Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 31, Number 5, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 March 1885 — Page 1

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THE SILYER QUESTION.

Silver Men in Congress Dissatisfied With the President-Elect's Letter Cn the Subject. Ti? ey Make a Reply in Three) Parte, Giving ReasoE3-Reagan P.aplies Separately. TUE SILVER (JUE-iriOX. The Friends of silver Make an Open Kepi j loth Fresident-lClert's Letter on Silver. Waswxcto.v, March 1 The friends of silver 4n the House, inclined at Erst to make a formal repy to the latter of Presidentt'ct Cleveland, since it haa t een given to the public decided, r.t a conference held this evening, to reply openly to the letter, with which they do not agree. Ihey say they dM net invite a controversy, but, on the contrary, were anxious to avoid it. They abo say it was not until it had become known that a determined eiTort was being mada to induce the resident elect to commit himself and hia administration .in advance t tbe old eida of the currency question, that they decided merely to ( ?k him not to commit himself till his Cabinet was formed and both aides of the question could be considered. They proposed at first to send a delegation to present their views to him, but after communicating 'with him, at his suggestion, they sent a paper signed by nearly 100 members of tha present Ccrgress and members-elect to the next Congress. No reply was necessary, they assert, and rone was expected. They farther say that, while regretting the step the PrssMent-elect b.n taken, in advance of his inauguration and of the lormation of 'hia Cabinet, they do not propose fo have a controversy, unless it is forced upon them. They believe, however, in the independence of the legislative branch cf the Government, and assert that they will at all times maintain it. They furnish the following as a statement cf their views: In tbe letter, no distinction is made between silver com tee ami silver bullion. While it is true silver bulhcn. which is excluded from coinage, acd consequently from monetary use. is worth let (in the ratio of 16 to 1) "than S3 per cent of the gold dollar," silver coins, which are admitted to core'ary use, are equal in value to the gold coin. Tte silver dollar will exchange for as rnucli as tee gold dollar. It will even buy the gold with which the gold dollar may be made. Frscce, witn a populr.tion of G.OjO.OOO, and a territory net as lare as Texas, has in circulation ScOO.lCCCuu tn silver, with tS50 tOD.COO In gold. h;le we have but S-'CO 0CO.0CO lull tender of silver to over fCCO.C C0.C00 in gold, although l,;;eo,0OO.CC0 in sliver coins, at a ratio of 15 to J, are m circulation In n rope, side by aids with f 2, "('",( oCO in goM. In paper and silver tobetter, including silver certificates, we have STiO,(vO, which shows that In tnis country there Is more gold than pape sr.d rearly three times as much goM as - Bilker. With this proportion in our currency, and with gold and silver equally full tender for everythiue, it is difficult to understand why the Secretary of tte Treasury might ct. if he chose to do so, pay ont more silver and leald? Of course, if while reciving Into the Treasury United fctates notes, silver and silver ciriittf-ntes. gojd or sold certificate, he pays out on'.y gold, hl stoci of gold would diminish. If, oa the other hand, he should payout more silver ard taper and less gold, the character of the reserve In the Treasury would control the Secret ry of the Treasury. There would be no need of local teEdcr if the one who receives the money be per. n: med tociicoe the kln'l he will have. That sliver and silver certificates displace gold is true, but only as the Treasury or bank notes displace iL The withdrawal of SICC.CCO.OCO of talk notes or issuance of 51C0 OOO.eCO has the same ert'eet on old, as o much in HI ver or silver c?rti5eites. Why has it to have been proposed to withdraw the National Bai.k notes as a means of preventing the eapulsior. of sold .' 1 o the proposition that there now exist", or ever Las existed, under onr Constitution, ooli-j'tious srecitca ly payable In gold, the silver men feol it their solemn duty to enter their most emphatic dissent at the very o'itset cf 'he discussion cf the question. No su.'h hUstJons exist or ever did exist. Web'ter aaid sold ana silver, at tbe rate fixed by Congress, eoTstinua tbe le?4l standard value la this coantjr, ard neither ConarefS nor any State has tte authority to establish any o:nr standard or to dirpiace this, one art to strengthen the p-iblic rrmu. rt roved March Ii, 1S6J. solemnly p'eized tte United states to tte payment of tie bonds tn roin. The refundm act of July 14. IsTi). provided for 'he pajment of all refunding bonds in coin of their present standard value, which Is the same at the present va ue. Tlie reumptiou act of Jan usrj 11. tv7 provided that froa and al;er the ls,t ft January, the Secretary of the Treasury s could redeem in coin the outstanir; lecal tndtr rote. 15 act of l efcruary 2-5, 1S7S. pr jM!ng for the resumotio-i of the collate cf the stand ird lol'ar, silver dollar were EnJe leijal-tnder of all deow aud dues, pnb',:c and private, unle-8 otcerwise expressly püpniated in lte contract, and there is not a p tb!If obligation outstandiriji, and never wa, containine a s"pu!ation of p4yment in gold. In Janry, 1ST;, ('onuress adopted the following concurrent resolution, otfe.ed by fctanl-y Mauhews, ten fcena'or. and now on tiie Supreme Bench, "Ttat a'l tends cl the rnitrd State, issued or authorized to b issued under the said acs of Congress, herein before r cited, are pftyable, prfcioal ard Interesr, a. the option of the (ioverarrent of tre United States in silver dollars of tte coinage of the United States, fritairi? i!2'i grains each of standard silver an 1 tat p n störe to its coinage such silver coins t s a leal tender on payment of sal t bond, prin-4-iral and iuteieat, in not la violation of public Iitr. cor in derogation of the rihus of puollc creditors. The opinions of the Secretaries of the Treasury 'rom lTS down are referred to as antrintr. The opinion of th Secretaries ara va'natie ween suppore-d by facts and sound re9a, tot onght not to control un.es they are. Jtcaa lot be forgotten, however, ttat the sameSicre taring have steadily predicted what has not taken p'soe. The f rlerds of silver coDcnr in the opinion that it is most desirable to maintain and continue the iri of cur cold coin as well aa the mass of silver air-ariy coined. They agreed, too. that it is of momentous importance to prevent (the coin of) tte two metals from partin? coupany. but the to mft; hte already parued company under tr.e intnDC of silver demonetization in other countries and the hostility oi the Treasury an 1 b atiks to silver in this. But that the continnel -foirase of silver, at the rate cf 000.000 a yer. wi:i drive aold out of circuiaiion in the near f-j-ture, or force It to a premium, doea not by them e; n fo te sustained by the facts or sound reiwnSejt. The to'al volume of currency in the lTnitd !