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One Australian farmer has Bhot,
trapped and poisoned 18,000 rabbits in
the last year, and yet the pests are so
numerous and destructive that he has
had to give up nearly all his land.
Dr. C. Keller, of Zurich, Switzerland,
thinks that spiders destroy more aphides
and insect enemies of trees than do all
the insect-eating birds. His views have
been verified by observations on coniferous
trees, a few broad-leafed trees and
apple trees.
Although the bestdf the public lands
have gone, it is eucouraging to note that
there till remain unsurveyed about
9,000,000 acres in Colorado, 12,000,000
in Arizona, nearly 30,000,000 in California,
49,000,000 in Dakota, 7,000,000 in
Florida, 44,000,000 in Idaho, 7,000,000
in Minnesota, 39,000,000 in Nevada, 74,000,000
in Montana, 31,000,000 in Utah,
" A* A/\<\ aaa
more man <cv,vuu,i/uv/ m n asmugwu
Territory, and so on.
The Montgomery Advertiser thinks
that something must be done to bring
white people to the agricultural districts
of Alabama. It declares that there is
not now enough efficient labor in some
sections to maintain the production of
the soil at its past standard. "Nor has
the loss," it says, "confined itself to decay
In fences and houses and exhaustion
of the soil, but society has gone backward,
churches are not flourishing, and
schools are mere remnants of their former
selves.
Attorney-General O'Brien, of New
York, has decided that all State laws are
fully operative on the subjects of oleomargarine,
etc., so long as they do not
come in conflict with the laws of Congress,
andsays: "No substitute for dairy
butter made from substances prohibited
by Section 7 of Chapter 183 of the laws
of 1885, as amended, imitatiom or semblance
of natural butter can be made or
eold within this State or within any other
State or Territory within the United
giv s*o<"p*
Lieutenant Arthur L. Wagner, United
States army, in an article in the Jsumal
of the Military Service Institution, on the
military aad naval policy of the United
States, alludes to a statement made some
years ago by General McClellan that the
pension bills of the civil war would have
sustained a regular army of 30,900 additional
men from the Mexican war to the
, breaking out of the rebellion. The
writer goes on then to say that the pension
bills have now reached a total which
s would have defrayed the expenses of an
army of 45,000 mon from the Seminole
war to the outburst of the civil strife.
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At a recent church fair in Worcester,
Mass., there was great curiosity to see
and hear a new musical instrument, the
humaniphone, which was exhibited in
the large ante-room of the hall. The
instrument proved to be young ladies
representing the tone of the scale, arranged
behind a screen, showing only
their heads and shoulders. They wore
moalfo rpor>Viinnr fn thf> month, and
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around the neck of each was susphnded
by a ribbon the number of the scale represented.
A young lady stood in front,
who, with a wand, played tunes by
pointing to the one whose number was
the tone wanted, which was promptly
uttered. Rounds and other pieces were
sung, making a unique and amusing
affair.
It is not generally known that the Falls
of St. Anthony, which, years ago, used
to be one of the picturesque sights of the
northwest, and which were visited by
thousands, have been destroyed by the
commercial needs of Minneapolis. In
1805 the town had a population of but
8,106. When the falls were most admired
Minneapolis had no existence, was
really undreamed of. They had gradually
yielded to the requirements of civilization
until very little is left to remind
any one of their former attractiveness.
I have known persons to cross the bridges
over the Mississippi and, while looking
where the series of cascades had been, to
inquire what had become of them. Thus
it is that beauty is compelled to give way
to utility in the course of what we call
progress.
' Economy in sending cable messages i9
not always desirable. Relative* in New
York of a lady of social celebrity in
Paris, hearing she was ill, cabled that if
ehe was not better they would straightway
sail, and asked for instructions what
to do. The answer came "no better."
Only this and nothing more. The relatives
sailed on the next steamer, and
their astonishment was great upon arriving
in Paris to find the supposed strickcn
lady giving a dinner party. The explanation,
although simple, was very
annoying. The cable answer had been
"no," in response to inquiry whether
the relatives should sail, and "better"
as to the lady's health. Economy and
absence of punctuation cost the "party
of the second part" nearly a thousand
S dollars.
Including all the issues which have
ever beeu printed the number of postage
stamps of separate design which
have been in actual use is less than 4,800.
The first stamps were issued about the
year 1840, and some of the earliest specimens
are exceedingly rare, although
they have never been known to bring
anything like the prices which are affixed
to them in the catalogues. Dealers
usually keep very few of these rarer varieties
on hand, and if there is any call
for them they arc very ready to strike a
bargain with the collector after a little
higgling. For example there are some
stamps valued at $50 or even more, and
a large number appear in the price list
marked $10 and $ >. If a person wishes
to find the real value of a stamp he
should take his collection to a dealer and
try to sell it. It is safe to say he would
not probably get an offer of more than
ten pir cent.'of the catalogue price, and
Jie would be lucky if he got even that
Ad effort 13 being made by some Danish
capitalists to induce the emigration
of small farmers of Denmark to the
Western States, -where they will gain
some adequate return for their labor.
II lie l/iiuco ill is a uaiuj, uvuvwv^ |/wmww?.?
race, and will make excellent citizens.
An engineer on an Iowa railroad saw
a flock of turkeys on the track, and,
knowing their habits, slowed up, blew
hi* whistle and got them off without
killing any. The owner, unobserved,
saw the proceedings, ascertained the engineer's
name, and sent him the fattest
hen in the flock for his Sunday dinner.
The Philadelphia Times, referring to
the tableaux of the "First Ball of the
Republic," as given recently in that city,
says there appeared in old-time costume
beautiful daughters of stately grandmothers
and great-grandmothers who, in
just such gowns, danced dignified minuets
and quadriles at the balls given in.
