The Salem Monitor from Salem, Missouri • 1

is mttn Mlwt J. E. ORQAn, Proprietor. SALEM, DENT COUNTY, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 188(5. VOL.

36. mm Tax total numler of bog packet la tae CURRENT TOPICS. ANOTHER PROPOSED REFORM. one present witb the remark that he looked so fresh and youthful that he must have discovered the fabled fountain of perpetual youth. replied the Vice-President pleasantly, smiling in acknowledgement of the compliment.

"I have not discovered the legendary fountain, but I am reminded Tho Ncwji in Brief. Ku Orwrxa claims that rest. ant not am. rule. tb overshadowing Irish sjeeation.

TB vaJae of the crops ia IrUo I for the rar show an tnerea, compared it a l5 fac-vibcsT Orktt has accepted the Ijtaation Premier anl ba sow snored M. de Fr.yrin.et to form a Tub Secretary of tb Treaury has eaed arall forilVV three per cent. tnl. I pai with interest February 1, Tss Irish in the llritWh Par liairent are said to l- At i Gladstone and attne rul. There are eighty-six of tbsra.

Pacsroxxy Oatvr has receive 1 nw-ft-ratulatory dispatch fmra ail t'ae Euro-Vn power. ot bis re-election to the Presidency of Franc. Mr. Glad to? celebrated the seventy-txta anniversary of hie birthday at Ha warden oa the II was tb recipient of many congratulation. SULVca baa declined la value In the Lrn-Hon market during the past three months fin ln to pec fine enure, or a r-doctK of orrr is cnta- CAftAlr Hxrca witb tb rrenu- Rub ba la ordr1 from Kan FraoriM-Q to Chr1n Ha tt search for tbanl9iRX wbalxr Arotbyt.

Two asd rifTT iuln of th Tbinl I'tx rrtaml to work in tb minr of Kiting on tho SHb at tho oM rat, af baring bn out all sumrur ait'l fall. A WEDDING MARRED. Th Bride-to-n of a Presbyterlaa Parson Asphysclated by Gas oa the Eve of the Troposed Nuptials, and Her Life Hanging In the llalance. New York, January 4. The Rev.

Andrew Grey, pastor ot the Mlllerton (N. rresbytcrfcin Church, arrived in New York Thursday, expecting to meet his affianced bride, Miss Rachel A. Nicholson, of Fox Harbor, Nova Scotia, to whom he was to be married immediately upon her arrival. The plan was to ppend a few days in the city and return to Millcrton Tuesday next. Fate ordained otherwise, however.

Miss Nicholson is to-day lying between lite and death in the New York Hospital with slim- chances in her favor. At the Thirtieth Street Police Station, whither he had gone to explain the case to Captain Williams, and invoke what aid It was in tlie power ot the police to give, Mr. Grey told the reporter his story: "Miss Nicholson is twenty-six years old," he said, "and, like myself, a native of Nova Scotia. We hare known each other for four or five years, and were engaged to be married. I came here to wait for her on Thursday, and yesterday Miss Nicholson arrived by the New York express from Boston, according to arrangement.

She was very tired, and I took her over to the Hotel Abbotsford, where I had remained myself the previous night. She was to rest there nntil to-day, when we intended to get married, probably by Dr. Cuyler. Mr room was tfte only large one vacant in the hotel, and I gave it op to her, taking one on the lower floor myself. We chatted together and were happy nntil eleven o'clock, when she retired.

I had promised to call her at nine o'clock this morning. She did not answer when I knocked, and I became alarmed and called the clerk. We opened the transom and found the room full of gas. Then we burst open the door. Miss Nicholson was lying in her bed senseless.

She had been smothered in her sleep. One of the burners was probably turned on. I did not notice in my distress and bewilderment, but I suppose she either blew out the gas or accidentally turned It partly on again after having turned it off. We called doctors, and by their advice she was at once removed to the New York hospital in aa ambulance, and everything Is now being done to save her life. Miss Nicholson is the daughter of a farmer at Fox Harbor.

Both her parents arc dead." The Rev. Mr. Grey was exceedingly nervous, and seemed dazed bv the shock he had sustained. He is a young man. At the hospital it was said that there was some hope of Miss Nicholson's recovery.

MISSOURI STATE NEWS. Two little boys while playing in a fiela just outside of the city limits of Sedalia a few days ago were horrified at the sight of the dead iody of a child. The body was that of a mat child about three or four weeks old. It was well dressed, but there was nothing about it that would lead to the identification of the guilty one. Coroner Ovcrstrect stated that life had only been extinct a few hours when found, and that death bad resulted from ex insure.

