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•September, 1880, require an examination and adjustment, and such of thorn as hare been examined and settled upon a different basis should be re-examined. STRONG AROUMKNTS, They Hare Little or No Influence with American Legislators. {Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Jan. 27.—“ The wonderful power of Gladstone when he makes a speech in the English Parliament always impressed me with the difference between the English government and our own,” said a prominent rnomber of the National Board of Trade, recently in session here. “I see that the grand old man made his opening address to the English Commons last week. He not only rallied every member of all the sections of his own party to his support, but he also secured a considerable following from the opposition, and even the most rabid Tories applauded his effort. 1 have frequently watched the debates in Congress, and I have heard some most eloquent and learned addresses there, but I do not remember the time when the most powerful argument that could be advanced by the ablest man on the floor had the effect of winning twenty votes to the cause which he advocated. Somehow or other, the American legislator fails to pay any attention to the merits of the case under discussion, and that is where we are be bind, I think, the English government.” The observations of this gentleman have been frequently indorsed by others who have paid any attention to the “deliberations” of Congresj, and It is. perhaps, owing to this state of affairs that a joint resolution to amend the Constitution was introduced a couple of weeks ago. The proposed amendment has for its object the first step towards making the American Congress a parliamentary body, like the English legislature. It proposes to give five members of the Cabinet a scat on the floor of the House, and to allow them to participate in debates upon any questionc which may come up in which they are severally interested. There is no doubt that this scheme would be beneficial in some respects. The members of the government who make particular branches of the executive departments special studies are more competent to explain the workings and requirements of their several departments than any committee chairman could possibly be. On the other hand, however, the amendment would, in a measure, do away with that line which divides the legislative from the executive branches of the government, and, in that respect, is opposed to the spirit of American institutions. For this reason it is hardly likely that it will ever be adopted. O’NEILL’S “INFLOOENCE.” The Plan Pursued by a Constituent to Ascertain "What It Was Worth. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Jan. 27.—John J. O'Neill, of Missouri, chairman of the House labor committee, represents a district in the city of St. Louis which is composed largely of a semi-rural element, with a large sprinkling of Milesian politicians. Among the latter there are a great many men who desire to serve the government in various capacities, and they make frequent calls upon the Hon. John for his influence. A short time ago a man named McGrath came here and said to his representative, the Hon. Mr. O'Neill: “John, I see there is a messengorship in the Interior Department which I want you to get for me.” McGrath is quite a well-to-do citizen of St Louis, and has a good deal of political influence in the ward in which he resides. O'Neill was very naturally surprised that he should want such a place, and asked his reasons. “Niver moind why I want it,” said McGrath, “it’s enough for you to know that Ido want it. The Dimocrats have just got in after twenty years, and it’s toime for some of them to have an office. You get me the place.” Mr. O’Neill, in compliance with his constituent’s request, made several trips to the Interior Department, and finally Mr. McGrath was directed to put in an appearance, when his appointment was handed to him. “Now,” said the Assistant Secretary, “you come around to-morrow morning and swear in, and we will set you to work.” “No, Ibo if I will,” said the St. Louis gentleman; “I don't want such a place.” The Assistant Secretary was astonished, and inquired why he had made such an effort for the place if-he did not desire to fill it “I will tell you,” said McGrath, with a knowing look from the corner of his eye, “I just wanted too see how much influence Mr. John O’Neill had in this department I don’t want none of your government positions, but I wanted to see how solid John was.” POLLARD’S UNSAVORY RECORD. A Specimen Democratic Appointment Under Investigation by the Senate. Washington Special to New York Tribune. The President has been singularly unfortunate in his judicial appointments. Tho Senate committee on the judiciary, I understand, has its inds full examining the charges made against he different judges appointed under the new administration. It had scarcely got through with a batch of indictments which put O. W. Powers, the new Supreme Court Justice of tho Territory of Utah, in rather a strange light, to say the least, when it was called upon to listen to some revelations regarding Charles B. Pollard, recently appointed Associate Justice in Montana. This man Pollard is an intimate friend of the Attorney-general. He was also recommended for the office he now holds by Senator Voorbees. He is a Southern man toy birth, and of course a confederate brigadier, though his enomies say that he fled before he was called upon to do any fighting. After the war he went to Indiana and began the practice of law. The following story illustrates .better than anything else, perhaps, the kind of a man Pollard is. It forms part of the record now before the judiciary committee, and is based upon the proceedings in an Indiana court: A few years ago, it appears, Pollard was employed by one Robert M. Barkley, then living in Jasper county. Indiana, to collect a draft amounting to $2,300. After the suit was begun Barkley went to Missouri, and subsequently to Texas, where