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Mr.. Lamar was born at Oxford, Putnam
county, Ga, September II, 1895. and re.
ceived his early schooling in his native town.
lie graduated at Emory college, Georgia, in
1915. He suiiel law ut Macon, Ga, and
was admitted to the bar in lS4I. He moved
to Oxford, Miss, in 1919, and was elected adj
junct professor of mathematics in the Missis-
sippi State university, DR.. A. 7. Bledsoc, ed
itor the Southern Rpricv, being the senior
professor. lie resigned in $50 and went to
Covington, Ga, where lie devoted himself to
the practice of law. In 1876 he was elected
to tie Georgia legislature and in the follow
ing year returned 10 Mississippi. where he
settled OIL a plantation in Lafayette county.
He was elected to the Thirty-tifth and Thirty
sixth Congress and resigned in 1861 He en-
tered the Confederate army III 1SGl as lieu
tenant colonel of the Nineteenth Mississippi
volunteers, and was soon promoted to the
colonolcy. In lSij he WIS sent to Russia by
the Confederate government on IN import
ant diplomatic mission. Hc returned to
Mississippi ut the close Of the war and in 1856
was elected profes or of political economy
and social science in tic university OF that
State. \ year later he was transferred to
tho professorshrip of law He was elected to
the Forty-third Congress- and collected to
the Forty-fourth. In the winter OF 1857
he was elected to the Senate, where he has
since served.
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Mr.. Manning was Gorn in Albany, n. y,
August III, 1881. His parentage was of Irish,
English and Dutch extraction. Hc was q
poor boy, and his early opportunities for
schooling were very limited. At eleven years
of age he went to work rs an office boy ut
the establishment of the Albany atlas, which
was afterward merged into the Albany Ar
nus, with which paper he has ever since, in
one capacity or another, been connected. In
1873 he assumed sole charge of the argus,
and was elected president Of the company,
which position he yet holds, though he has
done little or no writing for some time. He
was a member of the Democratic State con-
vention of 1874 that nominated Samuel j.
Tilden for governor and was a delegate to the
st. Louis convention of 1S1G that nominated
Mr.. Tilden for President. He has been a
member Of the Democratic State committee
since 1916, was its secretary in lS7Jand 1880.
and was elected chairman in 1881, which place
he now fills. He was warmly intel ested in
the nomination of Mr.. Cleveland for Presi-
lent at Chicago last July. Mr.: Manning has
long been a director of the Albany and Sus-
quehanna Railroad company and is president
Of the National Commercial bank of Albany,
of which he was first director and then vice:
president. He is also park commissioning of
Albany and is q director Of the Albany Elec'
trjc LIGHT cOmpany.
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

BUFFALO has four theatres and eight ska'-
Ing Kinks.
FIrTY-oNE farmers are in the legislature OF
Michigan.
SIX women are on the grand jury at "ha''
com, Idaho.
THERE are not less than 25) telegraph OIL
COS in New York city.
NEXT season Emma Nevada will head al
English opera company.
HANS VoS BuLow is now making a Sue
ccsslul concert tour in Russia.
CONGRESSMAN ". l.. ENGLISH, Of lndlan1,
owns all opera house in indianapolis.
THE Mormon church has more m~i3'ionrries
than the American board Of fCrci.n missions.
HOUSEHOLD GoDs," n postiiunM'll play
by Lord Lytton, has been prciu""! Ill Lon
don by Mr.. Wilson Barrett.
NJ. DUPONT, of Bru .se,s. has jul co!nn'esel
a new opera entitled Oliver Cr1nl"cl," OF
which report speaks highly
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EngIand.s Trouble With Russia.

A London dispatch says that it is not
doubted in some circles that war with Rus
sia hangs by a thread. The negotiations be-
tween Russia and England respecting tue
Russo-Afghauf% frontier are said to have reached
a very delicate stage. NJ. Lessar, the Russian
commissioner, has urgcl such sweeping de-
mands that England cannst accept anything
approaching them, and a complete collapse
Of the dclimitation project anl al early
advance of the Russian troops toward Herat
are expected.
Teherau advices say that Sir Peter Lums-
den, the British special commmissioner ON the
Afghan frontier question, has reached Galran,
or Glrlin. The Russians have advanced their
pickets south of Pull khatum to ZulluSar and
renjdeh. A Persian paper says that tho
Ameer of Afghanistan has been oriercd to
have the road from Merat to P~eshawur by
way of Cabul immediately put in repair to
facilitate the march Of an Indian corps to
occupy Cabul.
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SORTIE FROM KASSALA.
The Garrison Repulsed and 20
Officers and 632 Men Killed.
War Between England and Russia
Imminent.