Rose Zulger, In company with W. E. Gannon, wi aires tod at the Hotel Brunswick, Kansas City, a few days ago, on a telegraphic order from Chief ijlarrigah. of St. Loui.

The man not satisfied witb stealing the daughter, stole lm) of her fotb-r'a money. The young lady, who i a pretty brunette, at first waa inclined to be obdurate, but eventually decided to return to Chicago, and thither the couple went, together with the father of the girl who bad arrived on the scene. James L. Sigmond, a brother of one of the tuot prominent citizens of Pettis County, was recently turned over to the Sheriff of Rock Castle County, Kentucky, to which place be has licen taken to answer for a murder committed twenty-five years ago. The prisoner was arrested at his home in Trenton, Grundy County, where he has resided for ten years.

After committing the murder, he entered the Union army, and at the close of the war settled in Pettis County, where he resided until bis whereabouts was discovered by detectives, when he fled, going to Trenton. He is now quit an old man and tho father of quite a large fa mi I). On Christina Eve Frank B. Vaughn and Miss Elizabeth Strover were married at Kansas City. Shortly after the ceremony a pistol ball whistled through tho room.

Tho bride then told her husband that her cousin Nave had proposed marriage, was rejected, and had threatened to kill her and himself. The couple were spending the honeymoon visiting and driving with relatives day or two after tho wedding rnhen Nave rode up and shot Vaughn dead, galloping away to his boiu. Nave no sooner reached home thnn be shot himself through the bead, dying instantly. His mother fell in spasms, and was not expected to live. W.

II. Henton, whose bom is near Lake Station, Bochanau County, weut to St. Joseph a few days ago in a farm wagon for the purpose of negotiating a loan. In the afternoon he succeeded in raising quit a large sum of money. He started home, but failing to arrive there the same night, his friends went in search of biui, but up to this writing bad only succeeded in discovering the wagon in a ditch.

Assistant Fire Chief J. W. Dame, of St. Louis, who has been connected with th fire department of that city sine having been identified with it in all its bases, from the time when be "ran wid der maheen" nntil now, when it is one of the most Nrfcct organizations in the country, baa finally laid asido the helmet and renlgned, age and tb state of hia health not permitting outdoor exposure. Carl Knutsen, a German resident of St.

Louis, took a dose of arsenic a few nights ago and died In a few hours. A letter was found addressed to bis brother in which he bids all a "Happy New Year," and requests hi brother to take charge of his effects, as he expected to be called away soon. The amount of insurance written in St Louis during 1V by "old line" companies is estimated at and the estimated insurance in fore L. II. Tanner, forty-five yerj-s old, and employed as a flagman on the Iron Mountain Road in St.

Louis, was run over and almost instantly killed a few c'ays ago by a moving switch engine. At ie time be met hi death Tanner was between two tracks, signaling a numlicr of teamsters that the train going north was approaching. Not leing aware himxelf that on the other track a switch engine was going south, he backed right upon It and met witb the above result. All arrangements have leen perfected in St. Looi for the treatment of hydrophobia after the methods followed by M.

Pasteur, and in a couple of weeks, at the outside, patient may treated. This is the first country in th world, outside of France, wro inoculation, as a preventive ot the iliea. is to be tried, and St. Louis the first city. A new "wild-cat" insurance company bas appeared in Missouri.

A letter was received at the Insurance Department a PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Mxt Tatlor killed I war I PurJ-n on the rub witb a knife. The parties lire I on aljoining farm near Yankeetowa, and ar mtmtMr of influential faraitiea. Porda leave a wif and child. Tb inur-dr i the ronlt of a quarrel over tck.

Nivx frame residence an 1 torebumeI at Chattanooga, on the rth, ca log a l4 of tl-V: InMirane, Tb o.r ar: R. E. People, John Hally, P. McMillan, 8on and Daaghtereof Zion and K. V.

Drennan. Firs broke out ia the slr of John Mageraen, at Jatatown, Jt. on th Tih. Tbtore. with it content, wer roye.l.

a wrr three dwtHingboue. It wa found tbat mocb of tb good wire mUting. rreating the impeion that th aVw bad leen rbbetl and then et flr to. McMprrix, the man who a nonth ago attempted to ainte IV pu'y Marshal CollineatKaU I-Ak City, Utah, and waa hot la the abdoran ly the deputy, from tb effect of which he baa 1 ever since, diapxared on the 3ncb. He waa wante-l a a witna in the Collin Tax IItUin General.

La Cmteaul La IVx-be bar takn refuge at St. Thome. Jon It iumwr.jt resi ling in New Yrk, had a quarrel witb hi wife on tb THh. He a hatcb-t an 1 her ia thread, killiag br on the pot. Har-r in zion was arrested.

