Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 12 February 1882 — Page 2

ANNOUNCEMENTS.

DIED-

8ICKFORD—Saturday at fclOiL m. WiUiam Sick ford, of congestion of the brain, ag«a 25 JMXS.

Funeral Sunday at 2 p. m, from the residence of his mother, Mo, 14 north Water street Friends of the family are Invited to attend without further notice.

WANTS. ETC.

uiMDUOi*vn» is THje cor.will a* lUUlt FIVK CENTS 1KKT0N SOTHW 8KIOSCT1 JESS AKF1V* FIUMS. NOSISCOUM I-OK8

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AS the amount* re small payment is

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W AH TED.

ANTBD-Boarders at 313 north Sixth street, good furnished rooms,

rr ANTED-A furnished room for light W housekeeping, centrally located or three unfurnished rooms. Most be .well lighted, in good condition, and ronnected. Addma at

Hftuto House. ELLEN M. DELANO.

ANTED—HOBSES AND MULES —For ,, which I will pay the highest market

Sice.

I will be at Carlco's Livery Stable until irtT BAMUEL 8TEOD8K.

FOB BENT.

I7«B BEST-A good house of tour rooms J? with good conveniences, No 202 north Fourth street. J- HUMA8TON.

FORto

BEST—TO a small family, house of •four rooms, No. 880 north Vifth street. Apply A. Akins, No. 622 Mala street.

FOBcentrally

KEWT—Furnished rooms with board. Also day boarders wanted. Also good stable, located. Enquire at 212 North 81xth street.

BEST—House and pasturage at Fair Grounds /or one year, commencing March 1,1882. Bids for same will be received by the committee at the next meeting, February 25th, 1882.

W. T. Beauchamp") 8am '1 HE Keen j-Fair Grounds Committee. Geo. Lockrldge

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BEHT-Desirable dwelling on south street. Apply to J. D. Early, 118 Main street. oB KENT—Desirable brick dwelling, No. 922 South Fifth street Apply at once at IK Main street. J- EAKLY.

FOB SALE.

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8AEE—Afine building lot on corner pf Chestnut and Fifth, 70% feet front on Chestnut and 112 feet deep on Fifth. Pays 10

hal1 oi

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FBluff,BAliK—Farm

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at 668 Swan street. T70K SAIjE My saloon with bar and flxt? tures, ice chest, exerything complete. 9S7 Poplar street. Will sell reasonable for cash. Enquire at 937 poplar street. John Leedham. iK SALK-Farm of 120 acres near Brazil. «ood coal and farming land. TpvgTnw

OB of 174 acres near Coal one half good coal land: railroad runs through farm. Two thirds of purchase money can remain on the place at a ^low

OB SALE—Extensive flour barrel and stave and heading factory at Terre Haute, Ind. Occupies six acres ground in the city. New Iron-roofed factory building, two dry kilns, ghed room, latest improved machinery as good as new. Railroad switch and steamboat landing on the ground. Abundant supply of timber and ready sale for all offals. To be sold at public sale on Monday, February 27tb, 1888, on the premises. Terms of sale made known at the lime.

OILMAN BEOS. & CO.

^OB BA1.E—HOUSES AND LOTd-Two on the corner of First and Linton streets three on Second and Esgle. This property belonged to Rufus St. John, deceased. The property must be sold at once, and there are just five chance« for the five good bargains. Apply to George Planet, at John Armstrong's, No. 10 north Third street

FOB SALE OB BENT.

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8 A EE OB REM r—My house oa northeast corner of Fourth and Poplar uurwcaak wiuw ,T Vr street*, formerly occupied by the late ». L. Thompson. Rent, SC00.0G per annum, Pos-

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session given within a week or two. F. NIPPERT.

FOB SALE OB TBADE.

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SALE OB TK /IDE—House and lot, on south Tnird street, No. 1419. Wishes to •ell or for other property In the Sixth ward. For further particular enquire at Nail Works, DAVE PHILLIPS.

MONEY TO LOAN. •KEY TO LOAN—At lowest rate of interest. J- Downey, 315 Ohio street, Terre Haute,

MONEYupwards

TO IOAN—in sums of JI.OOO

and at lowest current rates of Interest on first class improved fwms and city reperty. I* V. PRESTON,

A T) Morton Post No. 1, Regular 13r. _£X, IV. Encampments, first and third ifiuisday evenings of each month. Special ^nestings, for social and historical purposes, on second and fourth Thursday evenings. Headquarters, G. A. R. Hall, corner Sixth and Main taeets. Visiting comrades are always welcome.

FIFTH STREET

SECOND HAND STORE

18 SOUTH FIFTH STREET.

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Second-hand furniture bought and sold. ialr work neatly done. A liberal cash price pair paid for cast-off clothing.

OTICE TO GLASS DEALERS.

