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CoaneiI GraHa To-.

COUNCIL. GROVE Kas., Jan. a.
The electric light system was inau-
gurated here tonight. -
The cold wave Ia gunsidin7. There
has been no suffering here 70 man or
beast, asF y Saa
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reach Crop An a bad way.

GEUDA SPRINGS, Kas., Jan. 1s.-
Careful examining By experts show
that the peach crop is probably killed
in this section. There viii be no peach
Is in Kansas this year, except in
specially protected localities. All other
fruits are uniniured,
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The SuIGan's scheme.

CoNsTANTINoPLE, Jan. 18.-DurinR
Mr.. w. X Vanderbilt's recent visit
here, the Sultan strongly urged him to
construct system of Asiatic railways.
Mr.. Vanderbilt stated that his visit
was merely for pleasure, and that he
had no chance to study the
suggested scheme. The Sultan
has now forwarded to Mr.. Vanderbilt,
who is in Egypt all the papers bearing
on the question, and he expresses the
hope that if Mr.. Vanderbilt is not dis
posed to accept the task, Mr.. Jay
Gould will undertake it.
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WASHINGTON NEWS.
SOME CROOKED WORK.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.-Representa-
tive Plumb, of Illinois, claims to have
discovered that an important law of
congress relating to the power of the
secretary of the treasury to go
into the market and buy United
States bonds has been practically
annulled by misenrollment, misprint
or some such clerical error. He says
the law, as it was passed by congress,
empowered the secretary to buy 4 per
cent bonds at any time for thirty years,
and that by some clerical error, it has
been made to read in the statute book
latter thirty years" 1t was with
view of investigating this matter that
Plumb offered his resolution of yester-
day, which provided for the appoint
ment of special committee, and which
the speaker pro tenn ruled out of
order.
THE PENSION BILL.
WAsHIS GToN, D. G. JAN, 19.-The
committee on appropriations made
ready this forenoon the regular annual
pension bill for report to the house.
The bill appropriates $50 ,275, 500, as
follows For payment Of pensions,
$40 600 600; for fees and expenses of
examining surgeons. 81 900, 900; for
salaries of agents ,s72 600: for clerk
ship, $40 600, rents, $50, 600; fuel $3.50;
| lights, $3.50; stationery and incidentals
SO GOO. The estimates originally made
aggregated S76 ,212 400. A subsequent
letter from the committee of PEN
sions brought the sum up to the amount
of the bill.
INVITED 70 OPEN THE BALL.
WASHINGTON, Jan. ia number
| of gentlemen, headed by Senator Beck
and Representative Butterworth, call
ed on the President to-day TO invite
him to open the centennial exposition
/ of the Ohio valley at Cincinnati next
summer. Mr.. Goodall, the president
of the Cincinnati chamber of com
MERGE, presented the matter, and in re
ply the President said that he woulC
90 unless public duties which he could
not neglect should prevent. The in
Yitation was also extended to Mrs
Cleveland, whose wishes the President
promised to consult.
NO CHANCE FOR FISH.
/ WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.-RepreSenta
tive Belmont. chairman of the housl
committee on foreign affairs, said to
day that he did not believe fish would
be put on the free list in any tariff bill
to be introduced at the present session
of congress, and that certainly an,
proposition TO admit fish free, or to re
duce the duty upon it, would be IN
favorably regarded by the committe
Of foreign affairs.
URGE A REPEAL.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1S.-A delegation
composed Of promi nent citizens o
North Carolina appointed by the dem
ocratic state executive committee me
the democratic members OF the hous
+ committee on ways and means, in tn
{ committee room at o'clock to-nigh
| and urged the entire repeal OF the In
!. ternal revenue laws, or at least the "A
!. on tobacco and fruit hranGies. e.
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The most remarkable cures Of scrof-
ula on record have been accomplished
by Hoods Sarsaparilla. Try it. Sold
by all druggists.
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PRNcETowN, H., Jan. ie.-Tha
bank OF Tiskilwa, six miIea south oP
hers was broken into by burglars yeS.
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Thomas & Co., of Louisville, Ken
lucky, for the recovery of 50 500. The
value of q warehouse receipt given to
Webster 8 Co., as security for q note,
but disposed of by them. Bail was
given by the prisoner. Mr.. Webster
knew nothing Of the details Of
the business of the firm.
some time and trusted implicitly
in his partner, Charles w. Lawrence.
His first intimation that his trust was
not well placed came with the news
that Lawrence had made an assign
ment in the name of the firm and had
fed with S25, 600 of the firms assets.
He is now supposed to be in Paris,
France. Mr.. Webster is held response
BILE for his partners action.
DIES IN AN OPIUM DEN.
KANSAS CITY, Jan. 20.-Frank E.
afternoon in q Chinese opium den,
where he had gone and ordered 81 so
worth Of opium to smoke, Johnston's
father, Mr.. John s. Johnston, a
wealthy resident Of Sidney, O., has
been notified of his death, but has sent
no answer. Johnston was, until re-
Gently, q shoe merchant in Mime
apolis, but he lost all his possessions
and his capability through infatuation
COAL DEALER FROZEN TO DEATH.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Jan. ga. Die
bold, coal dealer who kept q little
Office near the river here, was found
there Thursday very badly frozen. He
died to-day from the effects. Diebol6
was q bachelor and had little to dc
with other people outside his business
; During the recent shortage of coal hG
had none TO sell, and nobody went Il
his Office. He was missed by his land
} lady, and messenger was sent to hi
ONCE and found him without a fir,
. and unconscious on the floor. In tn
o1lce was found 81 1855 concealed.
DESTROYED BY FIRE.
} PuTsBURe, Pa. Jan. 20.-McCoT
mick's blacking works and Blackmore'
brass foundry, adjoining, at Twenty
: ninth and Smallman streets, were total
Z | IL destroyed by FIRE at o'clock thi
: morning. Loss so, 900, fully insured
II EXTENSIVE CONFLAGRATION.
PTTTsBURG, Jan. 20.-A IRE brok
lout In the large Eve story brick huilC
o Ing ct no. SO Wood street, cecupie
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Eastern TieWs Of the C0uI Tr0fc.

