Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 1 March 1882 — Page 2

•ANNOUNCEMENTS.

DIED.

CHAMBERS—Yesterday morning, Margaret, wile of June* Chambers. The funeral will occur from the residence, 1,029 sonth Third street, this (Wednesday) afternoon at S o'clock.

Friends of the family are invited to attend without farther notice.

POLITICAL.

COUNTY COMMISSIONER.

We are authorized to announce the name of M. DUCK, of Fayette townfhlp, for the of County Commissioner for the First district, subject to the decision of the Republican nominating convention.

WANTS, ET(J.

IBTMNOASM IN THIS COLOTTH WILL BI SHAMED FIVE CENTS MSB LINK BACH -KSJCHTJON. NOTHINO A*CK0N«DLI8S THAN rrvs UKK. SO niSCOOm LOSS 7IXB ADVXETISIKUm. As the amounts 19 small payment is •quired tn advance.

WANTED.

UTAHTED—Situation by srocery or bakery wago

WAMTEIJ—will

a young man on

grocery or bakery wagon, can come weU recommended. Apply at 425 norsh Ninth street,

Which I pay the highest market price. I will be at Carico's Livery Stable until March 1st. SAMUEL 8TROU8E.

FOB HENT.

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BENT—A

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MONEY TO LOAN.

MONET

TO EOAN—At lowest rate of interest. J. T. Downey, 315 Ohio street, Terre Haute

ONEY TO* LOAN—In sums of 81,000 and upwards at lowest current rates of Interest on first class improved farms and city roperty. I. V. PRESTON.

FIFTH STREET

SECOND HAND STORE

18 SOUTH FIFTH 8TREET.

Second-hand furniture bought and sold. Repair Work neatly done. A liberal cash price paid cast-off clothing.

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OTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS OF THE CITY OF TERRE HAUTE, VIGO COUNTY, INDIANA.

CITY CI.ERK'S OF.FICE,

TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Feb. lGth, 1882. To John F. Knight, Ellen Modesitt, Julia B. Oaughlin, Amelia R. McPheeters, and all others whom it may concern:

In pursuance of an order of the Common Council of the City of Terre Ilaute, Vigo County, Ind., I hereby notify you that on the 29th day of Match. 1882, the City Commissioners wiH meet at the office of the Mayor on the northwest corner of Fourth and Walnut streets, in •aid citj, between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and 6 o'clock p. m., and proceed thence to the grounds for the purpose of appraising and as•easing the benefits and damages that may accrue to you by reason of the opening of the following proposed alley, to-wlt:

Whose west side will be 140 feet east of the southwest corner ol out-lot No. 12 of the original survey of the City of Terre Haute the said alley to be fifteen feet in width running thence Eorth to the north line of out-lot No. 12 thence east the same width to the cast line of the alley already opened between 8ixth and Six-and-a-half (6%) streets, in said city and county, tn accordance with the plat of the said City Commissioners now on file in this office.

Witness my hand and official seal this 16th day of February, 1882. EUGENE V. DEBS.

Seal City Clerk.

PPLICATION FOR LICENSE.

Modce is hereby glv that I will apply to the Board of Commissioners of Vigo county, at their March term, for a license to sell "intoxicating liquors" in a less quantity than a

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uart at a time, with the privilege of allowing same to be drank on my premises, for one year. My place of business and the premises whereon said liquors are to be drank,are located on the southwest corner of lot number 85, known as the Wrisley property, in Prairieton, Pralrieton township. Vigo county, Indiana.

HUGH R. RATCHFORD.

rjlRUSTEE'S 8ALE.

Notice is hereby given that the undersigned. Trustee by assignment of Jacob Behringer, will •ell at public auction to the highest bidder, at the late place of business of said Jacob Behrlng•r, No. 829 Main street. Terre Haute, Ind., the stock of goods, groceries, provisions and other articles assigned to me. Said sale to be on the liin day of March, 18S2, beginning at I Oo'clock A. M., and to continue from day today if neces-

**!?ERMS OF SALE to be made known on the day of sale. 8TEINMEHL, Trustee.

XTOTICE TO HEIRS, CREDITOR?, W ETC. In the matter of the estate of Emanuel Gormong, deceased, in the Vigo Circuit Court, February term, 1882.

Notice is hereby given that Emanuel Gormong Jr., aa administrator of the estate of Emanuel 'Goimong, deceased, has presented and filed his amount and vouchers In final settlement of

Mid estate, and that the same will come up for the examination and action of said Circuit Court, on the 21st day of March, 1882, at which time all heirs, creditors or legatees of said estate are required to appear in said Court and show cause, if any there be, why said account and vouchen should not be approved.

