Ligonier Banner., Volume 14, Number 16, Ligonier, Noble County, 7 August 1879 — Page 6

The Ligonier Bamwer, J. B. STOLL, Editor and Propﬁotor. LIGONIER, :: : INDIANA.

4 Yy 3 EPITOME OF THE WEEK. THE OLD ‘WORLD, : KATE WEBSTER, the Irish servantgirl convicted of the murder of her mistress in March last, was hanged in Wadsworth Prison, England, on the 29th. - A LARGE portion of the Kast India docks at London fell on the 29th, causing an estimated damage of §500,000. THE Porte has resolved to grant to the new Khedive of Egypt all the privileges and prerogatives secured to the late Khedive by the firman of 1873, but will require the submission of all treaties he may conclude with foreign powers. - / ’ A CONSTANTINOPLE dispateh of the 29th says a terrific fire had been raging since the preceding day at Orta-Keni, a town on the shores of the Bosphorus. . The greater portion of the town had been destroyed, and there was little hope of saving the remainder. AT a Cabinet Council held in Madrid on the 29th the proposed marriage of King “Al onso 'with an Austrian Archduehess was ~definitely abandoned. - . A Loxnponx dispatch of the 30th ult, gays Parliament would be prorogued on the 16th of August. . ALL Indian troop-ships have been ordered to be ready for six months’ continuous service, to bring home. the British troeps from South Africa. ’ LoRrILLARD’S horse Geraldine won the Levant stakes at the Goodwood (England) meeting on the 30th uit. - 2] DisTURBANCES have occurred in Bulgaria, and the authorities have asked for the return of a brigade of Russian troops. OsMAN PASHA has been appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Turkish army of observation on the Greek frontier. L A RoMme dispatch of the 31st ult. says “the:differences between the German Government and the Vatican had been arranged. A LoNDON telegram of the Ist says an expedition for the discovery of the North Pole will leave Kngland in the spring of 1880, and will co-operate with those ' sent out by Sweddh, Holland, Austria, Denmark ‘and the United States. . - A TELEGRAM received in London on the Ist states that the cholera was raging fearfully among the troops returning to India from Afghanistan. The Tenth Hussars had lost forty men in one day, and the Seventeenth one hundred and ninety-five men.

A BErLIN dispatch of the 2d says that the Government, in view of the Socialistic success in the Breslau election, was congidering the practicability of making the execution of the anti-Socialist laws more vigorous. - L THE French Senate and Assembly have been prorogued, to feassqmble at Paris on the 25th of November. : . A CarE Town dispatch received on the 3d announces the surrender of Cetewayo’s brother and several important chiefs, : THE statue of ex-President Thiers was unveiled at® Nancy, France,.on the 3d. in the presence of an immense concourse of spectators. - . GENERAL MEREDITH READ, United States Minister to &Greece, has left Athens for home, having been recalled. . : GEORGE WALL & Co., coffee dealers of London and Colombo, failed on the 2d. Liabilities, $1,500,000. , A CONSTANTINOPLE telegram of the 3d says there was great excitement in that city, and threats to depose the Sultan were openly and constantly made. THE announcement was made on the 3d that the cholexa had disappeared from Cashmere, India. - e L A'Care TowN dispatch received on the 4th says there were rumors of impending trouble in the Transvaal. Cetewayo with 7,000 followers was endeavoring to escape across the northern border to Secocoeni. A price had been set on Cetewayo’s head. THE most violent storm for years visited the south of England on the night of the 38d. Hailstones fell in great volume, and caused great damagze. -Almost all the growing crops were irretrievably damaged, and great numbers of live stock were killed.

THE NEW WORLD. How. BLAND BALLARD, Judge of the United States Distriet Court of Kentucky, died at his home in Louisville on the 29th. Heart disease or apoplexy was the cause of his death. : _ ON the- 29th John Kranz, of East Farmington, Polk County, Wis., drove into a lake, with six children in his wagon, to water hishorses. The animals became frightened and raa into deep water, upsetting the wagon and drowning Kranz and five children. TaE Department of State. at Wash ington issued a circular on the 29th, as folJows: *“For the information: of merchants, manufacturers and others who may be disposed to take part in the representation of natural and industrial produets of the United States at the Sydney and Melbourne exhibitions, the Becretary of Btate annpunces that the organization of thé Commission for both exhibitions is as follows: Commissioner, Oliver M. BBpencer, Consul-General of the United States at Melbourne Viet. Honorary Commissioners, Augustus Morris, ' SBydney N. 8. W.; SBamuel C. Lord, Meibourne, Vict. Dr. C. C. Cox, of Washington, has been appointed Secretary of the Commission, and will sa_il from Ban Francisco on the 4th of ‘August. All persons having occasion to do 80 can communicate with the Secretary of the Commission, to the care of the State Department, where the mail will be regularly made up.” THE eighteenth annual session of the National Educational Association commenced at Philadelphia, on the 29th, Mayor Stokely and Edward Shippen delivered addresses of welcome, and John Hancock, President of the Association, responded. , : THE amount of National-Bank notes redeemed at the United States Treasury during the last figcal year; on account of failures, going into liquidation and reducing circulation, was $7,866,457. » A caLL has been issued for a State Convention of the Republicans of Nebraska, to meet at Omaha on the Ist of October. Prescorr J. Prirssury, Cashier of the Lawrence (Mass.) National Bank, was arrested on the 80th ult., upon, the charge of being a defaulter for the sum of $65,000, and lodged in jail in default of $250,000-bail. | Pro¥ESSOR CHANDLER, of the New ‘York Board of Health, says the scarlet fever caused more deaths in New York State last year than the yellow fever di¥ in the South, and yet failed to excite public apprebension,

