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pended, the bill read a second and third time and put upon it passage. Agreed to, and the bill passed yeJ, 27 r nays, 12. tH. B. 63, authorizing the appointment - of Indents to Purdue university by- county commissioner. - Passed yeas, 36; nays, 2. IL B. 75 limiting eligibility to the office I township trustee to two terms. Passed yeas, 23; nays, 12. ' ' II. B. 83, to amend section 2 of an act coa earning trespassing animals, partition fences, etc- Fassed- yeas, SO; nays. 8 ; ILB. 98, regulating the hanging of doors to public buildings. . A, message was received from the house announcing the passage of H. B. 322 the state house bilL a HOUSE. : H. B. 475. by Mr. Yaryan, allowing juries to consist of any number from 6 to 12 per sons, and authorizing the return of a verdict by the Jury less one of their number, passed ayes, 51; noes, 31. -, - H. B. 376, by Mr. Lanham, prohibiting illegal voting, and requiring a residence of 60 days in a precinct before Toting, passed ayes, 85; noes, 0. ' 1 H.B.144, by Mr. Adams, amends section 00 of the charter of cities so that when a petition representing a majority of the freeholders of the city is presented to the common council asking a donation of bonds or loans of credit, the person procuring the signatures of the tax-payers to such petition shall file his or their affidavits that such signatures were obtained under no misapprehensions or fraudulent statements, and adding a supplementary section providing that when the debt of such city shall be equal to an amount of two per centum of the taxable property of such city as shown on the auditor's or clerk's books, then such donation or loan shall not be made. Passed ayes, 81; noes, 0. . H. B. 463, by Mr. Oglebay, concerning the organization of voluntary associations, passed ayes, 82; noes, 1. , The specific appropriation bill was then taken up and the senate amendments concurred in, except as to the allowance of $500 to W. H. Drapier for brevier reports and the allowance of $1,000 to Benton county. , , t, Mr. Craft Introduced a joint resolution calling for fbe appointment of A. C. Downey, F. M. Finch and H. C. Newcomb as a commission to audit the claims against F. B. Ainsworth, former superintendent of the house of refuge. Passed ayes, 75; noes. 2. Mr. Peelle introduced a concurrent resolution that the general assembly adjourn sine d on Monday, March 12. Adopted. H. B. 465, by Mr. Dannetelle, to encourage the enclosure of lands subject to overflow, and for the organization of associations for that purpose, passed ayes, 66, noes, 30. Mr. Lanham. from the committee to take action on the death of the Hon. A. A. Morrison, reported appropriate resolutions, which were adopted. Mr. Lehman moved to take up II. B. 322, which is the new state house bill. The bill was taken up, and the vote resulted yeas, 53; noes, 40. The vote in detail was as follows: Ayes Adorns, Albert, Ames. Bumgarner, Carey, Carlton, Carr, Carson, Chowner, Claypool, Cole, Collins, Compton, Craft, Davis, Elwell, Endsley, Foster of Monroe, Fromm, iarver, Girton. Gossman, Grubbs, Harris, Hatfield, Henderson, Hosmer, Houghton, Hubbard, Kennedy of Rush, 1 Kennedy of Union, Kimmell. Leeper, Lehman, Lockhart, Madden, Merriman, Moorman, McCarty, McGaughey, Paige, Peelle, Priest, Riley, Sailors, Smith, Spencer, Swayzee, Thomas. Thompson of Miami, Viehe, Wells, Overmeyer 53. Noes Ashby, Askren, Baxter, Benz, Branyan, Butler, Coffman, Connelly, Cook, Cooley. Copeland, Crumpacker, Dantelle, Foster of Allen, Freeman, Hall, Harper, Hauss. Heighway, Johnson of -Carroll. Johnson of Dearborn, Langdon, Lanham, Little, Marsh, Matthews, Oglebay, Perigo, Rea, Reno, Stewart, Thompson cf Elkhart, Thompson of Howard, Warrum, "Wilburn, Whitehead, Yaryan, Zering, Zimmerman 10. Mr. Carlton moved to reconsider the vote, and then moved to lay the motion to reconsider on the table. Agreed to. A vote was again taken on H. B. 412, and resulted ayes, 53; nays, 34; so the bill passed. SENATE. Saturday. March 10. Mr. Hefron moved that house bill 279, extending the time for holding courts in Greene county, be taken up. Agreed to, and the bill was read the third time and passed yeas, 41 ; nays, 0. H. B. 331 was taken up, read the first time and placed on the calerdar. Mr. Dykeman