The Eaton Democrat, 1887-06-30

- Cutouts ati, fans 81. To-day the doors of the Fidelity National Bank are closed. When I o'clock arrived, the hour for opening the bank. the doors were shut and admittance was denied to all. Soon a large and angry crowd gathered and then was much excitement. ' All kinds of rumors were abroad. One, and it is known to be oorreet, was to the effect that theU. 8. Bank Examiner - had spent yesterday . and a large part of - last night in going over the - books, and '-' that he had announced that it would be well for Mr. IS. L. Harper, the Viee President and virtual mancger of the concern, to resign. Meanwhile the crowd kept growing larger, .and one or two men began to make threats, and talked about smashing the windows. But soon a detail of eight policemen arrived, and they kept the crowd quiet. One obstreperous individual, who claimed he would lose, every thing should the Fidelity go under, attempted to force the doors of the bank open. He hammered and hammer ed on them and paid no attention to the com commands - mands commands of the police to stop. Finally they were obliged to tear him from the door and pat him on the outside of the crowd where he quickly subsided. . .. - "Have you any thing to say, Mr. Harper!" asked a newsman at ten o'elook as he ap proached the Vice-President of the Fidelity, who was found seated listlessly behind his big desk ont of sight of those who were peering through the bank windows. -"Not a word," was the answer, and then turning his eyes full on the interviewer, betraying ' considerable moisture about their corners, he continued: What can I say 7 You see the bank is closed. Is there much of a crowd ont in front" 'Yea, there are a good many people there, and more eoming." "I think the excitement will be greater in other towns than it is nere, don't yonr "That will be a matter to know of J liter. But, Mr. Harper, what is then in this statement that you wen asked to re resign?" - sign?" resign?" "I haven't a word to Bay." - The newsman then went to Mr. Hopkins, the assistant cashier, and asked the question Mr. Harper had just refused to answer. 'Mot a wore of trutn in it." "What about the depositors. Mr Hopkins f" . "Glad yon men tioned that. Say to them that they will get ev ery dollar, if not to-day or to-morrow the next day. Make It oonsplcuous that they will get every dollar." Mr. Rowland Ellis, the old Bank Examiner for Ohio, said: "It looks very bad. I hear the Government agent has discharged Messrs. Har per, Baldwin and Hopkins from their positions of trust." "How could a Govern Government - ment Government agent discharge thenar ."Why its a Government (depositary - and the supposition is Inevitable from to-day's de developments - velopments developments that tbey have been using the Gov emments funds.- The Government has a preju prejudice - dice prejudice against wheat deals, and wilt be likely to be very severe with these men if they are found to have been in that deal. If they have they have committed a penitentiary offense and an now, depend upon it, . under Governmental surveillance." - . - j Mr. J. K. DeCamp, of the Metropolitan, haa been appointed receiver. At noon to-day came the news of the as assignment - signment assignment of the enormous iron business of E. Lu Harper A Co. to Eugene Zimmerman. E. Zi Harper A Co. controlled perhaps the greatest iron interests ' west of the Alleghe Alleghe-nies. - nies. Alleghe-nies. This includes the Riverside Rolling Mill, at Cullom Station, Riverside, and the ex extensive - tensive extensive works in Newport, Ky., employing thousands of men. Mr. Harper also makes an Individual assignment of his entire property, giving up every thing. He is a ruined man. Every thing he possesses has been turned over to nis creditors. Mr. Harper has transferred twenty-two lots to the Fidelity Bank, and a half interest in two others. However, he can not pay what he owes tne bank in this way. According to all accounts that is e hopeless debt. Joseph W. Wilshire transferred to E. L. Har Harper - per Harper a great deal of real estate situated in differ ent parts of the city on prominent streets. This, no doubt, was done to secur j the bank from any failure on the part of the grantor to pay 11,000,000, whioh he, Wilshire, is alleged to have borrowed without the Directors' consent and conveyed to Chicago. - - . Joseph Wilshire, it is said, has also gone up, He has transferred his property to Mr. Harper, who in turn transfers everything to his creditors. What caused the trouble? is the universal question. It takes only one word in answer