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The National tribune., 1895-11-07
POLITICAL. NOTES.

The Anti-Tammany papers in New York
speak of ID. B. Hill as ' the second Aaron Burr
of the New York Democracy" One OF the
crimes Tammany is accused of is that Of steal
ing the black lead-pencils from the polling
booths on election day, and either leaving the
booths without pencils. or replacing them with
blue pencils. and pencils the mark from which
speedily fades away. Consequently, all the
papers advised voters to make suro and take
black pencils with them into the booths.
Ex-Gov. Russell, of Massachusetts, has this
to say about the third term: THE Democratic
party viii have no right to demand or expect
campaigns and twice TO victory, will again be
their standard-bea
1t has been pointed out as worthy of investi-
cation that Baltimore, which has $4,000 less
population than Boston, has generally cast
$4,000 more votes.
The Stirling (Ill.) Standard says that probably
few Republicans in the State will object to
solid delegation to the National Convention for
Senator Cullom. 1t wants "strong, clean
ticket for the State in 1885," and has no favor
ties except such will fill this bill.
Senator Quay thinks that COL Lamb of Nor
folk. Va, will be an able successor Of Gen.
Malone as the Republican leader in his State,
and will land Virginia permanently in the Re-
publican column.
1t is asserted that the friends Of Gen. Harri.
son are working to secure the removal of Car
ter from the Craftsmanship of the National
Republican Committee, on the double ground
that he is not friendly to the ex- President and
that he is too favorable to free silver to be in
accord with his party.
Representative Dalzell thinks that Congress
is certain TO make a very vigorous assertion OF
the Monroe Doctrine. IL will Also and of ne.
cessity take some steps 10 increase the reve-
nues.
it is claimed that Chris Magee is opposed to
holding the National Convention in Pittsburg
because then Senator Quay would control it.
which would be inimical TO other candidates
lib an MI. Rnnd
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The Chicago University.

The largest donationfever made to an educa-
tional institution at ono time by one man has
become the gift of the Chicago University
when +. Il. Gates, representing John ID. Rookie.
Teller, announced to the Trustees Of the institu-
ton that the Eastern capitalist had determined
to add 5000, 900 to his alread y-munit icent do
nations. The announcement was made in a
letter from Rockefeller as follows:
GENTLEMEN: will contribute to the Uni
vcrsty of Chicago 81, 100000 for endowment,
payable in 1885, in cash or, at my option. in
approved Understanding securities at their
market value. / will contribute in addition
So, 600, 900 for endowment or otherwise, as /
may designate. ayable in cash or at my option,
in approved interest-bearing securities at their
market value. but only in amounts equal to the
contributions Of others, in cash or its equiva-
lent, not hitherto promised as the same shall
be received by the University.
This pledge shall be void as to any portion
of the sum herein promised, which shall prove
not to be applicable on the above terms on or
before Jan. /, 1900. Yours, very truly,
JOHN ID. ROCKEFELLER.
The Trustees say they have not the least
fear of being unable to raise the full amount,
and assert that the entire S3,000,000 is already
as good as theirs. But even should the Trus-
tees bs unable to raise the 81, 1000. 600. Mr..
Rockefeller's offer will not become wholly in.
operative, for the reason that he agrees to Off
set gifts as fast as they are made up to the
81, 600 600 limit.
Mr.. Rock efeller's generosity to the University
in past years is well known. Not only was he
its principal founder, but his interest in its
welfare has been constantly on the increase
He has already given the institution 81 GOO. 900,
and the additional endowment announced to.
day will swell the total amount to S7,600,000.
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THANK SEWING DAY.
The President Issues a Proclamation Nam
ing Nov 2S.

The President Issues Proclamation Nam
ing Nov. 2S.
President Cleveland has issued proclama-
ton designating Thursday, Nov 2s, as Thanks
giving Day. The proclamation is as follows:
The constant goodness aud forbearance of
Almighty God which have been youchsafed To
the American people during the year which is
just past call for their sincere acknowledgment
and devout gratitude. To the end, therefore
that we may with thankful hearts unite in ex-
tollng the loving care Of our Heavenly Father
], Grover Cleveland, President of the United
States. do hereby appoint and set apart Thurs
day, the 2sth day of the present month of No
vember, as day of Thanksgiving and prayer,
to be kept and observed by ali our people. On
that day let Us forego onr usual occupai IONS and
in our accustomed places of worship Join in rem
dering thanks TO the giver of every good aud
perfect gift for the bouBteous returns that have
rewarded our labors ia the fields and in the
busy marts of trade, for the peace and order
that have prevailed throughout the land. for
our protection from pestilence and dire calam-
ity, and FOR the other blessings that have been
showered upon from an open hand And
with our thanksgiving, let ns humbly beseech
the Lord to SO incline the hearts of our people
unto Him that He will not leave US nor forsake
Nation, but Will continue to us His
mercy and protecting care, guiding us in the
path OF National prosperity and happiness in
DUNG us with rectitude and virtue. and keep
ing alive within Us patriotic love for the free
institutions which have been given to US as our
National heritage. And let also, on the day
Of our thanksgiving, especially remember the
poor and needy, and 10y deeds of charity let us
show the sincerity Of our gratitude
ln witness whereof, L have hereunto set my
hand and caused the seal of the United States
10 be aft xed.
Done at the City Of Washington the fourth
day of November. in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and ninety five,
and in the one hundred and twentieth year of
the independence OF The United States.
(Signed) GROVER CLEVELAND
By the President:
RICHARD oLSEY, Secretary Of State.
The National tribune., 1895-11-07

