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THE OKEQON STATESMAN: FRIDAY, JANUARY 7. 1887 11 EASTERN. News of the Week from Be- yond the Rockies. THE DEAD HEBO. ImnnmeBU for Loni'i Fourl- -The Mrs. Logan Fund. Washington, Dec. 2!). The senate committee in charge of the Logan fu neral arrangements met at 10 o'clock this morning, and are still in session. Sen ator Sherman u present by invitation at 1 o'clock. The order of proceeding, bo far as determined upon, was (riven out as follows : The body is to be taken by the committee of arrangements of the senate and house, and escorted by the posts of the Grand Army of the Republic of the district of Columbia, at noon on Thursday, Dec. 30, from the residence to fhe rotunda of the capitol, where it will he in state until noon of the following day, under a guard of honor detailed by the Grand Army of the Republic and the military order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. From 2 p. m. Thursday, till 11 a. m. Frilay, the public will le admitted to the rotunda, passing in at the east door and out at the west. The east door of the senate wing of the capitol will he oined at 11a. in. to those hav ing tickets of admission. THE MRS. LOOAN FIND. Subscriptions to the fund for the bene fit of Mrs. Logan received by Mr. Lemon, up to date, aggregate 125,000. Responses to the invitations sent out by telegraph by Capt. George K. Lemon, asking subscriptions to a fund for the benefit of Mrs. Igan, are coming in rap idly, and at 10 o'clock to-night the total 'amounted to $20,01 a). Nothing has been heard from the committee in Chicago engagnd in soliciting fund, and similar committees are engaged in other cities who have not rejorted results. Mrs. Logan's property is encumbered for nearly all its full value, and the purpose is to raise a sufficient fund to clear it of encumbrance and leave her sufficient to enable her to live in the manner to which fhe has been accustomed. OKK.fiOVM 1 NT EK K.SIM. The Land of I tie, Klamath Not to lie IM iliMPiMlinut.n. Washington, Iec. ISO. With reference to the statement that a commission had lieen ordered to Klamath reservation to confer with the Indians as to the allot ment of land in severalty, the assistant commissioner and other officials say that General Atkins certainly had in mind some other reservation, as there has not leen entertained a serious thought as to the allotment of the lands further than would arise from the general policy of the department. They further say there is no law authorizing the commission to treat with the Kiamath Indians, nor any appropriation to pay the excuses of a commission. Commissioner Atkins is temporarily absent from the department. POSTMASTERS APPOINTED. Within the iast tliree days the follow ing jHjstm.ifters in Oregon have tteen appointed : Franklin T. Dick, LaGrande, vice Joseph S. Shambaugh, resigned; Glendale, Douglas county, James W. Singletary, vice William E. Dean, re moved ; Sirs. Krama Ixosely, Klamath agency, vice Mary II. Emery, resigned. Money Paid the O. T. Company. New York. Iec. 30. The cae: of the Oregon Transcontinental company against Kuhn, Loeb, & Co., in which the former recovered a verdict of SIIJ.OOU, was settled to-day by the payment of f 100,000 bv Kuhn, Ixieh 5c Co. the rea son for such prompt settlement is that one of the menilers of the tirm is to with draw January 1, and, tie fore dissolving connection with the firm, wishes to have everything cleared up. Senator Itolph lew New York, IVc. .'50. Senator Ioljh, of Oregon, was asked to-day how Oregon would stand in 1SXS. Said he: "Mv state will l emphatically republican. In 1SS4 I was a delegate to the national con vention from Oregon and we were in structed to vote solidly for Blaine. I think if the national convention were held to-morrow the same instructions would U carried out again. Blaine is very popular there. I think the repub licans w ill win in the next election. New York is the pivotal state, and wnichever way it iroes the election will go. 1 tie la ler element will be a problem for the democrats to meet and I don't think they can successfully coiie with it. The tem perance vote has reached its highest limit and in my opinion the republicans will not lose as many votes Iroin that as the democrats will from the labor move meat." roarw of 1'eople. Washington, IVe. 31. The sleet storm of last night, which thickly enameled the pavements, gave place this morning to a heavy fog that was almost a rainfall. Two inches of thawing snow and ice which covered the ground made marching and all outdoor exercise things to be dreaded. However great crowus maie ineir way from early morning toward the capitol, to view the remains of Gen. Logan, and the time of Iving in state was too short to irive opportunity for all to pass by. At 11 o'clock the doors were closed to the general public, and while the two ranks of the