CITY CLERK'S OFFICE, 1

TRKRE HAUTE, IND., February 10,1S82. Sealed proposals will be received by the Common Council of the city of Terre Haute, Ind.. at their next regular meeting, Tuesday evening, February 21st, 1S82, for furnishing the eity with such glass as may be required for one year.

The Common Council reserves the right to reject any and all bids. tldr to be for "A" quality of glass, cut to the and for each of ihe following ilonsi vis 8x14 ir., per light and per box. 12x14 14x14

Glass Is to be delivered promptly when and where required. Sac bid must be accompanied by a bond signed by two disinterested sureties, in the sum of $200.CO. for the faithful entering into of the contract by the person to whom the same awarded.

By order of the Common Council. EUGENE V, DEB3, City Cler. February 7th. 1882. *•_

OTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

CITY ENGINEER'S OFFICE,

TERRE HAUTE, February 9,1882. Sealed proposals will be received by the Common Council of the city of Terre Haute Ind., at their next regular meeting, on Tuesday evening, February 21st, 18S2, tor grading, curbing and cindering Lafayette sfh et, from Third street to theVandalia railroad, In accordance with plans and specifications on file in the City Clerk's office.

Council reserves the right to reject any or all of the bids Proposals must be accompanied by a bond lot one hundred dollars, signed by twodisintereated sureties

Envelopes containing proposals must be marked, "Proposals for improvement of Lafayette street"

By order of the Common Council, A". B. FITCH, City Engineer.

RUSTEE'S SALE.

Notice is hereby give .: that the undersigned. Trustee by assignment ot' Jacob Behiinger, will Mil at public auction to the highest bidder, at the late place of business of said Jacob Behring•r. No. 8& Main street. Terre Haute, Ind., the stock ef goods, groceries, provisions and other articles assignedio me. Said sale to be on the 11th day of March, 18S2, beg nning at I ©o'clock A. M., and to continue from daytoday if neces-

OF 8ALE to be made known on the

day ot sale.

J. STKINHEHL, Trustee.

GUABDIAN'SSALE

OF REAL ES

TATE.

The undersigned, guardian of Hiss Bessie Warrw, minor nelr, eta, will on aatardsy. (be 35th day of Febmarj,

At the court house door, in Terre Haute, sell, at

Sae

ublic auction, to the highest and best bidder, following real estate in Terre Haute, Indiaoa.-

The south halt of the not to half of In-lot

ad Charry at TKRMS OF 8ALE—One-half purchase moaey caah the balance on or before October 1st, 1882, secured by note and mortaage on land sold, with 8 per cent, interest, waiving valuation laws.

Sale to be at 2 o'clock p. m. ...» I. N. PIERCE, Guardian.

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Business failures are continuing to decrease.

The Ceylon coffee crop is half short this year on account of blight.

Coming events cast their shadows before. Qaitau was hung in Texas on Friday.

Terre Haute seems to be behind other cities in the matter of holding anti-uor-mon meetings.

Chief Justice Andrews, of New York, is urged to fill the vacancy on the United States supreme bench.

The Boston Herald charges the American lawyer with cultivating his entire mouth and only a quarter section of hi* brain.

It is thought that congress will compromise on 319 as the number of members of the house of representatives under the new apportionment.

There are 400 divorce cases on the dockets of The Cincinnati courts, enough to furnish scandal mongers the substance for talk for a year or two.

The nam8 of W. W Curry has not yet been sent to the senate as assistant secretary of the treasury. There ssems to be some hitch in the matter.

The Louisiana delegation in congress, in the interest of the sugar planters of the state, is doing all it can for the abrogation of the reciprocity treaty with Hawaii.

Congress is being urged to tax oleomargarine out of existence, as a protection to American dairies. The idea is a good one, and should be carried out by all means.

Lieuteuant Flipper is to be allowed to remain in the army. The charge of embezzlement against him was not sustained. He was found guilty of a disobedience orders.

A bill haa been introduced in congrcss which provides for the redemption of the standard silver dollar at par. There are about 3,000,000 of them in circulation in this country.

A Philadelphia woman the other day had a tumor removed weighing U2 pounds. Such occurrences are frequent iu Chicago, but they are very rare in Philadelphia.

The Virginia tobacco manufacturers want the tax reduced, while their brethren of New York are very much opposed to any reduction whatever, and are protesting against it.

The Iowa democratic state central committee has been reorganizing itself. The democracy of Iowa have about as much use for a state cehpral committee as has the world for Guiteau.

Puck very unkindly remarks: "The deadlock at Albany is at last broken. We wish for the sake of this city and state we could say the same of some of the assemblymen's heads and necks."

The centennial of the Irish volunteer convention of Dungannon will be celebrated in Washington on Wednesday evening Belt. The house committee on foreign affairs will be tendered a reception.

The legations at St. Petersburg, Vienna and Rome are now without secretaries of legation. The house has cat them off in order to save about $7,000 per annum, and put the work on the now overburdened consuls.

