the regular daiiy wrangle over the pay-roll question was indulged in, and the matter was finally referred to a select com­ mittee . The House declined to grant to ex- Gov. St. John the use ot its hall for a temuef» ance lecture, the Republicans opposing and the Democrats supporting the proposition. itM. Webber's bill to extend the time and provide ior the assessment of benefits in drainage dis­ tricts, having passed the House with a^SjM* amendment, its author moved that it be taken Up as amended and again passed by the House. By a unanimous vote the bill passed the H --" Mi. Humphrey's b 11 amending the law cerning Canada thistles by providing for appointment of a commissioner by coun _ boards where the town authorities fail to do was read a third time and passed. It empowers the Commissioner thus appointed to take such steps as he may deem necessary for the suppression of Canada thistles, aaA provides that he be paid by the township tor which he is appointed. An amendment to the law in relation to criminal juriprudenoe Introduced by Mr. Urickett was read a third time and passed. It declares it a public nuisance to cause or suiter the carcass of any hoc 0* other domestic animal that has died ef any disease to be exposed to tbe air for a period el twenty-four hours after such animal shall haws died. Mr. Crafts' bill authorizing tbe forma­ tion ot companies for the detection and appre­ hension of horse-thieves and other telona passed and was sent to the Senate. The gen­ eral appropriation bill was taken up and dis^iv oussed by clauses. , •? ,;}; Nearly the entire day's session of the Senatji' on the 21st pt May was devoted to the consign eratlon of the general appropriation bill, amendment appropriating $.30,000 for re-coveo ing the dome of the State House constituting the chief bone of contention. The item wa|r finally adopted by a vote ot H to 12. Senator Snyder called up his "ekim-milk* bill on tha order of third reading. It provides that who* ever sells impure or unwholesome milk, at feeds dairy cows upon unwholesome food, Ot whoever manufactures > ut of any oleaginoua substance other than that produced from una* dnlterated milk or cream, shall be deemed; guilty ot a misdemeanor, and lined not exceed^ ing or contiued iu the county jail not exK, ceedinsr six months. The Hou«e of Repnsentat* tives passed the bill «unjH>liiuc trains ftnnmS on railroads in this State, when approaching' another railroa 1 or a drawbridge, to come to a full stop 2oo feet therefrom. The bill makes p; radical change in the law as it stands at presj". ent. 11 has a retroactive torce, and under it a*' private individual cannot bring suit at alL Mr Calhoun's bill to change the name of the Illinois Industrial University was read a thlnt" time and passed after mine disi uasiou This bill provides that the University .-A . 1! IX KNOW* as tiie University of Illinois. A joiut resolution- to adjourn the House and Seuate sine die oa Juno 14 was presented by Mr. Winslow, bul promptly voted down. Mr. Calhoun, Chairman* - of the sp cial committee on th • pay-roll ques­ tion, presented a report which s ttled foreyef * the long-vending employe cont oversv. The- ' report contained th • nrmes of all employes wh4i?i|S had actually perlormed serviee, and i«t>t witot^.. ssH the almost unanimous approval of the House. ^ a EXCELLENCE is never granted to ^ man, but as the reward of labor. If „ v. you have great talents, .industry willE ^ employ them; if you have but moderat^' abilities, industry will supply their « ficiencv. Nothing is denied to well*" Is directed labor; nothing is obtained "if without it.--Sir Josh ua lieynolds. FLATTERY is like false money; ft i Jx>verishes those who MMiv* iL I!K J 'V ?g; " WM •"il