or to make, people ordinarily careful to prevent the infection. s Two YOUNG sons of Dr. A. H. S. Boyd, of Livingston County, Ky., being ill, their father, a few mornings ago, through mistake, gave them poison for sartonine, and the boys died in less than an hour after the accident, o : A DISPATCH was received from General Miles on the 31st ult., stating that, after the action on Beaver Creek, the hostile. Sioux engaged fled northward, leaving their property scattered along the trail for fifty miles. Their main camp stampeded and retreated across the line to Wood Mountains in'the British Possessions. :

" THE Boston Commercial Exchange has resolved to follow the example and advice of the New York Commeréial Exchange in adopting the cental system as the basis of trade. On and after the Ist of next Qctober they will use the cental ss;&tem in'all their transactions, so far as is compatible with existing laws; and they haye resolved to petition the State Legislature to make such ehangks as are necessary in the State laws to conform to the chance agreed upon. B TaHE National Educational Association, at its session in Philadelphia on the 3lst ult., adopted resolutions advoeating the donation of a portion of the public domain for the endowment and maintenance of institutions in the States and Territories for. the higher education of woman, and a committee was appointed to bring the subject more thoroughly before Congress and the people. . ' : i A WasHINGTON telegram of the 31st ult. states that the Mint at Carson City had ‘been reopened, and coinage would be recommenced as soon as the necessary bullion could be procured at market rates. The Treasury was making arrangements to avoid the necessity of running the Philadelphia Mint night and day during August to make ap the deficiency in the coinage of standard silyerdollars in July. v - THE yacht Josephine, filled with passengers, capsized in the vicinity of the Thousand Islands in the St. Lawrence River, on the 31st ult. Five were drowned, and sixteen rescued. o TuE Consolidated Bank of Montreal closed its donrs on the morning: of the Ist, and announced its suspension. The immediate cause of the failure was the withdrawal of about $2,000,000 of deposits within the preceding two weeks., The bank has about 1,700 shareholders distributed over Canada, the United States, Great Britain, Ireland and France, and the indications are that nothing will be left to them after the debts are paid. A FicE occurred at Hamilton, Ont., on the afternoon of the Ist, which destroyed Meclnnis’ block. Among the sufferers were the Banks of Hamilton, Livingston & Co., Mclnnis & Co,, and the Hamilton Provident Loan ‘Association. The loss was in the vicinity of a million of dollars. Two persons were fatally injured. e : . TaE Republican State Convention of Minnesota has been called to meet at St. Paul on the 2d of September. - THE public-debt statement for July makes the following-exhibit: Total debt (including interest), $2,316,198,873. Cash in Treasury, $282,905,273. Debt, less amount in Treasury, $2,033,293,600. Increase during the month, §6,086,344. <

DuriNg July there was paid for arrears of pensions the sum of $8,694,600, which exhausts the special fund held for the redemption of fractional currency..' : THE amount of refunding -certificates received at the United States Treasury Department up to the 84 for conversion into four-per<ent bonds was §84,100,750. . INFORMATION has recently been received by the Secret Service Division of the Treasury Department in Washington that photographic counterfeit five-dollar notes on the State National Bank, of Boston, Mass., letter C, and the Dedham National Bank, of Dedham, Mass., letter D, had made their appearance at San Francisco. : ‘ THE returns received from the Kentucky election up to the morning of the sth were very meager, and showed a considera~ ble falling off in the popular vote. It was generally conceded that Blackburn’s majority would be not far from 20,000. The Republicans had made some gains for members of the Legislature, and it was believed that the call, for a Constitutional Convention had failed. . ; TaE town of Voleano, W. Va., was almost entirely destroyed by fire on the 4th. Six hundred barrels of oil, ten stores, the postoffice, railway depot, hotel and other business houses, and about fifty other buildings of various sizgs ‘were burned, with their entire contents. The burning oil running through the streets spread the fire in every direction. Theloss would be about $150,000. The fire was thought to have been the work of an incendiary. : A WHOLE family consisting of E. P. Lesueur, wife and two children were struck by lightning at Rochester, Minn., a few days ago. The woman and children were killed and Lesueur was probably fatally injuredi© =

I THE Massachusetts State Republican .Convention has been called to meet at Worcester on the 16th of Beptember. = . "~ YELLOW-FEVER NEWS. | THE Executive Committee of the National Board of Health issued a circular on I the 29th,. on disinfection. They advise thorough scrubbing and moist cleansing, to be ‘ followed by the fumes of burning sulphur at ; the rate of eighteen ounces per 1,000 cubic feet of space to be disinfected. MONTGOMERY, Ala., and Vicksburg, Miss., established quarantine against .New Orleans on the 29th, ‘ ; TWELVE new cases and only one death from yellow fever in Memphis on the i 30th ult. The fatal case was that of a - man named Hatcher, who had the same | disease in 1873, and also last year, this being the third attack. - . ‘ A FIREMAN of a steamer from Havana died of yellow fever at the Quarantine Hosrital in New York on the 31st ult. ° Dr. CBOPPIN stated on the 3lst ult. that there was no fear of an epidemic in New Orleans. One case was treported on that day at quarantine, and two suspicious cases of children in the ecity. - - g Two YELLOW-FEVER patients were sent to the New York Quarantine Hospital on the Ist. They were from ocean steamers. THERE were seventeen new cases and four deaths reported in- Memphis on the 18t. The Committee of Satety held & meeting and passed a series of resolutions relative to the refusal of many colored people to locate ‘in the ecamps outside the eity. It was \claimed that no unjust discrimination was ‘made against the colored people, and that the. 'plan adopted had the approval of the Btate and National Boards of Health, There were ‘mearly 1,000 people already in the camps. REpoRTs from Mississippi City received in New Orleans on the 2d were to the effect that the fever was spreading in the.

