Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1881 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN NEWS. It Is charged that Germany, while avowedly in favor of peace, hag been secretly working to bring about a war between Turkey and Greece. It is reported that the Turcomans surprised and captured Naru Kissar, the most advanced fort on the road to Merv, killing the entire Russian garrison. Gen. Skobeleff has officially declared the Tekke-Turcoman war at an end. The military cordon placed around Bt. Petersburg was found to be more irksome to loyal citizens than efficacious against Nihilists. and it has been withdrawn. The great anti-Jewish petition has keen sent to Bismarck. It consists of twentysix volumes, aggregating 14,000 sheets, with 255,000 signatures. The Rev. William Morley PunshoD, a celebrated Wesleyan preacher of England, is dead. The Rothschilds refuse to loan money to Italy for the resumption of specie payments while the difficulti s with France remain unsettled. A telegram from Alexandria announces that tke King of Abyssinia is dead and lias been succeeded by his ion Michael. The King fell in battle with the Assaimeiks. All the Nihilists condemned for complicity in the murder of the Czar of Russia, except the woman Helfmann, were hanged in the presence of an immense concourso of spectators. There was no disturbance. Roussakoff fainted at the la it moment.

Bismarck and tho Crown Prince both condemn the anti-Jewish agitation in Germany. * All efforts to induce tho Bey of Tunis to peacefully permit French troops to enter his domain have proved unavailing. Further news from Tripoli leaves little hope that the French Col. Flatters or any of his escort escaped massacre. No Russian lad between the ages of 10 and 18 years will be allowed to cmigrato without obtaining permission. Advices from Bagdad state that the ravages of the plague at that place are terrible. The disease assumes a very virulent form, and thousands of peoplo are dying, and villages that are the most infected with the poison are being burnt. A fierce dispute is raging in the English papers respecting Sir William Jenner’s refusal to meet Dr. Kidd because the latter is suspected of treating Lord Beaconsiicld homeopatkically. Dr. Kidd seems to have been ungraciously treated by the orthodox allopath, but bore himself well, and has the gratification of having pulled Lord Beaconsfield through the worst phases of his sickness.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East. Ex-Attorney General Devens has been re-appointed to the Supreme bench of Massachusetts. J. L. & L. F. Kuntz, the well-known lager-beer brewers of New York, have made an assignment to their father, their liabilities being $315,000. Jay Gould has bought Col. Tom. Scott’s interest in the Texas Pacific railroad. James O’Brien, better known as Bob Lindsay, pleaded guilty in a New York court to perjury in the famous Morey trial, aud was sentenced to State prison for eight yearß. In .a billiard contest at New York Schaefer scored 4,000 points while Slosson was making 2,780. The typhus fever lias made its appearance in New York. It is the most dreaded of all diseases by doctors, for it does not respect the profession. The Bankers’ and Merchants’ Telegraph Company, of New York, organized with a capital of $ 1,000,000, has begun the construction of a twelve-wire line between Boston and Washington. West. Mark Beaubien, doubtless the most noted of all tho pioneers of Chicago, who kept the first hotel and ran the earliest ferry across tho Chicago river, died at Kankakee, HL, a few days ago, aged 8L years. David McKee, another of the early pioneers of Chicago, has also passed away, at the age of 80. Sioux City dispatches of the 14th inst. represent that snow covers the prairies to the depth of one to threo feet, and fanners in that section cannot commence plowing for several weeks. An aid society has been formed to distribute relief in tho flooded districts, where the destitute number over 5,000. A Yankton dispatch of tho 15th states that twenty families residing at a bend in the Missouri river fifteen miles below Yankton were imprisoned by fields of heavy ice. A colony of 130 people, who had been surrounded by water at Mayville for two weeks, had been rescued. Two relief parties were endeavoring to reach Meckling, where fifty persons were imprisoned by fields of ice from five to twenty feet high. Probably 8,000 settlors have been rendered destitute on the Dakota bottoms. Charles Marmon, a Leadville stagedriver, entered the theater at Durango, CoL, and,'without provocation, killed one man and wounded another, both strangers to him. He was hanged by vigilantes. \ The annual report of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe road shows grot s earnings of $8,556,975 and a net income of $4,213,770. The length of the road is 1,539 miles, and its funded debt 115,873,000. At a short-horn sale in Waukegan, IIL, one heifer brought $4,230, and another $2,250. The Chicago Times says : “ A thorough canvass of the uinter-wheat region has been made by a representative of the Times. It is evident that the damage done in Illinois and Indiana is much greater than in the other States, and has led to anticipations altogether too dismal. There is good reason to believe crop is very backward goes unquestioned, but the prolonged snow-storms have proven a bulwark of defense against nipping frosts.” Mayor Means, of Cincinnati, has issued an order closing all the Sunday theaters, that the yield of the country St large will be nearly as great as for the last two years, as the acreage has very greatly increased. That the Judge Mallory, of Milwaukee, has declared the Wisconsin Anti-Treating law in' operative and void, on the ground that the bill as enacted presupposes the existence of a law which, since the revision of the Wisconsin statutes, has not been in existence. Chicago papers chronicle the death of CoL BL W. Farrar, for many years business manager of the Evening Journal, of that city. “The Legion of Honor,” an adaptation from tho French, continues this week at McVicker’s Chicago Theater. It is a plaf of considerable strength and is'presented very satisfactorily. Following Miss Ward, will be produced the play of “One Hundred Wives,” written by CoL G. A. Pierce, of the Inter Ooean, m d Bunnjon, of the Chicago Tribuns,

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JAS, W. MoEWEN Editor

VOLUME V.

