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1. VAN SLVKE, MoHENBY, ILLINOIS. J. W. DOKOVAW, in The Current, dis­ cusses "Lincoln u an Orator," show­ ing wherein lay hu power over the hearts of men, and giving a graphic ac- oonnt of Lincoln's speech at Lincoln, Kansas, at the time Price'* raiders were terrifying the settlers. " IN social conversation with his staff one of them asked Qeneral Joe John­ ston, how many times he had been wounded. He replied, "eight times." The staff remarked that h^ was the most unfortunate General in this re­ spect that he had ever known. "No, sir," said he, "the most fortunate; for It was only by the mercy of God I was aot killed upon either occasion." W. P. WELCH, in the Current, sub­ mits a poetio rejoinder to the famous poem of W. W. Story, in which the cause of Judas Iscariot was ingeniously plead by "A Roman Lawyer in Jerusa­ lem." Mr. Welch replies in the same metrical form, and very cleverly con­ troverts the extenuating arguments made by Mr. -Story's lawyer. The poem itself shows high qualities, both in respect to diction i.nd technical tin­ foil. A Dn. LAPHAM, of. Augusta, Maine, wrote to Mr. Howells, asking him how he chanced on the name Lapham for the hero of his latest story. Mr. How- ells replied. "I took the name of Loap- ham from a family I knew in the north­ easter Ohio town where my boyhood was passed. They were the only New England people in tlio place, and their name became vividly associated with New England in my "boyish mind. I never-met anyone 6lse who bore it" IT has been definitely decided to widen the Suez Canal, and it is esti­ mated that the work will consume two years; but the benefit of the enlarge­ ment will make itself felt before com­ pletion. The increased water-way will be capable of an almost indefinite amount of traffic, and that it will be necessary is indicated by the fact that the business of the canal has in the past doubled itself in five years. IT. is be- lieved that this rate of increase will continue. THE Unitarian Review is authority lor the following specimen of exegesis from a Kentucky "Hardshell" Baptist preacher, who tcok for his text the ad­ monition of Joseph for his brethren: 41 'See that you fall not out by the way.' This remark shows how kind Joseph was. Ho knew that the roads were full of ruts and ridges and deep chuck- holes, and that the wagons hadn't no springs and were dreadfully jolty, and how easy 'twould be for some of the women and little ones to fall out and get hurt, so he warned 'em: 'See that ye fall not out by the way,' Ob, how hind Joseph was!" V| • ; "WASHINGTOS special: Hie WSite Houre employes who cleaned out ex- President Arthur's wine-room the other day found, • besides several hundred whisky and champagne bottles, a cask half full of cheap whisky in one corner of the apartment. This whisky, in the language of the employes, was "power­ fully cheap, as yellow as coal oil, and strong enough to knock an old rounder out in one round." Being curious to know what Arthur did. with such infe­ rior firewater, he asked the French cook, who replied: •'Whist, me bye, not a wurred av it to iny wan. Mister Arthur kipt that kag of rid eye and yiller body for his Irish friends froinjb Ni Yorruk wJben they'd visit him. IN the early part of the rebellion Edwin Parke Curtis Lewis, recently appointed minister to Portugal, was captured by Capt. Basil T. Bowers, a Union officer. Lewis conscript officer in the Confederate army, and Capt. Bowera captured him about a mile from his home in the valley of Virginia. His young wife made so elo­ quent a pica that Capt. Bowers paroled his prisoner. Since then they have been good friends. Lewis afterward went to Winchester, took the oath of allegiance to the, United States, and saw no more of the Confederacy. His wife, a daughter of Col. Hare, of Clark Countv, Virginia, died, and Mr. Lewis went north and married a wealthy lady. SOME time ago Mrs. Garfield gave II. B. Hayes a memento of her dead hus­ band, which is kept with zealous care in Hayes' Fremont house. It is asmall brass calendar, with the months, days, and years on little cylinders, to be turned as time goes on* This was al­ ways on Garfield's desk, and he used it for years in his Washington library. He took it to the White House, and made it a rule to turn it each morning, thus reminding himself of the right date before beginning the day's work. On the morning of July 3 he turned the cylinder and finished some business before going to his death at the depot. The little calendar was never regulated from that day, and remains now as he left it on that fatal morning, marking "Saturday, July 3, 1881." WHATEVFJJ else may be said as to Mr. Henry Irving, the actor, he must be credited with having made a most graceful adieu to the American stage. His address, delivered before the stu­ dents of Harvard College, was full of good senBe and showed him to be a scholar, as well as an aotor, worthy to appear in the academic halls, while his bearing. at the dinner given in his honor was that of an accomplished gentleman. His tribute to America bore every mark of sincerity. It has beoome a very common custom for artists who come over here hunt ng for American dollars to gush over "dear America" and tell how much they love It, many of them before they have ever wen*; but Mr. Irving watted until the eve of his departure, and until the cur­ tain had gone down for the last time upon his American appearances before he paid his tribute. A CORRESPONDENT has discovered the fact that Mr. Cleveland is the only President who has ever worn only a mustache, with the rest of his face clean shaven. Washington wore no beard. The elder Adams had a alight patch of whiskers in front of each ear. The' faces of Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe, were smooth. The younger Adams wore side whiskers, which followed the line of the cheek-bone. Andrew Jack­ son wore no beard. Van Buren wore side whiskers which ran around nearly to his nostrils. Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fillmore, and Buchanan, were smooth shavem Lincoln had a full beard, with the exception of the upper lip. John­ son, was as smooth on the face as a menk. Grant wore , a beard, close clipped. Hayes and Garfield, were full- whiskered, and Arthur followed the English fashion of side whiskers, with the addition of a mustache. It is scarcely necessary to add that the per­ son who has made these discoveries is a lady. THE New York Sun gives the origin of "Chestunt!" as follows: Mr. Martin W. Hanley, the theatrical manager, formerly with Harrigan & Hart, laughs at the idea that the term ^chestnut," applied to a stale joke, originated in Philadelphia, when a minstrel company were perpetrating stale joke3 on the Quakers at the Chestnut Street Thea­ ter. He says it originated eighteen years ago. "It was this way," he said yesterday; "in 1807 I was traveling through this State, putting an old play, called 'The Broken Sword,' on the stage, with Marietta Havel as loading lady. In the second act an old man stands in the center of the stage telling the story of the murder to the dumb boy. John Sanford, my comedian, sits on a low stool at the left, interrupting the old man. The old man makes fre­ quent reference to a hickory tree. Every time he says hickory the oomedian gets off. his stool and says, 'No, chestnut; I tell you chestnut,' till the old man is exhausted. After the per­ formance in Rochester, P. Connelly, now dead, was in one of the dressing- rooms with others of the company, and he started to get off a funny story. Everybody interrupted him with shouts of 'Chestnut !' It clung to the com­ pany all the season, and, of oourse, was soon caught by the profession. 1 hat's the only true origin ot it." CHICAGO Time*: A horrible double murder in Monmonth, Illinois, invites attention to a serious defect in our sys­ tem of examination of people charged with insanity. A young man named Nash was ^cme time since found to l>e insane, and wai sent to Jacksonville for treatment, from which he was lateljr discharged as cured. Last week, in or­ der to make matters sure, he was brought to some Chicago hospital to be examined, and was pronounced sane. In less than a week after his sanity was thus certified to, he most brutally killed his mother and sister, under the delusion that they were Mormons who had stolen him from his real parents and were endeavoring to impose them­ selves on him as his relatives. In this shocking occurrence there is some­ where a remissness, an ignoranoe, or a stupidity which reaches the dimensions of a crime. An institution established especially for the treatment the in­ sane, and provided with a staff organ­ ized expressly with reference to its knowledge of the character and treat­ ment of insanity, offic ally pronounces sane a man who within less than two months, in a fit of insanity, commits a utcliery of the most revolting charac­ ter, The experts of a Chicago hospital also certify to the sanity of a man who, in three days, proves to be a madman of the most lrightful character. Sure­ ly there is somewhere someone to blame, and on whom rests the moral responsibility of a,most foul murder. Bowie and the German. It is said that Bowie was as gentle and chivalrous as he was brave and re­ gardless of human life. One night, years ago, while riding In a stage to­ ward Ohio, on the old national pike, a poorly-clad old woman and her little boy of about 10 years were for miles the only other passengers. Bowie did not speak to them, but, wrapping himself up in his own coat, slept as well as he could under the jolting of the stage. An hour later a big, burly German en­ tered the coach at' a way-station, and immediately took out a clay pipe, which smelled as though it had been smoked since the days Of Sir Walter Raleigh. This he fill-ed with tobacco of the vilest brand, and began to smoke. The stage was soon filled with his ex­ halation?, and the smoke began to make the old lady sick, and she opened the window and sought relief from the fresh air which poured in. Butthe weather was bitter cold, and she hod to close it. She then asked the boy to beg the roan to stop Binoking. This he did, but the German loudly said: "If the old woman don't like it she can get out. I paid my passage and I will smoke what I please." In the meantime James Bowie had been awakened and had seen the whole procedure. As ihe German uttered the^e words Bowie put his hand at ihe back of his neck, nnd, drawing out one of his fatnois bowies, said coolly: "You are mistakou about your smoking. You will put out that pipe at once and keep your mouth shut, or by the eternal 1 will run you through the he..rt! I would have you understand 1 am J nines Bowie, and James Bowie means what he savs!" With that he slowly began to advance his knife toward'the German's stomach, and the latter frantically threw his pipe out of the door and begged for his life. During the next ha f-hour the German said nothing but looked pale. As"1 Bowie thought over his action and noted the sickness of the old woman he grew still more angry, and at the next sta­ tion he forced the smoker to get out of the stage and ride with the driver for the remainder of the journey. GENIUS, having intuitively what talent has to gain l>y toil, is less likely to be pedantic--values not that which is natural to it--dreams not of the ex­ aggerated price'put on it by other*. , r tJ yVi DEATH- A Rickety Structure in Brooklyn, H. Y., Causing a Ifcgkfr * ? ' * fcl Disaster. Several Building* Burst Into Flames, ! Followed Later by Four Boiler t f • •; ExplMiOM. 