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SATURDAY MORNING. MARCH 8. POSTAGE. Persons mailing transient copies of the Cocbier-Jocbsal ia friend abroad must Improbably precipitate a discussion of the yiars toco-cent stamps au of our agU- I tolumn edition, and three-cent ttampt on au double numbers, or they tciU be detained in Vie I LouistiSe pont-ojiee. I is SUNDAY DOUBLE XUY2EB.

The Cockier-Jock al, to-morrow morn ing -will be a double number oi 10 pages and 112 column fall of the latest news. miscellany, tales, poetry, eta, and will be one of the brightest, most interesting and valuable issues we have given our readers. Advertisers are specially requested to end in their favors as early in the day or evening as practicable. "BUSINESS." Frtdat, March 7. Tbe breadstuff mar kets were steadier, and at most points prices were fractionally higher.

This tendency' prevailed both East and West, and tbe changes were barely sufficient to indicate that tbe bulls instead of the bears bad tbe ad vantage. Tbe movement was of moderate dimensions, but at St. Louis additional large sales for export are reported. Provisions were in holders' favor. Cotton wan quiet, and without important change.

Tbe live stock markets ware firm for bogs and tame for cattle. In New York money was easy. Foreign exchange was lower, being eased probably by tbe withdrawal of 15,000,000 for export. Government bonds were steady. Tbe stock market was weak and lower, under the in fluence of gold and of rumored cut- tin? of Eastward freight rates at Western points.

In London American railroads were irreg ular, bat for the part lower. Liverpool was quiet for breadstuff and provisions, and steady for cotton. SUSPENSION OF SILVER COINAGE. The world moves. The Chicago Tribune, the CocHiEK-JoinsAi, the Cincinnati I um mercitil Gazette uml tbe St.

Louis li publican were the earliest and most prominent Western newspapers hich took up the fcilver question, about eight years ago, sua begun the ugitation which ended in the restoration of the constitutional bime tallic slaudard ami the resumption of silver coinage. The work done bv' these news papers was largely conclusive of the result They led up the est at.d South in almost unbroken phalanx, the States of the Paoilic blope were naturally ou the affirmative 1 side of tbe question, and the East was at most a umj on the negative side. The act of 1873 was the result, by a biff majority rr i ne consequences oi mat act were ira mediately important and wholly beneficial. li insured the success of the Resumption Act. which restored specie payuienU on January 1, 1S7U.

-It gave substantial sup port to commercial confidence; it provided a uiild and steady system of expansion of the circulating medium; it helped to bring forward the business revival of i ne currency environment jtheu was quite different from that of the la.d three years, and the effect of tbe silver act was magnified by the paucity of our currcucy resources at that time. Our foreign trade Las been so prosperous that from our im ports and domestic production of bullion wc have more than ilouMed the metallic circulation, ana, indeed, the whole volume cf currency. We have thus become less de pendent upon the aid of silver coinssre. Uu tin tho last few years it has been that a new species of tactics must be adopted in order to constrain Engluml and Germany to co-operate in an international movement in favor tf bimetallism. International coufcreuccs have been held in width it has become apparent that England was occupying an attitude of comparative indifference and Germany of open hostility.

The consumption of silver by the United States under the coinage act of lf78 was supporting, the price of bullion and relieving Kngland of any anxiety "Tn relation to her Indian exchanges, while also favoring Germany ia respect to her silver fund in circulation and on sale, It has been urged in couse-, quence by foreign Associations of as well as by leading economists favorable to that system, that a temporary suspension of coinage in the United States would htistcn a crisis in the silver question iu Europe, und put the bimetallic natious iu a vantage ground in future discussions with those which adhere to one standard. Ju that case the United States. France, Italy, Switzerland and some other smaller naUoua. representing the whole bimetallic iuterest among civilized peoples, would meet England and Gerraanj- ou an equal footing, the mints of each nation being idle on silver coinage, each being fairly provided with a domestic, currency, and each as independent as the single-standard nations. It is the theory of many eminent binictallists in Europe and America that the silver interests of England ia such a position of affairs would constrain her to look more favorably upon an international bimetallic union, and that Germany would follflwKnglund in changing its policy.

On this theory many binictallists arc in favor of a temporary cessation of silver coinage. Other arguments are that there is now a liberal supply of currency In this country; that no inconvenience will result from a temporary cessation of coinage; that tbe officials controlling the mints and the currency machinery of tbe Government are Inimical to bimetallism that they arc using their opportunities to make silver money unpopular, and' that at present the friends of silver money are at a disadvantage in contending with the powers that be. On these grounds, the principal journals (except those of UeiJlver mining States) which were largely instrumental in securing the passagf of the act of 1878, have one' by one advocated or ceased to oppose the, temporary suspension of the coinage. Tbe Commercial Gazette and the Cockier JouiiNaL have for a considerable period occupied position. The Chicago Tribune suddenly, but resolutely, wheels nto line, and only the St.

Louis Jicpnoicun hesitates. All the prominent journals of the country, with that exception, outside of the silver mining States are now, from motives- either friendly or unfriendly to bimetallism, in favor of an experimental or flual suspension of; silver coinage. The four Western papers named Lave not retracted or qualified their advocacy of the theory of bimetallism, and are quite as cordial advocates of bimetallism, as ia the years of the silver struggle; but they act on the theory that the interests of bi metallisrn may, perhaps, be best subserved by the tactical experiment proposed. At of of to all events, they favor giving it a fair trial. with the Tiew of strengthening the hand of their friend ia Europe.

