Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1884 — Page 2

JknwcraticSentinel RENSSELAER. INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, * - - PUBUsffitß

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. DOINGS OF CONGRESS. The military academy appropriation bill was passed by the Senate on the 4th inst., with an amendment providing that any cadet hereafter dismissed for hazing shall not be reappointed. A bill was favorably reported to relieve members of the Flta John Porter courtmartial from their oath of secrecy, and a memorial was preseated from a Grand Army post of Kansas protesting against Porter’s reinstatement. Mr. Sherman introduced a bill granting to newspapers or press associations a copyright on their news for eight hours. Mr. Cockrell reported adversely on the bin to lend tents for the soldiers' reuhion at Chicago, as none were at hand. A bill was passed to punish the counterfeiting of securities of foreign governments. A resolution was adopted instructing the Attorney General to report the awards for damages caused by the erection of dams on the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers, with other information on the subject. In the House of Representatives, bills were reported to amend the Chinese immigration act, to prevent the adulteration of teas, and to permanently Improve the' Erie Canal for free traffic. In committee of the whole on the naval appropriation bill, it was agreed that the staff corps shall, after July, be largely reduced by retirements. A bill to extend the limit* of the Yellowstone Park passed the Senate on the Sth inst. Ths Judiciary Committee made a favorable report on the bill providing for the collection oi mhrriage and divorce statistics. A bill was Introduced for a public building at Jackson. Mich. An act was passed to authorize the Postmaster General to lease buildings for Poetoffices of the first, second, and third classes for ten years, at reasonable rates. The House of Representatives adopted a resolution unseating Tranquillino Luna as delegate from New Mexico, and admitting F. A. Manganares, who was promptly sworn in. An adverse report was made on the resolution for the relief of sufferers by the overflow of the Lower Mississippi and by the cyclone in North Carolina, but a favorable report was handed in on a resolution requesting tne Secretary Of War to inform the House whenever relief is needed along the Mississippi. There was a molonged debate on the naval appropriation bill. Mr. Cockrell presented a memorial in th* Senate, on the Sth inst., from the united labor organizations of St. Louis, praying that the wholesale immigration of European mechanics fee restricted. A memorial from tire Senate of New Jersey opposing the Morrison tariff bill, was presented by Mr. Sewell. Bills were iiassed to appropriate $200,0oo;to Col. Albert H. Smery for inventing a machine lor testing iron and steel: to provide for a system of courts In g laces outside the territory of the United Utes, and to appropriate (s.ooo for the impnevsment of the Mississippi delta. In executive session it was agreed to reconsider the vote on the Mexican treaty. The House of Representatives perfected and passed the naval appropriation bill by 259 to 1. The Ways and Means Committee, by a rot* of 7 to (, agreed lo make a favorable report on the Morrison tariff bill on Monday, the loth. Salt, coal, and lumber go en the free list. Bills were passed by tbo Senate on the 7th inst, appropriating (250,000 for the erection of a firsr proof building for the Hall of Records, constituting a majority of the Judges of the Supreme Court a quorum, and to repay S7OO to the heirs of Maurice Glvot, of New Orleans. A favorable report was made on the bill to forfeit lands granted to the Texas Pacific Railroad Company. The House of Representatives voted to recommit the bill to retire Alfred Pleasanton with the rank of Colonel, and a new measure’was introduced to give him a pension of SIOO per month. A bill to pension the widow of Gen. Frank P. Blair was reported. Bills were passed to increase the pension of Ward B. Burnett to sl-00 per month, and to grant relief to Louisa Boddy for injuries at the hands of Modoc Indians. An evening session was held for the consideration of pension bills. The House of Representatives, on the Bth inst., by a vote of 115 to 127, refused to go into committee to consider the bonded whisky bill A favorable report was made on the bill for the erection of public buildings at Akron. Ohio, and X>uluth, Mina. The Senate was not in session.

EASTERN.

