Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 14, Number 49, Jasper, Dubois County, 17 January 1873 — Page 2

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C. IK)i NK. Pmu ,mri wr hrief. THE EAST. A rA ' i1m l"1 urgli an.l En? railrosvl ran off the track near Mom Pa. tb othr day. aud a inrvip4tatJ down Mi nnankiiiarnt thirty ftvt high. Two of the webe r burned, bat all the pMceuger occUl ui KMUnK "at alive. Tweuty of them were injured, but none eeriously. Tmt trial of Stoke for the murder of James Fik, Jr.. km brought to a cloee in Sew Vork ou the th inat.. and reultel iu a verdict of guilty of murder in the tiret degree. Ou retiring, the jury Hood ten for murder and two for tuauolanghter. They were abweut three hour. On the announcement of the venlict the prwouer wa visibly affevted. He turned ghaatlv pal, and threw !..- arm in tue air with a gwtwe of utter dewpair Financial advice from Sew York aud the East eipre the telief that the ral::i ta.'iietarv truigency mut s.u giTe way to an eaaier feehng. Stokks wa brought into the New York i tin of Over aud Terminer, the other day. to receive lu sentence. The prisoner was aakad what he had to aay why the sentence of death hoold not be p i upon hini. Stokes said thr he had ti' : violated the law inteutioually : that the teMunouy upon which he was couvicted was manufactured and i rj :r. '. Judge Boaniman. then, in a feeling address, in which he alluded to the prisoner's youth and social urrvunthngis. sentenced him to be hanged ou Friday, the 23th day of February uet. being the longest time that could be legally allowed the convicted man. The prisoner looked getitlemauly. and bore the scrutinizing gaze of the thousands cf spectators led by morbid curiosity. He was ashy paie. The sympathy of most of the spectators was with Stokes, and it is believed that Gov. Dix will exert executive clemency. A bitter and exciting journalistic war is racing in New York. A dispatch of the IHh inst. says i All the papers in the suit of the Tri'mnt against the Ti'ntt and the Brooklyn Union have been served, and the Tribune will prese for trial as early as possible. There is a prospect of a lively row among the newspapers in the next few weeks. The Tri'mu and the World are making common cause against the Tinut. and savage compliments are exchanged daily. The Herald is not iu th tight at present, but will probably take a hand on the side of the Tribune and World. The Journal of Commerce approves the Tribun-' course in bringing the libel suit, and intimates that it has suffered from stones similar to that hieb causes the present row Deaths in Brooklyn the past year numbered 12.&4 Mrs. Sophia M. Hütsman and William J. N. S'leppard were foully murdered at Moravia. X. Y.. by John Hiltsman. husband of the former Stokee has been taken from his luxurious quarters iu the Tombs, and co mined in the murderer's cell- One ground on which the verdict will be attacked by Stokes' counsel is the remark said to have been made by one of the jurors, between the dm and second trials, that he would be "juror next time ; then you will see what will happen to Stokee." The Democrats of New Hampshire have nominated James A. Weston for (iovernor It is said the Erie Railway C ompany is about to sue Drew and Yanderbilt for the restitution of money of which it is claimed they defraned the company.... Henrr C. Bo wen. of the Brooklyn t'mon. has sued the New York Trifmne for a large amount because the IWhW copied from the Brooklyn Eagle an article alleging that Bowen was responsible for the scandal about Bev. Henry Ward Beeher in regard to the Woodh all -Claim publication against him. Stokes, the New York murderer, has been removed to his old cell. It is said this is the fim instance in 31 years in which a prisoner, confined in the Tombs and convicted of murder, has beeen allowed to occupy any bat a condemned cell. A diabolical attempt at wholesale incendiarism was discovered and frustrated in New York the other day. A twine merrliant named Kidd had carefully prepared a train of fuse connecting his premises with adjoining buildings, whereby they could be set ou tire. He was arrested. and his office boy testified to seeing him making the fuses. Three large warehouses were involved in this attempt, and but for the discoTery a heavy conflagration would have entrains of fuse were nearly all laid in the upper stories and from roof to roof A meeting of old soldiers of the war of 1 -12 was held in Philadelphia on the auitivernary of the battle of New (Means. Only twelve answered to roll-call. Prrmoxs are circulating in New York for