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THE REPUBLICAN.

Published by

W. S. MONTGOMERY.

GREENFIELD. INDIANA

SINCE sympathy for murderors became th» fashion no life iow is so well guarded by the law as the mans who has taken another's from him.

SUPERSTITION lurks in high places. The baby King of Spain is the thirteenth of his name. His mother is in sore trouble about him. late may overtake him.

She fears il!

WRITING a book, painting a picture or bringing up a child are only different ways of doing the some thing, In all of them we are influencing mind and shaping character.

BLESSTSD is the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted from the world!—yet more blessed and more dear the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted in the world.

To toss a loafer a nickel because he quickens his pace and mutters in your ear that he wants one is not charity, and the act of giving will not do yon or him any good either in this world or the next.

"THE Bard of Avon,7' as the affected oo.ll him, still retains his popularity. especially with the people of this country. More people visited the home of Shakespeare last summer than ever before, the majority being Americans.

PROF. ROSENTHAL, who devised the Meisterschaft system of learning languages, and who speaks fourteer tongues fluently, has become a naturalized American citizen. His nexl move will be to attempt to learn pure, unadulterated Kentucky.

IF the English would read more widely they would know more. Sir Julian Pauncefote is devoting a good deal of time to the study of American literature. He savs that he had no realisation of the richness and variety of l&»,swork of our men of lettors.

A CLEVELAND chemist says that people who use kerosene lamps for a number of years become so permeate I with the oil that their bodies after death scarcely need any embalming fluid to preserve them. That chemist is evidently undertaking to embalm himself in He.

A NEW style of horseshoe has been patented. The shoe is made in sections, with elastic cushions between and rivets connecting the sections, making a shoe in which there will be a vertical yielding or spring, avoiding shocks or jar to the horse while traveling over hard pavements or roads.

THE only conclusive evidence oi man's sincerity is that he gave himself for a principle. Words, money, all thing's else, are comparatively easy to give away but when a man makes a gift of his daily life and practice, it is plain that the truth, whatever it may be, has taken possession ol him.

ALECK SMITH, of Bull Creek, neai Jeffersonville, Ind., is probably the only farmer in the union, perhaps in the world, who devotes all his time and territory to the raising of butler beans. He owns a small place and hae on this for years grown the butter bean, realizing a comfortable living therefrom.

THE Rochester Post-Express says: "The fountain pen is a great institution, but nire out of ten men who are pot used to it are utterly lost if thej don't see an inkstand within reasonable dipping distance." With nine pens out of ten the inkstand must be within reasonable dipping distance or there will be no ink.

AN American who spent ninety-two flays in France says he saw only two j)ies in that whole country, and those tvere in Paris and had no upper crust. The pie was about the first thing invented after the Puritans landed in America, and we all believe that it has done its full share towards making this the greatest nation on the globe.

DR. MEADE, of Cincinnati, left his horse untied and it ran away. The doctor sent messages all over town and had about given up all hope of ever ipeeing hi6 rig again when he was calltad to the telephone. He recognized the voice of his affianced, and was rejoiced to learn that the animal was ^standiag patiently in front of her residence.

IK the olden days, whep heretics land witches were burned, drowned or flung from cliffs, it never occurred to those engaged in the work to shut a wom&B aid a mouse up together in a snail, dark room, with no window sill yr, for her to stand on. Perhaps they

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THE population of mummies is quite 'large. Amelia B. Edwards says nc one need think that the field of Egyptian'exploration is limited it is practically volimited. Authorities are ol the opittion that in 2,500 years nearly 500 million mummies were entombed* and that hundreds of thousands oi buried cities and temple* yet re mail to be discovered.

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THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC.

Springfield, O., has natural gas. Some places in Ohio report infiuecza. Montana's legislative muddle continues. Eight thousand miners are idle in the Shamokin, Pa., coke region.

John W. Bookwalter of SprinSfield is a candidate for the Ohio Senatorship. Two Minneapolis clothing houses have failed because of the warm winter.

The body of a woman, badly mutilated, was found in Boston Thursday morning. A warrant lias been issued for Powderly's arrest in the Callcghan conspiracy case

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Doc. Jones, colored, was lynched at

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Owensboro, Ky., Thursday morning, for murder. Since 1SS3 $100,000,000 worth of government timber has been stolen in northern Minnesota.

