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Nevada County picayune., 1885-12-10
State News Column.
Huntsville has loafer's bench.

A white owl was captured Tn Benton county the other day.
 An effort is being made 10 or ganize beard of trade at Texark- ana.
 Huntsville, Madison county, wants a good, well-stocked livery stable.
 Little Rock will enter the Soutt- western Base Ball League next season.
 Perry county will let the con. tract to build brick court house January lst,
 Little Rock has city ordinance prohibiting boys from carrying bean shooters.
 Two men were arrested at Fort Smith last week for selling a "pla. ted' bale of cotton.
 Steps are being taken by the stockholders to push the Hurni- cut air ship project
 Twenty-six immigrants from Northern States settled at and near Beebe last week
 About forty colored immigrants from South Carolina settled in Drew county last week
 The woolen mills which were burned at Charlottesville recently. will be rebuilt at Fordyce.
 A party of German emigrants are on their way to this State and will probably settle in Van Buren coun. tY.
 A railroad from Memphis to Texardana is being talked up by the businese men of both the ter. minal points.
 The citizens of Mountain Home have bought and planted forty shade trees in the courthouse yard at that town.
 Hosea King and Minnie C.em- cuts, aged Ii, elopcd from Lonoke last week and were marIied at Pop. lar Bluff, Missouri.
 /. l.. Cotton, late postmaster at Rocky Comfort, in this state, is in i at Fort Smith, on the charge of embedding government mon, ey.
 Three masked men entered the house of a colored minister, in Stone county and ordered him to cave the country. He is still here.
 The Marshal of Osccola, while put on a deer hunt one day recently, was caught in a bear rap, in which he remained fer ,bont twelve hours before being able to eXtrirate himself.
 It is said tl.at a prominent bus!- less man of Jacksonport visited Newport on Thanks sgiving day and couldn't imagine why all the busi- les houses were closed. That's a good place for your missionaries.
 A petition is being circulated Or signers in the city requesting Diamond Joe' Reynolds to widen the gauge of the Hot Springs and to reduce the rate be- ween Malvern and Hot Springs. It is receiving many signatures Hot Springs Sentinel.
 While attending the conference ,f tle NJ E. church, South, at Morriton, Rev, T. J. Smith was taken with a severe pain u the heart, and died in a few minutes atterward, He was walk ng across the room to his bed when he fell, but was caught by Rev. J. l.. Massey.
 Harrison Times A little son of Reece Davis, living near Bear Creek, was killed a few days ago y the accidental discharge Of gun. He was on his way to the mill when he fell from the wag. ,n with the weapon in his hand; he discharge entered his body in he re ion of the heart, causing ieath in short time.
 Perryville News; On Friday light last Jame, McNei', Sheriff of Hay county, brought in in and de- ivered to Sheriff Oliver the long ooked for Jack Armstrong. He ] lad been on his trail for some time md picked him up without.trouble it will be remembered, tands indicted as principal iu the Ferguson murder, and the Cover Tor had offered s200 reward tor his
New-York tribune., 1885-01-11
SENATOR SHERMAN on TIE N4TIONAL
B4NKS

Senator Shermans paper published on an
other page i a succinct and comprehensive ac-
count of the National banking system. He
shows that the two fundamental objects of the
original act the security of the notes and their
convcrtibiltr into coin, have been accom-
plished; that the system has been not only
Nationalizcd but localized; and that under the
severe surveillance provided by law the Ma
tional banks have acquired stability and per
manencc. A system could not in
his judgment have been devised that would
meet so adequately the requirements
of the country. All that is needed to promote
the efficiency and success OF the National
banks is the supplementary legislation rem
dered necessary by the advancing values OF
public securities.
So far as the present requirements OF the
National banks are concerned. Senator Sher-
mans views are conservative and iulcious.
He considers the passage of the Mcpherson
bill, authorizing notes to be issued to the par
value of all the securities deposited, rs the only
measure that il essential This act, he thinks,
would immediately bring up the aggregate OF
circulation to the highest amount ever issued.
He would be satisfied if Congress were 10 iur-
nish so moderate measure of relief. lie does
not share the apprehensions entertained by
many cautious inanciers III regard to the effects
upon the banking system of the rapid payment
of the deb; and advancing premiums on public
securities. On some points we cannot fully
share his comfortable and relssuring feelings
of optimism. His paper. however, IL an admir-
able treatise on this important subject and is
remarkable for lucidity of style and compact
ness of statement
New-York tribune., 1885-01-11
4 REMlRK1RLE CAR ER.