he died, leaving a widow' and four children. Pollard got himself appointed administrator of Barkley’s estate in Indiana, and was substituted as plaintiff in the action then pending to collect the draft The action terminated in a judgment for the plaintiff. Pollard was paid, in Satisfaction of the judgment, $2,300,. which, together with S3OO ho had obtained from Barkley as pay in advance for his services in this matter, made $2,600 in all which he had received. The regular judge of the court was, of course, familiar with the condition of the various trusts pending in his court for settlement. This Pollard knew. Ho, therefore, waited until the bench was temporarily occupied by a judge not familiar with these trusts before •be presented his report for final settlement. The report represented the estate as absorbed in the payment of ots own claim. The proceedings ■wore entirely ex parte. The widow and children were in a distant State. There was no one to represent them, and, consequently, Pollard s report was accepted without dispute. While Pollard was enjoying 1:1s ill-gotten gains the widow toiled to : ut bread into the mouths of her fatherless children. She repeatedly wrote to Pollard, but •.ever received a satisfactory reply. His answers v/ere vague and evasive. No settlement could be obtained from him. At last tho widow wrote to her brother-in-law. who lived in Jasper county. She told him her troubles and her suspicions, lie hunted up the court records, saw the presiding judge of the court, called on Pollard himself, and discovered, that his sister in-law had been defrauded, anothat Pollard had withheld from her the knowledge of the settlement, as well as the collection of the draft He employed an attorney, who demanded of Pollard that he restore to the widow and orphans the patrimony of which he had robbed them. Pollard detuurred. He found excuse after excuse. At last

a suit was instituted. It could have had but one result Pollard was compelled to make anew and honest settlement of his trust The ink was hardly dry upon the record of this judgment when the announcement of Pollard’s nomination was flashed over the wire from Washington. The astonishment of his neighbors made way soon to their indignation at the President's choice. They could scarcely believe the report It was monstrous. The President must have been grossly deceived. It was only when they heard that Voorheeshad recommended Pollard for appointment that thev understood it at all. It was necessary that Poliard’s nomination should be defeated They set quietly to work looking over the court records. Their labor was rewarded by the discovery of more of Pollard’s peculiar transactions. In one case it was shown that Poliard had induced a simpleminded girl to deed to him her share in her father’s estate, worth $2,700, for $350. In another it was shown that Pollard altered a deed after the death of the grantor, William Allen, so as to conform to the wishes of one of the grantees under the will. A Democratic journal denounced Pollard as a “jury-nxer,” and men were found who had heard Pollard himself boast of his accomplishments in this field. By others it was asserted that Pollard was unable even to spell correctly, aud in support of this statement they produced the record of a case in which Pollard acted temporarily as public prosecutor and in which an indictment for horse-stealing was dismissed on the ground that Pollard had spelled the word “horse” incorrectly in the indictment The President and the Attorney-general who dismissed Judge Vincent without giving him an opportunity to be heard in his defense because he appointed Dorsey as commissioner of jurors, are in possession of all these facts, yet they think it hardly worth while to move in the case of Judge Pollard. They prefer the judiciary committee of the Senate to explore this scandal, and undoubtedly the committee will do it. BOUTELLE AND WISE. Statements of Fact Which the House Refused to Receive. Washington, Jan. 27.—Congressman Boutelle to-day sought, but failed to obtain, leave to lay formally before the House of Representatives, and to have printed in the Record, certain citations from official documents in support of his statement, made last week, relating to the destruction of the dry-dock at the Portsmouth, Va., navy-yard. Congressman Wise, of Virginia, had declared, in reply, that the dry-dock dad never been destroyed. The citations which Mr. Boutelle offered are four in number, of which the following is the substance: Major general John F. Wood reported to the Secretary of War, under date of Fortress Monroe, May 12, 1862, that on the 11th he had visited the navy-yard and “found all the work shops, store houses and other buildings in ruins, having been set on fire by the rebels, who, at the same time, partially blew up the dry-dock.” Flag Oflicer Goldsborough, of the North Atlantic blockading squadron, reported on May 12, 1862, to the Secretary of the Navy that be had visited the navy-yard while the property was still burning. He said: “Nearly everything is destroyed. Os the buildings, the officers’ quarters alone remained intact. * * * The dock gates are all destroyed, and the pier ends connected with the gates blown up to a partial degree, but otherwise the dock itself is uninjured.” The next day Admiral Goldsborough reported as follows: “The reports in the papers about the navy-yard at Norfolk are utterly and entirely false. To have destroyed it more effectually than has been done would have been a difficult task. Essentially, it is in jitter ruin.” Commodore Josenh Smith, Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, in his annual report, said of the work at the Norfolk navy-yard: “The dry-dock has been pumped out by the aid of temporary pumps, so that its condition could be ascertained. The turning-gates were destroyed, and the masonry about them considerably injured to tho depth of about twenty feet below the coping. The floating-gate was seriously iujured by fire and powder. * * * The masonry at the entrance and below the points, twenty feet from the coping, appears to be injured. The steam-engine for pumping out the dock was destroyed by the rebels, but tho pumps were but slightly injured.” THE SILVER QUESTION. A Number of Proposition* Presented for Consideration by the Committee. Washington, Jan. 27.