signatures, praying Congress to annex the Sandwich Islands to the United State The war among the New York newspaers waxes warmer daily, and some sanguine persons are anticipating duels in cousequence. It is said the TiW is about to bring a libel suit against the WfrUL for a recent jiblication in which the i private life of parties connected with the Tin ia freely ventilated. I!owen. of the Brooklyn I'nion. threatens half a dozen suits against the Trilmr . The conipoMtor cf the New York Tri'mtv. at meeting the other day. approved the pronosiuou that the printing offices in the United States give one or more pounds of old type each for the purpose of making a statue of Horace Greeley, to be erected over bis grave in GreenwotsL and ask the comp)! tors of the country to give the proceeds of 1.000 ems. set up on Feb. 3 next, the sixty-second anniversary of the birth of Mr. Greeley, the money to be forwarded to the President of the New York Typographical Union No. 6. at 22 Duat. street. New York, of which Union Mr. Greeley was the first President The billiard match for the championrhip of America, played at New York on the 9th inst.. between Cyrille Dion and Maurice Daly, was won by the former, by a score of 1.500 to 1.147. Largest mm : Dion 156, 141, 125 aud 105 1 Daly. 15. 1.1. 117, 124 and 108. Fifty-nine innings were played Napoleon, it is said, made

several investments in New York dunn;; the iat vear. and owned uearly a mithoii dollars'

worth of iToiterty in that city Mrs. t'arr an.: ! hr throe children were burne.i lo neat ti. in Delaware county. Pa., last week. 1 : the eploeiou of a lamp. nit: r The tine residence of cv-l.ov. lVuoy. at t'assvilU. Wis., was burned recently. Lowe, 75,ij(.l The coal -miners' strike at Springfield, IlL. has ended, the workmen having ao- ! ceptedthe old rates.. . Two brothers, named Wilham aud David I'larki-on. ltli butcher, aged reiectively C'. and 71. were found froen to death in their leds in Tike county. IlL. recently. They were known t be extremely miserly, and it seems that, notwithstanding they were wealthy tiemg worth MtM bad money in their tHvcUets. and an abundant supply of fuel at hand they froze to death liecause they were too stingy to bum their wood. Their deaths were certainly most extraordinary.... A Morgan county. III., farmer, has brought suit for eTG.OOu damages against the Chicago aud Altou Bailruad t'ompauy. for communicating the Texas cattle feer to his stock.... Frederick ltupp. editor of the Beellville (III. Zeitung, recently committed suicide by hanging himself in the doorway of his office Decatur. 111., has beeu excited over an attempt of some fiend to poison a family by putting arseuie in the well. Ail the family, consisting of seveu persons, partook of coffee made from the poisoned water, and were only saved by the arrival of prompt medical aid ' Delphi. Ind.. has had her little blaze, for which she pays $25.000 The officers of tue Masonic j Lodges of Oniah ublish a card repudiating ! the gift concert scheme advertised in that city ; "to aid in building a Masonic Temple-' Two steamboats, a ferryloat and several coal ' barges were sunk by the ice at Madison. Ind. Loss. i-73.000. The town of Wadena, Clayton county. Iowa, was recently the scene of a horrible murder. ' A party of young men. while under the iiitlueuce of liquor, seized a youth of 17 years, named (iarrett Dorland. and. procuring a ! horse, they tied him. Mazeppa-like. on the back of the beast and palloped him up and down j the streets of the village. Having MttMM their spirit of deviltry, the ticud finally cut the I thongs that bound the now uuconscions boy i to the horse, and left him at a house near by. The next morning he was found dead, with I blood and froth staudiug ou his lips. Utah last year shipjed 10.347 tons of ore. ' 5.(153 tons of base bullion, and silver bars to the value of $6.000.000 A cattle disease has made its appearance in Western Ohio, which proves fatal iu a very few minutes Chicago has been the scene of another cold-blooded ! murder, the victim beiug an iuoffensive Swede named Lars G. Larsen. who was assailed by a mob of roughs while quietly walking the street. aud stabbed to the heart A train was thi -u , from the track of the Chicago. Burlington and Quincy railroad, near Peoria, last week, by w hich a number of persons were seriously in- ' jored. Col. William M. QmmHI has retired from the chair editorial of the St. Louis liI patch Th? entire Republican State ticket has been declared elected iu Arkansas, and the new officers have been sworn in A New Orleans telegram of the 8th inst. says i The j city