introduced S. B. 332, to authorize the governor, treasurer aid auditor of state to mate a temporary loan not exceeding $200,000, which was read the first time and laid on the table. S. B. 267, amending the act relating to building associations, was taken up and passed yeas, 31; nays, 5. Mr. Kent moved that H. B. 322 be taken up. Mr. G:van moved to amend by taking up house bills on third reading. Not agreed to yeas, 18; nays, 28. The vote in detail was as follows: Yeas Messrs. Bearss, Bell, Burrell. Cnlbertson, Davidson, Donham, Doxey, Dykeman, Fowler, Givan, Johnson of Floyd, Major, Peed, Riley, 8arnighausen, Tobin, Underwood. Weir 18. Nays Messrs. Baxter, Beardsley, Cadwallader. Dice. Hackleman, Harris, Hefron, Heil man, Henderson, Hendricks, Johnston of Parke, Kent, LaRue, Maxwell, Mercer, Moore, Peterson, Ragan. Reeve, Shirk, Skinner, Stockslager, Streight, Tarlton, Taylor, Treat, Wilson. Winterbotham 28. Absent Messrs. Grove, Olds and Trusler. Mr. Kent's motion was then agreed to.and the bill was read the first time. Mr. Kent moved to refer to a special committee of five with instructions to report at 2 p. m. The motion to refer was agreed to, and leave was granted the committee to consider the bill during the session. II. I?. 98, to regulate the hanging of doors . of public buildings, was read the third time and passed yeas, 34; nays, 1. H. B. 99, supplemental to the act regulating the ranning at large of animals, failed yeas, 24; nays, 11, IL B. 138, requiring plank, gravel and macadamized road companies to file annual statements, passed ayes, 28; nays, 6. II. B. 133, to amead the interest law, was taken up. Wr. Wilson moved to recommit the bill, with instructions to so amend as to permit the renewal of loans made previous to the taking effect of the act on the same terms as the original loan. Agreed to yeas, 27; nays, 13. ft. B. 103, to provide for taxing as costs transcripts or exemplification of records, passed yeas, 26; nays. 12. Mr. Johnston, of Parke, from the judiciary committee, submitted the report of the majority on II. B. 322, recommending its passage, with amendments. Mr. Reeve submitted a minority report, recommending amendments as to certain particulars. ; Mr. Givan submitted a minority report, recommending that the bill be laid on the table. ' . : . . i . . The minority report, presented by Messrs. Givan and Bell, recommending the tabling

7"tj rwv.n otthe bill (322 having been, read, Mr. Johnston, of Parke moved the 'previous question on its adoption." The demand was seconded, and the vote on adopting the report resulted veaa, 16 nays, 28. . The majority report was concurred in yeas, 28; nays, 18.- - . :!..!' k . The vote in detail was as follows:' '-'.it ; Yeas Messrs. Baxter,1 Beardsly Bearss, Cadwallader, Dice, Hackleman, Hams, Henderson, Hendricks, Johnson of Floyd, Johnston of Parke, Kent, Maxwell, Moore, Peterson, - Ragan, Shirk, Skinner, Stockslager, 8treight, Tarlton, Taylor, Treat, Underwood, Wilson and Winterbotham 26. ...-.. ji : Nays Messrs. Bell, Borrell, - Culbertson, Davidson, ' Durham, Dykeman, Fowler, Givan, Hefron, LaRue, Major, Mercer, Peed; Reeve, Riley, Sarnighausen, Tebih and Weir 17. r : - ..;!.-.. Mr. Skinner moved that the constitutional rules he suspended and the bill read a second and third time. - . . The question recurring on suspending the constitutional ruleth vote resulted ayes, 28; noes, 16. .i So the constitutional rule was not suspend, it requiring a two-thirds vote. -1. i Mr. Henderson offered a resolution that the senate reconsider the vote by which the concurrent resolution that the general assembly adjourn on Monday was passed. 1 Mr. LaRue moved. to lay the resolution on the table. - -. - The previous question was demanded, and on this Messrs. Bell and Dykeman demanded the ayes and noes. . . . , The vote resulted yeas, 26; navs, 17; so the previous question was seconded. ? . The vote on the question of whether the main question should be put resulted yeas, 24; nays, 14 - - The question reeurring on the motion to reconsider the tote by which the concur rent resolution passed, Mr. Bell moved to lay the motion on the table, but the motion was decided out of order, as the call for the previous question was in force. The senate was called to order at 7:30 p.m. Mr. Taylor moved to