which has been one of the greatest dramatic successes of the present season. South. A party of armed and masked men rode into Toledo, Ark., at daybreak, surrounded the Court House, broke into the Treasurer’s office, and stole about SIO,OOO. They then remounted and escaped. Deputy United States Marshal Seagreaves was recently assassinated and robbed An Macon county, Tenn. A negro woman was lynched at Mar-tin’s-Depot, 8. C., for attempted arson. A tornado near Hernando, Miss., demolished many houses, killed three persons and wounded eight others. A fearful hail-storm visited the town of Fayetteville, Ask.. inflicting damage to property estimated at $15,000. Half the peach crop in Middle and Southwestern Georgia has been killed by frost; the fig-trees are dead, and plums badly injured. The notorious James brothers are living near Andersonville, Ky. Heavy frosts have prevailed throughout Texas, and considerable damage has been done to the corn, cotton, fruit and vegetable crops. Mary A. Murray, an employe of the Baltimore Postofiice, sued Postmaster E. B. Tyler for $20,000 damages for an indecent assault upon her. The jury gave her $5,000. War has broken out between the American aud Mexican residents of El Paso, Texas. Six men have already been killed. A negro burglar at Butler, Ga., on being soutenced to ten years in the State prison, pun died out his eyes. Miss Jane Schell, of Frostburg, Md., “ has been jailed for strangling her two newlyborn children, whose corpses were found in a meadow.

WASHINGTON NOTES. Secretary Windom has issued a call for all the outstanding 6-per-ccnt. bonds which mature in July next, aggregating $195,690,400. Any holder of these securities can have them continued at the pleasure of the Government, at the rate of 8)4 per cent, interest, by forwarding them to the Treasury Department to be stamped, semi-annual interest payments to be made by check to the holder’s address. Th Government will pay no expense of transportation on bonds received, but will return such securities by prepaid registered mail. Mrs. Blaine, Mrs. Sherm'an, Mrs. Pendleton, Mrs. Logan, Mrs. Harlan and other ladies well known in Washington and throughout the country appeal to the people of the United States to contribute to a relief fund for the sufferers from the earthquake in Scio. Ex-Senator Bruce, of Mississippi, wai tendered the mission to Brazil, but he declime, it, the main ground being that a colored man would be coldly received there. A clerkship in the Interior Department at SI,BOO per year has been contemptuously refused by Private DalzelL A large number of reports have been received at the State Department from Consuls abroad relative to the interdiction of American pork. The war upon our products seems to be incited by jealousy of our increasing trade, aud not from fear of disease. The situation in Dakota was a theme of discussion at a Cabinet meeting last week. President Garfield called attention to the destitute condition of hundreds of homeless sufferers by floods, and expressed an earnest desire to have every needed relief extended with the least possible delay. It was decided to authorize the issuing of army rations for two weeks, and clothing and supplies. An arrangement was also made by which salt meat, which cannot be furnished at needed points in sufficient quantities by the War Department, be furnished through the Interior Department from the Indian supplies, to be replaced eventually by the War DepartmentSeveral of the new clerks appointed to $2,000 positions in the Pension Office have been found incompetent to perform the duties devolving upon the clerks of this class, and have been assigned to mailing- circulars with ladies drawing S6O a month. Secretary Windom is a bi-metallist in the fullest sense of the word, and it will bo his policy to get coin into circulation as rapidly as possible. With that end in view, it is understood that $5, $2 and $1 legal tenders will be withdrawn from circulation as fast as they come into the treasury, and if this be found to work no inconvenience the process will be extended to the $lO notes.

POLITICAL POINTS. The Pennsylvania House defeated a resolution approving the course of tho Prosi dent in the management of his administration and urging the speedy confirmation of al. worthy nominees to office. By advice of the President, Secretary Kirkwood has rescinded a large number of appointments to the Pension Bureau and ordered a competitive examination. There are 130 positions to be filled, and the candidates number 720. Senator David Davis has written a letter to John Martin, of Kansas, in which hi charges that both the Republican and Democratic Senators are not free agents, but are controlled by monopolies. He says there ought to be a reorganization of parties. The first step toward that reorganization, he thinks, should bo the disbandment of the Democratic party. He thinks the Republican party would then become disorganized and demoralized. John Kelly’s foes inside of Tammany Hall are making a desperate effort for his dethronement, and, it is said, the disaffection is really formidable. The President has been waited upon by two delegations of Virginia Republicans. The first urged him to recognize the Mahone element in that State, while the second represented that no coalition could possibly be formed ..between the Readjusters and the Republicans.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. A terrible tale of suffering for food was brought to New York by the steamship Nebo. She encountered the bark Tiger with a crew of eleven men, who existed for a week on strips of leather soaked in lamp-oil, then devoured the Captain’s dog, and for eight days had gone hungry and meditated eating eaoh other. Over the ample stores given them they foughMike a pack of wolves. The Baltimore and Ohio road, has declared a semi-annual dividend of 5 per cent, on the capital stock of the main stem and the Washington branch. The Directors of the Denver and Rio Grande railway are about to bring to this country 10,000 French laborers, artisans and engineers for work on the Denver and Bio Grande extension into Mexioo. During the month of March, 44,125 immigrants arrived in this country,

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY INDIANA, FRIDAY, APRIL 22, IBSI.

The iron and steel industries of the United States are 1,005 in number, with a capital of $230,971,884. Pennsylvania leads off with nearly half the product of the country, Ohio taking second rank. A mysterious disease has carried off more than 100 Chinamen employed on the Canadian Pacific railroad in British Colombia. Death ensues within fifteen minutes after the victim is attacked. The April reports received at the Agricultural Bureau show an increase of nearly 4 per cent, in the area sown in winter wheat. Fruit-growers on the Delaware peninsula assert positively that there will be no peach crop there this season. In the large orchards trees have been killed by millions, and those still standing have largoly been uprooted to give place to corn and wheat. Gen. Grant’s visit to the City of Mexico is regarded with grave suspicion by the Greasers. No reception whatever was tendered him. Col. Fred Grant has resigned his commission in the army. Ex-President Hayes, in a letter to a Western journalist, admits that when he became President ho was not a total abstainer from intoxicating liquors, but for the past three years has ref rained from the use of stimulants, and will continue to do so. The Commissioner of Agriculture expresses the opinion that the winter-wheat crop has been badly damaged by the severity of the past winter, especially where the ground is badly drained. He says, from personal observation in several Western States, he is convinced that the crop has suffered greatly, and that the best -of it will be set back some time.

