Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 16, Number 23, Jasper, Dubois County, 17 July 1874 — Page 2
WEEKLYCOURIER C. DOASE. PnMihr. JASPEK. - INDIANA.
W A.M14.T. Messrs. lVnion mid lilow have accepted their jHliitiiunt a Commissioner of the Pislrit t of Columbia. Mr. Cattcll ha dce limed. Mr. Halo, on the 1st, withdrew hi acceptance of the otllee of rosumtster-tieneral, and 31 r. Cre well consented to remain la c harge of the department uutil the vacancy was tilled. Mr. Hale's health, it is stated, wa not tuch a to warrant hi assuming the responsibilities and care of the position. Mr. Charles K. L'onanf, of New Hampshire, for several year thief clerk In the warrant division of the Treasury IVpartinent. has been appointed Attsnt Secretary of the Treasury, vice Mr. Sawyer, resigned. The amended Pension act, panned at the late session offendress, provide that all cron who are now entitled to pension under existing laws, and who have lost either an arm at or aU.ve the elbow, or a leg at or below the knee, shall be rated in the second class, and shall receive f-4 per month, provided that no artificial limb, or commutation therefor, Khali !e furnished to mieh person a shall be entitled to pen-don under this ad. (leneral llaker, Commiioner of Pensions, announce that person embraced within the provision of thi act can secure the hcnctitii of the same without formal application, and that a power of attorney will nt le recognized in an ajw plication for the increase of (tension provided by thi act. A li tter from a pensioner, addressed to the Commissioner of Pension, enclosing hi pension certificate and hi jxistoflice address, w ill be suthVicut presentation of hi claim. The Secretary of the Treasury ha issued the following circular, which 1 of interest to all bond holders: " Hereafter the book of the registered five per rent, bond authorized by act of Congress, approved July 14, 170. and Jan. $i. 171, will be closed for the preparation of interest schedules h follow: Th , book embracing registered stork of the loan ' of July If,1 170, and Jan. 30, 171, held in the United State, will be closed on the evening of the l)th of Jauuary, April, July and October, and reopened for the transfer and exchange f st-k on the morning of the first of Kcbrtiary, May, August and Novemler following. All stork issued on exchange and transfer between the l!th of January, April, July and October and the first day of the succeeding month will !ear Interest from February 1, May 1. August 1 or November 1, a the case may lie." The Comptroller of the Currency ha called upon the national bunk for a report, exhibiting their condition at the close of business on Friday, thei'dh of June. Following! a recapitulation of the public t,.v ..... .-i. j.iv i . IkIiI to- ng int re't In coin "ii per cent ttonds i,vl l,t .'4,ii
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Kawlul money debt. Maiured .1.1. 1 I.egl tender notes.. ( ertnlcutes of t-i ' t fractional currency t in certificate . . . Total without interestTotal debt Totul interest Caah in 1 rcasiiry Coin Currency. . . . 9cial depoeits'tn id lor redemption ol certificate of dea provided bv law Total in 1 reiniirv. . . -
iH-ht lfs rali iu Treasury I M-crease during month llon.N issii,-l to 1'acitlc Kilro.id companies, Interest puabic in Uwnil money principal outstanding Interest ai crtic! and not vet nuid. Interest p .1.) In- I'nitcd Miatc. . Int.ret repaid by trnsM.iution ol mails, vie.. . . Balance ot interest by I'. j. ...... .
ien. John H. KeU hum, of New York, formerly Kepresentatlve in Congres from the Westchester district, ha leen tendered by the PreiJent the vacant district Commissionership, and It I understood that he ha accepted. The Secretary of War ha appointed the following commission to examine the mouth of the Miiippi Kiver: Army engineer ienerHl Wright and Alexander, and Colonel ComtK-.-; civil engineer William Milnor Kols-rt. J. I. Whitcmb, and Si kks; Coat Survey Prof. Mitchell.