John McGinnis was hanged at Philadelphia, for the murder of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Mary Reed. An earnest written appeal had been made to Gov. Pattison to either remit the death penalty or grant McGinnis a long reprieve. The plea for Executive clemency was based on the fact that the culprit had been declared insane by a commission appointed by the Governor, who was not satisfied with its results, and therefore refused to interfere with the execution of the deathwarrant. Four members of the Salvation Army have been sent to jail for parading the streets at Bridgeport, Conn. A boiler explosion at Lawrence, Mass., killed one man and fatally injured two others, all workmen in a dyeing establishment. A band of boys, emulating Jesse James, and occupying the Concord Street School at Boston, has been broken up and two arrests made. One urchin in his flight turned and fired at a policeman. Mrs. Carrie Kilgore has been refused admission to the bar in Philadelphia. The Commercial Advertiser, of New York, was sold by the widow of the late owner to Parke Godwin, H. G. Marquand, Henry Sedley, and Robert Sewell. Stephen Raymond, of New York, has been sent to the penitentiary for life for forgery.

WESTERN.

Twenty-seven thousand dollars were stolen at midday from the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Cashier’s office, at the corner Of Franklin and Adams streets, Chicago. Paymaster Bartlett, who is suspected of carelessness in rendering possible the incursion of the robbers, has been suspended pending an investigation of the affair. No clew to the crime has yet been discovered. The Chicago prints the acts concerning the outbreak of tije foot-and-mouth disease at Neosho Falls, Kan. A district circular in shape of a diameter of fifty miles, with its center somewhere in Greenwood and other counties, in Southeastern Kansas, is affected. Gov. Glick, a prominent stock-raiser, is giving exclusive official attention to the matter, and believes that the disease can be stamped out with the expenditure of $6,000. The locality is already closely quarantined. This is the first outbreak of this catt'b-pest in America. The disease generally leaves the animal without feet. The United States Veterinary Surgeon at Fort Leavenworth, Dr. Holcomb, detailed to investigate the cattle disease in Woodson. County, Kansas, reports it the foot-and-mouth disease in a severe form, and not the dreaded anthrax or black leg, as at first supposed, which is much more fatal, killing «0 per cent. When the animal is attacked it * becomes feverish and stupid, and the climax Of the disease is the rotting off of the hoofs, followed by death. In the instances in the present epidemic the disease is confined to northwestern Woodson County, but as cattle have gone to other parts of Kansas from

there since the epidemic broke out other localities are apt to be affected. Five men employed in the construction of a railroad in Pyle Canon, Union County, Ore., were caught under a mas* of earth and rock and instantly killed. A party of ten prospectors who re-cently-left Rathdrum, on the Northern Pacific Road, for the Cceur d’Alene mines, are believed to have perished in the snow, as they have not been heard from for thirteen days. x A snowslide half a mile wide in the Little Cottonwood, Utah, swept away the works of the new Emma Mine and killed twelve persons. At a meeting of the representatives of the barbed-wire manufacturers at St. Louis, recently, it was resolved to amalgamate the various companies under the name of the National Barbed Wire Company of America.

SOUTHERN.

All the gambling establishments at Hot Springe, Ark., have been closed, and the sporting fraternity have evacuated the town. The Manufacturers' Record, of Baltimore, publishes a statement showing that during January and February the capital invested In Southern manufacturing and mining enterprises increased $28,200,000. Kentucky shows the largest aggregate—so,Bsl,ooo: Alabama second, with $5,210,000. Gen. Grant is a guest at the Hygeia Hotel at Fortress Monroe. Noah Jackson was executed at Lake Providence, La., for the murder of his wife. Harrison Williams was hanged at Corsicana, Tex., for killing his sister-in-law. David M. McClain was executed for murder at Folkston, go. A New Orleans dispatch reports a serious break in the Mississippi levee above that city. The waters were pouring through in torrent*, and all efforts to mend it had proved unavailing. Small breaks had appeared at other points. The Tennessee River at Chattanooga had overflowed and railroad traffic in that vicinity was interrupted. El Paso (Tex.) telegram: “News has reached here of an accident at the Prieteus mines, Sonora. It is said that twenty men lie buried in one of the shafts, which caved in without a moment’s warning. None of the bodies have yet been recovered. There is no hope sustained that any of the miners at work in the shaft at the time of the accident are alive.” The Chief Constable of South Carolina and his armed force captured Col. E. B. Cash by leveling their rifles at him, but Bogan Cash escaped to the swamp. A strong guard was placed around the mansion, and the prisoner was sent to Chesterfield Jail. A largo force of men familiar with the swamp was summoned from Cheraw to run down the murderer.

WASHINGTON.

