Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1883 — Page 1

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HEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. Bkwt. I 4- • * ’ ' - A sleigh containing three men was struck by the Montreal express at Cohoes. N. Y., and all the occnpante received fatal Injuries. * * The mansion of Samuel C. Lewis, at Tarrytown, N. Y., valued at #IOO,OOO, was -. destroyed by fire. - _ * The Massachusetts Supreme Court has decided that saloons cannot exist within 400 feet of a school housa A fire in Twedftle Hall Block ,bany, which contained an opera house, a bank and ten stores, caused a loss of #OOO,000. Nicholis Felix died in the Allegheny City starvation, self-imposed. Small quantities Of milk and whisky sustained hiia Since last July. The contest at Philadelphia between Engineer Melville and his wife for the custody of their children was ended by the Court awarcUng tbs two younger ones to the mother and directing that the elder be sent to college at the expense of the father. The anthracite coal shipped from Pennsylvania the past year was 39,120,09(5 tons, {jc J’. VV eat. < .The City of St. Lonis had a narrow escape from a repetition of the Newhall House horror. The Planters’ House, made famous by Dickens in his “American Notes,” and at Ode time the largest hotel in yds country, 'Caught fire at 4 o’clock a. m., in the store-room, a wooden structure overjuutging an alley, but attached to the hotel proper. Dub warning was given the inmftes by the employes, and in a few minutes scenes of the wildest disorder were enacted, meq v jjromdn and children making way from the bfiilding in a semi-nude elate; The fire department promptly responded, and in a short time had control of the blase, although it had extended across the alley and effected #20,000 worth of damage In Black, Tyler'A Co.’s auction wareroopi;*, fHenry Bl&ney, 00 years old; Carlo Rebole, and Dennis Repoate, all employes,lost their lives, and a female servant, Mary K6rne broke her ankle by jumping. The damage to the hotel property is about #io,ooa Flames broke out at Neenali, Wis., aiwi? raged until they destroyed eight business places, including a national bank and the postoffice. The loss is estimated at ♦l(X#bli j fj: ~ My, Greenbury L. Fort, who represented the Eighth Congressional district of front 187 Sto 1881, died suddenly at bis home, in bacon, HL, from embolism of the brain. F. D. Mandt’s carriage and wagon works, at Stoughton, Wia, were consumed by fit«f causingAl loss of #IOO,OOO, on which there j*#urance of #70,000. , Thp hpuse of Henry Pierce, near Elk Point, Dakota, oaught fire while Pierce was at a barn some distance away, feeding cattle. Mra» Pierce tipped over a lamp, and the whole-room was instantly enveloped in flames She endeavored to Bave her two children, who were in bed, but fainted, and Pierce arrived in time to drag her out, bad’lf burned. The hepric father then made a into the Hazing building, and fought madly toward the sleeping-room, hut was lotHeft* to plunge out into the snow very badly burned about the head and face. Both the.cbilftren were burned to death. The Ghicago smelting works, situated at the corner of Fortieth street and Wentworth avenue, Chicago, took fire from a stove-pipe and were totally destroyed, the loss being #IOO,OOO. The nail department of the Calumet Iron and steel works, at South Chicago, was burned, causing a loss of #IOO,OOO. The hospital belonging to ohji Fort Cratyford, at Prairie du Chien, in which Zachary Taylor and Jefferson Davis have seen service; was destroyed by fire. Clay*Sexton,-chief of the fire department of St Louis, detected a fellow Insulting ladies on Olive street He sprang from his buggy and belabored the mashers for ten minutes with a heavy whip, attracting an immense crowd Bishop Talbot, of the Episcopal Diocese of Indiana, died of paralysis at Indianapolis. j'Tlie jioforip us ; tVestern desperado, kno«b a? BUly the Ki 4, was recently lynched in Mohtanap’erTitqryr Conrad & Co., the St. Louis manufacturers of Budweiser beer, have failed for about #500,000. The concern did a business reaching #1,500,000 yearly. The weatlier iu the Wisconsin pinocles is most auspicious, and a full cat is ani'jJL doeen business - houses at Lawrence, Kan. * \vbre burned, involving a loss of #40,000, upon which there Is #28,000 inEntrance. **** • Several lives were lost by the explosion of the boiler of a steamer in Port Susan bay, I’ac jfieyjoast. j.. ■ i 'The'next itfebraoka State Fair will be hekl at Omaha ; ‘ of the business section of McArthurj, 9W°> was burned, involving a loss of #so,ooo,*upon which the insurance is •30,400. - . 'Z Frq&tfe' Gebhardt called a St. Louis reporter a liar and threatened to thrash him for publishing an alleged interview with jirti.’ Etmgtry and himself. ZereMa Garrison, who figured in tfi# adduction case at 84 Louis, has been fof treatment, as her mental foeulftiSare not; of a high order. TTol. 1 A. B. Cunningham, the St. Louis yeraojter, vjho wrote up Freddie' Gebhardt Aid tiis Langtry in the Globe-Demo-crat, for, Freddie called him a liar and a , ecohndrel, sept a challenge to Gebhareftj which the .latter, It is alleged, VW» . accept, # b»t, at the earaestpleadings*)l “the Lily,” wisely concluded that' 1 discretion is the better part of valor. Cunningham is an ex-Confederate cavalry officer, and is reputed to be a dead shot ThdHfiffteme Court of lowa has declared invalid the prohibitory amendment to , the constitution, on the ground that the journal of the House does not show that the amendment was passed, and also that it varied iis form and substance from the measure Eli|mf Fanner, a St. Louis printer, ne]jfcefr M 4ic-GW. TAmer, of Illlnoiß, shot and hi£ wife and then inflicted a mortal wound on himself The affair was ooc&fefierf by domestic difficulties of long of a calcium light machine In a theater at Milwaukee injured five * persons t>n the stage, two of them fatally, suspending the play. At Ogden, Utah, on Jan. 19, the mercuty was 86 degrees lower than was *. . .. ■. „ur

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ever before known there.. Butte City reported a temperature 40 degree* below zero. The worst snow-storm for years prevailed in Kansas and Nebraska, and the loss of sheep and cattle will undoubtedly be very great South. M. T. Polk arrived in Nashville, •Tenn., in charge of officers The Grand Jury Indicted him for the embezzlement of #480,000. Two-thirds of the" business portion of Cisco, Tex, was burned the other day. Loss, #65,000. A locomotive standing at the depot In Mansfield, La., exploded with such force as to kill a fireman and brakeman and mortally wound two other persona

WASHINGTON NOTES. The President signed th#. Civil Service Reform bill, and it Is now a law of the land. The Rev. Dr. Hicks transferred to Sturgeon General Crane at Washington his right and title to the remains of Guiteau. In the police court at Washington, fines of #2 each were imposed upon Gen. Hazen and Commissioner Raum for neglecting to have the snow removed from their sidewalks, and a warrant was issued for the arrest of Attorney General Brewster.

