Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1881 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. The Solicitor General for Ireland states that the Government has no intention to grant a new trial of the traversers. Gladstone’s residence in London is guarded night and day by policemen, and he is followed to the House of Commons by an officer. Michael Davitt, Secretary of the Land league, was arrested at Dublin on the 2d inst, for violation of the conditions of his ticket-of-ic-ave. The arrest caused intense excitement throughout Ireland. In the British House of •Commons, Vernon Harcourt refused to inform Parnell what conditions of his ticket-of-leave Davitt had violated to cause a his arrest, the Irish members shouting ‘•Shame!” and the others cheering. The Speaker refused to hear John Dillon, who continued, to talk, and a motion for his suspension was adopted, and he was forcibly removed by the Sergeant-at-Arms. When Gladstone rose to speak, O’Donohue moved to adjourn. Parnell propoled that Gladstone be no longer heard, whereupon the former’s" suspension was moved and earned, the vote being 405 to 7. On his refusing to leave-he was escorted out by six officers, the Home-Rulers waving their hats. Finnigan was then suspended, and, as twentyseven Home-Rulers refused to vote, they were suspended in a body and removed singly by the Sergeant-at-Arms. Gladstone then moved that the Coercion bill be declared urgent, which was carried. An English steamer, bound from Balbao to Middlesboro, foundered at sea, and thirteen ■persons were drowned. Michael Davitt was taken before tne chief magistrate at the Bond Street Police Station in London for a private hearing. The result was an order to finish the remainder of his sentence, which was inteirupted in 1877 by his release on a ticket-of-leave. It is generally believed, however, that ho will bo confined only until the agitation in Ireland shall have ceased. He was committed to Milbank Penitentiary, where he at once a ssumed the prison garb. France has renewed its proposal to Germany for an international conference on the silver question.’ Thomas Carlyle, one of the most celebrated of scholars, died at London on the sth of February. The event had been hourly expected for weeks, and brought the relief he long desired. His physical prostration for months past was almost complete, although the failure of his mental powers began but recently. Deceased was 85 years old. The Porte is preparing to increase the land tax, and hive it paid five years in advance. A forced loan from the inhabitants of Constantinople, on the ground of their exemption from military service, is also proposed. The King of Ashantee has declared war against England.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. ’ Ka*tBy the burning of a store and tenement house at Union, Ct., Mrs. George Stone and her two children lost their lives. A manufactory of lamp-burners at Forestville, Ct., employing 300 men, has been burned to the ground, the estimated loss being $150,000. • Five large buildings in Philadelphia were destroyed by fire, causing a total loss of about $280,000. By the destruction of a house in Commercial street, Boston, Mrs. Johanna Hanlan and her son William were roasted to death. The boiler of the steam-yacht Carrie exploded in the harbor of Baltimore, four men being killed. The failure is announced of Loomis & McMaster, carriage manufacturers, of Bath, N. H., with liabilities at SIIO,OOO. George Smith and Catherine Miller were executed at Williamsport, Pa., for the murder of Andrew Miller, the woman’s husband. John Brown’s Sons, manufacturers of cotton goods in Philadelphia, have failed for $750,000. Mr. Wiliam H. Vanderbilt has paid the entire cost of transporting the obelisk, ped. estal and steps from Alexandria to New York, and erecting them in Central Park. John J. Berry, the embezzling bank cashier of Hackensack, N. J., has gone to the Rate prison for five years. Albert, who won second place in the recent pedestrian match at New York, has been selected by O’Leary to walk against Rowell, next month. We»tThe propeller St. Albans, bound from Milwaukee to Ludington, was so badly injured by floating ice that she sprang a leak and soon went to the bottom. The passengers and crew took to the boats and reached Milwaukee in safety. The St. Albans was loaded with flour, and valued at $50,000. Eight Chinamen were killed near Santa Cruz, Cal., last week, by an