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The annual reunion of the 12th New Hampshire Veteran Infantry will take place at Latonia, N. rf., Oct. 6. The National Encampment of the\Jnion Veteran Um'On will be held in Washing­ ton, D. C., commencing Sept. 19. A 110,000 monument is to be erected in San Francisco, Cal., in honor of Col. E. D. Baker, who fell in tbe battle of Ball's Bluff. Tbe total membership of the Grand Army posts in the Department of Michi­ gan, G. A. R., is reported to be 20,973, a gain ot 208 members during last year. Philander A. Streeter, of Company C. Second Vermont Infantry, was the first soldier sent to Libby Prison. He still lives and is a papermaker at Holyoke, Mass. The number of foreign-born soldiers in the United States army during the civil war was, according to Gen. Franz Sigel, who has made the subject a study, about 500,000. Of these 144,221 were Irish­ men and 176,767 were Germans. The colored troops numbered 186,017, of whom 125,000 served at one time. Capt. T. H. Patterson, of the Sandy Hook life-saving station, No. 1, and Miss Essie L. B. Everett, of Brooklyn, N. Y. a niece of Commodore Wm. D. Whiting, U. S. navy, retired, were married on Monday evening, April 18. John H. Clark, of Jennie Lind, Ark., and old soldier and pensioner, lost what little he possessed on the 27th of Febru- ary, by tbe burning of his daughter's house. _ Among the things destroyed were all the army papers of Comrade Clark, and also his pension certificate. He has applied to the Commissioner of Pensions for a new certificate, and will apply also for a certificate, in lieu of lost discharge, to the Adjutant-General of the army. Ait Old War Vessel's Vat*. The once famous turreted monitor, Sangus, has been sold by the government for $15,000, and is to b© converted into a coal barge. Upon this old monitor the body of John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Lincoln, was taken out of Washington, down the Potomac. She bears several hugh dents imprinted in her stalwart sides through the force of can­ non balls. Her turret also shows several huge dents, as well as the pilot house. General Grant sad Koshy- General Mosby says he always had a special likeing for Grant after this inci­ dent: Mosby was bothered with con­ stant arrests by provost marshals for several months immediately following the war. At length Mosby's wife while off visiting in Baltimore, decided to run down to Washington without her hus­ band's knowledge and- ask President Johnson to put'a stop to this annoyance, which had been In vestigated by Secretary Stanton. He father and Johnson had been bosom friends before the war, and had been in the same congress. She made herself known to Johnson, and he not only refused her request, bat Mosby says treated her very rudely. As she was leaving the White House her son Beverly, aged seven years, said: "Mamma, go and see General Grant." She did go and see General Grant, and he received her kindly and treated her with great cour­ tesy. When he had heard the story he wrote a passport, which was ever a pro­ tection to the ex-confederate, who now has the letter in Gen. Grant's own hand­ writing as a cherished keepsake. Inconsistent Tariff Tinkers. The usual wide margin between demo* erotic promises when seeking office, and performances after attaining to power, finds forcible emphasis in the record made by the majority in the lower house of the present congress. Wafted Into place on a tidal wave of misrepre­ sentation of the purposes and effects of the McKinley tariff, after a campaign In which they promised speedy repeal of that measure, they have permitted Ave fnonins to p^ss t>y without the introduc­ tion of a single bill to that end--and the* best obtainable information is to the affect that no attempt at general repeal Is to be made. All that has been accomplished by the two-thirds majority of the ways and* means committee and of the house is the passage of two squib bills, putting metal cotton ties and raw wools on the free list--while both these measures have been so hedged about with incon­ sistencies as to insure their rejection by the senate when placed before that body for its consideration. It would seem that reckless dema- goguery could go little further than in passing- a bill admitting free of duty British-made cotton-ties, while leaving the McKinley tariff on Iron ore, pig iron *nd coal, such as American manufac­ turers must buy from which to make ties in competition. Yet this is exact­ ly what is required by the bill formu­ lated in the Springer committee and rushed through the lower house of con­ gress with less than two votes t^j each hundred democrats in the negative. But it appears that the democratic two-thirds was equal to a still further extreme of reckless inconsistency when it came to deal with the wool schedule It has long been a cardinal teqst in free trade doctrine that the amount