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McHENBY, - iLLmoia THE talk about the physical condition ' < f Mr Manning brings out the fact that h<"> weighed, at the time of his at­ tack, 225 pounds. He had gained over twenty-five pounds since he came into ii» position at the Treasury. The President is not much behind him in weight. Thtey are very much alike in 'figure, height and general physical peculiarities. SECRETARY LAMAR is the only mem­ ber of the Cabinet who is not keeping house. , He has a suite of sis rooms upon tile sixth floor of the Portland Flats. The Portland Flats building lias the general appearance of a great ship, and Mr. Lamar lives in the bow of this ship. He has beautiful views out of his window, as he has a com­ mand of both sides of the bow from windows of his apartments. He is cer­ tain to have splendid ventilation, and upon the hottest day or night his room is sure to be cool. TpE late Charles Sumner married a beautiful woman at a late hour of his life, and in attending the parties to which she led him experienced such acute pain because of his misplacement nnd the absence of his liooks that, ac­ cording to various accounts, he loomed above the prevailing greatness, and fun, **' and gentility like the awful embodi­ ment in small space of an impending epidemic. Mr# Sumner willingly sub­ mitted to the divorce for which his wife sued--and no harm to either--and though he died early he lived happy. eiftntation. They are all youngsters, ranging from 7 to 12 years of age. But they Beem to have acquired strong im- 'ihi the two branches of Congress. The Senators' sons stick together and af­ fect to look down on the Representatives' sons. The latter are only too ready to fight for their rights. Naturally, the result is seen in frequent scrimmages. The latest of these occurred between Eddie Kenna, son of Senator Kenna, of West Virginia, and Johnnie O'Neill, son of the St. Louis Congressman. Mr. O'Neill's 7-year-old came home with the air of a boy who has had*the best of it. He confided to his father's secretary the details, with the conclusion: "Yer betcher life it's a cold day when the House gets left at our school."--St. Louist Globe-Democrat. "Miss MARY L. BOOTH," says a New York writer, "has edited Harper's Bazar for more years than it is polite to talk about, but no one seeing her on the street would suspect her of even a remote familiarity with a fasjpon plate. Slia may be seen on Franklin square almost any evening about 5 o'clock, in a particularly shabby, old-fashioned sealskin jacket, a nondescript hat, and a 'serviceable' dark cloth skirt decidedly the worse for wear. She says that dress to her savors of the shop alone, and the less she can think about it when away from business the k<u she is." , »'» IT is said that the late Judge Baxter's fatal illness resulted largely from over­ work. His circuit extended from Michi­ gan to Tennessee, and he was kept con­ stantly engaged holding court or trav­ eling from place to place. Several of the District Judges in the same circuit are ill from overwork and unable to perform their judicial duties. This state of affairs may well serve to call attention to the necessity of means to relieve the United States courts. The bill proposed by the American Bar As­ sociation to effect this change has been before Congress several years, but re­ mains unacted upon. The most im­ portant suits are brought ih the United States courts, and, after great delay, are tried by overworked and underpaid Judges. The circuits in nearly all the Western States are too large. The plan proposed by the Bar Association to re­ lieve the Supreme and the Circuit Courts ought to afford at least a basis for a bill that will expedite business in the Federal tribunals. MR. CHARLES KTTSSELI., M. Hackney, and former M. P. ft* dalle, is the first Roman Catholi^1" lim 7 occupied the office of /Htorriey General of England since the Informa­ tion. He is an Irishman, born in Newry in 1833, and was educated in Trinity College. The first Roman •Catholic judge since the Reformation was the late Judge Shea, also an Irish­ man, from Kilkenney. Sir James Mathew, of the chancery judiciary, is now a Roman Catholic and of a Tip- perary family. The Marquis of Ripon, now First Lord of the Admiralty, was therft rwtr* Rum*** 'Owtbulio, ~ vfaloe thn ~Refbrmation, admitted to the Cabinet. A MOVEMENT is on foot among the students of Paris to compel the Faculty of Medicine to grant a degree to M. Pastaur, which would enable him to inoculate those who go to his laboratory to be treated for rabies or any other malady. As it is, he has to act through a doctor. Two students who were never bitten by any rabid animal have Wen importuning him to inoculate them, in order to get mcra completely at the law which governs rabies. He in refusing (reports the Paris corre­ spondent of the London New a) said that he was not licensed to cure, much less to kill, hoping that this would rid him of them, but they have made his want of a degree a question of discussion at the meeting of the association of medi­ cal students and for agitation in the <Juartier Latin. A NEW paper has been started in Dakota. The editor of it seems to think a good deal of the ambitious Ter­ ritory, for he goes into raptures over it in the following style: "Dakota is the queen of the prairie States. Her throne is in the lap of a line of silver mountains. Her footstool is the subsoil of a golden prairie. Her scepter is the wisdom and grace of a people whose trust is in God. Her maids of honor are wheat and sil­ ver, flax and cattle. Her knights are men of brain, with hands of brawn. go ^oT palace is carpeted with green. Her v