The act passed by the New Yoik legislature last year imposing a tax of one dollar a head on all immigrants brought to this country and landed at New York ports, has been declared illegal by the United *tates circuit court.

A guano island haa been discovered in the Gulf of California, twenty-eight*mile* southwest of Port Loboe. The island contains about sixteen square miles, and the deposit is large. Probably the Peruvian company could do well there.

Charles W. West, of Cincinnati, has given the art museum of that city the snug sum of $150,000. He is one of the few men who prefer to be their own executors, rather than leave behind them bequests which may be defeated in the courts by heirs who think will makers do not know their own intentions.

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TAXI5G GREENBACKS.

There is at preeent before the house of representatives a bill which provides thai greenbacks shall be taxed the tame other property. The national banks object to the bill on the ground that its passage would compel them to pay a tax on the legal tenders which the law now compels them to hold as a reserve, which would amount to an additional lax, while they are still paying taxes imffoeed by the war, although all other industries have had the war tax removed. On the other hand the fact that legal tender notea are 'Hot taxed results in many instances to a systematic evasion of taxes by persona who obtain from the national bank?, at the time pergonal property is listed, greenbacks in exchange for other notes, which are returned as non taxable. This is carried on to an extent which is little known to any besides the assessor, and the practice is steadily on the increase. There area few who have a little money and do not know that greenbacks are exempt from taxation, but tbey are growing less each year. Men and wemen go to the banks a day previous to assessment, and "exchange their notes for greenbacks. The day after the assessment they are converted back again. This is sharp practice. It strictly within the letter of the law, but there is more law than justice in it.

Money invested in business cannot escape in this manner. It not only has to run the risk of loss in the regular channel but must dance to the music of taxation. If there was an implied contract at the time the greenbacks were issued that they should not be taxed, it should be borne in mind that they were very much depreciated in value, and people accepted them not knowisg whetlethey would ever be redeemed. It is different now. They have been brought up to par value and can be redeemed at the option of the holder. They are used in all branches of busintss the same as any other money, and are money to all intents and purposes, except taxation, and why they should be exempt from that is one of those conundrums which are difficult of solution.

Congressman Davis, of Ohio, has a relative who is a missionary in Persia. Mr. Davis knows that missionaries in Persia are not desirable risks for life insurance companies, on account of tbe inclination of tbe natives to butcher them, so he has introduced a bill to establish diplomatic relations with that country. It has not been long since the Jiife of an American missionary was saved through the intervention of the British consul to the Persian capital. The state department haa ordered an investigation of the facts in the case, and it is thought the result will be the success of Mr. Davis' plan.

Cincinnati has a citizen who has invented what he calls the "resistance annihilator." It enables a steam ship to lift herself and ekim across the ocean in twenty-four hours. The same man has ali?o invented a plan by which a railroad can be built from tbe eirth to tbe »un, with a way station at the moon. Ha is now warking on perpetual motion, and expects to make a success of it in a few weeks Modesty prevents him from giving his name away, but ,we think it is Murat Halatead^^^^^^^^^

Jafnes F. Wilson, the newly elected senator for Iowa, is described as above the medium size, with a compact, square figure, solid neck and square head, covered with hair now quite gray. He has the appearance of a common Boldier in the regular army, with an unspiritual obedience in bis face, and a look of one who had received hard knocks and walked his pace with a musket many a rainy night. He is a popular man rather on account of his democratic manners than from any effort to please the people.

The brewers and malsters are well represented in Washington, and are pushing their respective interests before the ways and means committee. Of course they want the laws framed in their favor. Congress should issue circulars to every line of business ia the country requesting drafts of such bills as would be of advantage to each particulsr branch. This would please everybody and save the vast sums incidental to trips' to Washington for lobbying purposes.

Ex-Governor McCormick, of Arizona^ has purcheeed JO,OCO acres of land in the stale of Colima, Mexico, and is going to start a coffee plantation on a large scale. He fcai now 40,000 trees in bearing condition, and will plant 12,000 a year for the next four years. It will probably pay him better than politics.

A man named Walker, of Springfield, Ohio, has obtained damages in the sum of $14,000 from John W. Bo&kwalter, late democratic candidate for governor of Ohio. Walker was badly crippled by' falling into a hole in front of a building belonging to Bookwalter.

The assassin seems to be resigned to his fate. He shows no mental anguish, and ia in no manner broken up. He still holds to the inspiration theory, but will doubtless be astonished when he finds that the "Deity" will not come to his assistance.

Letters have been received from Paris offering to sell

our government a patent

system for vaccinating cattle against pleuropneumonia and hogs against hog cholera. As the system is already known here the government will not purchase,

Personal journalism in as unprofitable in Washington as elsewhere. The recent shooting scrape will give the new admin istralion organ a widespread advertisement, but it will net be of any advantage to the retiring management.