Mr. KtxxfcT, of Pennsylvania, an old bimetallism has already prepared a bill which proposes a tentative suspension, and the resolutions of the New York Chamber of Commerce will question in Congress. Tbe Chamber oi Commerce bas always opposed lie silver policy adopted in 1878, but its action now from a better strategical standpoint The resolutions recommend mainly the coinage of the silver dollar be suspended for two years; and, to open tbe way for a reeT circulation of the dollar, that tbe issue all paper money below tbe denomination $5 be discontinued. In its editorial of Tuesday tbe Chicago Tnhune says: Tbe trouble with as la not silver saturation but silver congestion. Tbe Government has refused par out silver dollars on its contracts, its pay rolls, sod for its other obligations.

It Joined the New York Clearing-house, and made tbe bulk of its disbursements through its agency, notwith standing the fact that tbe Clearing-house In flat defiance of the law bad adopted a rule that no balances should be paid in silver or suver certificates. Tbe set of July 12, 1878. says: 'No Na tional Banking Association shall be a member of any Clearing hou-e where silver certificates shall not be receivable in the settlement of balances.1 The resolutions of the New York Clearing-house, alopted Nov. 12, 1878, prohibit payment of balances in silver eeriifleates or ia silver dollars. The result of this nullification by the Secretary of the Treasury of the laws of Congress has been that Uver.

disowned by its own creator, fa congested in the vaults of the Treasury, and, instead of being absorbed in the. circulation, now threatens the finances with disturbance. Under these circumstances it is advisable to accrpt the Inevitable. Tbe Cbteazo Bankers' Club and the various organizations of our com mercial class could do nothing wiser than to second tbe resolution of the New York Chamber of Commerce. It bas bten a great relief to England, India and Germany that we have helped to sustain the silver market by coining 160.000- OOO of silver.

Since 1878 we have held up the bullion value of their silver. IX we now throw our silver product into the market it will de predate the value of the German thaler and tbe Indian rupee, ani bring England to a re consideration of the bimetallic question. No nation to-dav has reserved financial strength to that of the United States. It is the be- UVf of many English a well as Oerman finan ciers that after the United States ceases silver coinage, as France and Italy have done, it will not be long; until England cries "Hold, enough and asks for an international commission to es tablish an international bimetallic union which will maintain the relative value of gold and silver money. -And when we aaln undertake to carry out policy as important as that of the restoration of the silver dollar let us see to it that the law is to be administered by men who are executing their official trusts for the whole people, and not for a fw syndicates of favored bankers in vi'aU sireet." THE B.ZPUELICAH JUGGLERY.

A few days ago the CouniKR-JornsAL showed by the report of Nimmo, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, that the so-called taritl revision made by tbe Repub licans last March, instead of reducing, actually increased the duties on most of the principal articles of import. The New York Herald prints an inter view which is fully in line with Mr. Nimmo's figures. It is with a member of the NcwA'ork firm of IIehman Boker importers os well as manufacturers of hardware. Mr.

Boker says that tbe alleged reduc tion of the tariff, so far as it affects his business, is a 'humbug and a cheat, reallv advancing the duties on the goods which he imports from 35 to 50 per cent. As an illustration, lie calls attention to wood screws the ordinary screws used by carpenters. The duties on these have been raided by the, new tariff to outrageous figures; for instance, ou screws 2 to 4 inches long, to to 117 per on screws II to 11 inches Ions, to 92 to 125 ier cent. on screws 1 inch long, to 77 to 120 per ccut. on screws I to inch long, to 05 to 100 per cent.

'Naturally," says Mr. Boker. "such an impost is prohibitive, and no screws are any longer imported. The only persons bcuefitcd by this astonishing increase of duty are the manufacturers, as they may now practically charge what prices they please." On wire nails, largely used in manufac turing boxes and similar articles, the rate has been raised to 150 to 250 per cent, ad valorem. The tariff on razors has been increased from 35 to 50 per cent.

An important item to consumers is files. Mr. Boker says: "Upon files also the duty has been made pro hibitive. for instance. 3-inch files, the duty on which use to be from l'J to lo eeota a dozen; it is now 35 cents a dozen.

The duty on J' a-inch litem used to be 13 to 'JO centa; it is now Uo cents a dozen. On 44 inch files the duty used to be from "0 to l'j cents a dozen; it is now 45 cents. Ou 5-inch flies the duty is now 75 canta, whereas it used to be only tu 30 cents. Eo that the duty is nearly doubled, and that for the bi-ueflt of a few American manufacturers. On yery small jewelers' files the tartit has been in-creaaed several hundred per cent.

There was no necessity for this injrease except that the American manufacturer wanted to get higher priees for his goods." Mr. Boker enumerates several other articles in his line on which the tariff bas been increased, and generalizes by declaring that "on manufactures of iron tbe duty used to be 35 per cent; it is now 45 per cent." Tbe only reduction made on any of his goods, lie says, is in anvils, from 2 to 2 cents a pound, and a trifling decrease in the rates on chains. Yet, this is the great tariff-reform bill which was to reduce the customs duties from iiQ to 25 per cent. The harvest ia ripe. Mr.