avalanche. They were cutting timber on the mountain side, when the earth came down and completely buried them. Ex-Gov. Scott, of South Carolina, has been indicted for the murder of Drury, of Napoleon, Ohio, but will be admitted to bail. Three of the Mexicans who murdered Col. Charles Potter, of the geological siuwey, were taken from jail at Albuquerque, New Mexico, and hanged by citizens. H. W. Fairbanks, of Petrolia, Ont., a student at tho university at Ann Arbor, Mich., shot himself dead in a hotel parlor in that city, in presence of two women who had gone from Detroit to see him, one of them claiming to be Iris wife. The reservoir back of Franktown, Nev., gave way and made a clean sweep of the place. The Sheriff at Battle Mountain, Nev., in blissful ignorance of the responsibilty he takes, is seizing C.ntral Pacific mail cars for delinquent taxes amounting to $24,000. The property of the company in California is assessed at $36,000,000, under the new constitution, but no taxes have been paid. A huge mastodon has been exhumed near Pendletoii, Ind. Thousands of sheep have have succumbed to the cold weather in Montana. Peter Pelkey was executed at Helena, Mont., for the murder of Charles Tackle. Hiram Hackett, who was stolen from his home, near Coldwater, Mich., sixteen years ago, has been found and restored to his parents. He had a strawberry mark on his shoulder. A review of the lumbering interests of Michigan, made by a commercial journal of New York, states that good timber lands range from SSO to $ JOO per acre, and are being so rapidly secured by syndicates that they will soon be controlled by a few individuals. A. McCarger, the acting Indian Agent at White River, expresses serious fears of an pqtbreak of the Utes in the early spring.

Xavier Wilhelms, a saloon-keeper of St. Louis, murdered his mistress, Agolia Margot. and killed himself. August Schultz, a 15-year-old lad of Milwaukee, hanged himself through fear of punishment for having stolen $5 from his parents. At Grantsville, Nev., Matias Salmon, a bad character, killed 8. Missel, a miner. Salmon was arrested and hidden by an officer to pres rve him from lynching. Salmon’s hiding place was discovered, and he was taken out and hanged to the framework of a wind-mill. Five of the murderers of Col. Charles Potter have already been lynched. Fausteno Gaticnis, another of the party, has been captured, and will be sent out from Albuquerque, under strong guards, to point out the hiding place of others involved. w South. Tom Buford has been locked up in the mad-house at Anchorage, Ky. Wiley Embrey, a respected farmer of Butler county, Ky., and six of his children were burned to death, Mrs. Embrey and daughter escaping. The fire broke out in an upper room after the family had retired. The town of Plymouth, N. C., was devastated by, fire, originating in a kerosene explosion. Only a store and freight warehouse were left standing. Three children of the Rev. Manning Hunter,, a colored preacher, of Sumter county, 8. C., were burned to death by a fire caused by the explosion of a kerosene lamp. Col Bayler, with a squad of Texas rangers, a band of twenty Apaches near Quitman, and killed six and captured three of their number. A party of citizens of Augusta, Ark., lynched three men who attempted an outrage on a worthy young lady. The mob rallied at the jail at midnight, gagged the guards, and took the prisoners across the river, hanged them to a tree until life was extinct, and com pleted the ghastly work by cutting the bodies down and cast ng them into the river. Rush Bennett, a colored man, was executed at Eldorado, Ark., for the murder of Col. A. C. A blood-curdling horror is reported from Owensville, Ky. George Preiat, bachelor, aged 70 years, and his sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Goodpaster, years older, lived alone together. The sister has for a long time been paralyzed and bedridden. Before retiring at night, Preait started to throw on a back log and build up the fire. He lifted the log, and, in throwing it on the fire, fell with it, and, being unable to rise, was burned to death. His sister was laying on the bed, but was unable in her condition of health to get to him or render him any assistance. At last, by an almost superhuman effort, she got out of bed and dragged her brother’s body out of the fire, and managed to get back in bed, and there was compelled to lie, being completely exhausted and unable to turn over, with