Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1884 — Page 2

®fjc ferooeratUSewttwel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, ... Publisher.

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. DOINGS OF CONGRESS. A bill authorizing the Secratary of the Navy to offer a reward of $25,000 for rescuing or ascertaining the fate qf the Greely Arctic expedition was introduced in the Senate, March 18, bv Mr. Hawlev, who, in offering the measure, said such a reward might induce ships cruising in or about the Arctic seas to keep a lookout for the exploring party, or turn occasionally out oi their coarse in order to gather information about it. Mr. Blair addressed the Senate in advocacy of the bill to aid the establishment and temporary support of common schools. It appropriates the first year $15,000,000, the second year $14,000,000 the third year $13,000,000, and so on far ten years, decreasing $1,000,000 yearly, to be expended on common-school education, the expenditure of each State to "be on the basis of illiteracy. In the House of Representatives, hills were reported to bridge the Rio Giande at Laredo and t- agle Pass, and the Missouri at Sibley and Leavenworth: to prohibit the mailing of lottery circulars or newspapers containing lottery advertisements; to regulate compensation to railroads for carrying mails, and to grant right of way through the Sioux reservation to the Dakota Central and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Roads. In Committee of the Whole the Postoffice Appropriation bill was taken np. An amendment by Mr. Reagan to extend the franking privilege to members of Congress was lost. The appropriation of $400,000 for letter carriers was rejected. The committee then rose and the bill was passed. A memorial of the Cincinnati Chamber of Comeree, protesting against the construction of a bridge across the Kanawha, was presented in the Senate on March 19. The Committee on Foreign Relations reported a bill for the inspection of meats for exportation, and prohibiting the importation of adulterated articles of food or drink. Some debate took place on bills to fix the salary of District Judges at $5,000 and to appropriate $15,000,000 for the support of common schools. In the House, the Committee on Foreign Affairs repoited that the resolutions on the death of Herr Lasker were intended as a tribute of respect to the memory of an eminent foreign statesman, and that the House does not deem it necessary to its dignity to criticise the circumstances which prevented the expressions of sympathy from reaching their destination. The report was adopted, as was also a resolution that the Honse cordially reciprocates the wishes of the liberal union members of the German Parliament for the closer union of the two nations. The bonded whisky bill was taken up in committee of the whole, by a vote of 137 to 118, and Messrs Morrison and Willis urged its passage. Resolutions directing the Secretary of the Treasury to furnish copies of accounts and vouchers in the star route cases, and calling on the Secretary of the Navy for Information regarding contracts with parties in Sheffield for material for the Miantonomah, were adopted by the Senate March 20. Senator Blair's bill appropriating $15,000,000 for the support of public schools in the various States in proportion to the number of illiterate persons was debated. It was supported by Senators Garland, Blair, and Jones (Fla.), and opposed by Senators Plumb, Vest, and Allison. The House of Representatives, oy unanimous vote, adopted a resolution declaring Mr. Garrison entitled to a seat as Representative from the Fifth District of Virginia, and the oath of office was administered to him. The Speaker presented an estimate of $30,000 for the pedestal of the statue Of Gen. Garfield to be erected in Washington by the Army of the Cumberland. The bonded whiskey extension bill was discussed in committee of the whole, without action, i Sills were introduced in the Senate, March 21, to connect the cities of Davenport and Rock Island with a horse-car line, to grant a pension of SSO per month to the widow of Gen. E. O. C. Ord, and to provide for the creation of the State 'of Tacoma from Washington and Idaho Territories. Mr. Hoar called ut> the bill to increase the salaries of United States District Judges to $5,000, and Mr. Van Wvck , moved to amend by making the sum $4,b00. When the educational bill came up, Mr. Sherman moved an amendment that the money be distributed in proportion to illiteracy, and without distinction as to race or color. The House adopted a resolution declaring untrue the charges against Mr. Ellis, of Louisiana, in connection with the star route frauds. E. H. Funston was sworn in as the successor of the late D. 0. Haskell, of Kansas. Bills were passed to retire W. W. Averill with the rank and nay; of Colonel, and for |,he relief of the legal representatives of the late Capt. J. G. Todd, of Texas.' In the House of Representatives, March 32, favorable reports were made on bills to establish an assay office a t Deadwood and for the return of the remainder of the Chinese indemnity fund, and adversely to reduce llfettmo patents to five years. A resolution was adopted calling for information as to the lease of grounds in Yellowstone Park, and what provision was made for the presevation of fish and game. The Senate was not in session.

