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A Story and a Moral.
Sp.'i3nfeld Repubiican,

Springfield Republican.
A chief justice of large State, sixty-two
years old, with sixteen years of creditable
judicial service behind him and fair pros
pect OF another term before him, is In about
as secure position as American politics Of
fer; and seven years ago this was the place
l. p. Christiapcy held when he consented to
become candidate of the coalition in the
Michigan Legislature opposed to Zach
Chandler. The old man, who had lived for
twenty years in quiet way In little town,
reading his decisions once week and pre-
siding over still court, came into the Wash
ington whirlpool to shamble unnoticed about
the Senate Chamber, TO shout himself hoa,se
in great hustle, and to pass headacby days
after long sessions of the Senate. He age
astonishnsly, debts accumulated, and the
$1,000 year, which had looked big when he
WIS getting $4,000 as Chief Justice. slipped
through his fingers ike water. The old man,
wonted 10 early hores and simple village
manners, was unutterably bored by Wash
ington society, and when a bright.
wbite-throated young woman ran her fingers
through his thin locks he married her. His
years have been full of trouble ever since.
To economize and get back bis moitgaged
house he let Chandler have the seat In the
Senate and went 10 Peru. There he has lost
reputation as apublic man. His divorce suit
has riddled his private character. For months
he has been public mock. Now his room
is broken open and lot of jewelry he had
taken in trust stolen. As Scion, the Greek
philosopher, said, "Bet on no mans luck
until he is boxed"
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A No orious Fraud.

NEW YORK, Oct. 19.-The Times says an
unsatisfactory exhibition of the KeeIy Motor
was given at Philadelphia yesterday. The
following passage rccurred in the Times le-
port :
Mr.. Keely, newspaper men are naturally
suspicious, aud you pust pardon me for ask
ing what | do, but you have requested our
presence here aud bave desired us to make
what Inquiries we choose. Now we see a
great deal of power is here and we cannot
understand how it is produced, aud we think
that there may be something in the room be.
low which produces this power. Can't you
let us look into the room below which is
locked upp Keely was taken aback greatly
at this. He waited for an instant before
replying. Then he said he would certainly
not show Whist was in the room down stairs
There, he said, was the apparatus which he
was constructing for California parry, de-
signed for the lifting Of heavy weights. The
apparatus was one he could not show.
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Terrible Outrage.

ST. LOUIS, October 19-The Republicans
Longview special says the mos: horrible
crime ever committed In this part of Texas
was perpetrated last Wednesday near Brick
Vile by family Of negroes named White.
A family named Sloan bad recently moved
into the neIghborhood to pick cotton on the
farm Of . Mr.. Hill. Adispute arose between
the Sloans and negro named Lum White,
because Of an accusation by Lum that the
Sloan children had been grubbing peanuts
from the hills Of Lum's patch. Lum went
to the house Of Sloan on Tuesday and want
ed to whip the children, but was prevented
by Mrs. Sloan and her daughter, about fif-
teen years Of age. For this he swore ven-
eeance, and the next morning, upon the plea
that she would show her where some fine
muscadines were, the wife Of Lum enticed
the girl TO deep ravine, where Lum was In
waiting. While his wife held the girl Lum
outraged her, and then cut the girls throat
from ear to ear and Left her. At the inquest
the woman confessed all the details, when q
young man named Hart, incensed at this
cool recital of 6endish brutality, shot the
negro man dead. The wife Of Lum and an
old ne gro who lived with them were started
on their way to Carthage, but Q crowd Of
men met the escort, took the prisoners, and
shot them.
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Concerning the Jeanette.

NEW YORK, October z5.-The Herald
prints another full-page Arctic correspond
ence on which it editorializes as follows :
Professor Muir thinks the Jeanette pushed
directly north through the long inlet of open
water extending at least one hundred miles
southwark from Herald Island, looking like
an open river between the banks of ice which
we're frozen to the shallow bottom. The
stream which flows through this opening of
the east coast of Wrangel Land is said to set
.northerly at the rate Of about two knots an
hour. and clearly indicates an opening fursh-
err north whence millions of young geese
come. Swedish reports cooirm .his view Of
the opening, and it is highly probable The
Jeanette saw IL aud pushed as far north
ward as possible, which would fully account
for the Corwin's faildre 10 discover any trace
of the Jeanette on he southeast of Wfangel
Land, where alone she made any search.
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The Church Disconnests With the Land
League.

