Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 1 March 1894 — Page 6

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THE REPUBLICAN.

Published by W. 8.

MONTGOMERY.

GREEK FIELD INDIANA

Toledo A. P. A.'s may be indicted for trming themselves. By an explosion in the coal mines at Blossburg, N. M., six miners were killed.

J. M. Dresser, the well-known Lafayetto ittorney, died at St Augustine, Ela., Suniay.

President Schurman, of Cornell, says the recent outrage at that institution is being vigorously investigated.

Forty Sicilian Anarchists aro said to have arrived at New York. They were jxpelled from their own country.

Three hundred negro convert?, men and ivomen, were baptized in the freezing ivater of a creek at Springfield, O.

For the first time since 1806 the State of New York has no representative in the Supreme Court of the United States.

President Cleveland, Secretaries GreshMn and Carlisle and a few friends are hunting ducks on the lower Potomac.

Official returns from the Pennsylvania slection give Grow, the Republican candiiate for Congressman, 185,000 plurality.

Norman L. Munro. the millionaire dime novel publisher, died at New York, Saturday, from the effects of a surgical operation for appendicitis.

Erastus Wiman was arraigned at New York, Monday, and plead "not guilty, He was admitted to bail. Mr. Wiman refused to be interviewed.

Seven State officers of Michigan have been indicted for fraudulent canvass of the 1S03 salary amendment. They arc shargid with manipulating the returns so as to increase their own salaries.

Mrs. Beresford, wife of a drayman, died of glanders at San Francisco, Tuesday. She caught the diseaso from a horse sneezing in her face. Tho whole upper portion of her face was eaten away by the disease.

Secretary Herbert will make an effort to save the hull of the wrecked Kearsarge ii there is any possibility of success. He has called on Admiral Stanton for a supplementary report for transmission to Congress.

Tho President is said to have "set down" on Vice President Stevenson, so far as appointments ai'e concerned, and is alleged to have said that he sees 110 particular reason for regarding his recommendations.

The sensation in Washington socictv is the desertion of Commodore W. K. Mayo by his twenty-year-old wife. The Commodore is seventy years old and the wedding was strongly opposed by the friends of both parties.

Washington's birthday was more generally observed throughout the country than is customary. Gov. Mclvinley spoke at the Auditorium, Chicago, in the afternoon and also at night at a banquet given by tho Union League.

Wallace, the £00-pound lion on exhibition at a Chicago museum, escaped from his keepers and bounded into tho audiBij.cc, Wednesday. A great, panic en?np,d. Th^ aiigry beast was linally secured before any damage was done.

The officers and crew of the wrecked Kearsarge arrived in New York, Wednesday, in good health and spirits. Admiral Stanton gave a detailed account of the cause of the wreck. There is no chance to save the famous old vessel.

Congressman Tom Johnson, of Cleveland, who a few years ago was superintending the operation of the Indianapolis 3treet railway and dealing in mules, is said to have attracted ithe attention ol New York politicians, and he is seriously regarded as a Democratic Presidential possibility in 1S06.

Chris. Evans was safely landed behind the penitentiary walls at Folsom, Cal., Wednesday. He is said to now regret that he surrendered and thinks he should have fought to the death, but claims that he did not have the heart to lire upon the crowd of old friends and neighbors that surrounded his home at Visalia,

Tho formal unveilinz of the portrait of Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, painted at cost of $2,500 foi the Daughters of tho Revolution, took place at the Church of Oai Father at Washington, Thursday night. Mrs. A. E. Stevenson, wife of the Vice* President, presided. The portrait will bo placed in the White House.

Mrs. John B. Martin, of London, formerly Victoria Woodbull, of Now York,has brought suit against tho trustees of the British Museum, to compel them to divulge the names of the parties who presented the museum with two books on the Beecher-Tilton trial in which she is charged with publishing obscene literature while a resident of New York city.