—The House committee on coinage, weights and measures to-day began the consideration of the silver question. The whole subject was discussed in an informal way, and while tho members spoke more freely than heretofore, they did not state their views specifically, but in very general terms. The discussion took a very wide range, reference being made to the French monetary system and our own paper money. The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Lanham during the session of tho committee: Resolved, That it is the duty of the committee on coinage, weights and measures, at as early a day as Sracticable, to report to the House a bill looking to tho ree coinage of standard silver dollars. Mr. Scott, of Pennsylvania, thereupon introduced as a substitute for this resolution the following: Resolved, As the sense of this committee, that the best interests of the country cannot be promoted by any bill now before the committee looking to the free coinage of silver. Mr. Bynum, of Indiana, also introduced a resolution on the subject, which reads as follows: Resolved, That it is tho sense of this committee that the laws regulating and providiugfor the issue of gold and silver certificates should bo so amended as to provide for the retirement of the same and for the issue of coin certificates in their stead. No action was taken by the committee upon any of these resolutions, uor did they elicit a distinct expression of views from any of the members. It was resolved that the question should be further discussed and opinion sought from different persons interested in the question until Feb. 10, when the committee will proceed to consider the distinct propositions now before them. NEW YORK’S GRANT MONUMENT. The House Military Committee Recommends an Appropriation of $>500,000. Washington, Jan. 27.—1n reporting favorably to the House the bill granting $500,000 for the erection of a Grant monument in New York city, the military committee says: “The remains of this illustrious citizen and soldier are entombed in a locality selected in accordance with his dying request. Tho immediate spot is one hallowed by the footsteps of Washington, and on a battle-ground of the Revlution, occupying a commanding position of some 125 feet above the waters of the Hudson river. The municipal authorities of the city of New York, on learning the expressed wish of General Grant, promptly offered to his family tho choice of any spot they mieht select in any of their great public parks. In accordance with this generous offer the place was selected which now contains his remains. A nation mourned at his grave—the highest representatives of the Nation participated in the obsequies, millions of Americans have visited the tomb, and an almost endless procession are still visiting it. For years to come it will be a Mecca for all who love their country and all who venerate the greatness and Christian magnanimity of this distinguished soldier and statesman. Regarding the erection of a monument on this hallowed spot as a truly national project, in which all Americans should be allowed to unite, we recommend the passage of the bill.” AGRICULTURE AND LABOR. A Bill to Create n New Department and a New Cabinet Official, Washington, Jan. 27.—The committee on agriculture of the House to-dav agreed to accept the amendment proposed by the labor committee to Mr. Hatch’s bill to enlarge the powers and duties of the Department of Agriculture and ordered the bill to be favorably reported to the House. As agreed upon in committee, the bill provides for the establishment of a Department of Agriculture and Labor, under the supervision of a Secretary of Agriculture and Labor, who shall be appointed by the President and confirmed by tho Senate. The bill also provides

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for the appointment of an assistant secretary. The new section presented for in corporation in the bill of the labor committee creates the Department of Agriculture and Labor, with a division which shall be under the charge of a Commissioner of Labor, who shall be appointed by the President, with the advice and consent of t.he Senate. He is to hold office for four years, unless sooner removed, and to receive a salary of $4,000 por annum. The Commissioner shall collect information upon the subject of labor, its relation to capital, the hours of labor, the earnings of laboring men and women, the means of . promoting their material, individual and moral prosperity, and the best means to prevent accidents in mines, workshops, factories, and other places of industry. The Secretary of Agriculture and Labor is empowered to inquire into the cause of discontent which may exist between employes and employers within the United States, and he may invite and procure sworn statements from both parties concerning the matter in controversy. The Secretary shall make a report to Congress annually upon the condition of labor in the United States, with such recommendations as he may deem important. The bills to establish a department of industry will be reported back to the House by the committee on labor, with the announcement that their main features have been incorporated in the bill to be reported by the committee on agriculture. MINOR MATTERS. The House Military Committee Favors an Appropriation for a Grant Monument. Washington, Jan. 27.