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American citizen., 1881-04-02
Distinguished Parsonage in WASH
ingtOn.
A Washington special to Repu1
liran naner SAWS.

A Washington special to a Repub-
lican paper says:
There was an aifectiOnate meeting to-day
natl, and j. Madison Wells, OF Louisiana.
Wells came up to Harlan, saying, Is this not
be sd We5p thss + to a
tend horse races together thirty years ago.
Since that time both have become famous,
In this connection Wells said to-day that the
powerful hand of the Louisiana Returning
that Returning Board says Mr.. Wells, Til
den would have been President and, with the
ones in poTes yIn may be sure
been elected this time Mr.. Wells then went
on to construct plausible argument to the
effect that at least eight years of Republican
supremacy is owing TO the patriotic action of
the Louisiana Returning Board. 1t is believed
that Mr.. Wells will be an applicant for an Of
flee"
This fits into 'the eternal fitness of
things" very nicely. 1t is eminently
proper and right that the head of the
Louisiana Returning Board should be
in Washington to see Hayes 60 out and
Garfield go in, boast of his work and
ask for continuance of his reward.
When Wells obtained Office from Hayes
nobody was very much surprised, but
every decent person, Republican or
Democrat, was disguised. But there
will be something more than disgust
if he obtains Office from Garfield. True.
the latter was one of the most active of
the "visiting statesmen" and did his
full share in systematizing the Return
ing Board fraud, which he confirmed
afterward as a member of the Electoral
Commission. But personally he owes
no debt to Wells, and President Garfield
ought not to be anxious TO remind the
public of that portion of Mr.. Gariield's
record. We are not sorry that his feel
ings in the matter are to be subjected
to n crucial test which cannot be con-
veniently avoided. Wells is persist
cnt, as well as pestiferous. fellow, and
if he wants an office he will have it or
make the country ring with the story
of his wrongs. Garfield must "face
the music" or dance to it. He must
either again indorse the crime of 1876
II, by rewarding one of the chief GRIM
inals, or hear from that criminal in un-
language. We hope he will
be inconsistent enough to turn Wells
empty and wrathful away-but we shall
believe it when he does, and not before.
st. Louis ReDu6Lcan
American citizen., 1881-04-02
POLITICAL ITEMS.

Among Kirkwood's qualifications
for the administration of the Interior
Department is one which was oyer
look ed by the public at the time of his
appointments knows an Indian on
sight.
The keen-eyed Washington cor
respondent of the Springfield Rcpub-
Acnn says: 1.-The whole drift of things
is towards an Administration in which
purely commercial politics are to con-
troll, rs must be inevitable when man
who has always been the fast friend of
subsidies, liberal appropriations and
jobbery generally becomes the head of
the Cabinet. The subsidy-grabbers
the jobbers, the lobbyists and the cor
ruptionists of every kind feel happier
than they have before for years"
Although the choice of minori-
ty of the people and even a plurality
President only by virtue of a lavish and
corrupt expenditure of money, Prcsi-
dent Garfield begins his career under
favoring auspices. He has undoubted
ability, and has had more experience in
public affairs than any man who ever
went into the White House. Add to
this the fact that there is no sort of per-
sonal ill-feeling against him even in the
ranks of his politica! opponents. and it
will be understood what an unusual
chance he has to win high distinction.
The Democracy will make no factious
fight against him and he may be sure
that neither in Congress nor out will his
actions be condemned and opposed un-
less they deserve to be. The Democ-
racy will not stand in his way if he
strives 10 do what is right, so that it
will be entirely his own fault it he de-
vclops into u scheming politician in
s'cad of Il great and wise President
81. Louis Republican.
American citizen., 1881-04-02
4 Dog Digs Into q Grayl.

