The Summit County Beacon from Akron, Ohio • Page 6

I THE SUMMIT COUNTY BEACOK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUABY 1889. ICEBOUND. Written tor Thb Beacon: "TICKETED THROUGH." TALLMADGE HISTORY. ITS mESENT POPULATION EQUALLED BY ITS DEAD. AKRON ONAGOULD LINE.

WILL PITTSBURG, AKRON 1- CHICAGO CONNECT WITH THE WABASH! DEATH OP OWEN, LAST OF Secretary Aspen Leaf is what the Atlanta Constitution aptly calls Bayard. The leaf will flutter to its appropriate destination in four and a half weeks more. THE HAUPE1TS FEU-11Y BAND. WILL M. CLEMEXS'S SKETCH OF HIS LIFE-niS THRILLING ESCAPE-FUNERAL -II OX OKS AT PASADENA, CAL.

The Press disnatches hav nlrpadv brouEht across the country liewa of the death of the last of the heroes of Har per's Ferry, at his home near Pasadena, Cal. Among the mourners at his funeral, Jan. lO.which was attended by Sons of Veterans, city council and an audience of 1,800, was Jason Brown, his brother, who for years lived just west of Akron. Jason Brown's son about milk and fruit, it is no part of the home scheme to run a dairy or fruit farm and most of the children housed in the home are of so tender an age as to utterly preclude the strange notion which seems to be entertained in some quarters that they are to till a big farm after the Lancaster fashion. himself makes a point against cultivating his reference to its cheapness.

Whatever is done, The Beacon believes that a lamentable mistake would be made in "putting the Children's Homo on a corner in the county farm. It is to be a home, not a poorhouse, with the conglomeration of paupers, imbeciles, maniacs and epileptics housed in infirmaries. No matter though the two institutions be widely separated, they would both be on the poor farm just the same. This means more promiscuity the very thing this county has been trying to reform. It is not isolation that is wanted, as though the inmates of the Children's Home were being put through a discipline' and correction.

They want to be where they can mingle with other children, go to the best schools in the county and that means Akron schools and be nut in nosses- there were any great blocks uphove they did not touch the ship. Meanwhile the other parcels were exploding ia their places, sometimes two and three at a time, sending a sort of sickening spasm and throe through the fabric of the vessel, and you heard the most extraordinary grinding noises rising out of the ice all about, as though the mighty rupture of the powder crackled through leagues of the island. I durst not look forth till all tho powder had burst lest I should be struck by some flying piece of ice; but unless the schooner was injured below she was as sound as before, and in exactly the same posture, as if afloat in harbor, only that of course her stern lay low with the slope of her bed. i I called to Tassard, and he lifted his head. "Are you hurt?" said I.

"No, no," he answered. i 'Tis a Spaniard's trick to fling down to a broadside. Body of St. Joseph, what a furious explosion 1" and so saying he crawled into the companion and squatted beside me. "'What has it done forusP "I dont know yet," said "but I believe the schooner is uninjured.

That was a powerful shock I cried, as a half dozen of bags blew up together in tho crevices deep down. The thunder and tumult of the rending ice, accompanied by the heavy explosions tho gunpowder, so dulled the hearing that it was difficult to speak. That the. tmues accomplished our end was not yet to be known; but there could not be the least doubt that they had not only occasioned tremendous ruptures low down iu the ice, but that the volcanic influence was extending far beyond its first eifects by making one split produce another, ono weak part give way and create other weaknesses, and so on, all round about us and under our keel, as was clearly to be gathered by the shivering and spasms of tho schooner, and by the growls, blasts and huddle of terrifying sounds which arose from the frozen floor. It was twenty minutes after the hour ot which the mines had been framed to explode when the last parcel burst; but wo waited another quarter of an hour to make sure that is sun a resiaent nere.

1 ne papers 01 Southern California give extended notice of Owen Brown's obsequies and life, and in the Los Angeles Tribune of Jan. 13 appeared an article by Will M. Clemens, formerly of Akron, who has for several years been gathering mater ial concerning John Brown's life. clergymen who officiated at the funeral, Kev. E.

L. Conger, referred to the deceased as the last of tho little group of men who 30 years ago, "for liberty's sake, lifted their arms against the authority of a sovereign State and a great nation. All of those 2'2 men but six were phot or hung as traitors or conspirators. The six escaped and were aimost forgotten by the worid." Mr. Clemens's tribute to Oweu Brown is given in full below: Owen Brown, son of old John Brown the John Brown of Kansas, of Harper's Ferry and of history, died Tuesday last at his mountain hoima near Pasadena, and was buried oh Thursday.

His death recalls the days of abolition and of the ter- 1 rible struggle of the free soil party in Kansas and the many events that led to the armed attack upon the United in By W. CLARK RUSSELL, Autliorof "The Wreck of the Orosrenor, "Jack's Courtship." "My Watch He-low," "The Lady Maud Kto. rrr a -dt-tttj -v vt "in -1 in WB EXPLODH THE MINES. I dont design to weary you with a close, account of our proceedings. How we opened the main deck hatch, rigged up tackles, clapping purchases on the falls, as the capstan was hard frozen and immovable; how we hoisted the powder barrels ou deck, and then by tackles on the foreyard lowered them over the side; how we filled a number of bags which we found in the forecastle with powder; how we measured the cracks in the ice, and sawed a couple of spare studdingsail booms into lengths to serve as beams whereby to poise the barrels and bags would make but sailor's talk, half, of which would be unintelligible and the rest wearisome.

The Frenchman- worked hard, and we snatched only half an hour for our dinner. The split that had happened in the ice during the night showed by daylight as a gulf betwixt eight and ten feet wide at the seaward end, thinning to a width of -three feet, never less, to where it ended, ahead of the ship, in a hundred cracks in the ice that showed as if a thunderbolt had fallen just there. I looked into this rent, but it was as black as a well past a certain depth and there was no gleam of water. When we went over the side to roll our first barrel of powder to the spot where we meant to lower it, the Frenchman marched up to the figure of Trentanove, and, with no more reverence than a boy would show in throwing a stone at a jackass, tumbled him into the chasm. He then stepped up to the body of the Portuguese boatswain, dragged him to the same fissure and rolled him into it.

"There!" cried he; "now they are properly buried." And with this he went coolly on with his work. I said nothing, but was secretly heartily disgusted with this brutal disposal of his miserable shipmates' remains. However, it was his doing, not mine; and I confess the removal of those silent witnesses was a very great relief to me, albeit when I considered how Tassai-d had been awakened, and how both the mate and the boatswain might have been brought to by treatment, I felt as though 'after. manner the Frenchman had committed a murder by burying tbem so. We got our supper and sat smoking and discussing our situation and chances.

