Decatur Democrat, Volume 34, Number 42, Decatur, Adams County, 9 January 1891 — Page 2

, ©he democrat i>E<jXru]R7iXjD. N. — . 11 TOLD BY THE TELEGRAPH RIVER DANUBE THE S(?ENE OF A STARTLING TRAGEDY. Ihe lee Gives Way and Many Lives Lost— Two Men Lose Their Lives at Toledo— Death of Emma Abbott—Gen. Milos Keported Killed—Down to Death* BIG BATTLE. Tremendous Slaughter of the Indians. Rushville (Neb.) special: A dispatch • has just been received here from the Pine Ridge.agency announcing that a great battle is in progress there between the troops the hostile Indians. The Information is that Gen. Miles’ cavalry encountered the Indians at an early hour in the morning a short distance from the agency. A desperate battle ensued and hundreds of the savages were killed, while.the loss to the soldiers was also very heavy. Gen. Miles himself is reported to have been killed early-in the tight. The soldiers were driven into the agency, which was then surrounded by the Indians.' Troops have been seht to the rescue, * and the result is awaited with the most intense anxiety. The greatest excitement {A'cvails and it is feared that ? another Custer massacre will go on record, The apprehensions concerning the fate of the soldiers increases as time . passes without further information concerning the battle, it being feared that all sources of communication are cut off and that the Indians are' in possession of the agency. . The Indians are reported to have fought like demons, murdering and scalping all the wounded soldiers whom they encountered. It iS supposed that the cavalry were inveigh'd into an ambush and that the Indians obtained an advantage in this way. DOWN TO DEATH. . Twelve Men Crushed to Pieces in a / % Moment, O 7 News has reached San Francisco of a I i terrible mining accident in Calaveras / County. Tile disaster occurred in the /• well-known I'tica mini', at Angels camp. ' The workmen in the mine had been at / lunch, and a load us men were being lowered into the shaft to the live hundred foot level. As the skip reached a - point about one hundred feet from the surface, t he rope broke and twelve men were precipitated to the bottom of the shaft 1504eet belo-w. Not. one escaped death. The -greatest excitement prevails about the mouth of the shaft, the wives and children crowding around nearly frantic with grief. Some trouble is being experienced in getting a new rope ready, and until that is done, the bodies cannot be brought to the Surface. The scene of the accident is- forty miles from the nearest, telegraph station ami details of - the disaster are diflicult to obtain. At the‘Lane mine in -the same localit y an accident : crurred a year ago, by which Sixteen miners were buried alive.- The last of the bodies were recovered only about a month ago. .The mines are among the oldest in California. MANY DROWNED. "1 tic River Danube the Scene of a Startling Tragedy. The ice covered surface of the river Da nil be* between Buda’ and I’esth, was , the scene of a Startling tragedy. A rowd- of- merry makers were holding high carnival on the ice when after a serids of loud attd sharp reports, the ice broke in a number of places,, and great lisures. through which ran the clear water of the tjver appeared confronting 'the skaters and cutting them. off from the shores. .Panic. immediately seized ' upon th.- isolated groups and in the awful I'li-h for safety which followed, a number of the terrified skaters either dashed into, were ■ crowded -r drawn into the swift running water wi.ieh rapidly sucked them finder the ice a.ml. »wept them away. Everything po-.- : i>le was done by those who escaped. a;:.d h\ those who were observing the ri'veut ly happy ami cheerful scene from the -i'eyes, to rescue .t he mi fortunate v iei i Many were saved at the death seem, d inevitable. It is. ho'.\ever, known that a nnnjber of persons w!lo wore on the riv-er at the time of catastrophe, are missing, ami if is .. ar-'d that they. Were drowned. A Lake -Shore Accident, Asa i Mogul engine was backing . down.th ’;ke Shore track mar Thirtlet h street. I - , do. Ohio, it ran Into a train of fla:> -*l..* . tank of the engine was ■due .mi pushed against the boiler i ■ d. ;et • mg t liree men who were stands' : in t!v - ah. Joseph and I . .vreiite Kil.hy, h dpers. were almost e 'ant ly k.l!< d: llieh-iel Kirselmer, pony dnet-e. -.verily eru-hed. The en- .■ eera.i, licmnan were on seats of tiie •i >. and e-eapeß serious injury. A !> -idiir.: - storm prevented Engineer • I an Cet it from seeing the Hats until • was .Joo- iate to avert the act ident. Kitsch; < c w iii recover. D.-ath <>! Emilia Abbott. Asp. e; ! from Minneapolis says. Col. John T. West has received a telegram stating that Emma Abbott, died al Salt -Lake City. T'ii«- bodywill be embalmed •ami sen; to. Chicago. Her father. Seth Abbott, '.vlb’i lives here, will go toChicago to meet the remains. She was taken ill with pneumonia a few days ago and this was the cause of her. death. 