LAST Friday Martin Flannigan, an Irishman
living four miles southeast of this city, died
and was buried Saturday i'm the Cat holic grave
yard, which lies in he mort rthcastern part of the
city, inside the city limits. Yesterday after
noon some parties, in going through the ccnne-
terry, noticed that the dirt of a newly made
grave was torn up and scattered I'm every di-
rection, which naturally aroused their cllrios-
ty and led them to investigate, expecting of
course to find the grave robbed by ghouls
Instead of this, imagine their horror to find a
large dog in the grave endeavoring to
gnaw through the colin box, and which
turned upon its intruders with cleaning eyes
and, growing ferociously, stood its ground
nor could 1t be driven away. One of tho par
ties procured a shotgun and killed the beast,
which had no doubt been digging since the
caskct was lowered into the grave. The occur
renee is so horribly revolving in its character
as to make the blood almost curdle in my
ones veins who looks Mt the disturbed grave
Had not the persons who discovered IL acoi-
dentally wandered into that part Of the ceme-
terry, without n doubt tho coffin would havo
been torn open and the corpse horribly mutt
atcd.-CouHbus tind.) Special TO Cincinnati
Commercial
American citizen., 1881-04-02
Standing and Select Committees OF the
U. 5. Senate.

WASHINGTON, March IS.
THE following are the Senate Committees as
elected today under a Republican resolution
adopted by vote of IS TO 81, the Vice-Presi-
dent giving the deciding vote in the afiirma-
tive. The first named on each committee is
the Chairman:
STANDING COMMITTEES.
Privileges and Elections-Hoar, Cameron
wis, Teller, Sherman, Frye, salisbury, Hill
Foreign Relations-Burnside, Conkling, Ed
munds, Miller. Ferry. Johnston, Morgan, Hill
Finance-Morrill, Sherman, Ferry, Jones
lNeyJ. Allison. Platt IN. ", Bayard, Voorhees,,
Appropriations = Allison, Logan, Dawes,
Plumb, Hale, Davis w. Va.). Beck, Ransom,
Commerce Conkling, Mcmillan, Jones
5Nevh Kellogg, Conger, Ransom, Coke, Far
Manufac.ures-Conger. Hale, Jewell, Nc
Pherson, Williams.
AgricSltureaMahone, Blair, Plumb. Van
Wyck, Davis tW. Val, Slater, George.
pa, Harrison, seweli. Cockreli, Maxey,
Naval AfiairsMtamcron Pa.,, Anthony, Rol
Inns, Miller, Malone, McPherson, Jones (FlaJ,
judiciary : Edmunds, Conkling, Logan,
Ingalls,, Mcmillan. Garland, Davis dll.). Bayard,
Post-OiIices and Post Roads Ferry, Hill
Coll, Platt IN. ", Sawyer, Mahone Maxey,
salisbury, Farley; Groome.
Morgan.
Private Land Claims-Bayard, Jonas, Call,
Edmunds, Allison.
Indian Affairs Dawes, ingalls,, Saunders,
Logan, Camron Wis.. Coke, Pendleton,
Pensions-Teller, PIatt Conn., Blair, Mitch
ell, Edgerton, Groome, Slater, Jackson, Cam
Revolutionary Claims = Johnston, Jones
Fla., Hill GA, Anthony, Dawes.
Conger, Pugh, Jackson, George, Fair.
District of Coiumbia.lngalls, Rollins, Nc
MILAN, Hawley. McDiIl, Harris, Butler, Vance,
Patents-PIatt tConnl Hoar, Mitchell, Ed
gerton. Coke. Call Williams.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Kellogg, McDill, Saw
yer. Butler. Garland, Vest
Railroads-KelIogg, Saunders, Teller, Haw-
ley. Sawyer, Sewcii, Lamar Grover. Williams,
Mines and MiniuE-Hill lC1l.,, Jones New.
Revision on Of o Laws i; Me%ian nF Piatt aoe aComn
Hale, DAVIS dli.l; Pendleton,
Education li., and Lab3rmBlais' S Morrill, Burn
civil service-Hawley, Rollins. Jones New.
Hill COlD, Butler, Walker, Williams.
Contingent Expenses New, Platt
Comm, Vance.
Rules-Frye, HOar, Sherman, Call, German
Improvement of the Mississippi River
Mitchell, Kellogg, Van wyck, Frye, Jonas,
Transportation Routes to the Seaboard-Har-
rison, Cameron !Pal, Blair, PIatt IN. ",
Joint Committee on Public Printiny-An-
thony, Hawlcy, German.
Joint Committee on Enrolled Bills-Platt
IN. ", Rollins Pugh.
Joint Committee on Library-Sherman,
HOar, Voorhees,.
Joint Committee on Public Buildings and
Grounds-RoIlns, Morrill,, Cameron tWis.),
Jones (Fla.), Vest
SELECT COMMITTEES.
CivilService-Sawycr,R Rollins, Dawes, Hamp-
ton, Groome.
Census-Hale, Morrill,, Cameron wis., Mo
Dill, Pcndleton, Morgan, Harris.
Epidemic Diseascsaliarris, Lamar, Garland,
Jonas, Teller, Miller. Sewell.
Nicaragua Claims-Davis CIV. Va, Groome,
Johnston, Hawtey, Mitchell
On Erection of New Library BuiIding-yoor-
hoes, Butler, Morrill,.
American citizen., 1881-04-02
FACTS AND FIGURES.

