Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 30, Number 51, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 January 1883 — Page 4

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 24, 1883TT-

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24.

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"The boy preacher," Harrison, reports nearly 700 conversions during the revival which he recently hold at Decatur, 111. A srand jubilee will be held there early in February. Asother vessel reported lost this morning in our r.tfiilir talegraim. Eight lives loit Three other persons were swept overboard from the Cleopatra on its way from New York to Liverpool. . A Yoiwi couple wentsleighridlng recently in Nebraska City, using a livery stable turnout. The horses ran away and pitched the young folks out. They sued for damages, and durir g the trial it came out that a struggle for a kiss was the cause of the accident, and the Jury brought in a verdict for defendant?. Don't kiss when sleighnding. In our newspaper mail reaching us oi Saturday, Seventeen Deniccratic State exchanges talk oit without reserve, a nurabar of them being strongly in favorof continuing the present management of the Benevolent Institutions, and not one in favor of a change. "We rrgret that tbe demand on our space will tot admit more of these opinions to our columns. Tai remains of Private Roberts, one of the immortal six hundred who rode into the alley of death at Balaclava, but managed to ride out again alive, was buried lately with great pomp at Wedaesbury, England, liefore Private Roberts become a remains he lived in poverty, and suffered for the tieces--earies of life. If Private Roberts had been an American instead of Englishman, he might Vave ridden into Congress on his war record. G oyer sos Waller, of Connecticut, is a 'true disciple of Democracy. Ia his message to the Legislature he advues it not to approve of the proposed Constitutional amendment prchibititg the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors. Such a law, he pertinently saj?. can net further the cause of morality cr temperance, and that the making of iaws r.ot expected to be enforced or observed is a mischievous practice. Such a sensible stand is worthy of imitation. A roMixEXT Democrat, a former member of the Legislature, writing us from Tipton, Bays: "Democrats here all commend the course of the Sentinel in its opposition to the demand of the ring of Indianapolis place hunter3, who are clamoring for possession of the Benevolent Institutions. The Tipton Democracy feel that thi3 first administration of these institutions by Democrats within a quarter of a century, having, in plsce of Republican predicted failure, made grand success, ought from every point of consideration to recive the endorsement aud approval of their political friends of the legislature." FELONY AND FINANCE. Those who watch the drift of public thought es expressed ia official circles, will observe a ripple of satisfaction when the statement is made that prison discipline haa reached that condition of perfection which makes felony a source of revenue to the State, It i3 now ascertained that crime can be made a source of revenue. Penitentiaries are bd eg transformed into great industrial institutions, where murder muscle and burglar brains are utilized to put money in the State Treasury. Thief end fcotp3d, robbers an J rascals of all degrees, are taught to operate the most improved machinery, and first-class ware3 are thrown upon the market at prices which utterly defy competition. Felons, robust and ablebodleJ, ar hired to contractors at from thirty-five o seventy-five cents per day to do work, worth in the labor market where honest and lan-ibiding men seek employmeat at from $1.S0 to 150 per day. The moment the felon wares reach the market honest labar succumbs. Within the area where crime competes with honesty, crime triumphs and honest men go to the wall. Contractors who operate felons at felon prices can undersell wares produced by honest labor, and as a consequence honest Ubor must go further though it fares aor.e, There is not an exception to the rule. A Prison Contractor who operates felons ataa averago price per day, say cf fifty -cents, can control all the markets where he oilers tbe products of such labor. What then? If the honest laborer can not find work eLe-where he is forced into idleness. which i? taid to be "the prolific parent of crime;' hence the conclusion that while cer tain persons .looking at the figures are grati üe J to know that Prisons Ere a source of revenue to the State, others, who take a broader and more philosophical view of the situation, are persuaded that felon wares throws . upon the market at prices Kith which honest labor can not compete, has a direct tendency to demorali jation and crime; and that, while it may make money for the State, it also make9 more criminals for the State. And if upon an honest investigation of all tbe facta such ia found to be the result, can it be said that

crime pays, because the balance sheet of

Prisons shows a few thousands to the credit of felon labor? we are aware that it is con tended that prisoners should be kept at work because labor is conducive to health and reform, and that it ia in the line of morality and humanity to keep felons em ployed. If the logic ia applicable to Fnscn life, it is equally appropriate outside of Trison walla. If idteness within rrisons exerts a baleful influence, what is to be eaid of it beyond Prison bars and cells? Is it the duty of the State to legislate eo aa to keep its criminals emplyed, if thereby its honest, law abiding citizens are compelled to be idle? Take for instance such an industry aa the manufacture of pork barrels. There are, we will say. two establishment one within the Prison walla and one outside. The Prison shop employs say nni hnndred ft Ions murderers, incendia ries, horse thieves, highway robbers, burglars and so on through