1=- Behring Sell Bow. The I'resj.lcnt has sent, to the House, in response to its recent resolution, tho correspondence between the State Department ’and tiie British Government in regard to tiie Behring Sea controversy, Thpusamh of Wiki Horses. Warner Hillyer, of Antelope Valley, has- discovered on a high mountain plateau near his ranch in Nebraska, a drove of many thousand wild horses, including some of the finest equine specimens ever set'ii in the West. Lost in Alaska. Much anxiety is felt over the fate of Wells and Price, tho two members of Frank Leslie's Alaskan party, who started last fall with a small stock of provisions into the unknown Copper! River country in Alaska. Murder Fastened on a Beautiful, But Wayward Girl. The inquest over the remains of Al. Trout, the boy murdered in front of tho disreputable house of Madame Landis at Columbia City, Ind., was concluded and the coroner finally traced tho fatal shot to Elenore Sterling, an inmate of tho house. Seeing the evidence fast closing around her, she confessed that she fired the shot which ended Trout’s life, and claimed she didjit in self-defense because she feared rough treatment if tho boys got in, as thdy were very drunk. She was bound over without bail and all the other men prisoners Released. She

ts a very handsome girl of 19 and is the daughter of respectable parents living in the northern part of Whitley County, but she has been a wayward child since she was 15 years old. THE INDIAN JKOUBLS. Friendlies Joining the Hostiles In Droves. A special from Fort Yates, N. D., dated the 4th Inst., says: A large number of young warriors of the Standing Rock Agency have gone south to join the hostiles in the Ba^Lands f The discovery was made oil issuing rations that many did not come to the Agency, and one of the friendlies stated that they had armed themselves and gone to join the bands in revolt. How many have gone is only conjecture, but the indications point to at least 1,000 desertions. The Grand River Sioux have been fomenting trouble.ever since the killing of Sitting Bull on and they have not been slow i» manifesting their intense anger to Agent McLaughlin. Most of them regard the taking off of the old medicine man as murder outright, and it has been common talk for three weeks that the reds would accept the first opportunity offered to massacre the whites. The dispatches sent out from this point that the Indians were glad that Bull was removed were gross exaggerations concocted here for the purpose of allaying feeling in the East. The detachment of the Eigth Cavalry under Capt. Fountain will move rapidly southward, and Company H of the Twenty-second Infantry, now near New England City, will come to) this point and move thence southwaWw-to aid in squelching the uprising. Trpops are also in readiness to take the field from Fort Lincoln, and the detachment of the Twenty-fifth Infantry at Fort Keogh is expected to march in a southeasterly direction to-morrow. Every hour increases the number of the hostiles, and General Miles proposes putting men enough in the field to crush the recalcitrant savages.in a week or ten days. SAUCY .SAVAGES. Surrouniled and Hemmed in on all Sides. Gen. Schofield has a telegram from Gen. Miles dated at Pine Ridge agency, Jan. 2, saying that 3,000 Indians, men, women and children, and including about (500 bucks, are now encamped in a section of the Bad Lands about fifteen miles from the Pine Ridge agency, and there is almost a cordon of troops around them. Gen. Miles announces that he hoped to be able to induce the hostiles to surrender without a struggle. The spot whore they are camped he describes as somewhat like the lava beds of California, where the Modwits made their final fight. It is in excellent posision from an Indian standpoint, but there are. now no avenues of escape, all having been closed by the troops. General Miles says the Indians have gathered some cattle aind provisions and appear to be determined to make, their tight for supremacy at this point. General Mi,les, lie added, has charge of the campaign, and as it has progressed he has stationed himself at tiie most convenient points for general communication with his forces. “It is very difficult,” he said, “toestimate just how many troops there are now on the scene of action. Gen. Miles has twelve regiments of infantry, five of cavalry and some artillery forces, about half a regiment. This givfes him seventeen and a half regiments, but that would not ‘ndicate the number of men, for it is impossible to say how full a complement each regiment has in the field. When troops move in the winter in such a hurry, there is always a large proportion of the men left behind from sickness, -etc., and I would not like to guess how many soldiers there are in the circle