Orlando Coleman, of Ohio Falls, sleeping In tho building in which his grocery and postoffico is located, peeped out in time to see throe mui in the act of breaking in, lie thereupon armed himself and reached the ground by a back stairway, after which he opened lire upon the intruders. The shots were promptly returned, and there was a lively fusilade, in which no one was hurt. The robbery, however, was headed off.

Stcelo Mackaye, tho playwright and actor, died on a Santa Fe train at La Junta, Cal., Sunday, of cancer of thestom-

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BTEEM5 MACKAYE.

ach. lie was supposed to be suffering from nervous exhaustion and left Chicago last week for tho West on account of bis health

INDIANA STATU NWES.

A big revival is on at Dunkirk. Clay City has its first street lights. 2 Lebanon has started a Board of Trade.

Shelbyvil will have a new canning factory. Tho M. E. church at Bedford reports 150 conversions.

It is reported that the A. P. A. is 300 strong in Seymour, Greentown has secured the Indiana glass tumbler works.

Ex-Mayor Jas. L. Mitchell died at Indianapolis, Wednesday. Fort Wayne had a big lire, Friday morning. Loss, £75,COO.

Wade A. Taylor, of N.iles, Q., will establish a bank at Clay City. John Livingstone, of Worthington, was killed by the cars in Iilinois.

There is an alleged discovery of gold in the vicinity of Hagerstown. The Marion and Gas City elcctric line will be extended to Fairmount.

The elevator in the Soldiers Monument at Indianapolis is now in operation. A joint stock company has been organized at Elwood for tiie erection of a §20,000 hotel.

AY. J. Murphy is conducting a series of successful temperance meetings at Alexandria.

Bread sells at 10 cents a loaf in Laporio. The lakers there do about as well as the bankers.

The hulk of the Timothy Jioghorn. moored to the wharf at Yevuy. is alleged to be haunted.

Tho Shackleton Steam Radiator Company, of New .hrsey, will remove its plant to Alexandria. 1 Will Earle. of Wingate. has been fined on a grand jury indictment, for throwing a dead cat at a Christmas tree.

A company lias been formed at Elwood to manufacture a seif-binding harvester patented by a resident of that city.

The people of Hammond are again advocating the feasibility of converting the Calumet river into a harbor for lake boats.

Mrs. Hattie Taylor, who led the mob at Lebanon in the recent attempted lynching, has been abandoned by her husband.

A newspaper man near Fortville named Camp has named his iirst. baby Helen and there is Helen Camp every time tho baby opens its mouth.

August Keel, ex-treasurer of Bartholomew county, who was making a canvass for rcnorninatioa to that oflio, contracted pneumonia through exposure and died.

The commissioners of Pike county have concluded to build a £50.000 jail at Petersburg, and Winslow, which is anxious for a removal of the county seat to its own limits, is opposing the contemplated improvement.

Some undriown person threw a switch and put out the light on the Big Four road at Union City. Wednesday ght. A passenger train dashed into tho open switch, smashing six freight cars and the passenger engine. No one wa injured. The. express and mail cars were, badly wrecked.

The unique spectacle was presented at Shelbyville of two rival undertakers, with hearse and carriages, quarreling over the remains of the late George P. Hawkins, who recently died in the Central Insane Hospital. Both claimed the privilege of burying tho bo3y, but finally a compromise was reached. lit is proposed to deepen, widen and straighten the channel of Eel river in Whitley county a distance of seventeen miles, and the report of the commissioners has been filed at Columbia City. The estimated benefits are SOS.OCO, and the entire cost GO per cent, of this amount. Altogether 3,161 landowners are affected.

The State Conference of Charities closed a three days' session at Torre Haute, Thursday. The officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: President, E. A. K. llackett, of Ft. Wayne vicepresidents, Timothy Nicholson, of Richmond T. J. Charlton, of Plainfield W. C. Smallwood, of Torre Haute secretary, Alexander Johnson. a The creed of *the permanent organization of spiritualists recently formed at Muncie is that there is no death that the spirit is immortal and eternally progressive that spirits return and communicate with mortals through inediumship, and that individual moral responsibility is recognized. The seal adopted is a sunflower, signifying '•sunshine and light of truth."