Philadelphia when His Exellency and
Mrs. Washington lived on High street
and Philadelphia was the seat of government.
It has this bit of social and
historical reminiscence: "It is not easy
I to fancv the crrave Chief Magistrate tak- I
ing part in such festivities, yet history
attests that he could unbend, and when
he condescended to tread a measure it
was with singular grace and elegance.
We read of the General dancing a minuet
with Mrs. Willis on the occasion of certain
festivitios at Fredericksburg to celebrate
the victory of Yorktown, and, as
the evening advanced, entering into the
gayety of the scene so far as to go down
the room a dozen times or more in the
centre danse. In 1779 General Greene
writes from Middlebrook: 'Wc had i
little dance at my quarters. His Excellency
and Mrs. Greene dance upward .*f
three hours without once sitting down.
Upon the whole, he had a pretty little
frisk.'"
As regards wealth the United States
ranks first among the nations of the
world. In revenue France, Great Britain
and Ireland and Germany are ahead
of her, placing this country fourth. In
expenditure sho ranks eighth. In the .
amount of debt France, the United
Kingdom, Kuseia and Italy are far ahead
of this country. In regard to commerce
only three nations, the United Kingdom,
Germany and France are ahead of us.
The United States have more miles of
railroad and telegraph lines than any
other nation, and the value of American
manufactures is greater than that of any
other nation. The army of the United
States if placed on a war footing would'
he excelled in numbers by only one nation
in the world, France. On a peace
footing the army of this country ranks
below Russia, Italy, China, France, Germany,
Austria, India, the United Kingdom,
Turkey, Spain, Switzerland, Holland,
Mexico, Belgium, Sweden, Japan,
Denmark, Portugal, the Dutch East
Indies and Persia. This by a singular
anomaly, the richest country in the
world, keeps a smaller standing army
than tne Dutch East Indies and many
imporerished and unimportant countries.
She has no effective cpast fortifications,
and only three modern ships of
war.
Dr. Yasey, a Government delegate,
has completed an examination of the
arid districts of Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado
and Nothern New Mexico, with a
view to ascertaining the suitable grasses
for grazing purposes. tie iouna numerous
grasses, but only the gramma
and buffalo as most suitable. These are
of different genera, but both denominated
"buffalo grass." They constitute
ninety percent, of the grass product?
the gramma being most abundant in
moBt districts. There are also several
different grasses, known as blue-stem,
blue-joint, and blue-grass, the last quite
different from the blue-grass of the
more Eastern States. In addition Dr.
Yasey found a great variety of other
grasses, of more or less value. "Some
of these are injurious on account of the
barbed awns which cause sore mouths in
animals and work into the wool, and
even into the flesh of sheep." We believe,
says the Cincinnati Commercial's
agricultural editor, a acientitic research
amoung the mountains and plains of our
- - * . m .% -.? _ _ . j I
States, east oi tne .Mississippi anu suum
of the Ohio?Tennessee inclusive^would
result in discovering many species
of valuable grasses, which could be practically
increased with very little caro
and system. The writer made a geological
reconnoissance among the Cum
berland Mountains, in 1865, and wad
then told by an old merchant of Kingston,
Tenn., that there were more than
230,000 head of cattle grazing among the
4'hills" of the Si ate, north of his place
of residence.
Curlons Things In Mexican Theatres.
A City of Mexico letter to the Pittsburg
Duyatch says: One very funny
custom of the theatres here is the manner
of keeping their reserved seat diagram,
the scat being marked upon it by
small holes, in whicn are placed wooden
pegs. When you buy a reserved seat
the ticket seller removes the peg from
the hole you have selected and gives it
to you as your check. The ushers know
4 ?VkTT fVift Irtn l"?f Vj AT
IUC seal/ it ucai^uuico uj iuv ivugvu v.
color of the peg. This seems incredible,
but it is true. As soon as the act drop
falls every gentleman puts on his hat,
rises from his seat and turns about to
take a view of the house through his
lorgnette. They subsequently pass into
the aisles to greet their friends, and rem
iin there talking until the prompter's
bell warns them that another act is about
to begin. Then they hurry to their
places and remove their hats. The ap
? If 4 rn Kofnroon
peurauic ui a iticaiv/uu buwc*v*w
acts?its aisles crowded with groups of
men talking and gesticulating wildly?
would cause an unsophisticated American
to think that free fights were in progress
all over the house. Very few ladies
wear hats or bonnets in the street, substituting
black lace mantillas instead,
and even these are dispensed Avith at
theatres?the hair beiDg elaborately
dressed?and as the great majority of thegentlemen
are in full evening dress, the
appearance of a Mexican audicnce is very
brilliant.
KNIGHTS IN MOLT.
Assemblies From Ten States to
Tlanvanil a finanial fiacctnil
A/VUIOUU Q U[/VVlUi UtCW*VU|
Grand Master Workman Powderly's
ViewB on Socialism.
There is little doubt, says a New York
paper, that General Master "Workman Fowderly
will be called on in a short time to
issue a call for a special session of the General
Assembly of the Knights, and that the
call will be signed by district assemblies from
at least ten States. The States mentioned
by those who are interested in the movement
are Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri,
Texas, Colorado, New York, New Jersey,
Connecticut and Pennsylvania. In all of
these States there are districts which are in
almost open revolt against the General Executive
Board. The grounds on which the special
session will be asked for are that the election
of officers at Richmond was illegal, and that
a3 a matter of fact General Master Workman
Powderly and Messrs. Bailey, Hayes ani
their offices by virtue of the fact that their
Barry, of the General Executive Board, hold
successors have not been legally elected ; that
Messrs. Maguire, Carlton ana Aylesworth,
the new members of the Executive Board,
have no right to hold their offices or draw
their pay, and that Secretary Litchman has no
right to his office or his pay; that the increase
of salaries was illegal, and therefore void, and
that all acts of the General Executive Board
as at present constituted are illegal While
this will be the nominal reason for the call,
it is understood that there are others which
threaten the very existence of the order.