is very quiet. The rinchback Legislature was in joint session, counting the vote for . Governor aud Lieutenant Governor. Iu the 1 House of the People's Legislature there were ! fifty-eight member and a quorum present. Iii ; the Senate there was no quorum." Two children were scalded to death at Decatur. IlL. recently, by one of them pulling over a coffee-pot filled with the boiling fluid. . Four persons were recently killed by the ! explosion of the boiler of a steam null, in I Hillsdale county. Mich Advices from Arizona state that Gen. Crook is waging a war of I extermination against the murderous Apaches. Tlir. SOf 17. . I New Orleans and Nashville each had a 75.000 fire on the 3d inst.. .Hon. A. O. P. 1 Nicholson fell on the slippery pavement at Nashville, the othar day. and was seriously injured. The best portion of the town of Carlisle. Ky., has been destroyed by fire The Arkansas State Reform Convention met at Little Rock on the 7th. and adjourned over to the 14th. The State House was closely guarded by Federal troops, on account of threats made by some of the Reformers to take tossesxiou of the buildine The trial of Mrs. Wharton, for I the mnrder of Eugene Yan Ness, was commenced at Baltimore last week The "Arkansas troubles" seem to have occasioned no trouble whatever so far as the inauguration of I the Governor was concerned. The election returns were canvassed bv the Legislature, and Baxter, the Bepublicau nominee, declared elected aud sworn in. Brooks, the opposition candidate who claims to have been elected, lias brought suit to contest the election, and the ' question is left wholly to peaceful settlement by the law The Fusion or anti-Piuchback Legislature assembled in New Orleans on the 6th and. contrary to general expectation, their coming together was unproductive of riot and bloodshed. This result was due to the fact that Gen. Emory had received orders from Washington to notify Piiiehlack (who had threatened to disperse the Fusionists at the point of the bayouet i that no Federal troojis would be furnished to break up any body of men claiming to be a Legislature, or otherwise assembling peaceably. An immense concourse of citizens, estimated as high as :ifl.OOO. assembled around Odd-Fellows' Hall, the place of meeting. The crowd were peaceable and orderly, but firm and determined. Troops were quartered iu close proximity to quell any outbreak. The Hannibal and St. Joseph railroad employes, disapproving of a ten per cent, reduction of their wages, recently went on a strike and locked up all the switches of the mad. New OrlkasV oldest has just died- Andrew McDonald -age 104 native of Ireland. buhwh It is now generally believed at the capital that Hon. William M. Evarts will assume the ortfolio of the State Department on the 1th of March The President has intimated to Secretary Belknap that his presence in the Cabinet will be entirely acceptable after the 4th of March. . . .Gen. Cowan will ask for a full investigation of the alleged Teton Sioux s win-

die . The Poetmast r-Ocueral has decided that families, firms, or com pan is cannot com

bine to rent postoflbo boxes concertlv. but that the box rent must U- colic, ted for each firm, family or company en jov iug such f.o ill ties The internal revenue receipts for the las: quarter of in72 were 3J0,t2.V A VMrWMM ihspatih says: "The President has directed th; Sccretnrv of Stato to ' prejiare immediately an executive order in ef- ; feet prohibiting persons holding United Slates , commission fioni occupying office under State j authority.". . .It is stated that Secretary Boutwell adheres to his former opinion that Congress last year made too large a reduction in taxation, and that he evpoct further increases of the public debt hereafter The President authorizes a contradiction of the statement relatie to the proposed retirement of Secretary Fish and the apH)iiitment of Mr. Earts as his successor President Oram has pardoned two more Ku-Klux out of the AJkMf I'dutontiary A Washington correspondent say well-informed members of Inith houses of Congress express the opinion tliaf there is no hope for the jassage of the Postal Telegraph bill this session. The House Commerce Committee are tMaat engaged in perfecting Shellabarger's bill for the revival of American commerce The House Committee ou Public Lands hae agreed to Ketchum's bill prohibiting the sale of puis he laud witliiu the limits of any railroad grant at less than t'.'