her brother’s dead and burned body lying in full view on the hearth. Nothing was known of the affair until the following day, when Mrs. Goodpaster’s son went to his mother’s to help his uncle feed the stock. As he stepped into the door the horrible and blood-curdling scene was opened to his view. There in bed lay his mother, with eyes widely extended and she looking wildly with them, while on the hearth lay the body of his uncle, stiff and stark in death, badly burned, and with eyes, cheeks, ears and a portion of his neck eaten by cats, the whole presenting a ghastly sight. Mrs. Goodpaster had never closed her eyes during the whole night, and was lying there facing the body of her dead brother, and unable to move at all or make any noise whatever, and was compelled to see the cats eating the flesh from the face of her brother. A woman with considerable money stopped for lodging at the house of a negro named John Demos, in Charlotte county, Va. She was put in a room with Demps’ wife, but in a different bed. Demps determined to murder the woman, and entered the room at midnight with an ax, and, with two fearful blows, he killed his wife, supposing her to be the visitor. The screams of the other woman informed him of his mistake. She fled ; and he, after burying his wife, was arrested while burning the bed-clothing to conceal his crime.

WASHINGTON NOTES. The House Committee on Commerce has fixed the figures for the improvement of the Mississippi river at $1,090,000 from Cairo to the Gulf, and $600,000 from Cairo to tho head waters. It is proposed to make the inaugural ball the most elaborate affair of the kind in tho history of the country. No complimentary tickets will be issued except to Gen. Garfield and his family. The following is the public-debt statement for January: Six j>er cent, bonds.....s 202,266,550 Five per cents 469,651,050 Four and one-half per cents 250,000,000 Four per cents 738,480,550 Refunding certificates 867,250 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total coin b0nd551,675,265,400 Matured debts 7,272,285 Legal tenders 346,743,726 Certificates of deposit... 8,630,000 Fractional currency (sls,- efty. 520,433 Jess amount estimated us lost or destroyed $8,375,934).... 7,144,499 ' Gold and silver certificates 53,341,100 Total without interest. 415,857,925 Unclaimed Pacific-railroad Interest.... 7,927 Total debt 52,098,390,610 Total interest 15,077,492 Cash in treasury 221,674,535 Debt Jess cash in trea5ury51,891,799,568 Decrease dui-ing January 7,382,167 Decrease since June 30, 1880 50,152,727 Current liabilities— Interest due and unpaids 3,059,712 Debt on which interest has ceased 7,273,285 Interest thereon.* 7'?3,389 Gold and silver certificates 53,341,700 United States notes he’d fqr redemption of certificates of deposit. 8,630,000 Cash balance available Feb. 1,1881 118,616,447 Totals 221,674,535 Available assets— Cash In treasury.s 221,674,535 Bonds issued to Pacific railway companies, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstandings 64,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid 323,117 Interest paid by United States 49,528,566 Interest repaid by companies— Interest retttid by transportation of mails 14,052,966 By cash payments of 5 per cent of net learnings 655,198 Balance of interest paid by the United States'. 34,820,401

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. The Kansas Legislature has resolved to place a statue of John Brown in the National Art Gallery in Washington. The sudden spread of small-pox in New York causes alarm among the health authorities. There are over sixty cases under treatment at the hospital on Randall’s island. The black small-pox, which is supposed to have been introduced by Mennonite immigrants, continues its ravages at Jefferson, Dakota, which has been quarantined for over a month, thirty-two deaths having occurred. Fifty-two patients are under treatment in Chicago,