The Church Disconneets With the Land
League.
DUBLIN, Oct. 25.-At q meeting of the
corporation to-day twenty-three members
voted in favor Of Dwyer Gray's motion to
confer the freedom Of the city upon Parnell
and Dillon, and twenty-three voted against
IT, The motion was negatived by the casting
vote Of the Lord Mayor.
Mcmahon, farmer, was found murdered.
He was an active member Of the Land
League.
At meeting convened by the Catholic
clergy to consider the course to be pursued
In view of the recent action of the Govern
mept, many Land Leaguers were present
and urged the refusal Of rent until Pariell
was released. The meeting, however, fol-
10 ing the advice of .he clergy, resolved 10
discontinue connection with the League and
pay rent.
LONDON, Oct. Pa correspondent OF
the Press Association in Dublin says the
Chief Detective confirmed the report that
they had discovered plot 10 sssassinate
Forster, ani aided he knew the names
of the two men that were told of to commit
the crime. The Chief denied there was any
plot against Gladstone or Sir William Har-
court.
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Damaged Crops.

MILWAUKEE, October I9.-One of r. G..
Dun & Co.'s commercial agency reporters
has Just returned from an extended tour
throughout the northwest, securing positive
information relative to the general condition
of farmers and country business men. he
states 1t has been an unprecedented season.
Rains have done great damage. For over
four weeks the farmers have been unable to
do the usual farm work. Grain in stacks Is
much damaged. Potatoes and other roots In
the fields are rotting in mud. Much corn In
shocks has sprouted and IL ruined. The out
look generally Is bad. He believes the fall
ure of farmers to get their product to market
will prove disastrous 20 country merchants.
He believesthe damage 10 wheat Ia stacks and
in shocks In the field is very serious.
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Coal on Lost Creek.
Inter Mountain

Mr.. Ed. Alderman laid on our desk to-day
some samples of coal which he and Mr.. Well
Ter are now extracting from their newly dis
covered mine neac Lost Creek, in Deer
Lodge county. The coal does not crop out on
the hillside, the only indication of Its pres
ence being line of black dust on the sur
face. The deposit was tapped bva tunuel
run ipto the hill SO feet where the formation
was found TO be solid and the ledge we'll de-
fined. The texture of the coal resembles that
of Ignite, appearing in lami mated and stringy
form. The fractures, however, are clean and
in many respects the samples look like cali
mel ceal. Several men familiar with coal
formations, confidently assure Messrs. Al
derman & Weller that all the chances are in
favor of their developing an extensive bed of
fuel of excellent quality, the presence of
shale in the viciulty of the new discovery
poin,Ing very strongly to the existence of
coal oil. Alderman has struck it rich.
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Coal Land decision.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.-Secretary Kirk
wood has given a decision upon the entry OF
coal lands near railroads and their p. oper
prices. The Secretary says he price OF land
depends wholly upon The distance from a
completed railroad at the date OF entry, aud
It at The da.e Of proof aud payment, which
constitutes the entry of lands more than fif-
teen miles from such road, the price should
be not less Than $40 per acre, aud IL less
than fifteen mites, the price should be not
less THAI $50 per acre.
This decision is intended to meet
the cases which may atise where the origiu
location OF a claim for such land was made
before the const ucLion Of a RAILROAD within
fifteen miles. but where entry aud payment
a not made until after the completion OF
the logd.
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Nominations.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.-United States
Senate, executive session: Nominations
Henry II. Garnet, of New York, Minister to
Liberia; John M. Bailey, of New York, con-
sui to Hamburg.
WASHINGTON, October 25.-The President
has nominated j. F. Winter, of Illinois, as
consul at Rotterdam; Willard B. Wells, of
Michigan, as consul at Dundee; Hans Matti-
son, Of Minnesota, as consul-general at Cal
cutta; Edward T. White, of California,
coner of the mint at Saa Francisco, Cal.
WASHINGTON, October 26.-The follow
ing nominations were sent to the Senate to-
day: Charles W.. $. Eaton, of New York,
Superintendent Of the Census; Fred. Knef-
fer, of Indiana, Pension Agent at Indianapo-
lis; James M. Wilkinson, of Michigan, Re-
ceiver of Public Moneys at Marquette, Mich;
Maffin w. Gibbs, of Arkansas, Regis ter OF
the Land Office at Little Rock.
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TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.