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS. William Goliveroeur Morris, Collector of Customs at Sitka, states that last season a small force of men made over #250,000 by surface digging on the mountain sides in Alaska The United States Supreme Court hae decided that bottles In which ale and beer are imported are subject to a duty of 35 per cent ad valorem in addition to the 35 cents per gallon on-the ale and beer contained in the bottles. Of two-kegs of gold coin, containing #IOO,OOO, shipped by the New York SubTreasury to the United States fleet in the Pacific, one was purloined from a storehouse at Panama, and no trace of the treasure can be discovered. The value of the exports 6f breadstuffs during 1882 was #182,682,734 Ex-Senator Spencer, who is wanted at Washington as a witness In the star-route cases, has for some time being staying in Kingston, Ontario, closely watched by detectives; but it Is now reported that he left Halifax a few days ago, en route for England.

POLITICAL POINTS. It is announced from Washington that President Arthur has decided to call an extra session of Congress immediately after March 4, to dispose of revenue questions, believing that no conclusion will be reached o» the pending billa Ex-Senator Dorsey resigned the office of Secretary of the Republican National Committee. Hon. Augustus H. Garland was almost unanimously re-elected to the United States Senate by the Arkansas Legislature, receiving the vote of every Democratic and Republican member on the first ballot The three Greenback members of the cast their votes for Rufus K Garland, an elder brother of the Senator. In the Tennessee Legislature, Isham G. Harris was chosen as his own successor in the Senate, and William P. Frye was similarly honored by the Maine Legislature The Republican Senatorial caucus of the" Colorado Legislature balloted nine times on the 16th inst, Pitkin closing with 19 votes, Tabor 15, Hamill 12 and Bowen 6. The Massachusetts Senate balloted five times for Senator on the ■ 16th inst. The fifth ballot gave Long 22 votes, Hoar 15 and Crapo 2. The House balloted but once, the result being 108 for Hoar, 10 for Crapo, 27 for Long, 79 for Bowerman, 1 for Adams and 1 for Butler. A ballot for Senator in the Nebraska Legislature gave Morton 18 votes, Saunders 13, Thayer 10, Millard 8, Connor 8 and Manderson 7—the rest of 133 votes being scattered upon twenty-seven candidates In the Illinois Senate Cullom received 80 votes for Senator and Palmer 20. In the Houbo each candidate had 75 votes, three Republicans refusing to name their choice. In the Michigan Senate, Ferry received 14 votes for Senator and Stout 13, with 5 scattering. The House gave Ferry 45 and Stout 88, with 17 scattering. The Senatorial ballot in the Minnesota Senate gave Windom 28 votes, Wilson 9, Dunnell 4, Cole 5, scattering 5. In the Houoe Windom had 47 votes, Wilson 24, Dunnell 6, scattering 15 E. Kenna, who represents in the House the Third district of West Virginia, received the Democrat c caucus nomination for Senator. The Illinois Legislature, in joint session, elected Gov. Shelby M. t>ullom United States Senator, to Bucceed David Davis, Cullom receiving 107 votes, and all the Democrats (95) voting for John M. Palmer. The North Carolina Legislature reelected Senator Matt W. Ransom; Senator Plumb was chosen as bis own successor by the Kansas Legislature; and Senator Saulsbury was returned for another six years’ term by the Delaware Legislature. A second ballot for Senator in the Massachusetts Legislature, on Jan. 17, gave Senator Hoar 181 votes, Bowerman 81, and Long 49, the former falling 8 votes short of an election. Ten ballots were taken in the Republican Senatorial caucus at Denver, the latest giving Pitkin 21, Tabor 16, Hamill 11 Bowen 4, and, Hallett L The Minnesota Legislature indulged in two ballots for Senator without a result, Windom’s strength falling off several votes. In the Michigan Legislature there was one ballot for Senator without any changes; Ferry’s vote was the same as on the preceding day, 59. The Republican National Committee met in Washington last week. John A Martin, of Kansas, was elected Secretary in place of SW. Dorsey. After prolonged debate it was resolved that the basis of representation in national conventions be two delegates for each Senator, the same for every member of Congress, and two for each Territory and the District of Columbia The Senatoral contest was settled in the Massachusetts Legislature on Jan 18, by the election of Mr. Hoar. Mr. Crapo telegraphed his withdrawal from the race, and urged his friends to vote for Mr. Hoar, who was elected by 148 votes to 88 for Bowerman, the Democratic candidate. Several other-States wrestled unsuccessfully with the Senatorial problem. Senator Ferry lost three votes in the Michigan Legislature.-, Windom a like number iu Minnesota, while Thayer made a slight gain in Nebraska In the Republican Legislative caucus at Denver, Tabor twice dropped to five votes, the last ballot showing 20 for Pitkin, 16 for Tabor, 12 for Hamill and 5 for Bowen. FOREIGN NEWS. During a performance at a circus in Berditehsff, Russian Poland, fire broks out,