Witness, the Clerk and seal of said Vigo Circuit Court, at Terre Haute, Inoiana, this 21st day of February, 1882.

MERRILL N. SMITH, Clerk.

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DAILY EXPRESS-

TERRE HAUTE, WEDNESDAY. MARCH 11882.

JAMB H. J&cmu&Y MASAGEB

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HORSES AND MULES—For

desirable eighty acre farm,

sixty acres for com. Possession given immediately. For particulars, address through Terre Haute Post Office, or see John J. Brake. [Gazette copy.]

OB BEST—A very pleasant room, furnished, and in a desirable location, to cme or yonng gentlemen. Apply at 636 Eagle street. noK REST—Desirable rooms on second 17 floor in the Archer Block, corner Fourth and Cherry streets. Water supply on same floor. None but respectable tenants wanted. Apply to Mrs. Alex. McGregor, 414 North Sixth

1JIOB RKST-House of 12 oms in south part of city. Thirty dollars per month. Home of 9 rooms on Seventh near Demine' 825 per month House 5 rooms on Eighth and Locust: Ill per month. House 7 rooms on Fifth and Locust, 118 per month. HGUse of rooms on Ninth near Chestnut, 118 per month.

I. H. C. ROY8E,

Real Estate Broker, 503 Main Street.

FOB

REWT—ROOMS—TWO or three rooms furnished or unfurnished for housekeeping. Apply at 425 north Ninth street.

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BEST—Furnished rooms'with or without board. Gentlemen preferred. Also •table to rent at 313 north Sixth street.

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BENT—Desirable brick dwelling, No. 222 South Fifth street. Apply at once at 118 Main street. J.D.EARLY.

FOB SALE.

XIOB SALE—Cheap for cash, alight spring J- wagon, newly painted and in good running order. Apply at the cemetery.

J. W« HAIiEYi

HOB BA1.E—HOUSES AND LOTd—Two I on the corner of First and Linton streets three on Second and Eagle. This property belonged to Ruf us 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.

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I0-A11 six months subscribers to the Weekly- Express will be supplied FREE with "Treatise on the Horse and his Diseases," a valuable standard illustrated work the price of which is twenty-live cents. No horse owner should be without it.

Persona subscribing for the Weekly a year will receive in addition the Horsebook and oar illustrated Almanac.

Remember, the Weekly and Horse-book for 65 cents the Weekly, Horse -book and Almanac for $1.25.

A few days more of heavy rains snd the streams will go back rip to their booming proportions.

The memorial address meets with nothing but words of praise from all sections, factions and parties.

The match factories are opposed to having congress remove the tax from their productions. No reason is given, nor does any seem clear.

Sergeant Mason receives much sympathy from the women of Washington, who frequently gives his wife substantial tokens of their feelings.

The nihilists now on trial in St. Petersburg are described as viragos and ruffians, instead of patriots. The picture deprives them of any attraction.

There is a rumor floating around light* ly as a zephyr that Mr, Howe wiU scon be transferred to the interior department, and that he will be succeeded by William E. Chandler.

It is expected that the bill to place Qeneral Grant on the retired list will eventually pass the house, but that before doing so it will encounter some very rough weather.

The report comes from New York that Mr. Conkling will accept, and Washington advices say that Mr. Hoar is doing all in his power to defeat his confirmation, but no one hss any idea that he will succeed.

Some ope started the rumor that Governor Porter is seriously considering the propriety of callieg the legislature together in special session for the purpose of redisricting the state. Of course there is no truth in it, and it was promptly met with a denial.

The primary convention for Harrieon township (outside the city) will meet at the Court House next Saturday (March 4th) at two o'clock p. m., to select five delegates to the township convention of March 11th, nominate a Road Superintendent, and elect a committeeman. See official call.

General Rosecrans was in a great hurry to take issue with Mr. Blaine on one of his utterances in his memorial address. The Cincinnati Gazette will probably take the matter up, when it completes its discussion of the Vicksburg campaign, and endeavor to show Mr. Blaine in a disadvantageous light.

Hon. Zslatas Truesdell, a prominent Michigan educator, died at Ann Arbor on Sunday, aged fifty-three. He graduated at the state university in 1857 he had been superintendent of public schools at Flint and Pontiac for fourteen years, and has been otherwise actively identified with the cause of education in that state.

The Illinois state board of health has ceased to fssue the regular smallpox bulletins, which have made their appearance at regular intervals for some time past. It seems the disease has been driven from all but two points in the state. These are Lemont, in Cook county, and Litchfield, in Montgomery county. Over 1,500,000 persons have reported to the board as vaccinated during the past three months.