H n. Marshall Jewell, of Connecticut, Minister to Kussja, has In-en tendered by the President the aptiolntment of Postmaster-
Cieneral and Vas signified his acceptance of
Hie same. As it will he some time before Mr. Jewell can reach thi country, the hirst Assistant h i been commissioned to act a chief ad interim. The Secretary of the Interior ha Bpiinted a memU rs of the Hoard of Indian Commissioner to till vacancies which recentlv occurred therein. K. llutler.of New Voik Citv, Jen. H. II. Sibley, of St. Paul. Minn., and Clinton II. Flsk, of St. Ixui. These appointment Increase the number of members ot the cominision from four, at which It was left by the recent resignation of Mr. Itrunot and other, to seven. Secretary IMiino w ill soon till the remaining three vacancies. Tho President ha appointed Jackson K. Sickle and Paul O. Herbert to the Hoard of Commissioner to Investigate and report a js-rmanent pian for the reclamation of the alluv ial hasin of the Mississippi Kiver subject to I innnndation. j The new District Commissioner have I
ni:ul.' a thorough reorgnnization of the District (iovernment. consoli.lating the duties of ninny former officer, and employee In one, and sweeping away a whole army of dependents who h: Income pensioned upon the Di-trict under the King rule. The hour of Inlior are incn ae,l to In- hereafter from !t to 4 and no increased compensation to be allowed fr additional service rendered under the in w arrangement. The lindiiiK mid opinion of the Court of
Inquiry in the ease of (ieneral Howard have 1
been promulgated iu general order. The opinion of the Curt U Ihatlicucral Howard ha not, with know ledge or intent, violated any law of Cngrcs, regulation of the army, or rule of moral., and that he i not guilty, Umiii h-jjal, techulcr.l, or moral responsibility, of any of the offense charged. Judge-Advocate Holt differ widely from the Court In many important conclusion. The President ha approved of the finding of the Court, and (ieneral Howard has been assigned to the command of the Department of Columbia, with headquarter at Portland, Oregon. Ex-Uovernor Shepherd ha made application to the (irand Jury of the District for an indictment against Charles A. Dana, of the New York Sun, for libel. Should the bill be found, it i understood that Mr. Dana w ill lie taken to Washington for trial under the law passed at the last session, known h the Poland bill. LAST. Gold closed in New Y'ork, on the 7th, at lttlt 3-4. The Social Mill, at Woonsoeket, It. I., were burned on the 1st. There were'flO.iXW spindle and 1,0N) loom in the mill, employing some 700 hand. The lo i from $700,000 to fcsoo.otx), mostly lusured. Henry (Jrinnell, a well-known New Y'ork merchant, who Isecame famous by hi liberality in fitting out two vessel for the Arctic region to search for Sir John Franklin, died
on the 30th ult., aged 7'. Baltimore celebrated the opening of tho ship I canal lietween that city and Chesapeake Pay,
on the 2d. Major George Daniel, wife and grandson, were killed by a passing traiu at Milford, New Hampshire, on the 2d. The verdict ot the Coroner' jury in the Mill Kiver (Mas.) disaster investigation i published. It cenuri' the legislature for inadequate and defective legislation on the subject of reservoir, the mill owners for their parsimonious disregard of life and prop, erty, the engineer for ambiguous and insufficient specilirat ions, th contractors for manifest delinquencies, and want of thoroughness In their work, and finally the County Commissioners for accepting a dam so shabbily built, when they had the power to order it entire reconstruction. The Freedmen Saving Hank in New York City has suspended. Following i the comparative cottou statement for the week ending July 3:
sVi receipts tor iu-t Week :iil I'. . rl lot Hi receipts from Sept. 1 U itute all 1'. i. frls . . . bxports tor at week Iroiu ali (sirt.-. Tolil) eX.r! iroin Sept. 1 lo il.ite from all tsirt ... sto.-k noT on liun.l at all I' . iort Stork now on hand at all interior towns Sto-k at l.ivers ol Stork of American afloat lor Urea, liritmn