The dead body of Lawrence Brady, a well known peddler, was found lying in the roadway near Williams's Ferry, in Posey county,tho head being battered and bruised, and every indication tpointing to murder. Near by was his pack, plundered of its contents. Two negro tramps who were seen in that neighborhood aro accused of the crime.

Carl Claud, sixteen yo ars old, of Tipton was seized with a fainting fit while in his room alone, and he fell forward on the stove, in which position it is not known how long he remained, as he made no outcry. His face and head were burned so badly that portions adhered to the stove, the bon? being cxposq: jn several places His recovery iimpossible.

Highwaymen at Indianapolis, Wednesday night attempted to "hold up" Dr. F. M. Abbott. Instead of complying the Doctor fled and when the robbers began firing he returned the compliment. In the fusilade that ensued the Doctor was slighly wounded and one of the footpads was fatally injured. Officers hurried to the scene and carried the wounded robber, to the police station where he soon died after giving what is believed to be tho fictitious name of John Janes. The other robber escaped. Abbott's wound is not serious.

Tho twelfth annual report of the Staie Board of Health is completed and ready to be submitted to the Governor. The report has been delayed on account of the tardiness of county health returns. The board says tho people of the State are becoming more interested in sanitation and the prevention and spread of epidemics and contagious diseases. The sanitary condition of tho State is better than it ever was before. The improvement is Juo to a threatened visit of Asiatic cholera, which induced the people to take extra precautions in regard to municipal cleanliness and the removal of causes of disease. During the year eighty-four town 'and village health boards were organized, and the total number now in existence is '254. Including county boards tho number is 346.

Tho sopkmore find freshmen classes of Wabash College commemorated Wash*

fngton'fl birthday by a "rush' that at one time took the forn of a riot, and Judge Harney wa! compelled to issue an order calming th« students down. The sophmores wen successful in persuading the ladies attached to a theatrical company to doi soplimore colors and the sophinore banner was hung to the drop curtain. Thil was captured by the freshmen and hunji from the jail. Then the sophmores had an inning, and so it proceeded throughout the day, with the honors comparatively easy when night put an end to the struggle.

REPUBLICAN EDITORS.

Mid-Winter Meeting of the 'State Association.

The mid-winter meeting of the Republican State Editorial Association met at the Denison Hotel, Indianapolis, Thursday evening. About fifty members were present. C, B. Landis, of the Delphi Journal, presided for President Brown' who was suffering from a severe cold. The editors were welcomed to Indianapolis by Harry S. New, of tho Indianapolis Journal. The response for the association was by Charles W. Stivers, of the Liberty Herald. Mr. McMillen, of the Chicago Inter Ocean, spoke briefly. A letter was received from ex-President Harrison, regretting his inability to attend a session of the.association because of his Cailifornia trip. The association was invited to call, however, and the invitation was accepted. The attendance at Friday's session was somewhat, larger than that of Thursday evening. The libel law received much attention, and it was the unanimous opinion of the members of the association that it ought to be amended. Mr. McMillen, of the Chicago Inter Ocean, related tho steps that are being taken by the publishers of Illinois papers to get the law in force in that State amended. The committee appointed to revise the constitution was instructed to provide for a permanent legislative committee. Several papT.- on trade topics were read and discussed. The association adopted resolutions deploring the financial and industrial disasters which have come upon the land, and hoping for the speedy restoration of that prosperity "which for thirty years under Republican rule our country has enjoyed": commending the administration of Benjamin Harrison pointing out that all the disaster that has come was predicted as the inevitable result of the adoption of Democratic policies, and is but its natural sequence condemning the Democratic policy that "the way to national prosperity is to strike down and destroy the industries which give the employment upon which one-third of our working people must depend for their uaiiy bread." The association held a short memorial meeting for Quincy Hosier, of the Warsaw Indianian, who died, several months ago. The association elected Charles B. Landis, of the Delphi Journal, President, and re-elected J. A. Kemp, of the Republican Leader, Salem, Secretary. The association decided to hold its midsummer meeting at Maxinkuckee. Friday, at -1 p. m., the association called on ex-President Harrison in a body.

