The Democrat. FRIDAY, APRII ,11 „oUO. IT is said that Dr. McGHynn contem" plates visiting EL gland and Ireland where he will speak on the land question. THE Democratic outlook takes on a still further brightening in the news of a big Democratic victory at Chicago. AMERICAN ideas of progress are suc cessfully copied in Switzerland, where i the treasurer of the canton of Ticine has been arrested for embezzling a million francs. THE Somerset Standard, Republican, says : A fine piece of political manipu lation, that Cambria county affair 1 A nice set of chaps to be entrusted with politcal management! If lie citizens of Cambrin county don't have a hrst-class political funeral in the near future it will be gener ally believed that they like to be hum bugged. _ POOR Vermont, whose farms are being abandoned beoause they won't produce enough to live upon, has a gleam of hap piness in the fact that she is now harvest ing, in the ■ vicinity of Bennington, ice that is twenty inches thick, and expects to go on doing so fcr at least a month to come. After a winter such as this has been, this is almost as good as digging gold and finding lots of it. Such ice, however, is quite a natural product in a State that produces an Edmunds. REVOLUTIONARY widows are fast, dying out. I'he number of these on the pension rolls the first of the year was but twenty nine and three of these are ninety-seven years old. These are NaDcy Rains, of Vermont; Anna Maria Young, of Penn sylvania, and Susan, Curtis, of Maine. The youngest revolutionary widow is Nancy Green, of Indiana, who is seventy one. Her age and position on the pension rolls indicate that she must have played May to soldier Green's December, as the revolutionary war closed many years be fore she was born. And all this points the moral, that in the matter of pensioners few die and none resign. THE average man, as we look at him from a physical standpoint, appears to be composed of bones, blood and tlcsh and an extensive assortment of muscles and nerves. When he is analyzed, however, and resolved into his various component parts we have different substances ap parently and more of them. Dr. tan caster, an eminent London surgeon and chemist, exhibited m his class room not long ago the results obtained after he had operated on the body of a man who in life weighed 154.4 pounds. In one jar were 23.1 pound of carbon; in another 2.2 pounds of lime ; in a third 22.3 ounces of phosphorus, and in smaller vials about one ounce each of sodium, iron, potas sium, magnesium, and silicon. Taking another view of the result, Dr. Lancaster estimated that there were 5,595 cubic feet of oxigen, weighing about 121 pjunds; 105,900 cubic feet of hydroden, weighing 15.4 pounds, and 52 cubic feet of nitrogen in the mau's body. There is nothing like science in showing up a man and taking the conceit out of him. THE measures laken and in contempla tion hy the.French Chamber of Deputies to encourage the increase of population arc even more remarkable than the Que bec law for the same purpose. The population of France bus in recent 3'envs remained so nearly stationary that the deputies have become alarmed. Last year a law was passed exempting from all tax ation all families of five children, but the local authorities found that the state would not bear the deficit in the income and it had to be made good by higher tax ation on the families not having five chil dren. "In some parts of France, such as, for instance, IJrittany, where large fami lies are common, the ratepayers with less than seven children have had to submit to an increase of taxation to the extent of fifty, anil even sixty, per cent." The Chamber declines to repeal or modify the law. but a hill is now before it wh'ch pro vides for the heavy taxation of bachelors and old maids, so that married people with small families may not have to pay for the exemption given to the fortunate father of five. PERUSAI. of the perils,injuries,suffering, solicitude and courage through which people all over the world are forced con stantly to encounter and display, a care ful obsesver cannot fail to be impressed with the fact that men, women and chil dren are hard to kill under the most try ing tests of their endurance. However appalling Hie loss of life was during the rage of cyclones and the sweeps of floods in the west and southwest, where it is stated that hundreds of thousands if not millions of people were involved in these perils, tiie sacrifice of life was compara tively small. Men, women and children of all ages endured this terrible danger and passed through this fearful ordeal with miraculous escapes, as well as with a tenacity to help themselves that seemed almost superhuman. People were perched in trees for many weary hours, crowds of women and children crouched on house tops ; others were whirled along in the flood, huddled in their homes