Over one hundred houe were burned at Allegheny City, Pa., on the 4th, leaving many families homeliss. Supposed to h;ive been caused by fireracker. PresidetU (Jrant and family arriv ed at Ing 1 ft ranch on the tn. A passenger train on tho Shore Line t.il. road ran off the track just after leaving Stony Creek Station, Ct.. m the (ith, causing mire or les injury to 107 passenger and instantly killing Mr. W. M. Wilcox, Superintendent of the road. The accident was caused, a 1 alleged, by the carelessness of the station master in regulating the switches. The whole train, w ith the exception uf the locomotive, w as thrown from the track, and three of the ear were turned iMittom side up. Carrie Ostratider died at Syracuse, N. Y on the 7th, from injuries received by the fulling of the Hapti-t Church, on June 23d. She i the fourteenth victim of the diater. Dr. J. It. Jennings, a prominent phyidan of Nashville, Tenn., committed suicide at a hotel at Narragansett Pier, K. I., on the 7th. Cause not stated. The freight agent of the Erie, New York Central, and Pennsylvania railway, have adopted a new schedule of freight rate, on the basis of .Vi cent per hundred pound from Chicago to Nw York, U-ing an increase on the present schedule. WENT AM NOt'TII. The Iowa Kepubliean State Convention w a held at Des Moines on the 1st, and nominated the following ticket: Secretary of State, Josiah L. Young; Treasurer of State, Wm. Christy (Ixith renominated by acclamation): Auditor. It. It. Shermnn; Register of
State Land Office, David Secor; Attorney. General. M. K. Cutt; Clerk of Supreme Court, K. J. Holmes; Reporter of Supreme Court, John S. Runnells. The resolution
adopted by the Convention arc published in another column. The Arkansas election ha resulted in a large majority for the Constitutional Convention. P. P. Wintertnute ha leen sentenced to ten year' imprisonment in the Iowa State Penitentiary at Fort Madison, for the murder of Oen. McCook, at Yankton. I). T. The Ivmocratic Executive Committee of the State of Georgia met at Atlanta on the lt, and decided not to call a State Convention. An address was adopted, calling for unity of action, and the selection of the best men for candidates. Resolution, relative to a call for a congressional convention were adopted, as also on declaring the attendance of aspirants on primary meeting and nominating convention unwise and impolitic. The Anti-Monopolists 0f the Eighth Iowa District have nominated A. Rood.of Fremont
county, for Representative in Congress.
The Democrats of the Ninth Indiana Dis
trict have nominated A. Holinan Hamilton for
Representative In Congress.
The Freedmen' Rank of Memphis ha suspended. The I'nion Pacific and Central Pacific Railroad have re-established the second-cla fare (hat were taken off two year ago. The "rice by second- lass express train from Omaha to San Francisco, Sacramento. Stockton, Marysville and I.athrop 1 7."; to Cheyenne, 4i"i; to Ogd. n. i;o; to S ilt Lake, fc.J." The New Orleans, Jackson and (irent Northern, and the Mississippi Central Kail-
road have been consolidated, and will here I
after be known a the NcwOrlewn, St. Ixiul and Chicago Railroad. Governor Davis of Minnesota cull upon the (i rangers :o aid him In relieving the destitute iieoplp ,,f Hie western p.rt of the State. The ravages of the grasshopper ha brought the wolf to many homes. The grand jury at New Orleans have found true bills for highway robliery against Police Chief liadgir and hi confederate, for the recent midnight seizure of the Bulletin form. Two servant girl at Kast Clev land, Ohio, were fatally burned a few days ago while engaged in replenishing the tank of a gasoline stove. They lived only a few hour. The Minnesota Kailroad Commissioners appointed under the recent legislative act of that State have prepared a schedule for freight and passenger tariff. Tho usual local passenger fare ha Ix-en 5 cent per mile. This rate the commissioner reduce to 4 or 4 1-2 C4?nt per mile on the Iowa and Minnesota division of the Milwaukee aud St. l'aul Railroad and to 3 1-2 cent on the river division of the same road. The general manager of the Sioux City and St. Paul Koad, buuding to the otlirlal schedule say: "We cannot run cheaper the train which have been run, nor have we auy reserve to pay exienes not earned. If the people on the line of the road are unwilling to pay old price for transportation, first-class passenger trains will be discontinued and such accommodation will be given to passengers as can be given at four cent a mile." The summary of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange crop report up to June 30 show an average increase in acreage In Texas of IS per cent., and a decrease In Mississippi of 7 per cent.; Loui-datis. 20 ; Arkansas, S; Tennessee, 31-2; Alabama, 10; North Carolina, 1!; South Carolina, 17; Georgia, 10; and Florid:. 4 per cent. The crop ! generally from
j two to three week behind that of last year, ( but the condition of the plant promising.
