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Since She Wont Home.

Since she went home
The evening shadows linger longer here,
The winter days fiji so much Of the year,
And even summer winds arc chill and drear,
Since she went home
Since she went home
The robins note has touched minor strain,
The old glad songs breathe but sad refrain,
And laughter sobs with hidden, bitter pain,
Since she went home
Since she went home
How still the empty room her presence blessed
Untouched the pillow that her dear head pressed
My lonely heart has nowhere for its rest,
Since she went home.
Since she went home
The long, long days have crept away like years.
The sunlight has been dimmed with doubts and
tears,
And the dark nights have rained IN lonely tears,
Since she went home.
Robert j. Burdette
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for all purposes was sS2,oSS, 1856, being 21A per
cent Of the estimated gross income of the
United States government for the period. The
total expenditures of the government for tho
fiscal year. 1885, were S267 ,424 sol, so that the
amount expended for and on account of pen
sions was nearly thirty-one per cent of the en-
tire outlay of government.
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more than two years.
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DEPARTMENT WORK.

There are received 2,69S,000 letters during
year, an enormous increase over previous
years, an average of 224 1888 letters per MONTH
or 1898 per working day. Ninety-four thous-
and four hundred and ninety-eight letters
were received from members of congress alone.
The alnumber OF letters sent out was 1885,
1872 Many inquiries were answered by the
issuance of pension certificates or by printed
circulars, and frequently a single letter was
found to be sufficient to answer several inquir-
les in the same claim.
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The Brookhaven leader., 1888-12-20
PERSONAL AND PoLITICAy,

| The investigation OF Cornmissi sioners
| Cooley and MOI rison at Chicago led them
! to believe that the Interstate Commerce
| law was extensively violated secretly.
Judge Cooley stated that rigorous pun
! ishmont would be meted out to those found
guilty of violating the act.
| PANAMA canal shares were reported
panicky in Paris. Various schemes were
suggested to prevent a collapse De
Lesseps wished to make the project an in
ternational one, in which England and
America would be invited to participate.
MRS. B. MCAULEY, mother of the noted
theatrical brothers and of Mrs. Charles r.
Pope, of St Louis, died at Louisville, KY,
on the 10th, aged seventy-two.
SENATOR NJ. c. BUTLER has been re-
elected by the South Carolina Legislature
to the United States Senate as his own
successor.
School elections took place at Boston on
the 11th. Great excitement prevailed and
heavy vote was polei. 1t was thought
the ticket indorsed by the committee of
100 was elected.
THE regular Cabinet meeting was held
at the White House ON the 11th. All the
members were present. The session lasted
about two hours, and was mainly devoted
to discussion of the Eayti and Samoan
complications.
A LETTER has been transmitted to the
House from the Public Printer, submitting
an estimate for deficiency appropriation
of $3.50, 900 for the current fiscal year.
THE President has received the resigna-
tion of United States District Attorney
Emery B. Sellers, of the Indiana district,
but has not yet accepted it and does not
-tcl 80 do rha ~ nj hoo
telegraphed to Mr.. Sellers that the Presi-
dent joins with him in requesting him to
withdraw his resignation.
CoLoRow, chief of the Southern Utes,
died recently, aged seventy. He will be
succeeded by the chief of the Uncom-
pahgres. He was the leader in the Meeker
massacre aud in the Colorow war of 1856.
THE funeral of the late Rear Admiral
Edgar Lee, who died at the Victoria Hotel
at New York on Monday, took place on
the 14th from the Little Church Around
the Corner.
GENERAL JAMES c. LANE died at mid
night on the 18th at New York
IT has been officially stated that the
Pope does not intend to leave Rome, nor
had he thought Of taking such a step.
IT was rumored at London recently that
Stanley, the great explorer,was prisoner
of the Madhi, together with Emin Pasha,
and that England must give up Suakim to
secure their release.
THE public reception at Indianapolis,
Ind, rendered to the Vice-P President elect
and Mrs. Morton on the 14th, was the most
brilliant affair of the kind ever witnessed
in that city.
1T was reported recently that the Can
adams were not at all pleased with Con-
gresham Butterworth's bill for the an
nexation of Canada and that they re-
garded it as the greatest rot ever pro-
pounded by a statesman.
MAYOR HEWITT, in his testimony on the
14th before the State Senate Committee
investigating city affairs, expressed his
opinion that Colonel Cockerill, of the New
York World, was a liar Colonel Cockerill
has addressed letter to Hewitt declaring
that the latter was liar, blackguard and
a slanderer and said he could prove it by
Mr.. Hewitt's public record.
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-12-20
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