are paved with jasper. Water- inkle in the sunlight on her s. The everlasting hills rise up guard her from her enemies. Her men are full of manly perseverance and courage; hejr women of womanliness and grace. She is young. She is bright. She is altogether lovely to look upon. Sprightly in March. Dashing in June. Beautiful in September. Mild in December. Dignified in January. Always a darling. We throw her a kiss." This is certainly enthusiastic, and it casts in the shade anything that Mr. Blake ever said about Kansas. Mr. Blake, however, is a little too prosaic to adopt the above style- of eulogy, but he at least gave his hearers to under­ stand that Kansas was a "darling." MART ANDERSON is computed to be worth $500,000, which is said to be safely invested in real estate, gas stocks, and railway shares, both in England and America, A small portion of it is ;n American bonds. She expects to •clear this year $150,000. But our Mary is not so rich as her sister professional, Lotta, who, as a rule, lives frugally, and is eminently business-like. She claims to be, and probably is, the wealthiest woman on the stage. Her dollars are estimated as totaling up to considerably more than a clear million. Most of her money is held in the name of her mother, Mrs. Crabtree, who has been her daughter's business manager ev^r since she appeared on the stage. Lotta has sustained, only one serious monetary loss. A man she was en­ gaged to was at the liottom of it. She let him have $20,000 to speeulate with. .Helost the whole of it, and Lotta's iheart and hand with it. THE death of a man in Kentucky who become addicted to the inordinate use of paregoric conveys a useful lesson to p»r(Tits. It seems this narcotic was fad to him in large quantities when he jras a child, and he thus acquired a P^regorio habit which grew with his fiP*0vth and strengthened with his »*r<?n»Ji until it was only by a violent •f^gglHliat fifty years afterward he ctnquered>Jjiis morbid taste. Another illustration is furniHted in the man in ft Chicago museum who gew away with tiffin est specimens of glassware. He •Was probably raised on a bottle. These instances, however, only show the wonderful power and capacity of the tsainsd human stomach. But there are potions that work on the brain when fed to children. The good old grand­ fathers of New England have a panacea for infantile ills in the shape of catnip tea. From cutting teeth up to mumps and measles catnip is a universal remedy. AT the Christian Brothers' School, in Washington, the sons of three United "States Senators and of half a dozen Representatives are receiving their Not Rewarded. "Unselfishness and disinterestedness do not meet with proper reward in this country," remarked Colonel Bollin- worth, during a pleasant conversation with Major Downer. "I'll give you an illustration. Down in my neighborhood there lived a worthy citizen named Mumps. Rather a peculiar name, I admit, but there never lived a more impartial man than J. Horatio Mumps. Last year crops were short with us. and the question of how to get corn enough to fatten the hogs was discussed bv everyone. There was very little mast, but many of the farmers turned their hogs into the woods. Among* those farmers was a rather worthless old fellow named Spillers. Mumps, having cultivated a rich piece of bottom land so moist that it was not much affected by the drouth, made enough corn to fatten his hogs. One day when he went into the woods to feed them, he found five of Spillers' hogs among them. They squealed so and looked so hungry that the good man had not the heart to drive them away, so he fed them with the rest." "He is indeed a kind-hearted man!" the major exclaimed. "Beats any case of true kindness of heart I ever knew," the Colonel re­ plied. "Of course after this, Spillers* hogs came regularly. Mumps' wife told her husband that charity^ should begin at home, but the philanthropist de­ clared that it was not in his heart to show partiality. Well, after awhile, when killing time came, Mumps, still unwilling to show selfishness, killed Spillers' hogs just ao he did his own, and, sir, took the same pains in cutting them up, and hanging them up in hic| smoke-house." "You don't tell me so?" "Yes, hung them upas well as he did his own." "Did Spillers prove grateful?" "No, he didn't, the1 wretch. He had Mumps arrested." "Arrested!" "Yes, arrested on the charge that his credit and standing in the community had been injured. We all thought that Mumps would come clear, but the judpje in his charge to the jury said: 'Gentlemen, we cannot impugn the motives of the defendant, for his un­ selfishness is to be commended, but in taking up the plaintiffs hogs, even though he nurtured them, he created the impression that the plaintiff was unkind if not able to take care of and feed his own hogs, thereby injuring his standing as a church member and his credit as a man. It is therefore my duty to say that it is your duty to send Mr. Mumps to the penitentiary for five years.' No, sir,"the colonel continued, "kindness and unselfishness is not ap­ preciated in my neighborhood."-- Arkanmw. Traveler. , « t A Progressive TOUTI. Eastern Gentleman (visiting in the West)--Is your l>eautiful little city a progressive place at all, Mrs. Breezy ? Mrs. Breezy--Oh, yes, sir. We have progressive euclira parties almost everv night in the week.--Ha-rper'tt Bazar. A MAN'S own religion, though contrary to, is better than the faith of another, let it be ever so well followed.