.jO per acre A bill lias been introduced into the House, providing for the issue of MMMlMI of National Bank notes in addition to the amount authorized heretofore. These notes are to be distributed to bank- in States and Territories which failed to recede their due proportion of currency under previous apHirtionments. . . .The Finance Committee of the Senate has been instructed to report whether Secretary Bout wi ll has the right to issue legal-teuder uotes in place of the forttive million of liauk uotes cancelled by the act of 1866. rac&NMr. The British Government declines to aid the Royal Geograpliical Society in sending out an Arctic expedition Greece ha consented to submit the question of the I.aurium mine to arbitration The new census of France h - the population to be 36.101.yjl. a decrease Of 366.935 since 1866 The commercial treaty between France and dreat Britain ha leeii finally concluded The irrepressible Carlist aie growing more troublesome in Spain The city of Bogota, in South America has recently suffered a disastrous inundation, caused by the overflow of two small rivers. Rasdolpu Stewart, ninth Earl of Galloway, died in London recently, aged 72. . . .The coast of England has lieeti visited by another violent tempest Kaiser William has conferred the order of the Black Eaple upon Bismarck ... It is stated tliat an luiderstauding has been arrived at between Eugland and llnssia with regard o the war against Khiva, the Czar assuring the English Government that he has uo warlike designs on Afghanistan. John F. Pawbo A Co., of Loudon, dealers in Manchester goods, have failed for $15.000.000. It is feared other failures will follow . Peksident Morrale-h. of Bolivia, was shot dead bv his nephew, on the 6th inst., on account, apparently, of political differences. A successor was at once elected by the Bolivian Congress Several Internationalists, with Orsini bombs iu their possession, have been arrested in Pans The French Assembly ha ordered the prosecution of a Deputy for acting a second iu a dnei. While Sir Charles Düke was addressing a meeting in Derby. England, a few nights ago. a mob attempted to disperse the meeting. The adherents of Düke resisted, and a severe struggle ensued, in which several jersoiis were injured, and many windows broken, the fighting lasting over an hour. Great excitement prevailed. Order was at leugth restored and the meeting brought to a close. A large crowd arrived with sticks aud bludgeons, aud escorted the speaker aud his wife to their hotel A dispatch from Cbiselhurst. England of Jan. 9. says: "The announcement that the exEmperor Napoleou is worse creates much alarm among the adherents of the family. Hi sufferings are acute, but his strength aud endurance great." It is said that M. Bivierc will soon present his final report of the preliminary investigation in the case of Marshal Bazaine to the French Assembly. The conclusions arrived at by the investigating committee are decidedly unfavorable to the Marshal. His trial has. for political reasons, been postponed until the German troops have completely evacuated Freach territory. . . .The Vienna I'od contradicts the report that the Austrian Government is about to dieue with the services of Count Yon Benst The pioneer Protest an! Church of Rome has just been consecrated iu that city. Seveu American clergymeu took part in the ceremonies. fffffflfffftf Having compelled Jay Ciould to disgorge e9.000.000 of 'its stolen property, the Erie Railroad Directory have now tackled Commodore Yanderbilt, who. it is claimed, owes the company t4.500.000. The last rail on the northern division of the Cairo and Fulton railroad, conuectiug St. Louie with Little Rock, Ark., was laid Jan. 3. The southern division, extending to the Red river and making connection with the system of roads running to the QwM of Mexico, will he completed during the year 1873 P. T. Barnum was robled of a thousand dollar diamond pin ou the cars between Richmond and New York. . . .Another installment of destitute Italian emigrants arrived at New York the other day. They claim that they were unable to subsist in their own country. Heavt snow-storms prevailed in Kansas and Missouri on the 3d. and in Kentucky and Tennessee on the ith. being the heaviest snow-falls known in those regions for many year. Hon. Charles Scxner's health continues to decline, and his friends are lieconiing apprehensive. He in not able to take his seat in the Senate, nor to take part in public affairs. Hi chief trouble, as in the case of Mr. Greeley. appears to be sleeplessness The President bas expressed his intention of not calling an extra se-sion of the Senate for executive business after the 4th of Mandl, unless something of importance requiring it should trai. 'pire before that tune.