In Lamar county, Ala, on the night OF
the 14th, crowd of masked men took Mrs.
Jane johnson from her home and adminis'
tered thirty nine lashes on her bare back,
and then warned her to leave the county
within five days.
THE express train on the Illinois Central
railroad was robbed near Duck Hill, Miss,
on the night of the 18th of over $1,000, be-
sides other valuables. Chester Hughes, OF
Jackson, Tenn, was murdered by the rob-
bers.
ONE acre of land in Wall street, New
York, is worth $l4, 100000.
A BOX in the Metropolitan Opera House
in New York was sold last week for S23,OOO.
THERE is in this country twice as many
acres in corn as in wheat, and four times
as many as in cotton.
MANY of the fruit growers OF Fresno,
Cal, are obliged to put in rabbit-proof
fences to protect their crops.
A SALE of 231 bales of Allen cotton was
made at Memphis on the 10Th at l3 cents
per pound.
IT is announced that the whisky trust
has decided on campaign of extermina-
tion against the distillers who have refused
to come into the combination. This is to
be inaugurated on January by decided
reduction in the price of whisky.
The question of an amendment to the
State Constitution making an educational
qualification for suffrage, is being agitated
in Arkansas.
OVER two hundred deaths from diptheria
have occurred in the vii Unity of Albe-
querque, N. NJ, in the past two weeks,
and the breaking out Of small pox has
caused much additional alarm.
A. Z. OWEN, aged seventy mine, an old
and highly respected citizen of Mason City,
Iowa, is out with a challenge to any man
of seventy nine in the United State to run
him forty or eighty rod race and at the
end of the race jump and strike his heels
together three times.
FULLY 80 per cent. of the corn crop in
Smith county, Tennessee, is badly dam
aged.
THE people of the United States spend
more than 81 ,50O,O00 every year for chew
ing gum.
In brick making Tennessee takes prom
inent rank, the production for 1887 being
as follows by cities: Chattanooga, 2s7,-
100000 bricks; market iprice, $4,000;
Clarksville, 5000, 900 bricks; market price,
10000; Memphis, IS, 900, 900 bricks; market
price, $4,000.
JACKSON. La, is greatly exercised over
the mysterious disappearance of Rev. j..
V. Penn, pastor in charge of the Methodist
Church there. He has been missing for
over a week, aud fears are entertained that
be has been foully dealt with.
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-12-20
HoNORS TO MORTON.

A Grand Reception Given Vice -Rresidenti
Elect Marion by the People of indian
apOlls.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Dec. 15.-The public
reception last night rendered at Tomlin-
sons Hall to Vice. -President-elect and
Mrs. Morton by the citizens of Indianapolis
was the most brilliant affair of the kind
ever witnessed In this city. Among those
invited to join Mr.. and MIS-. Morton in the
reception were: General and Mfs. Hatri'
son, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Mckee,
Mrs. Bergland, Governor. and Mrs.
Gray, Major and Mrs. Denty) Mrs.
Thomas A. Hendrick, Mr.. and Mrs.
John G. New, ex-senator and Mrs Joseph
T. Mcdonald, Judge end Mrs. Z. B. Mar
tindale, Judge and Mrs. w. A. Woods'
the Supreme Court Judges and their wives
and all the State officers and their wives.
Nearly all the above were present, except
ing Mrs. Morton, Mrs. Hendricks, who is
absent in Chicago, Mr.. and Mrs. New and
Mr. and Mrs. Mcdonald.
Long before the appointed hour, the
crowd began to collect about the hall and
as soon as the doors were opened the gall
lerles were filled with prominent society
people. On the floor Of the hall around
the sides had been placed seats which were
quickly filled. Perhaps $500 people were
seated in the galleries watching the
brilliant spectacle before them. The center
of the hall was unoccupied. The crowd
was admitted at the front entrance on
Market street and passed slowly down
the hall in line, two abreast, and
shook hands with Mr.. Morton and General
Harrison. Many Of them also shook hands
with Mrs. Harrison, but after haf hour,
the ladies being tired, stepped back and
occupied seats the remainder OF the even
ing, Mrs. Harrison occasionally coming
forward, sometimes to the Generals side
and again by the side of Mr.. Morton. The
column moved along in front of the long
line of guests, many shaking hands with
Governor Gray, Mayor Denny and the
successful candidates for the State offices.
Gradually, however, the line Of receiv.
ers dwindled away, the ladies took seats
and the gentlemen shortly followed and
engaged in conversation, leaving only the
distinguished New Yorker and the Presi-
dent-elect standing about a rod apart
The stream was an endless one and ex-
tended far down through the hall into the
street and nearly two blocks distant.
Every one had 10 get at the end of this
line before they could enter. The police
kept people from breaking into the line
and every thing passed off in the most or.
derly manner. 1t is estimated that 10, 900
people passed through the hall, not all of
whom, however, had q chance to shake
hands with the President and Vice-Presi.
dent-elect.
Shortly after ten O'Clock the Presidential
party took their carriages for home.
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-12-20
NOTES OF THE DAY.

