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AIK A Mihu.nkft, ibioi.sin. TO SUBSCRIBERS. Subscribers who wish to avail themselves of our premium oflers hut are deterred from so doing by the fact that their subscriptions do not expire for some time, may Bend the amount necessary for and premium desired, we will extend the sunscription of the render one year from the date of expiration of present subscription and bend premium at once. President Harrison's Message. The lire! annual message of President Harrison to Congress is a sound and excelU nl document.

The style IB some what formal, yet it is clear and understandable, and this state paper will make a pood impression both at horre and abroad. The message is but it covers nearly every question of pervading interest to the American -people. This is a pood excuse for its lenglb. Our foreign relations witti every government on the globe are satisfactory and there is not even the glimmer of a war cloud. The President felicitously alludes to the presence at Washington of tlie Tan-American Congress, wliose delegates comprise the representatives of the three and whose gathering in our country has been long subject of nv.tiunal expectation, yet.

which h.ia not been realized until the anniversary y'iar of our republic. The President handles the surplus question with ability' and clearness, and urges an immediate and thorough revision of tin) taritl. could be wiser or more pertinently enforced. Tlio surplus, after all the requirements Of the sinking hind were complied with, amounted to on the 1st of Julv, IMSO, and will amonut to on the Jst of July, iSW. Therefore not only the iaxpayeis but commun sense demand an immediate revision and reduction of the tarilT.

lie tackles the silver problem, and wliile all the current of his remarks is in favor of the suspension of the coinage of the standard silverdollar, he does not say so positively, but his argument is strongly directed niininst any further increase of the coinage, as perilous to the best interests of the country. With nil possiiile efforts on tiie part of the government only liO.uuii.uuuof silver dollars can be kept in circulation, while the coinage has already reached the enormous figure of It isa mass that cannot be used, and therefore should not be further piled up. The President poes in strongly for coast defenses, favors the education of the Indians, anil advises some changes in. our naturalization laws, rendering more exacting as to the moral character the applicant for ship. llv sustains all the recommendations of tlie postmaster-general for the improvement and increased efficiency ol the service, and urges that Congress should make such modifications of the people in the good faith and solidity the government are referred to as im portant influences in maintaining th constantly depreciating silver dollar a par with our gold coins in our domesti trade, although in our foreign trade it has Bunk to its bullion value.

The silliness of the silver barons' whine that the depreciation of silver was due to its demonetization by this conn try in 1873, is exposed by the presentation of such evidence as the fact that the coinage of silver dollars from the foun dation of the mint, in 1792, to the time of the demonetization, amounted to on )y $8,045,838, and that they had not been in circulation for twenty-five years. I is noted that notwitnstandine the mandatory purchases of silver bullion to coin 343,000,000 standard dollars, and also (he government's expenditure o. $37,500,000 to buy silver for subsidiary coins to take the place of the old pacer fractional currency, silver bullion has steadily declined. In the bullion vuluo nf the silver dollar uliom 1U innrr the pnld doUur on March the connnencoiuoiit of lor the fcilver tloilnr cuinatre, it i'3 ivhilc its bullion vjihjfis 71'ccnrs infold. In other i here hits been a i'iil ot per rent, in the vftluc of silver us iiold in the last sixteen years ami ul PVT Lit prr cent, since Tve couimencec bases in 1875.

The Secretary attributes the decline in the value of silver to the action countries which have closed their mints to the coinage of full legal tender silver pieces, and to the increased sale of Indian council bills in London, by means of which the annual exportation of silver to India to pay trade balances has been greatly diminished. He then goes on to a consideration of the various measures which have been proposed to remedy the situation. No one, he says, is satisfied with the continuance of the present policy, the silver men wanting free coinage, and their opponents that a continuance of the silver coinage at the existing rate will in time result in depressing our entire currency to the silver standard. He disposes of the plea that free silver coinage is needed to increase the volume of currency by showing that it would drive the gold out of circulation, and thereby ruinously contract the volume of currency instead of increasing it. Another proposition which hi.s been" popularly made has been to increase the size of the standard silver dollar, so as to make its intrinsic value equal to its face value.