EASTERN.

Alexander Davidson, Sheriff of New York; James Bowe, Warden of the Ludlow Street Jail; Deputy Warden Philip Kiernan,. David McGonlgal and Jacob Wertheimer, clerks in the Sheriff’s office, were arrested the other day to answer indictments found by the Grand Jury of New York City charging them with extortion, fraud and malfeasance in office. In addition, Bowe is charged with perjury in making false affidavits as to the number of persous in jail, and Kiernan with forgery in placing names on official pay-rolls to enable him to draw salaries never earned. Wertheimer is also charged with perjury. The slaughter-houses in Jersey City and Hoboken, employing 200 butchers, have been forced to close on account of the competition of dressed beef from Chicago.

WESTERN.

Chicago dispatch: “Dr. Paaren, the Illinois State Veterinarian, has made a report on the cattle disease prevailing 1 in Effingham and Cumberland counties of this Btate. He pronounces it non-contagious, and says it is simply foot-rot, due to atmospheric or tellurio (earthy) influences. In the case of the Keating herd, In Effingham County, he says It/is entirely due to neglect.” Washington dispatch: “Commissioner Loring has received a telegram from Prof. the Veterinarian of the State Department of Agriculture, stating that, after a thorough investigation of the disease at Neosho Falls, Kan., he has concluded that it is not the genuine foot-and-mouth disease, but is due to local conditions, and that there is no danger of its spreading to other sections. The Commissioner accepts the conclusion as final.” “Jalma,” with its gorgeous scenery and brilliant oostumes, which has been running at McVtcker’s Theater, Chicago, for several weeks, continues to l>e the leading theatrical attraction in that city, the house being filled at each performance. It will bo continued for two weeks longer. Masked men compelled the jailer at Maryville, Kan., to deliver up Samuel Frayer, a double murderer, who was taken to a wagon bridge and banged. Frayer made a full oonfession. Frank L. Chamberlain, of Cleveland, has perfected a machine capable of charging I.SOO shotguns per hour. A oompany to manufacture the invention has been formed with a capital of 1*5,000.

Charles Holden, a farmer near Petersburg, DL, learned from a neighbor that O. A. Carpenter had been acquitted of the murder of Zura Burns. Within ten minutes be felled bis wife to the floor with an ax', and with a dull pocket-knife nearly severed her head from the trunk, in presence of bis stepchildren. He then took to the fields, where he sat on a fence and cut his throat in a horrible manner. His wounds were stitched together, and he was taken to jail on a mattress. An Associated Press dispatch from Neosho Falls, Kan., says: “The veterinary surgeons here investigating the cattle disease are now positive that they have discovered the source of the trouble, and all agree that it is noteplzooticaphtha,lackingmany of the important symptoms of that disease. It is not lack of care, neither Is it alkali water. It jS no contagious disease. Dr. Salmon says that as soon as he saw the cattle he thought of ergot, and they proceeded to examine the hay. This had not been done before. They found it to contain a large amount of wild which was full of ergot. The surgeons all say they never saw one-twentieth part so much ergot in a bunch of feed. Tho theory is that the ergot, by contracting the Bloodvessels and otherwise retarding tho circulation in the extremities, caused the feet to freeze. This ends the great scare. In the case of 6. A. Carpenter, the Lincoln banker, tried for the murder of Zora Burns, the jury at Petersburg, 111., returned a verdict of "not guilty.” This was expected. Carpenter was approached, after the trial, for an interview. The only statement he had to make was: “I am innocent. I was at home the Sunday night the murder was committed. I was treated fairly by the press. Some papers excoriated me, but I could not blame them. Ido not care at present to talk more about the case.”

SOUTHERN.