Grand Army ol the ttepup- hc hied in, the undertaker closed tlie hd of the casket. A belated delegation of friends from Chicago arrived a few minutes later, and the casket was re-opened to enable tlie in to take a last look at the body. At 12:10 the pall-bearers took their places, and conveyed the casket to me senate chamber. Members of the senate and house, the judges of the supreme court, the diplo matic corps, a-d Secretaries Bayard, Endicott, Whitney, and Attorney Gen eral Garland occupied seats. lYesident Cleveland was not able to be present, on account of his rheumatic affection, but the chair assigned to him was left vacant. The seats reserved for the president's familv were occupied by Mrs. Cleveland. Mrs. Folsom, Mrs. Vilas, Mrs. Manning, and Mrs. Lamont. The family of the deceased took seats upon the left front. Gen. Sheridan, Speaker Carlisle, and many other distinguished persons were Present, while the galleries were all Solemn services were bezun by the reading of the 90th psalm by Bishop An drews. Dr. Butler read as a bunal ser vice a portion of the fifteenth chapter of Corinthians. Prayer was offered by Dr. Tiffany, and the funeral sermon was de livered by Dr. Newman. THE PROCESSION. At the close of the funeral oration, a ben ediction was said, and then at the word of tlie occupant of the chair, the funeral procession re-formed in the assigned or der and filed out of the senate chamber. On the plaza to the east of the capitol were arranged the carriages which were to bear the various committees and in vited guests to the cemetery. Behind these were the military organizations which were to form the escort. Lpon the high marble steps leading to the sen ate and house wings, were masses of peo ple who bad been unable te obtain en trance to the building, and who, for an hour or more, had stood exposed to the wintry air and occasional gusts of snow and rain, awaiting the conclusion of the ceremonies in the senate chamber. Headed by the Marine band playing a dirge, the procession commenced its march to tlie burial ground. The long procession was formed in accordance with the arrangements laid down in th e published orders of the day, and no de lays of any kind occurred. At the head of the procession rode Gen. Sheridan, in his full uniform. The Grand Army posts and all uniformed del egations, together with six carriages con taining the mourners, clergy, and pall bearers, preceded the hearse. This was drawn by four spirited black horses, cov ered almost entirely with trappings and cloths, and moved in the center of a hol low square formed bv its Grand Army es cort. The long, double line of carnages closed the procession. Arriving at Kock Creek cemetery, the casket containing the remains was placed in a vault, with the impressive ceremo nies of the Grand Army of the Republic, and the crowd took up their homeward march. The Public Debt. Washington, Dec. 31. Tlie public debt shows a reduction of $,000,000. SKKIOI S CIURGKS. t'liiniiiloilniirr Col mm after the Illiaol Cattle CoiumlMlon. Washington, Jan. 2. Commissioner Colman has written a letter to Gov. Oglesby, of Illinois, sharply protesting against w hat he terms the violation by the Illinois htate live-stock commission of the rules provided by the commis sioner of agriculture to regulate co-opera tion Wtween the general governmentand the states, for the suppression of pleuro pneumonia. He cites rule 10, providing that "all animals affected with contagious pleuro-pneumonia are to be slaughtered as soon after their discovery as the neces sary arrangements can be made," and says "it is notorious that such affected animals were not promptly slaughtered either in the distillery sheds upon the Harvey farm, or in other affected herds." He declares that, despite tlie express stipulation that inoculation shall not be practiced in Illinois, it has Veen permit ted. He calls attention to the provisions that quarantines shall not be removed without due notice to the department of agriculture, and that all necessary disin fections shall be conducted by the de partment, and declares there have been violations of these rules of so important a character they threaten to impair, if not destroy, the value of what is being done in Chicago, and may lead to results so far-reaching and disastrous to tlie wtule country, that he cannot allow them to pass without entering a most emphatic protest. War to the Knife. Cincinnati, Jan. 2. An evening paper says: Henry Watterson, editor of the Iiouisville Courier-Journal, is in the city for an unquestionably momentous politi cal purtiose. He anil Murat Halstead spent the evening up to midnight last nitfht in a close conference, at which the slaughter of Cleveland and the advance ment of r.hiine's candidacy for the presi dency in 1SS8 were considered and digest ed, and a line of policy for the two jour nals marked out. It means, so far