and before the spectators could escape the whole structure was ablaze Three hundred iKrrsons perished in the flames. Michael Davitt’s appearance on the platform at Oldham brought on a free fight. The mob drowned bis words by noise, and made an attempt to storm the speakers' stand, but were repulsed with chairs in ’the hands of Davitt’s friends The police removed the disturbers The losses by floods in Germany are estimated at 8,000,000 marks Persons who have frozen to death are daily found Moscow. Patrick Higgins, one of the Huddys murderers, was hanged in GaTway Jail An attempt by Circassians to assassinate the Sultan was foiled by the Albanian ' body guards. Several were killed in the encounter. A man in the uniform of a general officer penetrated to a room in St. Petersburg where secret military plans are kept, and had nearly finished- copying hue when arrested. A manifesto issued by Prince Jerome Napoleon was pl&oarded in several quarters of Paris the other morning. He claims the throne, and dwells on the impotence of the Government and the decadence of the army and of public credit The Prince was arrested, and the manifesto was torn down by the police The matter was discussed with spirit in the Chamber of Deputies, where the arrest was approved by a large majority. The Italian Financial Commission has decided that specie payment shall be commenced In April Five persons were burned to death by a fire in a London tenement housa Carlsbad was shaken by an earthquake, and two houses collapsed. At Arehena, Spain, eleven shocks of earthquake caused the greatest consternation. Michael Flinn and Thomas Higgins were hanged in Galway jail for complicity In the Huddys murder. George Darwin, a son of the evolutionist, has been elected professor of astronomy at Cambridge University. The forces of the False Prophet in Egypt bad a battle with 500 regular troops, in which half the latter were killed and the remainder taken prisoners. Poss and Barrett were hanged at Tralee; Ireland, for the murder of Thomas Brown. Marwood, the hangman, on his arrival at Limerick en route to Tralee, nar"rowly escaped lynching. C. Cooper, Hall & Co., bankers and merchants in London, have been forced to the wall by unfortunate railway contracts in Brazil and Canada The.'r liabilities are £-100, COO.

DOINGS OF CONGRESS.

Mr. Ingalls Introduced a bill In the Senate on the 13th Inst, for the appointment of Beven Commissioners from civil life to investigate and report on the subject of railroad transportation, at a compensation of $lO per day and traveling expensea The House pasted' the Pension Appropriation bill, which sets aside $86,575,000, beside an unexpended balance of $15,800,000, and the Fortification Appropriation bill, which covers $325,000. The Speaker laid before the House a letter from the Clerk, calling attention to the necessity of making some provision fbr the in. creased representation in the next Congress. Remonstrances were presented in the Senate on the 15th against a' reduction of the duty on tin plate, against an increase of the duty on china and against the interference with the duty on cotton-seed oiL Mr. Voorhees offered a petition from Indiana favoring legislation to end the monopoly of the regular school in medical service under the Government Some work was done on the Tariff bill. In the House, a petition was presented from shareholders in the Centennial Exposition, asking for an appropriation to pay the deficit A bill was introduced to convene the next Congress on the first Monday of March. Mr. Belmont offered a resolution asking the Ways and Means Committee to report forthwith whether any class of industry requires support from the Federal Government, in the form of bounty, subsidy or charity. Mr. Geddes introduced a bill allowing newspapers to be sent free to actual subscribers. The Speaker presented the report of a naval advisory board in favor of completing four ironclads. The Tariff bill was considered at great length in the Senate on the 16th. Mr., Logan reported favorably the bill to authorize the sale of the Baton Rouge arsenal and grounds. • Mr. Dawes reported a measure for the allotment of lands in severalty to the Ottawa Indiana Mr. Hill made a favorable report on the House bill to modify the postal money-order system. The House of Representatives passed the bill for the removal of causes from State to Federal courts. A joint resolution was adopted authorizing the loan of 100 tents for the competitive drill at Nashville. A bill to pay the State of Massachusetts $230,106 for expenditures for coast defense during the war was defeated. Joseph E. Taylor was sworn in from the Sixteenth district of Ohio. A bill was reported for the erection of a library building on any of the Government reservations, to be selected by a commission, the entire cost not to exceed $1,500,000. Mr. Hammond, of Georgia, from the Committee on Judiciary, submitted a report on the .matter of the contingent member from Nebraska. Printed and recommitted. The report states that Thomas J. Majors, the contingent member, is responsible for the misinformation which induced the committee to make the report of April 1, 1882, in his favor; that he was aided therein by 8. J. Alexander, Secretary of State, of Nebraska; Pat O. Hawes, contingent member to the Fortyfourth Congress; Dr. P. Schnenck, and George H. Roberts, the Attorney General of Nebraska; and the testimony of W. R. Davis, of Nebraska, Majors’ private secretary, is false The report recommends the adoption of a resolution requiring the Clerk of the House to fuAiish a printed copy of this report and evidence to each of the following officers: The District Attorney of the Disti let of Columbia, tfs# Attorney General of the United Statee, Bd the Governor of Nebraska, ‘•that they may take such action as they may deem suitable to the gravity of the wrong committed by the persons whose codduot is in this conclusion set forth.” The report exonerates Representative Valentine, of Nebraska, from any knowledge or complicity in the fraud. Mr. Edmunds introduced a bill in the Senate, on Jan. 17, to provide for a commission to investigate railroad transportation. The Postofflce Appropriation bill having been taken up, Mr. Plumb explained hoW $185,000 had been expended in fast-mail facilities. The Tariff bill consumed the remainder of the session. In the House, Mr. Belford presented a memorial for the establishment of railway communication with Central and South America CharlesT. Doxey wassworn in for thp Ninth Indiana district, and J. T. Caine as delegate from Utah. A joint resolution was passed for a new mixed commission on Venezuela claims, to sit at Washington. A memorial was presented for the retention of high duties on tin plate. An amendment to the Postofflce Appropriation bill, setting aside $185,000 for fast-mail service, was agreed to by the Senate Jan. 18. Some items in the Tariff bill were considered. In the House, Mr. Anderson reported back the resolution calling for certain information in tegurd to telegraph lines built by the army. Mr. Robeson explained the. provisions of the Naval Appropriation bilL The death of Hon. J. W. Shackleford, of North Carolina, was announced, and the House adjourned out of respect to his memory.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 26,1883..