There is no complaint regarding labor. A Salt Lake dispatch of the 3d say that the
Montana stage wa robbed on the previous night at Rig Dry Creek, twenty-four miles soutli of Pleasant Valley ,bv four masked men armed w ith shot-guns. The South coach wa
j stopped first anil run into the brush and held
until the North couch came. The passenger were robbed of their valuables, and Well, F-lgo v. Co.'s tivsuie-b a filled of it content. A special dispatch to the St. Paul 7Vcs. from Pembina, tith, ays : A party of Sioux Indian attacked the settlement of St. Joseph yesterday and killed four person. Several children are missing. A company of soldier have started for the scene of the massacre and a volunteer company I organizing. Indian Agent John D. Mile telegraphed to Indian Commissioner Smith from age City, Kansas, ou the' 7th, that be had just arrived frem the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Agency, on the North Fork of the Indian I!!er, and that hostile Choyrune, ('omanrlies and Kiowas were on the war path, and determined, he lielieveil. to clean out all the white inhabitants. One man, William YVatkin. bad been killed and scalped, thirty miles
soutli n( tho Apwnuy, gin f.mr miles north of Raker" ranche four other had Iccn found
1 log in the road murdered and scalped, one of the bodie Icing badly burned. Mr. Miles thought that there were five war parties
mov ing in the direction of the trail from th
Agency to Caldwell. Kansas. Troops had
wen sent from Fort Sill to protect the Agen
ey, and Mr. Miles ask that two or three coin-
pan ics if cavalry be dispatched immediately
to protect the inhabitant. The re.pirst was promptly referred to the War Department,
and it was thought that the troops would be forwarded at once. The Michigan Central Di pot at (irand
Rapids, Mich., was burned on the 7th, to
gether with all it content. Loss about f 12,01 Ml. Fourth-of-July fire of greater or less magnitude are rejxirted from various place throughout the country. At Pontine. Livingstone county. 111., the Court-house, together with all the county record, ami several business buiiding were burned; loss about 20,000. At Circlevllle, Ohio, the Market-house and other building were burned; loss about S'J.'i.Ooo. At Clinton, 111., four store wi re burned ; lo from f s,tnio to $10,000. At Hudson, Mas., fdano-forte manufactory wa burned; lo alou .0,. (XX). A xpaclal to the St. Louis Glut,?, from Kansas City, Mo., state that a ranche belonging to A. C. Myer, of Dodge City, Kansas, located on Canadian Kiver, had been attacked by
the Indian and three of their men killed. Tho fight lasted three hours, when the Indians retired, leaving eleven dead on the Held. All of their wounded, and. It w a thought, some of their dead, r carried away In their retreat. A national convention of book publishers and seller 1 to 1 held at Put-in-Itay on July 'll-'ZX Hon. A. II. Stephen decline a rennminv tion forCongresson account of hi continued ill health. A special to the St. iouis filohe from Dodge City, Kansas, Nth, say that the greatest alarm and excitement prevailed there on account of the Indian atrocities. The number of whites reported killed up to that date wa thirteen, most of whom were scalped and otherwise mutilated. It Is stated by eye witnesses to the horrible deed, that a hunter named Dudley having been captured by the Indians, they tied him to a wagon-wheel, tore out his finger and toe nail one by one, scalped him from ear to ear, cut hi hand off at the wrist, and then staked him to the ground with picket-pin driven through hi breast. The dispatch adds: "The situation is desperate In the extreme, and everybody is pray Ing for the arrival of troops the only hope of protection against the Indian butcher." A dispatch from Syracuse, Kansas, sth, say that tho Indian were burning the bridges ou the Atchison, Top.ka A Santa Ke Railroad. A citizen named Albert Lescnger had been killed. Emigration wa almost entirely suspended. In response to the application of Indian Agent Miles, for troop to protect the settlers from the Indians, the War Department has
directed (ieneral Pope, commanding the De
