Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1881 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. The funeral of the murdered Czar of Russia took place at St. Petersburg on the 21st of March. It is described by George Augustus Bala, the celebrated newspaper correspondent, as the mo3t magnificent, most impressive, most pathetic pageant, which, in the course of a lengthened career, accustomed to the pomps and vanities of royalty, he had ever been privileged to behold. The funeral car was a bier of ebony and silver, on wheels, with carved silver spokes. 'The most striking figure in the procession was Alexander lIL, a ho walked just behind the hearse. The Ambassadors at Constantinople have referred to their respective Governments a proposition by Turkey to cede Crete and make additional concessions in Thessaly. The Greek Premier declares that, unless restrained by the powers, prompt action will follow a rejected ofTer by the Porte. In the British House of Commons, £440,000 was voted for army expenditure in the Transvaal, and £210,000 for extraordinary transport service. The polico of St. Petersburg have discovered two dynamite stores, and captured a man upon whom was found arms, poison and 20,000 roubles.

The canes of tho Tralee Land-Leaguers have been adjourned to the summer assizes, as the present jurors aro said to be members of the organization. Cypress trees have been planted round the spot whore the Czar fell, and sacred pictures with lamps burning before them have been placed there. President Grevy will send representatives to the Yorktown centennial celebration, in accordance with tho invitation of our Government. Tee British House of Commons voted 1(3,280,000 to defray the expenses of the Boer war. A St. Petersburg dispatch of the 23d says that indictments have been found against Nicolai RoussakofT, Andrei Telejkoff, Timofei Micbasloff and the woman Hesse Helfmann. They wero allowed seven days for preparation for their defense by counsel. Peace has been concluded between the Boers and the British. The former are promised complete self-government, and will at once disperse their army. For articles applauding the slaughter at St. Petersburg, six influential journalists of Faria have been sentenced to fine or imprisonment. Rochefort will hand over 1,000 francs.

Twenty-two persons were killed or injured in a railroad accident near Bondv, France. The Agence liusse is of opinion that the assassination of the Czar was planned abroad, chiefly in Genova and Paris. A bomb with a lighted fuse attached was placed outside the Royal Theater, in Madrid, but it was discovered by the police before it could explode. Sir William Harcourt, of London, received a mysterious parcel from Manchester, and requested the police to open it, when a loaded pistol was found. The Russian press urge that all Swiss be expelled from the empire ; that diplomatic relations bo severed, and that a prohibitory tariff against Swiss merchandise be instituted. The Governor of Senegal, Africrff reports that an engagement recently took place between 1,500 natives and 150 French infantry detailed to establish a telegraph line to Futa Djallon. The natives were defeated after a ■harp fight.

Peasants from all parts of Russia are making a pilgrimage to tho spot where the Emperor felL Col. Dorjibkv, the officer who was wounded at the time the Czar lyas murdered, has been granted a pension of 6,000 roubles. Two men have been sentenced to eight months’ imprisonment for placarding Paris with addresses congratulating the Nihilists on the Czar’s death, The*manager of Ni Dien ni Maitre has been fined $2,000 and sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for being too outspoken on the same subject. The city of Nice, in the South of France, has been the scene of a soul-sickening horror. The opera-house, during a performance,, and while a large number of people were occupying the seats and stalls, took fire and was consumed in an incredibly-short space of time. It is believed that not less than 200 people were roasted alive. A cable dispatch gives the following particulars of the holocaust: The fire commenced soon after the curtain had risen for the performance of “ Lucia di Laminermoor.” A majority of the victims belonged to the working class. Shortly after the fire began the gas exploded, and tho house was plunged into complete darkness. A scene of terror and dismay ensued which beggars.dojcription. A detachment of sailors from tho squadron in the harbor arrived on the scene, and displayed great gallantry in rescuing the people and combating the fire, which was subdued toward 10 o’clock. Strakosch, the impresario, was slightly hurt. One whole family of five persons and another oi three persons are known to have perished. Relief subscriptions for the sufferers have been opened throughout Nice. Most of the artists were in the dressing-rooms and were aware of their danger, but it was too late to escape. The choristers rushed along the narrow passage in the darkness, presumably unable in the crush to escape. The ba'ss, tenor and baritone must have been suffocated. Some of the bodies found are so horribly charred that recognition is impossible. The body of one of the singers has been recognized. The cause of the fire was a leak in the gaspipes behind the scenes. The leak was caused suddenly, in some way unknown, and allowed great volumes of gas to escape. This ignited before the leak was discovered from the rear stage lights, and the explosion which followed at once set all the scenery and inflammable material on the stage on fire, and before the audience recovered from their first horror the entire building was in flames. To add to tho calamity, some one turned the gas off in the efforts to stop the fire, and then a terrible panic ensued. The audience became frafitic and, in their endeavors to escape, all sought personal safety, and the weaker and the women were remorselessly knocked aside and trampled upon. Many of the actors and chorus were burned to death. The latest attempt at assassination in Rns3ia was directed against the Governor of Baku.

Count Pecci, a brother of the Pope, has passed from earth. Parnell stated at a meeting in London that money is flowing from America to Ireland at the rate of £4,000 weekly. A National Land League for Great Britain will be formed under the Presidency of Justin McCarthy. Oscar de Lafayette, a member of the French Senate, died in Paris lately, aged 65 . years. Being a grandson of the Marquij who