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Locals IN NINIDN.

ubiications.-Thc great interest attach
ing to- the music dramas of Richard Wagner
Just now, make especially timely the article
of Louis g. ElSou ON Richard Wagner. his
Life and Influence" IN Frank Lc>lic'~ S"n-
day Hog':j"c for March. Mr.. E>on writes.
not Il. Il Wagner partisan nor dctractor. but
takes calm and judicial view of the theories
of the great composer. Wagucr's works are
more than operas, they are great epic poems
in music, and must not be Judged Il, operas.
They deal with grand and heroic, though
mythic characters, and teach valuable lessons
concerning the Teutonic and Scandinavian
mythology which Christianity has displaced
Another very interesting article is Dr. Eel
TONS sketch Of the "Emin Paoha Relief EN-
petition which has rccultcd 50 succcssfullv
Both OF these articles are very fully ilustrat-
ed. Emily Picrce's loving paper on "ITclcn
Hunt Jackson will be thoroughly appreciate
ed by all who admired that gifted woman
DR.. Talmages sermon on 1.-THE Proud Invalid'
is one OF his most characteristic efforts. The
serial story, 'In Exchange for Soul" soon
cluded and the other story, His Banner
Over Me, is evidently nearing its end Both
of these Srories are exceedingly good in their
different ways. There are many shorter and
valuable articles and some very fine illus
trations, which we have not space to mention
B"by'o"d for 1888 will he in general about
the same as in 81. Nothing i'm Babyiond ever
pleased more people than Finger play rhymes
and pictures. They have even been sought by
Undergraduates here in Boston and elsewhere;
and the author has personally taught them.
Six of the 80 BoJyIo,,dS will contain new
Fingrr-pays The other six will have Il
series of baby stories in rhyme about Crickcts,
how they manage their babies, with many
pictures. Me and TOddlckinS i a baby-cat
story all through the year by Margaret john
son. with pictures also by Margaret Johnson
There will also be Il lot of jingle bits and
story bits and picture bits, 50 many as to make
you wonder where the next years entertain
ment is to come from. Fifty cents year
copy sent for five cents. u. LoTuRop Com
pany, Publishers, Boston.
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Business Locals.
MsceHaneouS Advertisements.
Law Office of DAVID W. SLOAN,
No. : Washington street, Cumberland, Nd. J
SArsser OF Publication