take up H. B. 322, suspend the rules, and put it upon its passage. Mr. Givan raised the point of order that the first thing to be considered was the concurrent resolution of the house, the vote on adopting which was reconsidered. The president overruled the point of order. Mr. Sarnighausen moved to lay the motion on the table. Not agreed to yeas, 11; nays, 30. The motion of Mr. Taylor was then debated at length Senators Bell, Givan and Dykeman strongly opposing sny measure looking to the erection of a new state house, and Senators Reeve and Johnston ' of Park Presenting the reasons why a new state ouse should be built, in strong and forcible speeches. Mr. Johnston, of Parke, moved to adjourn. Not agreed to yeas, 19; nays, 24. Mr. Taylor's motion failed for want of a constitutional majority yeas, 30; nays, 13. Mr. Bearss moved to adjourn. Agreed to yeas, 27; nays, 16. HOUSE. Numerous committee reports were presented and placed on file without reading. Senate bills on third reading were taken up, and the following disposed of as below set forth: 8. B. 119, requiring county auditors to furnish certificates of purchase to purchasers of tax titles, passed ayes, 70; noes, 2. S. B. 318, relating to congressional school lands, and for the purpose of classifying the fund, passed ayes, 60; noes, 11. S. B. 99, authorizing towns to enforce manual labor to liquidate fines for violation of ordinances when the trial has been before a justice of the peace, passed ayes, 77; noes, 1; Mr. Reno voting no. S. B. 93, to create a state board of health, was read. Mr. Moorman moved to iay the bill on the table. Agreed to. S. B. 322, to legalize a contract between the commissioners of Porter county and Henry B. Brown, passed ayes, 62; noes, 29. S. B. 331, to establish a superior court in Wayne county, passed ayes, 56; noes, 34. H. B. 483, by Mr. Craft, defining vagrancy and prescribing penalties therefor, passed ayes, 62; noes, 14. H. B. 155, by the committee on cities and and towns, providing for the consolidation of assessment laws in regard to cities and towns, and providing for the erection o' work houses in cities or incorporated towns, passed ayes, 57; noes. 11. S. B. 263, authorizin building, loan and saving institutions to loan their funds to stockholders, on personal security, was read a first time. Mr. Marsh meved to suspend the rules that the bill might be read a second and third time and put upon its passage. Agreed to. , The bill then passed ayes, 52; noes, 18 S. B. 210, exempting unplatted lands inside city limits from taxation for city purpose, passed ayes, 52; noes, 17. Mr, Pelle introduced a joint resolution to suspend the operation for two years of S. B. 266, which passed on Saturday last. Passed ayes, 60; noes, 9. The bill is the one requiring a different style of books to record delinquent tax duplicates. H. B. 360, by Mr. Yaryan, authorizing the appointment of receivers in vacation, passed ayes, 66; noes, 2. During the roll call a senate message was received, announcing that the senate had reconsidered its vote on the house concurrent resolution as to tine die adjournment on Monday. Mr. Hall moved to suspend further reading of the bill that the senate concurrent resolution as to tine die adjournment on Monday might be taken up. Mr. Adams moved to lay the motion on the table. Not agreed to ayes, 34; nays, 41. Mr. Lehman moved to" adjourn. Not agreed to ayes, 30; nays, 36 no quorum voting. Mr. Lehman demanded a call of the honse and 67 members answered, which is a quorum. The question recurring on the motion to adjourn, the motion was sustained ayes, 45; noes, 33. 8o the house adjourned. Boanrn by a Boomerang. rtroit Free Press. Authors who have been in Australia and have written descriptions of the boomerang had better keep clear of Detroit. A Detroit boy of 14 constructed one of tbese weapons the other day after a minute description in a book of adventure. The book said that the boomerang would return and fall at his feet, ready for a second throw, and he solemnly believed it would. He armed: himmlf and went Into the back yard to practice, and he was carried into the house by the servant girl and a ".house painter, his nose being mashed fiat and his front teeth shaky. The