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aided the American colonies in achieving their independence, it was the intention of President Grevy to send him to the Yorktown Centennial to represent the republic of France. The father of Roussakoff, tho assassin, has shot himself. A huge petard exploded at the door of a Carmelite church in Madrid, lately, doing considerable damage to the structure. The Sultan has asked of Egypt a contingent of troops in the event of a war with Greece.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Slant. Gen. Grant has resigned the Presidency of the World’s Fair Commission. The Edison Electric-Light Company has been granted permission to lay tubes, wires conductors and insulators, and erect lamp-posts in New York. Hugh J. Jewett has been chosen to succeed Gen. Grant as President of the World’s Fair Commission. The Connecticut Legislature has repealed the law providing for tho examination of railroad engineers and conductors so as to guard against tho employment of color-blind persons in those positions. Seven masked men robbed the house of John Connor, of Catfish, Pa., of (15,000 in money and bonds, after binding and gagging the old couple. William A. Hunter, son of an exMayor of Brooklyn, having been detected in embezzling money for speculation, shot himself in a grove near Fall River, Mass. Joseph W. Milne, who was paying teller in a national bank at Fall River, Mass., pleaded guilty to the embezzlement of SI,OOO, and was sentenced to five years in prison. Ex-Gov. William Beaoh Lawrence, of Rhode Island, is dead. Rev. Abiel Silver, a venerable Swedenborgian clergyman, of Roxbury, Mass., was dirowned in Charles river. A young lady, in New York, who refused to disclose to two robbers the hidingplace of some jewels was stabbed in the arms and face until insensible, and has become a partial paralytic. One of the villains has been e apt mod and identified. West. " Hon. John U. Pettit, ex-Minister to Brazil, and formerly United States Senator from Indiana, died at Wabash, Ind., last week. A boiler in White & Russell’s mill, at Middlefield, Ohio, exploded, killing Joseph Hamilton, Seldon Sprague and John Patchin. Rev. Father Edward Fagan, of Winona, Minn., committed suicide iu Chicago a few days ago. Tho deceased had frequently manifested symptoms of insanity. Charles Cram, of the boot and shoe firm of Doggfett, Bassett & Hills, of Chicago, was shot and killed by William Seymour, a Board of Trade clerk 19 years of age, who subsequently committed suicide. Seymour was a suitor for the hand of Mr. Cram's daughtor, but had been forbidden the house. He forced his way into Mr. Cram’s residence and the tragedy ensued. J. H. Haverly, the well-known Chicago theatrical manager, has insured his life for $120,000 in a Milwaukee company. A Lake Shore express train going west ran off the track at Nottingham, Ohio, at a high rate of speed. Engineer Lace and Fireman Henderson were killed, and Express Messenger Schneider was severely injured.. Illicit distilling is carried on to a considerable extent in Indian Territory, and Commissioner Raum is getting ready to suppress it. The annual report of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad shows that the gross earnings for the year 1880 were $20,492,046. Big-nosed George, a notorious Wyoming road-agent, was taken out by a party of masked men and hanged on the cross-arm of a telegraph pole, at Rawlins. An insane saloon keeper of Sioux City lowa, shot and killed a 14-year-old girl named Helen Eberhardt, and then committed suicide. Col. Fred Hecker, one of the leaders of tho German revolution of 1848, for many years woll known in politics in the West, died last week near Summerfield, 111. After deliberating for twenty-four hours the jury in tho Kalloch case, at San Francisco, acquitted the accused of the murder of Charles De Young. The horses were detached from Kalloch’s carriage, and he was drawn three miles by the crowd. A Dakota man who lately arrived at Dubuque tells a horrible story of his experience during the winter. Ho homesteaded 160 acres at Big Lake, Dakota, two years ago, and last year harvested sixty acres of wheat, yielding twenty-five bushels per acre, for which he realized $1,200 ; with this he laid iu a supply of fuel and fixed up his house for winter; otherwise tho family would have perished. Two neighboring families, not so well fixed, came to live with them, and the three families in one house had hard work to keep from freezing. The fuel ran out and they used all the railroad ties and telegraph poles they could dig out of the snow; then the houses of the other two families were, little by iittF, tom down and burned, and nearly all their furniture went the same way. A German neighbor named Becker, with a five-horse team, attempted to reach the station for a supply of coal. He was caught in a snow-drift, and two days afterward he was found frozen stiff in the sleigh, his faithful dog lying on his breast, also dead. The five horses were ail frozen stiff, standing upright in the drift. Becker’s body was taken home to his bereaved wife and children. It was nailed in a stout box and placed in a corn-crib until it could be buried in the spring. Another family had lived some time on soup made of an ox hide. Col. J. J. S. Wilson, who has been connected with telegraphy almost ever since it came into practical use, has forwarded his resignation as District Superintendent of the Western Union. • The famous Wisconsin war eagle, Old Abe, is dead. South. A flood at Rome, Ga., has caused the destruction of nearly half a million dollars’ worth of property. The San Antonio and Corpus Christi stage was stepped fifteen miles north of Oakville, Texas, by four armed men, who robbed the passengers of S4OO in money and several watches and other pieces of jewelry. Maj. Kirby, of the internal-revenue service, has made a- bloody battle wich the sou Middleton brothers, whose illicit still is on tho border of Virginia and Kentucky. Kirby had a posse of twenty citizens. Joe, BUI and Tom Middleton were killed, and five of their men fatally injured. The revenue officer wiU renew the fight when sufficiently reinforced. The Texas Legislature has rejected a proposition to submit a prohibitory amendmenl to the people.

Two stockmen named Leonard and Doyle met in Jack county, Texas, to settle a difficulty, bringing along a third party to see fair play. Leonard started to step off the distance, when Doyle tried to shoot him. His gun held fire, however, and Leonard turned and shot him dead, and then mortally wounded the wit ness and made his escape. Doming, the new town at the junction of the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific roads, is said to have already 5,000 inhabitants.