The Three Per Cent. Registered BondsOther Financial Matters.

The three per cent, registered bonds of the State, amounting to §371,000, issued in 1852, and »payable at the pleasure of the State after April 1, 1801. will bo due on April 1. They will be taken up promptly when due. The bonds are held by the German Savings Bank of New York. Tho issue is for money borrowed by the State from the school fund which was raised by taxation. The interest has been 5 per cent., and at the time the loan was made the same amount of money, the Auditor of State says, could have been obtained at3 percent. The additional 2 per cent, was paid to assist the school fund, and for this reason it is thought that the §371,000 should not be included as a portion of the State's obligations, which now amount to over §8,000,030.

The 3 per cent, levy for a sinking fund to be applied to the State debt, as authorized by the last Legislature, will go into effect in April. During the year following not enough money from that source will be received to accomplish the purpose for which it was intended, but soon after that its effect on the commonwealth's indebtedness wiil be folt.

On Feb. 1 there was nearly §1,000,000 in the State treasury, but since then there has been a decrease. For the next two months the State will receive no money, and the expenses will be heavy. The Auditor of State has issued warrants for all of the individual specific appropriations allowed by the last General Assembly, and similar appropriations for Stato institutions are being paid as fast as they become due.

GATHERED IN.

Cal Armstrong Landed North.

in the Prison

Cal. Armstrong, Tipton county's defaulting Deputy Treasurer, who escaped from the Kokomo jail, delivered himself to a Kokomo officer at the Palmer House, Chicago, Monday, and was taken to tho Prison North at Michigan City to serve out his three year's sentence. Officers were close upon his track and ho would have soon been captured in any event. His gambler friends refused to give him money or aid him in any way, and being destitute and without hype of relief he surrendered. It now develops that Cal took the Jeff Davis plan of escaping. After breaking jail lie remained over twelve hours within a block of the jail, and tho same parties who sheltered hira gave him a woman's dress, so that he made his departure in female attire.

AN OLD LANDMARK GONE.

An old landmark of Columbus was removed, Wednesday morning. It was a large elm tree in the rear of tho Farley Hotel, or old "Elm House," one of tho first liostelriels in tho county. This was a good-sized trco when the first cabin was built in Columbus, and was the tree upon which Jones and Herron, two murderers, were hung, October 20, 1835, the only legal hangings that ever took place in tho county. This tree has always been pointed out to the stranger as an historical wlic. VsT

HFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.

In the Senate, Wednesday, the tariff question came up in an unexpected way Senator Voorhees denied that the Democratic members of the committee having charge of the tariff bill were submitting to tho President's directions. Further discussion caused Mr. Voorhees to say that it was no business of the Senate how the finance committee considered the bill. An acrimonious debate followed. Following this episode Senator White spoke on the Hawaiian resolution and condemned the conduct of ex-Minister Stevens. A resolution by Senator Gorman to print 6,000 copies of the Hawaiian papers was adopted. At 5:05 o'clock, on motion of Senator Gorman, the Senate went into executive session and at 5:45 adjourned.

A quorum to vote on the Bland seign« iorage bill could not bo secured in the House, Wednesday. On motion to adjourn over until Friday because of Washington's birthday a hot debate ensued. "If the Democratic party cannot do business," said Mr. Bland, hotly, "it"had better not fritter its time away on holidays. It would bo a sorry spectacle for us to adjourn over." Mr. Bland then made the point of order that no quorum having been developed the House could not entertain the motion to adjourn over. The Speaker sustained tho point of order, and the vote was taken by yeas and nays on Mr. Bland's motion to adjourn till Thursday. The motion was carried—140 to 07. Before the announcement of the vote was made Mr. Burrows moved that when the House adjouxn it adjourn to meet on Friday, but the Speaker decided tnat the motion was not in order, and then, at 4:05, the House adjourned till Thursday.