The Susa column in Tunis successfully re-
pulsed an attack of Arabs, killingthe leader.
WAsEcA, Mimi, October PA business
block is burned. Loss $4,000; small In
surance.
Moscow, October l9.-Preparations are
being made to crrmate the remains OF Alex
ander ILL.
LONDON, October 22.-The Land League
meeting prohibited at Dublin yesterday was
suppressed.
ST.. PAUL, October 21.-The Republican
caucus nominated Window for Senator on the
second ballot.
LONDON, October l9.-The steamship
Great Eastern was put up at auction to- day
and bought in for 100000.
The Graphic of Tuesday printed dispatch
from Canadian sources that the Gar of Rus
STA had been assasslnated. Discredited.
New YORK, October 25.-Henry Ward
Beecher retires from the editorial manage
ment of the Christian Union. NJ. Abbott,
leng associated with Beecher, succeeds.
LONDON, October 22.-Accouuts of the
shipping disasters continue to be received
from all around the coast, brigansine being
wrecked near Fulmont, and all hands
drowned.
LIVERPOOL, October 22.-Hon. Lionel
Sackville West, the newly appointed British
Minister to the United States, sailed to-day
on board the American line steamer Indiana,
of Philadelphia.
CINCINNATI, October 22.--Fosters official
majority in Hamilton county is 1851. Other
majorities range from 1,7S9 10 4,79S. Dud-
low, temperance candidate for Governor, re-
ceived 457 votes.
LONDON, October 19.-The police force at
Howarden Castle, Gladstone's residence, is
strengthened. 1t has been decided il Glad
stones condition does not improve TO sum
mon his medical adviser.
NEW YORK, October 21.-Garrett, of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad, is willing to
submit the difficulties between the trunk lines
to the arbitration of Charles Francis Adams,
Edgar S. Wells, and John o. Wright.
LONDON, October 19.-Tbe first class
double turretted irOnclad Flexible, carrying
four eigh.y-ton guns, will probably make her
trial trip to the Irish coast, thereby making
great increase In the naval force available In
the event of disturbance.
WASHINGTON, October 21.-R. T. Merrick,
| a welLknown lawye. here, believes the Dis
trict Court is without jurisdiction in the Gui-
teau case, and has ample authority to sustain
that view. He says that 1t would be much
less discreditable to the country that Guiteau
should be lynched by the people than be
lynched by the Court.
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KINGS BALLOON FLIGHT.

Two Days in the Clouds and Three In the Boys.
CHICAGO, October 21.-A private dispatch
from Chippewa Falls, Wis.,, announces that
Prof. King and the Signal Service officer who
accompanied him arrived there safely. The
balloon descended i'm the woods and they had
been two days getting out of the wilderness.
The following is just received:
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis.
We are all safe. just got of the woods.
KING, Balloonist.
Chippewa Falls Is situated on the Chippe-
wa river, about 1S5 miles northwest of Madi-
son.
CHICAGO, October 21.-The Daily Netcs
Chippewa Falls special says: Professor King
is now at this place. The balloon landed on
Friday night sfxty-five miles up the river
from this point. The balloonists were two
days In working their way to human habita-
tions, and it was impossible to reach rail-
way or telegraph station until now, owing
to the impassability of the roads, which is
due in large measure { 0 unprecedented rains.
CHICAGO, October 22.-George Hashagan,
Signal Service employe. who went up with
Professor King in his balloon, telegraphs the
Daily Ne,us: We feel no disposition to- day
for such hasty flight from ca tn as we took
Thursday. If you should see us now, rag
ged, torn, wa:er-soaked, you would surely
say we lo7ed civilization and a good table.
Five minutes after leaving terra firma we
reached an altitude OF 1900 feet, moving
southwest. A few minutes later we reached
an upper current moving slowly west, with
Chicago and her myriad of twinkling lights
beneath and appa, emily far away. We hung
there several hours, but at last a puff of air
sent us to the southwest, and we were be-
Gained several hours over a small town
which we judged to be Peoria. We began
taking nap at $50. Friday we passed over
Spring Valley, Wisconsin, startling the ma
tives and having shot sent after us. Then
we lowered about the Platte mounds some
hours, and later were buried in clouds in the
upper air 1900 feet above the ground. We
raked the trees in passing Little Falls, Wis.,,
aud scared the Inhabitants and animals At
of a similar name; at 9:40 over Tomah; at
$50 lost sight of the cath in the clouds, and
passed through heavy rain storm; at 12:45
we reached 1900 feet. We spoke to man
at 1:30 and learned we were about forty
miles from st. Paul. Descended at $50 p.
m, and were lost In a cranberry bog; our
experience was horrible; knee-deep in ice
water, and every step was full of peril and
discomfort. On the fifth day we reached
Flambeau river and were cafe.
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis, October o.
Kings balloon was too heavy for removal and
will be moved i'm the winter
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A CAPITAL Scandal.