J.Q.Preble & Co.,'paper makers of New York failed Saturday, with liabilities of $1,000,000.

Two men were instantly killed at Asbville, N. C., Saturday, by the explosion of a gasometer.

The New York Mail and Express is making an effort to raise fnnds to complete the Grant monnmont.

The iron-clad prohibition measure passed both Houses of the North Dakota Legislature Wednesday.

The business portion ol Petrolia, Pa., an old oil town, was destroyed by fire, Sunday. Loss, $100,000.

Thousands ol holiday presents were iestroyed in an express warehouse fire at St. Louis Saturday.

ExPresidentCleveland threatens to leave New York because of the impunities of charitable and other beggars.

Jehu Baker has deeided to contest the seat of W. S. Forman, member of sCon. gressfrom the Belleville (111.) district.

The Wilhelm family at Akron, Ohio, sonsisting of husband, wife and child,were suffocated by coal gas, Saturday night.

One thousand four hundred and ten dol iars was snatched and stolen from the State National Bank at Pawtucket, Thurs day.

Alderman Denohue descended from the

bench

at Wilkesbarre, Pa., and soundly thrashed a man named Shiner, for wifebeating.

An effort is being made to bring Jake Kilrain and Vaquelin together. Jake says ae would like to have another tilt with Sullivan.

A call has been issued for a meeting of he temperance women who favor nonpartisan temperance work at Cleveland, January 22.

An explosion of gas in a New Nork subway, Saturday, threw tons of dirt ana wbble stones into the air, but no one was ieriously injured.

A hoavy fog greatly interfered with Nev? York business Friday, but no serious accidents were reported. Baltimore reports the same state of affairs.

A committee of the Virginia Legislature will visit Mrs. Jefferson Davis to urge her to permit the remains of her husband to be buried in Richmond.

A. E. Mack, late Secretary of the Arcanam Building, Loan and Homestead Assosiation, of Chicago, is missing with about |7,500 of the association's money.

of Mrs. Mantwell, is under arrest.

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The north-bound freight on the Louis rille & Nashville Road Vfas wrecked Friday at Orange Grove, Ala., killing Engineer Pierce and fatally injuring the fireman.

Judge Brewer decides that Kansas eoun-

Judge Brewer decides mat ivansas cuuu-

ties cannot tax Pullman sleepers running ...

through them, as such a proceeding inter feres with the freedom of interstate com merce.

The Civil Service Reform Association will open an office at New York, with William Dudley Foulke in charge, and go into a general investigation of the coun try's civil service.

Captain Freeman and F. R. Caton, both£ prominent in marine circles at San Fri.ucisco, were both asphyxiated, by noxious vapors in the hold of the British ship Durham at San Francisco.

The Harvard University catalogue for 1889-90 shows that in the current year the net gain in students is 180, the largest annual increase since Dr.E liot became President. The total number of students is 2,079.

A charitable shop lifter was arrested at Kansas City for stealing. Her name is Maud Curran, and she was one of the supposed most faithfu workers of two charitable associations of that city. She had stolen $1,000 worth of goods.

It is said the Illinois railroads are fcrying to get the contract for the Chicago drainage works, which they will then construct, so that lake vessels cannot reach the gulf through the canal and the Mississippi, as is intended.

A giving the name of Charlie Williams, is under arrest at San Francisco, who is believed to be the highwayman who, at different times during the past few weeks, has successfully robbed four stages in the northern part of California.

Fcr stealing $10 from a Chinese laundry man, at Buffale, Charles Farwell was on Monday sentenced to thirty days in jail. The prisoner is a son of the late Judge FarwelL, has already squandered $30,000, ana has a $80,000 legacy due in a short time.

George Guenther, ^aged seventy years' was fatally beaten by his son, Emil Guenther, at St. Louis, Tuesday. The boy bears a bad reputation, and is but seven teen years old. The quarrel arose over the refusal of his mother to furnish him with money.