around the Indians, e , HER IRE AROUSEDI A Veiled Woman Daslies a Pitcher or Blue Vitro! Into the Face of a Greencastle Barber. Never before in the history of Putnam County was there such a strange and vicious assault as was prepetrated at Greencastle, Ind., the other evening. Shortly before 7 o'clock, as Theodore Kleinbub, a resident of the north part of the city, was returning home from his placp of business, he was met by a thickly-veiled woman, thinking it was his brother, E. D., rushed upon him with a pitcher of some unknown acid. Seeing from beneath the gleam of the gas light that she was mistaken in her victim, she suddenly disappeared in tiie darkness, and-a few nionients later appeared at the business place of Kleinbub Bros., tiie most popular barbers of the city. Mr. E. D. Kleinbub was busy at his chair when a small boy handed him a note, which read: “Come to the door a moment.’’ As he approached the door some unknown woman dashed a pitcher of blue vitriol in his face. His face is in a most critical condition, ft, is said t hat’he knows who perpetrated tiie deed, but people.are in the dark as yet. A 5500,000 Eire in New York. Fire started on the stage of the Fifth Avenue Theater. New York, and burned with great rapidity.. Three alarms were sent out in quick succession but the inflammable material upon which tiie Hames fed rendered the efforts of the firemen to save them a hopeless task. All the scenery used in Fanny Davenport's rendition of “Cleopatra'’ was destroyed. The lire spread to Hermann’s Theater apd the entire block was consumed. The sporting goods establishment of J. J. Crooks caught fire and six distinct explosions of powder held there was heard from the interior. A ilaming brand, borne by the strong northwest wind, fell on the roof of the Sturtevant House, across Brdadway from the Fifth Avenue Theater, setting fire to the hotel. The.guests were hustled out amid great excitement and conveyed to other hotels. The firemen now devoted their best efforts to saving the hotel. The total loss is estimated at about 5500,000. Fanny Davenport loses about 850,000 by tiie destruction of scenery and costumes. ■ Six citizens and one fireman are reported killed in the Fifth Avenue Theater. Terrible Explosion. Portsmouth special: The tow boat Annie Roberts, of Pittsburg, exploded a cylinder head, instantly killing five men and terribly woundins many more; tearing open the boiler deck of the boat and hurling the mangled bodies of five men, and about ten or twelve wounded, into the river. The boat was bound for Pittsburg, and was moving slowly up the river, but with a full pressure of steam. Most of tho mon killed and injured wore sleeping in their bunks at the time of the accident. All were horribly# burned, scalded and some mangled by pieces of iron. The following is a list of the dead; Frank Perry, deck hand; Ben Lawson, fireman; James Swail, J. B. Shaw and James Green, deck hands. The damage to the vessel is very slight. It is owned by a Pittsburg firm, and most of the crew lived there. , 7 i ■ Panic in a Prison. A $200,000 lire and a panic involving 370 convicts took place at the Clinton prison, Dannemora, N. Y. The building’s burned include all the new portion of the prison, the kitchen, the hospital, store room, State shop and machine , shop. Tho 370 convicts, who were panic stricken, were in the new portion of the

prison. They made a stampede toescape, but were corralled and marched to the old prison. The institution was entirely bereft of provisions and it was necessary to telegraph to Plattsburg for supplies. When first discovered the fire, which started in the kitchen department, had attained such a headway that it could not be checked with the limited firefighting facilities of the prison. Negroes Routed. At the Blue Creek mines, near Birmingham, Ala., a pitched battle was fought between the wives of striking miners and a’crowd of negro miners and their families. The company had moved the negro miners into the houses from which the white miners were recently evicted. The wives of the strikers, armed with flat irons, frying pans and sticks attacked the colored women and children and soon drove them to the woods. The negro men attempted to interfere and were at once set upon by the angry women and completely routed. The wives of the strikers say they will never let the negroes take the places of their husbands. ' Chicago Hank Robbers. The South Chicago bank robbers were arraigned before Justice Robbins,' and their cases continued. The court fixed bonds for Featherstone, alias Hennessy, Corbett and Mullen at $2,000 each, and those of Bennett, who shot Watchman O'Brien in the leg, at $16,000. Bennett and Corbett made a full confession last night to Chief Marsh concerning the particulars of the robbery. According to their story Featherstone and Mullen were the principals jind they—Bennett and