NEW YoRk, October 19.-The Worlds
Washington special says sensational divorce
proceedings are foreshadowed in the separa-
ton of Congressman Clarke, of the Eleventh
Missouri district, aud his wife. Mrs. Clarke
had position In the Interior Department
before her first marriage, and during her
widowhood took In boardsIs. Clarke lived
st her house for several years. Ex-senator
Bailey, Of Tennessee, and several members Of
the House, also made their home there while
In the city. Her marriage with Clarke oc-
CURED less than year ago, and was chron-
icled ~ social event. From all accounts
the court proceedings will be such As to com
rnand attention, from the prominence Of the
persons who will be called to participate Is
witnesses or otherwise.
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v.nd.r.il, in Cont .mp. Of Court.

CHICAGO, Oct. 22.-Vanderbilt recently
in contempt Of court voted SUFFICIENT shares
Of the G. q. c. y |. Railway TO make 1t .
part Of his system. Jewett, OF Erie, has
now moved to commit him for contempt Of
court. A great 6ght has been commenced
between these two men, and there will be
war to the knife. Il would not be strange II
Vanderbilt, whose contempt in violating an
injunction was plain, should bring up In
Jail. The Erie proposes to take possession
Of the road II necessary VI ct arrsis, and un-
der the direction Of the csurt. Vanderbilt
y determined on shutting OF the Erie con-
nection with Chicago, and the Erie ID equally
determined 70 remain . thorn in the fesh TO
that msgnate BY not only keeping il con-
nection, but by making through line to
that city.
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THE POPE.
The Pope Perpiexed.