In Indianapolis an attempt is being made to tax the saloons, and an ordinance for that purpose ^rame very near passing the council. The saloon element is up in arms, and is making an organised warfare on those members of the council who are in business and who voted for the measure. Several members report a loss of patronage on this account, but there is every indication that the ordinance will paas at the next meeting, and the saloon keepers who have inaugurated this kind of warfare will find that they don't own the city to any considerable extent.

Thirty million francs belonging to the Austrian emperor were lost in the collapse of the Union Uenerale. The emperor had loaned the money to his friend Bontoux and, had not good advisers restrained him, he would have loaned more. Other. respectable sums lost in in the general wreck were 8,000,000 francs belonging to Prince Philip of Coburg 5,000,000 franes belonging to Count deChambord, 3,000,000 francs, invested by the Prinoess Odescalchi, and 17,000,000 francs the prop erty of Prince and Princess de Broglie. The number who lost single millions is large, and thoee who lost their all ere counted by thousands.-'"-* rj.*''

PMSIOWU

ThiVe Las been no question before the country for a long tia4 which has attracted so much attention^ and caused so moch debate «s the-pension bill in its present shape. Men who believe it is an unjust law are numerous, but legislators with courage sufficient to insist upon its modification are scarce. Since his appointment as commissioner of pensions Mr. Dudley has been earnestly endeavoring to improve the efficiency t)f the-force under his command, and settle the claims before his bureau in a manner at ojsce satisfactory and just. With this end in view, Mr. Dudley is ably seconded by Congressman Thomas M. Browne, member for the sixth district, this state. Mr. Browne is doing all he can to have congress assist the pension bureau in settling the claims as expeditiously aa possible. We are in .receipt of a speech which he recently delivered in congress on the subject, and which has attracted much attention throughout the country. It is a clear and concise statement of the business transacted by the bureau, the business yet to be transacted and a complete list of the estimates. He sensibly takes the ground that an increase of the working force of "the bureau need not, necessarily, increase the expenses of the government, but, on the contrary, through the detection of fraud would be an absolute saving. When Commissioner Dudley took charge of the office there was a force in its employ ot 784 persons, a larger number than could be retained without creating a deficiency, to avoid which ovet a hundred discharges were made, and at the present time there are 675 employes. This force is inadequate. Up to the beginning of 1882 there had been filed 795,201 original pension 'claims, of which 454,363 have bstn allowed, 78 001 rejected, and there are remaining for adjudication 266,383 claims, many of which have been pending for years. The number is being reinforced by about 2,500 claims each month. During the last four months 18,517 claims were decided, being a monthly average of 4,629 cases, or an annual reduction of 55,548 cases. At this rate the docket could not be cleared in less than five years, and if the 30,000 cases filed annually litre considered, the time will be prolonged indefinitely. During the tw.enty-one years and six months preceding January 1, 1882, there were 527,000 cases closed, and if the existing methods are continued, the pension office has about eleven years of hard work yet before it. Unless its opportunities for takiog evidence are materially enlarged and new methods enforced, there is little hope that the end will come in the present generation. It is true the bureau iB reselling a high degree of efficiency, and is increasing the number of cases closed, but it is also true that it has much more business before it than can be disposed of for years to come. Pensioners are as much entitled to a speedy consideration of their claims as other people, and there is no excuse for delay. The force of the bureau should be increased to a number sufficient to meet all the demands of the occasion.

When the matter is under the consideration of congress great care should be t&ken to guard against frauds. Fraudulent claims have been presented, fraudulent claims have bfen allowed, and fraudulent claims prevent the consideration of honet.1 ones, Tbis is an evil which should be guarded against. Under the present law no penalty is attached to the filing of fraudulent claims, and claim agents are allowed to collect fees in all cases filed, without reference to their merits. Of course this ia an encouragement to fraud and shquld ba stopped. Men who are honestly entitled to pensions should receive their just dues as speedily as possible, and men who endeavor to push through fraudulent claims should be dealt with promptly. The number of casgs improperly on the pension rolls cannot be estimated, nor how much can be saved the treasury by purging them, but we do know that $50,000,000 are required annually to pay pensions, end that if a small per cent, of this vast sum saved annually would reach many millions. Since I860 the government has paid in pensions $506,345,044.21. A saving of five per cent on this sum would be more than $25,000,000. But with the past we are done. The future mutt be shaped. Somfe means must be devised which will secure the claimant the relief due him with the least possible delay, -and at the same time secure to the treasury the least possible harm. In addition to the sum already paid there are yet $300,000,000 to be paid for arrearages, and the estimated cost of pensions for the next twenty-five yeart is $1,347,651,593, making a grand total at the end of the year 1906 of $1,853,896,637, a sum exceeding the present national Aebt. Whatever portion of this sum should be paid, must be paid, and if any of the claims are fraudulent they should be rejected and thoee presenting them punished. To attain this end the commissioner should be -allowed a larger force of examiniag agents with enlarged duties and powers. General Browne Bays: "These agents do not go into the country as eecret spieBibut openly, as trusted and accredited ministers of the law, clothed by it with authority to take evidence and ascertain the truth. Tbfy do not go under circumstances calculated to cast suspicion on the honesty of any claim or the integrity of any man. Their high mission should be to protect the rights of both the claimant and the people, and sccure impartial justice to each. I would make it as great a crime on the part of these officials to intentionally defeat an honest claim as to rob the treasury by passing a dishonest one. I am in favor of this plan. The men who may be .commissioned to pertorm this delicate and important duty, ehould he honest, intelligent, and discreet such men aa will challenge the respect and confidence of the communities into which they may be sent, by the correctness of their habits, their courteous behavior, and the fidelity with, which they perform their mission."

