Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1881-03-02

bowlder, causing an explosion. McLain
was torn to mince-meat Both horses
were killed and no evidences of the
sleigh could be found, McLain was
young man and unmarried. His parents
are said to reside in Beaver Falls.
Though the Speaker of the new
House of Representatives will not be
elected till December next, there are
many men who deem themselves spe-
cially fitted to adorn the Chair, and
the candidating began long since. So
general is the rivalry that Mr.. Nord-
hoff is led to say pleasantly that
when Representative has served two
or three terms his friends aud family
usually think he ought to be made
Speaker, just as in some places when
a man gets to be forty without being
sent to State Prison, the community
by general consent, and as matter of
common decency, gve him the title OF
Colonel or Judge.
Thomas Carlyle, the author of
"Sartor Resartus" and host of other
works that have stamped him as the
most vigorous master of the English
language since the days of DR.. Johnson,
died at his home near London last
Saturday week in the seth year of
his age. Carlyle, like the great first
photographer, hated democracy, and
hence his classification of Americans
- u.:.,;I;,oJ horh1r;ano Rut tho
general good which he has done in
lighting sbams ought to overbalance
his prejudices; for no one ever dealt
King Cant harder blows than the
doughty Scotchman, Thomas Carlyle.
The first section of railway built
by Americans in Asia was opened for
traffic the first week in January, just
twelve months from the date of the or
der for its construction. The CON-
pleted division is twenty-threo miles
in length. The line is from Otarunai
Harbor, on the west coast, via Lap
paro, the capital of the Northern Is
land, Yezo, to the Paroni coal fields.
1t cost $4,000 per mile, which in
cludes rolling stock, motive power,
machinery for terminal repair shops,
etc. The English line built between
Toxic and Yokohama cost nearly 5000
600 per mile, and it took five years TO
complete eighteen miles. The Japan
ese officials are said TO be greatly en-
couraged by the prospect OF an Ameri-
can system of rapid transportation.
The Secretarysbip of the Treasury
is the most important Office which the
new President has to FILL The depart
ment Of State, which nominally ranks
as the first, cannot be so regarded
when our foreign relations are as am
icable as they seem likely to be for 'he
next four years. But the Treasury
Department will probably have to deal
with some questions of the first mag
nitude during the next administration.
Our resumption of specie payment has
thus far been a fair weather expert
ment. The strain will come when the
favorable condition Of the foreign ex-
change shall be reversed. 1t is not to
be expected tina. the harvests of Eu-
rope will continue to be as bad as they
have been for the last three years, not
that our own crops will always be as
superlatively good. Whenever the
vicissitudes of the seasons shall arrest
our exceptionally heavy expectations
and gold flows out of the country as
as rapidly as it has of late been flow
ing in the solidity of our financial sys-
tenn will be tested Then, if ever,
ability of the highest order will be
needed in the Treasury Department.
Whenever a great drain of gold sets in
the period of fair weather navigation
will come to an abrupt close. Every
body who has greenbacks can exchange
them for gold until the reserve in the
Treasury is exhausted, and then our
whole currency must sink to the value
of our silver coin-in other words, be
deprecated below the point at which
it stood for several years previous to
resumption.
COuaUmD mDfiOu Cured.