as concerns these two journalistic generals, war to the knife against the mugwumps of both parties, and it means the nomi nation and election, so far as their efforts may prove effective, of Mr. Blaine. AI.LKGKII LAM) FKAl'DS. The Ieert Swamp Land Holder in Hot Water. Washington, Jan. 3. The interior de partment is expecting that action will soon te taken on the following cases : In November the department recommended to the attorney-general that a suit both civil and criminal, be instituted against John F. Miller for unlawful inclosure of upwards of 10,000 acres of government land situated in Klamath count-. The basis of the recommendation of the suit is a report made by Sjecial Agent Mc Cormick. Tlie agent states that within this tract six desert land entries have len taken, one by Miller, one by his brother, one by his sister-in-law, and the others by members of the family or im mediate friends. That for the most part Miller procured the application affida vits and in all cases paid the entry fee, the natural inference being that as soon as the title was secured the tracts would all pass into Miller's hands. These and other showings by the agent have decid ed the department to hold up these en tries for cancellation. frauds in grant county. A civil and criminal suit has also been recommended against one Wilson and Charles G. Alexander, for the unlawful enclosure of fifteen thousand acres of government land in Grant countv. The land is in the vicinity of Warner lake, six Himwin.1 aTM nf whieh are heini? held as sw amp. Agent McCormick states that within the tract, twelve entries have been made, four having been by Alex ander, and the remainder in bis direct interest. A patent has already been iutiAil in Alexander for rre-e motion . while he has filed on the other lands un- Hor the homestead, timber culture, and . 1 aiur mr TK aownt fnrthne atatM that be has ascertained that Alexander" had previously filed on homestead and pre emtion claims in the Stockton, California, land district, and that the government had issued to him a patent therefor. John Roach Dying;. New York, Jan. 3. It is known that for some weeks John Roach, the great shipbuilder, has been confined to Lis house in gradually failing liealth. Ac cording to his own desire that his friends should not be needlessly alarmed, and apprehensive of the effect upon him of learning the real nature of tlie disease from which he is suffering, his family and physicians have been reticent in re gard to his condition. Mr. Roach, how ever, now realizes fully the impossibility of recovering, and a reason for conceal ing no longer exists. In view of this fact, a representative of his family to night made the following statement: Mr. Roach is beyond the reach of medical help, save in alleviating his sufferings, which have long been intense. His dis ease is epithelioma, and its development has been very similar to the case ol uen. Grant, the location, however, being the roof of the mouth instead of the throat. A FEARFTL wreck. Collision of Two Trains, and Frightful LaM of Life. Tirnx, Ohio, Jan. 4. The fart train on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad which left Washington at 9 o'clock yesterday for Chicago, with five cars and four sleepers, all well filled with passengers, collided with the east-bound freight seven miles east of this city, about two o'clock this morning. Tlie fast train was about fifty minutes late, and was running at a rate of sixty miles an hour. Passing Repub lic, a small station, like a Hash, they rushed along to a curve a mile west of the flace, when suddenly the engineer saw a reight train under full headway within 100 yards of him. He at once applied the air-brake and reversed his engine, but it did no good, and the next instant the crash came, telescoping the cars and piling them upon each other. To add consternation to the horrible scene, fire broke out in the smoking car, and soon spread to the other cars. Many were killed outright, while others were wedged among the broken cars. Slowly the cars were consumed by the flames. The screams of the wounded and dying were heart-rending, but no assistance could be given until the farmers, awakened by the crash, came, and, with their neighbors, worked like heroes to save the perishing. At ihis writing, nineteen dead bodies have lieen recovered, and they lie, burn ed and disfigured, in the snow beside the track. Help was sent from Republic and from this city so soon as the news was received. It is a fearful sight, and re calls the Ashtabula horror ot the winter of 1877. It is impossible to give the names of the killed and wounded, at this time. The cause of the disaster is as yet unknown. THE BLAME NOT CERTAINLY FIXED. Cincinnati, Jan. 4. The Commercial Gazette's Tiffin special rejiorts a diversity of opinion regarding the real cause of the accident. Tlie reports agree that there was