Tas-sard was tired, and this and our contemplation of the probabilities of the morrow sobered his mind, and he talked with a certain gravity. Ho drank sparely and forbore the hideous recollections or inventions he was used to bestow on me, and indeed could find nothing to talk about but the explosion and what it was to do for us. I was very glad ho did not again refer to his project to bury the treasure and carry the schooner to the Tortugas. The subject fired his blood, and it was sudh nonsense that the mere naming of it was nauseous to me. Eight and forty years had passed since his ship feU in with th ice, and not tenfold the treasure in the hold might have purchase for him the sight of so much as a single bone of the youngest of those associates whom he idly dreamed of seeking and shipping and sailing in command Yet imbecile as was his scheme, having regard to the half century that had elapsed, I clearly witnessed the menace to me that it implied.

His views Were to be read as plainly as if he had delivered them. First and foremost, he meant that I should help him to sail the schooner to an island and bury the plate and money which done he would take the first opportunity to murder me. His chance of meeting with a ship that would lend him assistance to navigate the schooner would be as good if he were alone in her as if I were on board too. There would be nothing, then; in this consideration to binder him from cutting my throat after we had buried the treasure and were got north. Two motives would imperatively urge him to make away with me: first, that I should not be able to serve as a witness to his being a pirate; and, next, that ho alone should possess the secret of the treasure.

He little knew what was passing in my mind as he surveyed me through the curls of smoke spouting up from his death's head pipe. I talked easily and confidentially but I saw in his gaze the eyes of my murderer, and was so sure of his intentions that had I shot him in self defense as he sat there, I am certain my conscience would have acquitted me of his blood. I passed two most uneasy hours in my cot before closing my eyes. I could think of nothing but how to secure myself against the Frenchman's treachery. You would suppose that my mind must have been engrossed with considerations of the several possibilities of the morrow; but that was not so.

My reflections ran wholly to the bald headed, evil eyed pirate whom in an evil hour I had thawed into being; and who was like to discharge the debt of his own life by taking mine. The truth is, I had been too hard at work all day too full of the business of planning, testing and contriving to find leisure to dwell upon what he had said at breakfast; and now that 1 lay alone in darkness, it was the only subject I could settle my thoughts to. However, next morning I found myself less gloomy, thanks to several hours of solid sleep. I What is tha good of an-tieipating! Suppose the schooner is crushed by the ice, or becomes jammed in consequence of the explosion? Until we are under way nay, until the treasure is buried I have nothing to fear, for the rogue cannot do without me. And, reassuring myself in this fashion, I went to the cook room and lighted the fire; my companion presently arrived, and we sat down to our morning meaL Wo breakfasted in silence, and then I rose, saying: "Let us now see what the gunpowder is going to do for us." The wind, as before, was in the southwest, blowing without much weight, but the sky was overcast with great masses of white clouds, with a tint of rainbows in their shoulders and skirts, amid which the sky showed a clear liquid blue.

Those clouds seemed to promise wind, and perhaps snow, anon; hut there Was nothing to hinder our operations. We got upon the ice and went to work to fix matches to tho and bags, and to sling them by the beams we had contrived, ready for lowering when the matches were fired, and this occupied us the best part of two hours. When all was ready I fired the first match, and wo lowered the barrel smartly to the scope of lino we had settled upon; so with tho others. You may reckon we worked with all imaginable wari ness, for the stuff we handled was mighty deadly; and if a barrel should fall and burst, with the. match alight, we might bo blown in an instant into rags, it being impossible to tell how deep the rents went.

The bags being lighter, there was less to fear; and presently all tho barrels and bags, with tba matches burning, were poised in tho places and hanging at the depth we had fixed upon, and we then returned to the schooner the Frenchman breaking into a run, and tumbling over the rail, in his alarm, with the dexterity of a monkey, Each match was supposed to burn an hour: so that when the several explosions happened they might all occur as nearly as possible at once, nnd we had therefore a long time to wait. Tho margin may look unreasonable in tho faco of our dispatch; but you will not think it unnecessary if you consider that our machinery might not have worked very smooth, and that meanwhile nil that was lowered was in tho way of exploding. So interminable a period as now followed I do believe never entered before into tho experiences of a man. The cold was intense, and we had to move about; but also were we repeatedly coming to a halt to look at our. watches and cast our eyes over the ice.

It was like standing under a gallows with the noose around tho neck, waiting for the cart to move My own suspense became torture; but I commanded my face. The Frenchman, on the other hand, could not control the torments of his expectation and fear. ''v' "Holy Virginf he would cry, "suppose wo are blown up tool suppose we are ingulfed in the ico! suppose it should be vomited up ia vast blocks, which in falling upon us must crush us to pulp and smash the decks in It was three or four minutes past the hour, and I was looking breathlessly at my watch when the first of the explosions took place. Before the ear could well receive the shock of the blast the whole of the barrels exploded, along with some twelve or fourteen parcels. Tassard, who stood beside me, foil 011 his face, and I believed he had been killed.

It was so hellish a thunder that I suppose the blowing up of a first rate could not make a more frightful roar of noise. A kind of twilight was caused by the rise of the volumes of white smoke out of the ice. The schooner shook with such a convulsion that I was per suaded she had been split. Vast showers of splinters of ice fell as if from the sky, and rained like arrows through tho gmoke if BYM. A.

STOW. In memory of little Mary Lyons, who was cremated in the burning cars wrecked at lall madge, Jan. 14. Ticketed through to the Savior's arms. Spotless and pure in her infant charms.

Fresh and bright as the rosy dawn. She lias found her home and starry crown. Swept from a world of wroni? and pain In onesliort hour. In the tearful reign, 01 smoke and flame; she found her rest, Nestled safe again oa tier mother's breast. Ticketed through to a world so fair.

That naught but peace can enter there: Treasured safe in the marvelous light Of heaven, where angels bright Behold, unabashed the Father's face! In the angelic choir she has taken her place, To join the redeemed in the sweet refrain Of peaceon earth, good will to man." A NEW AKRON PROJECT. The HttstphreyTdbbihe Wheel's Portrrs Set Forth by the Inventor. To the Editor of The Beacon. In recent issues of The Beacon (copies of which were sent to my, address) I find that the enterprise which myself and others are 'engaged in developing with a- view to locating Akron has been receiving liberal attention your "a service that we fully appreciate, although personally I wish to avoid attracting special attention until our preparations were more complete. But as tne matter has already been made public, I think it proper to indicate (to a limited extent) the nature and scope of our proposed enterprise: As stated in The Beacon, the manufacturing of turbine water wheels will constitute an important of the business However, as might be inferred trom the title adopted, other hydro dynamic motors and appliances partaini ing to their usefulness will be made most of which are new, and to be ap, plied to new purposes.