-i'fi outside cf gold U less than 876) 000.00 It i believed to be a prlaciple of v.orrrr.ic science perfectly w-cil settled, ttat i. Jhe volume of UM 0.0.000 is not aufiicient in i seit to maintain prict s In this country at the level of International rice, then gtvld will come hereantf stay here In umcieat amount to make, with the volume already 1b cicalatioa. what wid enstitute cur distributive share of the world's money, as eterrainod by out Interna ttocal trade. That TOO.fXO.CCO ia not a cufiicient volume to maintain pnc at tbo worlda lvel of prices i evidenced by tbe fact ttat ft) 000,000 la pold, a fcrsiderat le prtrt of w?lcb. at least, is in circulation, either In the lorra of coin or erüScates. It .now tav here, and it will g-) way enly when prices beenrse lower else bere t!un they are here. It if b-TÜevel, therefore, that co soca crisla aa ha been f-orf told can orertaka tis ui'r exisclag conditions I', ia not believed to If in the power of ail the brtiks la the ronntry, venil they were to Alt posed, w takt gold outcf rirc olation and bold It lor any length of time at a premium. Taey must first locx up Che worid money, and anest the world'a comrvnes. Kor f tn the paper or stiver or silver cerüficaUe, now in circulation, side by sloe with sold, expvl gold. The goid can be expelled onlv by lore In into circula'ien. in addition to f7ä0,000.CO0. eitnvr of ilver or paper, erjuai to the entire volume of the prid now in circulation. In that manner, une'er Oretbtd'n law, gold miht be expelled ana pro, -atly would te. f f cond Part of the fellver Nsn'i Reply. WiHir,TO!, Mareb 1. It fa doubtless true, .O0, that if the population and wealth in the conntrj were at a itand, than the continued coinage of silver in sufficient voluzte ioM in wee expel gold from circulation.

but at long as the populf tion tad walla go on Incrrefng, the conditions of tte problem are chsceu. in fact, in order to preserve a stable Tatto between the money vol ame and population and wcalto, an annual Increase ct not les than "C-'.O.ClC.tCO in currency of some kind is now TiUlred. la other words, an increase of population and wealth calls for an addition to the circulation at least S4,CQ0,O0O a year. If. while these conditions continue, 6ilver is coined at the rate of only $23 cüO.OC'J a year, there is left a still considerable vacuum to be filled with gold. This ia tte reason why gold has so increased in the country steadily since the act of 1S7S was rfissed, end why eold has increased by nearly i 4,OC;,CK.O durinK the last year, and ia now inrreasln,' at the rate of nearly Sl.CuC.OOQ a month. Notwithstanding the depression of business in the country, and s.3 a matter of fact, there is to day nicrecol l in the country than there ever was before in its whole history. Another fact is the S?C.C.0,CC0 cf gold in the treasury es put there in exthanco for Uver. eei ti Ei ates, and the immediate eßect of stopping tie coinace oi silver must neceisanly be to lower

' the price of silver bullion, and gradually to appreciaie tte value ol gold the world over, lue cti.-iieulties in the way of establishing an international ratio, so much desired, or of the readjustment of the relative value to gold here woald thereby te Increased. How it is possible for such things to take place as Rre predicted in the lat 1 nrsgraph of your letter it is ditlicult to see. tiold is to be withdrawn to its hoarding places, followed by unprecedented contraction ia th3 actual volume of our currency. Sucn a contraction it has teen shown must be followed by a great fall in piices. Wnatthen .' Would not gold How here as the tide flows? Surely It wo il-i come as fast as tte ships could bring it. What then would hose wno have been boirdin? gold do with it ? Labor, the letter says, already great'y ceprefsed, would sudor still further depression by sea. !ii cown the purcrasicg power over tha scalled dollar paid into the hands (A toiL Hee, ia one sentence, we have gold hcsrdeS an unprecedented contraction, fill of prices and sealing down of the purchasing power of the dollar that is, when tne.'e impending calamities come prices are to fall, evirythin become cheaper, and money become le?s valuabie at the same time-that is, l oth skleiof the balance go down together. Usually, one side goes up as the otner uoes down: usually, as commodities become cueaper, money becomes relatively dearer, and vise vena; Usually, a contraction of the money volume results in a rhe in tne value rl money and not in a fall. The contraction involved in this paragraph of the letter are hardly calculated to carry conviction to tnose who have ever studied money questious at all. or to awaken in them any sen si of alarm at our approacnin.; calamities from such causes In one taiug all will agree, and that li in the importance to the whole country, and especially to tee laborin classes, now stitiggling wltu the want of a revival of buemeis arjd a reaction of prosperity, the one condition essential to this i to stop the contraction uf the currency. No conn try ever did this, and never can while is n.oney is oudereolns contraction. Business can not be secured when its foundation is constantly civing way. Stability in the volume of money is the oue essential requisite to safe ana prosperous business. What is the monetary condition ol the world to-day? Are we not brought face to face with the startling fact that the gold prodectiou of the world has fallen below its conf umption in the arts, and that there is no probability of any new gold for the centuries to come? With this condition of thirgs as tD cold. shut oii 6ilver as is now prcposed, and where is the money supply, even for keeping up the stock of coin now in the hands of the world to come from? As aggregatirg this state of affairs in this country, the taper currency Is undergoing contraction by the surrender of bank notes. If this state of things la to lest, upon what is there to build a hope of returning prosperity? In the last three years, according to London economi-n, pricei have fallen more than 20 percent that is, money has appreciated in that ratio. In the quarter of a century following tne gold discoveries. In California and Australia, the stock of the precious metfl ia use as money was Increased by nearly 40 par cenr. The trRdeand commerce of Lireat BrI'sin and the United States during the same period iucreatftd more than four fold, aud wealiU in pro poiucu. Third I'art of Mirer Reply Washington. Starch 1. The reverse of these cocdltlors shut eff all money sappiy, and what room for hope is there for mankind except Tor taose whose incomes are sure? With the appreciation of money all deb s appreciate. Whnn it is remembered that such debts run inta bins of b:l!iors, more than the entire present wealth of the United Stites. the vast consequences of the appreciation of money are seen. Tne control of tne feudal lords over the earth in the middle aces, was Insignificant compared with the control of the inoocrn creditor kings and lords, who through legislation can secure an increase 'n the value of money. It can be shown thai it will take more labor, or more of the pioduce of labor, to pay what remain of our on national debt liow, t.'