5 rHtuuU>u (N. Y.) telegram!' Shortly after 9 o'clock this morning there was a crash at 55 Atlantic avenne, Brooklyn, and people on looking up from the street saw that the loof of the building had fallen in and that a portion of the wa Is had fallen. They cou.d henr the screams of people in­ jured, and it seemed but a moment when a vo.ume of smoke rolled up, showing that th? building had taken fire. Hundreds of people--men. \iomen and girls--were at work at the various branches of business carried on in the building, which covers considerable ground, having three wings, and which ex­ tend* through from Atlantic avenue to State street. ^ As soon as the crush was heard of the falling roof hundreds of those employed in the building lied or endeavored to make their way out By every avenue of escape which they were familiar with, and some who were the last to reach the street ap­ peared with begrimed face# and blood streaming from wounds they received from fa lin? timbers. The excitement in the neighborhood be­ came very great, and in a chorl time the wives of the men wlip were krown to be working in the building and the parents of the girls who were employed there blocked the streets nnd wrung their hands and wept. Three alarms of tire were tent out, and the services of a large num­ ber of the police force h\d to be c tlled in­ to requisition to keep the crowd of people out of the way of danger. It was reported at first that about one hundred girls, who were employed in the MilO Hynes Button Works, which was on the top* floor where the roof fell in, were killed, but there are other reports that most of tbe girls made their escipe by cl mbing on the roofs of the adjoining tenement bouses. The building was occupied by twenty small manufacturers, and there were about 5(10 men and women employed therein. It was five stories high, and erected twenty- seven years ago, the woodwoik being like tinder. When the firemen arrived they found many of the young women at the windows, screaming wildly for help. Their retreat had been cut off, and the firemen quickly ran up the ladders; but the girls were hemmed in aud some fell back into the flames before help could reach them. The inflammable char­ acter of the building hindered the efforts of the firemen. It was ascertained tint the engineer of the factory, Daniel J. Lowry, was one of the victims. He was killed by the falling of the west wall of the middle wing ou Atlantic avenue. The cause of the tire was the overturning of the boilers of a soap factory on the second floor. The west wall of the middle wing ou At antic avenue had settled; workmen were screw­ ing it up with jacks; the middle jack had been screwed up too high, and it was lowered, when the whole weight of the wall came upon the two jacks at the end and fell with a crash. In the different manufacturing p'aees in the buildings there were 700 people. In the New York Tin Company's employ there were thirty or forty girls, and whether all escaped is a question which can not be solved. Some of Ihem were seen shriek­ ing wildly upon the iron fire-escipe of the fourth floor, wher-j tha tin factory was lo­ cated. The flames seemed to leap from floor to floor and building to building with a celerity that baffles description. The fire now' rapidly extended to the building that fronted on State street, and the buildings went to pieces like houses of cards. The crash of falling walls and floors, the vast clouds of stnoke, dust, and steam, the spires of flame that shot from the crumbling ruins gave terror to the spec­ tacle, and tbe general exc.lement grew into a panic when it was repotted that seven] employes had been burned and crushed to death in the ruins. The walls fell rapidly, and two hours aft­ er the fire had broken out nothing but a few fragments of wall indicated that a building had formerly stood there. In places where these fragments bn'ged out­ ward and threatened to fall the firemen di­ rected streams of water againyt them at short range, and crumbled them down brick by brick. By noon the fire on the State street side was extinguished, and several engines had left, but steam and smoke still rolled in heavy volumes from the charred and smol­ dering ruins. The excitement around the scene of the conflagration was intense^ and there were a hundred anxious people looking for miss­ ing relatives and friends employed in the building. What human life is lost will never be knowu until the firemen have thoroughly searched the ru ns, but there seems to be little doubt on all sides th.it a considerable number have perished. Four dead and charred bodies have been taken from the ruins. A dozen or more persons were injured, some of them very seriously, and abont twenty-five are miss- falter W. Marcus, a workman in one of the factories, who was standing at the cor­ ner of Hicks street at the time of the con­ flagration, stated that he glanced at one of the upper windows anil noticed a puff ot smoke coming from it, and in less than a minute it seemed as if fire and smoke were leaping from every door« and window. "I was caught in that place last September," said he, "when part of the building was burned. As I was sleeping oa the third floor I was awakened by shouts on the street, and got down stairs just in time to save a roasting. There was nothing in or about the place to check a fire; no hose oi extinguisher or fire-escape." Lowrey, the engineer of the building, who made periodical visits to the various floors; was on the third floor at the time of the crash, and ran to the rcof to see what was the matter. That was the last seen oi him. Milo Hine, who occupied the top floor for the manufacture of buttons, made this statement: "At 9 o'clock I was in my room directing the work of my employes, of whom there were forty- mostly women. The first we hoard of the accident was when we heard a crash, and this was fol­ lowed by part of the flooring giving way. In one of the corners of my room there was a ladder leading to the roof, and all thq employes made a rush for it. There was a panic among the women for a time, and two or three of them faint­ ed, but the foieman soon succesded in re­ storing order, and then, in single file, the employes climbed the ladder and gained the roof. The girls marched o ;t in good order, gained the roof of the adjoining buildin?, which was not injured, nnd reached the street by descending the fire- escapes. " The insurance on the property destroyed is about $300,000, while the damage will aggregate at least $2^0,00 ). ' Martial Law on the Isthmus. .; Washington telegram. I The Secretary of the Navy has been In* formed the Coionjbian Government has de­ clared martial law on the I«thmus of Pan­ ama as the best means of pr serving order. [Panama dispatch. I It has become known here that the job­ ber Preston, who burned Colon, having made his escape, has since then seized three ste iincrs at forto, with the he p of which i is feared he may mrtke trouble, unless the United States naval forces shall capture him and his vessels. Portraits of Some of the Newly id Fori 1st