WASHINGTON NOTES. As a preliminary step in the war against polygamy, a bUI wUI be introduced in the next Congress t>. change the form of government in Utah. It is proposed to plaoo the administration of affairs in the hands of seven Commissioners, to be appointed by the President, and continue in office during his pleasure. It is thought tho evU can be reached in this way more readily than under the existing form. Tne law disfranchising polygamists, male and female, wUI also be passed. R. D. Trowbridge, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, has tendered his resignation and requested its immediate acceptance. Juclge William H. Robertson, who led the independent bolt in New York prior to the Chicago Convention, who has long been the personal and political opponent of Senator Conkling, and who is a near friend of Reuben E. Fenton, who, at the Chicago Convention, headed the seventeen New York delegates who voted for Garfield, is appointed Collector of Customs for the port of New York. Mr. Fenton’s other friend, Gen. Merritt, was transferred to London as Consul General. The appointment of Robertson is said to be a severe disappointment to Mr. Conkling. William Walter Phelps, nominated to be Minister to Austria, is a wealthy young New Jersey ex-Congressman, now traveling in Europe for his health. He is an intimate personal friend and supporter of Mr. Blaine and a friend of Whitelaw Reid. It was Mr. Phelps who was reported to have furnished the loan which first enabled Mr. Reid to secure control of the New York Tribune. • Gen. Badeau, Gen. Grant’s biographer, receives a diplomatic promotion, being transferred from the London Consul Generalship to the higher grade of Charge d’Affaires to Denmark. The present Minister to Denmark, Mr. Cramer, the brother-in-law of Gen. Grant, also receives promotion, being transferred from Charge d’Affaires at Denmark to Minister to Switzerland, a somewhat higher rank. Thomas M. Nichol, of Wisconsin, who lias been appointed Commissioner of Indian Affairs, is well known in the West and throughout the country as Secretary of the Honest Mofkey League. He is a personal friend of Gen. Garfield. He has for some weeks been in charge of the Indian Office. . Gen. Lionel A. Sheldon, who is named as Governor of New Mexico, was an officer in the Union army, and at the close of the war he settled in New Orleans. He was elected to Congress three times successively from one of the districts of that city. He is a personal friend of the- President. Gen Lew Wallace, now Governor of New Mexico, goes to Paraguay and Uruguay as Minister. Judge Phillips, of North Carolina, has been nominated for Judge of the Court of Claims to succeed Secretary Hunt William E. Chandler has been appointed Solicitor General of the Treasury. A Washington telegram to the Chicago Tribune says “ there has been a great deal of speculation as to what course the Secratary of the Treasury will take to provide for the payment of the bonds which become redeemable in May and July, in case an extra session of Congress is not called for the purpose of passing a Funding bill. It is rumored that Secretary Windom has, among other projects, considered that of using money in the treasury to buy, before the Ist of next December, $150,000,000 of 6-per-cent. bonds. It has also been asserted tha t this plan embraces the idea that it will be practicable to avoid the necessity of issuing the $104,000,000 of 4-per-cenfc. bonds. There is some reason to believe that a project like that above outlined has been taken into consideration, but nothing is known regarding the probability that it will be adopted. Solicitor General Phillips declines the Judgeship of the Court of Claims, to which he was appointed by the President. The President has nominated Robert R. Hitt, of Illinois, to be Assistant Secretary of State. A Washington dispatch says that “permission is finally given to announce the fact that it has been decided by the Cabinet not to call an extra session. This decision is subject to the reservation that, if circumstances shall seem to make it necessary, Congress may be convened in tho early fall, but there will be no summer session.”

POLITICAL POINTS. It having been reported that Gov. Cornell, of New York, would not call an election this spring to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Fernando Wood, Gov. Plaisted, jf Maine, has assured the Democratic loaders that he will not call an election to fill Senator Frye’s place until one is ordered in New York. The Republicans of Chicago have nominated John M. Clark for Mayor, John Raber for Treasurer, William T. Underwood for Attorney and Thomas W. Sennott for Clerk. The President has nominated A. M. Jones to be Marshal for Northern Illinois, and Stewart L. Woodford to be Attorney for the Southern district of New York. The Democrats of Rhode Island have nominated Horace M. Kimball for Governor and W. L. Segar for Lieutenant Governor. Postmaster General James, in declining a banquet tendered him by New York merchants, thanks them for their appreciation of the manner in which he has performed his duties in the past, but he adds that the trial of his fitness has only just begun.

A Washington dispatch says: “Mr. Conkling’s friends say that he does not apprehend any difficulty in semiring the rejection of Judge Robertson as Collector of New York. The nomination is in Mr. Conkling’s hands, as Chairman of the committee, and he will not delay action upon it He believes that the Senate will not, against the wishes of both of the Senators from New York, confirm the nomination, and therefore he says he is not disturbed over it The politicians today credit Mr. Blaine with having brought about the nomination, as a reward to Robertson for having divided the New York delegation at Chicago and favored Blaine’s nomination. Mr. Conkling is very indignant He says the President has seen fit to recognize an element that does not number over 20,000 in the State, and to reward bolting with one of the best positions in the gift of the Executive.” The Republicans of Rhode Island have renominated Gov. Littlefield and all the other State officials.

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY INDIANA, FRIDAY, APRIL 1,1881,