Thomas Terrell dM. No. 1920 Equity
In the Circuit Court for
Er pH,fc. Alirgany county.
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NE object OF the petition m the above case
4 Is to change the name OF Thomas Terrell
to Thomas Bath ana OF ms WIie. Elizabeth
Terrell, to Elizabeth Bath, and also to change
the names ol Their infant children rs follows;
Nate Terrell, aged 10 years, to Kate Bath (;
Elizabeth Terrell, agei - years To- t.iIHhcth
Bath, and Laura Terrell agel II years to
Laura Bath.
lh" petition states that the parties To this
SUIT reside IN Allegany county; that the chill
dren are infants ana the reasons for changing
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Merit Monday Ercnng-Go to
Ravenscraft's Opera House and see
one of the best shows on the road.
The Utica On. " Times says:
The Merry Makers and Swiss Bell Ringers
Concert Band and Orchestra gave a first-class
concert last evening to full house. In the
morning they sereEaded the Tunes Office
The Concert Band is the best that has ever
zen in Utica for the number of instruments.
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Leap Year Assembly.-The JOURNAL
acknowledges receipt Of an invitation
TO Leap Year Party, to be held in
NickePs hall, Wednesday evening,
Feb. %, 1885," Misses Fannie M.
Wack, Eva NJ. Walker and jamie |.
Stewart comprise the committee in
charge and it is safe to say that those
invited have an occasion of rare ENJOY
ment in prospect. Additional interest
attaches TO the enterprise in the facts
that it is the first party of the kind
ever projected here that it is Wash
ington's birthday, and that Mr.. C. F.
Nickel regards it as most suspicious
dedication of his new hall to purposes
of social amusement. The JOURNALS
invitation concludes withthe announce
ment: "Grand March at 9 p. M" If
life and health fail not, the JOURNAL
will answer "aye"-both individually
and collectively-as person and
paper.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1888-02-09

Are we threatened with panic?
Alsrmists say so.
soldier-hating, pension-fghting free trad
eTs say that we are unless we at once accept
their economic nostrums to avoid it. They
say we are, unless we avert it by emptying
the Nations pockets, breaking down our
manufactures and impoyerishing our people.
In effect, they say that we are too prosper
Gus, and that unless this is checked, troubles
that nobody Can imagine viii ensue. They
are like the old mountebank doctors who
always saw something dreadful in vigorous
health, and insisted that it should be re-
duced by copious bleeding.
We say, that if there is such impending
danger Of financial stringeney, the best way
10 meet it is not by exhausting the people,
but by Strengthening and fortifying them.
We are certainly not going to put the
people in better shape for the emergency by
breaking down their manufactures and send
ing ont of the country the money we are
now paying for homemade goods, but the
reverse. We are now sending out of the
country every year more than $700, 000, 600
for foreign goods. Il is indeed strange po-
litical economy which teaches that it viii
puf our people into better shape for busi-
ness depression to increase this enormous
drain at the expense of the profits and wages
paid our manufacturers and their operatives.
The wise man prepares himself for troublous
times by outstanding his resources, by re-
ducing his Indebtedness, by keeping his
| money within reach. VIII we strengthen
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an opportunity presents itself his section
viii throw of its share of the burden.
This is resurrection aud reafirmation
of the most obnoxious features of the trea-
sonable teachings which eliminated in the
rebellion. 1t is legitimate offspring Of the
notification doctrine that whenever a State
or section did not like O law it could null
lily it so far asst related to itself According
to Cen johnson " the South" does not con-
slider itself as an integral part of the country
and having identical interests with the rest,
but conquered province, which wiz throw
off one after another of the hard conditions
imposed by the cOnquerOr, just as rapidly
as opportunities offer. The attack is made
first on the pension system, because Gen.
Johnson believes that is most obnoxious to
his people, and thu chances are better for
success.
This is the return to the Union soldiers
an ex-rebel makes for their magnanimity in
insisting that the men who fought us should
have their property, their liberty, their citi-
zenship, and all their political rights, just
the same as if they had not causelessly taken
up arms against their country.
At the conclusion of the war Gen. Johnson
and his associates in armed rebellion were
grateful that they were allowed to go free,
with no punishment for their malefactions,
and with the full enjoyment Of all their
property except slaves. The generosity Of
the victoTs did not stop there, but went on
to the last extreme and rehabilitated them
with all their political rights, opening to
them every Office in the gift of the people.
Now the use they propose to make of their
gifts is to rob their tOo-generous foes OF their
dearly earned rights. This ia the very in
science of ingratitude.
Strict justice would have imposed upon
the men who caused the rebellion the entire
cost of the war, including the pensiOning Of
those disabled in fighting. Instead of this,
the Union people magnanimously took the
bulk of this upon themselves.
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AN Ex-REnEL1s VIEWS.