If the special session is called, says another
-aieiiropouKin. paper, nwiu ue lor lute in reuruary
or early in March. Mr, Powderly's
$5,0U0 salary, his order ending the Chicago
stock yards strike, his circular stopping the
contributions to the Anarchist Defence Fund
and the call for a 25-cent assessment are
grounds of complaint against him.
The trouble between District Assembly
No. 4!) and the New York Foii i lists, which
has resulted in the withdrav al o nearly all
the local assemblies of tbai disi.-ict from
the Central Labor Union, has i< d oo the production
of a letter written some time ago by
General Master Workman Powderly to
a prominent Knight of Labor in New York,
in which he gives his opinion of the Socialists
in plain language. This will not tend to
decrease the bitter feeling which now exists
between the bodies. Portions of the letter
areas follows:
"?ou have men in New York whr would
move heaven and earth to restore the old
cnstoms and make the order again an oathbound
organization. I know them. You
have men in New York who have co-operated
with men in Philadelphia to break up
the Crder by going to a Catholic priest of
eminence and telling him that our old oath
is still in force; that the word of honor is only
a blind to make catspaws of the Catholic members,and
that the General Master Workman is
a tarty to the infamous transaction. * * *
The curse of the Knights of Labor has coma
from the promptness with which acknowledged
leaders of the Socialisticrelement have
put themselves forward at meetings, and
Lv:i i.c u:..*. 3 ? -
wmie spetuiiuK pmiui^ UIIII^U au IUO jxiuarwcu
and Gatling gua as the remedy for labor's
grievances Many of the men who advocate
these principles (of Socialism) do not understand
them, nor do they care to understand
them. They set forth the idea
and convey the impre sion that the only
weapons by which Labor can hope to secure
the desired reforms are the kuife and bludgeon.
Men may entertain such ideas as tbey
flease; they may advocate them if they
please; but they should not seek, under the
c!oax of the Knights of Labor, to promulgate
such doctrines and make the Order responsible
for them.
4,I claim the right to differ as to the means
best calculated to bring about reforms and
am willing to respect the opinions of others,
but until the Knight? of Labor adopt the
shotgun as their chief weapon, I will vigorously
object to allowing advocates to slip to
the front at meetings gotten up in the interest
of labor. They must not be permitted
to advocate blood and fire and yet proclaim
themselves to be the mouthpieces of the
labor cau e.
'The conduct and language of these men
have caused the clergymen to regard us with
an eye of suspicion, and it will require strenuous
efforts on our part to remove the erroneous
impression concerning us. It is my
firm aud honest belief that, as vast as is this
country, as broad and extensive as is its
territory, there is not room enough within
its borders for the exercise of a single rifle.
I have no respect for the man or men
who will flaunt that accursed red flag
and advocate the use of the dirk and bullet
for three hundred and sixty-four days in the
year, aud who, on the three hundred and
sixty-flfth day, deliberately walk up to the
polls aud vote for the continuance of the system
which they denounce. I am sorry
that the Order ever found a foothold in
New York, for no good has ever come from
large cities, which are prolific of whisky
ana crime. There are many good Knights in
your city, New York. If I require any determined
action give me the men who read
and think, instead of the man who drinks.
There are more of the latter in a large city
than the former. However, the Knights of
Labor will live on; their principles will
spread and eventually triumph. * Bah
on the creatures who stand up as
champions of labor in the presence
of thousands of unthinking men and advocate
the knife and bullet! Bah on the men
who flaunt the red flagl They are too vile
to res; est and too cowardly to uphold the
American flag, sanctified by the blood ot
jratriots. They disgrace it every time they
go to the polls and vote for monoDoly and
usury. They are not to be trusted."
LATER NEWS
Two Boston girls?Sadie Bigelow and Lizzie
Hart, aged respectively eighteen and nineteen
years?quarreled with two young men
with whom they bad been carousing, and
ended their troubles forever by taking poison.
A premature explosion of powder occurred
at a colliery at Frackville, Penn.
Thomas Fisher was so badly burned that he
died .soon afterward. Richard Penn wa3
badly burned, and Harry McCormick had an
arm broken. Three Italians were frightfully
burned and scalded.
A little girl of eleven years was arrested
in a large New York store for stealing pocket
% 1 ' An/1 fliof. cho
DOOK5 iroru (JUbUJiiiCiauu *.v/ua.ojowu vumv wmw
had been taught to steal by a woman, who
sent her out regularly on expeditions of robbery.
Moody and Sankey are conducting a series
of revival meetings in Chicago.
A Logan* memorial meeting was held in
Chicago, Hon. Lyman Trumbull being the
principal speaker.
The Secretary of the Treasury has issued
the one hundred and forty-fifth call for the
redemption of bonds. The call is for $10,000,003
of the 3 per cent, loan of 1882. Notice
is given that the principal and accrued interest
of the bonds designated will be paid at the
Treasury on February 1, 1887, and that the
interest on said bond3 will cease on that
Hnv,
A Washington dispatch states that considerable
opposition is being developed to the
confirmation of Mr. Benedict as Public
Printer.
Steamer Sir John was burned just outside
the St John (N. B.) harbor. One man was
drowned and fire w^e fataliy burned.
Tut; .N-tivV SOUTH.
The Past Year the Most Prosperous
in Its History.
In the annual review of the industrial prog"
ress of the South the Baltimore Manufa :turcrs'
Record says that in 1886 more has been accomplished
for the prosperity and progress of
the whole South than ever before in any year.
This is shown in the enormous investments
of capital in industrial enterprises and in the
growth of confidence among Northern and
.European investors in the stability of the
South's iron and other manufacturing interests.