'Phis, the Secretary says, would not stoo the fluctuations of silver, while it would make the coin per cent, heavier than it is now, which would be too buiuy for use, and would tend to prevent the restoration of the old ratio of value between silver and gold. The measure recommended by Secretary Wimlom is to issue treasury notes against deposit!) of silver Dullion. The bullion is to be received at its market price when deposited. The notes are ti be payable on demand in silver bullion at the market value on the date of presentation, or in gold, at the option ol the government; or in silver dollars, at the option of the holder. If the secretary of the treasury decides to pay in gold, he can use either gold coin, or gold bullion at its market value, or gold certificates.

The secretary ol the treasury is to have discretionary power to temporarily suspend the receipt of silver bullion lor payment in notes whenever he deems it "necessury to protect the government against combinations formed for the purpose of giving an arbitrary and fictitious price to silver." The adoption of this plan would give the country a solidly-based paper currency to take the place of the retiring national bank noies. In the event ot the mrther depreciation of silver, the government would lose by the shrinkage of the value of the bullion in its possession, but probably not more than the present cost of keeping on hand a gold basis for the redemption of its out- iuter-Htme commerce law as better i standing treasury notes. On the other protect the liven and limbs of the tens of thousands ol" workmen who are employed on the inter-Ftate railroads. The President earnestly recommends the piipsagc of a bill providing pensions lor nil disabled'and dependent soldiers and sailors ho served in the war and were honorably discharged, even though their disability is not traceable to their service. The whole message is large, bread and humanitarian, and while it will add to the reputation of the nation abroad, it will decidedly strengthen the Republican administration in the estimation of all the intelligent nad fair-minded votciB throughout the land.

AVimlom on iho Silver ProMem. When that sturdy KnuliNhmau, William Cobbett, published h.s excellent work on Knglish grammar he mtule it absorbingly interesting by inserting in it state papers by Cnstlereaph, Canning and other political leaders ol his time, and mercilessly criticising the numerous verbul, Thetorical and logical errors tliey contained. U'ere Cobhett livi in this age, and desirous of enriching his book with a state paper which would serve ae foil to the others and which could be held up as a model of its kind, lie might safely select for the purpose the report of rtlary of the Treasury Tho document necessarily long, because of the multitude of fact? which it presents, but it is not prolix. The mass of inlormation is handled in a.manner that demonstrates niastery. Complex, from the nature of the subject, the problems presented and the solutions proposed are reduced to sucti perlect order that al is lucid, and anyone iiimiliar with the English language can understand all is advanced readily ns the specialist in finance.

Tbe main feature of the report ie of course the portion devoted to the silver question. The Secretary begins by stating thfit the continued coinage of the ttandard silver dollar is "a disturbing element in tne otherwise excellent financial condition of the country," and "a positive hindrance to any international agreement looking to the free coinage of both gold and silver a fixed ratio." Statistics showing the coinage of silver dollars under the Bland law, and the decrease in the price of silver, are then I years given; and the growth of population, the development of all kinds of business, haruf, in view of its present unprece- deutedly low price, silver would be more likelv to advance than to recede, and in that event the government would guin. As the United States government is now one of the largest owners of silver in the world, and as this country furnishes nearly one-half the annual silver product of the world, such a plan as 8 cretary Wiudom presents for restoring the value of silver is certainly entitled to national consideration. Its simplicity and originality are worthy of the statesman who in 1SS1 won the admiration of the financial world by his unique and brilliantly successful scheme of converting a large portion of the national debt into a 3 per cent, stock payable at the option of the government. If his plan for the solution of the silver problem proves equally successful, his name will live in history as one of the greatest financiers that any age or country has produced.

The Postal Service. The postal service is one in which everybody is directly interested. Therefore the report of the postmaster-general is of more general importance than the reporis of the heads of other departments of the government. Mr. Wanamaker, in his first report, just submitted to Congress, makes some valuable suggestions and recommendations.

He cays the postal business has increased to such an extent that the appointment of a fourth assistant postmaster-general is advisable. This official he would place in charge of the railway mail, the foreign mail, the money-order office, the registry and supplies divisions, and the dead-letter office. Mr. Wanamaker would aiso divide the country into twenty-six postal districts, and place each district in charge of a supervisor, in order to promote the ef-. fidency of the service.