Iter. H. II. Kkluooo. D.

ha resigned the profeorbin of didactic and polemic tbeoloxy in She Vetfm Theological H-mi-nary in Aalegbeny City, on account of ill-beattb and in o'jTlicne to th imperative order of bis pbysirians. Ha ha started for the West Indie for rest an reca-p-ratlon In that mild climate. THRCC tU'SDRED ASD Kl patent were issued from the Patent O.Tlc at Wahington on the Rnv. rector of Kt. Paul'a Episcopal Church, at Troy, died on the sntb, axe-l forty-ix.

He wa a very prominent churchman, and hi name wa a few year ago mentioned for the then vacant tiisbopric of ludi.ina. He was a member of tbo commit'ee on revision of the book of cooi-non prayer. JoH! T. Monro, colored, of Arkansas, bas been appointed to a position la the ofTlce ot the First Assistant Postmaster-GeneraL pRXtDCT Clevclaxd has intimated bis to aid la the erection of the proposed monument to the late Vice-President Hendricks. Ex-Usrrco Htatc Hesator James Dailcy die.1 on th T.th at bis home in Clarksvilie.Tenn.

Da. la be. tb spiritualist, was arrested at Weston, oa the 7th, charged with obtaining money under taU pretenses, ia giving seances for pay. GeCRAL iierida5 and Secretary Whitney isnl order to army and nary officer in Wab)ngton to assembl in full uniform Sew Year's Day to pay their respect to the President of the United fjfatc. Imaa teaeber bean a Htate convention at Indianapolis on the 3th.

TC aew comet discovere-I December by Prof. Brooks, of Phelp, X. ia eisiM through a medium-sis telescope, and is increasing In brightness. Harxan Kcksk and Josephine E. Ituet, two women arrested at Springfield, cbarg I with disturbing a meeting of tb Salvation Army, pleaded guilty in th Police Conrt, and were fln-d and pai tl.li each.

HrCAKBH Carlisle has decided to eliminate from the Hon Commit: list those on Prnion. Bounty and Back Pay, PuMic Health and the Tenth Cenu. Tux rrje of an elevator ia a store ia Philadelphia. broke oa tb THh, precipitating Christian Stapteton, aged thirty-five, and Fred rric Fish-r, aed twenty-two, to the hsmnt an-1 seriooly injuring tbetn. Tax City Coun-ril ot Vincennes, ha hounI the entire nigbt police force.

Eu-Cn- Crandall, Jacob Metsxer, GoMieb Vkke and Torn hay, whom Mayor Wil-belm and the Committeo on Folic found off duty one night recently betweeu twelve and one o'clock. Av eruption ba occurred at th volcano of Cotima. Mexico. Jon Tsista, th oarsman, is to visit Aatratia in tb spring, where be will row with Beach. Frederick Fwi killed Andrew Drink at Fentoa, Mich.

A railway train, with three engines and a soow.pl wa reported on the 3th 1m-beddd la snow In Caithness, Scotland. The In liana tat chess tournament wa won by Dr. Leeoh, of Waveland. A lmmn slaughter-hons I among tae projectet lndutriea to be establithed at Mite City, Mont. Tit British bad a skirmish recently witb the rebel in Egypt and came off victorious ORA4KiKff an Catholics are engaged ia aive hostilities again at inception Bay, X.

F. A RTRIKS is threatened of locoraotiv engineers on the elevated road at Jtew York. Hsxry O. Kempcr, a ammll grocer of Cincinnati, O-, wa found roordred in his ator oa the morning of tb A mulatto was suspected of the crime. Tax safe of the tpswicb (Mass.) Post-offie was blown open the night of th 3th and .) in stamp and eome money stolen.

Thi ia the sixth time the same safe has been burglarised in eight year. West from November 1st to December Stftb. was l.VHagaiust3,iVMf.,r the same time Hst year. James Elder, PoUnater at Richmond, dropped dead on the pAsrcv hasconclu 11 bis treatment ot the four children from Newark, I. J.

Jane Kimkade was fatally shot by a burglar at Maboningt-jwn, on tb alxhtof the 31st. The supenion la announced of the First National Bank of Lake City, Minn. A cossistory for creating Bishop will be hel by th Top at the end of January, The actual count of Vanderbilt'a securi ties showed an aggregate of KI50 Leopold of Belgium received Lieutenant Taunt, U. H. on tb 1st, who has leen exploring the Congo region.

An American Institute of Hydrophobia. oa the Pasteur plan, ts to be established ia New York. T. D. Scluva.

the new Lord Mayor of Dublin, waa installed on the 1st with much ceremony and great enthusiasm. Firrxxx hvxdrxo bales of cotton wer burned la the warehouse of J. S. Stewart it Son at Macon, on th 1st. Eolaxd cedes to China part of Upper Barmah In order to make the Chinese and Indian frontiers contiguous.