* DOINGS IN CONGRESS. The time-killing debate upon every subject was resumed iu the Senate on Monday, April 11. The lime of that day’s session was occupied by Call, of Florida, in defense of the Southern States, a statistical speech from Camden in defense of the credit of Weßt Virginia, a facetious speech by Beck on Don Cameron’s dominance In Pennsylvania politics, a retort by Cameron, and a bar. anguc by Vest relerring to pretty much everything. At the close of Vest’s speech the Senate adjourned No business of any kind was done. Senator Edmunds had returned from Florida, and occupied his seat in the Senate. He seemed to be in excellent health and spirits, and received the congratulations of his fellow-Senators of heth parties. In the Senate, on motion of Mr. a resolution was adopted on Tuesday morning, the 12th inst., requesting the President to communicate to the Senate any information in the possession of the Government touching the alleged arrest and imprisonment of Michael Boyton, who olaimsio be a citizen of the United States, by the Government ot Great Britain. The floodgates of talk were then opened, and a number of Senators spoke on any subject interesting to them, air. Beck making the principal speech. Senator Pendleton commenced a long argument, and held the floor at adjournment. The proceedings in tho United States Senate were var ied on Wednesday, April 13, by some sharp and angry passages between Dawes and Pendleton, and Dawes and Butler, and some excited donunciations of Eepnblicans by Senator Harris. The session closed with another personal altercation between Messrs. Hill and Mahonc, in which language purposely insulting passed between the Senators. The usual amount of talk was indulged in by the Senate on Thursday, the 14th inst., but no bust ness was attempted. When the session adjourned i' ( was to meet on Monday. The following nomina. tions were sent to the Senate: Postmasters—lsaac Brown, Columbus, Ind.; Edwin W. Phelps, Oak Park, Ill.; C. N. Clark, Ida, Grove, lowa. William Letcher, of Ohio, to be Register of the Land Office at Mitchell, D. T. Cortez Fessenden, of Michigan, to be Surveyor General of the United States District of Dakota.

Congressional Contests. Notices of contest have already been filed with the Clerk of the House of Representatives, n accordance with the law, in the following lases : Horatio Bisfcee, Republican, vs. Jesse J. Finley, Democrat, Second district of Florida. William M. Lowe, Greenback-Democrat, vs. Jo--epb W hue er, Eighteenth district of Alabama. It bert Smalls, Republican, vs. George D. Tillman, Democrat, Fifth district of South Carolina. J. hn T. Stoviii, Democrat, vs. George C. Cabell, Democrat, Fifth district of Virginia. Samuel Lee, Republican, vs. John S. Richards, Demcci at, First district of South Carolina. George M. Buchanan, Republican, vs. Van H. Manning, Democrat, Second district of Mississippi. J. C. Cook, Democrat, vs. Madison E. Cutts, Republican, Sixth district of lowa. A ex. Smith, Republican, vs. E. W. Robertson, Democrat, Sixth cUutrict of Louisiana. James G. Bmith, Republican, vs. James M. Sheley, Democrat, Fourth district of Alabama. Samuel J. Anderson, Democrat, vs. Thomas B. .teed, Republican, First district of Maine. In addition to the above, it is understood that the seats of the following Democratic Representatives will be contested : SI. P. O’Connor, Second district; D. Wyatt Aikens, Ihu d district, and John H. Evius, Fourth district of South Carolina. Thomas H. Herndon, First district; H. A. Herbert, Second district, and William C. Oates, Third district of Alabama. Henry L. Mu’drew, First district; Otto R. Singleton; Fourth district, aud Charles E. Hooker, Fifth district of Mississippi. J. FJoyd King, Fifth district of Louisiana, and R. G, Frost, Third district of Missouri.

Honors to an Enemy.

That “ dogs delight to bark and bite ” and also to “ worry the cat,” hath been said and sung in song and story through many English-speaking generations. It was with no little* surprise, therefore, that a few days since the denizens of an up-town neighborhood witnessed a novel funeral procession which wound its way slowly through several backyards to the place of interment. First and foremost march.ed old Towser, a shaggy and highly respectable family dog, carrying by the nape of her neck the disfigured corpse of a grimalkin, whose voice and form were alike well, if not favorably known, in all the regions round about Behind him followed Jupe, a handsome, silken-haired spaniel of , aristocratic lineage, who moves only iu the most select canine circles. Jupe is generally frisky, but on this occasion he followed Btately Towser with a staid dignity befitting the occasion. Neither dog betrayed any consciousness of the numerous bipeds watching the singular proceedings, but each kept on his course as though his mind was absorbed in his peculiar occupation to the exclusion of all other affairs. The march ended at a large ash heap, the aggregations of contributions rom the stoves and furnaces of several surrounding houses, and then Towser laid down his burden. Both dogs then assisted in digging a grave in the mound. When one of the suitable dimensions was finished Towser picked up all that was left of poor grimalkin and deposited it in the soft yielding* bed. Then he stood by an idle spectator while Jupe set to work to cover it from sight. As soon as this task was completed both dogs sat back on their haunches and indulged in one long funeral howl, and then as if satisfied that all had been done that could be asked of two such respectable canines they wagged their tails in unison and trotted off to their respective homes.— New Haven Palladium.

They were discussing a very selfish man, and some one, undertaking his defense, remarked : “Oh, but you know he has so many enemies.” “He an enemy ?” was the reply ; “ how could he have one ? He never rendered a service to any one but himself.”

“A Firm Adherence to Correct Principles.”

INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

Saturday, April #. —Senate. — The Senate spent considerable time this morning over the consideration of the bill providing for a Police Judge in Indianapolis, and *it finally failed for want of a constitutional majority. The Senate deferred action on the amendment exempting regular racing associations from the prohibition against pool-selling. The Governor transmitted a message vetoing the Codification bill, regulating the adoption of heirs, for the reason that if the bill became a law it would be competent for a court to order the adoption of a child upon the application of the petitioner, if the Trustee of the township would consent in open court; notwithstanding the parent of the child might be well known, might be'able to support it, might be ignorant of the pendmg of the application for adoption, and might be within easy reach of the process of the oonrt. The Governor considers this too dangerous a power to confer upon any tribunaL,

House.— The bill for the reorganization of the benevolent institut ons passed the House by a strict party vote, with the exoeption of Westfall, of Tippecanoe, who sided with the Democracy in the negative. The codified insurance bill, known as Finch’s, was killed by reference to a committee. The bill passed ■ prohibiting the sale of poisonous drugs to children under 14 years of age, except upon medical prescription, and a large number of measures were advanced to engrossment. The bill concerning the benevolent institutions contemplates putting the management in the hands of the dominant, political party, with the appointing power»the hands of the Governor. Bil s passed: To enable towns and cities to surrender or disannex a portion of their corporate limits ; to authorize cities and towns of 4,500 and over to construct and maintain water-works ; to separate the manufacture and sale of commercial fertilizers; to authorize a levy of 10 mills on each SIOO for every ten miles to construct and repair free gravel roads. The bill to protect sheep passed both houses too hastily, and the Governor has been requested to return it, as it is found out that it imposes a double tax on dogs. Monday, April 11.—Senate.— The Seuat e passed the bill authorizing cities and towns to disannex territory- from corporate limits. It then engrosstd the Public Offense bill and ac cepted the report reimbursing former employes of the Soldiers’ Home who were barngd out. The House bill -doing away with constructive mileage of Sheriffs was passed. The most of the afternoon was taken up with ttie eodified Election bill. A special committee rec- . ommended that section 7 to stricken from the constitution, thereby enabling women to practice law in the State. The Public Offense bill was amended before engrossment, so as to impose heavy penalties for the sale of diseased meats, or for any article of food or drink, the quality of which is misrepresented. This last clause is intended to check the sale of “ bull butter.” There is also an amendment imposing heavy penalties for attending prize-fignts. No exemption is granted newspaper reporters. Pool-selling at horse races is also prohibited. Among the bills introduced was one by Senator Wilson for tho purpose of organizing the two houses of tke Legislature, tbs Lieutenant Gov ernor, or, in his absence, the oldest Senator holding over, to organize the Seuate, the Speaker of the last House of Representatives to organize the House, or, if he he not present, some member-elect to be designated by the Governor. .

House. —The House passed the codified Decedents’ Estates bill, and worked much on specific appropriations. Mr. Cauthorne offered a resolution that the joint Assembly declare its fidelity to the General Government of the United States, and that it indorse the political ideas of Adams and Jefferson, declaring the several State Govt rnmeuts sovereignties, etc., etc. He moved that the resolution lie on the table until Friday afternoon, when it he taken up. He did this in order that the minds of the Legislators might be occupied upon the last two days of the session, when it would be unable to pass bills, and when a discussion of the resolution would be more seemly than the usual hilarity and mud throwing. Tuesday, April 12.—Senate- —The Senate wasted the entire forenoon in forcing a fight on the Fee and Salary bill, an issue being made on a motion to indefinitely postpone. Senator Brown headed tho opposition upon the ground that the bill was an open violation of the constitutional amendment thereon, for the reason that it ignored “ services rendered,” and mak s the estimate entirely on population. Senator Chapman, Republican, pressed the question, but noon came without change in the situation. During the afternoon the bill providing for the payment of war-loan bonds passed unanimously. The terms of the General Appropriation bill were accepted. No effort was made to resume tho fight on the fee and salary question. House. —The House passed bills: Relfftivo to the estates of decedents (57 to 59); to encourage the improvement of live stock by requiring licenses on stallions and jacks ; to make the face of insurance policies tne amount of damage to be paid in case of fire, and regulating -fire insurance companies, making the face of the policy the amount of damages to be paid in case of fire, unless thecompany preferto rebuild. The House refused to take upi the Specific Appropriation bill or make it the special order lor to-morrow. The Metropolitan Plate-Glass Insurance Company’s bill, allowing them to do business in this State, was voted down. Several bills of minor importance were passed, and the remainder ot the day was given to consideration of the measure relative to offices. Contrary to expectation, the House fought shy of the fee and salary question.

Wednesday, April 13.—Senate.— The Senate passed the Revision Committee bill on- public officers and House bills concerning roads and highways, relating to the organization of the General Assembly, providing for the publication of tho Revised Statutes of 1881, establishing a department of geology and natural history, appropriating money ior the relief of the State Board of Agriculture and authorizing a Joan of $60,OJO and appropriating money for the relief of .he Soldiers’ Home employes. Much of the time was spent in committee of the whole in consideration of the bill providing a reserve fund for the completion of the new State House. The Vawter bill passed, making Township 'Trustees Superintendents of Roads and Highways, and assessing a poll-tax of $2. The night session was used in advancing bills to final passage.