-- It is , good to die in one's own faith, for an­ other's faith beareth fear. MEXICAN INDIANS. A Docile and IndUHtrion* l'oopto -- Tbe Heavy LoaiU Thejr Carry on Their IlacJcs. The fact ia that the Indian puts bim- self in competition with the burro, that patient little Iteast of general totage. The back of the Indian seems to be about as strong as that of the burro, and the Indian has this advantage, that after transporting his stuff to market he can make his own bargain for its sale. I know no more interesting sight than to go out in the early morning on to one of the great highroads leadhi^into the city, and to watch the never-ending procession of Indians carrying burdens. The rag figures sold in a few Boston shops gi^e exactly their expression. It is the Aztec face, that dull, bronzed countenance, with lustreless eyes,which seem to have accepted the lowest con­ dition of life as all that is attainable by human endeavor. And what loads these strong Indian backs ran carry! I watched a gang the other day loading grain on a car. The grain was in bags, and each bag weighed H00 pounds. A little bronzed chap, about as big as the l»ag, and weighing not a pound over 1()6, would take a bag on his back and run up a platform which was on a level with the car, and then he Mould trot back at once for another load. Aild yet some writers assert that the lower Mexican class are lazy. I say that they are ca­ pable of as unremitting, patient toil as any people on top of the planet, and that the true wealth of Mexico consists of her docile and industriovs laboring population. Half the time they are idle and have nothing to do. That they will work hard and continuously for a fair wage the history of the building of the Central Railway shows. Ex-General Manager Robinson, now of the Atlantic and Pacific, said that he preferred them to any American gang of laborers for hard work. I have seen an Indian carry from a car to a weighing scale bag after bag of grain weighing 300 pounds, and four cargmlores will carry a grand piano on their shoulders from one end of the city to the other. Furniture is usually moved on litters, with a man at each end. These chaps will pile up stuff on a litter and bind it with ropes, and then start off at a jog with a burden big enough for a horse. These furniture movers are remarkably careful, and rarely injure anything. They work cheaply and well. Frequently you will see a man perched on another's shoulders being taken about the streets. I have often seen well dressed old gentlemen being trotted along in this fashion. They were victims of rheumatism - out for an airing, or on a visit to some, friend. The poorer classes carry their babies on their backs, and one of the quaintest sights is to see a little brown face with black eyes peeping out of the liook-like folds of its mother's upper garment. I often see babies being toted about in this way on the backs of little brothers or sisters, for the kindness of Mexicans of all classes to young children is a most praiseworthy characteristic. Even in the narrow streets, where the very poor live in hut-like houses, you see no trouble among the children; they play quietly, and their mothers are not en­ gaged in frequent brawls regarding childish difficulties. Indeed, there is a certain refinement of action, a decency and courteousuessff of behavior among the poorest Indians which would put to shame the coarseness of people of the same grade of life in an American eity. --Corr&pandence Boston Heraldf> The Idea of tiod. To one familiar with Christian ideas, the notion that man is too insignificant a creature to be worth the notice of Deity seems at once pathetic and grotesque. In the view of Plato, by which all Chris­ tendom has been powerfully influenced, there is profound pathos. The wicked­ ness and misery of the world wrought so strongly upon Plato's keen sympa­ thies and delicate moral sense that lie came to conclusions almost as gloomy as those of the Buddhist who regards existence as an evil. In theTimaios he depicts the material world as essentially vile: he is unable to think of the pure and holy Deity as manifested in it, and he accordingly separates the Creator from his creation by the whole breadth of infinitude. This view passed on to the Gnostics, for whom the puzzling problem of philosophy was how to ex­ plain the action of the spiritual God upon the material universe. Sometimes the interval was bridged by mediating aeons or emanations, partly Spiritual and partly material; sometimes the world was held to be the work of the devil, and in no sense divine. The Greek fathers, under the lead of Clement, espousing the higher theism, kept clear of this torrent of Gnostic thought; but upon Augustine it fell with full force, and he was carried away with it. In his earlier writings, Augustine showed himself not incapable of comprehending the views of Clement and Athanasius; but his intense feeling of man's wickedness dragged him irre- sistibljr in the opposite direction. In his doctrine of original sin, he repre­ sents humanity as cut off from all re­ lationship with God, who is depicted as a crudely anthropomorphic; Being, far removed from the universe, and acces­ sible only through the mediating offices of an organized church. Compared with the thoughts of the Greek fathers, this was a barbaric conception, but it was suited alike to the lower grade of culture in Western Europe and to the Latin political genius, which in the de­ cline of the Empire was already occupy­ ing itself with its great and beneficent work of constructing an imperial church. For these reasons the Au- gustinian theology prevailed, and in the Dark Ages which followed it became so deeply inwrought into the innermost fibces of Latin Christianity that it re­ mains dominant to-day alike in Catholic and Protestant churches. With few exceptions, every child born