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The Columbus Press, Thursday,' Published interviews with sixty very prominent Democrats who stoutly oppose the eleoifop of Brice, or any other millionaire to the United States Senate. The list includes Allea W. Tbarmaa and W. W. Mtidary. .:\-y,

Reports are published showing that since 1880 the taxable property of the United States has increased $8,963,000,000,and that in the same period the actual wealth of the country increased $18,652,000,000. The total wealth of the country, exclusive of pubhe li° property, is placed at 161,459,000,000.

Aconference of a number of leading colored men from various sections of Virginia was held at Richmond, Tuesday nightr at which a preamble and resolutions were adopted memorializing Congress to pass a general election law which would guaran^ tee them a better right of suffrage thai" they now enjoy.

The jury in the case of Miss Flora Look, who has been on trial at Montezuma, la.

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a charivari serenade in Chester, Powesheik county, last August, has returned a verdict of acquittal on the ground that the

Nelson Jones, of Valdosta, Ga., is being pursued to death by White Caps. Some time ago he was attacked by a band near the Florida line, and left for dead. He was discovered by friends, and was being nursed back to life, when another attack was made on him, Friday. This time a volley of buckshot was fired at him, while lying in bed, but only four or live of the missiles entered his body. He thinks he will live to furnish another target for his would be assassins.

FOREIGN.

An attempt was made to kill the King of Corea. Nearly all the members of the French Cabinet have the influenza.

Nine thousand boot and shoe makerr at Bristol, Eng., have been locked out. Buffalo Bill opened at Barcelona, Saturday, and 10,000 people saw his show.

The

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of Russia will soon be

betrothed, it is announced, to Princcss Maud, of Wales, his cousin. The Governor of KiefF, Russia, has closed twenty Catholic Churches. No reason is given for this proceeding.

There are 3,000 cases of influenza in Hamburg, 5,000 in Stockholm, and many Senators, Deputies and others in Madrid are ill.

Emin Pasha, who was injured by falling from a window at Bagamoyo, is entirely out of danger and is making rapid progress towards full recovery.

Malietoa has been crowned King of Samoa, and peace reigns. The Geripan, English and American consuls formally recognized the new King.

The influeuza epidemic is spreading in Central and Southern Germany. A largo number of cases are reported in Munich, Mayence, Cassel and Leipsic.

At the Queen University jubilee banquet, at Kingston, Ont., Wednesday rijtht, Sir John Macdonald spoke strongly ag^st any severance of the British connection.

The continued expressions of sentiments of peace by various European rulers are

•Max Mantwell was called to his door at belied in the fact that they do not reduce Chicago and literally hacked to pieces their military legions and war preparawithaknife. Brano Eberliag, an admirer tions.

Milo Ballabasich, mad from a terrible don, are preparing to give Stanley and griping in his abdomen, committed suicide ram in Pasha a grand welcome on their re-

at San Francisco, Thursday,by cutting out his intestines and throwing them away. Edward and George Werley and Henry Knocht, prominent young men of Adrian, O., were sent to jail for twenty days for driving off another man's horse as a joke.

The Royal Geographical Society, of Lon-

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turn to that city. A massive medal will also be presented to each.

Emin

Pasha, the African explorer, is a

Jew, but afterward became a Mohamme dan. His real name is Edward Schnitzer. His mother's name was Pauline Schwitzer. He is by profession a medical man.

Ah Sin, a sinful Chinaman, received twenty lashes on his bare back at Winni peg, Man., Sunday, One of Ah Sin's sins was an assault on a little girl. The in-

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teen inches, with knots at the end of *ach After each stroke, blue welts appeared on his yellow skin. The victim yelled from start to finish.

STANLEY DEFENDS HIS COURSE.

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He Only Executed Four Men—Why BarHelot Died.

Sir Francis De Winton has made public a long letter written to him by Stanley, dated Osalala, August 81. In it Stanley objects very strongly to the batch of newspaper cuttings he had received, whiob commented, with an utter lack of common sense, and a total disregard of accuracy, upon bis expedition. He dwells upon Emin's indecision, which cost him a journey otherwise unnecessary of 1,800 mil ea for Bartlelot. He justifies the payment of a salary of £80 per month to Tippoo Tib as a means for avoiding a desolating war, and declares that if both parties are honest in the maintenance of their agreement peace may continue for an indefinite period. He rebukes those persons in England who had lost faith in his steadfastness of purpose to such a degree as to give credit to rumors that he was marching in the direction of Khartoum.