A sub-committee of the Senate Committee on Postoilices and Post-Roais examined William Henry Smith, General Manager of the As-ociated Press, in regard to the relations of the association with the Western Un on Telegraph Company. Mr. Smith explained that the Associated Press is a private business, enjoying no exclusive contracts; that its news is personal property; that its wealthiest members take upon themselves the largest payments for expenses; and that at some points it pays the telegraph company more than is asked from the papers receiving he reports. The House Oommitte on Public lands has decided to recommend the forfeiture of the grant to the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad lying west of Mojave and east of the junction of the Santa Fo Road. Since 2-ceht letter postage went into effect there has been a decrease in the issue of postal cards. From July last to March 1, 256,552,750 cards were issued, against 260,226,250 for the corresponding period last year. Herr von Eisendecker, the German Minister at Washington announces that he has received from Berlin the Lasker resolution which Bismarck would not let his Reichstag see. Eisendecker will send the insulting message to the State Department, and the matter will be before the House as soon as Frelinghuysen shall have recovered from the congestive chill into which the communication will throw him.

A. M. Gibson testified before Mr. Springer’s committee relative to his connection with the star-route investigation. He said he had received $5,000 for his services as counsel, and that it was a small compensation in comparison to what was paid to other parties. The witness further testified that in prosecuting the star-route men the Government took the most complicated case, when it was its business to take the simplest and plainest case. Continuing, Mr. Gibson said: “After Brewster was made Attorney General he said the duties of his office were so engrossing that he could not give time to cases of this kind. He had been in the case before simply to make an argument as to the legality of filing an information. That's all he did, and for this be received $5,000.”

POLITICAL.

The Republican State Central Committee of lowa has published a call for a State Convention, to be held at Des Moines on Wednesdao, April 50, to elect four delegates for the State' at large to attend the Republican National Convention. The Cincinnati Enquirer has been sounding the political pulse of tbe Indlanians concerning their Presidential preferences. In response to letters sent out to all quarters of the State, 5,084 expressed themselves in favor of McDonald, 053 were for Payne, 436 tor Tilden, 227 for Voorhees, and 97 for Hendricks. Among Republicans, 1,628 were for Blaine, 1,459 for Arthur, 1,021 for Gov. Porter, 881 for Ben Harrison, 654 for Gresham, 503 for' Logan, 681 for W. T. Sherman, and 342 for John Sherman. For second choice, Payne and Randall among the Democrats, and Harrison, Porter, Gresham, and Gen. Shermarf among the Republicans, ranked in the order named. For Governor of Indiana a strong Democratic preference was developed for I. P. Gray, while Calkins was shown to be strongest with Republicans. The expressions regarding the tariff were as follows: Protective tariff, 639; tariff for revenue, with incidental protection, 5,841; tariff for revenue only, 811. The following nominations for State offices were made by the Louisiana Republican Convention, at Now Orleans: Governor. John A. Stevenson, of Iberville; Lieutenant Governor, William Bur-

well; Secretary of State, 9. W. Ugginst Attorney General, John H. Stone; Auditor, Claudius Mayon; Treasurer. Dr. A. Doperrler; Superintendent of Education, B. F. Flanders, formerly Sub-Treasurer. A resolution was offered in the convention instructing the delegates to the Chicago convention and greeted with applause. It was referred to the Committee on Resolutions, which reported in favor of Arthur. The sentiment of the convention, however, was so favorable to Logan that the matter was not pressed and the delegates go uniastructed. A Washington politician figures that Arthur will go into the Chicago Republican Convention with 362 votes, and thinks he is certain of the nomination. The colored people of Washington are dissatisfied because Secretary Lincoln refused to appoint a negro minister from Maryland to a regimental Chaplaincy in the army. ■

FIRE RECORD.