The Attorney General of Pennsylvania declares unconstitutional the law allowing member* of the Legislature $lO a day after the expiration of the regular session. The Bolons have no recourse bat to shut up shop at the time fixed. Burned : The furniture factory of G. Mendel! & Co., Wheeling, W. V*., loss $50,000; the Saxony woolen mills, at Columbus, Ind., loss $80,000; the cotton compress of James L. Harway, of Norfolk, Va., damage $100,000; two buildings in Broad street, Elizabeth, N. J., loss $50,000 ; a shoe factory in Campello, Mass., wiping out $25,000.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. A company has been organized in Philadelphia to drain the Everglades of Florida, and reclaim 12,000,000 acres of the richest land in the world, llhe scheme involves the digging of a ship canal across the State. The Directors of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, at a recent meeting, decided to distribute the residue of the common stock, amounting to nearly 180,000 shares, which has been held in the company’s treasury since the reorganization in 1875. This issue completes the total amount of common stock authorized by the plan of reorganization and by the act of incorporation, $49,000,000. The reason for the distribution of the stock is said by the officers of the company to be the anxiety of the persons entitled to receive it to realize their profits at the present market value of the stock. The chief opponent of the issue has been the President of the company, Frederick Billings, who was unwilling that the stock should be issued any faster than the road was completed and accepted by the Government. The freight war between the-Pennsyl-vania and Baltimore and Ohio roads is at an end. The value of the domestic exported from this country for the eight months ending Feb. 28, of this year, was $182,428,826. The value of the same class of goods exported during the eight months ending Feb. 29, 1880, was $188,835,659. Reports of serious injury to winter wheat have reached St. Louis merchants. James Gordon Bennett ha 3 ordered a yacht in which he can cross tho ocean. It will be 225 feet long and forty-five feet beam. The Chief Engineer of Mexico has surveyed the Tehuantepeo route, and he reports Capk Eads’ project entirely practicable. Commodore Robert W. Shufeldt, of the United States navy, has accepted the command of the navy of China at a salary of $20,000 per year. Secretary Blaine aided the scheme as a blow to England's supremacy in the East Judge Spier, of the Superior Court of New York, .has issued an injunction to restrain the Northern Pacific railroad from issuing and distributing $18,000,000 common stock. Part, if not all, of this stock has already been distributed and placed in the market with common stock previously issued. The application for the injunction was made in tho interest of the Yillard pool. The survey for a new railroad from Buffalo to Toledo has been completed through Northern Ohio, and the right of way is being rapidly secured. The company will be called the New York, Chicago and St. Louis. A contract for the construction of the line is said to have been made with a Chicago firm, the amount involved being $9,000,000. During the eight months ending Feb. 28, 1881, 305,022 immigrants arrived in this country. Of these 83,000 were from Germany, 77,000 from Canada, 36,000 from England and Wales, and 30,000 from Ireland.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS. On tho morning of Monday, March 21, the Vice President laid before the Senate a con-munica-tion from the Governor of Wisconsin transmitting a joint resolution of the Legislature of that State relative to the death of M. H. Carpenter. The Chinese treaties were reported favorably from the Foreign Relations Committee. The President nominated Thomas Wilson, of the District of Columbia, United Slates Consul to Ghent; Thomas E. Douglas, Postmaster at Mansfield, Ohio; Charles Esslinger, Postmaster at Manitowoc, Wig.; Ronello W. Berry, Collector of Internal Revenue, Idaho. In the Senate, Mr. Voorheea offered a resolution, on Tuesday, March 22, setting forth that th< hostile attitude assumed by the national bankß to’ ward refunding the national debt at low rates, and the recent attempt to dictate the legislation of Congress on the subject, were contrary to the best interests of the people, and well calculated to excite their alarm for the future. It was objected to on the ground that it was in the nature of legislative business, and not projicr to be considered at this session. At Mr. Conkling’s suggestion, it was deferred for one day. The President nominated Stewart L. Woodford to be United States Attorney for the Southern district of New York; Asa W. Tenney, to be United States Attorney for the Eastern district of New York; Lewis F. Paine, to be United States Marshal for the Southern district of New York; Clinton D. McDougall, to be United States Marshal for the Northern district of New York; John Tyler, to be Collector of Customs for the district of Buffalo Creek, New York; Albert Woodcock, to be Collector of Internal Revenue for the Third district of Illinois; Edward S. Me>er, to tie United States Marshal for the Northern district of Ohio; Henry Fink, to bo United States Marshal for the Eastern district of Wisconsin; A. M. Jones, to be United States Marshal for the Northern district of Illinois. The Republican Senators In caucus determined to complete the reorganization of the Senate by the election of the various officers. The following are the nominees for the principal offloes: Secretary, George C. Gorhnm, California; Sergeant-at-Arms, Henry Riddelbarger, Virginia; Principal Executive Clerk, James R. Young, Pennsylvania; Chief Legislative Clert, Charles W. Johnson, Minnesota; Chaplain, the Rev. Dr. Byron Sunderland, of Washington, D. C. Riddelbarger is a particular friend of Mahope, and is now editor of a weekly Readjuster paper at Woodstock, Va.

On the meeting of the Senate on the morn, ing of Wednesday, March 23, Mr. Voorheea again submitted the resolution declaring that the hostile attitude assumed by the national banks to refunding the national debt at a lower rate of interest, and their recent attempt to dictate the legislation of Congress, are contrary to the best interests of the people, and calculated to excite their alarm for the future. Mr. Morrill raised his point of order that the resolution was not In order, Inasmuch as it was a legislative proposition. Mr. Voorhees spoke at length in opposition to the point of order. Mr. Morrill withdrew it, and the resolution was laid over. Mr. Dawes offered a resolution for tho election of Senate officers, naming the candidates selected by the Republican caucus. The following list of nominations was sent in by the Pre ident: William H. Robertson, Collector of Customs at the port of New York; William Walter Phelps, of New Jersey, Minister to Austria; Edwin A, Merritt, of New York, Consul General to London; Adam Badeau, of New York, Charge d’Affaires in Denmark; Lewis Wallace, of Indiana, Charge d’Affaires in Paraguay and Uruguay; Michael J. Cramer, of Kentucky, Charge d’Affaires in Switzerland; William E. Chandler, of New Hampshire, Solicitor General; Samuel J. Phillips, of North Carolina, Judge of the Court of Claims; L. A. Sheldon, of Ohio, Governor of New Mexico; Thomas M. Nichol, of Wisconsin, Commissioner of Indian Affairs; Edward S. Moyer, United State* Attorney of the Northern district of Ohio; George W. Atkinson, United States Marshal, West Virginia; Bryan H. Langston, Collector of Internal Revenue, Fifth district of Missouri; Ellis G. Evans, Receiver of Publio Mo. And the following PostmasteljPMichaei Piggott, Quincy, lU.; Daniel Sawyer, Wabash, Ind.; George K. Gilmer, Richmond. Va.; T. Morgan, Pulaski, Tenn.; Charles M. Wildir, Columbia, S. C.; Hamnton Jay, Jacksonville, Fla. Mr. Dawes called up the resolution for the election of officers of the Senate on Thursday, March 24. After several dilatory motions wero voted down, a motion to adjourn was carried. Daring the session there were some sharp passages between Senator Brown and Senator Logan, and also between Senators Brown and Hoar. Senator David Davis generally voted with the Republicans.