Morrisox. NIHILISM AND TYRAKNY. It is announced from Germany that the extraordinary police supervision of the dangerous classes is to continue for tbe present, with an implication that they may be afterward dispensed With. It is an nounced from St Petersburg that the Czar has summoned the Superior Council to meet on March 10 to consider if there exists a powerful Xibilist party, and, if so, their wants and the means of satisfying them. It is not promising feature of these announcements that the Russian Council is to be composed exclusively of the highest orders of the Russian aristocracy, and that the German system rests itself more and more upon the clasped bands of the nobility and the plutocracy.

In each empire there ia an alliance be- tweeu the crown, tho aristocracy aud tbe plutocrats in controlling the people, the machinery employed being tbe police, the army and tbe exchequer. The privileged and ruling classes in portions of Europe learn more slowly in modern times than the masses that the earth belongs of right to the generation now occupying it, and that no man of right inherits either chains or a scepter, the latter being, like a Field sword, a public trust instead of a birthright. In proportion to the degree of tyranny practiced in modern times will be the iieranets of tho outbursts of patri otic Vengeance, all the more cruel because THE COURIER-JOURNAL: LOUISVILLE. SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1884 its designs are perforce nursed In secrecy. The parties which in England or the United Stales take open and pacific measures in encompassing reform, or in opposing Gov ernment policy, would be compelled Russia to move in secret conspiracy.

I here it ia a choice between submission and 2T i- hilism. Both the ruling powers and the avenging rebels commit crimes at tbe antipodes of the social order so heinous as to make humanity shudder; but in condemning the conspirator let us not forget bis wrongs and tbe limitations upon bis resources of redress. The Czar and the German tyrant Bismarck may both be taught, if they live a few years, that the surest guarantee of the permanence of Nihilism and Socialism consists in a denial of justice and political freedom its surest bane, the concession of justice and political freedom. At the recent meetine of the Democratic National Committee in Washington, the books were thrown open and the Treasurer reported every reasonable claim paid in full, with a balance of $1,800 in his hands. There was nothing to conceal, either as to the source of the money or how it was spent.

A dispatch to the New York JSut, says that "shortly after the Presidential election of 1880 it was charged by many Democrats, and the charge was elaborated in a prominent Democratic newspaper of the West, that the Hon. Samuel J. Til- dex, piqued at the failure of tbe Democ racy to force upon him a nomination which he had formally and voluntarily de clined, secretly endeavored to effect Gen. Hancock's defeat, working particularly through his trusty friends in the all-im portant Stale of New York. If any member of the National Committee stas weak enough to believe this charge, what must have been his surprise, upon looking at the bonks placed before him, to find that sums were subscribed and paid as follows: By Samuel J.

TilUen. of New York Py W. li. Barnum, of Connecticut. 40.O0O By W.

bcott, or By Henry B. Payne, of Ohio 20.000 By Hiver H. Payne, of Ohio 31.000 by W. J. Gordon, of Ohio u.oOO These gentlemen are all, in political par lanct', "Tildex and yet they were among the most liberal contributors to tbe fund raised to pay the legitimate expenses of Gen.

Hancock's campaign. If Samuel J. Tilden and his friends desired the do feat of Gen. Hancock, they chose a most unusual method of carrying their desires into effect." The "Western Export Association is to bo superseded by the Vacuum Mashing Company. The Western Export Associa tion is the title of a pool formed some years control the production of all whis kies other than Bourbon, which was aceonv plisued bv means of an elaborate system of regulation applied to production aud urices.

Each distillery was limited to a certain percentage of its capacity-, a uui form market price was established and distilleries fallius below their capacity were paid pro rata at the standard price. The rate of production recently' fixed was 20 per and the compact is to expire by limitation next September. A result of this system of guaranteeing sales has been to encourage an iucrease of producing capacity, though the latter is already four times the capacity of consumption. The large distillers of the principal Western centers, who have sustained the pool heretofore, announce that they have secured a complete substitute for that system by obtaining possession of certain patents which enable them to defy the competition of all other distillers. 13y the new process the distillers of the Vacuum Mashing Company can make live gj.lons of spirits from a bushel of corn, which is two or three quarts in excess of the maximum product from the process now in universal use.

The theory is that all distillers outside of the Vacuum combination mut stop, as they can cot compete with the new process, and thus the purposes of the pool are to be accomplished by, more scientific manufacturing methods instead of arbitrary compacts. This week's Puck has a fine cartoon, en titled "Building tho Ark." Mokriso, Carlisle, Hewitt and others are busily. engaged constructing the ark of Tariff He- form, while the "Republican unmindful of the warning of Carlisle and heedless of the lowering sky, disregard "their only hope of salvation," and laugh and piny and dance In derision. No surer method could be taken by them to hasten this overwhelming deluge than to defeat tariff reduction by abolishing the internal revenue, as report says they now threaten. Tmliiter Ueian is heartily in favor of the "Demi-Heps." It faucies that the work of its ardent Southern co-laborers in thelte-publican cause of protection will bear abundant fruit.