A record of the conflagrations shows that there were 181 fires in February where the loss was between SIO,OOO and $200,000, with one other fire of $500,000. Adding the January fire loss, this makes for two months $19,000,000, the loss in January being $12,000,000 and that of February $7,000,000. There were only eight fires in February where the loss reached or exceeded SIOO,OOO, but-there were twenty-six the destructiveness of which ranged between $50,000 and SIOO,OOO. The fire record for last week was as follows: TjQSBCS. Amesbury, Mass, Union Blocks 4£U<oo Lorain, Ohio, brass works 35,000 Mishawaka, Ind., wagon works 25,000 Chesterfield, 81., stores 50,000 Oil City, Pa., Opera House Block 50,000 LaGrange, Mo., grain warehouse 20,000 Lanrenburg, N. C., ten stores 40,000 Portland, Conn., stamping works 500,000 Utica, N. ¥., the Observer Building and nine other structures 800,000 Painted Post, N. Y., engine works 40,000 Weatherford, Texas, Court House 50,000 New Paltz, N. Y.. Academy Building 30,000 Canisteo, N. Y., six business buildings... 100,000 Fond du Lac, Wis., drug warehouse 10,000 Bastrop, La., steamboat 20,000 Pentwater, Mich., flouring mtll 25,000 Denton, Texas, hotel 20,000 Somerville, Mass., dye works 20,000 Waucedah, Mich., business property 10,900 Freeport, IIL, flouring mill 10,000 Seneca, Mo., five stores 10,000 Hannibal, Mo., four stores 20,000 Waterville, Me., wire factory 25,000 Horicon, Wis., grist mill 15,000 Pottstown, Pa., Academy Building 30,000 Providence, R. 1., yarn factory 20,000 Aukona, Minn., hotel 15,000 Detroit, Mich., dry goods store 10,000 Odessa, Mo., business property 50,000 Philadelphia, oil cloth factory 100,000 Rhinebeck, N. Y„ freight house 40,000

MISCELLANEOUS. Manitoba grows daily more rebellious. Coupled with this firmer stand comes the information from Ottawa that the Premier ridicules the demands of the disaffected provincials, and declares that a few dollars would stop all their plaints. The Peruvians are anxious for peace and urge on Pierola the duty of signing the treaty with Chili. Yarmouth County (Nova Scotia) citizens have adopted the Scott temperance act by a large majority. The leading glass works at St. Louis and Alton have resumed operations, and others will soon follow, after an idleness extending over many months. Matthew Arnold has sailed for England. The District Convention of the Amalgamated Association at Pittsburgh, last week decided to demand that the existing rate of wages bo paid during the ensuing year. At Pittsburgh, last week, prominent labor leaders organized a National Homestead Association.) The object is to secure homes for workingmen and establish more harmonious relations between capital and labor. Fires have been lighted in every green bottle factory in Pittsburgh except ofae. The men have been out on a strike for the past eight months, and will resume work at last year’s wages. American window-glass blowers who went to Belgium during the strike, and have returned, say the settlement at Pittsburgh caused the closing of forty-one factories in Belgium, the demand being cut off, and proprietors of the remaining factories have reduced wages 10 tier cent.

FOREIGN.

In the British House of Commons, the Marqiiis of Hartington moved an appropriation of £380,000 for the expedition to the Soudan. Henry Labouchere moved to reduce the sum £IOO,OOO. Mr. Gladstone said the Government had no intention of assum ing control of Egypt, but would withdraw the troops at the earliest possible moment. Nineteen suicides have occurred at Monte Carlo since the year opened, on account of losses by gambling, and demands that the play be suppressed are becoming frequent. Anarchists have been storing nitroglycerine on the premises of the Viennese Rothschild. Nellis, who professed to reveal the names of the murderers of the Earl of Leitrim to the police at Greenock, Scotland, has been adjudged insane, and sent to an asylum. In the German Reichstag, the other day, the President announced the death of Lasker and other members, during the recess. A warm discussion ensued, the Progressists thanking ' the American House of Representatives for Its action, and the Conservatives defending Bismarck’s doings. British shipowners are making a loud protest against the Government bill to protect life and property at sea. The objects of the bill are antagonistic to the ideas and interests of the commercial marine. Another conference of Irish leaders will be held at Eastertide to reunite the broken clans. Agitation will again begin in Ireland, and the services of Michael Davitt will be soughy. The object of the new campaign will be the amendment of the Irish land act. The Czar and Emperor William will meet at Darmstadt on the occasion of the marriage of the Duke Sergius to the Princess Elizabeth of Jfesse in June, and will talk over political matters. Bismarck, De Giers, and Prince Orloff, the Russian Minister at Berlin, will be present. Because of the occupation of Merv, Russia will establish a legation at Cabul. Eighty-three persons are under police surveillance in France, being suspected of affiliation with dynamiters. A son of O’Donovan Hossa and a brother of Joe Brady,

executed for the Phoenix Park murders, are in Paris. The Pesth police seized exploeWes foun4 in the mails. The French shareholders of the Suez Canal Company protest strongly against the convention of De Lesseps with the English ship-owners. This angers De Leeseps, who threatens that he will resign the management of the company if the convention is rejected, as he will consider such a rejection a vote of censure. Advices from Tonquin state that Gen. Millot, commander of the French forces, has advanced in the direction of Bac Ninh.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