Corbett—the tools. Business Failures of the Year. The business failures occurring throughout the L'nited States for the entire year 1890, as reported by R. G. Dun & Co., are 10,907 in number, being but thirty-five greater than 1889, when the number was 10,883. The liabilities show a very large increase over 1889, being $189,000,000 as against $148,000,000, an increase of $41,000,000. These are the largest liabilities since 18S4, when they amounted to $226,000,000. Failed to Connect. Kittie Herbert, k trapeze performer, doing the Mexican ladder act at a theater in Columbus, met witli a horrible accident. While balancing herself on a ladder, she attempted to spring forward intc the arms of her assistant, Ed Carr. She missed her hold and fell to the floor, a distance of twenty feet, striking on her hands and feet. Both wrists were broken badly and she received other painful injuries. - .1 Wife Murder and Suicide. Crazed by apparently unfounded jealousy and excessive drinking, Leo Klein, a German, of recent arrival in this country, fatally shot his wife and then killed himself at their home in. Chicago. The wife is the daughter of to-do parents, and was made a present of SI,OOO by her father when herself and husband started to America. She had an unusually pretty face and fine figure. Ramrod Through the Head. Eddie, 13-year-old son of Charles Sigler, of Gallipolis, Ohio, was trying to unload a gun, and had the ramrod in it, when it went off. carrying tiie ramrod through the, boy’s head, burying it six inches in the wall of the house, setting it on fire. His mother started for a neighbor's with the terrible news, fainted by the way, and lay for a long time unconscious before being discovered. The boy, of course, was instantly killed. A Panther Attacks a Mau. Wilkesbarre (Pa.) special: Robert Clark and James Ellis Went hunting on the mountain and were overcome in a snow storm. Clark became exhausted. Ellis carried him awhile and then started for help. When the party returned they found a panther attacking Clark, who lay in the snow. The man is badly lacerated and cannot live. —: Ohio River on the Rampage. The Ohio River is rising very rapidly, and all the up-river points report deluging rains. Both the Kana whas and Big Sandy Rivers are coming out with a boom, banks full. There have been heavy rains throughout th,e entire valley of the Ohio and its tributaries recently, and unless cold weather intervenes there will be a great flood. Arizona's Future. Edwin S. Gill, a leading journalist of Arizona, in an interview, states that the future of the Territory depends upon legislation atWashington, Irrigation will convert 3,000,000 acres of land into’the finest of fruit land. General Boulanger. Gen. Boulanger has written a letter to L’Eclair in which lie asserts that he has not advocated the formation of a new Parliamentary group in his interest. The General also says that he expects nothing from Parliamentary action. Tliirty-Nine Killed. A mine explosion occurred at Wilezeck, Silesia. Fifteen men have been taken out dead and twenty-four are still missing. Ono Killed* Two Fatally Hurt. In an explosion of gas in the Beaver Meadow Mine, near Wilkesbarre, Pa., one Polauder was killed, and two others fatally burned. Frozen to Death. Otis Walk a prominent citizen of Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, was frozen to death. In returning home he lost his way. . THE MARKETS. CHICAGO. Cattle--Common to I’rimo.... $3.25 © 5.50 Hoc.s—Shipping Grades 3.C0 4.00 5HKHP....... 3.00 nt 5.50 Wheat—No. 2 Rod ;... .01 @ .911£ Corn—No. 2 .48 & ,4S'., Oats—No. 2. v-10 <<3 ,40>J Kte—No. 2... '. .64 (£9 .66“ By TTF.n—Choice Creamery2s .28 CJheese —Full Cream, Hate OO.'yiri ,10yj Etuis—Fresh2l "(<?) .22 Potatoes—Western, per bußs <s> .90 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping .. 3.50 & 4.75 Hogs—Choice Light 3.00 3.75 Sheep—Common to Primo 3.00 4.75 Wheat—No. 2 lied 93 <<9 .94 Corn—No. 1 White .49 i<j> .491A Oats—No. 2 White.. i 44 <<3> .44)5 ST. LOUIS. ? Cattle 4.00 @ 5.00 Hogs 3.00 & 3.75 Wheat—No. 2 Red 92 o .93 Corn—No. 2.......45 @ .46 Oats—No. 2 41. (3 .42 Barley—Minnesota69 61 .71 CINCINNATI. Cattle 3.00 @ 4.25 Hogs... 3.00 <3 3.75 Sheep 3.00 & 5.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red9s ® .96 Corn—No. 2 .51 (3 .511$ Oats—No. 2 Mixed 542 <3 ,425» MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Springßs S .86 Corn—No. 3 .46JA<3 .47W Oats—No. 2 White .42 & .AM.Lj Rye—No. 1‘66 & .67 Barley—No. 2.\65 .67 DETROIT. Cattle 3.60 @ 5.00 Hogs3.oo 3.59 Sheep... 3.00 @ 4.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red.... 98 «« .99 Corn—No. 2 Yellows 2 @ .53 Oats—No. 2 White .45}.i(3 .46 TOLEDO. Wheat 94 @ .95 Corn—Cash .50 .SO I #. Oats—No. 2 White 46 © .47 * BUFFALO. Cattle—Good to Prime.... 4.00 ©5.00 Hogs—Medium and Heavy 3.50 © 3.75 Wheat—No. 1 Hard l.os © I.oß' a Corn—No. 2. 57(2© .53(4 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Common to Prime 3.50 @ 5.00 Hogs—Light 3.2> © 4.00 Shejp—Medium to G00d... 4.00 ©5.50 LaKbs 4.00 © 6.00 NEW YORK. Cattle 3.50 © 5.50 Hogs 3.25 © 3.75 Sheep 4.00 ©5.50 WhE’at—No. 2 Red 1.04 ©1.06 Corn—No. 258 © .60 Oats—Mixed Western46 © .50