the list of criminals. The other estalishment employs a hundred honest men, who are obeying the laws and striving to support their families ami educate their children. The latter establishment can not make a pork barrel for less than $1, but tne Prison shops can produce the article at 70 cents. What is the inevitable result? Tbe honest lab3r shop outside of the Prison walls must shut up. Crime triumphs, and the hooka show that the Slate makes money. But does the Slate make money by such an operation? A hundred honest men are thrown out of employment. They must take up the line of march and seek employment elsiwhere. They are frequently designated as "tramps," and it will be a miracle if many of them do not eventually find their way to prison, to make barrels for contractors and add a few dollars to the revenues of the State. Is there any remedy for tucb a condition of things? We think there is. What? If felons mu3t be kept at work for their health hire them out to contractors at prices which will put a final stop to this crushing and unjust competition with honest labor. Take the trades, ascertain tbe current rate of weges, and then reqaire contractors to pay approximating prices. As long a? able-bodied felons are hired out for a third or tbe half of the price honest men must have for their labor to live, j list so long will a cruel injustice be inflicted on honest labor. It may not be possible to obtain full prices for felon labor, as compared with the labor of honeat men, but wo believe it to be practical to come much nearer it than is now done. THE BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS. It is a matter of record that four years ego the Democratic party, which was then in the ascendency in Indiana, as it is now, was fully persuaded that a change in the method of providing ofl'icers for the Ilenevolent Institutions of the State was imperatively demanded, and that a change in the management of the institutions would prove beneficial. Acting upon the conviction the required changes were made, and the management passed into Democratic hand?. One full term tinder the new arrangement has expired. The record is made up and is before the public. It invites Scrutiny and challenges criticism. If the new methods and the officials selected by the Democratic party, four years ago. have not met public expectations, those who demand radical changes ought to be able to point out the delinquencies. Indeed, they are bound by every consideration cf fealty to the people, to the unfortunate ejus and daughters of the State, for whese good the Benevolent Institutions were established and have been maintained, to state specifically in what regard the law is de ficient aud iu what particulars inefficiency has been developed on the part of the of ficials in charge. If it be discovered that the law is defective, as possibly it may be, amendment is in order. If 'officials have disregarded tho law have failed to diicharge their duty with such fidelity to the best interests cf the institutions as the pub lic had a right to expect and exact, under the law, then such officials ought to re removed. Such propositions the people ot Indiana, . tbe taxpayers, understand. There ia no demagoguery in them, no circumlocution, no hedging nor dodging. They discard duplicity and disdain subterfuge In all matters where public trusts are in question the records of official conduct aro the highest authority that can be produced. When a record 13 not impeached there is 0 such thing as going behind it It can neither be gotten out of the way nor be dwarfed iri its proper propor tions. It will not down at the bidding of any ooe.norcan it be tabooed to gratify spite, ma levolence, or mere personal ambition. A bad record kills, as it ought to do, aud a good record vitalizes and. elevates, as it ought to do. To subject men to ostracism when their record triumphantly demonstrates they have b en true to every public trust, faithfully performed every public obligation, and, being creatures cf law, have fulfilled the law in spirit and letter, is to reverse every pro cess of justice in dealing with public servants. What are tho facta relating to the management of the Benevolent Institutions of the State during the past four years? Has any man or set of men proclaimed that inefficiency exists, or Las appeared at any time since the present officials took control? Nothing of the sort. On the contrary, all prudent men of all parties are gratified and satisfied. The law has been faithfully ad ministered. There has been system, frugal ity. vicilancc and fidelity. The money of tbe State has been carefully and faithfully expended lor the good of the unfortunate, for whom it was appropriated. I a every department ability in supervision, educa tion and medical treatment has been har moniously blended with those qualities of the heart which rive to the term 'benevo lence" a significance akin to saercdncas. Ia view of the tact that Governor Porter and his party are just now so enamored with civil service reform, it is surprising that he did not rise to the height of the occasion and nominate for confirmation by the Sen ate the gentlemen who have discharged their duties so well. To have done so would have been strictly in line with the utterances of his party press, and would have proven him a civil service reformer in whom there is no guile. But, alas! he was not ecual to the occasion, and the golden opportunity has passed. lie is on the record as being opposed to the new departure 1 0 his party, and no aqoiraung nor special

pleading can extricate him from his poal