speculation, in spite of all denials, in spite of the solemn assertions of Mr. Harper to the contrary the money of the Fidelity ha been used in the great Chicago wheat deal. There is one claim against the Fidelity by, the American Exchange Bank of over $750,- 000, and Messrs. Swift and Lyman, two prominent Chloago attorneys, have been hen for some days vainly trying to straighten out matters, - and in connection with this claim it is found that there was some system of book-keeping by whioh the wheat aeal operations were concealed. It is said that Mr. Hopkins signed Sir. Harper's name to the warehouse receipts, and that these re ceipts were not entered on the regular books as -collaterals, but put together under some other head which did not divulge their true character: Thus the directors of the bank were kept in ignorance of what was going on. A meeting of the Directors was held at TUX) o clock this morning. The Bank Examiner was present and he expounded the law to the Di rectors, and Insisted that the bank should ,be closed until a complete examination of its con dition should be made, and so when the hour came for opening the doors they wen not opened. It was supposed by many yesterday after afternoon - noon afternoon that the bank would have to close, and most of the other city banks kept open until 5 o'clock for the transaction of regular business, so as to give their depositors a chance to get rid oi tneir enecKs on tne inaeiiUM - : Notwithstanding the general knowledge that the Fidelity was in trouble, the Franklin allow ed a naiance oi over (is,uoo against the Fidelity to remain until to-day, whereas they could have had it put through the Clearing House yester day afternoon. One of the direct causes of the straits the Fi delity got into was the withdrawing of a loan of 70,000 which the Queen City had made for the purpose of helping it along. The Queen City has been friendly to the Fidelity and has at various times given needed - aid, but when rumors . of the condition of - the Fidelity - became - serious it con cluded to set on the principle of self-preserva tion, and demanded the return of Its loan. A run was made on the bank, too, yesterday after noon. It did not assume great proportions, but it was sufficient, with the withdrawal of favors such as the above mentioned, to render the Fidelity unable to meet a serious run suoh as would unquestionably have taken Place to-dav. The liabilities of the bank are $5,500,000, and assets about 11,800,000, with but 8900,000 cash on nana. By order of the Comptroller of the Currency bank officials Harper. Baldwin and Hopkins were arrested this evening. They waived ex examination - amination examination and were bound over to the United States Grand Jury by Commissioner Hooper. '

Dr. Akin C. Miller, one of the best known physicians of Cleveland, O.,' dropped dead of apoplexy on the 21st, ' while conversing with two lady patients at the medical hospital of the University of . Wooster . in that city. - Creditors have sued the Suspended firm of Kershaw 8c Co., Chicago brokers, alleg alleging - ing alleging that the firm incurred liabilities far be beyond - yond beyond its capital, and that it unlawfully paid large sums of money to its silent partners when the firm knew itself insolvent. ' A large meteor fell on the farm of Olie Botolson, near Des Moines, la., on the night of the 20th. So rapid was its descent that the roar was deafening. A beautiful trail of light was seen inits wake, which illumi nated the earth for many miles and lit up the scene as would a bright moonlight, . : G. W. Caldwell, a leading 'attorney of Wellsburg, Vs., was run over by a Pah- handle traiu near Steubenville, u., on the 21st and instantly killed. The south-bound express, train had lust left the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Balti Baltimore - more Baltimore depot at Havre de Grace, Md., on the afternoon of the 21st, when it was met' by the north-bound Congressional express from Washington, and a frightful wreck ensued. . The fast express struck the bag gage car of the south-bound train just as it crossed the switch below the depot and crashed into tho parlor car behind, over turning and completely , demolishing two coaches. No one on the north-bound train was hurt, but the south-bound train of six cars was very full of passengers, and near nearly - ly nearly all of them were more or less injured. Alexander Gantrom, of Washington, D. C, was killed outright. . . .. , A fire which broke out in the basement of Holmes & Parmlee's f urnituro house at Leavenworth, Kan., on the 23d, communi