partment of the Missouri, to use the Oth cavalry In Kansas ami the Indian Territory for the purpose of breaking up the raid of these Indian and forcing them upon their reservation. A dispatch from Omaha, sth, says : Intelligence Just received from Camp Drown, Wyoming, state that on the 2d of July, Company It, 2d Cavalry, commanded by Captain Kates, twenty-five Indian scouts under Lieutenant Young, and ISO Shoshone under Washakie, were, by command of Generals Sheridan and Ord, Mho were at the post, sent out in pursuit of a band of Sioux who had a few day prevlou outraged and killed two white women In the vicinity of Camp Rrown, and committed other outrage. On the morning of the 4th of July, about day. break, the Sioux were surprised in camp, and after a short but sanguinary tight, were completely routed, with the loss of aliout My killed and wounded. Two hundred horses and a large numlier of fire-arm were captured. The troop lost two soldier killed and four wounded, including Lieutenant Young slightly. Lieutenant-Colonel Myers, Deputy (Quartermaster General IT. S. A., died at Santa Fe, New Mexico, on the 7th. The following Important manifesto of the Count tie Chamtiord wa published In Pari
on the 3d: (kstlkmk.h : You have reipiired temporary ex1 ii iiIh ot salt iy. The country now i-i etm i. e oil tlie vere ol li ech lmntei. frauc liu-t m-i il ot royalty. My birth mate me yur kin I woul.l Im wstiliiig In the immt sacrcil ot duties if 1 nrjtlectcit to niskr a supreme overt li row of interMiiiK barrier of preni.lice. lam aware of the urcusiition snainst nir. I have rcinmne.l silent in order not to tt.1.1 to the ililtlciilties of the illustrious sot Jut who protfeu you. I;.. ..i the accumulation of errors aid luls. Iioo'la, silence is no longer penilissllile. persons have pri temleil to uii'leiplaiel Iroin previous declarations that I placed royal power n'.ove the laws, und tin allied r unheard-of trnveriinieiital combination )IHse. upon absolutism and srhitrMry Id.ai. Ill t rencti Christian moiiuri'liv is u liinlteii monarchy in its very essenr. It borrow a nothing of f'oVe'rniliinls ol lortiine which promise U.uiidess pnsM rity , and lead to ruin. I to limited monarchy a Inula ot the i xihu nee of two cI.hiii-Iwrs.-oue ii.Tiitiiiilcd by the king and the other elect il I))' the nation, according to leglly-, atiiblished hiiflraiie Thr union ol the people and king enabled the ancient monarchy lo frustrate, lor centuries, lh calculation ol this.,- atkf ng to doininevr over the people bv contending mieii'l ttie kmc It is iin'rue tht my policy is at ' urliiicv w ith the aepira'ions of tin- country We both dtsstrr tht strong reparative ive'rs w Inch a liuisl.lc alliance w mi a monarch alone enn give. I wish the representatives f the nation to le vigilant auxiliaries for the examina
tion ot iiiestions Mirmiittcd to them, Imt will not have bsrr n parliamentary struggle, f rom which the sovereign olten isxiic (siwrrless and w eak n d. In rcjectim the foreign und unMrted lorniilla of a knu who reigns, hut who d s not govern, I f. I myself in harmony w ith Hie immense mujoritv. 1 am now as l tore ready. I he House of t ranee Is sincerely recuiuilc.t lA t there lie a truce to our divisions. Is it not time to restore proerity and grandeur to France with the venerable royalty? Five persons were killed u.i 1 several injured by a collision on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Kngland, on the7'h. An important vote was taken in the French Assembly, on the Mh, feing iion a resolution expressing confidence In Marshal MacMahn und rcsfihing "energetically to uphold the septennial powers conferred upon him." The motion was rejected by a vote of :ini yeas to I'l nays. Immediately after the adjournment of the Assembly a Cabinet council was
held, at which the Ministers tendered their resignation. I'resident MacMahon pereuitoriiy refused to accept them, and the Minis, try remains constituted as before. The President will send a message to the Assembly in a few days, it Is stated, in which he will an notince his determination to retain the -w-ers conferred upon him for the time assigned by law, and will insist on the necessity for the complete organization of his power by
the AMinhly. A Madrid dispatch of the Mh says that the Kepubliean army ha been reorganized. It is divided Into two corps. Th first, under Marlom s, w ill ojerato in Navarre, and the second, under Caballos, w ill wah h the Kbro district. The strength of the combined army exceeds IVy men, with seventy-nine guns, and its general headquarter are at Tafalla. It i stated that the ISritlsh Government demand $,0Oti,ii,x from Spain for the massacre of sixteen English subject, captured on Iroard the Ylrginiu, and executed In Santiago de Culm. A Postal Congress will b held in Kerne, Switzerland. Sept. lo. Fifteen State will be represented, including France and Denmark.