The life OF Myra Clarke Gaines, just ended.
was most remarkable one. 1t illustrated,
first, the power of an indOmitable will second,
the heart breaking delays of the law and,
third, the comparative ease with which n
wealthy and influential corporation can cvadc
ifs obligations even after the court Of last re-
sort has decided against it. There is probably
no case on record in which 80 determined and
prolonged n struggle against such tremendous
difficulties was ever carried on, not alone by an
individual, but by a woman. For over half a
century Mrs. Gaines. delicate. fragile creature
in appcarance, conducted her inicrminablc liti-
cation single handed against principalities and
powers. Nor did this great main cur
rent of her suit absorb all OF her mar
velous energies. She still found time to
carry on brisk skirmishes with many people
in high places who had wronged or Obstructed
or offended her. and not few of these, her
enemies learned wholesome dread of the in
flexible and persistent little adversary. Re-
gardcd from purely material point of view it
NAV be doubted whether the long-thc life
long-strugglc was worth the sacrifices it
tailed. Fortunes were sunk in the litigation.
All that was wr,ng from the defendants was
SWdilOWcu up. MANY id"Jtio iat'cHcu upon
the suits which drained plaintiff and defend
ants.
But if the protractcd contest did not pay
in the end the fault was largely due TO the de-
fects of the law. Mrs. Gaines had won all that
the courts could give her. She was legally en-
titled to the great fortune for which she had
contended. But at the final moment the rich
City of Orleans fell back upon its inertia
as a means of negative resistance, and while it
could not deny her rights it rcirained from
satisfying the Judgment of the court. 1t used
to be said that Mrs. Gaines mad a shad0wy clam.
but il was substantial enough TO compel recop-
milton from courts which certainly were not
biassed in her favor, and. to command respect
from those who were only too ready to employ
the weapons of ridicule and scorn against the
snitOr
She might have had higher aim, and vet the
vindication of mothers name may well he
deemed a sacred and fit cause in which to enlist
the devotion of a daughter. The recovery of
her property was Incidental to this vndication
perhaps, at the beginning, if afterward Il
became the main object. But surely no cause
however lofty, has ever been followed with
more unyeldinst resolution and" ccaseless
persistence, nor is there any instance more mar
vellOus of obstacles overcome. The moral of
this woman's strange and pitifu career would
however, be i'll interpreted if it was not made
clear that her great struggle was made necessary
largely by the deficiencies Of our legal system.
Plainly it ought to have been possible for her
to demonstrate the justice Of her cause and to
New-York tribune., 1885-01-11
TWELVE PAGES.
IRE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoREIGN-More earthquake shocks in Malaga.
- German troops attacked West African towns.
- Nj. Due, the Editor of Cr da Peupte released
from arrest. - The French blockade resumed
Oh the coast Of Formosa.
CoSGREss.-The House reduced the salaries OF
some Counsels; the Naval Appropriations bill was
passed.
DoMEs1IC-The Trenton potters have offered
their employees the English rate of wages with the
tariff added - The Farmers Bank of Eliza
bethtown, Pennsylvania. closed Its doors. -
Mr. Clarkson of Des Moines, renewed his charges
against Mr.. ST. John - The armed and organ
lied Socialists of Chicago number 1000 men,
- A death at Lynn, Mass, was caused by the
misuse of prescription of morphine. a nauti-
cal training school is to be organized in Boston,
- Major A. NJ. Brown, of Pttsburg. was asked
IN no n candidate for the United State Scnatorship
in Pennsylvania.
CITY AND SUBURBAN.-Captain Phelan improv-
ing and likely to recover Short committed to the
Tombs. 80 reception TO George Augustus Sala
Mt ths I,otos Club. - Elevated Railway offices
removed TO IrviugtOn. - Ex-Judge McCue ap.
ponted a Bridge trustee. - Mr. Ots
not to carry the mails. - Special meet
ing of League baseball clubs 80 Implications
against customs agents. - RumOrs thatDr.
Newman may resign. 80 Tammany men striv-
ing for leadership - Gold value Of the legal
tender silver dollar (412l2 grainsl, S4.14 cents.
- Stocks were dull. but made slow and i'm
portant advances and closed feverish at some re-
action
The WEATuER.-TRIBUNE local observations in
dicate milder, partly cloudy weather and possibly
rain. Temperature yesterday: Highest Az low
est 25o; average, 30osO.
New-York tribune., 1885-01-11
too much disgust over the present attitude OF
the New. Orleans people themselves.
,opD W0LSELEYS MOVEMENTS.