Later on when our enterprise is more fully unfolded the significance of our adapted trade namewill be better understood and its pertinence We are not unfrequently asked, Is not the turbine-business overdone? Are there many of them in use And are they not being superseded by the adoption of steam plant or electricity? To these questions we will answer that there are now in use in the United States upwards of 60,000 turbine water wheels and their num-bersare rapidly increasing. We have reliable data for saying that at no period in the history of our country has there been jsuch a demand for high class turbines. Within this class there are but few competitors, and of this class not one can be found that fulfills the conditions essential in a perfect motor. The ideal turbine that has been hoped for, looked for, and expected ultimately to arrive is one that will return the same ratio o'f power at part gate as at full. Th is exacting requirement cannot be met by any turbine builders in the world.

And the Oat Meal King of Akron is right in his estimate of their qualities, as evidenced by his sticking to those colossal overshot wheels that drive the machinery of his mills. We shall demonstrate in the city of Akron (without resort to subterfuges, or any species of deception, to mislead the public) that our turbine will return substantially the same ratio of power at all stages of gate opening. Kegarding competition with steam it may be safely stated that while it may be used to supplement an insufficient water power it will seldom be used to supersede it, as it is much cheaper and safer to use. The water powers within the UnitedStatesareamply sufilcientfor driving all the machinery ot every class within its limits and the utilization of electricity on a more extended scale will bring that power where it is needed. In view of all these considerations we engage in our present enterprise with co fidence and a determination to win, believing that a general adoption of cfax turbine will ultimately eliminate tfee familiar expression of percentage' ftt part gate from the vocabulary of tne miller and manufacturer.

KespectfuiTy yours, John Humphrey. Cleveland, Jan. 28. OPPOSES THE JEWETT PLACE. Would Put the Children's Home on the Poor Farm.

To the Editor of Tiik Beacon. Thereare two sides to almost all thing. While The Beacon is urging the purchase of the Jewett place for the Children's Home, thus seeking to remove objections to the passage of Mr. San-ford's bill in the Senate, you will be kind enough to hear the other side. That snme one is to blame for the county sinking at least S5.000 in the pur chase ot the Bettes' Corners farm is generally admitted.

For Senator Al exander to procure the passage in the Senate ot Sanford's House bill without the County Commissioners' decision as to location would open the strife of location anew, and perhaps another $5,000 be sunk. But should the Jewett place be decided upon would Alexander be justifiedin urgmgtne passage or this bill. We think not. 1. Summit County will never be satisfied with an old building remodeled for a home.

With an assessed valua tion of over 826,000,000. whata "stigma" it would upon us as a county, to show people from abroad a secondhand Children's Home, or ma lie shift charitable institution. 2. The situation is undesirable. The smoke, soot and dirt from factories brick kilns, and potteries will be but little better than the home now oc cupied.

The inmates when allowedout, win oe upon tne streets, he soil is a heavy clay and always muddy when wet. 3. There is not sufficient amount of land. Milk, as well as small fruit, is necessary. ive acres would per haps produce all the truit and vegetables needed, but pas turage tor a nne cow 111 a rjooa home is indispensable.

-The Jewett property doubtlesshas ex cellent varieties of fruit, as Dr. Jewett was an expert in but anv horticulturist will tell you that most small fruits must be reset in from two to five years. The doctor's sickness and death has caused neglect, and but little returncould beexpected until new crops can be raised, our -choice varr eties of fruit are now so cheap that a person wouid be extremely verdant that would buy a piece ot land simply tor a few plants. What the citizens of Summit County want, as a oniittren's iome, is a high dry, sandy soil, easy of access to the city of Akron by street car line, in the country, sufficient land tor hne lawn, truit and vegetable garden and pastur age for at least six cows. Upon such a cite ereet a brick building adapted to sucn a uorne and none will murmur.

Such a location is the east end of the Infirmarv farm near the west end of West Market street railway. But The Beacon, thinks this location would prove "a stigma to the unfortunate in mates." We are at a loss to fathom such a statement. The number of acres required could be set apart there as well as elsewhere and it would not be the "poorfarm." Thecounty teams could do an teaming or coal, The land is paid for and the entire fund could be expended in building and im provements, that would be the pride of tne county. Less than this, our citizens will not be satisfied with, and anv action of Senator Alexander otherwise will not represent his Summit County constitu ents. A.

T. Ohio produced about as much pig iron last year as ttie entire south, and made a heavy gain over 1887, while Pennsylvania and some other leading iron States lost ground. We can show Alabama and Tennessee a thing or two yet in iron making. Cleveland Leader. It has been decided to complete the chapel in Smyrna, and make it a memorial chapel of the late Isaac Errett, of Cincinnati, as it was he who undertook to raise funds for this building.

More than half the amount needed "is in hand, and more is pledged, that but a few hundred dollars be needed in addition to what has been paid and pledged. 1 THE MORTALITY AND WEDDING REPORTS FOR THE YEAR, WITH INTERESTING REMINISCENCES BY WELL-KNOWN PIONEERS. Reported lor The Beacon. The 31st annual meeting of the Tall-madge Historical Society was held Jan. 16th, at Tallmadge, with Dr.

Amos Wright presiding. The officers of the previous year were re-elected. Reminiscences of the year were prepared and read by the Secretary, Andrew Fenn, and from them I copy the following facts: There have been 21 deaths in the township during the year? viz James Webb, aged 60 years; Andrew Treat, 87; Joseph Richardson, 92; Thomas Callahan, 84; Mrs. Mary Stahl, 33; Thomas Paul, 35; Mrs. E.

Honoddle, 78; Mrs. Joseph Dees, 35; James Baldwin, 60; Mrs. Julia Michael Mrs. Clement Wright, 66; William Hurl, 87; Rev. Luther Shaw, 88; Sylvester Barnes, 83; Mrs.

James Chamberlin, 66; Stanley W. Treat, 63; L. D. Chamberlin, 73; Darius Viall, 69; Jack Williams, 88 years and the infant of Edward and Mary Barnes. This is a greater number of deaths than there has been in any previous year during the past 21 years.