boomerang didn't drop at his feet, either be cause it wasn't a good day for boomerangs, or because the boy wasn't born in Australia. Xcwi From Abroad. . Omaha Herald. We learn from : his brother-in-law of this place, Mr. Samuel Herman, that Vice President elect, the Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks, will be In Omaha in a few days . on his way to California. . The distinguished statesman of Indiana will he heartily welcomed by the people of this west.

TRAHPUCD TO DEATH.

Graphic Details ' mt tbe Hew Terk Cbnrch. Horror.,..., ', ..... New York Special to the Chicago Times. An appalling disaster, occurred to-night in the Roman Catholic - church of - St. Francis Xaviar, in Sixteenth street near .Fifth avenue, whereby llx women and one boy lpst their lives. ; It annears that one of the Lent en mnanri were bing celebrated, at which only women and childrenJwera present, and about o clock a false alarm qi nr causea a stampede from the galleries, and in tbe rush these, unfortunates were trampled under foot ; and . , . killed. Numbers , of, people were injured in. the. crush, and were attended to by a surgeon at the nearest police station. Probably when .the Urm was raised the audience had . in their minds the remembrance of tbe late calamity at the Brooklyn theater, and then succeeded a wild rush for the doorways, in which this sad loss of life occurred. The cause of the disaster was as follows: A little before 9 o'clock a woman sitting in the western gallery was attacked with hysterics and became frantic, screaming at the top of her voice, and throwing her arms wildly about her. Intense excitement was at once caused in the great congregation, and many of the women, imagining that tbe building was on fire, began . to rush for the staircase leading into tbe street. The priests strove to quiet them, and succeeded in so far dispelling the fear of the majority that they remained - standing until the blessing was pronounced. In the western gallery,- however, numbers of women lost their self-control and pressed madly toward the place of exit, a narrow, slightly winding . staircase, connecting - at the bottom: with, the outside door of the church, and also with the inner door opening on the main hall. Near the bottom of the staircase there is an angle. Two large women coming together at this point caused a temporary check in the , hurrying throng. -.They were immediately pressed against aad thrown down by the women behind them, who being unable to check heir progress, were forced to trample on their fallen sisters in their haste to escape or were in turn prostrated. In a moment the moving throng on the narrow staircase was blocked by the heap of prostrate women, who sought in vain to regain their footing. Wild with terror the women imprisoned on the staircase made despairing efforts to move forward, and soon the place resounded with cries of agony from those who were trodden under foot at the base of the staircase. The panic became then so general that nothing could stop the rush down stairs, and soon the shrieks of pain were hushed by the death of the victims who were crushed and smothered. As soon as the police could clear a space in front of the church the work of removing the bodies of the unfortunate women was begun. One after another the corpses were taken up and conveyed, some of them to 41 Sixteenth street, and others to the stable of Joseph O'Connor, at No. 52. The utmost exertions of the police were then needed to keep the bodies from being pressed upon by the crowds of anxious people who aonght to get a glimpse of the dead faces. The people who had relatives in the church during the service, hearing of the disaster, ran to Sixteenth street, and eagerly inquired of every one whom they met concerning the fate of their friends. At the livery stable one girl of sixteen years was recognized as May Carey, of 188 Eighth avenue. On the arrival of the ambulances, which were at once telegraphed for, the bodies were removed to the Twenty-ninth precinct station house and it was then discovered that seven persons, six women and a little boy about four years old, had been killed. So far as could be ascertained no one else had been seriously injured. Ranged in rows on the floor of the station house, the bodies of the victims did not show many signs of mutilation, or even of sirious bruises, and it was the