tion. lie seeks to supplant men who have done their duly well by putting in their places those who are untried, hoping thereby to make a few places for those who swear by the Republican party. In this, as in all other matters of public concern, the Skntibil seeks the public welfare. Tbe Democratic party ia responsible for the management of the Benevolent Institutions. It has shown itself to be eminently qualified to meet every requirement, and while it should se to it that Governor Porter is not permitted to mar the efficiency of the management, which he himself commends, in order to gratify partisan purposes, it should be equally careful about legislation which may be calculated to bring about even more unfortunate complications. It is to be hoped that wise counsels will prevail in Democratic delib erations, and that only such legislation as will guard the management from hasty and inconsiderate change will find favor with the Legislature. UNIVERSAL, SUFFRAGE. In the February number of the North American Review Professor A. Winchell has a paper, in which he discusses "The Ex periment of Universal Suffrage." The learned Professor does not take a roseate view of the "experiment." Ue sees in it only demoralization and disaster, wreck and ruin. He has no faith in the "American idea." The writer's opinions of government are based upon me conviction mat me masses are absolutely incapable of grasping and solving the great problems of duty and destiny. He holds that the declaration relating to the equal ity of men, in fact, law justice, common sense, or anything else, is a telf-evideut vagary, demagogical to the last degree. He recognizes in the affairs of govern ment a divine right to rule vested in certain persons, and consequently a divine ob ligation on the part t others to submit un complainingly. We are satisfied, if Pro fessor Winchell's paper falls under the eye of Czar. Sultan, King or Kaizer, it will be read with real pleasure. It magnifies the virtues of aristocracy and dwarfs the possibilities of the masses to be more than serfs Manifestly the writer is a student He does not enter the arena of debate without weapon?. There is no hesitancy in his challenge. He invites men of thought to cross swords with him. He has convictions and the courage of convictions. He stands up and stands forth in this grand era of light and knowledge, peace and progress, in this land of schools and Churches, liberty and law. and predicts failure failure for humanity; sees in liberty a curse and in equality danger. He views with distrust his coronated countrymen, and predicts, as the result of sovereignty, universal suffrage, the ultimate triumph of his ideas. True, the masses are now rising, but Professor Winchell manifestly entertains the belief that the elevation of the masses will result in dizzi ness, mental aberation, a final collapse of universal suffrage, and the enthronement in this land, the last hope of humanity, of autocratic rule. Tbe writer outlines with special vividness a number of vicious prac tices that have crept into our methods cf government, particularly In the manage ment of elections and the methods of selecting candidates. In such thiDgs there are many defects, and large demands for improvement. Law makers are often profoundly ignorant, venal and vicious, disgrace to the State and libel upon civilization, intel ligence, virtue and all things of good report, but such law makers are never In the majority, and the proof may be found in the fact that the laws of the American Re public are as wise as those of any country on the face of the earth. It is quite out of the question for os to point out the virtues and vagaries of Professor Winchell's paper in the space at our command. We are told that "modern civilzation does not reflect the intelligence and virtue of the masses cf the people." If the proposition is true, then we ask. What does modem civilisation re flect? As a matter of course we refer; to onrowa country where universal suffrage prevail?. It is doubtless true that the intelligence and virtue of the masses are not reflected to the extent required for the well being ot society, but it is true that the virtue and the intelligence of the masses of the people are the great controlling forces which are shaping events. Tbe Etrength of the Republic lies in the virtue and intelligence of the mr --es, and there fore absolute political control should be exercised by the masses of the people, and there is real satisfaction in believing that neither priest nor potentate, snob nor nabob, autocrat nor aristocrat, nor any other force wilhin reach of man or devil, can wrest from the masses of the people their sovereignty, their divine right to rule. It Is supreme audacity for Professor Winchell to declare that "the American system robs intelligence and virtue of a natural right," and that "the American system, as it exists in practice, misapprehends the meaning of equality." It is true that we have "cut and dried Conventions," "venal legislators," official defaulters," "spendthrift Congressman," "bullying bos'ej" and a "relentless machine," as also an army of denngogaes, but such things after all are but the flies on the chariot wheels of our progress, bats among our eagle-', croaking frogs in the dismal swamps, yet to be silenced. Over all and in spite of all such mice and men the great Republic holds steadily on its course, and the "experiment of universal suffrage," if experiment it is still regarded, is the avant courier of human progress and human elevation. It repeats, as it blazes out new highways lor thought and enterprise, Peter's discovery that God ia no respecter of persons, and, like John in the wilderness, deman d3 preparation for the coming millenium, when the champions of the rights of man ehall celebrate the triumph of uni versal suffrage. Josik Mansfield, about whom Edward 8 Btokes had his fatal quarrel with Jim FUk, la living In New York this w later. Shehashal many ops and down since he was the favorite of the railroad millionaire, and has lived most of the time la Europe. Ehe lives In a brown stone oa Twenty -sixth street, only a little distance Iron Broadway, and la 1 aid to own the property. Last summer she took a house at a summer resort on Long Island, aad she and ber ooardera were not regarded with favor by the neighbors.