.au it wouid have taken to pay it all at the time of tne war. Kigbteen m'Uinu tles of cotton were cjulva'ent ia value to the entire interest teariD debt in 180 but it wid take ö,CG0,CCü bales at the price of cotton now to pay the rema;nder of the Ubt. Twenty-five milHe n tons of bar iron would have paid the whole (ifbthilsto It will take ::3 OW.000 tons to pay wtet remains, after all that has been paid as pr re; pal and interest. In view cf the vast Interests Involved tie friends cf silver did not thiuk it too much to ass that the question of the stopping cf the coinage of silver should not be separated from its relation to the wt'ole currency quet on and aced upon by iuelf. The currency question is believed at the present time to over shadow all other questiou, nd all the friends of silver have asked ts that the rresident-eltct should give it fall consideration aid hisr both sides before comraiuiaj his administration to any particular vlev rtspettinj it. Judge Keagao's Separate Statement. W.fHifiuioN, Udrch 1. Judge Reagin makes a separate statement of the whole subject and matter at issue bit ween tbe silver men in Congress and Mr. Cleveland, in which he characterizes some of the latter's declarations as most extraordinary and astonishing. Tha Judge concludes his discastion of the question as follows: The people of this country know, whatever bankers and bondholders may think, that this is an ellcrt to subordinate the interests of the American people to a class known as bankers anl bondholders, and to compel a Democratic President and Democrats in Congress to adopt and carry out the very policy for carrying out whlcn the Republican party was beaten and turned out of power. That rany was the tool of corporations and money kings, and it waa beaten for beiug so, and Dernocrati do not propose to take up the old clothes of the Republican party where they threw them down. The country has not yet forgotten that In 187$, when C'ODgress was trymg to restore silv.r to circulation, and prevent the retirement and cancellation oi legal-tender notes, the banks. In order to prevent this, contracted a volume of debt of ntuny 19 GOO-CCO in about three weeks, threatening a monetary panic, for the purpose of IntimiGating Congress and the President, and to prevent the passage ol a measure which the best interests of the country required, aud they would have produced a panic ll the Secretary of the Treasury basi not thrown a considerable amount of money on tbe market to buy up public securities and furhish the nece suuy circulation, it is stated that tney are now tareateuiDg another panic if they csu riot succeed in what they want. It is to be boped Congress) will answer them by repealing the law authorizing charters of bmks and the control of the volume of money, or. at least, take from them the privilege of isaulag currency aud controlling its volume. We can safely dispense with National Bank notes by substituting in their place an equal amount of Treasury not iDstead, which would be receivable for all taxes and dues and redeemable la coin at thi will of tbe holder, and which, though not legal-tender, would fce tirst-class commercial paper and woul 1 have exsctiy the qualities that tne National Bank notes low have. His Rrply tu tbe Silver Coinage Advocates in Congress. A lkak y, N. Y., Feb. 27. Tbe following is the reply addressed by Prcidt-nt elect Clevelai d to the silver coinage advocates in Congrest: To Hon. A. J. Warner and others. Members of the f orty-eighth Congress: c;ssiij:mem The letter which I have bad the honor to receive from you invites, and, indeed, obliges me to give expression to some grave public necessities, althoneh lu advance of the moment when thev would become objects of my Otacialeare. Your solicitude that my judgment ahall hava been carefully and deliberately formed is emftvly jnsr, and 1 accept the sugsestlon in the same friendly spirit in which it has been made, it Is also füll justified by the nature of a financial crisis, which, under operation of an act of Congress of Februarj 28, 1878, is now close at hand. By a compliance with the requirements of that law all the vaults ol tbe Fe'eral Treasury ave been and are neaped full of stiver coins, wiich. are now worth lws than es per ceBt. of the told dollar prescribed as tne "unit t.1 value" in Section II of the act

of February 12, 1S78, and which, with silver certificates representing such Coin, are receivable for all public due. Being thus receivable, while also constanty increasing; in quantity at the rate ol 52s 003,0(0 a year, it haa followed, of necessity, that the How of gold into the Treasury has been steadily diminished. Silver and silver certificates tave displsced and are displacing gold, and the tum ot gold in the Federal Treasury, now available lor rayinent of tte eold obllcation of the United States, and for the red.mption of the United States notes ctlled '-greea-lacss," If not already encroached upon, is perilously near such encroachment. These facts, while they do not admit of difference of opinion, call for no aigurccnt. They have been forewarned to i s In tte clhcial reprrts of every Secretary of tl Treasury from 1S78 untd now. They are 1 . nly athrmed in the last December report of the present Secretary to the Speaker of the present Bouse of Representatives. They appear in the cfllcial documents of this Congress aud in the records of the New Yora Cleartr g-house, of which the Treasury is a member, and through which the bulk of receipts and payments of the federal Government and country pass. These being facts, our present condition, our danger, aud oir cuty to alert that danger, would Eetm to be plain. I hope you will concur with me. aud v Hi the great majority of our fcllowctiizens. m deeming it most desirable at the rre-ei juncture to maintain and continue In rjEe the mass of our gold coin, as well as the mass of silver already coined. This is po.'iible by a present suspension of the purchase and coinage of silver. I am t ot aware that by any other method It is possible. It is of momentous importanca to prevent the two metals parting company; to prevent Increasing the displacement cd eold by increasing the coinage of silver; prevent tbe isssue of gold In Ih'e custom houses of the United States in the daily business of the people: to prevent the ultimate expulsiou of gold by silver, which. If a financial crisis, as thesa events would certainly precipitate, were now to follow upon so long a period of commercial depression, woull involve the people of every city and State in the Union in prolonged and disastrous trouble. The revival of business, enterprise and prosperity eo ardently desired, and apparently so near, would be hopelessly postponed. Gold would be withdrawn to i s hoarding place, and an unprecedented contraction in the actual volume o! our currtney would speedily take place. Siddest of all, in every workshop, mill, factory, store, and on every rsilroad and farm, the wages of labor, already depressed, would süßer a still further depression by the scanne down ol the purchasing power of every so-called dollar paid Into tie hand of toil. From these impending calamities it is surely the most patriotic and grateful duty of the representatives of tne people to deliver theou I am, gt ntlemen, with sincere respect your fellow citizen, ükover Cleveland. Albany, Feb. IS, 185.