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

In a speech explaining his coarse, he said that the constitutional majority bad a right to appoint the officers. Senator Oar land opposed the present election of officers, on the ground that it would work great injustice to the present incumbents.' Senator Cameron, of Pennsylvania, asserted the determination of the Republican side to ait the question out. Senator Brown accepted the issue, and stated his intention to sit here until December, before he wonld consent to change officers. The President nominated the following Postmasters : Joseph O. Jones, Terre Haute, Ind.; Henrj Davis, Bedford, Ind.; Hamilton E. Baker, Holla, Mo.; Henry N. Cook, Columbia, Mo.: Presley C.. lane, Palmyra, Mo.; Cornell Cryslsr, Independence, Mo.; William Lydwitb, Jacksonville, Fla Charles P. Chandler, Receiver of Public Moneys atOberlin, Kas. Thomas H. Cavanaugh, Register of Land Office at Oberlin, Kas. On the meeting of the Senate on Friday, March 25, Mr. Ingalls offered a resolution calling on the Secretary of War for a list of appointments, other than those in Ve army, made in his department since the Ist of December, 1879, to March 4,1881, and under what provisions of law said appointments had been made. Mr. Dawes called np his resolution for the election of Senate officers, the pending motion being that to postpone its considerstson until the first Monday in December. The debate was interrupted frequently by motions to adjourn and to go into executive session. Mr. Johnston, of Virginia, and Mr. Saulabury did most of the speech-making, their themes being Mshone, Riddleberger and repudiation. The President nominated: Assistant Secretary of State, Robert R. Hitt, of Illinois. Assistant United States Treasurer at San Francisco, Cal., Nathan W. Spalding. Assistant Appraiser at San Francisco, Charles M. Leavy. Postmasters, John McKenny, Jr., Aledo, Ill.; William Rule. Knoxville, and William 8. Tipton, Cleveland, Tenn.; Elliot H. L. Rogers, Red Oak, Iowa; George K. Foote, Jackson, Tenn. In the United States Senate, on Saturday, March 26, after some argument on the propriety of electing new officers, an adjournment was effected, Mr. Mahone having the floor for Monday. The President nominated Charles E. Van Pelt, to be Postmaster at Seward, Neb.; W. C. Brundage, to be Surveyor of Customs at Michigan City, Ind., and C. H. Smith, to be Receiver of Public Moneys at Washington, Minn.

INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

Saturday, March 19.— Senate. —Tho Senate consumed the day with discussing the committee report censuring the management of the Institution for Feeble-Minded Children. The friends of the accused Superintendent claim that he Was not permitted to make a defense, and that the judgment of the committee was based on misrepresentations by his enemies. The Superintendent, Ibacli by name, has never been present, owing to the terrible illness culminating in tho death of liis son, Charles L. Ibach, with trichiniasis. For these reasons lbach’s friends demanded an investigation, and, although this was voted down, they prevented any definite action against him during the day. House. —The House olosod this week by engrossing a number of bills and making the proposed change in the jury system the special order for Tuesday. The bill passed providing for the purchase of school books for indigent children ; also allowing fees for State witnesses in criminal cases, and tho bill was engrossed making Wasliington’s birthday a legal holiday. Monday, March 21.— Senate.— The Senate was without a quorum, but it spent its time on the bill relating to public officers and offices. The bill was drafted by [the Revision Committee under the old law requiring fees and salaries of public officers to be granted according to the population of counties. One of the constitutional amendments submitted to the people at the recent election wiped out this law, and it is now left with the present Legislature to provide what Uie fees and salanes shall be. The vote thereon showed no quorum. During the afternoon all matters relating to fees were referred. Consideration of the report of the committee on the Feeble-Minded Institute went over until Wednesday. House. —Tho House attempted to pass the Whipping-Post bill, but the measure failed for want of a constitutional majority. The bill passed providing that County Auditors shall file a duplicate list of school bonds with the State Auditor, so that in case of fire a record may remain ; and the bill was engrossed taking from the Grand Jury small felony cases and misdemeanors, and conferring jurisdiction upon Peace Justices. The bill exempting private libraries from taxation was killed because it was unconstitutional. Bills were introduced, preventing the pollutio n of water in canals and streams and fixing the terms of Criminal Court Prosecutors at four years. The bill prohibiting the receipt of life insurance applications on the tontine plan was indefinitely postponed. The returns from the special election on the amendments, held last Monday, were completed to-day, and to-night Gov. Porter issued his proclamation declaring the amendments adopted. The vote on the several amendments is as follows: v . . for. A gain* t. first 123,736 45,976 Second. 124,952 *3,696 Third 128,038 40,163 Fourth....'. 125,170 42,162 Fifth 128,731 88,345 Sixth 116,570 41,434 Ninth 126,221 36,435 The highest vote cast was on the first, 169,711; the lowest on the sixth, 158.004. Tuesday, March 22.— Senate. —The Senate voted down a proposition to adjourn sine die on April 4, after a lingering debate, in which both parties charged bad faith in delaying public business. A resolution was adopted ordering night sessions. Resolutions were offered prohibiting the sale of liquors, and providing for female suffrago. Another amendment was suggested, empowering women to practice law. Numerous new bills were introduced : Empowering married women to apply for alimony; makr ing township Trustees superintendents of roads ; to regmate and license tho sale of spirituous, malt and other intoxicating liquors, prescribing penalties for intoxication, and providing for the recovery of damages for injuries growing out of sales of intoxicating liquors, and requiring polioe officers and constables to see this act enforced; providing subjects for dissection. Senators Spann and Menzies were appointed a conference committee to confer with the House on Tax-bill amendments. Consideration of the bill relative to officers and offices took up the remainder of the afternoon and night session. The only bill passed was one legalizing ordinance 69 of tho town of Edinburg. House.— Tho House objected to the Senate amendments to the Tax bill and a conference committee was appointed, which resulted in the Senate receding from the clauses abolishing the publication of delinquent lists, and taxing foreign insurance companies on gross receipts. The House, therefore, agreed to the amendment prohibiting the employment of ferrets, and tlie report was unanimously accepted. A bill was passed providing for a special May election in Indianapolis on the erection of a market-house, and tho one fixing the salary of the Adjutant General at SI,BOO per year, and his assistant SBOO, was defeated. The bill abolishing constructive mileage for Sheriffs on serving notices passed, and a resolution in memoriam of the late exSpeaker, John U. Pettit, of Wabash, was unanimously adopted. A bill was introduced prohibiting cities on rivers from charging dockage or wharfage, the plea being made that the charges now collected along the Ohio river from steamboats was proving a serious bar to inland commerce. A bill was also introduced prohibiting corporal punishment in schools, and providing that pupils may be suspended for habitual idleness, insubordination or gross immorality. Two witnesses are necessary for suspension, and the right of appeal is given to the County or State Superintendent The House refused to reconsider the vote by which the School bill was passed. Bills were passed : Relating to the manner of choosing Township Trustees; amending section 26 of (he Fee and Salary act; authorizing railroad companies to construct and operate telegraph lines for commercial purposes ; and authorizing the construction of bridges over county boundary lines. Wednesday, March 23.— Senate.— The Senate concurred in the report to-day censuring the management of the Institute for FeebleMinded Children, and accepted the result of the conference on the Tax bill. A bill passed repealing the aot establishing a Superior Court in Cass couaty,bnt the one against “hay-fork” swindlers and others of that ilk failed for want of a constitutional majority. Consideration of the bill relative tODffices and officers absorbed the afternoon. An amendment was accepted requiring County Commissioners to file a $5,000 bond. A biil passed amending the Discount act so that the capital of A bank may be reduced at any time, and one oonoeming the Liberty and Richmond Turnpike Company. Among the bills introduced was one enabling medical colleges to secure subjects for dissection.

