Daily News, Volume 2, Number 138, Franklin, Johnson County, 29 January 1881 — Page 1

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WASHINOTON, January 28.

The Senate rejected the nomination of Robert M. Wallace, U. S. Marshal. South Carolina.

Congress is engaged in inrestigating the pension system and the abuses which bare grown up under it at the close of the war, there were 85,000 prisoners on the rolls, afad there are now 185,272.

The estimate of the population of the United States, as made before the recent census, by General Walker, was 48,000,000, which fell 2,000,000 short of the real number. His error is attributed to the unexpected increase in the Southern States.

A bill was to day introduced by Senator Dawes to establish the rights of the Ponca Indians. It declares and confirms the right of the Ponca Indians to hold their lands in Nebraska and Dakota. Several other provisions relating to their rights are also included in the bill.

General Young still has on his war paint in regard to McClung's nomination. It is difficult to learn what it is upon which General Young bases his belief that this nomination will be either withdrawn or defeated. He seems very confident, however, while Major Butterworth seems equally confident that the nomination will be confirmed.

The assaults of the Eastern press upon Stanley Matthews, and advising that the Senate reject him, is causing a great deal of comment here. While there is no possibility that his name will be rejected, yet the vote may not be unanimously in his favor as at first supposed still there is no doubt but what it will be practically so.

General Grant writes to friends here that he expects to make a visit to Mexico, starting within the next week or two. Thl* visit is in connection with the great railroad enterprise with which he has associated himself for the exteusion of the through railroad system of the United States from New York to the City of Mexico.

Thj House Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred the bill making Chattanooga a port of delivery, have considered the same, and report that increasing importations, especially of rallaoad iron, demanding greater commercial facilities, render it a matter of primary importance to the people in that section that this city be promptly made a port of delivery.

The nomination of George H. Foster today to be U. $. District Attorney for the Southern District of New York, revives the gossip of the early days of the present* administration. In the Senate Chamber, when the nomination was made public, eve: motion of ConkJing was watched with interest, and there is considerable •peculation aa to how he will manage the fifihu

The Speakership problem is all in a muddle. No one pretend fo predict who will be the coming man. At no previous time the history of Congress has there been snch an utter lack of men who "loom up" tor the position. No one looms. There area doxen who are on a common leve*l of stcdiocrity, but none who £t*&d up a h«ad and shoulders above the rest. It will be a scrub race, free to aM, and with many entries^

Genera! Young has received petition, or rather several petitions, signed by over 5,000 names, asking the enactment of a law,, giving e* soldiers and sailor* of the late war, or their surviving widows and children, a land wArraat out of the public lands without the raj airmen of Actual s*uki»cnu (kaeial Young has prepared a bill to carry out the ykw* of* the petltkmer*, h« Will introduce Monday. It will Rtand £ry little cha&ee of conxid erauun ifei& i»*sikn, however,

CoaTerse's Inv*ssti|OiUnjt Committee, which was created to inquire wh *r the charge thattwrta'n Democratic Senators aud RrpreseoUktim had used their franks for «. ..Itog e—. docawr.:*, badi Hfc'v! ijtf rt, -.31 -lay." The: «':4 i.U. vr?|A JW?8 uy h-.m If i—** R«p»WI««n

The employes of the Senate, who have been on the ragged edge of things for some times past, owing to the uncertain political attitude of General Malone, of Virginia, who takes his seat in the Senate in March, and the long struggle in Tennessee, which promised, at one time, to result in the election of a Republican, are now comforting themselves with the reflection that they are safe for at least two years more. Barring death or resignation, there will be no more changes in the senate after March next until 1883.

Delegate Cannon having learned from Salt Lake that it was reported there that President Hays was'at the bottom of Mur. ray's action in giving the certificate of elections to Campbell, the defeated candidate, Mr. Cannon called upon the Pres ident to learn the trutfi of these report. he President told Delegate Cannon that he had nothing to do with the action of Murray in this matter, and he knew nothing of it until he saw it in the newspapers. He never advised Murray tot«ke any such step. Mr. Cannon says that the President intimated that Murray had exceeded his authority in taking this action,

KavecBarnMllaxtcr.