era. sfo +. t KEIIJET, MINISTF.B TO AT78TRIA. Anthony M. Keiiey, our Aw representa­ tive to the Austrian Court, is a lawyer of prominence and successful practice at Richmond, Va. He has been Mayor of that city, and was for several years Chairman of the Democratic State Committee. The Democratic Congressmen from Virginia unanimously urged his appointment to a foreign mission. RASMUS B. ANDERSON, MINISTER TO DEN- , • MARK. Prof. R. B. Anderson, of Wisconsin, whom President Cleveland has selected as our Minister to Denmark, is a well-known American scholar, whose translations of Scandinavian authors have made his name known to scholars everywhere. He is a Professor in the University at Madison, Wis., where he was bom in 1846. His father, Bjorn Anderson, was among the first large company of emigrants that came from Norway to this.country. M CHABfcES W. BUCK, TO PERU. President Cleveland's appointee as Min­ ister to Peru is a Louisville lawyer of ability and considerable local refutation both as a jurist and scientist, his chief studies in the bitter line having been prin­ cipally in the, direction of entomology, for which he lias a passion. In his uppuint- , ment to the Peruvian mission, the admin- istration has definitely recognized a section of the United States, the identity of inter­ ests of which is becoming constantly more fully admitted. THE DECBEASE OF bOLD^r ATTORNEY GENEBAII GABLANO recon­ sidered his some whit hasty declarition, and at the last White House reception ap­ peared in the regulation full dress suit for the first time in his life. ST. LOUIS has 440 polices en to patrol square miles of territ^qr. . - .A Serious Financial Problem. [Washington special to Chicago Times ] One month ago attention was called in these dispatches not merely to the decreise of gold and increase of silver own^l by the Government, but to the ict that the de­ crease of gold and the increase of silver was going ou in an accelerating ratio. A strik­ ing exhibit of that fact is made in the Treasurer's statement of assets and liabili­ ties on the 1st of May. On Jan. 2, 1884, the Government owned $154,000,000 of gold. On Jan. 1, 1883, it owned $141,000,000 of gold, a decrease of a little more than a million a month. Three months later, April 1, 1885, it owned $125,000,000 of gold, a decrease of more than $5,000,000 a month. The exact figures for a month ago were $125,70:3,256. On the 1st inst. the Government owned $117,927,394 of gold, a loss in thirty days ef $7,805,862. At the rate of^loss for the past month the gold in the Treasury would last about fif­ teen months, but as each month shows a much larger decrease than the month be­ fore, it may be doubted whether the supply of gold will last titHl^e end of the calendar yearr. Ot course, this reduction of the stock of gold is due to the fact that the Government is paying out gold and taking in silver. Last February some New York bankers expressed to a high officer of the Treasury their opinion that if the silver coinage were , suspended by August, 1886, it would be Boon enough to prevent any change in the monetary standard, but at the rate at which the Government's gold is turning into sil­ ver it will have lost all its gold or will have to oompel its creditors to take silver long before August of next year. Look at the increase of silver in Uncle Sam'R pocket The increase in 1884 was something more than $1,500,000 a mouth# In the first three months of the year it increased about $7.- 000,000. Last month it increased nearly $0,000,000. The figures are $5,953,525. The surplus is not piling up in the Treas­ ury with anything like its old-time rapidity. The Treasurer's. balance appeirs to be be­ tween $1,000,000 and $2,0W, 000 larger than it was a month ago, but the disbursements for April slightly exceed the receipts, and the surplus of receipts over expenditures for the ten months of the fiscal year is' less by $43,000,000 than it was last year. The receipts and expenditures are as follows, omitting cents: * ?, EBCETPTS, 1889. ApriL Customs .$14,0(0,974 Internal revenue...,... »»,2.w,33T , ; 90,323.274 Miscellaneous 2,132,014 2l,a '6,493 Total t2rt,0Ca,92« " #2C3,1G9,7S2 KXPENDITU J( E«, 1881. Ordinary ....$13,71,7,754 $131,281,466 Pensions 6,1' 'i,571 • 69,501.305 Interest 6,724,125 46,84?,078 Total....... $26,694,450 BBCE1PTS 1834. Custom**, $15,2 3, r,n Internal revenue 10,10\3h8 Miscellaneous i<n88,065 Stoce July 1. $151,743,984 $27,309,811 BXPEND7TUBES 1885. $|3,740,93J 3,4»4,35« 6,7:3,010 $23,9::8,338 ' $237,125,850 $165,013,853 87,0 ><\571 23,6<W,2.;0 $386,317,715 ^12,068,755 66,95.,123 49,173,793 $218,191,672 Total Ordinary. Pensions.. Interest... Total. * PRINCESS BEATRICE will be married in Whippingham Church either July 22 or 23. EX-PRESIDENT HAYES was drawn as a Grand Jwor iaCleyc'aad *eceat^ tht ftwUlilitb Amendment Bullitiid Stall and Void. (From the Chicago Tribune.] The administration has been in travail over Lawton for some time, but it is at lasi definitely announced that the distinguished rebel has "declined," and, in order to "let him down easily," the opinion of the At­ torney General as to his eligibility is pub-«f hated, together with a complimentary notdh from the President. Every Union soldier and every patriotic citizen should read these documents carefully and thought­ fully. so as to understand how the work of ' sapping and mining is being carried on by the ex-rebels who are in control at Wash­ ington. Rebel Lawton was edueated at "West Point and afterward held a commision in the United States array. He took an oath to support the Constitution and bear true allegiance to the Government, but when the Rebellion broke out enlisted in the Rebel army and spent four years seeking to de­ stroy the Government which had nourished him and to which he had pledged his faith under oath. In 1807 Lawton was included in one of the sweeping amnesty proclama­ tions issued by Andrew Johnson, and the Attorney General now holds that this made the Rebel a "new man" with his guilt "blotted out" and left him "as innocent as if he had never committed anv offense." This is comparatively new doctrine. Here­ tofore it had been supposed that the etfect of the pardons and amnesty proclamations issued