Pnor. C. C. Georqesox, of Texas, has been appointed Professor In the State Col lege at Tokio, Japan. A RKUoiora sect at Palmyra, ar on the point of starvation in their Ix-lief tbat they will obtain "power" by fasting.

KrroRT will be madi to issue a loan of in London, to provide China with armament and railways. Jons Terwell threw a batchet at his on in Chicago on the 31st, and slightly wounded his daughter. Horrilk'd at what he bad done he attempted suicide by cutting bis throat with a raisr. The presents of uisny years have teen converted by the Pope into mony and presented to th College of the Propaganda. The proclamation announcing tlio an nexation of Burnish to the British Empire has reached llangoon.

Dcxxtxo Walhh' agricultural ware- bouse at linbiirg. In burn 3 1 on the 1st. Biailor llATCXtxurox. engaged in mis sionary service in Central A met, has leen seised by King Mombasa, and will probably be put to death. Usiter States Cocnsel-Oexeral Waller gave a brilliant New Year's re ception at the rooms of the St.

George Club at London. A great many notables were among the callers. AT Sidney. Jim Reynolds was found guilty of murder in the first degree for the murdt-r of James and John Pink-ton, ot Fairvillc, Salem County, Mo. It is intimated that th BrilWh Govern ment will oppose th revival of the bill for the construction ot a tunnel under the English between England and France.

Fitiucoh Lee was inaugurate on the 1st a Governor of Virginia with much pomp and ceremony. Ferry' aed warehouse and White's Grand Opera with adjacent struct ures, In Detroit, burned on the 1st, involving a loss of nearly with nsuranceof about Vi. Captain R. fireman, was cruhed to death by a falling wall. Miss Elisabeth B.

Van Verst, ist her lif la New York on the 1L by her clothing taking Are at anopen grate. Shewa aixty- five years of ago. C. II. Mal-rkr'r flouring mill at Tall- madge, was entirely destroyed by fir at an early hour on tb 1st.

The loss on tb loilding and machinery is f'J, and on stock to There is an In surance of tlT.iVI on tb building, and on stock, distributed among a doien or more companies. CONOENSEO TELEGRAMS. TfttAsritEB JO EDA toox coarge ot ta sub-treasury Ner York on th 2d, against tb protest ot Mr. Acton. rirrfa J.nnirv the commissions of over Presidential Postmaster will ex pire.

Oil baa been discovered at rarx ii jj. Ontario. Tst a1 Eastern cixarmakers who ar to take tb place of Chinaman bar arrived San Francisco. The Canadian Parliament has been pro rogued until February 13th. Cai-Tai GERROCt or th scnooner nacer Is under arrest at Boton, charge! with scuttling the veeL Th penalty is death.

A ntd man named Nallen and hie wife. of Perth, Ontario, war burned to death In their dwelling on tb 3d. A La roe number of in in vicin-itr of Sprinx Grove, ar said to ba afflicted with leprosy. The Newark (N. children wno wer treated in Paris by at.

Pasteur, sailed for horn on th 2d. a nss familv of fiv persona living near Pittsburgh, ar Buffering from trichinosis from eating uncooked salt pork. at A old acbem ba oeea reviveo in Franc to connect Marseilles with the River Rhone by a canal. Oliver Docd Btroji was convicted at Cincinnati. on tb 2d.

of violating th law prohibiting theatrical performance on Sunday. He was not present to receive sentence. Extraordixary number of Jews ar going to Engtand from Germany, Russia and Rountania. The coal miners convention held at West Elisabeth, on the 3d decided by a two-thirl vote to return to work at th operators' terms. IT is stated that English and American companies have secured extensive contracts for steel rail witb China.

Dax ik i. Osrorji, arrested for forgery, near Columbus. on the 2d, was shot and killed by the Marshal while attempting to era at the latter. As agreement has been reached letweeo Princ Alexander and Tnrkey concerning the union of Bulgaria and Eastern Ron- melia. A ccxvestioji of steel manufacturers will held at Pittsburgh, oa th "th to coosider the advisability advancing price.

Tat American I'm tear Institute has been incorporated at New York, with the object of Introducing Pasteur'a system or inocu lation for Hydrophobia in tbia country. Tanmi W. iChsi. th actor, wai stricken with paralysis at Kansaa City, on tb 3d. Tae Hnnihrrn Hotel.