—The House committee on mil tary affairs to day instructed Mr. Viele to report favorably to the House the bill introduced by Mr. Dowdney for the erection of a monument in New York city to the memory of General Grant. The bill appropriates $500,000 for the purpose of'erecting tho monument on ground to bo donated by the city. The President is authorized to appoint an officer of engineers of the army and five commissioners, the commissioners to servo without pay, who, with the executive committee of the Grant Monument Association of New York, shall expend the money under the direction of the Secretary of War. It is provided, however, that no part of the money so appropriated shall be expended or drawn from the Treasury of the United States until the sum of $250,000 shall have been subscribed and paid into the funds of said Grant Monument Associatiori and is available for the purpose of erecting the monument. Nominations Confirmed. Washington, Jan. 27.— The Senate confirmed the following nominations: United States District Attorneys—Cyrenius P. Black, Eastern district of Michigan; D. O. Finch. Southern district of Iowa; R. C. Smith, for Montana. United Sates Marshals—Frederick H. Marsh, Northern district of Illinois; Edward Campbell, jr., Southern district of Iowa; A. J. Goss, for Kentucky. Registers of Land Offices—Thomas J. Butler, New Orleans; D. H. Hall, Eureka, Nev.; H. Pofley, Boise City, I. TANARUS.; W. S. Austin, Vancover, W. TANARUS.: B. McFarland, Cceur d’Alene; S. E. Thayer, Wauseon, Wis. Receivers of Public Moneys—Tyrel H. Bell, Evaslie, Cal.; Wm. O. Mills, Eureka, Nev.; J. O. Keane, Vancouver, W. TANARUS.; H. C, Branstetter, Boise City, I. TANARUS.; W. J. Cody, Bodie, Cal.; S. S. Kepler, Eau Claire, Wis.; O. C. Halse, LaCrosse, Wis.; M. D. McHenry, Des Moines, la. W. J. McKinney, collector of customs, Cayahoga, Ohio. A. Warden, supervising inspector of steam vessels for the Seventh district. W. D. Bloxham, surveyor-general of Florida. Postmasters—Jas. Rutherford, Milford, Mich., Patrick Calligan. Alpena, Mich.; Geo. Crawford, Mineral Point, Wis.; John Pepper, Boscobel, Wis. None of the predecessors of the above-named appointees were “removed” or “suspended.” Another Call for Information. Washington, Jan. 27.—1n the executive session of the Senate, to daj T , Senator Morrill, from the finance committee, offered two resolutions, which went over for a day on objections *from the Democratic side. One of them is similar to that offered by Senator Edmunds, from the judiciary committee, on Monday. It directs the Secretary of the Treasury to send to the finance committee any papers on file in his office relating to tho administration of the office of collector of internal revenue for the district of West Virginia, by Samuel P. McCormick. McCormick was suspended last spring, and John T. McGraw was nominated in his place. McGraw’s nomination was not acted upon by the Senate during the called session, and he was renominated last December. The other resolution directs the Secretary of the Treasurer to send to the committee the papers on file in the department relating to the appointment and record of D. Frank Bradley, to be collector of internal revenue for the district of South Carolina, vice Elroy W. Brayton, suspended. The nomination was made on the 16th of last December. Working of Civil-Service Reform. Washington, Jan. 27.—The Civil-service Commissioners appeared before the House committee on civil-service reform and explained the provisions and practical effect of the civil-service act. They said, among other things, that five out of every twenty persons examined by the Commission had secured appointments. They also said that since the law went into effect there had been only 600 changes in the departmental service out of 6,000 persons subject to civil service rules. Some discussion occurred as to the means best calculated to insure an equal distribution of the appointments among the States and Territories, based upon their populations, but without action the committee adjourned the hearing until next Wednesday. Petitions for Service Pension. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Terre Haute, Jan. 27. —A committee of the G. A. R. to-night forwarded to Congressman Johnston petitions in support of the pension bill introduced by him, containing over seven thousand signatures. Among the largest lists were those from Democratic strongholds in the State. This is but the first installment. General and Pergonal. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Jan. 27.—Maj. A. F. Farrar, formerly of Lawrenceburg, and brother-in-law of Major Gordon, of Indianapolis, has been promoted from a first to a second-class clerkship in the Patent Office. Major Farrar well deserved promotion, being an eminently efficient clerk and a disabled Union soldier. Comment complimentary to Commissioner of Patents Montgomery, is being made on his recognition of soldiers and their widows in his office. Besides uniformly kind treatment, he is giving them preference in promotions, and in this he is encouraged by Major Kelly, of Terre Haute, who is chief of the assignment division. The name of the postoffice at Shielville, Ham ilton county, has been changed to Atlanta. The postoffico at Nogo, Howard county, has been discontinued. The mail goes to Poplar Grove. Senator Morrill reported favorably, to-day, from the committee on finance, Senator Van Wyck's bill, relating to the sale of property in which national banks in the hands of receivers have interests. The House committee on military affairs today instructed Mr. Wheeler to report favorably the bill introduced by him to authorize the President to restore officers to the army in certain cases. The bill is intended to cover the case of Fiiz John Porter. Only two members of the committee disagreed to the report Tho total number of immigrants arriving in the United States during tho twelve months ended Dec. 31, 1885, was 326,411, against 403,230 for the year ending Dec. 31, 1884. The total values of the exports of merchandise for the twelve months ended Dec. 31, 18S5, were $688,846,556, and for the twelve months ended Dec. 31. 1884, $740,366,428, a decrease of $60,519,672. The values of the imports of merchandise for 1885 were $587,551,506. and for 1884, $629,261,680, a decrease of $11,710,354. A Store Throat or Cough, If suffered to progress, often results in an incurable throat or lung trouble. “Brown's Bronchial Troches” give instant rt/Tief.