The average age of the 20 adults is 70 years. There have been eight marriages: Mr. W. W. Carter and Miss Annis E.

Fenn, Mr. Herman Smgletery, and MissLaura B. Stoffer, Mr. Norman B. Wise and Miss Rose E.

Wolf, Mr. Frank Hage-man and Miss Cora Dehaven, Mr. W. O. Hall and Miss Sarah Davis, Mr.

Henry Treat and Miss Mary Wolcott, Mr. Walter Atwood and Miss Gertrude Sackett, Mr. Walter Mallory and. Miss Minnie Uoson. TThere have been three golden wed dings: Mr, and Mrs.

J.J. tiowiey, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Fenn and Mr. and Mrs.

F. Berger. The present population of the town- snip justaDout equals tne number of deaths in it since the settlement. Mr. S.

C. Barnes and Mr. Andrew Fenn read biographical sketches of Mrs. James Chamberlin, Andrew Treat. Syl-vester Barnes, L.

D. Chamberlin and Rev. Luther Shaw. Mr. I.

P. Sperry told the children of his early school days in Tallmadge, 60 years ago. Of the log school house with the big stone fire place, of the slab seats without backs and so high that the little boys' feet would dangle, of the severities of the punishments for slight offences, of the tear to tell at home ot the punishment at school because the parents thought it their duty to inflict an additional one; of the short school year of only three or four months and the parents obliged to pay tuition tor that. He also told them how the flax and the wool, raised on the farm, were spun and woven in the farmers homo, how the garments and shoes were made without the aid ot tailor or shoemaker. Mr.

Sperry left the children to judge whether there had been any improvement in 60 years, and whether their condition was hard com pared with the children of that period. Mr. H. A. Sackett told of the style of going to meeting in an ox-wagon, his boyhood.

Of the pride he felt in driving a good yoke of oxen and a new wagon. That to ride in a good carriage to church now produced no such feelings 01 sawsiacuon as wie oxen and cart 01 those days. He also related his experience in going after the school teacher on horse back. The fact that the school teacher was present, now a matron of more than 70 to the interest of the story. Mr.

Andrew Fenn told of the days of the old militia. He made the statement that the Tallmadge guns were sent to John Brown for "bleeding Kansas." They were supposed to have gone by the under around railroad. Instrumental music was furnished, for the occasion, by Carl B. Skinner, Dr. Amos Wright, Harry Schauffler and Edward Barnes.

The night was stormy, but the house was well filled, evincing the continued interest in the yearly meetings of this society. V. How Promotions are Made in Citt Schools. modus operandi of grading the work of the pupils of the public schools preparatory to their promotion is not generally understood by parents who are sometimes disposed to find fault with the system which, is in fact a most commendable one in that it respects the desires and opinions of the parents. The system is the same throughout all the grades except that below the I A grammar grade the standard being 70 per while in that grade and those above 80 per cent, is the standard.

The object of this is to make the work of the last few years as thorough as possible. The teacher keeps daily gradea of the work-loie by her scholars in airtheTjranches taujrht except the spe cial branches and at the end of the term makes out a list in which she grades all the studies. If a pupil's work in one branch has been poor a minus sign is placed after the name. If the work in that study was fair an interrogation point is used and if good work was done the sigh of equality () is used while very good or perfect is marked with the plus sign. In this report if the teacher recommends the scholar for promotion to a higher grade she places the sign of equa lity in a designated column and if sue cannot so recommend him the minus sign is used.

If at the end of the term a pupil is incapable of going into a higher grade and his work nas been unsatisfactory during the term the principal of the school sends the parents a circular letter stating the case and saying that a special final examina tion in the dencient branches will be given or the pupil required to go over the wortc again at the parent's option. This leaves the decision with the parent wnether the pupil shall be pushed with a final examination or not, and respects the fact that a child may be nervous or there may be some other objection to such overwork. If the scholar passes such examination, he is allowed to go on with the class and if not he is required to go over the work again. Duringthe term if the teticher finds that a scholar is becoming slack in his work she sends the parents a notification stating that there is great danger of him losing his place in his class and asking their interest and co-operation in securing befter results. This is to inform parents of the true standing of their children and urge them to use their influence in getting better results.

This plan of grading is an excellent one and was first introduced 111 this city by Prof. Elias Fraunfelter and Prof. C. F. Kolbe of Buchtel College.

It is gaining favor throughout the country and Akron is not behind in adopting it. One of the questions in the examina tion papers of the Boston High School was "Is there an antidote for hydrocyanic acid?" One of the pupils, a young woman, a graduate irom the grammar school, gave this answer "Yes; the antidote for hydrocyanic acid is the. tongue of a large dog cautiously inhaled." By what mental process she arrived at this remarkable answer will nevee be known. The only clue is the fact that in the text book used is a state ment that a small drop of prussic acid placed "upon the tongue of a large dog" would kill it instantly. Judge Eockwood Hoar, who is the legal champion of ironclad orthodoxy in the famous Andover case, is a Unitarian.

The largest coal dock in America will be built at once at West Superior, by the liastern Railway Co. It will be 2,000 feet long and 800 feet wide, with a central vessel slip 2.000 feet long and 100 feet wide, giving 8,700 feet of dock frontage for unloading cars. Tracks will run all through the structure, which will have a storage ca pacity of 1,500,000 tons of coal. A PITTS BUKG INTERVIEW- THAT PROMISES ANOTHER I THROUGH LINE FOR AKRON, 'WITH THE "LYNCH" ROAD ASA LINK. From Wednesday's Daily Beacon.

Akron as a point on a Gould line, running from Pittsburg to the Missouri river, is the possibility, and probability, that appears in the following from yesterday's Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph. The statement of one of the persons interviewed that Chicago Junction is but eight or 10 miles from Carey is a mistake, the distance being tuny 35 or 40 miles. At any rate, it is not sure that Chicago Junction is to be a point on the line. Mr. Semple is the president of the Akron Chicago, the latest name' of theOhio Railroad or 'Lynch" road).

Mr; AV, A. Lynch, of Canton, is still pushing the scheme' and is working in co-operation with Mr; Semple: t-A through line from Pittsburg to the Missouri river is now mooted. Rumor has it that Jay Gould is seeking an entrance into this city from the West, and certain circumstances give color to the report. It is known that for a long time the Little Wizard has hadhisye on the Iron City, but heretofore his efforts in this direction have not received encouragement from the conservative capitalists of Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio, therefore Mr. Gould has been obliged to remain content with the mere looking.