FXRSCM AL AMD GENERAL.

BicHOrjEsssT. Peck Is reported to be very LI at hU home in Syra:use. Art kr 11. the beat fire escape la the watchful ness that pata out a fire In lta beginning. . Dr. Oliver Wexdell Holmes denies the report that he Intends making a vUit to Europe. Tilt report that Cardinal Newman was seriously ill was nonue. Ilia general health la very good. Res. Da. F. A. Baird, of Syracuse, N. Y., la to succeed Rev. Dr. Hitchcock la the American Church In Paris. A returned missionary told a Toronto audience that English weuld be tbe language ot China fifty years hence. It must be a tad pleasure to David Divn to reflect that no man can fill the chair be will vacate In the Senate. GraDhic General V. S. G rant haa been asked to accept of the Presidency of the National RIAa Association. It la thought that he will do ao. The elder Mrs. Gai field passes several hours each day reading the recently published volume of the works of the late President, her son. Fohe New Orleans boya bad the lelidty of mowballing on Monday evening last, the snow having been brought in on the tops of railroad can. Mb. Pai l CutssEiiircr, one of tbe very few aurvivora of the "grand armee," ia dead In Paris, at the age of 94. He was at Austerlitz, Borodino and Waterloo. Qi'ef.n Victoria bns granted out of the civil list a penfelon of 30 a year to David Wlngate. the Glasgow workingman poet. In consideration of bis straitened circumstances. Miss Anna Dickinson la living in Ilonesdale, Pa., endeavoring to recover ber health. Later la the senson she will givo dramatic readings in the West, and will visit Boston. Of tha thousand of Indictments drawn by the late Judge May, of Bo? too, daring hi six years of service as District Attorney for ßuffolk County, only one, It is cald, was ever quasbed. Weston, the pedestrian, is making successful lectures iu England on xerclse vs. Tonics." He claims to have talked 50.000 miles In the last fourteen years on a temperance diet and tout abstinence. The Chicago Journal assures General Sherman that nowhere oa .he wide earth wculd be be moie apt to pass big declining days In ease, quietness and obscurity than in sleepy St. Louis. But the Journal is notoriously prejudiced. A Pennsylvania pap'.r makes the announcement that it is going to be fasbiouatlc nest summer for young laJies V) stay at home and help their mothers with the washlnz. There be lots of unfashionable glfls next summer, too. Boston Post. The CounteES Tclfener, who is a sister to Mrs. J. W. Mackav, recently gave a largr dinner party at her hotel ia Paris, covers being laid for twenty guests. The floral display is said to hare been uncommonly fine, and the presents to the ladies present very vl aatle. The memory of General A. J. Myer, "Old Probabilities," 1 to be honored by the erection of a fine granite and bronze mausoleum in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo. The structure will be twenty feet square at the base, and ihlrty-nine feet high, including a surmounting globe. Pennsylvania has had but nineteen Gov ernors in ninety-two years. The first three Governors MllHin, McKoan and Snyöer-servcd nine years (three terms) each. Four Republican Governors Curtiu, Geary, Harttranft and lloyt served en ajgresate of twenty two years. A QlIbkc teleaam ot the 12th lnst. to the Toronto Globe says: "Forty-three old maids held a meeting in the public hall of the adjoining parlhof St. Romuld last night to consult upon the best means of extricating themselves from their furlorn condition. Repo-.t U silent as to the nature of their decision." The New York Herald, founded by James Gordon Bennett, defer ds the Bible from the eritlcisma ol au Er l?copal clergj man in good and regular standing Itev. H. Heber Newton. "To deny the lufpimtion of the Bible," It eay to him. "is to cut the auU graph of the sovereign out of your commission as an otlicer." Marsh T. Polk, the Tennessee defaulter, paid 5S0.