WASHINGTON, January 28.'—President Hayes is contemplating another blow at army. Having provided for the State of Ohio and all his relations outside of that great State, he now proposes to "cap the climax" by retiring Surgeon-general Barnes and appointing Medical-perveyor Baxter to the position.

$93,000 stolen In Ten Year*.

CHICAGO, III., January 28.—A further examination of the books of the county collector's office reveals the fact that, by erasures and suppressions upon the books of forfeitures and delinquencies of taxes, the county has been defrauded of about ninety-three thousand dollars in ten years. These frauds have been carried on in a quiet way, and probably al) concerned them will not be brought to justice.

Death of the Knight of Kerry. The champion general of the land lords of Ireland has passed away in the person of the Knight of Kerry, Peter Fit*gerald, lately created a baronet. The Knight could trace his ancestry back to the time of the Nortnan invasion and his father was well known as au advocate of Catholic emancipation and as a member of various Governments, both before th* Union of 1780 and after that event. He always lived on the island of Valentia, which he owned and thefice he sent from time to time to the daily and periodical press letter* in defense of the territorial interest. He was an able man and had a good style of writing, so that his productions were highly valued by his clients and deemed worthv of attack by hi* opponents but, of coarse, he generally came to grief iu the numerous en counter* which he provoked or in which he entered on invitation. His last pro duction was an article in the Xinsfrcttf*' Ontury for March, and it is remarkable .that in that article he announced that he would prob&bly write no mom, In p*r*on he was somewhat notable. He wife* about the middle height and of a* lithe and active frame, white a face of. sharply-cut feature# and larce keen dark eyes was crowned by a heat! of srt^wv'hair. It remains to add that, t). agh he wus not accounted a bad landlord, most of his tenants lived io the most absolute wretchedness. —Dublin Cor. Boston —The American Humane Society offer a prixc of $5,000 for the best ear for carrying live stock. They will reach dee&ion about October i, and more than three hundred models hay* already been offered.^

VOL. 2.—NO. 138. TERRE HAUTE, IND.. SATURDAY, JAN. 29, 1881. PRICE 5 CENTS

No. 30 SOUTH SIXTH STREET, (near Post Office.)

ed in defrauding the Government in a similar manner. Mr. Jewell testified that tKe distribution of documents was only an unimportant part of the business of the business of the National Committee, but they had paid out between ten thousand and twelve thousand dollars for postage during the campaign, and between $4,000 and $5,000 for express charges.

A LARGE STOCK OF FOE TEAS ROASTED COFFEES AND SPICES, COUNTRY PRODUCE, VEGETABLES, AND FRUITS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.:

Goods delivered Promptly to all Farts of the City, Free of Charge.

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{SUCCESSOR TO C. A. MANN",)

DEALER IN STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES

LETTER FROM MEXICO.

OUK OWN CORRESPOXUENT INVADES

Editor Terre Haute NKWS:

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YANKEES.

GUYMAS. MEXICO, January, 1881. This quaint old town in Sonora, Mexico, is located on the east shore of the Gult of California, and has a harbor, landlocked and sheltered from the Sea with approaches through channels between the Islands of ajoras, San Vicente, Pitayas and Cochori. The odd and distinctive features of this strange old town, are so peculiar that I haye been tempted to give your readers some idea of its location, its future possibilities, and something of the antediluvian habits of this city of 6,000 souls.

I came down from 'Frisco on a verv comfortable coastwise steamer which touches here about once a month, canying a fewpassengers and alight cargo of

floods.harbor,

We anchored one bright morning the aad while we were preparing to go ashore I took in the wild and romantic surroundings of this port, so soon to become a great commercial entre pot in the American and Australian trade.

Lazy Yaqui Indians were plying their vocation on every hand catching of many varieties, or catching shfimpfi, crabs, lobiters and oysters that arc found in great abundance.