But it looks now as though neither his own capital nor that of anyone else, so far as his entrance into Pittsburg is con cerned, need be jeopardized. In other words, some one else will make the opening for Mr. Gould and permit him to come into the coveted territory at so much per mile per ton, or so much per mile per car, as the case may be. "The Wabash, St. Louis Pacific Railroad is anxious to get into Pitts burg," said a representative or the road to-day.

"We are not very far from here now, and if we can get a good line into the city it will give us a big advan tage in Western business, and it may be that later on we might get an outlet to the East from this "What is the nearest point to this city reached by your road." "Fort Wavne, Indiana, and a little town this side. Sow that is 320 miles by the Fort Wayne, the nearest route from this city, but the Wabash will reach here from that point by a shorter route. You know that an Allegheny dry goods man has purchased a little line irom carey to ueipnos, oa rmies Ions. This gentleman, in connection with President Callery, of the Pittsburg Western Road, is now building a short line from Akron to Chicago Junction on the Baltimore Ohio. This new line will short en the Western's route to Chi cago some 21 miles, and will also make nearly an air-line from Fort Wayne via the uieveiana vv estern tne little ob-mile road to Pittsburg.

Now, thisd'ry goods man, Mr. Semple, and his associates have, I understand, a subsidy from the city of Fort Wayne, or the county, to build from the State line to Fort Wayne, 15 or 20 miles. Well, starting from Fort Wayne we go over the Cleveland Western to Carey. A link is to be built eight or 10 miles long to connect Carey and Chicago Junction. From Chicago Junction we will go to Akron over the Pittsburg, Akron Chicago, the new road mentioned before, and from Akron to Pittsburg over the Pittsburg Western.

This line is practically the JPittsourg western. JNow, it the deal goes through, we will run through freight and passenger trains from this city to the Missouri river, There you have it, and 1 think it's a go." James Callery, President of the Pitts burg Western was asked regarding the above interview. "It maybe so," said he, "but I can say nothing now. as ior tne Cleveland western and the Pittsburg, Akron Chicago, Mr. Semple is president of those roads, and I cannot speak for him.

As for the Pittsburg Western, our road is open to any one who will pay us tor the use of our tracks." Mr. Semple was surrounded by clerks and cash girls when the writer approached him, and while estimating values of linens, muslins, he had no time to talk railroad, in a rew words, How ever, he said the interview above might be true; that tne roaas mentioned, are being completed rapidly. He refused to say, however, whether or not any contracts had been made with the Wabash, and excused himself by saying, "I am not ready totalkabouttnat yet." It is also understood that it is the intention of the owners of the Cleveland Western road to build from Carey, the eastern terminus, to Cleveland. If this work is carried out. it will give the Wabash an unobstructed line into Cleveland.

THREE WHITE CAP NOTICES. A Tallmadge Farmer Ready For Business. From Tuesday's Daily Beacon. People, who are unquestionably evil-minded therpselves and who style themselves "White Caps," have been getting their work north of here during the past few days. One Of these cases came to light in Tallmadge, this morning, when Amos Wolf went to his barn where on the stable door, he found a notice, written in red ink, which reads as follows: "Mr.

Ames Wolf "We give you stricked orders not to catch you out Away From home after night ennemore, and if not then The White Caps will take care of you. Your place is At home. "Orders by "White Caps." Mr. Wolf- is a respectable farmer and minds his own business. He called at this ofiice to-day and said that he was fully prepared to defend himself against any "White Caps" who might desire to wait 011 hii'ii; that he had no fears whatever and that those who put the notice on his stable door knew where they could find him at any time and that he was at all times ready to be called on.

Besides this, two of these White Cap notices have recently been posted at houses in Macedonia, in the northern part of this county, A Beacon correspondent from that place says: "One of these notices had the effect of driving the person notified to parts unknown, while the result of the other notice is looked for with anxiety." Temperance in the Schools. At the school board meeting last weak the joint committee the Course of Study and Text Books, appointed to recommend a mode of teaching the effects of alcoholism and' narcotics in accordance with the law, made a report in writing. The committee recommended that the instruction be oral; that a series of charts of physiology and hygiene be obtained for ali the schools except the Jennings and the High, with a key for the same; that higher charts be furnished the Jennings and High with text books for teachers; that another text book should be furnished the grammar department to be read to the pupils by the teacher; that the text books should treat of the effects of alcoholics and narcotics; that the regular study of physiology and hygiene be changed from the II grade to the II C. The report of the committee was accepted and the matter of books and charts was referred to the Committee on Course of Study. Last year the Pope received from "Peter's pence" Irom interest on capital invested abroad, $500,000, and from other sources about $100,000 besides $400,000 in cash jubilee gifts.

His total disbursements aggregated about $1,700,000, Canton has the paving question up in her City Council and a conference of citizens and councilmen developed a unanimous preference for fire brick pavement, using Canton clay in the making. That United States Treasury agents have been bribed into putting private fishers in possession of thousands of dollars worth of fur seals, is another chapter in the history, of a 'reform' administration outlined in an "In dianapolis dispatch in another column Let us have better country roads. It is quite possible that our road system could be- improved -Sprin gfield Repub- lie-tunes. Yes, certain that they can be. The Tryon bill looks in that direction, Let xiB have that much now, and then reach out for something better.

i Dakota has 4,065 public schools. They re supported by a direct tax upon the people, amounting, in a recent year, to 1,633,561 a sum which Mr. P. F. Mc-Clure says, in Harper's Magazine, for February, is larger than that devoted to the same purpose by any one of 24 How much longer will the Democrats keep this-Dakota out of the Union? The Springer bill sent to the Senate the other day is nothing but a cunning scheme to delay its admission, while pretending to favor it.

That bill con tradicts itself repeatedly and even as to South Dakota, the bill puts off the right of Statehood to the. utmost possible limit by ignoring the constitution long since ratified by the people, requiring a new one with months of useless waiting between every step, and then on top of -it all still insisting upon a resubmission to congress at the last, with all the risk of further endless delays involved Members of the Tax Revision Com mittee are at work on a very important bill, which will be introduced before the lapse of many days. The object of the promoters of the measure is to provide for the taxing of all kinds of franchises. such as those granted to gas and elec-tnct light companies, street railroads, telegraph, telephone and many other the bill will eo in this direction can not be ascertained at this time, as many points have not yet been decided upon. This is a iust and nroner Drorjositin and it ought, at least, to go far enough to put into the public treasury openly and through proper competition any amounts that the corporations can af ford to expend for securing franchises.