carelessness on the part of the railroad employes, but whether the blame should attach to the freight or the pas senger crew is a matter of conjecture. A thorough investigation will be made. The coroner has taken charge of the dead. The Commercial s correspondent gives seventeen as the numlsar who were killed, and says that out of fifteen passen gers in the Bmoker not one escaed. Sharkleford' Work. Washington, Jan. 4. Special Swamp Land Agent Shackleford, who was lately summoned here on matters connected with Oregon lands, has gone to Florida. The land office leing asked whether his errand is fraud or oranges, replied both." Bearing in mind that Shackle- ford's summons here was made on his re port that he had discovered fraud in the certification of Oregon swamp lands by a former agent and that said former agent had been removed by the department owing, in part, to ins alleged previous misdealings in rlorida, the present er rand can be surmised. The Kxprettft ItollerlNentenrel. St. Loris, Jan. 4. At 2 o'clock this afternoon the grand jury handed in their indictments against the express robbers Wittrock and Haight to seven years, and Weaver to five vears in the penitentiary The prisoners will at once te taken to Jefferson City. Another Railroad Wreek. Springfield, Mass., Jan. 4. Mittin eague station was the scene of a frightful t.iilroad accident at an early hour this morning. The "Modoc" train from Al bany approached the depot at an hour behind time, and running at a rate ot about thirty-five miles per' hour. When within a few rods of the depot five or six cars in the train were thrown from the track by a broken W heel under the bag arage car. The train consisted of the en gme, express car, tiaae car, smoiting car. a day coach, and two sleepers. The engine and express car kept on the main track, but the baggage car was thrown against the engine of the local west bound freight, which had just pulled in and was Btanding on the west-bound main track, lhe freight engine was thrown on its side and completely wrecked. The baggage car, smoker and day coach immediately took fire and were consumed. When the cars could be searched the charred remains of a man burned to a crisp were found, the only means of identifying him being by the letters "U. S." on his cap. An hour later half of the remains of the burned corpse of Mr. Jenks, of Ludlow, was found. The loss of life would have been much larger if the sleeping cars had not escaped. FROM HER SISTER. Mrs. Cleveland had already quite large library, but she will have to have the shelves enlarged now. The most costly and beautiful book she has re ceived comes from her sister-in law, Miss Rose Lhzabeth Cleveland. It is an illus trated copv of Coleridge's "Ancient Mariner." There were some pretty verses on the back leal by Miss Cleveland. Mrs. Cleveland seems to prize this present above any she has received. Philadel phia Times. PACIFIC COAST. News by Telegraph from West of the Rockies. Harder at. Fort BklwelL San Francisco, Dec. 29. A dispatch received from Fort Bidwell to-day states that an unprovoked murder occurred in a saloon at that place Christmas night. Harry Reed asked James Rinn to step outside of the saloon and as Rinn was about to do as requested Reed shot and instantly killed him. In the confus ion that ensued Reed left the place, stole a horse and escaped to the mount ains. A reward of $1000 has been offered for his capture. Htbba Foand Gollty at Lant. Lxwiston, Dec. 29. The jury, after be ing oat three nights, came in this even ing with the following verdict: Upon the indictment for forging postal office or der No. 22,773, Hibbs is acquitted ; for forging postal order No. 22,768, he is guilty. The judge fixed Friday, Decem ber 31, to pronounce sentence. Death of a Prominent Banker. Sax Francisco, JDec. 29. Peter Bath er, a well known banker of this city.died yesterday afternoon at his residence in Oakland, after an illness of three months duration, lie came to California in 1850 and embarked in business as a money lender, and soon atter established the banking house which bears his name. The bank has never been incorporated, and owing to this fact serious complica tions may arise, as the bank was in the eyes of tlie law Mr. Sather's private property and he a trustee of the monev deposited in it. Under these circumstan ces no money can be withdrawn until an order is issued by the superior court. Mr. bather has been twice married and his second wife survives him. He was a native of Norway, seventy-five years of age. Rumored Railroad Sale Denied. San Francisco, Dec. 29. It was semi officially announced a short time ago that the terms of sale of the South Pacific Coast railroad to the Southern Pacific onipany had been agreed uion,and that the transfer would be made early in the coming year. Senator J. G. Fair to-day denied this. He said: "The road has not been sold