that were swept from their foundations, of all of whom the great majority were saved principally by reason of their coolness, their presence of mind and their courage, Je the midst of crashing walls, flying tim ber, whirling masses of debris of demol ished buildings, the ner centage of the loss is small in comparison to the mass cX humanity involved in the danger. It is, of course, a cold view of such calamities, but is it not fair, while deeply sympathis ing with the afflictions entailed by flood er tornado, to note with gratification the oscape9 or the great multitude, as well as express admiration for those who, con fronted by appalling dangers, faced their perils courageously and held on to life tenaciously. THE WAY IT LOOKS TO A MAN UP A TREE. Myersdale commercial. The Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph, oc casionally Republican, the Johnstown Daily Democrat, out-and out old bourbon Democratic, and the Somerset Standard, Mugwump, seem to have formed a combi nation to defeat the next Republican can didate for Governor. The Somerset Stan dard goes a little further, and is already in the field to defeat Congressman Scull, who will undoubtedly be rc-elected to succeed himself to the next Congress, in the fall election. We must compliment the Standard though in showing its 'true colors thus early in the fight. People know exactly where to place it. This, however, is going to be a bad year for Democratic-Mugwump variety shows. I.ET QUAY SEEK VINDICATION. Senator Quay, it is reported, will insti tute proceedings in the Court against the New York World for libel, claiming dam ages in the sum of SIOO,OOO. A Pinker ton detective is responsible for the story. He says that the author of the political expose is being shadowed by detectives, and that sufficient avidence will be pro duced to vindicate the name of Senator Quay. The writer's name is Boylan, and he is considered by his employers a brilli ant and trustworthy man who has had twenty-five years' newspaper experience. The WorUVs managing editor, Mr. Cham bers, said that they would welcome such proceedings, and further stated that their columns had been exceed.ngly lenient toward Quay, considering the proofs held in the background regarding the political scandal. "If it should come to such an issue we will make it far more interesting for Mr. Quay," said he. HYPOCRISY AND RELIGION. The Harrisburg Patriot says : " The in creasing number of writers who hold re ligion up to ridicule and cotempt because of the shortcoming of some prominent church members should not dispose any but the most shallow-minded to confound religion with hypocrisy. The hypocrite and the twin companion, the bigot, are in the church, not of it. ToUhe hypocrite the church is but a cloak, not a temple. He uses it for a purpose purely worldly ; either because the best society goes there, that will help him in business or that it may serve to ward oil suspicion from ac tions of his which might otherwise be scanned. The hypocrite is as mean and contempt ible as words can paint him ; but the church he desecrates by his membership Is not responsible for him. He existed always and will continue to exist until the end of time. 'lf there were no re ligion there would be no hypocrites,'may be true, but it can be sait, also, that if there was no coin of the realm there would be no counterfeit money. Men do not coun terfeit the spurious, but the genuine, and herein lies the reason for the fact that there are prominent church members who arc hypocrites. As for the bigot in relig ion, it may be justly claimed that he is more entitled to pity than to censure, be ing but the creature of a diseased imagina tion, who mistakes short lived rhapsody and long continued billiousncss for that religion which none can know but the pure and humble in heat t- It would be well for those who affect to despise religion if they would call philos ophy to their aid, for this would teach them to despise the hypocrite, shun the bigot, and reverence that very religion which condemns both in terms as strong as Holy Writ." SOUND DEMOOATIC SENSE, New york sun. At the invitation of prominent Demo crats in St. Louis, the Hon. Jefferson Ch andlcr delivered an address Tuesday on the political situation and the pros pects of genuine Democracy. There is me passage in this excellent speech which deserves to be read and pon dered, not only by the Democrats of Mis sonri, but also by Democrats in every State f the Union : " The Democratic party cannot adopt the doctrine of extermination of protected industries. Neither can it pursue a revo lutionary policy in regard to Federal tax ation. Its line of battle in 1890 and 1893 will be as it has heretofore been in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, the two Virginias, Indiana, and Missouri. It must appeal to the conservative thought ot those