The amount of < apital, including capital
stock of incorporated companies, represented
by the new manufacturing and mining,
enterprises organized or chartered in the
South, including the enlargement of old'
Slants and rebuilding of milk, aggregates
1^.236.000. azainst W6.812.0J0 in 1885.
NEWS SUMMARY
Eaaterji and Middle States.
Alderman Peter B. Masterson, of
New York, was thrown from a busrsry in
Central Park and killed.
Pliny Nickerson, an extensive Boston
ship owner, has failed for $200,000.
Coasting accidents are becoming quite
frequent By a collision between two sleds
at South Pownal, Vt, one boy was killed,
a second probably fatally injured and a
third had a leg: broken.
An ?>ttempt is being made to suppress
Chinese gambling in New York city.
Harvard University received $400,000
from the will of John O. A. Williams.
South and West.
Jim Cummings, the man charged with the
robbery of $60,000 from- an Adams express
tar two months ago, has been arrested, together
with two alleged accomplices, in Chicago.
Extremely cold weather has been prevailing
in the vVest, the thermometer at Chicago
indicating fifteen degrees below zero. At
Marshall town, Iowa, the mercury dropped
to twenty-eight degrees below zero.
Five men engaged in robbing the Adams
Express car of the St Louis and Sau Francisco
train on October 25 of $55,000 are in
custody, and some of the money has been recovered.
Fire destroyed the Mississippi Valley
transportation steamer R. S. Hayes and four
barges, and the Anchor line steamer City of
Na.che^, while they were lying at Cairo, I1L
A kcnd for a monument to General Logan
has been started in the West.
Mrs. Hendrickson, a policeman's wife,
of Middletown, Ohio, while showing a neighbor
how to use a revolver, killed her own
little child.
Washington.
Statistics indicate that the emigration
to the United States for 1886 will, amount to
about 400,000 souls. In eleven months 306,577
foreigners have come to stay by way of
ocean ports; while in 1885, on tlio first of
December, 814,045 had arrived.
Hundreds of telegrams were received at
the Logan mansion in Washington expressing
the sense of national acd personal loss
in the G eneral's death.
Speaker Carlisle has filed hfcianswer to
George H. Thobe's notice of contest of his
election to the Fiftieth Congress. ?le denies
I all of Thobe's allegations.
A bill is to be introduced in Congress giving
Mrs. Logan the same pension as Mrs.
Hancock.
Foreign.
The largest aud most disastrous fire in
Liverpool since the year 1847' occurred
the other morning, when Lewis's extensive
general retail stores were en tirely destroyed.
Tie stores contained an enormous holiday
stock, all of which was consumed, as was
also a menagerie connected with the establishment
The loss is placed at $2,000,000.
The British ironclad Sultan ran into and
sank the French steamer Ville de Victoria
while the later was lying at anchor in the
Ta^us. Spain. The Ville de Victoria's crew
and passengers numbered sixty-thre?, of
whom thirty were drowned.
England has been visited by one of the
severest snow storms in the history of ''hat
country. Railroad trains were blocked and
traffic was greatly interfered with.
John Daw, a farmer, living on the outskirts
of Mitchell, Canada, wa'i gored to
death by a bull. His wife ran out to the
barnyard, and. on seeing the bleeding form
of her husband on tho ground, fell dead.
The meeting of tho British Parliament has
been postponed until February.
A DANCE OF DEATH.
Three Men Killed In a Faction Fight
in West Virginia,
Keeney's Creek, a mining village on New
River, in Fayette County, W. Va., has been
the scene of a terrible affray. Mr. Lovejoy,
a miner, gave a dance, to which was invited
the entire population. The dance was orderly
until the liquor began, to influence the
brains of the young men. There were two
fa.tions at the dance between whom there
was a feud?the Gilberts and the Halls.
FHpnris of both nurties tried 1)o keeD the
trouble that was browing under control Finally
revolvers were> drawn and shooting began.
George Gilbert fell dead at the first
round, Elijah Gilbert and John Montgomery
received mortil wounds, and John Land was
[ bally cut with a razor. Men, women and
children fled from the house in terror. The
j lights were put out. Whan the firing was
over and the dead and wounded attended to,
it was found that the room was riddled with
bullets, at least fifty having been fired. The
only one of the shooters ca.ptured was Mike>
Donahoe, who was 1?tken before a justice ol.'
of the peace. During the trial Donaboo
jumped through the window and es.-aped.
All the men are single except George Gilbert,
who leaves a widow a.ud one child.
LYNOH^LAW.
Three Murderers Summarily Disposed.
of l)y the People.
Milton Washington, a clerk in the store ol'
Hirsch Brothel's, tear Vicksburg, Miss., wan
murdered recently in the store, his throat
being cut. Three days after Robert
Beasley and Raymond Murphy wer<3
arrested on suspicion as the murderers
of Washington. Thay were brought to Vicksburg
and confined in the county jail. Tho
other day they were taken back to a point
near where tae ni arder was committed to
have a hearing before a Justice of the
Peace. The attorney for the prisoners
waived examination, and the prisoners
were remanded to ;ail for further triaL As
the constable was about to board the tra'.n
the prisoners were taken from the officers
and banged to a telegraph pole by a mob of
about fifty persons, composed of white and
colored men.
The store of R. II. Harris, at Arcadia, La,,
was entered and ari inoffensive man named
John Levill was murdered by being
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BW UL'Ji Uil bliD ucou n uuo oicvpuig j,j
his bed. Great excitement was aroused in
the community, t.nd after a search Joha
Elias, Jr., was arrested, charged with the
crime. The murderer was soon afterward
taken from the jail and hauged 1? a tree.
THE POWEBS ARMING.
Significant Preparations fin France.