communicated - cated communicated to a large stock of fireworks in the store of A. Beiga, which began to explode and the firemen were driven away by whiz whiz-sing - sing whiz-sing rockets, etc Before the fire could be controlled, Cranton's furnishing establish establishment, - ment, establishment, Holmes tc Parmlee's two buildings and the Metropolitan restaurant . were burned, causing an estimated loss of over 8200,000. Mrs. Jacob N. Reese, wife of a well-to-do farmer near Akron, O., was chased by a vicious hull while walking through a pas pasture - ture pasture a few days ago. Her screams brought friends to the rescue, who pulled her over the fence just in time to escape the animal, but she was so overcome with fright that she fell dead into her husband's arms. L. G. Page, a collector for the watar office at Chicago, is missing and his books show a shortage of about 85 JXW. He was a good collector and had the entire confidence of the water board. At Wilmington, I1L, on the 23d the Chi cago & Alton depot and freight house, an elevator, a warehouse, the old City Hotel and a number of small buildings were de destroyed - stroyed destroyed by fire.' Loss estimated at 850,000, with but little insurance. A fire at Columbus, O., on the 23d de stroyed seven large houses stored with ice belonging to Frederick Jaeger, entailing a loss of 817,000; insured tor 84,009. The Chicago express over the Baltimore & Ohio railroad was wrecked at Snowy Creek, near Oakland, Md., on the 22d. An unknown tramp, who was stealing a ride on the bumper of the mail car, was instantly killed, and three passengers and three postal clerks were slightly injured. A bro ken rail caused tho accident. . Three men were killed and two others badly injured by the breaking of a derrick at the Isabella Mine, near Iron City, Mich., on the 32d. - - Reports from Otter Tail County, Minn., state , that grasshoppers are .devastating grain fields, and farmers are threatened with entire destruction of their crops. A Perham correspondent says that within a radius of four miles of that town 5,000 acres of grain have been destroyed. Three persons were drowned in the lake near Kearney, Neb., on the 21st. '. A man named Anderson was boating with two young women, and failing to return late at night, search was instituted. The capsized boat was found and the three bodies were recovered In twenty feet of water. Five men boarded the midnight Grand Trunk train at Fort Gratiot, Mich., going east on the 31st, and "held up" the passen passengers. - gers. passengers. Several lost what money they had, and one man lost 8160. Three men have been arrested and jailed on suspicion. A class of twenty-five graduated from the Ohio State University at Columbus, on the 22d, the largest that ever left the univer university. - sity. university. , Ex-President Hayes addressed the students. The board of trustees have con conferred - ferred conferred the degree of Doctor of Philosophy upon Mr. -B. A. Hinsdale, ex-superintendent of the Cleveland public schools. The man at Salem, UL, who recently con fessed to killing the unknown girl near Rahway, N. J., has been pronounced a crank and released. A destructive tornado visited the regicn of Wilmington, DeL, on the 23d. A large tree fell upon the cottages of George Doran and James Noble, at Bancroft's Banks, two miles from town, crushing the buildings. Mrs. Noble, Mrs. Doran and her son Frauk, aged two years, were killed, and Mr. Doran was fatally injured. The annual meeting of the National Game and Fish Protective Association was held in Chicago on the 23d, delegates being present from Ohio, Wisconsin, Missouri and Illinois. It was decided to take active steps to secure protective legislation in the several States. A peculiar disease among horses in De- Witt County, 111., has killed more than one hundred stallions and mares during the past year. As many more are now affected and have been quarantined. The jury in the Cora Lee case, at Spring field, Mo., after being out sixteen hours. on the 23d reported to the court that they were unable to agree, and were discharged. It is reported that they stood eight for con viction ana four for acquittal. Quinn Bohannon, in jail at Nebraska City, Neb., under sentence of death for murder, placed a duirmy in the bed in his cell on the night of the 23d and made his escape. A large reward isvoffered for his capture, dead or alive. The Capital City Street Railway Company at Montgomery, Ala., on the 23d began operating its cars by the electric motor sys tem. The company has four lines, aggre aggregating - gating aggregating fifteen miles, much of it double traoki The speed attained is from ten to fifteen miles an hour, one motor pulling three leaded cars. James Mi Wsbb, In jail at Kcseiusko,