States for success. It cannot afford to throw itself at the feet of any man. Democracy is greater than any individual. Parties forming tariff reform clubs and other unions, reflecting hut a single idea, ought to disband them and in their places or ganize Democratic Clubs. One idea, and that a subordinate one, an impracticable one. a cold, pulseless one, an idea con fronted with a decisive majority against it in the United States, which, increased by the admission of new states, will con tinue for at least ten years and possibly longer is scant political capital to wage a great battle upon. Persons suffering from mental lassitude to the degree that one idea makes them noisy, ought to seek se clusion and rest, The further proposition that one candidate with defeat is better than another candidate with success, in dicates low intellectual pressure. The tar iff doctrines of the party are well expressed in its platforms and are suited to a healthy growtli and development of American industry. These doctrines can only be of value to the country by the success of the party. A flippant indiffer ence to success is extreme folly. The Democratic party cannot succeed as a negative party, nor as a critic merely of some other party. It must reaffirm its code of principles have an enlightened, aggressive policy of its own to carry tlum into execution. It must have Democrats in office to support a Democratic administra tion ; it must purify the civil service by plac lug in power Democrats in sympathy with Democratic principles. The party pos sesses a membership sufficiently ac complished and patriotic to till all offices under a Democratic Administration, and to make the civil service of the highest standard of purity and efficiency." This is clear, undiluted common sense. The platform is square and solid, and on no other platform can the patty win. SALARIES UP CITY OFFICERS. In view of the fact that there is a dis position on the part of some persons to complain, because they thiuk the propos ed salaries of the city officials are too high, it might be well to drop here a few facts concerning the task before our in coming officials and to make some com parison with other cries in Pennsylvania of about the same size as Johnstowu. We have nothing to do with fixing the salaries of the city officers; that matter rests with the councils. But we are anx ious to see the new cily start out by pav ing its officers good salaries. And we by no means favor extravagance. The duties devolving upon our new officers will be very much greater than bad we been a city for a number of years. Instead of having one set of laws to administer, our Mayor will have seven. This will be the case until there are city ordinances passed covering all the ground covered by all the different ordinances ot the sev eral boroughs. Each borough had its own laws regarding the width of the rivers. They have separate contracts with the light and water companies, and with other corporations. All these vari ous laws and contracts will have to be administered iu the districts in which they were enacted. A little reflection will give an idea of the difflcuhy of the task. Besides this the regular city govern ment will be to administer. In the case of the other city offices those who fill them will have to make the starting out. There will be no form by which to pattern the conducting of the several offices, and there will be plenty of wise critics on had who know all about how these things should be done. These are some of the difficulties in the way of the first eet of officers. It will be com paratively easy to follow the prceedents established during the term of the first set of officers, but to set everything moving smoothly is no easy task, We submit a few comparisons with sal aries in other cities which have been in operation many years : Pittsburgh—Mayor, $6,000. Allegheny—Mayor, $4,500; Treasurer. $3,600; Controller, $2,500; City solicitor, $2,500; City Engineer, $2,500; Mayor's Clerk, $1,200; Con troller's Clerk, $1.200; Treasurer's clerk. $1,200; Assistant Ctty Engineers, each $1,200 ; Clerk In City Engineer's olllce, $1,200; Draftsman, $1,000; Captain of the Night Watch, $1,000; Police De tectives, each, s2.isa (lay; Lieutenants of Po lice, each $2 75 a day ; Each Patrolman, $2.50 a day. scranton—Mayor, $2,500; Treasurer, $4 000 for city funds ; Controller, $2,000 for city funds : so licitor. $1,500; City Clerk, $1,200; Assistant City Clerk, $800; cierk of Common council, $500; city Engineer, $1,500; Chief oi Police, $1,200 ; two Ser geants of Police, each $l,C0O; tlurty-four patrol men, each S9OO. Harrlsburg— Mayor, $2,ooo; Treasurer, $1,500; for city funds, ssoo for School funds: city con troller, $1,200, pay from school board not given; Chief of Police ssr, a month; Lieutenant of Po lice $75 a month; two Sargeants each S7O a month ; Patrolmen each S6O a month. Chester—Mayor $1,500; City solicitor. $1,500; Engineer, $2,000; commissioner of Highways s(*iO; Clerk of common council $900; Treasurer, $1,800; controller, $800; Chief of Police s'.