The deaths of the week include the names of Bishop Robert H. Clarkson, of the Episcopal Church, at Omaha, Neb., aged 58 years; Amos P. Morrill, Judge of the Eastern District of Texas; Edward D. Payne, of Dayton, Ohio, a brother of the Senator-elect; and Capt. John Archer, a retired shipmaster, of Salem, Mass., who was a prisoner at Dartmoor; Abraham Breath, of Alton, 111., one of the sixty men who enrolled themselves' to defend Owen Lovejoy in the riots of 1837; Gen. James K. Moorhead, of Pittsburgh, exmember of Congress from Pennsylvania; A. M. Sutherland, Secretary of the Province of Manitoba; Rev. John 8. Inskip, of Asbury Park, N. J„ editor of the Christian Standard; Cardinal Pietro, of Rome, Italy; Rev. Donis Clark, eminent Congregational divine of Boston ; George Cragin, of Utica, N. Y., one of the founders of the Oneida Community in 1848; Joel T. Griffin, an old resident of Omaha, who was Postmaster in 1870. The business failures of the week include John Shamber, dry goods, Wapakoneta, Ohio; liabilities, $30,000; Novelty Iron Works, Cleveland, Ohio, $50,000; Goodwin & Summer, shoes, Lynn, Mass., $60,000; Lyman A Curtis, toys, New York, $150,000; Oshawa Cabinet Company, Toronto, $55,000; Evan Edwards, dry goods, Appleton, Wis., $25,000; H. G. & F. Coburn, hotel-keepers, Howard City, Mich.,'slojooo; J. P. Cooper, hardware, Eau Claire, Wis., $50,000; Fred Treyser, job printer, Milwaukee, $15,000; ZJ. Shalek, hops and barley. New York, $40,000; Consolidated Paper Company, paper, Chicago, $97,000. The Republican State Convention of Texas will beheld at Fort Worth, April 29. The Treasury Department has information that trade dollars are being purchased in the Eastern cities at a heavy discount, to send abroad for sale to emigrants. The district in Kansas where the foot and mouth disease has appeared has been quarantined. A Topeka dispatch reports a movement on foot to purchase and kill the infected stock and burn the carcasses. Wyoming stock-growers were also taking steps to prevent the disease from gaining a foothold in their Territory.

Two resolutions for a constitutional amendment to make only gold and silver a legal tender were offered in the Senate on the 10th inst. A bill was reported for the sale of the Cherokee Indian reservation in Kansas, and a measure was introduced to dispose of the Kickapoo diminished reservation in the same State. Three hours were spent in debate on the Mexican treaty, in secret session. In the House of Representatives, bills were introduced to incorporate the Yellowstone Park and the Spokane Falls and Cceur d'Alene Roads, and to grant the right of wav through Indian Territory to the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Gulf, the St. Louis and Baxter Springs, and the St. Joseph and Rio Grande Roads. Two constitutional amendments were proposed, giving Congress the power to make only gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts. A bill was introduced granting copyright to newspapers. A message was received from the President transmitting documents from the Secretary of State relative to the resolution on the death of Herr Lasker. Mr. Guenther asked that it be immediately read, though Mr. Cassidy suggested in an undertone that it might be better to wait until the new steel cruisers were completed. After the documents had been read Mr. Hiscock offered the following preamble and resolution, which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs : "Whereas, It has come to the knowledge of the House that a communication from it to the Parliament of the German Empire, entirely friendly in its intent, respectful in its character, and sent through the regular channels of international communication, has been arbitrarily intercepted and returned by a person now holding the position of Chancellor of the German Empire; theretore be it Resolved, That this House cannot but express surprise and regret that it should be even temporarily within the power of a single too powerful subject to ' interfere with such a stipple, natural, and spontaneous expression of kindly feeling between two great nations, and thns to detract from the position and prestige of the crown on one hand and from the rights of the mandatories of the people on the other. Resolved, That this does hereby reiterate the expression of sincere . regret at the death of Eduard Lasker and its sympathy with the Parliament of the German Empire, of which for many years he was a distinguished member. A resolution offered by Mr. Deuster reciting that the United States Minister to Germany has been assailed by semi-official newspapers at Berlin, and calling on the Secretary of State for copies of any communications and official correspondence which he may have on this subject, was also referred to the Foreign Affairs Committee.