or bargained for. My price was asked by the Southern Pacific com pany and I named it, but they have not offered me my price and there has been no sale." Official Announcement. San Francisco, IVc. 29. General Su perintendent J. A. Fillmore, of the Southern Pacific company, has issued an official announcement of the opening of the California tc Oregon to Fdgewood, which is to take place on January 1. A Defaulter. San Francisco, Dec. 30. Frank B. May, cashier for J. C. Johnson A Co., harness makers, of this city, is reported to be a defaulter. Tlie fact has been kept from the knowledge of tlie public, and.it is not known w hen the defalcation was discovered or where May is at present. The amount of the shortage is traced at 10,000. The- members of the farm de cline to sjieak of the matter. Michael Davltt Married. San Francisco, Dec. 30. Michael Dav- itt, the well-known Irish home-rule lead er, was married this morning, to Miss Mamie Yore, at Oakland. They leave early next month for Ireland. To Kalae the Itentlejr. Albany, Or., Dec. 30. Capt. Smith, of the steamer N. S. Bentley, received or ders to-night to watch the boat, arid, as fast as the falling of the water would ad mit, to cut the sacks and let the wheat go adrift. After the freight is all taken out the boat will le raised, and the dam age ascertained, and, if possible, the boat repaired. The managers hoe to have her on the route again within sixty days. feaandera'n Life In Texan. Albany, Or., Iee. 30. J. I Hill re turned home to-day .from a three-weeks' trip to Texas. While there, he had an interview with S. Saunders, father of W. W. Saunders, in jail here, who lives in Bonham, Fannin countv, Texas. He also had an interview with the sheriff of that county, who informed him that Wirt Saunders never was a cowboy, except when he drove up his father's cows ; that he never kil'ed a man there, but was a confirmed opium eater. He committed forgery, and, getting bonds, fled from the state, leaving his bondsmen to v the bill. They also contradicted many other 11 . 1 I 1 stories wnicn were ioih ani sworn u mir ing the trial here. Failure at Medford. Jacksonville, IVc. 30. A. L. John son, proprietor of the Medford bank and publisher f the Medford Monitor, made an assignment to-day. Hit liabilities are placed at $3."0. Inducing Immigration. Sn Francisco, Dee. 31. J. K. Shep ard, immigration agent of Oregon and Washington territory, will leave to-mor row for a month's stay in the southern part of the state, where he goes to induce travel and immigration northward. He will take a liberal supply of printed mat ter, describing the advantages of Oregon and Washington territory, with him and distribute them freely at all the leading hotels, railway stations, and public places in the different cities he visits. His pnn cipal endeavors will be made at Los An geles and San Diego. Reported Failure a Canard. Medford, Dec. 31. My reported fail ure is a canard. Please correct the false statement, A. L. Johnson. The Albany Bridge. Special to the Statesman. Albany, Jan. 1. This morning, the 260-foot draw of the O. P. railroad bridge at this city was completed, and at 11 o'clock the ponderous structure was swung slowly into place. The machinery worked admirably. The work of laying stringers, ties, and rails, is all that delays trains from running into this city. This will be done in a few days. This is an important step in the build ing of the Oregon Pacific railroad, as by the laying of a few rods of track connec tion will be made with the O. AC.R.E., mad all necessity of re-handling of freight from central and southern Oregon towns at titis place will be obviated. Running of regular trains between this city and the Pacific ocean will only be a question of a short time. The time occupied in the first swinging of the draw was only seven minutes with two men occupied at the task. It was subsequently during the day opened sev eral times to allow boats to pass, and each time the working was entirely satisfactory. This is the only draw bridge in activei operation in the state. The swinging of the draw was witnessed by a large crowd. Not less than 2,000 people have to-day visited the completed struc ture. Boy Drowned. Special to the State: Albany, Jan. 1. A 9-year-old son of A. A. Roberts, of this city, while fishing with another boy, this moraine, was drowned, in the Willamette. The cur rent was quite swift where the accident occurred and the body was carried down rapidly. The body has not been recov ered. The boy wore a blue flannel shirt and laced shoes. A reward of $25 is of fered for the recovery of the body. Starring- People of Taxaa, Fort Worth, Tex.. Jan. 2. The Gazette published to-day an official report of a convention of county judges from conn ties in the drought district in Texas, held at Albany, in this state. Twenty- one counties were represented in this con vention, lne