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Third Iowa volunteer cavalry, which he had
raised, and joined tho Army Of the South
west. Ho commanded a brigade in the battle
of Pea Ridge, took part i'll the Arkansas
campaign of 1862, and on July 10 led tho
Third brigade of Steele's division. From
Jan. IL, 1868, until April he commanded the
district Of eastern Arkansas. Then he took
charge of the Second cavalry division Of the
Army Of tho Tennessee. He was chief Of
cavalry at the siege Of Vicksburg, led the adj
vance in Shernan's movements against john
stou and defeated Jackson at Canton July
II, 1868.
On jan. s. 1864, he was made brigadier
general for especial gallantry,n and shortly
afterward was given command of western
Arkansas and the Indian territory with the
Third division Of the Seventh corps. Fort
Smith, its headquarters, was the resort of
adventures, and drunkenness and theft pro-
vailed among the troops to an alarming e2-
tent. Gen. Bussey succeeded in breaking up
corruption and restoring discipline in short
time. III March, 1866, he was breyeted
major general After the war he resumed
business US a commission merchant, first in
st. Louis and then in New Orleans. He was
delegate to the Republican convention Of
1868 which nominated Gen. Grant for presi-
dent, was for six years president Of tho New
Orleans chamber Of commerce and chairman
of committee of that body that obtained
from congress tho appropriation for Capt.
Eads' ietties at the mouth Of the Mississippi.
In 1881 ho went to New York and engaged in
business there
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Before left Chicago the newspapers were
filled with runlors of impending war between
Germany and France. I was anxious to
observe tho conflict if It was to occur, but
reports maie ono day concerning tho be-
ginning of hostilities would be contradicted
the next, and it was not till reached Helena
that tho dispatches lost their doubtful char
acter, and later became of so positive ma
ture as to make it certain that the two ma
tions would fight. I therefore decided to cut
short my tour Of inspection, so that could
go abroad to witness the war, if the president
would approve. Having received word from
Gen. Sherman that there would be no objec-
ton to my going to Europe, I began making
arrangements to leave, securing passage by
tho steamship Scotin.
President Grant invited me- to come to
see him ut Long Branch before should sail,
and during my brief visit thero he asked
which army I wished to accompany-the
German or the French I told him tho Ger
man, for the reason that I thought more
could be seen with the successful side, and
that tho indications pointed to tho defeat Of
tho French. My choice evidently pleased him
greatly, as he had tho utmost contempt for
Louis Napoleon and had always denounced
him as usurper and q cAarlatan.-Gen.
Philip II. Sheridan in Scribner's Magazine
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visions are complex that tho operators
will fail to observe some of the tcchnicalities
and so raise a dispute about tho validity of
the election.
When the state was now and contained no
large cities, men were allowed to vote any
sort of paper they saw fit, and many cases
occurred OF mems putting tax receipts, pri-
vate notes, etc, i'll the box One well known
citizen actually voted memorandum for
groceries handed him by his wife. In those
happy days the judges put in whatever the
voters handed up, and returned to the owner
any private paper found in the box Written
tickets continued in very general use till
1856, then the fashion of having party tickets
distinctly marked came into notice During
the war and the few years following this
practice became 4 great abuse Republican
tickets were colored red-whte-and-blue and
Democratic spangled all over with flags,
eagles and other cmblcnls.
This YVES "reformed" by law that all
tickets should be Oh plain white paper, and
thereafter the distinction was maintained by
varying the size and shape Then the lcsis-
lature prescribed the exact length breadth
md thickness of the paper there were to be
no distinguishing marks whatever and be-
tween each na1llo and the following there
must be room for the ''scratcherN to write in
other names. This brought in the ingenious
"pas.ci'" Each candidate had his workers
at each polling place with little slipsarransed
i'll books and nicely gumned for the
''scratcher" who did not want to BE- rccog-
nized by his handwriting, to paste over the
other fellows name OIL the regular party
ticket. And 50 the law continued till this
year.