The number of farm mortgages
in Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan
and Dakota is increasing. What
would the American farmer do with
out his home market?"-L0uisville
Courter-Jourhal
Senator Farwell, of Illinois, de-
clares for activity as a Republican
worker as the test of fitness for office
under o Republican Administration.
This is the real Chicago platform. and
the whole party will unite on it,
50. Louis Republic.
-The tariff of to-day is organized
robbery; it is slavery legalized. With
that tariff the Democratic party is at
eternal war, and, in possession of the
Government or in opposition, it will
talk and work and vote.-Lo.isrtILe
C0ttrier-J0ur1sal.
1t is said that P. I. Barnum is
to be made Secretary of the Interior.
It would undoubtedly be good thing
to take him into the Cabinet in some
capacity or other. His experience as
a Snowman and the owner of Jumbo
would be of great service to an Admin
istration which will have the Blaine
elephant to Chicago Herald
The general feeling of Democrats
in this locality is not one of despair,
and they are preparing to renew the
fight on the same platform. They feel
that they are right, and their defeat
has brought them closer together and
made them more earnest in their en-
deavors to procure the legislation
which is best calculated to advance
the interests of the entire people,
Quincy Herald.
-'.If there will be more than forty
thousand Democrats in Office on the
4th of March next, about which
know nothing, they should all be re-
moved before the going down OF the
sun on that day, and more than forty
thousand Republicans appointed in
their stead. What the attitude of the
Administration will be l have neither
opinion nor information. Senator j.
j. Ingalls,. in N. Y. Independent.
A Cincinnati man suggests thai
Mr.. Harrison form his Cabinet OF the
sons of Presidents, and mentions
Robert L. Lincoln, Fred Grant, Burch
ard Hayes, Harry Garfield and Aller
Arthur for Cabinet Offices. The lis
should include Mr.. Harrison's own SON
who is said to have shown considerable
financial ability in the recent cam
paign. and who might be made Sec
retary OF the Treasury. ChIeag
HsrGId~
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-12-20
Some Hopes For the Settlers.

FORT DODGE, Iowa, Dec. IA new
phase has developed in the Dss Moines
River land evictions, the outcome of which
is being largely wa ached by the settlers
and land owners. James Meehan, one Of
the evicted settlers, has brought suit
against Thomas Smell, Of Clinton. ILL.,, to
recover the value Of improvements made
on the farm from which he was elected.
This suit is to be made a test case and is
one of vast Importance to the settlers. II
Meehan RECEIVERS, a damage suit will be at
once instituted on a similar basis by every
evicted settler and all occupants who have
purchased land.
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-12-20
REPUBLICAN, SCHEMES.
The Terrible Danger which Threatens tn
Peace of the Country.