House.—The House passed a road law to-day remodeling the present system of the State, creating a Road Superintendent for each township, assessing $2 on each able-bodied citizen in lieu of labor, and exempting incorporated towns and cities from road service. An iron-clad medical bill also passed, being a compilation of several bill* pending in the House, and differing from the bill passing the Senate in every material respect; all physicians must scoure license by Jane, 1882, from the Circuit Court; the Board of Examiners provided by the Senate bill were thrown aside. The bill providing for the appointment of Fish Commissioners passed, as did the Evansville Bridge bilL The State House bill was engrossed, appropriating SIOO,OOO from the general fund, and authorizing a levy of 2 cents on each SIOO for 1881 and 1882. The Jury bill raising the per diem of jurors to $2 per day, and allowing Scents mileage, was passed in-hen of the one vetoed by the Governor Thursday, March 24.— Senate.— The Senate passed the bill providing for the survey of drainage routes in the Kankakee swamp lands. This bill is based on the Governor’s recommendation that such survey be made, the estimated cost of which is placed at the maximum figure of $5,000. Bills passed : Legalizing the incorporation of the Baptist Association in Gibson county and the Union Christian College in Sullivan county; amending the act incorporating the Indianapolis Insurance Company (now the Bank of Commerce), making stockholders liable for three times the amount of stock; providing for reinvestment of Purdue University funds in 5-per-cent. twenty-year State bonds; and providing for but one voting precinct in towns of less than 2,000 population. The Indianapolis Police Judge bill met with strong opposition, and went over until to-morrow. An amendment was adopted adding Physician-of-the-Poor duties to the Health Officer, without additional pay. A joint committee was instructed to visit the Kankakee region next-week to inspect and port upon the drainage question. House. —The House amended the pending bill relative to temporary loans by providing that the maturing bonds now held by Purdue University shall be replaced by the State with bonds bearing date April 1, 1881, running ten years with 5 per cent, interest. The bill was then engrossed. Numerous bills was then passed, among them a bill increasing the bond of Poor-Farm Superintendents to $5,000 ; enlarging the limit of taxation from 33 cents to 45 cents on the SIOO in Marion county; prohibiting the destruction of wild deer and making the killing a crime at any season of the year, and compelling railways to fence tracks against straying cattle. Several hours were given to the Civil Code bill and 280 sections were disposed of, leaving 600 to be considered. Amendments were accepted making a change of venue in cases where local prejudice is alleged discretionary with the Judge and prohibiting the payment of special Judges’ services save where the regular Judge is incapacitated by sickness from attending court. The Mechanics’ Lien bill passed, being a codification of all the old laws, with additional provisions enlarging the rights of mechanics and empowering a mechanic having a lien to file notice with the County Recorder instead ot employing an attorney. Fbiday, March 25.— Senate. —Senator Langdon introduced a bill to establish three Appellate Courts in as many districts of the State, these courts to hear appeals from Circuit, Superior and Criminal Courts, except appeals by defendants and the State in felouy cases, and appeals from Superior Courts having a general term. The court in each district shall consist of three Judges, to be chosen at the next general election, one to serve two years, one three years and one four years, the term thereafter to be for four years. The bill is to take effect upon its passage, the Governor to appoint the Judges. An especial feature of the bill is a provision for the cumulative-vot-ing feature upon what is known as the “ Illinois plan. ’ Electors may cast two or three votes for one man if they desire. The Indianapolis Police Judge bill was amended so as to leave the appointment of such officer discretionary with the City Council. The House resolution relative to relaying the cor-ner-stone of the now State House consumed several hours. An amendment finally prevailed, directing the Commissioners to erect a tablet commemorating Indiana’s part in tho war of the rebellion. The Revision Committee was directed to report a bill providing for holding general elections on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. Amendments were made in the Public Offices bill requiring all county offices to open at 8 a. m., and requiring records to keep a Mechanics’ Lien bill The bond of notaries public was reduced from $2,000 to SI,OOO.

House. —The House adopted an amendment to the civil code, allowing Judges in property trials to grant changes of venue at discretion. A bill was introduced permitting railway corporations to consolidate lines in this State upon a vote of three-fourths of the stockholders interested. A concurrent resolution was adopted directing the Trustees of the Institute for Feeble Minded Children to dismiss the present Superintendent, Dr. B. F. Ibach, as per report of the committee. The Senate bill passed abolishing the Superior Court in Cass county. A bill was introduced imposing heavy penalties for adulterating milk. The bill passed conferring upon City Judges when elected the judicial powers now exercised by Mayors of cities, also authorizing Circuit Judges to appoint Commissioners to select the panel of frand and petit jurors; limiting litigautsbefore 'eace Justices to one change of venue; and* authorizing the mortgage of the State fair grounds, and appropriating $4,000 per annum lor payment of interest on the debt. About 100 sections of the civil code were passed upon. An Apportionment bill is being prepared on the basis of the recent census. It is understood no change will be made iu the Senatorial districts, but the lower house will be fixed so as to insure fifty-one Republican Representatives, with six doubtful, the remainder Democratic.

Information for the Million.