NATIONAL 3IAHERS. 'at!oDal liank Dividends More Talk of an Extra Session Gold and Silver l'rospeeta According toSecretnry McCulloch. WAiHisr.TON. D. C, JTeb. 2S. Rear Admiral Jewett, commanding the North Atlantic station, ha? teen instructed to send a vessel of his squa ron to relieve a number of destitute American citizens in the vicinity of Livingston, on the wed coast of Central Amarlca, where they bad gone for the purpose of engaging in work on the projected railroad. It is estimated that there ha been a decreasa of a little more than SJ,000,0C0 In the public debt during February, The Comptroller of the Treasury has declared dividends payable to tbe creditors of Insolvent National Banks as follows: The First National Bank, of Anderson, Ina,, third dividend. 1150 103 per cent . making in all U9 50 100 per cent. ; Hot Strings National Rank, of Hot Springs, Ark., second dividend, 0 per cent., making in ad 50 per cent.: City National Bank of Chicago, I1L. final dividend, of 612 1.000 of one per cent., making in all 77 612 1,000. Senator Fair succeeded to-day in calling up and of bavins passed the bill reimbursing Harris l OfleandSlr. Eabble, Bettlers on Duck Val'ey Indian reservation, in Nevada, for the value of the improvement taken and appropriated by the Government for public use, amounting to J5.40O. Un motion, Senator Vair also had passed, under a suspension of the rules, a bill providing for the payment of $3.021 to John M. Dcrsey aud William F. Shspherd, far beef supplies furnished the troops engaged in quellinj the Indian disturbance in 1S0Q in that portiou of Utah now the State of Nevada. 'lte probability of an extra session la again the subject oi comment arxong Congre smen. Tte Senate Committee on Appropriations has before It aa much for three and a naif day, including Sunday, as It would undertake to perform in as many weeks if the session were a lone one. Members of the committee ex press the hope that they will be able to present the leinaining bills to the Senate in time for action, out to io so win require them to work night and day. Two of the reaiatninj bills, the Deficiency and Sundry Civil, are measures of Indefinite detail, and their careful scrutiny at best Dy sub committees is held to ba aa imperative duty. Commit'.se meetings will be In propretB all clay to-morrow an! every night oerbaps ah right until the final adjournment. Secretary McCuiloca said to-night, in speaking of the silver question, while be regretted the action of the douse, he thought there was no danger that the country would be brought to the silver standard at an early day. "The condition of the country now," he added, ' Is favorable for the rraiiuenai.ee cf !he gold standard, inasmuch as the balance of trade is in our favor, and there are no prospects or Its being azainst 'is for some months to come. Besides, there is a large amount oi gola in this country outiide of what is held by the evernmentand banks, ant there is litre disI ein iuii vu mc (m 1 1 ma Aiuerii.iu people to uoaru ineir money. 1 he krand jury returned an indictment far embezz ement against D. W. Middleton and 8. E. Miaaluon, of the late firm of Middietoa t Co., bai!rrso this city. The same jury found a number of indictments against Daniel Carrigan, iate Chief Clerk of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery of the Navy Department, for making and using false vouchers. The Majority and Minority Reports on the Cincinnati Deputy Blarshal Investigation. "Washington, March 2. At a meeting of the House Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice, Representative Springer's conclusions as to the investigation of the conduct of United States Marshal Lot Wright at the Ohio October election were, agreed to by a party vote of 5 to 4. The conc'nsions were to the effect that the voters had been intimidated at the polls. The resolution appended to the report recommending the impeachment and removal of Wright was not agreed ti, and was eliminated. Tbe minority of the committee ajreed to the repcrt prepared by Representative Stewart, the Ilepnblican member of the sab-committee which conducted tbe investigation. Tbe report concludes as follows: The Deputy Marshals were all Republicans, and so far aa that term implies, partisans: but tne minority here atlirm its de'ioeraie judgment, 1 8hd upon a fair estimate of all the evidenca. that the specification which charges the Mirshat and his Deputies with aiding and abetting trs'iduient votiuct, with Intimidation and gro outrages, etc , is wnolly unsupported by the evidence. On a comparison of the number of votes, the recult of October with that of November Is conclusive coDfiraation of the foregoing statement. Every witness put upon the stand by Foliett, and every one who referred to the conduct of the Marshals ss Intimidating, was compelled to admit that be did not know and had never beard of a single Democrat who had failed to vote by reason of intimidation by tbe Marshals. Within the recollection of the minority there was only a slDule exception, and that was aa Italian, who testified that somebody prevented him Jrcm voting. The minority are of fe opiaion that Marshal Wright committed an error in declining to divide his appointments between tbe two political parties. He should at least have made an etiort to find reliable representatives of the Democratic party who would consent to act with others of the opposite faith lu furtherance of the worthy purpose ha toad in view. This would have been in conformity with the spirit ot tbe statute, and would have tended to allay the bitterneu of the controversy which finds lis culmination In this inquiry, which is evidently aimed at tbe member elect who is to succeed Foliett, rather than tbe marshals, whore trial upon Impeachment was as clearly Impossible at the outset as cow. But tbe mistake of the Marshal in this last named regard is at the most an error ef Judgment, and la on y alluded to to complete the review of hit official conduct The minority dissent wholly from tn aitloa of tbe majority in tbe result expressed in tbe resolution appended to its report, as not only unwarranted by evidence, but as entirely beyond toe score either of the duty or authority of th committee, pr of Congress, it is no part of the duty oi

Congress, nor Is It within the scope of its functions as tte legislative branch ol Government, either to request or advise the removal of a subordinate in the Executive Department. Finally, there la no evidence on record which shows that any appreciable illegal vote was cast on either side at the October election, while, on the other band, the loss from intimidation was wholly on the Republican side. In verification ofthla statement, a confident appeal ia made to the record and final result The election was as fair an expression of the will of the people of Cincinnati as is possible without proper registration of its votes. Vice Presldent-Klect Hendricks amend. meiits to the Appropriation Ullis, and Interesting Matters Generally. VAShi5iTox, March 2. Vice Presidentelect Hendricks was on the floor of the Senate to-day, and the Senators, without regard to political tßliatioD, took the opportunity to pay their respects. After leaving the Senate Mr. Hendricks went to the hall of the House, and a cumber of members greeted him. Alierwardbe went to the lobby on the rear hall, whe:e te held an informal reception, and met both Democratic and Republican Representatives. Tte Senate Committee on Commsrce amended the River and Harbor bill by substituting the words "ten million dollars" for ' five million dollars," wheiev-jr the la'ttr oernr. but leavin the apptop iatton in a "lemp sum," as the bill came from the House. The Senate Committee has affixed a provision authorizing surveys for the various contemplated works. Tbe House to day, as in Committee of the Whole, non concurred ic he following Senate amendments: To the Naval bill, striking ont the clamo at propriating 100.003 for the completion cf the vtesel Nsw York, providing for new cruisers, appropriating for the continuation of work on double turretted