former place. Four cases of yellow fever .and three deaths had been reported in New Orleans during the week. 'ONLY one yellow-fever death (from Memphis) occurred in Louisville during the week ending on the 24. ' : ITALIAN and Portuguese ports have quarantined against United States shipping because of the existence of yellow fever. - THE number of fever cases reported in Memphis during the week ending on the 24 was eighty-two. Total number to same date 216, and total deaths sixty-five. Twelve new cases and two deaths were reported on the 3d. The colored people were still opposed to the camp system, and - would not go out of the city unless forced to by the pangs of hunger. - Two sEAMEN from a brig which touched at Havana were admitted to the New York Quarantine Hospital on the 2d, having the yellow fever. ; ' - THERE were 137 deaths from yellow fever in Havana, Cuba, during the week ending on the 2d, an increase of twenty over the previous week. The total number of yellowfever deaths during July was 537, against 504 for the same month last year. Since the beginning of the year 857 de~ths had occurred, against 813 for the same time last year. A MeupHls refugee died in Chicago on the 4th, having’slicht symptoms of the yellow fever, but the physicians attending him did not think it a genuine case of that disease. The victim had *‘tramped’” a large part of the way from.the South, and been subject to great exposure to heatand hunger. FIFTEEN new cases and two deaths were reported in Memphis on the 4th. The Chicago T'ribune of the sth contains an appeal “To the Citizens of the United States,”? issued by the Memphis ¢* Colored Citizens’ Relief ﬁse.ociat’ios..” dated July 80, in which they claim that the colored people are misrepresented; that they, as a race, are not susceptible to yellow: fever; that the heavy death rate@mmong them last year was brought about by their nursing and caring for the white victims of the plague; that they object to camp life for three reasons—first, because all-who were susceptible to the disease already had the germs in . their systems; second, yellow-fever patients require comfortable quarters and the most careful nursing, which are not: attainable in camps; third, ¢ camp life will only serve in this damp Mississippi Valley to fill -us with the seeds of pulmonary complaints to linger with all winter and die in the spring.”” They were not afraid of yellow fever, but death from starvation was staring them in the face unless they would go to the camps. They had organized relief associjations among tnemselves, and were doing all they could—were all poor; no money, no work—and in God’s name they appealed to all for help. Nothing but money could now reach them, and drafts or postoffice orders sent to any one of the following-named committee would be .thanklully received and prayerfully aecknowledged: Rev. Dr. J. P. Day; Dr. T. R. Morzan; Dr. A. Barrell; D. J. Hodges; A. Stevenson; A. Froman; T. Holland; Rev. R. N. Counter; Rev. James Lott, Chairman; -Aleck Watson, Secretary, 169 Beal street.

The Limekiln Club Give Charles Richard Hackstraw the Grand Bounce. IT was a very solemn crowd which filled - Paradise Hall as the triangle sounded to order, and the sound of rats galloping to and fro in the garret could be plainly heard as Brother Gardner rose up to say: : e ‘“Gem’len, dis club hez bin runnin’ hard onto two years, an’ we hez only lost two members.” One of dem laysin de grave-yard -wid a fourteen dollar tomp-stone at 'his head, and de odder was cavorted out of dis hall for ingaigin’ in de dog-fight bizness. It am once moar my painful dooty to summon to de front a member of de club. Charles Richard Hackstraw will please step dis way fur a few brief minits.”? Charles walked out. He had been a member for the past six or seven months, but hds always voted in the negative, and has on several occasions been reproved forspitting on the stovepipe and sitting down on Waydown Bebee's plug hat. No direct charges have ever been brought against him, but it was pretty generally understood that he would rather sit all day on the sharp points of a picket fence in the shade than to do an hour’s honest work for big pay in the sun.

‘‘Brudder Hackstraw, las’ night I war ober to your shanty on Calhoun street, in company wid de Committee on Astrolo‘gy,” continued the President. *We foun’ dar’ your wife an’six young chill’'en. Dar was no food in de gouse, no light, an’ de beds war de worst I eber seed. All de furnichur in de place wouldn’t sell * for fifty cents ‘in war | times, an’ de clothes on de family’ wasn’t fit to be kicked by a mule. ‘Brudder Hackstraw, has yer bin sick?”’ ~ “No, not ’zactly, but de times am awful hard, sah,” replied the brother. ‘¢ Am dat your excuse fur de rags an’ de poverty in your cabin?” , ““Yes, sah. De times am perfeckly awful. ‘Dar’s bin a Leap o’ rain, heaps o’ hot days, an’ work hez been so skeerce dat I'm clean discouraged.’ ‘ Gem’len,’’ continued the President, turning ‘to the members. ¢Dis man am a curb-stoneloafer. If he airns two, shillin’s he spends it in a -saloon. Every naybur o’ his am hard at work an’ livin’ well. Dis town hasn’t seen sich good times for five long y’ars, an’ de man who goes hungry am a loafer who bhates work. I doan’t know how we got sich a man as dis into dis club; it am now in orderto bounce him out.” A resolution to that effect was presented and ado;;lted,' and - Hackstraw was escorted to the foot of the stairs—all in the space of two minutes— Detrost Free Press. ; : i