belief of toany physicians who were called in that they died from the effects of suffocation and fright. Three of the women were beyond middle age, and their features looked ghastly and repulsive in death. A little boy had a small mark on the forehead, which showed that he had been struck by some object as the heel of a shoe. Crowds of anxious people soon came to the station house and eagerly clamored for admittance. Many were wringing their hands and calling names of relatives whom they feared had perished. When these unhappy people were admitted in small groups into the station house, a most heartrending scene was portrayed. They passed tremblingly along the line of prostrate bodies esgly Ecannitg tb faces before them. When a face was recognized a cry of Sain arose, and then the whole room was lied with sobbings of sympathy or mourning. Among the number of those who called at the station house was Michael Sullivan, of No. 89 Ninth avenue. Scanning the faces of the dead for a moment, his eyes fell on a little boy, and he uttered at once a despairing cry which went to the hearts of all present. Soon he recognized among the other corpses that of his wife, and he fell on the floor and wept and moaned like a child. Shortly afterward a woman knelt on the floor by the side of another corpse, and burst into hysterical cries of "My sister! oh my sister!" The police were obliged to exclude from the room all who failed to identify any of the bodies. Many turned away from the lifeless forms and went out with looks of intense relief. The coroner soon arrived at the station house, and, after a brief survey of the bodies, signed permits to have them removed by friends as soon as they could be recognized. MORTON'S MINIONS. How They Throns; Washington Boll-dosing-Ilayee for flic. Washington Special to the Chicago Times. There is trouble and dismay in the Indiana camp. The statttmanship of Morton goes no further than winning a political victory and securing for himself the largest possible share of the spoils. Success for any other end does not come within the scope of his character. The party is a machine by the skillful manipulation of which he can extract so much plunder from the national treasury for himself. That . he helps others plunder likewise is his way of handling the machine. As a co-operating pirate with Chandler, Wells, Blaine A Co., and the powers of the lobby, he has just succeeded in tbe unholy work of smothering the voice of a quarter of a million majority of the people, and placing a usurper in the executive chair. The seat which has for eight years been warmed by "a drunken soldier," is scarcely filled before Morton begins to claim the reward of his rascality. The hungry crowd of sycophants from Indiana fill the hotel lobbies and clamor for what he has promised them. Poor devils! They dare not ask except through Morton.-and to ask through him at this writing endangers their standing mt f V 4 V a a1antro1 its) s t 4 Via btKita Vin oa who has assumed a virtue, if he has it not,and repudiates the counsel and championship of the rascals who put him there. In vain has Morton pleaded for the retention of his pet postmaster general, that insipid political nonenity, whose . only claim to a place in Grant's cabinet was the salary grab and the consequent repudiation of his people at home, i Tyner s ' head laus into the basket Morton rages..: Iiis ; power to pay or pun ish once pone - here, and 1 he loses his only remaining leg in Indiana. Brother-

in-law Postmaster Holloway, whose face shone but a iew days, ago ; with the warm glow of successful theft, now bears tbe frown of sadness, and his heart is bowed with premature sorrow. The .Indianapolis poetomce mail-bag contracts begin to flit uneasily athwart his vision. What if . Hayes should coasider him a relio of Mortonism? Brother-in-law Terrill trembles for the Indianapolis , pension " agency.', to ', gain which a gallant one-armed soldier was despoiled by Morton. ; He looks into the gloomy future through a glass (of whiskv?) darkly, and 'his tflghts are full of snakes bearing the fangs of, Hayes. , There be others here from tha . same quarter, . who drink deeply and gnash their, teeth at the premonitions of executive hell. John Morton (son John), who has gained a handsome competence as a skinner