New Orleans, burned oa ta 3d, and on unknown lodger lost hli 111. The Protection of Forests from Depreda tion to Be Accomplished Previous Hasty Legislation Should lie Avoided. The effort which we have made to rouse the attention of the public to the importance of better methods for protecting the forests situated upon the public domain than are afforded by existing laws are beginning to bear fruit. The Commissioner of the General Land Office, in his report just made public, calls attention to the fact. which we have constantly pointed out, that "depredations upon public timber are universal, flagrant and He recommends the immediate withdrawal from sale or public entry of all tho Government timber lands until proper surveys and estimates of their value can be prepared; that Congress may be able to finally determine what parts of this property shaU be disposed of, what parts shall be retained as per- i i mullein xnaiiuuai micsis una unuer what rules the sales shall be made hereafter.

This is a wise and timely which Congress will do well to adopt. There should not be another acre of our public forests disposed of under any circumstances whatever, aud every effort should be made to protect them from trespass and injury until Congress has determined upon a general forest policy. This is a question which certainly can not bo settled off-hand. The interests at stake are vast and varied, and we can not as a Nation afford to take any more legislative risks upon questions relating to the public domain without first obtaining all the information attainable in regard to it. We have already the Timber Culture act as a good example of what hasty and unconsidered action by Congress in such matters will lead to.

The Timber Culture act is, and always has been, a fraud, inasmuch as it has never succeeded in securing any of the results Congress intended it to secure. It was based upon observations made only over a small portion of the public domain, and in entire ignorance of the possibilities of tree growing in the great dry region which comprised at that time, and still comprises, the largest part of the public lands. It has cost the people of the United States millions of acres of land, without any return whatever, and it has mined thousands of honest settlers in fruitless efforts to carry out its impracticable and impossible conditions. Aud all this has come to pass because a few enterprising men wanted to sell trees and tree seeds, and so, with tho aid of some well-intentioned sentimentalists, got up this idea of giving land in return for planting trees in a region where, save in some exceptionally favored localities, it would be as easy to make a tree grow as to compel moisture from a cloudless sky. There may be, somewhere, thriving and valuable plantations which the Timber Culture act has brought into existence, but, if there are any such, they escape the vigilant attention of disinterested Eastern travelers.

Congress ought to repeal the Timber Culture act forthwith. It is disgraceful to longer allow honest settlers to be ruined in futile endeavors to obtain land in this wav, and it is not less disgraceful to allow honest settlers and land speculators to avail themselves of the opportunities ollcred by this law to defraud the Government It will be wise with this example before our eyes to go slow in all future legislation for the management of the public domain, but in the meantime Mr. Sparks' recommendation for the immediate withdrawal of all forest property for sale or entry should be adopted. It is a good suggestion. y.

r. sun. AMONG HIS NEIGHBC Mr. Hendricks' Laxt rublic Aprt --e Ilefore His Home Friends. The sudden death of Vice-President Hendricks will call vividly to the minds of many his appearance on the evening preceding his decease, at the grand reception given at the residence of State Treasurer Cooper.

While the gathering possessed no po litical significance whatever, from the very nature of things it contained many of the prominent Democrats of the State, and was a very brilliant oc casion. It was at a late hour when the Vice-President and his wife appeared upon the scene. After expressing the courtesies of the evening, Mr. Hen dricks paused for some moments on the threshold of tho spacious reception rooms and contemplated the scene ith a smile of unconcealed pleasure, A slight pallor was noticeable upon his countenance, yet he never looked or seemed in better spirits, and expressed him self as being in excellent health As he stood there, with that polished grace and suavity of manner so charae tenstic of his nature, he presented a magnificent appearance, and never seemed rrrander or in fuller possession of all bis powers. There stood before him many a true, tried friend, whose hand-irraso was more cloouent than words.

Here and there passed many a frosted head of both parties, touched by time and the strain of many an anxious campaign- There were also present several of the younger politi cians, who were wont to seek his coun sel, and who always met with a kind and encouraging reception. The gen eral eagerness of the throng to gaiu his presence was especially noticeable, and a long interval ot nana-shaking followed. He has been received with en thusiasm and distinction wherever he has crone, but tho home hearts the hearts that touched the tenderest cord how they crowded about him! It was his last meeting of friends on earth, his last farewell to them all; and now it would seem some wise Providence had drawn them together just once more to receive the strong magnetic cheer of this distincruished leader, and his neigh bors and friends, regardless of political faith, who -were present on that occa sion will have a pleasant remembrance of the last time when he appeared in their social midst. Mr. Hendricks, in conversation at the reception, was addressed, bv some Ir i in Lon lon tbat Ru.ia an-l Anitria ar rrtljr arming an tbat both Ibeso countries bav nt orl-r to tn-tclanrl in larg qn.niti of aUre for thrlr rrprti armt AT a p-Hal taetin of tho Mtlwenk WU.) MrvhantV A-'iation on the th rfsolottoo rr pavl opposing tbvcoin of ailrer dollar, an-t petitioning Con-crra to rpal or aiwo th law tor -h Tmx amount expon lel la extirpating tin mall-po pl lffroic at Montreal ami it will tak a farther Ur to tu-t tbo recoainia eojaseoicnt rnterpj into.