It says: In no othar way could tbe true issue be brought so squarely before the country as fur our Republican free-traders to pack up their bagsaffe and eroas orer into the Democratic camp, while in xehanze for them we would secure the one-third or mora of the Democraue party who purpose to stand by Tildex. Payne. Kamdall, IicKORtc-xs. the New Yorlc Sun and World, and the Southern Democratic protection- ists." TriE reported outbreak of the foot and mouth disease at one point west of the Mississippi justifies alarm, but further in vestigation will be required to prove that the disorder is of that dreaded type. If so, everything depends 'upon the vigorous extirpation of the diseased cattle, anil upon strictly isolating the suspected locality.

An outbreak! of this disease in the West would be a public c-damitv. and its effect upon ur export trade would' be the least important evil that would result from it. Tue Union League has appointed a Com mittee on Bourbon ism, whose duty it is to make war on Southern Bourbonism. On tbe committee are such rnnk Bourbons ns W. Chandler, L.

C. Hour and C. A. Boctellk. As it would be impossible to find anywhere three more bigoted Bour bons, they are doubtless qualified to fiirht most effectively Bourbonism at the South.

It took the Kentucky Legislature a month to elect a United States Now they propose to spend another mouth in prov log that tbey either did elect one. or that they didn't. This is child's play. The peo ple do not raro to pay for the time con sumedm "vindicatm? Individual mem bers from Irresponsible gossip. Fuom the number of "schemes" which are beingv hatched at Washington to defeat the Morrison Tariff Bill, it is very evident that the Republican and Democratic inon opolisls In Congress fear the measure more than they publicly admit, Will Congressman AVise follow the ex ample of Queen and write i book about bis kitchen THIS AND THAT.

At BesC Why does that fat police maa Stop and talk and tarry so? Ah, his cloek runs by the old "Which is eighteen minutes slow. Then he knows that city orders Haw chaojred the time of noon. And caused a hesitation In the motion of tb moon. They may stop tbe clocks and watches. Like wise the sua and moon; Also tianipose the seasons; Call January June; They may chan-re the cold December To warmth or e'en to beat.

But they'U nerer atop a city cop From snoozing on bis beat. Texasb are the best swordsmen. There is always a good deal of cutting in their fencing. Grandmothers who are still "young" terrorize their erand children into calling them "aunty. ilrss ISctt, it is thought, will be made a postmistress if she proves to be a young lady of the right stamp.

If the Democrats nominate an Ohio man, it is likely that tbey wiU have tbeir labor for their Payne. Mattokw Abnold wants to visit us again before he dies. Mr. Arnold probably wishes to eommnn with Jane Swissbelm. Mrs.

Langtrt has bought another New York mortgaea. Emilia Charlotte baa full confidence iu the future of this new country. Mr. Beeciier speaks of hell-fire as red. The Plymouth congregation, if he doesn't cease talking in this way, will bacom vary blue.

A PrrTSBCTRGH typesetter Is to run a footrace of 100 yards. A copy-hook with eight fat takes will be placed at the end track. -r The Judges of tbe New York Court of Appeals have at last got into gowns. Will the ladiao please send them aotna old hoop-Skirts I A FCNERAb procession ran away in Kalamazoo tbe other day. Hereafter, bodies will be taken to the cemetery by the street cars.

Congrksbmaji ITorr argues that salt should not be placed on tbe free list. Mr. lloi is evidently legislating for the protacticn of Knglisu sparrows. The testimony in the Anchorage Asylum investigation would lead a casual reader to infer that it is not an asylum for the insane, but a jyuif-in ho6pital. In New York six sailors have each been fined t25 for smuggling artichokes.

What bas become of the old war cry of "Free Trade and Sailors' Abe Bcfokd is an enthusiastic admirer of the bluegrass country of Kentucky. He says that tbe waeds of that region are more beautiful tWan the flowers of other lands. Pehuaps the Legislature will be kind enough to urnishtbe city of Louisville a new charter. The old one will shortly be so patched that the rag men will put in a bid for it. At the minstrels: "Mistah Johnsing, did you know, sah, dat de people of LouisviUe is become more tony dan dey was!" "How tony, Mistah Sparribs?" Lxingtoay, chiie." New York milk is 88 per cent, water.

3 per cent, fat and 9 per cent, other materials. The milkmen hope to have it thin enough soon to extinguish any fires that may break out alone their routes. Lexisgton would be a splendid location for a btate capitol. "The lion and the unicorn Were fighting for the crown." The Queen, as sure as you are born. Bestowed it on John Brown.

P. of A. So many Louisviilc Americans have taken to studying German that their friends are getting some of it too, such as it is. An American wrestling with a Oerman guttural is a contest for the eyes and ears of gods and men. Matthew Arnold is said to be thor oughly English.

There can be no doubt that ha is. Having been in the United States for some weeks, it would certainly be his own fault if tie had not acquired English ways. Persons who write books will be pleas ed to read the quoted remarks of a New York bookseller, who says: "It is a curious fact that your best friends seldom call for your book. They wait for complimentary copies." "Reform," says the Philadelphia Timet, referring to the Republican Convention, bas little to do with tbe delegates to Chica go." les; and the delegates to Chicago, the Times might have added, have little to do with reform Mk. ItAXDALii is advising Mr.

Morrison to call in the funeral director for his little tariff reform baby. York Morning Jour nal. Mr. Randall ought to know something about funerals. It isn't long since he had one of his own.