Dispatches received in London state that
the garrison Of Kassala, who have been to-
Tending the place for a year, recently made a
sortie, but were repulsed by the Arabs with
a loss of twenty-eight officers and G3O privates
killed.
According to advices from Massowah the
garrison Mt Kassala, the town in the Soudan
next in Importance to Khartoum, is reduced
to an effective force of Goo men. The town
is closely besiegcd and the garrison is short
of ammunition. The Egyptian troops are
discontented. The government at Cairo has
abandoned all hope Of relieving the own
The Turin Gazette says that, notwith-
standing the declaration Of Sig. Nanclnl to
The contrary, the conclusion OF q treaty be-
tween Italy and England regarding opera
tions in the Soudan is certain. 1t says the
Italians will attempt to relieve kassala as
soon as the third Italian contingent arrives
at Massowah. ,
General Sir Redvers Butler has pointed out
the places between Gakdul Wells and kortl
suitable for the establishment of depotS Tor
water supplies for the retiring troops. The
depots near Korti will, of course, DO supplied
thence, and the others by camel transports
from Gakdul. 1t is reported that
the British troops will remain in
| the vicinity of Korti during the summer and
be lodged in straw huts. The greatest fears
are entertained concerning the effects OF the
torrid heat, and the most conservative think
that the mortality among the troops Will be
large, although perhaps not as great as 1t
would be during a continued retreat under
the desert sun. .
The Arabs undoubtedly are fully aware OF
the existence of numbers of hidden wells in
the desert, and this knowledge, it is thought,
will enable them, despite the destruction OF
the public wells by General Butler, to follow
and harass the British with large forces.
Messengers have arrived at kortl from
Omdurman, who report that the followers OF
the Mahdi were much disappointed at the
small amount of plumber which they found at
khartoum. The privations of the rebels
have been increased by the addition to their
numbers of the garrison ut khartoum, whom
they are now compelled to support
The rebels do not appear at all willing
to encounter the English troops, and the
mahdi is in constant fear of treachery on the
part of his chiefs, among whom great dlssen'
sion exists. :.
Dispatches from Korti state that the in
tense heat has caused an outbreak of typhoid
favor emonp the British trOODS.
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The Strides of journalism.

Yes, indeed. journalism has made
wonderful strides in the past 200 years.
Formerly, we kept an apology On the
"standing galley" now we are more
bold and fearless, and every day, almost,
some man mysteriously disappears, who,
when last heard of. had slipped on his
oyershoes to run across the street and
lick an editor, expecting to be back in
fifteen minutes .-BW Nye.
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WHITE HOUSE MISTRESS
A Description Of President Cieve'
lands Sister.

a DESCRIPTION ob AIoSAoSh
lands Sister.
Miss R. E. Cleveland, a sister OF President
Cleveland, is the new mistress of the White
House. A correspondent describes her as
follows "She is of medium stature and build,
with a shapely and highly intellectual face.
She is good looking, but not pretty. She
dresses neatly, but plainly: and wears few
ornaments. She has for a long time been a
lecturer by profession, her specially being
educational subjects, and her audiences usual
" the pupils of girls schools. She has, for
example, Just lectured at tho Elmira semi:
nary on Joan of Arc" She speaks several
languages, is exceptionally we'll informed in
history and the arts, and ha, that degree OF
confidence in herself and the knowledge she
possesses to be able to firmly take the lead in
conversation. and to hold it against the bright
men and women who have come in contact
with her. Yet in some respects she is notably
| shy, and always so modest and amiable as to
win friends easily and quickly. ''Why, she's
a perfect dictionary" sail Ex-Governor Cor
| nell, when he returned from a visit to Miss
| Cleveland. "She's ono Of the brightest
women I ever met"
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William Collins Whitney is a native OF
Conway, Mass, and was born in 1859. After
being graduated from Williston seminary at
Easthampton, William c. Whitney entered
Yale college in 1850. He was chosen to de-
liver the grafton of his class on graduation.
Entering the Harvard Law school, he was
graduated in 1865, and continued his studies
in New York city, where he has since re-
sided, with Abraham r. Lawrence. now one
of the Judges of the supreme court. On MS
admission to the bar he began tho practice OF
his profession, which he has since followed.
Mr.. Whitney served as an Inspector OF
schools in New York, in 1872, and the same
year was defeated for district-attorney as
the candidate of the Reform Democracy ow-
ing to the decentralization OF the party. lie
was actively engaged in the canvass that re;
suited in the election Of Governor Tilden and
afterward became the corporation counsel OF
the city. He is a prominent member OF the
New York County Democracy, and a man Oh
uoo1fh
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Following are sketches of tho lives of Prcsi
dent Cleyc1oO1'S cnhipot oCficorc.