BURNED A WHOLE BLOCK rwo mammoth theaters RUINED BY FLAMES. rhe Fifth Avenue and Heirmann’s De« stroyed Hall a Dozen Firemen Miraculously Escape Death — Twenty-three Companies On the Scene—La:ge Property Loss. t {New York dispatch#] Fire which it was feared would result ! in the loss of the lives of at least half a dozen brave firemen broke oiyt in thq Fifth Avenue Theater shortly after mid- | night this morning. » ! Within an hour that famous playhouse : was practically destroyed. Herrmann's I Theater was in flames, and the entire i block in grave peril. The fire broke out I under the stage of the Fifth Avenue ■ Theater. At half past 12 o’clock an ex* •' plosion was heard in the building, and a , moment later the,upper part of the city i &as illuminated by a huge sheet of flame ' which rose to the roof of the theater, enveloping the entire building and Herrmann s Theater immediately adjoining. >Six firemen had gone through Herrmaii’s Theater to the roof and .had just succeeded in hoisting a length of hose up when the fuYnace opened directly at their feet. When from the crowd went

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up a great shout for the scaling-ladders they Were quickly run up and a vain effort made to reach the imperiled men. A deadly silepce that lasted for a full minute resulted, and then a moan of agony arose from the crowd. Firemen were seen to bend their heads and wipe away the tears that they could not prevent from flowing. It was thought that the men had certainly been hurled into the raging furnace beneath, and they were given up as. lost. But from the crowd on the Twenty-eighth street side a few moments later went up a cheer. It announced the rescue of the firemen by means which st'eined miraculous. At this time the whole block, hom Twenty-eighth street to Twenty-ninth street, was in flames. Gusts of the Brower House were early turned into the street. The Sturtevant House, opposite the Broadway entrance to the burning theater, w-as in serious danger. For miles around the flames could be seen shooting high into the heavens, and an enermous crowd gathered and crowded the neighboring streets! At 1 o'clock the scene was one of magnificence, the entire block on Broadway and 150 feet on both Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth streets was like a seething furnacp. w From the roof of the Fifth Avenue Theater the flames ran along the cornices nf Prof. Herrmann’s new theater, which ’ had recently been completed and was one of the prettiest and most expensive playhouses in the city. In an instant the entire roof was ablate. A high wind > sprang up and carried the fire wi.h a rapidity defying the'twenty-three fire companies which were there to tight it. I A low block of stores adjoins lit rrI mann's Theater, and to these the I quickly spread. Within an hour of the * sounding of the first alarm the row was i in flames and the firemen in despair. i Then the wind veered from north to east, and the top store of the Sturtevant House caught tire from embers fr >ra across Broadway, and a good part of the roof of the Sturtevant Was destroyed. The estimated loss on the Fifth Ave- ; nue Theater was §IOO.OOO by 11. C. i Miner and §5.00,01)0 by the Gilscy estate. I Miss Fanny Davenport loses §50.000‘, exclusive of her costumes, and Prof, j Herrmann's loss is placed'at §50,000. DECREASEOFTHE PUBLIC DEBT It Has Gone Down 811,005,398 During the Last Month. The following is the public debt statement for December: INTEREST-BEARING DEBT. Bonds at per cent.s 53,177,550 Bonds at 4 per cent 659,7 12,709 I Refunding certificates at 4 per cent. 950,490 Aggregate of interest-bearing debt exclusive of U. S. bonds issued to Pacific railroads.... $019,019,740 Debt on which interest has ceased | since maturity..l/. 1.082,505 DEBT BEARING NJ INTEREST. | Legal-tender notes... $316,681,016 Old demand notes 50,032 National bank mites— Redemption account (.deposited in Treasury under act of July 11, 1890) 51,323,030 Fractional currency, less $8,375,934 estimated as lost or destroyed.... 6,910,026 Aggregate of debt bearing no in- ■ terest, including national bank fund deposited in the Treasury under act of J uly 14, 1890-.... $404,970,704 Certificates issued on deposits of gold and silver coin and legal-ten-der notes: Gold certificates. 175,431.909 Silver certificates 309,855,778 Currency certificates 6,820,000 Treasury notes of 1890.. 24,090,500 Aggregate of certificates offset by cash in the Treasury $516,198,247 Aggregate of debt, including certificates, Dec. 31, 189051,541,871,198 Decrease of bonded debt during the month... 