The: investigation in Philadelphia which discovered that an alarminz number cf school boys are in the habit of carrying re voivers might properly bo accepted by school managers iu other citu as a suggestion. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. South ern cities) CONORESSM A. NO. 1).

HITE SCUt a page to a book store in the vicinity of the Capitol for tbe loan of a copy of the Ency clopsedia BriUnuica, with tbe assurance to the proprietor of the store that if be found his name in the book be would purchase, a copy. He did not invest. A loss time ago a young man was promoted to the position of railroad editor of a daily newspaper, and wrote his first paragraph. Yesterday be was overjoyed on rinding bis first effort right before his eye It was among the fresh news in a St. Louis paper.

Time waits for all men in St. Louis, A Street Supervisor complained that bo bad no appetite for his breakfast. His doctor advised him to take a whisky cocktail before eating. He bas persevered in the treatment until he has arrived at the conclu sion that he wiU either have to leave off tbe cocktail or seek a new boarding-house, as they do not now have enough to satisfy his appetite at the old one The blood of the aristocracy is not blue in reality; it has the same red hue as that which courses in the veins of the plebeians; but the expression blue blood" is common- lv used to denote. superiority of birth.

Nei ther is bluegrass of "God's country' act naily blue; it is green, like most other grasses; but the expression is used to denote that tbe grass of that delightful region is superior to ail other gn It is strange that the story of George Washington and hia father's tree should have got so mixed ap on its way through history. These are tbe actual facts: One day lutfe having been told not to chop anything with his liUJ hatchet, at once repaired to tbe orchard and laid low tbe first tree he reached, which happened to be the most valuable of all that his father owned. ho cut that tree!" roared tbe father of his country's father. coming up just as George was leaving the orchard. 'Father, said the young rascal.

"I cut the darned thing down. I'm not going to lie about it. How ever, I was not aware that yon wen, so of your cherry i trees." my cried the old man, wringing his sgd hands, "I would rather lose a thousand cherry trees than that a ton of should make one pan! Tb inno cent child, touched by bis father's great1 1 grief, never got off another Joke. Later in life he went Into the army and became celebrated for nevr cracking a smile, oven ta the forest. Cahcer very seldom appears In persons under 30.

It usually cornea between 45 and 60. It is very rare in tropical countries, and more frequent among tho poor than among the rich, among women than among men, and it has been noticed that among the Trappists, Carmelites, and Carthusian monks it is almost unknown, a circumstance ascribed to their abstinence from meat, while it is most common ia mid-Euro where meat is most eaten. In the Netherlands and Bel gium it has increased of late years. Immoral influences tend toward its production when they have a bad effect cn the digestive organs. Dr.

Dana. PEOPLE WE KNOW, TtxssELL, Sage's twin brother is dead at Joliet, Illinois. I Whittier's health this winter extremely delicate. 'BKIClc, Pomerot is temperance lecturing in Rhode Island. John G.

Saxe. the poet, continues in feeble health and seldom leaves his room. Peke IIvacisthe has publicly expressed bis approval of the New Orleans cremation society. Texstsoj? intends to support in the House of Lords tbe bill legalizing marriage with a deceased wile'i sister. W.

II. Mallock. the author, offered himself as the Tory candidate for Parliament tor the St. Andrew's borough in Scotland. Oscak Wilde is lecturing to crowded audiences in Edinburgh With all his eccentricities, Oscar is canny; enough to make a little reputation go a great way.

Accoedlng to the Boston Stturdirjf Evening Gazette, Wendell Phillips did not believe in modern improvements appertaining to household comforts, arid when he removed to Common street even had tbe furnace, water and ras taken out of the house. He never allowed curtains at his windows to exclude air or sunshine. Senator Jones, of Florida, who is considered one of the most cultivated men at the capital, and who certainly is one of the most eloquent men in the Senate, is entirely self-educated. He never had many school opportunities, even of tbe "common" kind, and owes his education wholly to his own efforts sine be was tweuty-one years old. Coxckessmax IIork.

of Michigan, who is regarded as one of the wittiest speakers in Congress, is short, fat and jolly. He prepares his speeches carefuUy in writing and then tears up the manuscript. His famous sentence that "the South had better raise more hogs and less hell," was ready for use two months before he had the opportunity to use it. The Pope has given orders for the re moval of tbe body of Innocent III. from Perugia to Rome, where a splendid monument ill be erected to him.

Tho remains of Gregory VII. will also be brought from Sa lerno and buried next to Alexander the author of the Lombard So the three Fopes who have fought most for the church wiU be buried together in the crand Basilica. Goldwis Smith, who still calls himself though he bas.long been out of Cornell University and now lives in Toronto, occasionally gets into print, and lately as having been appointed "Professor of His tory" at Oxford University. -But he comes out like a man and says he bas not, and that the position referred to, which he supposes to be the Regius Professorship of Modern History, is now efficiently filled by Dr. Btubbs, who has no idea of resigning.