Every step Of the Republican cam
paign was marked by fraud, bribery
and corruption. In the manufactur-
ing States 1t was also cam
paign of the meanest and most
brutal intimidation. The men who
have been made enormously wealthy
by taxes levied on the people
threatened their employees with cuts in
wages in repeated instances even dis
charging them for advocating the re-
dnction OF taxes.
With this record unrepented OF and
not even denied, the Republican party
is gathering its forces for the infamous
work of destroying the new found pros
perity OF the Southern States and re-
newing the infamies Of reconstruction.
1t is the cold-blooded plan Of con-
scienceless political schemers who are
willing to sacrifice the peace and pros
perity OF the country to extend their
lease OF power. They know that they
will be driven out on the tariff issue;
they know that they are not in posi-
tion to prevent it by making any real
reduction OF tariff taxation, and they
propose therefore to once more create
an oversbadowing issue of North
against South.
No greater danger than this has ever
threatened the country. The South
can be once more thrown into the
anarchy Of the reconstruction period,
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expense of the whole country. The
next four years will scarcely pass with
out such economic commissions in the
Northern States as the strike OF 1877.
The lies and demagoguery of the Re
publican National campaign have
made this almost inevitable. Every
factory operative, every day laborer
| in the Industrial States, has valid
moral claim on the Harrison Admins
| tration for the fulfillment of every
| promise made in the campaign. The
| l 200, 900 men now idle under the trust
| system have right to insist on imme-
! diate employment at the wages offrom
81 to s. day shown in all the Repub--
lican tables of statistics; and as they
have been told ten thousand times over
that every other class in the commu-
nifty exists and should submit to dis
elimination for their benefit and in
their favor, they would be more or
less than human if they did not at
tempt to apply their political educa-
ton to their practical affairs.
! The financial and business condi-
tions Of the country are unnatural and
unsound. It's labor is justly discon-
tented, and its discomfort has been
increased by reckless and shameless
demagogy. Its agriculture is de-
pressed. It's wealth is centralized,
and is being still further centralized
every day.
Such conditions demand the careful
conservatism of the patriotic states
man. If instead of this we have the
methods of Blaine and Raymond, of
| Foraker and Tuttle, the wind the Re-
publican party has sown will be reaped
| In the whirlwind of disorganized social
conditions, an enduring sectionalism,
and financial collapse that will
touch the pockets of those who have
neither hearts nor consciences to be
touched.-St. Louis Republic.
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-12-20
Thurman on the Election.

The following letter from Allen G.
Thurman has been received by Judge
Allen Blacker, chairman of the Demo
cratic County Executive Committee of
FL Paso County, Tex:
COLUMBUS, o., Nov. I6-AlisR BIdeker, ~
Paso, Itr.-My Dear Judge: Thanks for your
kind favor of the 9th inst. regret the result OF
the election, not on any personal account, but be-
cause fear the policy OF our political op-
ponents. As for myself, shall never be a can
d.date for once again, but shall never cease
while live to work for the party, and do not
despair Of It's ultimate success Yours truly,
-. 6. THURMAN"
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-12-20
RUMoRS ABOUT STANLEY.
Fears Entertained That the Great Ex'
ploret Has been Captured.