The 32d annual Reunion and banquet of the
Society were held at Rutland last week. At
the business meeting these officers were elected !:
Pros, Lieut. Henry A. Fletcher; First V.-P.,
Col. F. G. Butterfeld; Second V.-P., Capt. r.
b. Stearns; Treas. and Sec. Lieut Col. +. T..
Smith, Montpelier; Executive Committee +.
f. Smith, J. Ii. Lucia. l.. W. Shedd
In the evening Congressman II. II. Powers,
Of Morrisville, delivered an address at the
Opera House on the general subject Of secession
as one of the great subjects settled by the re-
bellion. He took as his text Gov. Woodbury. 8
now famous statement at Chattanooga that
Northern children should be taught that the
South was wrong. He reviewed tho question
in a semi-judicial and historical way, defend
ing Gov. Woodbury..
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miniature model For this purpose is used
an immense tank 800 feet long. % feet wide
and 10 feet Deep filled with water. Above
the tank and running its entire length is
suspended a platform. On the platform is a
track and along the track carriage runs.
Beneath the carriage floats the model made
wholly Of parafline. OF course, paraffine is
lighter than water. The carriage tows the
model along. and tho power used is registered
with absolute accuracy by dynamometer.
Thus is learned with exactness the speed ut
which the warship represented by the model
will steam with given horsepower.
Great Britain, in fact, has several such tanks,
and similar ones are used for the same purpose
hy France. Germany, and Italy. Secretary
Herbert will try to persuade the next Congress
to appropriate money for building a tank of the
kind at Washington. The cost of it would be
about $4,000. ltwould be cheap at the price.
however. for it would afford a means of testing
all models of proposed vessels in future before
the contracts for their construction were given
out. Thus the Navy Department would know
exactly what might be expected Of every war
ship before its keel is laid. In no other way
is il possible to ascertain closely the speed that
is to be obtained with vessel of known dis
placement. lines and horsepower. Judgment
can only be formed from the unsatisfactory
data furnished by the records of similar ships
already built. Incidentally, the tank makes it
practicable to calculate displacement, draught
and stability.
In a word. the tank experiments make it
easy to determine the best form Of ship to attain
a certain speed. Before the keel is laid it is
known just what the vessel will do, and exactly
what horsepower is required to force her
through the water at given rate. The weight
of her engines being a positive datum, her dis
placement can readily be figured out In the
model only the lines aud rudder of the vessel are
reproduced. Nothing to represent the guns,
machinery and fittings are put aboard. Until
within the last few years. of course, this Gov
crnment has been away behind the age in respect
TO naval matters. Now Uncle Sam has new
Navy, but he will not be really up-to-datc
until he has tank for floating his warships in
miniature
The National tribune., 1895-11-07
Earthquake shocks.

A series of earthquake shocks occurred about
o'clock last Thursday morning over the area
extending from the Lakes TO the Gulf of Mex.
leo. aud embracing the States of Michigan, ILL.,
nois, Indiana. Ohio, Missouri, Kentucky, Ten
nessee, and Louisiana. In most places three
shocks were observed, accompanied by rum
bling noises. in Louisville, KY, where the dis
turbaDces were especially severe they were
preceded by bright-red light in the south
western sky. Over nearly all the territory
mentioned people were aroused from sleep, and
in some cases were thrown from their beds
The guests of hotel at indianapolis were
panic-stricken, aud church at New Albany,
Ind, was damaged. No extensive damage OF
loss Of life is reported from any point.
The National tribune., 1895-11-07
Our Coming Calendar.