Not a Bad Suggestion-

A New Yorker suggests that one or more of the fire companies carry one or two long rope ladders, and also have a man expert with the bow and arrow, with which he could shoot a small cord into the upper story windows by which means the' ladder could be raised by those whoa* lives were in peril.

Tbe Greenbaekera,

NEW YORK, Feb. 11.—A Greenback State convention will meet here on the 22d, to consider a call for a National convention, and other busineas.

Domestic Receipts.

Black Cake.—I have just opened tin box with a black cake which was sent to me from Boston in November, 1879, and it is as good as when first baked. The friend who made it sent the following receipt for it: To one pound pulverized sugar add one pound of good salt butter one pound of the best flour carefully sifted is to be worked into the sugar and butter in a cool place use one dozen eggs, yolks and whites thoroughly beaten mix together ten tablespoonsful of brandy, the same of rose water stir into half an ounce of pulverized cinnamon one whole nutmeg, a mustard spoonful of ground cloves, and the whole dried rind of an orange. Stir this thoroughly into the mixture, iising the hands to make the dough even. The fruit is to be added last. The composition is two pounds of small raisins, with the seeds taken out, the same of currants, the currants having been thoroughly washed in two waters, and one pound of citron, cut into thin shavings with a penknife. The pan shoulabe a deep one, of tin or iron, and must be thoroughly greased. Grease the tissue paper with which you line the pan. You want a hot oven, and bake fully four hours.—Mary H. L. Bath.

Mince Pie Meat.—Boil a beef tongue weighing six pounds and six pounds of the vein of around of beef (these should just simmer) after skinning the tongue, chop it and the beef very fine, and add five pounds of beef suet chopped fine, five pounds of stoned raisins, three of driea currants, one and a half of citron cut fine, nine of sugar, one and a half

Equorof

ints molasses, two quarts of the in which the meat was boiled, one quart of brandy, one pint of white wine, a cupful of salt, half a cupful of cinnamon, one-fourth of a cupful of cloves, one-fourth of a cupful of allspice, three nutmegs, a tablespoonful of mace. Put all in a large pan, and let stand over night put what you wish to bake in another pan, with half as much stewed and sweetened apple as you have meat, and let it stand one hour put the remainder of the meat in a jar cover with a paper dipped in brandy, and then cover tightly, to exclude the air set in a cool jnace for future use.

Venison Steak.—To Wash a venison steak is to ruin it. When you slice the steaks from the haunch they ought to be clean. The outside cut may be soiled from transportation then you may rub it clean with a damp towel. A venison steak should be broiled on a clear, hot fire, well salted, and with a very little

Ettle

epper, and eaten plain, with a very hot butter in the dish. A goodsauce is made with a couple of teaspoonfuls of currant jellv, a mustard spoonful of celery-seed, and some of the gravy from the venison steak, served as hot as possible. Hot cakes, very hot ones, are a necessity for game of all kinds, and most especially venison. "Venison Pastry.—Cut a neck or breast into small steaks rub them over with a seasoning of sweet herbs, grated nutmeg, pepper and salt fry them lightly in butter, line the sides and edges of a dish with puff paste, lay in the steaks, and add half a pint of rich gravy made with the trimmings of venison add a glass of port wine and the juice of half a lemon or a teaspoonful of vinegar cover the dish with puff paste, and bake it nearly two hours some more gfavy may be poured into the pie before serving it.

Lobster Croquettes.—Boil one or two lobsters and minco them fine fry lightly in butter two or three onions mix in two or three tablespoonfuls of flour, then a pint of milk, then the lobster, and finally the yolk of three eggs use parsley and seasoning to the taste stir the ingredients well together, so as to make rather a moist paste put away cold until wanted for use then shape them dip them in the beaten yolk of an egg and powdered cracker-dust, and fry brown in boiling lard, which must cover the croquettes.

Cheap Goods.

Do not buy cheap clothing it is not an economical plan. A strong, finetextured, well-made article will outwear at least three of poor material, and it does not really cost as much, considering the amount of wear, to say nothing of the shabby appearance of faded cloth—the vexation of having the garments continually breaking to pieces, the necessity of daily repairs, with the unsafe feeling when one steps a little high, or puts on an unusual strain. A scarcity of means is the general excuse for buying such goods as this, and we know it is a hard one to meet. But it is better to make the old coat last a little longer, and put all the money into the rest of the suit, and when the money one will soon have to find to supply another cheap suit is at hand, get a good coat. As a wise and economical rule, one should never purchase anything but a good article. The care of clothing is a very important matter. It makes a great difference in the looks and wear of a hat or coat, whether it is thrown down on the lounge or chair when taken off, or carefully hung up. Properly brushing and cleaning clothes, ana mending them as soon as required, rather thain waiting until the threads ravel out, or the tear has grown too large to be neatly repaired, add greatly to their durability.