Germany and Italy.
Uneasiness is fell, in Paris over the rapidity
with which the Frtmch Government is work*
ing to place the armament of France in th>s
comploteit condition possible. The Stata
manufactories of arms and amunition are a-1
being worked to their utmost capacity. It la
reported from Rome that Italy is arming.
Advices from Berlin state that Germany is
increasing her troops in Alsa;e-LorraiDe.
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MUSICAL MP DRAMATTH.
A itetv comic opera, entitled "All foi
Love," will shortly be produced in Boston.
Thi: new play which Edgar Fawcett, th#
Is ow York writer, has written for George
Riddle, the elocutionist, is called "TheEa-1/
Mr. Augostin Daly will produce Shake
1? MT $ CM )! I
| opwuoa iauuu^ kjl uuc uuicn hi a ui?h
I niflr-eat manner in New York early iu FeS
j ruary.
It is reported that Mis3 Alice "Whitacre, a
fonrnir church chair singer of Brooklyn, has
made a tremendous hit as au oratorio soloist
in Liverpool.
At the Boston Theatre ladiei who occupy
6eats iu the frout of the house continue to remove
their hats, and the papers of that city
are applauding this evidence of the establishment
of a beneficent reform.
Th;i statement that Miss Jennie Buckner,
a young singer who has just irrnde a successful
operatic deb at in New Orleans, is a
daughter of the famous Confederate General
is denied by the Oteneral himself.
Over twenty ministers were present at the
Colun bin Theatre, Chicago, on a recent night.
and witnessed the performance or "uaiatea"
by the National Opera Company, and the
grand ballet arranged to music from Rubenstein's
"Bal Costume."
Miss Arma Sexkrah, the Baston violinist,
is having a continued success in the leading
cities of Russia She is patriotic enough to
champion the American composer's interests
by including a "romance" and "Spanish
danto-' by Arthur Bird in cos! of fcer pro- '
jfrarrines. j
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JOHN i LOGAN.
Sadden Death of the Senator
From Illinois.
ViTn'd Amnnnt nf TTis Last, MnmfiTltfl
and Sketch of His Career.
JOHN ALEXANDER LOGAN.
General John A. Logan, Senator of the
United States from Illinois,died at bis house
in Washington at 2:55o'clock on the afternoon
of the 26th of Decembar. His death
was quiet and painless. There were with
him at the end Mr& Logan, his two children,
Mrs. Tucker, Manning Logan, Major
Tucker, his son in-law; General P. H. Sheridan,
General Green B. Raum, of Illinois;
.TiiAv* Prmmis. of Colorado, and several of .
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his immediate friends and servants. General
Logan's death came as a great shock
because there had been no warning of
immediate danger. It was known
that General Logan was suffering
from an unusually severe attajk of rheumatism,
and that this attack had run into rheumatic
fever, but every one thought he would
pull through. He had had similar attacks
nearly every year for the last ten
years, and in 1876 he came very
near dying. Several years ago he
visited the Hot Springs of Arkansas and received
great relief. If he ha 1 gone to Arkansas
this past fall he probably would have
escaped the attack which proved fatal. He
would undoubtedly have recovered this time
if it had not been for the brain complication.
The fever reached his brain toward the last
and produced congestion.
The family had nearly as little warning as
the public. They knew that he was very
ill but he had b?en through so many
similar attacks that they could not realize
that his iron constitution would not pull him
through.
The deathbed scene was painful and dramatic.
G?neral Logan has always lived the
centre of a group of admiring friends. Ha
rarely knew a moment of privacy. When
he died his room was crowded with others
than the members of bis family. General
Phil. Sheridan stood at th3 foot of the bed,
with his hands clasped behind, looking sternly
and sorrowfully upon the face of his old
comrade. Back of nim was Gen. Beale, Grant's
most intimate friend. Mrs. Logan knelt at
her husband's side, her face drawn and
white, and as near as possible to the color
of her snowy hair. By her side were her
two children, Mantling, a splendid, swartliy
boy of a pur? -Spanish appearance, and Mrs.
Tucker, his sister, a slim dark-eyed brunette,
tearless and pale, who watched alternately
her mother and her dying father.
Ifai'sw r.i/.L-flr Vior ImcKnnH ftfrwvi Afc the
General's head rea ly to run to his assistance.
About the room were other groups from the
callers below, who had tiptoed up to the
room, which was partially darkened It
was feared that the. General's death would be
painfuL His heavy breathing and occasional
choking made every one fear a
death from suffocation. At teu minutes of
three, amid the sound of weeping, the deep
sonorous voice of Dr. Newman was heard
In prayer. He prayed with an eloquence
that moved every one in the sight of the
death which was so slowly stealing down
upon the sufferer. The Doctor prayed
that. the brave spirit might cross in
safety to the world where pain is unknown.
He Besought humbly a welcome for this
brave soul now to start on its last journey,
while he besought the Great Ruler of All
to sustain with his great strength the
stricken ones left behind. As the deep
voice of the pastor resounded through
the ereat room General Logon died.
Suddenly ms pamiui oreathmg came
quicker and in great pants. Then James,
tne colored servant, wished to lift him up.
Ashe lifted him up there was a choking rattle
in the throat, a strong effort to clear it
from the accumulation of mucus, but the effort
was a failure. Thei*e was a stoppage of
the breath, the eyes half opened, their pupils
enlarged to the full size of the ball, ana then
the Uenerai reu oa'K meiess. ur. newuuta
said solemnly: ' 'He is gone."
Mrs. Logan became wild with grief. She
fell upon the bed with her arm about her
husband's body crying, sobbing, wailing,
calling out: "Oh, darling! Oh, darling!"
Her abandonment to grief was evon more
sorrowful than the sight of the General's
death. Mra. Logan remained in this prostrate
condition so long that it was felt necessary
to call her to herself. With great difficulty
she was torn away from the bed.