**); fourteen Policemen, sls per week. Wllkesbarre—Mayor paid by fees about $2,500; Engineer, $i,500; Assistant Engineer, $1,000; solicitor, $500; City clerk, $1,200; Assistant Clerk, $720; Street Commissioner, $900; Chief of Police, $910; sargeant, $720; Policemen, twenty men, $55 each. Altoona—Mayor, $1,200; Treasurer, $1,500; Controller, f<00 ; Clerk of CommOD council, ex ofllclo City clerk, $1,000 ; Clerk of select council, $500; Solicitor, $1,000; chief of Police. $80; Patrolmen, SSO. IT WILI. NOT DOWN. Capt. 11. H. KIIIIII 011 the IlaidinKH-Ilelaiim ter Contest—The Names of the Iteneil elarles ot the Flooil Funil Should hy Pub lished. Pittsburgh Post, April 4. Henry H. Ivuhn, of Johnstown, who was commissary of the State forces (lur ing the flood, is at the Seventh Avenue. He said evidences of the great disaster were well cleared away, but that every heavy storm causes alarm. " The people of Johnstown," Mr. Kuhn declared, " are not ungrateful to General Hastings. If the delegates to the Republican State Couvetion from Cambria couuty cast their votes for anyone but Hastings, they will do so in opposition to the wishes of the people. The story of how they came to be instructed for Delamateris well known. Some talk has been indulged in concern ing a desire of the people to have n fair chance to expi ess their wishes, and call another primary. The result would show whether Johnstown's people were ungrateful or not. But this probably will not be done. That rests with the Chair man of the County Committee. He is a delegate, so it is apparent why he does not want the primaries held over again." Air. Kuhn thinks a listof all the beneficia ries of the relief fund contributed for flood sufferers should be published. It would be only fair to the contributors, he says. " I lost $3,000 by the flood and got $746 from the fund. I am not ashamed to have it known, and don't see why any one else should be," said he. Alpliousc Daudet, in a recent conversa tion, described how he had been led to write his new story, " Port Tarascon. the hast Adventures of the Illustrious Tar tarin," Ilenry James' translation of which is to begin in the June Harper. " I love Tartarin," said M. Daudet. " Perhaps I would have let him rest in his lovely town for some time to come, had not a wholly personal consideration encouraged me to start him again on his adventures. The past year has been a hard one for me , I have suffered a great deal; and I was searching for a distraction from my suf ferings—for one in those tasks that absorb one, and make one forget physical pain— I thought of Tartarin. Pascal forgot his neuralgia in working at mathematics ; I have forgotten my rheumatism in the company of Tartarin. The Tarasconian hero is perhaps indebted to me for his fame ; I am indebted to him for repose, and for helping me to forget my suffer ings. Ought I not to feel beholden to him ? " There are now, according to the new directory just issued, 2,284 newspapers published in the United Kingdom, of which 185 are dailies. WASHINGTON LETTER. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 0, 1890. To the Editor of the Jolmstown Democrat. Mr. Harrison has been appealed to by his pnrty associates to use his influence to stop the big row which the new tariff bill has created among the Republicans in the House. Mr. Harrison will find it a big contract should he decide to undertake it. The Massachusetts members accuse Chairman McKinlcy of breaking up his pledged wor 1 to them, and say' that no bill which puts a duty upon hides (this one does now) shall ever pass the House with their consent. There are a number of Republican members from oilier sec tions who are mad because their constit uents were not given free carpet wools, and other raw materials and to these may be added the sugar and tobacco crowd who do not like the bill. The Re publican leaders are very uneasy over the outlook and fear to call a caucus on this bill until they can stop some of the pro tests, and an effort will be made, now that the bill is before the full committee, to make some changes in, it. If they are not successful the bill is likely to be openly opposed by enough Republi cans to insure its defeat. The bill for the admission ot Idaho has been railroaded through the House. The spasm of industry which caused the Senate to pass a resolution making 11 o'clock the hour of meeting passed off as speedily as it came on and the old hour will bo resumed on Monday. Contrary to general expectation, the Senate Judiciary Committee has reported a substitute for Senator Sherman's trust bill. It is substantially the original bill stripped of the amendments. The House Committee on