THE MARKET.

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AN APPALLING DEED.

A Frightful Tragedy Enacted in a Lonely Virginia Farm House. A Drunken Fiend Slaughter His Wife and Three Children and Commits Suicide. [Washington Telegram.] The following account of the Fauquier County (Va.) tragedy has been obtained: Sunday last John Glascock, a well-known and influential farmer of Fauquier County, Virginia, living near Delaplane Station, on the Virginia Midland Railroad, murdered his entire family, consisting of a wife and three children,-and then committed suicide. The first intimation the neighbors had of anything wrong at the Glascock house was the appearance of S flames and smoke through the windows Sunday morning. A number of people ran to tbe house for the purpose of rendering assistance, but found, to their surprise, the doors and windows securely bolted and barred on the inside, and the building, to all appearances, deserted. As the flames were making rapid progress, it was necessary to effect entrance in some way, and the first comers soon succeeded in battering down one of the doors and eventually in putting the fire out. THE HORRIBLE DISCOVERT. No living person was found in the house, but on a bed in the family bedroom, over which coal oil had been poured and then ignited, were found the dead bodies of Mrs. Glascock and her infant son, the latter greatly disfigured by the flames. Both had been shot through the head with a revolver, and the murdeier, as if to make sure work of Mrs. Glascock, had shot her a second and third time through the body. On the floor near the burning bed lay the dead bodies of the two other children, Rodney and Emily, both shot through the bead,- and the former also shot through the body. In a piece of woods overlooking the farm-house was found the dead body of John Glascock, the busband and father, who, after murdering the whole family and setting fire to his house, bad gone to this piece of woods and committed suicide by shooting himself with the same revolver used in killing his wife and children. GLASCOCK’S METHOD. It now appears that Glascock, white laboring under some hallucination or fit of temporary insanity, drove a"way the servant early Sunday morning, murdered his family, poured coal oil over the bed and set fire to it, fastened up tbe house, and then went to the cabin of a neighbor and pretended to be In need of a servant to cook breaktast for himself and family. He then returned, as his tracks in the snow indicate, to the vicinity of his own house, and, finding the tragedy had not yet been discovered, proceeded to the edge of a piece of woods overlooking the farm, where he seems to have watched his burning house until it was entered and the fire extinguished by neighbors. He then retired, a few paces farther into the woods and phot himself through the heart. BIOGRAPHICAL, The murderer and suicidewas the son of wealthy parents, and had very large and influential family connection. He was a son of Thomas Glascock, who lives beyond Fauquier County, in Loudoun, but owns more land in Fauquier and pays more taxes in this county than any other one man. The young wife, Marie Glascock, was the daughter of Herod Frazier, formerly of Loudoun County, Virginia, and now a citizen of Missouri. The father, mother, and three children were buried side by side in the cemetery near Middleburg, Va. Glascock was given to drink, and it is believed was crazed by liquor.

MR. BUCK’S THREATS.

The Awful Fate in Store for President and Congressmen. [Washington Dispatch.] The following circular has been received by every member of Congress and by the President: Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York City, I Feb. 26, 1884. ) To the President of the United States, Senators, and Members of the House of Representatives, Washington: I am directed by the Holy Spirit Mind of Nature Who Dwells in my Bosom, urging Me, as His Instrument of Clay, to publish that no Assemblies of Clay Beings will hereafter be Permitted to enact laws Infringing the Divine Prerogative. I am Directed to Publish that the Long Struggle between the Two Eternal Minds of Nature the Holy Savior, and the Devil-God of Moses, has been won by the Savior, the Holy Mind of Nature, who has Regained His former Almighty Power and Authority. I am Directed to Publish that Enacting Laws by Nations was Permitted by the Holy Spirit—an Eternal Electric Fluid, the Life of Mind >-nd Matter, pending the issue only of the “War in Heaven. I am Directed to Publish that the King of Heaven Challenges the President of the United States, Senators, and Members of the House of Representatives to fight. I am, lastly. Directed to Publish that the President of the United States, Senators, and members of the House of Representatives will,if they persist in Enacting Laws, hereafter be Carried Alive in a Cyclone of Fire to a Hell of Infinite Woe and be Fought by the King of the Boundless Universe through All Eternity. Behold: The Judgment Day, foretold in the Book of Revelation, published Throughout the United States. James A. Buck.

ANTI-MONOPOLISTS.