of Christian parents in Western Europe or in America grows up with an idea of God the outlines of which were engraven upon men's minds by Augustine fifteen centuries ago. Nay, more, it is hardly too much to say that three-fourths of the body of doc­ trine currently known as Christianity, unwarranted by Scripture and never dreamed of by Christ or his apostles, first took coherent shape in the writings of this mighty Roman, who was sepa­ rated from the apostolic age by an in­ terval of time like that which separates us from the invention of printing and the -discovery of America. The idea of God upon which all this Augustinian doctrine is based is the idea of a Being actuated by human passions and purposes, localizable in space, and utterly remote from that in­ ert machine, the universe in which we live, and upon which he acts inter­ mittently through the suspension of what are called natural laws. So deeply has this conception penetrated the thought of Christendom that we continually find it at liottom of the speculations and arguments of men who would warmly repudiate it as thus 1- ,1 onflinnq r\vv>-! _ nates the reasonings alike of believers and skeptics, of theists and atheists; it underlies at once the objections rais;nl by orthodoxy against each new step in science and the assaults made by materialism upon the religious con­ ception of the world; and thus it is chiefly responsible for that complicated misunderstanding which, by a lamenta­ ble confusion of thought, is commonly called "the conflict between religion and science."--John Fiske, in Atlantic Monthly. Ossian. The stoty of Ossian's life is envel­ oped in as- much obscurity as that" of Homer. And» as in the cusp of the Greek bard, it is not certainly known that the Celtic poet ever lived, or that, if he lived, he ever wrote the }>oenis as­ cribed to him. According to the Celtic legend, embodied in the poem of "Fingal," the poet Oisin, or Ossian, was the son of Finn, or Fingal, a hero of Ireland in the second century. Finn, like King Arthur of England, had a band of heroic followers, called the Feni, whose story resembles that of King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table. All of them were heroes, fear­ less of danger, ever ready to do and suffer bravely, battling with all the powers of darkness, lpyal to each other, tender and courteous with women, gal­ lant and good men, models of an early chivalry. Oisin was one of these and sang of their brave deeds. The legend­ ary story is that he outlived his com­ panions for several centuries. He had maVried a beautiful maiden, who came to wed him from a country over the sea, and returned to her land to dwell. It was the land of the immortals, the country of fadeless sunshine and beauty. After living there three years, as he supposed, he was seized with a great longing to see Erin and his father and brothers again. His wife endeav­ ored to dissuade him, but in vain, and at last consented to his departure on the one condition, that he should not during his absence dismount from a white steed which she gave him. When he got to Ireland he found himself in a country of strangers, for the three years which he had spent in the en­ chanted land had been in reality three earthly centuries. He asks for the Feni in vain; only the distant memory of them lingers in men's minds. In his grief he forgets his promise to his wife, and dismounts from his horse, when lo! the horse flies away, and Oisin falls to the ground a withered, blind old man. The curse of the old age of men has come upon him, and he can never re­ turn to liis fair wife and the land of im­ mortal youth. St. Patrick was now in Ireland, says the legend, and to him Oisin repeatedly told the story of the bright beauty and wonderful deeds of the heroes of his youth. This is the tradi­ tion. The truth probably is that a poet ot the name lived in Ireland in early times. No doubt some of the poems ascribed to him were his com­ position, and possibly many written by others were also credited to him. No -existing specimens of the poetry have been found in manuscript older than the twelfth century, but they no doubt ex­ isted in oral tradition many centuries before this. The first English transla­ tions of these poems were made about the middle of the last century. The at­ tention of scholars hail but lately been called to the existence of mtfhy very old Gaelic manuscripts, and ajuning man, James MaCph<rsbn, a/ nwe (Ja*?lic scholar, was requested by Edinburgh professors to translate some Gaelic pietry into English. He did so, first producing some short pieces, which he said were fragments of a long epic poem, and shortly after the long poem, Fingal, complete. The publication of this work in 1762 created a great sen­ sation, and excited much controversy, many literary men doubting the au­ thenticity of the poems. Dr. Johnson, in particular, denounced Macplierson as "an impudent forger," who was try­ ing to pass off his own compositions as translations from ancient manuscripts. Fuller investigation of the matter, how­ ever, showed plainly that Macphersoh had in no senss invented the characters of his poems, that he actually found such poems in existence either in manu­ script as or handed down by oral recita­ tion among the people from an unknown period. But the idea of joining these together with a thread of narrative and making epic poems of them was prob­ ably Macpherson's own, as there was no evidence adduced to show that .he took them from a similar complete work in Gaelic.