Lord Wolseley has named the day for his
arrival at KhartOum. This is ono OF his cam
paigning customs and he ordinarily contnVes
to keep his appointments with the British puD-
lie. In the Egyptian campaign the fulflment
of bis nredictiOn was somewhat belated but
practically he got the credit for an accurate
military forecast. He now telegraphs to the
Prince of Wales that he will reach Khartoum
on January "a. This allows only forthisht
for long march across the desert and up the
Nile, and consequently precludes the move
ment of his main force 1t is probable that he
is depending upon the cavalry 10
make dashing raid across country
supported by small column OF
infantry. The advance guard under General
Stewart is now at Jagdul, ninety miles from
Korti. An advance of eighty-fve miles will
take this hying column to Metamneh, on
the Nile opposite Shendy. Ahostile force 1000
strong Is reported to be awaiting the arrival OF
the British at Metamneh. This would be speed
lily dispersed by General Stewards mounted in
fantry. Whether the main body will follow
the advance guard thereby saving distance
of 22O miles, or will continue the slow and toll
some ascent of the Nile by the great bend to
Shendy, is not clear from the dispatches. In
either event the mounted infantry are evidently
expected to lead the way and to open communi-
cations with Khartoum.
The Nile expedition is to be accompanied
by renewal of military operations against
Osman Dgna on the seabOard. Lord Wolseley
has advised the Government not only to send
another battalion up the Nile, but also to dis
patch 5000 picked men under General Greaves
to suakim to dspcrse the rebels and to open
the Berber route Apparently he does not
expect this forco to march any distance in
land He is probably preparing in advance for
the withdrawal of his own column after the re-
lief of KhartOum. An easy victory over the
Mahdis forces may be confidently looked for.
and when General Gordon has been rescued
there will be pressing necessity for abandon
ing the river route and rctreating as rapidly as
possible from an unhealthy country. The low
water period is close at hand and the Nile will
soon become impossible. The route from Ber-
Der to the seaboard will be the shortest and
most practicable line of retreat from Khartoum.
New-York tribune., 1885-01-11
TdLKS IBOUT TOWN.
in politics.

THE OPPORTUNITY FOR A NEW-iORK SENATOR
Chatnccy M Depsc-Thc new Senator from the En-
pire state will go Washington under peculiar circun-
stances. For the first time In quarter OF century
Democratic President is elected. He is resident OF
New York He elected by the votes OF New York.
The same votes elected Republican Legislature which
will choose a Republican United states Senator. What
the Senator from Massachusetts the senator from
Ohio with all respect to their eminence, shall have to
say about the new Administration. will have small
weight as compared with the utteranco OF u Senator
from the Presidents own State. elected under such
auspices II he shall he able to formulate an opposition
with which the country Is I'm accord, TO show up the
sham Democracy of the day. to puncture the sham wind
bags labeled reform that will come floating into the
Senate picture the country the histories OF some OF
the lean ank onghaired Confedcrates whom 1t will be
necessary for the President to appoint to Office, II he
shall merely embrace the opportunities that will offer
themselves naturally. he do much, possibly more.
than any other to throw ;he Democrats out OF
power years hence. The whole country will look TO
such for leadership. The opportunity Is certainly
great one for personal fame well rs for the making
OF party and national history.
New-York tribune., 1885-01-11
IN IYCOMPREHENSIBLE FEUD.