- —The tornadoes thisseason can hardly be accused of ‘partiality. One day they have an engagement at Kansas, then they sweep -along the Atlantic coast, mext they drop down on Minnesota, and again they touch up Michigan and Canada, lastly, they give :classic Massachusetts a shaking. They descend alike on the just and the unjust, a 8 is shown by the descent on Detroit and Boston respectively.—Detroit Free Press. L .

—¢ Whin do yez intend to go back, Mike?” asked one exile of a.n‘ot%er. 1f I live till 1 doye, and God knows whither I will or not, I intind to visit ould Ireland once more before I lave thie country.”” ; ;

~—There’s many a man whose highest ambition is to successfully contest a seat on anail-keg in a corner grocery. ~lndianapolhs Sentinel, :

CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES OF - INQUIRY. The Investication at Cincinnati. On the 29th, the committee examined 8. H. Drew, Prosecuting Attorney, who testified that O. L. Francis, a private detective of Covington, Ky., had thirty-seven men under his charge on election-day, watching the polls in Cincinnati to prevent the work of Kentucky reﬁe:.bem; the men were employed and paid by the publican Campaign Committee. Witness stated that theser men were em?]oyed on account of the experience of . the Republicans at_the election of 1876. Witness’ impression was that Kentucky men were placed in the river wards; they were a.sguined by Francis in the morning; did not think any of them voted; they were probably not of the best class of Covington society; didn’t know that any of them bad ever been arrested or convicted. Witness said he was familiar with the memorial and | affidavits; he examined Mr. Follitt before the Grand Jury. and he said he signed the. memorial on account of the affidavits. Witness said that after the memorial had been presented to Congress he subpoenaed all the signers, and all the parties who made affidavits, to appear before the Grand Jury: all the former appeared except Mr. Hill, who was absent from the city; did npt eget; all the affidavit-makers. Witness ask the memorialists what they knew of each of the charges of the memorial, and every witness, or nearly - every witness, swore they knew nothing about the.charges. Many of the affidavit-makers swore their affidavits bad been altered beyond recognition. [At the suggestion of Mr. Conger, Mr. Drew here stated 1n substance what each witness said before the Grand Jury.] The witness then said not one of the memorialists confirmed a single one of the alle%a.tions before the Grand Jury. and the jury, which had subpeenaed seventy-five witnesses, failed to find a true bill. James Healy was the nexf witness. He saw the SBupervisors in the Sixteenth Ward handling tickets; Mr. Worth was Supervisor; the latter opened a ticket that a 'party handed in, and asked him if that was the ticket he intended to vote; witness heard objection to this proceeding, and offered to make an cbjection himself, but was pushed aside by a policeman. The ticket opened was that of a man who was challenged, and was afterward put in the box. . Peter Ryan and Andrew Rogers testified substantially as Healy aid. L . Patrick O'Neil, a 'policeman, testified that he saw Superyisor Ferry handle nineteen ballots in the Second Precinet of the Twentieth Ward, and gave an account of a trouble between Ferry and Police-Lieutenant Brady, fo. which the latter w_a.: téleu in the United States Court and convicted. ; ; :

Gazzan Gano testified, on the 30th ult., that he was President of the Hamilton County Executive Committee in the last Congressional campaign ; money appropriated for the campaign ‘was supposed to pass through the Treasurer’s hands; did not know who the Marshals were before their appointment; Mr. Foraher requested Committee to suggest good names for Supervisors; witness heard Mr. Francis was to have some men from Kentucky to prevent repeating by men from that State; don't know who paid the men; don't know who selected them; does mnot know , that the Congressmen were furnished money by the Campaign Committee. 'Witness furnished the Campaign Committee with $2.500, to be distributed among ninety-three precincts; six or eight thousand dollars are nsually distributed in similar campaigns; the $2500 covered the expenses of stands, speakers, ticket-holders, etc.: a great deal was spent in advertising and billposting. i Mr. Drew was recalled and said he t.'d the Superintendent of the Custom-House that if he (witness) recommend men for work on that building they would have to be Republicans. or men who would work for that ticket; didn’t think he ever recommended Democrats on condition that they would vote the Republican ticket. James Hagan (Democrat) testified that he electioneered for Butterworth; previously had met Mr, Butterworth at the Gibson House: Butterworth told witness he was expecting money from Washington; brought men. to see Butterworth to arrange to have them work tor him; they were to get two dollars down and twentyfour dollars when the work was completed; Butterworth said he didn't care who else they worked for 8o they worked for him and ’Squire McCullom; Butterworth gave witness. fifty dollars in all: witness saw him give money to several men; Mr. Butterworth had a satchel in his carriage; the money was taken out of that; saw five men vote &n the Fifth Ward; three of thom aftefward voted in other precincts of tnhe same ward; they told witness they had Republican tickets; spent the fifty dollars spreeing among the boys; some ten days ago witness met Buttterworth, and talked about this investigation; Butterworth asked witness to come and see him at the office; witness went, but he was out; William' McAllister showed witness a letter that he said was from N. Butterworth, in which he stated that he did not think witness would make an affidavit that he had sold myself like a hog to Mr. Butterworth ; did not attempt to bribe or corrupt anybody; didn’t promise to try and prevent repeating against Young; was afraid of the Deputy Marshals; was told -that if he . made an affidavit it would help Gus Clark and Buck Brady out of trouble; Tom Shaw drew up the affidavit; witness was given $2 for making it; did not buy any votes for Mr. Butterworth; Butterworth asked him how many men worked in the shop, and how much they would cost; don’t know that he meant anything about buying votes; took an interest in Butterworth’s candidacy on account of money that he paid him; would have worked for the other side for the samme amount. In the cross-examination, witness acknowledged having made numerous false statements to parties asking him about the affidavit, but insisted that his statements here given are true. ; -