During the last ten years the royal
lottery has yielded the Italian Govern
ment S124,O00,0 900 from 1856, 1873, 772
tickets issued.
An American locomotive of the
most usual size, say 16 or La by 24-inch
cylinders and five-feet drivers. such as
could be had less than ten years ago
for 81, 900 or less, now commands $10,-
500, and very generally the works will
not contract TO deliver before 1882.
In South Africa ostriches cost as
much as carriage horses do here. At Il
recent sale, we are told. the chief at
traction centered in the ostriches, which
were in good condition. The following
list speaks for itself: One pair of os-
triches for ELS; do, Gl60; do, 9155;
do, G15O., do, f145; do, f145; do,
ESQ; do, E10O do, E95; do, Eos.
Fifty-fve young birds, with and without
plumes, sold in lot for ESQ each nine
do. at f29 each F.; six pairs camping
birds at Els per pair.
Prof. Charles E. Monroe, of Annap-
oils, states that the ordinary fruit acids,
such as those contained in apples, to-
matoes, rhubarb, lemons, ETC., all acted
upon tin. Some cider which he exam
ined, and which had been stored in a
tin fountain, contained III milli-
grammes of metallic tin to the liter in
solution. One case was given where
persons eating fruit preserved in tin
cans were made violently sick, and tin
only was found in the fruit. Corrosion
of tin pipes by water was referred to,
and it was suggested that the corrosion
was due to the vegetable acids in the
water.
AS the result of observation, and
from the testimony of reliable men, the
following is about the average growth
in IL years of the leading desirable
varieties of timber, when planted in
belts or groves and cultivated: White
maple, one foot in diameter and 80 feet
high; ash-leaf maple or box elder, one
foot i'm diameter and 20 feet high; white
willow, one and half feet in diameter
and 40 feet high; yellow willow, one and
half feet in diameter and 81 feet high;
Lombardy poplar, 10 inches in diameter
and 40 feet high; blue and white ash, 10
inches in diameter and % feet high;
black walnut and buttcrnut, 10 inches
in diameter and 20 feet high.
"A watch which requires no wind
ing has been invented by Mr. A. r. Won
LOehr, of Vienna. He has constructed
the mechanism on the same principle us
the pcdometer. A weighted lever,
pivoted at one end. is kept in position
against the upper of two banking pins
by long curved spring of such strength
that the motion of the body in walking
is sufficient to cause the lever to de-
scend, at each step of the person carry
ing the watch. to the lower bank pin.
There is ratchet wheel with very fine
teeth pivoted at the same center as the
weighted lever, and fixed to the lever
is a pawl which engages with the wheel.
This pawl is made so elastic that it
takes up the strain produced when the
handspring is wound up. A train of
gearing connects the ratchet wheel with
the barrel arbor, and there is \ pawl TO
prevent any tendency of the ratchet to
reverse its action.
American citizen., 1881-04-02