He dwells at some length upon the case of Barttelot, and removes the impression produced by previous letters reflecting upon the major's oonduet. He says ttiat Barttelot only needed to extricate himself from hie dilemma, qualities thai will not be gained save by long cxperienot in Africa and aeulogizes his courage and high character. He knew the major wat a

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tended to keep him with himself, but ne cessity compelled the change that caused him to leave him behind. Barttelot was ignorant of the language of the people, and his interpreter. may .have been false and occasioned the coolness between the mot and the major, which was never overcouu and led to his death. Stanley recites it detail the instructions given to Barttelot and dually denies with much emphasis th« alleged Congo atrocities of the Manyema the cannibalism and the story of photo graphing women during execution. Dur ing the whole expedition he executed onlj four men.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Muncie is moving for anew park.

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homicide was justifiable. Governor Wilson, of West Virginia, has ssued a proclamation calling a speciai session of the Legislature to convene on the third Wednesday in January, and specifying thirty three matters on which legislation may be enacted. The most important one is the settlement of the contest between A. B. Fleming and Nathan GofC for the office of Governor.

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Afire at Leesburg, Sunday, caused a loss of $30,000. Miss Rebecca Rynerson, near Osgood, a brilliant young lady, has suddenly become insane.

The Muscatituck River bottoms, in Jack son county, are flooded,and many thousand bushels of corn will be lost.

L«eper & Reid, brickmakers, of South Bend, are preparing) to use crudfB petroleum as fuel in burning brick.

Ex-Mayor Jacob C. Kolsem, of Terre Haute, is an own cousin" of Emin Pasha, the world-famous African explorer.

The Indianapolis Wheel Works were destroyed by fire, early Thursday morning, causing a loss of $125,000, with very small insurance.

Mrs. George Carter, of Jonesboro, gave birth to twins, Saturday, in the C., W. & M. train, while enroute from Anderson to her home.

Rev. W. E. McCarty has conducted a very successful revival among the Methodists at Windfall. There were fifty-two accessions to the church.

George Smith, city meat inspector of Muncie, has resigned because Judge Lotz has declared the law under which he perated unconstitutional.

The Grand Jury at Keokuk, la., has re. turned indictments against forty-two violators of the prohibitory law. All the sa loons in that city are closed.

Mrs. Anna Ferry, of Floyd county, has been arrested on indictments charging larceny and false pretenses, by which several merchants in New Albany lost heavily.

Ira Cobb was sentenced at Bedford Satur day. to imprisonment for life, for the murer of Alex. Wagoner. Both men were well known in the vicinity of the murder.

Thursday night, at Muncie, a boy threw a firecracker into an upstairs room in Henry Hammell's house, fire resulted and the structure and contents were burned.

James H. Wilson's barn, near Washington, was burned by an incendiary, Tuesday night, together with six horses and several head.of cattle and sheep. Loss, 84,500.

Mrs. George Maxwell, of New Albany, discovered Wednesday morning that during the night, in her sleep, she had rolled upon her babe, aged two months. The little one died soon after being taken up.

The Christian Church Sunday-school at Kokomo is claimed to betne largest of that denomination ii^the United States. The average attendance for the past six weeks was over six hundred.

Affairs are in a bad way at Washington. The Gazette says that ''fights are of common Sunday occurrence rowdyism is ram pant, and drunken toughs boldly parade the streets without attempting to mask their condition."

A covey of white quail has been discovered on a farm near Hartford City, and whether they are Albinos or the Mediterranean quail imported to this country several years ago from Egypt, is a question that is puzzling sportsmen.

Walter K. Freeman, inventor of the incandescent light system in use at Goshen and other points, taking exceptions to something appearing in the Elkhart Sentinel, waited upon the editor of that paper with a club, but was knocked out.

There was a display of natural gas at Shelby ville Friday, with a public procession, headed by a band, and speeches by the Mayor and other dignitaries. It is intended to extend the pipe-line supplying Sheibyville to Columbus, Edinburg and Franklin.