7,424,928 CASH IN TREASURY. Reserved for redemption of United States notes, acts of Jan. 14, 1875, and July 12,1882.. $100,000,000 For redemption of gold certificates issued 175,431,969 For redemption of silver certificates issued 309,855,778 For redemption of currency certificates issued 6,820,000 For redemption of Treasury notes, act July 14, 1890 24,090,500 For matured debt, accrued' interest, and interest due and unpaid 5,670,597 Total cash reserved for above purposes $621,868,844 AVAILABLE FOR OTHER PURPOSES. Fractional silver, fractional currency, and minor coin not full legal sender $19,153,006 Net cash balance, including $54,207,975, national bank fund deposited in the Treasury under act Os July 14, 1890 38,418,806 Total $67)9,440,656 Debt, less cash Jin the Treasury Dec. 31, 1890 862,430,541 Debt, less cash in the Treasury, Nov. 30,1890 873,435,939 Net increase of debt during the month $11,005,398 May Be Funny, May Be Not. There will be both a Ketcham and a Cheatham in the next Congress, just as there are in this one.— Boston Herald. Two of the hardest things to keep in this life are a new* diary and a sharp lead-pencil.— Norristown Herald. It is not wise to say everything you know, but how can some people help it 'f they say anything at all?— Somerville Journal.

THE NATIONAL SOLONS, i ■ . I SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Our National Lawmakers and What They Are Doing for the Good of the CountryVarious Measures Froposcd, Discussed, and Acted Upon. In the Senate on the 30th the election bill was taken up, and Senator .Wolcott, of Colorado (Rep.), made an animated speech against it, attracting the closest attention from its first sentence to its last. ,It w . he said, a source of great regret to him to be called upon to differ from any considerable number of his party, and to decline to take the path which the older leaders pointed out. It jwas proper that the reasons which impelled that difference be fairly stated. The present was not an opportune time for the bill. Nearly onethird of the session was through and davlight was not yet visible. There were before tie Senate measures of vast importance that would fail, for another year at least, unless they were now acted upon. Among the measures awaiting action Mr. Wolcott mentioned the silver bill, the apportionment bill, the pure-food bill, jthe copyright bill, and the private land’ court bill. We stand, he said, in the shadow of a great financial disaster. The people turn to Congress for relief. They want the assurance. either that there will be no legislation on the financial subject (so that they can set their houses in order) or that they will receive an adequate medium of circulation for the transaction <if their business. But it was not only, te said, because those measures were clamoring for recognition I that he felt compelled to oppose the passage, of the election bill. If the session were to last indefinitely, and if none of these vital measures were pending, he would still vote against it. It was a travesty on duty that the Senate should sit, day after day, discussing changes in the election law that had stood without amendment for twenty years. The day after New Year’s the Speaker laid before the Bouse the resignation of 11. H. Markham as a member of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. to the Committee on Military Affairs. On motion of Mr. McKinley, of Ohio, the House then adjourned until Monday. Jan. 5. Although it was understood when the Senate adjourned Dec. 31 that the session on Jan. 2d was to be merely formal there were forty Senators present when the journal was read. Including Mr. Allison, who had been absent from the city for ten days past. The Sen-ator-elect fpmi Idaho, Mr. McConnell, who has not yet been sworn in. was also present and was introduced to a good many of the Senators, as was also Mr. Dubois, of Idaho, who has been elected for the term to begin March 4 next. No business whatever was I transacted and the Senate, on motiorfjpf Mr. I Spooner, adjourned till Jan. 5 j Thus far five Republicans have agreed to j vote against the election billon a direct; vote i and there are two < thers who say they would ' vote for a motion to lay it aside and take ! up finance. This is not enough. A Repubj lican Senator who is earnestly opposed to i the election bill said to a reporter that in time it would pass tiie Senate, but it could by no possibility be passed House in its amended form. By the time it got to the House, he said, it would be too late for the attendance of a quorum to be secured in that body. The bill, he said, could never become a law. THE ILLUSIONS OF GREAT MEN, I • ° — i Goethe states that he one day saw the i exact counterpart of himself coming toj ward him. Pope saw an arm apparently come I through the wall, and made inquiries I after its owner. Byron often received visits from a ■ specter, but he knew it to be a creation | of the imagination. ’ Dn. Johnson heard his mother call his name in a clear voice, though she was at the time in another city. Baron Emmanuel ; Swedenborg believed that he had the privilege of interviewing persons in the spirit world. Descartes was followed by an invisi- ' ble person whose voice he heard urging ! him to continue his researches after i truth.