The Manitoba Troubles—The Dominion Authorities Threaten to Dispatch an Expedition Which Will Quell All Disturbances. [Ottawa (Canada) Dispatch.] Manitoba members are threatening serious consequences, if the Government does not accede to their demands for the cancellation of the monopoly clauses in the Canadian Pacific Railway bill. They had a secret convention to day; at which It was announced that unless the Federal Government relieved the province Premier Norquay would dissolve tbe local Parliament and form a coalition government with Greenway, leader of the opposition. The Ottawa Government has forwarded instructions to the Manitoba authorities that if any bloodshed or serious disturbance of any kind should arise out of the existing discontent in the Northwest the local government would be held accountable for such. The local government has replied that the- Dominion Government is responsible for all troubles that exist. Heretofore little attention was paid to the reputed discontent tty legislators, but it is now bieved With much alarm. In the event of any disturbance, the federal authorities will dispatch an expedition to the scene of action to quell it, the cost to be deducted from the provincial subsidy.

BRIEFS.

Frank Gregory, of Great Bend., Kan., sold his wife for $75. Theodore Thacker, of Baltimore, killed himself because his wife would not support him. William H. Vanderbilt says that about. 80,000 people have already visited his art gallery. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Bannister, of Middletown, N. Y., celebrated their pearl wedding, sixty years, the other day. In the Vatican Library at Rome there are seventeen royal love letters, written by Henry VIII. to the cruelly wronged Anne Boleyn. Willie Grey, of Montreal, 12 years old, forged his father’s name for SBOO, raised the money, and with two boys of his own age and forty-one dime novels started to Investigate the city of New York. The Salvation Army is meeting with great success among the negroes of the South.

LEGAL.

Important Decisions by the Su Supreme Court of the United States. | The Issue of Legal Tender Notes Agal Dedared Constitutional by That Tribunal. A Habeas Corpus Denied in the Cel ebrated Georgia Ku-KLux Cases. A decision has just been rendered by tbe Bo preme Court of the United States in the long pending legal-tender case of Augustus D. JuiUav va Thomas S. Greenman, brought before it b a writ of error in the Circuit Court of the Unite States for the Southern District of New York The question presented by the case, as state* by the court, is: ’‘Whether the notes of th United States, issued in time of war under ai act of Congress declaring them to be legal ten der in payment of private debts, and atterwart in peace redeemed and paid for in gold coin at th Treasury, and then reissued under the act o 1878, can, under the Constitution of the Unite* States, be a legal tender in payment of sue! debts. The court is unanimously of the opin ion that the present case cannot be dlstinguishe* in principle from the cases heretofore decide* and reported under the names of “legal-tende cases," and all the Justices except Justice Field who adheres to the views expressed in the dis senting opinions in those cases, are of th opinion that they were rightly decided. Th court holds, therefore, that Congress hac power to issue obligations of the United State in such form, and to impress upon them sue! qualities as currency for the purchase of merchandise and the payment of debts in aocor* with the usages of sovereign government The power (as incident to the power of borrowing money and issuing bills and note of the Goverment for money borrowed of impressing upon those bills or notes th quality of being legal tender for the payment of private debts was a power universally understood to belong to sovereignty in Europe an* America at the time of the framing and th* adoption of the Constitution of the Unite* States. This power of making notes of th* United States legal tender in payment of priVati debts, being included iu the power to borrov money and to provide a national currency, it not defeated or restricted by the fact that it* exercise may affect the value of private contracts. If, upon a just and fair interpretatiox of the whole Constitution, a particular power oi authority appears to be vested in Congress, it it no constitutional objection to the existence o* to its exercise that the property or contracts ol individuals may be incidentally affected. “Congress," the court says in conclusion, “at the Legislature of a sovereign nation, being expressly empowered by the Constitution to laj and collect taxes, to pay debts, and to provid* lor the common defense and general welfare o! the United States, and to borrow money on th* credit of the United States, and to coin xnonej and regulate the value thereof, and of foreigi coin, and being clearly authorized, as incidental to the exercise of these great powers, to issue billx of credit, to charter national banks and to provide a (national currency for the whole people it the form of coin, Treasury notes, and national bank bills, and the power to make the notes oi the Government a legal tender In payment of private debts being one of the powers beloagini to the sovereigns in other civilized nations, an* not expressly withheld from Congress by the Con we are irresistibly impelled to the conclusion that the impressing upon the Treasury notes of the United States the quality of being a legal tender in payment of private debts is an appropriate means, conducive and plainly adapted to the execution of undoubted powers of Congress, and consistent with the letter and spirit of the Constitution, and therefore, within the meaning of that instrument, necessary and proper for the carrying into execution of the powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United btates. Such being our conclusion in the matter of th* law question, whether at any particular time in war or peace the exigency is such, by reason of unusual and pressing demands on tbe resources of the Government, or of the inadequacy of the supply of gold and silver coin to furnish the currency needed for Uses of the Government and of the people, that it is, as a matter of fact, wise and expedient to resort to this means, is a political question to be determined by Congress when the question of exigency shall arise, and not a judicial question to be afterward passed upon by the courts. It follows that the act of May 31, 1878, is constitutional and valid, and that the Circuit Court rightly held that the tender in Treasury notes reissued and kept in circulation under that act was a tender of lawful money in payment oi defendant's debt to the plaintiff.” The judgment of the Circuit Court is affirmed.