Virginia's Prodigy in Arithmetic. A man by the name of Price, near Alma, who is almost blind, and who is wholly uneducated and not at all sprightly in otter respects, is said to be able to solve almost any problem in mathematics that can be given him. He uses no figures, but makes his calculations on his fingers. Mr. Hampton,' who is teaching in that neighborhood, gave him last week the following problem, which he solved quicker than a good scholar iresent could do by algcpra: A man ooughta horse, buggy and harness. The horse cost $48 more than the buggy, the buggy two and three-fourth times as much as the harness, and the harness one-seventh of the whole sum paid. What was the whole sum paid— what did each cost? He has no difliculty in working fractions, however complicated and intricate. Mr. James P. Graves informed us that he once asked him what was the third and the half of one-third of three and one-third, and he was ready with the answer almost as soon as he had finished the question. He is about 23 years oU.—Luray (Va.) Courier.

He Got the Gaudy,

A little boy who has be6n frequently sent with a npte to trade at Beers1 grocery on Elm street, appeared there thp other morning with a bit of paper scrawjed over with a variety of marks supposed to represent an exceedingly small boy's idea of writing. The store keeper looked hard at it in a hopeless endeavor to make English of it "Don't you know what that isP" anxiously enquired the child. "No, I don't" said the puzzled grocer. "That means tandy," lisped the child. The order was filled.—Danbury Newt.

New York Graphic: The Czar likes to go to church, and is particularly fond of all the chants but one, which is

the

chants of being suddenly blown up with dynamite concealed in his hymn book.

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TELEGRAPHIC,

Washington: Senator Sherman ^Bas Something to Say in §. Beference to the Report of Pitkin's

Testimony,

Ami Declares tbe Aloreswid Report to be aa UniiBliteonii I'reyaricatlon in livery

Liae auti Word.

The Eminent Financiers and the Democracy at their Old Tricks ....—The Garfield Monument -Dakota,

River Improvement Hen In Council— .iereace of there House Conmittees on onr Merchant.

Marine,

SaYid'DK^j Field on (^Electoral Qaestien—Death of Soteldo —Capital News

-"."''1' Items. C- n'.rl.

Foreign News—Domestic MiscellanyDecision of the Tennesse Supreme Conrt fn the State

Bend Case.

Memphis Rejoices the Arkansas Republican Quarrel—News Votes.

Washington,

THE WORD WITH THE BARK OS. 'S WASHINGTON, February 11.—Senator Sherman publishes the following letter:

I have seen a telegram of the leading papers of Ohio, of Friday morning, purrting to give the testimony of Pilney fore the Treasury investigating committee. I have read the testimony given by him, and there is not one word of tmth iu the telegram no such teetimouy was given no such scene occurred, and no letters of Senator or Mrs, Sherman were produced. The telegram is a wholesale lie, aa the testimony, when printed, will show. .. "JOHN SHEBMAN."

JIN ING DRIVES AGAIN.

WASHINGTON, February 11.—In rense to an invitation for a conference ipoi or members of the Hoace opposed to tbe tariff commission bill, and to the extension of. National bank charters, abont forty Congressmen, principally Southern Democrats and Greenbackers, assembled to-day, Judge Beagan presiding. Resolutions were adopted looking to the presentation of bills in opposition to the pending measures wbich have been reported from the Ways and Means and Banking and Currency Committees on these subjects.

THE GARFIELD MONUMENT. '1 WASHINGTON, Feb. 11—PostmasterGeneral Howe has written the following letter to the postmasters of the United States:

The Society of the Army of the Cumberland appeals to you for and to procure contributions to the fund for the erection of a monument at the national capital to the memoiy of James A. Garfield. No word is needed from Ime to enlist your best efforts in "behalf or such, cause. By noble aspiration and by tireless endeavor to promote public welfare, President Garfield had achieved the highest honors of the Republic. When he had but. little passed the noon of life, he fell a victim to malice so wanton as to be demoniac. A monument to him will attest the nation's love for his virtues and the nation's abhorrence for that inscrutible depravity which slew him. Such a structure should not be stinted for lack of means. The nation is very rich. Let art exhaust itself on invention let money leap to execute her designs. I have but lately assumea official relations with your corps. This is my first communication to you. Sou are numerous, widespread and infiuflnial you will respond to the appeal of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland and your response will show, I trust, that those who administer the postal service for the United State are not the least patriotic nor the least capable of those who work for the Republic.

DAKOTA.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—The sub-com-mmittee o! the Honse Committee on territories has agreed to report to the full committee on Taesday next, in favor of the proposition to admit as a State all of that portion of Dakota lying south of the 46th parallel of latitude, the northern portion to constitute, as now, the territory of Dakota. The sub-committee will prepare a substitute for the pending bill providing for the necessary machinery of government, etc.

RIVER IMPROVEMENT.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—A number of Congressmen from the Missouri valley met to-day, and discussed the subject of the improvement of the

Missouri

river.