< Mr. Harrison reported a bill. In the Senate, Dakota, to issue bonds, but Mr. Garrison ?ave notice that the scheme would be fought by three members of the Committee ou Terttories. An adverse report was made on the bill to e-tab ish in Kansas a home for imlixeab soldiers and sailors. A joint resolution vas passed for the purchase of team launches for use in the harbors of Mobile and Galveston. In the House, Jr. Moore, of Tennessee, introduced a joint evolution proposing a con«ti tut iona! amendment granting Congress power to provide by ipproj riate legislation for the legal enforcement *of the obligation of contracts entered .uto by anyTitate in the Union. The l eioainler of the’ day was devoted, in committee of the whole, to the private calendar. The ilepublicans of the House held a caucus and igreed to consider the Tariff bill Tuesday, fan. 23, and that it shall have preference over all other legislation, excepting the appropriation bills, until brought to a vote.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The Key City Block at Moorhead, Minn., containing six stores, was burned, with across of #50,000. A fire at Portland, Ore., destroyed the wholesale grocery house of Corbett & McLeary, valued at #170,000, and inflicted •onsiderable damage upon the adjacent buildings The Quincy House, one of the largest hotels in Quincy, 111, took fire at breakfast time the other morning, andVthe upper stories were burned away. Over latLpersons were hurried out of the building. The loss is about #45,00a ’ Ex-Senator Spencer sailed from Halifax for Europe in the Polynesian. Just before embarking he gave an interviewer a breezy story about his connection with the star-route cases, claiming to have been the first to discover the frauds, which information he communicated in confidence to the Postmaster General, on condition that his name should never be made public in connection with the trials. The hangman has rid the world of Arthur Preston, a Maryland negro, who murdered his paramour, and of Charles G. Shaw, a colored man of Washington, who stood on Guiteau’s scaffold. • The National Board of Trade, which held its session at Washington, passe<J resolutions in favor of a postal telegraph and the encouragement of American shipping, and averse to the continuation of the Hawaiian treaty. A terrible explosion occurred in a powder factory in the suburbs of Amsterdam, and forty lives were sacrificed. Paris papers publish supplementary rumors of the impending revolution in Western France, and state that a Legitimist conspiracy, known as “The Catholic Alliance,” is in process of formation by Baron de Charette. Army officers are said to be implicated, and depots for arms have been found. A shocking state of destitution' prevails in the North of Ireland, and in some places the people are barely kept alive by the distribution daily of small quantities of corn meal The Italian Premier said in the Senate that, while emigration to South America was successful, he could not recommend the departure of • his countrymen to the northern portion of the continent. A Milwaukee dispatch of Jan. 20 says: “Evidence accumulates against Scheller, who, it is alleged, fired the- Newhall House. It has been ascertained that he secreted some of his stock of liquors and removed seven sets of billiard balls before the fire occurred. The prisoner was returned to the Milwaukee jail yesterday, and no one Is permitted to see him. Another body has been taken' from the fire ruins, making a total of forty-six The lives lost are now figured at fifty-nine.” Balloting for United States Senator In the Colorado Republican caucus was continued on Jan. 19 without result. The last ballot yielded Pitkin 20 votes, Tabor 17, TTnmUl H, and Bowen 5. The Michigan Legislature balloted for a Senator, Ferry receiving 52 votes and Stout 50, the remainder being scattered among a number of aspirants. In the Nebraska Legislature, Thayer and Millard had 16 votes each, and Morton 13. The fourth ballot for Senator in the Minnesota Legislature gave Windom 50, Wilson 33, and “scattering” the remainder. Friends of temperance in lowa, in view of the Supreme Court decision, will hold a * State Convention at Des Moines, Feb. 7, to determine upon their future policy. The weather throughout the "West and Northwest on the 18th, 19th and 20th of January was Intensely cold, the mercury in some sections ranging between twenty and thirty below. At Omaha some of the public schools were closed. Railway traffic was much Impeded by snow accumulating in the cuts, in some instances trains being abandoned. A great snow-storm prevailed In Ontario during the same time At Richfield Springs, N. Y., Harvey Taylor killed his wife and mother-in-law and then committed suicide He was Insane He had regularly laid out the corpses of his victima

THE POLISH HORROR.

Four Hundred Persons Burned In the Circus at Berdlcteheff—Frightful Scenes During the Holocaust. A St Petersburg dispatch gives the following particulars of the recent burning of a circus structure at Berdictcheff, in Russian Poland, by which several hundred human beings were incinerated: The fire broke out toward the end of the performance, and was caused by the careless handling of fireworks on the stage. The curtain ignited and the flames quickly spread to the walls and roof. The members of the orchestra were the first victims. The audience, numbering 800 persons, rushed to the front door, butlt opened inward, and as the crowd pressed forward itoouldnot be opened. A rush was then made to the two side doors, both of which were nailed up, thus compelling the people to take to the windows, from which many sprang into the streets with their clothes a sheet of flames. The fire brigade arrived within half an hour, but it was impossible to extinguish the flames, as the water in the tanks was frozen. The fire lasted two hours. Eye-witnesses state that when the doors were finally opened a mass of burning persons was visible within. The horses and properties of the circus were all destroyed The ice broke while the fire brigade was crossing the river, thus preventing them reaching the fire more promptly. 'The victims include a Colonel of Police and-the Vice President of the Berdictcheff Bourse. The audience consisted mainly of Jews Another account says the fire was caused by a groom having thrown a lighted ciguret on the straw in the stables, setting it on fire. Another groom tried to stamp out the fire, but a strong draught fanned the flames and caused them to spread. The author of the fire perisjied, also two clowns, believed to be Englishmen. A man, whose wife and three children were among the victims, stabbed the senior member of the Merchants’ Guild In the street, and then tried to cnt his own throat The supposed murdered man abandoned the assailant's wife and children in order to effect his own escape from the' burning building. The circus was a wooden structure. Horses running about wildly increased the confusion. It is stated now that 400 persons wore suffocated, crashed or burned to death

INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

Mr. Van Vor his, Republican, offered a resolution in the Senate on the 12th Inst, directing the Judiciary Committee to report upon the record of the passage of the constitu’tional amendments In order that it might be determined whether or not tire Senate was called upon to consider them. Mr. Van Vorhis read from manuscript a carefullyprepared argument in support of his resolution, citing various authorities and decisions tending to prove that the absence of the proposed constitutional amendments from the pages of the Clerk's journal of the last General Assembly prevents action on , these amendments by tills General Assembly, except as a new proposition. Mr. Spann, Republican, strongly opposed this resolution, and Bald that a point m the road had been reached where tire Republican party and Mr. Van Vorhis separated. Mr. Brown, Democrat, advocated it, and complimented Mr. Van Vorhis on being able to rise above partisan feeling, and urged the passage of the resolution Mr. Bell, Democrat, also made an argument in its favor, and the resolution was finally. adopted. The vote showed that Marvin ’and Mclntosh, of the Democrat®, voted “no” with the Republicans, and Bischows, Van Vorhis and Touche, of the Republicans, voted “aye” with the Democrats It was very nearly a test vote. Senator Campbell, Republican, offered a resolution asking that tne Winterbotham memorial relative to the maimer of his defeat by Calkins be taken out of the hands of the committee to which it had been referred, and brought before the Senate. The resolution was laid on the table by a strict party vote In the House, Mr. Jewett presented the credentials of Hon. W. W. Tully, the newly-elected member from the county of Floyd, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Henry 8. Perrett, and thereupon Mr. Tully appeared at the bar of the House and received the oath of office. The most of the day was devoted to the consideration of various propositions relating to the constitutional amendments, and it was finally agreed, by a party vote, to submit the matter to the Judiciary Committee with instructions to report what amendments had been adopted last session and whether they were properly recorded. Pending an acrimonious discussion of a resolution requesting Congress not to pass a national Bankrupt law the House adjourned. A slight breeze in the proceedings was created by Mr. Huston offering a bill prohibiting railroad companies from offering public officials or the latter from accepting freepasses or reduced fare. But short sessions were held in the Senate and House on the 15th, and the proceedings in the latter were altogether uneventful The former adopted Senator Magee’s resolution requesting the Secretary of War to reconsider his refusal to make the appropriation for the improvement of the harbor at Michigan City voted by Congress in the River and Harbor bill. Senator Johnston introduced a resolution authorizing a Special committee of five to devise a plan for the abolition of the present system of hiring convict labor in the prisons, and likewise the labor of inmates of the reformatory and benevolent institutions and to draw up anact so that such labor should be entirely for the benefit pf the State. He made an earnest argument in favor of the resolution, and after it had been adopted the committee was made to consist of Senators Johnston, Foulke, Faulkner, Lindsley and Ernest Several bills were introduced making it obligatory for hotel-keepers to provide ploper fire-escapes for every room. A hill was introduced- Senator Magee, to consolidate the Statistical and Geological Bureaus of the State, the chief officer to be appointed by the Senate, and a bill was presented by Senator Johnston, to give the Legislature tne power of appointing Trustees for the Asylum for Feeble-minded Children. A resolution was adopted requesting Congress to j)roperiy pension survivors of the Mexican war, ana the Senate cabled a message of consolation to the French republic over the death of Gambetta. The consideration of the Johnson-over-streefc contest occupied both sessions of the Senate on Jan. 17. Since the original papers of contest were sent to the Secretary of State, the contestee, Mr. Johnson, has filed an additional charge of bribing voters against Overstreet, the sitting member, and it was in the disposition of this that the discussions arose. The Committee on Elections was Anally empowered to send for persons and papers to investigate all the charges equally. • The Senate passed Ernest's bill making the violation of an oral agreement actionable at law. The only important bill Introduced was bv Mr. Fletcher, making the, I.enalty for rape castration of the offender, n the House, bills were introduced providing for the appointment of A State Boiler Inspector, and for abolishing the office of City Assessor of Indianapolis. Mr. Heffren also introduced his Fee and Salary bilL The principal feature erf this measure is the grading or the salaries of all county officers according to population, making a reduction of from 25 to 40 per cent from the present salaries. All fees collected by the officers are to be placed in a common fund, and from this the salaries are to be drawn. If there is any excess it goes into the general fund of the county, hut no deficit is to be drawn from that source. A number of bills were introduced in the House, thtf most important being by Mr. Wiley, to compel Prosecuting Attorneys to institute proceedings for the removal of public officers who get intoxicated, and by Mr. Ferriter, creating the office of State Boiler Inspector. There was quite a breezy episode in the House. The Indianapolis Journal had printed an article, written by Gen. Reuben Williams, of Warsaw, charging Representative Horace Hefron with treason during the war, being a Knight of the Golden Circle and saving his life only by turning State’s evidence on his companions. Mr. Hefron arose to a question of privilege and denounced the story as a tissue of Rea He said It was true that he was arrested and confined in a Government prison for thirty-four days, hut that lie was put on trial and discharged, and that the United States Court as erward decided that the trial was illegal and void. In concluding his remarks, he said: “If occasion requires, I may go into the whole matter, but at present I have only to ask Gen. Williams, the Indianapolis Journal and the Republican party generally: ‘What are yon going to do about it!"” The speech and the occasion created considerable excitement in the House, insomuch as Hefron threatened to make disclosures that would implicate in treasonable designs those who now stand high in public esteem. Mr. Ristines’ bill to compel foreign insurance companies to report the extent of their business in the State was laid on the table in the Senate, Jan. 18. On motion of Mr. Willard, the Committee on Public Buildings was instructed to make a thorough investigation of the affairs of the new State House, although a similar inquiry is now being made by a House committee. Senator Spann Introduced two important bills, one to tax the receipts of express companies, and the other to consolidate all the State educational institutions into one, to be located at the capital. Three thousand copies of the report of the survey of the Kankakee survey were ordered printed In the House, Mr. Patton's bill to repeal the Grubbs Libel law was rejected by a decisive majority. Mr. Mock introduced a bill amending the election laws so as to prohibit the use of stickers or pasters or to print the names of candidates of different political parties on the same ticket. Mr. Hefron's Fee and Salary bill was read in the House. It contemplates a reduction of incomes of county officials from 25 to 40 per cent The salaries are rated according to the population of counties. The bill provides that County Treasurers in counties of 10,000 population and under shall receive #BOO a year; for the next 5,000 or a fraction over one-half of that number, #2OO additional; for the next 5,000 #150; for the next 5,000 #IOO, and for each 5,000 abeve 20,000 at the rate of #7O per 1,000, with 6 per cent for the collection of delinquent taxes. Auditors, Clerks and Sheriffs are to be paid #I,OOO for the first 10,000 of population or under, #3OO extra for a population of 15,000, #&*) more for the next 5,000 of population, and #l5O more for the next 5,000, thus giving a salary of #1,700 for each of these officials in counties having a population- between 22,500 and 35,000. The bill allows #looper 1,000 for population between 25,000 and 50,000, and #75 for each 5,000 of population over 50,000. Sheriffs are allowed #2 per day and actual expenses for conveying prisoners to the penitentiary and insane persons to the asylum, and also while att ending in court. All fees are to "be paid into the treasury, except those received by Recorders and the charges made by clerks for copies of records and abstracts. The - House ordered 500 copies of the bill printed