LONDON, Oct. pa great pressure is be-
ing exerted by English aud Irish Catholics
to obtain strong and clear condemnation oil
the Land League manifesto from the Pope.
1t Is believed Cardinal Jacobini, Papal Sec.
rotary Of State, has informed inquirers that
the Pope is sorely afflicted by the conduct OF
portion of the Irish clergy, but can only
interfere to certain degree In questions
which more especially concern local eccle-
siastical authorities.
ROME, Oct. 19.-Emperor William and
Bismarck have offered the Pope an asylum
at Cologne.
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THE shrewd Canadians, says the Milwau-
kee Sentinel, have discovered that Churchill,
on Hudson's Bay, is more than hundred
miles nearer Liverpool than is the port Of
New York, and propose to tap the Northern
Pacific railroad by a road running to that
point, which Is almost more than thousand
miles nearer the northwestern grain country
than New York Is. If the scheme proves
practicable city Of considerable size will
soon be seen In what has generally been
considered Is an Arctic region Of America.
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POSTMASTER PEARSON, Of New York, has
officially announced to his employees that po-
litlcal assessments will not BE- enforced on
the postoffice subordinates. Refusal to pay
will not affect tenure Of Office. Collector
Robertson holds the same views but has not
notified the Custom House officials, for which
the Times condemns him. The question Of
giving is to be wholly determined by the
person assessed. There hss been good deal
Of clamor and good deal Of twsddle about
the so-called " outrage" Of political ASSESS
nents. Our form Of government involves
political campaigns. These cost money.
Our system Of civil Office dispensation Is
based on selection by political influences and
indefinite tenure. That this latter is wrong
Is not the question ct issue. While the con-
ditions exist we claim IL Is the duty Of the
officers to contribute literally TO the legiti-
mate expenses Of political campaigns, and
there ID no method 20 efficient orimpartial -
. percentage assessment by the National
Committee. Any officer who Is not willing
10 give one or two per cent. Of his salary cv-
cry two or four years 10 the National
Campaign fund has not much heart in the
welfare Of his party or those through whom
his appointment 10 obtained. This outcry
against political assessments 10 principally
squeamishness or meanness. Il ID begin
ming at very remote and Intellectual point
to correct the errors Of . system that Is full
OF greater evils. So long - the dispen-
sation Of Offices Il conducted on the theory
that "to the vlcton belong the spoils," and
this b the theory II Il conducted on, the ben-
fi,iarIes Of the system should contribute lib
orally TO the National Campaign funds. The
atoo too and utterly utter" Miss Nancys
Of the Republican party probably prefer that
great corporation magnstes should put mp
the sum required In bulk and then b repaid
BY the appointment Of Supreme Judges, ETC.,
in their interest. Money must b had fcrle-
eitlmats purposes. and u y better Tor the
country & should como from ofhclal salaries
than from The . har'ls Of such men = Til
den, 0osld, Engllsh, and their Tx.
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THE celebration ut Yorktown was re-
markable in several particulars. First, that
It was . celebration resolved upon by the
Continental Congress when times were too
hard TO permit Of its being carried out
second, that ct the end of one hundred
years the United States, during an err Of
unexampled prosperity, only appropriated .
pittance for the affair; third, that despite
this and the most imbecile management, the
celebration was splendid saccess in impor-
tant Particular; fourth, that Union and
Confederate Generals were roundly cheercd
at every appearance; and 6fth, that Presi-
dent Arthur's address and the salute 70 the
Rngllsh Dag not only robbed the occasion Of
chagrin 70 the Nation whose disaster Il COM
msmorated, but has ELECTED the most CRATE
iul Acknowledgements from the English
press. The event following 20 Close on .
great National calamity, when England and
Enylands Queen evinced such kindly solici-
tude and sympathy, has happily bound closer
the two great English-spesking Nations In
stead Of estranging them, and the recent
nents u he Revolution were buried with
those Of The Civil War. u only remains
now for Gladstone and Parnell - shake
hands and Tho last OF the bloody chasns
will b closed and the millenium b begun.
Up 70 this date, however, thsy Az shaking
fholr nste.
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THE Chicago, Burlington, anu Quincy
Railroad Company Is pushing . railroad
through 10 Denver and expect to complete 1t
In ten months. The Denver and Rio Grande
Company is pushing Its road through to Salt
Lake city, expecting to complete the work
by June, 1882. Some 1900 to 300 men are
working on the Salt Lake end, and all the
forces on the lake City branch are being
taken of and concentrated In the Black
Canon. The Central Pacific iT working hard
for outlets east Independent Of the Union
Pacific.
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THE Marquis de Rochambeau papers which
1t Ia proposed to purchase consist Of fourteen
hundred published and original letters from
the hand Of Washington to Rochambeau and
ffty-nine original maps. They are Of great
historical value. The price asked Is $4,000
The Marquis being poor he had placed them
In custody OF the Congressional Librarian.
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ARCHIBALD FORBES, the famous war cor
respondent, was delighted with the marching
Of the First Connecticut at Charleston Tues
day. He says: al have seen all tho armies
In the world, from the Afghan scalawags to
the Russian Imperial Guards, and have never
seen greater precision and solidity than these
manifested" He says II there are many regi-
ments like that the United States needs no
great standing army. Thanks for the tafy,
Mr.. Forbes.
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The Railroad World says: aThere Is no
doubt that the American wheat acreage Ia
spreading In advance of the rate of increase
10 population. There has been vast emf
igration sf German farmers TO this country
this year, bnt all tho northwestern RAILWAYS
are being taxed for the transportation Of lan,-
per. den0ting rapid settlement Of western
lands, which Will soon be brought under cul-
tIvstlon. All this will tell upon next years