* j Loyola, lying wounded during the siege of Pampeluna, saw the Virgin, i who encouraged him to prosecute his ' mission. ■ Sir Joshua Reynolds, leaving his i house, thought the lamps wore trees, and • the mon and women bushes agitated by ; the breeze. i Ravaillac. while chanting tho “Miserere" and “De Profundis,” fondly believed that tiie sounds he emitted wore of the nature and had the full effect of a . trumpet. j Oliver Cromwell, lying sleepless on ; his couch, saw tho curtains open and a gigantic woman appear, who told him ' that he would become the greatest man i in England. Ben Jonson spent the watches of the j night an interested spectator of a crowd ■ of Tartars, Turks, and Roman Catholics, • who rose up and fought round his armi chair till sunrise. I Boston, the physiologist, saw figures j and faces and there was one human face ! constantly before him for twenty-l’oui ■ hours, the features and headgear as His- ■ tinct as those of a living person. i Benvenuto Cellini, imprisoned al i Rome, resolved to free himself by self- : destruction, but was deterred by the apparition of a young woman of wondrous i beauty, whose reproaches turned hint ; from his purpose. ; Napoleon once called attention to a ; bright star he believed he saw-shining ii: | his room and said: “It has never dei sorted me. I see it on every "great oc- ; currence urging me onward; it is an un- ! failing omen of success.” ALL SORTS. One-half the lead used in the United States is mined in Missouri. The penitentiaries of Texas have contributed $71,000 to the State treasury tilt past year. A miser at Lima, 0., left no heirs t< his fortune, which is estimated to be al least $50,000. In Jefferson county, Kansas, abrothei and sister ran against each pther toi school commissioner. Tiie falls of Niagara carry down 10,000,000 cubic feet of water per minute, equal to about three million horse power. The population of Quebec is about 1,500,000, of whom 1,200,000 at least are French in blood, language, sentiment and instinct. A census-taker recently stumblec over the name of a man living near New York which turned out to be Schmeck enheckerstein. A french scientist has just discovered that a 20-pound cheese when 3 years old contains 1,574,856,231 living germs ol adult microbes. The organs of smell in the turkey vulture and carrion crow are so delicate that they can scent their food for a distance of forty miles. The papers give a somewhat fishy story of a tree in Georgia to which its owner deeded the land on which it stood as well as itself, in order that it should not be cut down. Severai. Japanese editors have been sentenced to four years’ imprisonment with hard labor for speaking disrespectfully of the Emperor Jimrnu, who, if he ever existed, lived about 600 years ago. Many natives in India still believe that the land is governed by one Jan Kumpani Bahadur, or “Big Chief Johnny Company,” who is supposed to be the husband or her Majesty the Queen-Em- ‘ press. »

Thn Insane. « I was convalescent, in the asy Itun, I attended an evening card-party, given in one of the pleasantest wards for the amusement of those patients that were well epough to appreciate and enjoy sueh an occasion. 1 met a lady, a patient,, who had been in the asylum three years. Although I could see that she was somewhat flighty, yet in ail other respects she was qui.e an intelligent person. She told me thai she had left at home her daughter, an only child, about 1-i years old, whom she had not seen in all that time. The lady’s husband had virtually put her in prison, and had - never taken the pains to call on her himself oftener than once a year, and had never allowed her daughter to visit her. Tears stood in the poor woman’s eyes as she told me these things, and I had no reason to believe that she was deceiving either herdself or me. And upon inquiry I found that her easels not an exceptional one. There are mothers confined in all our asylums, as there were in the institution where I was, who, while they are insane enough to warrant their being put under restraint, are yet sufficiently intelligent to be sensible of their condition, and, like the lady I have aluded to, be overwhelmed by the thought that they are ip a hopelessly helpless condition, and may J>e kept imprisoned thus for years, or even for life, away from their kindred and friends, and frr>m the little ones for whom their hearts yearn with an intensity that no