A Farmers' Institute will bi held at Columbus, Bartholomew county, March 8th and 9th, under the auspices of the Indiana State Board of Agriculture It iaone of a series of meetings t$ be 'held fn different parts of the state for the popose of discussing the interests of agriculture."

tJFW AKB A JIB OKW1BD.

The usoetentatir.ua and patient labors of Hon. R. B. F. Peirce for the interests of his constituents—his unfailing good nature his unvar/ingkindhess io all who visit Washington or address bim upon business his intelligent advocacy of measures calculated to benefit the people of his district—are having th# eSect to rapidly multiply his avowed advocates for a second term. The example cf Warren coutrty in i*-' structing itadelegatea to vote for his renomination been seconded by Vermillion county, and it is reasonably sore that his own county, Montgomery, will follow suit. Upon the hasis of 1880 this will give him thiTty votes out of eighty One votes in convention, leaving Clay, Fountain, Parke and Ylgo out of which to gain sufficient votes to nominate. Of these, Fountain is very likely to -follow in the pathway marked out by Warren and Vermillion, giving ten votes more, or forty oat of eighty-one, leaving only one vote te ba obtained to make a majority. The basis and apportionment of votes in the district convention will vary somewhat from that of 1880, but will be substaniiaHy the same. Therefore, Mr. Peirce's renomination may be confidently looked for unless something very unexpected should occur. This result, so gratifying to his friends, has been brought about by his inherent merits as a man snd his patient and faithful labors as a representative. There has been no wire working nor demagogery in tbe process. All has been fair and honor libit.

The influence' of "representative or senator at Washington is increased in proportion to his strength amongst the people at home, who are the fountain of all real influence. Washington worships success, and -respects an official who has the sovereign people at his back. The consciousness of this jjower gives a legislator confidence tr.d nervts him in his public labors, and ihe knowledge of home strength increases his influence. The career of Representative Peirce is upward and onward.

BUTTONS.

Glass buttons, including jet, are made in Bohemia, where children are paid 10c and men 40c to 50c a day for making them. Most pearl buttons come from Vienna, except shirt-buttons which are mostly from Birmingham. The Parisians and Berlinese do the most in novelties, getting up new styles for America nearly every week.

Ia one village near Pdris thousands are employed, making the common agatee, which with 30 per cent, dut added cost in New York about 31 cents per ^reat gross. Americans cannot compete in this line, but do excel in various bone, ivory and metnl buttons for which they find a market abroad.

WABASH BITES IMPROVEMENT Representative Peirce has introduced in the House a bill providing for "an appropriation of $250,000 for the improvement of the Wabash river from Lafayette to the Ohio river. If this amount can be obtained it will be ample to do all the work required until ihe next appropriation becomes available. Not only the representatives from Indiana and Illinois whose- districts border upon the Wabash, but all the representatives and senators of both states should heartily favor this measure, for by so doing they will do no more than justice to a stream that has not heretofore enjoyed its fair proportion of public money. All parts of a state are benefited by the welfare of any portion therefore we should all stand together and help one another. This measure of.our representative is well considered, and has within it the elements of justice, and therefore of success. Should the amount asked for be reduced by the shaving down proce»s that is invariably resorted to, enough money will probably be realized to materially improve this important channel of commerce.

Postmaster Qeneral Howe complains that when he assumed control of his department, no vacancies could be found, and siace then he has been unable to mabe any" appointments, from which it is inferred that Mr. James provided for all hia friends before he stepped down and out. Well, they all do it, nnd the man who neglects his friends when he has an opportunity to aid them, especially at the public xpens?, is an ass.