Two little colored children were bru tally murdered and two others mortally wounded on tho place of O. E. Usher, near Augusta, Ga. The father and mother were in a field at work when the crimes were committed. Mrs. G. D. Alsop, who resides near Louisville, Ky., gave four of her children opium, instead of powdered rhuharb, by mistake. Two of them died. The other two are not expected to live. Champ and Rudolph Fitzpatrick, brothers, were hanged at Columbia, Ky., for the murder of Miller Brewster, a farm laborer who worked with them. The Judge of the Criminal Court at Nashville, at the instance of a Democratic politician claiming an equitable interest in the paper, has enjoined the President of the American Newspaper Company and the corps of editors from advocating in that journal a protective tariff or opposing a railroad commission.

WASHINGTON.

President Arthur entertained fiftyfour persons at a Bongresslonal dinner last vi eek. The east room of the White House was ornamented with 2,000 palms and foliage plants. The House Committee on Foreign Affairs has agreed to make a favorable report on a bill for the return of the Chinese indemnity fund. Maj. E. Barksdale, member of Congress from Mississippi, appeared before the Senate sub-committee on Southern outrages. He said a love of law and order had always existed In Copiah County, and that the killing of Matthews was the result of a personal difficulty, He pronounced as infamously false the testimony of certain witnesses at New Orleans to the effect that he(Barksdale) made incendiary speeches In Copiah County last fall. The House Committee on Appropriations has completed the pension bill. It appropriates $20,684,400, and provides for the reappropriation of the unexpended balance of about $60,000,000.

POLITICAL.

The Kansas Legislature met in special session March 18* and heard the message of Gov. Glick on the foot-and-mouth disease, of which 5,000 copies were ordered printed. Bills on the subject and for confining' the, work of the Legislature to the question for which it wap convened were introduced and referred. 1 A special election to fill the vacancy in the Seventh Congressional District of South Carolina, caused by the death of E. W. M. Mackey, resulted in the election of Robert Smalls, colored. There was no opposition. President Arthur has nominated Sumner Howard, of Michigan, to be Chief Justice of Arizona; Case Broderick, of Kansas, as Associate Justice of- the Supreme Court of Idaho; and Jacob B. Blair, of Wyoming, to bo Associate Justice for that Territory. The North Carolina Republican State Convention will be held at Raleigh May 1. The Connecticut Republicans will hold their State Convention at Hartford on the 23d of April. It is confidently predicted in Washington that the President will veto the Fitz John Porter bill. It is reported that the friends of Gen. Logan will urge the selection of ex-Senator, David Davis, of Bloomington, as one of the delegates-at-large from Illinois to the Nar tlonal Republican Convention. The Democrats of Rhode Island nominated George H. Corliss for Governor, but he promptly declined the honor. Thomas W. Segar was then nominated. The Ohio Legislature has enacted a law declaring “future” deals in stocks, oils, •or provision gambling, making the buyer or seller guilty alike, and imposing a fine on the owner of the premises where the deals are carried on. The penalties for “margin” or “future” transactions are SSO to SI,OOO and thirty to ninety days’ imprisonment. Gov. Bourn and all the other Rhode Island State offisers have been nominated for re-election by the Republicans. The delegates to the National Democratic Convention, selected by the Rhode Island Democratic State Convention last week, declare themsolves for the “old ticket," if Tilden will accept. Senator’Sabin, the new Chairman of the National Republican Executive Committee, in an interview at Chicago, declared'that political assessments on government clerks would not be made hereafter. In its present form, says a Washington dispatch, the Morrison tariff bill wJU be

opposed by about forty Democrats, including the Pennsylvania and West Virginia delegations and all the Ohio Representatives except Frank H. Hurd.

FOREIGN.