If a corporation seeking such a fran chise has money to invest with individuals to further its own ends, then the Vn Vl 1 rtr i lant mrvYt lu mi as to compel lit to put into some place of public benefit, all such expenditures. -r': Senator Plumb's resolution calling for a detailed statement of all bond purchases made by the government since March 4, 1885, and also all offers to sell bonds which were rejected that date, has been answered by Secretary Fairchild with an evasion, if the Associated Press report really recapitulates all there is of it in the following; Grand total of bond purchases four-per cents amount, accrued interest, total cost, average net price, Four-and-a-half -per-cents amount, accrued interest, total $74, average net price, 107,652. Kejected-Four-and-a-half "coupon; Four-and-a half registered, Fours, coupon, Fours, registered, $122,849. The essential point entirely omitted from this exhibit by the Treasury De-- partment is as to the amount of interest saved to the Government by buying bonds in this way. Take that into the account and it would make a splendid showing for the financial policy practically forced upon the Democratic Ad-.

ministration by the Republican Senate. Why did Fairchild leave out any show ing upon this most important point? The rTriCTotiTipsa of the email ward fStem was well shown in ZaneSTOIff 'Tvithin the week and. that Republicans did the dirty work 'does not help it any. For some partisan purpose, not visible at this distance, some Be- publicans in the Zancsville Council tried to divide two Republican wards, so as to get more votes in Council. But there was a Democratic ward nollincr mnrA votes than either of the Republican wards that they sought to divide, so the Democratic Councilmen very properly asKea 10 nave tms amaea, too.

vvnat came of all this we have not learned, but it illustrates exactly the danger of the present system, and danger that Senator Alexander's bill would largely lessen, if not remove entirely. So long as the ward system of the Middle Ages is retained, there will be this tendency to divide and subdivide in the interest of petty political schemes, and the only way to cure such "a difficulty is to get rid of it, by doing away with the wards Akron "taxpayers $25,000 more per year than is necessary, and why should they not strike at the root of the evil while they are about it? One of objections, printed elsewnere, to the Jewett homestead as a. Children's Home, is founded on an assumption which Thk Beacojj's descriptive article written with a view to get the facts, and nothing but the facts, ahoffs to be erroneous, namely, that the Jewett house ia old and would need remodeling to make a home for the children-in the county's care. Purchases are made every week, by people wanting homes, of houses not newer than the Jewett homestead, with no that re-modeling will be needed for years. It is not right to try to exaggerate on this point in an attempt to make capital for the poor farm proposition.

The statement that the children would have to be on the street when out would indicate that was not acquainted with the site talked of. The Beacon's descriptive- article showed that there were ample grounds for purposes of play and recreation. Five acres ought to satisfy the average child in this regard. Doubtless the children will be on the street when "going to school for they should go to school with other children just as they do now but city parents will only smile at the suggestion of some lurking danger in a child's walk to and from school. Would want to stick the county waifs in the mud, of a country road? As for the suggestion i eion of everything that will build them up into usef ulnesss and equip them for their life race.

Above all things, keep them out of a poor house building. Among the Pines. "Can you tell me something ab ou your trip to the pine regions asked a Beacon reporter as he' dropped into a lumberman's office this forenoon and drew out his note book and prepared to write. "Well, yes, I guess I can. Take a seat," replied the merchant of lumber, shingles, to the scribe who had already taken a position at a desk.

"After the convention and banquet at Columbus, which I suppose all your readers know all about, we left that city a 3 p. a party of about 160, and arrived at Toledo at 8 p. "where about 15 others joined us. At Toledo we took a special train and arrived in East Saginaw at 8 o'clock Thursday morning. We were taken in carriages to the Board of Trade rooms and welcomed by the Mayor and citizens in ringing speeches.

The Mayor presented tne party witn a wooaen Key, gilded and about half a yard in length. as a symbol that we were welcome to the liberties of the city. He told us that anything less than a street car we could carry away with us. At Saginaw City, which is just across the Saginaw River from East Saginaw, we received similar treatment, bemgpresented with another key. That evening we were tendered a banquet in Albemarle Hall where there was a spread ot ouo plates Our Secretary, J.

W. 1 Campbell considered himself a temperate man and sipped very lightly at the cham pagne during the banquet. The next morning he was horrified to find his head so swelled that his hat wouldn't sit on it and it was some time before he discovered that some ioker had stuffed paper in Tinder the sweat band swelling the hat instead of the head. Friday morning we were given an excursion, by special train', to see a big log roll where 60 cars oi logs were dumned into the river. A car of logs is unloaded in about from three to live minutes.

Here we had our pictures taken on a huge pile of logs, in tne evening we went to uay Citv and snenl Saturday in looking through the factories, lumber yards ana snip yara. we were also taken to the club rooms and theaters and treated in royal style. One of the party bought a shirt and went to pay for it when the store keeper said 'No, sir, Ohio money is worthless and wouldn't taee a cent." "Sunday, blank, I suppose?" remark ed the scribe. "Sunday we all attended divine ser vices," replied the merchant solemly ana tne scrme wrote it so. "Monday we were given anexcursion to a lostmtt camn 60 miles un in the woods and there we saw all the process ot telling trees, skidding, etc.

The cook had supper prepared for the 64 men in the camp but on a kind invitation we stepped in and ate it for them. We then made the cook sit up on a stool and hold her and we each contributed a mite, malting a neat little pile to pay her lor getting an ex tra- supper "for the men. We re turned to East Saginaw Monday evening and- started home that night, arriving home yesterday evening about o'clock." 'During our trip the dealers made large contracts for Spring delivery." What kind of a trade do they seem to expect this Spring!" asked tne re-porter. "AH over the State they are looking for a good Spring partly on ac count of the open Winter and lor other causes. The lumber business boom." Akboh Candidates foe Federal Places.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer's Wash- Ibotl correspondent number oi local canaiaates ior a eoerai place under the new administration He says that Judge U. L. Marvin, of Akron, is making a still hunt for the U. S. District Judgeship for Northern that the other among them, judge tummmgs.ot To ledo, Clerk ot the court kicks, oi Cleve land, Judge Day, of Canton, and Judge Jones, of Cleveland, are hustling for the place.