Four men were hanged at New Westminster, B. C., for a murder •ommitted about a year ago. Thirteen million five hundred thousand dollars has been subscribed to build the New York, Chicago and St. Louis railway. Burned: The Bijou Theater, at Fort Wayne, Ind., loss $6,000; Independence Hall Chicago, loss $20,000; the fine residence of Morris Auerbach, fit Paul, Minn., loss $30,000; tho Webster-school building, Quincy, 111., 10-s $80,000; the Court House at Charles City, Floyd county, lowa, loss $25,000; Wilder’s plow works, Toledo, Ohio, loss $10,000; the paper mill of L. Lincoln & Co., Taunton, Mass., loss $23,000 ; the Capitol Hotel, Dover. Del., loss $12,000; Leisy A Co.’s brewerv, Cleveland, Ohio, loss SIO,OOO ; the works of the Wando Manufacturing Company, near Charleston, S. C„ loss $63,000. Three hundred Indians from New Mexico have invaded the State of Chihuahua, creating a panic among the Greasers. A mortgage for $45,000,000, covering all the property of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad, is being prepared for record in each count}’ of tho three States. Burned: The extensive wholesale grocery house of Greeley and Burnham, and two or three adjacent stores, in St. Louis, loss $450,000 ; Aldrich’s cigar factory, Rome, N. Y. loss $40,000 ; stores and dwellings on Halifax street, Pensacola, Fla., loss $30,000; Gent’s machine shop and Savage & Love’s model establishment, at Rockford, 111., loss $30,000 ; the Reformed Church, at Utica. N. Y.. loss 465,000; Bourland’s printing office, at Montreal. Can., loss SIO,OOO ; a mill of the Springfield Blanket Company, at Holyoke, Mass., loss $25,000.

POLITICAL POINTS. Four low-tax Democrats in the Tennessee Legislature joined the Republicans in electing James Nolan Comptroller and D. A. Nunn Secretary of State. The Woman’s National Anti-Polyg-amy Society met at Salt Lake City and passed resolutions urging Congress to sustain Gov. Murray in unseating Cannon.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. In the United States Senate, on the morning of Monday, Feb. 1, Mr. Baldwin, of Michigan, took his seat, and the credentials of Mr. Conger were presented. Mr. McPherson Introduced a bill appropriating SIOO,OOO to fit out a war vessel to search for the steamer Jeannette. Mr. Dawes, commenting upon the killing of Big Snake, the Ponca chief, by white soldiers, presented a protest from Standing Bear and others against the sale of the old > eservations. Senator Logan defended Secretary Schu z in thii matter. The severalty bill was taken up, and an amendment adopted to allow allotments to be taken by individual members of a tribe which does not .onsent to take lands. Mr. Voorhees introduced a bill to pension the survivors of the battle of Tippecanoe, fn the House. Mr. O Reilly presented a bill providing that no telegraph company shall charge more for messages thau the rates ot the American Union Company at the commencement of this year. Mr. Springer put forward his postal telegraph measure. A. b.ll was pissed to enable the Utah Northern Railrood Company to construct branches in Utah, Idaho and Montana. Among the bills introduced was one to prevent food adulteration; one to compensate railway mail clerks for injuries receive I while on duty; one providing that two members of a firm cannot serve as Directors of the same national bank ; that no money broker, private banker or Din ctor in any private banking house or savings bunk shall serve as Director of a national bank in the same city as that in which the private bank or savings institution with which he is connected is situated; and that when a Director has ess than ten shares of the stock of tho bank he becomes disqualified, and cannot continue to serve, i’he lowa contested-electio i cases were settled in favor of Messrs. Sapp and Carpenter, the contestees. At a caucus of Democratic Senators it was resolved not to consent to the principle established by the ingalls resolution, but to hold a continuous session t > force the passage of a resolution that the Vice President has no constitutional authority to count electoral votes. Mr. Morgan reported from the Electoral Committee, on Tuesday, Feb. 1, as a substitute for Mr. Ingalls’ resolution on that subject, the concurrent resolution adopted by the Democratic caucus. It was laid on the table to be printed. Consideration of the case of Big Snake, the Ponca chief who was killed wTiile resisting arrest, .'as resumed. Mr. Kirkwood replied to the .emarks made by Mr. Dawes on Monday, and defended the Indian Agent and the Interior Department from the charges preferred by that Senator. Mr. Dawes reiterated his previous statements, and tho subject was droppeel. Gen. Logan gave notice hat he would next day call up the bill placing Gen. Grant upon the retired list of the army. The Pension Appropriation bill was under consideration. Two amendments were adopted. One limits the fee of the examining surgeon to sl, and tho fiber provides that the money paid