of . the revenue in Alaska while .the fur. company skinned seals in and oat of season, in - commendable imitation, is now on tbe ground looking out for his own skin .The defeated candidates ! o the republican . state . ticket figure up last Octobers losses in . the , lobby, and calculate-how -much the -government must pay tQtet them tfgati Harriot, the defeated candidate for secretary of the state, wants.to.be in . the internal revenue service'.1' Colonel Friedly, the , chairman of the republican state centra! comuittee, i thinks .first assistant in the interior department 1 will .. satisfy, ! him.; McNealy, of Evansville, wants to do the congressional printing. John D. Defrees is after the same thing. They all stand behind Morton and fearfully await their chances.! Ben . Harrison,. the defeated candidate for governor, must be provided for. Elpaso, J. P. C. Shanks, and Billy Williams, of fragrant congressional memory, are .also looking for government jobs.

CONCERNING TWEED. Rumors In New York That the Boss Will be Released and go to England. The New York correspondent of the Newark Daily Advertiser furnishes that paper with the information that arrangements are being made for the release of Tweed from Ludlow strees jail, and for the abandonment of all suits and prosecutions against him on the basis of an assignment of all the Eroperty he has left for the city's benefit, e further says: "It is understood that the 'Boss' will then go to England and join his son. To this settlement all official parties seem agreed; also Mr. 0'Conor, to whom Tweed has written a letter, which I have read, in which be throws himself entirely on the mercy of those he has wronged, and agrees to be governed wholly in tbe premises by whatever Mr. O'Conor and associates may dictate. "To the above it may be added that the associated press will soon have furnished to them (at least such is now the understanding) a romantic and veritable narrative of the way the 'Boss' escaped jail, of his thereafter adventures arid of the tomfoolery which attended his discovery in Spain. It is a funny story. It seems that the officers who had Tweed in charge were wholly innocent of any complicity with him." Mr. O'Conor is no longer connected with the suits against Tweed, having resigned all active participation in them some time ago, ond they are now entirely in the hands of Attorney General Fairchild and Mr. Wheeler H. Peckham. Such a compromise as the one a1luded to above can not . be effected without the knowledge and consent of District Atiorney Phelps, who says he has no knowledge whatever of the progress of any such negotiations. They might, of course, be on foot without his knowledge, being conducted by the attorney general, who is his superior officer, and can, if in his judgment it seems proper, direct the district attorney to enter a nolle prosequi. Mr. Peckham, as he has done since these reports arose, declines to speak about them, saying that at a proper time any action taken by the attorney general will become publicly known. Mr. O'Conor has, without much doubt, received a letter of the character indicated above. The report yesterday took this shape: Tweed was to be set at liberty last night; which it is apparent, from the state of facts above set forth, was a groundless rumor. Death at the Altar. Raleigh (N. C.) News. At Thomasville, N. C, on the evening of February 22, a number of guests had assembled at the residence of Mrs. Forney, widow of the late Thomas Forney, formerly of Montgomery county. North Carolina, to celebrate her marriage with William B. Thomas, son of the late J. W. Thomas. The appointed hour had come, the joyous tones of laughter had ceased, while the numerous friends and relatives took their places around to await with eager interest the approach of the two who were soon to take the solemn vows that would bind their hearts together "for weal or woe." A moment's pause and they made their apJearance. The officiating minister, the Rev. . W. Lewis, of the North Carolina conference, took i his stand, opened the discipline and began to read: "Dearly beloved, we are gathered together here in the sight of God," etc., and when be reached the second paragraph, . which begins thus: "Into which holy estate these two persons come now to be joined," and the word "into" fell from his lips, the figure of . the bride begän to droop, at , first upon her knees, then silently falling backward on the floor in a lifeless swoon. So great was the consternation of. all present that they seemed rooted spellbound to the floor, and for a moment no one was able to render assistance. Then there was a rush she was borre away from the room restoratives administered, everything that kindness or human heart could suggest was done to bring her back to life and consciousness, but all in vain. The edict had gone forth, and in a few minutes she who was to have bet-ji a happy, joyous bride, exulting in the. ngratulations of friends, and participating in the festivities of the occasion, was tbe bii de of death. The Rad leal Orgie. 1 Washington Dispatch. Tonight the drunkenness and rowdyism is rapidly on the increase, and brawls are of hourly occurrence. One row between whites and blacks, in front of the Star office, grew .to such proportions that the police had a lively fight before it was quelled. Pistols have been drawn in several of the brawls, and some indiscriminate shooting has been done.1 Too much fire-water and excitement have been at the bottom of all the disturbances. The fear of the republicans that there would be trouble from a democratic mob, or any attempt at violence, proved to be a great scare-crow; but republicans were so scared of the scare-crow that 20 rounds of ammunition were supplied to each man of the regular troops which took part in the parade to-day. As a further precaution, Hayes was constantly surrounded by a platoon of police, even ' when ho 'marched into the senate chamber. The police and troops would have been more useful if employed to keep straight the drunken officeseekers and negroes; and the closeness with which the police have shadowed Hayes has given rise to many coarse jests about the significance of setting the police to watch a thief.

A HEARTLESS HOAX.

Why Several Philadelphia Politicians ' Went to Colambns. Philadelphia Dispatch to the New York Her ald.1 ; The best political,. practical joke of this canvass waa neatly perpetrated on a number of republican, politicians of this city. It has just leaked ; out, very much . . to the arausementof tbe goeaips and very noch to the annoyance of the victims., It happened in the manner and form following:-, .. Week, before ,lat . several well known re-, publicans of this city, whose names it would be cruel to publish, received by mail a letter something like this: : . THK BAIT. ( i 8trlctly Confidential. . ; :. ' tJjrioi Daror HotxiV PiTTSBüÄO, Feb. 21,1877. Hon. i MT Dkab f SirGo vsrnor Hayes desires to have' a qntet consultation with you at his house In colnmbo. : I mould ' go-on to Philadelphia and deliver this message In person, but fear the press gang would follow and interview me, and protmbly you are aware the governor Is a little sensitive about newspaper criticism." ' 'I'M -ti 4 a i f j. 1 1 t t When you reach Columbus this letter with your card will sufficiently indicate' the object of your mission. I will see yon upon your Arrival. Do not use the telarap. Yours truly, H ALSTKAI. ; THxernGKOHS. .-. .-;! What politician would not be flattered by beingxalled upon to advise . the presidentelect of this great and glorious country With as much self-complacency as conceited Malvoho ever read and reread My Lady Olivia's letter did these statesmen peruse from time to time the urgent summons from the lieutenant of the president-elect as they rode at express rate toward the west, their hats chalked with free passes from the Pennsylvania railroad company. And, although the communication was marked "strictly confidential," what more natural than that each should happen to show the flattering document to a few discreet friends before starting? The only Pittsburgh train on Friday carried some of the most eminent statesmen in Philadelphia, each filled with a pardonable pride, ana indulging in visions of positions in the cabinet, and privatelv wondering what in the devil the other fellows were doing on that train. Just as one member of the party, at least, was pondering the weighty question as to what his advice to President Hayes should be, the train arrived at Pittsburg. Stepping into the hotel and registering his name, the clerk remarked in