by Andrew Johnson was simplv to relieve the Rebels from criminal responsi­ bility or penal punishment for treason and to res ore them to the light of suffrage. It was not believed that the effect of these wholesale parJons was to make treason en­ tirely respectable and to place the Rebels on an equal plane in every respect with the Union soldiers. In fact the people supposed that in adopt­ ing the fourteenth amendment they had provided against unrepentant rebels enjoy­ ing the honors and rewards of the Govern­ ment. The prousion simply was that no rebel like Lawton, who had previously tak­ en au oath to support the Constitution, should be eligible to office unless he would apply to Congress and secure a restoration of his political lights. This Lawton al­ ways refused to do, and the Attorney Gen­ eral now holds that the Andy Johnson par­ don washed this unrepentant rebel white as snow, while the provision of the four­ teenth amendment seeking to make a dis­ tinction between patriotism and treason is wholly null and void. In the course of his decision Mr. Garland says: "The question, then, for my opinion is whether it was the intention of the four­ teenth amendment to take away the rights which the previous pardons had restored-- or, in other words, whether it was the pur­ pose of that amendment to cast a reproach upon the Executive Dejmrtment of the Government by representing as unworthy of credit its acts of unquestioned validity by destroying the rights which had un­ doubtedly been vested under those acts, and by violating the national faith solemnly pledged. "It cannot be denied that the amendment is as comprehensive as language could make it, but at the same time it must be remem­ bered that the words of every law are to be taken in subordination to its intent, and that where they are general their sense will be restricted if necessary to prevent an un­ just or absuid consequence which it must be presumed the Legislature could not " have contemplated.n The Attorney General does not state the case fairly. The question before him was not whether the fourteenth amendment should be construed to have one meaning or another, but whether it should have any meaning at all. If it will not apply to Law- ton it is a complete nullity, and will entire­ ly fail of the purpose for which it was adopted. The question which the Attorney General took into consideration was whether this provision of the Constitution was null and void or not, and it is, there­ fore, a wretched piece of quibbling for him to talk about construing words in accordance with the manifest intent when his ruling is that the provision lias no effect whatever, hut is completely nullified by the Andy Johnson pardons. Equally sophistical is the Attorney Gen­ eral's talk about the legal rule which re­ quires one department of the Govei nment to refrain from casting reproach ou another or bringing iis decisions into question. He thinks that for such a reason the full effi­ cacy of Ihe Andy Johnson pardons cannot be disputed. But this is not a case between different departments of the Government. Th» fourteenth tmictylmoiit was not the work of any of the depaitmtents. but of the people, who can question tlm dec.sinus of their officials and even "cast yep roach" on them whenever they see fit, ami may effec­ tually estop any obnoxious acUon b v means of an amendment to the Constitution. Mr. Garland's legal dogma ha^uo application in such p case. * ' , It is with a poor grace that the Attorney General cites the noted "slaughter-house cases" as tending to sustain his doctrines in regard to Lawton. What was decided in those cases was that general language in the constitutional amendments could not be construed to have effects that the people never intended, and which were outside of t^e plain and unmistakable purpose of the provision. Mr. Gar and, however, con­ strues the language in such a manner us to defeat the plain iutent and inuke the amendment meaningless. What does bo suppose the amendment was adopted for if not to exclude unrepenbint rebels from office? If it will not serve this purpose what possible meaning or effect is there in it? c Mr. Garland, however, is of the opinion that after a rebel secured an Andy Johnson pardon it would be "unjust" to debar him from the offices and rewards of the Gov­ ernment, and he therefore feels obliged to construe the fourteenth amendment in such a way that "injustice" will not result. He accordingly deprives it of all meaning. The decision rests 6imply on the opinion of the Attorney General that it would be "unjust" to debar uurepentunt rebels from office, and for this reason he construes the language of the amendment so freely as to nullify its meaning. Mr. Cleveland indorses the decision and regrets that he cannot have the "honorable and valuable services" of a Rebel who once repudiated his oath to support the Govern­ ment. Under this ruling the Rebel soldier occupies a much better position than one who served in the Union army. If the ex- Rebels should gain complete control of the country they might declare all Union soldiers ineligible to office, and, as the soldiers on this side have no Andy John­ son paitlons, they would be compelled to submit. It may be considered as settled that under this administration a Rebel soldier with an Andy JohnBon pardon is to be ranked in even- way superior to a Union soldier with an honorable discharge. A k New York Teaeceat Bone Horror --Terrible Boiler Explosira «f tialvegton, Texas. Three Persons Cremated at WatertowA, ^jf.