It has been decided by the Turkish Government, after several rebuffs, to leave all negotiations in reference to the Egyptian difficulty to Earl Granville, the British Foreign Minister. On the occasion of the celebration in honor of the Emperor William, March 22, Prince Bismarck was most cordially received by the populace. He was accorded a reception only second to that given the aged Emperor.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Paul Frederick, brother and heir apparent of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg* Schwerin, having become a Roman Catbolis, has renounced his hereditary rights in favor of bis younger brothers. Near Port Richmond, Pa., Hugh McConnell and John McCormick fought thir-ty-nine rounds in two hours and ten minutes, for £2OO a side, McConnell winning the money. Both men were badly punished. The Parliament of Newfoundland has adopted a law imposing a tax of 100 per oent. on all packages containing merchandise going into the province. This is in retaliation, it is said, for the law passed by the Canadian Parliament for the inspection of Newfoundland herrings. The action of the Newfoundlanders has greatly excited tho Montreal merchants. The counterfeit S2O silver certificates now being circulated in Ohio and Kentucky bear either the numbers 81487415 X, or 81407 X. Yellow fever is reported to have broken out on the United States steamer Iroquois, now on its way to Alaska. The Massachusetts House rejected the bill providing that wife-beaters be publicly whipped. To a reporter at St. Louis. Gen. Sherman said that ho was not a candidate for the Presidency. Inquiries made by the Middleton Herald as to the Presidential preferences of Connecticut Republicans indicate that Senator Hawlew Is the favorite, that Edmunds comes next, and that Arthur is a third choice. A compilation of interviews with Texas Democratic County Judges by commissioners of the Houston Plsl shows the following result; For President, Thurman, 68; Tilden, 86; McDonald, 22; undecided, 77. These opinions may be regarded as representing three-fourths of the Democratic voting population. Hebrew settlers in Northern Dakota are reported to bo suffering for clothiDg and the necessaries of life. In consequence of the recent rains many of the lowa and Wisconsin rivers havo overflowed their banks. A woolen mill at Mitchell, lowa, on the Cedar River, valued at $76,000, was swept away. It was owned by Mr. Vanderpool, a member of the State Legislature. William H. Kirk, of Cincinnati, was some months siuce killed in his stable with a hammer. His corpse was robbed of SIOO In money and dumped Into Mill Creek. Joe Palmer and William Burns confessed the crime, and at the trial of the latter he testified that while he did not strike the blow, he looked on and shared the money obtained. The jury convicted him of manslaughter, for which they were hooted by the crowd. The Mississippi River at New Orleans, on the 25th of March, was one inch higher than was ever known before. Mu. Van Wvck offered a resoli*on in the Senate, March 24, directing tho Attorney General to furnish information as to the compensation of special attorneys in the star-route cases. A motion to fix a day for the consideration of the bill ior the admission of Dakota was lost by 33 to 23. The Blair education measure and the bi.l to increase the salaries of district judges was debated. Mr. Vance presented his minority reporc against the recommendation of the majority of the Foreign Affairs Committe in favor of retaliatory legislation against countries which exclude American meats. He contends that hog product may be haired out by foreign nations if deemed unwholesome; and that such course is manly when contrasted with the American method of imposing prohibitory import duties to effect the same purpose. In the House Mr. Ellis introduced a joint resolution reciting the danger of an overflow at New Orleans, and appropriating $300,0i0 so» preventive measures. After considerable debate the resolution was lost by 95 to 115, but by unanimous consent it was reintroduced and referred to the Committee on Appropriates. Bills were handed in to give the Southern Kansas Pacific Road right of way through Indian Territory; providing a uniform grade for invalid pensioners; to secure cheaper correspondence by telegraph; to prevent the re-use of cigar-boxes, and to repeal the restriction on the coinage of the silver dollar.

THE MARKET.

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HORRIBLE CRIME.