But twenty-five members were present when the Senate convened at noon, Thursday. Senator Hoar had read a newspaper article alleging the circulation of lottery tickets in Florida. Senator Pasco stated that the people of Florida were taking steps to put down the foreign lottery business in Florida and denied the existence of drawings in the State. On motion of Senator Gorman the Senate agreed when it adjourned to-day it would be to meet on Monday next. Senator Martin, of Kansas, offered a resolution instructing the finance committee to prepare a bill for the free coinage of silver at the rate of 1(5 to 1. He also presented a resolution directing the judiciary committee to prepare a jointresolution providing for the election of Senators by direct vote of the people. At the conclusion of the routine morning business the order of the reading of President Washington's farewell address was read. A number of Senators left the chamber before the reading commenced, leaving considerably less than a quorum in their seats. It was the signal also for an excuse from the galleries, leaving a small but very attentive audience. Mr. Martin stood beside the Vice-President while reading the memorable document. At 1:35 Senator Martin finished the reading of the address and on motion of Senntor Voorhees tho Senate adjourned till Monday.

The attempt of tho sergeant-at-arms to carry out the order for the arrest of absentees by arresting members, who refused to vote, on the floor of the House, Thursday, led to some sensational scenes. Representative Cummings, of New York,came down the middle aisle of the House just as the session was about to open. Deputy Hill stepped up to him and notified him by virtue of tho warrant he held Mr. Cummings would be placed under arrest and his parole taken. The Congressman flushed and took the matter seriously. He stepped back and in bitter language denounced the effort to arrest him. He refused to recognize tho validity of tho warrant. "I'll give you fair warning," said Mr. Cummings, "that if you touch rue you act at your peril." After order had been restore.! Mr. Cummings addressed the House and denounced the proceedings as a farce and desecration :f Washington's birthday. After some parliamentary int lions to adjourn had been disposed of the chair stated tin1 question to be upon Mr. Bland's demand for the previous question upon his motion to discharge Mr. Hulick from custody. As the House was dividing. Mr. Sickles, of New York, standing on his crutches in the center aisle, was loudlv calling for recognition, stating that ho had a question of the highest personal privilege to present. "I am informed," said he, "that I am under arrest. I demand to know by what authority." Mr pockery, who was in the chair, declared that Mr. Sickles could not interrupt tho proceedings while the House was dividing. Mr. Sickles, however, insisted on being heard, and Mr. Terry, of Arkansas, called him to order. The Speaker pro tern, ordered Mr. Sickles to take, his seat. Mr. Sickles declined to sit down. He said: "If I am under arrest I cannot be any worse off if I am in contempt. I am under arrest now, sir, and in custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms." All this time Mr. Sickles had been standing, demanding that he should be heard, and he was finally recognized. Mr. Sickles then said: "lam informed by the Sergeant-at-arms that I am under arrest, demand to know if tiiis is true." Tho ofiichil report of arrests made by th'j Scrgeant-at-Arms was Lhen read. "I di.maud a separate, trial." said "Mr. Sickles, after the reading of the report was concluded. "This is the House af Representatives," finally shouted Mr. Dockery, "not a beer garden. [Laughter and applause.] The gentleman will have & separate trial if he desires it, but the rules must be obeyed. The gentleman will take his seat." "I always obey orders," said Mr. Sickles, as he sat down. After other members who had been arfested had been heard in their own behalf, Mr. Sickles agaiu bocarae excited and hot ly interrupted the proceedings, declaring that the warrant for the arrest of absentees was void. The excitement grew to riotous proportions. Mr. Cummings camo to the support of Sickles and with uplifted arm and ringing voice called out: "You did not eall him to order at Gettysburg." LApplausc.] During all this time Mr. Dockorv had been counting the House and at this point he announced that the demand for tho previous question had been carried 97 to 0. "Are you going to adjourn and leave mo in chains?" asked Mr. Sickles, in a mock piteously-appealing fashion. The motion to adjourn was then put. As Mr. Bland, tho recognized leader of the fight, had made it his supporters voted with him, one of thorn, Mr. Pendleton, of Texas, standing on top of his desk in the rear of the hall. It was carried, 132 to 101, and at 3:05 the House closed one of tho most exciting and disorderly sessions of '-his Congress.