the Democratic members of the Legislature, in the evening, decided, by a vote of 45 to 23, to support Senator Brown's bill changing the manner of making appointments to positions on the boards of the State benevolent institutions. The proposed measure takas the appointing power out of the hands of the Governor ana places it in the two bouses of the Legislature in joint convention The constitutional amendments occupied the attention of both houses of the Legislature on Jan 19, In the shape of the reports of the Judiciary Committees to whom they had been referred. In the Senate the Democratic members of the committee and Mr. Tan Yorhis, Republican, rej>orted that in accordance with resolution of the Senate it has examined the journals of the last General Assembly as to proper record of the proposed constitutional amendments, and that no such record can be found and qo entry, as commanded by the constitution, by whi ' ' e committee can determine what said propositions were, or that either house referred or intended to refer any proposition to amend the constitution to this Assembly. The other Republicans, Messrs. Bundy and Graham, reported that the amendments were legally adopted last session, and that thev were now pending. The consideration of the various reports was made the special order for Wednesday, Jan, 24 In the House there were three reports from, the committee, the majority and minority, holding substantially the same as those in the Senate, being signed bv the Democrats and Republicans, and a third report, signed by Messrs. Jewett and Patton, both Democrats, political reasons declined to sign the minority report with the Rejmhlicans, although they held the same views. On a resolution to print these reports wbat is Regarded as a test voteAvas taken, and those who do not believe that the amendments are.pending were opposed to the printing. The resolution was defeated by a vote of 44 to 46, five Democrats and three Republicans being absent and two pai ed. The Democrats who voted with the Republicans were Messrs. Akin, Graham, Patton, Pulse, Thomas and Williams of Knox. In the House, a resolution was offered to investigate the affairs of the Southern prison. An amendment was ottered to investigate -what Gov. Porter had done in the pardoning of criminals, and the whole matter was tabled. A bill was introduced making railroad companies responsible for attorneys’ fees in damage suits for the killing of stock. In the Senate, an effort was made by the Republicans to get an immediate report from the committee to whom was referred' Gov. Porter’s recent appointments, and after discussion this was made the special order for the following day.

THE MILWAUKEE HORROR.

A Milwaukee dispatch of the 16th says: Fifty-one bodies have so far been recovered, twenty-eight of which are burned beyond recognition, leaving thirty still missing. The excavati >n reached the west wa 1 yesterday, where hve bodies were found in a heap under the location of the servants’ quarters. A correct estimate as to the loss of life it is impossible to form until the books of the hotel can be got. The above estimate, giving flftv-one dead and thirty missing, making the probable total loss of life eighty-one, is thought to be as nearly correct as possible by all parties. The afternoon papers made the following statement: “Taken to the morgue, sixteen: received from ruins, twenty-one; since died, eight; dead not taken to morgue, five; total fifty. This does not include the fragments of bodies found. About forty people reported missing are yet unaccounted for, which swells the list to ninety. It is almost a sure thing that over 100 people lost their lives by the calamity.” John Gilbert,- the actor, is reported better. He imagines he has been on a big spree, and remarked to his physicians this morning that “This drinking whisky is a terrible thing.” It is thought that he may not survive the shock of the news of the death Of his wife. It will be kept from him as long as possible. Christina Hagen, one of the servants reported missing, is safe. This makes ninety-six known to be saved out of 177. A Milwaukee dispatch of Jan. 17, says, The fifth day’B search through the ruins 61 the burned Newhall House for the remains of the victims of the mighty conflagration ended with the discovery of the fragments of eleven bodies, making a total of thirty-nine found since {lie work was "begun. The hotel safe was dug out and the doo s pried open, but neither the hotel register, nor any book or paper of the slightest importance in showing- who was in the hotel when it was burned, was brought to light Some excitement was caused in the city by the arrest of George Scheller, proprietor of the bar-room in the Newhall House, on the charge of setting the terrible fire. He was jailed and a strong guard placed over him, as ominous threats of tynching were made by citizens. George Scheller, who is charged with firing the Newhall House, was the other night removed from the jail to the House of Correction. and then taken by special train to Waukesha to avert a lynching. It is now alleged that Scheller attempted the destruction of the house by a gas explosion some days before the fire. A Milwaukee dispatch of Jan. 18 says: “Five bodies were recovered yesterday, making a total of forty-three, all beyond recognition. Twenty-three were identified dead, and it is supposed from fifteen to twenty are still missing.” _ A Milwaukee dispatch of Jan. 19 Bays: “The remains of three persons were taken from the ruins of the Newhall House yesterday, and it is believed four bodies are still in "the debris. The total loss of life by the catastrophe is now placed at seventy-ftva The Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce presented to Herman F. Strauss, the hero of the Newhall House fire, a watch and chain valued at #350, and the ladies whom he rescued gave him a locket with pictures of eleven women and onqjchlld ”

Petroleum.