House.- The influence of the Republican caucus last night was felt immediately upon the opening of the House session this morning, and came in the shape of a motion to attach the Fee and Salary bill as an amendment to the Public Offices bill. A strict party contest at once developed, the Democratic members interposing motions to take up the Specific Appropriation bill and to lay it on the table, etc., while the Republicans voted as a unit, according to caucus agreement. Various amendments to the amendment Were offered and voted down. A protraoted and lively discussion was one of the features. During.the afternoon the discussion became persona], and there were several intensely-ex-citing episodes. Toward evening a vote on the final passage of the bill with the amendment attached was reached, and it passed, 57 to 36 —a strict party Vote—with only three absentees. Another row was expected at the night session, bat the House contented itself by passing several hours in considering the Specific Appropriation bill. Thubsdav, April 14.—Senate. —The House fight over the fee and salary amendment to the Publio Offices bill was transferred to the Senate to-day. Several abortive attempts were made to take it up daring the forenoon, and it was not until every parliamentary subterfuge possible had been sprung in the afternoon before the Senators faced the issue. The debate was animated and at times personal. Just before adjournment for the night session a vote was reached, and four Republicans joined with the Democrats and Nationals in defeating the measure, by a vote of 29 to 20. Previous to the Fee and Salary discussion the Senate passed numerous bills, among the most important of which were the following: Houso bills concerning elections and the contest thereof ; to enable owners of wet lands to drain and reclaim the same; to amend section 24 of the Fee and Salary bill so as to increase the pay of witnesses to $2; also, to regulate the manufacture and sale of commercial fertilizers; also, regulating insanity inquests; also, concerning Grand and petit Jurors ; also, prohibiting partnerships for insurance business. Also, the following Senate bills: Appropriating $973.70 to Benton codfcly for extraordinary expenses incurred in the oonvietion of James McCullough j appropriating SB,OOB for losses sus-

tamed in the burning of the Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home at Knightstown; Mr. Chapman’s bill concerning the laying out of streets and alleys; also the bill tnsiting appropriations for the new State House, with the amendment increasing the appropriation SIOO,OOO, the vote being yeas 28, nays 17. A night session was held, owing to the constitutional limit prohibiting the passage of bills within two days of final adjournment. The session was disorderly. A strong fight developed over what u known as the Supreme Court bill, a faction of lawyers endeavoring to substitute the bill creating an Appellate Court, but tho former finally prevailed At 11 o’clock the Senate began on the Specific Appropriation bilL Shortly Defore 1 o’clock Friday morning the Senate sud denly adjourned, leaving the Specific Appropriation bill uufinishedtnd the Public Offices Dili a dead letter, owing to a failure to agree with the House amendments. The failure of the Appropriation bdl leaves several of the benevolent institutions in an embarrassing condition. House.— The House occupied the entire morning session iu the discussion of the Specific Appropriation bill, which, after being amended by reducing the appropriation for a bath-house in the Northern prison from $15,000 to $ 5,000, finally passed by only two votes more tlmi the necessary constitutional majority. Iu the afternoon tne House passed tjio following Senate bills : Amending the act concerning the acquisition of Green island in the Ohio river ; appropriating $45,000 to be paid the city of Indianapolis for sewering lhe Female Reformatory aud Deaf and Dumb Institute; also, providing for a system of levees, and enabling owners of ffitet land to drain tbs same ; also, fixing the time of meeting of County Boards of Equalization after the fiscal year ; also, half a dozen legalizing acts; also, appropriating $6,000 for the removal of a sandbar in the Calumet river. The House also concirred in the Senate amendments to Mr. Barnett’s Foe and Salary bill, abolishing con.,t uctive Sheriff’s fees ; to the bill, for the reclamation of wet lands; relating to the organization of the General Assembly; relating to the sale of property by infants ; as to Grand and Petit jurors ; regulating elections and contests. Several House employes appointed by the Clerk, tho Hon. Cyrus Nixon, presented Mrs. Nixon to-day with "a handsome easv-chair, and in their note accompanying the chair they took occasion to happily*e\press their regard for her husband.

Friday, April 15.—Senate. —The Senate met as usual this morning and went through the motions of legislation. But, being without the power to pass bills, members became restless, then noisy, and finally boisterous. Crackers were thrown about the room, aimed at the bald heads of the more unfortunate, until the chamber resembled a school-room without a teacher. Pending this exhibition the House marched in and took forcible possession of the chamber, for the purpose of lorcing upon that body consideration of the Cabbage Owl bill. Dr. Edwins took the chair, and the hilarity that ensued, resulting iu the mock passage of the bill, was of that nature only evolved by Legislators when they unbend themselves sufficiently to be humorous. Several resolutions, however, were adopted—allowing Messrs. Darnell and Robbins S4O each for extra work on the Senate journals ; to send acts and journals to members at their homes ; to allow a number of claims ; for a lounge, etc. ; to allow the Principal and As distant Secretary each for indexing the Senate journal by the letter, aud making a Calendar of unfinished bus ness pending at the adjournment. Thanks were also voted to the Lieutenant Governor, to the retiring President pro tem., Mr. Viohe, and to employes of the Senato. The Senate also reconsidered its former vote and passed the joint resolution to so amend the constitut.on that the members of the Supreme Court might be increased from five to nine members, j he Governor vetoed the bill amending the act regulating the adoption of heirs, because, if the amendment should prevail, the surviving wife of an intestate-adopted child would receive no part of the land of which her husband died seized, which ho had inherited from his adopting father or mother. House.— Mr. Ryan submitted a resolution setting forth at considerable length the necessity for anothor and immediate session of the Legislature, reciting precedents in the administrations of Govs. Willard aud Baker, and declaring that public policy, hi view of the bad shape in which legislation was about to be left, demanded that fifteen or twenty extra days should be allowed to finish the work. A lively debate ensued, in the course of which the Democrats charged the Republicans with endeavoring to shiit the responsibility for calling an extra session from the Governor to the Legislature, The House, subsequent to the extra-set sion discussion, adopted the resolution to amend the constitution, fixing the term o i county and State officers at four years, and rendering them ineligible for re-election until after a lapse of eight years.

Advice to Mothers.