--Two Brave Oueage If Firemen Kiilel Sight People Cre mated. Another tenement-house horror is reported by telegraph from New York. Fire broke out at midnight in the rear ot John Humphrey^ res­ taurant, in First avenue, apd, before the flames could be subdued or the occupants of tbe buiid- inn rescued, eight unfortunate human beings were cremated. They were: Joseph Humphrey. a *ed :if>; Henry Humphrey, aged 4 mont::s; Mi«a Elizabeth Hurley, anted 2i: M.ss Christina Koerner, atied 4-t; Mrs. Mina Krithzmar, aged 32; R chard Krithzmar, aged 11: William Hur­ ley, and Mary, a sister of Mrs. Humphrey, aged 45. Besides the kill.d, fourteen per­ sons were injured, some of them very seriously The folluwinn v\\ re partly (suffocated: Mrs. Ida lioehieh, aired 2'2: Alljert Koerner. asted 1">; Miss Kate koerner, asred 'js; Willi' m Flanagan, ased ll>: Geortre Hurley, aced 5u; Mrs. Kliza Hurley, aged r>">: Mis Kate 1 imbacher, aged 26; Katie Limbaclitr, aicedii; Martha and Alfred Kritiiz- m«r, aged res, ectivelv s and 12 years; an Infant child of Mrs. l.oehich'a. The following had each a leg broken by jump­ ing from winaows: Pauline Koerner, nee J IS; Willie I.iehmpuhl. aged 7; and Rosalie Hum­ phrey, agad 24. At the time of the fire there were eight fami­ lies in the house, with a total of tuirtv-slx soula. One man saved his wife and three children by tossing them, one at a time, from a second-story window, into the aims of a stalwart hero named Alien, who caught them on the fly as fast as they came to him. A mncBHt' of Mils were readinc ia the Senate oath* the more important the toUewa Hereley, permiMtec tne ooin Park ia Cbfefego to boild at i a musenm of r IMiator Ray, 1 Board of Health. ties to report tmr on' of InfeaHans df fiecribim; penalties fee faUnaas ti Senator Houtbwortfc, amending of the law of partittoa by addhw a the section shall not apply to ments, or hereditaments held by any tenant tor life, either by devise, or m>r- chaee, or otherwise; by Senator pr- tectln* the buyers of fertillsm by «Maftl>e State Board of Agriculture the power to analyze the same; by Senator Ainewortb, reratftttngthe incorporation of vflla*es --"rffm T* WfiTltlt ants, instead of 900, as at iwant; by Senator Rfnehart. amending; the law of tupito '• entry and detainer, by rirtn* any OM O( the owners of land held in Joint tenantry the ililit to avail himself of tlte statute and saalsl*ia&ta suit asraingt those in wrongful poesenrioa off the promi«t8. Senator (HI I ham totrodaoedflw «m mittee bill on the question Of stoa'O-Mtim- monia. it provides lor the appointment of a Mate Veterinarian and Board at t'Wffllia'WMW, and contemplates an approprtetloaof flMOttor the expenses of the commission and to nay for cattle condemned. In the House, toe bill making the license iifO for all BqUMNI waa reached, but its consideration waa postpoaed. The bill introduced by Mr. Fowler Me&ftftii>iraf County Surveyors to acknowledge deMI Md mortgages was ordered to a third readinc. In the Mnlhearn-Klnpp contest, a silll uiaiisfllie reported aeainst Mnfbearn, the sittixur nMSBboc. Terrible Destruction by n Kxplbdlnc Boiler. . The city of Galveston, Tex:, waa shook from center to suburbs, ihe other evening, by an ex­ plosion in the engine-room of the Tremont'Bo- tei. People in the vicinity, says a telegram from that city, were terrified to see the building sud­ denly expand into a cloud of smoke, fire, dust, and debns, from which shot the bo lies of men and missiles ci every description, accompanied by a hissinn, rumbling sound immediately fol­ lowed by a terrible deafening crash. The main building shook and trembled as if in the throes of a mighty earthquake. The boiler-house was completelv demolished, not one brick remaining upon another. The tali ch mney fell with a crash, while from the rear shot out with terrible loice oneof thelaiw sixty horse-power boilers. This was ill iven with tearful velocity a distance ot 50u teet, crushing in its course the north end of a two- story frame laundry building in the rear of the hotel. Careening upward it grazed an I dam­ aged the roof of a two-story blacksmith and wheelwright shop, 'lhen plunging downward, it demolished like eggshells three small frame tenement-houses occupied bV negroes, and finally spent its force on a house of ill-repute, one room of which was occupied by a man and woman. Upon this hou><ethc hugep:ece of iren dropped, crushing it into kindling, killing the woman and dange ously wounding the n.an. The scene in the immediate vicinity of the explosion presented a ghastly, sickening spectacle. Ready and willint; hands exhumed trom beneath a mass of twisted iron, brick and mortar the dead bodies ot lour human beings, two of them being most horribly mutilated. Half a dozen others were seriously injured. The scene at the hotel immediately after the explosion was one of the wildest confnsion. The bote.' building tottered and quaked, and cinders, ashes, and smoke tilled Uie corridors, while the guests tied from their rooms terror- stricken and pallid. Several in and about the building were struck with flying missiles and slightly wounded. Three Lives Lost In a Horning Hons*. At Watertown, Seneca County, N. Y., the dwelling of Mr. James A. Logan was burned, shortly after midnight. The house was occu­ pied by Mr. Logan, his wife, and four children. Before the lire dei>artment arrived the house was nearly burned to the eround. On arriving on the scene the tiremen found the l;ody of Mrs. Logan banging out of the second-story window, burned to a cris)>. After the lire was got under control search was made for t he other bodies. In the second story waa found the body of Mr. Loizan, with his youngest child clasped in his arms. Whjle attempting to escape they had evidently been overcome by the heat and smoke and both were burned put recognition. Two ChicHgo Firemen Killed. A four-story store on South Water street, Chi- ca*o, was partially destroyed by fire, involving a loss of After the fire waa out a master or Vie men of hook and ladder company No. 1 showed that two men, Martin Mulvey and Charles Bird, were missing, A force of tiremen were put to work to search the ruins. Alter two hours of hard work two bodies were found, and tbey were identified as those of Bird and Mnl- vey. The bodies were hadly crushed and muti­ lated. Falling foors injured a number ot the other Bremen. While runina to the tire Bull- winkle's big wagon collided with a street-car on Randolph street. The horses of the patrol and street-car horses were knocked down, and the ear itself was nearly overturned. Nobody was hurt. * FOUR MEN KILLED. A Desperate Fight with Cattle-Thieve* [St. Louis dispatch.J Four men were killed in a battle with cattle-thieves in the Indian Territory. The battle occurred yesterday afternoon, and was the result of the extensive operations of a gang of marauders known as the Bed River band of cattle-thieves. They are