lot cast and counted in South Carolina
goes to the making of Northern votes
for the Republican party"
| 1t Is such things as this that have
properly discreditcd Mr.. Hayes Adj
ministration: twaddle about right and
justice and the welfare of the people,
and a chucklc over the success of a
party trick. Mr. Hayes has gained
neither credit for righteousness nor adj
miration as a stalwart party leader. In
fact. he slaps the stalwarts in this part
ing proclamation, declaring that they
have done all in their power TO kill the
party.
His defense of his Civil-scrvice re-
form fiasco is pitched i'm about the same
key. He says that he proposed certain
ends, but found them unattainable; yet
that he has made Civil-service reform
popular and has killed the ''boss sys-
tenn Explaining how this was done.
he declares that - though no public Of
iicer has been removed for disregard of
the Civil-Service order, no one has OPEN
ly and ostentatiously deiied it without
having the fact remembered against
him when he came up for renomina-
ton" This, of course, means nothing.
us everyone knows who has followed
the course of Mr.. Hayes appointments,
dealing out patronage as rewards for
services in the Presidential fraud and
sending out his whole Cabinet on
stumping tours at the demand of the
party.
Among other things for which Mr..
Hayes claims credit to his Administra-
tion is the financial policy of the Gov
hardening of the financial views of Sec
retary Sherman has been largely due
to his influence" Another thing is his
treatment of the labor disturbances in
1877. He says he used the Signal
service as a corps of observers, and had
riot indications marked on q map, send
ing troops where danger was indicated.
Another thing is the fact that his Adj
miniStratiOn "has been notably free
from Scandals To conclude, Mr..
Hayes authorizes this summary of the
merits of his Administration:
1t must at least be remembered to the credit
resumption and all the blessings flowing there
from. That it improved the DIPLOMATIC scrv-
ports, established since its inauguration did
something to increase oar tradc with foreign
countries That 1t made an honest effort at
with nepotsm. That against fashionable ridi-
cule and siurs from all quarters it was sound
on the temperance question. That 1t steadily
refused u employ organ to sound its
praises. That it brayseiy fought and defeated
the men who sought to cOcrce the Executive
by refusing to vote supplies, ind that as far
might be it has conducted the affairs of the
Nation in a simple, unostentatious American
fashion.
This, of course, is an excessive claim.
But, granting all that MIR. Hayes
asks the public to believe of his Admin
istration, it yet stands distinguished
chiefly for weakness of purpose and of
acts, and will pass into history noted
mainly for the fact that for the first
time the chair of Washington was occu-
pied by a man who was not elected to
that Dlace.-BOStOn Globe.
American citizen., 1881-04-02

One very ancient Greek ceremony,
strangely enough. has survived to our
times 1t is the cutting off the tip of II
tongue ut the dinner-table and keeping
it ..for luck" The origin of this.
which is mentioned in Homer, Sopho-
cles and Aristophanes, seems to have
been the symbolical Offering to the gods
of the organ of voice, the natcrprcs lin
gu through which even animals, birds
especially, were thought to utter sounds
communicating to 'the knowing e. C.,
to the impostors, the priests) the will
of the gods. These ''tongue-tips,'
which last for many years, and become
in time rs hard rs n piece of wood,
have known to be kept in families who
could never be induced to throw them
away rs rubbish Frasers Na9d-
zinc,
American citizen., 1881-04-02
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

CAPT. JOHN 5. WISE, son OF the late
Ex-Governor Wise, has announced his in
tention OF accepting the nomination for Gov
ernor OF virginia at the hands OF the Read
!usters. lie says he fully indorses Ma
A'-e 'ou.'o = =, .,'e
uEN. UhANr ieiI New Iork ior uai-
'..,e .us.on on aie So.n, en lou,e ior .leN,co, ,
80. a.. H., - ..,;.,, IT,. S.-
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o 20
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SO % '.9 ~,i -"o,
Hi"h OohonN, Sehoiaiy p"o cnai
ac'er, was Iyhched al Waihaiia, washington
ierritofy' 'he o'her hish'' ior ki'iihg man.
d. w. TAYLOR, deputy postmaster at
Marshall, Texas, on the 21th shot and in
stantly killed VIM. Afford, son Of Col. Afford,
u well-known citizen Of the county. There
had been previous quarrel between The
par'ies, anu iayior c''lhis 70 hafe ac'cu IN
sen-aeiehse' lie was anmi'ted 10 Dai' Id
P-,V'V'
Iiattc Valley, Neb., caused by sadden
ana almost unprecedented rise IN the river.
OnA"II' has "oon Pio-
claimed King OF Roumania.
COMMODORE ROBERT w. SHUFELDr,
OF the United States Navy, has accepted the
command Of the navy OF China, at salary OF
s2p,ooo per year.
A BATTLE has taken place at BOlek a,
in Basuland. Col, Darlington and several
American citizen., 1881-04-02
WIT AND WISDOM.
"A Wholesale Obituary Poem