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS The Daily Chronicle of Happenings of all Kinds in the Two States. Tho Great Tostoffice War at Kewanna—Progress of tho Chambers Trial—First Sait Under a New Law—Gleanings. INDIANA. A Fanny Postofflce War Which la Agitating; the People of Kewanna. Special to tho Indisnaoolis Journal. Rochester, Jan. 27.—The affairs of the postoffice at Kewanna, a few miles west of here, are considerably complicated, and a great deal of bad feeling has been engendered among the Democrats of that locality by the appointment, some time ago, of J. O. Howell to succeed Jesse W. Carter, who had for about fifteen years discharged the duties of the office in an efficient and satisfactory many. About two years ago A. D. Toner, the Democratic representative of Fulton and Pulaski counties, erected a handsome brick block in the eastern part of the village, and fitted up one of the rooms, into which the postoffice was moved from its former position, in the western part of tho place. Mr. Toner purchased elegant boxes at his own expense, and in consideration of the removal, he tendered the use of the room free of charge. After the change there originated a strife between the business men of the town, as the business began to centralize in the locality of the new location of the office, thus working a disadvantage to those doing business near the former room occupied by it. A short time after the inauguration of Cleveland Mr. Toner and a number of his adherents presented a petition asking for the retention of Mr. Carter, and so the matter rested until other factions of the local Democracy entered a violent protest, and Mr. Howell was appointed. On being installed, the new official refused to accept the courtesies extended by Toner, who offered the free use of the room and the office paraphernalia, but immediately moved the office to a room near its former location, and secured an outfit of Yale boxes. The position of deputy was offered Mr. Carter, who is to receive the entire emoluments of the office for his servicea The inhabitants of the east part of the town are exceedingly wrathy, and will not enter the new postoffice, bat have authorized a minister of the village to visit the office after the arrival of each mail and secure their letters, which are taken to the room in the Toner block’and distributed, so that the town is virtually supplied with two postofficea The citizens are worked up into a high state of excitement over the matter, and piospects for a compromise are meager. The Chambers Trial. Special to the Indianapolis Journal* Bloomington, Jan. 27.—The trial of Chesley Chambers is now under full headway, the jury being completed by 10 o'clock thia morning. It is an average body of men, but is regarded as favorable to the defendant. In the statement of the case to the jury by the State no new theories were indicated, it being evident that the same fight will be made. The examination of witnesses began at 2 o’clock, but nothing of importance was developed. An effort to prove that Chambers had made the peculiar tracks left by the robber in his flight, by showing that he kad a great toe amputated several years ago, was ruled out, to the injury of the State. The defendant reserved the right to make & statement of the case. There is still great interest in the case and the attendance is large. Important evidence will come up to-morrow. Tile-Mill Burned. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Muncie, Jan. 27.—Fire this evening consumed the large tile-mill owned by E. P. Smith, and situated one-half mile south of the city. This mill was one of the few extra good mills in the State, being fitted out„with the latest and most improved machinery. The mill had been in operation but one season, and was doing an extensive business, giving employment to quite a number of men. The fire originated in the office, and in a half hour after it caught the building was in ashes. The loss includes a large amount of green aud dry tile, and cannot be less than $15,000; insured for $5,000, equally distributed among the Fire Association of Philadelphia, the Royal of Liverpool and London, and the North British and Mercantile. First Case Under a New Law. Special to the Indianapolis Journal, Greensburg, Jan. 27.—The first case begun in this county under the new statute providing for an action to secure support by a deserted wife was filed to-day. George B. McClellan Critser is the defendant, and bis wife Lizzie asks for support for herself and child from hia estate. Last August he began an action for divorce, alleging incompatibility of temper, but it was dismissed by him and they continued to live together until last Saturday. Mr. Green anti Hia Creditors. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Martinsville, Jau. 27.