inmates of Soldiers’ Homes shall be ) aid through the Treasurer of these institutions. The District of Co r.mbia b.ll occupied the attention of the House of Itepresentathes. No action was taken. Senator Cockrell introduced a bill in the Senate on Wednesday, Feb. 2, providing for an appropriation of $5,000 for the publication of a descriptive catalogue of all public documents from July 4, 1876, to date. A message was received from the President transmitting the report of the special Ponca commission and outlining an Indian policy for the future. Mr. McPherson made a favorable report cn the bill to appropriate $ 100,000 to equip a vessel ti starch for the Jeannette in the Arctic regions. The Morgan electoral-count resolu lions occupied a large portion of the day, and were finally adopted. The House passed the District of Columbia appropriation. The Legislative appropriation, retting aside $17,181,000, was reported favorably. Tho Speaker presented a message from the President, accompanied by a recommendation from the Secretary of the Navy, that j $200,000 be appropriated for naval stations on the American isthmus. The Apportionment bill coming up. Mr. Cox entertained the House with flowery tributes to our institutions and our progress. The concurrent resolution ou the Electoral count, introduced by Senator Morgan on tire l’>th of l June of last year, was discussed in the Senate on Thursday, Feb. 3. The resolution declares that the President of the Senate is not invested by the constitution with the right to count the votes of Electors for President and Vice President of the United States. Senator Edmunds was opposed to the consideration of the resolution at the present time, and moved to lay it on the table, which was negatived by a vote of 32 to 22. Hoar, Windom, Booth and Conkling were i opposed to the considerate n of tlie question, as im- ■ portant and pressing business awaited the action of , the Senate. During the discussion Conkling , said he agreed with Morgan that the Vice I President had no" power in the matter of the ! count, and that the Senate and House had quasi-judicial authority over ft. Senator Edmunds ; moved an amendment to the effect that neither the Senate, House nor Piesidtnt of the Senate were invested by the constitution with the power to make the count, but the amendment was rejected by a party vote of 28 to 18. The Republicans then absented themselves to prevent a quorum, and there was no final action on the resolution. The House took up the Apportionment bill. Mr. Oox offered an amendment fixing the number of , Representatives at 307, while Mr. Sherwin, of the , Census Committee, favored 301. The debate then | assumed a political cast, Mr. Thomp- I son, of Kentucky, declared that the I second section of tlie Fourteenth omond , "ent conld i not be practically enforced by legislation. Mr. White denied that there was a property qualification in force in Pennsylvania. The bill went over without action. Mr. King introduce 1 a bill appropriate- ' Ing $20,000 for the distribution of cane seed. The Indian appropriation was reported with the Senate amendments, which were agreed to. .The River and I Haibor bill, which appropriates about $11,000,000, was reported. A motion to take np the bill to retire Gen. Grant was defeated in the Senate on the 4th inst. The Morgan resolution in regard to the Electoral count was passed; also the House bill appropriating $26,000 for a national museum, as weU as a measure setting aside $175,000 to equip a vessel - to search for the Jeannette. In the House, a bill was reported, authorizing the States of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois to prosecute suits against the Government in the Supreme Court of the United States. An act for the sale of Indian, lands in Kansas was passed, the rate being fixed at $3 per acre. In the debate over a pension bill Mr. Atkins expressed the belief that the Arrearages act would cost the Government $1,000,000,000. The United States Senate was in session a short time on Saturday, Feb. 5, and passed a Joint resolution inviting the Government and people of France and the family of Lafayette to join in the Yorktown celebration. Bills were passed for the erection of a public building in Quincy, HL, and to erect a monument at Wyandotte Mission, in Ohio, The House passed both the Senate joint resolutions in regard to the electoral count Some hours were spent in debate op the apportionment question.