General Logan's Career.
General John Alexander Logan was born
on February 9, 1820, in Murphrysboro, III,
and was the eldest of eleven children. His
father, Dr. John Logan, was an Irishman
and came to this country in 1821, and soon
after married Elizabeth Jenkins, a Tennessee
lady, and settled to practise medicine
in the town where General Logan was born.
Dr. Logan was a man of good education, and
for a time personally took charge of his son's
early instruction, but subsequently sent him
to the best schools the community afforded,
and afterward to the Shiloh Academy.
The Mexican war broke out when
young Logan was but twenty years
of age, ana he at once enlisted and was
made a Lieutenant in one of the Illinois regiments.
He returned home in 1858 and com- ,
menced the study of law in the office of his
uncle, Alexander M. Jenkins, who had^ for
aoerly been Lieutenant-Governor or tne State.
In 1844, bef ore he bad completed bis law
:ourse. he was elected clerk of Jackson
:ounty, and at the expiration of his term of
office went to Louisville. Ky., where he attended
law lectures, and was admitted to the
sar in the spring of 1851. In the fall of
jh e same year he was elected to
represent Jackson and Franklin counties
in the Illinois Legislature, and
from that time has been almost uninterruptedly
in the public service, either civil
or military. Even before he went to the
Legislature, he bad been made Prosecuting
Attorney for the Third Judicial
district of his State. He was twice re-elected
to the Legislature, and in 1854 was a Democratic
Presidential elector, and cast his vote
&r James Buchanan.
The year of 1830 saw Logan serving his
second term in Congress as the representa- I
tive of the Ninth Illinois Congressional district
Mr. Logain was then a Democrat, and
an ardent supporter of Stephen A. Douglas,
Mr. Lincoln s opponent.
In July, 1801, he left his seat in the extra
session of Congress and joined the Federal
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of Bull Run. He was made Colonel of the
Thirty-first Illinois Infantry, and in March, j
18t52, was appointed Brigadier-General of volunteers.
During the summer of 1802 he refused a
Domination for Congress,saying he preferred
to remain in the field. For services performed
during Grant's Mississippi movements he was
made a Major-General, and succeeded Sherman
as head of the Fifteenth army corps
in 1863. When General McPherson was
killed I.ogan succeeded him as commander
of the Army of the Tennessee. He was with i
Sherman in his "March to the Sea,'' remaining
with him until the surrender of Johnstoa. 1
His military career ended with his nomination
in 18tit) by the Republicans of Illinois to
represent the State as Congressman at
Large in the Fortieth Congr?s. He was
elected by 00,000 majority. He had in the i
year before been offered by President
Johnson the post of Minister to Mexico,
but declined. He was later one of the
managers on the part of the House
of Representatives in the impeachmeut proceedings
which were instituted against John- ]
son. In 1808 and in 1870 he was re-elected to <
the House, but before he had finished his <
term under the last election he was elec- 1
ted to the United States Senate to sue- <
ceed Senator Yates. In 1877 the Republicans
in the Illinois Legislature had
only two majority, and with the help
of a few Democratic votes David Davis, an
4waa nlaofiul Hananw T/>min!o
seat In Id <9. however. Senator Logan was
re-elected to the Senate, and has since then
In his official capacity been very active in
promoting the interests of the veterans of
the war. He was one of the founders of
the Grand Army of the Republic, which
had its origin at Decatur. Illinois. One of
Senator Logan's memorable efforts in the
Senate was his four days' speech in opposition
to the reinstatement of Fltz John rorter.
He took an active part in the last Presidentail
campaign, when he and Mr. Blaine were
the candidates on the Presidential ticket.
General Logan was married in 1855 to Mis3
Mary Cunningham, of Shawnee town, Illinois,
a lady of extraordinary force of character
and tact, to whom he is reputed to have
oeen much - Indebted for his political successes.
He leaves two children, Manning
Logan and a daughter, who is married "to
Paymaster Tucker of the regular army.
A FATAL ME.
Destruction of a New Theatre in
Philadelphia,
Two Firemen Killed and a Third
Severely Injured,
The new Temple Theatre on Chestnut street,
Philadelphia, took fire at 11 a. m. the other
day, and the fire was not gotten under control
until the handsome structure was a complete
wre.-k. Two firemen were killed, one
fireman severely injured, and great damage
was done to adjoining property by smoke
and water. The building was ownea by Mr.
William M. Singerly, proprietor of the Philadelphia
ICecord.
A portion of the building was used as a
museum under the title of the Egyptian
Musee, and it was in the basement of this de{artment
that the fire was first discovered,
ts origin is believed to have been the accidental
ignitiog of some drapeiy from a gas
jet The entire building was soon filled with
dense smoke.
The Washington Hotel joins the theatre
on the east, and when it was seen that the
fiames were gaining on the firemen the guests
began removing their effects and the proErietor
his furniture. After the fire bad
een burning about three hours the
roof of the theatre fell in and carried
a portion o* the wail with it Soveral firemen
who were handling a line of hose
just inside the main entrance were buried
under the mass of stone and timber, and two
of their number?John Johnson and David
Gibson?were instantly killed. Hush Colgan
was badly cut about the head and Robert
Reed had two fingers torn from their sockets.
The fire was gotten under control at about
8 p. M., the fiames having been kept within
the walls of the theatre building. The building
and its contents, however, were completely
destroyed. Portions of the front and
back walls are standing, but will have to be
torn down. Mr. Singeily paid for the ground
and building $225,OX), and expended $175
l'UU on remoaoianpr tne structure ana *ou,uuv#
for fixtures, &c., in the museum. On
these lossei there are insurances amounting
to $l-'?,00u. Air. Singerly
says that his net loss, after
deducting the insuran-e. will be less than
$100,000. George C. Brothei'ton, lessee of
the theatre, will lose about $25,000 on scenery.
etc;. The losses of other parties added
to the foregoing will make a total damage of
about toUO.OJO.