A mi i to deal with murderous insanity has t i brought lefore the Legislature of Ohio. It is similar to tliodiills (iropated for the Nev. York and Illinois legislatures, in providing for the imprisonment of eroiis who escape conviction for murder ou the plea of insanity Gen. Humphrey, Chief of Engineers, informs Congress that i'i. 887,463 has so far leen sent on the canal around the Falls of the Ohio, and $2.769.200 on thai around the Des Moines Baids. The ship canal talked of to connect the MissisMppi alxivo the Delta with the deep water of the Unit will cot $7.500,000 Senator Buckingham' bill, introduced into the United State Senate last week, adds another to the counties schemes for improving our clirrency. He proposes that banking be made

free : thai no interest 1m' allowed on ilep'sit ; that banks may make United State bonds a part of their reserves, aud may redeem their uotes iu coin, legal tenders, or National Bank uotes. The bill further provides for the iociiroval convertibility of the bonds and greenbacks. The international yigeou-shooting match lotween Ira E. Payne, of New Yolk, and James Ward, of Toronto, came off at Buffalo last week, and was won by Payne by three birds, he killing 43 out of 50. . . .A horrible story of suffering by sea comes to us by way of Neu Orleans. Mr. Saville. first officer of the wrecked ship Golden Head, arrived in that city last week from Bio. The vessel was wrecked on the west coast of Patagonia iu June last, and fourteen of the crew spent forty-eight days iu two open boats iu the Straits of Magellan. They were compelled, to save theniselve-t from starvation, to devour the Indies of tivo of their companions who died from privation and xpoMra. DKATB OF TBE KX-EMPMMOM A'.tfOLMOJf. The news of the death of the l'.iupeior Mia NajHileon. though not wholly unexpected, will startle a world which had not ceased to consider the probability of Ins restoration to the Imjerial throne as the natural se.iucii e to the agitation through which France has lately been passing. The Imperial evile died at Camden House. Chiselhurst. England, at 10 o'clock a. m. ou Thursday. Jan. 9. even while Iiis phy .-.cians were preparing for a third ojeratioii. in the Iiojh; of relieving him from the painful disease under which he suffered. A London disjmt-h give the following particulars of the sad event : The sudden death of ex-Emjieror JhpaftMa took everybody at Cbiselhurst. as well as London, by surprise. The Empress, relative, attendants and household, even the physicians, were unprepared for it. The Emperor had passed a comparatively comfortable night. His strength seemed nmUmiiushed, and at a consultation early iu the moniiug it was thought be could lear a third operation, which was fully determined .pon. So great was the confidence felt in the patient's condition that the Prince Imperial was permitted to return to Woolwich to resume his studies. Dr. Gull went to London yesterday, aud many of the Emieror's personal friends, who hastened to Cbiselhurst at the first alarm, had returned to their homes. There was no reason whatever to apprehend a fatal turn in the case up to 9 a m.. when new and dangerous symptom si ddeuly set in. The Emperor vital forces seemed to leave him all at once, and he commenced to sink with alarming rapidity. A telegram was instantly dispatched to Woolwich for the Prince. Dr. Gull wa summoned from London, and Father Gnddard. the Enieror's spiritual adviser, was sent for in the greatest haste to administer the last sacrament of the church. The Emperor's private chaplain was also informell of the danger, and started for Cbiselhurst. All arrived too late. The Prince was not to see his father again alive. Dr. Gull and the clergyman jut reached the park gates as the Emperor expired. The Empress, who has been most constant in her attendance, was at his liedside to the last hour. The medical advisers. Sir Henry Thompson and Dm. Corvisart aud Corer, the Emperor's friend Dr. Conneatu and several members of the household were alsojiresent. Since the Lmieror's death the residence at Cbiselhurst has been strictly closed to all but his nearest friends and relatives. The physicians stated that his death reunited from causes independent of the surgical operations to which the patient was sulsjected. The event produces a deep impression in London, where the Emperor was always personally