Mr. Butterworth testified on the 31st ult. that the Campaign Committee did not give him a nickel for the campaign; received from other sources $2,500; told his friends he could: not afford to aceeps the nomination to Congress, and they rephed that they would furnish the necessary tunds; received Jirom Colonel Robinson, at Columbus, $1,600 and $l.OOO from the neighorhood of Cincinpati; never received a cent from Washington; Never heard that $5,000 was sent from Washington; called on Eugene Hale when in Cincinnati, expecting to receive aid, but did not get a cent; never received money from 'Judee Gorham; could have spent much more than $25000 for legitimate campaign expenses; had no list of persons whom he employed: never kept a list of foremen of shops: aid not give tne foreman of Chamberlain's foundry 3550; had known Eph Holland some time; was informed that Holland and Duffy were not with the Democrats; replied tbat if they did not **stuff” or ‘' repeat’” in_the Fourth or Eighth Ward, he (witness) would be elected; Ccionel Weitzel said_that Holland and Duffy could prevent it; met Holland; asked him if it was possible to hold a fair election in the Fourth Ward; he said it was possible, but not usual ; asked him if he would undertake to stop repeating or_ stuffing in that ward in the interest of the Republicans; he said he would for $3OO-or $400: refused to give it; he finally agreed to do it for $150; witness didn’t meet him again until after the election, when he paid Holland three $5O bills; he demurred, and wanted $5O more; either Weitzel or wituess paid it atterward at the Gibson House; witness never heard of $250 being given to Holland or Duffy; never took any steps- to send Holland te prison or to prevent his going there; saw Holland first at the Gibson House; again on the morning of the election and the night oi the election, and the day after; witness didn’t remember that Holland was ever 1n his office; witoess was over in Covinglon before the election, with his wife, to see a sick relative; was not in a saloon there, and never sent any one there in his icterest. i

South Harris, who made an affidavit as to frauds, testified on the Ist that he did not say he saw Francis with fifteen men on electw'n_ day; there were statements in the aﬂi'da.v'xt ' which he did not make, and Shay _ha.d _put in things which witness did not authorize him to; witness denied making a: ma.g)uﬁ’ of the statements in the affidavit as read by Mr. Brown. Pajrick Boland. City Marshal of Gm{mgo{lg Ky., testified as to the character of certain Kentuckians who were alleged to have been brought from Covinit:n by ﬁmncm. ' Bome were of pretty good character; others rather dubious. John A, Goodson testified as to the charactér of the Kentuckians brought over by Francis, and gave the majority rather a good character. George W. Taylor (Democrat) testi fied on the 2d that he was an employe in the Ellis tobacco factory; one hundred and thirty hands lived in' the First District, every one of whom voted for Butterworth; witness: worked for Butterworth ‘outside of the factory, also, and recsived $25 from Butterworthafter theelection; received irom his employer $lOO before the election for campaign purposes; this $lOO was not géven ‘to him as coming from Butterworth; did not buy a vote with any of it; didp't know that a single cent was used to co’rrn&t voters; witness' employer told the mén to vote for whom they pleased, but he preferred 2hat ﬁheﬁ,ghould ‘vote for Butterworth: no one feared ¢ mcha.rtge for not doing so; was docked fifteen dollars for absence during’ election week; got mearly all the hands to vote for Sayler in 1876; they all liked +Butterworth; witness did not expect Butterworth fo give him n.nz money. ‘ . ; . J. Cunningham, Chairman of the late Reublican Executive Committee, testified that \E:‘ere was money sent to different wards; didn't - ow how much; thought the committee had $6,000 ur $8 000, and out of that th‘e-{ clearéd np the old debts pi the former committee; nearly the whole of it was raised from. assessments on

candidates; Drew refused to pay all of his assessments; - Butterworth and Youne also refused; Bnttervorth was assessed $1,500; witness’ impression was that Butterworth id nothing; learned that money had been senﬁo candidates for Congress from Columbus; the committee received none, or very little, from Columbus, - John O'Connor testified that Eagan, one of nake 300 o BAth by epeating thus Babaransts make or $4(O by swear u 0 paid him for his vote. mg il The Labor and Business Committee in Chieago., it The Select Committee of the National House of Representatives appointed to inquire into the causes of depression in labor and business, and to report with sofie recommendatian for remedy, began its labors in Chicago on the 28th. The Committee is constituted as follows: Hon. E B. Wright, Wilkesbarre, Pa., Chairman; Hod. M. P. O’Connor, Charleston, 8.. C.; Hon. Joseph J. Martin, Williamston, N. C.; Hon. J. C. Sherwin, Geneva, Ill,; Hon. Henry L. Dickey, Greentield, Ohio.