But nov bribery came i'll and beat all laws
In 1868 it began to be whispered that money
was Used ut clcctiolls' Ia 1872 it became d
certainty. IN lSiG The bribery was noto-
rious, and in 1850 worse still So II new law
became necessity; and the Hon Nh
Andrews has exhausted the resources of
craftsmanship i'll compiling statute 10 meet
every device. lts first, aud probably most
important, provision is tliatt the voting shall !,e
done i'll Il room which the voters shall enter
not moro than three at u time, where they
shall prepare the ballots hantlc, them by the
poll clerks ANA III which there shall Ii. no III
quiry, overlooking or electiouecring what
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Denfert- Rochereau and the three days panic
and run on the banks are the latest sensations
in Paris. The public were SO interested that
for two days they stopped talking about Bou-
langer, which shows how deeply France was
stirred, There was q meeting of directors at
which some harsh things were said to the
manager, and he at once went homo and COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself in the head.
NJ. Denfert-Rochereau was most favorably
known for problty and business ability, and
in thirty years business us a banker had uni
formly been prudent; he consented with the
other directors to advance money the cop
per syndicate, and the consequent i.nputatiou
on bis honesty was moro than llo could bear
He was a widower with two children The
directors assert that his suicide was not duo
to criticism, but to tho receipt of telegram
from the Russian government ordering the
Compton d. Escompte to hand over the bal
ance Of the Russian loan, 10000, 900 francs, to
another bank This completed the ruin
Examination showed that the bank had 3d.
o00,00o francs worth Of copper in its ware
house 1t had also advanced "a, ,0O0, 600 francs
on second mortgage on copper, and had guar-
anteed for two years the contracts of three
great mines and agreed to take $4,000 tons
more, In short, its whole capital and re-
serve were embarked in copper when that
metal fell over one-third in price, with a
further downward tendency" The synd-
cate holds 10000 tons Of copper, which cost
it over $50, ,o0Q, 900, and its losses cannot be
much less than s20,000,0O0. Tho shares Of
the Compton, d Escompte fell from 1000
francs to $50 and its affairs will be wound
up, its assets having been passed over to tho
Bank of Franco
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"To tho president of tho Irish !eague-From
n friend of Ireland and liberty" lie had it
sent quietly to tho cloak room, and when the
event had passed out Of tho recollection of
those about him ho sent his son Francis to
examine it, The young man proceeded to
the cloak room, where ho found tho man in
charge pale with anxiety, and who said he
was just about to pitch tho basket out of the
window.
During the intervals of silence he heard
the monotonous ticking inside the basket,
and he became considerably excited. Francis
took the paper from the basket and found in
side q long tin box. Raising the lid the
alarm started, and he had just timo enough
to place his finger over the cartridge of a pis
tol inside when tho hammer descended on his
digit He then dismembered the apparatus
and placed it away carefully, reporting to
his father that it was only pistol fixed with
clockworls, the barrel buried in sawdust sat
urated with oil. Tho young man didn't know
whnt sawdust saturated with oil might mean,
and to him it appeared harmless enough.
knowledge of the whole matter was confined
to about four persons and tho festivities pro-
ceedcd without Interruption to the close.
M<. Egan is small man with yellowisll
gray hair, broad forehead, large head, blue
eyes and smiling lips. In conversation he
inpresses one as having intellectual and cult
ISed intelligence.
This is the secocd time that Mr.. William
Widgery Thomas, Jr., has been appointed
United States Minister to Sweden and Nor
way He was born in Portland, Me-, in 1889,
and is q graduate of Bowdoin college, class
of 1850 Tom Reed was ono of his class
mates. After Mr.. Thomas left college he be-
gan studying law, but he was not admitted
to the bar until later. President Lincoln
sent him abroad, and he was In turn vice con-
sui at Constantinople, consul at Galatz, Mol
davia and consul at Gothenburg, Sweden.