Caleb Crsniso's personal habits were peculiar. Although a most charming companion, an agreeable conversationalist, and fond of the table, where he was always de lightful, he was a solitary man. Iiis wife, a bright and remarkable woman, who entered into her husband's interests in a way some what unusual, died young, and he never married again and always seemed to lead a wandering life, for although he bad a home in Xewburyport, no one was sure of finding him there or of Doing able to ascertain wuere he was. Senator Riddlebergeh, the Virginia Readjusttr, is a fluent stump-speaker, and noted lor tne ease witn wtucn ne sups over the strong points scored by bis opponents in personal debate. Upon one occasion, at Winchester, after listening to a masterly pre sentation of the Democratic issues, the Sena tor arose and, waving bis band flippantly in the air as if brushing aside a flv.

began: "Fellow-citizens, I can write everything tbe gentleman has said upon a 10-cent piece and still have room enough left for the Lord's Prayer." ABOUT WOMEN. Miss Jenxie Cuamderlaix, the Amer ican beauty, will return home in May. 3Iiss Anne Xoel. of Adams county. who died a few days ago, weighed 465 pounds.

TnE daughter of 01c Bull appears to have inherited some of her father's ganiua for playing tbe violin. Miss Beatrice Biddle, granddaughter of Nicholas Biddle, has accepted a stall posi tion on the ew ork orld. Mbs. Gen. Lasder writes to Forney's Philadelphia Progress that the new Pension Office will be used for tbe next inaugural ball.

i It is hoped that marriage will lower the. temperature of Ella-Wheeler's poetry. Her prospective husband is engaged in the ice business. I i Henry Villabd's daughter attended the opera in New York the other night, wearing a white worsted breakfast shawl, and society was shocked. M.

KicnEnx, who succeeded Damala in Sarah Bernhardt'! affections, has deserted her for an actress who is fatter! and not quite so handy with a horsewhip, Xdovs the best wav to tell the real from the imitation sealskin sacque is to have your neighbor's wife bay Tour wife will tell yoa all about it the first day. A Baltimore widow poisoned herself because a boy of eighteen would not marry her. The poor boy wanted to. but his mother spanked him and put him down cellar. Miss Xclme IIcnt.

daughter of the American Minister to Russia, who died Wednesday, is reported to be engaged to a Russian nobleman who is one of tbe household officials in the Imperial Palace. Mrs. Albert Day, of Boston, yoHng and pretty, wanted to keep boar Jers. Uer husband, aged 70, objected. Tbe boarders came in the form of several nice young man, and when Mr.

Day made a fuss bis wife put him out-doors and kept him out. In the Salem, normal school there is a class of girls learning carpentry. Their teacher is tbe principal iof the school, Mr. Ilagar. Last year Maine girl, a graduate of Vaasar.

reshingled' her father's bouse and built a porch, Just for tbe fud of it. M'LLl Dairk, a peasant gkl of France, who drew the 120,000 prue ia the lottery I it two weeks ago, was called to Paris to get tbe money, and in the two day aba remained in the city received 1C6 offers of marriage from loviag Frenchmen sbe bad never seen. "So fab as I am rrsonaJJy concerned, should have no objection to open Brown University to women, except that it woald be harder to manage than "before." iVesf- oVnt Mr. President, you've pnt mildly and gently, but you've got the facts right there. i Labocchere ssys In London Truth that Mary Anderson plays no better in comedy and tragedy than many an actress earning less than 20 a week in a stock company.

However, she is making more money in Henry Irving' theater than he could make himself, and he is making more money hen than she could have made. Mrs. Mackay's new Worth dress is to be ornamented by two or three hundred wings of red-breasta, and the tips of her shoes ara to be finished with tiny robins. This might do in Paris, but if Mrs. Mackay were to come to Ifew York she might be in serious danger of being interfered with by Henry Bergh oa behalf of tbe Association for the Pre vention of Cruelty to Animals.

It is a much mixed question in New York whether a man in a crowded car should give up bis seat to a lady. Arguments are about equally distributed pro and con. But when a stout, active, chdckle-beaded youiijr man in a comfortable seat lets a woman old enough to be bis mother hang to a strap in front of him for three quarters of an hour the question is: Wbat would he do if it was bis own mother standing there! A certain girl has pieced a "crazy quilt" containing 9,000 bits of ribbon. It must have taken at least three minutes' sewing to the piece. That would make 27,000 minutes an hour a day for a year and nearly three months.

In that time the foolish girl might have learned a modern language, become an accomplished cook and housekeeper, studied no end of history or science, or have dona benevolent educational work among the ignorant and poor that would have lasted to the eternities. Mr, C. G. Lkwks writes to the PaU, Gazette: "I see in your paper a hterary note which requires "a correction. It is to the effect that George Eliot left behind her 'a large number of note-books and dealing with many subjects' a tdateineut which goes very much beyond the fact.

As this statement may, if uncontradicted, lead to disappointment. I shaU be glad if you will insert this letter in your issue of to-morrow. When tho 'Biography of George upon which Mr. Cross is engaged, and the forthcoming volume of 'Essays' have been given to the world there will rernaiu hardly anything of George Eliot's unprinted." Close to that locality in San Francisco known as Chinatown is the humble cottage in which bright little Lotta, the ac tress, Iivud when she was a child. The girl's days were spent in doing house work.