There was entire unanimity cf opinion as to the importance of obtaining appropriations sufficient to remove all the obstructions to the navigation of that river, and it was agreed that the measnres regarded ai necessary for that river and the Mississippi can be secured if the members from the States along those rivers will co operate. Another conference will be held, and the movement to unite all the Congressmen from tbe?e States npon a certain measure before pressing it upon Congress, be encouraged.

OUR MERCHANT MARINE.

A joint conference of the sub-commit-tees of the House Committee on Commerce, Naval Affairs and Post Offices and Post Roads was held to-day npon the subject of ocean mail service, and the fol lowing resolution was adopted:

Resolved, that it is the sense of this joint committee that it is advisable to promote the postal and commercial interests of the United Statesby providing sufficient compensation for the carriage of ocean mails from the United States to foreign ports by American snips.

This resolution will be reported to the respective foil committees. It is believed that some measure will shortly be reported to the House favoring a liberal compensation to an American line of fast mail steamships.

THE ELECTORAL QUESTION. David Dudley Field appeared before the select committee of the House on the ffew respecting tbe election of President and Vice President, and gave the committee at some length his views. He folly approved the featnr- of the bills introduced in tbe House by Hewitt, and advocated the .submission to tbe United States court*, under quo warranto, with tbe right o( appeal to tbe Supreme Court of the United States, of all questions affecting the title to tbe offices of President and Vice President arising uuder an election for those officers. No acli'-n has yet been taken by the committee U(»n the pending bill.

SOTELDO.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—Soteldo is still living, but there is no hope of recovery. DEAD.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—Soteldo died at the Providence Hospital at 10:25 p. m., to-day.

THE COURT or CLAIMS.

WASHINGTON,February 11.—Tbe Judges of the Court of Claims were in conference to day with the House Committee on

Civil Service Reform, ia connection with tbe preparation of a- ^bill to relieve Cocgrexs from the consideration -f all clainsa against the Government.

The Court of Claims has adjourned till tbe 20tb, in the hope that the President will have filled the vacancy on the beneh before that date, and by that means allow the Conrt to take op certain cases, the hearing of which has bean postponed by the possibility that they might mult in a mistrial, through an equal division of the court, aa at present constituted,

COMMISSIONS SIGNED.

The President signed thejeommissions of Frederick Tuttle, to be Governor of Arizona George P. Dunham, collector internal revenue Sixth District of Ohio and William Armstrong,"of Pennsylvania, Commissioned of railroads.

MABSON VS. OATES.

The House Commitefe on elections today agreed to dismiss the contest without prejudice in the case of Mabson vs. .Qates Third District of Alabama.

YE NOBLE RED MAN.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—A delegation of Arappahoe Indiana paid their respects to the President this afternoon,

Farelgn Mates, 'f GREAT BRITAIN.

LONDON, February 11.—There is an almost general feeling against cloture. .! COLLIERY EXPLOSION.

LONDON, Feb, 11.—An explosion occurred last evening in a colliery in the Rhonda Valley, Wales. Houses were shaken two miles off. The losa of life ia unknown. It being Saturday night but few persons were in the pit 2,000 men are out o^mployment. ,._iv

IRELAND. .-t

DUBLIN. Februaiy 11.—Five hundred and twelve suspects are confined in the various jails of Ireland.

EGYPT.

LONDON, Feb. 11.—A telegram from Aleandria srys the concession to the Chamber of Notables of the right to discuss the budget is recognised as incompatible with the maintenance of French and English control. The resignation of the Controller General is therefore probable. rRANCE.

LON&ON, February 11.—A Paris dispatch says the Comptoir Breton has failed and the managers absconded.

PARIS, February 11.—The Minister of Justice has determined to revise the companies act of 1867. He promises prior to submitting the bill to the Deputies to lay the question before an extra-parliamea-tary-commission, who shall firet consider the advisability o! abrogating the clause placing Bourse transactions other than for cash on the same footing as gambling debts, which are legally irrecoverable.

Marquis De Jocas, a large shareholder in the Union Generale, committed suicide. De Jocas had invested 600,000 franca in shares of the Union Generale. It was he who introduced American vines in tbe south of France.

GERMANY.

BERLIN, February 11.—The first sitting of the committee on the bill to amend tbe ecclesiastical laws was held to-day. Von Gossler, Minister of Ecclesiastical Affairs, stated that Von Schloezer, now at Rome negotiating with the Vatican respecting the present bill, has been furnished with extensive powers by the Government. Von Gossler said he desired the revision of the May L*ws, but insists that the discretionary powers vested in the Government shall remain as a basis for legislation on the subject.

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, Feb. 11.—The Reichsrath has read the petroleum* tax bill the third time.

VIENNA, Feb. 11.—An official announcement is published that it is untrue that the Imperial family sustained losses by the failure of the Paris Union Generale, or haa money deposited in the Vienna Lander bank.