- Over four hundred Chinese laundry em employes - ployes employes in New York City struck for higher wages on the 81st. They want 84 instead Of 83.50 a day and the washers want 82.50 instead of 83. This, however, is only the hot weather demand. . A few of the bosses of laundries, acquiesced through sheer neoessity. - - . . . - The Clan-aa-Gaelheld a demonstration in the Cooper Union, New York, on the even evening - ing evening of the 21st The hall was draped in mourning sod the ushers wore badges of black inscribed with statistics of Irishmen killed during Victoria's reign of famine, imprisonment and exile. Speeches and resolutions denouncingthe English govern government - ment government were indulged in. - Stephen Peers, s shoemaker residing on the Canadian side -of the Niagara river, crossed the river at Suspension Bridge on the 83d, walking upon a five-eighths inch wire cable. The farm of the late Rev. Henry Ward Beecher at Peekskill, N. Y, has been pur purchased - chased purchased by General Thomas, president of the East Tennessee railroad, who will maintain it as a country- residence. - Ex-Mayor James A. Bradley, founder of the village and summer resort of Asbury Park, N. J., has- published a notice that colored people will no longer be permitted to enjoy the privileges of the beach unless they obey a set of very strict rules pro provided - vided provided tor their conduct. A. . D. Parent, defaulting cashier of the Hechelage Bank, of Montreal, Can., has been arrested at Buffalo. About 820,000 of the 823,000 embezzled by him has been re recovered. - covered. recovered. ; '..,;j:- :;. .. . t. cy Mrs. Jacobs, ; the nurse of President Cleveland, died a few days ago at Caldwell, N. J. Bhe was born in 1805 and for over a year had been helpless, being paralyzed and blind.. . . . . , Mrs. Cleveland presented the diplomas to the graduates of Wells' Female College, at Albany, M. a few days ago, and was chosen a member of the board of trustees to fill a vacancy. She is the first lady to hold that position. . ( - - At the annual reunion of the Army of the Potomao in Saratoga, N. Y., on the 23d, resolutions on the matter of the captured flags were laid on the table. Gettysburg was selected as the place for the next an annual - nual annual meeting, July 1, 2 and 8, 1888, and a resolution adopted that the survivors of the Army ef Northern Virginia be invited to meet with the society. Hon. Chauncey M. Depew delivered the oration in the evening before a large audience. . ' v The Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers adjourned at Pittsburgh on the 23d to meet on the second Tuesday of June, 1888. It was agreed to leave the settlement of the different scales in the hands of the wage committee. An explosion of gas in the ill-fated N anti anti-coke, - coke, anti-coke, (Pa.) mine on the 22d killed John Mc Mc-Adan, - Adan, Mc-Adan, James Kelley, Lotzy Vinosky and Joseph Lessens, and seriously injured three other miners. The trial at Wilkesbarre, Pa., of the Haselbrook eviction .cases resulted. in a judgment being entered in favor of the eyjeted miners, six in number, in the sum of 8300 each, for damages sustained by reason of having their goods and chattels thrown into the roadway. Judgment was also given in favor of the miners for back pay due in sums ranging from 85 to $100. , The company will appeal. - - The Knights of Labor of Boston, Mass., have abandoned the Laster's Union in their fight for a recognition of organized labor in Worcester County. Shoe manufacturers and the tasters win continue the struggle alone. The lock-out has been in force six months and thousands of tasters have been involved. . ;- . A eix story building on Lewis street, - New York City, occupied by Simon Strauss, cigar manufacturer, and William Coffin, shoe manufacturer, was burned on the 23d. Loss 180,000 - . Charles Williams, of Corry, Pa., blew out his brains on the evening of the 28d on his wife's grave in the cemetery at that place. In his left hand was a note saying: "I here end a worthless life.'1 - The suicide was to have been married again at the very hour he took his life to Miss Bessie ' Prentiss..::. - . Matthew Gurne, of Havers traw, N. Y., who was bitten by a dog with which he was playing a month ago, died from hydro phobia on the 23d after suffering great agony. He was sixty years old, unmarried and wealthy. - J - - - ...... Max Marcus, aged fifty years, an adver advertising - tising advertising clerk in the office of the New York Daily Keva, suicided by blowing his brains : out in the business office of that paper on the 23d. He was a victim of dyspepsia. Business failures durin. the seven days . ended Jane 34 number for 'the United States 171, for Canada 26: total 197, as com pared with 218 the previous week and 162 for the corresponding wee It of last year. Joseph B. WiswelL cashier of the Bank - of America, of Philadelphia, was struck by a train on the Philadelphia &, Reading rail' road at Wayne Junction on the 24th and sustained injuries which terminated fatally soon afterwards. The general term of the New York 8u- ' pre me Court has reversed the decision of the lower court against James H. Breslin and Charles N. Vilas, hotel-keepers in the Sunday excise test ease, and they have been - discharged. As matters stand now, sa sa-' - ' sa-' loons must remain closed on Sunday, but botel-keepers may sell liquor to guests with their meals, t us Bretherheed ef Railway Braksmtn

Who is General " J. M. Tuttle, of Iowa? The circumstances that excite public interest in this question are briefly as follows: There is soon to be a large gathering of Union veterans at St. Louis. Prominent citizens, think ing the occasion a favorable one to carry out a resolution which they had formed last year, appointed a delega delegation - tion delegation .to wait on the President and in invite - vite invite him to be present. The commit committee - tee committee went to Washington, extended the invitation and were informed by Mr. Cleveland that if nothing untoward happened it would ' give him great pleasure to accept. When the news of the President's favorable reply was received it made every body feel hap happy, - py, happy, with the exception of .a small band of incorrigibles, of whom " General " 3. M. Tuttle seems to be the self-appointed mouth-piece. ' It threw them into a state of ulceration and the Gen eral on his 0WS and their' behalf imme diately declared that if Mr. Cleveland attended the St Louis eneampment he and his fellows would snub and in insult" - sult" insult" him, for the reason that' they couldn't abide a "copperhead Presi President" - dent" President" Furthermore he denounced and assailed with great energy of jaw both General Cox, of Ohio, ' and Gen eral Chamberlain, of Maine. . . . ' ' Who, then, is this "General" J. M. Tuttle, of . Iowa, - whose over-boiling loyalty takes -such umbrage at the courtesy extended to Mr. Cleveland by the citizens of St Louis P To-day he is an obstreperous member of the legion of Iowa veterans, but twenty-four years ago, when the country was at the white heat of war,, he was the Democratic nominee for Governor of Iowa. Against him the Republicans had placed in nomination William M. Stone. The Iowa soldiers in the field were called upon to say which of these two candi dates they preferred. ' Five regiments voted in obedience to the calL It must have been a trying crisis for the super sensitive Tuttle. - These men were his neighbors. : They had watched his course, studied his character and knew him thoroughly. - Their decision would stamp the qnrlity . of that - loyalty which, after nearly, a quarter of a - century, he ventures to set above the loyalty of soldiers like Generals Cox and Chamberlain. When the ballots -were counted it appeared that Tuttle had received just 49 votes, while his opponent obtained- 1,608. Later on, during the piping days of reconstruction, when the strength of every public man's . devotion to the Union cause was tested in. the alembic of a fierce public opinion, Tuttle chal lenged a second ordeal. Then the gallant Maine . soldier whom he now denounces had just been elected , Governor of . his , native State by an unprecedented majority, and of the enthusiastic convention of soldiers ant sailors . assembled at Pittsburgh on the 25th of September, 1866, General .Cox was chairman. That convention passed resolutions ex pressing joy that the great mass of those who had worn the uniform op posed the policy of Andrew John son. Perhaps it is the memory of this convention that gives edge to the bit bitterness - terness bitterness of Tuttle' s attack on General Cox, for the former was at this very time a delegate r to the Philadelphia gathering of so-called Andrew John son - "Copperheads," and also the "Copperhead" candidate for Congress from the Fifth District of Iowa. - - In the face of such a record, Tuttle's threat to "snub and insult" Mr. Cleve land, and his audacity in accusing him of being a "copperhead President, are the very absurdity of malevolence. tie is an example of a class of men who seek to atone for their doubtful loyalty in the days when the Nation's life was at stake by exhibiting an ex exaggerated - aggerated exaggerated spirit of devotion after the danger and conflict are over. The fraud betrays itself by the excesses to which it goes. The distrust of Tuttle which the Iowa soldiers showed by their votes in the field is doubly justi fied by his past bellum impudence and folly. It is a fair assumption that his heart was not in the cause and that the recklessness with which' he now assails veterans of unimpeachable loy alty is a proof of the dislike which pretender always feels for sincere and