8he was the most persistent scrubber and sweeper in the neighborhood. Any morning, earliest of the early, Lotta could be seen scrubbing her mother's front steps. The industry and en ergy the child showed then were no small cause of her later success in laying up. a fortune. London has deciJed that the bright.

kindly little woman is not an actress. Be that as it may, she has deligbteJ more children than almost any other person ever did in America. That will be remembered in her favor always. TnE suppressed book which is making Euch a stir in Berlin, "Les Allemands," pronounces the Countess Schleinitz the most learned and intellectual woman in BerUn. fcho is a tolerable artist, arari musician, and well up in science aud literature.

She- is a fascinating woman socially, and, best of all or. worst of all, in Bismarck's judg. meat a Liberal in politics. The author of the wicked book says: "Her house is a true Republic. There you may meet painters, musicians, actors, journalists, politicians the nobility and women of society.

Yon 1 istirt thprn A-roinct'. nn muntal ruarrinaca V.4MViM. But the great Bismarck, like the great Na poleon, was afraid of an intellectual woman. He recommended the lady to discontinue her receptions, and thus, says the naughty book, a 1 tn uie ou.y intelligent center oi iieritn was suppressed." Mm. Schleinitz should come to America.

her here. There is room for ladies like A Ridiculuus Idea. Bonton Globe. The silk robe disease seems to be spreading amoutr tbe juices. Tbe JSuDrotuo Court of Peunsylvania is now hankering to make a collection of store dummies of itself.

It is rather too late in the progress of tbe world for tbe majesty ot the law to make itself anything but ridiculous in trying to hedge iis.uiguuy around witn suen trappings. Butler and Bisinarrk. Boston Tranicript. Why not send out Gen. Butler as Minister to Berlin! In the bully ing-bluster business the General and Prince bismarck would be appropriately, matched.

should miss iiutler, but tbe Germans would enter upon a new career of discomfort which would speedily incline their hearts to offer us peace at any price. hat Comforts the Yorkers. IVrfc uh. Chicago newspapers use a great deal of space and ink informing tbe world that Mrs. baran -Monroe, oi their now years old, used to sit in George ashington's lap.

And we are Ktad to near it; there is a great comfort in tbe thought that somebody in Chicago has been near a man who couldn't tell a lie. So Man E'er rclt tbe Halter Draw. hultimore American. Itabob Vanderbilt saya be considers journalism "the meanest business a man can be in." Any person who has been handled like Mr. Vanderbilt naturally thinks newspapers bad institutions.

The Indian who tried to lasso a locomotive never afterward bad much of an opinion of railroads. -ew Preof Every Day. Philadelphia Record. Canada is revising its protective tariff in tbe vain hope of adjusting it to the business interests of tbe people of that country, la tuts country, as well as in Canada, every dav affords a new proof of the declaration of Prof. iSuinner that protection is not practi cable.

Life Among the Stiaers. Bodie Pres.) A good many persons are scratching their 'heaUa to device novelties in costumes lor tbe P. P. P. ball on Friday night.

One maa savk he will be disguised beyond recognition by bis most intimate friends. Jt is expected that be intends to put on a clean shut. Ue'a Salary Urskkrr. Ihiladelphia Record. Senator Peudlelon decline to employ clerk at tbe public expense, iie says when he was elected he knew wbat his duty and bis salary were to be, and he proposes to n-rtit it out on that line to the end of bis Tbe MUsia Lisas.

Pittsburgh Tlegrapk. 'Links of Love' is a very pretty heading for a wedding notice. Tbe real lynx of lota is tbe watchful, jealous wife, or the equally vigilant nusoana. the Matter Ith ILs Doom. Philadelphia Pre.) John Logan's grammar may be slightly defective, for ail we know, but there seems to be nothing the matter with hut boom.

Another Team at Ibe Crank. 1 i 1 Why are not the Southern custom-houses whooping for John Sherman witn tbe same entnukiasm they were four years ago ii'es That fcvtaa ef aaaa. BuiUngton Hairkeyf. Man's life is but a span, and if it was worth as much as tne rpan Vanderbilt drives it wotdd be worth ht in'. THE KANSAS CATTLE PLAGUE.

Visit to Several Tanas Sear Saeaha Falls Whirs till Breaded Toot aad Xonta Disease Prevails, SOKE BICaXBTHG BIGHTS. EsrroaiA. March 7. A special reporter of the Eepvbliean giver the follow, ing facte regarding the cattle disease in Neosba Falls and vicinity: Yesterday morning a party of Lyons county stockraen. accompanied by several newspaper representatives, started for Neosha Falls oa a special train to examine into tbe status of the foot and mouth disease which is reported to exist there in such malignant form.

At the junction the party was joined py'Gov. Glick, William Sims, Secretary of Stat Board of Agriculture, and Holbrook, United States Veterinary Surgeon at Fort Leavenworth. The train reached lSeoaha Falls at 2 o'clock, and was met by Lieut. Gov. Finney.

After dinner the whole party started for the country. The first place visited was that of Dan. Keith, five miles north of town. This gentleman has about 120 head of cattle. During the holiday be noticed the first symptoms of the disease, which has been proven beyond doubt to be the foot and mouth disease.

Of his herd about 60 ara affected. The sight presented in the corral was almost sickening. Some animals wera teen with one foot tiff, some with two. while others had no feet at all. Many of them were lying down, appearing to have little life left.

Dr. Holbrook at once began to examine the cattle, and found symptoms of the dread disease prevalent In all. Soma. were broken at the heel and several appeared to be recov- ring. it was learned tnat tne symptom no ticed were the jerking up of the foreleg by the cattle and the arching of their backs, as if cold.