Ü00 for his Mexican mines to which so maay unexplained references have been made. These mine, two in number, are a number of miles south of tho "Boss Shepher J Mine," la Chihuahua. One cf them, tbe San Antonio, yielded f00,OCO between 1S56 and IS71, and the ether, the San Pctro, has yielded t"30,003 since 1872. Polk spent 520,000 for new michinery and the like. Since tbe sickness and death et M. Gambetta, public sentiment in Parts has suppressed the op eratic antics of the Mile. Claire Gambetta, whose sole claim rpon public patronage seemed to be her alleged relationship to the Republican leader a relationship tbe genuineness of which is indubitably attested by tha fact that she now bobs up serenely as "Mile. Alice Grevy, cousin to th President of the Republic." The late Lot M. Morrill and Timothy Howe, now Postmaster General, were admitted to tbe Bar together, and began the practice of law la the same town, Readfield, Maine. Morrill was then a Democrat and Howe a Whig, and there was much friendly political rivalry between them. After a few years they lett Rcfidfield together, Morrill to win honors In the Capital of his native State, and Howe to "go West and grow up with the country." To the Princo of Wales has been given, as a souvenir ot tbe bombardment of Alexandria, a ten-inch spherical shell, recently mounted on a wooden stand at the Royal Arsenal. The inscription upon it includes these words: "Came through the port side cf Her Majesty's ship Alexaudria, above armor, passing through Torpedo Lieutenant's cabin, struck camblog of engineroom and rolled along main deck, where Mr. Harding, the guuner, put it In a tub of water, for which he received the Victoria Cross." The announcement that "Mr. Langtry" had been engaged, at a i enormous salary, to appear la public drew to New York Museum a host of persona desirous of seeing the husband of the cele brated Jersey Lily. The cslobrity did appear and delivered a recitation in a manner as devoid of elocutionary merit as the Lily's performances are of dramatic ability. "Mr. Lacg,try" Is the same IndiTilual who but a few days before was seen oa Broadway selling thimbles from a basket strapped t) hii waist. A markiace ceremony came loan abrupt and ludicrous termination the other day la Atlanta, Ga. A prominent clergymaa of that city having con&euted to unite a colored couple, bad just asked the solemn ques tion, "Wilt thou take " this woman?" etc., when an old flame of the bridegroom poked her head into the room and said: "Henry, I Jess dar you to say yea " Henry Bank in to the nearest chair without a word, and the company thought fully withdrew. among the nnmeroua murders "confestad" by Mrs. Still well, of St. Joseph, Mo., on her sick-bed were that she cut her father's throat and killed her mother because she was disfigured by a rail road accident, but Rv. Father Ignatius Conrad, pastor of the Cathedral Tarish ia St. Joe epb, has published a card laying that the mother was not disfigured at all by the railroad accident, and that her father died in his presence. "In as natural a way" as he ever saw a man die, bU disease being dropsy, combiued with consumption. The town of Longvlew. Tel., has developed a novel method of making New Year's visits. The prominent gentlemen of the town made their calls oa that day la the following ludicrous stjle: They provided themselves with pieces of brown cardboard about a foot auare, on which their names were rudely printed la lare type. They presented these visiting cards at the doors on a huae dustpan.SEach (tentlemati wrode the most ungainly mule that could be found, and was accompanied by a servant mounted ntii lendid horse, gayly caparisoned. Iho rerranti cuded the mammoth

visiting cards la a backer. Such Is the wild and

untrammelled freedom of life la the Lone Star State. There Is a man la Scrsaton, Fs who wishes that he had been arrested and sen! to State' Priaon for Ufa. and not Because he feels remorse for his misdeeds. He did nothing, except to make his wife "dead" drunk and then brand the most expansive part of her body with red hot slove-lids and puncture her calves with a whitehot poker. If ahe bad consented to see him in the hands of the officers of the law he would not now live la dread of the execution of ber threat: -Jus t let him bei I'll get even with him when I get well." A most astounding exhibition on premeditated cruelty is looked for. There is a town in Iowa which has a populas tion of 1,300, and twelve distinct and separate church organizations, whlca a local paper lays are not busy converting outsiders but la try leg to kill off each other. Llf 2 is made miserable to tbe uufortunate stranger who comes to that town lie is pounced upon by the emissaries of these organization, and if he should be weak enough to yield to the blandishments of one, ho la promptly ostracized by all the others. The aforesaid local paper seriously states that the business of tbe town la very much injured tj this state uf affairs. It would seem that If thero was more religion and a Utile lef-s church, it would be better all around. THE WfcKK'd NEWS. CONGRESSIONAL. lathe Senate on Wednesday Mr. Kdraunds introaucta a bill to provide lor a Commissioa to investiuat railroad transportation. The Fontotliee appropriation bill having been taken un. Mr. Piumb explained howiv,000 bad been expendl J . . 