John Lenyan, night watchman in Helfricn's mill, at Independence, laid down in front of a furnace and went to sleep. In some way his clothing caught fire and he was horribiy burned before he awakened, dying in a short time. He succeeded John Donohue in that position, and Donohue was burned to death in a similar manner

Burglars entered George Shaefer's residence at Fort Wayne, Thursday night, and, finding Mrs. Shaefer alone, knocked her down, bound and gaged her, and then ransacked the house, but found little of value to their liking. When found by neighbors, Mrs. Shaefer was unconscious.

Jeptha Thomas, of Filey, Scott County, went out to kill a bird for his mother, who is sick. The gun exploded, a piece fracturing his skull and injuring him fatally fie lay helpless in the woods for hours before being found. This is the sacocd time in two years he was hurt in the same manner.

A resident of Crawfordsville, who suffered from the so called "influenza" at the time of the epidemic in 1843, says that it was then known as "Tyler's grip." Tyler was President of the United States, and immediately after he had vetoed the United States bank bill, the disease swept over the country hence, the name.

A mare belonging to A. Peters, near Culver's Station, was bitten by a dog and went mad. Before being k'lled, in her frenzy she tore all the flesh off her legs, and also from her sides, wherever her teeth could reach, and with the greatest difficulty was she prevented from injuring other stock.

William Marquis, the eighteen-year-old lad arrested for wrecking the Wabash pas senger train at Kellar's Station, has made a confession, and it is shown that, while there was a malicious attempt to destroy property, there was no malicious thought of imperiling human lives nor did the boy realize the gravity of his offense until he doors of the jail closed on him.

There was a natural gas explosion at Shelbyville, Wednesday. A. L. Sparks, fruits and confectioner, was preparing to use gas, and the explosion first occurred in his store, and the mischief spread to Cas tetter & Thralls, barbers Peter Tettig, harness maker, and C. W. Cheney, saloon. The building was badly damaged, doors and windows being blown out, and the floors ripped up. The trouble was caused by a leak, and the loss foots up severa hundred dollars. ~rj'Squire H. C. Hammon tree, of Logansport, is dangerously ill. Thursday night, while his daughter, Lulu, wa3 in attendance at his bedside, a noise outside attracted her, and she raised the window and peered into the darkness. Immediately she was struck two stunning blows in the face, the last one knocking her dowo, and she was afterward found in an uncon­

scious condition by araabera of the family, while the blood streamed from her nose and from an ugly cut on her head. Miss Hammon tree did not see her assailant.

Col. C. G. Conn of Elkhart, proprietor of the Elkhart horn factory, and joint representative from Elkhart, Noble and Steuben counties, has been indicted by the grand jury for blackmailing. He ischarged with writing a letter to Henry B. Sherwood, his confidential clerk, charging him with having appropriated $10,000 in chattels, cash and securities, and threatening prosecution to the fullest extent of the law if not returned by Nov. 1. 1S89. The letter also implicates the wife of Sherwoou in the matter, and states among other things that the money was. used for the education of his daughter. A bitterly contested case will ensue.

In the assignment of members of th House to Committees Gen. Tom Browne was given the chairmanship of the com mittee on Revision of the Laws and a place on Expenditures in the Treasury Depart ment. Owen is made chairman of the committee on Immigration and Naturalization and is assigned also to Expenditures in the Treasury Department. Cheadle de-: clined assignment to Claims committee, Of the Democratic members, Shively is on Banking and Currency and Indian Affairs O'Neall on Commerce Brookshire on Agriculture Holman on Public Lands aud on the Eleventh Census McClellan on Rail-' ways and Canals and Expenditures in the Navy Department Cooper on Mines and Mining and Pacific Railroad Martin on Invalid Pensions Barrett on Pensions and Indian Depredations, and J. B. Brown on War Claims.

