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Civil Service Reform Nonsense.
What a vast amount of nonsense there
ft written about taking civil service out
of politics as if there could be any such
thing as civil service without politics.
What Is wanted is the nomination of
honest men who will purify politics and
reform civil service at the same time.
Reform must be begun in the caucus,
by the people, and enforced at theballot
box. The Florida Count.
Washington, May 7. Representa
tive Springer, of Illinois, is now carry
ing around In his pocket the resolution
thunderbolt he purposes to hurl against
the Florida count when the opportunity
offers. He expected to get it up to-day,
but the Tariff bill left him out in the
cold. Meanwhile it is learned that the
Democrats of both Houses are anxious
to have a joint caucus over the matter
before any such resolution is offered.
Senator Barnura, of Connecticut, has
the thing under consideration, and is
trying to bring the thumb-screws to bear
on Springer and Finley, of Ohio, who
feel determined to spring the resolution
before the party magnates can deliberate
and decide.
Convention of the "Nationals."
The "Nationals,," held their State
convention at Philadelphia on Wednes
day last. They nominated a state ticket
as follows : For Governor, 8. It. Mason
of Mercer county. For Lieutenant Gov.
Christian Shearer, of Bucks. For Su
preme Judge, E. S. Bentley of Lycom
ing. For Sec. of Internal affairs, Jas.
L. Wright, of Philadelphia.
The platform is a long one, and covers
over lots of ground. In the first place
it is declared that the government should
furnish aid to all who wish to settle on
the public lands; that is, they should be
carried out there free of charge and set
up on farms at the government expense.
Second, all money to be Issued by the
government, and plenty of it ; the rate
of interest in no case to exceed three per
cent. Third, interest on government
bonds to be paid in paper and no more
to be issued. Fourth, no speculation in
any of the necessaries of life, money,
bonds, food or land. Next an income
tax, labor-saving machinery to be con
trolled by the government, and no prop
erty qualifications for voting.
An Outrageous Law.
The legislature has finally succeeded
in passing a law which increases the pay
of an office which many persons think
not only overpaid, but actually useless.
We refer to the Superintendent of Com
mon Schools. If more of the public
money Is to be used In the cause of educa
tion it had better be given to the teachers
who really do the labor, and who as a
class are poorly paid, rather than to In
crease the pay of a supernumerary. The"
full text of the law Is as follows :
Section 1. Bo it enacted, etc.. That
the salary of each county superintend
ent of common schools elected according
to law in the year 1878, and thereafter,
shall be four dollars and fifty cents for
each school In his Jurisdiction at the
time of his election, to be paid out of the
general fund appropriated for common
schools. Provided, That the salary of
a county superintendent shall In no
case be less than eight hundred dollars
per annum, and In counties with over
one hundred schools, it shall not be less
than one thousand dollars ; and provided
further, That conventions or school
directors when assembled for the pur
pose of electing a county superintendent,
may vote him a salary greater than the
amount he would receive by this act ;
such increase in all cases to be taken
from the school fund of the county
thus voting. That in all counties hav
ing over two hundred and ninety schools,
or twelve hundred square miles of ter
ritory, a school term exceeding seven
and one-half months, the salaries of said
superintendents shall not be less than
fifteen hundred dollars.
Skc. 2. That so much of section thirty
nine of the act of May eighth, one thou
sand eight hundred and fifty-four, as re
quires that a convention of school direc
tors shall determine the compensation
of a county superintendent is hereby re
pealed, except so far as provided for in
this act.
Famine' Horrors in China.
Washington, May 2. Minister Sew
ard telegraphs that the famine in the
northern province of China will con
tinue for six months longer. He adds
that money for the relief of sufferers, If
transmitted by telegraph, can be disburs
ed by the foreign committee, or by the
commission appointed at Pekln. A Ja
panese correspondent writes :
" The famine in the north of China
rages with Increasing severity, and the
most dreadful reports come from the af
flicted regions. In one town a man
opened a shop for the sale of human
flesh, and did a good business in canni
balistic Joints and roast, until the local
mandarin Interfered by causing the shop
keeper to be beheaded."
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Trouble Among the Illinois Miners.