Mr.. Bayard was born at Wilmington, Del,
October 90, 1920. He was chiefly educated at
Flushing school, and his early training was
for q mercantile life. After having had some
experience in business in New York he re.
turned to Delaware AMI studied law with his
father, Hon. James A. Baynrd, who was then
in the Senate. He was admitted to the bar
in 1851 and in 1853 he was appointed United
States District AIT orney for Delaware, hut
resigned in 1854 and went to live in Philadel-
phia, where he remained till 1856, when he
returned to Wilmington, where he remained
through the civil war, practising his profes.
sion. In the winter of 1859 he was elected
to the Senate to succeed his father, and was
reelected in 1875 and 1881. In 1876 he was a
member of the Electoral Commission. Mr..
Bayard is the fourth Of his family who have
served in tho Senate. His grandfather,
James Ashton Bayard, was elected to the
Senate from Delaware in 1904 and served till
1913, when President Madison appointed him
one Of the Commissioners to negotiate tho
Treaty of Ghcnt. His uncle, Richard b.
Bayard, wa elected to the Senate from Del
aware in 1886 and again in 1S4l. His father,
James A., served in the Senate from 1851 to
1890
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Mr.. Villas was born at Chelsea, Orange
county, VT, July Q, 1S40. When he was
eleven years old lie went to Wisconsin, where,
a few months after. he was entered a pupil
of the preparatory department. OF the Uni
yersity of that State. In 1853 he matr1cu-
lated in the Freshman class Of that instltu-
ton, and was graduated there in 1858. After
taking his academical degree he studied law
in Albany, N. Y, and was graduated from
the law school of that city in 1860. After his
admission to the supreme court OF New YORK
he removed to Wisconsin, where, on his birth.
day, July Q, 1910, lie made his first argument
before the supreme court of that State. In
the same year, 1860, he became a partner
with Charles Il. Wakelcy, q lawyer OF good
standing. Upon the outbreak OF the war MIR
Villas entered the army as captain IN the
Twenty-third Wisconsin volunteers, and rose
to be major and lieutenant.colonel. lie re-
signed his commission and resumed the prac.
tice of the law January ]. 1864. In lSE
General o. Z. Bryant joined him in partner
ship, and in 1877 his brother. f. T. Villas
also became u partner in the firm. .Ine su
preme court Of Wisconsin appointed Colon
Villas one Of the r~evisors of the statutes OF tht
State in 1875, and the revision Of 1878, adopt
ed by the State, WINS partly made by him
In 1879 Mr.. Villas refused the use OF his name
as q candidate for the goycrnorship OF WIS
consin. He has persistently declined Office
but went to Chicago as a delegate to the con
yention of 1881, which honored him with it
nernanent chairmanShip.
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3 PUBLIC DEBT.
A Decrease Of s3,OOO,O00 During the

A Decrease OF s3,OOO,O00 During n
Month of February.
The last public debt statement shows the
decrease of the National debt during the
month of February to be 81, 2O4,9 73. Decrease
of debt since June 80, 1851, sH,l2d,ooh.
Cash in the Treasury. f6b,51 ~
Gold certificates outstanding. lh3, lln,2.o w
Silver certificates outstanding al 1881 %
0s stumling' "io o,5so, 900 co
stanJin1 257,3IO %
Legal tenders outstanding. . GAG, Isl ,nlG w
Fractional currency mot in
Guiding amount estimated
as lost or destroyed ........ 6,9fS Nb cu
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Fidelity.
30 long ago! 1t seems but Yesterday
Iye ..Aal ln,on.l, Tho nni,.nrinn etnra 70