Bring your child up to work. Buy a broom and a dust-pan suited to its size, and tell it to sweep and take up the dust, and see if you can find where they took it jip. Teach them how you place your chairs and many little things, and you will be astonished how soon they will imitate you. Go with them to their bed-rooms and let them help you there. Have an inspection day. Set some day once a month, say the first Wednesday in every month, and let them go with you all over the house —every room, closet, drawer, and box, and see that all is in order. What is to be done make a note of, and set a time for it. If all the children’s things, which they are to care for, are in perfect order, reward them for it. This will encourage them to be ready for inspection day. Teach your boys as well as girls to sew. Cut good-fitting patterns and let them cut, fit and make. In these days of knitting, crochet, and fancy work, there is much they can do—crochet dishcloths, make holders, etc. Playthings that have been broken or tired of can be gathered up and carefully mended. Make a box, call it the “convalescence box,” cover it with pictures, lay in the cast-off toys and paste on the following rules: 1. This box must not be opened unless sick enough to take medicine. 2. It must be locked again when well enough to go out doors. 3. The playthings and books must always be put back in good order, and the key given to mamma. It will be of interest for years. Make scrap-books of colored cambric, notch the edges, paste in pictures and selected reading matter, within their years, but try to elevate aud cultivate the taste. In summer give them a piece of ground to cultivate, not too big for them to keep clean and in order themselves. Show them thS little black seed, seeming so dead, and by putting in the g ound a few days it will rise and grow in beauty. In the winter make flannel gardens by laying flannel or cotton in a glass of water, or a sponge kept damp and seeds sprinkled on, and see, day by day, how they grow. Never mind your own aches and pains —you are laying up treasures. When old enough, if you have begun right, they can easily be taught to allow mamma to rest.

How He Was Identified.

Uncle Hose met a very dandified Houston darky, who used to live in Galveston, on Galveston avenue, and who said in a very dignified manner : “How do you enjoy dis balmy wedder, Bah ? ” “ I don’t know you, sah. You has me at a disadvantage,” responded Mose. “You cussed ole bow-legged, lanternjawed gorilla, yer is de same ole muttonheaded baboon yer allers was.” “ Now I knows yer. As soon as yer quit talkin’ like a gemman I knowed yer right off,” and they embraced like Blucher and Wellington on the field of Waterloo, —Qulveston Newt, . . .

THE VIRGINIA REPUDIATORS.

[Washington Cor. New York Son.] The first attempt of Don Cameron to rush resolutions through the Legislature of Pennsylvania, approving the oorrupt coalition with Mahone, which he personally negotiated, had to be abandoned in the original form. Honest Republicans protested vigorously against indorsing the bargain with an avowed repudiator, and they were wise in that resistance. The Richmond Whig is known to be Mahone’s personal organ. The bondholders of the Atlantic, Pacific and Ohio railroad, of which he was President, until it was wrecked by mismanagement and worse meanß, publicly charged that this paper was purchased with money belonging to them and not accounted for. Here are some of the sentiments of that organ, uttered during the campaign in which the repudiators, under the name of Readjusters, succeeded by a combinatiop of the werst elements of both parties : Put a clause in the State and Fedoral constitutions that no contracts between individuals shall he enforced iu any court. The truth is, that if Virginia should at once repudiate her whole debt it would be the most effective means possible to entice within her borders both capital and immigrants. W. W. Newman was elected a Judge by the Readjusters last winter, and his notion of contracts is expressed as follows : Tho Government, before returning to gold and redeemable papier, is bound by every principle of justice to reduce all contracts to a gold basis and scale them accordingly. Mr. Blair, who was Chairman of the Readjuster Convention at Richmond, declared in his speech : Having achieved a great triumph in the State on our view of the debt issue, I now favor a vigorous application of the readjustment principle to the national debt. And the bill of Riddleberger, which repudiated out and out one-third of the State debt and made no honest provision for the payment of the remaining twothirds, recites : That, in its direful operation upon Virginia, the reconstruction period was equivalent to the war, and equally exonerated the State from the payment of interest on a just debt.

Declarations like these might be multiplied indefinitely, but those given are sufficient to show the purpose and the so-called “principle” of this Readjuster party, of which Mahone is the acknowledged leader. Its main idea was repudiation of the State debt as a beginning, and of the national debt as the end. It was a summons to the worthless, ignorant, desperate and bankrupt of all parties to make common cause, as Communists, against honesty and good faith. The next step would have been for a division of property. In the face of these facts, which are notorious and cannot be successfully disputed, Mr. Hawley and other Republican Senators who sustain the bargain with Mahone have the effrontery to speak as follows: / It seems to an outsider casually glancing at it that the Senator from Virginia, Who sits on this side (Mr. Mahone), nowjdesires actually to pay a large portion of the debt, and the others are williug to otve tho whole <and pay none. Mr. Hawley made that false statement with the knowledge that it was destitute of the color of truth in any form or in any part. It was, therefore, a willful deception without excuse or palliation. The bondholders and the State agreed upon a settlement known as the McCulloch bill, by which the whole debt, in round numbers, $32,500,000, was to be paid in a fixed term of years, with graduated interest at 3 ; 4 and 5 per cent. Mahone organized the Readjuster movement in to thatrmeasure, wliich he denounced then, and recently on the floor of the Senate, as the Brokers’ bill. He antagonized it with what is known as the Riddleberger or Repudiation bill, and he was elected to the Senate on that distinct issue. Hawley, Hoar, Dawes, Sherman and the Republican leaders, who have sold their political birthright to Mahone for a nasty mess of pottage, went into the trade with their eyes open. They wanted possession of the* committees to shape legislation, and they did not stop to consider the means by which that object might be attained. They found Mahone willing to sell, And they were desirous to buy. They paid the price he demanded in the nominations before the Senate, and in the exceptional honors conferred upon him. And now, when honorable Republicans would retreat from this unholy alliance, with which they are disgusted, and into which they were coerced by the caucus. Mahone, like the political Shy lock he is, exacts the “ penalty and forfeit of his bond.”