said to be organized and well equipped for prosecuting their lawless busi­ ness. They have been operating ex­ tensively, and within the last three weeks have grown doubly daring and bold in their exploits. They drove oif a lot of cattle belonging to the Iloff Brothers one day this week, leaving a good trail to follow them by. A posse was organized and war declared in earnest. Pursuit was com­ menced Wednesday morning and prose­ cuted with vigor until yesterday afternoon, when the vi lains were corraled in a big log house, or barn, at Lee's ranch. How many were in the house ia not definitely known, but from "signs" it was believed there were six, and that they were well-armed and desperate fellows. The house was surrounded . and prepara­ tions made to cany "It by assault, but the men inside opened firs, and their aim was deadly. The shots were returned, and there was lively shooting for about ten minutes, when the would-be thief- catchers were forced to retreat, taking with them four of their number dead. They were Andrew Roff, James Boif, Tom Guy, an Indian police sergeant, and Jim AkerB. The people of that section are aroused, and are preparing to inaugurate a war of exter­ mination on the gang. THE BUSINESS SITUATION. . .. . - . j . s c . : . AFFAIRS at Washington have been found in admirable shape, despite the specious cry for reform so vigorously indulged in during the last campaign. There is no $100,000.- 000 of idle money wherewith to buy up bonds and "stop interest," neither are the departments overstocked with clerks. As far sis examined, the Treasury is in first-class condition; uo rottenness anywhere, and no indication of business having besn man­ aged in any but a conscientious and wise manrer. If any c erks are "disposed of," it is altogether safe to say that others will greedily take their places. There is no longer any;binj said of extravagance or mismanagement. In fact, it is plain that the election is over, and the need of falsify­ ing facts is past--Indianapolis Journal. -- r ON tbe face of the returns it would seem that it is the desire $f the powc rs that be to make Gen. Sheridan's res dence in Wash ngton as disagreeable as possible. Sheridan's greatest offense is that he won several brilliant vie oiies for the Union i durii g the war; but this, of course, is-not advanced as a reason for making the eli- 1 m*t$ of til* capital sultry for hun. [From the Chicago Tribune's weekly reylewj The money market is very dull, with rates tending rather downward, and funds are again accumulating at the financial oenters. The bankers of New York are considering the question of further reducing the inter­ est on the deposits of outside banks. A number of the leading banks refused some months ago to pay interest on any new ac­ counts. It is likely that the practice will be abolished in New York altogether. The quantity of capital employed in speculative entei prises is probably smaller than ever before in the history of the country in pro­ portion to the whole amount. No revival is reported in any manufactured commodity, and the spring trade enters its closing month timely. There still seems to be an oversupply of textiles, particularly cottons. The curtailments of the Eastern manufacturers have evidently not extended far enough. Some of the South­ ern mills are having an experience of loss to which, in their remarkable thrift in the last few years, they have generally been strangers. The flour mills are sti 1 do ng an active business, but complaint is made of the scarcity of some of the most desirable kinds of wheat. The lumber market ooks pretty strong. Much less than formerly is said about an over- supply. There is no genertl incr ^asa in the discontent among laborers, which is mainly confined to the iron, coal, and stone industries. LADY TENNYSON, who writes a bold, run­ ning hind, has for many years written and signed the replies to all le.ters address ed to her husband, autograph requests included. • * MRS. PHELINA JOHNSON, of Aurora, 111., lately celebrated her. 100th birthday. nuiawn jaded la th* giving Kluppa majority of 910 votes. Both Wea are Democ;at». Twenty-three Bi sixty-four members of the Hooaa their names when the roll-call ni iotr.t assembly. Only It votes we ballot for United States Senator. B*IST ' for Joshua Allen: Tontz for W. P. Bvadahaw: Morgan, of Will, for Carter Harrison; sad It Democrats for William R. Morrison. VERT little legislative work waa accomplished by either the Senate or House on the id teat. The Senate simply went through the fonaatty of meeting and adjourning. In the House, Mr. Davis Introduced a resolution directing the (lerk of the House to inquire of the County Clerks of the various counties of the State how many soldiers there are la • their respective ccunty poor-beoaes who arc not drawing pensions. The object of tKh resolution is to determine the necessity of passing the Soldiers' Orphans' Home hill, ud it was unanimously adopted. Mr. Qulnn offered a joint resolution providing that at the next gen­ eral election the question of amending the Con­ stitution in relation to State printing and P ' contracts be submitted to the people. The i lution \% as referred to the Committee on J ry. A bill was introduced by Mr. Downs i it a criminal olfense for any corporation tor»- tain any portion of an employe's wages for I pital or other purposes, it Is directs eh agains: the Wabash Railway, whose State J pital is located at Springfield. For the rapport of this hospital each employe pays from 9S to 50 cents monthly, aggregating, ne alleges, about $:w.ow per year, while the actual expsaseeC i ning the hospital i* less than $12,000 ] Mr. Mileham introduced a Mil an liquor law by providing that in no case shall a liquor dealer be subject to a fine for sellfnK to an habitual drunkard without having first been m>- titied not to do so by the family or guardian of said person. The bill was referred totheUeenae committee. Several unimportant bills wen read a second time and ordered to a third read­ ing. Four Senators and twenty-eight »BP- resentatives answered to roll-call when the joint Senatorial session was called to order. The voting was decidedly scattering and resulted as follows: Morrison It, Lojn