the Judiciary is also mak ing a great pretense of being engaged in considering sn anti-trust bill. Notwith standing all this I think the trusts are safe so long as the Republicans control Con gress. The dependent pension bill has pnssed the Senate, and the debate upon it makes it certain that quite a number of Repub licans are opposed to any other pension legislation at present. There is a plot in the House to add the Morrill service pen sion bill to this measure as an amend ment, and if it succeeds there it may afterwards get through the Senate. Absenteeism on the part of the Chiefs of Divisions and Bureaus in the Interior Department has become such an abuse that Secretary Noble has issued an order that no chief or other clerk shall be ab sent in the future without obtaining per mission. Hamilton Shidy, the man who was given a position in the Census office as a reward for testifyii g against the postmaster at Milwaukee, by whom he was employed, has been removed from office, but the Civil Service Commissioners for whom Shidy did the dirty work, and who got him the office he lias been dismissed from, are still in office, The Senate Committee seems in no hurry to report the World's Fair Bill, and will probably not do so before next week. The members of the Pan American Con gress will start 011 their southern excur sion in about two weeks. On the lltn inst., Secretary Proetoi lias ordered u review of nil the regulai army troops sta tioned here and of the local militia for titer pleasure of the foreigners. On the even ing of the same day the Congress will en tertain Mr. Harrison at dinner. The National Association of Demoota i; Clubs lias established headquarters in this city, and will take a very active pa 1 in combtg Congressional campaign. The members of the House who lost their salaries through Silicon's defalca tion were made to feel good by a decision of the Court of Claims this week that, lie Government was responsible for the stolen money. The case will be appealed. . The friends of the Windom Silver Bill will try to have that measure called up for consideration by the House on the 15th mst. Senators I diuunds and Ingalls have not spoken to each other outside of the Sen ate chamber for quite a long while. c. A, s. Her Hair Saved Her Tile. Prom the Philadelphia Times, PETERSBURG,* April 0. —A curious freak of lightning during a recent storm was played on a woman named Ellen Ilarnes, a laundress, living in the suburbs of this place. She bad stepped to the door and stood holding it ajar, watching the storm, when she was struck by the lightning and knocked senseless. She was alone at the time except for a child a few montLs old, but a neighbor from her window saw the woman fall and, during the sform, ran to her assistance and suc ceeded in resuscitating her after some time. Though unable to speak for hours she was apparently unhurt by the shock, but a part of her hair was turned a dazzling white by the electricity and killed to the very roots. A distinct line of demarca tion separates the dead white hair from the living and black strands. This line does not run exactly down the middle of the head, but about an inch and a quarter to one side. A remarkable feature of the occurrence is that the woman says that as she was struck she was conscious of a terrible pang in the side of her head, which is un changed, and remembers no particular sensation in the other. She is inconsol able over her strange deformity, as the physicians here give her no hope that new and black hair will ever grow again on the affected side of her head, but en deavor to comfort her by the unanimous opinion that she owes her life, and at any rate her reason, to the thickness of her locks, which prevented the brain fiom feeling the full force of the shock. ANDREWS' " MAN OF VICTORY " About Ready to Admit Defeat—Quay Dis guested With Ilia Representatives— The Revolt in the East. Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. PHILADELPHIA, April s.—The flght against Delainater and Andrews is almost at an end. The Mcadville candidate already scents defeat in the morning breezes from the Western Districts. The story of Quay's visit to Philadel phia last week has been told, but what happened here has been kept a secret. For three days, beginning in Washing ton and ending here, Quay berated An drews for the manner in which he had managed. Quay denounced the Cambria steal as stupid and unnecessary, and de clared that the elections by county com mittees in Elk and Fulton counties was about as bad. Instead of encouraging Andrews and Prince Delamater, Quay intimated very strongly that he was about rea ly to leave them and go over to somebody else. This talk was based on fii st impressions only. After being in Philadelphia a day or two, Quay became more savage. From all sides come bad news as to the outlook in the State. Men of all