INDIANA LEGISLATURE. Monday, Jan. 81.—Senate.—The Senate reconvened this afternoon, and Senator Van ’ Vorhes introduced a biU abolishing the office of the President of the benevolent institutions. The Committee on Education was instructed to report ou the feasibility of cjnsolidating the various educational institutions unfit r one management. The tall to prevent marriage of drunkards, insane people and felons was referred. Senator Briscoe’s joint resolution “tuat the sympathies of the people of Indiana are with the masses of the people of Ireland in their present legal straggle to reform the system of land laws at present existing in that country,” was adopted. House.—The House lacked a quorum, and spent the principal time in voting on motions to adjourn. Tuesday, Feb. I.—The Senate did not meet to-day, and the House remained in session only an hour. It heard reports, received new bills and then passed the Semite concurrent resolu- i tipn of sympathy with the people of Ireland, j with the’ addition of an amendment by Mr. | McSheehy thanking Congressman Calkins, of . this State, for his championship of this i question in the lower house of Congress. ! Bills were introduced : Amending the act regulating general elections ; authorizing owners of wet lands to drain and reclaim the same ; prohibiting minors from loitering in saloons, and providing no exemption for married women from taxation. Tho bill to enable nine of a jury of twelve, seven of a jury of nine, and four of a jury of six to return a verdict was reported from the Judiciary Committee with a recommendation that it pass. It was made a special order for Friday at 11 o’clock. Then the House adjourned to the Union Depot, and, ■ joining the Senate, set off for Lafayette and Purdue University. Wednesday, Feb. 2.—Senate.—A number of I bills on third reading were taken up and < passed, principally legalizing and amending j acts. When Senator Van Vorhis’ bill for the establishment and maintenance of a State Board of Health and Bureau of Vital Statistics was called up, considerable opposition developed, the Senators arguing that it was a useless measure, md likely to prove expensive. The bill failed by a vote of 19 to 26. Later in the day, however, the vote by which its passage was defeated was reconsidered, as was also the vote on engrossment. and tlie bill was inferred to the Health Committee. Representatives and Senators in Congress were instructed to use all the means n their power to secure an appropriation of SIOO,OIO for widening and deepening the channel of the Kankakee river, so as to make it navigable in Indiana. The bill providing for the licensing of engineers of stationary engines i was discussed, and referred with instructions to make its provisions cover portable as well as stationary engines. Tho vote by which the bill amendatory of tho Railroad Bridge law was engrossed was considered, and it was recommitted. The consideration of various measures relating to a constitutional convention on the resubmission of the amendments to the people was made the special orddr for to-morrow afternoon. House. —Among the new bills introduced was a liquor-license measure and a bill for the election of County Superintendents and teachers in district schools by a popular vote. The_ deoate upon compulsory education was postponed until Tuesday. The bill for refunding city .indebtedness was referred for amendments. The bills for vacation of cemeteries within tho corporate limits and for the I election of a Police Judge in Indianapolis J passed. Among the provisions of the Liquor i bill, licenses are reduced to SSO per year, but I cities and towns are permitted to increase to I to any amount, and it is made a misdemeanor j to sell to habitual drunkards. The Deaf and I Dumb Asylum investigation was ordered to be- , gin next week, and the investigation of the i • rison, south, matters is set down for Tuesday ; next. Thubspay, Feb. 3.