i, Samuel C. Wiley 1, W. E. Nelson 1. The Spring- held correspondent of th ' Chicago 7¥mes told graphs: "The Democrats, or at Wast the greater part of their number, appear to agree npon the proposition that nnleas an elec­ tion occurs by June 1 the Assem­ bly might as well pass the appropriation -Mils and ajjonrn. Oen. Logan, however, thinks the session will continue through the anmmer months, and no final adjournment be had be­ fore September. He evidently believes that some of the Republican Senators will go in with the Democrats and defeat the passage of any and aU resolut ions for an adjournment aine die. No BUSINESS was attempted in either branoh of the General Assembly on the 4th Inst. The calendar of bills on first reading waa exhausted In both houses at the last pri nritint dar'ssowelnw. and, as there were no bills which oould beeonsM- ered, very few members1 were on band. Poor Senators and twenty-seven Representatives were present, at the joint session. There waa no danger in voting, and the majority of those present seemed desirous ot doing aomething that would look as If they were performing their duty as legislators. They proceeded to vote for the most prominent favorites in the eeaatectat struggle, and the result was as follows; Mor­ rison, 14; Logan, Black, 1. NOTHING whatever waa done In the Senate on the sth inst., and the sessions ot the House wem consumed in the bills on second reading. $1,500 for furnishing and i Library was read a seoond tlias iad sgdiwd io a third reading without disonesto*. Mr. West's noted piggy-sow bill was also read a seoond time and ordered to a third rnedlim This Mil declares stock in an advanced stage of pregnsaacy unfit for food, and fixes a penalty of not less than $~>o nor more than &00 for exacting a deduction from tbe aetual weight of such stock. Several other bills of lea.'er Imrortance were read a seoond ttmei A bill for the protect on of hoys and gtris ander years old, making it unlawful to oompel them to work longrcr thau eight hours, waa sent to * third reading; a bill to repeal the- law for publishing the reports of township oit cers in country papers was sent to a third reading. A do<en bills or so ot minor iin rortance were ordered to third reading, bight Senators uu<l sixty-nine member*Of tho llous * answered to their names when the joint assembly convened at noon. A great dead of miscellaneous voting was done, and the ballot for United States Senator results J as follows: Logan, 11; Morrison, 8; Baker, 2; McKally.l; Dill, l; Linegar, 1; John I'ope Uodoett, 1; Henry *'• Donovan, 1: and John C. Blaok, i. VERY little of interest was done in either branch of the Legislature on the 0th lost. In tbe Senate an amendment to the law of i Hon for lunatics was ordered to third leading; Senator Curtis' food adulteration bill aim Sen* a tor Gilliam's fence bill were read a seoond time; Senator Crawford's bill pennlttlninSlleo and villages to construct systems of paldio works at the expense of the owners of " benefited by the improvement was di ana a long-winded bill amending the of the State in diveis importsat tlculars was passed. In the House thepsy-roli question was brought up again, and fifty-two persons retained as janitors, policemen, and pages. The Senate bill t dative to cettitdKioa ot' minor cases was advanc d. The House MUa to consolidate county and township school funds, to award fines to humane societies which mav cause tiieir infliction, to secure adequate compensation to School Superintendents, and to prevent the leasing of county abstract indices were all ordered to a third reading. One hUn- dred and sixteen members answered to their names when the .ioint assembly convened as noon. Ou the ballot for i'nited States fVnatnr only one vote was cast--that ot fWnator Boner for George E. White. • CONSIDERABLE legislative work wastUsposad of in both houses on the 7th inst. The Senate % passed the measure compelling Appellate Comts to tile writt-en opinions in all ca as and a bill rel­ ative to school elections, and advanced to third reading bills to exact a license fee at % per oea&. from foreign tire insurance companies, to com­ pel the s'smping of convict-made goods, and to punish bural u'8 found with deadly drags or deadly weapons in their possession by not less imprisonment. The COm-than ten years' Impi mittee on Railroads reported back the following bills, adversely: Duncan's to repeal an act to repeal the law in iegard to use of streets and alleys in dtiee by elevated railroads: Hereley's bill, to repeal an aot ia re­ gard to the use ot' streets and alleys la cities by elevated railroads; Hill's hill, requiring rail­ roads to use safety couplers on freight " ' ~ elevated railroads; Hill's bill. The House ordered a lar.'e number of biUs'to third reading, among them measures to tax ex- l>re<8 companies, to make the Warehouse Commission elective and fixing the term of office at six years, with Ineligibility for re-election, and to allow ball to be fixed by sheriffs during reoees ot courts. The House struek ont the enacting clause of tho bill to schedule all kinds of deadly weapons of whatever kind for taxation, and of Mr. Oherry'a biî t') amend Section 10 of tbe law retaking to millers, dams to mills, and other machinery of" navigation. Mr. Miller's bill, defining the crime of rape, and fixing the limit on the pert of th* male at 10 years of age and of the female at U years, was read the second time. Two ball< were cast for Senator in tbe joint convent "HK loved the good things of earthy* the new boarder said; but the old OM simply shook his head with a sad, pity­ ing look, and mused: "Poor devil! He won't find any of them here." LIFE is divided into three terms--Utftl which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit hy the present, and from the present to live better for the future. Ai FECTATIOX in any part of out riage is as lighting up a eaiulla to our ' de eets, and never fails to make ns taken notice of, either as wanting sena* or wanting sincerity. TEACH self-denial, and makeite pr*e»\ ; tice pleasurable, and you create for th# world a destiny more sublime than eveflt issued from the brain of the wilde^| J dreamer. THK lawyer and the aalooiir**apR Ml , ' ' ,