There was no doubt but that the fatal poison which produces this disease was first communicated to this herd, and after ward to others in the neighborhood. Keith's cattle are all natives, and, while Buffering with the disease, had good appetites. Of this herd nUv a dozen have lost a foot or more. The losing ot the hoofs was not considered at first with suspicion as it was thought it wai merely the result of freezing. Three -of Keith Qattle and a sucking calf have died.

The next place visited was Mr. Goodrich's ana bis stepfather's, r.il. iiendman, wno have ninety -six head, and thirty-five af fected. The disease was first noticed three weeks ago. A majority of the cattle presented a singular feature, the tails of nearly all being very much' flattened, which an in vestigation showed was tbe result of freezing.

It seemi tbe disease checks the circulation of tbe blood, which allows tne body to freeze. A cow was seen with her two hind feet just ready to come otf. Whau the trouble was firt noticed Mr. Ilendiuan separated tbe altlicted cattle from bis herd, and put tbe greater portion of thorn in a woody corral some distance from tha sheds. Before proceeding to tbe third and last place visited a consultation between the State ouicials and Ur.

liolcomb was hell. It is bis opinion that the mouth and foot disease existed in a very contiguous form. lie suggested a rigid quarantine as a means of preventing its spread, iie showed how. neco-sar this was. as the disease is the moat easily tpread of auy known to veterinary surgery.

He thought the best plan would im tu burn all tbe cattle in tne ailectea nerila. Wov. Glick favored the quarantine regulations, and spoke of tbe oi tbe laws to do anything in tbe matter. The disease is coufined to a very small section of country, and as tbe utmost precautions wiU be taken to prevent its spread and stamp it out the cattle men in this section are some what more hopeful of the prospect than was the case yesterday. A special Irora strons City, Chase county.

to tbe Republican says Dr. V. D. Bira. accompanied by Dr.

J. C. JScrogins, visited several stjck firms this morning wber tbe foot and mouth disease is reported, and say there is no cause for nlarinr They say ther are no symptoms whatever of tbe disease. Much aJawrhaa been felt since the tlrot cast-t were reported- from Chase county, but now there ia very little excitement. i a men haul.

The Office of the Paymaster of the B. and ooo. Chicago, March 7. Last Saturday, about 1 o'clock in the afternoon. Paymaster C.

S. Bartlett, of the Chicago, Burlington aud Quincy railroad, left bis office for lunch without taking the precaution to close tbe combination of tbe big safe, in which the money for the payment of employes is de posiiea. vju leaving tue ruuui ue uiu so without waiting the return of the other at- taches of the office, who had all gone to lunch. Before his return the cafe was robbed of ail its contents, with the exception of some 1 1 A L- -L. J- 1 packages of nickels and small change, the total amount disappearing, as nar as the company officials can estimate, being OOO.

On the facts becominz known an gation was instituted. Paymaster Bartlett was discharged from the service of the com- pany for negligence, and the matter placed iu the hands of detectives. An effort was made to keep the affair secret, in the hope that the detectives would be facilitated in their work, but the affair becoming known. and in tbe belief that an exaggerated statement would be published concerning the robbery, the officials showed a wiUingness that the exact facts be furnished the public. The theory advanced by the treasurer of the company is that the robbery was accom plished by a sneak-thief.

Two doors -led nto the cashier's office from a vacant room, one of which was found ajar on the pay master's return. The paymaster's room is I. located in the general offices of the com pany, on the second floor of tbe building, and was constructed especially with a view to guard against intrusion- or theft, but in this instance the most ordinary precautions appear to have been ignored. Tbe explanation given by tbe paymaster is that it was supposed the vacant room adjoining bh office was always kept locked, but in this case it was proved otherwise. This door was close to and adjoining, the vault in which the safe is located.

When tbe paymaster left the room tbe cashier of the com pany and an assistant, who occupy practi cally the same room, but ait at desks somewhat removed from the vault and in an angle which partially conceals the entrance to the vault, so that any one entering from the vacant room could have aorompliahed tne rooocry wiwuhi mju uv paymaster assume that the robbery must have been committed by some ene having a complete knowledge' of tbe room and the habit of its occupants. Daavllle Juries al Week. trpecMi ta th DaKVILLX, Kr.t March 7. Tbe grand jury this evening returned indictments against Tom liausrora, Hannah Hansford, Jim Barkkty, Anna Berkley and Dick Bent-ly, tbe negroes who robbed and set fire to Potta Proctor'a mill on Wednesday night. Mary Hanf ord waa discharged from cus tody, there being no evidence against ber.

William Hansford, Jim Barklay ud Dick Bently confessed judgment, and were sentenced to tbe penitentiary, the first two fur three years each and Bently for one year. Tbe trials of Tom Hansford. Hannah Hansford and Anna Barklay are set for Monday. Maria Ross, a negro woman, waa sent to the work-house for sixty days for petit The jury in tbe Bowsey murder case at 5:30 o'clock reported that they were unable to agree upon a verdict and were finally discharged. Six Jurors wera for acquittal aud six fur mansiaeghtar.

If It Takes All iuramer. LVe Vort Morning Journal Winter seems determined to stay until be L. mm wwr..