Mr. L. o. Gage, Cashier of the First National Bank of Chicago, testitied: Tne ageregate banking capital of Chicago is about $11,000,000; ayerage deposits, $30,000,000; average line of discouats, $22,000,000; average rate of interest, six to eight per cent,, accordinz to the characler of the loan; thought there had always been money enough to meet legitimate business demands; did not see any necessity for an increase of circulating medium; the banks were able to discount all the good paper that was offered; banking, like other business, had suffered from depression in trade—the demands fer loans had decreased and the idle capital increased, thus decreasing profits; at the present-time, the depression had reached its limit, there was & lively demand for money, and _banks were prosperous; the general industrial affairs of the city were in good condition; had no doubt that the trade ' depression was mainly a reaction toward a normal condition which had been unnaturally' disturbed by the causes which led to the increase of prices and to the transfer of capital to fixed forms, as ships, mines, etc.; we are simply going back to the normal standard; the shrinkage of valuesin real estate ‘was due to the causes just stated; there had been an extraordinary and wild inflation in values, and thisis simply a reaction; thought the duty of Legislators was to_interfere but little with the industrial operations of the country; the depression was the natural effect of the expansion; thought the act of Congress retiring some of its outstanding obligations a beneficent one; would reveal the legal-tender quality of United States notes, and make gold- and silver coin exchangeable at the Treasury; would sup%res.s the issue of all notes under $5; thought the ational Bank law ought not to be repealed. '~ . Mr. George Schneider, President of the National Bank of Illicois, advanced substantially the same sentiments. SE R

George M. Sloan, alawyer farmer, said the farmers were in the same condition they were five Iyears ago; there had been no increase of wealth: many had lost what they had, otbers had mortgaged their lands; others had gone West; could see no change to their advantage in five years, save in exceptional cases; of all the farms of which he had a perscnal knowledge, one-fourth were mortgaged to their full cash value; large farms run by machinery are run at a profit; the small articles of daily life had decreased 1n price for five years; the average price for farm labor was seventy-five cents to one dollar perday and found, or twenty to twenty-five dollars per month and found; last year it was twenty-six dollars, and the year before that thirty dollars; there was no surplus labor on the farms, for the laws had driven away all men that looked as if they were in .a._destitute condition and without money to pay for their night’s lodging; each farmer helped his neighbors, and relied less on hired heip; it was made a criminal offense, except in the case of women and children, for any person to ask at a dwelling for food. and the punishment was from ten to tvrty days in:jail; since he went to farming the country has been flooded with men looking for work ; he was shoeked to see them; some of them were edycated men, men good at skilled labor; he had seen as many as six to ten in one week along the line of the road between Milwaukee and Chicago; since the passage of the law this class has dlsaptpeared; they were honest men looking for work; farmers were prejudiced against them: labor-saving machinery ought to have a beneficial effect on labor; it creates labor to make it, and it reduces ‘the ‘labor required to make the article which it makes; the use of it calls for more skill, and therefore makes higher wages; it is capable of conferring the highest benefits on labor, provided the capital invested in it meets in a fair way the labor which it employes; the prices paid last year for cereals were not high enough to make farming profitable; if an improvement had commenced in Chicago the wave had not struck the farmers yet; money is difficult to borrow generally; the farmer who raises general crops 18 stationary; the one who raises special crops lays by a little every year; the debts on farms have not been created by indulging in luxuries, but by endeavoring, to get } on in the world, by buying new land to ‘add to the farm; men bought land, expecting to make } the crops pay off the mortgage. Charles Randolph, Secretary of the Board of } Trade of Chicago, said there was no doubt but that the general business of Chicago was im- } proving; real estate was rising in value; the taxation was about two per cent. of the real value of property; there was no surplus of labor except in clerkships, of which there was always ah overabundance; the price of labor was good, and money was plenty at from four to six r cent. interest; the remonetization of silver Eg,d appreciated valuer; the city was in a firstclass financial condition. T }ﬂ' Joseph Eastman, a contractor, said fewer per- ’ mits for building had been taken out this yeéar ‘in Chicago than for five years past; rents were eprgciated, and the shrinkage in the value of C) roperty had been fully fifty per cent.; ' wages of plasterers fluctaated from $1.75 to $5 perday; the present rate was $3; a day’s work ' consisted of ten hours, except among the stonecutters, who work but eight hours; the dis- - crimination was due to laws made by the Stonecutters’ Union; they are the only ones who have retained eight hours; there was a general strike in 1867 or thereabout, which failed except as to the stone-cutters; they gained - and have maintained a day’s work at eight hours since; thought the prospect of the city was good for four years, and then we should have another panic; this and the past trouble were due to working too mahy hours a day, and the remedy was by union to reduce the hours; if a union were properly. conducted it would be a benefit to both men and employers; a union ought not to demand an increase of wazes, or a decrease in the number of hours, without giving the emJ)loyers notice; the affairs of the union should be equitably conducted ; the eight-hour system was to be brought about, not by legislation. but bg a Labor Congress, a conference between laborers and employers. : - v : On the 29th, J. Y. Scammon, an exbanker, testified: Believed the primary cause of the crash of 1873, and the depression since, was an insufficient volume of currency; said that Chicago real-estate had thus become weighted with mortgages, and over 4,000 business men in Chicago had gone into bankrupty; tke present prosperity ot Chicago, if it exxsted. was the result of the developmentof new men, all the old business element having been wiped out; the remedy for existing troubles was plenty of mon-. ey, a '"liquid currency;’ thought about $1,500,00¢,000 was about the proper volume. : Jouseph K. C. Forest thought the reason for the depression of business was that personal or coin money had increased out %t' (fge roportion to impersonal or paper money; Sl?ex’ma.n' was inflating the money of the country;, and would crash things to an 'irretrievable extent. unless stopped; the oulg way to avert a financial . cataclysm was to establish a National Central Bank upon a specie basis, which bank should **discount the paper of the country;” one baleful cause of American depression was the fixin of American prices by England; fully b‘elieveﬁ‘ that the remedy proposed by the preceding witness was the right one; thought what the country wanted was a ‘liquid currency,” which would ebb and flow to meet the demands of business. = i e