And to promote the efficiency of the foreign mail service, lie would establish a incrins post-office system similar ta the railway mail service. Tneeerecommendationsare all good and should be acted upon by Congress, That in regard to a steamship mail eer- vice is something that will excite surprise because of the lateness of its suggestion. It would seen; that with the large foreign mail tbat has for many been handled by the New post-office, a steamship service should hare been instituted long and the-unswerving confidence of the ago- Mr. Wanamaker also wants to i-. 1 i.r'O n.eii t-; riici-is of be permitted to make contracts with American registered ships for the pnr- poee of obtaining mail service in every direction necessary.

This last recommendation is in line with the Republican policy of encouraging American shipping. Ships may be subsidized as England subsidizes her mail lines with favorable mail contracts; and there will be no grumbling over this liberal policy if the mail service is improved through it. As to a reduction of the price of postage on letters to one cent, the postmaster-general says it must come as a matter of course, but the time is not ripe for the reduction. And most persons will agree with him that the best way to bring about the reduction is to push and improve the service until the increased receipts bring the department somewhere near a self-sustaining basis. The request that legislation be enacted that will enable the postmaster-general to establish a limited postal telegraph service will meet with protest by those who fear that such service would injuriously complicate the governmental service.

But if the experiment is made on a very limited scale, practical demonstration of great value as -a guide might be the result. Whatever is done in this direction should be undertaken as an experiment. Mr. Wanamaker calla the attention of Congress to the fact that publishers of novels have taken advantage of a technicality and are sending out paper-covered books as numbers of a serial issue, in order to get them into the second-class classification. He justly objects to this, because school and other educational books subtantially bound cannot be mailed except for eight times the rate charged for the paper-covered literature.

The Futility of Strikes. Railway employes have long been noted in this country as among the most conservative representatives of organized labor. It will therefore occasion little surprise, though it will excite not a little interest, to learn that Frank Champlin, who delivered the annual address at the recent convention of the Kail way Passenger and Freight Conductors' Mutual Aid Benefit Association, at Chicago, devoted himself mainly to a deprecation of strikes and lockouts as a means of settling disputes between employes and employers. A report of his address says: Mr. Oiiilupliu s.iiil he of strikes vet in r-port by the Bu' inmblcs From isst to strikes, in which eiitiiiuc'l.

The. loses to the and to the em- Ibtse strikes resulted in a ent to S' 1 men. to be piontahly settled by strikes nnd Inckonts. The of labor troubles in Milwaukee, even leaving out of considera- tiou the riots ol May, 15)85, proves conclusively the unwisdom of lockouts and strikes. Take, tor instance, the great strike of the cigarmakers, the result of which was to drive a large parto; that profitable industry from the city.

it is doubtful whether even now, the set-back which the tobacco manufacturing industry of Milwaukee received al that time has been fully recovered from. Tne worfiiugmen suffered even more the manufacturers in the general ruin. Strikes are a form of war, and at with the destruction inseparable from war. t-ociety cannot af- ord the waste they involve. The mod- of good results that sometimes comes from them must be sought by less violent means.

President ChamberlMj Vindicated. President course in connection with the State University hazing case is fully justified by of the rial which was concluded iflsthe circuit court at Madison on the 27tn ult. The tiry found the student Flower, who was one of Freshman Riley's assailants, guilty of riot, the maximum penalty prescribed ior which is a fine of (500 or mprisonment for one year. Although udge t-tewart imposed the light fine if SIO, the moral effect of the con- -ictiou will be to make the students realize that hazing is a dangerous pastime. Instead of injuring the prestige of he University by his course.

President Jharnherlin has done the one thing that vas necessary to reassure parents and guardians who were mistrustful of the tmosphere of the institution, by reason if the stories of the students' pranks which gained currency from time to ime. It is now thoroughly understood hat the head of the University is a man vho will not tolerate trifling with the ules, and who is bound to enforce dis- even if it be necessary in ex- reme cases to go to the length of invoking the strong arm of the law to visit xemplary punishment. It will probably be a long time before he sequel of the Kiley hazing case will ade from the memory of college stu- and the good effect of the whole- ome lesson which it has taught will xtend bevond the boundaries of he University. Students elsewhere ban at Madison will realize that a sractice which is defined and punished law as rioting cannot be longer ooked iroon as a harmless boyish ex- ravagance. Hazing has received a Beri- us and possibly a fatal blow.