QUAY*AS

nestles at the end of its quiet and secure harbor, surreunded on three sides by high bluffy mountains. The opening into the ocean between two high, rugged cliffs is about .five miles from the city, and within this strait the bay widens so as to fur nish what has been well termed the most secure harbor on the Pacific. About half a mile from the town an island divides the inner from the outer harbor, and it is on this island that the Southwestern terminus of the great Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Is located. Here are the im mense wharves and unlimited dockage, where the heaviest men of-war can anchor in safety. Beyond the island, landward, the water is much shallower, the average depth being but about aine feet, while oti the seaward side there is a depth averaging thirty feet. The railroad reaches its terminius by a long bridge from the Eastern shore, and will be able

t0 TRANSPORT FREIGHT TO TUB STEAMER DIRECT.

After some little delay at the customhouse, we walked over to the "American hotel," and I am free to say that it is the oddest looking building in the World enjoying that universal name a low square, adobe building, surrounding a court or plasita. Its mud floors and small windows, and low ceilings, are striking novelties, After a lunch my friend and I sauntered through the town, which carries (he Mexican stamp upon ^its face. The buildings are all of adobe, built one storv high, and better as a class than those in New Mexico. In fact, some of them were "highly ornamented.* As we neared the public square, or plaza, we found a gay scene awaiting us. The native band from the garrison were playihg a medley of Spanish airs, and the plaza wad filled with ladies, young and old, in gay costumes, who promenaded without escorts, their natural protectors standing outside the circle and bowing here and there as they recognized acquaintances. It was a very pretty sight to an American unused to such scenes. I found, upon becoming better acquainted, that

THE INHABITANTS.

are divided into three classes, the "Upper Ten" being the 8panish merchants whom I found refined and educated and with an elegant gentility about them, too often lacking among our own aristocracy.

The middle class are the natiye Mexican and the lower, the Yaqui Indians, who have been largely employed in grading the between Ilerrnosilla

Mid

Guaymas.

road I was astonished to find what we term is in full

Rlavery (here called peonage vogue. If a man becomes In debt to another for $10 he is placed in absolute ser vitude until it is paSd, and as wages vary from 10 to 85 cents a day, a man who once gets behind $10 is hopelessly involved.

Perhaps the most tfr.ffc&&Je characteris tic of Guavmas is ti evident aversion and hostility to any thing which savors of progression. In tsporUng cargoes from toe wharf to tb« custom house and thence to the l»asiu-no drays or wagons are a"! wed to be nsed, "because it takes away tl isbw-«f the men who "pack," everytfcir.on their backs, and in carrying water from t! age well which supplies the to-*?? *U. uw law is in vnfne andam'-'v.-mc at in tthe water Into the town hr pipes was instantly aqnekhed by t«« ait'^^Hties. I made considerable inquiry JJ these mountiatu surrounding town, bot nothing seems to have been developed in them as far as

1s concerned. Back further, however,

1m fon I from the coast there are many mine* he's. |tsg worked which are paying splendidly

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and many more desertedones where shafts were put down 300 to 500 feet by the Spaniards years ago, but which now contain more or less wvter. In those early years these miners were destitute of pumps and proper appliances neccessary to free the shafts from water and many excellent mines were destroyed by flooding. These abandoned mines have ail reverted to the government and can be bought for a nominal sum. I see here Srfch Held for some enterprising companies, for with our modern hydraulic pumps these mines could be emptied at a comparativly small expense.

When A. T. & 8. F. shall have completed its line down thro' this rich miner al country, I prophesy an emigration of miners and business men such as has ever been known in the West, for these certanly are rich and promising fields for the lusty prospector. The climate here in winter is (to express it in a single word) perfect, although in the town daring the summer months the thermometer ranges pretty high, owing to the mountains keeping out the sea breeze. Living is compar, atively cheap and comfortable, and from all accounts everybody is as healthy here as any where. F. S.

T. T.

I have noticed very closely the good work of our Ladies Aid Society, and private philanthropic citizens in alleviating the suffering of destitute residents on the outskirts of the city and in those districts tenanted by people too poor to live in the first degree of comfort. Of the condition of these creatures too few-of our citizens are acquainted and while many are living in comfortable circumstances, others are crying for food and shelter. In certain localities of this city, can be found families living in huts which they would gladly exchange for a woodshed, could they do so.