The appointment of Nicholas Ensasley Pension Agent for the District of Indiana, was announed from Washington Wednesday afternoon. Ensl^y lives at Auburn, DeKalb county. He is forty five years old, and was commissioned Lieutenant in June. '65. He served a term as State Senator in '85-87 and is pretty well known among Republican politicians. The office is the second largest in the country, and will soon be the largest. Thei-e are already 46,814 pensioners in the District, and up to Saturday last Colonel Zollinger had paid out in the four years of his service $30,617,525. Since the new quarter opened 277 names have been added to the list of pensioners. Colonel Zollinger's commismissioned term will expire January U, but his successor may take the office at any time. There are sixteen clerks in the office and it is not under civil service rules. The salary of the Agent is $4,000 without fees. Gen. Reub Williams, of Warsaw, was a prominent candidate for the position. Sam B. Sweet, of Fort Wayne, was also a candidate.

AFFAIRS IN RRAZIL.

General Da Fonseca »aid to Be Dying— Dom Pedro's Money Grants llecalled.

LOHDOX, Dec. 23.—A private cable dis patoh received from Rio de Janeiro, Sunday states that Marshal Deodora Da Fonseca, chief of the provisional government of Brazil, is dying. The question as to who will succeed him is engaging serious attention. It is believed that the change in the Ministry which would follow Marshal Da Fonseca's death would lead to serious complications. An executive decree, promulgated Sunday, fixes the date of the general election for Sept. lo, and the meeting of the constituent assembly for Nov. 15. By the samo dccree the ex-Emperor Dom Pedro is banished from Brazil, together with the members of the royal family, the Viscount d'Ouro Preto and his brother Carlos Alfonso. Senon Martino, governor of Rio Grande do Sul, chaiged with treason as the leader of the movement for the secession of that State, is con demned to transportation. The decree re calls and cancels the grant of 5,000,000 milreis to Dom Pedro, and suspends his allowance in the civil list.

ROASTED AND EATEN.

Four Sailors Kitledand Devoured toy an uibalti of the Solomon X*land«.

The Sydney Herald, just received, says that, according to a letter received from Captain Woodhouse, of the trading schooner Elma Fisher, the boat steei ei, Nelson, of the schooner Enterprise, of Sydney, and three of the native crew of the Enterprise, were killed and eaten by the cannibals of the Solomon Islands. Ihe Enterprise was trading among the islands and the natives from Hammond Island, one of the Solomon group, induced Nelson and the others to go ashore to make some purchases. Once on shore, they weie knocked on the head, and it is reported that the bodies were then roasted and eaten. The letter states that the British man-of-war Royalist shelled the villages on the islands, on Captain Hand learning the particulars.

S40.000 IN GOLD LOST.

Two silver bars, worth $40,000, were loa" off a truck at New York, Saturday, whilii in transit from the American Exchange National Bank to the Cunard steamship dock. A load of $400,000 worth of silver was being sent to the steamship Umbria, for shipment to England, when two of the bars were missed. At their intrinsic value, the bars should each weigh inoro than half a ton.

WASHED ASHORE.

The bodies of five of the missing thirteen persons belonging to the British steamer Cleddy, which was sunk off the

Isle

of Wight, Friday by collision with the British steamer Isle of Cyprus, and one of the Cleddy's boats have been washed ashore at St. Catherine Point, on the south side of the Island.

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The leadiag'chiefs of the Sioux nation had a conference, Wednesday, with Secretary Noble in the presence of the members, of the Sioux Commission, the Indian Bu reau officials and several Western Sena tors. The Indians ask for a resurveyof one of the boundary lines of their reservation, and that they be compensated for ponies appropriated by the United States troops during the Custer* war, in 1876. They also ask for more schools, and that Indians be employed in positions about the reservations when practicable.

Mr. Brown (Ind.) introduced a bill pro posing to give the widows of soldiers of the Mexican war the same rate of pension now allowed to the widows of Union sol diers.

The tariff bill introduced by Mr. Doekery includes those sections of the Mills bill relating to timber ana wood, wool and woolen fabrics, carpete and clothing.

A bill containing the outlin onational school law was introduced by Mr. Ingalls. It provides for the appointment-of a National Board of Education consisting of one member from each State and Territory and the District of Columbia, which shall have charge of all the machinery of a school system, the districts of which shall be established wherever the parents of twenty-five children ask for the appointment of a teacher. All instructions shall be in English the age of pupils maybe from four to twenty-one years, and the curriculum shall include the arts and sciences.