A Belleville, 111., special says: Serious
apprehensions are felt that the trouble
in the coal mines of this neighborhood,
where nearly 4,000 miners are on a
strike, will end in seenes of violence,
and this feeling has been greatly aggra
vated by the discovery that communistic,
agents from St. Louis have been out
among the miners, counseling them to
remain firm and enforce their rights.
The strike has been in operation a little
over three weeks, and extends to all the
pits In St. Clair and Madison counties.
The strike originated in a demand for
increased pay, or, as the men say, " for
living wages." The coal operators have
been paying the men from one cent to
one and a half cents per bushel, and at
this rate the miners assert they cannot
live. Fair, ordinary miners should be
able to dig sixty-five bushels of coal per
day, but out of their earnings they have
to find oil for their lamps, supply them
selves with tools and keep them sharp
ened, and buy powder.
Then they charge that there was an
other imposition practised on them In
measuring their work by the box. The
box should hold sixteen ' bushels, but
they say they were compelled to so pile
it up with coal that it contained eighteen
or twenty buBhels, and for these extra
bushels they received no recompense.
The proper way for the men to be pold,
they claim, is according to the freight
receipts, and then they would get their
money for all they did.
Until last week, the miners main
tained a peaceful attitude, but hearing
that some men were laying tracks in
Hendricks' mine, they went over there
and threw 600 cords of wood which had
been lying in the vicinity of the pit
down the shaft.' They also demolished
an engine house attached to the Dudley
mines, and it was In connection with
these excesses that two of the strikers
were locked up, although they strenu
ously deny any complicity in the riotous
proceedings.
Another thing that causes a bitter
feeling on the part of the men Is the
shipping of coal by the railroad com
panies. The itinera have been idle so
long that many are menaced by starva
tion, making them desperate and dis
posed to violence. A large number of
them have thus far been sustained by
the storekeepers, but they now decline
to make further advances.
Row at Williams College.
Boston, May 8. A special from
North Adams, Mass., states that within
the last forty-eight hours several mem
bers of the junior class of Williams
college have been guilty of extreme dis
order and rowdyism. Two members of
that class have already been suspended
and the probabilities are that the number
will be speedily increased.
The origin of the difficulty is said to
have been the refusal of a junior, who
acted as the janitor of the chapel, to
obey an order of President Chadbourne
relating to the time for lighting the
lampsfor which he was promptly sus
pended. He was placed in a carriage
and escorted to the depot by his class,
where inflammatory speeches were made
and discourteous epithets applied to the
president.
A Strange Accident.
On Sunday evening, says the Altoona
Jli"tTor,of Monday ,as the Fast Line west
was coming around the curve at Bir
mingham the rear parlor swung and
struck the smoking car on Atlantio Ex
press east which was passing and tore
the side of the roof from end to end.
The parlor car which did the damage,
swung back again into place, whence it
swung across to the other track in time
to hit the rear sleeping car "Transit,"
of the Atlantic Express, but not injur
ing it much. No one was hurt, but by
the first collision a brakeman was al
most thrown from the train.
A Million Pounds of Lint.
A cable dispatch brings the grim an
nouncement that England has ordered
one million pounds of lint. This enor
mous preparation for the dressing of
sabre, bayonet and gun-shot wounds
suggests, a fearful carnage. A pound of
lint is enough to dress twenty ghastly
wounds and the prudent forethought of
Mr. Disraeli in thus preparing for twenty
millions of wounded men cannot be too
much admired.
Another Strike In London.
Lonuon, May 7. From six to seven
thousand cloth workers In the Holm-
ferth district and Huddersfleld have re
solved to strike In consequence of a
notice of a reduction of wages.
A meeting of master cotton spinners
and manufacturers held at Manchester
has unanimously resolved to Issue a
circular to the mill owners throughout
the strike district recommending that
the mills open be closed to-morrow, and
advising that no Individual arrange
ments for opening the mills be made
with workmen. The adoption of thla
resolution has caused great anxiety at
Manchester, as It Is believed It will ren
der a general lockout Inevitable and
widen the gulf between the masters and
employees.
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A Long Journey In a Canoe.