The figure 8, which came into the calendar
on Jan. ], 1889, will stay with us Ill years
from that date, or until Dec. 81, 1899 No
other figure has ever had such long consecu-
tive run, and the . itself has only once be-
fore been in race which lasted over cen.
tury-that in which it continuously figured
from Jan. /, SS9, until Dec. 81, 999, period
of III years. The figures Band occasionally
fall into odd combinations, but neither of
them has ever yet served for longer period
than 100 consecutive years in our calendar
since the present mode of calculating time
was established. 1t isaalso clear that from
their relative positions among the numerals
it is an impossibilty forleither of them to APP
pear in date reckonings continuously for o
longer period than century.
The National tribune., 1895-11-07
Worlds Bicycle Record Hroken.

The worlds record for one mile paced with
flying start, was broken by Arthur Gardiner,
at Fountain Ferry track. Louisville, KY, Mon
day. Gardiner rode the distance in Lag 2-5.
This breaks Winders record of LAC Is, made
at Hartford, and is l As seconds faster than
Johnson's professional record. G. L. Coulter
also made worlds record for the three.q quarter
paced flying start. He rode the distance in
liz l-5. This lowers Johnson's record of ]. 81
on the same track in November. 1894.
The National tribune., 1895-11-07
Lincoln Monument.

Tho Lincoln Monument at Oak Ridge Gene
terry, Springfield. H., will have to be torn
down. 1t is too far gone to be repaired, and
besides its construction is such that it will not
admit of repair. Instead of being substantial
pile of solid granite, as external appearances
would indicate, it is rickety structure of brick
veneered over with slabs of granite. This is
the verdict Of State Trustees, who have charge
OF the monument.
During the last session OF the General Assem-
bly, the historic pile was turned over to the
State; $50 600 was appropriated for repairs,
and a law passed making the Governor, State
Treasurer, and State Superintendent of Instruc-
ton trustees OF the monument to caro- for it
and make much needed repairs. When the
trustees set about to arrange for the repairs
they discovered that the magnificent monu-
ment erected to the memory of the great war
President was sham and fraud. What APP
peared TO be huge blocks of granite were moth.
ing but thin slabs laid over the brick. The
monument was completed in. October, 1874, and
cost $206. 800 which amountwas raised by pop
ular subscription.
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an accomplished Oriental scholar. and people

an accomplished Oriental scholar, and people
found it difficult to believe that the scenes
were not penned on the spot, instead of in a
retired dwelling in Derbyshire.
Gen. Lyle wrote his beautiful composition,
Anthony and Cleopatra, " which begins,
am dying, Egypt, dying, " on the night before
his death. lie had premonitiOn that he
was going to die the next day.
''After the Ball, " little poem which has
made the name Of NOrah Perry known in the
world of letters, was jotted down on the back
of an old letter with no idea of the popular
ity it was to achieve in the pages of noted
magazine.
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The National tribune., 1895-11-07
Durrant VIII Hang.

After a long trial full Of sensational features
WIN. Henry Theodore Durrant was last Friday
convicted of the murder of Blanche Lamont.
The jury were out just 20 minutes. aud arrived
at the verdict of murder in the first degree on
the first ballot. There was no recommendation
of mercy, and the only punishment was fixed
at death,
The National tribune., 1895-11-07
Japan's Formulation.

The population of Japan. according to an
estimate sent to the Department of State by
Consal-General McIver, is a., ZOO, 900, allowing
100000 for the newly acquired territory OF
Formosa. Japan has records of her population
going back to the year 6l0 when the number
was 4,99S, $40. This report also calls attention
to the fact that in point of area Japan, since
the FOrmoss acquisition. ranks next below
Spain, and stands about even with Sweden
The National tribune., 1895-11-07
Holmes n Murderer.

Herman Mudgett, usually known as II. A.
Holmes and possessed Of many other aliases,
on trial at Philadelphia. charged with the kill
ing of Benjamin L. Pitezel in that city in Sep
TENDER. 1894, was convicted of murder i'm the
first degree, Saturday. The jury was out just
three hours. The prisoners counsel has made
a motion for a new trial. Holmes is suspected
of AZ least eight other murders
The National tribune., 1895-11-07
California Volunteer Veteran Association

The following officers were elected at the
meeting of the Association at Louisville during
Encampment week: Pres. J. J. Reese; First
V.-P., George +. Porter; Second Y.-P., p. M.
kehoe; Third V.-P., Charles w. Chase; Sec.
and Treas. Capt. Geo. II. Pettis, Providence,
X L.: Asst Sec. and Treas, John M. Nelson ;
Historian, T. o. Timmons; Assistant Historian,
Charles Parisette.
The National tribune., 1895-11-07

How Three Poems Were Written.
Thomas Moore, while writing 'Lalla
Rookh, " spent so many months in reading
up Greek and Persian works that he became
The National tribune., 1895-11-07
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-22
A PRIME NECESSITY.