1 t ; . . i r.. . - ....... ' miau uiii itumic. iu iarm oiu consumea the remainder of the session. IntneUousöof Representatives on Wednesday mr. enora presenteu a memo. lai for the establishment of laliway commuUc-atiou with Central aud bjuth America. Charles T. Doxey wna swora luiorme -Mnia inaiana Dustr ct and J. T. e'aiue as Delegate from Utah. A joint resi 1'iuou w passed ior a new mixed Com uiisslou on Venezuela claims, to sit at Washington. A memorial was presented for the reUuuou uf high duties on tin plate. Ia the SonM?, Thursday, an amendment to the Postotnc- approprlatiou bill wss agreed to. selling aMde S.ssYLOO for fast mail service. Some items iu me lariu diu were coiiMdercd. Iu tbe House cf RepieseuuU7e- , Thursday, Mr. Auderson reported back the resolution calliug ou the Secretary of War for certain Information in regard to telegraph lines built by tho Army. Mr Robeson explained the provisions of tbe uav.il appropriation bill. The death of Hon. J. Shackleford, of North Carolina, was snnounced, and the House adjourned out ot respect to bis memory. Iu the United etat? SsDaie, Friday, Mr. iUrrisaou reported a Mil authoriztrg the County of Yankton, Dakota, to issue bonds, but Mr. Garland gave notice tha: the scheme would be fought by three members of the Committee oa Territories. An adverse report was made on the bill to es tab hsh in Kansas a home for indigeut soldiers and sailors. A Joint resolution was pKcd for the purchase of steam launches for use la the harbors of Mobile and Galveston. The uriii'Mil was taüen up la the Senate Mou day. and the House yesterday. It gives opportunity for endless talk. ( iu ine Culled states Senate Saturday the Pottofiice bill pasbcd with a proviso that tne two cent letter postage take effect July 1. Tbe tariff bill discussion was resumed. In the House the Naval appropriation bill was taken up and at the conclusion of the discussiou it was decidid tnat oue hour's general debate would be allowed ou the bill Monday. THE STATE LEGISLATURE. Sine: our last publication the State Legislature have been busy at work. In the'Seuate Wt-dncsd y the consideration of tbsJohmon Overs treetcoteit occupied botn sessions, .-since the original papjre of couiest were sent to the Secretary of State, the con teste. Mr. Johnson, has ii!ci an additional Charge cf bribing voters aatnst Ovcrsftet, ibesi:ticg member, and it was ia the dior.tkn of th's hat ihe discissions arose. The Committee ou Klfcctions waa liually empowered to bead lor perHotig nd papers to investigate all the cbaiges equally. a. important bill was Introduced in the Senate by Mr. Fletcher, making the penalty for rape castraliou I tiic offender. In the House there was a breezy tpisoda on MoLday. Ihe Journal contained an article written by General Ke-uben Williams, of Warsaw, cuarglug Representative Uora. e HetTTen with treason during the War, being a KnUnt cf the Golden Circ'e, end saving bis life only by turning state's eyidence on hi companions. Mr. Ilenren arose to a question of prlv We, and denounced the story as a tissue of lies He said it wss true thai he w,ti arrested and confined in a Government Pilsen for thirty four days, but that b was put on tr al aud discharged, aud that tho United mates tk-.urt af-er ward decided that the trial was illegal aud void. A number of bills were introduce in the House Wednesday, the rccst important beins by Mr Wiley, to compel Pro-rccatlrg Attorneys to institute proeeedit gt for the removal of publi; officers who KCt intoxicated; by Mr. Ferriter creating the oüiee of State Bolter luspector, and by Mr. Whitsett, abolishing the of!ice"of City Treasurer. Ou motion of Mr. Willard. the Committee on Publie Buildings waa instructed to make a thorough lavestigation of the affairs cf the new State House, although a similar inquiry is new b'cicg made by a House Committee. Senator Spann introduced two important bills, one to t,ix the receipts of tvx press Companies, the otherr to consolidate all the State Educational Institutions Into one, to be located at tbe Capital. Three thousand copies of the report of the &aukakce survey were