, 1888-05-03


Roehambeau, Duportail, D'Estang
and DeGrasse. La Fayette will be
the chief figure and the others viii
be grouped around him on the pc
destal. The statue is be completed
in two years. All republics are not
South California is trying a pen
sion experiment The Legislature
created a pension Board and voted
So per month to all disabled Confed-
crate veterans. 1t was estimated
about $4,000 per year would foot
the bill, The beard went at work
and already the applicants passed
viii absorb S2OO,o00 per year. and
only half Of them are in. The Lead
ing Confederate soldiers are already
beginning to aGitate for a repeal of
the law, in order to save the State
from bankruptcy. This pension bus-
mess is costly affair to handle care-
lessly, and the Southern States
would better let it alone.
The recent session Of the Legis-
lature passed law demanding the
railroads OF this Territory shall be
assessed and taxed ii the same man
ner as the people are assessed and
taxed. This sounds very we'll and
viii no doubt tickle the fancy of
some; but We observe that every
lawyer in the Territory has differ
ent idea Us to what the law really
means. The railroads own fran
chises, rolling stock and railroad
rights which the people have not,
and, therefore, it is difficult to assess
them IN the same manner as individ
ual property. The Iamented Legis-
lature repealed the gross earnings
railroad laws, but enacted on good
substitute for if-ReUeiile.
a large number of opinions fur
nished by prominent republicans in
Maine aud New England generally
were published recently in the Bos-
ton papers. They express the belief
that nothing can prevent the nomi-
| ton OF Blaine, and that his name
will be carried by storm through the
convention and that his arrival will
be the start Of hurrah that will
keep up during tho entire campaign.
It is further predicted that in ten
years New York wheat growers will
cry louder for protection against
Canada than the wool men do now.
Some hunpred opinions are given in
ell. They are enthusiastic for Blaine
and it is the unanimous belief that
| AR GlnTu1onI ,r,ll - For COO
ond term.
Moro than half the population of
the city of New YGrk 1--we in tene.
ment houses. There are 10000 of
them reported in she official statistics
as very bad" In one block on the
east side there are as many people as
you would find in a country village
stretching over several hundred
acres Of land. Between two avenues
and two streets In one district are
5000 or 1000 souls. This in itself is
not Objectionable; for the same space
if built up with apartment houses" j"
such rs we see iu other quarters of
the city, might afford to much
lager number of persons even luxu-
rious privacy; but these tenements
are only ordinary houses. In some
rooms you will, III daytime, see matt
res-es piled up till they touch the
top of the ceiling; at night when the
'boarders" stream in from their
d:y's work, these mattresses are
taken down and spread over the
floor, touching each other. Forty
five people sometimes sleep in one
room.
Should republicans make Judge
Gresham their presidential candidate
this year one of the three romantic
stories which found their way into
American politics would doubtless
play a prominent part in the CAM
palgn. This story is to the effect
that during the war of the rebellion
Gresham, then young colonel un-
der thirty, being stationed with bis
regiment at post where there was
no chance for any fighting, heard the
guns of one of the battles before
Vieksburg. and without orders
marched his men into the thick of it.
For this breach of discipline young
Hotspur was deprived of his sword
and put under arrest by his superior
officer. General Grant, however. on
hearing the circumstances, placed
once more at the head of his regi-
ment, gave him plenty oil fighting to
do, and soon made him brigadier
general. 1t is easy to imagine what
enthusiasm this story would awaken
if told in a nominating speech at a
national convention.-Er.
In paying tribute to Roscoe Conk-
ling, the Chicago Journal says
"One fact in Mr.. Conkling's public
life stands out conspicuously and tc
his lasting honor. He grew poor, moi
rich, in Office. at time of general
decentralization produced by great
war and its results, when men of po
litical prominence and influence
Congressman and other oificlsls be-
came millionaires. or at least ten oi
great wealth, ic few years, he lived
upon his salary as a member of Con
gress. enlarged by such strictly legit
| innate professional fees as his atten-
ton to every public duty enabled
him to earn. He was not time
server, a whittier, nor corrupt. He
was encased in honesty, and it wa:
his bright, particular virtue. In thi:
respect be will always be a model fol
the public men of the country, whose
opportunities may be as great 3;
their temptations, and to whom
crooked courses may appear easier
and more profitable than those which
are direct, but are rugged and toll
some to him who travels them"
MORE OF THE ANCIENT MANNERS
Last Sunday mention was made OF
two of the oldest coasting matelots
who had been simultaneously upon
the Sound. but unintentiously omit
ted a brief notice of the younger
captain. James MeIntire, of the
ship Richard III, is native OF Argy-
1 IL OF ia.