Mr. Chas. Chase, of the New York
Canoe Club, started at 0 o'clock yester
day morning from One Hundred and
Tenth street and Harlem River on a
long ride over the waters of New York
and Canada. The craft Is what is called
a yacht or saillng-canoe, is 14 feet 4
Inches long, 28 inches wide and weighs
(13 pounds. When everything was ready
and the tourist was comfortably seated
in the canoe among his clothing, bed
ding and cooking utensils the word was
given and the canoe was pushed off into
the river. Mr. Chase was accompanied
up the Harlem by several members of
the club In their boats. Mr. ChaBe will
paddle up the Harlem Into the Hudson
at Spuyten Duyvll, then up to Lake
Champlaln and through Sorrel River to
the St. Lawrence. Then he will wauder
among the Thousands Islands. Return
ing, he will float down the St. Law
rence to Quebec, thence up the Chau
diere to Lake Meganie when the boat
will be taken overland to the headwaters
of the Connecticut River, and thence
Mr. Chase will return by Long Island
Sound. He will do his own cooking
and will sleep in his canoe on shore.
N. Y. World.
A Man-Eating Stallion.
The Hainbletonlan stallion Rising
ham, owned by Dr. James A. Schultz,
of Mlddletown, New York, was shot
and killed on lost Thursday, he being
considered unsafe to keep. He was 21
years old, and for 19 years has been a
confirmed man-eater. More than twen
ty keepers have been crippled by him,
and he has killed three persons out
right. No professional horse-trainer
could subdue him, and all the systems
of horse training and breaking have
been tried in vain. He was a thorough
bred, old Hambletonian being his sire,
and his dam being a mare of fine blood.
He had been in harness but once in 14
years, and that was recently, when Dr.
Schultz had him hitched up, it requir
ing several men to do it. The doctor
then attempted to drive Rislngbam,but
the horse became so furious and unman
ageable that he was allowed to go at once
to his stall, where he has remained ever
since. The sum of $7,000 was once of
fered for him, and refused by his owner,
in the hope that he might be cured.
The last feat Risingham performed was
to bite the right cheek of a negro keeper
entirely off, the unfortunate groom's
three immediate predecessor's having
lost respectively an ear, three fingers
and a thumb, and the muscles of the
right forearm. N. Y. Times.
Bad for the Girl.
There is a story in circulation 011 the
Heights, says the Jersey City Journal,to
the effect that two young men, residents
of that section, went to the West Side
woods last Sunday atternoon, took oft
their coats and engaged in a boxing
match for the purpose of deciding which
should accompany a certain Highland
lassie to church that evening. Accord
ing to rumor the conflict lasted for half
an hour, at the end of which time one
of the contestants was discovered seated
upon the prostrate form of his antago
nist, puffing, as though he had been run
ning a foot race, instead of fighting for
the privilege of accompanying a girl to
church.
After both had become thoroughly
rested, the man who came out best asked
of the other if he was thoroughly satis.
fled, and upon being assured that such
was the case, and that he would at once
look for some new girl to accompany to
church, the conqueror Informed him
that it was not necessary for him to do
that, for he, the conqueror, had decided
that he did not want anything to do
with a girl for whom he had to fight
during the daytime in order that he
might spend a few hours of the evening
in her society. The whipped man re
leased from all feminine attachments by
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ncing tnrasned, ana tne consequence
was the lassie went to church alone.
Iowa's Latest Cyclone.
A Des Moines paper says : " Mr.
Booth has a valuable dog, with a large
mixture of bhepherd blood. As the
storm drew near, the dog attempted to
get Into the house, but the doors and
windows were barricaded. The dog hid
himself in the barn, emerging from his
retreat as soon as the tornado had passed.
He sought the house and found nothing
remainlug. The dog swam a creek and
ran panting to the house of a neighbor
of Mr. Booth. Mr. Al. Jordan noticed
the conduct of the dog, and at once went
out, led by the dog, to the ruins of
Booth's homo. Both dog and man In
stituted a search, and when Booth was
found in the brush, the faithful dog leap
ed upon him, licked his face and his
hands, and Indulged In every manifesta
tion of pleasure and delight." '
Bo uniform is the course of the torna
does from the southeast, that there Is a
field for observation to discover the
cause. They have become established
almost to a rule, and if there be any law
governing them, the people would be
very glad to know it, as it is a matter
not only of dollars and cents, but of life
and death.
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A Real Case of Broken Heart, Caused by
txoitement.