The year 1900 will not be a leap year 1896 and 1904 will be leap years. To explain the reason of this, we will give you a short account of the change of style in the calendar effected by Pope Gregory XIII. He found that the error of eleven minutes in the Julian calendar had amounted to ten days. He, therefore, deducted ten days in October, 1582, and, to prevent a recurrence of the error, it was ordered that every year ending a century should not be considered a leap year except the multiples es the year 400. Thus, 1600 was a leap year, but 1700 was not, nor 1800, nor will 1900 be; but 2000 will be a leap year, and every 400th year after it. In England we did not adopt the Gregorian calendar till 1752 ; consequently, with us, 1700 was a leap year, and we were eleven days out. These were subtracted, and, at the time, the measure enacting the alteration caused considerable uneasiness and some few riots among the poorer people, who could not comprehend the matter, and raised the cry of “ Give us back our eleven days !” The Greeks and Russians still retain the old style, so there is now a difference of twelve days between their date and ours, because they have considered 1700 and 1800 as leap years. The term “bissextile,” as applied to the leap year, was given by Julius Caesar when lie reformed the calendar, giving the additional day every four years to February, as being the shortest month, and caused it to be inserted between the 24th and 25tli. Bv the Roman mode of reckoning, the 24tn of February was called the sixth before the Calends ot March, and the intercalary day was, therefore, named bis sextus dies (the second sixth day), and the year bissextilis (containing the second sixth day).

It costs but little to make a child glad ; it costs bnt little to secure the grateful remembrance of a child; but if it cost a hundred-fold more than it does, it would be a profitable investment. It pays well to have a monument erected to ourselves in a child’s memory and affections. And this we may have by a little thoughtfulness and attention.

$1.50 Der Annum.

NUMBER 8.

THE REPUBLICAN SENATE.

[From the Cincluuati Enquirer.] It consists of Mahone & Co. It has been made' Republican, not by the votes of the people of the States, not by the votes of the Legislatures of the States,, but by so infamous a bargain and sale that the decent Republican journals of the United States are all compelled, for shame, to apologize for the infamy. Thirty-seven Republican Senators of the United States are partners in this guilt, and constitute the “Co.” of the firm of Mahone & Co. Never before in the history of the United States Senate did its members of any political iaith separately and. solidly engage in so bald, open and disgraceful a scheme of corruption as that with which these thirty-seven Senators have defiled themselves. The effects of this corrupt, predatory transaction can not fail to be demoralizing to our politics and to our public sentiment. Wai'd politicians in our great cities sometimes buy and sell ; but it was not expected that thirty-seven Republican .United States Senators would sink to a level in political methods with the ward politicians of Philadelphia, for example, till recently a great Republican stronghold ; nor was it expected that a Virginia Democrat, who could be elected to the Senate of the United States, could bo bought like an ox or an ass. It is creditable to the New York Times that, among other decent Republican journals, it feels the necessity of apologizing for this low behavior on the part of the Republican Senators. The firm of Mahone & Co. begins business in disgrace. The terms of the partnership are those of inieprity, and are those which might probably be fitly executed in a den of thieves, but which ill become the highest legislative temple of the Union.

This partnership will not commend itself to the approval of the candid, intelligent men of the country. We do not believe that good can come of it to either of the partners in the iniquity. We cannot but think that Americans will presently tire of these methods far up in our Federal polities. We do not believe that a partnership between one traitor and thirty-seven corruptionists will have a business career long and successful. Its gains will be ill-gotten. We do not believe that public opinion in this country has been so far demoralized and lowered in tone by the Presidential theft of four years ago as to look with complacency upon all manner of political villainy. But, unquestionably, the most deplorable feature in the theft of the Presidency and in this corrupt procuring of the spoils of the Senate is the poisonous effect of such methods upon public Sentiment. They are dangerous precedents. They lower the ideals of public virtue. They taint the minds of thousands of young men, of boys just budding into voters. The evil effects of such precedents are measureless. They tend to teach the rising generation, and the coming generations, that politics in this great republic must mean theft, or treachery, or purchase. The behavion of the Democratic Senators in this matter is creditable to themselves and the great organization which they represent in the • Senate, and will compel the admiration and approval of fairminded men throughout the country. They stooped to no dishonor. They have been generous, magnanimous, not greedy for spoils, and they have maintained their dignity and self-respect, if they have lost the emoluments which belong to the majority in the Senate. It is announced that the President of the United States endeavored to make fragrant the infamy of Mahone & Co. by sending flowers to the Virginia partner; but the behavior of the Democratic Senators has been made fragrant by their honorable, self-respectful bearing. The Democrats in the Senate have not yet resorted to filibustering and obstructing devices to secure petty ends, or to prevent the action of the Senate upon important public questions. It has been easily in their power at least to prevent the Republicans from organizing the Senate. Mahone & Co. do pot constitute a quorum of the Senate, and, by refusing to vote, the Democrats could have prevented a quorum indefinitely, blocked the public business, and retained the present Senate organization till death, or resignations, or new elections, should change the political complexion of that body. On three recent occasions the Republicans of the Senate have committed this offense—twice near the close of the Forty-sixth Congress, and now, to prevent the organization of the .Senate by the Democrats, who were in a clear majority. The Republican Senators threatened by this filibustering process to prevent a Democratic organization of the Senate till, by fresh arrivals and by the purchase of Mahone, they could organize it themselves. They insisted that Democratic Senators should pair with vacant Republican seats in the Senate, with men not yet elected to the Senate, and endeavored to make the country believe that if Democrats would not pair with Republicans not yet members of the Senate the Democratic party was a desperate, revolutionary, spoils-grabbing party. As one Democratic Senator maintained in the debate, pairing has become a great evil and great hindeance to the public business. But if members of the Senate must pair with men who are not members of the Senate, pairing has certainly gone too far. We cannot but believe that the calm verdict of the country in this matter will be one of disapproval and condemnation of the course of Mahone & Co., and that the behavior of the Democratic Senators in a critical and tempting hour will win the thoughtful commendation of the land.