RUSSIA,

ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 11.—The University at Charkoff is closed in conscience of disturbances among the stuients.:

HERZEGOVINA.

LONDON, February 11.—A dispatch from Udene says: The Herasgovinians have established a provisional government the revolt is increasing sixty block houses have been destroyed.

SOUTH AMERICA.

LONDON, February 11.—A dispatch from Rio Janeiro, via Lisbon, Bays anew Ministry has been formed, with Martinho Calnpos aB Premier. and Minister of Finance, and Fillippe La, as Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Honesty Unconstitutional.-, NASHVILLE, TENN., Feb.'ll.—The Supreme Court decided this morning that tbe law to settle the State debt at $100-3 was unconstitutional.

NASHVILLE, TENN., Feb. 11.—The Supreme Conrt of Tennessee, to-day by a*divided court of three to two, decided the funding act of 1881 to be unconstitutional, upon the ground that the Legislature could not make a valid contract that tbe coupons upon the compromise bonds should be receivable for taxes for ninetynine years.

NASHVILLE, TENN., Feb. 11.—The opinion of the Supreme Court, delivered this merning, declares invalid and unconstitutional the act of April, 1881, to compromise the bonded- indebtedness of Tennessee at par and three per cent, interest, the coupons to be receivable for taxes. Two of the five Judges composing the court, namely: Judges Ewing and Deaderick, dissent from the decision. Revewing the suit, Judge Turney, in delivering his opinion, said: One of the Circuit Judges of the State had granted a fiat enjoining the Funding Board. On its hearing, the Chancellor, of his own motion, dismissed the bill and complaint. The tax payers appealed. The argnment that the tax payer is bonnd by honor and words to pay under the existing law the debt and six per cent, interest, and therefore can sustain no injury from compulsion to pay half that interest, and therefore ought not to be heard to complain, cannot avail with the courts. The debtor may ask the interyention of the courts to prevent the enforcement in part of the agreement to pay, as well as the whole. If, when the act is a complete or executed contract, and is being directly enferced, the tax payer may resist it, no good reason exists why he may not strike it at the threshold and destroy its half grown life. Tbe Legislature is the creature of the Constitution, and cannot rise above it, and when tbe lawmaking power violates tbe Constitution, it* act ia a nullity, and being a nullity is not an authority of tbe State. Tbe Constitution is tbe work of the people, and can only be changed by the people. The funding act being unconstitutional, this suit against tbe officers brought into being by it is not a suit against the officers of tbe State, but a suit against persona attempting to commit a wrong, and may be maintained."

MEMPHIS, Tenn., Feb. 11.—There is great rejoicing here over the decision of the Supreme Court rendered at Nashville this morning, declaring the 100-3 act uuconstitutional. ,,

Bank Statement.

NEW YORK, February 11.—The weekly statement of the associated banks shows the following changes: Ixana, decrease, $938,500 specie, decrease, $3,390,400 legal tesders, decrease, $358,900 deposits, decrease, $5,674,600 circulation, decrease, $149,600: reserve, decrease, $2,330,650.The 1,175 banks now hold $4,051 legal requirements..

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Something About the Vatican. From tho Boston Herald. An item in the cablegrams apropos tbe taking of the Italian census is so worded as to mislead tbe reader unfamiliar with tbe Papal Cottrt, says the Philadelphia Times. Of "5,000 persons inhabiting the Vatican," says the item, "one-third are women." The Vatican, it should be remembered, is not only the Papal palace— it is, since the entrance of tbe Italian force, the Papal city, as well as the Papal Court. In its 8,000 apart* menta are lodged the lay, as well as the clerical adjuncts of the Pope's Government. On the ground is a barrack for 500 or more pontifical guards. These, in some cases, have their wives. The Vatican is built for a third of a mile on ths^side of the old hill of Jankulum as a consequence, its lower or basement portion is far above ground on the front looking toward the Tiber. In the upper apartments, reached by at least £fty steps, are the vast statuary museums: above these, again, the paintings. To reach the vast stretch of apartments inhabited by the Pope, long flights of broad marble stairs, at leaBt 100 in number, muBt be ascended. Tbe Sistine Chapel itself, with its wondrous

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and the frescoes of Raphael, is fully 100 feet above the street level at the entrance of the Palace. Scores of women are kept constsntly employed in the endless suites of art galleries, libraries, kitchens and what-not necessary for the maintenance of such an army of peple, BO that the proportion of one-third women to 5,000 retainers by no means corresponds with what the bald and disingenuous cable item seems to imply. 'W*