monitors and or the puichase of the destroyers. President Arthur received a letter from Presidentelect Cleveland, in which the latter eays te regrets that the arrangements that had already "been made, for hia trip to Washington to-morrow will prevent him from accepting Yrt sident Arthur's invitation to dine at the Executive Mansion on that evecicg. The deficiency in postal service for the first quarter of tbe fiictl year fc 2,0G3,220. as compared with a deficiency of 1,010,3S3 for the corresponding quarter of 1SS1. Tbe State Department haa transmitted to tbe Postmaster General a proposition from tne llritish Government lookiug to the negotiation of a treaty between the Governments of the United Slates and Great Britain, providing f cr the establishment cf a parcels post sjsiem. v lhe Sundry Ciil bill, reported to the Sanate to-day, increases tbe amount appropriated by the House bill 3 20-1.159. The original amendments are for the appropriation of $G25,C; for the payment of the final award made by the French aud American Claims Commissioner against the United States; $224.506 for tbe international boundary tnrvev betwsen the United States and Mexico; f150,000 for continuing the construction of terrace and grand stairways of Capitol; ?12,C00 for the improvement of the roads in the Port Leavenworth military reservation ; ?30,W0 for the completion of a quartermaster and commissary depot at St. Paul; $0,C00 for fhe erecticn of a etatne in Washington to tbe memory of General Lafayette acd his qi-patriots, and an increase of the appropriation for public printing and binding from $2 000,000 to $2,500,000. The following provisions are stricken out: That no place or public buildirjg shall be approved until after a Bite has been purchased, nor which contemplates a greater expenditure in the completion of the building than provided in the bill authorizing its erection; directing the transfer of tte "Eear" to tbe Treasury Department foresees a revenue cutter in Alaska; repealing tbe act authorizing the taking at lerpth and euoieguent census; authorizing tte tale uf the A.iegheny and Indianapolis Arsena't. Tbe provision for the relief of the New Orleans Exposition ia amended by Increasing tbe arp!0-rlatioa from iOO.OOO to 100,000, erd providing it thall be for the ""Snl aid ' cf tbe exposition. The amendment also poviCes that no part oi this sum stall bx raid nntil satisfactory statements are rxsde in detail to the Secretary cf the Treasury, showing the roony previously expended has been used for the purpcees and in the manner provided in the act. The Supreme Court of the United States reattenibied today after the February recets, Chief Justice Waite presiding for the first time since hia recent illness. A large nnmber cf decisions were rendered, bat only a few were of general public interest. Representative Warner's Committee, which haa reen investigating the workings of the Pension Office, have determined, owing to the short time before the adjournment of Congress, to make no formal report other than to present the evidence taken by the committee. Meeting of the Democratic National Com mtttee. Washisgtoit, March 2. The National Democratic Committee met to-day with a full attendance, and W. H. Earnum presiding. The meeting was mainly directed to the ex change of congratulations upon the success attending the work of the committee, and a discussion cf the part they should take in the inaugural ceremonies. It was finally agreed that the members of the committee should witness the. proceedings at the Capitol, then take carriages and ride to the grand stand in front of the Executive Mansion and view the process on. Secretary Prince humorously reminded the gentlemen present that it bad been twenty-five years since the committee bad met for so rdeaiant an object ai that which had called them to gether to day. Tbe meeting adjourned subject to tbe call of the Chairman. The Executive Committee bell a preliminary meeting and approved ot the b'lla for tha expenditures during the campaign. GENERAL GRANT. He la Still a Very Sick Man His Physical Sjfcttm Ureabtog Down. Piui-APELriiii, Feb. 27. A epecial to the Times from New York, based on reliable medical authority, says: Notwithstanding the rose colored report of Genersl Grant's health, recently given by a medical journal, tbe truth is, General Grant is very sick, and his death apparently not far distant. The public have no conception of the shattered condition of hia physical system. It is hoped the affection of his tongue may not prove fatal, bnt there is ai yet no appesrance of its not developing into a malignant and fatal disease. Although somewhat better now than some weeks ago, the enlarged and in flamed tongue continues, making it painful to speak or swallow. Fluids are the only nourishment he can take. In addition to this distressing malady, General Grant is a terrible auffsrer from neuralgia, which ferns to bare taken possession of his whole jstem. He has bad most of bis teeth

drawn to lessen the neuralgia, and his Injury in his hip, caused by his fall a year ago, ia still a soiree of great suffering, and forbids physical exercise. It is a fact that should no longer be concealed from the country that General Grant is rapidly breaking down, and apparently without hope of a reaction; and unless there should be some unexpected relief he will not be lengamoDg tbe living. He is wonderfully patient and uncomplaining, and he profoundly apprjeiates the expressions of sympathy which have been called out by his recent appalling misfortunes. He works every day, with bandaged bead, in unremitting pain, to finish his autobiography on the history of the war. acd hopes to complete it this epring. The first volume is entirety finished, bnt not revised, and the second volume is more than half dene. Ills Condition Kept From tbe Public to Keep Letters From Pouring In and Exciting 81m. New York, Feb. 18. In regard to General Grant'3 health, Colonel Frederick Grant said to a l ost reporter this afternoon : "My lather Is a very sick man; there is no use In longer deny In ? the fact We have made every effort to keep the true facta from the public, becaase we knew that cs toon as it should become known that he was dangerously ill there would be hundreds of letters coming in with eve.