—1n justice to Jacob Green, a notice of whose failure was printed in the Journal of yesterday, it is related that the rush made on him by his creditors was the result of a scare, and was without cause. They have released their action, and Mr. Green will continne to do business as heretofore. Minor Notes. Toadleap and Lickskillet are the euphonious names given to two places in Shelby county. James L. Orr has been elected president of the Y. M. C. A. of Evansville, and H. E. Read, jr., secretary? Charles Shelton, at Port Fulton, lighted a fire with coal oil. The blazing oil ran over his hands and arms, burning him severely. George Watts, of Georgetown township, Floyd county, who was kicked by a horse and had throe ribs broken, is probably fatally injured. Last evening, at the Princess Rink, Fort Wayne, the polo club of Muncie was beaten in two straight goals by the Princess club. There is the most extensive ice-pack in the Wabash at Terre Haute that has been known for years, and serious tronble is expected when the break-up comes. Moses Sbrum has been awarded the contract to build the water-works at Salem. The works are to be completed June 15, 1886, and the contract price is $14,475. Mrs. D. Bonham, an aged lady living near Liberty, fell on the ice in her yard, on Saturday last, and was so severely injured that death resulted Sunday morning. The Spencer Lodge, Knights of Pythias, reported to be one of the finest working lodges in the west, will go to Terre Hante on Monday, to work the amplified degree. B. Schroeder’s second-hand store, No. 1200 Main street, Terre Haute, burned on Tuesday. Loss on building, $600; on stock, $1,500 to $2,000. Stock insured for SI,OOO. The remains of Seth Woodruff, son of Captain Israel Woodruff, of New Albany, were received from Goliad. Tex., on Monday, and the funeral took place at New Albany yesterday. Mrs. Harriet B. Taggart, sixty-eight years old, died on Tuesday, at Jeffersonville, at the residence of her son-in-law. Dr. D. L. Field. The remains wre*taken to Charlestown for burial. Word has been received at Spencer of %ie death, in Indian Territory, of Kendall E. Drvden, a former well-known resident of Owen county, and who, by reason of wounds reoeived

at a Union soldier, bat long been unable to work. Deceased was the father of Mrs. J. A. Cooper, of Indianapolis. John McHaffie has recovered s3oo* damages from the Brazil Block-coal Company, because of an accident resulting from machinery employed iu their mines, causing the loss of an arm. Andrew Hoppe, a farmer living in Union township, Vanderburg county, while digging into an Indian mound on his farm, unearthed a large number of stone implements and curious utensils, besides human bones. There are 360 students attending the Normal School at Terre Haute. Robert G. Gillum. principal of the Anderson schools, has been elected general assistant, and will take the position at the beginning of the spring term. It is reported that William Johnson, colored, of Anderson, has just fallen heir to an estate of about $4,000. His father was a slave, but when given his freedom was rewarded with a sum of money by his master, whose name was Dobson. Charles Spiker, proprietor of the general store at Spikerville, Wabash, interrupted two burglars at work on his safe. One of them escaped; the other, by the aid of neighbors, was captured and brought to Wabash. He is a professional from Chicago. The ferry-bo%ts at Jeffersonville were draped in mourning and the flags set at half-mast, on Tuesday, for the death of Capt. J. C. Dorsey, an old river man. He was school trustee, and the Jefferson schools closed during the funeral exercises. The chief of police, Smithwiek. of New Albany made a tour at 1 o’clock on Tuesday morning and found one policeman asleep in a brewery and another napping in a hose-reel house. He has registered charges against four officers as the result of his early walk —Struck, Hollis, Springer and Haughey! Vincennes Commercial: Seventy-one mortgages were, yesterday, satisfied by the county recorder, which completes the cancellation of all claims as between the Vincennes Building Association No. 1 and its members. The association, during its existence, never had a lawsuit, lost a dollar, or paid out a cent, except to its own members. Lam Tong, a Chinese laundryman, at Fort Wayne, who married a Miss Myers, a black-eyed German girl, of that place, three weeks ago, and at the same time applied for naturalization papers, has been fined $11.75 for beating his wife. He says he whipped her, because she associated with women and men who fail to come up to the Confucian standard in respect to morality. The company to bore for natural gas at North Vernon has the fact to go upon that at the Tunnel mills, in September, 1865, a well was being bored for oil, and at the depth of 800 feet flowed gas, which was ignited by accident, and flashing up thirty feet above the opening, burued for thirty-six hours before it could be extinguished. The gas-boring company will start with $3,000 capital stock. ILLINOIS. Callings from Correspondence and Gleanings from Exchanges. J. H. Miller & Cos., druggists at Sandwich, have made an assignment A short time ago there were 147 telephones in use in Paris. Now only three are employed. Mr. Boes, of Ellington, while delivering milk, was kicked by a horse and his leg broken below the knee. M. Corcoran has been elected president of the LaSalle Trotting Association, and J. E. Skelly, secretary. Miss Nora Griffin fell on the ice at Salem and struck her head, producing a fracture that may prove fatal. Joseph Thompson, of Galena, thirty years old, and unmarried, was killed on Monday, in a mine at Dead wood, D. T. Hog cholera is prevailing in the neighborhood of Hillsboro. One farmer has lost thirty-three out of a herd of sixty. At Quincy a boy named