Onr National Banking System. Comptroller of the Currency Lacey has presented bis annual report for the year ending October 31. On that day there were 3,319 national banks in the United States, with a capital of 174,305, a deposit list of and a discount line of These be big figures, and show the vast expansion of the system from the time of its inangnration under Secretary Chase twenty-five years ago. But ihe comptroller regrets to perceive that there isa constantly increasing disposition to withdraw the bonds deposited and cancel their circulation, because the bonds have become so dear that the banks cannot afford to continue them as a basis of circulation. And the tax on circnlation is found 10 be altogether too nigh.

The comptroller therefore recommends that the tar be reduced from one-half of 1 per cent, to one- quarter of 1 per cent, on the circulation, and that the banks be permitted to obtain notes from the government equal to the face value ot the bonds deposited. The present law allows only 90 per cent, of their face value. It seems nnjust that when a 4 per cent, bond is deposited, which will command fl.2-5 in any portion of the world, it shall be good for only ninety cents at the Treasury Department hope Congress will make these prorosed changes. The Southwest and the West will reap advantage by this change in the law, us those sections, on account of their growing business, are constantly demanding accessions of banking capital. As an argument he cites the fact that thirty-six new banks were organized in Texas during the past year.

Pennsylvania has more national banks than any other state in the Union, but Massachusetts leads ail others in the amount of capital invested in national banks. This goes to prove, what everybody knew before, that the old Bay State has on hand a considerable amount of money. The national bonds deposited with the Treasury Department on October 31, amounted to 1131,383,334 and their circnlation aggregated $203,602.732. The difference between the amount of bonds deposited' and notes issued was made up by the deposit in the treasury of lawful money to the amount of New Justice of the Supreme Court. The nomination of Judge Brewer, of Kansas, for justice of the supreme court of the United States, to take the place vacated by the death of Stanley Matthews, of Ohio, is well received, for Judge Brewer is an able and upright jurist, and he has the ability and the industry to make a first-class justice.

Nevertheless, we think the people would have preferred that this honor should have been conferred upon Walter Q. Gresham, one of the clearest- headed jurists in the United States, and who is deserving of this mark of national approbation. But the matter of locality worked decidedly against Judge Gresham. Chief Justice Fuller haiis from Illinois, and as Judge bails from the same etate it would have been giving two justices of our highest court to one state. Ohio at one time had two, but it was considered an anomaly.

The President doubtless desired to select a mernbvr of the supreme court from the territory west of the Mississippi River. Judge Miller lives in Iowa, but on account of age, he will toon.retire from the bench, and the appointment of Judge Brewer fixes one judge at leust west of the Mississippi and south, ol the Missouri. At one time it was supposed that either Secretary Noble or Miller would be elevated to the supreme bench. Probably that was their ambition. But the President has wisely decided not to allow his natural personal preference- for hia late law partner, Miller, of Indianapolis, to swerve him from what he deemed the highest idea of public duty.

IF the Oleson lynching had occurred in Kentucky it would have afforded Wisconsin papers an opportunity for moralizing upon the shocking condition of Southern society. But it occurred in Wisconsin, and it is a matter of notoriety i that the public attitude here toward such cowardly murders is one of horror and indignation. Tne fact that Oleson was a poor specimen of a man doas not afford a shadow of excuse lor the lawless brutality of the men responsible for his brutal taking off. It is to be hoped that the public-spirited district attorney of Trempealeau will be successful in bringing thefcerpetrators of the murder to justice. Rrssu contemplates the buildine of a railroad to the Pacific Ocean.

According to the plans of the engineers there will be 4,000 miles of road and 2,500 miles of river transportation. An engineer of the Russian government is now in the United States equipping himself lor the task by observation of the workings of our railroads. When this proposed Russian road is completed, advocates of the American road to Bshr- ing Sea will have a little more ground for argument. EUROPEAN- countries are hurriedly obtaining smokeless powder. When they are all supplied the advantage of the discovery will be evenly divided, and things will be just as they were before.