"A Wholesale Obituary Poem:
Full many maid has toyed with kerosene,
And smiled to glory in u gorgeous glare;
Full many a man has pOked ut glyccrne,
And flown promiscuous through the desert
Mrs. Spaggns was boasting of her
new house. The windows, she said.
were all stained. That too bad, but
wont benzine or turpentine wash it
OFF," asked the good Mrs. Oldbody.-
Boston Transcript.
Parents who contemplate making
| railroad men of their boys cannot be too
careful how they bring them up. We
learn that the cause OF many of our rail-
road disasters is defective trimming
Yo,s6ers Statesman.
We will be one of seven hundred
men who will contribute u weeks sal
ary to be devoted to the determination
of those awful wretches who say "full
as an egg is of meat" 1.-THE tables
groaned beneath the luxuries," etc, or
trose, PhGnix-like, from its ashes."-
LOckp0Tt Union.
-COlcridge has written that pedantry
consists in the use of words unsuited to
the time, place and company. And yet
you wouldn't t call the man pedantic on
account of the remarks he made when
he slipped down in the midst of the
crowd coming out of church last Sun
day.-Los0eH Citizen.
"A soft voice in woman always goes
with gentle spirit. A gentleman sit
ting in friend $ parlor engaged in con-
versation with him was startled by a
noise down stairs. and paused to ask,
whats that-a crash of crockery?'
"No; that's only my wife calling to
me. ,.'-Brooktyn Eagle.
Montreal has haunted house, in
which 1.-THE stove lids are lifted of the
stoves and sent flying through the air.
If the owner of the haunted house takes
our advice, he will buy his wife Il new
dress. He may think he can always
dodge them, but some time one of those
lids will take him on the side of the head
and scalp him. Sun.
Behold the superiority of the
Sweet Singer of Michigan to Ten
nyson. A little noise disturbs Ten
nyson SO he can't think, while the
Singer can write just rs good poetry
with seventeen children bawling, a hog
squcaling and cat fight in progress in
the room, as she can with the most sol
emn stiffness prevailing. -Boston Post.
Servant girl question. Matilda, a
colored servant, on being told to pack
up ana leave, DluDbered dread1ully anu
refused to be comforted. The lady of
the house tried to comfort her, telling
her not to give way so; that she might
call in on Sunday and see the family.
'''Taint dat ar. jess can't help bell
erin. l always bcllers when i quits a
place. has worked for some of de
lOwest-down, meanest folks on Calves
ton IslaEd. but when comes to lcab 1
alters bellers-and de mcaner dey is the
louder l bcllers. BohoO! Bohoo! Oh,
Lordy! NV heart will burst, shuah.
Oh. Lordy! Oh. y"--Gatveston
NeUs
American citizen., 1881-04-02

Col. f. A. l.. ROBERTS, the inventor OF
the oil-well torpedo, is dead. lie is said to
have been more widely known throughout
the oil regions OF Pennsylvania than any
other man. lie leaves large fortune.
WM. a. HUNTER, aged A, son of the
Mayor of Brooklyn, y. Y, committed sui
eide at Fall River, Mass, whittier he had
fled from his home on account Of pccuniary
difficulties. He was prominent church
member. lie leaves wife and three chill
drcn.
KATE LEHEN, aged 16, was fatally
burned at Erie, Pa, by her clothes taking
fire from the stove while cooking. She
rushed out into the open air, and ran wildly
about until every article of clothing but her
shoes was burned off.
American citizen., 1881-04-02
Compiled from Various Sources.