He did so well in his foreign missions that
Secretary Seward conveyed to him the thanks
Of the state department.. He learned the
Swedish language while in Gothenburg and
translated "The Lost Athenian," by Victor
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Here is a picture Of tho steamer Conserva-
once the Madril-ns She lay in the Brooklyn
dry dock before She started for Hay,i to liclp
out Gen Illppolyte. Months "ere spent III
fitting up the Conscrra for tic voyage. Sho
was covered I'LL over with iron plate and her
bow was weighted. After all tho prepara-
tons were made she sailed, and a few days
afterwa1d IL mass of wrcckage supposed to
be her remains was found floating along tho
Atlantic coast
The Conscrva as tho Madrid had an
eventful history. She was built i'll 1857 at
Dulnbartou, Scotland, for Spanish nohle-
man of Havana, Cuba, who named her the
Madrid, and put her in tho trade between
that port and Spain. A little more than
three years ago she was bought by a trans
portation company i'll New Orleans, having
been sold at Havana for old iron. They sent
her north and had her entirely rebuilt at the
ship yards Of John Dialogue, at Camden, N.
j. At tho same time she was fitted with a
now set Of engines by u Philadelphia firm.
She was then taken to New Orleans, where
she was put on line between there and
Aspinwall. The venture not proving profit
ablo sho was seized by the United States
marshal and sold, being bought in by her
mortgages for $500. On Wednesday, Jan.
2, 1889, she was sold by tho Wistars, through
Samuel Holmes, a broker of l24 Front street,
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RHIi,Es sYsTEM--nEAR VIEW OF CoMrART-
MEST.
is in an iuclosurc whcro no "heclcrs," :" 'swork-
ers' or "boodlcrs' can get within fifty or ono
hundred feet of the voter, tho ballots arc all
printed by tho government, so there can be
no trickery in that line, and finally the voter
must exercise some intelligence if he succeeds
in voting his wishes. The annexed cut will
give fair idea Of tho recesscs tlcrisively
called "bathhouse booths'1 to which the voter
retles to do his scratching" If he cannot
read clerk sworn to secrecy must fix his bal
lot for lin. And this is substantially the
system lately adopted in Indiana and cx-
planned below.
Tho greatest novelty, however, is the
Rhines system, voting with Il typewriter,
now under discussion i'll Michigan aud de-
scribed in The Buffalo News. The projectors
claim that this has all the secrecy of the Aus
tralian system, is just rs cheap aud con-
venient, and counts tho votes as they 80 in,
and they explain it in these words:
After an elce,or has been found to be entitled to
vote he goes to the compartment i'll which tho
voting machine is standing. He sees before him
box with cover Raising the cover, which
sounds q bell, u number of rows of keys or but
tons are disclosed. Each row represents some one
party. and each row is Of n different color. On
the face OF each key is the name Of the candidate,
while on tie side Of the key is the name Of the
Office
The voter presses 4 button and it remains down.
1t has pressed against q roll Of paper underneath
mains; clear mark of q figure, which figure is
the total number of votes that particular cani-
date UP to that time has received. He does this
with as many candidates as he wishes to vote for,
each vote being recorded in the same manner.
When lie has voted he shuts down tho lid OF the
machine, the keys are released and the box is
ready for the next voter When the last vote is
polled tho machine has faithfully recorded and
counted every vote, and it only remains for the
inspectors to announce the result.
Of course there are many precautions
against fraud and repeating" The bill pre-
sented in tho Michigan legislature provides
that each candidate shall pay his share of the
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A young gentleman of scholarly mien tho
other day poked his head into tho Office of
A. B. Wilgus e. Co.. and solculnly inquired
of stranger who happened to bo sitting
there, "Aro any of the Wilgi inT' referring
collectively to NJ. Wilgus and his sons, who
are associated in business with him He had
evidently been a student of the classics-at
any ratio he had mastered his Latin gram
mar up to tho second declension.
By tho way, would it not bo a movement
in the direction Of linguistic reform to gen.
orally adopt the Latin plural form for the
English names that end in us, and whose En-
glish plural is awkward7 Then, instead Of
holding caucuses We could hold cauci, and
instead Of kicking up rumpuses we would
kick up rumpi And, judging from some
political events in tho Twin Cities, it might
bo oil tho same whether we say cauci or
rumpi in speaking of such things.-Pioneer
Press.
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Mr.. Allen Thorndike Rice, who has been
made United States minister to Russia, is
quite q young gman for 50 important Il mission.