-y mail, and this wou'd only excite him and make a cure less hopeful. My father has bad little rest for the past few nights. He was up and about bis room for a little while yesterday, and we hope to get him up again to-day. but he la suffering constant pain in his ear ana head. For any facts concerning the nature cf his disease I refer you to his physician. Tbe doctors who are attending him are Dr. Fordyce Barker, Dr J. H. Dougla, and Dr. II. T. bands, of this city, and Dr. T. M. Werker, of Philadelphia." Dr. Douglas said : "1 am In no wise responsible for tbe rose-colored report that appeared in the Medical Journal last week. Two days before the teport was published, I had a conversation with Dr. bands st General Grant's hot'ie. Tte result of the consultation was that we both decided that the cancerous growth at the root of the tongue was hardening and steadily growing worse. A miscroscopical examinatioa by an expert proved beyond a doubt that the case was a malignant epithelial growth. General Grant Is a very sick man, I think there 1? little or no hope that he will recover. He is breaking do rn : but he has displayed much courage. For less than a month he has done as much as six or elzht hours werk a day, but has had little sleep for the past eight days. We have tried to keen a knowledge of his true condition from the General, because be had so many other troubles to bsar. I have all Rlong maintained that his trouble is from a concerous growth at the root of the tongue, caused undoubtedly by excess in tmokirg. Every time he speits or- breathes or eats this is disturbed. It is diuicuU to treat it for that reason. There have been times when the growth could have been temporarily checked, but it niver has been arrested, and it is steadily increasing. There has been considerable loss of tissue of the soft palate, lie takes nourishment every day. in a liquid form. Ue can not cat solid food because he has lost all his teefh. They were extracted in the hope orjeaslng the pain In tbe face. This pain, although it resembles neuralgia, is not that pure and simple, but it Is a reflecting pain, caused by cancer in the throat. He has been 6Uflering from a severe pain in tbe right ear and on top of the head. To ease this, bis head is kept wrapped in hot flannels. I can not say hew near the end is. He may live for months yet, as men suHerlns; from this disease have done, but I do not thiuk there is any hope he will ever recover. "

THE GUXSIGHT MISE. Trouble Amove the People Investing tn It Serious Charges. Nevada, Mo., Feb. 2S. For the paBt three months Southwest lli-sourl has been agitated over large transactions in mining stocks. A deed has just been placed on record here around which centers considerable interest Some months ago a syndicate was formed at Carthage which sent a committee to New Mexico and Arizona to make Investments in mining stocks. The committee went to Pirna County, A. T.. and purchased the Gnnsight Mine, owned in part by Dr. R. Hilton Chase, for which ttey paid SjC.OCO. end agreed to assume certain debts resting against the mine. The purchasers organized under the name of the Carthage Silver Mining Company and Isji3d 600.000 shares witha 'ace value oi $20 each Ur. Chase received in pavment for the mine real estate in and around Carthage valued at '.0,000. '3,5(0 in eis a and 7J.5C0 In shares of stock. Dr. Ctiase then loaned the company ?5,5C0 in cash, for which he secured a Hen cn the mine. In the meRntiT.? Charles M. Harry, an extensive Vernon County farmer, invested S5.5CO ia tbe compauy's btoj and was elected Superintendent aud scut out to look alter the work. Mr. Barry unk with him J12.CC0, which he had secured for the company on a note given by himself, indorsed by M. ö Tower and Robert Moore, of Carthage. This money was applied to the payment of claims against the mine. While Earry was looking after the nine Dr. Chase wss at Carthase. and when Bsrry returned home Dr. Chas was in this city. Mr. Parry was pleaded with the prospects of the Gur'ght, and purchased '10,000 additional shares frori Dr. Cease, agreeing to give him in piyment nis fne farm In Vernon County of h30 acres, together with all of his personal property, valued at about 5,0C0. A deed was made to 760 acres of the land, but before the personal property was transferred Mr. Earry changed his mind and Dr, Chase failed to receive any part of It, About six weeks ago Mr. Barry left this country and no one seems to know where he has been keepiDg himself. During that time the only informatien received of him was thronen a letter written by him to one of our city pirers, sayipg he bad made the discovery that the Gunslt'ht mine was utterly valueless, and that Dr. Chase was a fraud. Mr. Barry's attorneys then instituted a suit to set aside the deed on the ground of iraud. Shortly afterward Dr. Chase commenced negotiating with various parties for the sale of the farm. He at first oflered it for S7.0 -k), and finally sold it to itobert Irons, of this city, tor iä.OOO. it is thought that Mr. Irons made the purchase to protect Mr. Barry. Dr. Chase continues to assert that the Gunsight mine ia all that it has been represented, and thst Mr. Barry's course has been taken for the Eurpose of depreciating the stock, with a view of uying it. He declares that Mr. Barry remains away from this city because he fears a visit from the Sheriff of Pima County, Arizona, for having, as he alleges, while there, paid the miners in worthless checks and obtained goods upon misrepresentations. Parties at Sedalla have Invested about j:o,GCO,' or more, in the Gunsight Mine. Thev? are many holders of the 6tock at Carthage, Mo.ilt-ose and other towns In Southwest Missouri. Tbe agents of the company have been active, and have sold a large part of the stock. Cleveland's Departure From Albany to Washington. Albany, March 2. At -6:25 four carriages were drawn to the Church street siding of the West Shore Railroad Depot, half a mile below tbe regular passenger station. In the first carriage were Mr. Cleveland, his two sister?, Mrs. Hoyt and Miss Cleveland, and hia niece. Miss Hastings. In the second were Rev. L. Cleveland, brother of the President-elect, wife and child. In the third Mr. and Mrs. Manning. In the fourth Mr. and Mrs. Lamont and two children. The party waited fifteen minutes before the epecial train was ready. The train consisted of an engine, baggage or and two sleepers. It left at snarp at 0:45, Tte only persons present were Dr. Ward, CUonel . T. Chamberlain, Harry Teneyick, one policeman and several small boys. Mr. Cleveland was in excellent spirits, Mr. Manning looked cheerful and Mr. Lamont was bright and busy, getting things in order on the train and looking after a pile of baggage. Tbe train slipped off quietly without toot or beil and will atop only for water between here end Washington, where it is expected to anlve at 0 a. m. The Death Boll. Special to the Sentinel. Eheletville, Ind., March 1. Henry L. Beale, one of the oldest aad most prominent cltizecB and Masons In this city, died at 1 o'clock to-day, aged C8 years. The remains will be interred Tuesday under the auspices of tbe Knights Templar, of which order he was an honored member.

GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS.