sizes and conditions politically warned the Senator that An drews must promptly vetire from the Chairmanship of tl e State Committee, and that Delamater must run ashore in the wind until some other time. The central counties came first with their protests. A Quay Lieutenant trom Montgomery told Mr. Quay that if Dela mater was nominated the Republicans would lose a State Senator, five members of the Legislature and the Congressman from that district. Montgomery was said to be in a very bad humor, indeed. Delaware leaders said that although Delamater has stolen two delegates there "> a trick, the party as a mass was ready throw the whole combination over board. Huntingdon county was on hand in the person of George Orlady, who talked in a way to make the Senator sick. Within three days fifty of the party leaders came to beg Quay to pull off the Mcadville crowd, All sorts of horrible contingencies were foretold, and when the Beaver states man thought he was about ready to hear tidings there came instead the whispers of disaster in Philadelphia itself. The sturdy declaration of .Mayor FitleP, that he would give up all personal ambi tions to make Hastings Governor, opened Quay's eyes. Then Sheriff Leeds told Quay that not a man in the Quakir City was for Delamater, and that he and James McManes were ready to break up the del egation and aid the Mayor, In order that there may be no misun derstanding about the position of the Mayor here is a letter which His Honor sen' me last night: '• ItHXI WAI.NCT STREET, T " I'IIII.AUKI.THIA, April 4, 1890.) " Parker Waller: " DEAR SIR : in answer to yours permit me to buy that I favor the nomination ot tieneral D. 11. Hastings tor Governor or this state, antl be lieve It he Is nominated ho will poll the full l<e publlcan vote. •• Yours truly, •• EDWIN LL. FITI.BR." Tin* '• field again st Delamater" is still I lie <TJ a Hit--.nig.-i the Ka.-t. It looks to ttie • lis though Delniiinicr would not get it-u i f tin- Plclu i- j .hin tlelegit'ion. The I'liiisina i to e- < Indiana comity lias hit t its t lTiCt- Oilier counties will lake the same o m se. N ■ neve .till lie made in ilits eily until iie\; week. lien S naior Quay will come lleie itailv to m d,.' i dual decision us to what iie w.li do. In any Case M inings is ceitain of the support of Fitter. leads and .11 ('.MHIICS. P. I. W. v ->■• last ilppoi'iiooi, for VYasliingtoiivia rnn sylvuuln Itall/'oait. The last of tile popular series < f excur sions to Washington, which have hcen so successfully run by the Pennsylvania Hail road Company during the winter and spring, is fixed for Thursday, April 34th, a date that is without doubt the most de sirable that could be selected. Washing ton at that time is beginning to show all the activity of spring, and the beautiful parks in which the city abounds are ver dant with shrubbery and blooming with early iiowers. Congress is busy, the city is thronged witli prominent people, and the actual workings of flic Government is seen to the best advantage. Excursion tickets will be sold us here tofore at §9.00 from Pittsburgh, and pro portionate rates from other stations, with the privilege of a stopover in Baltimore in either direction. These tickets will be good going on any regular train of that date, . except Limited Express, and to return within ten days. In addition a special train of Pullman Parlor Cars anil Day Coaches will leave Pittsburgh at 8:00 A. M., and run through to Washington. Pleasant side trips may be made from Washington to Old Point Comfort, Nor folk, Richmond, ,Petersburg and Mount Vernon at reduced tates. The specific excursion rate from Johns town is i 57.3. r >, and train connecting with special will leave at 10:13 A. sr. Ella Wheeler Wilcox gave an evening reception recently to which were bidden all the friends she has in New York who are able to speak French. The conver sation through the evening was carried on in the French language, and the only things about the affair which were not French were the guests and the tea,which latter was Russian. Two French teachers were engaged to be on hand, so that when the guests were disturbed with poetic thoughts which they were not able immediately to express they were sup plied with the necessary words without resorting to a pocket dictionary. Whether or not the poetess intended to give notice through this entertainment that she had dropped the language of passion for the paiois of Paris is not known. WEEKLY REVIEW OF TRADE. Fewer Failure*, Large Railroad Tonage and Heavier Foreign Trade. R. G. Dun & Company's weekly re view says that the first quarter of the year has passed without the financial disturb ances which many saw reason to fear ; with fewer failures than in the same quar ter of last year, and smaller liabilities by twelve per cent.; with a larger railroad tonage than in the same quarter of any previous year, and