very popular with the masse. The evening journal I publish long obituaries full of expression of niouni.ug. The Empress Eugenie wces continually, and refuses consolation. Louis, the IVitiee Imperial, who arrived after his father died, is prostrated with grief. The Emeror'B death was caused by cmldi - in. It was so sudden that the last sacraments were not administered, the priest arriving after all was over. The body will he interred at Chiselbnrst until it can lie removed to France. Universal sorrow prevails iu London. HOW THE NEWS IS RECEIVED IN PAHIs. Paris. Jan. 9. The news of the Emperor's death was received at a late hour this afternoon. It is not yet possible to estimate the effect here. The Imrialists, of course, are profoundly affected, aud appear to regard the event as a final blow to their hoes. The only evening journal which has any editorial on the subject is the XfUMiyr le I'arin, an influential finance organ. It closes a brief article with the following tribute : "The disasters which have made a shipwreck of the Empire will not cause to be forgotten the great services Napoleon has rendered to the nation in re-establishing order, and developing the prosperity of the country.'' rosa itKssiosA I. si mm a u )'. Monday. Jan. 6. -Senate. Sherman offered a resolution dirrrtiiiK the Committee on Klectioiis to inquire MM the election troubles of Loniniana and Arkannan, witli a virw of drtermlnin who were ( tonsil a Kleetor Morton offered a reoluti 'ii direction the nam committee to report at the next ipsnion the mom practicable mode of rhooaina a President and Vice-I'retldent of the United State ...A resolution wii adopted direetlnp the Judiciary Committee to iiiiiiir- Into the expediency of repealintf the National Hankrii pt law, from and after Jan. 1.174 Kerry rut r. .dm a bill to et apart a portion of the MM of Mackinac a a Na'ional Park Hni'il. Bill introduced : llawlev (111.), for a eanal eonnectiiiK the water of bake Michigan and the Illinois, Hniisaippl and Hnk rivera, Parker

(Mo.), to Hive the eMcrranf lbs Miauvuri

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...... f'.' .i.iiii ftft ift(. t on v I I i I . I . 1 ..f l ulled Mate, nnlra Im coin after s 1K4 W ilauii (lud I offered a n aolult..,, p,,i?7 ' i for a ac. rd psavavlttea at live lo inquire i, " j an) al... kti. I.lcra of the Credit Mobilier hold 7' V of the I ii Pacta Kailroud C..iupan ,",', ' I (hey obtained Hum uf a ralaaMa n.h.ij I etc. Adopted Hinilh (N. V offered a .,,, .' "" for the i i e. 'ion if a monument al Waihinut,', "'" i omno no. ration of lbs (ieneva peace rl.it, 1, 1,1 ! Rejected . Sareiit offared a reaoluuot, , n,, I mfiir'iiatioii as t the amiability of n,, lef "' llouae for the pie. idem official and f",. ! '" lealdence. Adopted A resolution . "J I.ri.v iiltnir for the public aeaaiona of (be ( ."it lobiliei liiftcatiifatinw Committee. 0lt

lll.l'l, ftJ. I. eunr.. H ,r) 1 du c.l lly Hue ktuifham, to amend the Nat,,,,,,, I in tc!ic act M aa to allow free bunkum, ami an videa that 1'nitcd Mates honda be HtnaJad ! makitiK up the legal reserve, and (but baiika in j relet to their notes iu bonds al par with au ru i ! Interest, it also provides for the ledeiiipt,,,,, . Iiiskiiiv notes in colli or with cuiicm, u,,,! I beat IHK :t U.V1I per cent colli interest, raid l!,II to be payable on demand ; by Anthony, f,,r ", lino enient nf o el tbrned lands of the N4n Yard ai III... klyn Krcliiiuhii) sen offered a j. int re,,i,, I lion propoMt.u an amendment to the ('m,t ,:m, providiutl for the settlement of content M ,,, ,t I election if Presidential Klertora by the Sui,i,.,I Court of the l ulled Mates Sherman's reanlut,,!,, of inquiry as to the late election in Louisiana u,t Atkansa was adopted. 