--Inter Ocean. INVOKING AID FOR IRELAND. • -i""' aiULmiuvsto tu His Mid. ltfthian Constituents for Home- ' Rnle lndorsementk - $ The "Go-Devil." This is an iron stem or shaft about two feel long. Near the head, or front end, four iron arms radiate. On the end of each arm is a small wheel. This is know as a guide. The circumference of this guide, when the "go-devil" is not in use, is larger than the interior of the pipe, but folds back when inserted in the pipe, and a spring under each arm presses them snugly against the sides of the pipe. A few inches behind the guide is a set of seven steel knives or scrapers, arranged like the blades of the windmills or whirligigs of the toy shop. The shaft or stem is not made of one piece of iron. It is in two sec­ tions, united by a socket joint. At the rear, end or bottom of the stem is an­ other guide, similar to the one at the head. When- the pipes are thought to need cleaning the scraper is inserted in the pii>e at a pumping station. The pressure of the oil behind it pushes it through, the wheeled guides making the passage free. As the scraper moves along the set of knives revolve within the pipe and sets the parafline loose. The knives are held firmly against the sides of the pipe by springs at their base. Behind the knives is a station­ ary fan-like contrivance which shuts up close and fits the opening snugly, and carries along the parafline that is moved. If an obstacle is met with that cannot be removed by the "go-devil," the guides, knives, and fan-like attachment fold back and pass it. If a bend is met with in the line the socket joint in "the. stem permits the contrivance to round it and pass on. ' When the scraper is started? two men start along the pipe to, follow it oiy it course. The noise made by the "go* devil" is sufficient to be heard by the men, and it is their business to keep its location known until relieved by a relay at another point on the route. If they lose trace of it, much difficulty is en­ countered in finding ifc The scraper is followed until the next station is reached, when it is removed.--New York Sitn. Hf Aigttea His Position Broa£fy,01aiming ' the Opposition Embraces Wealth and Sooial Influence. •* Mr. Gladstone has issued a manifesto to his Midlothian constituents, in which, after explaining that his ajfce and desire to reserve his strength for the Uniting contest in Par­ liament has preveMed him fiotn taking part in the Easter recess campaign, he re­ ferred to the messages received by him from snch capitals as Washington. Boston, and Quebec us proving that the svmpatliy of the Engl»h-speaking race is with the home rule movement. He savs that they must not fee discouraged if, in the upper ranks ofJ^cietv nt houie, they hear a •ariety aWcor,lRut notes, and continues: (II NTI I/NIKN ^ IHI have beforn vo;I A (' H111 NOT 1,1 ,it8 purpose nn l with nil in- telhgilile plan of its own. I see very little else * mi m Political tirt'iiti either t]eti*ruiiu(Hl or in­ telligible. I will now proceed tu speak of the state <•/ things within and without Parliament and tt<' nature iiml inii«>rt 0f the next grer.t step Wbe taken for the progress of my meas­ ure. I apeak now of the home-rule i>ill and leave the land-purchase bill tu stand on the declaration alreiulv nifuls, tidying onlv au ex­ pression of regret to find that while the sands are running from the hour-glass the Irish land- lotfds have given no indication of a desire to accept the WtOposal framed in n spirit of the most allowable retard for their apprehensions and interest „ I do not underestimate the grave importance of differences of opinion among liberals. Some are inc ined to rule the whole question against us by authority. They say: "Surely such a number ot able, consistent, even extreme Liber­ als would not have succeeded except in obedi­ ence to the imi>erative dictates of truth and reason." I will say nothing of the motives which determined us to confront the risk of such a parting. I earnestly recommend a reference to the lessons which history supplies. It is not the first time in the hist.irv of liberalism that a section of the Liberals under chiefs of distinc­ tion and abilit y have dissented from the general view of the partv, to the delight and doubtless the advantage of the Tories. There was an illustrious secession previous to the war with Bonaparte. There was a similar «ecession when it was proposed to disestablish the Irish Church. But eventually, in both cases, it was proved that in principle the party was right and secession was wrong. Compar­ ing these with the present secession it was im­ possible not to be struck with a vital difference. In each previous secession the dissentients agreed upon an active, substantial policy. It is not so now. Some are in favor of unlim­ ited coercion; others of moderated doses, while a few oppose coeicion altogether. On the other Bide, some oppose local government, some would give it to the counties, some to the prov­ inces ; some, again, would give an administra­ tive c: nter with legislative prerogatives, while some propose a legislative center without exec­ utive power. Some, indeed, go beyond the proposition of the Government, and actually recommend federation. Some alter the propos­ als which they would recommend with every new speech. » AU this is Woof not of the weakness of the nqpn but of th£ helplessness of their cauae. We have ut least the advantage of one voice. The secession, however estimable it may be other­ wise, is a perfect babel on Irish politics. It is admitted on all hands that social order is the first of all political aims To secure this in Ireland the Liberals who are in secession offer a hundred conflicting remedies--or else no remedy at all. These remarks are as applicable to the Tories as they are to the Liberals. The opponents of the Government's measure