The feud between Orangemen and Catho-
lies broke out again in Newfoundland
the other day and apparently with the
usual extravaganza. The extraordinary
persistence of this hereditary enmity has
long puzzled dspassiOnate observers, for
it is patent that religious differences form
only small part Of the explanation, and it is
doubtful if either of the antagonists could
make the matter clear to an outsider. 1t Is IN.
deed true that the tiercest manifestations take
place, az q rule, in provincial places, where 1t
may be supposed that primitive habits OF
thought survive and where progress Is but
slow. Yet, in the North of Ireland, where the
means of education are abundant, and there
is direct contact with the broad current
of modern ideas, desperate encounters take
place every year between the factions, and
time does not seem to soften the asperitles OF
the controversy ireland and Canada indeed
appear charged with the mission OF handing on
aud keeping alive fcud which has long ceased
to have any rational excuse for existence, ana
which. because of its wholly impractical and
purely pugnacious animating spirit, il sharply
differentiated from, the only similar phenome-
non now known in the world.
Throughout Islam, when the month OF Mo-
harram arrives the Shiahs prepare to celebrate
the passion play of Hasan and Husein. For
days the counterfeit prescntment goes on, and
during all that time the dcvout followers OF the
Prophet are carried back twelve centuries; and
while thcy hang breathlcss upon the legend
which recounts the ptiful fate of the sons oil
ALI the same passion i aroused IN them which
must have swept through the bosoms OF their
sect when the tidings of the tragedy were first
made known. In India and in Persia, wher-
ever in short, that passion play is performed.
il beromes necessary for the Sunnis, who rep
resent the murderers of lInsan and Husein. to
keen under cover: for the Shiahs ut that time
are dangerous, and many bloody deed has in
time past owed its origin to this celebration.
Only, however. in the persistence CT the feud
does the enmity between Shah and Sum,
resemble that between Orangeman and Catho-
lie In the more modern quarrel there IA a
strange mixture of theological odium. political
enmty and sectional antipathy. There Is Il
North and South dissension involved, as well
as a Catholic and Protestant controversy; and
all these elements combined have formed Il
solid body of enduring pugnacity and detesta-
ton which has thus far deiicd all the influences
of civilization.
I'm the course of time, however, the Orange
Catholic feud will in all probability wear itself
out. and most likely it will be educated ont OF
existence. 1t is already wild anachronism,
and all the more 40 when it is seen how the
heirs of far dcadlier feuds-that for example
between the Catholics and Protestlnts Of the
cthcrlands-managcd in little more than
generation to get rid of thor mutual h ostility
and have ever since contriycd to 1.-Two together.
not perhaps in perfect accord, but in external
peace and harmony.
New-York tribune., 1885-01-11
THE DUTY or NEW-ORLEANS

The financial embarrassment under which
the managers of the NewOrleans Expo
sition are laboring is said to be largely due to
the failure of local subscribers to make good
their engagements. 1t is to be hoped that these
people have not been following the example of
the old cobber in the story, who was very
prompt in putting his name down for good
round sum when asked to assist in the building
of a church, but who, being dunncd in vain for
the money, at last declared that he had not got
accent never had any, y,neverexpectcd to have any,
and had only put his name down "to encOur-
age the Others" Should it appear that any con-
siderable part of the arrearage of New Orleans
subscriptions belongs in this category, We fear
the moral effect of the disclosure might be the
reverse of encouraging. But it is clear that
the local subscribers ought not to withhold
their money at this critical juncture, and IT
must be said, in all fricndliness, but candidly.
that the failure to pay up these subscriptions
does not speak favOrably for the public spirit of
the citizens.
There is doubtless an element at NcwOr-
leans which has little sympathy with the under
taking; but it is the old Creole element. and
presumably it has taken little or no part in the
preparations, and does not represent the mer
camille community. 1t is this latter which
ought to come to the front and give
every help possible to the man
ayers; yet according to the cur
rent reports, the merchants are holding
back and are rather disposed to resent the
cosmopolitan character of the exhibition. This
kind of attitude may easily produce serious
mischief 1t is already evident that the success
of the exhibition can only be secured by the
utmost local harmony and activity. and if Ne s.
Orleans sets the example of apathy. dissatis-
faction and parsimOny, while regarding with
indOlent indifference the stupid blunders of
the transportation companies, it can hardly be
expected that the rest of the country will fur
nish the missing enthusiasm and means.
The Exposition is really magnificent Op:
portunty for the South, but 1t is one which If
not utilized now will pass away and Leave be-
hind it greater stagnation than ever. 1t Is also
q fair test of the quality of the New South,
as in that light it will be regarded by the
country and the world. For these reasons
the people of New-Orleans are under Obliea-
tions, which they can only neglect or repu-
date at their peril, to make it success, and
unless they are fatally blind alike to their
duty and their interest they will put their
own shoulders to the wheel.
The talk of another appeal to Congress, at
least In the present situation, is nonsense.
There is too much scandal afloat as to what was
done with the last appropriation, and there Is
New-York tribune., 1885-01-11
THE DYNAMITE CONSPIRACY LNNEW YORK.