William Haley, who announced himself as a representative of the National Liabor Greenback party, thought that the business depression resulted from over-inflation during the war and the greed of the few men whe, in the years that followed it, gobbled the property and money of the country; the remedy he would apply consisted in /an abolition of the Naticnal Banks and the issue of enough Treasury notes to xzmke the country’ easy; money was so Bcarce that, though the Legislature restricted the rate of interest to six per cent. per annum, the: pawnbrokers charged six per cent. a month: labor was 80 scarce that he had himself seen a young man shot on LaSalle sireet, & {ew nights 'hefore for * breaking into a store and stealing &é)&it of shoes to bus bread:” he would have the Government turn John Sherman out of office, upset resumption and ‘ furnish work for all laborers who might want it. A ~Judge Van Higgins thought the country was net sutfering so much from over-production as from under-consumption; the way to improve business was the payment of wages sufficient to enable the workingman to.purchase the product of enterprise ana labor; would have a fpurreéncy thas is legal tender and redeemable in coin, ot ! in an interest: bearing bond, at the pleasure of the Government; the t:emedy for business stagnation was the issue of money in' volume -'&‘&. cient to stimulate businesss; thoughs the contraction of curte:gy was the main cause of the bard times, and advocated . the issue of §l,OOO,- | 000,000 in addition to the present volume, o B. D. Streeter, a delegate from the irade and Labor Oouncil, presented . a mass of statistics | showing the earnings of the various workmen at the vanous trades in Chicago, and said the con- | dition of the laboring classes was very bad, but:

not to the same degree as in the winter time; at. least one-fifth vf the laboring men were out of employment; there was great sutfering a.mg{gﬁ the poor, and there had been.cuses of act starvation; no attention was paid t 0 ventilation in thé work-shops of Chicago; the improved machinery now in use was a dire ' calamiiy to working people; one cause of the prevailing distress was the fact that the aristocratic peopie of America paid more aftention to tne weltare of the heathen in foreign lands than they did to the poor deserving people by whom theyiwere surrounded; advocated annihilation of the competitive ?'aten; of labor, and thought the laberer should receive four-fifths of his product, instead of receiving one-fifth, asat present.

- F. H:McLogan -said printers’ wages were very low, and at least one-fitth of the men were unemployed; thought the Government should enforce the eight-hour law, and thought that ninetenths of the eight-hour advocates would be satisfied 0. receiveeight-hours’ pay; conyict labor'was another cause of the depression; had never hedrd the word tramp applied to persons. out.of employment natil atter 1873, and thought. the army of tramps was compesed of men forced from their homes by necessity, and that crimes committed by these unfortunate men were the resuit ot circumstances over which they had no control; there were at least four thousand laboring men-in Chicago who could not get any employment; believed that the currency had a great deal todo with the matter. o C. F. Kenyon, a shoe-maker, said the system of convict labor was working ruin to his trade; did not object to the use of machinery; would utilize Alaska, and banish the criminals to that inhoespitable ¢lime; he had been out of employment for seven montns, and had constantly sougtit work without success. : “George Rodgers stated that he had. tramped through Ohio_and Michigan, and had dogs set. upon him séveral times; bad been refused a drink of water because he was a tramp; thought the great portion of the:tramps were made so{from the force of cxrcm‘flsmnc‘es; thought the honest people did not. appiy.the name of tramp: to idle men. but the néwspapers were respoasible for the.term; there.was not one honest man in a hundred that could gain a livingnﬁ% -his trade, and these men were compelled to gointo other business: favored a loan from the Government to the idle men, so that they could locate under the Homestead law and support themselves; if such a measure were instituted, fkfteen thousand of the poor people of Chicago would take immediate possession of such farms. = ¢ i