Shocking Slaughter in a Remote Section of Tennessee. 4 Whole Family Murdered—Swift Justice Overtakes the Butchers. [Springfield (Term.) Telegram.] Perhaps the wont crime ever committed has just been perpetrated in this (Robertson) County. Twenty-five miles from this place, near the Kentucky line, lived John Martin, his wife, and three children, two of them grown young women, the other a boy of It. Martin was in his seventieth year, and had lived in the neighborhood nearly bis entire life. He had eked out a moderate living on bis little farm, quietly doing his work and having the respect of every one. Yesterday he returned from Nashville, where he went to,procure the final settlement of his pension having been wounded in the late war. It is presumed that this trip was learned of by certain rough characters living near, who, bent upon robbery, planned and executed this most horrible crime, Martin's log house was situated a quarter of a milo from the Springfield road, about ten miles northwest from Adams’ Station. A heavy growth of cedars and underbrush hides the house from the view of the travelers on the main road. This isolation prevented the tragedy from being discovered until this afternoon. A peddler who came to the house gave the first alarm, and the whole neighborhood was aroused. The door was broken as if struck violently with an ax. This door led into the main bedroom, where Martin and his wife slept. The scene upon/ entering the room beggars all description. Martin was dead upon the floor, his gray hair matted and soaked in a pool of blood. The head was SDlit open in two places by blows from an ax. The forehead was crushed, end the glaring eyer were forced from their sockets. Upon every side were evidences of the frightful struggle that must have taken place. The walls and the floor were bespattered with blood. Mrs, Martin must have been killed as she started from the bed. Her arms were broken and her face horribly mangled by the blows of the ax. There was one stream of ghastly blood. The most pitiable sight was tho little boy, who occupied a trundle-bed in the room. Evidently he had been taken by one of the murderers during the struggle with tho others and choked to deathIn the next room, where, the girls lay, the sight would have melted a heart of stone. Everything indicated a most desperate struggle for life. Evidently the murderers added. a worse crime to their misdeeds. The disordered clothing of the poor girls told plainer than words of the outrages that had been perpetrated upon them. After the brutal assaes ns had satisfied their lust they crushed the skulls of the two girls with the ax, which was found upon the floor, red with blood. It was a sad experience, and every eye that witnessed the sad spectacle was full of tears. The house had teen ransacked from one end to the other, and tables and chairs were overturned. The entire neighborhood was filled with horror at the fearful sacrifice of human life. A confusion of footprints was found leading away from the house into the neighboring woods. Search parties were formed, and the country fo,r miles around was scoured for a trace of the murderers. A farm-hand. named George French was arrested by one of the County Constables upon suspicion. A crowd gathered and soon swelled Into a mob of frenzied men. His contradictory replies convinced them that he was guilty. A rope was brought and placed about his neck, and the mob swung him up to the nearest tree. He was let down half insensible, and on coming to confessed that he and Jim and Doe Carter, two negroes, workmen upon the farm of ’Squire Davis, had planned the murder. He gave sickening details of the assassination, and confessed that all three of them hud outraged the girls. They found $!,- 200 in money, and divided it between them. He had hardly finished his story when he was jerked up and strangled to death. Twenty shots were fired into his body. The mob made a break for Davis’ farm, where the two negroes were found. Although both of them protested their innocence, the mob hanged them to the same tree and shot them while they strangled.

HOT SHOWER BATHS.

Three Ken Burned to Death by Blazing Oil from an Exploded Tank. [Cleveland Dispatch.] An explosion occurred in one of Merrlam Sc Morgan’s paraffine works In Central way, corner of Ohio street, by which three workman met with horribled deaths. At the time of the explosion a number of men were in the vicinity of the refining mill, but all ex" cept three escaped injury. At the moment of the explosion a large fiery mass of refined oil was belched upward into the air, and fell to the earth like a stream of molten metal from a broken retort. Of the workmen in the vicinity, August Fisher and August Guenther were closest to the exploded still. They were enveloped in the liquid shower of flame, and in an instant nothing but charred and horribly disfigured remnants remained of what they had been. William Stahlman was a short distance farther away from the still than his companions. When the mass of flameß descended upon him his clothing was consumed like so much tinder. He made a wild and desperate effort to escape, but soon succumbed. When the fire could be sufficiently subdued to allow the firemen to enter the inoloeure, the remuins of the three workmen were removed to the adjoining pump-house and placed upon shutters. The bodies of Fisher and Gueptber were the most horribly burned. Scarcely a vestige of them remained below the hips, and the Upper portion of their bodies were so charred that they could scarcely reoognized as the remains of human beings. Stahlman was about 20 yeais of age, and lived with his wife in Seymour avenue. He loaves no children. Guenther was 27 years of ago. He was married, the father of three little children, and lived at No. 123 Ilerschell street. Fisher was probably 80 years of age. His home was at No. 160 Trumbull street. Ho leaves four children, with a wile, who is in a delicate condition. The oxpl -d'd still hpd contained about twenty-five barrels of paraffine. What caused the explos'on Mr. Merrium is at a loss to conjecture, as it was a now one of the most approved pattern. The loss to the firm will be about ?20, 00, upou whioh there is no insurance. Ocroner Bock will hold an'lnquest over the remains.