He was born i'll Boston in 1858. 1t is said of
his ancestors on the maternal side that the
first of the Thorndille family in this country
came over at the same time with Gorernor
Winthrop, and that ono Of his English nss--
cestors, bishop, was banished and driven to
the Cape Colonies for u spirit of liberation
which was regarded as heresy, He wns sub
seQuentlv pardoned and was buried III West
minister Abbey. Two of Mr. Rice's American
ancestors took an active part, officers, i'll
the revolutionary war. His father was n sue
ceSsful merchant in New York, and acquired
q considerable property The Thorntikcs
were also noted Boston merchants, Mr., Ricc's
grcat-Srantitnther being one of the great
shipping merchants of his day. Although the
Thorndikes were originally u Massachusetts
family, his mother, Miss Thorndike, belonged
to Maryland.
When Mr. Rice was 9 years of age he was
taken abroad and remained in Europe five
years, returning 10 America in 1867. In 1871
he went to England and was graduated at
Oxford in 1870 He afterwards St,dio,1 Ia ,,-
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GEN. CYRUS BUSSEY,
Tile Assistant Secretary of the Interior


Tie Assistant Secretary of tho Interior.
His Rise IN Life.
Gen Cyrus Blsssey, who has been appointed
assistant secretary. OF the department Of the
interior is a good type Of the self made man.
Gen. DusseF started out on his career wien
he was Il years of age. He was born, By The
way, in Hubbard county, O., in 1888, and his
father was Methodist minister; conse-
quently lie Was obliged 10 hustle for him
self" AT II, he was clerk in dry goods
store in Dupont, Ind, and at lG, ho was u
prosperous merchant. While he was getting
success in a business way, he managed at the
same timc to put in two or three hours dav
at study, and when he was % he not only had
u good liberal education, but he had studied
medicine for two years with his brother.
In 1855 Mr.. Bussey was elected to the In
diana state senate us a Democrat, and he was
d delegate to tho Baltimore convention t}a+
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1t is probable, to say the least, that fully
90 per cent. of the whole body of tho people
spend nearly all that they earn; of this 90
per cent a portion may, by setting aside a
moderate part OF their small earnings, be-
come tho owners of house, or become de-
positors in u savings bank, or insure their
lives i'll a moderate way; Of the remaining 10
per cent part save enough to protect them
selves against want in their later 5 ears, and
a very small part may become rich, and
then need not work unless they choo se.-Ed.
ward Atkinson in The Forum.
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neaFolis, last September, MIR Thomas was
selected as the orator. This shows that the
Swedish people on this side of the water like
him too.
When Mr.. Thomas was over in Sweden he
ien IN love with one Of the ladies Of tho
Swedish court. and, what is more to the point,
he married her So the Swedish people will
have Il double reason for heartily welcoming
the he" United States minister 10 their
ceuntly.
Col. John Hicks, the new minister to Peru,
WIS born nj .Aflburn, n y, April 70, 1877,
but removed with his parents to Wisconsin in
ISL, lie grew up i'll that newly started
region at Il time when schools aud facilities
for raadin2; We're scarce, ll,t he early devel-
opci a taste for study and at tile age Of -
hal acquired sufficient learning to teach sue
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BALLOT REFORM.
HOW MANY EXPERIMENTS THE ENG
LlSH PEOPLES HAVE TRIED.

First Vira Noce, and Consequent "!ntiin-
itIn:ipn Then Ballots with bribery,
"stuGnt." and Repeating l:llincS
sys:on, l:y observation-disclosures Law.
Ever since voting by ballot began there
has been more or less talk Of "hallot reforln,'
and tho need Of it has coufcssedly grown so
great in the United States within Il few
years past that few old men in the west
have raised their voices in favor of n return
to the system of their youth, namely, ''vot-
ing by word Of mouth" In Kentucky plenty
of old men can remember when the principal
candidates sat by the poll clerks in the lnrgcr
towns, and when voter announced his
ciip:ca tlsn favored candidate bowed with old
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All ballots are to be printed according to
the form shown above hy public authority,
1lose Of the state on red tinted paper, those
Of the county on plain whites the box for
state tickets is in like manner, red ;1ua that
for county and local tickets white. The
Judges and clerks are to be Of different par
ties us now, tho Inspector tho regular town
ship trustee All the names Of all the cAndl-
dates are on one ticket, which will necessarily
be IL sort Of handbill affair; and Inc act goes
50 far as to specify that tho first column on
tho left shall contain the names Of Demo-
cratic candidates, the next that Of Republi-
can, tho next Prohibition and thereafter the
candidates Of any party which shall have cast
per cent. Of the total vote at the previous
election or proved its existence by petition
signed by n prescribed number OF names.