In Gen. Bradley T. Johnson's letter to the
Baltimore Sun occurs this amazing para
graph:
It seems to me that it would be better for the
whole country for the pensions to be paid by the
sections which receive them by tax on incomes.
II would be safer for the pensioners themselves TO
have their pensions secured to them by the con-
tributions of those for whom they fought, who
ought to be- and doubtless are. only too happy to
pay whatever is required for the patriotism which
saved the Union they priced so dearly. 1t Is plain
that no country toH stand any such eracion Gnyh
longer Than is necessary aud The Development and
progress Of the South is greatly checked and held
dotor by this great tribute that another adjustment
must shortly take place.
We do not know of as many lines pub
lished anywhere since the war, which con-
tain more dangerous and revolutionary ut
terances than these.
The first thing is the position taken that
the war was not for the benefit Of the whole
country, and that its victorious termination
was not a Godsend to the entire land This
is rank heresy, and fat denial of all that
was gained by the war. The people for
whom Gen. johnson processes to speak, have
claimed to be entirely satisfied with the re-
suits of the war, and to rejoice with the rest
of US in the possession of q united country,
and one which had at last been happily freed
from the blighting curse of slavery. Gen.
Johnson, on the other hand, in effect asserts
that this WAS not the case that the war re-
suited merely in the triumph of one section
over another; that the victorious section
reaped all the benefits, and that 1t should
in consequence have all the burden of main
tanning the soldiers who we're broken down
in the course of the struggle. He couples
this with distinct threat that as soon as
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The NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
WASHINGTON, D. C, FEBRUARY 9, 1855
ARTICLES FORTHCOMING.

MATAG0RDA BLYTHE Thirteenth Corps
IN Teras IN 1853. By z. B. L4fEia, Co. z,
18Th lie, Field, he.
GSHERIAN,S BUNIERS."-RO10 they did
their York. By Henry S. Sanford, Co. G,
Isl 4seE. Engineers aad Mechanics, Green
cizie, Hfeh
HANGING REBEL SPLES-An Incident
at Frederick. Nd, during the Gettysburg
Campaign By J. J. AH5Ier, Co. T, 18th
r., Eopeli0 Iolea.
IETRE TALLEK-THe Shenandoah Cam
poiga Of 1862 By Gen. Henry Cgpeaart,
Fargo, DIX.
on TO RICHNOND-A Graphic NGrTatiCe
Of Capture and Captivity. By George B.
CRAWFORD, Co. G, LIST ". "a, WeEzsburg, W. ia.
EAWKIKSS Z0UAYES-GEe First Bayo-
net Charge. BIZ J. Il. E. IThitney, Sergeant,
Co. B, 9H y. Y, KeT YOrk City.
Port HUDsON.-A Spirited Account Of
this important Siege and Battle By Wilber
T. H'ebJer, LampGsas, Ter.
PICK AND SHOVEL Campaigning nth
the Engineers. By Walter Il. Parcels, Co.
D, 50A 4. J. Eng, Lewiston, Pa.
CAHABh PRLSON-LiJe and Death IN This
Place Of Confinement. By G. J. TrenGn'an.
LEWIsBCRG.-C Campaigning and Fighting
IN Hest Virginia. By John T. Booth, Ser
eeant. CO. c. 36th Ohio, HaytlreH, o.
DURAET'S NILL-A part Of the Peach
Tree Creek series Of battles "a the AtlGnta
campaign. By John Algoe, Adjutaat, 10th
Mich
BULL RUN. GETTYSB URG AND THE
WTLDEREESS-T ioork Of the cGUaIry
in those oampGigns. By 4. E. Aatthe'as, Isl
Bifch Car, 5fjttord, Aich.
TIE LAST BLOW At HOODS ARMY
The chase soatbward from NqshUiIIe and the
attack on The poHtoons. By Lieut.. Charles
Kdsk, 18Th Pa CdU., PHILADELPHIA, Pa.
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WORK OF THE PENSION OFFICE.