Certain morning newspapers have boaeted that they published Blaine's Memorial Address before its delivery. In order to do so they had to violate the following tacit agreement. The envelopes containing the printed copy dame to all associate press papers under the private seal of James G. Blaine and with the following Written on the envelope:' "To be held in pledge with seal unbroken until twelve o'clock noon, Monday, Feb. 27th '82." It was an act of dishonor and extreme bad faith to violate this agreement. Evening pSpera that published the address in fall ou the 27th hsd to do great violence to their consciences by prematurely breaking the seal, which had to be done ia order to get the copy iin type in lime.

In addition to its regular issue yesterday morning the Indianapolis Journal supplied its patrons with a handsome Garfield memorial sheet of four pages, containing a porWait.of the late president, a full account of the-memorial services and many other articles of interest connected with Garfield's life. It is the handsomest memorial sheet we have yet seen, and is very creditable to the Journal management. «sms —mmm—'—

Two-thirds of the gloves manufactured io the United States come from the little towns* of Glovesville and Johnstown, ttt" Fulton county, New York. There are 110 factories in the former place and seventy-

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tb« latter.

THE SUEZ CANAL.

There was a lime when Sutz Canal leham were not In dstdand. They -0&$ at $44, par being $100, in 18C3. 6a ihii opening of the canal, six years latovihe quotation WM ISO, and now it ia about 400, or four for one. The dividend this year will probably be 12 per cent. that preceding was 9 per cent, earned from the tolls of 2,673 vessels, and receipts of over $10,000,000 in 1881, whieh was aa increase of $2^00,000 over 1880. The Soex ij almost an English canal,

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Everybody is interested more or less in the nscful button, unless, like Sam," in Uncle Tern's Cabin," he fastens his suspender with a nail. Although great quantities are made in tbis country, which stands unequalled in the manufacture of certain kinds, America cannot compete with Europe in goods requiring handwork or the use of the efone. There were sent .to the port of New York last year $3,600,000 in buttons.

82 per cent.- of the tonnage

passing through It is British. The above is encouraging for the prospects of an American canal which will lie in the track of a greater commerce than does that of Suez.

1 Goad Samaritan 8 Suiter. A vernor, an ex-Governor, two Generals, a editorj a clergyman, a banker, and a merchant were the pall bearers at the funeral of Margaret Haughery, in Ne^r Orleans. Numerous societies were officially represented in the procession, which was henored in various ways on its route from the church to the grave, even the brokers, quitting the Stock Exchange to stand uncovered on the sidewalk as it passed by. Sirs. Haughery was of humble origin, uneducated, and boaeted of never wearing a silk drew or a kid glove but she was famous and beloved as a friend of the poor children of Louisiana. Many years ago she nursed a dying man. He had a little property, which he left to her for charity. She bought with this money a cheap eating house and bakery on the river front, and sold wholesome food to steamboat laborers at a little more than cost. "She gave them a roll and a -«np of coffee for five cents, to keep them from spending a quarter for whi*ky,"-s#ys the account* "and they took the roll and coflee, and then spent twenty cents for whisky all-the same The business prospered, and she might have, accumulated wealth but she established and partially maintained three orphan asylums with the profits, and died rich only in reputa-

-ITS A Georgia Pedestrian.!

Atlanta Constitution. He was ayoungman about twenty-five years cf age, and was clad in dirt and rags. His fsce was covered with an unkempt', tough beard, while the hair on his,head openly proclaimed war against combs. His face, neck and breast indicated that water was a total stranger to them, and his clothing quickly induced one to believe that they had never been new. His coat—that is what he called it—w*s open behind and before, and w»s evidently intended for a one-armed man. Hid pants were like his coat, while the absence of a shirt and vest prevents saying what they were like. One shoe was gone, but in the other he stood firm.

Interesting to Scientists. KANSAS CITY, February 28.—F. H. Cushing, of the ethnological bureau of Smithsonian Institute, at Washington, was in the city.yesterday, accompanied by Bix chiefs of the agricultural ana pastoral tribes pf Pueblo Indians, located in western New Mexico about thirty-five miles south of the line of the Atlantic & Pa-cific-railroad, and known as the Zunis. He is en route to Washington and Boston by way of Chicago, the object of the trip being to enable the Zunis, who have a civilization similar to the ancient Tolteca and Aztecs, to perform a religious ceremony which can only be performed at the ocean. The ceremony in its minutest details has been handed down from the past by tradition, but so old is it that not even their traditions say when it was last performed. An interesting scientific problem is: when were these people on the shore of the ocean, and where? The ceremony will probably be performed at Plymouth Rock. Mr. Cushing has been adopted into the tribe, and the highest religious "order, and taken part in this ceremony. The Zunis are agricultural •people, and have reached the highest Success in that industry, as well as in horticulture, and have large herds and flocks. One of the objects of this trip is to secure an enlargement of their grazing ranges. Mr. Cashing has discovered a rich and fruitful field for ethnologist?, and scientists in the East are waiting the result of his trip with great interest.

i. Foreign News, ,'i PARNELL. LONDON, Feb. 28.—It is stated that Parnellhaa just completed a week's solitary confinement in consequence of the warden's charging him with trying to bribe him to smuggle a letter out of prison. Parnell denied the charge.