30 long ago! 1t seems but Yesterday
We stood beneath the quivcrinS stars to
part;
He hopeful ms a man, my woman heart
Faint. with frcbod;nS. Love-" I hear him
say
"Lct yon bright stars he witness while away
That I nm true, for doubling doth impart
A pain more gricvors than the passing smart
Of separation" 1 am old ana gray,
But still I wait and watch the stars at night.
scarce can hope, l have no voice for prayer.
Iccaso to dream his form doth glad my sight,
I only love and trust. The stars arc there
And he is true. And love will rcunite
Our sundcr'd souls, or here or everywhere.
E. G. Chererton in the Current.
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William C%rowinshield Endicott, was born
in Salem, Mass, in 1927, and is the son Or
William Putnam Endicott and Mary, daugh-
ter of Hon. Jacob Crowinshield, who was a
Representative to Congress. He attendedth
Salem schools, and was graduated from Har.
ward college in tho class of iS47. He married
his cousin, q daughter Of George Peabody,
and has two children, a son and n daughter.
Judge Endicott studied at Harvard Law
school. and read law in the office of the late
Nathaniel j. Lord. He was admitted to the
bar about 1850, and q few years later formed
q partnership with the late j. W. Perry, and
continued with him until his appointment by
Governor Washburn to q seat on the supreme
bench in 1878. This position he held until
1882, when he resigned on account OF his
health. In 1882 he made an extended tour
of tho continent. He was q member OF the
Salem common council 1852, 1853, and 1851,
when he was elected president of that board.
He was city solicitor from 1888 to 1S63. he
is a member of tho Historical society and OF
the board of overseers of Harvard college.
Politically Mr.. Endicott is of Wing antece-
dents. his utilization with the Democratic
party dating from the Bcll-Eyerett campaign
of 1850, but he has never been an active poll
tician. Last fall. it may be recalled, he was
the candidate of his party for governor in the
State, but did not himself appear in the cam
vass. It is stated that the object of his ap-
pointment is to crafty the independent allies
Of the Democratic party.
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| entarad In their sah1e rohes of office, At IL 40

| entered in their sable robes of office. At 1l:4O
President Arthur appeared at the Senate
door, accompanied by the committee of ar
rangements, and for the last time was all,
nounced as 'The President of the United
States" He was seated with bis back to the
presiding officer. He wore q Prince Albert
coat, closely buttoned, without his usual
b%outonnierre, and carried his hat in his hand.
At II As the President-elect was announced.
The great audience arose, and there was tire.
mendous applause. Mr.. Cleveland, bowed
three times
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"Talk is cheap" loses its significance
when applied to conversations through
telephones rented at $50 o year.
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AUGUSTUS H. GARLAND, ATToRNEY-GENERAL-
Mr.. Garland was born in Upton county,
Tenn, June II, 1882. The following year his
parents moved to Arkansas, where he has
made his home ever since, and which State
he has represented in tho Senate since 1875.
He was educated in st. Mary's college and
st. Josept's college in Kentucky. He studied
law and was admitted to practice at WASH
ington, Ark. the place where his parents had
originally settled, in 1853. He removed to
Little Rock. where his home now is, in 1856.
He was a delegate to the State convention
that passed the ordinance Of secession in 1861.
and was also a member of the provisional
Confederate congress that subsequently met
the same year at Montgomery, Ala de
served in both the House and the Senate OF
tho Confederate Congress, being in the Senate
when the war closed. He was elected from
Arkansas to the United States Senate March
4, 1867, but was not admitted to hisseat. He
made the test-oath case as to lawyers in the
supreme court of the United States and
gained it. He practised law at Little Rock
with success till 1874, when he was elected
governor Of Arkansas without opposition, and
at the expiration OF his term was elected to
the United States Senate, again having no op-
position, and succeeded Powell Clayton. He
has taken high rank asa lawyerfrom the day
he entered the Senate, and has for some time
been q member of tho judiciary committee.
He is of medium height and speaks with clear
ness, elaboration and force. His wife died
soon after he was elected to the Senate, and
ha has sinca remained n WidOWer,
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TuEoATu or THE vTcF-pRESIDENT.

Mr.. Hendricks, the e-President.elect,
was escorted into the chamber, and without
delay, but with the solemnity and decorum
BETTING tho occasion, the oath was dminis
tered to him by the President pro tempore.
MIR. Edmunds now turned to the front and
made @ short address, thanking the Senators
for their resolution OF thanks to him, and
concluding by declaring tho Senate adj
;o,r,od ,,Sifbont 6o,
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The ball which ~inaugurated President
CIeveland's entrance into the White House
wns held in the immense new Pension build
ing in Washington.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-16
SOFT sAWpER FROM VICTORIA.
The Queen Secures GlsdstOne's Partial
support for Salisbury.