Anderson, coasting down hill, was kicked in the head by a mule. The boy’s skull was fractured. Edward Hawkes, an Irishman, who had lived to be 102 years old, was buried in the northeast part of Coles county, on Monday. Mrs. A. Keeney, wife of one of the leading manufacturers of Rockford, died on Tuesday after a long illness, aged forty-seven. Another squad of the Salvation Array has been locked un at Joliet for parading the streets, singing, shouting and disturbing the peace. Pastor H. O. Hoffman, of Bloomington, recently married, proposes to engage in pulpit work at Hillsboro, over an independent congregation. The trustees of the Soldiers’ Home, at Quincy, have appointed Maj. S. M. Randolph, of Chicago, as architect, and Capt E. C. Nichols, of Kansas City, as consulting engineer of the Soldiers' Home. George Kelly, working at an ice-house near Litchfield, was accidently struck on the head by a piece of ice weighing seventy-five pounds thrown by a fellow-laborer. His skull was cracked and there is little hope of saving his life. Adam Lindenmeyer, an inmate of the insane asylum at Kankakee, attacked his keeper Tuesday morning, knocked him senseless and effected an escape from the institution. Lindenmeyer was sent to the asylum from Joliet prison, where he was serving a term for burglary. Robert Kennedy, of Leroy, eloped with the wife of his brother Calvin. They came to Springfield. and were arrested upon a telegram from the husband. The womaniias been married for sixteen years, and had her little girl with her. The husband came after his wife and took her home. The farmers’ pool organized at Tuscola for the purpose of selling corn in bulk seems to to we working successfully. They sold an installment of 10,000 bushels to Indianapolis parties at 28 cents, an advance on the home price of four cents. They still control, among them, over 100,000 bushels. Newbnre’g Dead Miners. Wheeling, W. Va., Jan. 27.—Work has been continued without intermission at the Newburg coal shaft, and up to midnight last night eleven more bodies had been recovered, namely: Frank Lamier, Wm. Laraier, Ross Kelly, F. Fortney, Arthur Ogden. Michael Kinney, John Carroll, Jacob Weaver, Michael Clark, Andrew Scott and Newton Moore. This makes twenty-nine. Eight more were discovered in one of the compartments, and the work of identification was continued this morning. The two that have not been found are thought to be Albert McWilliams and Bird Miller. They are supposed to be in the lowest part of the mine, where they are covered up with debris. The last of the thirty-nine persons killed by the explosion at Newburg mines was recovered to-day. The coroner still holds possession of the shaft, and will proceed to-morrow with an investigation as to tho cause of the disaster. Obituary. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Fort Wayne, Jan. 27.— Mrs. R. E. Fleming, one of the oldest and most highly respected ladies of Fort Wayne, dropped dead at her residence this evening, while about to leave for an Episcopal Church social. She was the mother of Hon. O. E. Fleming, formerly member for Allen county in the lower house of the Legislature. Louisville, Jan. 27.—Judge A. P. Boone died at Mayfield, Ky., to-day, of pneumonia, aged fifty-four years. He was a leading politician in western Kentucky, served repeatedly in the Legislature and on the circuit bench, and was twice elected to Congress. Weston Taken to the Penitentiary. Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 27.— Milton Weston spent the night at the Monongahela House with his family, and, shortly after dinner to-day, he was driven to the Riverside penitentiary, to serve his five-years’ sentence. No legal proceedings were attempted in his interest this morning, and, from this time, all efforts of his counsel will be devoted to securing his pardon. W eston arrived at the penitentiary at 3 o’clock this afternoon, and immediately assumed the convicts' garb and was assigned a cell. He was cheerful, and expressed the hope that he would soon be a free man. His wife and daughter left for Chicago this afternoon. 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TELEGRAPHIC brevities. Lawrence Barrett ie reeorertnc . throat trouble, and will be able to roanl/* 9 the stage. Ba PPpe*r qq A house in Illinois, across the river „ ducah, Ky., burned yesterday, and Mrs a'u*' kins, aged ninety, perished in the flames. Mrs. N A. Robinson, of Columbus Dtdrowned herself and infant in a cistern only reason assigned is morbid despondency The suit to contest Carter 11. Harrison's i tion as mayor of Chicago was dismissed * day on motion of the attorney for tho ers. rswuoaAt Dundas. D. TANARUS., yesterday, Chief 0 f p , Dilley shot Elisha Grover dead. GrovVr a e * first, wounding Dilley severely. Dilley taching Grover’s property. 