1. . .. T . . U . . . ft.ro Ilorsr.. iiii' House Appropriation in ,,. priatintr lltSKM.tKCI, wa leported and mad' tj s per ial order for Saturday . . lb use went lutii((a uiittee ' f the Whole on the lirtieral Apprupi Hill The Speaker announced tin- f lliiwii . commit ti ii the Credit Mobilier and I' n I railroad questions: Wilson (Ind.i, UtcUal I Hoar, Swanii aud HmM, Weknesday, Jan. H. Senate. - BBh Here passed for the erection f public balMaaM M Kvansville, Ind., and Grand Rapid. Muh a resolution wa passed appmpriattim HMMtods. fray the vxpvwas of the laveffttatioa mt . ttiLouisiana aud Arkansas elections . A rest was passed insti ll. Iiik the Secretin of the -, rior to furnish infoiiiialioii as to the M..tb.i luatag troubles in UTSftfon. H o -i: Hills passed: To readjust the writ, em boundary of llakot.i, to traiof r to the Territories the control of the Territorial Saab tentiuries. , , .Butler introduced an aniendm. u: s the llaiikrupt act, exceptinu State cnrNratn.ii fn in its operation laiaWbl offered an aasetlf. ment to the Kxi . utive A ppropriatloti Mil, 1st rci um the President's salary from :!', i"i to s llolmatt objet teil that the aMsaaaveat Wl order, as it repealed a law . The Speaker ovi , i oiert the objecto. ti, but on appeal to the II, .im- the rulitii was sustained, und the amendment was lost Tiit usiiAV, Jan. 9. Senate. Mb latnv dined To raise the salaries of bun a j . (to r UM Kxeciitive Department at Harting! IUI aulhorize (he sale of the reervatiott nf ti,. , Indians iu Kansas and Nibra-ka. and i f th.it tion of the reservation of the Sacs and Pox a hrii in Kausa. lo Incorporate the North Central itail way ( '.in patty of Minnesota, and uranium t he rtuht of way f r its CKMtl uetioit ; to iseorpurat the Eur.. penn and American Land and Baviffral Contauy, with ;i capital stoi k f sl.to.oi nnml.cr of other bills of minor imKirtaiue a bill wa pltsed to prevent Tinted States oftio r fr. m praitiiniir as attorneys iu the t'nited Mat. i c-ourts .. Itatni-ey. fo in lb t inniittee on p., itoffices ami Post I : a I -. reHirted the II use bill f.r las alH.litn.ii i f the franklin pt iv il. e , al astkOTiling the i oust ruction of a bridge aeroti the Missouri river at Lexiuirtoti, lo. Hoosa A bill was reported for the admissn.ti .,f Colorado as a State . . An amendment tsa fferfd providing for the adtuiaion of I'tah, which an rejected. The bill lo establish a Bureau i f Emi pattoa was referred to the ( oiniiutl. r M the Whole, practically killiiiK it. CUMMBNT ITEMS. Kansas IVnitontiury lwiuril i 1 7 cents I day. Go West. PiTTsm itnif steel hits lioen Mtdl b stiiiul test of tttMMO ixnilitls to the iqUN inch. A ri MPKiN IHK t4-n f4-t in tliaiiH ter ami four feet ileeji was the chief feature of a California dinner recently. EM Brooklyn, X. Y., the police nfy upon the press to (jive them the earliest information tf dof tights antl ganililiup resorts. Some time ago it waa prapowd iu (rlasgow to raise a fnnil by means of shilling sitliseriptions fur the erection of a monument in memory of Kohert Bnni. The amount now received in shillings b 16,113. The President calls the course hitherto pursued toward the Mormonn "a shillvsliully policy," and he declares that if necessary he will place Phil Sheridan at Salt Lake with 10.00(1 tnxips, ami ail! enforce the laws without war. Dr. Talmaie's Taliernacle, ntntlv destroyed by tire in Brooklyn, was the largest and, excepting Plymouth Church, probably the most widely known faNM of worship in the country. Its nominal seating capacity waa about 4,000, but it would hohl, without crowding, nearK 6,000 persons. Thf following Texas towns are no the terminus each of a railroad: Austiu, WaOOt Cnero, Longview, Trotie, MrKinney, Denison and Hnntsville; ami railroad work is prognssing more rapidly than was ever known in the history Texas. Railroads have more than do"bled in length in the State within tinpast year. A WA(i inspecting a farmer's kaw stallment of pirk at the Detroit market, recently, picked up a ten-iMmnd stone and tlepositetl it in one of the jxirkers and then loudly ImthUhI the farmer for trying to cheat in weight. The farmeT looked at the stone, at the crowd, W the thrust, and growled to himself: "Hang me, but I thought I put it in the small hog!" TROY. The alleged discovery of Troy by lr Schliemauu is already lieginning to 1 doubted. One writer has groat admiration for the Doctor, but Bcotits at the very 'xistenee of Troy, and claim that no great stone-built city of that age 000 B. C could have Bt completely vanished from the earth that tin' early Greek historians conhl not find :l trace of it or of the particular Ieol"'' called Trojans. He does not doubt that Dr. Sc hliemann has found the ruin some city, but he does doubt tin T(rT exist4-nceof the Homeric City, mulchnm that the word " Troy" is simply gem1"1' MM fur the unci.nt "Cavc-tcni-pi ," the same as the Dum t-f the B rattrs, the Tara of Meatlt, the Davir.i M Loch Foyle, the Derg of Omond, an I the Daire of the Mikado of Japan.