pioret Has BeeD Captured
toNros Zee. t5.-tn lettsr received at
Suakirn from Osman D;Gna, and which is
supposed to have contained the announce.
ment that Emin Pasha and a white
traveller (presumbly Stanley had fallen
into the hands Of the Mahdi, were enclosed
copies of a dispatch frsD' Dervish leader
at Lado to Khalifa Pasha, giVirg the
date Of Emin Pasha's surrender as Octo-
Der 10 and a letter TO Emin Pasha from
the Khedi7e which ths latter handed to
Henry ~. Stanley when he was at Cairo.
1t is rumoreG thst Dsman Digna in his
letter expressed Willingness to surren-
der Emn Pasba and his white companion
provided Egypt would agree to abandon
Suakim. II this proposal is not accepted
1t is believed that both captives will be
killed.
tn tbs Bduse ef Cenintons this after
noon Mr.. Smith the G6yetni1etit leader,
replying to Mr.. Wilfrid Lawson, said that
so far as was known TO the Government
the letter written by Osman Digna an
nounced the surrender OF Emin Pasha and
q white traveller The Government had no
means of knowing whether those allega-
tions were we'll founded. Along with his
letter Osman Digna sent several Snider
cartridges which, he alleged, were taken
from the white traveller. The Zanzibaris
in Stanley's expedition were armed with
Snider rifles, but there were Zone in the
possession of the Dervishes.
LITTLE DOUBT OF THE CAPTURE.
General Grenfell, the commander at
Suakim, recognized the letter which
Osman Digna had inclosed as the original
one which he had drafted for the Khedive.
Thus Stanley's capture Is virtually placed
beyond doubt.
There can be scarcely any doubt that
the white traveller mentioned as surrender
ing with Emin Bey is Stanley, as every
thing thus far teids tc confirm this opin-
ion. The balance OF opinion among Atri-
can experts has, for some time past, ac-
cepted the theory that Stanley had been
working toward Emin and, il not actually
with him, was near him. Intense Interest
is felt here in the fate of the intrepid ex-
plorer and no one for a moment believes
that the Government will allow his life to
be sacrificed in order to hold 5uskim.
The Emin Relief Expedition Committee
are doubtful of the genuineness of the
nsinan pigha letter. They suggest that
the Khedive's letter may be copy stolen
at Cairo but they think it more likely that
Stanley sent on runners to Emin with let
tiers and these runners were captured.
Usman DiEnn's letter was reply tc
Major Rundle's request of last August fol
news of Emin Pasha. The letter asserts
that the Mahdi has conquered the whole oi
the equatorial provinces. One white man
escaped.
Refugees at Handoub confirm the state
ments made in Osman Digna's letter.
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-12-20
MISCELLANEOUS.

THE Chicago Opera House caught fire
shortly after the audience left ON the night
of the 18th. The fire was confined to the
auditorium and caused damage amount
ing to $4,000.
The AaRHdctarers' Record, of Balti-
more, Nd, gives reports from leading
manufacturers of machinery throughout
the country, the majority being from the
North and West, as to the condition Of
business in their line and the prospects
for 1889. With scarcely any exception
they report that while during 1855 trads
has been good. there has lately been de-
cided increase.
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-12-20
questions

THE corridors of the Interior and
Post-Office buildings are to be used by
troops attending Harrison's inaugura-
tion for sleeping purposes. The ap-
plications for places in the parade are
from seventy-fve organizations, ag-
gregating 10, 900 men-2,00 more than
were in the parade in 1854.
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-12-20
A Ninety Sentence Reduced.

JEFFERSON CrTY, NO., Dec. IA 14-Governor
Morehouse yesterday commu.ed to a
term of ten years with benefit of
the three-fourths law, the ninety.
nine-year sentence imposed upon
Lewis Waller, a negro, by the circuit
court of Livingston County in 1884
for murder in the second degree. The
communication was recommended by the
trial judge, who made written statement
to the Governor that Walters sentence
was cruelty excessive and that he would
have reduced it himself to ten years il the
case had not been taken TO the Supreme
Court and thus carried out Of his jurisdic-
ton.
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-12-20

A BILL has been introduced into the
Senate authorizing the Secretary of
War to have CONSTRUCTED 250 pneumatic
torpedo throwers of the highest power,
capable Of throwing steel torpedoes
charged with 500 pounds of dynamite
a distance of five miles. These pneu-
matte guns are to be used as harbor
dofancac
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-12-20

MADAME BoULANGER in an inter-
view recently denied that she had re-
fused to live with her husband. She
complained that he was trying to play
Napoleon and make her his Josephine.
She then burst into tears and begged
to be excused from answering further
ouoS+iCpc
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-12-20

STREET SUPERINTENDENT WALLACE.
of Albany, N. Y, who discharged an old
soldier from the department and was
convicted of violating the G. A. R.
law, was fined 500 and to stand COM
mitted until the fine should be paid.
This was said to be the first case Of
the nature in the State. An appeal
was taken.
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-12-20

A AGREAT mortality is reported among
the horses at Lorenn, Kan, supposed
to be caused by the dry black ergot of
the corn fields in which they have been
ut.n yiDn
The Brookhaven leader., 1888-12-20
JOHN BRopER1ck, the New York man

JOHN BRoDERICK, the New York man
who received the two thousand dollars
offered by Chairman Quay for the ar
rest and conviction of illegal voters,
has been ruined by his good fortune.
He has turned his wife and children
out of doors, and, upon her complaint.
been sent to prison for one month for
and general disorderly