LONDON, June i6-lt was authoratively
announced Sunday that Lord Sail, bury
would undertake the formation Of cabinet,
and the news has created decided feeling
Of relief. II is understood that the
minimizing the difficulties which
beset the Tories. She has writ
ten fattering letter to the late
premier, and has conveyed to him hint
that it would he quite gratifying to her if lie
would smooth the path rf Salisbury. Mr..
Gladstone could not resist the faitery and
the expressed wishes of the queen He has
promised certain amount of support to the
new government. and it is this assurance
which has emboldenei the Conservative
leader to accept office.
Lord Salisbury was in town Monday con
ferring with the other leaders of his wing OF
the party. including Lord Randolph
Churchill 1t is believed that the Conserva
tive leader was sounding his colleagues as tC
the propriety Of accepting office at this time
and with view to obtaining from some Of
them their consent to accept Office.
Mr.. Gladstone in the commons Monda Y
announced that the marquis of Salisbury
had consented 10 form a government HI
was greeted with cheers Mr.. Laboucher
asked Mr. Gladstone If there was any trut.
in the report that the marquis Of Salisbur,
had only consented to form a Con
| sentative ministry when assured o
assistance by the present Liberia
government Mr.. Gladstone, in reply, saic
that he was ignorant of such an arrange
| ment
The house then completed thu remainin.
stages of the bill granting an annuity +
Princess Beatrice on the occasion of her mar
| riage, and accepted the amendments mad
| by the lords to the re lstribution-of-se
| bill
1t is stated that at the meeting of Conserv
atives at Saiisbury's residence Monday j
was arranged to accspt Office, and the ne,
cabinet will be announced on the arrival @
the queen at Windsor castle
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THE IRON TRADE.

Compromise Scale Signed by Oliver Bros
PITTsBURG Pa, Juue 16 Action was ta-
ken after the conference of Amalgamated
associat ton men and manufacturers Satur-
day that bids fair to break the lockout in the
iron trade. Oliver Brothers & Co met a
committee from the Amalgamated associa-
ton and agreed to sign the scale as pre-
sented with the following modiflca-
ton: at Is understood that for all
finished iron worked in any finishing mill,
made out of pile containing two-thirds OF
more old rails, or old rail iron, 10 per cent.
extra above current prices shall be paid. "
An agreement on the above was speedily
reached, and the difficulty is over SO far as
Oliver Bros. is concerned
The action of the divers viii no doubt
have telling effect ON the next conference,
as the compromise made furnishes a way to
remove the greatest obstacle heretofore in
the way of settlement The firm stated as
they made no sheet-iron that point of diff
ference does not exist between them and the
Amalgamated association.
In connection with the move made by the
divers, numerous additional facts are
brought to the surface. The divers have
been urging peace measures ever since the
beginning of the contest and had demanded
representation on the conference committee.
The other manufacturers, knowing the sen.
timents Of the firm, used every effort &c
keep them out
Later information explains the long session
of Saturdays conference. 1t seems thai
tire Amalgamated association held theil
grounds with the exception Of q change il
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NEW YORK, June l6-Brighton Beach
races Monday resulted as follows:
First race, q mile; Lucy Lewis first,
Bruten second, Turmeric third; time;
LINK.
Second race, mile; Dizzy Blonde first
Disturbance second, Frank E. third; time,
l:431S.
Third race, mile; Kiohba first, Mikes
Pride second, Emma Manly third; time
l:44H.
Fourth race, II miles; Royal Arch first,
Palinarus second, Jennings third; time 2, IL
Fifth race. l Is miles; Islette first, Prattler
second, Barclay third; time. :5S11.
Sixth race, hurdle; Buckra first, Fred B.
second, Ecuador third; time, AL
ST. LOUIS, June Ii. Winning horses al
| the races here Monday:
First race, Is mile Favor first, Katie
Fletcher second, John Davis sthird; time
l:5SH.
Second race. Lie miles; Whizzig first
Taxgatherer second, Adventure third; time
| l:59a.
Third race, q mile; Primero first, King
Of Norfolk second. Jim Gray third; time,
| los
Fourth race, IL miles; Clay Pate first
Grismer second, Father John third; time
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