During the week ending Feb 4, 1888,
4,519 claims were received, of which 1,0T5
were original invalid; 379 widows; ? war of
1912; bounty land; 81 navy; old war /;
rs on account of Mexican service, and 1905
applications for increase.
The receipt of mail matter during the
week was 5000; 1851 letters and circu-
lars were sent. out. The names and post
Office addresses of 4,25s officers and COM
rades were furnished for the use of claim
ants. The number of medical examinations
reported during the week was 1858. The
amount of fees for the same was $17,283,
an average cost of $4.s6 per examination
Report of certificates issued during week
ending Feb. A, 1888: Original, 1,O79; increase,
1,196; reissue, 129; restoration, 30; duplicate,
o; accrued, s5; arrears, o; Act of March
8, 1853, L; Order of April 8, 1884, o; Act OF
March 8, 1885, 0; Order Oct 7, 1885, 8; Act
of Aug. A, 1886, 3; Supplemental, Act Aug.
A, 1885, O.; Mexican war, 246; total, asa.
Reissue same date, o.
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COL. W. L. DIsrIH.

We are informed that the friends of Col.
WI. Disiin, now Senior Vice Commander
Of the Grand Army Of the Republic Of Lii
nois, are intending to present his name at
the Department Encampment Of the Grand
Army at Springfield on Feb. IS, for Depart
ment Commander. Col. Distin served in
the 18th iowa. Second Division, Fifteenth
Corps: was captured at TiIton, Ga, IN 1864,
and confined over six months in that prison
of rors-Andersonville. His record as
soldier and citizen is without stain. As
living Illustration Of the cardinal principles
Of our Order he is without rival, as can be
stiested BY iaaumerable unfortunate COM
rades who hive been the recipients of his
charity. Generous, loyal, active and man
Of ability, he possesses the highest qualifca-
tons for a most successful Commander-in-
Chief Of the Department Of Illinois. He was
among the Grst and most earnest advocates
Of the establishment Of a Soldiers Home in
Illinois, where needy and helpless soldiers
could find comfort and a home, and bespared
the melancholy fate Of refuge in the poor
houses. Those who know him best are the
most enthusiastic in sounding his praise and
urging his election.
Ger. Logan had no truer friend than Col.
Distin, and were he alive to-day be would
be found among the COlonel's most devoted
friends.
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HISTORY OLE TIE a.A.R.

Past Commander-in-C Chief Beath is work
ing hard on his history of the Grand Army
of the Republic. The paucity of the early
records and the fact that nearly all the De-
partments formed in 1866 became afterward
disorganized, and their books and papers
scattered or lost, makes the work of research
an arduous one, and the labor such as would
deter any one with less practical experience
or knowledge of the GAR. from undertake
ing such work.
He has gone at the work with consci-
entious determination that is beyond praise.
He has taken nothing for granted, assumed
nothing, required demonstration of every
thing, and no pains have been too great to
satisfactorily settle every point. Weeks of
time and score of letters have frequently
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the States enumerated above was:
6.s7O,47o

No intelligent calculation would assign
more than one-quarter Of this latter popu-
lation to Gen. Johnson's Southern peo-
ple," which, with the other deduction,
would make the total little over one-fourth
of our whole population. Since 1880 the
increase of population in the States which
were outside of the so-ealled Southern Con-
federacy has increased out of all proportion
to those which were included in that COM
bination, and if as our ratio of growth would
indicate, our population is now in excess of
SIS 600, it is safe to assume that between
100000 and 100000 will not come
under Gen. Johnson's classification of
Southern people"
A comparison of the property shows still
worse for Gen. Johnson's position. The
total valuation of the property of the United
States in the census of 1860 was $685.
616,068, Of which there was in the II seced-