make a remarkable omission in their speeches. In each, whether supgestive or critical, they fail to express confidence in the permanent success of their opposition. To live from hand to mouth seoms to be the height of their ambition, while they suspect what we all know--that the strife can only end in the concession of home rule. If this is so the real queslion is not the triumph of Irish autonomy, but the length and Character of the struggle. Therefore we want to shorten, they to prolong the struggle. We say "Give freely they, by acts if not words, sav "Let us only give what we c.in no longer withhold." We say "Give now, while the posi­ tion of the kingdom in the affairs of the world is free and strong;" they prefer to wait for a period of national difficulty, that we may yield to tho Irish demand in terror, as we did in the war of 1778, as we did to the d» mamls of the volunteers in 1782, as we did to llonaparte in 17!>:i, and as we did in the civil war of 182!). We say: "Act now, when moderation of thought and language rules in Irish counsels, when by the willing concurrence of all sides every arrangement for the rest rvation of im­ perial prerogatives can be made complete nnd absolute." They would postpone till un hour comes when the demands may be larger and means of resistance less. We say: "Deal as with a matter between brothers--a matter of justice and reason." They renew a tale, alas! too often told, whost mologue is denial with exasperation and reseiiiui 'nt; whose epilogue is surrender without conditions and without thanks. CALEB WALTON WEST, New^r. Appointed Governor of Utah Ter­ ritory. The man whom President Cleveland has selected to succeed Eli H. Murray as Gov­ ernor of Utah is a resident of Cynthiana, Ky., where he was bom May 25, 1844. He was educated at Millersburg, in the same State. At an early age h» man­ ifested a strong bias toward the pro­ fession of law, but his reading was stopped by the breaking out of the war. He vaa only 17 yeats old when he enlisted I WOULD cut off my own head if it in the Army of Northern Virginia, and was one of the company lt d by Joe Desha. Af­ ter a year's service under Desha. Mr. West joined the command of General John Mor­ gan, and was one of hiB staff when that of­ ficer was in camp at Greenville. At the close of the war he prepared him­ self for the law. He was admitted to the bar in 18(56, aft r serving for atime as Dep­ uty Clerk, during which he read diligently. In the same year--1866--he was appointed County Attorney to fill an unexpired term, and was afterward elected to continue in the same position. He was elected County Judge of Harrison County in 18i6, but re­ signed the position to prosecute his pro­ fession, As a lawyer he has been notary successful. IN recent electric lighting M^eriments it has been attempted to jamjfaach lamp its own battery. Perfeq^pK-cess is reported, and portability ha«£||£n gained by the use of a battery ofjMHcpow-er and small size. The elen^jrtpRa small packet of chloride of eilver plates of zinc, which are cell with a weak solution of j, forming what is known as ..vauoff' primary battery. After a timeJHie chloride of silver is reduced to silver, when it is easily restored by a mixture of nitric and hydro chloric aciyis. With each renewal a small battery wjjll feed a glow lamp twelve hours. No EXPLANATION has been found of the familiar/fact that, while both the light and heat of the sun pass unimpeded through glass, a titicial heat is intercepted by this trail spa: ent medium. It is strange thut the heat of m ordinary fire should pass freely through/a layer of rock salf, when it is un­ able to^jenetrate a pane of common glass; anil it is worth observing that while the hot rays of the suu pass through glass with such perfect freedom, they cannot find their way had nothing better in it but wit; and i &*ck b* *he ,^me dummd. The warmth x „_7 i i it u i t once inclosed m a hot house cannot escape ear out my own heart if it had no bet­ ter disposition to love only myself and laugh at all my neighbors.--Pope. Cleveland is about to j^aoy. by. the process that allowed it to enter the building; it must first heat the glass panes in the roof, as it would any other substance, in order to get ont aerain. JEFF DAVIS' DISLOYAL SPEECH. The corner-stone of the monument at Montgomery, Ala., to commemorate the abortive effort of the slaveholders to destroy tho Republic has been laid, and perhaps it was fitting that the arch- traitor who was the head and center of that wicked effort should have been in­ vited to glorify it and mourn over ite defeat, to reiterate his treasonable sen­ timents, and to spit out his venomous hatred of the American Union in pres­ ence of the shouting, yelling crowd of Brigadiers and "Majahs." He has ex­ pressed himself with the rancor that might have been expected, and in his glorification treason has been glorified and loyalty once more insulted. The spaech of Jeff Davis, ex-Presi­ dent of the collapsed Confederacv, on this occasion ought not to pass un­ noticed. The Union people and the Union soldiers are not yet so far awav from the period of the war which this unhanged traitor precipitated on the country as to forget it or to allow the cause for which they fought to be villi- lied without indignaut protest There is little in it that he has not said before, but it is the first time that his treason has been so publicly applauded and sustained, and it adds to the insults that the demonstration was made on the spot where he took the oath to de­ stroy the Union. The sentiments which he expressed twenty-five years ago and those which he expressed duy before yesterday are based upon the;'same