Compulsory vaxinatioa now tw log atrictty nforcod. BR'jt te CoVRcru tb Fr.nch Amla-'lor at Drrtii. anl Count lltbrt Uadr ifvcretary of HSat for For-ign Affair, bar ia-nad rotocl rieftn tnx tbo boondary of tu Frrorh an trr-man t-rritoTit ia Wi Africa. F. M.

KacxNA ranbT-lrt of I'arlia-wnt for Eat K-rry, Irvland ba a lril tbotraantry of Ktllarn.y not pay rvota lo tint laaU'ird, hc-arxo aa Irib wilt allot ta ln ta trr and willa)coaipn4ttblanford. Mr. United Htate VI in-. latrr, and Mr. Podltoa ifaro tbir flrot rw-ifpiiion la IWlin on tb rning of tbo 5H.

Atnonx th cat wr a lar nun-br of Aawicaa rriint, a fact wbicb how that tbo American rotoay tbrla tncri4ng. TE Uaitwt Mtat Treasury baa I'ridod tbat a commercial flraa on ItagnJ la exporting pa fmra Kiagtoa to Cap Viacoat, abail pay a duty of ta pr ront. Formorly tbro waa cUctl tn tf cent. Tbr will be a repayment of tbo nvarcbargo. Trk retaatad of tho motilat! bill rceietl at tbo Trea-nry Pepartment nmia wa rerieol on the Stb from New York, witb tho brief ptanatioa: Rtitotioa; other half nt rci o.

Tbe money will credit1 tbo cwMcieaco fond. TC Foatater-OeaTal ba iinl a eoovrntioa to tako effect ianary I. Ii, tor lb axebaaxo of roio)r clr lt IbeCatta-l Htate and the Leeard Ian comprising tbo Ulaw of Antixna, Hu lrlUpber, Jteari tMuinia, Mon-erra't and tbo Vlrgia IHnd. I crop report vf the j. Axriewttwral Deprtm-ot in li-f thia raortV cottoa crop a tt-l jri-M for the of ea'-ta.

prodartioa an aeerax 1 oplnr per rent. The toal pro.lur-rk lilt the Htate It alot F.rn rnreditor of tb Kin of Bavaria I I In a petition for a dintraint of property of the royal hone- th: acbief of tho army, he for otfon it hr4Iiff of tb Htato to tak any of a little incident. 1 was engaged in trying a case in Ohio, when a very young man, before a Judge whose years, though nearly four-score, rested lightly upon him, and his youthful ap pearance was most remarkable. I spoke to him during the trial of my case concerning the disparity in his age and appearance, and asked him how he had managed to preserve his 3'outhful vigor to such a remarkable degree. 'By not allowing myself to ook at things through old said he.

'I have endeavored to retain the enthusiasm of youngt-f days in everything I have undertaken, and have re tained my youth simply because I have never nermitted mvself to consider my self So it has been with me. I have retained the enthusiasm of my younger days, and to this I attribute the appearance on which you compliment me." Indianapolis Journal. THE CUSTOMS SERIVCE. Secretary Manning Making; a Thorough Investigation of it A New Law Promised. Secretary Manning, in conversation respecting the proposed examination by the Senate into the working of the New York Custom-Housc, said that as the executive officer was primarily re sponsible for the execution of the tariff law, he should welcome tho co-operation of a committee of the Senate, if one be created to that end.

He said, however, that during all the present year an active inquiry into the condi tion ot the custom-houses had been going on under the initiation and supervision of his immediate predecessor and himself and that the result of that inquiry is exhibited in a volume of 890 printed pages, which when examined by Senators, will disclose all the needed facts in regard to the custom-houses up to October last and save the work of an examining committee. If there has been defective administration since then, which had escaped his attention. he would be glad to know it. A reso lution has been introduced in the House respecting an importation of glassware by L. Lehman which, said, would be completely answered as soon as adopted, and sent to him.

Any other specific inquiries addressed to the Department by either House would receive immediate arid thorough -attention. Mr. Manning remarked that he had, in his annual report to Congress, described his own ideal of a collector of customs at any of the great ports, and he had distinctly intimated his own conviction that a satisfactory execution of the present tarin law would severely test the best efforts of a staff of the best officers that the coun try could supply. The point of attack now, he said, is the Appraising Department and, for obvious reasons he should, he said, firmly and earnestly uphold the conscientious conduct of those officers against all comers. The collector at New York, he said, was unnecessarily and naturally assailed by selfish interests, because in case of disagreement between two rcappraisers his decision is final.