The Correspondent com ments: "The judgeship properly belongs to the patronage of Senator Sherman since as almost every congressional dis trict has a candidate it is not probable that an agreement could be reached by the Congressmen nere. ing this the candidates are getting their indorsements from every conceivable source. Judge Marvin, it is said, has the indorsement of every Republican Congressman irom rnis, However is denied by Major MeKinley, who says mat ne nas never sismed anv rjapers indorsing Marvin. and that Judge Day's name will surely nepreseniea io wen. iiarnson.

juc-Kinley's influence with the Presidentelect is quite powerful and it is pre sumed he could dictate the nomination if he so chose." "The city of Akron," the correspondence continues, "I001113 up in the sea of office-seekers with two prominent aspirants." These are uavitt King, who is said to be a candidate for Com-, missioner of Indian Affairs, Oberly, of Illiuois, being the present incumbent, and Tracy L. Jeffords, formerly of Buchtel College, now private secretary to Congressman Crouse. Prof. Jeffords aspires to be National Commissioner of Education, a place that John Eaton filled with such distinguished ability and for which Supt. E.

E. White, of Cincinnati, is being prominently en-tionedby Ohio educators. The Plain Dealer special winds up with this: "King is a well known lawyer and his upright character has given him a wide and general indorsement, as has that of Mr. Jeffords. Akron also would like to corral the marshalship of the northern district and ColJ.

F. llernck wants to use the lasso. Ilerrick is an old soldier and is said to be a hustler from way back." This is making Akron altogether too inclusive. Cleveland wilt stiJl want to claim credit for Col. Herrick.

Friday's Cleveland Leader: Twenty-eight citizens and members of the City Council, of Toledo, accompanied by a solitary newspaper man, arrived at the Kennard House yesterday morning. They came to the city for the porpose of examining into the system of electric railways now in use here, and they will go farther east to examine the same system, as it is designed to introduce electricity at Toledo. They were given a dinner at the Kennard House in a private dining room, where unappreciated flowers were lavishly displayed. In the evening they took supper at the Wed-dell House, and at 10 o'clock departed for Syracuse, N. accompanied by James Christy, J.

E. Metlin, C. A. Bien, and Will Christy, of Akron. They all express themselves as well pleased with what they had seen in Cleveland.

it was tho lost, during all which time tho growling and roaring noises deep down continued, as if there was a battle of a thousand lions raging in the vaults and hollows under neath. Tho smoke hod been settled away by th wind, and the prospect was clear. Vre ran below to see to the fire and receive live minutes of heat into our chilled bodies, and then returned to view the scene. I looked first over the starboard side, and saw the great split that bad happened ill the night torn in places into immense yawns and gulfs by the fall of vast masses of rock out of its sides, but what most delighted mo was the hollow sound of washing water. I lifted my hand and listened.

'Tis the swell of the sea flowing into the opening 1" I exclaimed. "That means," said Tassard, "that this side of the block is dislocated from the mam." "Yes," cried "and if the powder ahead of the bows has done its work, the heave of tl3 ocean will do the rest." We made our way on to the forecastle over 'a deep bed of splinters of ice, lying like wood shavings upon the deck: tuid I took notice as I walkedthat every glorious crystal pendant that had before adorned tho yards, rigging and spars had been shaken off. I had expected to see a wonderful spectacle of havoc in the ice where the barrels of gun powder had been poised; but saving many (cores of cracks where none was before, and vast ragged gashes in the mouths of the crevice-3 down which the barrels had been lowered, the scene was much as heretofore. The Frenchman stared, and exclaimed, "What has the powder done? I see only a few cracks." "What it-may have done I don't know," I answered; ''but depend on it such heavy charges of powder must have burst to some purpose. The dislocation will be below, and so much the better, for tis there the ice must come asunder if this block is to go free." Ho gazed about him, and then rapping out a string of oaths English, Italian, and French, for he swore in all the languages he spoke, which, he once told me, were five--he declared that for his part he considered the powder wasted, that we'd have done as well to fling a band grenade into a fissure; that a thousand barrels of powder would be but as a popgun for rending the schooner's bed from the main; and, in short, with several insulting looks and a face black with rage and disappointment, gave me very plainly to know that I had not only played the fool myself.

but had made a fool of him, and that he was heartily sorry ho had ever given himself any troubla to. contrive tho cursed iiuc.ortO assist me in a ridiculous project that might have resulted in blowing the schooner to pieces and ourselves with it. I glanced at him with a sneer, but took no further notice of his insolence. It was not only that he was so contemptible in all respects a liar, a rogue, a thief, a poltroon, hoary in twenty walks of vice there was something bo unearthly about a creature that had been as good as dead for eight and forty years that it was impossible anything he could say could affect me as the rancorous tongue of another man would. I feared and hated him, because I knew that in intent he was already my assassin but the mere in science of so incredible a creature could not but find me imperturbable.

"There is nothing to be seen, by staring he exclaimed presently, speaking very sullenly. "I am hungry and freezing, and shall go below!" And with that he turned his back and made off, growling in his throat as he went. I got upon the ice and stepped very carefully to the starboard side, and looked down the vast split there, The sea in consequence of the slope did not come so far, but I could hear the wash of the water very plain. It was certain that the valley in which we lay was wholly disconnected from the main ice on this side. I passed to the larboard quarter, and here too were cracks wide and deep enough to satisfy me that its bold was weak.

It was forward of the bows, where the barrels had been exploded, that the ice was thickest and had thefirmoit grasp; but its surface was violently ana heavily cracked by the explosions, and I thought to myself if the fissures below are as numerous, then certainly the swell of the sea ought to fetch the whole mass away. But I was now half frozen my- seir ana pining ior warmth. It was after 1 o'clock. The wind was piping freshly, and the groat heavy clouds in swarms drovo stately across the sky. "It may blow to-night," thought "and if the wind hangs as it is just such a sea as may ao our business will be set running." And thus musing, I entered the ship and went below.

TO BE CONTINtJED.l How to Mark a Wedding No one is obliged to send a wedding present, but -when sent it should be directed to the bride, and if marked should bear her maiden initials. A guest uuablo to attend the wedding should send two cards, one to tho bride's parents and ono directed to the newly married pair. They should be sent so as to arrive tho day of the wedding. It 13 said that all the best American pearls come from the limestone streams of Kentucky aud Tennessee, and are produced by a large fresh water mussel, whose shell is no whit inferior to tho imported mother-o'-pearL Mr. Fbed.

lloiux Alive and Happy. The folks Zeitnng, ot Canton, on Jan. 24, printed the startling news that Mr. ilorix, 01 Akron, now sojourning in Germany, with his family, had died on Jan. 5.