He insists, and we do not blame him for it, that his candidates must be elected now; that the contract must be completed, and that the ceremony of nominating Gorham, Riddleberger and tke rest of them is not a fulfillment of the agreement. And Mahone has let his allies understand plainly that he holds the key of the door by which they entered into the bargain. The Republicans are Shut in, and will stay in that condition until their present master lets them out. The business of the executive session, treaties, and a hundred important nominations, are dead-locked. Wty? Because Mahone wants his pay or pound of flesh. He will not badge frohx this demand, knowing full well that, unless his men are chosen now, they will never be elected. He asks, with much frankness and force : “ How can I face the Readjusters of Virginia if Riddleberger be cast aside? Expectant offioe-holders have thronged the galleries for weeks, until they have become weary. To send them back to old Virginia empty-handed would be to invite defeat in the coming campaign. Something must be done, and that quickly.” Under this appeal and threat the caucus decided to stand by the Mahone ticket, and, as Don Cameron started out by telling the Senate it was only a question of endurance, he will have a full opportunity to put his test to trial.

PAYING MAHONE.

[from the Cincinnati Enquirer.] The Senate of the United States has been in session one month, and it has accomplished nothing. It confirmed the Cabinet appointments on the sth of March, as a matter of necessity and of course, and has done nothing since. The Republican Senators seem determined that Mahone shall be paid before any public business is done. Day after day the motion has been repeatedly made from the Democratic side to go into executive session and attend to the public business which a Republican President has laid before the Senate, and the Republican Senators have sjtead-

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ily refused to do this, but have insisted that Mahone must be paid before they will proceed to the public business. The affairspf the firm, Mahone & Co., must be adjusted before the affairs of the United States can receive their attention. Mahone Sc Co. insist that the other half-of the Senate shall contribute to the payment of Mahone, and the Democratic half of the Senate, not being under any obligations to Mahone, decline to make any payment to the Virginia member of this “lop-sided,"incongruous firm—Mahone & Co. It requires astonishing assurance on the part of the Republican Senators to ask the Democrats to help them pay Mahone; but because the Democratic Senators refuse to “chip in ” and help to settle with the Virginia renegade -a distinguished Republican Senator from Massachusetts chooses to call this Democratic refusal treasonable and revolutionary. It appears, therefore, that the Democratic Senators are guilty*of “ the very essence of treason" if they will not assist the Republican Senators to recompense the Virginia renegade for his treachery to the Democratic party. We are not exaggerating or misstating the record when we say that the Republicans in the Senate are. obstructing the public business for the sole purpose of discharging their obligations to Mahone, whose treason to his party, his constituents and his State they bought with the Sromise of a mess of pottage. Senator [awley, of Connecticut, unwittingly confessed everything to a representative of the Enquirer on Saturday. The Senator said : “We organized the Senate in its committees with the aid of Mahone. Now that we have got the organization, it is not fair to adjourn and treat him with no equity. He has a candidate for one of the Senatorial places, and I think we must, for our word, as well as for general utility, go ahead.” Here is a complete admission that the public business is obstructed by the Republicans for no other pur pose than to pay Mahone. The Republicans desire to make the Democratic Senators a party to the corrupt bargain between themselves and the purchased Virginia Senator. The Democratic Senators have, so far, refused to take any part in the infamy, and do not feel under any obligations to aid <n keeping any corrupt promise which Republican Senators have Mahone. When the firm of Mahone & Co. was formed, the partners should have looked far enough into the future to foresee that a contingency might arise in which it might be impossible for the Republican Senators—the “Co.” of the firm—to deliver the promised mess of pottage to Mahone. A simple count of the Senate would have revealed this fact, and if the partnership had been intelligently formed this contingency would have been discussed, and, in the terms of the partnership, provision would have boen made for it. If this was not done it certainly was not the fault of the Democratic half of the Senate. Why should the Democratic Senators be called upon to supply omissions in this iniquitous compact between Mahone & Co. ? Why should the Democratic Senators be called upon to deliver the goods promised by the Republican allies of repudiation and treachery? Is it not the height of impudence to ask Democratic Senators to aid in any way to reward the treachery of Manone ? Mahone’s treason stole the Senate away from the Democrats, and should the Democrats be expected to recompense him for the robbery. The business of the Supreme Court and some of the Circuit Courts is so clogged as to be several years behind. There is a vacancy on the Supreme bench which should be promptly tilled. But litigation, justice, must pause in their tracks till Mahone is paid. The President of the United States has sent to the Senate a large number of appointments—scores of them of prime importance. These nominations have accumulated to such. an extent that the President will send no more till those already sent receive the attention of the Senate, and thus the executive department of the Government stands fettered in important respects because Mahone is not paid. This is the beginning of a new administration.. The Republican party has the Executive and the House, and the Republican party and Mahone have one-half of the Senate, and the Republican party presents the spectacle to the country—the spectacle of a great national party saying that the public business shall stand still till it can pay a repudiator of debts and of honor for his great treachery. The national Republican party takes the position before the ceuntry that the only business of the United States is to pay Mahone. Every day since this session began the Democratic members of the Senate have been willing and eager to proceed to the public business, but they are not yet willing and eager to assist in paying Mahone.

Sir Roscoe O’Strutt's Last Call at the White House.