Nothing Hew Under the SunIn the course of a recent lecture upon "Castes aod Trades in India," Monier Williams, Baden professor of Sanscrit at Oxford, said that the Irish Land League had not invented "Boycotting." India had furnished examples of "Boycotten" and "Boycottees" for many centuries. When the lecturer was in India a cloth merchant of Ahmedabad had committed a heniouB caste crime by marrying a widow, and was thereupon "Boycotted," No one would bay from him, or^ell to bim, or speak to him, or live with him, and none of bis debtors wonldpaybim their debts. He could not sue them, for no one wonid give evidence. As in the Irish Land League,, the members of an Indian caste had no individual liberty of action they were forced to subordinate the laws of the state to the mandates of those who presided over their own organization. Progress was arrested, energy paralysed, manly independence crashed, public opinion stifled, liberty destroyed. Tbe Arkansas Republican Bow.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark., February 11.—The fight among the Republicans over the Marshalship of the Western district of this State is developing some interesting features. One of them relates to the manner in which, it is claimed, ex-Sen-a tor Clayton obtained control of the Republican State Executive committee, twenty-three of Whose thirty-nine members hold Federal offices. It is stated that Clayton returned from "Washington last June srmed with a letter purporting to be have been written by Postmaster General James to a bnreau officer, endorsed by ex-Attorney General McVeagh and ex-Secretary of State Blaine. Tbe letter stated^ that appointment to Federal positions in Arkansas must have ex-Senator Clayton's approval. It is further added that the suggestion met the hearty approval of the late President Garfield. Of course 'the twenty-three office-holding members of the State committee immediately endorsed Clayton. Tbe ex-Senator's opponents claim that he had not sufficient influence to elect a single delegate to the lsst State convention—and was himself compelled to purchase a proxy, in order to qualify as a member—among the masses of the party, and his leadership is only recognised and regarded by the officeholders' State committee.

Murder.

CHICAGO, Feb. 11.—Luke Ransom, an employe of the D. M. Osborn Reaper Company for eighteen -years, and manager of the Chicago office for the last nine years, was found dead in the suburb Hindsdale this morning, half way between bis house and the depot. Near him was a revolver with two chambers empty, and there was a pistol shot wound in the back of the head, from which the brains oozed. There were evidences of a struggle, but no trace of the murderer. The clothes and his wallet had been rifled of their contents. Hs leaves a family ia moderate circumstances.

The Turf.

ST. LOUIS, February 11.—A Houston, Texas, special says: A Jockey Club "has been organized, with Gustave Cook as president F. A. Rich, treasurer W. H. Coyle, secretary. The spring meeting opens on March 28th. Nearly $4,000 will be put up in purses.

Body Snatehing and Worse, MONTREAL, Feb. 11.—Two bodies stolen from St. Augustine cemetery by medical students have been discovered at the residence of a student here. The relatives were obliged to pay $60 for the bodies before they were allowed to remove them.

Overdose of Chloroform. ST. LOUIS, February 11.—A Lawrenceville, 111., dispatch says: Miss Nellie Seed died to-day from the effects of an overdose of chloroform. She was for years Postmistress, but was suspended a week ago.

An Invitation to Hancock* JACKSON, Miss., February^ 11.—Tbe Legislature adopted a resolution to-day, inviting General Hancock to visit the Capitol during its session, and appointed a committee of reception.

A Missing Estate.

BOSTON, February 11.—Although it is certain that Judge Wilkinson has left over $100,000 worth of property, no trace can be found thereof in any bank or place of deposit

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MILES ELLING8WORTH,

solvent November 4th. 1881 Administrator.

DMINISTRATORS' NOTICE.

Notlee is hereby given that Mary J. Thompson and John H. Williams have been appointed administrators of tbe estate of Ralph L. Tbompeounty, deceased. Said estate son, late of Vii Is supposed to 1 solvent.

MARY J. THOMPSON, JOHN H. WILLIAM8. Administrators.

HERIFFS SALE.

By virtneof an execution issued f»om the Vigo Circuit Court, to me directed and delivered, in favor of Steven Brid well and Sarah A. rid well and agaiiut Mellna J. Hunt, I have levied on tbe following described real estate, situated in Vigo county, Indiana, to wit:

Beginning sixty-six and two-thirds (66%) rods north of the southeast corner of section twentytwo (22) township ten (10) north, range ten (10) west, thence west sixty (60) rods, thence north tweaty-slx and two-thiids rods, theme ea^t sixty (GO) rods, thence south tweatv-gtx and two-thirds (26%) reds to the place of beginning, containing ten (10) acres, in Vljto county, lnd'ana, and on SUCB&AT, tbe Hibday of January, 1888, between the hours of 10 o'clock a. *m. and 4 o'clock p. m. of safd day, at the Court House door in Terre Haute, I will offer tbe rents and profits of the above described real estate, to

yean, to tne nigneai maaerior casn, ana upon failure to realize a sum sufficient to satisfy sua execution and costs, I will then ana there offer the fee simple, in and to said real estate, to the highest bidder for cash to satisfy the same.

This 22d day of December, 1881. JACKSON STEPP, Sherifl. Tennan Thomas, attorneys. Printer's fee, f7.60.