SLAVERY IN EGYPT.

ALEXANDRIA, Feb. 28.—It is stated that the ministry considers the maintenance of slaveiy as necessary for the Egyptian people and wishes to dismiss the employes recently appointed to stop the slave traffic.

NIHILISTS SENTENCED.

ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 28.—Ten nihilist prisoners, including one woman, have been sentenced to death. The remainder were sentenced to various terms of penal servitude.

WILL CLOSE FOR TWO WEEKS. LONDON, Feb. 28.—The Lancashire cotton manufacturers have resolved to close the mills for a fortnight before the 12th of April. •.

A Little Game That was Blocked. ST. LOUIS, fob. 28.—Advices from Texas says: Land Commissioner Walsh has discovered a big scheme on the part of the Wisconsin & Michigan Lumber & Mill Co. to acquire several millions of acres of pine land in eastern Texas. They employed lawyers to have the land surveyed, obtain information regarding it, and oflered to purchase all the lands at one dollar per acre. Some of the lawyers engaged formed a small syndicate, and offered a dollar and half per acre for part of the lands. This exposed the big scheme of the Northern men, which was, as soon as they secured the land, to stop getting out lumber, or to gauge the amount in such away as_ to advance the prices greatly and realise immense profits. Both propositions were rejected by the Land Commissioners, and Governor Roberts will recommend to the next Legislature that provision be made for selling to actual mill men the timber on the stump, and reserve the land.to the Stat#.. 's'" V—r~*

Harder.

MILWAUKEE, Feb. 28.—Jennie Duncan, proprietress of a bagnio one mile from the town of Merrill, shot and killed J8Bias Howlilt in a row at Cold Spring, near Milwaukee, to-day.

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 28.—Dr. J. W. Nuckols was shot and killed at Springfield to-day, by S. B. Hopkins, of Nashville. The killing was the result of a hostile meeting yesterday between Asa Hopkins, who i« 8. B. Hopkins' father, and fath-er-tn-law to Nuckols, who had been separated from his wife for about eighteen months, Nuckols having called Asa Hopkins a liar and drawn his pistol on bim. They were separated, and Nuckoli throated to kill him at their next meeting.

Fatal Ride.

JOUST, III, Feb. 28.—A- freight car loaded with briek was ditched eight miles from here yesterday. Ten tramps wero.sDoreted inlthe van at the time, of whom two were Killed outright and the others so badly injured that their lives are diepaired of. The names of the un fortuuates are nnknown.

CONGRESS.

The senate also Develops an Inquiring Hind With Reference to that Little Peruvian

Business.

Sin Leeks in Upon the 8©lons ot the Upper House lor a Short

Bat Straightway Yamouses when told that the Burden of the If! ad

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Report on the Campbell-Cannon Case vs'i Presented in the House The West Point Bill

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Some Eminent Financiers $et a Brilliant Scheme Introduced —Miscellaneous

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THE SBMATE.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—The resolutions of the Chicago Historical Society recommending the purchase of thcFranslin manuscripts were submitted by the Chair (Davis, of 111.).

Windom, frOm the Committee on Foreign delations, reported the following: Resolved, That the committee nn Foreign Relations are hereby instructed to inquire into all the circumstances concerning the alleged loss on abstraction from the office of the Secretary of State of certain papers and documents mentioned in the message of the President sent to the Senate, acd report thereon with such recommendations as may appear ^proper in the premises, and that it inquire into all the circumstances of the alleged action of the diplomatic representatives of the United 'States to the* Republics of France and

Peru, in being personally concerned in any contract or arrangements of a public or private nature with the govern raents of either ot said countries or with corporations or associations having relations with or asserting claims against, or grants derived from either of the same, and also whether any member of Con gress or any other officer of the United States has had any personal interest or concern in any matters before mentioned, and report thereon with such recommendations as may appear proper in the premises. Laid over one day under the rule.

The following bills were introduced: By Vest, for a public building at Han nibal, Mo.

By Ingalls, to authorize the President to appoint Alfred Pleasanton a bevnt Major General in the Army of the United States, ahd to place bim on the retired list.