—Senate. —James F, Har- I ney, Trustee of the Feeble-minded Children ■ Institute, came before the Senate, demanding ; an investigation of his official acts. Senator Hart’s amendment authoiizing the deduction of indebtedness from the assessment list, came within an ace of acceptance, but was finally referred. The House resolution ordering an investigation of the Insane Asylum was adopt- • ed. Bills were introduced prohibiting the sale ; of firearms to children under 15 years of age, | and providing for payment of expert witnesses, j The contested-election case of W. R. Brownlee vs. Chas. L. Henry, from Madison county, was settled by the acceptance of tne committee report, that the last named retire from his Senatorial seat. A resolution was introduced expressing the sentiment of the Senate that the ridiculous sea Hires of Senator Cadwallader’s famous Whistling bill, passed two years ago, was due to careless enrollment and engros-ing. Senators Shaffer, Bell, and Jayne were placed upon the joint committee to investigate the Insane Asylum, and Senators McCartney and Howard were appointed to look after the House of Refuge. House.—The joint resolution ordering an investigation of the Insane Asylum was passed, and Representative Bemman appointed Chairman, the resolution pasting by a strict party vote. Lloyd’s bill, authorizing the purchase an 1 conversion of toll roads into free routes, was favorably reported upon, but was afterward recommitted, with instructions to amend so that a majority of the legal voters of the county are necessary before purchase is made. A sharp political debate was had over the passage of the bill establishing a Superior Court in Vigo county, the Democratic members of the committee reporting adver-ely, because the b 11 abolished the Criminal Court. The bill finally passed, 54 to 33. Clark county presented a claiffi of $4,000 for the prosecution and conviction, in 1874, of Wm. Kennedy, a convict who killed one of the guards in the prison South. Fbiday, Feb. 4.—Senate.—The bill providing ; for the establishment and maintenance of pub- [ lie libraries in connection with public schorls in ; cities of over 10.000 population passed. Sena- I tor Menzies introduced a bill establishing a I commission of five lawyers to be appointed by ! the Supreme bench to aid the court in bringing | forward the immense legislation now on the docket. The afternoon was occupied with discussion of the resubmission of the constitutional amendnunts, and the proposed constitutional convention. House.—A number of bills were reported from committees, including the measure pro- j j posing the abolition of city and town Asses- ! i sors, which was amended by omitting the city i ’ of Indianapolis from its operation. The bill 1 : was then engrossed. The Fish Commies on I bill was reported favorably, with amendments ! reducing the number of members of the board ■ to six, and the proposed appropriation from $5,900 to $2,000. After discussion it was referred to a special committee for further consideration. Several road bills were considered, but no definite action taken. Mr. Thompson’s bill repealing the act authorizing counties and townships to vote aid to the construction of railroads, was reported favorI ably from the Committee on Count y and Tow n I Business, but the bill was referred to the Raili road Committee. Upon the motion to engross ! Mr. Meredith’s bill to establish a board to mani age both the State prisons, a motion was made to have the Governor’s nominations of Directors confirmed by the Hou-e instead of the Benj ate, but the House voted it down. An amendment proposed by Mr. Floyd, that the nomino- ■ tions be confirmed by the House and Senate in i joint convention, was referred, with the bill, to i the Prison Committee. The bill for the , payment of non-resident witnesses in State cases, was referred to the Committee on Fees ; and Salaries. I An Active Man. I .Col. Thomas Scott’s activity has been : great enough to wear out three ordinary i men. Some idea of it may be gathered from the loquacity of a man who supplied him in Washington with horses and carriages. “Itis no unusual thing, ” . he said, “ for Col. Scott to keep a car- ■ riage for twenty-four hours. He would order the team and drive i s if he was behind a pair of iron horses. How they would fly ! Then he would make ft stop i of perhaps two or three hours in front i of some prominent man’s house. Then 1 he would be off again, and so keep it up for a whole day and night We got to know him, and kept an eye about, and 1 after the horses began to get jaded a

fresh pair would be run to the place where he alighted and a change made. Why, a SSO job was always certain with Cot Scott. He was a wonder.”