The Secretary had no doubt that the Senate and the country would discriminate between the existing tariff system, or rather the existing tariff chaos, created by law; and the officers who administer that system of chaos. It will be difficult enough to execute the existing law with tlip. verv best of subordinates, and it would be his effort to efficiently use such instruments as may be placed in his hands by the President and the Senate, to whom the law had wisely confided the selection of the chief customs officials. The Civil-Service law has, Mr. Man ning added, practically tanen away from tho Treasury Department the selection of such most important subordi nates as examiners, inspectors, weigh ers, gaugers and measurers.

The general appraisers, the appraisers and the assistant appraisers are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate. Mr. Mannincr said that he expects soon after tho holidays to send to Con-gess a special report on one branch of the customs system ana tne project oi a law, which, if adopted, will work therein a needed reform. The Secretary concluded by saying that it is vital to the public welfare that in customhouse matters there be concert of action, srood understanding and pleasant forms between the Senate and the head of the Treasury Department, and added: "I shall do my utmost to promote this, and shall not unduly intrude my party affiliations and my party prejudices, which, I nevertheless hope and believe, arc reasonably strong." St. Louis Re' publican.

DEMOCRATIC BREVITIES. The future of Mormonism seems to be threatened with an eclipse When the paths of plural marriage lead but to the jail, the seraglio fades into a barren ideality. Indianapolis Times. John A. Logan will stand on tiptoe for three years to come, with his head in a listening position and his ears alert, hoping to attract attention and finally to hear the Republican order to go to the front.

He is likely to get very tired, but his endurance is great. N. Y. Graphic. It is evident from Mr.

Tilden's letter that as is his wont with all important public questions, he has given the subject of his letter a long and exhaustive study, for he writes of harbor defense like a master of a department in the science of war which has provoked more expert discussion than any other. But what is most remarkable is the attention which Congress and the people will pay to this voice from Greystone. A venerable man, now utterly removed from public life and all political ambitions, commands more respect when he speaks than would be accorded to the utterances on the subject he discusses of any other citizen even the President of the United States himself N. F. Sun.

THE SEVENTH DEATH. The Ill-Fated Knoch Family and the Violent Death of Keren of Their Number The I-at Victim, Evidently Killed to Keep Her Mouth Cloied-A Hon Sunpect-ed of the Crime. Detroit, January 3. The Knoch mnrder case has been brought into prominence again by the sudden death of Mrs. Elizabeth Knoch, the mother of the ill-fated family.

She had been sick only a few clays, and Thursday sent for the officers for the purpose, it is said of making a statement about the recent case of arson and murder. Before they arrived at her bedside she had relapsed into a comatose condition from which she did not rally. She died Friday. In the opinion of a doctor who had accompanied the officers to her home, Mrs. Knoch was affected with heart and lung trouble, but there were symptoms of poisoning.

A pot-mortem was held yesterday, when, to the surprise of the physicians, it was found that her skull was fractured by a heavy blow, which had left no mark. It was suspected that she and a son, Gus-tavc, had had some connection with the former murder, and the officers had been expecting an ante-mortem statement from the mother, who has been confined at home with nervous prostration, it Is eald, ever since she was on the stand on the inquest on the remains ot the late tragedy. This is the seventh suspicions death in this family. The father, Christian, was fonnd dead In the burn some years ago with cuts In his head, said to have been made by the kick of a horse. A brother, Charles, disappeared two years ago this winter and his body was found in the river the next sprlns, with marks of violence and a chain about the body from an unused pump on the Knoch homestead, and last month another son, Frank, was killed, with his wife and two babies, and the house burned with the dead bodies In it.

Suspicion has tnrned toward Gustave, and it is now strengthened by the murder the mother, though as yet no convincing evidence has been discovered. Another brother, Herman, a half-witted fellow, who has been once confined in an insane asylum, and an uncle, Joe, has been for years a mild lunatic, though he has never been considered dangerous. SHE'S A DAISY. The Dolphin Demontrates Her Sea worth-Ineas tt'nder Severe Conditions and In the Teeth of a Seventy Mile Gale. Washington, 1).

January 3. Cap tain Meade, commander of the Dolphin, who is in the city, called at the Navy De partment yesterday to make a report to the Secretary of the trial trip of the Dolphin at sea. Nothing official as to the behavior of the vessel is given out, but It is learned that she made a remarkably good record. The run from Newport to the Capes was made at an average of fourteen or fifteen knots an hour. From the Capes the vessel proceeded to Cape Hat- teras and there met a gaie mowing seventy miles an hour.