There is disadvantage as well asadvant- age in the use of this powder. Very successful movements have been made behind the smoke of battle; and it is also patent that where an enemy is not veiled by smoke he must also have a good view of his opponent. NEW YORK has two condemned murderers awaiting execution, but the law cannot take its course until the courts have decided whether or not execution by electricity is painful to the victim. While justice impatiently waits, the electric wires in Gotham are proving that men touched by them are not given time to determine whether they are hurt or not. PJVERY new cruiser built by England is "the largest vessel of her class." The Blake, just launched, has engines of OOJ horse-power, and is expected to make twenty-two miles an hour when "pusherf." Where will this business of preparing for war end? THE reply of the governor of Sbrth Carolina to the speech of Jeff.

Davia at the Fayetteville Centennial, when Jeff, tried to show that secession was constitutional, was to the point. The governor called for three cheers lor the United States. la ted company has a hearse car. When they introduce electric motors the com panics can furnish the corpse as well as the hearse. BETWEEN OURSELVES.

Eastern papers are printing portraits of men holding blut icuerste. Scotch gis puddings, or the lungs of bagpipes- it is the foot ball season. The monarchists of Brazil, in view the complacency of their ex-emperor are saying "Dam Pedro." The Michigan justice of the peace who issued the emphatic order of arrest, "Fetch him, him!" evidently believes brevity is the soul of wit. Stanley's report has given public men who abhor the interviewers "tip" as to where they can secure absolute seclusion, They don't write history with blood in Brazil. Gerry Mander has never been arrested for political trickery, although he has cheated a good many men out of official positions.

The silverites unite their voices with the counterfeiters in demanding the right to coin without restriction. -I- The 1 Milwaukee surgeons who left a sponge in the abdomen of a patieni they had operated upon have been outdone by two Pittsburg surgeons who lost a pair of forceps in the same manner. 1 The man with the ready salutation will now take out the word warm and insert the word cold in his stock remark "Is it enough for you?" When Col. Swords is elected sergeant- at-arms of the House of Representatives he should make somebody named Club his assistant. Base ball men are not criticised for muffing their ears.

The first-class insurance risk of the future must be wire proof as well as fire proof. The speakership contest seems to prove tbat a Reed is sometimes stronger than a Cannon. When a printer says he is going to press, he may be going to see his best girl. You can tell by his clothes. One of the most wearing crosses of civilized existence is the crossed electric wire.

New York's Sing Sing birds are never full of song. The number of silver-tongued orators at the recent St. Louis convention furnished another indication that silver is becoming a drug in the market. 4." According to the theory that whisky ia a cure for snake bite, a man with the "jim-jams" ought to be a regular charmer of reptiles. -t- The Pall Mall Gazette, in telling "how cheap gloves are made," probably deemed it unnecessary to explain how easily cheap gloves r.re ripped.

Had the "myriad-minded" Shafees- peare written in these days, Beuvolio instead of saying "One fire burna out another," might hive truly remarked 'one wire, etc." -I- If the defense will now prove an alibi for Dr. Cronin, they will have a white horse on the prosecution. There is a safe field in the electric service for the circus "India rubber man." Wisconsin. Fires. EAU CLAIEE, Nov.

The residence of J. S. Badger burned this morning. Loss, insure 1. CUMBERLAND, Dec.

Fire broke out in the Humbird Lumber Companv's yards at 7 o'clock last evening and destroyed U.ltin.OWieet of lumber. Loss. The Cumberland fire department went to ihe scene, but was powerless to check tue blaze. Ct-MDERLAXD, Dec. The Clayton lumber tire was more serious first reported, and the loss is now estimated at S.oOO.WO feet of lumber valued at WiiiTiiH-ATER, Dec.

The house any barn of Roe, three miles southwest of this city, burned last evening about 7 o'clock. The tirs was caused by the explosion of a lantern in ihe barn. The stock all saved. The house had been unoccupied for some time but contained some furniture. The loss is estimated at (K)r with an insurance in the Sugar Creek Company to nearly cover the loss.