witli larger payments than ever through baukers's clearing houses outside of New York. Foreign trade has been heavier than ever for the season, and domestic consumption, whilo much smaller than usual in coal and in woolen and heavy winter goods, has" be'en at the maximum in nearly all other lines. * The new quarter begins with no appre hension of monetary, dilliculty, with the general level of business recovering from the depression of February and with signs of improvement in many quarters, though the reocurrence of failures of woolen com mission and manufacturing concerns calls renewed attention to the evil effects of long credits in that department and to the unusual strain to which it has been sub jected by a succession of two mild win-" ters. The money market is no longer a centre of apprehension. Philadelphia reports money easier, though not plenty, because of many large investments in Southern enterprises. The United States Treasury has taken in but $70,000 more than it has paid out. The failure of a woolen commission house here and a manufacturing estatj* lishmcnt in Pennsylvania came just when there were signs of a better demand by,, manufacturers for wool at Boston, here, and at Philadelphia. On large sales con cessions are still made, but the manufac turers reason that the pending tariff bill probably prevent sales of new clip at lower than current rates, while it may give them a better market for goods. In the iron business there is another effort at Philadelphia to create a more encouraging impression, but it is now ad mitted that, in spite of hopes there enter-" tained, the demand for the past quarter has been slow and at receding prices. At Philadelphia the trade is unsettled, the drug trade fair and tobacco more active. The number of failures during the first quarter of 1890 was 3.223, against 3,611 last year, with a decided decrease at the East, the South and in the Pacific States, but increase in the Middle and Western States. The aggregate of liabilities was $37,852,968, against $42,972,516 last year. The failures for the week number, for the United States, 189, and for Canada, scveiA teen, a total of 206, as compared with a total of 243 last week. For the corres ponding week of last year the figures were 222, representing 187 failures in the United States and thirty-five in Canada. NOT ANGELS IN DISGUISE. Don't Come Around Begging Cider After Dark. Murray's Magazine. * One summer evening an old farmer sat on his doorstep smoking a pipe before go ing to bed. Presently a tramp approached and said : '• Good eveniug, sir." " Good evening," answered the farmer. " I have been walking a long distance," said the tramp, " and if you will permit me, I'll sit a few moments on jour door step." • All right," was the answer. The two men tell it to conversation anil as the farmer discovered his guest to be an intelligent man, their talk was con tinued until a late hour. " Would you mind giving me a mug of citler ? " asked the tramp at length. " Not at all," said the farmer, " I will do it with pleasure." The cider was produced and disposed of in a summary fashion, and then came the next request : " I've travelled a good distance to-day, and I should like very much to lodge with you, if you've no objection." "All right," answered the farmer, "I can accommodate you." Meanwhile his wife, who had long before retired, and was listening to the conversation from her bedroom, called out : " No, you won't; I won't itavc liim here. Come, husband, it's time for you to come in and lock up." " Madam," said the tramp seriously, turning in the direction of the voice v " You should not speak so abruptly to a stranger. Vou might be entertaining an t angel unawares." "I ain't a mite afraid," returned the old lady, calmly. " Augels don't come round begging cider after dark." Union Vet€?ran Ueugtto. Encampment No. 00, Union Vcterau League, was instituted on Saturday even ing at Grand Army Mali, by E. F. Sea man and James K. Hutchinson, of Pitts burgh. There were twenty-five veterans present of the thirty-six charter members. The following are the officers : Colonel, F. 11. Singer ; Lieutenant Colonel, John" Inglert; Major, Joseph Thomas; O. D., C. C. Headrick : Q. M., John Berry ; CUaplain, W. 11. Fredericks; Surgeon, Alf. Heslop ; Advisory Committee, Jacob Higgins ; Adjutant, Samuel Masters ; O. G., Jno. T. Bricker; S. M,,L. G. Howard ; Q. M. S., Uobert Parsons; G. 8., Gill l'enrod ; Drummer, A. G. Fockler. Lack of work is felt so keenly by the laboring classes of Italy that the govern ment is calling upon property owners to devise some employment for the unoccu pied. NEW MEXICO polls 30,000 votes. The highest vote ever cast in Wyoming was 18,000. Last election it was 0,300. But Wyoming is Republican and gets in, New Mexico is Democratic and stays out.
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