The great anxiety of the Republicans
of Utah just now, including of course
our morning contemporary, which de-
clares it is mot a Republican organ"
is to gain for their party control of the
Constitutional Convention. For that
they are ready to do almost anything
That was the motive power behind
The tremendous struggle last fall. 1t
means the opportunity to shoestring
this territory in the interest of that
party so as to secure the first state
legislature. That would meanthe cleo
ton of two Republican United States
Senators, and that is the great de-
sideratum of the National Republican
party.
The reason why the Democrats on
Utah have feared the catastrophe OF a
Republican Constitutional convention,
was that it was announced, in the be-
ginning of the campaign, that a parti-
san constitution was the Republican
purpose. The idea of a non-partisan
body to frame a non-partisan consti-
tuition was secuted and opposed. The
exertions made and the money spent
and offered were with that Republican
purpose in view.
The only shoestringing business ever
attempted in Utah was that accom-
pLshed by Republican Commission.
What the party has done the party
may do again. The endeavor. once in
while to intimate that tlle Demo-
Gratis, if in control of the convention.
would do a similar thing in the inter
est of their party, is a Tribuneism;
there is nothing in it. The determine
ton of the Democrats has been and
will be, to prevent anything but a
just measure of districting and a fair
and equitable apportfonment. This
must be according to population and
conGiguilty Of territory. The present
arrangement is absurd and dishonest.
1t was effected first for Liberal advan-
tage, second for Republican advan-
tage when Liberalism should pass
away. Whatever may be the political
composition of the convention-sup
posing Republican obstruction does
4iOL III SkSAIl us BSlIiS IiSlu DIT e1ll-ca
fair, just and equitable districting and
apportionment must be made without
any regard for its probable effect upon
parties.
The convenience of the people must
be before party necessity and honor
able Republicans and Democrats alike
should be determined upon that. There
are men of both parties elected to that
convention whom We believe to be
above all improper motives in such
respects. There are some persons,
however, who would not scruple to re-
sort to any trick in order to accom-
plish party ends, and who will be
ready with plausible excuses for what
they nave in mind They must not
be allowed to rule. The good of the
whole people must be the prime pur-
pose in view
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-22
A LrBELLER STILL.

"Our neighbor SINGS etc, is the airy
way in which the Tribune meets a
complete upset Of it's contradictory
assertions and Illogical and absurd
deductions ON the powers and actions
of the Utah Commission. Our neigh
Dor sings" is good, The Tribune had
better join in the chorus or keep silent
and bite a file.
''Our neighbor sings is no answer
TO the facts which The Herald has pub
lished in reply to Tribune falsehoods
on that question. For instance, the
Tribune. speaking of the former Com
mission, Said
The Commission supplied the Judges
of election with triplicate blank forms
of abstracts, together with postpaid
envelopes. and with specific directions
TO the judges to ill out the forms and
return them Ito the Commission
This was not done by the present
Commission. Why? Was not the pur.
pose to get into the boxes, if neces-
sorry? 1t looks SO.
| The Herald says the present Com
mission did exactly the same as their
predecessors had done from the begin
ming"
They did nothing of the kind. They
lsent out no triplicate abstract blanks
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-22

axe Of justice falls, whether upon DEM
| ocrat or Republican, so that it smites
the really guilty. Are our Republican
friends in the same mind? We are
doubtful about that. There seems to
be no special eagerness to follow the
matter up and fasten it where it be-.
longs. There is a most intense appar-
emit desire to so follow up the canvass
that, if possible, the full details shall
not be brought out. We want the whole
thing ventilated. That is why we favor
a recount where it is necessary, and
the exposure and punishment Of the
criminals for any election crime that
has been committed. Hunt the rascals
| down!
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-22

our morning contemporary is still
in a state of obfustication over the
manner of making up election returns
If the writer OF those contradictory
statements and absurd suggestions
would get copies of tine blanks which
ne says were not sent out but which
were furnished to an the precincts in
the territory, If sober, he would per-
maps get mis- mind out of the tangle
AS it is he succeeds in making an I'm.
holy show of himself, that's all.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-22

1t is a singular fact that while Conser-
vatives are predicting the speedy break
up OF the Literal party, the most recent
''secessicns'' have been all in favor Of
that party. The detection of the Earl of
the transference of a vote in the lords
from the Conservative to the Liberal
SIDE, for the earl has always been classed
the Carlton club. Again, only last month
Sir Thomas Bailey wrote that he would
rot be dragged by Mr.. Chamberlain into
the Conservative party and that he
! should withdraw his support from the
dissentient Liberals. In the same month,
too, it was announced from Cambridge
that two well-known gentlemen there
Mr.. A. W.. w. Dale and Mr.. Charles
Unionist association, the latter saying
that he was not prepared permanently to
associate himself from the Liberal party.
London Daily News.