GEN. GONZALES ORTEGA, one OF the
most famous Of Mexican soldiers, died few
days ago.
American citizen., 1881-04-02

The passengers on train snow
bound at Marengo, Iowa, saw wolves
prow!lng about the cars at night In tho
morning several men with rcvolvers set
out to hunt the beasts. They soon re-
turned, triumphantly displaying scalp;
but it turned out to belong to the station
keepers good-natured dog, which they
had slain by mistake for a fierce wolf,
American citizen., 1881-04-02

INDICTMENTS have been found against
NicoIai Roussakoff, Andrai Telejkoff, Timo-
fei Michaeloff, and woman named Hesse
Hoffman, for completely in the assassination
of the Gar. Another arrest has been made
OF a female Nihilist named Sophie Pieoffsky,
the daughter of a Councillor of the Ministry
of Domains. She is reported to have con-
fessed giving the signal to Hartman for ex-
pIoding the mine under the imperial train
near Moscow, and also the signal to Roussa-
koff to throw the bomb which shattered the
Cars carriage. The Government has as
signed to the defense Of the prisoners able
counsel.
American citizen., 1881-04-02

The Rhode Island Democratic State
Convention nominated Horace M. kimbali
for Governor and w. L. Segar for Lieuten-
ant Governor. The Republicans renom-
mated the incumbents.
American citizen., 1881-04-02

A WARRINGTON dispatch of the 25th
says the President has decided not to call a
special session Of Congress unless something
unlocked for happens.
American citizen., 1881-04-02

The President has nominated Mr..
Robert r. Hit, of Illinois, (who has been
Secretary Of Legation at Paris since lsi4,) to
succeed Col. John Hay as First Assistant
Secretary Of State.
American citizen., 1881-04-02

THE Spanish Ministry resigned on the
23d, on account Of vote of want Of conf
dence by the Upper House.
American citizen., 1881-04-02

GREAT excitement prevails in Madrid
on account Of mysterious bomb explosions
occurring in the public streets. A bomb,
with fuse attached, has been found in front
Of the Duke Ossuna's palace. The police are
INVESTIGATING.
American citizen., 1881-04-02

DUBLIN dispatches state that Laugh
lin, convicted Of committing the outrage on
Saunders, at Cork, has been sentenced to
ten years. imprisonment. The Emergency
Committee have sent a force Of Ulster labor
ers to the relief of O'Donnell (Catholic), Of
Balm allett. There are said to be about ten
thousand stand of arms In Ireland which
have been bought with Fenian money.
American citizen., 1881-04-02

THE trial of young Kalloch in San
Francisco for the murder Of De Young,
of the Chronicle, resulted in verdict OF not
guilty. The announcement OF the verdict
causcd intense excitement throughout the
city, the prevailing opinion being that Kali
loch's acquittal, which was based upon the
theory Of self-defense, was not justified by
the evidence in the case.
American citizen., 1881-04-02

TURKEY now agrees to make the ad-
ditional concessions to Greece in Thessaiy
and cede Crete instead Of Epirus. The En-
bassadors referred the proposal to their re-
spective Governments 1t is stated that sew
eral Persian tribes, under n Persian General,
crossed the frontier toward Baglad and pill
laged several villages.
American citizen., 1881-04-02
THK Republican nominations for Sem.

The Republican nominations for SEN
ate officers are: Secretary Of the Senate,
Geo. c. Gorham, Of California; Sergeant-at-
Arms, Henry Riddelberger, of Virginia; /;
Principal Executive Clerk, James II. Young,
Of Pennsylvania; Chief Legislative Clerk
Charles w. johnson, Of Minnesota; Chap
lain, Rev. DIR. Byron Sunderland, of WASH
ington. Riddelberger is a warm personal
and political friend Of Senator Mahone. He
was a Colonel in the Confederate Army, and
Is now one of the editors Of the Staunton
VALLEY Tiryinfdn.
American citizen., 1881-04-02

SECRETARY KIRKwooD has approved
the decision of the Commissioner of the
Land-ofiice that lands embraced in the old
Cherokee Reservation so-called, near Dar-
daneIle, Ark, are not subject to entry and
not included in the grant to the Little Rock
& Fort Smith Railroad Company.
Congressional legislation to extinguish
the reservation II suggested; also, the prior
ascertainment of any valid Indian claims,
and that actual settlers on the reservation be
protected in their homestead rights. Ques-
tions relative to this reservation have been
pending before the Interior Department
since 1923.