F.LKIIAIIT, Dec. Fire destroyed the bouse and content of William Bernin. one and a half miies west or Kiel, at 4 o'clock on Sunday morning. Loss, no insurance. WATERTOWN, Dec.

2. Sunday the TremonJ, House, owned by Manne- go.d was damaged by tire; insurance, $1,000 in the Liberty ot New York, in the German, of Rochester. and $500 in the Farmers', of York. Conley's saloon was damaged tllOO, covered by insurance. The following prop- ertv, on which there was no insurance, was The Lindon House larn, owned Dy John f.

Slight, loss five blooded horses belonging to H. gers and C. Smith, valued at worth of machinery ACCCKDIXG to Gen. Howard's showing in behalf of the United States, repuDlics are not all of them ungrateful. The pension roll for the War of the Rebellion has thus far called for the expenditure in round numbers of $1,005,000,000.

DEATH is busy everywhere admonish- ng people to be careful with their fires. Tne grim reaper makes his harvest at this season of the year with the stove and the furnace, and with the thin ice which tempts impatient skaters. Ls Mexico the horse railroads do the funeral DusJness, and every well-regu- wor ot Royes Ferrv and Henry Meyer, of this city, and the McCormick Harvesting of Chicago. The fire is thought to be ot incendiary origin, as an etiort was made about the same time to set Turner Hall on fire. MEEBILLON, Dec.

The residence of L. F. Holcomb, state agent of the Sinrer Sewing Machine Company, burned this forenoon. Loss on building, insured for fSOO in the Western Home ot Sioux City, and the Hibernia of Orleans. Loss on contents small, covered by insurance.

MESOMOSEE FALLS, Dec. The new residence of George of Milwaukee, one mile southeast of this village on the old Fond dn Lac road, was destroyed by fire at 3 o'clock on Sunday morning. 'Xhe bouse was just finished at a cost of $1,800 and Mr. Ring in- leaded to occupy the place next Wednesday. Insurance J1.5K) in some Milwaukee company.

The fire is believed to have been of incendiary origin WETACWEGA, Dec. A. farm house belonging to f. M. Chase, occu- pied by Mark Harvey, burned yesterday while the family were away.

Nearly the entire corntents were destroyed.up- on which there was no insurance. The building was worth about $700 and was insured. IKON MOUNTAIN, Dec. at 3:30 o'clock this morning destroyed an engine house at the Lndington mine. The building contained a Rochester engine and a six-foot hoisting-drum, with probably 1,000 feet of wire cable, all of which was destroyed.

Loss about 12,000, covered by'insurance. ROUTED FLAMES. TWQ Hundred Gnest-i Driven from a Burning Hotel. PITTSBUKG, Dec. bijr Monongahela Hotel, tlie largest in the city, once the finest in the West, was destroyed by fire this forenoon.

Two hundred guests and the two score em- ployes were 'driven from the building by the names, nearly all losing their personal effects. While there; was no panic the wildest excitement prevailed, and there were innumerable exciting scenes and incidents. The fire started at 11:40 o'clock this morning and was discovered by Thomas O'Krien, the heud porter. It started at the lootof the Ireigiit elevator ami the shaft acting as a tlue, the flumes quickly shot to the upper stories, giving the guests but a few minutes to get out. In, ten minutes the three upper etories of the main building were on fire, the fiames bursting Irom the windows on the sides ot the thiee streets.

From the main building the fire extended to the annex, used as servants' quarters in the rear, and it became evident that nothing could save the block. At o'clock, less than two hours alter the fire was.discoverer!, nothing remained of the magnificent structure but the four blackened walls. As far as known there were no latalities. Among the miraculous escapes were those ot D. C.

Mason, of New York, and N. Un- dervvocd, of Milwaukee. Mason was compelled to come down j'rom the fourth floor on a rope made of bed ticking and L'mlenvood had hia face scorchtd ar.d heard The destroyed covered an entire block and was seven stories in height. It was owned by Cnarles J. Clarke, Florence C.