The Post Office appropriation bill was received from the Honse, and referred. The Chinese bill came up ~as unfinished business, but Miller temporarily yielded the floor to Ferry, to allow the Housa post route bill to be considered, and the amendments of the Senate committee were read and agreed to.

The House resolution tendering thanks to Hon. James. 6. Blaine for the appropriate address delivered by him at the Garfield memorial exercises was, on motion of Sherman, taken from the President's table and concurred in.

The sections ,of the House post route bill, as amended, were then adopted, and the bill passed.

On motion of Allison, the Senate insisted upon its amendment to Che immediate deficiency appropriation bill, and AlliBon,

Plumb and Beck were appointed conferees. The Senate then took uji the Chinese immigration bill to carry into effect the treaty by suspending the coming of Chinese laborers for twenty years after sixty dayB succeeding the passage of the act. It allows them to come during these sixty days, and those who were in th9 country at the date of Nov. 17th, 1880, to go and come at pleasure. The bill doe* not apply to Chinese officials or their servants, and. also excepts from suspension Chinese merchants and travelers, who, in coming and going, are to be registered at the Custom Houses, and are to produce passports from the Chinese Government, showing that they individually belong to the excepted classes. The time at which the treaty takes eflect is optional with China or the United States, and the preamble to the bill recites that in the opinion of the United States the coming of Chinese laborers endangers the good order in certain localities in its territory.

Grofer moved to amend by adding a new section declaring that tho words "Chinese laborers," wherever used in the act, shall be construed to mean both skilled and unSkilled laborers, and Chinese employed in mining.

Farley moved an amendment prohibiting 8tate and United States Courts hereafter from admitting Chinese to citizenship, and repealing all laws in conflict with the act.

Miller, of California, who introduced and reported the measure, proceeded directly to the discussion of the general question, leaving tha amendments to be considered later. He said that substantially the provisions of the bill had been before the Senate more than once, had passed both Houses, and but for a veto would have been law. They were again presented under circumstances equally imperative, but in an unobjectionable form. Our request for a modification of the Burlingame treaty to permit restrictions upon migration, the sending, out of our commission, the negotiation of a new treaty and its ratification, he said, had committed our Government to this policy of restriction. After making a request through the pomp of an extraordinary embassy and the ceremonial of diplomatic negotiation we could not now ignore the whole proceeding without a confession of vacillation and imbecility such as we could not afford to make to the- Oriental powers. Besides, all our policy -has already been authoritatively settled in the ratification of the new treaty and in the enactment of the fifteen passengers bill.

During Miller's speech, the habitues of the galleries were astonished by the appearance in the Diplomatic gallery of four -members of the Chinese Legation. The strangers had been sight seeing in the Capital, and their visit was not prearranged, for upon being apprised of the subject under discussion they immediately retired.

Miller spoke one hour and forty minutee. Voorhees said he would ask to have the bill laid aside to-morrow for about one hour, to enable him to speak upon the new library building bill

The bill was informally laid aside to permit action on the House bill to furnish impressions of the card of invitation to the Garfield memorial services, which was passed.

After executive teseion the Senate adjourned. zJpPt'z

THR HOUSE.

WASHINGTON 28,1882. Gibaon introduced a joint resolution for the appointment cf committee of sixteen members -seven from the Senate and nine from the House—to attend the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the discovery of the month of the Mississippi river referred.

Kelly, ehairman of the Committee on|

Ways and Means, reported a bill repealing the discriminating duties on the tea and coffee products of the possessions of the-Netherlands psssed.

The Senate bill far continuing the improvement of Galveston harbor was passed.

The bill was passed authorising the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi at Keithsbnrg, Ills.

Calkins, Chairman of the Committee on Elections, submitted the report of the committee on the contested election case of Campbell vs. Cannon, accompanied by a resolution declaring neither the contestant nor the contestee entitled to the eeat. He also submitted a minority repart, declaring Campbell entitled to the seat, while Monlton submitted a further resolution, signed by Atherton, Davis (of Illinois), Monlton, Mid Jones (of Texas), declaring Cannon duly elected a delegate to Congress. The reports were laid on the table for future action.

Ritchie, from the same committee, reported a resolution declaring that Ball ahall not be admitted as a Delegate from Alaska until the Committee on Territories report thereon referred.

Easson made a motion for the consideration of the tariff commission till, but subsequently withdrew it, and the House went into Committee of the Whole on tb'e Military Academy appropriation bill.

The committee, after some personal explanations, rose, and the Military Academy bill was passed.