On the 30th ult.; Dr. James Taylor appeared and said be believed all the evils of this time are attributable to just one cause—namely, a forced: contraction of the. currency, which deprived people of money wherewith to buy, and resulted in a glut of the markets that was called an_over-production. ‘lt was witness’ belief that all the troubles which afflict the land ‘could: be wiped out by the- substitution of a National for a National Bank circulation—a Na~ :tiopal ' currency based upon National and not upon personal credit. . - : . ‘D. B. Sperry; an iron founder, said trade was in a bad way because of competition. which caused over-production %d_ idleness; the species of competition most heavily to blame was that which pitted the labor of convicts against the labor of free men; he would. have all prison products stamped ** conviet.” : : - T. J. Morgan, a Bocialist representative, said **the competitive system’ had placed the property and business of the country in the bands of a few men; and that thisstate of affairs would bring abolit serious trouble ‘unless something coula be done to change it; the hours of labor must be reduced so as to employ all men and reduce competition, which was based in selfishness; the railroads and telegraphs must go to the Government; the Govermment must control the common schools, and complete -statistics should be furnished the laboring men. . s George Schilling, another Socialist, said that the trouble of to-day was to be aceounted for by the rapid development of steam, electricity and machinery, whereby the labor of the world was being crowded into.slavery; didn't believe an increase oi% currency would help thinys at all. Beu Bibley, a representative of the * Social-istic-Labor party,” said'that the remedy for the indefinite disasters which had fallen upon the world in a_ social business way was the establishment of an Industrial Republic; would not say that Congress had Power . to make this change: he said the Socialists of Chicago numbered about six hundred, but their sympathizers were much greater in number; thought that from ten to twenty per cent. of the Socialists were now out of employment. . { Mr. McAaliffe, another Socialist, said that the system of competitive production was inherently wrong; the capitalistic class, who are but three-tenths of the enfire population get fourfifths of the products of labar, while the laboring classes, who are seven-tenths of the entire opulation, receive but one-fifth of the products 80ngress shounld appropriate money to establish a Bureau of Labor and have delegates from the capitalistic and the laboring classes sent through the country to instruct the people, so that they will know what they must fight. for; the Socialists were not strug_glmg for more bread, or more of the material things of life, but for freedom from the slavery of working twelve and fourteen hours a day, and of having to ask some capitalist when they want to do anything. : . James McArthur, a coal and iron dealer, attributed the hard times to three things: the contraction of our large foreign debt, the Resumption act, and the demonetization of silver. The remedy was to restore silver; make its coipage free and l{’nllmltﬁd. and let its value he determined. not By Congress, but by nature; the dollar should contain 412'% grains of silver; was.in favor of usisg greenbacks, and making bank notes payablé in coin.

On the 31st ult. several witnesses were examined, among them Mr. Gray, aleather«dealer, who thought times were improving healthily and rapidly: John F. Scanlan, who advocated an increase of carrency, and recognised the right of people to tramp the country in search of work if they chose: 8. F. Norton. who' demanded an increase of currency and thought the fire had benetited Chicago; T. W. Baxter. Manager, of the Elgin Watch Factory, who thought that things were coming round all right, and deprecated a reduction in the hours of labor; A. E. Parsons, a Commuuist, who believed thatthé’hours of labor should be regulated by legislation, and did not think it should stop at eight hours, and who' alsn favored the new Homestead biil; Carl Beer, an importer of toys, who thought.the trouble; in business circles was not National in its origin, but International; Sally M. Mills, who _represented the Weorkingwomen's Union, and ‘astonished the Committee by stating at the outset that she was a married woman and °* had a husbhand at bome attending to his business;”’ Lyman _J. DeWolf, a Greenback atterney and ,noliticiaga who thought the outlook of, affairs was very discouraging; Hon. H. B. Hurd, who thought the depression was caused by the panic ot 1873 and the events which followed, and advecated letting out more currency, etc., ete. e 2y

Several business men were called on the Ist, among them William Stewart, a wholesale grocer, who said he was satisfied the depression had disappeared and times become good again, declared himself in favor of gold, or paper with gold behind it, and believed there was money enough in Chicago and the Northwest to do- the business of that section; (. W. Potter, President. of the '~ Chicago Rolling Mills, who declared his business had never been better, had had some trouble with his’ workmen and thought well -of trades unions; Jesse. Spaulding, who thought the Resumption act had brought confidence to the people, believed there was money enough to do the business of the country, wished Congress would l'et the currency matters alone, thought wages were increasing, an(_i'op({)osed the eighthour project because he believed the konest laborers of the country did not want it.. . & Thga. committee then adjourned to meet at maha, - Spe >

—Rev. Alexander -Clark, of Pittsburgh, Pa., editor of . the Methodist Recorder, died recently, at the residence of Governor Colquitt in -Atlanta, Ga., where he had gone to recuperate his broken health.v%ie learned type-setting from the top of a burm, and edited and published ' the Schoolday Visitor, which he -introduced in every public school in the country. The publication was afterward merged into S¢. Nicholas. He preached in Philadelphia, Cincinnati and Yittsburgh to large congregations, and in each place /built upﬂourishin‘%; churches. 'He published a number of books of prose and poetry, and compiled *¢The Voice of Praise,” the hymnal now used hy the Methodist | Protestant Church North and West. He was forty-five years of age, and one of the leading minds of the Methodist Protestant _Cgurchn of the TTnited States. ~-Astronomers tell us that it would take 1,250,000 yedrs, provided 'there was & telegraph wire from the earth tothe nebula in Andromeda, for a disgat@h to reach there. 80 no wire will OFFICIAL returns of the production of the Bonanza mines for the half year ending July 1 are: Virginia, $1,194,600; California, $1,856,300. .- - .