If the affray in ROssa's Office was only despe-
rate fight between two infuriated men, result
ing from hot words of the moment and not
from any precOncerted plan, it Is not matter
of momentous significance. But if, as the facts
seem to show, it was the outcome OF a consp'r-
acy to get Phelan on here to murder MN, IL is
of grave Importance to Rosa and oil his asSo-
ciates. If such conspiracy could be proved
number of worthless fellows who have done all
they could within the last few years to injure
the reputation of this city and country
might soon be put where the peaceful expio-
sions in a stone quarry would be the only dis
charges that they would have anything to do
with for some years. That would be most
welcome relief to this community and would
tend to restore the peace of mind OF great
many perturbed Englishmen. If Rosa were
welding a hammer at Sing Sing while Fat
rick Joyce held the drill, and their friends ana
fellow -conspiratOrs were grouped around IN
various picturesque attitudes, curs'hg
England under their breath with undated
vigor, but compelled by the unsympathetlc
supervision of deputy warden to expend
their energies on blocks of stone the atmoS-
phere of this town and of the tight little island
over the sea would be cleared to a refreshing
extent.
Phelans story of the dynamite plot and his
account of the whole affair seem far more
plausible than do the denials of the other meH-
bers of the dynamite gang. Shorts expiaIla-
ton of the allray is wildly improbable. Under
these circumstances the indifference OF the
police to the question of conspiracy and delIb-
crate attempt to murder Is singular
and unfortunate When there Is so
much to gain by getting these fellows
behind stone walls, if they are guilty, the de-
tectives should show all theirenergy in going to
the bottom of the affair. Perhaps they are afraid
of the ridiculc which overlook the London po-
lice in connection with the horse medicine and
fshing-tackle discovery. But here Is chance
for them to show discrimination. There Is
nothing absurd, incoherent or unlikely IN Phe-
lan's story. Incredulity on the part of steam
shin agents proves nothing. Of course they
don't wish to frighten of passengers
by admitting the existence OF any
danger from dynamite. But Phclans
detailed account of the dynamite plot cannot be
laughed away or treated lightly.
We do not wish to be hasty in assuming tnat
Rossa and his associates are really bent on
assassination, and that they do not hesitate to
follow atrociOus threats with still more
atrocious deeds. But their language. again ana
again repeated, justifes the worst suspicious,
and there is too much in this matter Tor the
police to neglect or try to snecr it down.
New-York tribune., 1885-01-11

obtain redress in comparatively short time..
And the fact that it took nearly sixty years to
conouer the distractions between her and JUS
tice demonstrates only too clearly that the OBJ
tanning of Justice in our courts is not the simple
matter it is rhetorically represented to be.
In fact the English Court of Chancery, as it
was in the days of Jarndyce VS.. Jarndyce, could
hardly produce record moro crowded with ar
tificial distractions, technical and unnecessary
DELAYS, and all the exasperating shifts, subter-
fuges and inequitable tricks Of practice which
no law reform has yet removed, than this case
afforded. The best proof of the friction delib-
erately introduced to it is the immense fees OF
the lawyers concerned on both sides. There
was little inclination to terminate suit SO
rich in pickIngs. But this practical control
over the extent of litigation exercised by the
nominal agents of the litigants Is crying
abuse, and cases like the present illustrate its
mschievous results strikingly. 1t Is per-
fectly safe assertion that under rational sys-
TEN of law-such as unhappily the world
has never yet enjOyed-Mrs. Gaines would have
won her cause within two years at the utmost.
As it was, she spent long life in striving for
Justice, and when she obtained Judgment she
was almost as far as ever from securing posses
sion of her property In the end ineauity has
proved too strong for her: and one OF the most
gallant, intrepid and persevering souls that
ever inhabited q wOman's form has passed
away without setting foot in the Canaan she
had pressed forward to through more than
forty year wilderness of litigation.