3 wa< *bCharlotte Metcalfe was arrested at Emu aange, N. Y., yesterday morning, for Mrs. Eads, stepmother of Captain Ead * * * $2,100 by bogus stock operations. * ° at Mrs. Grant passed her sixtieth birthd* the family residence, in Sixty-sixth v York, on Tuesday. Her three sons wives and children, were present * a l “ e,r The body of John H. Fleming, a book-kesr*. of Toledo, was found in the river last -k Fleming had been missing since Jan. 1. Wu er the case is one of suicide or accidental dr ing is not known. atow °‘ Tom Barlow and Grant Richardson tv? o . victs, quarreled ovoragamoof cards, at tie C °*" in Nicholas county, Kentucky, yesterd&v!!? Richardson killed Barlow with a club fu j was from Warren county and Richardson Louisville. At Susanvilie, Cal., Holden Dick andVinc# n Oliuas, the former an Indian and the latt* Mexican, both convicted murderers, were tak * out of jail Tuesday night, and hanged to£ beams of the woodshed of the court-house by a mob. Angus McDonald, of Osceola, Mich, a wm. tractor on the Calumet & Hecla railroad skipped with $2,000, the wages of fifty men em ployed under him. Ho has heretofore borne. good reputation, and has been intrusted wiik large sums of money at various times The chances of his capture are decidedly slim. w Winter Pork-Packing, Cincinnati, Jan. 27.—The Cincinnati Priw Current will say to morrow: The number of hogs packed in the West last week was 29000 ft compared with 270,000 the save week laßt yeu The total to date, since Nov. 1, is 5,253 00ft against 5,566,000 last year. The movementat the principal points since Nov. 1 is a S follows: Chicago, 2.050,000; Kansas City, 530,000; Cinefo. nati, 311,000; St. Louis, 200,000; Milwaukee. 270 - 000; Indianapolis. 214,000; Cedar Rapids, 15*9.000St. Joseph, 100,000; Louisville, 121,000- Clara!, land, 57,000. ' ’ W Archbishop Gibbons To Be Made a Cardinal Cleveland, Jan. 27.—The Catholic Universe will say in its issue of to morrow: “From reliable information received from Rome, we feel justified in saying the Holy Father has deter mined in the near future to create Most Rev. James Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, * cardinal. This was to be expected, both as steward for his great personal worth and as a result of the work of the late council. It gives us pleasure to state that Baltimore is to receive this eminent consideration.” A Slimly-Attended Convention. Des Moines, la., Jan. 27.—The mass-meet-ing of the mayors of lowa cities and the loverso! personal liberty, called some weeks ago by Mayor Vaughn, of Council Bluffs, met in this cit? to-day. The convention consisted of thr mayors—Vaughan, Carry of this city, and Lagee of Sioux City, and from twenty-live to thirty lovers of personal liberty. They agreed to wort for the passage of the law-license and localoption bill, which was introduced in the General Assembly to-day. Serious Fire at Franklin, Pa. Oil City, Pa. Jan. 28. —At 1:30 this morniaf fire was discovered in the Hannah Block, at Franklin, Pa. The entire block is doomed, and the fireman are unable to get the fiamea under control. A call has been made for assistance from this place, and the fire brigade are now loading their trucks on the cars. The fire originated on the opera-house stage. —• ■ ■— A Keligions Bequest Declared Illegal Mount Vernon, 111., Jan. 27.—The Illinois Supreme Court to-day declared null Isaac Fore man’s bequest of $75,000 to the American Bible and Methodist Publication societies. Foreran went crazy on religion. His daughter, Mrs Price, of St. Louis, wife of an expressman, foil the legacy. _ Steamship News. New York, Jan. 27.—Arrived: Rhaetia,fron Hamburg. London, Jan. 27.—Passed the Lizard: Pen* land, from New York, for Antwerp. Unselfish Hoosier Democrats. Albany Express. What unselfish patriots the Hoosier Democrati are! Mr. Voorhees is anxious to have Washington Territory admitted as a State. No one sopects that the fact of his son being a congrMsional delegate, who would thereby become entitled to five thousand per year, has anything to do with the father’s anti Democratic course! Bat what of Holman? The immaculate Holman! 0n short year ago his forciDle “I object" entitled him to be called “the great economizer.’’ That happened under a Republican administration Who has heard of Holman objecting or economizing since the Democrats have managed the distribution of the government patronage? But worse things nr* yet to be told of thiß illustrious moss back. He had a Republican department clerk dropped from duty for “offensive partisanship,” the o. p. consisting in having delivered three Republican speeches during the last campaign. But Mt Holman has a nephew in a government position at an annual stipend of eighteen hundred, who is a stanch Republican. He certainly is an ap> but nevertheless holds the fort. Worse than w this, Mr. Holman haR a son, an incompetent whom he has retained in office since the ad®*®* istration of President Hayes. Although tail son has held office under successive administrations, Mr. Holman is in the frot-rs of those who howl for the decapitation of IveP®*' licans. It is a sad, sad spectacle. see such a good old sinner as Mr. from grace, wo wonder whether there is rt*®/ such a thing as political righteousness. A Compliment to Mr. Browns. New Albany Ledger ( Deni.) _ _ It makes intelligent Indianians, both crats and Republicans, laugh to read insptf® dispatches from Washington that old tvolto® of Kentucky “mopped the floor” with Ge® Browne in a recent debate. There art T ANARUS” few men in Congress, and none from Kento unless it be Carlisle, who are the peers of Browne in debate. ’Twas a pretty picture, surely. A little girls, with heads bent over, watc ?,!;fg| sunny-haired child cure the Newfoundland* foot. She was using Salvation Oil.

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