England's Policy as Stated by Lord Kimherly. Losdos, Fcib. 27. In the House of Lords Kfmberly, Secretary of State for India, said the policy cf the Government wa9 to leave Egypt when Rood government was established. It was simply impossible for any English government to remain in Egypt in the face of the, European antagonism which existed. The whole policy cf the Government has been to extricate England from her difficulties and enable her. with un.wtited energies and courage and power, to return to ber former state, m which her strength would be greater throughout the wcrld. Cheers. Granville's Speech In tbe Bouse of Lords. Lokdok, Feb. 27. In the House ef Lordj Granville, Secreary for Foreign Affairs., maintained the preceding government had sown the seeds of all tha present troubles. He was not surprised that Bismarck disapproved of the present government's policy, because neither the preceding cor the present government had adopted Bimarck'a advice to annex Egypt, Granville regretted the fate cf General Gerden, but declined to accept the odinui which the opposition sought to cast upon the government as resulting from the lamentable disasters at Khartoum. He assured the House of Lords that the government was anxious to proceed with vigor in its present policy, and deal with the slave trade in the mcst effectual way possible. He regarded England s honor as pledged to defeat Egypt proper. In conclusion, he eaid if Salisbury became the head cf the government, he much doubted whether he (Salisbury) would propose and execute the policy he had proreuuded. If he did, tfce country would force him to wriggle out of it at the earliest opportunity. The Marquis of Salisbury responded briefly to Granville's remarks. The Paris Gang ludtgoant at the DocMs Cast on Their Ferocity. Pakis, Feb. 28. The Fenians and dynamiters la France are indignant at doubts being cast on their "ferocity" by Sir William Vernon Harcaurt, the British Home Secretary, in 1'arliament yesterday. Since the conclave was held they teem to have shif:ed their headquarters temporarily to Chanlilly. A report of an Interview with Ml:hael Flennery has been communicated to the Tribune bureau to-nieht. It bears out all statements previously published. Flannery is a man about thirty-six or thirty-seven years old, of fair complexion, with auburn Lair. Ue is apparently well educated, aud has traveled all over Europe and the Last. - He refuses to make his birthplac: public, fearing to compromise his relatives. Tne interviewer asaed his permission to publish the address at which the conclave was held. Flannery said : "The address was, as you know, in the Rue Canibon, Paris. You yourself were present at the conclave. The British and French police were ta tiled and the concierge of the building was outwitted. The Home Secretary is very glib In denying the holding of tbe conclave, but, unfortunately for himself, he can neither deny the occurrence of the past explosions nor prevent their recurrence." 'You anticipate fresh explosions, then?" Ves: within a few weeics, if only to consecrate the decrees ot the convention. Paris. Feb. 28. Letters signed Eusene Davis and Patrick Cary appear in the Gaulois and Figaro thl6 morning maintaining the accuracy of the reports sent of the dynamite conclave ia Paris. La Intransfgeant persists in statics tnat toe reror s of the conclave wire bous aud git up ty Fnglish agents. The Dynamiters Cauuinghani and Horton Further Examined More Kvideoce Against Burton. LOJ.DON, March 2. The examination of Cunningham and Burton was continued today. WitntEses were Introduced who testified that Burton was the owner of the ba; containitg twenty p3nnds of dynamite dncovered in the parcel room of Charinu Cross Itailway Station, shortly after the explosion at Victoria is a tion, a year azo. Poland, solicitor for the Treasury, stated that the Government would show that Burton was connected with the Fenian conspiracy in the United States. The solictor then gave the details ot the plot to explode Louden Bridge, Parliament Hooss and Tiwer, psying Le wcnld show that Burton was connected in all these plots. Mr. Poland said the Government would show that Burton arrived at Southamptoa on the 20th of February, 1881. At Southampton he bought the portmanteau found at Cberitsg Cress Station, which contained djramite. This portmanteau was similar to one found at Faddiugton Station, which also contained dyramite. The plan had been to b:ow up the four principal stations in Lot don. The dynamite wa3 packed into the portmanteau with American clock works, tc-t to strike detonations at a certain hour, and one portmanteau so charged was to be left at ..each of the four principal stations. Tbe Dynamite Congress a Hoax. Pakis, Feb. 20 It Is now alleged by those who recently reported a congress of dynamiters in this city, that it was a hoax, the whole affair being concocted by foreign police for the purpose of alarming England and inducing her to become a parly to the proposed international extradition treaty again Et dynamiters. Sir. Bendricka' i Narrow Escape From Death. Grafton, W. Va., Feb. 23. Vice President elect Hendricks had a narrow escape from death between this place and Parkersbarg at 4 o'clock yesterday morning. Mr. Hendricks and General Superintendent Clements, of the Baltimore and Ohio Koad, were coming east on a special train running at lightning speed. Train 183 had orders to side-track at Kanawha Station. The special was in two sections. Aa soon as tbe first section passed train l&S pulled onto the main track and dashed ahead. It had just got fully under way and rounded a curve when the engineer saw the headlight or tbe second section of the special carryiog Mr. Hendricks and party. Both engineers made desperate efforts to slop their trains, and so far succeeded as to cause but a slight collision, sufficient, however, to awaken the sleepers. Superintendent Clements at once discharged the crew of train 158. FELL DEAD. A Republican Member of the Illinois Legislature Suddenly Stricken Down. Si'RiNfiHET.D, 111., Feb. 20 Noon. Judge Robert Logan, of Whitesides Connty, dropped dead at the head of the House stairs as he was on his way to the chamber. The elevator was not running, and he attempted to walk up the long stairway. Legan had been ailing all session with heart disease and could not stand excitement of any kind. When he dropped on the House floor, opposite the main entrance to tbe chamber, be was picked np by ,'nencU and carried into an ante-room and doctors called. Five minutes later he was pronounced dead. In tbe House this morning it was resolved that a committee of two Senator and three Representatives with the Doorkeeper of the House attend the funeral of Logan. It was resolved that members of the House accompany the remains to the train in a body; also that a committee of fhe be arpaintel to