A gentleman just from Washington, who has the confidence of the administration, relates an incident in connection with Conkling’s rampage that has not yet been made public. The Saturday or Sunday before Robertson’s name was sent to the Senate Conkling called at the White House, and had a long interview with Garfield about the New York appointments. Garfield went over all the offices to be filled, and discussed this man’s merits, and that man’s availability, in connection with the best interests of the Republican party. Conkling had a suspicion that Garfield was pumping him, and he was amiable and foxy ? but not backward in letting the President know just what he wanted, and whom he preferred. It soon became evident to the President tha£ Conkling expected a full and complete surrender of all the patronage in New York, or the perfumed tyrant would sulk. AU the had been canvassed except the Collectorship ; Conkling seemed to wish to avoid the discussion of this subject for the present. As he arose and was taking his leave, the President followed him to the door, and said: “ Oh, Mr. Senator 1 How about the Collectorship ? Have you any suggestions to make in regard to who would be the proper person to fill it ? ” With a quizzical look, and a profound bow, Conkling said with a lordly air : “Well, Mr. President, we have not considered that subject at all, yet. Good day! ” He left Garfield paralyzed. The President looked over the returns to see if Conkling had been elected President, and if so, if he was acting as his private secretary. After calm reflection, he arrived at the conclusion that if he was going to be President he i could not bAgin to act in that oapacitv | too soon, and, without consulting with I any one, he threw Robertson’s nomina* 1 turn into the Senate e» a notice to soq*

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coo that Garfield was President of these United States and Oonkling was still a Senator representing a fraction ot the State of New York. —Cincinnati Enquirer. The Republican Machine in New York. The Republicans in the Legislature, an«J especially in the Assembly, are affording many proofs that they are as corrupt a body as their notorious predecessors were when they governed this city by commis ions, or at a later period, when William M. Tweed used to buy the members like sheep in the Bhambles. There are several exceptions to this sweoping condemnation in the Senate, and a few in the Assembly. But they drop out of sight in the mass of rascality. The controlling elements in both branches have again and again this winter shown themselves to be utterly rotten and reckless. Spoils 1 spoils I spoils I seem to be the guiding star of the Republican machine at Albany. Not a word is said about the people’s interests or Jtlie public good. The only question asked by the Republican managers is, will the thing pav us and our party a round dividend ? Some of the very worst men who run the machine in the Legislature are Republican leaders from this city. They astonish the members from the rural districts by their venality and audacity. How shall we rid ourselves of this intolerable evil ? A large and respectable portion of the Republican party in this city profess to be opposed to these corrupt leaders, and their degrading methods. But when the day of election comes, these protesting Republicans are wont to go to the polls and meekly bow their necks to the yoke, and vote for any and every candidate whom the drivers of the machine have put upon the ticket. If these honest Republicans really desire to correct these flagrant wrongs, they must lay their hands on the Republican mashiue, here, at Albany ? and throughout the State, and kill it dead.- JVew York Sun.

USEFUL HINTS.

To bjemovb wheel grease from woolen naterial without injuring the oolor of the fabric, use good benzine. The quickest and best way to boil milk is to put it into a tin dish and set that into a kettle of boiling water. Thus scorching is avoided. A surgeon in the German army calls attention of all who have to do with horses to the danger of using the pock-et-handkerchief to wipe away any foam which may have been thrown upon their clothes. Glanders have been communicated in that way. “ The surest way to preserve your books,” says a bibliophile, “ is to treat them as you wouli your children, who are sure to sicken if confined in an atmosphere which is impure, too hot, too cold, too damp or too dry. It is just the same with the progeny of literature.” To remove fishy taste from game : Pare a fresh lemon very carefully without breaking the thin white inside skin, put inside a wild duck and keep it there i'cfrty-eight hours, and all the fishy taste so disagreeable in wild fowl will do removed. Every twelve hours remove the lemon and replace with a fresh ono. A lemon thus prepared will absorb unpleasant flavors from aH meats and game. Epsom salts, or sulphate of magnesia, dissolved in beer, together with a small quantity of dextrine, or artificial gum, applied to a pane of glass with a brush, will, on crystallizing, produce the identical designs formed on gloss by frost in cold weather, with this improvement, that the liquid may receive any color whutever at the option of the operator. A fictitious amber for manufacturing purposes is prepared by melting pure bleached shellac and keeping it over the fire until it runs clear, with care to prevent burning. It may be poured into molds of the size of pieces required. The operation requires considerable management. The darkest and haidest pieces of gum copal are also substituted for amber. The copal may be fused with the shellac.

This is the way to do up lace curtains: Having washed and dried them in the usual manner, starch and redry them. Any number may be prepared in this way, thus saving the trouble of making starch every time that you wish to put them upon the frame. Take the number that you are to use at once, dip them into cold blueing water and pass them through the wringer. This will not remove the starch ; it will only put Ihem into a condition so that when stretched and dry the meshes of the lace will be clear and free from starch, which will not be the case if taken diroctly out of hot starch. The following recipe is said to be muct used in Europe for producing artificial black walnut. By its use, it is claimed, ordinary white woods have imparted to them the appearance of the most beautiful specimens of walnut, and are adapted to the finest cabinet work. The process is as follows : The wood, first thoroughly dried and warmed, is coated once or twice with # strong aqueous solution' of extract ot walnut peel. When half dried, the wood thus treated is brushed with a solution compound of one part (by weight) of bichromate of potasca in five parts of boiling water; and, after drying thoroughly, is rubbed and polished. By this treatment the color is said to be fixed in the wood to the depth of one-twelfth to onesixteenth of an inch -and in the majority of cases the walnut appearance is declared to be very perfectly imitated.

A Sharp Rebuke.

A certain infidel, who was a blacksmith, was in the habit, when a Christian man came to his shop, of asking some one of the workmen if they had ever heard about Rrother So-and-so, and what they had done ? They would say no, what was it? Then he would begin and tell what some Christian brother or deacon or minister had done, and then laugh and say : “ That ia one of their fine Christians we hear so much about.” An old gentleman, a deacon, one day went into the shop, and the infidel soon began about what some Christians had done, and seemed to have a good time over it. The old deacon stood a few moments and listened, and then quickly asked the infidel if he had read the story 1 in the Bible about the rich man and Lazarus ? “Yes, many a time, and what of it?” “Well, you remember about the dogs—how they came and licked the sores of Lazarus ? “ Yes, and what Of that ? ” “ Well/’ said the deacon, “do you know you jnat remind me of those dogs, content merely to lick the Christian’s sores.” The blaoksmith grew suddenly pensive, and hasn’t had much to say {front tailing Christians ifteo* '