NEWSY GLEANINGS,
A dentist in St. Louis fills teeth for
horses.
Cleveland Blaine is a new Mauch
Chunk (Penn.) baby.
It Is proposed to build a bicycling path between
New York and Philadelphia.
New wine can be bought at San Bernardino,
CaL, for 121-2 cents per gallon.
Winter prospects for live stock in the
country west of San Antonio, Texas, are
gloomy.
Chatswobth, I1L, is proud of one of its
citizens; who at the age of ninety is cutting
her third set of teeth.
Rich silver deposits, known of nearly a
century ago, have been rediscovered in Dubois
county, Indiana.
It is estimated that there are 325,570 telephones
in use in this country. Nine years
ago there were only 370.
Tbb crop of grapes in California the past
year is estimated at 178,000 tons, of which
20,000 tons were sent to the East
Six thousand Percheron horses have been
imported into this country, first and last Of
these more than 1,000 were brought over last
year.
In New York State, the past year, 5,000,000
pounds of oleomargarine have been manufactured
and over 3,OJO,OOJ pounds in Chicago.
It is stated that there are 803,000 railway
employes iu the United States, who annually
receive the sum of $400,000,000, an average
of $500 each.
Harvard College has 1,077 students.
Adding to this number the students in the
medical, law, scientific aud dentistry schools,
the total is 1.683.
A HOEBIBLE SIGHT.
I
A Man's Head'Cut off by a Train Falls
at His Wile's Feot.
Filmcre Jamison, a prominent business
man of Ridg way and a well-known politician
of Ocean County, was killed at Ridgway a
few days since. He started on a drive to
Lakewood, bis spirited team trotting up to
the tracks of the New Jersey Southern Kail- ,
way, which runs past his house. As he turned
to wave his band to his wife one of his horses I
balked, Before be could induce the animal I
to move an express train dashed down upon I
him. The locomotive dashed the wagon to
pieces and threw Mr. Jamison out The
next instant the wheels severed his head
from his body and sent it bounding down
the enbankment to the foot of the stoop on
which his wife was standing. The horrible
SDectacle drove the woman insane.
THE MARKETS.
NEW YORK. 52
Beef cattle, good to prime... 4 90 <g 5 SO
Calves, com'n to prime veals 9
Sheep 6
Lambs 7
" ? *1 AlS /? dl/
nogs? 7/4^ /!
Dressed 5%@ 6
Flour?Ex. St, good to fancy 4 CO @ 4 65
West, good to choice 3 90 @ 5 25
Wlieat?No. 2, Red 90%@ 92
Rye?State 57>$(gl 59
Barley?State @ 70
Corn?Ungrad. Mixed 4C)^@ 48^
Oats?White State 87%
Mixed Western 38 @ 39
Hay?Med. to prime 75 @ 90
Straw?No. 1, Rye 05 @ 70
Lard?City Steam G 25 @ 6 75
Butter?State Creamery.... 2A @ 28
Dairy.... 23 @ 28
West Im. Creamery 22 @ 25
Factory 13 @ 16
Cheese?State Factory 8 @ 14
Skims 10 @ 11
Western 11 @ 12
Eggs?State and Penn 27 @ 28
BUFFALO.
Sheep?Good to Choice 3 75 @ 4 00
Lambs?Western 5 (X) @ 5 75
Steers?Western 4 40 @ 4 90
Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 4 35 @4 45
Flour 4 75 @ 5 15
Wheat?No. 1 88J?@ 89
Corn?No. 2, Mixed ? (<$ 44
Oats?No. 2, Mixed ? (# 85>?
r>? IVJ ?R
Liai ioj ubavc* . w wv
BOSTON.
Boef?Good to choice G)?@ 7)4
Hogs?Live &Hji& ?
Northern Dressed.... 6??@ Tij
Pork?Ex. Prime,per bbl...10 "i0 (ft 11 00
Flour?Spring Wheat pat's.. 5 0) (& 5 ~5
Corn?High Mixed. ? (ft
Oats?Extra White 41 @ 41J<j
Rye?State 60 @ 65
WATERTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MAhKET.
Beef? Dressed weight
Sheen?Live weight ? <$
Lamts 5 (c$ 6
Hogs?Northern ? @ 5%
PHILADELPHIA
Flour?Penn.extra family... - 75 @ 3 25
Wheat?No. 2, Red 8U @ 89^
Rye?State ? @ 53
Corn?State Yellow 45 @ 48
Dats Mixe 1 2831
Butter?Creamery Extra... SO @
Cheese?N. Y. F\ill Cream.. ? dk 13j
. . ... -? .. -^4 ...
OLD COINS.-"*
PRICES PAID FOR ANCIENT OB j
RARE SPECIMENS. J
An American Dollar That li
$1,000?Coins of the Colonies?