The ballots are printed and preserved under
most stringent regulations against theft all
the mutlnted or doubtful are to be sealed in
bu. and preserved by the county clerk, and
all the others arc to be burned as soon rs the
counting is complete. All those not used are
to lie burned. The voter has n booth TO re-
tire to while preparing his ballot tby striking
out names he docs not Vote ant. il he cannot
read Il cler!, may do it for him under bond of
sccrecy. The penalties prescribed are severe:
anywhere from three months to ten years
imprisonment and fines from 500 upward.
And there are over 100 specific regulations as
to what must not be-
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The Spced of Trains,

Says Professor Hadley: 1.-THE speed of rail-
road trains is restricted within three theoret-
ical limits: First, physical limit of eighty
miles an hour, beyond which it is found im-
possible for train to hold the track, second,
ON operating limit of sixty miles an hour,
which practical experience has found trains
cannot run without much damage to life;
third, commercial limit of thirty miles per
hour, at which, all things considered, it is
found most economical to run q train. ~
Nav York Tribune
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The Loyal Legion had from the start a
slightly different experience, nor are the OBJ
1cctions to it quito silenced yet. 1t consists
entirely of commissioned officers and conse-
luertly encountered ut the first much the
same opposition rs did the 'iOrder of Cincin-
nati'' after the revolution, and some sharp
criticism from private soldiers also But it
has perseSeretl and is to-day one Of tho great
institutions Of the country, with corllman-
derry i'll almost every state and territory, ex-
President R. 3. Hayes being its present com
mander-ilt-chicf, and Col. John P Nicholson,
Of Philadelphia, its recorder-in- chief
On tho 10Th Of April the sixth quatlren-
NAL conference OF this legion will meet in
Cincinnati The congresses, as tho title ndi-
Gates, are held but once in four wears, and
consist of three delegates from eaci com
nandery and tic general Offices The local
communicates Of course meet much oftencr,
and the Ohio connande,y will meet III Gin
cinnati at the same time, having its annual
dinner on the evening of tho 10th at the
Gibson House. As tho local conl1nantery
will entertain the congress tho occasion will
bo one Of rare interest.
Tho veterans have done SO well in civil life
that an assenblage Of great soldiers is neces-
scliIy an assemblage containing many men
eminent III literature, art and government.
The talent Of the country was in the war,
north and south; and in tho latter far more
completely than i'll the former, for the very
sufficient reason that no one was left out for
want Of an invitation. The coming cougress
will include such men as Maj Gen. Lew
Wallace Brighten. John Cochrann, Brig
Gen. VIM. E. Strong of Illinois, Maj Zen
Jacob D, Cox of Ohio, Naj, ]. W. Paddock
of Nebraska, Col James r. Hallowell Of
Kansas, Maj. Hoyt Sherman Of Iowa and
many Others
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been in the railroad
business all his life.
They say that what
he don't kn ow
about railroads s
isn't worth know
ing. He was con-
nected wi t h the
Philadelphia and
Reading 1ailr Dad
for NOR than
thirty. years, and
fort ten years b Q
was general traffic
manager of t h Q
company. He was
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THE CoNsERvA IN DRY poCl

t331 bOG1<.
to hunhardt g. Co, New York. She was
then taken to Brooklyn and remodeled. 1t
was then reported that she was being rebuilt
for the Dominican government but Minister
Stephen Preston, Haytis representative to
this country, believing her to be intended
for Hippolyte, ibeled her. She had already
taken her trial trip, however, and came near
sinking, her seaports having been opened by
some OF her crow, who deserted her as soon
as she returned to the dock. She was finally
released from tho libel and put to sea-