In its original state, petroleum has a murky green color, and it needs refining before it is fit for illuminating pur-, poses. It is distilled in pans, with great furnaces blaring beneath them; and, as the vapors arise from the blazing liquid, they are convened into pipes surrounded by water, in which they are condensed. The first vapors condense into naphtha, and those produced by longer heating give the 'burning oil. * About 5 per cent, of the crude oil put irito the pans, or stills, remains in the form of tar, which, by another course of treatment, is converted into paraffine and coke. After distillation the refined oil is no longer green, but is as trausparent as spring water, and beautifully tinged with purples and blues. It is not ready for use, however, and has yet to be washed. The idea of washing oil may seem absurd, but it is quite practicable. The fluid is emptied into a large circular tank, in which it is treated with acids, which are poured in and mixed with it by a powerful air-pressure from beneath. When it has been well shaken up it is allowed to settle, and the acids then separate from it and sink to the bottom of the tank, taking with them some of the tar that remained in the oil. The acids are then removed, and the oil is washed with salt water, which is mixed with it and agitated. Suffocating fumes come up from the tank, and the more they are shaken out of the oil the safer it is, for they are the explosive part of it. Finally, it is bleached, and it is then ready for the shops. You tlt ’« Companion. ' The pangs of hunger will drive man and animals to do most revolting acts. Not long since we fead of a pack of hungry wolves in Russia devouring a priest. But what must have been the desperation of the rat who took a bite at the toe of a New York drummer who was sleeping in a hotel at Fort, Worth ? The rat got enough at one. bite, but what a dreadful thing hunger is when it drives animals to such dire extremities.

NUMBER 52.

TAXATION AND WADES.

Protection Designed for Hanaflwtnren, and Not for Workingmen. [From the Chicago Tribune.] Nearly twenty years ago,' Congress, in 1864, in the darkest hours of the Rebellion, invented and put into operation the most searching and overshadowing system of taxation that was ever invented in any Government of modem times. The desperate need of money necessitated such an extraordinary measure. This war-tax was justified at the time op the ground that it was intended merely to cover the time needod to wind up the war.' It took several years, however, to remove so much of those taxes as were collected from the business of manufacturing; but in time they were removed, leaving only the taxes collected from consumers on all the products of manufacturing industry. This tax was intended to be doubly protectiveu It aimed to protect the home manufacturer from competition by foreign manufacturers, and it was intended that this protection should also compensate the protected persons for such exactions as protection demanded Of them. The tax needed for this purpose, it can readily be understood, was excessive, and so frequently duplicated as to be difficult to estimate. In 1867 Congress enormous addition to the protective tariff on woolen goods, nearly, if not fully, prohibiting the importation of various classes of wools and woolens. We give a list of the rates of tax on some of the articles of prime necessity as they were under last year’s importations : Articles. . Per cent of tax. Cotton cloths. 44 to 68 Cotton thread 78 China and earthenware ...4) to 60 Otassware 4>to 6» Common windowrKlass 67 to fu Iron goods... 64 to 74 t-teel . 46 to xu Silk g00d5..... . «J Soap 47 Starch 116 Varnish 67 Wools 55 to_ 64 Carpet 5......... Bo to' 5*6 Woolen dress-goods 6i Blankets .' ao to 98 Flannels 66 to 103 Woolen hosiery 66 to 89 Knit goods 80 These taxes extend to every variety of the various classes of goods—the cheaper the quality of the goods the greater the rate per cont. These taxes are collected on nearly the entire product of the American manufacturers, so that the American producers of iron, steel and copper goods, the manufacturers of woolon, cotton and silk goods, are able by law to extort from consumers this enormous bounty or tax ou aH they purchase. As none of this tax is Eaid into the treasury, but is collected y the manufacturers direct from the consumers, the aggregate tax thus collected amounts annually to a greater. sum than all the other taxes imposed by the Government,- including the whisky and tobacco tax,and if if formed part of the revenues of the Government it would lie sufficient to pay the whole national debt in a few years. The recipients of this bouuty aro now declaring at Washington through their attorneys that if Congress shall interfere with these taxes by reducing them they will close their, business, refuse to make any more goods, and force their mechanics go out from their workshops to raise com and wheat upon the farms, and thus ruin the farmers. At Pittsburgh and in other manufacturing districts they ore passing resolutions at public meetings and conventions declaring that even with this bounty of 50 per cent, voted thorn by Congress they cannot make iron ancT steel, nor cotton or woolen cloth, arid live; and lienee they- announce a reduction in the wages of their labor of 25 per cent. They plead tliat the consumption of their goods lias declined, and that they cannot pay the wagesthey have been paying, It i? notorious that the cost of labor does not exceed 25 per cent, of the cost of manufactured goods, and that the wages paid the American workmen do not, in many branches, exceed those paid in England, and in others do not exceed An average of 25 per cent. The American workman therefore gets a nominal adyauee in-wages on the product of 25 per cent, of the value of manufactured goods, ami pays for the manufactured goods he uses 50 per cent." more than does liis foreign competitor. No wonder, therefore, tliat the American workman is, under this system of wages and taxation, reduced to the bare means of subsistence in the plainest form of living. Under the pretext that the average tax on the necessaries of life was collected for the purpose of distribution among the workmen in the form ot higher wages, this enormous tax has been collected annually for twenty years. The wages paid to the workmen are now reduced 25 per cent., but the cost of living is maintained. Tlie average wages paid during the last year on all classes of occupations lias lieen $346. This is now reduced SB4, or to a total of $262 a year, or $5 per week. While thus remorselessly reducing workmen to starvation rates Of l wages, those same protected and privileged classes threaten the country with ruin if the enormous tax levied in 1 their behalf is reduced, and are now actually urging a revised tariff which increase? the tax from 15 to 30 per cent. More taxes and less wages are the outcome of twenty years’ enormous pro- > tection. The reduction of wages strips the workmen of the means to pay the taxes. An annual compensation ranging from $240 to $360 a year for laborers who pay a tax of 50 per cent, on all the manufactured articles they need, from a straw-hat to an overcoat/ from a pair of children’s shoes to a pair of woolen blankets, can hardly be reduced without a corresponding reduction of taxes. The fraud of protection is,: however, now acknowledged. Protection has no reqj interest or concern in 'wages—the men and women who are laboring for a mere existence may live or perish; the iron and steel manufacturers, tile makers of cotton and woolen goods, insist upon their protective tax of 50 to 80 per cent. The laborer must take care of himself. Protection was designed for manufacturers, and not for workmen? •

STALWARTISM.