Major John F. Lacy, a leading mem
ber of the Mahaska county bar, whom
we met on our trip south this week, re
ports a remarkable case that came un
der his observation. He was cross-examining
a witness In court, one day last
week, when suddenly the man, appar
ently stout and well, dropped his head
on his breast, breathed stentorlously
once or twice and was dead.
The body was carried off, another wit
ness substituted in his place, and ten
minutes after, the doctor came into
court, bearing in his hand the heart of
the man, who, a few minutes previous,
was giving his testimony. The aorta
was ruptured, and the suffusion of blood
was so vast and sudden it inundated the
lungs, and the man died instantly and
without pain. Suppressed excitement
did It a real case of broken heart.
Eldora (la.) Ledger,
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washihgton, D. C, May 0, 1878.
Our new silver dollars which are getting
common enough here now, but which only
a mouth or so ago were boing purohased
and sent to distant friends as keepsakes or
laid by as Bouverniei's are being subjected
to all sorts of criticisms. That funny Bob
Burdette of the Burlington "Hawkeye,"
tells how it makes his blood boil to think
of the man who bus evidently chucked the
Goddess of Liberty under the chin as seen
on the new dollars , and, far and wide, the
press decries the design, which is in reality,
very neat and pretty. A few days ago 20
of these coins were sent the U. B. Treasury
from tbe Chicago Sub-Treasury,on the sup
position that they were counterfeit. The
dollars had tbe genuine look, ring and
proper weight, but as 10 of them laid one
above tbe other formed a pile as high as
did 20 of those received direct from the
Treasury here, they were suspected and
sent here for examination. It was found,
however, tnat the extra thickness was
caused by slight irregularities in the work
ing of the dies before they were properly
adjusted for uniform pressure, these be
ing among the very first dollars that were
coined.
One of tbe families that are Intimate at
the White House is that of Mr. Andrews,
the Ohio artist, who is a brother-in-law
of Mr. Hayes Private Secretary. Mr,
Andrews has lately finished a full length
portrait of Mrs. Hayes which Is now on ex
hibition at the National Art Gallery here,
and which is considered the reverse of flat
tering to its original. One lady, who is no
mean Judge of portrait painting, remarked
that nothing was natural or life like about
the picture save the hair smooth, shiny
and purple black.
Mr. Andrews has also recently finished a
most beautiful painting of Martha Wash
ington, representing her in all the splendor
of the high breeding and courtly grandeur
that belonged to the wife of our first Presi
dent. It is a rare production and very valu
able. Where it shall be permanently
plaoed is not deoided.
A bill was introduced in the House of
Representatives last week to appropriate
$25,000 for the erection of a monument to
Gen. Custer in this city. The bill author
izes the Joint Committee on the Library
to select a statuary group, the central figure
of which shall be an equesterian statue of
Custer, the entire group being such as to
vividly commemorate his death. The bill
also provides that the group shall be of
bronze, at least one and one-fourth the size
ef life.
This makes us think of Indians, and of
those who are here. All the tribes inhabit
ing the Indian Territory have sent
delegates here, so great is the interest felt
among them regarding the effort now on
foot for the establishment of a Territorial
form of government among them. During
past years the Creeks and Cherokees have
maintained a delegation here at an annual
expense of $15,000, and these tribes only ;
but at present there are also Chickasaw,
Choctaw and Bemluole delegates in this
city. They are all educated, intelligent,
and gentlemanly half-breeds, and they hold
secret-councils nightly. One of their num
ber told a reporter the other day that the
Indian Delegates all prefer remaining at
home, but are obliged to come here to
work against unfriendly legislation of
Congress, at considerable cost to their
tribes. It costs tbe Creeks 5,000 and the
Cherokees $10,000 every year, and this
year this expense to the Chickasaws will
be $5,000, to the Chootaws $3,000, and to
the Semlnoles $1,500, making in all $23,-
fiOO j and this as Pleasant Potter, one of
Luo delegates from the Creek tribes and a
member of tbe Upper House of their
Council, said ! ' To pay in defending their
homes and property from the attacks of
speculators and schemers." The money
goes for hotel bills, for printing documents
ana legal papers Tor distribution among
Congressmen, ami for Attorney's fees.
Olive.