She was placed In some very trying positions and many of the officers and men were made seasick. The sea broke over the vessel continually, but she averaged twelve knots an hour nevertheless. She arrived at Fortress Monroe Friday. Many officers report this trip as proving beyond doubt the seaworthiness of the vessel, but say she is not the kind of a vessel we want and will never be duplicated. For her kind, however, she Is regarded as llrst-class.

The Legislature of Ohio. CoLt'MRt's, January 3. Nearly all the members to the Sixty-seventh General Assembly have arrived, and everything is in readiness for the opening of the session to-morrow. At the Republican caucus yesterday afternoon Hon. Johu C.

Entrekln was selected for Speaker of the House and last night the Democrats re-elected Hon. John O'Neill as President pro U-m of the Senate. The caucus for United States Senator will be held this week, and John Sherman will be returned to the Senate. Governor Hoadly will receive the complimentary Democratic vote. few days ago, written to Secretary of State MrGrath by a resident of one of the towns in the interior of the fitate, asking for Information concerning the "National Benevolent Aid Association of Sedalia, Mo.

This is the first time tbat this concern bas reported to the Department, and it is Iwlieved tbat It is quite new. The writer was informed that it was an unlicensed scheme and could not legally do businesi in this State. At the close of 1SS3 there will be operating in Missouri three Missouri stock fire companies with an aggregate capital of Jl.fMi.nui; assets, liabilities, and surplus, JIW.OOO; 111 companies ot other Slates and United States branches with an aggregate capital of assets, liabilities, and surplus, twenty-two life insurance companies with aggregate assets of liabilities, and surplus, six casualty and fi deity companies, fourteen mutual fire companies, and two Missouri life companies. The number of wills probated in St. Louis during the past year was 2W; th number of wills administered was 451.

The total value of the estate under the last named item was The largest estate was tbat of John B. Ghio, which was valued at JpO.OiO. The smallest was i'jO. The number of guardians appointed was 259. Fifty-one certificates "refusing letters of the administrator" have been issued.

These are certificates which are allowed widows who come into court and show that the will leaves them nothing more than is allowed them bylaw. Old we bid you farewell. B. F. Dolan of Cooper County obtained th contract to furnish beef for the Penitentiary the coming year at $3.23 per 100 pounds.

Tb amount consumed daily is about Vs pounds. The mystery of the death of Edward I'endegrast, of Raton, N. which occurred at Independence recently, bas been solved by th investigation of the Coroner's Jury. Death resulted from blow from a shovel in the hands of Jack Mahan, and not from strychnine supposed to hav been administered ia drinks. Officers wr after Mahan and also his brother Tbomaa, who Is ta plicated the murder tin oot th obj-rt of thocred- r'n 1 1 I rirt Idle convict In tb Hirer- ol contracta ia the brwm departmenta The conrict employed employ -umi K.ruaenta wiu remain mi an ul 1 placo'l at rag-uakinz or alter, R4 artionre-ai lerratttation of iroport- nrUCuanY officer at Jw York, lea ptrnti(1 Boston an I ele- long.

JnUgo and a jri ir, mt. tb epo- Tn people by tb Htalea Hen.t bflworn thawb- rttliartf Hta iV 'at empo ps of Dart- tlrt'rf th'1' 1Hi.nvt.iM. Ch VT 5 iitl At rt' by Warrea HIT. Ll larked general to JP aaatanyr I nn 'K Vwer ptl ofc P.ooxrs in i.r.un A tb de, tnteric WUbar F.nw: cago T-' J4. l.

dMi.ted thit matter i Probate I ourv- of wBt regular to. tB a I M.N. Jcsrca Brow sj, a farmer near Wilson, N. was burnsd to death In his bouse. Frosi reports received on the 9nh, it aeemed that there would be shown a slight inrea in the public debt for December.

The Ohio Central Railroad, recentl old, will known hereafter as tb Kanawha ft Ohio. A roLUstn on th Michigan Central Road oa the 3 th, near Carrollton, killed one man and fatally Injured two other, all resident of Jackson. Mich. THE Toledo. Cincinnati Ht.

Louis Railroad waa otd under foreclosure of mort-Itage at Indianapolis on th 3Hh, and was hooxbt by Hylvester H. ICneeland, of ew York. The tly of Alfred Thorn wa found in 'i (t Rockr Rieer. near Cleveland, on the 3th. Thorn was ni ty-one years old and It is thought wa from Syracuse.

Y. Suicide waa th manner of death. telng soliriteil to aid denendent for support upon th entombed la the Naotiooke (Pa.) thnkwKSsxrs baa been assorod that a OtitoS of tb French Senate and ator. Deputies will vote ia favor of scheme la aid of the Panama ftv. a.

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