r.rdered printed. Amoug the measures Introduced in the Senate Saturday was a concurrent resolution to divide the State Into two Appellate Court Districts. In the House the bill making the the f. of sheen or hogs grand larceny was defeated. Several bill were introduced sfleetln; tne powersof Justices of tbe Peace. Mr. Fallon's bill to repeal the Grubbs libel law was rejected by a decisive majority. Mr. Mock introduced a bill amending tbe election laws so as to prohibit the use of siickerii or pasters or to print the names of candidates of different political pon the same ticket. Mr. Hcfftcn 'utroducea a vet y important fee and salary bill, which contemplates a reduction ol Incomes of County ofliclals from twenty -five to forty per cent. The Democrats held a caucus last week, and after a spirited discussion resolved to support the Brown bill as a party measure. It provides for a reorganization of the State Bmevolent Institutions, taking the power of appciuiing tbe Trustees from the hands of the Governor and giving it to the Legislature. oa Saturday ia the House there were over 200 bills passed inrough the second reading and referred to appropriate Committees. The Constitutional Amendments occupied the attention of btith Houses cf the Legislature Friday morning In the shape of tbe reports of the Judiciary Committees to whom they had been referred, lathe Stnate the Democratic members of tbe Committee aud Mr. VanVorhis, R -publican, reported that in accordance with resolution of tbe Senate it baa examiued the journals of the last General Assembly as to proper record of tho proposed Constitutional Amendments, and that no such record can be found and no entry, as commanded by the Constitution, by which the Committee can determine what said propositions were, or that either House referred or intended to refer aty proiosltlon to amend the Constitution to this Afsmbly. The other Republicans, Messr. F.undy and Graham, reported that tbe amendments were legally adooted last tession, and that they were now pendicg. Tbe consideration r.f the various report was made tha special order for Wednesday. In the House there were three reports from the Committee the majority and minority holding substantially tho tame as those io'he Senate, being signed by the Democrats and publIcans,.reiectivolv. and a third report, sizned hy Messrs. Jewett and Pattou, both Democrats. Oa a resolution to print these reports what Is regarded as a test vote was taken, and those w ho do not believe that tbe amendment are rending were opposed to tho printing. The resolution was deft-aied by a vote of 41 to 46, five Democrats and three Republicans being absent and two paired. The Democrats who voted with the Republicans were Messrs. Akin, Graham, Fatton. Pulse, Thomas, and Williams, of Knox. Senator Browa introduced a bill to protect freedom of election to employes of rn&nuucturiog es tablishmeiits, and providing punishment for the violatlo i thereof. ThiswascaiieaouiDy tneaeveiopmeiits of tae treatment of ihe employes of tne South Band shops, noticeably tho-te of Oliver's Plow Works and studebak-r's Wagoa Works iu the recnt Cougretstonal contest. Mr. Willard. by consent, introduced a bill to tbe Senate on Monday S 405 providing for the sub-mis-ion or rejection of any amendments that mat ue propoiea to me eoirtiiuunu oi mu:u m me analiheo electors thereof st tbe general Asiem bly ior ratincatlon or rejection ol any amendment which may at any time be agreed to by two General Assemblies in succession, in accordmoe w ith the provisions cf the Constitution, prescribing certain dalles of officers cf elections, elc, which was read thehrst time. Mr. Brown's bill to reorganize the msnagemont of the Benevolent Institutions was read a second time Monday. MISCELLANEOUS NltVS ITEMS. The Prince of Wales will visit Canada In March. A Loudon tailor his failed for more thaa cte. Red Cloud is hobnobbing witi the Yale Pro fessors. Several cas 38 of smil pox have developed In Little Rock. The Republican Natiomtl Committee met In Waahlnzton Wednesday. John A. Martin, of Kansas, was elected Secretary in Place of 8. W, Dorsey. After prolonged cebave It was resolved that the basis of representation la Katloaai Coa-

vextionabe two delegates for each Senator, the srre fcr every member of Congics, and two for esea Territory and the District of Colombia. Fifty Chinamen were killed. Sunday, br ike xplo ion of a Mot (owdrr establishment four mile norih (f Cakland, Cul.