of eve­ ry tariff is necessarily and inevitably added to the price--not alone of the article imported, but of all similar arti­ cles of domestic productions This has been promulgated as the true gospel by all the preachers from the time of Cob- den down to Cleveland & Co. Every democrat of the majority recorded in favor of free wool, every editor now commending such vote, is on record as a believer in this doctrine, and should mot be permitted to escape the conclu­ sions to which it leads. If the tariff of ten cents per pound adds to the price of wool, by the same reasoning the tariff of fifteen cents per bushel on corn and oats, and four dollars per ton on hay, in­ ures by that much to the cost of those products. Yet this democratic majority would compel the man who buys them for sheep feed to sell his wool without any corresponding defense against foreign competitors--the while prating of party consistency and pro­ fessing undying friendship for the mass of farmers, whether those who raise grain and hay for market or those who depend upon flock products for their in- oome. Yet this overwhelming majority found opportunity*in the wool bill for still further stultification of its pro* fessed sympathy for buyers of woolen, goods, whose alleged interest was made the pretext for putting wool on the free list.* In the same little bill they care­ fully preserved the full advalorem duty fixed by the McKinley tariff on all woolen goods! And they are now on record as favoring a tariff on woolen goods amounting to more than 40 per cent, by way of protection to manu­ facturers, while so far as possible strik­ ing down the interests of those who seek to raise on American farms and ranches some portion of the five hun­ dred million pounds of wool yearly con­ sumed by our people. Let the intelligent voter contrast this record of democratic congressmen with the promises and prophecies made two years ago, and from the showing thus secured draw his conclusions as to how far it will be safe to trust their party in future! Verily the leaders in this farce of tariff reduction are po­ litically dishonest, and those weak enough to follow them can be set down as equally unreliable as law makers. Our Foreign Trade* The March statement of the bureau of statistics at Washington, presided over by S. C. Brock, indicates a contin­ uance in the healthy growth of our for­ eign trade, which was inspired October 1, 1890, by the passage of the McKinley law. Let us look at the figures: Exports for March, 1808.. $81,819,075 Imports " " " 96,549,338--$178,888,41$ The figures for March, 1891, were: Ex­ ports $75,314,326, and the imports 177,- 684,836, making a total of $152,949,162-- or a net gain for corresponding month of 1892 of $15,419,251. Now let us look at the monumental results of our for* eign trade for the year ending March 31, 1892: Exports tor year .$1,006,284,606 Imports " " 887,068,585--tl ,843.343,001 For the twelve months ending March 1, 1891, we exported goods to the value of $872,007,986, and imported to the amount of $835,659,364, making a total of $1,707,667,350--or $135,675,741 less than for the year ending March 31, 1892. The official figures show 'that- under the Harrison administration of protec­ tion and reciprocity our foreign trade has been increased in the last twelve months $135,675,741, and increased over Cleveland's last year by $425,927,138. Turn on the brilliant lights of helpful protection and inviting reciprocity. The republican band wagon leads the grand procession of industrial progress in this fair land of the free and home of the brave.--Princeton Republican. P01J1TICAX« ' PARAGRAPHS. The public debt of Great Britain Is $87.79 per capita; that of the United States is $14.63. It seems but a few years since thinking, careful men pre­ dicted that it would require at least a century to pay off the debt incurred during the war of 1861-5, and yet the amount is but one-fourth of what it was in 1865, and is being so mpidly paid off, thanks to the republican party, that FLUANDPT* ARO INRVL-IRIFR- about for something to take the place of the remaining United States bonds when they are no longer to be bad. Here is a frank admission. A LoiaJon 'exchange says: "One of the greatest arguments against the theory that the oonsumer pays the import duty is to be found in the fact that when a foreign na­ tion increases the tariff on a British prod­ uct, the establishment charges as well as the wages on this side of the water are lowered, in order to give the manufac­ turer or the merchant a chance to deal successfully with the change. If the consumer paid the duty there would be little cause for our exporter to grumble. But our manufacturers and workpeople do make sacrifices to meet the extra duty, and we accordingly hear grum­ bling from both." Tlic plug*wliicL is uciug made in reciprocal trade between the United States and Central and South American