principle. Then they were colored by exultant anticipations of victory; now by lamentations oyer defeat. But the treason is the same, and the Jefferson Davis of 1886 stands where the Jeffer­ son Davis of 1861 stood. Here is his position, compactly stated: My friemls, partners in joy and in sorrow, in trials and HufTcrin^, I have come to join you in tho performance of a sacred task--to lay the foundation of a monument at the cradle oif the Confederate Government which shall com­ memorate tho gallant sons of Alabama who died for their country [for slavery], who gave their lives a free-will offering in detense or the rights of their sires [to hold slaves] won in the War of the Revolution [?] and the State-sov­ ereignty freedom and independence which wore leftns as an inheritance to their posterity forever. These rights the compact of union was formed not to destroy, but the better to preserve and perpetuate. * _ "Trials and sufferings." "Who pre5- cipitated those trials and sufferings on the South but himself and his co-con­ spirators ? "Died for their country." What country? Certainly not for the Unibn. Did they die fot tbe South? The,Government was iot lighting to take the South away from them. It was not a war of land confiscation. Not an inch of land has been taken away from any rebel. There is not a man in the entire South whose title deeds have been disturbed. "The rights won in the war of the revolution." What rights were won in the revolution except the right to be independent of an island 3,U0<) miles away; the right to be a free and independent nation; and the right for all men to be "free and equal," as set forth in the Declaration of Inde­ pendence? What is this State sov­ ereignty which he claims men of inde­ pendence left as an inheritance, and about which he is continually prating? The State-sovereignty idea means the human-slavery idea, and it never meant anything else. Since the collapse of the Rebellion and the abolition of slavery the "Smith" has Baid but little about State sovereignty. Its members of Congress have sys­ tematically voted themselves liberal constructionists and grabbed subsidies and plunged into the National Treas­ ury without hesitation or shame. Be­ fore the war a protective tariff was un­ constitutional in the eyes of the Dem­ ocratic South. River" and harbor ap­ propriations were unconstitutional. Even the mails were opened, pur­ loined, and supervised by the "State." Sueh a bill as Blair's, which passed the Senate the other day by the aid of Southern votes, abstracting seventy- seven millions to substitute for State funds for education, would have been voted down as unconstitutional! We hear nothing of that kind now. State sovereignty in practical politics disap­ peared with slavery, for without slav­ ery the South has no interest in the narrow unconstitutional dogma. The "South" fought to own human flesh and hold it in bondage; to lash a livelihood out of the backs of the colored men; to breed human chattels for the mar­ ket; to buy and sell their mulatto and octoroon relatives--half-brothers, half- sisters, half-uncles, half-aunts, and half-cousins; to perpetuate this brutal and degrading system; to extend it over the free Territories; and to re­ open the African slave trade. This was the sum total of Jeff Davis' id?a of Democracy; it was and still is his in­ terpretation of the Constitution. The ninth article of the Confederate Con­ stitution tells what they were fighting for: "That in all territory acquired by the Confederate States the institution of negro slavery shall be recognized and protected, and that the citizens of any State may carry his slaves into such territory;" and this most outrageous oligarchy the world ha9 ever seen is called "Democracy!" Nothing else is meant but the restoration of this sys­ tem of sl'ivery when Jeff Davis has the effrontery to say: "Policy in the ab­ sence of magnanimity would have indi­ cated that in n restored union of the States there should have been a full restoration of the equality, privileges, and benefits as they lyxTpre-existed." The Montgomery monument com­ memorates the regret of the slave­ holders at the loss 6f the system of human chatte^hood. It represents no achievements except those of treason. The shoutrng, yelling crowd welcomed Jeff Pavis as the representative and in- carbation of disunion. They honored 'Ziim for his treason and paraded their allegiance to him and his pro-slavery sentiment and his hatred of the Ameri­ can linion. The astonished magna­ nimity of the American people left him unhanged, and the result is now ap­ parent in this fresh outbreak of his venom and its laudation by the South. And yet tiiesa disunion howlers have the sublime audacity to accuse North­ ern men of waving the bloody shirt and of keeping alive sectional differ­ ences!--Chicago Tribune. JEFF DAVIS says that dfcrery Uwon soldier that crossed Mason and Dixon's line was an invader, and the war he fought an unholy one, and all the peo­ ple of tbe South respond amen. Then, when a Northern newspaper defends the Union soldier, says lie was a pat. iot, and the war he fought was one for free government and the rights of free men, the cry is raised that the bloody shirt is being waved, and all tbe lickspittles and doughfaces in the North have a spasm. * A PHILADELPHIA preacher went down into a well to recover the church Bible, and was so overcome by the foul air at the bot­ tom that he was resuscitated with difficulty. ; • J v.: JOHN L. SULLIVAN'S parents originally intended their son for the ministry. STATE 3KW8L street-paving. r %. j"3 --Alexander L. Bamet, an early sefOaiw \ died at Clinton. P 4 --Randolph CoriEty fnrjiishe* eight