Miss., for poisoning his wife s few days ago, was taken from jail by a mob of forty masked men on the night of the 23d and hanged to a tree near the town.. A disastrous freight wreck on the Mis Missouri - souri Missouri Pacific railroad occurred near Beda Beda-11a, - 11a, Beda-11a, Ma, a few days ago.. Eighteen cars were burned. Loss $50,000. . Bonds and policies amounting to 8175,000 were turned over to Buchtel College, Akron, O., on the 23d by Hon. John R. Buchtel as a commencement day gift. This makes Mr. Butchers donations to the col college - lege college since 1879 over $405,000 ' ' The latest news from Rowan County, Ky., is to the effect that peace has been restored snd no further trouble is antici anticipated. - pated. anticipated. The disposal of the Tolliver trang is regarded with satisfaction, and Is con considered - sidered considered as the vindication of the law at the hands of an outraged people. The National Association of Master Plumbers adjourned at Chicago on the 23d, after electing officers as follows: John Byrnes, of New York, president; John Trainor, of Baltimore, vice president; M. J. Lyons, of Brooklyn, treasurer;- Enoch Remick, of Philadelphia, financial secre secretary. - tary. secretary. The next annual convention will be held in Boston. . The award of prizes in the competitive company drills at Louiaville, Ky., were an announced - nounced announced on the 24th as fellow's: The Mont Montgomery - gomery Montgomery Grays, of Montgomery, Ala., first prize, 82,000; Louisville Light Infantry, second prize, 81,250; Montgomery True Blues, third- prize, 8750. The Montgomery Grays donated $100 to the Masonic Orphans' Home ef Louisville. The Agricultural and Mechanical College at Auburn, Ala., the largest and most valu valuable - able valuable institution of the kind in the South, was destroyed by fire on the 34th, causing a loss of $100,000. At Cambridge, O., on the 34th the Balti Baltimore - more Baltimore & Ohio fast line train dashed into the rear of a freight train standing on the main track. The passenger train engine was de demolished - molished demolished and six freight cars torn to splin splinters. - ters. splinters. Several persons were in the wreck, but no one was fatally injured. The dam damage - age damage is about $20,000. . Captain James Carr, aged ninety-three years, died at Ripley, O., on the 24th. He was born in Pennsylvania and moved, to Ripley in 1707. He was a soldier in the war of 1813, and said to be the oldest Mason in Ohio, having been made a Mason in 1816 at Clairsville (now Decatur), Brown County. conraa xolL a miner, living at North Industry, a few miles from Canton, O., in a fit of jealousy on the 24th killed his wife and stepson with a hatchet, after which he made his escape. Threats of lynching if he is caught are made. ' ... The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Rail way Company's rolling mills at Watertown, Wis., were destroyed by fire on the 24th, entailing a loss of 8150,000 and throwing 200 j men out of work. A. H. Cardin, the Union Labor party's candidate for Governor of Kentucky, has withdrawn. He says that he will vote with the party but will not be its candidate. The fifth annual convention of the Order of Elks was held in Detroit, Mich., on the 24th. About 1,500 members were present. At the session of the Travelers' Protect ive Association of the United States In St. Louis on the 24th, resolutions were adopted demanding from all railroads the sale to commercial travelers of 1,000 and 5,000 mile tickets at materially reduced rates. The resolutions also bind the members to -exert their Influence in diverting business from one channel to another in the interest of the association. The trial of Chet Smith, the dramatic agent who has been acting as a procurer for the vile dens of Hurley, Wis., ended on the 34th with a vereict of guilty, and he was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary.