Milieu and the Crossan heirs, and was valued by them, with the lot, at fHO.OUO. The actual loss will be less than $100.000, as ths insurance is S197.5M), of which is on the building and on the stock. A peculiar feature of the fire was that all the papers were.drawn for the sale and transfer of the building at 3 o'clock this afternoon, the price being The buildins was bounded by Smithfield and Water Streets and First Avenue. It wag erected after tee great fire of nnd was one of the.largest and most imposing blocks in the city. The hotel was known by all travelers, and was mentioned by Dickens' in his "American Notes" as the model hotel of the West.

Deaths ia Wisconsin. MADISOS, Nov. M. Hugdts, for head waiter at the Park Hotel, died of pneumonia this morning, aged 32 years. A widow and three children survive.

us Nov. Georsie Wbitmore, one of the pioneer settlers of the town of die-l at bis home near Spring Lake, the 27th in his S.M year. The deceased i-ame to Altikwanaito in KiS, and has resided on the lariil where he died since that time. He. was well- known and held in high esteem in Waukesha He was a brother- in-law of the late Judge Grover, of New York state.

nirptM'A FALLS, Dec. bogagie squaw of a celebrated Indian Chief, died near Hayward on the reservation, aged 100 years. WACKESHA, Dec. Elizabeth S-mart, piob.ibly the first white woman who Settled in this section, died this morning, aged S4 years. She was married to Isaac who survives her, in England, and thev came to what is now Waukesha in 1S35.

A year iaiir they took up government laiid including the larrn where they 3 sines lived, and that on which the Fountain House now stands. Mr. Smart claims to have been the-earliest settler now living, and says his daughter Jennie, horn was the girl Dorn in Waubesha Township. V. illiam C-ruickshank, one of the oldest setuers of this place, died yesterday, aired 79 years.

Deceased was a noted mathematician. LA Hern- pel, an eideriy Ijdy iroin Pennsylvania, who ia her son here, wasreturu- irora an ewmnz party about eight, niL'ht, and was taken She was carried into the nearest and died in half an hour. Prob- ublv disease. Mrs. W.

S. Hanscom, wife of one of he oldest merchants of La Crosse, was prostrated by total paralysis and his forenoon. She bad been a resident of this police over thirty years. MEN.tsiiA, Dec. C.

B. living near Gshkosh, died sud- leniy tli.3 while visiting her ister, Mrs. C. P. Northrup, in this city, ieartdi ease or apoplexy was he the cause.

The deceased was 71 Dec. Mina ths divorced wife of M. 1). L. Fuller, died suddenly his morning, at 5 o'clock, of disease.

Mrs. Fuller was a daughter of John ilaynard and was one of he most popular women of tho city, he was about 35 of age and ia urvived by three young daughters. WAVI-ACA, Dec. 5.r-Charle3 itn olii resident of the townot' Lind, is dead. He leaves a wire and three children.

Mr. Gibson established the first cheese factory in Waupaca County. He Forgot to Settle. WASnixcTo.v, D. Dec.

5. big sensation was caused to-dav by the official aunounceicent that Edward Silcott, CAshier of the sergeant-at-arma of the House of Representatives, has fled, carrying off about $72,000 of the funds entrusted to his care. Silcott is under bonds in the sum of $50,00: b. sureties numbering filteen persons. This is, however, an indemnity bond given to the sergeant- at-arms and Mr.

Leedom who is himself bonded in the sum of $50,000. a he Imcky Badgers. WASHINGTON, D. Dec. 5.

Tne President to-day sent to the Senate a large; batch appointments made during the recess. Among them are the following credited to Wisconsin: A. P. Jackson, register of the land office at Menasha; A. J.

Keid, of Appleton, cohsal at Dublin; S. G. Spooner, of Sladison, consul at Prague; Walter E. Gardner, of Milwaukee, consul at Rotterdam. PH.BLP3 PESBI.V, booikeeper of the Iron Exchange Bank, at Hurley, has been held in bonds to answer a charge of robbing the bank of $39,000 on the 20th of September.

E. W. Baker, of Ironwood. has also been'held, with bonds to a like amount A OODESE in photography Is soon to be added to the attractions ot" the Harvard Annex..