total number of people in those counties now in need of food, cloth ing and fuel, is placed at 30,000, while thousands more are without seed to plant during the coming year. An appeal is 1 . .1 . - . I . ! , ' I A uiu io me state anu national legislatures and to the country at large to furnish at once i.jOO.000, to relieve immediate wants. Mr. Ladd' Profeesorthip. Sam Francisco, Jan. 2. The board of directors of tlie Presbyterian Theological seminary announce that the 150,000 for the endowment of the third professorship of the seminary has been finally secured. Several years ago Kotiert Stewart of New 1 ork, donated $.),000 for the endowment of a first professorship, the second $50,- 000 was soon obtained, and a few months ago W. S. Ladd, tho wealthy banker of Portland, Oregon, donated the same amount for a third chair. The board al so announce that Dr. Lmdsley, of Port land, has accepted a call to tlie professor ship endowed by Mr. Ladd, that of prac tical theology. This professorship has also been named after Mr. Ladd. Wheat I loom. San Francisco, Jan. 3. The wheat market opened fctrong and higher this morning; buyer season opened at $1.68. It rose to $1.70, when the market became very excited, and heavy transactions were made. In the afternoon wheat gradually de clined and closed at $l.G8fu. Buyer sea son barley opened at $1.15)g, and closed at $l.li4. Fatal Accident. San Francisco, Jan. 3. Ernest Roe ber, a carpenter, 27 years old, while at work on a staging to-day in front of the house, No. 2017 Bush street, was instant ly killed by a bundle of shingles falling upon him from above. Tlie shingles struck him en the back of the neck, and fractured the vertebra. WINTER CARE OF A LAWS. Tlie old fashioned way in this country, before the advent of the cheap mowing machine, was to cut the grass with a scythe only two or three times during the summer. This left in autumn a mass of tall grass, that acted as a protection to tlie roots of the grass during the ensuing winter. Under the present method, close cropping of the grass is usual, and we know nothing that tends to set off the home to better advantage than a nice, closely shaven, green lawn. But in the end, this means exhaustion to the roots of the grass, and something has to be done in the way of protection to the crowns, as well as the fertilizing and re cuperation of the soil. There is nothing better for this purjwse than covering the grass with stable ma nure for winter. This should not be too thick just enough to fairly cover tteing sufficient. Care should lie taken to have the manure fine and evenly spread over the surface. Where the soil is sandy and poor, a top dressing of clayey earth is lieneficial. It liecomes disintegrated by the action of the frost, and is ulti mately incorporated with soil, and great ly improves it. Lawns protected in winter become green with renewed growth two weeks earlier in spring than rioor, neglected ones. Tlie liquid from the manure coating is a wonderful stim ulant. Prairie Farmer. A LIBERAL MAN. A Baltimore capitalist who paid $180,- 000 for 300 acres of Alabama coal lands was lately waited upon by a stranger, who said be lived near the purchase, and added : "Now, sqnire, I want that ar land to nmkc a farm for my two boys, and I'll make you a liberal offer. " "Well, state your price." "I" i irive ye plump $3,000 in cash, and 1 don t care how soon you make out the paiM-. Considerin' the fact that the Kill blasted parcel is full of coal, which has got to be hauled off and tumbled into the river, to he got out of the way, I'm givin ye the biggest kind of a bargain." AFTER HER HIMSELF. He entered the office of a capitalist on Arapahoe street the other day and in quired : "How much would a vein of coal half a mile long, a quarter of a mile broad and fifty feet thick be worth 7" "I should say $25,000, but if you want more exact figures, and wiu give me the location. I tli ink I can" "Oh, no. you can't, colonel," interrupt ed the quiet man. 1 am going to marry her myself as soon as the cars can take me. out there." And be bustled out as if fearful the capitalist might locate the widow and the I spot. FOREIGN. Record of News from OTer the Atlantic 'Want Lord Randolph Back. London, Jan. 2. The Post, in announ cing that Goschen has agreed to succeed Lord Randolph Churchill in the leader ship of the house of commons, expresses the fear that the appointment will lead to the abandonment of the tory demo cratic policy upon which it is necessary to fight the conservative battle. The Post again urges upon Lord Salisbury the imperative necessity of seeking some means to regain Lord Randolph, even if Mr. Goshen's acceptance be final. BILL SYE'S BUDGET. KCCKNTRICmKS OF GENII'S. Alfonso' Quartern unit Dowdell, Fru menti, Ohio, writes to know something of the effects of alcohol on the brain of an adult, being evidently apprehensive that some day