Three hi no warmen robbed the navmastprof tbe Boynion K.le ContmiiT on the fctreet of Brooklyn. They secured si, too. The total lost of life at the Milwaukee fire was seveutv-five. All the bodies have recovered but one. Forty-six were unidentified. The funeral of Bishop Talbot, at Indianapolis. Friday, was attended bf representatives of twelve Diocese. Tbe procession was a mile In length. Two inmates of tbe Jail at Indianapolis, havlrg deve'oped smallp x. were placed iu a wazun l.r uiu(st to tne Peat House, but managed to escape. The Illinois nouso Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds has authorized the purchase lor 112.HO01 the house 1 a which Abraham Lincoln died. lavfhtlgatlon at the Pension Office Indianapolis revealed a swindle of $l..t :3 by Chilton A. Terrill and George R. yiin, perpetrated by means of forged vouchers. A battalion of Mexican troops had a bloody con flict with Tehuantepec Indians, losing their Um tenant tvdolel aud fity raeu. The Indians lost eleht; killed. James C. Kargo, who died last week at Bnffalo. was Miperin'endentof the rea' estate and i-er-sonai property of the American Fi press Company west of Buff o. Charles Bradley, a Canadian bnrelar who was recently discharged from Jo it I'eniteitlarv. tat been wnt back by Judge Tuley, of Chicago, to serve twenty years. The stallion Pemberton. with a record of 2:24. owned by H. C Nevins. of Methuen. Mass., and valued at SlO.tOO, killed bim-tlf by running Into a picket fence last Friday. lbs Yellowstone National Park Improvement v ompHiiy pss icon organize! ill -New Jtrey ; capital. r.'.uoo.OOn. Rufe Hatch and Boscoc Coukliug s tud at the heul vt the li.t of incorporators. At Richfield Springs. N. Y., last Friday. Harvey Taylor killed his wife and mother-in-law an.i then committed suicide. He was Insane. He tad regulaly laid out the corpses of his victims. The hangman last week rid the world of Arthur Preston, a Maryland i.egro. who murdered his t araraour, aad of Charles G. Shaw, a colored man of Washington, who stood on liuiteau'a acaffold. The stf amshlps Cimbria and Sultan collided la the German Ocean, Friday. The Cimbria was sunk Otii) of her boats has landed with thirtynine persons. There were over 500 souls on board. The largest gasometer ia Glasgow, Scotland, f xploded Saturday nlht. injuring eiijht persons. As this was followed by the blowing up of a railway shed, tbe citizens are enjoying a Fenian scare. Robert Pills went into the Postoffice at Cleve laud Thursday, where a lady clerk was maklugup her cash at a window, an 0 grabbed a package of bills amounting to $2J0. Ue was speedily cap tured. Rev. Tbomvs H.xrrison report? nearly 7X) converclona iu six weeks' work at Decatur, 111. Fifteen of the latter ones united yesterday with the Methodist Church. A jubilee serriC9 is .log arranged for February 8. Georgs Scheller, who Is charged with firing the Xewh& l House, at Milwaukee, was during Tuesday night removed from the Jail to ihe House of vrrectin, and then taken by special train to Waukesha, to avert a lynching. Thomas Waldron, of BuflMo, D'rector of the Brothers' College, has been iudicted for violating tue ierson of a girl of seven, named Hattle Carr. Thefiiendsof the accused lalm that for some lime his mind has been arTuted. The Supreme Conrt of Iowa 1 as declared invalid the prohibitory amendment to tbe Constitution, oa Ue ground that tbe Journal of tbe House docs not show thai the amendment was passed, and also that it varied in form and subs;ance from the measure adopted in toe Senate. Reports from the agriculttirel regions of Nebraska are to the effect that ihs corn bins are loaded and the farmers are mortgAxiug their land to carry the crop to thirty cents per bushel, paving 2 to 4 per cent, per mouth interest at the banks. Tbe Sjt.thern expres brok loose from its engtueo i a heavy grade at Tthaehipa, Cal., Satur day. Two sleepers jumped the track, and baggage aad express cars piled upon them The wreck took tire aud burned. It is known that twenty persona perished. Arthur Scholtteld, aa aed andwealihy bachelor residing in a New Voik hotel, invented a machine to raise or lower he gas without leavirg his bed. and evidently perished from its defective operation, as his room was fount last Friday tilled with the illuminating material. Mr. Crapo ttlegraohed his wltdrawal from the United State Seuatioral contest iu Massachusetts, and urged his friends to vote for Mr. Hoar, who was elected by US votes to 83 for Rowermau. A Democratic jmrual in Boston alleges that Crapo yielded to a petition ijned by men rep;eeatiug tl2.000.000. A. B. Cunningham, a St. Lonls journal -t. having been called a liar by Freddie Gebhard, nent a challcuee to tbe latter to tigbthim u Indian Territory. Gebhard nad written an acceptance, when Mrs. Langtry came upon tbe scene and Induced her friend to halt. CtiunlDicham was a cavalryman iu the Confederate service, and is a dead -shot with the pistol. F.x Senator Spe Deer left Halifax on Friday. He give an Interviewer yesterday a breezy story about bis connection trim tne star Kiuie cases, claiming to have b?en the first to discover tbe frauds, which information be communicated in confidence to the Postmaster General, oa condi tion that his name should never be mide public in connection with the trials. A cold Is unlike most visitors if ycti want to f?t rid of it you must give it a warm reception with br. Hull's Cough Syrup, the standard cough remedy of our age. For sale by all druggists at twenty five cents a bottle. An Earring Found In the Gills ot a Fish. Bodie Free Fress. Last September several younf? ladies and gentlemen from Bodle visited Lnndy on a picnic excursion. 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