SPLINTERS.

Tub sum of fi-Iti.OOO has been given to Yale College for a dormitory by Mrs. Lawrence, of Chicago. The reoent floods destroyed fifty-five bridges in the Ohio Valley, which will cost $210,000 to replace.. Mrs. Hannah Piwon, of Newark, N. J., recently celebrated her 89th birthday by waltzing for ten minutes. The laborers on the Cape Cod Ship Canal ■truck because of dissatisfaction with the food furni hod by the contractor. The Chief of Engineers at Washington reports the total expenditure by tho Government on Chicago harbor at $1,339,304, and on the Calumet hi. er at $377,00p. On the Mississippi proper there has been laid out $19,636,695. James Caret, the Informer, who was slain by O’Donnell, sought before his “taking oft” to cheat his creditors by a transfer of bis property In tbe city of Dublin to his brother. 'The Irish Ban' ruptcy Court bas Just annulled the decree of transfer. —— '■ ■ - .«» ■!!,.. I B Ei.ro rd, of Colorado, receives more mail matter than anv other member of Congress.

BISMARCK AND LASKER.

The Resolutions as Agreed Upon in Committee Passed by the House. Some Excitement Among the Member* Boring the Debate—The Various Speeches. * [Associated Press Report.] As soon as the members were in their seats Mr. Curtin, Chairmen of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, submitted as e privileged question the report of the committee. This declai os that the original resolution was intended as a mark of sympathy for a distinguished man who bad died in this country. While the committee was of the opinion that the resolution should have been received in the proper spirit, yet it would refrain from criticising tho action of the German . authorities in regard to them. The dignified position of the Deparment of State fully sustained the high character the department had maintained since the organization of the Federal Government. As to the resolutions offered March 10, the committee was of the opinion that they contained language not necessary or proper to vindicate the character or dignity of the House. Therefore they would report the following resolution as a substitute: Resolved, That the resolutions referring to the death of Dr. Edouard Lasker, adopted by this Honse on Jan. 9 last, were intended as a tribute of respect to the memory of an eminent statesman who had died in the United states; as an expression of sympathy with the German people for whom he had been an honored representative. Resolved. That the House, having no official concern with the relations between the executive and legislative branches of the German Government, does not deem it requisite to its dignity to criticise the manner of the reception of the resolutions or the circumstances which prevented their reaching their destination after they had been communicated through the proper channels to the German Government Mr. Curtin thon moved the previous question. Mr. Reagan said be hoped this would not be done, as the House had already made apologias enough for being insulted. Mr. Cox, of New Y-ork, moved to lay the matter on the table, as the best way to treat the German Chancellor, but this motion was lost—S3 to 125. The previous question having been ordered, Mr. Ochiltree rose to debase the resolution. , He declared that this affair had gone beyond the domain of red tape and clrcnmlocutlon and had assumed a phase which called upon each Representative to preserve his own honor and dignity. It was not bfecoming the honor and dignity of the House to explain the meaning of the original resolutions. They spoke for themselves. The apologetic tone of the pending resolutions was unworthy the representatives of this great nation. The compliment to Lasker haJ rebuke to the German Chancellor because the men were the antithesis of each other. The Chancellor had ever been a sycophant to royalty, had never upheld the rights of the people, and never lost an opportunity to denounce popular sovereignty. Mr. Belford inquired ironically whether it would-be in oider to offer a resolution f resenting the apolcgies of the House to the German Chancellor for having troubled him, but was told it would not. Mr. Phelps, the second speaker, said that this matter had become of grave consequence. As the committee had unanimouslyagreed in their report, it would seem that there ought to be an explanation. The resolutions were passed unanimously Jan. P, just as the members were preparing to adjourn. Ten days later the House was startled by the Information that the Chancellor had refused to acoept them. The members then looked up the record to 6ee what they had done. They found that they had expressed regret at the death of Lasker, and also the belief that his free and liberal sentiments had advanced the interests of his country. Both were true, but the last one the House could not report. It had no right to send out its opinion that his political work had benefited Germany. There was no refuge. The House would resent the fact that its friendly sentiments had been rejected, but it could not resent the fact that its political sentiments had been sent back because it had no business to put them on the same paper. Mr. Curtin reviewed and defended the features of the report, and the resolutions were adopted without division, though an unsuccessful effort was made to have the yeas and nays ordered. Mr. Curtin then presented a report concerning the memorial, of the Liberal Union of the German Parliament expressing a desire for a closer union of the two nations, and an appreciation of the action of the House. Resolutions were presented reciprocating the wishes of the Liberal Union of Germany, accept ng the resolutions, and directing that they should be spread on the journal. Mr. Cox thought the House was trying to show its thanks to one portion of the Reichstag after having been thoroughly insulted by the b!ood-and-iron Minister. By so doing it was complicating matters in such a way as to lose all dignity and pluck. He (Cox) had favored the resolution of Mr. Hiscock, which was dignified and consistent, but the House preferred to make republicanism and democracy a farce or undignified buffoonery. The people of Germany were in accord with those of this country, and he believed that Some day there would be an uprising of the liberty-loving Teutons. Mr. Brumm said that the House was trying to carry water on both shoulders. Dignity was, in his judgment, honorable, heroio action, and not the playing of the coward, simply because a Chancellor might say the rules of etiquette had not been strictly followed. Mr. Deuster commended the action of the Department of State, and declared that Bismarck’s hasty action would prove unfortunate only for him. Mr. Phelps closed the debate. He claimed that the letter sent by Blsmarok to the German Minister in Washington, in which he bad expressod his cordial regard for the American people and willingness to transmit the resolutions if they had not expressed a political opinion, was an ample apology. Thanks to Bismarck, to Frelinghuyeen and his skill, and to the Commit ee cn Foreign Affairs, the dignity of the House had been saved. Tho German Chancellor had entered the Reichstag for the first time in eighteen months, in order to play the new role of an apologist: the gentleman from Texas had seen his fame grow from the confines of his State to the circumferenoe of the world: all had been satisfactorily ended, and the members had the right to ring down the curtain on this international epiEOde. The resolutions were then adopted without a division.