a business-like way: 'Telegram for you, sir." "Ah!" graciously responded ,the distinguished man; "thanks." Smiling, he opened the familiar yellow envelope. As he read a blank look came over his face, and then, in a firm and determined tone, he asked : "What time does the first train go back to Philadelphia?" The telegram simply said: Coluxbcb, Feb. 23. The invitation yon received is a hoax. Halsthad. What happened when other members of the party, who did not stop at Pittsburg, reached Columbus, this deponent knoweth not, but if all of them were as mad as the gentleman mentioned above it will go hard with the perpetrator of this joke if he is ever discovered. Antediluvian Printing. London Echo. A great deal has been said as to the inventor of the art of printing, the period when the invention itself first saw the light, and the locality where it was born. Two out of three of these points need not, however, excite discussion. It is a good while since the remark that "there is nothing new under the sun" was made, but anterior to that remote period namely, some 4,000 years ago the first printing machine existed in Babylon! If proof be required of this rather startling assertion it may be easily found, for it exists no farther off than Trinity college, Cambridge. In that place there is preserved a solid cylindrical figure about seven inches in length and three inches in diameter at each end. On the surface of this miniature cask-like cylinder minute and finely wrought character 1 are engraved, and these are arranged in vertical lines. It is, therefore, a striking example of the ingenuity of the ancients, and shows their method of preserving and multiplying national or family records. It is quite evident from the indented lettering of the Babvloni-n printing machine for such it really is that some means of applying pressure to it was in use among the Mnevite "typos." This being so, the primitive appliance at Cambridge must be said to embody the identical principle of the newspaper machines of the present day. An Atatc Peat not. Danbury News. A train boy on an Illinois road found a rather tough customer in an old gentleman of composed mien, who received all shots as if he were bullet proof. The boy bombarded him with papers, and pamphlets, and candies, and bound books, and nuts, and fruits of one kind and another. But it was no good. Had the . elderly party been lined inside with brass he could not have shown greater indifference. The boy fretted under his treatment, as was plain to be seen. He had passed the cigars some 30 times, and without success, when he said, in a tone of desperation "Trv some of these cigars, and if they don't kill you within a month I'll give you the money back." The man was somewhat amused by that, but he had the boy. He said: - "If I am dead how can you give rae the money?" "I'll give it to your family, then." "But I ain't got no family." "Well. I'll give it to tbe family next door," persisted the boy. "But there ain't no family next door," said the man, with the smile lengthening his lace "Oh, there'll be one move in when they hear you are dead," was the quick reply. The elderly passenger shut up like a borrowed knife. Hayes and Scripture. N. Y. Express.. This is the mild way the Tribune puts it, and it is even so. First Mr. Hayes is reminded every day by his opponents that he is a sort of provisional president a president de facto and not de jure. Then the following scraps of scripture are flung in his face for holding a place which belongs to another: "Bread of deceit is sweet to a man : but afterward his mouth shall be filled with gravel.' Prov.,xx., 17. "An Inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beglnnlnr; but the end thereof shall not be blessed. " Prov., xx., 21. "The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them, because they refuse to do Judgment." iroT., xxl., 7. "Wnono is a partner with a thief hateth his own soul ; he heareth euning and betrayeth It not." Prov xxlx., 84, t .; . . "The house of the wicked shall be overthrown.,' Prov.,xlvn 11. ,,. : , T . , , r ' finally, ' he ,'encounters the threats '. of Blaine, Morton & Co.. if he does not sustain all the Republican rascals now In office and claiming recognition at the south.

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