human being I can appreciate. except some I mother that has lost " a child. ■ This lady said she had known such ! patients, when talking about the little I children from whom they had been | separated, to sob and moan for hours at a time. But the law is inexorable. It says that a husband may confine his wife in an asylum if he can prove that she is insane—and that is a very comprehensive word. In some States the certificates of two physicians will accomplish this purpose; and, when once a patient is shut up in a ward, there is no deliverance that can be depended upon. But not only do the women suffer in this way, for there are men whose affections are as keen and as strong as those of any woman, who long to be with their boys and ‘girls, to see them growing to manhood and womanhood, but who know neither the day nor the hour when that longing shall be gratified. business ami A tired-looking man, with a deep band of crape on his hat came into a newspaper office. "Mell,” asked the editor. “My cousin Jim is dead,” said the tired man, with a deep rooted sigh; “my only cousin, whom I loved as a brother- —or more.” “That's too bad.” “Isn’t it, though? And I—l have written a few verses of poetry on him, jr rather about him: and I didn’t know but what you might Le inclined to print them.” j The editor found upon inspection that I the poetry was not so bad as it might j be —in fact, for obituary poetry it was rather a superior article. So he said: "I think we can find room for this.” “Ab, if you only will! °My poor, poor cousin ! If this tribute to his memory—” Here he either got stuck in his sentence or broke down from emotion and gave way to tears. Then he put on his hat, stood on one foot and then on the other, and finally said: “Oh. er—do I get my check now, or wait till publication ?” “What check?” “ The check for my poetry, of course. Do you expect a man to sit up till-3 o’clock in the morning writing poetry for the fun of the thing?” The tribute to Cousin Jim has not appeared yet. Hew Ellison Lives. « He spends whole days and nights in his laboratory, eating little, musing, living in his head. These long sessions of abstraction must make a tremendous draught upon his strength. A friend called on him the other day and stayed with him in the laboratory until four a. m. Edison was busy constructing something, and talked unreservedly. “Areyou not going home to-night?” the friend asked. “No; I shall curl up on one of the benches &s<as to be ready for work in the morning.” Sometimes a workman, coming in at seven, finds the great man stretched out on his bench sleeping peacefully as a child, renewing the forces exhausted by long vigils. In such a case the workman always takes another bench; Edison is never awakened by any one. He is careless about his food. A visitor one day saw him eating some red herring and drinking great goblets of 1 water. That was his lunch. He worked in the intervals of eating and drinking. How Madam Met Her Waterloo. The late Duke of Wellington got a letter once from a lady saying that she was soliciting subscriptions for a certain church in which she was much interested, and had taken the liberty to put his name down lor £2OO and hoped he would promptly send her a for that amount. He forthwith replied that he was glad she thought so well of him. Certainly, he would respond to the call, but he, too, was interested in a certain church which needed subscriptions, and, counting upon his correspondent’s well-known liberality, he had put her name down for £2OO, “and so,” he conconcluded, “no money need pass between us.” ‘ A Halt Million for Banquets. Delmonico’s restaurant sets a banquet table in one of its rooms upstairs on an average once during every night of the year, sometimes giving three inside of twenty-four hours. The average number of plates set for the different banqueters at this establishment is 100 and the average cost per plate to the diners is stated to be about sl2, so that it can be seen that the amount of meney spent for banquets at Demonico’s during a year is nigh onto $500,000. A Strange Ease, Indeed. Miss Grace Gridley, a pretty young lady of Amboy, 111., 22 years of age, has been in bed since last March, in a state of languor. She seems to be conscious of what transpires about her, but makes no reply to her parents or any one else. She is fed liquid food, but is gradually wasting away. Her case has baffled physicians. A Small Matter. Mrs. Forundnd —Horrors! Half a dozen words in your note Mrs. Society are mispelied. <- Miss Forundrid —Oh, that don’t matter. She can see by the coat of arms on our stationery that we’re all right. —New York Weekly. When a man goes up stairs late at night and skips every other stair in an endeavor to keep quite he always seems to skip the steps that don’t credit. —ffi mira Gazette. . <?’ V

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