The Republican Disease That Can’t Be Cured. [From the Washington Poet) The ailment that afflicts the Republican party is stalwartism. To this disease, far more than to all its other troubles, that party owes its present miseries. So long as the stalwart faction remains at the front, the worjt of disintegration will go on, So long as the leaders of that faction, 'with their braaen insolence es bearing and their

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hearty oontempt for all that is decent and reputable in politios, remain tlio recognized exponents of Republican sentiment, the decadence will continue. i' l The great mistake was that the stalwarts grasped the prize drawn “in the lottery of assassination” as if it had come to them sanctioned by a majority in the Electoral College at the close of a Presidential campaign. Coming into power as a result of the stalwart war waged on President Garfield—a result not less real because it was unintended —they could only hope for popular tolerance by puttmg on a quiet, subdued air and preserving a respectful demeanor. Such a oourse would not, it is true, have won for them a largo amount of public confidence, for they have previously “sinned away the day of graoe;” had, forever forfeited the good opinion of the oountry. But had they been possessed of sufficient sagacity to understand the real situation and act in accordance therewith, they might have avoided the disasters that the grossness of their ways and the offensiveness of their tone have brought on their party. * The stalwartism of to-day is the disease that went by the name of Grantism two years ago, and m change of name can deceive the people. It is true that the man whose name the disease bore has'retired from politics, but the men who used him and who soiled his name arp still in the stalwart front line, and they and their principles and their manners are as cordially detested now as they ever were—are even more heartily oontemued.noiv than when they were stamped into the mire of crushing defeat at Chicago; for they have added a good many bad chapters to their utterly-bad record since that day of their dire disaster. Two years ago stalwartism was packing State conventions to forestall public opimori, Was' doing this four or five fhonths before the time for nominating a ticket. A few months later, stalwartism with its little army t*f delegates from Pemooratie strongholds, was at Chicago trying to force the odious third term Sown the throats of an overwhelming majority of the Republican party. . Defeated there, «talwarti«m retired to sulk and use demoralizing influences on the party until a majority of the people hrtd decided to elect Hancock. The®, when the day was almost lost to Garfield through the perfidy of the stalwart leaders, thoy rose up and,with great effort among the monopolies created and'fosterer’ by the Republican < party, they raised an enormous amount of money and bought the Presidency for Garfield, bought it as openly and undeniably as ever a ‘ sheep wks bought in a live-stock market. The Subsequent course of the stalwarts need not be recounted here, for it sis move deeply imprinted on the memory of the American people than almost anything else in our history. They made a cruel, relentless fight on Garfield because he wpul<J not submit to their dictation, and when that war, going beyond the wish Or thought of the men who mode it, had sent Garfield to" his grave, the stalwarts strode boldly in as if they had been called by tliq .voice of the people. The Post has said more than once, and repeats it nrtw, that President Arthur has deserved well of the country for Iris quiet, firm resistance of stalwart pressure. But he has not been able, and no man in his plaoe would be able, to change the tone, aspect, bearing, manners, spirit and policy of the stalwarts. The spots of the leopard can’t be painted out. The odor of the mephitis Americana can’t be successfully disguised. As “ pigmies are pigmies still, though perched op Alps, ” so stalwartism holds it? distinctive qualities under all possible conditions. The stalwart pres? does not seem to understand, when it prescribes for the Republican party, that there Can be no hope of recovery so long as the stalwart faction keeps its hideoUsnoss in public vifew. Ahated minority, incapable of learning by experience, is on top of the majority that triumphed in the last struggle of the factions. The circumstances attending the suppression of the majority must inevitably keep alive the fifes of hate. T*He insolent airs of the minority, installed over the majority by the bullet of an assassin, can only ten'd to drive further and further from the party the men who hare failed to vote for its candidates this year. When the disease takes thp place, of the doctor it will.be fitting for stalwartism to tell the Republican party wlxat it must do to be • saved. ’ : - J .

Robbing the People to Enrich One Man.

Mr. De Pttuw, who owns, a plate-glass mill iq Indiana, has been in Washington lately, where he succeeded in convincing tile Congressional tariff-tinkers that he should feel very bad indeed if the duty of 100 per cent, or so on plate glass was disturbed. To avoid wounding Mr. De, ?auq r > feelings, Mr. Kelley’s committee lias consented to allow the tax op plate glass to stand as it is. ,De P&uVs niill Is the only one in the country wlifere Certain grades of plate glass are manufactured, and he is the sole beqeficiary of tyie duty on these qualities. If the duty were knocked off on’iuch glass, yteSnle could buy it for about "half what they pay now; but in that case the country might be Hooded with cheap foreign glass, and Do Pahw’s industry” would bo destroyed. 'The peojde, Of course, would much rathwr* keep De Pauw’s mill going, - by .paying double price on all the plate glacis they, use, than sec it dose up and throw Do Pan#’out of the enfoymetirdf "a jfortiottlarly soft thing. —Chicago' Timet. * i ’o

Where They All Are.

yj l# Why not adcetA the place yourself, Judge?" inquired a Senator from Routt oounty. •? “Oh, well now," the Judge, blushing-fery deeply; “I—well —you VfcW—ah—am—yes—totally irspreparsd far tliat sort of a thing, youhnow.” « . “Pf course yop are,” said the Senator from Routt county ; “but you emliody all the qualifications demanded and I'm going td announaayon as a candidate!” . “No, no, natf’ cried, the Judge catching the Routt cpunty Senator by tho tails. do that, my dear sir, don’t do that! But 11l tell you wlmt •you Can: do. ;Come this way a moment,” The, Judge dragged the Senator into the aariest ctfrfler of the lobby. There was a meaning!al glitter in his eyes, his bosom heaved, with conflicting emotions and his yoice was strangely lioareo. He stood up on his toes and whispered iu the Senator’s ear: “Jfou c«i say I am in the hands my friends, "—Venver Tribunes