A Wasted Lire. The r.altiniore American drives the follow inir concerning Samuel W. McDonald.
the alleged murderer of Ib rry Allin. the gambler: "l.'ioti the death of hN lather.
the late llbum McDonald, who owned it Verv l:irro and valuable t-stjite. this, bis
only son, who now shuid charged with
ttie crime ot murder, inherited a very largr fortune, amounting-, it Is naid, to uhoiit JJs.I.inni. Although still very young, leinr just twenty-five; year of ;c. It i notorious that tor year i:ist lie li:i been liHiilincr a verx- udlil ntuf n.eLli.sa lit",, In.
diilging-hi all manner of extravagances,
and consorting; habitually with evil companion of Nth sexes; ami thus It comes that in the very bloom of his early manhood, with liirgt; t'0eion of cnrthlv
good and niiiny capabilities for honorable usefulness, thi young- man Is now committed to a felon't) cell, charg-ed with the awful crime of murder. On the !ih day of March, 1T0, Samuel W. McDonald, the accused, celt bratod hi twenty-first birthday by a grand dinner, iriveti at the then country rcsideni-c of the M Donah family, Guilford, on the York rond. Cards of In
vitation were luc, and the friiest present comprised some of the loading" citizens
of this city mid Baltimore county. Mion younjr McDonald came home from Eu
rope, Is tore attaining- hi majority, where he hail receive. I an education, he had open
ed to him the Is'st society in this city, and hi career seemed a promising one, but he soon leveloHsI a taste for the companionship of the vicious. Some two ywir ng-o.
the widow ol .vi r. v illiaiu .McDonald, ami the mother of thi voiiiil' man. mat ried a
Swiss gentleman. s.aid to ! of some distinction, named .John De Sls-yr. and the couple now reside in Nice, lialy. More than a year niro the son hit Haiti more.
having purchased a fl'ie firm neat Icrre
Haute, Ind., where lie ha since been living a verv luxurious life. He returned oulv
recently to thi city on a visit.''
KesolutloiiN of the Iowa I.epuldican State Convent ion. We, the representative, of tin- llepnbllcan party of the State of Iowa, in convention assembled, do adopt the billowing I'LATKOItM OK l'ltlM'Il'LK : RrMolrtd, 1. That aa the iKilify of I be K.pnbli. can party id relation to lliiarice has afl .nl.-d ttie leople not only s sate, Mtuiel ami p o.ulsr cor. rency, of niual and uniform worth u, cv.-ry H.rtion of cur common country, Imt h is likewiae icreatly improve! the rrcdil of the wNiutry at home and abroad, w e Minl w itli pride u iia record and accoiiipliHliineiits m this r gar.l; and while re-aflirnniig the s,licy amioniicol hv tt party in Hie National Convrniiona ol Is an, l7i, anil triiiiiipliaiitly rndonteil by itiepeonie at the pollsa jMiliry wlneu, lule cnlnbuting to the public, credit, has also en bam. I ttie individual and rsi.ls-live prosHTily of the American ih-oiIs we favor such legislation as ahall make national banking lrs n, all, under Just and npial laws, based upon the hi1i. cy .ifswcie resuniptlon at such time an is ,vinMstent w ith the maU-rial and iniliistril inler.-su of the country, U the end tht the v..lunin. currency may be regulated by the naiuruliawa 4 trade i. That we reaffirm the declaration of the Kepubliean nationul platiorm ot 17'.'. in Invor of the iyinent by the trovrroiiieiit of the I nit.-.! Males, of all Its obligations, in accord-iiiee wild (Kith the letter and the spirit ol ttie law.un i. r which such obligations were isnued; aulse.l,dare that, in the atsv-noe of any .r. srd provision to the contrary, the iili. aiiona of the (overnment. When issued and i.IhccI iiikui tt, maikeu of the world, are payable in thrworld'a currency, to wit, ecie. H. 