Mr. Jolm Kreuder, of this city, who has general charge of Mr. Horix's affairs and is a special friend, has spent some time in looking up the source of such information which is wholly unf ounded.as is shown by letters now in Mr. Kreuder's' hands, written by Mr. Horix on Jan.

7 and Jan. 14 which are dates subsequent to the day that he was said to have died. In these letters Mr. Horix says that entire family is well and happy; that Mrs. Horix's health is much improved, and that the two daughters are attending school.

Mr. Karl Horix, son of Mr. Fred Ilorix, in a letter from Darmstadt, Germany, where he is going to school, to Willie J. Kreuder, son of Mr. John Kreuder, of this citv.

under date, of Jan. 5, says that he with other coys goes sicating nearly every day. He says "A week ago yester day we all went to Worms and visited Casper Ziutel' Bister and Valentine Berg's brother, who formerly lived Akron. We went into an old church of which the corner Btone was laid in 996. The building was finished in 1111 and wasdedicated.

by BishopBurkhardt, in 1118." The letter names numerous other places of interest and then concludes, "and home having walked about 20 miles." Mr. Horix's hosts of Akron friends will be pleased not only to learn that he is alive but that he and his are well and happy. Dr. E. Wallace, Mansfield dentist, fell in a fit, just after pullinga patient's tooth, and died, states arsenal at Harper's Ferry, and eventually to the great civil war.

It is not the writer's purpose to writo either obituary or eulogy. There are lives in this vast country that need no ante-mortem comment. I knew Owen Brown in Ohio, many years before ho' came to the Pacific coast. Like his brother Jason, who survives him, Owen was strong in stature, noble, brave, manly, yet kind and gentle as a woman, as sweet in disposition as a child; his character pure, almost Chirst-like. I might add that no race of men, perhaps, in the present century better exemplified tho true Christian character than this same family of Brown's from tho rugged, brave old martyr, John Brown to the gray-haired, patient Jason, who returns alone to his mountain home.

The life of Owen Brown is franght with romance. He was lineal descendant of one of the Pilgrim fathers. Bom on November 4, 1824, at Hudson, Summit Ccunty, Ohio, his childhood" and youth were passed 111 different portions of Northern Ohio" and Western Pennsylvania. In 1854, in company with his threo brothers, he removed to Kansas, the party overland and Wintering their stock in Southern Illinois. They, settled on the banks of the Pottawattomio, inLykins county, Kansas, and lu thai next few years became identified withi the early history of the free soil which is written in the blood of many martyrs.

Owen Brown was a participant in the Kansas-Nebraska struggle, lie was present at the sacking of Law-! rehce. He suffered persecution at the hands of the ruffians. His house was burned, his cattle stolen, and his household goods carried away. He was im-i; prisoned, ill-treated, and finally driven from the State, for tho sole reason that! he was an abolitionist. In 1858 lie.

was at Chatham, Canada, -where hia.father organized his famous' "Provisional Constitution He next ap- -peared at Chambersburg, in the vicinity! of Harper's Ferry, in company with his! The subsequent events are matters of history, and are well known, With 23 men John Brown swooped i down upon the little hamlet in the mountains one Sunday night. Out of i all his command but one man, Owen! Brown, lived to tell the story of the-famous insurrection. Owen fled with Captain John E. Cook to the mountains' wnere ior aays ana weeics they lived on corn, raw potatoes and such, provisions as they could secure at Cook's wife was at Chambersburg, and when the two fugitives reached the vicinity of that town on their way North. Cook announced his determination to leave his companion in the mountains and visit his wife.

Owen told him the undertaking would be most perilous and advised him not to go. Cook was obdurate, however, and leaving Brown one night he wended his way toward -the town. It way toward -the town, it ia needless to relate the story of his cap-1 tried at Charlestown, and finally hanged as a traitor. Owen Brown worked his way slowly1', northward. He lived for weeks on corn, raw fruit and vegetables, which ho secured from the iarnis bordering on the mountain range, no imaiiy reached' Franklin, in Northwestern Peunsyl-: v'ania, and from there easily got into Ohio, where he was soon' safe among his friends on.

the Western Eeserve, remaining! alone to tell of the attack on Harper's Ferry. Ten of the men were killed 111 the fight, several died from their, wounds, and seven wero hanged in th jail at Charlestown. After the war Owen took up his residence at Put-in-Bay, on island in Lake Erie. It was hero that 1 found him one 1 day about eight years ago, in his vine-j yard, an old man, white-haired and! wrinkled. His silvery beard was long and wavy.

He had the appearance of a patriarch, lie stood erect, rsi brave and firm as did his gallant old! -father, whose heroic acts will live a long as history exists. Three or four years ago tho surviving members of tho, family, Owen, Jason and John, Jr.J came to California nnd took up thcin residence near Pasadena. Thos Nemesis of poverty seemed t. have followed them through lifer. and, even to the golden State, Some months since Owen and Jason-sold their only cow that John might re-i turn to the East.

And now Jason is alone, old, poor, his family gone, al- most among strangers in a stralicc land Yet patient, trusting, kind and trranti old limn. likn his brother fhtmi i who in the bright sunlight of Tuesday last lay down and fell asleep, his lif ei work done, the battle won. Hon. Charles A.Washburn, ex-MinA ister to Paraguay, died in New York on-the 25th aged OS years. He was a member of the famous Maine family of Washburns.

He was a prominent CalH fornian in pioneer days, and fought al duel with Mr. Washington, Democratio Collector of the port of San Franciscoi The duel was notable because it was be lieved that a conscientious New Entf land man would not engage in a He was ono of seven sonsi who have' nearly all risen to distinction. HiV brother Elihu was Secretary of State! under Gen, Grant's administration- and' waa KiihKmiAnt.itf minifttpr. tr during the Franco-Prussian war; IsraerJ another brother, was at one time crnor of Maine, and his youngepj brother, W. D.

Washburn, has just beca chosen United States Senator for Minno-i! sota. The deceased was a member off the Electoral college of California when' Abraham Lincoln was elected President He was a man of much literary ability) and was author of several works, among? tnem a History 01 Paraguay, Political Evolution and Gomery of Montgomery; The tlan of erecting in Paris a statue" of Washington, which originated with' Talleyrand, was revived by Lafayette about. 40 ears ago, and was res-. usciatcd last year, is about to produce' results. 1 Health iournals insist upon reposiDir on the right sine oniy ana ciaim ir is injurious to lie on ootn sides, i don't Know wncre iney win healthier-looking set of men tha yers.

btatesman, 1.