Richmond (Va.) State: Sherman is the arch South-hater of his time. ' St. Louis Republican: . John Sher man a bpringbeld speech advertises him as coprolite of paleozolic politics; Chicago News: For President in 1888: John Sherman of Ohio. ' Platform: "I and my mouth against any two." Alexandria (Va.) Qaxetta His hope of support from the South having been dissipated, his sole reliance is ' now upon the North. Chicago Tribune: John Sherman is a great man, but bis Presidential boom appears to be frozen hard enough, to skate on already. - Petersburg (Va.) Index-Appeal: The further John Sherman gets away from the South the more his speeches seem to . be dominated by the spirit of Miss Liza Pinks ton. Indianapolis News: There is much that is old and little that is new in his speech. His aim is to convince his party that he is the man who should be its next National nominee. Chicago Herald: John Sherman ought to be ashamed to make a speech like that at Springfield to people who are in the habit of thinking with their heads. lie is two far West, evidently. Fort Worth (Tex.) Gazette: While it must be conceded that Mr. Sherman is an able man, and that his speech ! skillfully constructed, even his own party will realize that it is antiquated. Nashville (Tenn.) Banner: With all his acknowledged ability : as statesman, he is weak and small enough as a politician to pander to the lowest prejudice to boost himself into the Presidency. New York Herald : Senator Sher man's great speech in Springfield, I1L, will probably prove to be the banana peel of his . political - career. The future will be accomplished in three movements a slip up, a slip down and a slip out Savannah (Ga.) News : Whan Sen ator Sherman was in the South, short time ago, he softly cooed: "The war is over." In Illinois he loudly roared: ' " The . Confederate idea is still alive, and is about to destroy our institutions. : , Washington Capital: The John Sherman boom has evidently received a terrible set-back from that speech of his at Springfield, HI. Republicans who had never talked that way before are beginning to say tney would as soon nominate Brother Blaine. - St Louis Post-Dispatehi The at tempt to elect Hancock in 1880 on the cry that Tilden was counted out by fraud in 1876 did win. Mr. Sherman's attempt to elect himself on the cry that Blaine was robbed of the Presi dency in 1884 is similarly illogical That tow-line does not reach him. New York World: The St Louis Post Dispatch says: "It is charitable to suppose that John Sherman is in sane." Oh.no. There is great method in John s feigned madness. He somewhat crazy to be President, but his mind is in most respects as clear as a bell. He is simply misguided. Washington Post: The Jesutitical John may as well be reminded that no man can be elected President of the United States in this era of good feeling who lends himself to the mischievous business of stirring up strife, and who alludes to the Demo cratic party as "the left wing of the Confederacy." Binghamton (N. T.) Leader: John Sherman has quite badly broken up his presidential boom by snch comical efforts to nit upon the right way to turn his sails. In the South he was so glad that a perpetual feeling of unity existed between the North and South, and all went for harmony until he carried his boom over into Illinois, when he fonnd his friends there had determined that the only issue they could make to warm up the people would be to unfold the old disunion flag, so he floated the bloody shirt with a vengance, and the Heelers cheered to the echo, but he finds the press of the North as well as the South criticising his double position, and de precating the revival of war issues. Sherman is therefore sad and his boom is already withering up. - Poor John.

Buffalo manufactures every - year nearly seven million bushels, of malt, almost wholly the product of Canadian barley, which, it appears, makes a bet. ter grade of malt than its congener on this side of the border. This is about two million bushels in excess of the combined manufacture of any two other American cities, and, .indeed, it is not unlikely that wc lead the world in this industry. ' Our malsters make within ' two million bushels of the amount used annually in London, Eng land, by brewing-houses, and a great. proportion of the. malt used there comes f ram provincial --towns. . The greater number of the breweries in Buffalo make their own, malt as they want it, while the .product of the regu lar malt-houses is almost wholly hipped East, where it finds a ready market in New England, Philadelphia, Newark, New York, , Albany and other cities largely interested in brewing. , The manufacture of malt, briefly stated, consists in the conversion - of the starch in the ' barley kernel into sugar, from which : by fomentation the potent principle in ale and beer is pro produced. - duced. produced. ; Tito process in all essential particulars is as -ancient as "the bul bulrushes - rushes bulrushes round