The Confederate CentOther
Valuable Coins. I
" " .. *)
By far the most wide-spread of all
queer fancies, says a Boston paper, seems \
to be that of coin collecting. Some col- j. :,
lectors seek coins of the Russian em- '
pire, others of the famous European sorereigns.
as Peter the Great, Earl XIL, A
' of Sweden, Napoleon, etc.; others search
for coins of Ajnerica?Colon ial, State and _ 1
Federal. ^These latter, if seeking to fill 1
up a complete series, are attempting the 1
impossible. '
btrange as it may seem, the' oldest
coins are not the rarest, neither do they
command the highest prices. For example,
the coin of J?gina, said to be the
most antique Greek coin, sells at from I
$2.50 to $8 at auction, while an American
dollar of the date 1804, in good condition,
is valued at $1,000. A collection
of Roman coins can be readily and com- j
paratively cheaply acquired, so far a? \ %
specimens of each epoch is concerned,
though a collection of all varie- .. ri
of 'Roman coins would be >
priceless, acd would be a load $
for a wagon. However, the collection :-,vj
of American colonial and United State#
coins seems to be the phase most in
vogue in Boston of this particular hobby
and some very fine collections are owned
in this city. The early colonial coins ate 7
scarce and the demand for them is brisk,
thus the market for them is always acI
tive. The dealers in coins, of whom
there are several in Boston, pursue the
system of buying cheap and selling high,
as those from whom they purchase ar?
ignorant of the value of the coins they
sell, and regard all above its face value
a clear gain. A dealer will' offer for an . r;
Oak Tree shilling $1, when he can readily
sell )t for from $5 to $10, and the same
for other varieties. A Pine Tree shining
is rare, and will sell from $10 upward,
while an Oak Tree shilling of same year,
1652, is worth but half as much. A Carolina
half penny, for which a dealer coolly
offers from $5 to $9, has been sold at
auction in New York city for $25.25.
This coin was struck in 1(514. The Louisiana
copper coinage of the French Royal'and
Republican Governments are v;*
worth from 50 cents to $2, while what is
called the George Clinton cent, struck in
New York in 1787, if in good condition,<
is valued at from $30 to $50. The Wash- ?jj
ington cents are all rare, that struck in '
the die from wkieh the so-called Washin
ff+nn half rtnllnr tpn* utrack Hfillinc flt
froan $26 to $30, according to condition. 'vg
The Kentucky cents are also rare, and
sell for a good pri< e.
The United States coins are, of all the
coins, the hardest for one to secure a : ^ '
complete collection. The coinage of
1793 is very rare and sells rapidly at $15.
A. dollar of 1794 has beeh sold at $100, /
and then not in the best condition. The v{
half cent of 1796 is rare and sells readily
at $15, while the silver quarter of the . - k
same date is valued at from $3 to $5,
The half-dollar of 1797, $25. The cent
of 1799 is a bargain at from $6 to $10.
and the half-dime of 1802 is rare to ex- , y.
cess, a specimen that was bent and badly
worn having been sold in 1875 for $85;
a fine specimen would probably com* ; O
mand double that sum. All the coins o1
1804 are rare, except the half-cent,
which is very common. The dollar, of
which 19,510 were coined, is for some
unknown reason the rarest of all Ameri
can coins, but eight copies being known. j
This coin has been largely counterfeited;
will sell for from $800 to an unknown
sum, according to condition. The halfdollar,
of which 156,519 were struck, i*
extremely rare, and is seldom sold.
Probably there is no limit to its value
beyond a desire of the buyer to acquire ' "
it. The cent of 1801 can be bought for - 'V$5
and the quarter-dollar for $2. The
silver auarter of 1828 is also exceed
ingly rare, a very fine specimen
has been sold for $75, though one
good enough for a pocket piece can be
had for $25. The quarter of 1827 is
one of the rarest of quarters. A very
fine proof sold for $105, and an ordinary
:opy is purchased by the dealers at $20.
The pattern dollar of 1839 is worth $15,
and that of 1854. $5. The half dollar
of 1830, with the milled edge, is sold .
for from $5 to $10, and thesameis paid
for quarters of 1853 without the arrow
heads at the side of the date. The cent
of 1857 is valued at $2, and the nickeL
cent of 1856 at the same price. The
half-cents from 1831 to 1840 are worth
from. $4 to $8 each, and that of 1*52 f 5.
There are some coins that are unique, as
the set of patterns from which was
evolved the trade dollars. The six dollars
which formed the set sold for $36 when
pat up at auction at the sale of Colonel
James Taylor's cabinet in New York.
The cent of the Confederate States government,
struck in 1861, their own coin
age, is rare, and will sell readily at irom
$5 to $10. The twenty-cent pieces of
1877 and 1878 are eagerly sought for at
$5 each, and the same is true of the twocent
pieces of 18"> at $1.
The strangest thing to coin collectors
is the question where the coins have
gone. Many of the dates now rare were
coined in large amounts. The quartercagle
of 177y is now unknown to numismatics,
yet 4?0 of them were minted.
The half-eagle of 1815, of which 365
were struck, is now valued at $50, and
the double-eagle of 1819, of which only
patterns were made, is worth $100. A
large number of valuable coins undoubt!
edly pass through the hands of store- ,
Keepers annually, and will continue in
circulation until so badly worn and obliterated
as to be worthless to a collector.
Many ticket-sellers, cashiers, etc., make
a very snug sum yearly by watching the
coins that pass through their hands, and
exchanging those of rare dates for coins
of similar denominations that do not
command a premium.
A Gorgeous Methodist Church.
The First Methodist Episcopal Church
of Baltimore, which will be finished in
a few months, will be one of the finest
and best equipped church buildings in
the country. The main auditorium is a
eilinse. eiehtv-eisht by seventy
i? ? w #
four feet, the seating capacity of which
has not been calculated, but will, it is
believed, be considerably greater than
any other Protestant church edifice in
Baltimore. It.will be lighted by a crown
of windows of cathedral glass, peculiarly
constructed, and so arrangea that
it will be impossible for the room to contain
a shadow at any time. Above this J
room is a flattened dome, the ceiling ot M
which is supported from truss rafters so
arranged that no columns appear in ine
room. The ceiling will be handsomely
frescoed. The entire building has been
wired so that the gas ran be lighted by V
electricity. The pulpit will be erected ?
on the west side of this room, and back 1
of it will be the organ loft. There is also
in the building and adjacent to the
church an office for the pastor, where
persons who so desire can call and consult
him.?New York Tribune.
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