countries should cause some of the calamity howlers to reflect on the state­ ment of Minister Romero, of Mexico, made at the dinner of the Boston Mer­ chants' association in January, 1892: "We now buy from you nearly sixty per cent, of our imports, and sell you near­ ly eighty per cent, of our exports, and this is merely the beginning." Surely those poor old eroaking politicians, who see nothing but want at the door and talk of nothing but taxes and hard times, "will soon be out of business. Trade, commerce and prosperity seem to overwhelm them in their lamenta­ tions. Why cannot the opponents of' Ameri­ can industry be honest? Here is a so- called "tin-plate consumers' associa­ tion," trying to break down the tariff under which a business of $25,000,000 to $30,000,000 a year is being established in the United States, and the association is run and dominated, not by actual "consumers" of tin plate, but by im­ porters, mere middlemen, mere agents of British houses, whose interest it is to import tin plate, because on imported plate they make their commissions. If that body would change its style to "the tin plate importers' association,* it would occupy a more creditable, cause more honorable, position in estimation of fair observers. It seems to be impossible for the free trader to be honest. All the facts are Against him and he is driven to falsehood to avoid acknowledging the utter over­ throw of his theories and promises.-- Iron Industry Gazette. Two years ago democrats wevs ing that the McKinley tariff highest ever enacted. Figures prove it to be the lowest ever enacted. They said it would increase the revenue. Instead it has reduced it. They said that foreign manufacturers and im­ porters would raise the price of every article on which the tariff was increased. But 'they have lowered the price on many articles by the amount of the in­ creased tariff so that prices are no higher than before; thus showing that the foreign importer or manufacturer, and hot the consumer, pays the added duty. Prices of manufactured articles are lower than ever before. They said the new law would foster trusts. The trusts are having a hard time of it. and not a few have collapsed. They declared that it would check both imports and exports. Official figures, which stand unchallenged, show that exports andt imports have increased. ys m w Some of the democratic "statesmen" in congress have been making bun­ combe speeches about "tariff on salt." The McKinley tariff on salt is twelve cents per one hundred pounds. Salt is now selling by the barrel at a price which, the cost of the barrel being de­ ducted, amounts to ten cents per one hundred pounds. So it appears that "tax" on salt is nothing, minus two cents.--N. ~ We beli Flour a1 flour Leave not f< will River: Lily of the Valky k is equal H.35 in a trial nted y Remember Weat Point CadetsMp. Notice is hereby given that a competi* tive examination for the selection of m Cadet to est Point, from the Fifth Con­ gressional District, will be held at the Court House at Geneva, Kane county, on Wednesday, the fifteenth day of June, 1892, commencing at ten o'clock, A. V. Candidates must not be less than 1? nor more than 22 years of age; actual residents of the district, unmarried, and of sound physical condition, to be tested by a strict surgical examination. They must be thoroughly proficient in reading, writing, orthography, arithme­ tic, English grammar, descriptive geog­ raphy, and especially the geography ei our own country; and history, particu­ larly that of the United States. In arith­ metic they must possess such a complete knowledge as to enable them to take up the higher branches of mathematics uttii* out the farther study of it. ALBERT J. HOPCISS, 5%^ Member of Congress, Fifth District, 1, H '38 • B$i M -1 NEWSPAPERS ENDORSE. ' "Educators are certainly the greatest benefactors of the race, and after reading Dr. Franklin Miles' popular works, can­ not help declaring him to be among the most entertaining and educating auth­ ors."--Xpw York Ikii /v. He is not a stranger to oor leaders as his advertisements appear m our columns in every issue, calling attention to the fact that his elegant work on Nervosa aud Heart Diseases is distributed ire© by our enterprising|druggists. Trial bottles of Dr. Miles* Nervine are given away, also book of Testimonials showing that it Is ynetjualed for Nervous •>Prostratk»v Headache, Poor Memory, Dullness, Sleeplessness, Neuralgia, Hysteria, Fits, Epilepsy. NORTHERN GROWN SEEDS. Our seeds are all new, true to wMif, and will grow under ordinary circum­ stances. For field seed corn we otftor the famous Pride of the North, Leaning, Early Butter, Smut iiomf and King Philip all extra early and great yliMsre. For silo or fodder purposes we nave in stock the Mammoth Southern, Red b and White all at losreet pricae. Pumpkin seed, German Millet, Eutaga* Timothy, Clover etc., alwaj* ta a • v