The institution above mentioned is doing all in its power to assist these unfortunate beings, but at the same time, they can not do it all, they need help. We have met these charitable ladies searching out subjects who need their assistanceandmany are thehovelsinto which their presence has brought sunshine and relief in the hour of distress and dispair. But, as we have said they cannot do it all. However vigilentand energetic these good people may be,, there are some cases of extreme want thatjwill escape their most diligent search.

There is one in particular, which I have noticed,'and I believe I saw it mentioned in the columns of the NEWS, and that was a family living near the distillery, who have become so destitute by the presence of sickness in the family as to require the sale of the old Family bible for the purpose of securing means for the purchase of proper medical relief. Now this may to some appear but a minor matter in the affairs of life, but we think differently. No matter whether or not, we belong to that class of humanity generally spoken of as skeptics, and refuse the bible as a book of instruction, to be followed out. there is something in the family bible more sacred than in the book alone. Here we have the record of the ones who by fleesh and bood, are made as dear to us as own life, and in parting with it we feel as though we were giving up an old friend, and even one of the dear ones themselves. No matter how hardened the heart of the man may have become, or whether or not he is willing to acknowledge it he experiences a feeling at his heart which cannot be described on parting with this family fixture. Now we happen to know by inquiry that this man mentioned is a working man,*and as he is of an independent disposition was too proud to appeal to our benevolent societies for help. These ladies should examine into this case and restore that article to its wrier. This is only one of many cases of compete deputation which have come under our notice, bat we have not room to enumerate Let our good citizens express their approval of the enj deaTor* of our pood ladies by lending &H possible help and they wffi reap the re ward they merit.

—Some of tlie diy goods ften are ohsttacting the sidewalk by suspending goods from awnings.

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EMORY P. BEAU CHAMP.

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Slnrasemcnts.

QPKRA HOUSE. C. K. HOSFORDT Manager

Monday Eve., Jan. 31st.

The Success of the Season,

Deacon Crankctt

The charming New England Idyl, by John Habberton, B»q., author of

HELEN'S BABIES.

From the Union Spnare Theatre, N. Y., and the Grand Opera House, Chicago, introducing Meade A Magituey'a selected company.

Mr. Ben. Maginley as the Deacon. Mr. Joe Wheelock as Joe Thatcher.

And an excellent cast in every respect.

ADMISSION, 75, SO and S&cu

No extra charge for referred seats.

PERA HOUSE.

C. B. HOSFORD, Manager.

Grand Combination Concert.

FREDERICK LUER, and THOMAS RYAN, Directors.

Thursday, February 8, '81

CAMILLA URSO,

The Great Violinist, in conjunction with the

(of Bo*ton,) and the distinguished Prima Donna,

MISS MARY NELLINI1

Member* of the Mendelsohn Quintette Club ISIDOR SCHNITZLBR, First Violin. ERNST THIELE, Second Vloll*. THOMAS RYAN, First Viola and Clarionette. WILLIAM SCHADE, 8econd Viola and Flute.

HEM FKRQKIICK OEIfiiK. So.'o Vlolincello to the King of Holland.

Thedlrector*, ia presenting to the public the name* of the artUt* fermlng this remarkable combination, hare faith and confidence In the ultimate •ucce** of their very expensive enterprise.

Madam CAMILLA UUSO'S name stand* glorious and brilliant amongst the greateat *UnisU

Boston, has made this, (the oldest and only remaining organization of It* kind now traveltng la Amor lea), a standard for all that 1* good In chamber music.

Reserved seit* on sale at Buttons book store after Tuesday morning. General admission, 75c, and 00c. Reserved at $ 1 0 0

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(McKoen's New Block)

HAS A LARGE VARIETY OF

MASKS

WHICH HE SELLS VERY CHEAP.

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CORNER GROCERY.

WRIGHT & KAUFMAN,

068 MAIN STREET.

Staple and Fancy Groceries,

TEAS, COFFEES, SPICES, Ac,

turns.

All kinds of fresh vegetables and fruits in season.

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Importer and Dealer in

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