The House committee to investigate the Silcott defalcation Thursday reported that the loss should be sustained by thegoverainent.

The joint resolution for a recess from Saturday to Jan. 6 was concurred in by the Senate Thursday. A bill for a bridge over the Missouri at Kansas City was placed on the calendar. The treasury was instructed to investigate California's claims growing out of Indian wars. The resolution calling on the Navy Depart ment for information whether naval em ployes were organized and paying money for legislation, c.fter much debate, was agreed to also the resolution calling

Grave robbers are at work at Washing ton. A prominent physician is connected -with one of the robberies, and will be brought into court.

Strenuous efforts are being made by iWestern members interested in the cultivation of beet sugar to induce Congress to .take some steps towards the encouragement of the beet-sugar industry. It ia 'claimed by these gentlemen that, with the encouragement of a small bounty to begin with, this country would rapidly come to the front as a sugar-producer, and that it would not be many years before there would be a sufficient quantity of beet sugar produced to do away with the necessity of importing any products of the cane fields of Cuba. There are everal Senators who favor the proposed bounty, and there will doubtless be more or less discussion upon the subject in both Houses of Congress, but whether or not the country is ready to take this step is a doubtful question.

Speaker Reed announced the Commit tees in the House, Saturday. The chairmanships are as follows: Rivers and Har bors, Henderson of 111. Banking and Cur rency, Dorsey of Neb. Coinage, Weights aud Measures, Conger of Iowa Pensions, Delano of N. Y. Foreign Affairs, Hitt ol 111. Public Lands, Payson of 111. Irrigation of Arid Lands, Vandever of Cal. Im migration and Naturalization, Owen of Ind. Pacific Railroads, Dalzell of Pa. Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River, Burrows of Mich. Judiciary, Ezra B. Taylor of Ohio Commerce, Baker of N. Y. Merchant Marine and Fisheries, •Farquhar of N. Y. Agriculture, Funston of Kan. Military Affairs, Cutcheon of Mich. Naval Affairs, Boutelle of Me., Postoffice and

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AFFAIRS.

Wednesday the nomination of Judge Brewer was confirmed—5&ayes, II oays.

Post Roads,Biugham

Expenditures

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and Corsica." the latter as

the most formidable claimant to being" the birthplace of Columbus, will be given on the 12th of October in Fails,

celebration of "the 397th

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niversary the .New World. J.facie will be a procession of delegates from all the American States and from the West Indies.

Indian Depredation Claims, Her­

man of Ore. Reform in Civil Service, Lehlback, of N. J. Ventilation and Acoustic, Haugen, of Wis. Alcoholic

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information as to the disposition of abandoned military reservations. Mr. Plumb offered a resolution calling forinforma tion as to the legal status of Indian Territory, and as to the instructions given the Cherokee Commission. The resolution •ailing for information regarding Judge STerry's killing went to the Judicial Com mittee.

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Indian Affairs, Perkins of Kansas Territories, Struble of Iowa Railways and Canals, McCormack of Pa. Mines and Mining, Carter 'of Mont., Militia, Henderson, of Iowa Patents, Butterworth, of O. Invalid Pensions, Morrill of Kan. ..Claims, Laidlow, of N. Y. War Claims, Thomas, of Wis. Private Land Claims, Caswell, of Wis.: District of Columbia, Prout, of Vt. Re vision of Laws, Browne, of Ind. Expen ditures in State Dedartment, Scranton, of pa.

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iinent, Atkinson, of Pa. Expenditures in War Department, Yard ley, of Pa. Ex penditures in Navy Department, Sawyer„ ofN J. Fxpeaditares in Poatofflce Department, Brown, of N. C. Expenditures in Interior Department, Banks, of Mass. Expenditures in Department of Justice, Sherman, of N. Y. Expenditures in Department of Agriculture, Lafollette, of Wis. Expenditures in Public' Buildings, Flood, of N. Y. Library, O'Neil, of Pa. Printing, Russell, of Conn.: Election of President and vice-President, Lodge, of Mass. Eleventh Ceusus, Duanell, of

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One of the heathen customs which lady missionaries, have to get used to is not to look pleased whoa natives tell them that their babies look sweet enough to eat.