caa> ^ didates for legislative honors. ^ ^ j --Rufus Dennis, of Moultrie drank lye with suicidal intent, ami will ^ die. , *fj --Several tombstones and monument* ia y the cemetery at Clayton have been destroyed ' , Jlh recently by vandals. %| --Homer Cnrtiss, a veteran of the war of ^ 1812, died at his home in Morgan County, < at the age of 99 years. , |i|L --Mark Cook, of Champaign, claims to ^ - be the oldest man in Illinois. He dates . ki. from Sept. 17,1776, and served Gen. Ja«|» * <0 I son in 1812. '• *! --Mrs. Chetlain, five children, nnd eigh- *., v»; teen grandchildren celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the occupation of the home- t H stead, near Galena. i --A jury at Waukegan convicted Michftti : " Mooney of the murder of his cell-mate In .the Jolietfpenitfntiary. and sentenced him Ito imprisonment for life. --The National Savings Bank of Chicago has changed its name to the Federal Trotfe . Company, and increased its capital stoek ftym $200,000 to $500,000. --O. B. Fickliu, a venerable Illinois law­ yer and politician, died at Charleston, at paralysis of the brain. He was.a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln. His wife is postmaster at Charleston, and a sister of Senator Colquitt, of Georgia. --Public trials will be given at Chain* paign, June 10 and 11. under the auspidH of the State Board of Agriculture, of ma­ chines for opening ditches for drain tile and of machines for the excavations of canals. Two gold medals are offered) M prizes. --The heirs of Stephen A. Douglas ha*e filed in the Superior Court at Chicag#* suit against the Union Mutual Life Insur­ ance Company pf Maine, to have set aside the foreclosure proceedings against tXto property of the University of Chicago, as* the donation by the deceased Senator coa~ (lined conditions which the Xrastees l*ie- disregarded. --A large crowd of Quincy people visited Watson Springs to get their fortunes told by a baud of gypsies who were encanfped there. The gypsies had several dogs and bears, and the visitors induced them to turn the animals loose. After a fierce fight be­ tween the dogs and bears the latter nua away, scattering the crowd and sending them panic-stricken back to Quincy. --There are several reasons why the lair business is not so profitable as it »sed to be, said an old attorney from an interior tow% the other day, in conversation with a Chi­ cago newspaper man. One is that the mercantile and collecting agencies have al­ most monopolized the collecting business, which used to be a very large factor in tte lawyer's receipts. These claims worked itt well with his other business, and, without taking very much of his time, made a hand­ some addition to his income dnring the course of a year. But now the large re­ porting and collecting agencies have their representatives all over the country, and mercantile oollec'.ions are nearly all made through them. The abstract offices have also-taken away a large amount of business that iWd to be doue by the lawyers. Some rWs ago the tracing of titles and maKing of abstracts was en­ tirely. the woHt of attorneys, but it haB new passed whollysput of their bands into the hands of men who make it a distinct busi­ ness pf its own. ^Vears are spent in ab­ stracting all the landVcords and judgment " dockets of the count>\«ml making a com­ plete abridgment of thV in the books of the abstractor's office, aaj after that the entries are kept up from daVtoday. This entails a large expenditure \f time labor, to begin with, but the botas of such au office in time become extremelV valuable and the business highly proiitableX A third reason for the decline, ho continued, is that there is not as much cause for litigi- tion in au old as in a new country. Titles to property become securely settled in the course of time, but while the countrvHs » new conflicting claims are often asserted which can only be determined by an appeal to the courts. I think, too, he added, is less disposition to litigate in o)d commit uities than in new ones. --I was talking the other day at the Psl" ; mer House with a bright, energetic younjf man from a (o .vn not ntore than a hundred miles from Chicago; writes au I-btninff Journal reporter, lie told me in substaiicfef My town is a most disc ousagfng place fori young mau^ pn-sh and energy. The busfcf' : ness »»d weaflh of the town are in the hands pf a lot of old residents who are able to live handsomely l'rom then* rents and in terest, and who don't care whether tP place 'glows' or not. In fact, some them would rather see it remain jut is, for they have become so atttached tc > old landmarks that they do not like U them disturbed. No encouragement ipf to any ne w enterprise that may be the contrary, if it has any tendency * fere with the business of the old m? they band together to crush the n* out. While other towus arouud: better natural advantages, are pis ahead, ours is as d 'ad as a last } nest. That is one of the thing* Chicago, the young inau cant wi&tt brightening eye. Evervtbi -hai' comes" hero is welcomed and en.' '^4- Your people seem to feel that t) is plenty < room for all, and that ' to build a high feu town or around in it. It is a grand free one is welcome to try l> had occasion to talk wit business men, from t; though I met them •->' no claim on their ti have always treate' kindness, and have all the informatioE th* it is this open-he < a: position on the ' t of readiness to wel*' and their wi<h ' u.tve * SBCvi <"d. stitutes one < tbfc Chicago has. SPC'"^ Our smaller < "us -'d son from C ago ^ would onb 'v I'eople dead place i lb*,' it to I* try to get v * ®®a* i*u»o h.tnees. stronger,, and v-ou>- J ;u»*t i i •!.*