The m^obers of the House und*r »**43t

were discharged from custody, Friday, after four hours of wrangling. Mr. Reed came to the front in a characteristic way. Mr. Bland secured recognition and delivered a bitter speech arraigning members of his own party as well as Republican opponents as anarchits for their unlawful j, obstruction of the proceedings of the

House. He claimed that the Democrats were bound to do business or surrender and not waste the money of the country by wasting the time set apart for consideration of the seigniorage bill. Continuing, he said that a further refusal on the part of tho Democrats to vote and decide the question at issue was political suicide. At the conclusion of his sensational speech Mr. Bland moved that the House go into committee of the whole to consider the silver bill and that all debate close at 5 p. m. Saturday. On this the previous question was demanded. Filibustering at once began again, as Mr. Tracey demanded a division on the vote for the previous question. The division showed 147 to 2—no quorum. A motion to adjourn was lost and a recess was taken. At tho night session pension matters were considered. A roll call developed the presence of but fifty-six members. At 0:30 the House adjourned.

Saturday's session of the House was brief. Opponents of the Bland seigniorage bill continue.! to filibuster. Mr. Bland lacked two votes of a quorum on roll call, although 273 members were present in the chamber. After several ineffectual attempts to proceed with business Mr. Bland, rising in his place, shouted: "It is quite evident that the bondholder:! have control over this country, and I therefore move that tho House adjourn." Without division it was carried, and at 2:55 p. m, the House adjourned.

Monday's session of the Senate was devoted to hearing of the various reports of the foreign affairs committee on the Hawaiian ali'air and a consideration of the same.

The session of the House, Monday, was replete with sensational incidents. Mr. Boutclle presented a resolution providing l'or the recall of Minister Willis from Honolulu, which was referred. The contest over the Bland seigniorage bill-was resumed, and a motion to go int." '•oinmittee of the whole disclosed no quorum. A roll call s'nowed the presenco in the House of 273 members. The debate was rosumed. Mr. Ponce resumed his speech begun two weeks ago. He accused the Democrats and Republicans of complicity on the money question, and said that with four honorable exceptions the Republican members of th House had been whipped in to do the bidding of Senator Sherman, who was tho chief lieutenant of a Democratic President. Continuing, Mr. Pence said: "Mr. Chairman, I have never engaged in the role of a prophet, but I am going to do so now. The next President of the United States will be elected by the vote of the Fifty-fourth House of Representatives. If there is any one man here especially interested in knowing what will be the answer on the roll call of States at that time, probabiy it is the gentleman from Maine, who to-day and upon every occasion is standing up ben- and elsewhere to measured ag iinsi ijor Mclvinley as a candidate for President in l.Sii). (Laughter. When the vole comes before this House the vote of Idaho will be as big as the vote from Pennsylvania. Tho vote of Montana will be as big as tho vote from New York, each State having one vote. I say to him now that when that' roll call comes by States he will ruo this' day and the last fifteen days."