Miscellaneous News Items.
tW A fire at Lectonia, Ohio, Thursday,
destroyed $30,000 worth of property, con
sisting principally of machinery and stock
of the Grafton Furnace Company and
freight cars. Insured for $15,000.
LEwisiiuno, Pa., May 8. M. Halpen-
ny & Co.'s woolen mill was totally destroy
ed by fire last night, the flames having
been kindled by lightning. Loss, $43,000 ;
insurance, $20,000.
Pittsburgh, May 6. A skiff contain
ing three women and two ohlldren was
struck by a raft on the Allegheny river a
few miles above this city this afternoon
and capsized. Two of the women were
drowned.
ItWTbe will of the late W. S. O'Brien,
of San Francisco, shows the value of his
estate to be less than $0,000, 000. He leaves
to the Catholio Orphan Asylum, San Ra
fael and Catholio and Protestant Orphan
Asylums, in that city, $50,000, $30,000 and
$20,000, respectively.
tW Tbe Columbia National Bank has
sent a claim to Congress for $120,000 for
the loss of the Columbia bridge in 18G3.
The structure was destroyed by order of
General Couch to prevent the rebels from
crossing the Susquehanna and marching
to Hariisburg or Philadelphia.
A few nights since, a valuable horse,
the property of Miss Bricker, of Median
icsburg, was poisoned by some villain by
placing pounded glass mixed with some
other compound in the feed. Fortunately
the dastardly attempt was discovered be
fore the animal had eaten a sufficient
quantity to destroy its life.
t3T Charles Tuttle, a resident of Ka
tonab, Westchester eounty, was instantly
killed by the Chatham express on Monday
a week, at a point half way between ' Ka
tonah and Bedford. He was walking on
the track direotly towards the coming train, ,
but being very deaf and having tbe setting
sun in his eyes, did not perceive his dan- '
ger.
tW A mine wagon containing eight,
men jumped tbe track while descending
into the slope of the Gate Vein colliery,
ner.r Pottsville, last week, and was thrown
to the bottom. Frederick Botzel, of York
ville, was horribly mangled and instantly
killed, and George Sohodt, of Pottsville,
seriously injured. The remaining six men
escaped with slight bruises.
Lancaster, May 7. The county con
vention of school directors was held in the
court house to-day, and B. F. Shaub was
unanimously re-elected superintendent for
the ensuing three years, lie is in every re
spect a good and competent man, and well
deserves the rare compliment of such a
unanimous endorsement.
tW Timothy Sweeney, an axe inspector
in the employ of William Mann, Jr., &
Co., of the axe factory in Derry township,
Mifflin county, met a shocking death about
10 o'clock on last Wednesday morning. In
company with a carpenter named Bell he
had gone below to the grinding shop to fix
some portion of the belting that seemed to
be disarranged. In reaching forward to
adjust it Mr. 8weeney's clothing was
caught by a screw in tbe shafting that was
flying around at the rate of 10G revolutions
per minute, ne was inextricably en
tangled, and was whirled in a circle im
probably 150 times. His feet and body
struck the floor overhead with every turn
of the screw, and they were frightfully
mangled.
Detroit, May 2. Jonathan Walker.the
noted abolitionist hero of Whlttier'a poem
"The Man with the Branded nand," died
yesterday in Muskegon in great poverty.
For attempting to freeelaves he was cap
tured in Florida, imprisoned, pilloried, and
branded on the right hand with the
letters, S. 8., or Slave Stealer. He was
born in 1709, and was long noted as
one of the most vehement of abolition and
anti-slavery lecturers.
IW A man named Fraser is in custody
at Glasgow on the charge of having, while
in a state of somnambulism, killed his in
fant son. About 7 A. M. he got up la bed
under the impression that there was a wild
beast moving about, and seizing his ehild,
dashed it against the wall with such force
that it died shortly afterwards. He had
on a previous occasion, while asleep, as
saulted his wife.
Doctors Gave Him Up.
44 Is it possible that Mr. Godfrey Is up
and at work, and cured by so simple a
remedy V"
" I assure you it is entirely true that
he is entirely cured, and with nothing
but Hop Bitters, and only ten days ago
his doctors gave him up and said he
must die I"
44 Well-a-day ! If that is so, I will go
this minute and get some for my poor
George. I know hops are good."