A Battle with a Wildcat.

[Philadelphia Dispatch.] Levi Labar, of Furdytown, on the eastern slope of the Blue Ridge, fought a “catch-as catcb-can” battle with an enormous wild-cat-in bis bedroom last night. About midnight Labar heard a strange noise in the room. He jumped from the bed to make an investigation, when the animal sprung upon his shoulders, but Labar shook It off and delivered a stunning blow with a club. For flfteeu mlniXes the conflict raged, the brute leaping from wall to wall, clinging to the paper with Its sharp claws, and then bounding upon Its opponent, screed ing with £ury and with eyes shining like ocnls of Are. At last Labar dealt the cat a death blow. It measured eight feet from the tip of its nose to the end of its tail. Labar was severely lacerated about the face and arms. The Cincinnati Enquirer claims to bars canvas'ed tho political sentiments of eleven Southern' States, casting a total of 10S electoral votes, a little more than one-fourth the entire vote of the country. It reports that “ every where in tho South there lean overwhelming sentiment in favor of the r» nomination of Mr. Tilden.” Clark R. Robinson has brought suit at New York against Commodore Garrison for $2,395,960, the proceeds of the sale of bonds of the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad. The answer is a general denial. Estimates place the cattle drive of Texas the oomlng season in excess of 800,090 bead.

WOMEN AT THE POLLS.

BY BILL NYE.