Mr. Patterson followed Mr. Pence. He denied that he had offered a rosolution in the Democratic caucus to count a quorum. Nevertheless he favored it. Ho was not one of those who would go back on the Lord's prayer because it was indorsed by the gentleman from Maine. (Republican applause.) Proceeding, ho said that while he favored this bill ho thought that the discussion in the House was having and had had a disastrous effect upon the business of the country. Mr. Fithian scored the Democrats who filibustered. Mr. Bland then made a vigorous appeal t? the Democrats opposing his bill to cease filibustering. He announced that tomorrow morning he would move to close debate, and every day thereafter until the bill was brought to a vote. A Democratic caucus had decreed that it should be kept before the House until it was voted up or down, and it would be. The filiousterers must take the responsibility for such delay as it caused. A running debate followed. Mr. Pence again secured recognition, and said if his course did not satisfy the dignity of tho House it satisfied himself. Continuing, Mr. Pence said: "I am ready now to proceed with what I was saying when the gentleman from Nebraska (who is fuller of whiskers than ideas) interrupted me." Ho pause'. There was a good deal of indignation among the Republicans at Mr. Pence's defiance, which was shared to some extent on tho Democratic side, as on the motion to allow him to proceed a score of Democrats voted against the motion, which was defeated—30 to GO. Mr. Pence sat down and the House adjourned.

MAKTIN VAN U. SPENCEH, Indiana's New Pension Agent.

WHOLESALE POISONING.

Many farmers wore poisoned by eating cold boiled meat at a public sale ueai Somerset, Pa., on the 22d, Two have died. The meat was boiled in a copper kettle, and served with a cold lunch according to custom in that, region. Several of the poisoned men cannot recover.

2 A Michigan -City school teacher instructed a pupil to purchase a grammar and received tho following note from the child's mother: "1 odo not desire my daughter to engage in grammar as I prefer her engago in youseful studies and can learn her to speak and write properly myself. I have went through two grammars, cwvt say as they did mo no good I prefer engage in german and drawing and vocal music on the piano.1'

A POPDLIST ADDRESS.

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An Arraignment of the Democratic and' Kvixibiiraii l'nrllej,

The National committee of the Populist party closed a two day's session at St. Louis, Friday. Chairman Taubeneck presided. The committee issued an address to the country of which the following is an extract:

The union of the leaders of the old parties under Grover Cleveland and .lohn Sherman have forced down the volume ol the circulating medium to the single gold standard, thereby enhancing the purchasing power of money and depreciating tho price of earnings of wage owners. The power acquired by the campaign promises of the Democratic and Republican parties to restore silver to the place it occupied a« a money metal previous to tho crime of 1873 has been used to consummate that iniquity. The tactics of deceiving the people by sham issues, which have been so successful in the past, will be employed to maintain the gold standard and "retire ixreonbacks. The British policy of a sin trie gold standard system of finance is contrary to every principle of American independence.

Both the old parties will present the. tariff and other issues, and deny during the campaign that they are in "favor of the policy of money contraction, which, by their united action they have pursued for the last twenty years: and they will be for or against any and all issues which they suppose will give them the most vote'. But when they secure the power they will lit"" it in the future as they have done in the past —in the interest of the gold combination. We denounce the issue of bonds in time of peace as an act of treason and usurpation unequaled in the history of civilized government.

The following resolutions were also adopted: Whereas, The so-called Wilson bill fails to provide sufficient revenue to defray the legitimate, expenses of the government, and thereby creates a deficiency, of which the administration will take advantage to issue interest-bearing bonds to saddle further irenerations and further perpetuate the national banking monopoly of the country, and.

Whereas. Tt discriminates acainst the producers of raw materials in the South and West and protects the monopolists of tho East, therefore, be it

Resolved, That it is the sense of tho national committee of the People's party that the People's party Senators and Representatives in Congress should voto against the passage of said bill unless is provides for said deficiency by an incomo tax and. further.

Resolved, That they be requested to vote against said bill if said deficiency ia to be supplied by the issuance of interestbearing bonds.

PRENDERGAST SENTEMCED.