KELLOGG AND AFTERWARD.^

The people of the country, remarks a contemporary, do not appreciate how conservative, patriotic and magnanimous has been the course of the Democratic United States Senators in the last Congress and in this session of the Senate. The Republican press, which has so much of the ear of the country, perverts the facts, falsifies the record, and imitates the robber who runs shouting “Stop thief!” Let us look back a little. In the Forty-sixth Congress the seat held in the Senate by William Pitt Kellogg, of Louisiana, was contested. The Democrats had a majority of eight in the Senate, and could do what they pleased. It was as apparent then, as now, that after the 4th of March the Republicans could take possession of the Senate organization by the easy purchase of Mar hone, and the casting vote of the Vice President. It was in the power of the Democrats in the Senate by unseating

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Kellogg to make the vote of the Vioe President unavailable, and tho purchase of the traitor, Mahone, an empty, useless thing. There was no Democratic Senator unaware of the possible and probable contingency which has now arisen, and by which the offioers and committees of the Senate are to pass into Republican hands. Here was a great temptation. The temptation was greater liecause the case against Kellogg was so strong as to soothe the average political conscience, if it had any hesitancy in voting to unseat him. It was maintained and shown that the Stato Government of Louisiana, at tho time of Kellogg’s alleged election, was fraudulently in power, inaugurated and sustained by force and fraud, by false returns of illegal Returning Boards ; that tho Legislature which elected Kellogg was never elected; that it never had a quorum ; that its members were bribed; that it fell of its own inherent lifelessness, leaving no trace of its existence save Kellogg’s alleged election. We use almost the language of a Senator who voted to retain Kellogg in his seat. What, under such circumstances, in such a case, and under such a temptation, was the action of a Democratic Senate ? It refused to unseat Mr. Kellogg. Why ? Because the case of Mr. Kellogg had once before been under tho advisement of the Senate, a body that never dies, and had boen carefully considered, and the Senate had found that Mr. Kellogg was entitled to his seat. A Democratic Senate said that the decision wits of such dignity and high authority that it should not be reversed save under circumstances which placed such reversal without the border of partisan spirit and beyond suspicion of partisan promptings. Democratic Senators had such respect for the Senate as to pay deference to the decision of a Republican Senate. A Democratic Senate then could have made sure tho possession of the Senate organization now. The country ought to understand, if it does net, that the behavior of the Democrats in the Senate in this matter was conscientious, patriotic, dignified, respectful to the body which they then controlled, and unavaricious for spoils. The country does not need to be told that Republican Sen- * ators, under similar circumstances, would have tossed Kellogg out of tho Senate chamber with as few qualms of conscience as were seen in their purchase of Mahone and in their repeated obstruction of public businoss by filibustering to accomplish their ends in poils and politics.

THE SNOW.

How nnch Dnmago Has It Done 7 [From Briulstreet.] The extreme severity of the winter and the consequent lateness of the spring opening in the West have necessarily aroused an eager desire to learn definitely the agricultural, trade and transportation situation in the regions indicated. In responso to this want of the businoss public, we have obtained dispatches from our correspondents at Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Dayton, Detroit, Orandllapids, Indianapolis, Louisville, ChicagOjTeoria, St. Louis, Milwaukee, St Paul, Burlington, Omaha, Kansas City, St. Joseph and Denver. Our correspondents at these centers ure in oonatant communication with trained observers at interior points, who are in contact with the farmers and country merchants. One main quey which has taken possession of the business public is: Has anything occurred in toe West to seriously check business prosperity? From the tenor of our disnatches, the answer unm stakably is, No. While the elements have oonspired to delay the spring trade in the West and Northwest, there is nothing to show that its volume will be less than last year. The trade situation is strongly sustained, as the foundations of prosperity are unaltered, and promise to continue indefinitely. It is apparent . that stocks of goods in the hands of country merchants are very much depleted. This fact put with the knowledge (nut the farming and industrial classes generally are just now abundantly able to purchase, indicate conclusively that both demand and consumption through the spring must be large. Collections have been slow, but it is evident that the banks havo been abundantly able to grant the credits required. While it is yet early to give judgment as to the general condition of winter wneat, it is safe to say, from our advicos, that winter wheat has not been seriously injured. The uncertain quantity as to the wheat situation is the exteut to which spring-wheat sowing will be reduced, owing to the backwardness of the spring. The severe weather has teen seriously felt by tlie railroads iu a large decrease of earnings, owing to the expense attending the clearing of snow and ice from the tracks, and inability to receive and move merchandise promptly, llegardiug live-stock interests, our Denver correspondent telegraphs that the losses on cattlo will be tinder 10 per cent., and that one-fifth of the sheep are gone. This is by no means as bad as has been feared.

Mr. Warner on the Donkey.

The best way of getting about Cairo and its environs is on the donkey. It is cheap and exhilarating. The donkey is easily mounted and easily got off from; not seldom he will weaken in his hind legs and let his rider to the ground—a sinking operation which destroys your confidence in life itself. Sometimes he stumbles and sends the rider over his head. But the good donkey never does either. He is the best animal of his size and appearance living. He has the two qualities of our greatest general, patience and obstinancy. The good donkey is easy as a rocking-chair, surefooted as a chamois; he can thread any crowd and stand patiently dozing in any noisy thoroughfare for hours. To ride him is only a slight compromise of one’s independence in walking. One is so near the ground, and so absent-mindedly can he gaze at what is around him, that he forgets that there is anything under him. When the donkey, in the excitement of company on open street and stimulated by the whacks and cries of his driver, breaks into the rush of a gallop, there is so much flying of legs and such a general flutter that the rider fancies he is getting over the ground at an awful rate, running a brew-neck race; but it does not appear so to an observer. The rider has tne feeling of the swift locomotion of the Arab steed without its danger or expense. Besides, a longlegged man, with a cork hat and a flying linen “duster,” tearing madly along on an animal as big as a sheep, is an amusing spectacle. —My Winter on the Nile.

A Diabolical Arrangement.

It is astonishing how many Americans there are who can sympathize with that famous remark of Carlyle’s, evoked by life-long suffering, about “that diabolical arrangement called a stomach. ” Many a dyspeptic has felt thankful to the grim Scotchman for thus characterizing an organ that has played the mischief with his peace.

They put a lot of ignoramuses into a jury box now-a-days, and then attempt to tickle a man’s vanity by telling him that he is to be tried by a jury of his peers. No wonder so many criminals commit suicide, rather than have such A stigma cast upon their family name.— Rochester Herald.