There have been many reasons given first and last why women should not vote, but I desire to say, in the full light of a ripe experience, that some of them are fallacious. I refer more particularly to the argument that it will degrade women to go to the polls and vote like a little man. While lam not and never have keen a howler for female suffrage, I must admit that it is much more of a success than prohibition and speculative science. My wife Voted eight years with my fall knowledge and consent, and to-day I cannot see but that she is as docile and as tractable as when she won my trusting heart. Now those who know me best will admit that I am not a ladies’ man, and therefore what I may Bay here is not said to secure favor and grateful smiles. lam not attractive and lam not in politics. I believe that lam homlier this winter than usual. There are reasons why I believe that what I may say on this subject will be sincere and not sensational or selfish. It has been urged that good women do not generally exercise the right of suffrage, when they have the opportunity, and that only those whose social record has been tarnished a good deal go to the polls. This is not true. It is the truth that a good full vot* always shows a list of the best women and the wives of the best men. A bright day makes a better showing of bad voters than a bad one, and the weather makes a more perceptible difference in the female' vote than the male, but when things are exciting and the battle is red hot, and the tocsin of war sounds anon, the wife and mother puts on her armor and her sealskin sacque and knocks things cross-eyed. It is generally supposed that the female voter is a pantaloonatic, a half horse, half alligator kind of woman, who looks like Dr. Mary Walker and has the appearance of one who has risen hastily in the night at the alarm of fire and dressed herself partially in her own garments and partially in her husband’s. This is a popular error. In Wyoming, where female suffrage has raged for years, you meet quiet, courteous, and gallant gentlemen, and fair, quiet, sensible women at the polls, where there isn’t a loud or profane word, and where it is an infinitely more proper place to send a young lady unescorted than to the postoffice in any city in the Union. You can readily see why this is so. The men about the polls are always candidates and their friends. That is the reason that neither party can afford to show the slightest rudeness toward a voter. The man who on Wednesday would tell her to go and soak her head, perhaps, would stand bareheaded to let her pass on Tuesday. While she holds a smashed ballot shoved under the palm of her gray kid glove she may walk over the candidate’s prostrate form with impunity and her overshoes, if she chooses to. Weeks and months before election in Wyoming the party with the longest purse subsidizes the most livery stables and carriages. Then on the eventful day every conveyance available is decorated with a political placard and driven by a polite young man who is instructed to improve the time. Thus every woman in Wyoming has a chance to ride once a year at least. Lately, however, many prefer to walk to the polls, and they go in pairs, trios, and quartets, voting their little sentiments, and calmly returning to then* cookies and crazy quilts, as though politics didn’t jar their mental poise a minute. It is possible, and even probable, that a man and his wife may disagree on politics, as they might on religion. The husband may believe in Andrew Jackson and a relentless hell, while his wife may be a stalwart and rather liberal on the question of eternal punishment. If the husband manages his wife as he would a clothes-wringer, and turns her through life by a crank, he will no doubt work her politically, but if she has her own ideas about things she will naturally act on them; while the man who is henpecked in other respects till he can’t see out of his eyes will be henpecked in the matter, of national and local politics. These are a few facts about the actual workings of female suffrage, and I do not tackle the great question of the ultimate results upon the political mar chinery if woman suffrage were to become general. Ido not pretend to say as to that. I know a great deal, but I do not know that. There are millions of women, no doubt, who are better qualified to vote and yet cannot than millions of alleged men who do vote; but no one can tell now what the ultimate effect of a change might be. So far as Wyoming is concerned, the Territory is prosperous and happy.

To Husbands.

Always complain of being tired, and remember that nobody else gets tired. Your wife should have everything in • readiness for you, but you should not do anything for her. When your wife asks ye*B for money give her a nickel; ask her what she wants with it, and when she tells you. ask her if she can’t do without it. Then go down town and spend ten times the amount for cigars, for they are a necessity. Go down town of an evening, stand on the street corner and talk politics; it’s more interesting than to stay at home with your family. Charge your wife not to gbssip, but you can spin all the yams you wish. Have your wife get up and make fires, but don’t get up yourself till the rest of the family are eating breakfast, as you blight catch cold. Wear old clothes and make yourself as untidy as possible until your wife’s health fails; then it would be best for you to fix up some, for in all probability you will want another when she is gone. We are always reminded of the hugeness of our country when reading such statistics as this: The value of the annuah butter produot in the United States is $352,000,000. — Dr. Foote'g Health Monthly.