THE FIVE-PER-CENT. LAND CASES. A decision was also rendered by the court in what are generally known as the 5-per-cent land cases—viz.: The State of lOwa and State of Illinois against Noah C. McFarland, Commissioner of the General Land Office. These were petitions for writs of mandamus to compel the Commissioner of the General Land Office to make a statement of the account between the United States and States of lowa and Illinois for the purpose of obtaining what sums are due said States under the acts providing for their admission to the Union, which authorized the payment to them of 5-per cent.- of the net proceeds of the public lands lying within their limits which should be sold by Congress. The question presented by the cases is whether or not public lands located, by the military bounty land-warrants come within the scope of the acts above mentioned — that is, whether such lands are "lands sold byCongress.” The court holds that “Under the act of March 3, 1845, relating to the admission of the State, of lowa into the Union,>or the act. of April 18, 1818, for the admission of the State of Illinois into tbe Union, by which 5 per cent, of the net proceeds of lands lying within the State” and afterward “sold by Congress," is reserved and appropriated for the benefit of the State, the State is not entitled to a percentage on the value of lands disposed of byCongress in satisfaction of military land-war-rants. ! The writs of mandamus prayed for are therefore refused and the petitions dismissed, THE KU-KLUX CASES. A decision was also rendered in what are known as the Ku-Klux cases, which stand on the original docket under the title, “Ex parte, in th* matter of Jasper Yarborough and others,” They are petition* for writs of habeas corpus to release a number of persons now imprisoned under judgment of the United States Circuit Court for the Northern District of Georgia, rendered after the trial and conviction of the prisoners for the offense of threatening, beating, and otherwise intimidating colored voters at an election in Georgia for members of Congress. The principal question presented relates to the constitutionality of the law under which the prisoners are held. Justice Miller, speaking for the court, after deeiding that the offense set forth in the indictment is fully covered by Secs. 6508 and 5520, Revised Statutes, says: "That a government whose essential character is republican, whose executive head and legislative body are both elective, whose most numerous and powerful branch—the legislature—is elected by the people directly, has no power and no appropriate laws to secure this election from the influence of violence, corruption, and fraud is a proposition so startling as to arrest attention and demand the gravest consideration. If this Government is anything more than a mere aggregation of delegated agents of other States and Governments, 'each of which is superior to th* General Government, it must have power to protect an election, on which its existence depends, from violence apd corruption. If it has not this power, it is left helpless before two great natural and Jiistorical enemies of all republics—otfen- violence and insidious corruption." He asks, if it be not doubted that Congresshas powers to provide Jaws for the proper conduct of elections for Representatives in Congress, Are such powers annulled because an election for State officers is held at the same time and place? and replies: "These questions answer themselves, and it is only because the Congress of tue United States, through long habit and long years of forbearance, has, in deference and respect to the States, refrained from the exercise of these powers, that they are now doubted.” The rule to show cause in this case is discharged and the habeas corpus denied.

CHIPS.

A charity ball at Minneapolis was attended by only twenty-five couples. An Ohio physician is preparing a medical lexicon in forty-two languages. Senator Farley, of Californio, is said to have nearly lost his life by the baneful effects of hair-dye. A brakeman at Pittsburgh, who was knocked off a oar by striking the wires of the Western Union Telegraph Company, has brought suit for $20,0C0 for his injuries. . Eighteen thousand homesteads have been entered in Florida during the past year