little Moses, on the old banks of the Nile." Indeed, it is quite certain that the most ancient of all Egyptians drank an intoxicating liquor made from barley. That barley was one of the cereals . cultivated by the Egyptians is stated authoritatively by Baron Bunsen and . Wilkinson, the famous - Egyptologists. Tho word corn," which appears so frequently in the Bible, is a general term applied to all cereals and really means grain of all kinds. While it is not really known what the means were that the ancieuts used for extracting the alcoholic prin ciple from the grain, it is recorded that malt liquors were much indulged in by the Greeks and - later by the Romans, by whom the secret of their manu facture was introduced into Gaul and Britain. . As to the details of the process, they are almost identical in all establish ments. The barley first undergoes what is termed stccping. This is tl ne in largo cisterns holding any where fro n one hundred bushels to three hi n rod and more, depending upon the exioufc of floor in the malt-house. Water is poured in on the barley until it is cov ered to a depth of 8' x inches. From fifty to sixty hours is the time allowed for steeping. After the grain has im bibed sufficient moistnre the water is run off, and the barley is turned out in heap on the malt floor, ar -T turned with wooden shovels every few hours until "sweating" sets in and the grain begins to germinate. It is at this point that the chemical change tikes place and the starch in the barley is onvcrt- ed into sugar. The process is allowed to continue to a stage readily recog nized by the expert malster, when it is brought to a finish by placing the malt in ' the drying-kiln, where . it is kept for" a longer or shorter time according as the liquor is to be ale or stout For stout : or porter the malt is scorced to a brownish color. while for the amber ales or beer it is permitted to take but little color. By its conversion from barley to malt the grain increases two or three per cent. in bulk, while it loses something in weight . When dried it is ready for the brewer or market : The value of this city's annual out put of malt for shipment is 'not less than S5,000,000, and the value of that made and consumed by Buffalo brew ers may be safely estimated at $1,600, 000. This immense industry has grown up almost entirely during the last twenty vears. Before the war there was little or no malting done here.

Tekrb is strong evidence of the exist ence of an organized gang of Anarchists at Columbus, O. Thb remains of General James Speed were interred at Cave iiill cemetery, Louisville, Sunday. ' 1 The safe in the Willoughby (O.) post- office was blown open Sunday night, and between $500 and $600 taken. Yeixow fever record at Key West : Total cases, 43; total deaths, 18; now sick, 14, discharged cured, 10. The immense buildings of the Chicago Packing and Provision Company were de stroyed by fire. Loss, $1,350,000. The Toledo, St. Louis and Kansas City railway, between Toledo, O., and Frank Frankfort, - fort, Frankfort, Ind., a distance of 206 miles, was changed from narrow to standard gauge on the 26th. Goversob Hill, of New York, has ve toed the bill imposing a tax on tho "buck et-shops." A rrrrEx million cubic-foot gas well, the fifth in number, has been opened at South Marion, Ind. ' At MU Vernon, Mo., C. R. Carter, Tom M. Kelton and three other prisoners killed the deputy sheriff and escaped from jail, Jons Rogers, of the Tolliver gang, who had a narrow escape from death at More- head, Ky., has been arrested on a charge of murder. - Du. Ketnolps, an examiner in the U. S. Pension Office, has been knighted by the King of Italy in recognition of his contri butions to science. Dn. T. B. Dover, crazed over his wife's death, suicided at Little Rock, Ark. Be Before - fore Before blowing his brains out he mado a will disposing of his property and body. Johs Thomas Rose, colored, convicted in Baltimore of the murder of Emily Brown, white, whose body was sold by him to the Medical University, was sen sentenced - tenced sentenced to be hanged. J. C. Asdersos was arrested at Newark, O., on tho charge of using tho mails to pro promote - mote promote a scheme of chance. Prop. Chas. S. C Leos, a St. Louis corn corn-doctor, - doctor, corn-doctor, was bitten by a large rattlesnake from which he was trying to extract the fangs. Doctors say he will die. At New Canton, I1L, David Douglass went to the house of Riley Kelly, and, calling him out, plunged a knif.s into his breast, killing him instantly. Both were boys. U. S. Secretart or Treasury Fairchild has directed assistant treasurers to pay July interest checks and coupons upon presentation. This is don? in order to re release - lease release enough money at once to prevent embarrassment in financial circles. Tns peach crop of Delaware is now repot-tod to be almost a failure. There will not bo oyer one million five hundred thou sand baskets, whore eight million wore at first expeetea.