Robinson, of New York, by request, introduced a bill to organize the National Labor League Railway Company of America, for the pnrpoee of constructing, operating and maintainftfg a railway frotOHhe Atlantic seaboard to Chicago, St. Louis and Council Bluffs. It provides that for the purpose of establishing equal rights in commerce among the States, Mid for the purpose of securing a railway highway under such £vil control as to prevent combinations against the public good, certtin gentlemen shall be appointed a commission under the name of the National Board of Inter State Transportation. Those certain gentlemen and their colleagues are authorized to issue a capital stock of $40,000,000. The bill further provides that when the road has been constructed to Council Bluffs, it msy be continued to San Francisco, and in aid of its construction, grants to it of every alternate section of unoccupied public lends through which it may psss, for fifty miles on each side of the track. In order to relieve the wants of labor, depressed by the contraction of the currency, the workmen employed in building the railroad shall be paid by the Government one dollar a day, and the remainder of their wages in certificates of indebtedness redeemable in 3.65 bonds.Referred.

The Speaker announced Hiscock, Robinson acd Cox (of New York) as conferees on the immediate deficiency bill.

Adjourned. -.

Washington,

CONKUNG'S NOMINATION,

WASHINGTON, February 28.—In the executive session of the Senate the nom' ination of Conkling to be Associate Jus tice was reported from the Judiciary committee with the recommeudation that it be confirmed. It was placed upon the calendar in accordance with the rule which requires all reported nominations to lay over an til the next succeeding executive session. No request was made for the unanimous consent to suspend this rule, and nothing said in regard to other nominations rexcept the announcement by Teller, in the absence of Chairman Edmunds, that the committee had authorized him to report favorably the nomination of Sargent as Minister to Germany, which was also placed on the calendar, with the favorable recommendation of the Committee on Foreign Relations.

THE DIPLOMATIC INVESTIGATION. WASHINGTON, February 28.—Thereisa report that Blaine requested his friends to move an investigation into the mat ter covered by the resolutions reported from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee fo-day. The investigation is sweeping in character, including the alleged loss of papers from the files of the State Department and the alleged connection of all the parties who held official returns with the United States with Peruvi|n claims or contracts. It is said that Blaine regards such a sweeping investigation as the surest means of disproving the insinuations as (o his connection with these claims, and of showing that if any persons in official life have an interest in such claims they are not close friends of Blaine.

THE APPORTIONMENT BILE APPROVED. WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—The Presiden has approved the apportionment bill.

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left for Chicago this morning. THE TARIFF BIIJI. The House Committee on Ways and Means agreed not to insist upon the consideration by the House ef the tariff commission bill until after the immediate deficiency appropriation bill is disposed of.

ANTI-CHINESB SENATORS.

The Senators from the Pacific coast intend to press the Chinese bill for pasaage. They say from 1,000 to 1,500 Chinese are landing at San Francisco daily and that the people of the Pacific coast are urging the passage of a law to stop further emigration

ALIJSON'S BILL.

The Senate Finance Committee reached no vote to-day on the Allison reserve fund bill but agreed to hold & speacial meet-ing-to consider it next Saturday.

PROBABLY ON PERSONAL GROUNDS. Ex-Governor Sprague, of Rhode Island, reached here to-day and it is said he has come to oppose the confirmation of Conkling.

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Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, entered upon his duties this morning, CAFLLED ON THE PRESIDENT.

The Indiana Congressional delegation called in a body. Among the President's callers to-day were Gen. W. S. Hancock, Gen. O. O. floward and Gov. Porter, ot Indiana.

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CHICAGO, 111., Feb. 28.—A decision of .mportance to the Board of Trade brokers and their customers was made yesterday by Judge Moran, who held that a promissory note given in settlement of differences on option trades could not be collected inasmuch as the deal was illegal and neither more nor less than gambling.

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Wfll Soon be Good Imdlaas. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 28.—A Wilcpx, Arizona, dispatch says the President has refused Executive clemency in the case of the three Indian scouts sentenced to be hanged at Fort Grant on March third.

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DETROIT, February 28.—A fire in Wm. Bennett's dry gopds store this morning, destroyed $10,000 to $12,000 worth of goods, fully covered by insurance.

NEW HAVEN, Feb.28.—The dry goods house of E. Malley burned this morning. The loss on the building and stock is estimated at $100,600. Insurance not yet known.

TWO CHILDREN BURLTSD TO DEATH. KEOKUK, Iowa, Feb. 28.—At Nauveo, 111., the honse of John Wilhelmy caught on fire and his two little children, who had been left alone'in the building, were burned to death.

A Poor Law Decision. COLUMBUS, O, Feb. 28.—The Supreme Court delivered a decision to-day, in which the law is construed making it obligatory on each county of the State to furnish its patients with clothing, the accounts to oe kept by the Steward and presented to the County Auditor, a rrv-vs,

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