'that under the Constitution of the t'tiit.States Congress baa ser to r suU'e all cn,inen e among the several Stat . w h. r le r r .rn.-d on by railroads or by other intans, aid iniiietxercise if that ow r onpre-is nnv and ahoi.l I b gislate so as to prohibit, u n I . r suit l.e s-n. In s, extortion, unjust disrriiinnutioo nn l oil,, r w rong and unjust conilncl on the pai t ol m r.sous or rorporstlon engaged in such nuirnnrr; and by virlue of the same c. ni.liiiitioii.il .,urr ngr'sa iiuiy and should provide for tic ;ii,i.io, -in nt ol our great natural witter w a I bet the Mute ha the Mier, an. I it is its duty, to provide bylaw tor the r g il.tlmn and conlrolol railway transjsirtation w u inn iu ow n ,,iodi wild w e demand uial liir law 11 thio stale, passed for this 1. Ilrls.ee at the hist s. ss..ni tlie t.eneral As iiny, shall heuph. Id k-d ii..r-.s until it shall le uHTseded bv oth r I- giihiti.ii, or h Id Uiiconatltlitioual hy "the T.. i Ju I.eiV. tribuiiHl. ft. That we feel hound lo pi-ovid- ail a.i.r.w pri ite legislation for the lull an I e.pi i! pr..: ten of all citizens, w lute nr hlnck . n .tiw I'.reign Isirn, in Ine enjoytient il all In.' ri.'it. gu.iratileed by the 4 4iiisbft ion of t tie I i.i;,-.l Mates and the atn-ndinenis thereto. That the J 7 . s .i,sn re.lu-ti..n i.i il..- e---inutel general t.ovrrnm. nt Xoi-' ..r tincoming nscal year, ineetaoiii h. artv ciuin n l.tion, and shows that the K. polilic ,n part) . or: I lies t ions ot retrenchment and eioi .in , i- carrying out in good laiiu iu olt-r. p a'. -l .. U . to the S'iile. 7. Ihstwe are in favor of un aiic r . tile lit t the ( onstitution ol I lie- I n i I - 1 M i.r,i;.ln tor the election of I'resident aid Vic- rv -i l- nt tiv n direct vote of the xii!e S. 1 imt while inventors should pr..ltr:.-. In their Just right of iiri'ertv in their in utioi.s.
' w-e demand such iiMslillculion ! our . im .,
as shall render the aame fair and j cult!-l consumers II I hid the faith of the KcpnM n- ,n r!v u plelge to promote the Ih at g ntd of I : civil r vice of the country, and thai we, . i'i-- ll. .iiolieans of Iowa, deiinind that onlv li..o- -I and capable Ili-n le li ctl or apM,ined to ".b. ; and llul we (Miiiiii. n l the MMiiion ol l.e piriv in inslitnliiig In Vesl igal ions of c ,rru i .-n lunl'ice, sparing tie r, in inn li-r trnn ls nor... - 1 1 h it since the MO.lf ma V l n ' ri; -i d with all ipK-elions of governnienul r-fonii. we lavor tlie lillal slllillilsslon to the people ol to .,to -1 n of amending the ( oiistituti.in ! X"-n I tne right id sullrage t-i Woui. n. pur-il mi ! tlje u. -tiou ol thr r iI'msi nth l ieneral Vwin . - - - -sv , A MFI.ANTIIoLY liccidellt ll.l- t'l -t is lirled in swit.erl;in. -Mr. .Mid Mr-. Li keard, a young Knglili pair on tlo ir wedding tour, set out vv itli party t Iri i.d to make an nccht of Mont bl;u -. When they had rii hl the summit t t lie Corridor, the ladies felt the cold so severely that the guides advised the pari y t return. All wen- fastened together with ro-. and tlie bride set nut leaning on the arm of a guide. Hardly had tiny taken a liiiiidred pace when Mr. Idskeartl and le-r coinpanioti suddenly liap-arcd dow n a cr-vas-c, coven I with a slight lay r l l'n ti snow. I'nhappily the rowby w hiihth'-y w re coiiiu- tel with the others broke.and tliey were nth, no more. Tin liuUiiil at otii-e proeuretl extra aidain-c from tin-(ratids-Chalet., but the ImhIic could Hot Ik? n-oven!. and it is thought they ar some tlioiisaud fe tdown in the uiointain. The death of the two unfortunate rtimut nave ls-.n intantaneMis.
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