he may become an adult him self. He says : "I would be glad to know whether or not you think that liquor stimulates the brain to do better literary work. I have been studying the personal history of Edgar A. Poe, and learned through that medium that he was in the habit of drinking a great deal of liquor at times. also read that George D. Prentice, who wrote 'Tlie Closing Year,' and other, nice poems, was a hearty drinker. Will you tell whether this is all true or not, and also what the effect of alcohol is on the brain of an adult?" It Is said on good authority that Edgar A. Poe ever and anon imbibed the popu lar beverages of his day and age, some of which contained alcohol. We are led to believe these statements because they re main as yet undented. But Poe did a great deal of good in tlie way, for he set an example that has been followed ever since, more or less, by quite a number of poet apprentices who emulated Poe's great gift as a drinker. These men, thinking that poesy and delirium tremens went hand in hand, became fluent drunk ards early in their career, so that finally, instead of issuing a small blue volume of oems, they punctuated a drunkard's grave. So we see that Poe did a great work aside from what he wrote, lie opened up a w Ay for these men w hich eradicated them, and made life more desirable for those who remained. He made it easy for those who thought genius and ine briation were synonymous terms to get to the hospital early in the day, w hile the overworked waste-basket might se cure a few hours of much-needed rest. George D. Prentice has also done much toward weeding out a class of people w ho otherwise might have become disagreea ble. It is better that these men who write under the influence of rum' should fall into the hands of the police as early as possible. The police can handle them Deuer man me euiior can. Do not try, Alfonso, to exteriment in this way. Because Mr. Poe and Mr. Prentice could write beautiful and witty things between drinks, do not, oh, do not imagine that you can begin that way and succeed at last. The effect of alcohol on the brain f an adult is to congest it finally. Alcohol will sometimes congest the brian of an adult under the most trying and discour aging circumstances. I have frequently known it to scorch out and paralyze the brain in cases where other experiments had not been successful in showing the presence of a brain at all. I hat is the reason why some people love to fool with this great chemical. It revives ineir suspicions regaruing uie presence of a brain. The habits of literary men vary a good deal, for no two of them seem to care to adopt the same plan. Iast summer 1 wrote a large poem. entitled "Moanings of the Moist, Malar ious Sea." 1 have it still. The back of it has memoranda on it in blue pencil from the leading editors of our broad and, otherwise it is just as I wrote it. 1 am now preparing a poem entitled "The Umbrella." It is a dainty little bit of verse, and my hired man thinks it is a gem. I called it "Tlie Umbrella" so that it would not be returned. All poets do not revel in such gaudy trappings as I do, but I can not write well in a hare and ill-furnished room as I have mine. You might, of course, suc ceed as well by writing in a plainer apart ment, hut 1 could not. All my poetical work that was done in the cramped ami plainly furnished room that I formerly occupied, over Knadler's livery-stable. was ephemeral. It got into a few of the leading auto graph alliums of the country, but it never got into the papers. I would not use alcohol, however. I'oe and Prentice could use it, but I never could. After a long debauch, I could al ways work well enough on the street, but I could not do literary work. (Chicago Rambler. A RELIC OF THE WAR. An ugly war relic unexpectedly devel oped in tlie saw mill of the I'aditnah lumber company, at Padocah. In cut ting a huge cypress log, which was culled from a raft of timber just out of the Ten nessee river, the saw grated upon some substance which threatened to demolish it before tlie machinery could be stopp ed. Investigation found an eighteen- pound loaded liombshell imbedded in the log, in which the saw had traced a cut a third of an inch deep. Nothing outside of the log indicated where the shell had entered, probably twenty-five years ago, the bark remaining smooth and undisturbed. The lettering and fig uring on the leaden plug to the shell, through which the fuse passed, are still as plain as ever, and shews that the fuse was clipped to burst the bomb at 1,2000 yards. It is probable tlie historical battle-field of Shiloh furnished the projec- tila aa ha Ikui thnirrltsnt Plttuhflftr . ... .. . . a . i lanuing ana onnoa neuis were unuij tu solid shot, grape and canister being this day pointed out to .the visitor, tu bed ded and In some cases hardly vfcsW in the hnra old tree which dot tb - guinary fields.