At Chicago. Saturday, Judge Bretan-v overruled the motion for a now trial in the Prendergastcase and sentenced the assassin to bo hanged March 23. Tho prisoner made a rambling speech in his own behalf claiming that he did right in killing Harrison, and compared himself to Christ. He said:

In this case I have been charged with being vainglorious and a notoriety-seeker. This is not true, and it has been disprove,!) in the trial. Christ was not a vainglorious man, neither am I. The temptation that were offered Christ on the Mount showod that He was not vainglorious, and any one that has withstood such temptation* as I have is certainly not vainglorious. It was the most infamous thinp in history to kill Christ on the cross, and It will be as infamous to hang me.

CURE FOR SMALLPOX.

(V dispatch dated City of Mexico, Feb. says: Gen, Aureliano Reviers, who discovered the famous Jicamaroot for the cure of typhus, and has been distributing it gratuitously to the poor, has mado the further discovery that the same root will cure smallpox. The discovery was made accidentally, the preparation having been' given to a patient, from the symptoms at the early stage of the disease it was sup posed had typhus, but it proved to bosmallpox. The root worked like a charm, however, in rapidly curing the man. Gen. Reviers believes now that it will cure yellow fever and has sent a package of it tc Vera Cruz for trial there by the physiciansat the next appearance of an epidemic.

THE MARKETS.

BEESWAX—20c

Feb. 27, 1831.

ImllanapolU.

GUAIX AM) HAY.

Wiikat—5lc: corn. 34}«ic: oats, 31).'c rve, 45c. Uav—Choice timothy, -tH.50 INo-'l, fit.^5: No. SO.50: No. .1 prairie, £0.50 mixed. clover, $7.50^3 per ton.

J.IVK STOCK.

Cattlk Shippers, S'J.75,a\'5.80: feeders, f3.(KX«i3,l0 heifers. ?2.25(tf)3.(t0 cows, 82 OO.u-3.2.") veals, $l.rXK$4 bulls. $1.50£3 milkers, $15.00''(i40.00 Hogs—$4.00^5.25. Sheep—S1.75 ^3.25. l'OULTUY AND OTITKU PliODUCE. (Prices Paid by Dealers.)

Poui/niv liens. ti'jC per tb young chickens. OJ^c per tt turkeys, old toms, 4c per hens, 7c per fancy, fat young torn turkeys, 5c poor 4c ducks, GUc per lb: geese, •S4.20u£4.S0 per doz. for choice.

Eggs—Shippers paying ltc.

Butter—Lxtra,

Ik' mixed, S@10c.

Honey—New, ltnffilSc Fkathkus—Prime geese, 40c per mixed duck, 20c per ll.

for yellow l.c. for dark.

Wool—LJnwashed medium wool, unwashed coarse or braid, 13(.it5c unwashed line merino. KK«,'i:c: tub-washed, lS'..ti20c hurry and cottedwool, 5to lUcless than above prices.

Hides—No. 1 green hides. 2Kc No 1 G. S. hides. :i'3'c: No. 2 «. S. hides, No. 1 calf hides, 5c No. 2 caif hides, 3, jC.

CMcftljo.

Whk vt—59%c corn: 31njc oats, 28c pork. *12.(15 lard, $7.47..:_rios, 50.35 cattle, $3(0)4.05 hogs, #4.00(^5.40.

New YorU.

Wheat—GOVc: corn, 42%c oats, 37'Xc* butter. Elgins. 27c. Minneapolis.

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Wheat—No. 1 hard. 53 ^'C. Cincinnati. Wheat —57c co*"ti. 37c: oats, oljgc pork, $12.50 buttor. Elgin, 27c.

St. Louis.

Wheat—51%c corn, 32%c oats, 28)4c. Baltimore. Wiikat—fiO^'c corn, 41

rye, 50c.

Wc oats, 35c

Fhlladclptil-*.

Wiiea-i-58c corn. 35%c oats, 35%c. Toledo. Wheat—55/iC corn, 35c oats, 29c rye, 50c. ,• ,i

Detroit.'

Wiikat—55^ corn, 3Gc oats, 31£c rya i9c. Tlaflblo.

HOGS—[email protected] sheep, f2.50O3.75. Eut Utwrt/, Hods—|5.4Q@& 65.