draft suitable resolutions re!ative to the death Ot Logan. In tee Senate the resolutions of the House were concurred in, and the Senate adjourned. In joint cession it was arranged tbattovote would be taken for United States Senator before next Tuesday. The greatest excitement prevailed In the Hoose ard Senate, and profound regret was expressed on all sides. The body will be la'aen to Morrison to-nifcht or to morrow. Status cf Affairs Not Affected. Chk-a;o, Feb. 2'3. The Times will tn morrow publish interviews with Hon. Tuller, Judge W. C. (ioudyand Hon. 6. Corning Judd, leadirg Democratic lawyers of this State, upon the etltct whica the death of P.epmentative Legan wil hav upon the Seratorial deadlock at Sprin-rtield. They egree in sayicg it does cot chares the status cf afiaire; that the law requires a majority of all the n.emhers cf tcth House3 elected to be present, acd voting, in order to ccrstitute a quorum- The full roster of tba joint assembly is 2'Ji, and tie preseccs of 1C3 are recestary to make it a legal biiy for the choice of a Senator. With thiä niiaiber present and voting, a majority cftheo:es cast it is claimed will elect. The re are 102 Democratic members cf the joint Assembly, and since the death of Representative Legan, 101 Ilepnblican member?, eo that either party to secure a constitutional quorum must have the assistance of one or more members of the opposite party. Three weeks cr more will elapse before Representttive Logan's place can be filled by a srecial election. '

New York Detectives Arrested in Albany. Ali;axy, March 2. Two men who appeared tobe itcting suspiciously in the neighborhood of the Towner Mansion, where iL-. Cleveland live?, were arrested this moraic;;, at II o'clock, by detectives Dajer and Morris, by crder of the Chief of Police, and taken to the police station here. They were identified by Colonel Duisht Lawrence as two detectives, tarred Thomas Ciaig and Theodore Waldren, employed by the private egeccy. No. -"04 Bro-ds-ay, Kfcw York. They refused to tell their business to the Chief cf Police and refsrred him to Inspector Byrnes to By what it was. They were taken before a Magistrate, and committed for a farther tearirg. The latest supposition is hat they aTe detectives employed by the friends of Cleveland, without bis knowledge or tbe knowledge cf the authorities, to protect him from the threats of violence that have bten made, from time to time, during the lest two weeks. After tfce defectives were committel for fuither beariDg a dispatch was rscsived by Chief Völlard, signed Inspector Byrnej, which read: "Those men are all right. Let them go." They were then set at liberty. Inspector Byrnes arrived on the 2: 11) p. m. train. He said, while he knew the men to be all right, be could not have signed ths dif patch, aa he left New York at 13:30 a. m. in company with Colonel Murphy, while the men were not arrested till 11 o'clock. Some one in the office may have signed it. It transpires that both detectives have been here twenty-four days hunting np defaulters, ard were at xrk on a track In the neighborhood of Cleveland's house. A FAIR GIRL'S ESCAPADE RECALLED Elarziage f Miss Zerelda Garrison, Formel ly a Itelle of St. Louis. St. Lous, Feb. 2S. On the register at the riaut.er's House appeared to-day "Mr. and Mrs. A. Neuville, Chicago." There was nothing particularly strange about this, but ou inquiry it was learned ttat Mrs. Neuville was well known in this city. Ehe bad become a bride at Chicago on the 15th inst., and with ber husband was here to spend the honeymoon. Mrs. Neuville was formerly Miss Zerelda Garrison, the daughter or Mr. Abe Garrison, a former wealthy merchant of this city, and a nkce of Commodore Garrison, of New Ytrk. Bke was known in Chicazo, where she nas been livicg with her motner, as Miss Aiene (Harrison. Mr. Neuville is a French gentleman of dis ticctfon, and is the representative m Chicato of three large Knropean concerns. He is over forty ytarsof ase, aud is a widower with no children. His first wife was killed in New York a year or so aso by a runaway horse. The marrifge of Miss Garr-son recalls the sensation she produced in fc't. Louis in the spring oT Ij2. A publication in the I'ost-Dispatch first announced that Miss Zerelda Garrison, a beautiful and accomplished girl cf eighteen, had mysteriously disappeared, "she has been abducted." was tne verd ct at the Garrison mansion. Tne case wss reported and a search beun. Two days psssed, and the telegraph and detectives bal lound no tidings of the lost girl. Tbe nigh social standing and prominence of Mis Garrison's family trade the theory that she had been abduct?d ar.d held for racscm the prevailing one. It was the sensation of the hcur. On the evening of tne third day after her disappearance Zerelda returned to her home and told ber story, fche tad been he guest of three younj toodlums. occupying a room in a tenement house cn Carr street, in one of tbe lowe-t and dirtiest districts of the city. During the time she lived with ber Csrr street friends she had taken her meals at a cheap uptown restaurant, coin? to aud from tne curavausary closely veiled and always aloce. fche made the acquaintance of one of the hoodlums through a street flirtation. Kvery effort was msde to keep the history of the girl's escapade secret, but it allfd. gnewas sent to a suburban convent and bad been lost sight ot entirely until she appeared here to-day a happy bride. TEN YEARS IN A CELL ill. Sliocklrg Story of an Old Man's Imprisonment by HI) stepchildren. riTTSKCEG, Feb. 28. A decrepit old man, with a white beard reaching below hia waist and hair falling in confusion over his shoulders, entered a lawyer's office on Thursday anl told a wonderful story of tbe sufferings and privations be had endured at the hands of designing people, who, be said, had kept him a prisoner for eleven years. His name is William Jackson Moore, and he came from Wasbineton County, near Tridelphia, a small town betweeu Little Washington and Wheeling, for the purpose of seeking legal advice in order te recover property he has been defrauded out of. In his deposition be ys he wis married in 1871 to Mrs. Wallace, a widow, who had a daughter. Two years afier the marriage tbe wife died and a year afterward the stepdaughter married James laviu. of Wheelinc. Both went to live with and eventually began to persecute him. "They induced me," he deposes, "to mike a will in their favor, aud shortly after 1 had done tn la my term of Imprisonment commenced. One evening a neighbor called at my boue and said. 'I unCerstand you are going on a visit to Michigan to see your relatives.' 1 was on the point of denying, when my son-in law made a threatening gesture, and I said, Oh, yes.' That nisht while I was in bed, I was gagged, bound and placed In the cellar and the door doubly locked and bolted. The next morning my son-in-law sawed a wicket in the door, and through that oieuinz food was banded to me, and I bave-slived in that place ever since. The cellar was so arranged that my outcries cou'd not be heard. I beard after I escaped that it had been given out I bad died while in Michigan. About two weekt ago my usual allowance of food was not given rue, snd hearing no kennd about the bouse I thought I would try to st out. During my long imprisonment 1 bad loosed a large atone in the wall, and with this I approached tne door and mansged to batter it down. There was no person in the bouse. I found nearly ii00 In one of the drawers. I took the money and started Immediately for Wheeling, where I have been living ever since." The old man's story will be investigated. Tridelphia is a small place away from railroad and telegraph stations. Killed by a Falling Limb. Special to the Sentinel. Wabash, Ind., Feb. 26. While at work In the woods on his farm at noon to-day, Henry; Meisner, a prominent fanner, was struck ont tbe bead by a falling lima and Instantly. killt d, FJshead wm horribly crushed